Once again, there are many different peoples in God's Kingdom of Heaven. That doesn't result in many different kingdoms, as you so wrongly presume.
So you think the unsaved Jews and unsaved Christians
are in the
ETERNAL "
Kingdom of Heaven"?
LOL
Any kingdom is made up of different peoples. And it's still one kingdom.
So you think unsaved Jews and unsaved Christians
are in the
ETERNAL "
Kingdom of Heaven"
LOL
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(1) During the Pre-Flood days "
The Kingdom of Heaven"
contained all the Saints from Adam to Noah. It's just too difficult
for you to understand the
PEOPLE and the
GOSPELS and the
WORLDS were
DIFFERENT for the Pre-Flood Saints and the
Jewish Saints... Is that reality to complex for you to understand?
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(2) During the OT days "
The Kingdom of Heaven" contained
all the Jews that God saved... and then God later
DESTROYED
"
The Kingdom of Heaven" of the Jews, because they were not faithful. Please do not believe me... see what
JESUS said when
He specifically
NAMED "The Kingdom of Heaven" of the Jews.
Mat 22:2
The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain king,
which made a
marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants
to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not
come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which
are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my
fatlings are killed, and all things are ready:
come unto the marriage.
5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm,
another to his merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants,
and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. 7 But when the king
[God] heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies,
and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Now understand this.... those PRETENDING there was only
ONE
"
Kingdom of Heaven" on earth, must then explain HOW it was
DESTROYED in
Matthew 22:7. Are you REALLY going to pretend
the
ONLY [and eternal] "
Kingdom of Heaven" was
DESTROYED
at the end of the Old Testament... as the New Testament Kingdom
began?
Joh_4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields;
for they are white already to harvest. [the harvest of the
LAST Jewish Saints into the Christian "
Kingdom of Heaven".]
Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you,
The Kingdom of God
SHALL BE TAKEN from you [the Jews],
AND GIVEN to a nation
bringing forth the fruits thereof. [the Christians] 21:45 And when
the chief priests and Pharisees had heard His parables,
they perceived that he spake of them.
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So, we have
The Kingdom of Heaven of the
Pre-Flood destroyed,
and we have
The Kingdom of Heaven of the
OT destroyed....
and we have
The Kingdom of Heaven of the
NT destroyed.
First, let's establish there was a separate NT
Kingdom of Heaven...
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(3) Jesus specifically
NAMED The Kingdom of Heaven of the NT
in eight (8) different verses of
Matthew 13 (and many other verses)
I will only focus on two (2) of these passages because there can be
no SERIOUS denial these verses are talking about the NT Kingdom...
and NOT the Pre-Flood "
Kingdom", or the Jewish "
Kingdom" or
the
ETERNAL "
Kingdom".
Mat 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
The Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a man which sowed
good seed in his field:
Mat 13:47 Again,
The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a net,
that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
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I promised to show
The Kingdom of Heaven of the NT destroyed.
So pay attention... this will be some
New Information for you
When the "
testimony" of the church is "
finished" [Rev 11:7]
(the two candlesticks and two olive trees represent the NT church)
and the
LAST SAINT has been "
saved/sealed" [Rev 7:1-3] then
the Holy Spirit is "
taken out of the way" [2Thess 2:6-9] and the
Christian "
Kingdom of Heaven" is finished
BEFORE Satan can be "
loosened" from the Bottomless Pit [Rev 9:1-12] so he can
RULE the last "
wheat and tares" during his "
Little Season" [Rev 20:3]
which is also shown as the Revelation Beast and Great Tribulation.
The last "wheat and tares" are called the "
ten virgins" [Mat 25:1-13]
who "
went forth" from the Christian "
Kingdom of Heaven" as they
preach the Gospel of the Great Tribulation "
Kingdom of Heaven".
This is
AFTER the Holy Spirit has been "
taken out of the way" and
Satan has been "
loosened" to
RULE during the Revelation Beast.
Mat 25:1
Then shall
The Kingdom of Heaven [the Great Tribulation Kingdom]
be likened unto [look like]
TEN VIRGINS, which took their lamps,
[their Gospels] and
WENT FORTH [from the Christian Kingdom]
to meet the bridegroom [Jesus]. 2 And five of them were wise,
[saved wheat] and five were foolish [unsaved tares].
