Re-establishing The Kingdom On Earth!!!

Psalms 24

We are walking in today: Re-establishing The Kingdom On Earth!!!

Witness renew throughout the Bible: H2318 chadash-- to be new, renew, repair, make anew

Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew H2318 a right spirit within me.

The Torah testifies...............
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The prophets proclaim..................
 1 Samuel 11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew H2318 the kingdom there.


The writings bear witness.......................
 Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew H2318 a right spirit within me.

 Psalms 103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed H2318 like the eagle's.

Lamentations 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew H2318 our days as of old.


The Rebirth of a Kingdom
The greatest motivation of the human spirit is to control its environment.The King’s goal was to cause his children to be integrated, set apart, and devoted to him—so that his Spirit could live within them once more. This would be the work of the Offspring, the one called the Messiah by the prophets. The Offspring was first mentioned in Genesis 3 and was revealed by the prophets Isaiah, Malachi, and others to be the King of heaven himself. While the First or Old Testament emphasizes the promise of the coming King, the New Testament reveals the rebirth of the kingdom on earth through his arrival.The rebirth of the kingdom signified the recolonization of earth. Recolonization is unheard of in human history, or is at least very rare. Once a people declare independence, they don’t go back to the home country. The plan that the King was unfolding was therefore unprecedented.

The Birth of the King on Earth
The King, of course, needed to remain in the heavenly kingdom as its ruler and sustainer. At the same time, he had to come to earth to provide for the return of the Governor. The Spirit of the King was directly involved in his coming to earth. Luke the physician, the writer of the gospel bearing his name, wrote,The Most High sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendent of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with The Most High.”The angel’s statement, “You have found favor with The Most High,” shows us that Mary was yielded to the heavenly government and the purposes of the King, and this is why she was chosen for this crucial assignment in the intervention of the heavenly kingdom on earth. The angel continued,You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Yeshua. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord The Most High will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end. “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of The Most High....For nothing is impossible with The Most High.” “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me as you have said.”Again, we see evidence of Mary’s submission to the heavenly government: “I am the Lord’s servant....May it be to me as you have said.”In this passage is a fact of vital significance: the Spirit conceived The Most High the Son or the King-Son, whose earthly name was Yeshua, in the womb of Mary. Mary was what we might call a surrogate mother for the eternal and invisible The Most High’s entrance into the physical world as a human being. Also, the King-Son was filled with the Spirit when he was conceived. This means that the Governor returned to earth at this time within the person of Yeshua. The Governor was resident in the body of Yeshua until the rest of humanity could be prepared to receive him as well, through Yeshua’s provision. At that time, the King-Son would reappoint the Governor to the earth in order to restore kingdom influence throughout the world and to give back kingdom citizenship to humanity.The King-Son was both fully divine (as The Most High the Son) and fully human (as the man Yeshua). Yet he was not infected by the rebellious nature of humanity. The womb of a woman is designed in such a way that the blood of a mother and her unborn child never mix. Yeshua’s blood was pure; his life was pure. As we read in the third book of Moses, “The life of every creature is its blood.” Like Adam before the rebellion, Yeshua and everything about him was set apart and devoted to the King-Father. The King-Son was fully divine and fully human, yet not infected by man’s rebellious nature.

The Governor Gave the King so the King Could Give the Governor
The King-Son had to be born of the Spirit and filled with the Spirit, so that he could deliver the Governor to the people of earth in fulfillment of the promise. John the Baptist announced to the world the arrival of the King-Son who would restore the Spirit, and he said about Yeshua, “The one who comes from heaven is above all....For the one whom The Most High has sent speaks the words of The Most High, for The Most High gives the Spirit without limit [to him],” and “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” Yeshua told his disciples, If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Therefore, the Governor gave the King-Son to the earth so the King-Son could send the Governor to the earth after he returned to the heavenly kingdom. They worked in harmony to achieve this ultimate purpose.


The King-Son Was Completely Filled with the Governor

The King-Son not only was filled with the Spirit at his conception, but he also continued to be filled with the Spirit throughout his entire lifetime. As John the Baptist said, “The Most High gives the Spirit without limit [to him].” This was the first time a human being was filled with the Holy Spirit since before the rebellion of Adam and Eve. The Holy Spirit within Yeshua was limitless in presence and power.In preparation for the King’s appearance on earth, John had been baptizing people who desired to be realigned with the kingdom. Then, just before Yeshua began his public ministry, he also went to John for baptism.The next day John saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of The Most High, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.” Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of The Most High.”John made these declarations about Yeshua:

(1) he was the one who would take away the sin of the world (making it possible for the citizens to be fully aligned with the heavenly kingdom);
(2) the Spirit came down from heaven and remained on him (Yeshua had the total sanction of the King-Father); and
(3) he was the Son of The Most High (he came directly from the King-Father and was one with him). Paul wrote, “In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” The Most High the Father, The Most High the Son, and The Most High the Spirit are one. The King expresses himself in three unique dimensions, which he revealed in the plan to restore humanity. Yeshua therefore possesses a dual nature—he is fully The Most High and fully human. The Most High the Father is the King, and Yeshua HaMachiach is the King who came in human form. The New Testament book of John says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with The Most High, and the Word was The Most High.” Yet the King’s coming as a man wasn’t just a convenient way in which to coordinate his rule on both heaven and earth. His mission was to restore holiness to men and women so they could again be a suitable environment for the Holy Spirit to dwell in. As we will see, the only way he could do this was to become a human being himself.

