How Will the Kingdom of God Be Successful?

Well, thank you once again, gentlemen, and happy Sabbath to all of you today.

For thousands of years, humanity, our ancestors, have created different forms of man-made governments in an attempt to rule ourselves. All have failed miserably and have caused enormous suffering and pain, including today. And when Jesus Christ establishes His kingdom on earth, it will be an everlasting kingdom, an everlasting government. But how will this kingdom be different from all the human governments we have today? We have various forms of democracies. We have autocratic governments. We have various forms of socialism, communism. We have theocracies. Man has created all kinds of various governments around this earth in order to make people happy and stable and productive. And every one of them has failed miserably, including our own democracies. They certainly have incredible inequities and problems about them. So what's going to be so different about the kingdom of God? What changes will God institute to ensure that the kingdom of God lasts peacefully for a thousand years?

The reason I ask the question is I've had conversations with individuals who didn't believe in a future kingdom of God on earth. Now there's a number of reasons. Some said to me, it sounds too good to be true. I read these prophets and I was taught if it's too good to be true, usually it is. So they're skeptical. Others have told me, ah these Old Testament prophets, they were just prefiguring what it's going to be like in heaven. They were just reminiscing and looking forward and talking about a glorious world that's impossible on earth. Have you seen the carnality of human beings? I've had people tell me even that the kingdom of God is a scam and it would be impossible to establish on earth. Human beings are just too carnal, too wicked, too dysfunctional for God to do anything with throughout history. Well, the good news is that God does give us an outline of what he intends to do. And I thought in preparation for the Feast of the Tabernacles this year, we would just take a look at that outline and take a look at some of the absolutely revolutionary changes that God is going to institute on this earth. So hopefully the sermon will be a good prep for us to be off and celebrate God's holy days this year. One of the things that's going to happen, and we've already symbolically celebrated it through the Feast of Trumpets, is Jesus Christ returns to earth. Let's go to Revelation chapter 11 in verse 14 and read a very beautiful scripture. Prophetic and something that we all long for and a good reason to pray, by kingdom come.

Revelation chapter 11 verse 14. It says, the second woe is passed. These are part of the seven the woes were part of the seven last plagues. And behold, the third woe is coming quickly. Verse 15. Then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. And we recently celebrated this as symbolized by the Feast of Trumpets. I'm not going to go into too much detail in this point because we're all going to be hearing a lot about the return of Jesus Christ during the Feast this year. But the reason that's important is it's all about leadership. The people who run the world today are clueless.

They're faking it. They have no idea what they're doing. They're carnal, selfish, confused, prone to war. That exists throughout the earth today. I'm just going to give you one simple example. My simple example is a nation called Russia. Russia is by far the largest country in the world, with approximately 11 percent of earth's land mass. It encompasses one ninth of all inhabitants on the planet. But you know what? That's not enough. It's not enough to them.

They want other people's land. They want to steal, aside from the fact they're the largest nation on earth geographically, they want more. And so they'll bully their neighbors. They'll attack a nation. They'll send drones, and their airplanes will violate the airspace of nations that have similar borders or have borders that are attached to Russia. And that is so typical of human nature today. And what's the result of this? The result is, and I got this from AI this morning, as of late 2025, the number of Russian deaths are estimated at between 218 to 250,000 deaths. Why? Because the largest nation on earth wants somebody else's land?

How stupid! All of those lives wasted. All of that potential wasted because of the impassility of human rule. That's why we need Jesus Christ back on earth. We need leadership. According to AI Ukraine has lost 60,000 to 80,000 killed. That's like combined 320 to 330,000 people dead. Because some greedy so-called leader who has the largest land mass on earth wants more. There's probably nothing more symbolic of the 6,000 years of man's rule than that example. And in reality, Russia is just a big bully with a tin-horn economy. They're basically the world's gas station. They only offer two things to the world. Energy and vodka. That's about their economy. Seriously. Speaking of vodka.

