Zao is life
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I have already explained my view. If you don't understand what I've said, then I can't help that.
Instead of just asking endless questions, how about you tell me your understanding of these passages...
Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
I understand it as going with all this below, which all use the same word [katargeo], which is again used in 1 Corinthians 15:23:
2 Corinthians 3:7-8, 11 & 14:
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away [katargeo]: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if that which is done away [katargeo] was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away [katargeo] in Christ.
We have had the vail removed and placed in the Kingdom of Christ, which Christ told us is not now of this world, but we know is in the world - because by His Holy Spirit, His Kingdom is in us.
Matthew 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
I hope you realize that you have provided proof above for the fact that - as Hebrews 2:8 tells us - though all things have already been placed under Christ's feet, yet now we see not yet all things placed under Him.
This is how I understand Matthew 13:40:
1 Corinthians 15:23:
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down [katargeo] all rule and all authority and power.
Note: He has not yet put it down and this is why we see not yet all things placed under Him.
2 Thessalonians 2:8:
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy [katargeo] with the brightness of his coming.
Why is the kingdom called "the kingdom of his dear Son" in Colossians 1:13 in relation to the current time and "the kingdom of their Father" at the end of the age?
Because He has not yet put down the kingdoms of this world - they have not yet become the kingdoms of our LORD and of His Christ and He has not yet began to reign as the sole King, from then on till the ages of the ages, i.e the first thousand years of the ages of the ages which follows the return of Christ - when the above comes to pass - has not begun yet.
Jesus will subdue [katargeo] the kingdoms of this world when He returns, and then He will hand back all the authority the Father has placed in His hands, back to the Father, and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our LORD and of His Christ, and He (God) shall reign till the ages of the ages.
Can you explain who you believe "they" are in Revelation 22:5:
"And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign to the ages of the ages"?
As I said, my understanding is that it's the same kingdom (read that again 1000 times), but it takes on a different form when Jesus comes in the future in the sense that the entire heavens and earth will be made new with wickedness being removed from them and the Father and Son will reign together with the Son subject to the Father for eternity in "the new heavens and new earth where righteousness dwells" (2 Peter 3:13). Right now, the kingdom shares space with Satan's kingdom, as Jesus taught in the parable of the wheat and tares, but that will end when Jesus comes and rids the world of sin and death forever.
I know. And you know that I agree with you. But I have been challenging you because you're creating a false dichotomy in your OP between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God has come, and the Kingdom of God is coming. There's no dichotomy. Just different stages:
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Matthew 24:14.
The gospel of which Kingdom? The Kingdom of Christ that is already in the world but not of this time of this world, or the Kingdom of Christ to come, when He hands all rule and authority and power back to God after having destroyed the kingdoms of this world which are now the kingdoms of this world?
There is only one gospel of the Kingdom because there is only one Kingdom. Don't create a false dichotomy between "the Kingdom of Christ' and "the Kingdom of the Father".
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