UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM CONCEPT OF LORD

Genesis chapter 1













Today we are walking in: Understanding The Kingdom Concept Of Lord










Today we look to the word- KING- H4427- Malak- to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel:—consult, indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reigning, rule, surely.










The Torah Testifies……………………




Genesis 14:18

And Melchizedek king H4427 of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.











The Prophets Proclaim……………………




Isaiah 44:6

Thus saith the LORD the King H4427 of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.










The Writings Bear Witness…………………..




Psalm 10:16

The LORD is King H4427 for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.







Kingdom Concept #2: Understanding the Kingdom Concept of Lord




One of the most common words used in Scripture is the word lord. This word does not exist in democracies, socialist societies, or republics, except in the word landlord, in reference to one who owns land. Landlord is the only common remnant of kingdoms in modern governments and Western societies. Yet this concept of lord is one of the fundamental principles of a kingdom.




Every kingdom must have a king, but it is also true that every king is automatically a “lord.” It is this quality of lordship that distinguishes a king from a president, a prime minister, a mayor, and a governor. As a matter of fact, a king’s lordship makes him different from any other kind of human leader. Lordship makes a king unique.




In the last teaching we talked about a king’s sovereignty— how a king is free from external control and he can do whatever he pleases with accountability to no one except himself. A king’s sovereignty is absolute. He is neither voted into nor voted out of power; sovereignty is his by right of birth. The same is true of a king’s lordship. All kings are automatically lords.




So what’s the difference between a king and a lord? Lordship is only one aspect of a king’s overall identity and status, but it is one of the most important ones. One way to put it is to say that king relates to dominion, while lord relates to domain. The word dominion refers to a king’s authority—his power; the word domain refers to the territory, the property, the geographical area over which his authority extends. A king exercises authority (dominion) over a specific geographical area (domain) and within that area his authority is absolute.




Without a domain there is no king. A king is a king only so far as he has something to rule over. What good does it do to have authority if you have nowhere to exercise it? In that case, you really don't have authority. The most you have is potential authority. Until you have a physical domain over which to rule, your so-called “authority” is little more than theory.




If the word lord relates to a king’s domain, then the lordship of a king is tied up in his territory. To put it another way, if kingship has to do with authority, then lordship has to do with ownership. Let me explain. If a king must have a domain in order to be a king, then all true kings must have and own territory. This is what we call the kingdom lordship principle. You cannot be a king unless you own property. It is not the same simply to exercise rule and authority over a geographical region. Presidents do that. Prime ministers do that. Governors do that. But presidents, prime ministers, and governors do not own the territory over which they rule, and therein lies the difference. Kings personally own the physical domain over which they reign, and that is what makes them not only kings but also lords. So king and property go together. And the word lord defines the king’s identity as “owner” of his domain.




As lord, a king literally and legally owns everything in his domain: the forests and the meadows, the mountains and the valleys, the rivers and the streams, the crops and the livestock, even the people and the houses they live in. Everything in a king’s domain belongs to him. Because of this, a king has absolute and unquestionable control over his domain. This goes back to a king’s sovereign authority. A king is sovereign by right of birth, but he is also sovereign by right of ownership.




The fact of a king’s sole ownership of his domain carries a couple of significant implications that are easily lost by people who have grown up in a democracy. First, and rather obvious, is that if the king owns everything, then no one in the kingdom owns anything. In a true kingdom, there is no such thing as private property ownership. Kingdom citizens are stewards, not owners. They may occupy the land; farm it; mine its minerals, ores, and precious gems; build houses and places of business on it; and carry on all the other normal activities of human communities; but they do all of these only by the king’s permission and good pleasure. Ultimately, everything belongs to him.




Second, if the king owns everything, he can give anything to anyone at any time according to his own sovereign choice. In a democracy, if the prime minister or the president gives you property as a personal favor, it is called corruption. But if a king gives you property, it is called royal favor. And no one can question it or protest it because as owner, it is his prerogative to do as he pleases. Not only does a king possess the authority to distribute his property anytime, anywhere, to anyone, as much as he wishes, but he also can switch his property from one person to another. He can take something from one person and give it to you, or he can take something from you and give it to somebody else.




Because a king’s dominion is so closely tied to territory, his wealth is measured by the size and richness of his domain. That is why kings always want to expand their kingdom; they seek to increase their wealth. Think about the British, French, and Spanish kingdoms of the last several hundred years. The kings of those realms dispatched ships and established colonies all over the world. Why? Because they wanted to enlarge the borders and fill the coffers of their kingdoms. The larger and richer their domain, the greater their reputation and glory.




King and Lord




Although I have been speaking about lordship from the context of earthly kingdoms, everything I have said so far applies with even greater validity to the Kingdom of Heaven and its King. We have already seen that Yah is the King of heaven and earth by divine right of creation; He is King of all because He created all. And because every king is automatically a lord, the King of all is also the Lord of all; He owns everything because He made everything.