But that's the only thing they offer the world as far as an economy. Compared to the 1960s when they were like the second largest economy in earth, three states in the United States, three single states, have bigger economies than Russia today.

The only thing they have going for them is they're a big bully because they still have nuclear weapons from the Cold War. And that's the kind of influence we face in the world today.

Recently I came across a website and it's called bdayrecap.com. I'll say that again. bdayrecap.com. So you go to that website, you type in your birthday, and it shows you all the headlines that were on earth the day that you were born. So I did that.

And what did I figure out? It's the same old moronic problems. Almost 72 years later, nothing changed.

The names have changed, but the imposilic philosophy politics remains the same. The incompetence goes on forever on earth, even almost 72 years after I was born.

In my office, and I've had this like 20 years, in my office I have for November of 1953 the cover of The Good News from the Radio Church of God that they published that month and the Plain Truth Magazine from November 1953, the month I was born. And compared now, they're a little bombastic.

You know, the greatest feast in 1500 years was the headline on one of them. That's slightly a little bombastic. But the point is the same problems they pointed out then that existed in the world are magnified today. The same problems exist because what we lack is leadership.

And in all wise and all knowing, Jesus Christ is going to help to solve that problem. When Jesus Christ returns near Jerusalem, he and his saints will immediately face opposition from human armies, but they're going to be completely and quickly decimated. It is not a healthy thing to challenge Jesus Christ. As Zachariah chapter 14 and 12 says, and this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike the people who fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths. End of quote. Not a pretty picture, is it? But it's not wise to confront Jesus Christ.

But we have to be careful not to expect too much too soon. Let's go to Matthew chapter 13 and verse 33.

For many years within the Church of God movement, there was kind of this, what I call a myth, that Jesus Christ returns, he destroys the army, the kingdoms of this world fall, and overnight the kingdom of God is established on the earth. But if we expect too much too soon, we're going to be disappointed. So let's see what the scriptures tell us. Matthew chapter 13 and verse 33. Another parable he spoke to them. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, and I realize usually leaven has a negative connotation, but there's nowhere in scripture said it always has. I mean, it's a metaphor. It's a symbol of something. It doesn't always have to be in a bad or negative way. We can't put God in a box that far too many people like to do. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened. Like leaven spreads from a single spot. The kingdom of God does as well. Now this woman here in this parable could be symbolic of the church, preparing the firstfruits that you and I to serve alongside Jesus Christ at his return.

Immediately after the first resurrection, Christ and his saints returned to overcome armies assembled against them in Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem is where it all starts. And if we understand this parable, eventually that kingdom spreads to cover all the earth, but it's going to take some time. People are still rebellious. Some cultures are so dysfunctional. 5,000 years of dysfunction. They don't even understand the concept of one single God. Their family culture, sexually and otherwise, is just so distorted and warped and perverse. It will take generations to root that out of some of the cultures on this earth. It's so deeply embedded. If you go to Numbers 29, we won't do that today because for the sake of time, but in Numbers chapter 29 sacrifices are offered to be or are instructed to be offered on the Feast of Tabernacles. And those are burnt offerings of bowls and rams and lambs that were made every day during the Feast. Again, that instruction is in Numbers 29. And interestingly, if you look at it, you will see that the number of bowls offered decreased by one every day during the Feast. And this was to symbolize the earth slowly becoming more righteous and connected to God as the kingdom of God goes on and as the millennium goes on, it takes time. But it all has to begin somewhere, and it begins with that return of Jesus Christ to provide leadership along with his saints establishing a new kingdom in Jerusalem and much like the parable of that woman, that leaven spreading out to encompass the entire earth. Another thing that God tells us as part of the great change that he's going to make is the end of the age of man. That is God leading humanity out of the wilderness that we've been in and back to Eden, back in the environment of peace and plenty and joy. That garden that God had created for Adam and Eve that they didn't have gratitude for, that they abused and wanted to do things their way. God is going to restore that, and we're going to have an end of the age of man. What we've been living in since Adam and Eve left the garden is the age of man. God stay out of my face. Get out of my face. Stop telling me what to do. I don't want to hear about your laws. I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to figure things out myself, just like a little two-year-old putting their shoes on the wrong feet. No, Mommy, I'm going to do it. I'll do it. And they put their shoes on the wrong feet. Well, humanity's been putting their shoes on the wrong feet for 6,000 years. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 22, if you'll turn there with me, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 22. Paul wrote, For an Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

