APPOINT A KINGDOM

KINGDOM BUILDERS “BUILDING THE KINGDOM THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD” PIERCING THE VEIL THE KINGDOM APPOINT A KINGDOM ​ Luke 22:28-30. Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Here is a powerful scripture for the Sons of God who can see Christ’s work in this present day. It is not for babes who are still drinking milk or the young men or women who are unseasoned. It is definitely not for the natural or carnal Christian who only believe what they see. It is definitely not for the religious gathering who await and look for a physical manifestation of Christ in the air coming on a white horse with vengeance in his heart to destroy the wicked who oppose him. Rather, it is for those who are of mature age who see and understand that God has a Kingdom now in this lifetime and not in some future by and by on a so called planet called heaven in some 3rd galaxy in outer space. God’s domain is Planet Earth, and so is ours. No where in scripture does it ever talk about flying away to a distant home in the outer galaxies or in some other universe to the planet heaven. Oh, we have songs that say, “I’ll fly away”, but these songs are unscriptural. Search the scriptures and see. Because Renaissance painters depicted such does not make it so. Because any Church said it was so does not make it a reality. All arenas of conflict have been on earth throughout scripture. God’s domain is this, the heavens are his throne and the earth is his footstool. Those heavens are not outer space. Heavens in the Greek New Testament is Ouranous in the Greek. If one were to look for a physical location, it means that space between planet earth and the clouds above. Clouds from from 5,000 to 60,000 feet above the earth. That is from less than 1 mile to less than 12 miles above the earth. We are talking about a 12 minute drive maximum at 60 miles per hour in horizontal time. This is God’s domain. It is not that he hasn’t created outer space, but it is not the arena in which he deals with man in this age. The Father in Heaven appointed Christ a kingdom right here on earth. Jesus in turn, appointed unto us, his disciples a kingdom right here on earth. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Whatsoever is his is now ours. To appoint this kingdom to us means to arrange one’s own affairs of those things that belong to him. To make it legal, he enters into a covenant with his sons to govern his affairs just as he would. His affairs include his kingdom which is to be ruled by royal power of his kingship in which he has rule or the right or authority to rule over a kingdom. This is not a kingdom that can be seen, for Jesus said his kingdom does not come with observation. Many are looking for Christ to set up a physical kingdom in Jersusalem where he will sit on a throne in the rebuilt Temple, but it just ain’t gonna’ happen. Jesus was clear when he said, the kingdom of God is not over here or over there, but the kingdom of God is within you. Can you not see that this kingdom is not observable, but it is the mystical kingdom within each of God’s children? His city is not a physical city, but his city is the inhabitants who make up a city. You are the New Jerusalem come down from Heaven. When Jesus said he would make us to sit down, he did not mean we would sit on an actual throne. He appoints us unto his divine power intransitively. In other words, to be intransitive means to not have a direct object. When he appoints us a throne, he is meaning it is a “state of being”. It is what we are. We rule and reign right here on planet Earth as Judges, Prophets, Priests, and Kings. We are that royal priesthood he was talking about in Revelation. From this “state of being”, we are to judge, separate, select, choose to approve, esteem, to prefer to be of opinion, deem, think, resolve, decree to judge on things concerning right and wrong. We know that most judges have approved themselves as lawyers, tried cases, practiced law, and gained an extremely good knowledge of the law and the court system. God does not just hand over his kingdom to those who are untested and unskilled, but he is looking for Sons who are fully matured and equipped to handle earthly matters. “Do you not know that you shall judge angels and men?” Having then been conferred with this great power, should we not be slower to judge in any matter, get all the facts on all sides, find out what God’s word says about a situation, and then make a heavenly decree borne with holy power that effectuates Godly change and pure judgment and justice to advance the Kingdom of God in the Earth? Of course, the answer to that is resoundly, YES! The truth of the matter is that most people make judgments based on the first word they hear without hearing the other side. If they have a prejudice in their heart, they will condemn any other opinion. How shall we be God’s instrument in the Earth if we are biased in any situation or their prejudice? Some decree according to their color, some according to their religion, some according to their politics, some according to their sexual orientation, but God judges according to the heart. He sets truth against lies, righteousness against unrighteousness, good against evil, light against darkness, God against the Devil, the upright against the sinful, and the Godly against the