The Kingdom of God is a unison, integral and singular, centralized, uniexistent and undivided kingdom. The Kingdom of God, which proceeds from heaven and which is from eternity, was in the beginning on earth through Adam, before the fall. When Adam disobeyed God and let sin enter the world, the Kingdom of God was taken from him, and death and the empire of darkness entered the world. There followed a time of tests and trials for humanity, ruled only by conscience. As the world of that stage failed, with a total and unbearable corruption of men, except for the one who remained God-fearing, Noah, then came the first great judgment of God upon the world, the flood, which killed all flesh, every being that breathes under the heavens, remaining only Noah, with his family and the natural beings that entered the ark. Noah became a forerunner and principle of a continuity of the Kingdom of God on Earth, but not yet in a more specific way. With Noah the stage of human Government on earth was established, a first state of institution of authority and law over the world. For example, the crime of murder would no longer go unpunished, but whoever took a man's life, his life would be taken by man. Among many situations, man tried to come together totally into one kingdom and place on Earth, in the event of the Tower of Babel, instituting a central and rebellious world government against God, and defying God's command for man to multiply and fill all the earth, so that God alone, who has power, would actually rule the world. God intervened, confusing everyone's language, so that everyone scattered over the Earth.
The Kingdom of God began to be implanted in a more decisive way again on Earth through Abraham. God revealed himself to Abraham as the Almighty God and gave him a covenant of faith, prosperity, and future salvation. Through the Covenant with Abraham, God promised that he would give him a very numerous, extraordinary and blessed descendants, through which all the families of the earth would also be blessed, and through the chosen descendant, who would be Christ, the salvation of the world would be accomplished, the salvation of Israel and of all the peoples of the earth among those who believe in the Name of God. Abraham's Covenant was confirmed forever when he proved his faith by complete obedience to God's will, also foreshadowing that through faith all who believe would be justified. The Kingdom of God then continued its establishment, being within Israel, the descendants of Abraham. When the people of Israel multiplied, serving the Egyptians, and when the time of their liberation and institution as a nation arrived, God intervened again, sending Moses, with authority, signs and wonders, by the hand of God, who smote the land of Egypt and delivered them, with great miracles, from the hand of Pharaoh. The people of Israel walked in the desert forty years, where God instituted with them the Covenant of the Law, or Mosaic Covenant, giving them, through obedience to His commandments, the promise that He would be their God and they would be his particular people, chosen and set apart among all nations. This was yet another point in the plan for the establishment of the Kingdom of God. And Israel, after receiving great disciplines and judgments, went into battle in the promised land of Canaan, driving out and destroying the peoples who, by their persistent evil works, were dispossessed of their dwellings, and Israel took possession of the land which had been given to Abraham by oath and promise. There followed the stage of Israel's existence as an established people and nation.
The Kingdom of God was present and operating within Israel, but it was not yet at its fullness. After many events, of cyclical stages of disobedience and repentance, where God executed judgments, disciplines and deliverance interventions to treat the hearts of the people, then the time of the monarchy was instituted, where the kings of Israel existed. After Saul's disobedience and his expulsion, God chose David, who was after His own heart, to rule over His people. It was with him that God established an important covenant of fidelity, perpetual reign and peace. Despite his weaknesses and moments of sin, David was a man who believed and trusted God completely, confessing His Name, and always humbling himself and repenting, so that he pleased God, and achieved a good testimony, to the point of God also gave him the promise that from one of his descendants the Christ, the savior of Israel and the world, would be raised up. God's Covenant with David was also an important point in the plan for the establishment of the Kingdom of God over the world. There followed the time of monarchy in Israel, where as before there were alternating periods of obedience and disobedience, times of repentance, but also times of idolatry.
After many interventions and patiences of God, forgiving them many times, and exhorting the people to repent, and there being no answers, no conversion, but sin, bloodshed and idolatry persisting, God then delivered Israel and Judah to more decisive judgment and discipline, allowing foreign kingdoms to overcome them, invade and destroy their land, taking the chosen people captive to distant lands. But Israel's disobedience had already been predicted, and the plan to establish the Kingdom of God continued to progress and advance. After enduring captivity, Israel was softly restored to their land again, although under the empire of other kingdoms, such as Persia, where the city of Jerusalem and the second Temple were rebuilt. There were then times of successive attempts to re-establish the independent kingdom again, where at last the Jews were subjugated and subordinated by the great Roman empire. After the prophet Malachi, there was a period of silence from the Word of God, for about four hundred years, until finally the fullness of the times of the world arrived, the time of the coming of the Chosen One, the Son of God and Messiah promised from before the foundation of the world, to Jesus, who was born of God as the New Adam of the human race, holy, incorruptible, innocent and sinless, the son of David, according to the Scriptures, yet begotten by the Holy Spirit, through whom God would bring salvation to Israel and for the world, and the full establishment of His Heavenly Kingdom in the world, though first in the inner realm of the hearts of the world among all who believe in His Name.