God wants to bring life to this dying world. He doesn't want to destroy it. But each one, in his own order, Christ the firstfruits, after those who are Christed, is coming. Then comes the end. There's coming a time when man's impassility, incompetence, and desire to do things his way, which has only produced the kind of death we saw earlier in a war of Ukraine, only produced disease, poverty, famine, all the ills that earth suffers. That time is coming to an end. Then comes the end. The Scripture says here, When he delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when he puts an end to all rule and all authority and power, for he must reign till he is put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that would be destroyed is death. We need to understand that every existing human government, their laws, their military, their financial systems, their businesses, their religions, and their cultures must come to an end. The kingdom of God is not an upgrade.

The kingdom of God is not the best at democracy 2.0.

Democracy may be the best form of government that man has ever created to rule himself.

It's still greatly flawed, and many people still suffer within the confines of democracy.

It's very imperfect, but we must understand that God is not merely offering an improvement or an upgrade over these things that exist in the world. He's not offering the best of existing governments. He is offering something completely new.

As Isaiah the prophet was inspired to write, in Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulder. The government of God does not exist anywhere on earth today. Not in any human government, not in any church. It does not exist. Why? Because they all have human beings running them.

The government of God comes with Jesus Christ to this earth. It will be on his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

And the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. Remember that parable of the woman with leaven? The increase. It just goes on and on until it encompasses the entire earth.

Revelation chapter 14 and verse 8, if you'll turn there with me.

Again, we're talking about the end of the age of man, of man kidding himself that he can make his own decisions and do things his own way.

Revelation chapter 14 and verse 8. It says that another angel followed, saying, Babylon has fallen, is fallen that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. The entire world is engulfed in idolatry, either worshiping false gods, worshiping materialism, worshiping their militaries, or worshiping themselves. The entire world has committed spiritual fornication, every culture, every government. Babylon, which was the first city after the flood, represents humanity's futile attempts to do things our way, to create our own governments and cultures and religions in our own languages, our own laws. And why are they flawed? Because they're all using and borrowing from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Many governments have some good in them. They do bring a semblance of organization and order, but they also partake of evil.

Everything that human beings do is a mixture of the tree of good and evil.

Every government. And the only thing that's ever brought us is universal evil and pain and suffering and death right up until today. Just ask any Ukrainian. Ask anyone who lives in Israel or Gaza.

That's all it's ever brought us. So that end of the age of man is very important in how God is going to change the world. The next thing is Satan is removed, and we also understood this as we observed the Day of Atonement. Let's go to Revelation chapter 20 and verse 2. Revelation chapter 20 and verse 2.

John wrote, He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil in Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. But after these things, he must be released for a little while.

Because of the present influence of Satan the devil and his dark spirits that permeate the earth, all people, all of us, are influenced by selfishness and competition. Here's how it works. Firstly, we are physical, and that means we are carnal because we naturally have a survival instinct. When you're biological, you're human, or just any mammal on this earth, you have a survival instinct. And what that usually does is it drives us to think, me first. It's about me. I want to live. I want to thrive. I want to have good things, even if it means taking it from someone else. That's human nature. That's what we struggle with. And again, this includes the desire to control others and be number one. And when you take this natural human tendency to put ourselves first, and then you amplify it, you magnify it through an evil spiritual realm that is constantly hitting our minds and affecting our self-talk and affecting our world, when you take natural human carnality and the desire to survive, and you amp it up with that dark spiritual negativity, people become very selfish.