Ungodly. Judgment should never be because of religious obeisance, color, sexual orientation, political affiliation, race, creed, or national heritage. If you think about it, all the battles, wars, and conflicts in the world are fought based on a bias of some form or another. There are blacks against whites, Mexicans against Indians, Russians against Chinese, North Koreans against South Koreans, Muslims against Jews, Protestants against Catholics, children against parents, husbands against wives, brothers against sisters, animal activists against animal killers, pro abortion against anti abortion, and as you can see the list can go on and on. The truth of the matter is that God’s Kingdom is not based on any of these. His Kingdom is based on righteousness. Things are only right or wrong, holy or unholy, divine or perverse, God or the Devil, light or darkness, black or white, truth or a lie, scriptural or unscriptural, and once again the list is endless. But, the majority of the world including the carnal church system does not judge according to the inward heart of a man, but he judges according to the outward appearance. In fact, God selected David to be King over Israel because he was a man after his own heart. He could have chosen any of his brothers for they were all bigger, stronger, and more manly in appearance than David. They appeared to many to be their next leader or King. They were all warriors, and David was a lowly shepherd boy. Never-the-less, this lowly shepherd boy delivered the entire nation of Israel from the mighty Goliath while his brothers stood by in amazement. He was the only one in the entire nation who truly trusted God with his life. Saul’s entire mighty army was put at bay by the giant Goliath. Today, we are faced with a great task. We have been appointed a Kingdom, not just any Kingdom, but this is God’s Kingdom. This Kingdom can’t be wrought by prejudice of any sort. For instance, suppose someone was prejudiced because someone was partial to color, any color or sect, any sect. Moses married an Ethiopian woman named Zipporah. Historically, Ethiopian people are a darker skinned people. The Ethiopians proceeded from Cush who was one of the grandsons of Noah. The lands of the Ethiopians included Egypt and Libya. They worshipped different gods than the Hebrew people. Miriam and Aaron, Moses’s sister and brother spoke against Moses for marrying an Ethiopian. God held them at a fault, and caused Miriam to become leprous because of their sin. Whether they held Moses to a fault for marrying a dark skinned woman rather than a light skinned Hebrew or whether they disagreed with Moses’ choice of marrying someone of another faith was not clear. Either way, it was prejudiced on Miriam and Aaron’s part. Moses was a true Son of God where Miriam and Aaron proved themselves unworthy. Many are respected today because they are homosexual, of a foreign religious cult or movement, perverse, considered to be thugs by society, and many other prejudices. But, the ones that respect them are themselves of the same nature. No one is held accountable in their finances, or their lack of working, or lack of qualifications as long as they are charismatic in nature. If they are likable, it doesn’t seem to matter if they have sin. That is prejudice to the nth degree. Pastors and ministers and lay people who are prejudiced believers could never manage the Kingdom of God, because their hearts are blinded by the outward appearance. They do not have the heart of God nor the heart for his Kingdom. While some things cannot be prejudiced, others can be condemned. Folks in the denominational churches who are prejudiced cannot lead either for they cannot see that God has a people outside their walls of prejudice. If folks don’t go to their church, they are lost. If they are not baptized in the name of Jesus only, they are adrift; if they are not baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, they can’t possibly be saved. And many more doctrines separate the church unto prejudice. There are those who respect the well-to-do, and allow them to sit in the upper seats, while those who are poor sit in the back or are not even allowed. Many believe you can’t even be baptized unless you belong to THEIR church. It makes no difference to them that they have given their hearts to Jesus. Many hold to the great athletes though they have beat up their wives, stolen money, robbed a bank, had dog fights to the death, and were street thugs. But, because they were great on the field of play, they were held in great esteem. So many look on the outward man, and not on the hidden man of the heart. These, also, can never rule the Kingdom to which they should have been appointed because their eyes were blind. Many who seek the Kingdom of God will never find it for they look for it with their natural eyes. They believe that they have preeminence over others because they have a big church or they are held in high esteem in the community. God, they say has made them wealthy, therefore they are his natural selection amongst the masses. They love the high places, desire to sit among the elite, and talk with candor about how wise they are. I saw one such speaker and minister walk into an auditorium with an entourage of 5 people. Two went before him carrying his things, one beside him to keep the people back, and