December 2001

THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMES TO EARTH
Paul & Emily Meuller

Part Four     April 2001

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               We have learned that the coming of the kingdom of God to the earth is also the coming of the Spirit and power of God to the earth, specifically to the lower heavens of the earth, to fulfill a distinct, divine purpose in all the world. We have also grown spiritually to understand that the kingdom of God has many parts or elements, each part having a definite purpose to fulfill in the earth. It is also our understanding, by the wisdom of the mind of Christ, that the kingdom of God does not come to the earth all at once. The kingdom comes to the earth in parts or segments and at different times, each part having a distinct purpose to fulfill for that specific period.

                The first coming of the kingdom of God to the earth spiritually took place when the Seed of Christ was planted within the Lord's people (Lu. 17:20-21). That Seed, though the smallest of all seeds, took root within the Lord's faithful elect (Mt. 13:31-32). Then that small Seed grew to become the throne of Christ within, establishing the spiritual reign of Christ in the lives of His elect. And when the reign of Christ was fully established within us, we then had no will of our own. The will of God then became our will! Our only desire and objective now is to do the perfect will of our Father in heaven. This will confirm the truth that the absolute and total reign of Christ is now within us.

                Since Christ now fully reigns in our lives, so that we desire only His will, the next, or Davidic, phase of the kingdom of God will come to the earth, and it has. The will of God is the constitution, the code of conduct in the kingdom; it is the divine arrangement under which all mankind shall eventually live; it is the law of the Lord for all the elect to live by in this new Day of the kingdom of God on earth. The absolute and perfect will and ways of our Father are the principles by which all the elect are to live now. The coming of the Davidic phase of the kingdom of God to the earth is also the coming of the throne portion of the kingdom of God to the earth. It is the time of the establishment of the reign of Christ over all the world.

                Christ is not going to reign some day; He is reigning over all the earth now, in the initial or Davidic phase of His kingdom reign. The Davidic phase of the kingdom of Love (God) in the earth is that portion of the kingdom reign of Christ that must defeat every enemy and put them all under the feet of Christ. When this Davidic phase of the kingdom is fully established, fulfilling all our Father's purposes in this world for that portion of His kingdom, the next phase of the kingdom of God will then come to the earth. That will be the Solomon phase of the kingdom of God! Then righteousness, peace, joy, prosperity, and the salvation of the Lord, will be fully established in every area of this world for the benefit of all. What a wonderful and glorious future our Father has planned for this spiritually darkened and sin-burdened world! And we are privileged to have a part in bringing it all to pass!

                Some do not see this new kingdom Day and God's purpose for it, so they continue on in the old, dead ways of the past, totally unaware of the will of God for this new Day. Others put more confidence in man and in his systems than they do in the sovereign purposes of their Father. The prophet Jeremiah prophesied of these, when he said, 'Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath (a barren or nude juniper bush) in the desert, and SHALL NOT SEE WHEN GOOD COMETH; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited' (Jer. 17:5-6).

                'Cursed' is not a nice word! I hesitated to use it, but could not find a translation with a better word. This word tells us exactly what the Lord intended to say. Yet, it is the Lord's prerogative to curse and His alone, not any man's. We are instructed of the Lord to 'bless, and curse not' (Ro. 12:14), including our enemies and those that persecute us. This may be a difficult lesson to learn, but we must learn it well if we expect to have that wonderful ministry of reconciliation.

                There are untold millions of people today, many of them Christians, who are in that state of spiritual blindness. They are persuaded by the carnal mind to trust in man and in man's corrupt ways. They cannot see that the Lord has already begun to turn things around in this old world, and do something good for mankind. To trust in man and make flesh the arm in which they put their confidence indicates those who have departed from their Lord. They will be like a juniper bush in the wilderness, which has been denuded of leaves and branches by the hot, dry, scorching winds of the desert. They will be restored later, but will no be among the firstfruits. The elect are the Lord's firstfruits; their total trust and confidence is in the Lord and His kingdom. Their eyes will be opened by the Spirit to see that the goodness of God (Love) is now coming to the earth in the power and glory of His kingdom.