Jesus was born as a man, begotten of God, holy and without sin, being fully God and fully man. He was born, grew up, developed, submitted to all the human implications that all of us are also subject to, except sin. He submitted to parents, civil authorities, the Word of God and dependence on the power of the Holy Spirit. He fulfilled all things, suffering for us all the pains and temptations in which we are all also subject, but He, through faith and obedience to God, overcame everything. He preached the Gospel, brought release to spiritual captives, light to those in darkness, healed the sick, reached out to the despised and lost, and preached good news to the poor. He manifested the power of God, preached and witnessed the truth to all, as the Supreme Ambassador of the Kingdom of God on Earth. And having lived the only Perfect, Holy and Just Life that was possible among men, having been approved by God and overcoming all the trials of humanity, he gave himself as an offering and sacrifice to God as atonement and satisfaction of the Judgment and of Divine Justice, so that there would be the possibility of forgiveness for the sins of the whole world, among all those who receive His Testimony of the Power, Will and Truth of God through Faith. And because His sacrifice and His righteous life, in His innocent blood, pleased and satisfied the Justice of God, bringing forgiveness and redemption to all who believe, and because He conquered all the power of sin and darkness, God resurrected him glorified and in victory, on the third day, for the complete salvation and justification of all those who believe in the Gospel of Truth.
In Jesus, the Kingdom of God was fully and permanently established on Earth, even though it was instituted in the inner dimensions of Earth's existence, within the hearts of the saved, and did not begin with visible appearance. The Kingdom of God was then temporarily taken away from Israel, who had fallen into unbelief and disobedience, and then handed over to the Church of Christ, all those who receive salvation, in Him, through faith in His Name, and are reborn and regenerated in spirit to an incorruptible new life, which is now born first of the spirit, through faith in the Word of God. The Kingdom of God is now in the Church of Jesus Christ, who is the Head and Lord thereof, who has received from God all power over heaven and earth, over which he already reigns, waiting for all His enemies be made His footstool until the time of the end.
The Kingdom of God, which is centered in the heavens, is unison and cannot be divided, now it is within the Church of Jesus, a Church that is not in temples, nor in earthly names, but that is in hearts inhabited by the Kingdom and Spirit of God, among those who believed the Gospel and were saved and reborn in spirit to a new incorruptible life through repentance of sins and through faith. The Kingdom of God, at this present stage in which we live, from the ascension of Christ, and until His imminent visible return, is established within the Church, and the Power, the Presence, the Throne of Dominion, the Word and the Promises of God are among them, among those who are born again by faith and are under the authority and lordship of Jesus, who is Lord of all, even over this fallen world and over those who still rebel against God in darkness and unbelief, though these are in condemnation and cannot be saved unless they repent of their sins in time to believe the truth, and remain in unbelief to the end. Those who remain in the kingdom of darkness, which is sustained by unbelief and sin, will not participate in the salvation, redemption and blessing of the Kingdom of God, but will be on the path of Eternal Judgment and Destruction.
The Kingdom of God, in the plan of eternity, has already been successful and has been established on Earth, through the life and work of Jesus, and nothing else can prevent His full manifestation from appearing, including on the visible plane. The Kingdom of God is within the True Church until the visible return of Jesus, who will manifest in power and glory on the clouds of heaven, annihilating all the remaining power and dominion of the empire of darkness that still remains over the world, bringing fully and absolutely the Eternal Dominion and Kingdom of God, which then will be forever and ever, also over this world and over this Earth on which we are. After the victorious coming of Christ, then, Israel will finally repent and turn to God, believing in His true Messiah, in Jesus, for God did not abandon Israel, who were only temporarily reprobated, but who continue to be His people, who it has the promises of the fathers and the everlasting covenants, including the promise of total redemption, restoration, and deliverance that, together with the Church, will last forever. It was through the Jews that salvation was brought to the world. They are blessed and blissful, kept by God, even though they have suffered and suffer many judgments and disciplines from God in order for them to be converted, have repentance and be perfected to complete salvation. We must pay attention that in the same way that God disciplines and disciplined Israel, He also disciplines the Church, in which at the present time His Kingdom is, so that they turn from evil, from sin, from idolatry and turn to the way of faith, submission and obedience to Him.
After the coming of Christ, who will be victorious, with power and glory, then Israel and the Church will be united in one Kingdom, and the two peoples will become as if they were one and they will be both, together and without any separation, the bearers of the Kingdom of God on Earth, which will then be established in totality and fullness, in glory, where all the saved, of all times, will be bodily resurrected incorruptible and immortal, in full this visible dimension, and the Israel of God, who are in fact one people, will live and reign glorious and victorious, with Christ, the thousand years of peace that will be the visible Kingdom of God on earth, at the end of which there will be the final judgment and the resurrection of the other dead, those who were not saved, who will also rise, but to face judgment and final condemnation according to their works, and these will go into contempt and eternal judgment. But the saved, those who believed in God and His Son, will contemplate the material destruction of this Earth and this old Universe, they will contemplate the birth of a new Heaven and a New Earth, a new, eternal universe, where justice will dwell. And all the saved, in eternal glory and life shall live and reign with God and with Christ forever and ever, and the Lord shall be their God, and shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people in the Kingdom of God which has already it is from everlasting and which also will exist for us and will have no end, eternally, to the ages of ages.
