Status Updates From Coming of the Kingdom

"Christ penetrates into the province of the prince of this world and vanquishes the hostile powers which devastate the creation."

"A miracle, as much as preaching, in its sense of being a revelation of the kingdom of God, is a confrontation, which necessitates a decision: for or against Jesus as the victor of the evil one."

"The time is fulfilled means that the threshold of the great future has been reached, that the door has been opened, and that the prerequisites of the realization of the Divine work of consummation are present; so that now the concluding Divine drama can start."

"For the coming of the kingdom is the initial stage of the great drama of the history of the end."

Its coming is nothing less than the great divine break-through, the "rending of the heavens" (Isaiah 64:1) The kingdom of heaven is, therefore, absolutely transcendent in its origin, it is the revelation of God's glory (Matt. 16:27; 24:30; Mark 8:38; 13:26, etc.).

The kingdom of God is not a state or condition, not a society created and promoted by men (the doctrine of the "social gospel"'). It will not come through an immanent earthly evolution, nor through human moral action; it is not men who prepare it for God.

The idea of the coming of the kingdom is preeminently the idea of the kingly self-assertion of God, of His coming to the world in order to reveal His royal majesty, power and right. This absolutely theocentric idea of the kingdom of heaven should always be borne in mind.