WHERE IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD ?

1. THE CREATOR AND HIS CREATION:
• The Almighty God reigns in His Kingdom; a kingdom that has no beginning and it has no end. From eternity to eternity is the Kingdom of God.
• There was a moment within that eternity that the Creator God formed the universe and within that universe the earth is found. Everything on the earth, God created it; and it was on this planet that God created the human race. [Genesis 1:1-2:3]
• It was also on this earth that God sent the rebellious angels who followed Lucifer/the devil [Ez. 28:16-
• It was on earth that the human race received the attack from Satan/the devil and sin entered the human race and it contaminated the rest of humanity. [Genesis 3:1-7; Romans 5:12]
• But at that moment, God gave the serpent the first prophecy of the Bible: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:15


2. THE ARRIVAL OF THE MESSIAH KING AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CONFRONTATION:Luke 4:1-13
• After his baptism, the Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness where he was tempted by the devil. [4:1-2]
• The devil presented 3 temptations to Jesus, but the Lord rebuke all 3 with the Word of God [4:3-12]
• But in one of the temptations, the enemy presented an offer to Jesus that the Lord did not accept, but he didn’t rebuke either. And this was the offer from the devil: “Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.” [4:5-6]
• It was the offer of the kingdom without the cross — Jesus didn’t accept it! And He said: For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ [4:8]


3. WHO RULES THE EARTH’S SPIRITUAL DIMENSION?
• Jesus declares that Satan has a kingdom here on earth: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?” [Luke 11:17-18]
• Jesus identifies the enemy: “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.” [John 14:30]
• Paul also explains the structure of Satan’s kingdom: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. [Ephesians 6:12]
• But Jesus taught us how to pray to the Father: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. [Matthew 6:9-10]
• Jesus, in his first coming to this earth did not destroy Satan’s kingdom, instead, He destroyed the devil’s power to keep people in bondage of sin in his kingdom of darkness. Jesus set us free from the power of sin. Then how does the Kingdom of God come to this earth?


4. THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF “KINGDOM NOW”:
• The New Apostolic Reformation is bringing “another gospel” to the Body of Christ, the church. The leaders declare that it is through the church led by new apostles and prophets that God is going to bring his kingdom to the world.
• They declare that their prophets are receiving new revelation on how God is going to established his kingdom here on earth and that it is through the church that all the world’s institutions will be taken. They also declare that when the church establishes a world free from all that Satan has brought, it is then that Jesus returns to take over the kingdom that the church has won for Him and it would be at
• But there is a problem with this whole story that they have created from their “supposed revelations”. The church already has God’s revelation of how his kingdom is going to be established here on earth, and it is written in his Holy Bible. And the Scriptures declare that it is Jesus Christ who is coming to destroy Satan’s kingdom [Revelation 19] and it is then that Jesus establishes his kingdom here on earth. [Revelation 20]. What they declare and what the Bible declares are in opposition and the Bible is infallible. So, it is them the ones who are lying because they want to control the Body of Christ and to bring lies and doctrines of demons to the church. [ 1 Timothy 4:1-2; 1 John 4:1-2]


5. “YOUR KINGDOM COME,” HOW CAN IT BE ESTABLISHED ON EARTH?
• Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” [Luke 17:20-21]
• From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” [Mat. 4:17]
• But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. [Mat. 12:28]
• From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” [Mat. 4:17]
• Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” [John 3:3]
• ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:
• Jesus is the King Eternal Son of God and when He appeared on Earth, He is the Kingdom. This is why He said that the Kingdom was within them or in their midst.
• The miracles and the supernatural demonstrations of power that Jesus exhibited was evidence that the reality and the power of the kingdom was manifested through Jesus.
• But Jesus warned Nicodemo that if someone is not born again, he/she will not see the kingdom of God.
• Jesus told his disciples that he was coming back and that he would be in them and that they would be in Him. [John 14:20]
• WHEN WE ARE BORN AGAIN — Jesus forgives our sins, He washes our sins with his blood, and he sends his Spirit — the Spirit of Christ comes to be in us. [Ephesians 1:13]
• The Eternal King and his Kingdom is in us through his Spirit — He lives in us — To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

* All scriptures are from New King James Version