History Is Proof.

 Kings and Queens, Royalty, Movie Stars, Athletic Stars, Educational Stars, Business Stars, Political Stars, Inherited Stardom-- Wealth, Power, Prestige. What do most (not all of course) of these people have in common? They are a minority in a world of too numerous to count- poor. The poor outnumber the wealthy by far. Here is an online quote-

'Income and wealth inequalities significant

The report highlights the extent of global income and wealth inequalities. At a global level the average income for an adult is $23,380 (when adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity or PPP).

However, the report's authors explain that this conceals wide disparities between and within countries. The richest 10% of the global population currently take home 52% of the income. The poorest half of the global population? Well they earn just 8%.

On average, an individual from the top 10% will earn $122,100, but an individual from the bottom half will earn just $3,920.

And, when it comes to wealth (valuable assets and items over and above income), the gap is even wider. The poorest half of the global population owns just 2% of the global total, while the richest 10% own 76% of all wealth.'

From <https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/global-income-inequality-gap-report-rich-poor/> 

Why am I bringing this up at all? Because the above is all about temporary, earthly wealth. People envision Income Equality, why? Because they want all people to be treated with the same deference the wealthy are. They want equal respect, equal health care, equal opportunity to live a life of envisioned mental, emotional, physical, financial - calmness, peacefulness and derive some happiness from all that is mentioned. This is a world not where any one group of people dominate another. This is a world without any dictators, without any kings, without any presidents… but rather a world where all are on an equal level. I'm talking fairy tale, unbelievable, impossible things aren't I? And yet, this is the desire of that vast majority who are suffering under the hardship of a life that is incredibly far from equal on any level. People say, work hard and… yet not everyone is capable of working hard- this is TRUTH and not through any FAULT of their own. Oh, how I could go on and on, but the point I'm trying to make here is that WE WILL NEVER HAVE WHAT IS TRULY DESIRED- NEVER WILL THAT SORT OF LIFE EXIST HERE ON EARTH WITH LIFE …continuing on as it has for thousands and thousands and thousands of years…  Right now we live in a world that has one man, one government killing people because he(they) want their land, their subjection to them. And this is just the major war that in May 2022 is taking place. There are many other smaller wars that don't affect the first world countries so they just let them go on, ignoring them for the most part as people are killed for the same reason- land ownership, or ideal enforcement, religious enforcement and so on.  

This world has NO answers to its problems, none, or they would have implemented them long before now, right?

The truth is this world is going to be filled with evil, heartache, pain and suffering and remain so until our LORD and SAVIOR returns and takes all of His people to the Heavenly Kingdom.  OUR hope must be in CHRIST and the good news of the Kingdom of God, salvation, redemption, forgiveness! If we keep our hope in this current world, it's placing our hope in a lost cause. 

Christ will come again. Prophetic History has PROVEN this beyond a doubt! 

Doubt if you choose, you're not forced to believe- love doesn't force.

All in the name of our Lord and Savior, now and forever, Jesus Christ!!!!!!! Amen!

 

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TWO THRONES AND TWO KINGDOMS

Listen to what the Lord Jesus says: "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." Rev. 3:21. Of the present position of the Saviour, read again: "We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the Heavens." "Is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb. 8:1; 12:2, and others.

While he is on the throne of his Father in Heaven he is a priest; a priest-king, after the order of Melchisedec. But note this important point: in his priesthood he has no genealogy. See the argument in Hebrews, chapter five to seven. He is a priest after the order of Melchisedec, whose genealogy is not recorded. But the priesthood will have an end. He will leave that position on the throne of his Father. When he comes to take vengeance on his foes, he will no longer plead the power of his blood in their behalf. When the great day of his wrath is come he will no longer be an advocate. His Father called him to sit at his right hand until his enemies are put under his feet. Ps. 110:1. And so the apostle writes: "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool." Heb. 10:12, 13.

With these scriptures before us it is easy to correct an error into which many have fallen, namely, that one great object, if not the great object, of the reign of Christ, is to subdue his enemies, or put them under his own feet. 

That is a work that Christ will never do. 1 Cor. 15:23-28, is often quoted to uphold that view, whereas it teaches the very opposite of that. It reads thus:-- "Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that did put all things under him, that God may be all in all." 

This scripture clearly shows that Christ possesses a kingdom which he will sometime resign. The time is located at or near his coming. Then he will have delivered up the kingdom; he will have left the throne of the Majesty in the Heavens, where he is now sitting as a kingly priest. Verse 28 says: "And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." The Son does not subdue all things unto himself; he does not put all things under his own feet. If he did, how could he become subject to him that put all things under him? The Father said: "I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." "Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." And 1 Cor. 15:27 says: "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him." Wrong ideas on this text are easily imbibed from overlooking the manner in which the pronouns are applied. "For he [the Son] must reign until he [the Father] hath put all things under his [the Son's] feet." This is not arbitrary; it is necessary. See again: "And when all things shall be subdued unto him [the Son] then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him [the Father] that did put all things under him [the Son], that God may be all in all." Notice the several events here brought to view:--

1 The coming of Christ.

2. Then comes the end.

3. Then he shall have delivered up the kingdom to the Father.

4. He must reign until all things are put under his feet by the Father.

5. When all things are put under him, he himself becomes subject to the Father,--he resigns that throne, and delivers up that kingdom.

6. The Father then becomes all in all; sole occupant of that throne in the Heavens.

This is the kingdom--that is the throne which he will deliver up at the end of his priestly work. Then probation will have ended; then the saints will have been sealed unto full redemption; and they that are unjust must remain unjust still. Rev. 22:11, 12. Then will the Son break his enemies with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Then the day of the wrath of the Lamb will have come, the image will be  smitten on the feet, and all the dominions of the earth be destroyed. What has here been stated concerning the throne of the Father in Heaven is well known, and will be readily admitted by all. Let us briefly examine some of the facts of Scripture concerning the throne of David.

To be continued…