God Will Establish His Kingdom: Have you noticed how greatly the - TopicsExpress

God Will Establish His Kingdom: Have you noticed how greatly the fall of the angels and of man has affected the universe, what a great problem it has created for God? It was God’s intention that the beings He created should accept His authority, yet both kinds of created beings rejected it. God could not establish His authority in the created beings; even so, He would not withdraw it. He might withdraw His presence, but He will never give up the authority He has initiated. Where His authority is, there is His rightful place. Hence God on the one hand will affirm His authority and on the other hand will establish His kingdom. Though Satan continually violates God’s authority and men daily rebel against Him, God will not permit such rebellion to continue forever; He will set up His kingdom. Why does the Bible call God’s kingdom the kingdom of the heavens? Because the rebellion has not been restricted simply to this earth, but has in addition reached to the heavens where the angels rebelled. How, then, does the Lord establish God’s kingdom? He establishes it through His obedience. Never once was He disobedient to God; never once did He resist God’s authority while He was on earth. By obeying perfectly and by permitting God’s authority to rule absolutely, He established God’s kingdom within the realm of His own obedience. Now just as our Lord has done, so must the church today obey in order that the authority of God may prosper and the kingdom of God be manifested.- WATCHMAN NEE