Jesus came to preach and establish His kingdom here on earth.
Luke 4:43 Jesus said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.”
He did not come to make people ready for heaven. We don't repent of our sin in order to be accepted into heaven. We repent of our sin in order to demonstrate to the world what the kingdom of God looks like. God loves us whether we live kingdom life now or not. The problem is that when Jesus comes He is coming to gather, out of His kingdom, things that offend and those who practice lawlessness.
Matthew 13:40-42 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Those who practice lawlessness are those who have seen and tasted of the kingdom and decided that it's not for them.
Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
When Jesus comes the second time He is coming to usher in the millennial kingdom in which He and we rule the world at Jerusalem.
Revelation 5:10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
In the Old Covenant God was teaching the world orthodoxy. He was teachings us kingdom rules and regulations so that when Jesus came to set up His kingdom we would have a baseline in how to in the live in the kingdom.
When Jesus came He ushered in His spiritual kingdom and taught us orthopraxy. Orthopraxcy is how we apply orthodoxy. Orthodoxy, without orthopraxy, is hard, cold and broken. Orthopraxy is the spirit of orthodoxy.
When Jesus comes again He is coming to finalize the kingdom of God. The whole world will have a thousand years to except the ways of the kingdom.
Daniel 7:13-14 “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.
The world will have a thousand years to decide whether or not they want to be part of the final kingdom. In the final kingdom there will be no more pain, sorrow or death neither on earth or in a fictitious place under the earth called, hell. The thousand year millennial kingdom is not the final kingdom.
1 Corinthians 15:23-27 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. For“He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,”it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.
Jesus did not come the first time to make a people ready for heaven, He came to set up His kingdom. He died for the sins of the entire world whether you believe it or not. If you believe God is not counting your sins against you because He loves you it will change you. It will awaken within you a new creation. A creation they called, the Way or the kingdom of God. When people run into you they will experience and taste the kingdom of God by how you interact with them. They will experience the life changing power of unconditional love and forgiveness in the here and now, not sometime in the distant future when they get to a place called, heaven.
Turn from your sin now and demonstrate to the world around what a person looks like who has been change by God's unconditional love and forgiveness. Remember, those who have experienced the fullness of God's unconditional love and forgiveness love much.
Luke 4:43 Jesus said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent.”
He did not come to make people ready for heaven. We don't repent of our sin in order to be accepted into heaven. We repent of our sin in order to demonstrate to the world what the kingdom of God looks like. God loves us whether we live kingdom life now or not. The problem is that when Jesus comes He is coming to gather, out of His kingdom, things that offend and those who practice lawlessness.
Matthew 13:40-42 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Those who practice lawlessness are those who have seen and tasted of the kingdom and decided that it's not for them.
Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
When Jesus comes the second time He is coming to usher in the millennial kingdom in which He and we rule the world at Jerusalem.
Revelation 5:10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
In the Old Covenant God was teaching the world orthodoxy. He was teachings us kingdom rules and regulations so that when Jesus came to set up His kingdom we would have a baseline in how to in the live in the kingdom.
When Jesus came He ushered in His spiritual kingdom and taught us orthopraxy. Orthopraxcy is how we apply orthodoxy. Orthodoxy, without orthopraxy, is hard, cold and broken. Orthopraxy is the spirit of orthodoxy.
When Jesus comes again He is coming to finalize the kingdom of God. The whole world will have a thousand years to except the ways of the kingdom.
Daniel 7:13-14 “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.
The world will have a thousand years to decide whether or not they want to be part of the final kingdom. In the final kingdom there will be no more pain, sorrow or death neither on earth or in a fictitious place under the earth called, hell. The thousand year millennial kingdom is not the final kingdom.
1 Corinthians 15:23-27 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. For“He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,”it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.
Jesus did not come the first time to make a people ready for heaven, He came to set up His kingdom. He died for the sins of the entire world whether you believe it or not. If you believe God is not counting your sins against you because He loves you it will change you. It will awaken within you a new creation. A creation they called, the Way or the kingdom of God. When people run into you they will experience and taste the kingdom of God by how you interact with them. They will experience the life changing power of unconditional love and forgiveness in the here and now, not sometime in the distant future when they get to a place called, heaven.
Turn from your sin now and demonstrate to the world around what a person looks like who has been change by God's unconditional love and forgiveness. Remember, those who have experienced the fullness of God's unconditional love and forgiveness love much.