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Joseph, Never Referenced as a Type, Part II of III

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Joseph had many trials, had much unjust treatment

First he is sold into slavery for no just reason. Later he is falsely accused of sexual immorality because he will not engage in immorality, and is thrown into prison.

Jesus likewise will not be a part of misconduct, and denounces it, and becomes a political target.

“Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.”
Mtt 22:15 WEB

“They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.”
MTT 26:4 WEB

Joseph was symbolically killed

He was committed to a pit with plans to kill him. “Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits …” Gen 37:20 WEB. It was a pit with no water in it, Gen 37:24.

Hades (Greek) or Sheol (Hebrew) is the world of the dead. It also is associated with a pit.

“Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.”
Psa 30:3 WEB

“For Sheol can’t praise you, death can’t celebrate you:
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.”
Isa 38:18 WEB

It is called in Greek abussos, the abyss, or bottomless, Rev 9:1, Rom 10:7. Further, as a prison it is a place without water.

“… I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.”
Zech 9:11 WEB

The rich man in hades, in anguish in the flames, pleads for Lazarus to be sent with a drop of cool water to cool his tongue, Lk 16:24

Both Joseph and Jesus were sold for silver

Then Joseph was sold out by his brothers for silver. He was at least symbolically killed, and to at least his dad, he was sincerely counted as dead.

Jesus was sold out by His brother Jews, opposed and targeted because he will not turn a blind eye toward their abuses of others, or their abuses of Scripture. Jesus was also betrayed for silver, a mere thrity pieces, Mtt 26:15. He was quite literally murdered in a rigged trial, when it was known that He was innocent of all of the charges.

Joseph was rescued from the pit

“and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. ”
Gen 37:28 WEB

Symbolically Joseph is rescued from death. Jesus told ahead of time that He would spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, Mtt 12:40.

“or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
Rom 10:7 WEB

During that time Jesus preached to the spirits in prison to those who died in the flood.

“19 in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, …”
1Pe 3:19-20

And of course, Jesus was rescued from death, never to die again.

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Joseph, Never Referenced as a Type, Part I of III

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The purpose here is to show how Joseph son of Jacob was such an excellent type or shadow, symbolic of Jesus the Christ. The fidelity with which he foreshadowed Jesus is astonishing. However, he is never cited in the New Testament as a type of the Christ.

Joseph reported on the bad conduct of his brothers

Joseph as a mere boy of seventeen was pasturing the sheep with his brothers, and he brought back to his father a bad report of the conduct of his brothers, Gen 37:2. Also Jesus reported on the bad conduct of his brothers to His Father.

“He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.”
Jn 1:11 WEB

In chapter after chapter Jesus testified against all the bad conduct of the Jews, but only some of the poor would repent. The leaders tried to prevent the repentance and change of anyone!

Joseph was loved above all of his brothers

“Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, …”
Gen 37:3 WEB

We all know the story of the colored robe which his father made him. Similarly, Jesus was a special son of His Father, and who especially loved by Him. “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”Mtt 3:17 WEB

And God emphasized the same thing before the apostles in Mtt 17:5. And of the Son He says,

“You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
Heb 1:9 WEB

Josephs brothers were jealous of him.

“And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,”
Acts 7:9 KJV

So it was also with Jesus. Pilate “knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.” Mtt 27:18 WEB

Joseph brothers hated him.

“Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.”
Gen 37:5 WEB

And the Jews hated Jesus.

“The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.”
Jn 7:7

“If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.”
Jn 15:24

Joseph was committed to the pit

His own brothers were going to kill Joseph. “Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, …” Gen 37:20 WEB. They did cast him into a pit, to let him suffer there.

Jesus in fact was murdered, and was put to suffer in what Rev 9:1 WEB calls “the pit of the abyss.” The KJV translates the Greek word abussos as bottomless in Rev 9:1, and as “deep” in Rom 10:7. This is the pit where Jesus went for you and me.

“Or, Who shall descend into the abyss? (that is to bring up Christ again from the dead.”
Rom 10:7 nf

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The Wilderness Wanderings as a Type: Part III of III

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If the wilderness represents the Christian life after being separated from this world …

What corresponds to this present world?

Clearly Egypt corresponds to this present world of sin and death. Egypt is a place where we are born in bondage in this world. If we are deceived and bound here, who is it to?

“in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.”
2Cor 4:4 WEB

Who then corresponds to the god of this world?

The Pharaoh then represents the god of this world, the beast, the monster, who holds God’s own people in bondage, and will not let them go to be separated from this present world to pursue a course that leads to the eternal promised land!

What will convince the Pharaoh to let God’s people go?