The Era of the King on Earth
In a previous chapter, I stated that Yeshua began his public ministry by saying, “The time has come....The kingdom of The Most High is near,” and I posed these questions:
√ What “time” was he speaking about? And why then?
√ What was the nature of the kingdom he was referring to? The “time” was the “day of the LORD,” or the era when the King-Son would come to earth to restore the Governor to humanity. The purpose and nature of the kingdom was
(1) the reconciliation of the earth’s inhabitants to the King-Father, so that it was possible once more for human beings to be his children, and
(2) the reign of heaven returning to earth through the Governor’s presence and power operating in the lives of the King’s children.The inhabitants of the colony of earth had been ran-sacking the King’s territory—stealing, lying, abusing, killing one another, living their lives outside the nature of the kingdom. Therefore, as the Son and heir of the King of heaven, Yeshua was coming to reclaim his Father’s territory. His arrival on earth marked “the day of the LORD” prophesied by Joel.The King-Son came to reclaim his Father’s property two thousand years ago as a baby born in Bethlehem. The birth of the Messiah is not about a beggar coming; it’s about an owner arriving. He came to reclaim the earth because, as the psalmist David, king of Israel, wrote, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” He came to recover all of creation as its legal owner.The King-Son didn’t come to earth to plead with Lucifer to return his property. He treated him as a thief, saying, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” He also said, “How can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.” The King-Son came to bind the strongman, Lucifer, so he could retake the house and give it back to the children of the household. Therefore, the man Yeshua was the fulfillment of the King-Father’s remarkable plan to send his Son to earth to restore the heavenly government here.Through Yeshua, human beings can be restored as vice governors in the world. Paul called Yeshua the “last” or Second Adam. The King-Son came to fulfill what the first Adam had failed to do. He lived a life in total harmony with the King-Father, his kingdom, and the kingdom’s purposes on earth. Yeshua taught his disciples to pray, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”As the Second Adam, Yeshua came to rescue us from being dominated by the kingdom of darkness led by Lucifer and to restore us to the home kingdom. He went through his life and death on earth so we could be reconciled to the King as his children.Through Yeshua, human beings can be restored as vice governors in the world, earthly kings who rule under the direction of the Spirit of the King—the Royal Governor. The kingdom of heaven is therefore a family of kings. This is what the nation of Israel was meant to demonstrate as a prototype: “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” Although the Governor is equal to the King-Father and the King-Son, the Scriptures never refer to him as a King in relation to humanity, but as our Counselor or Comforter. This is because his role is to sustain and perpetuate the will and work of the heavenly kingdom in the lives of the inhabitants of earth.
The King-Son Reintroduced the Kingdom of Heaven to Humanity
Yeshua’s first declaration in his public ministry was essentially his mission statement: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” He continually repeated this same message for three-and-a-half years during his entire ministry on earth. Throughout the written record of his life in the New Testament writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we find him restating his central theme of the kingdom of heaven. Sometimes, he would use the phrase the kingdom of The Most High. While these phrases are essentially the same, you could say that the kingdom of heaven is the place, while the kingdom of The Most High is the influence. The kingdom of heaven is the headquarters, the invisible country where the King-Father resides. The kingdom of The Most High is the influence of that country on its territories. Here is a sample of the King-Son’s other statements concerning the kingdom:
√ Yeshua went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
√ “But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of The Most High, then the kingdom of The Most High has come upon you.”
√ “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants....”
√ “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard....”
√ “The kingdom of The Most High will be...given to a people who will produce its fruit.”

Lucifer (also called the devil or Satan) knew that the King-Son had come to overthrow him to restore the heavenly kingdom on earth. He therefore tried to tempt Yeshua away from his mission by appealing to his natural human desire to exercise dominion over the earth. Notice that Lucifer tried to get Yeshua to substitute the kingdoms of the world for the kingdom of heaven, which is basically the same thing with which he had tempted Adam and Eve. This would allow Lucifer to maintain his oppressive domination and destruction of the earth. Yet the King-Son was totally loyal to the kingdom. He countered Lucifer’s temptation by rebuking him with the words of the King-Father, which were first given to the Israelites after they came out of Egypt. The New Testament book of Matthew records,
The devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” Yeshua said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your The Most High, and serve him only.’” Then the devil left him.


