My post from another thread.
Well as far as yours and Mohamed's and the Mormons, JW's, Adventists etc etc vision of what that kingdom age will look like I would have to agree wholeheartedly. Of course I reject yours and their vision as false prophecy. Since the scripture has well over 100 chapters of prophecy about that age that describe it. I'm going to go with that.
Isaiah 2: 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.1 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.2 5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
So are you disputing that the believers both Old and New Testament are not the Lords house? That for the last two thousand years the peoples of all nations once they begin to hear the real gospel don't flow to God's saints, the Bible, a church? That is not where they learn of God's ways to walk in his paths? Are you denying that the Kingdom of God in ancient Israel was heavily reliant on the sword and the spear just to maintain the influence of Gods invisible kingdom in their midst but that with the coming of the Messiah. The sword and the spear were beat into farming instruments..... and the sower sows the word into the hearts of the peoples of all nations? That this is how the the Kingdom of God is spread? Not with the sword and the spear but with the preaching and teaching of the God's Word? Of course you not denying this. But your blinded as to the meaning of prophecy like this because of the false prophecy you've accepted as gospel truth. N
As to that blindness of heart. You just smugly ignored the prophecies I already gave you, of which I guess I'll have to point them out again below, because they cannot be made to fit into what you believe the future holds. Even though they have been coming to pass in the world now for 2000 years . Especially in the last 500 when the Roman Empire ended and immediately following that, for the first time in human history. The Bible started (illegally) getting into the hands of the general public. Isaiah 20:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the tyrannical one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproved in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.
Strange isn't it? The Roman empire ends. The world has known nothing but despotic human government and slavery for its entire existence. The Bible illegally gets into the hands of the general public in northern Europe. As usual and expecting the usual success. The despots raise a great army to destroy the people getting the Word but for the first time outside ancient Israel, lose. Then those northern Europeans who are reading their Bibles every day found the free world and the tyrannical despots of the world have been being slowly eliminated ever since, and the free world keeps slowly growing.
Isaiah 60: 3 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip. 5 Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult,
because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. (ESV)
So one hundred thousand people per day in the last 20 years coming to Christ isn't fulfilling this prophecy? Just 50 years ago Brazil, as one example was pretty much a mixture Roman Catholicism and animism. Now they claim to be 50% evangelical \ Pentecostal. One day maybe even in our lifetime we will wake up to the news that China has announced they are now a Christian nation. This isn't the "sea" meaning the nations being converted or turning to Christ, turning to the New Jerusalem?
Isaiah 49:6 He says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”...8 Thus said the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people,
to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
So, the salvation of Christ is not reaching to the ends of the earth? Of course you say. But why do you ignore that he is establishing the earth not destroying it. That he came to do that?
42:Behold my servant, (the messiah) whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit on him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. 3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench:
he shall bring forth judgment to truth. 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. 5 Thus said God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that walk therein: 6 I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
What is this about bringing justice to the earth? And when you compare the free world that is based in Biblical principle to the ancient world. When you compare it to the world not yet transformed by the Gospel and the influnce of God's Word. Has not Jesus been setting justice in the earth? Isn't the standard the rule of his law? "Well we haven't arrived yet." Duh; but compared to what the world was for its entire existence to the free world. Its like night and day.
Now I have got a hundred chapters of this stuff. I'll be happy to keep sharing it with you.