Now
I beg to ask the question, why should a day that was ordained and destined for
the benefit of all humanity be hidden or unknown to them? For this is what was
foretold on the day on which Jesus Christ was born; an angel said to the
shepherds who were keeping watch over their flock “Do not be afraid, for
behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people: For
there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the
Lord”
(Luke 2:9-11).
And
even when the wise men from the East came searching for Him thy asked; “Where
is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East
and have come to worship Him." “And
when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His
mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their
treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh” (Matthew 2:2; 11).
The
gift of gold was to honor Him as King; the frankincense was to honor Him as Man
and the gift of myrrh was to honor Him as God.
The
first message Jesus brought when He came to Galilee preaching the gospel of God
was, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
believe the gospel.” (Mark 1:14-15).
When
asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, He replied, “The
kingdom of God is not coming with your careful observation, nor will people
say, ‘Here it is, or there it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in the midst
of you” (Luke 17:20-22).
The
kingdom of God establishing itself on earth was revealed to the first world
ruling king in a dream during the days of Daniel the prophet. In unveiling the
dream to the king the prophet Daniel said; “The stone which you saw O king that
was cut out, but not by human hands, and struck the statue on its feet of iron
and clay, and broke them in pieces; then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the
silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the
chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that
not a trace of them could be found; But the stone that struck the image became
a great mountain (kingdom) and filled the whole earth” (Daniel
2:34-35).
In
interpreting the dream to the king Daniel said; “You, O king, the king of
kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the
might, and the glory, and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell,
the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you
rule over them all, you are the head of gold.”
Daniel
informed the king and said; “after you, will arise three other kingdoms
inferior to you, and in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a
kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to
another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to
an end, and it shall stand forever; just as you saw that a stone was cut from a
mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze,
the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has made known to you what
will take place in the future. The dream is certain and its interpretation is
sure” (Daniel
2:36-45).
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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