Chapter10 Two Paths
Part
3 These two Kingdoms
There are two kingdoms upon this
planet. They have been here since Cain and Seth walked upon the land
of God’s creation. The ruling power of one is vested in a
single ruling power or the collective and corporate voice of the
people, who vow to their ruling elite. The other Kingdom cries out in hope and faith,
for men to seek the truth, love their neighbor as a brother, obey
God, and follow His ways in liberty and charity.
In the first form of government, the
people come together to give rulers the power God gave each man. They
give or sell the responsibilities they were given by God for the
benefits of men. Those rulers, tempted by power, seduce all with
alluring schemes and promises of liberty, but end in appointments of
agents to oppress every man his neighbor.
The
spirit of its motivation is the judgment of good and evil, imposing
its collective or individual will on others and exercising authority
and judgment upon its weak or impotent members. As the people are
remade in the image of their man-made gods, they move with a
hedonistic spirit to satisfy their own hunger for prosperity at the
expense of their neighbor and the peril of their own souls.
The other kingdom operates according
to a fundamentally different paradigm. The people hold the
responsibility that God has given them as precious. They see rights
as duties, not privileges. They seek no ruler but God the Father, no
justice or mercy but His. They seek no vengeance, but grant
forgiveness. They are a people of peace, not oppression. The people
come together because they love their neighbor as themselves and
would not seek any benefit that is subsidized by taking from others.
They do not desire to rule over their neighbor by vote or by any
agency. They seek the will of the Father. They choose their ministers
by consensus, not by majority rule. These people have begun a journey
toward a kingdom of faith, hope, charity, and love. They are the
Kingdom of Heaven at-hand.
To
him who conquers, I will give a white stone, with a new name written
on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.
Revelations 2:17
Returning to the Kingdom of God is
like the prodigal son who did not come back to enjoy the pleasures of
his Father’s house, but came back a sinner willing to be a
servant, beckoning his father’s will and pleasure and not his
own, because his heart had turned away from the wickedness that had
tempted him before. He came back, not for the indulgence in comfort
and pleasure, but in self-sacrifice and service to the father of
justice, pleading the merciful righteousness of His dominion and
government.
This was the call of John the Baptist.
This was the washing of the pig from the mire. Do the Churches of
today call men to Herod’s kingdom, to Rome, its affluence, its
precepts and its decadence or to Jesus’ Kingdom of Heaven
at-hand and its righteousness?
At
the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child
unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say
unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall
humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the
kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18
When John and
Jesus preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand and their
appointed minister baptized the people, there were men of government
who questioned their authority to do so, not the act itself. Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven in
the present tense. He also used this phrase, “Kingdom
of God”, interchangeably, speaking of it as if it
was here now, at-hand, within our reach, and had been here for some
time. He proclaimed He was going to take it away from those sitting
in the seat of Moses and give it to others.
Therefore
say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given
to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Mt 21:43
The orthodox
had sought the ways of Roman and Greek philosophers and they still
do. The entrenched, confused, and ignorant Church has often delivered
the people into bondage. John preached a kingdom of love and charity under the perfect law of liberty without force. A system of
sharing and fellowship, not coercion and compelled compliance.
Liberty
had been a major topic in the teachings of the early Church, as it
was from the beginnings of the Bible. Liberty was a biblical issue in
Babylon, Ur, and Egypt, to say nothing of the kings of Israel, Judea,
and Rome. Jesus bought God’s liberty for us.
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