Dan. 7:13-14...in the "night visions"...

Daniel saw by prophetic anointing of the Holy Spirit the coming dominion and glory of God in the face of the Son of God. He prophesied that the Son of man (Jesus the Christ) would be given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom...an everlasting dominion...an everlasting kingdom wher e every nation would serve Him..all peoples and all languages. A Kingdom which shall not pass away, and which shall not be destroyed. The phrases "kingdom of God" and "kingdom of heaven" have been thought to mean t he coming time of glory, or perhaps the outter reaches of the universe we think of as "heaven", some think it is the personal reign of Christ in our hearts when we are 'born again'. There is no doubt that this refers to a coming time...a time after death. A tim e beyond the grave. The kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven are made up of rules and regulatio ns...even as gravity rules our ability to walk upon the face of the earth, the k ingdom of heaven has rules we surrender to. The "kingdom of heaven is at hand" statement would then be a knowledge of those rules and regulations that we are to operate under in the church age (this age). Jesus Christ has dominion on earth, and in heaven, and All Power was given unto Jesus, both in the earth and in heaven. The Kingdom of God is come NOW...we are living under His reign and His rule now, IF we are born again. The Kingdom pri nciples and precepts of the Holy God are in effect now and have not changed in t he last 7,000 years. However, the Kingdom of Heaven is coming with great power and authority, when every knee shall bow both those on earth and under the earth . Every tongue shall confess Jesus is Lord to the glory of God. The study on the Kingdom and the way we think of the kingdom of heaven is an imp ortant study, but can not and must not be confused with the power we are "given" by grace in the Name of Jesus Christ. We do not rule as kingdom rulers YET...w e live by grace today. The "time of the Gentiles" is not complete YET. (there a re still Gentiles being saved even today...) We are not rulers and reigning with Christ YET...that is a coming kingdom ...the one we have hope of. We are not given dominion over the earth YET...that is a coming dominion...the o ne we inherit in the Blood of the Christ. Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery , lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happene d to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. At the seventh trump, after the second "woe" is past, then we see the kingdoms o f this world becoming the kingdom of our Lord Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. Rev 12:10-11 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the a

ccuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and n ight. (11) And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their t estimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. We have some overcoming to endure. We still have a work to do. We know we must work while it is still day, for the night cometh when no man shall work ...but until that time we have a land to possess for our Christ, a testimony to give t o a lost and dying world. This world is not the kingdom of God....YET. There is a coming NEW world and a NEW Jerusalem. Joe 2:30-31 (30) And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. (31) The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. Zep 1:14-18 (14) The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even t he voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. (15) That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasten ess and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, (16) A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. (17) And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, b ecause they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. (18) Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the d ay of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Isa 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excel lency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.