I have always been a dreamer. Many people would find that hard to believe. They think that I am more of a critical if not cynical person. However, I like to think of myself as someone who simply has a heightened sense of reality.
I have found if you scratch a cynic, underneath you will find an idealist. I tend to be an idealist who has big dreams and aspirations. These are not my dreams. They are the dreams of my boss. His name is King Jesus.
It goes without saying that where there is a King there is a Kingdom. The King to come is predicted in Isaiah 7:14 fulfilled in Matthew 1:23. His name is Immanuel - “God with us.”
The King’s provision is seen in the four throne names found in Isaiah 9:5-7. I am sure that during this Christmas season we will all listen to that passage through the playing of Handel’s Messiah. It contains four couplets each describing God’s anointed ruler. He is wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
The King’s presence is seen in His ruling and reigning in His kingdom. Today His kingdom is what many have called a mystery or spiritual form of the Kingdom - the Church. But in the future, there will be a millennial kingdom, promised in the Old Testament to the nation of Israel. Yes, they really do own the Land! (see Psalm 2, 89, 2 Sam. 7:14) The final fulfillment of the promise of this millennial kingdom is expressed in Revelation 20:1-6.
The final form of the kingdom will be an eternal kingdom that will have no end. This is what John is describing in Revelation 21-22. This is when and what transpires, according to the Apostle Paul's declaration in I Corinthians 15:24-28 ...then comes the end, when He delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. And when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, that God may be all in all.
Martin Luther King had a dream, and it was a good dream for our country. My King has a bigger dream and a better dream for the entire world and all of creation.
Jesus came at Christmas to bear a cross and wear a crown of thorns. He is coming again to wear the crown of victory, Christus Victor.
Serving Him with you Until He comes for us.
Fred | 
