We Are Called to Establish A Kingdom

When Jesus taught, He preached a Kingdom. Along with that Kingdom there was a Government which rests on His shoulders and He called that Government the Kingdom of God. We as Christians are the people of this kingdom and our mandate is to establish this Kingdom on the earth. There is already a Kingdom of Heaven which belongs to God and other creatures. Our final destination as humans isn’t heaven. Selah. We are created as biological creatures, made of the substance of the earth and in the image of God. Our home is Earth.

Jesus never said the word ‘Christians’. He didn’t institute Christianity. It’s just the name given to identify Christ followers. It’s mentioned first in Acts 11.26

“…and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians”. 

Determinants Matter

We don’t even know who coined the phrase. Who first called us Christians because the Bible doesn’t tell us. For sure it was a man and not God. It could have been angry locals. Jesus didn’t call His followers Christians. I don’t think the use of the word Christian is as bad a determinant as being differentiated by religion, but it is strange and a bit mysterious to me when I think about it. And determinant is the right word because what you follow and mold yourself after will determine the final product of your being. One will be the image of a manmade doctrine. The other will be the image of God Himself. We’ve been lied to, a sophisticated and propagating lie, but a lie none-the-less.

We are kings and priests. We are not called by any other manmade religious affiliation in the biblical text.

…and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.

To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

Revelation 1.5-7

The Earth Belongs to the Children of God

We have mistakenly identified with the false pretense of any number of various religions, pick yours, they’re free for the taking as long as you abide by their doctrines and forget entirely that you are the son or daughter of the most High King, have been distinguished as a Priest and belong to a Kingdom instituted by God for all of us who rightfully inhabit this earth.

The Earth is ours brothers and sisters. That unemployed Cherub will not win against God and we will come back to this earth in new wineskins that are eternal of which Jesus Christ is the first fruit.

When people belong to a religion, they belong to other people who’ve placed themselves in high positions over them, according to a wrong precept. I don’t want to fashion myself in the image of other humans. God forbid. It’s a cyclical nightmare of fallen identity. I want to put on Christ.

“…in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

Galatians 3.26-27

King David said, ‘Show me your precepts God,’ and nowhere in the biblical text does God ever say He is a Religion, or that He instituted religion or that He wants some religion of heaven to be revealed in the earth. There’s no such thing.

A Kingdom for which Christ Died

No. It is a Kingdom! Why do religious people get so angry about this? Why do they hate you when you tell them religion is not what Christ died for and that they are only serving the dictates of man, not God, when they bind themselves to a religion?

Religion is a ‘go between’ which wrecks everything. I hate it. I’m angry about it. Only Christ is set in the position as Intercessor, He alone mediates as The High Priest, the only High Priest, praise God.

Why is no one preaching the Kingdom? The few who were teaching it have nearly all passed on. The ministers God put before me back in the early 2000’s taught it, but I wasn’t able to discern it because I didn’t see there was a problem. I was too young in the Spirit.

The Pillars of Society are Of This World, Not of God

Now I see it plain as day. One of the pillars of the world is Religion. I don’t think anyone understands this. There are 7 main pillars that hold the worldly system in place: Arts, Media, Government, Family, Business, Education and Religion. But we know there is only one Prince of this worldly system and he is an illegal Cherub that stole the earth from its rightful, biological inhabitants: the kings and priests of God. We were ignorant to the serpent’s devices and lost our kingdom.

Why else do you think these 7 pillars are burning into ashes all around us? We’ve abandoned the original God-idea. We’ve neglected our rightful positions as kings and priests over the earth, so the thieving Cherub is winning.

Now here we are not even understanding our identity, who we are or who He is who made us in His image. Christ reestablished our rightful dominion in the earth and laid a righteous Government on the shoulders of the Body of Christ.

The Book is about a King. It’s not about a religion.

I’m angry about this. Too angry to do anything productive. It’s the ability to execute, isn’t it? A million truths discerned, a million ideas, a million keys of knowledge, yet they die tragically in the grave because we don’t know how to execute.

But God does know how to execute. And He will show me.

I’m done with religion. It tears everything to pieces, including Jesus Christ. The Religious killed God.

“If there were no great evils and no deaf hearts and no eternal consequences, perhaps the only fitting forms of love would be a soft touch and tender words. But such a world does not kill the Son of God and hate his disciples. There is no such world.” -John Piper

I don’t like it when people don’t like me, who does? It’s uncomfortable and you’re always wondering if you’re doing the right thing when so many people dislike you and even hate you. But Jesus told us how it was going to go:

Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

John 15.20-21