two at the rear to guard his back side. He took the podium and began to explain how great and rich he was. Then he began to demean the people he was talking to and deride them because they weren’t as rich as he was. His unsuspecting prey shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars at his speech of demagoguery. He even made me feel ashamed I was not a millionaire in God’s Kingdom. Had God rejected me? Was I less because I didn’t have? Is it possible I was a second class citizen of the Kingdom? No! No! A thousand times NO! That man was all about outward appearance, and outward show. He had no Godly attributes whatsoever. Jesus never once condemned men like this man did. He never once make them feel unworthy. In fact, he said just the opposite, he said, Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Suppose you had a white leader rise up, say like Adolph Hitler or Fidel Castro. When they were first running for president, many people, and quite a few with notoriety with national and international influence were elated. Finally, they said, a man who is like us. But, they were beguiled. Little did the populace know or even think these men would betray them or destroy and decimate their nation. Leaders embraced them. They never asked or sought their qualifications, or asked of their agenda. Their only characteristic was that they were Charismatic rebels who would take over the country and overthrow the government. They never sought any merit, never realized they were socialist or communist or Nazis. They didn’t know they were perverse and demonic and would wholesale murder millions. It made no difference they never had any redeeming qualities. Now, suppose such a leader raised up who was black who had a secret agenda. Would he be accepted because he was black only? What if someone were a Jew? Suppose he said he was Christ and wanted to rule the world. Did you know multitudes would flock to him. And, again the list goes on and on. Christian believers have fallen prey to the antichrist spirit which is in all men who are not born again. It is the old Adamic nature. They are deceived by the great swelling words they say to make folks think they are going to have a better and easier life under them. How easily, Paul wrote that they are carried away by another gospel which is no gospel at all, but a snare to their souls and their liberties and freedoms. No socialists or communist nations have ever been successful since the foundation of the world. But, even with all the facts against them, somehow folks still believe they will work. No religion will ever rule the world. The Jews could not and will not. Their temple rites and laws have been annihilated. No church, Catholic or Protestant or Pentecostal will ever rule the world. Their systems are hierarchies with Kings, Priests, and Pastors who rule the people and lord it over them. Jesus said, “the meek shall inherit the earth“, “those who are great among you shall be the servants of all”. It was written in the Book of Revelation that the Sons of God should rule the earth with a rod of iron. Many have thought this was to come to pass by war or physical dominance of some kind. Not so! The word, “RULE” means to teach and preach. The “ROD OF IRON” is a shepherd’s crook. When translators interpreted the original, either they got it right, but the interpretations were carnal and not allegorical, or they were wrong and penned or conveyed a different message from that Christ preached. His message was peace on earth and goodwill to ALL MEN. His gospel was one of love. It was not a warrior’s sword that he fought with, it was the sword of the gospel which is the word of God. The Kingdom of God is totally opposite of what the world understands a Kingdom to be. The world’s kingdom is made up of Kings and those in authority, the elite, the rich, self made men, the pompous, the arrogant, the boastful and the proud. God’s kingdom is made up of the lowly, the servants, the poor, those God has helped, the meek, and the humble. To be appointed a Kingdom means to be put apart or set apart and to dispose by assignment, compact, or bequest such that the Kingdom is run by those appointed just like the one who gives it to his heirs. It can’t be given to anyone else. Only the chosen ones who have matured and understand Kingdom principles can administrate this Kingdom. The novice has no clue where to start. So many sit in churches for 20,30, and 40 years waiting to be put into power in that Kingdom thinking they will sit at the right hand of the Son when he comes into his Kingdom. They await his arrival to be seated in the Temple in Jerusalem should it ever get built. Little do they know that Jesus has already come into his Kingdom and gives it to whom he will. And, the majority of the church world have no clue that the Kingdom of God is within them. While they lanquish away looking up into the heavenlies for their savior to come redeem them and put them in power, the Kingdom goes on without them. As in the days when Christ was born in a manger, grew to be an adult, he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. The people he came to, the Jews missed him because they thought he should be born to nobility, that he should have lived a life of royalty, and that he should have entered Jerusalem with an entourage of soldiers while he went