===>There is no end to the wishful thinking producing such silly
speculations, twists, spins and reinterpretations of "Revelation", a
message from 1900 years ago, stating that all of it was to
happen SOON! Read this with a smile at the length to which
"believers" go to once again predict something that has been
predicted a hundred times in every generation, over and over. -- L.

herbertwarmstrong wrote:

KINGDOM OF GOD: "Yes, in OUR TIME!"
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Yes, in OUR TIME!

Now here we have described FOUR universal world-
empires -- the only four that ever existed! Revelation
13 and 17 show that, after the fall of the original Roman
Empire, there would be SEVEN revivals which would
be ruled over by a Gentile CHURCH -- the "daugh-
ter" of ancient BABYLON -- a church claiming to be Chris-
tian, but actually named by God "MYSTERY BABYLON the
Great" -- or, more plainly, BABYLONIAN MYSTERIES!

Six of those have come and gone. The seventh is now
forming -- the last, final, brief resurrection of the Roman
Empire by ten European groups or nations. These are the
ten toes of iron and clay mixed.

In their days -- and they shall last but a very short
space, possibly no more than two to three-and-a-half years
-- shall the GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A KINGDOM.

This, then, shall be THE KINGDOM OF GOD!

Compare with Revelation 17. Here is pictured a
church. Not a small church -- a GREAT church. She rules
over "many waters" (verse 1) which are described in verse
15 as different nations speaking different languages. She
posed as the Church of GOD -- which Scripture says (Eph.
5:23; Rev. 19:7; Matt. 25:1-10, etc., etc.) is the affianced
"bride" of CHRIST, to be spiritually MARRIED to Him at His
second COMING.

But she has committed fornication. How? By having
direct political union with HUMAN GOVERNMENTS of THIS
WORLD! She "sat on" (Rev. 17:3) all seven of these resur-
rections of the Roman Empire -- called the "Holy Roman
Empire." She RULED OVER the human kingdoms -- as a
common-law and unmarried "wife" ruling her paramour
"husband" -- a totally unnatural and ungodly relation-
ship.

She is, therefore, to "sit on" this last "head of the
Beast" -- this final resurrection of the Roman Empire. It
will be a union of church and state. It is to endure but a
very short time. It is to FIGHT AGAINST CHRIST at HIS
SECOND COMING! That will be its END.

We see it in process of rising, now. Therefore we are
CLOSE to the coming of Christ! We are now very near the
END of this world!

When Christ comes, He is coming as KING of kings,
ruling the whole earth (Rev. 19:11-16); and HIS KINGDOM
-- the KINGDOM OF GOD -- said Daniel, is to CONSUME
all these worldly kingdoms.

Revelation 11:15 states it in these words: "The king-
doms of this world are become THE KINGDOMS OF OUR
LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; and He shall reign for ever and
ever!"

This is THE KINGDOM OF GOD. It is the END of present
governments -- the governments that rule Russia, China,
Japan, Italy, Germany -- yes, and even the United States
and the British nations. They then shall become the king-
doms -- the GOVERNMENTS of the Lord JESUS CHRIST,
then KING of kings over the entire earth.

This makes completely PLAIN the fact that the KING-
DOM OF GOD is a literal GOVERNMENT. Even as the Chal-
dean Empire was a KINGDOM -- even as the Roman
Empire was a KINGDOM -- so the KINGDOM OF GOD is a
government. It is to take over the GOVERNMENT of the
NATIONS of the world.

Jesus Christ was BORN to be a KING -- a RULER!

When He stood, on trial for His life, before Pilate,
"Pilate therefore said unto Him, Art thou a king then?
Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end
was I born, and for this cause came I into the world." But
Jesus also said to Pilate: "My kingdom is not of this
world" -- (John 18:37, 36). His Kingdom is of THE WORLD
TOMORROW!

Have you not read what the angel proclaimed to
Mary, the mother of Jesus, prior to His birth? Jesus told
Pilate He was born to become a KING. The angel of God
said to Mary: ". . . thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and
bring forth a son, and shalt call His name JESUS. He shall
be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and
the Lord God shall give unto Him the THRONE of His
father David: and He shall reign over the House of Jacob
forever; and of His Kingdom there shall be NO END" (Luke
1:31-33).

These scriptures tell you PLAINLY that GOD is
supreme RULER. They tell you in plainest language that
Jesus was born to be a KING -- that He is going to RULE
ALL NATIONS OF THE EARTH -- that His Kingdom shall
rule eternally.

But all this is only part of the fantastic, amazing,
actually SHOCKING TRUTH about the KINGDOM OF GOD.

The KINGDOM OF GOD will rule over the peoples and
nations of the earth. Yet these mortal peoples and nations
will NOT be the Kingdom, not even in the Kingdom of
God. They shall be merely RULED OVER BY IT!

We still have to learn OF WHAT, or OF WHOM it is
composed. Can YOU, as an individual, ever become a part
of this Kingdom?

Source: "Yes, in OUR TIME!", pp. 12-15 in booklet:
Just what do you mean ... KINGDOM OF GOD?
by Herbert W. Armstrong, © 1962, 1972.

(To be continued . . .)
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===>There is no end to the wishful thinking producing such silly
speculations, twists, spins and reinterpretations of "Revelation", a
message from 1900 years ago, stating that all of it was to
happen SOON! Read this with a smile at the length to which
"believers" go to once again predict something that has been
predicted a hundred times in every generation, over and over. -- L.