Kingdom church

666 conjures up mystical images of evil. That fact that 666 is the sum of the numbers on a roulette wheel, or that the Aryan Brotherhood uses it in tattoos, or that Apple, Inc. used it as the name of a wicked computer virus does not surprise us. Many Christians…

The “false Jews” of Jesus day preferred the old wine of the Mosaic Age. The true Jews—the sons of Abraham by faith (Rom. 4:9–16)—wanted new wine. Jesus used a parable to describe this situation: And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new…

Churches are not often concerned about false Jews today. If someone identifies themselves as a Jew, people do not ask for verification. And they shouldn’t. In John’s day, a unique historical situation made “false Jews” a threat to the churches. This category did not arise from a person’s ethnicity, but…

One of our readers made a mild objection to our last post, Can God’s Kingdom Grow?. His two observations are correct: the terms “church kingdom” and “creation kingdom” do not occur in the Scriptures and there is only one kingdom. This post will explain why we introduced these terms. For…

Jesus taught parables that show the kingdom of heaven changing. For example, it grows like a mustard seed becoming a tree (Matt. 13:31–32). But can God’s kingdom grow? Our first answer might be that it cannot grow: God’s domain already includes heaven and earth. He exercises absolute rule everywhere. God…