People become aggressive. And that's all due to Satan's hidden Wi-Fi network, which you can't see. And the day we were born, we were automatically connected to it. It's part and connected to the spirit of man inside our brains and our minds.

And there's a reason that psychologists say that 80% of what we think turns negative.

What's causing that? What's causing that is a satanic influence that is permeating this world, emanating invisibly and prompting and aggravating the human condition to make it even worse than it normally is. The second we were born, our minds were bombarded with carnal desires.

And I'm going to tell you how difficult Satan makes it. Most of the people in this room have God's Holy Spirit. Many in this room have had God's Holy Spirit for 50 years. We've been doing this a long time. You know what? It's still a struggle, isn't it? Even though we have God's Holy Spirit, why is it a struggle? Because of Satan's Wi-Fi network that wants to emanate feelings of discouragement, depression, loneliness, anxiety, fear, all the things that human beings struggle with.

So we too, as God's people, have God's Holy Spirit, but our growth is still hard because Satan is still here, even though we have God's Spirit within us.

When you remove Satan's direct constant influence, you have a people who are capable of fully developing the fruit of the Holy Spirit, to develop it fully, a full measure of the Spirit that God, excuse me, that God wants us to have. If you want to know how powerful Satan's influence is, just look. Now we don't have time to look at verses 7 through 10 here, but just look how quickly Gog and Magog turn against God's way after a thousand years. That's how powerful his influence is. These people have lived, who knows, 50 generations in the kingdom of God, and Satan is released, and almost immediately a number of people turn against God because of his influence. That's how powerful his influence is. We should never, ever underestimate the power of the God of this present world and our need to have him removed, and God is planning certainly on doing that.

Another thing, as part of the plan, that God will use to change the world is that he will offer his spirit to everyone. Joel chapter 2 and verse 26, throughout history. God has given his Holy Spirit a very few individuals that he called. Some of Israel's kings, but not all. Some of the patriarchs, we see mention of it in prophets. Some of the prophets, perhaps most of the prophets, excuse me, in the New Testament. In the New Testament, we see many individuals who had God's spirit. But God is going to do something different in his kingdom. He's going to voluntarily offer his Holy Spirit to anyone. You want it? Would you like to receive the gift of my Holy Spirit?

I'll give it to you. That's a dramatic change. Let's read here in a book of Joel chapter 2, verse 26. You shall eat in planning, be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never be put to shame, then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel. I am the Lord your God, and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame. That's repeated by the way, that phrase two times. For emphasis. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Descendants of Abraham, Gentiles, I'm going to voluntarily offer it to anyone who asks, anyone who desires it.

Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also on my men servants and my maid servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days. A partial fulfillment, by the way, occurred in Acts chapter 2 and verse 17. It reinforces what God is going to do throughout all the earth. A foretaste of it was given on the day of Pentecost there in 31 E.D. A most important change that will occur all over the earth is the universal change of human desire. The change of our attitudes, the change of our mindsets generated when we receive the Spirit of God. Of course, this doesn't mean it'll be forced on people. It's going to be freely offered to everyone who desires the gift of God. And what will this world be like when everyone learns? Think what the world would be like if everyone learned to love one another. I mean really learned to love one another. There would be no more wars. There'd be no more divorce.

There'd be no more children growing up in homes where there are single parents. There'd be no more crime because you love someone. You wouldn't steal something from them. You wouldn't be violent towards another person if you really loved them. Think of all the fruits that are mentioned in Galatians 5.22. Joy. What would the world be like if people just naturally joyful and didn't need antidepressants and drugs and everything else in order to feel happy and feel good about themselves?

Peace. Long suffering. Kindness. Gentleness. Faithfulness. Gentleness. Self-control.

