Why the Kingdom of God?

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WHY ?</span></span></p> <div class="WPParaBoxWrapper" style="width: 680px; float: right; clear: right"><span class="WPParaBox" style="border: none"> <img src="HTMLobj-840/2-whythekingdom.gif" alt="2-whythek" width="675" height="253" border="0"></span></div> <p><span style="font-size: 15pt">           <span style="font-size: 40pt">THE KINGDOM OF GOD</span></span></p> <br> <br> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>In the beginning, God gave Adam and Eve a choice! Obey and follow His ways or choose the way of Satan! Eve choose to take of the forbidden fruit and that lead to the deception of Satan for all mankind to follow his evil ways! Satan’s society is a way of deceit, lies and total dishonesty! Satan’s society is to self destruct at the end time. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Satan was then given to be the power of the air. “Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (Eph 2:2). Satan was also give rule over this earth’s politics. This is how the rule of this world is run. Christ is telling the Pharisees, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh <span style="text-decoration: underline">a lie</span>, he speaketh of his own: for he is a <i>liar</i>, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe Me not. Which of you convinceth Me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe Me?” (John 8:44-46). As we see, the story of mankind is written in God’s word! We have been given a choice to follow this world or to follow God’s truth and His Son, Jesus, the Christ.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Jesus, the Christ said, “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:9-10). And in verse 33 we are told, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” “Why the Kingdom of God?” </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>God told Abraham that through his seed, his children from Isaac and Jacob, the whole earth would be blessed! “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him” (Gen 18:18-19). And because of Abraham obedience to God, his family and future family was to institute the physical Kingdom of God on this earth.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Moses lead the children of Israel out of Egypt and they became God’s physical kingdom. “And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: And ye shall be unto Me <span style="text-decoration: underline">a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation</span>. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel” (Exod 19:3-6).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Not only were the children of Israel told in the Old Testament, but also in the New Testament! They have been given the right to be God’s physical kingdom on this earth. “And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen” (Rev 1:5-6). “ And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth” (Rev. 5:10). “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years” (Rev 20:6).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>The destiny of the children of Israel was to show the rest of the nations how blessed they were for keeping and obeying God’s law! But, as we all know they disobeyed over and over again! If they had obeyed, we would not have the Satanic governments running the whole world today!</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Knowing this, let’s contrast God’s laws with<span style="font-weight: bold"> man made laws</span>! God’s laws consist of the first five book of the Holy Bible! 255 pages in a 5X8 size of a Bible. The whole Bible the size of 5X8 has only 1,352 pages and over 2000 depending the size of print in both the Old Testaments and New Testament!</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Man made laws fill commercial buildings with thousands of pages of laws, regulations and statutes. The Obama Affordable Health Care law alone is over 2000 pages! No one really know all the different laws and regulations put into this bill. The income tax laws are so enormous that no one knows all its laws! They change almost yearly! Through the income tax laws, your homes and businesses can be taken away from you, even if you only owe 5 or 6 cents! According to the Washington Post of Nov. 5, 2014, “the Federal IRS has seized the public’s money through outright confiscation.” The New York Times wrote: “the IRS seizes accounts from innocent U.S. citizens without even a shred of due process.” And we wonder why we need God’s Kingdom to come!!</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Liberal judges and lawyers have changed the marriage law between one man and one woman, which God has ordained into a homosexual and trans-gender laws that is an abomination to God. It is now a crime to speak against the homosexual agenda. The lesbian Mayor of Houston Texas is demanding sermons from Pastor’s who speak again the homosexual agenda! </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span> Man made laws have changed God’s Holy Days into man made holidays like, Christmas, Easter and Halloween! There are many more pagan celebrations then we can name! All the different religions have their own set of holidays!</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Man has changed the law of murder into a sham! The death sentence is no longer practiced, which God had ordained! “He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death” (Exod 21:12). Most crimes never get prosecuted! Murders sit on death row for 20 to 30 years and never get the penalty for their crime! </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Wars in this age has killed millions of men, women and children. Today, ISIS is on the march to take over the Middle East for an Islamic caliphate! Not only have they invaded Iraqi, Syria and now they are going to try to take over Lebanon and then on to Jordan. This evil Islamic ideology is taking the world like a virus that cannot be stopped! We as a people should fight against Islam being taught to our children! The United States teaches this in the public school system! Schools cannot teach Christianity, but they can teach Islam. The Islamic Allah, is the crescent moon god! This also is an abomination to the True God. Deuteronomy, the fifth book of God’s law said, “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven” (Deut 4:15-19).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Knowing, we are to have two or three witnesses, notice Deut 17:2-3, “If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing His covenant, And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded.”