Baptism into Kingdom Philosophy
Yeshua’s temptation by the devil occurred right after his baptism by John. Many people are confused about the true nature of baptism and why Yeshua him-self was baptized. While baptism is treated as a religious ritual by many people, it is actually a very practical act that is related to the will of the King and his desire for the colony of earth.


Joining a School of Thought
When you became a student of a philosopher or other teacher, you joined what is called his school of thought. Schools were not originally associated with buildings. They were essentially the ideas unique to a teacher. They were the teacher’s philosophical concepts and ways of thinking, which he passed along to his followers.From this perspective, the significance of baptism is not the water or even the act of being baptized—it has to do with the transformation of your way of thinking and living. When you were baptized in the name of your master teacher, you were saying, “I am choosing you above every other available teacher, philosopher, rabbi, and leader, and I am publicly declaring that I am submitting to your school of thought. I’m going to be associated with you only, so that whenever people see me, they’re going to know, ‘He belongs to that teacher.’”


As I mentioned, at the time of Yeshua, there were a number of teachers and philosophers, and all had their own schools of thought and their own disciples. In that culture, a man couldn’t begin such a school until he was thirty years old because this was the age at which a young man could be officially designated as a master teacher.Therefore, when the Creator of heaven and earth him-self came to earth as a man, he entered the culture of the day and presented himself in a way that the people would understand the life-changing nature of his message and its requirement of total commitment to him. It was at age thirty that Yeshua began his public ministry, became the ultimate Master Teacher, and welcomed those who desired to follow him. The kingdom was the embodiment of his teaching.


The Kingdom School Transferred to Yeshua When a master teacher was no longer able to teach, he would decide which of his disciples would succeed him. Who-ever was chosen to take his place would automatically gain his students. Yeshua had to be a part of John’s school in order to take over leadership of it. And John turned the whole school over to Yeshua; he released his disciples to him, indicating that Yeshua was the one they should follow because he was the King who would restore them to the kingdom. The New Testament book of John records,The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Yeshua passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of The Most High!” When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Yeshua. Turning around, Yeshua saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour. Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Yeshua. Most importantly, we should note that the King-Father had appointed Yeshua as the ultimate Master Teacher of the kingdom school. After Yeshua submitted to John’s baptism to show that he was immersed in the philosophy of the kingdom and in alignment with it, what happened to him? The Holy Spirit—the Governor—descended on him. The New Testament book of Matthew says, As soon as Yeshua was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of The Most High descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”The King-Father was confirming, “This one has the Holy Spirit; he is my Son, and he is fully integrated with my thoughts and ways. He is the one who will restore my Spirit to the earth.” Later on, the King-Father affirmed that Yeshua was the one whom his disciples were to listen to above all others, when he said, as documented in the book of Mark and else-where in the New Testament, “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!


Yeshua’s Message Was in Harmony with John’s Message


Note that John the Baptist had been presenting the same message about the kingdom. Yeshua was fully aware of John’s mes-sage when he went to him for baptism. Many people are at first surprised to read of the King-Son submitting to a master teacher for baptism. Yet he did this to demonstrate to the people of the world that his teaching was not independent of John’s; rather, he was in total harmony with it. In fact, Yeshua himself was the fulfillment of the teaching of John who, as the faithful prophet of the King-Father, was proclaiming the message of the kingdom and preparing the way for the King-Son’s appearance in the world. John had been gaining a number of disciples, and when people came to him with a sincere desire to repent (to change their thinking and lifestyle from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of heaven), he baptized them. Yet when Yeshua went to him for baptism, John was taken aback and said, in essence, “You should be the teacher, not me!” John recognized Yeshua as the King who would send the Governor to earth. In fact, John had said to the people earlier, “After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”


Yeshua, however, replied to John, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” He was saying, “I understand your reluctance to act as master teacher to me. However, in order to demonstrate to the world that I am aligned with the kingdom of heaven, I need to be identified with it through baptism. I need to publicly declare that I belong to the school of the kingdom of heaven, that I am fully integrated with the mind and ways of the kingdom.”


Yeshua had many disciples or students, but he chose twelve to be in full-time traveling work with him and to learn from him in an intense training relationship. Among these were the notable apostles Peter, James, and John. When Yeshua called various of his disciples, saying, “Follow me,” he was inviting them to join the school of the kingdom of heaven.We are followers of Yeshua when we have decided to identify with the life and message of the King-Son and submit to him as our Master Teacher. Yeshua said, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both The Most High and Money.” Although this statement was about money, it also has broader application. In the context of baptism, it tells us, “You cannot be in two schools. You cannot have two philosophies that are in contradiction to one another.”


Shema Selah we are being returned to the Kingdom Heaven by the King's Son, Himself!