Intro to the Kingdom

The kingdom of Heaven is the dominion of the Creator within which the Chosen, Anointed One Yahshua, has been given all power. As proof that this power is the power to rule, we need look no further than the apostles who walked with Yashua during his tenure on Earth.  These apostles were convinced that he was the prophesied son of David who would rule as King over the houses of Judah and Israel, and were tempted by the understanding that came with that knowledge—They looked for the restoration of Israel, a hierarchy established where they would rule and reign with him in his kingdom.  Instead, as part of Yahshua’s plan to expose the corruption of governments of the world,  Yahshua offered himself as a sacrifice to be tortured and murdered by usurpers and abusers of force masquerading as government, after which he was raised from the dead an immortal being inducted into the eternal order of Melchisedec, and inaugurated as King of Earth occupying an invisible, eternal throne, and thereafter commissioning his disciples to proclaim his victory, and to make disciples of all nations.

Yahshua is the King of Earth in a very real, very present, very political sense; but his power and authority is not recognized by the People of Earth because his dominion is not even dignified by those who, calling themselves Christian, consider themselves His people.  Rather, Yahshua is looked to as having established the religion of Christianity, but not as having come into his own and establishing the kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Christendom takes a very shallow view of the kingdom of Heaven, denying the King’s dominion they purport to worship, by postponing the kingdom, choosing to look forward to a future time when Yahshua returns to establish his kingdom, but neglects to realize that his dominion within this kingdom began when he was born, and shall continue from that day forward, even to forever.

Christendom is not the first people to struggle with this concept.  The people of Israel also resisted the invisible king concept when they rejected God as King and demanded of the prophet Samuel to be provided with a king they could see.  Israel wanted to be like other nations, having a monarch that would distinguish them as a kingdom among other nations of Earth. Rejecting Samuel’s strict warning that a king would do them more harm that good, Samuel eventually anointed Saul as King, which ended the dominion of the Creator as King of Israel.

Christianity has gone the way of ancient Israel and Judah, looking to the world’s political systems as a means to recognition and standing in the world to derive their credibility.  Failing to trust in that which is unseen, many who claim to follow the teachings of Yahshua relative to the kingdom of heaven, turn to the institutions and governments of the world to provide the security that can only be derived from the King of Earth.  It is this rejection, this incessant insecurity in the hearts of men, that blinds them to the truth, and causes them to look to the temporal to do for them that which only the principles of the kingdom can accomplish.

So detached from the reality of the Messiah’s present reign is Christendom, that the notion of dignifying the kingdom of Heaven as a legitimate power on Earth is ridiculed by the very vessel that purports to be the means of establishing it.

The so-called Christian church is blind to the most important thing they are ordained to establish—that the kingdom of Heaven is at hand, present, here in this moment, now and always.  Until we come into the fullness of this knowledge, acknowledge the King’s eternal dominion as a force on earth, the kingdom of heaven will remain far off in the distant, a future that will remain just that—the future.