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5-24-2020 Weekly Message
Meditation of the week: Psalms 91: 1-16
Text: Matthew 11: 11-15
Word title: The mystery of kingdom of heaven taken by violence for the past 2000 years

The title of this week’s message may seems unfamiliar and nonsense to those who have studied the revised version of word of God. Perhaps it is because the revised version says that the kingdom of heaven  is occupied by those who invade. The reason for this misunderstanding or refutation is due to the wrong concept of the word, king of heaven.

The word, “kingdom of heaven” does not mean heaven itself. In other word, it does not mean the third heaven, where the  regenerated Christians go in the future.. If so, what is the kingdom of heaven, and why the kingdom of heaven has been taken by violence over the past two thousand years?

In the books of  Gospel, most Christians are familiar with  the Gospel of Matthew written about Jesus who came as the King of the Jews. It should be noted, however, that Jesus, who came as the King of the Jews, said, ” And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” (Matthew 11:12).

God foretold of Jesus, through the prophet Isaiah, about 700 years before the coming of the King of the Jews, that the kingdom of heaven would come to the land of Judea. In addition, when the kingdom of heaven would come through Jesus Christ, John the Baptist would prepare the way of the Lord.  He also said that the purpose of bringing the kingdom of heaven to the land of Judea is to comfort the people of Israel by God remembering that they received double for all their sins:
” Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.. “(Isaiah 40: 1-2)

He also prophesied that someone who prepares the way of the Lord, that is their comforter, the King of the Jews, would cry out:
”  The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. “(Isaiah 40: 3-5)

When the time had come to pass, the sound of the one that cried out in the wilderness appeared in the Judean wilderness. John, the Baptist, as Jesus said that he was the largest man born of  woman, appeared and cried out:
” And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 3: 2)
John the Baptist said that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew testified that John the Baptist was the very one prophesied by the prophet Isaiah:
“For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. “(Matthew 3: 3)

John the Baptist ended his ministry and was beheaded by Herod’s hand.

Right after he died, Jesus criedof the kingdom of heaven:
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand..’” (Matthew 3:17)

The kingdom of heaven spoken by John the Baptist and Jesus is the heavenly kingdom in the third heaven, but the kingdom of heaven came to the land of the Jews without kings for hundreds of years when Jesus, the Jewish King from heaven, came to Judea from heaven.

But neither the Jews received Jesus as their king, norrecognized him as their king, but they ordained the Roman Caesar as their king. They crucified Jesus on the cross forming a gang with the religious leaders such as Pharisees and Sadducees and Scribes. Since then, the kingdom of heaven has been taken by force violently; and the kingdom of heaven disappeared. It is the way for the age of church has begun through the kingdom of God within the believers of Jesus Christ for last 2000 years.

           Apostle John testified beforehand that the kingdom of God, the invisible spiritual kingdom would come upon believers through the Holy Spirit who believe in Jesus Christ, who died and rose for the sin of the world after the kingdom of heaven was taken by violence:

” That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. “(John 1: 9-13)

          Satan, the Devil that through his servants, killed the king of heaven and took the kingdom of heaven by violence. He has deceived the world still ruling the world deceiving the world as the kingdom of  heaven. Satan made Roman Catholic as his bride ruling over the invisible Church of God under his hands and created a ChristianDOM that looks beautiful to the eyes of carnal Christians. He has been persecuting the bride of Christ that is the true churches of God that believe in Jesus Christ for the past two thousand years  making the Pope as the Vicar of Christ. Finally, even the churches of God have been deceived,  and the Catholic church has brought them into their hands, and all the religions, as well as the churches of God, have already been integrated. They are going to make official for their scheme through signing the paper in the Peace Palace in Hague in Netherland on June 23, 2020. It is matter of time before they emerge into the New World Order to prevent from the kingdom of Jesus Christ as The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords reigning in the earth.   However, when the Lord Jesus Christ returns, he will place his throne in Jerusalem in Judea and take the kingdom of  heaven back finally.

         Jesus foretold that after his death, when Satan would create a fake ChristianDOM world using Roman Catholics, the mysterious things that would appear as a kingdom of heaven on earth would appear. He said this is the mystery of the kingdom of heaven. The typical mysteries of kingdom of heaven are the parable of the sowing, the parable of the mustard seed, and the parable of the leaven hidden in the three measures of meal.

          Jesus said that the mysteries of the kingdom of  heaven were only allowed to be known to the disciples:

“He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ” (Matthew 13:11)

          When Jesus explained to the disciples the parable of the sowing, ” When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.“(Matthew 13:19)

           What is the Word of the Kingdom? It is the Gospel that the Lord Jesus Christ will set up a kingdom that has been taken by force violently when the Lord Jesus Christ comes again and establishes his kingdom in the land of Israel. This is the word for Christ’s millennial kingdom. According to the Lord’s Word, most people’s hearts are on the way side of the road, so they can’t realize it, or being persecuted as judged as heresy.

          Second, the parable of the mustard seed that we know well: ” Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:

32Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.‘”(Matthew 13: 31-32)

           Most seminaries today misinterpret this parable as the church growing so large that many people gather to form a mega church, but if we remember that Jesus said that the bird in the parable is the Devil.  It refers to the so-called Christian community created by Satan, who deceives people by gathering in a church and forming a mega church like a flock of birds.

        Another parable the Lord said:

“ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.‘” (Matthew 13:33)

         When the Lord spoke to the disciples about leaven, he told them to watch out for the teaching of the Pharisees and scribes:

“Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. ….
How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

12Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.” (Mt 16: 6; 11,12)

          Apostle Paul warned that in the last days many false teachers, such as the Pharisees and Sadducees, would mislead the false doctrines of leaven:

“ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. ” (2 Tim. 4: 3 -4)

           The millennial kingdom of Christ was postponed for a moment by taking the kingdom of heaven by force  that had come to the land of Israel two thousand years ago by those who used violence, but God has brought forth the kingdom of God in Christians and soon come back with them, who is the bride of Christ, He will establish his kingdom and restore the kingdom of heaven for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen! Hallelujah!