All of these are mentioned in Galatians 5. What would the world be like if everyone, because they had God's Spirit and Satan had been removed? So you've got this double whammy removed from the human condition. What would people be like? It would be far different than they are today. With Satan's influence removed and God's Spirit freely given, the aggressive, rebellious, violent nature of humanity will be gone. Won't be anything like what we experience in our world today.

Just like the animals mentioned in Isaiah 11. I'm not going to turn. Never were familiar with the lion shall dwell with the lamb. And there are animals mentioned there. A wolf, a lamb, leopard, goat, lion, cobra, and of course a little child. The purpose of that prophecy is to say that their natures will change from aggressive to gentle. And that's not just for the animals. That's for humanity as well. That's the kind of change that will take place because God's people can become anyone who asks for request from God, the gift of the Holy Spirit. Another thing that certainly will help cement the kingdom of God on this earth is a universal establishment of God's law. Right now we have laws. Every nation has its own laws. Some of them are contradictory. Within our own states in the United States we have different laws and some of them are contradictory. But there will be one universal law throughout the earth. Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 10. If you'll turn there with me. Hebrews chapter 8 verse 10.

The author of Hebrews, who may very well have been Paul, wrote, For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord.

And those days they're referring to after the end time and return of Jesus. I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none, his brother saying, know the Lord, for all shall know me. Everyone will have access to having a relationship with God, and that will be reinforced by the school systems, by the language spoken, by the culture that's this new culture that's established all over the earth. By the worship locations established all over the earth. All will know me from the least of them to the greatest of them, for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and lawless deeds. I will remember no more.

God's not interested in vengeance. He's not interested in hammering people. He's interested in loving them and teaching them a way of life that naturally produces happiness and peacefulness, contentment, fulfillment, and that is through embracing and loving his law. Not being forced on anyone, but it says here that the influence of the kingdom will be so great and Satan removed, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, that the law of God will literally be embedded in us. It'll be written on the hearts of mankind, for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more, and that he says, a new covenant. He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete? And growing old is ready to vanish away.

Human laws change with time. Human laws change with agendas. They change when cultures change.

Most laws in our society today need to have penalties to enforce compliance. You do this, or else the government will do this to you, or you'll be punished in this way.

And for God in his kingdom, that is absolutely a last resort. What God prefers in what he's instituting is that we obey him and we love his law because it's written in our hearts and we can see that it's good, that it's fair, that it's equitable, and that everyone who lives by that law is happy and content and lives a life of joy and personal fulfillment.

But not only will God give his Spirit to all individuals, and we saw that earlier in Joel chapter 2 and verse 28, but he will also embed his law into the hearts and minds of individuals, beginning with the nation of Israel and again as the kingdom of God spreads throughout the earth.

In God's kingdom, every belief system, every civil law, and every program will be changed and centered on God's value system for love of God and love of our neighbor. It's not really that complicated.

And God doesn't give us all the tiny details of how that's going to be, but he's telling us that people won't simply be compliant. They won't do things out of force. They won't do things out of fear. They'll do it because they love and respect God and they love his laws. They easily see the benefits and blessings from obedience and from loving their God and loving their neighbor.

There certainly will be room for various perspectives. There will be room for ideas.

There will be room for opinions, but there will be no room for selfish personal agendas.

Someone trying to manipulate someone else in order to better them, in order to get something from them. There will no longer be room for distorted human ideas of me first, putting me first and above everyone else. And I might add that this will not be the Old Covenant law given the ancient Israel. You just can't simply go back to the Old Testament and say, oh look at this. This is the way it'll be in the kingdom because of something God gave to a Bronze Age people that they could live by during their time of existence and their life. This is a New Covenant that God offers at this time, not simply a rehash of the Old.

And here's the key. People will not do things out of force or fear. They won't, again, they won't simply be compliant. They will love and respect God's law because they see its benefits and they see how their own lives are happier, how their own lives are changed.