</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>The former President of the United States has been called the most radical President there has ever been elected in the United States of America. He has told more lies than any other President! Yet he has never been held accountable for all of the destruction of the America system that was instituted for us to follow. God’s law as set by the founding father of the Constitution of the United States was to be our guide for freedom for all citizens. Mr. Obama has caused the most racial damage between the blacks and white people since the Civil War. Racism had been minimized since Martin Luther Kings march for the civil rights of black people! The present administration has caused the racial tension in society today! </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Barack Obama has promoted the Islamic agenda and has turned against our allies. Catering to the enemy has cause America to lose the pride of its power! It is now a crime to speak against Islam and the Sharia laws of Islam. Speaking against the homosexual agenda is against the law today, considered hate speech! There is too much evil in the secular government to list for this article!</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>Now let’s look at <span style="font-weight: bold">God’s law </span>in contrast to man made laws! The first 5 book of God’s Word gives the law, statutes and judgments! These are for our learning to teach us to obey God, our Father and Jesus, the Christ. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament is the history of the Children of Israel. Exodus 19, give us the first covenant made with the children of Israel. “And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: And ye shall be unto Me <span style="text-decoration: underline">a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation</span>. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt">And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD” (Exod 19:3-8). Here at Mt. Sinai God made the covenant with Israel to be His people and to obey His government! This was the start of the physical Kingdom of God on the earth! </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>God gave His people the 10 Commandments in Exodus 20. If they had obeyed these simple laws, there would be peace, prosperity and true happiness. There are two basic commandments. “Love the Lord your God with all of your heart and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commands are based the 10 commandments. The first four commandments – shows love toward God and the last 6 shows love toward your neighbor! </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>“ God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments. “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill [murder]. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die” (Exod 20:1-19).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>The law of God covers all the needs of His people. He has given them the laws of prosperity! Abraham was blessed for his obedience in tithing. “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and He was the priest of the most high God. And He blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave Him tithes of all” (Gen 14:18-20).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span> It is given man to work and to take care of his family! If he tithes he is blessed above all people. “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed Me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed Me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delight some land, saith the LORD of hosts” (Mal 3:8-12). This is a simple tax law of God, its only 10 per cent of your increase. But, in the long run your money goes further then if you kept the 10 percent for your self [robbing God]. Many years ago, Mr. Herbert Armstrong gave the statement, he had $1.00 and tithed 10 cents on it and he was blessed! God knows our hearts! We cannot hide when we do wrong! Isn’t a 10 percent tithe better then a 25, 35, and 70 percent income tax levied by the government today?</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>God promised Israel another blessing by protecting them from sickness, if they obeyed Him. “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee” (Exod 23:25). “And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people” (Matt 9:35). Isn’t this better then $300 to $500 a month or more, which the Affordable Health Care of Barack Obama will cost?</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>God’s law teaches what to eat and how to stay healthy! “For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat. The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you. And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase” (Deut 14:2-8). Also see, Leviticus 11 for more information.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>God Holy Day are a very important part of following God’s truth and ways! These are His appointed times, not the pagan ways of this world! “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein” (Lev 23:1-8). Then follows the other Feast days. Vs. 21–pictures Pentecost. “And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.” “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, vs.24<span>   </span>“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets [Feast Of Trumpets], an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, vs.27,<span>   </span>“Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.” Vs. 33-34, “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.” Vs. 39, Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath [picturing the Last Great Day].</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>God’s seven annual Holy Days pictures God’s plan of salvation! Isn’t this better then following the pagan holidays of the Catholic Church invention? </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>When you allow the crescent moon to be your beginning count for your months and for counting God’s Holy Days you are worshiping on a wrong day. Just like keeping Sunday for worshiping on, instead of God’s 4<sup>th</sup> commandment to keep the Sabbath Day holy! When you add postponements to God’s Holy Days, as the Jewish Hebrew calendar does, you are changing the true Holy Day Sabbaths just like the Catholics changed the 7<sup>th</sup> day Sabbath to Sunday!</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>In this short article we cannot cover all the laws in God’s word, but we can read His word and find for ourselves the true meaning of life.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>            </span>We know that when God’s Kingdom comes, Jesus the Christ will be King of King and Lord of lords! “Which in His times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords” (1 Tim 6:15). In Revelation, the Apostle John writes: “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for <span style="font-weight: bold">He is Lord of lords, and King of kings</span>: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful” (Rev 17:14).</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span>          </span> This will be a kingdom of Church and State working together for the peace of all mankind! This is why we pray: “.... Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:9-10).☜</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span>                                                                                                                        </span>        James Russell<span> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span> </span></span></p> </body> </html>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>