Only a series of horrible disasters will convince him as described in Exodus chapters 7 through 12. Water is turned to blood. Frogs overcome the land of Egypt. Then plagues of insects, and the death of livestock comes. Then come plagues of boils on the wicked, and a place of hail big enough to kill both men and beasts. Then comes a plague of locusts, and then darkness covers the land, day and night. Lastly comes the death of the firstborn of man and beast. And Pharaoh relents.

Then in the last days, one called a “beast,” makes “war with the saints”
and overcomes them, Rev 13:7.

The beast’s accomplice in overcoming the saints is “Mystery Babylon the Great,” represented by a great prostitute who is,

“… drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.”
Rev 17:6 WEB

What will bring the saints release?
The seven last plagues!

“the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.”
Rev 15:1 WEB

The seven last ever plagues of God’s wrath on an evil world begins in Revelation 15, and they are amazingly like the plagues on ancient Egypt in the book of Exodus.

The first of the last seven plagues is severe sores on all who had worshipped the beast or his image, Rev 16:2. Then the oceans are turned to blood, and all the fish die, Rev 16:3-7. Then the sun scorches the people of the earth, Rev 16:8-9. Then darkness covers the earth, Rev 16:10. And it goes on. There are hailstones that weigh about 75 pounds each, Rev 17:21.

Egypt and the Exodus are types, symbolic, of the end of this present world.

With the Pharaoh representing Satan and the beast of the last days, whom, “ALL who dwell on the earth will worship,” Rev 13:8 WEB, something that has never happened in history so far.

One more time the saints will flee into the wilderness. Then will be the grand Exodus out of this present world, to the Eternal Promised Land, 1Thes 4:16-18.

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The Wilderness Wanderings as a Type: Part II of III

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Paul talks the Wilderness wanderings as typifying
our trials and sins in this life.

Paul says that those Israelites ate the same spiritual food and drink which we as Christians eat and drink. That is to say that ancient Israel drank of the Christ which was to follow, 1Cor 10:4. However with many of them God was not well pleased, and so they died in wilderness without ever entering the promised land, 1Cor 10:5.

These things are examples for us, 1Cor 10:6.

These are warnings for us. The promised land symbolizes heaven.

We should not desire evil things as they did. Neither should we be idolaters, 1Cor 10:6-7. Of course Paul tells us that covetousness, strongly desiring something, is idolatry, Col 3:5. He says that we should not commit sexual immorality as ancient Israel did and 23,000 died in one day, 1Cor 10:7-8. We should not test God as many of them did, and were destroyed by snakes, 1Cor 10:9. Neither should we complain against the Lord, as many of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer, 1Cor 10:10.

These are all easy things to fall into in any age, and Paul says,

“Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. ”
1Cor 10:11

So Paul’s conclusion is,

“Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.”
1Cor 10:12 WEB

What a picture of our present life in this world, as a life in a desolate place with all sorts of enticements around to draw us to our own destruction!

This symbolism suggest we could enter heaven sooner.

But our weaknesses in the flesh cause us to fall short and then aimlessly wander around for years in nothing but desolation. Of course there is other imagery that many have picked up on. The last river they crossed before entering the promised land was the river Jordan. Ours is the river of death. So we have many songs in our churches picturing death as the river Jordan, a river that parts for us cross on dry ground, even as it did for ancient Israel in Joshua chapter 3, if we are those chosen to enter that wonderful land.

And there is ONE MORE TIME in the wilderness.

Revelation is talking about those things yet to come in the Christian age, and Revelation 12 pictures the church as being pursued by that old dragon Satan, trying to destroy her.

“The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her …”
Rev 12:6 WEB

The woman, the church, is pictured as being protected by God in the wilderness for a critical period of “one thousand two hundred sixty days.”

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.”
Hos 2:14 KJV

There is to be one more time in the wilderness for God’s people, one more time for the ancient lessons to be pointedly relevant.

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The Wilderness Wanderings as a Type: Part I of III

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We are studying simple “types” and symbols, to see how types and symbols work in prophecy. A prophecy laboratory. A story of past and future things. Not a study any secret matter, but of things well known among many Christians.

Paul talks about symbolism in history.

In fact Paul talks about ancient Israel as being baptized into Moses, as symbolic of us being baptized into Christ.

“1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;”
1Cor 10:1-2 WEB

So this pictures Moses as being symbolic of Christ, and indeed, Moses says that Yahweh, the LORD, said the Christ will be like him.

“17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.”
Deut 18:17-18 WEB

There is more to tell there, but that is the core of the matter.

By the waters of baptism we are separated
from our old life of sin in the world.