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(4) Now... before we go any farther... for those PRETENDING there
is only
ONE (1) "
Kingdom of Heaven" on earth, we have just seen
JESUS CHRIST specifically
NAME:
(1)
The Kingdom of Heaven of the Old Testament
(2)
The Kingdom of Heaven of the New Testament
(3)
The Kingdom of Heaven of the Great Tribulation
There can be no dispute about the
FINAL "
Kingdom of Heaven"
which is
ETERNAL (not temporal like the others) and contains
ONLY
the Saints from the previous four (4) "
Kingdoms of Heaven",
(while the temporal Kingdoms had BOTH saved and unsaved men)
Mat 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in
The Kingdom of Heaven. [the Eternal Kingdom of Heaven]
Only a complete FOOL will argue the
Eternal "
Kingdom of Heaven"
[Mat 8:11] is the
SAME "
Kingdom of Heaven" of the OT period
(which had saved and unsaved - and was destroyed) or the
SAME "
Kingdom of Heaven" of the NT era (which had saved and unsaved and was destroyed as the Holy Spirit was "
taken out of the way")
or the
SAME as the Great Tribulation "
Kingdom of Heaven" (which
had saved and unsaved men - and is destroyed at Christ's Return)
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(5) Now some Truth on the Great Tribulation "
Kingdom of Heaven"
The "
ten virgins" that "
went forth" from the Christian Kingdom into
the Great Tribulation Kingdom are also called ten "
horns/kings" that
are RULED by the Anti-christ (and called "
the saints") in Dan 7:24-25
and they are AGAIN called ten "
horns/kings" that agree to give their
"
power and strength" to the Revelation Beast [Rev 17:12-13] and
they "
agree to give their KINGDOM to the Beast" [Rev 17:17]
That is
WHY the LAST SAINT had to be "
saved/sealed" [Rev 7:1-3]
and the Holy Spirit had to be "
taken out of the way" [2Th 2:6-9]
BEFORE Satan could
RULE the last "
wheat and tares" during the
Revelation Beast/Daniel's Fourth Beast/Great Tribulation Kingdom
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(6) A little EXTRA education for you:
The phrase "
Kingdom of Heaven" is used thirty-three (33)
times in the Bible and
EVERY TIME the phrase represents
the many unsaved "tares" and/or the few saved "wheat",
associated with preaching the "Word of the Kingdom"
(the Gospel) during one four (4) temporal Kingdoms on earth...
OR... it represents
ONLY the saved "wheat" harvested into
the (5th) Eternal "Kingdom of Heaven".
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In other words, the (5th) Eternal "Kingdom of Heaven"
is also called the one (1) Eternal "Kingdom of God"
more on this
interchangeability below
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The first four "
Kingdoms of Heaven" are physical and temporal
Kingdoms... and there's a "
harvest" of Saints at the end of each,
with the "
Final Harvest" including only the "
Wise Virgins" living
during the (4th) Great Tribulation "
Kingdom of Heaven"
[Mat 25:1-13]
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The phrase "
Kingdom of God" is used seventy (70) times
in the Bible and
EVERY TIME it represents the Holy Spirit of God
and/or the souls (but not the bodies) of the saved "
wheat"
who have been regenerated by His "
indwelling" Holy Spirit.
TO BE CLEAR, the "
Kingdom of God"
IS A SUBSET of the
"
Kingdoms of Heaven" since it
ONLY includes the saved
"
wheat", and none of the unsaved "
tares".
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Therefore, the Bible can use the phrases
interchangeably
when it focuses only on the "
wheat" within the Kingdom.
When focused only on the "
wheat", the Bible can use
"
Kingdom of Heaven"
OR "
Kingdom of God". And that
is why we have several parallel passages in the Bible
that can (and do)
interchange these two phrases.
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When presented with how the
BIBLE DEFINES the
five (5) different "
Kingdoms of Heaven" and the one (1)
Eternal "
Kingdom of God". Many people are confused when
they see the terms used
interchangeably. Remember, when
the
CONTEXT of the verse is focused on
ONLY the saved,
the Bible can (and does) use the terms
interchangeably.
Once this reality is understood, it actually provides a new
(and wonderful) dimension to the way Scripture is written.
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Jim
