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So many Christians today seem to believe that God’s goal for people is to get them into heaven. Yet, in reality, God is not working to bring people to heaven, but to re-take the earth, which today is in rebellion against Him.

So now God is calling us, as the believers in Christ, to stand with Him in this purpose by preaching the gospel of the kingdom in all the earth (Matt. 24:14), to defeat Satan (Rom. 16:20, Eph. 6:10-18) and bring in the kingdom of the heavens even in this present age (cf. Matt. 6:9-10). Unless we are clear about this and reject the concept of “going to heaven” as our destiny, we will never understand the real meaning of our Christian life, nor how we should be following Christ and serving Him today.

Only after the rebellion of Satan and mankind against God has been fully dealt with will “the kingdom of the world…become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ” (Rev. 11:15), so that the New Jerusalem, the eternal dwelling place of God and man, can come down from heaven to the earth for eternity (Rev. 21:1-2, 10). That is the goal of all God’s work today, and it should be ours as well.

So, in this episode we consider how God is today bringing His heavenly kingdom to the earth.

Length: 50 minutes

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Related Episodes
Episode #67: “The Heaven Drug; or, Why I’m Not Going to Heaven.”
A Podcast Series: “The Eternal Gospel.”
A Podcast Series: “The End of Amillenialism.”

Notes
“Why Do You Stand, Gazing Into Heaven?”
“What Is the Kingdom of the Heavens?”
“Open Their Eyes and Turn Them!”

Books
G.H. Pember, Earth’s Earliest Ages.

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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED
IN THIS EPISODE

Acts 1:11: Gazing into heaven.
Habakkuk 2:14: The earth will know.
Isaiah 64:1-3: Oh Lord, come down!
Psalm 2: The rebellion of the nations.
Revelation 2:26-27, 12:5, 19:5: The rod of iron.
Acts 26:18: The way to preach the gospel.
Colossians 1:12-13: Transferred into God’s kingdom.
Matthew 16:18: The church shall prevail.
Matthew 24:14: This gospel of the kingdom must be preached in all the earth.
Romans 16:20, Ephesians 6:10-18: Standing against Satan.
Matthew 25:31-46: The sheep and goats judgment.
Revelation 19:11-21: The Lord will descend from heaven.
Revelation 20:1-3: Satan is bound.
Revelation 11:15: The kingdom belongs to God.
Revelation 20:4-6: The 1,000 years.
Revelation 21:1-2, 9: The New Jerusalem descending from God.
Revelation 21:24, 26, 22:1-2: The nations in eternity.

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Recorded…
in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, 18 March 2025.