Zephaniah chapter 3 and verse 9. I briefly mentioned this in my sermon a few weeks ago. I just want to expand upon a little bit. Zephaniah chapter 3 and verse 9. For then I will restore to the people's a pure language, not the mongrel, diseased languages we speak on earth today. I mean, I had a teacher. I remember in high school English is the great horror of human languages. It has some Germanic, it has Norman, it has some Celtic words, it has Latin, it is truly an evolved distorted language, as most languages are on earth. And that causes confusion. God is going to reverse what he did at Babel in Genesis chapter 11 and verse 7. Remember that? Genesis chapter 11 and verse 7. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language that they may not understand one another's speech. God did that for a very good reason. He's going to reverse that here in Zephaniah 3.9. Then I will restore to the people's a pure language and that they may call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one accord. Why did God do that at Babel? Because humankind was advancing too rapidly.

And if God hadn't caused disunity and confusion, we would have destroyed ourselves as humanity far too early. They were to the point where they were on the cusp of the technologies we're probably just discovering today. It says there in the scripture there's nothing they can't do. They had one language, they had unity, they were had innovation. Humanity would have spiraled out of control, would have never survived this long for God's plan to be fulfilled. So he said I will give them confusion. I will have them speak in different languages and there will be disunity and I'll slow down the development of humanity and its civilization. That's exactly what God did.

Now we're being to the point where we can overcome some of that. AI translators are advancing, where I can say something in a translator. I can, if I'm talking to an Italian, good morning, hope you're having a great day, and it repeats that back in perfect Italian to that person. They reply. It tells me in English exactly what they said. I mean we are pretty advanced in our technologies, but again we have to realize what the confusion of languages has caused. A couple of quick examples.

A few weeks ago, Turkey's president was on a national TV program and he said something that had to be corrected the next day because it was translated wrong. So they had to say this is what he meant to say, and that's what happens when people speak different languages.

My favorite is going back to 2009. So the US Secretary of State decided we need to try to make up with Russia, so we're going to bring them symbolically a reset button. And she said to the Russian representative, we want to reset our relationship with you, and she gave them the button. But on the button was a Russian word that was mistranslated. It was the wrong word. And instead of saying reset button, it said overload. And of course the media mocked her, our Secretary of State at the time. And we were just embarrassed. But my point is those are the kinds of things when you have the disharmony of so many human languages and the inability to communicate with one another.

That's going to change in the kingdom of God. Okay, the last thing that we want to mention today is the introduction of godly mentors and teachers. The introduction of godly mentors and teachers. Revelation chapter 20 and verse 4. Again, this is talking about those who the context is a great white throne judgment, but also going back to refer to those who were part of the first resurrection. And I saw thrones and they sat on them and judgment was committed to them.

And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped to the beast or his image, had not received the mark on their foreheads or on their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Verse 5, that the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.

Then going back to verse 4, picking up the previous theme before that sentence, this is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who was a part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, and they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. As I mentioned earlier, Christ is bringing back his saints.

Those who had his spirit throughout the ages are going to be resurrected as he returns to meet him in the air. And then secondarily, those who were still alive at that time will also leave the earth and meet Jesus Christ in the air. And together, everyone will return to Jerusalem to establish the kingdom of God.

And you have been called and are being trained to replace all the political, cultural, and religious leaders that exist today to teach and mentor and care for others in a new kingdom. These saints who returned with Jesus were tested and trained in their lifetime for godly leadership, and that means you. And everything that you've experienced in your life from the time that you received God's Spirit, either good or bad, painful or happy, had had a purpose. And God is working with you every moment of every day to mold you into something better, something he can use.

When you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, you live in the life of eternity. Nothing is an accident anymore. We still have free moral agency, and sometimes we still do some pretty stupid things. But even the mistakes we have made, even the negative things that we have experienced, God will use as a tool to make us spiritually mature, wiser, more forgiving of others, and more compassionate by our life experiences. Isaiah chapter 30 and verse 20.

