KINGDOM NOT WITH OBSERVATION.....INSIDE YOU......
"AND WHEN HE WAS DEMANDED OF THE PHARISEES, WHEN THE KINGDOM SHOULD COME, HE ANSWERED THEM AND SAID, 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMES NOT WITH OBSERVATION. NEITHER SHALL THEY SAY, LO HERE! OR, LO THERE! FOR BEHOLD THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU'" (Luke 17: 20-21).
IF YOU HAVE A KJV WITH MARGIN REFERENCES YOU'LL NOTICE THEY ARE "WITH OUTWARD" SHOW AND "AMONG YOU."
THERE IS NO NEED TO HAVE IT ANY DIFFERENT THAN HOW THE KJV TRANSLATORS GAVE IT.
THE PHARISEES [AND OTHERS] WERE PREOCCUPIED WITH WANTING THE LITERAL KINGDOM OF GOD, THE PROPHETS OF OLD WROTE ABOUT IT OVER AND OVER. ALL THEY HAD THEIR MIND ON WAS THE LITERAL KINGDOM WHERE ISREAL [ALL 13 TRIBES] WOULD REIGN WITH THE MESSIAH; THEY WANTED TO BE OUT FROM UNDER THE ROMAN HEEL; THEY COULD NOT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE BUT THE LITERAL KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.
JESUS PULLED A FAST ONE AS WE SAY. HE GAVE THEM THE ANSWER THEY DID NOT WANT, BUT A TRUE ANSWER ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU!
JESUS WAS SAYING TO THEM, GET YOUR MIND OFF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH, THE LITERAL ONE, AND GET YOUR MIND ON THE FIRST KINGDOM OF GOD THAT MUST BE WITHIN YOU..... THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF GOD THAT MUST COME INTO YOU, FOR THE SPIRITUAL COMES FIRST, THEN THE LITERAL. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM WITHIN YOU, YOU WILL NOT BE IN THE LITERAL NEW AGE [1,000 YEAR AGE] KINGDOM OF GOD.
AS TRUE CHRISTIANS WE ARE IN THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF GOD FIRST, THEN THE LITERAL.
WE SEE THIS IN COLOSSIANS 1:13 "WHO HAS DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS, AND HAS TRANSLATED [MOVED US] INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR SON."
THERE MUST BE A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM FIRST, A KINGDOM OF GOD WITHIN YOU; YOU BEING GOVERNED BY THE RULES AND WAYS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
JESUS WAS TRYING TO GET THE PHARISEES OBSESSION WITH THE LITERAL KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH, TO THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM THAT MUST COME FIRST IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE LITERAL KINGDOM.
THEN PRIVATELY JESUS GAVE HIS DISCIPLES TEACHINGS ON THE LITERAL COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.
Keith Hunt
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