“3 Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. ”
Rom 6:3-4 WEB

So as the waters of baptism separate us from our old life to enter a new life, so the waters of the Red Sea separated Israel away from their old life in Egypt. Also it separated them “unto” Moses. He was their leader in a new life, a life that was lived in a wilderness, in a desert, in the rough land of the desert of Sinai, before they enter the promised land of Canaan. So if Canaan represents heaven, as was discussed in the post on “Hebrews Identifies a Type,” Then what does the Wilderness Wanderings represent?

The Christian Life as a trek through a desolate place!

Certainly the Israelites had literally been slaves in Egypt. Now they they were separated from their oppressors in Egypt by the waters of the Red Sea.

“Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.””
Ex 14:13 WEB

Similarly, if the Christian has died with Jesus in baptism, then it is that,

“7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!”
Rom 6:7-9

Simple but important imagery. All of which leads to the next part.

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Hebrews Identifies a Type: The Final Rest, Part III of III

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So what can we learn from the type of Canaan as being symbolic of the heavenly rest. A prophecy laboratory for us. A place to learn how types work.

Heaven is a real country, a real land.

God is telling us that this is a “real” country, a “real” land. One of our modern day problems is that we have been so conditioned by Gnostic foolishness about the after life, that many, perhaps most, do not think of heaven as anything that is real. Gnostic false teaching has caused us to think of this world as “real” and “heaven” as some sort of mist that is both there, and not there. Thus our views, or rather our apprehensions about the future life are not very satisfying.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Heaven, or rather what Scripture calls “the new heavens and the new earth” (Isa 65:17, Isa 66:22, 2Pe 3:13), is really a new universe, but one in which death and decay are NOT operating principles.

Heaven is a land of milk and honey.

It is a good land, a prosperous land. Some of the Old Testament parables of it are instructive. The Christ is described as “Shiloh” in Jacob’s prophecy in Genesis 49. It says of Him,

“11 Binding his foal to the vine,
His donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
He has washed his garments in wine,
His robes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes will be red with wine,
His teeth white with milk.”
Gen 49:11-12 WEB

How prosperous will He be? He can tie is donkey to the best vine in His vineyard and not worry about how much he will east. He has plenty of wine, and is the picture of health. His teeth are white as milk. A picture of abundant prosperity.

We will inherit houses we did not build.

No, not just houses.

“10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build, 11 and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;”
Deut 6:10-11 WEB

We will not plant but another get the fruit, or build and another take over what we have built, Isa 65:21-22. It will be an earth of peace and prosperity and safety, Isa 11:6-9. There is more to tell than there is space in this post, but it will be wonderful beyond what we can imagine. It will be heaven.

Heaven is won by conquest.

There is a war going on now. We put on the full armor of God and fight the good fight of faith. He that overcomes will inherit these blessing, Rev 3:5 and many more verses.

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Hebrews Identifies a Type: The Final Rest, Part II of III

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So God rested on the seventh day, Gen 2:2-3, & Heb 4:4

But in Psalm 95 God says “They will not enter my rest.”

So what is the conclusion that the Hebrews author comes to?

There is yet to come a “rest” of God.

“Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,”
Heb 4:6 WEB

Then through the mouth of David God again identifies a certain day as “today,” and says,

… “Today if you will hear his voice,
Don’t harden your hearts.” Heb 4:7

Then the author Hebrews makes his grand point.

You see, Joshua did give the children of Israel a rest of sorts in ancient times.

“Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.”
Josh 1:13 WEB

Joshua essentially repeats this again in his instructions in Josh 1:15. Then starting in Joshua 11 it speaks of this rest being accomplished.

“So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war. ”
Josh 11:23 WEB

That is emphasized in Joshua 21.

“Yahweh gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore to their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.”
Josh 21:44 WEB

Then it is spoken of as accomplished in Joshua 23.

“It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;”
Josh 23:1 WEB

But there is another “rest” to come.

Here is the clincher:

“For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.”
Heb 4:8 WEB

But David writes over 400 years later and says, “Today if you hear His voice …” don’t treat God as ancient Israel did and were barred from entering God’s rest. But there is no need to tell us TODAY if there is no need for us to hear and obey, and yet enter. But David says

“ … Today, oh that you would hear his voice!” Psa 95:7

And the implication is that if you and I do not listen and obey God, then WE may never see God’s rest.

So Joshua’s “rest” was MEANT to be symbolic.

Joshua’s rest is symbolic of the ultimate rest of heaven.

“9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.”
Heb 4:9-10 WEB

So we need to pay attention so that we do not fail because we follow that ancient bad example of disobedience.

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Hebrews Identifies a Type: The Final Rest, Part I of III

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Hebrews talks about a “rest” for God’s people.

Most of the discussion in Hebrews chapters 3 and 4 is centered around Psalm 95. Psalm 95 itself does not say who wrote it, either in English, or in the Hebrew text. In the Greek translation of the Old Testament it says it is a “Praise ode of David.” Is that an authentic original reading? The author of Hebrews says in Heb 3:7 that this is what the Holy Spirit says. Then in Heb 4:8 he says that David wrote it and bases part of his conclusion on this. The author of Psalm 95 pleads with us.