The Bible, the constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven, plainly identifies Yah as King and Lord of all. One of the most common Hebrew words used to refer to Yah in the Old Testament is adonai, which literally means proprietor or owner. It is usually translated “lord.” The personal name for Yah, Yahhawah Shi, although difficult to translate with complete accuracy, carries the same idea of master, owner, or lord.




This biblical picture of Yah as Lord is further enhanced by the fact that in most Bible versions, the personal name Yahhawah Shi, wherever it occurs, is replaced with the word “Lord.” This is in keeping with an ancient Hebrew tradition where devout Hebrews so respected and honored Yah’s name that they would not even speak it or read it aloud to ensure that they did not inadvertently violate the Third Commandment by misusing His name. Instead, they substituted the word adonai, or “Lord.”




So over and over the truth is hammered home: Yah is the Lord...Yah is the Lord...Yah is the Lord. This truth is reiterated even in the most basic confession of faith for a Jew, recited every morning:




Hear, O Israel: The Lord our Yah, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your Yah with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength (Deuteronomy 6:4-5).




So in this way the Hebrews were reminded every day that their Yah was Owner of all. This included Heaven and earth. An ancient Hebrew poet expressed it this way:




May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to man (Psalm 115:15-16, emphasis added).




As Maker and Owner of heaven and earth, Yah could give any portion of it to anyone He chose. And He chose to give the earth to man, not for man to be owner but ruler/manager, or steward. Here are some additional references verifying Yah’s rights to Lordship over the property of earth:




The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters (Psalm 24:1-2).




For Yah is the King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise. Yah reigns over the nations; Yah is seated on His holy throne. The nobles of the nations assemble as the people of the Yah of Abraham, for the kings of the earth belong to Yah; He is greatly exalted (Psalm 47:7-9).




And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it (Exodus 7:5).




O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

(Psalm8:1a).




I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing (Psalm 16:2).




The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the Lord will praise Him—may your hearts live forever! All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and He rules over the nations (Psalm 22:26-28).




The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want (Psalm 23:1).




Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is He, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty—He is the King of glory (Ps alm 24:7-10).




“The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,” declares the Lord Almighty (Haggai 2:8).




In the same way as the Old Testament reveals Yah as King and Lord and Owner of all, the New Testament reveals Yahusha Hamachiach as Lord and Owner of all. First of all, as we have already seen, Yahusha came announcing the arrival and reestablishment of the Kingdom of heaven on earth, something only the King Himself could do. And because a king is automatically a lord, this means that Yahusha is Lord also.




In addition, the most common Greek word for “lord,” kurios, is applied to Yahusha repeatedly in the New Testament. Kurios signifies having power. It also means one who possesses ultimate authority; master. Everything the Old Testament says about Yah as Lord, the New Testament says about Yahusha.




The Lordship of Yahusha is also by creative rights and was a natural result of His role in the creation of all things both seen and unseen. In essence, we do not “make” Yahusha Lord; He is Lord by creative right, whether we acknowledge Him or not. In His pre existence before He came to earth, Yahusha was identified as “the Word.” It was in this dimension that He was the source of creation. Let us read the record of His creative activity that gives HimLordship rights:




In the beginning Yah created the heavens and the earth

(Genesis 1:1).




And Yah said, “Let there be light,” and there was light

(Genesis 1:3).




In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Yah, and the Word was Yah. He was with Yah in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made (John 1:1-3).




The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).




But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. The Son is the radiance of Yah’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word (Hebrews 1:2-3a).




Here is ample evidence that Yahusha as the eternal Word was responsible for the creation of the universe and for sustaining it.




One familiar story about Yahusha drives this point home. Only a week before His death, Yahusha was preparing to enter Jerusalem, but He intended to do it in a very specific way.




As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Yahusha sent two of His disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’” They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” They answered as Yahusha had told them to, and the people let them go (Mark 11:1-6).




In this story, Yahusha acted in His authority as Lord. There is no indication that He had prearranged this with the owner of the colt or that He asked anyone’s permission. As Lord of all, He owned the colt anyway. Yahusha just told His disciples, “Bring me the colt.” When challenged, all the disciples had to say was, “The Lord needs it.” That was all it took; the owners released the colt.




In those days, animals such as that colt were valuable commodities as beasts of burden and as transportation. They were like a car is to us today. So untying that colt was no small matter. The modern day equivalent would be as if Yahusha had said, “Go down to the corner, where you will find a brand-new silver Mercedes sport coupe. The keys are already in it. Bring it here to me.” In the end, one word from the Owner of the colt was all that was necessary. The manager/steward of the colt let it go.




Another New Testament passage also presents Yahusha clearly as Lord of all. It is found in a letter written by Paul, the Kingdom of Heaven’s ambassador to the Gentiles, to Kingdom citizens in the city of Philippi:




Your attitude should be the same as that of Hamachiach Yahusha: who, being in very nature Yah, did not consider equality with Yah something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a crucifixion stake! Therefore Yah exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Yahusha every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Yahusha Hamachiach is Lord, to the glory of Yah the Father (Philippians 2:5-11).




Yahusha Hamachiach is King and Lord of all.