It seems Jesus is about half way through His ministry. He has sent his apostles out on the limited commission to just the Jews in Matthew 10. He warns them of dangers yet to come. Many good things have happened, but the Jews as a group have not been turning in repentance. Jesus is now causing conflict here on earth.

“34 Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A man’s foes will be those of his own household.”
Mtt 10:34-37

John the Baptist has been seized and is now in prison, and there under confinement even needs some reassurance in Matthew 11.

It is the Kingdom of God versus
the kingdom of Satan.

Of those who turn to Jesus, Paul says,

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

That Greek word that is rendered as “translated” means someone whose state or status of being has been changed. They have become citizens of this embryonic kingdom. Even us gentiles now, “are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,” Eph 2:20.

This stone cut out of a mountain without hands (Dan 2:34), this kingdom, will yet, even in this age, become a great mountain which will fill the entire earth (Dan 2:35). Which means there many more things yet to happen, even in this age.

God has Passed Control to Jesus

“All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.”
Mtt 11:27

None of us can do anything, except as God allows! And now the Father passes control of all to Jesus.

“he Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.”
Jn 3:35

“… “All things have been delivered to me by my Father.”
Lk 10:22

Christians are in Jesus’ hands now.

There is no need to be afraid.

“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”
Lk 12:32

“27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.”
Jn 10:27-29

There are aspects and dimensions to this kingdom in the world to come, but its citizens and rulers are being assembled NOW!

“He who overcomes, … to him I will give authority over the nations.”
Rev 2:26

Things do not just wait for the end of the age. They are working now.

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