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The Kingdom of Glory Does Have Favored Nations on Earth. 13 of 15

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The summary verse for this contention might be:

“Let peoples serve you,
Nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
Let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
Gen 27:29

It does matter what the nations do, morally and ethically.

“Righteousness exalts a nation,
But sin is a disgrace to ANY people.”
Prov 14:34

Righteousness does raise up, exalt, peoples, nations. These things do come into account. Jesus in one place speaks of doing trivial deeds that are good.

“Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
Mtt 10:42

This, and the KJV of this, is really paraphrase of the verse, which is a strong negative of that person having a chance of losing their reward. I don’t think it means that everyone that gives a cup of cold water to someone in need will go to heaven. He is saying that even little things count, and will bring their proper reward. God sees and knows and will bring us to account or rewards for even trivial things.

“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”
Mtt 12:36

A scary thought to most of us. However it not just the bad things, but also the good things that are remembered and accounted for. As the Hebrews in Jerusalem were told,

“For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.”
Heb 6:10

Counting one thing as another!

Of course good works are NOT enough to deliver us from the penalty for our wrongs, but all is taken into account. Unfortunately, not all of us have the same advantage in being properly instructed. Circumcision was the sign of the covenant in the Old Testament. Even so,

“If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?”
Rom 2:26

It does not have to be every single person in a nation.

Sometimes it can be just one or two. The righteousness of one good man, Joseph, brought blessings on an entire plantation.

“It happened from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.”
Gen 39:5

When Abraham pleaded for wicked Sodom and Gomorrah, he asked God, suppose that ten righteous men are found in Sodom and Gommorah?

“… And He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.” ”
Gen 18:32

Still, the conduct of the nations counts

“… Cursed be everyone who curses you,
Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”
Gen 27:29

So it will be!

Scriptures are from the World English Bible (WEB), a copyright free revision of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901

The Kingdom of Glory: ALL Opposition Will Be Eliminated, 12 of 15

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One of the great evils of this world is the toleration of evil. That alone can bring a nation down.

These principles are solidly illustrated
in Numbers 35.

First Israel is warned that murderers should be put to death. Additionally,

“Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.”
Num 35:31

Well, why not? If they will repent, and pay a good fee, why not? Then we given the answer.

“33 … for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it. 34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit,”
Num 35:33-34

If a nation does not punish wickedness, it pollutes and ruins a country. Then the guilt and the retribution falls on that country overall, instead of just on the criminals!

The same is true of other sins.

Leviticus, especially chapters 18 20 gives some lists of detestable things which bring judgements on nations, and warns,

“Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.”
Lev 18:24

We can ruin ourselves with these things!

The ancient church at Thyatira had
a problem with toleration.

“But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.”
Rev 2:20

So some woman at this church, who is symbolically called Jezebel, is teaching sexual immorality as actually alright, and the church is tolerating this, and the church is being condemned for the tolerating.

It is good to not tolerate evil things.

Of the church at Ephesus Jesus says,

““I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.”
Rev 2:2

David as King said,

“I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.”
Psa 101.5

America has been way too tolerant.

Abortion has been tolerated and encouraged by law, and now the blood of over 60 million babies are on America’s hands.

We tolerated homosexuals and transvestites and even a great deal of Sodomy, so as our reward for our tolerant attitudes, the Left wants us now to worship at the altar of homosexuality and unhealthy habits, and demands that all children be trained from grade school in those things which destroy men and nations.

And the Left for sure has no room to lecture us on toleration, as intolerant as they are of righteousness and every good thing!

In heaven, all of those who really do not want
to do what is right, will have been
eliminated from being there!

They really would not be happy there!

Scriptures are from the World English Bible (WEB), a copyright free revision of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901

The Kingdom of Glory Overrules Even Satan’s Power, 11 of 15

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The Kingdom of God is NOT a Revolutionary Power. Instead it is really THE power. As the apostle John said,

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.”
Jn 4:4

If we are truly Christians, God has translated us out of Satan’s power into God’s kingdom.

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

God is in control

Yes, Satan is allowed some power here to reward his servants. He tells Jesus,

“5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. 7 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.” ”
Lk 4:5-7

Jesus does not deny this power, but says it only appropriate to worship the Lord our God!

Satan’s power and rule is only by permission. Indeed, of the governments of our world it says,

“1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.”
Rom 13:1

God overrules all.

There has been a hand off to the Son

In Psalm 2 it speaks of giving “my son,” verse 7, rule over the nations, Psa 2:8-9. The judges and rulers of the earth (Psa 2:10) are allowed a measure of liberty, as is Satan and you and I, but they are warned,

“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 2:12

Peter was an outstanding apostle,

both before and after Christ’s death, but though very aggressive in nature, was at times perhaps had a little too much confidence in himself as a man.

“The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,”
Lk 22:31

Satan can only do what he is allowed to do.

Satan’s power is all by permission!

Satan cannot even tempt the Christian beyond individually set limits,

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. ”
1Cor 10:13

There will even be a period in history when Satan, “that he should deceive the nations no more,” Rev 20:3, and the world is able to see through the Satanic designs.

Finally “… he must be freed for a short time,” Rev 20:3

For a short period of testing, just before the end of our universe.

Scriptures are from the World English Bible (WEB), a copyright free revision of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901

The Kingdom of Glory: Satan is allowed a little power for a little while, 10 of 15

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Evidently Satan was originally one of the most powerful creatures that was ever made by God. Angels in themselves are powerful creatures. Peter tells us that angels are “greater in might and power,” than men, 2Pe 2:11. When Paul speaks of Christ coming on the last day, it will be “when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,” 2Thes 1:7. Story after story speaks of them having power far beyond that which a man personally can wield.

And Satan’s power?

At first it seems Satan was both good and glorious. Evidently the King of Tyre in Ezekiel 28 is a type, symbolic, of Satan. As is common when there are types or symbols in Scripture, part of Ezekiel 28 applies to the ancient King of Tyre, and part applies to Satan himself. It says that he was in the garden of Eden, Ezek 28:13. However, the King of Tyre was further away from the garden of Eden than we are from the birth of Christ! It says of Satan,

“14 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, so that you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.”
Ezek 28:14-15

So Satan was originally good and pure, as indeed you and I were before sin seized us. Satan originally one of the covering cherub that surrounded the very throne of God Himself in heaven, as pictured in Ezekiel 1, and Rev 4:6-8. That is to say that Satan was one of the most powerful creatures ever created! It says of him,

“We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
1Jn 5:19

Or again it describes Satan,

“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

So Satan is described as “the god of this world,” or a better translation would be “the god of this age,” which is still quite a description. Further Satan is clearly described here as being able to influence the minds of mere men, and is able to even blind us at times

In Job 1 Satan is able,

to make fire fall from heaven, influence groups of men to steal and kill, cause mighty winds to blow. In Job 2 Satan is able to cause debilitating diseases, and on and on it goes.

If a man has a particular weakness,
Satan is quick to exploit it.

With Judas it was evidently money.

Satan can influence or even enter us!

Jesus says to Peter, “” Get behind me, Satan!” Mtt 16:23

“Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve.”
Lk 22:3

Scriptures are from the World English Bible (WEB), a copyright free revision of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901