“7 … “Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Don’t harden your hearts, as in the provocation,
Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
Heb 3:7-8 WEB

He tells how the ancestors of the Jews tried God’s patience in the wilderness. The Holy Spirit says in verse 10, ‘They always err in heart, But they didn’t know my ways;’ The author of Hebrews then says that we should be beware lest there be in any of us there be an evil heart of unbelief, unbelief in what God says, and fall away from the living God. He goes on to say we should encourage each other every day as long as it is called “today,” “ lest any of us be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Heb 3:31 KJV.

We are partakers of Christ if we hold fast till the end.

For who was it who provoked God in the desert after they had heard? He says it was all of those who came out of Egypt with Moses. And who was it that God was displeased for forty years? It was all of those Israelites who died in the desert of Sinai. And to whom did He sware that they would never enter His rest? Well, of course it was those who were disobedient to God. Then the Hebrews author draws a conclusion.

“We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.”
Heb 3:19 WEB

We need to be afraid lest we come up short!

The Hebrews author says in Hebrews 4 that we have had the good news preached to us just as ancient Israel had also. There was something lacking in ancient Israel, even as it is sometimes with us: the hearing was not mixed with faith in what was said, Heb 4:2.

Those who believe are able to enter God’s rest.

But it was said of ancient Israel,

“… “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;” ”
Heb 4:3WEB

Not enter God’s rest? But His works were finished (this is say, came into being) from the foundation of the world. For indeed it says,

“2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.” Gen 2:1-2 WEB

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The Kingdom of God in Eternity

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Remember Jesus said “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here.” Jn 18:36 WEB

A new universe is coming, “a new heavens and a new earth in which dwells righteousness.” 2Pe 3:13. Peter is referring to passages like Isa 66:22 as a future thing to be fulfilled.

“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says Yahweh, …” Isa 66:22 WEB

What will it be like?

The saints will sit down with Jesus on His throne to rule this new universe, Rev 3:21 and many other passages.

What the physicists call “The Second Law of Thermodynamics,” or Entropy, or “things run down,” will not be an operating principle in this new universe.

God will severely shake this present universe one more time.

“26 whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, receiving a kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,”
Heb 12:26-28 WEB

“that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.” Rom 8:21 WEB

And since things won’t run down, you will never die.

The descriptions are wonderful, glorious!

“6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.”
Isa 11:6-9 WEB

We as Christians have come to the heavenly Jerusalem according to Heb 12:22. Isaiah describes that heavenly Jerusalem.

“21 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. … 24 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”
Isa 65:20-25 WEB

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The Kingdom of God Comes

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Everyone one was looking for the kingdom of God to come around the first century of our age. The Pharisees were repeatedly asking Him about it, much as in Lk 17:20-21. Jesus told His disciples,

“… “Most assuredly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power.” ” Mk 9:1

So the kingdom was indeed to come soon, before all of them died, and it was to come with power. Then right before ascending to His Father in heaven, Jesus told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem “until you are clothed with power from on high.” Lk 24:49 WEB. He seems to be talking about the power with which the kingdom would come. Then in Acts 1 Jesus told them that, “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.” Acts 1:8. Then in Acts 2 the Holy Spirit came upon them with power and the kingdom of Heaven was begun.

A present embryonic kingdom!

The Father has,

“ … delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;” Col 1:13 WEB

That’s right. It is past tense. We are now “fellow citizens with the saints,” Eph 2:19

Jesus rules ALL heaven and earth NOW!

All authority in both heaven and earth has been given to Jesus now, past tense, Mtt 28:20. Jesus is now, “the ruler of the kings of the earth.” Rev 1:5, present tense. So kings and judges are advised,

“Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
For his wrath will soon be kindled.
Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.”
Psa 2:10 WEB

So Jesus at present does indeed, “… Rule in the midst of your enemies.” Psa 110:1

How long with this rule over heaven and earth last?

“24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. ”
1Cor 15:24-26 WEB

Some still look for Jesus reign on this earth for a thousand years.

Speaking of some saying Jesus will again be on earth, Jesus says something different.

“25 “Behold, I have told you beforehand. 26 If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; ‘Behold, he is in the inner chambers,’ don’t believe it.” ” Mtt 24:25-26 WEB

Some seem to think He did not mean that. But that is what He said!

You see, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God,” 1Cor 15:50. The kingdom of God is not of this world, not of this universe, Jn 18:36.

And for a perfect place,

“Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.” Eph 5:5 WEB

KJV is the King James Version, 1611

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nf is my own translation based on the WEB