Hallelujah, For the Lord GOD Omnipotent Reigns
In spite of men or demons, His purpose is always fulfilled. He is the eternal King and the only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords! His purpose is fulfilled in the council of heaven. He has the last word in every dispute and the winning move in every game.
The Almighty God raises up kings and casts them down at will. He drowns the mighty Pharaoh in the depths of the sea, and puts His hand on a little shepherd boy tending the sheep making him the greatest king the world has ever known.
He raised up Nebuchadnezzar, gave him a kingdom, power, strength, and glory to rule over Babylon (Dan 2:37), and when he became pigheaded, He took it all from him. As a result of his rebellion against the Most High, Nebuchadnezzar lost the throne, became insane, lived in the wilderness and ate grass like a cow, dwelling with the beast of the field until he saw “that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whosoever he will:” (Dan 4:25)
If we get this revelation in our heart, it will totally change our attitude. It will eradicate most of the worrying that gives men hypertension. We will never need to worry about what some crazy nation might do with nuclear weapon; or about the coming economic collapse; or the ‘next big one’ from the San Andreas’ fault. There’ll be no need for sleepless nights over these things. God our Father is in control. And still more good news—He’s in control of your life and mine.
His Kingdom Ruleth Over All
“The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all” (Psa 103:19). Our God is supreme and it is He who behind the scene, guiding the affairs of the universe, piloting it to its desired end. “The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of waters He turneth it whithersoever He wills” (Prov. 21:1).
Though things may not look that way out here today, but He is in control. He’s got the whole world in His hands. He is in control of kings, presidents, governors, princes and rulers of nations. His mighty hands are in all things and the kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.
I know! we’ve been told that the devil, the prince of the power of the air, the god of this world has somehow gotten the whole thing, and that this world belongs to him!. No! that is not true. Not at all!. Nothing belongs to him. When a thief steals a treasured property from the palace of a king and makes away with it, though the treasure is in his possession, yet he does not own it. It is in his possession until he is apprehended. The onlookers who see him where he’s hiding would say the treasure belong to him because they don’t know any better. But the princes and the members of the king’s family where the treasure was stolen know the truth. Nothing on earth belongs to the devious one. He stole everything he’s holding in his hands. The Scripture emphatically declares:
“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein” (Psa 24:1).
The earth and its fullness include everything. God our Father owns it all. And He hasn’t given any part of it to the devil.
Our God is the eternal King and “the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen” (1 Timothy 6:15-16).
The God we serve controls everything. The earth and the fullness thereof is His, yes, He’s got the whole world in His hands.
Now let’s return to the discussion on the Kingdom of God. If God were to operate in His sovereignty over His Kingdom there would be no need to pray—“Thy Kingdom come.” Jesus would never have said that it is necessary to be “born again” in order to “enter” into the Kingdom of God. The Lord Jesus would not have needed to die. Because God would just have imposed His Kingdom on all His creation and all will be complete and perfect instantly.
Not so. The Kingdom demonstrates the love of God for man. It is only the Kingdom that can ultimately satisfy the heart of the Father God. The Kingdom is what He is after through the employment of His sovereignty. With sovereignty He guides the course of nature, the trajectory of all things, to the expected end.
Sovereignty is the act of God overruling the will of men. But in the Kingdom of God, man willingly submits to God. In the Kingdom, God is calling and wooing man until God and man become one. The Kingdom is when the will of man has become aligned with God’s.
God has a plan, a wonderful Kingdom program for this earth and every person in it. You might be surprised to discover how many people go through life, even go to church and speak in tongues, but never truly realize that God has a plan and purpose for them. God has a plan and He works all things after the counsel of His own will. We need to understand what God’s priorities are and then flow with them so we are not as one beating the air.
God Sent JESUS to Establish His Kingdom on Earth
The real purpose for which God sent Jesus into the world was to establish His Kingdom on the earth. The ultimate goal is so that the kingdoms of this world shall experientially become the kingdoms of our God and His Christ. That is the plan of the ages. That is why the Lord Jesus spent most of His time, both before and after His crucifixion and resurrection, preaching and teaching the gospel of the Kingdom. The pattern prayer that He taught us to pray, which vast multitudes recite by rote, says, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.” Where? Here “on earth as it is in heaven”.
Without doubt, there’s a longing for the arrival of the kingdom of God on earth in the heart of the Son. This longing is in the heart of every man saved or unsaved. Deep within every human, there’s this yearning for the time when peace, justice, equity, and righteousness will reign. And when the Kingdom principles will be the living constitution of every nation. God has placed this yearning for righteous government in every heart, therefore the entire creation is looking for the full manifestation of the Kingdom of God on earth.
Thy kingdom come!, is in the heart cry of all creation. Is it any wonder then, that man should long for that glad hour to come; for the beasts likewise, together with the trees, the winds, and the waters, without understanding, all groan in travail for the day the kingdom of God will fully manifest.
“And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth” .(Luk 11:1,2).
In the pattern prayer that the Lord Jesus taught His Disciples the first request made in this prayer was: “Thy kingdom come”, followed by “Thy will be done”. The coming of the kingdom of God to the earth was without doubt uppermost in the mind of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ. The entire life of Jesus Christ on the earth was a parable of the coming kingdom. Every man He healed, every leper He cleansed, every sin He forgave, every blind eye He opened, every deaf ear He unstopped every word of wisdom He spoke, every act of kindness He performed was a display of the glory that should be revealed when He, the King of kings and Lord of lords, reigns in the glory of His Father on the throne of David. He came to preach the gospel of the kingdom and that was what he did. His entire life on earth from birth to resurrection was a testimony to the glory and wonder of the kingdom age to come when He will reign as King and prosper, and of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end.