prancing in on his white steed bedecked with much gold and silver. God entered the world meek and lowly and exited much the same way, in death on a cross instead of pomp and ceremony. Even today, he comes as a thief entering the heart of the meek and lowly throughout the last 2000 years. The church is still seeking a spectacular entrance into planet earth at some future date and have missed the greatest advent of God in the history of the world. Over 2 billion people in various stages of their walk have encountered the savior and believed. To them, the Kingdom of God is NOW. To be appointed a Kingdom means to arrange, dispose of one's own affairs of something that belongs to them by will. It means to make a testament or to make a covenant or enter into a covenant with another. Suppose you were made the independent executor of your Dad’s estate. He made a will before he died, and set out what his wishes were after he passed away. He wants someone to execute his will faithfully according to the intent of his will. That means the executor would need to dispose of assets, transfer properties, dispense monies, and deliver over other material assets, personal and real property to those he appointed or who was deemed to receive it. The executor has the power after the court order and being confirmed the executor by a judge to administrate the estate. His power, after being confirmed enables him to do whatever he wants and distribute the assets however he wants. But, to do it different from the deceased’s will would be an affront if not total fraud to his wishes. Many who have been put in such a position allowed greed to possess them, and delivered the assets of the deceased according to the executor’s will, and squandered the inheritance. Now, let’s consider what a great responsibility Christ has given to us to administer his estate. Can you not see that there have been multitudes who didn’t follow his wishes? Can you not see that they stole his estate for themselves? Consider two parables about the Kingdom. The first one says, But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him. (Matthew 21:28-32). You can see from the preceding Kingdom parable that two sons were given the task to work in the vineyard. One said he would and didn’t and the other said he would not but later did. God is looking for faithful people of action. Their discipline to work in the vineyard qualifies him as a Son of God whom he can consider to be the executor of his estate. The one who said he would and later didn’t, did not qualify. Many say they will, and give much rhetoric, but when it comes time to perform, they cannot be found. Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. (Matthew 21:33-41). Consider the sons of the Kingdom. The master gives them every opportunity to be found faithful. People are sent to them to instruct them of the Kingdom. When they see how rich it is, they not only decide to take it for themselves, but kill the testator, and seize all the assets without dispensing it according to his will. So, then did the Jews when they crucified the Lord of Glory. Now the estate is given out to others, namely the Gentiles, you and me. Should we not then by the bad example of the Jews move with fear to administrate the Kingdom according to his written word. I have been at the bedside of many people who are about to depart this earth. They would have a will written, but the greedy hogs would be in their homes before he or she closed their eyes for the last time taking everything their eyes could see. The greed and abuses of those who took what they thought was theirs before the will could be read is rampant even amongst Christians. They will never qualify to be Sons of God who will move according the carefully laid out plan of our testator, Jesus Christ. In fact, what they took can be adjudicated and taken and put back into the estate to be dispensed according to plan. Grievious lawsuits are made because of greed. It would pay us then to read carefully God’s Last Will and Testament that we might act in accordance to his wishes. The main goal is to see the Mountain of the Lord to come down upon all the other Mountains and subdue them. Kingdom dominion is the order of THIS day. God is choosing the faithful and the righteous, and the holy, and the sincere to carry out his WORDS. None other can qualify. It makes no difference if they have been in church for 50 years. The publicans, and sinners and winebibbers will go in and administrate the Kingdom before the religious Pharisees and Saducees. They will be the ones to judge righteous judgment, and execute the Father’s will faithfully. The whole earth is creaking and groaning until the full manifestation of the Son’s of God in the earth. They will be appointed Christ’s Kingdom and they will not fail. And, then the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ. I WILL PRAISE HIM FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN (SON) TILL THE GOING DOWN OF THE SAME. ​ Kingdom Builders is dedicated to ministering the Word of God freely to anyone upon request. It is my desire to build up the body of Christ to become powerful, functional, mature Sons of God to make a difference in the World and the affairs of men. I am not in the marketing business nor do I have anything to sell. 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