Posts Tagged ‘kingdom of heaven’

[Jesus] answered … and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17:20-21) Without pomp and circumstance Luke 17:20-21 is another favorite proof text of those who reject our dominion mandate1 to expand Yahweh’s2 kingdom […]

The eternal kingdom Yahweh’s1 kingdom is eternal: it exists yesterday, today, and forever. It is definitive in that it has always been and always will be in existence: Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. (Psalm 145:13) God’s kingdom is also progressive in that He intends it to fill […]

Think not that I am come to destroy the law…. (Matthew 5:17) Imperative law obedience Don’t let anyone tell you our salvation doesn’t require obedience to Yahweh’s1 law. Obedience is imperative. Our salvation in Jesus Christ is dependent not only upon His atoning blood sacrifice and resurrection from the grave, but also upon His obedience […]

And there we saw giants … and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. (Numbers 13:33)  One More Trip Around Mt. Sinai . . . This one faithless act by the Old Covenant Israelites resulted in a generation’s worth of wandering in the wilderness: forty years of […]