Isaiah chapter 30 and verse 20. Talking about a time in the kingdom, it'll be so different than today, because we know, we just saw a recent example of an individual who was assassinated a few weeks ago, who was a deeply religious person. And of course, he's mocked for a number of reasons, but one of them is because he's a Christian. If you dare to show publicly your religious faith today, you are going to be a target. Unfortunately, he was a target to the point where he was assassinated.

But people who are religious today are mocked, marginalized. We don't want you to have any influence. We want our secular, progressive mindset of our cultures that shun to the side religious faith, because it's ancient. It's about that old God who doesn't exist anyway. And we know that we've evolved, and we know that we can come up with our own ideas and our own ways to solve our problems.

That's the philosophy that so many people have today. And those of faith are marginalized, kept down where they feel they belong.

And that's the world we live in today. Let's see what kind of world it's going to be in God's kingdom. Isaiah chapter 30 and verse 20, and though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, and indeed those who survived the great tribulation will indeed have had the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. Those survivors will go through a lot and many of them have probably PSD and will have to help them and work with them through the things that they experience. Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore. No longer will those who have faith be marginalized, mocked, ridiculed, assassinated. But your eyes shall see your teachers. They won't be invisible. They'll be there. A person can relate to them, can hug them, can see them, can talk to them. You know, after Jesus was resurrected, he was able to manifest himself into a fleshly being, even though he was spiritual. He was able to have his disciples touch his side and see the holes that he had from his crucifixion. And in the same way, these teachers, these mentors, will be tangible. Someone that can be touched, hugged, taught from, not just invisible. Your eyes will see your teachers. Your ears shall hear a word behind you saying, this is the way. Walk in it whenever you turn to the right or wherever you turn to the left.

So this is the kind of influence that these godly mentors and teachers that God is preparing now, and he's been preparing in every generation since the time of Jesus Christ and even before for people to be trained to fill these important roles of service in the kingdom of God.

This new type of leadership that will have will exist in the world tomorrow. And Jesus wants his disciples to learn how to serve others now in preparation for the kingdom. Those who are spirit filled rulers in the kingdom of God will all serve with the right motive. It will not be about power.

It won't be about being a celebrity. It won't be about acquiring wealth. It won't be self-seeking motives. It will not spring from some carnal desire to be in charge or control others. It will be to love others using the Spirit of God that reflects our desire to serve. And because God was graceful and merciful to us, we're going to play it forward with them and be patient and merciful and kind to teach them, perhaps in an easier way than the way that we had to learn in this carnal, physical world that we live in today. I think that's an important thing to appreciate and understand.

So here's a brief recap of what we talked about today. The kingdom of God will be successful because God will be restoring access to the tree of life. Until then, we've all been limited to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Some good, but humanity is usually taking one step forward and two steps backward. Dysfunctional human governments will be replaced by a wise and good, the good government of God. Carnal human nature will be removed from negatively influencing the inhabitants of the earth. A universal law founded on love and respect will replace thousands of conflicting and ever-changing human values and laws. Godly servants and teachers will replace the carnal, power-obsessed rulers who have abused humanity throughout our history right up until today.

And all of these things, including the removal of Satan, of course, will create a new world that can finally allow all individuals to reach the awesome potential that God always wanted and desired originally. All of humanity will realize that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil has only brought upon us pain, suffering, war, and death. Everyone eventually will have access to the tree of life because of the kingdom of God, its availability, and because of God's righteous government. The Feast of Tabernacles will celebrate that wonderful time and your important part in serving in the government of God. So, if anyone asks you how the kingdom of God will be successful and thrive, now we know. God tells us in his word that he gives us the basic outline and understanding. He doesn't give us all the small details. We'll just have to wait for that.

But his word is promised and it shall come to pass. Let's all look forward to a time when God will say about these coming days exactly what he said in Ezekiel chapter 12 and verse 28. Here's what he said. Spoke to Ezekiel. Thus says the Lord God, none of my words will be postponed anymore, but the word which I speak will be done, says the Lord God. Let's all pray and long for that day.