“Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans, but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” (Matt. 10:5-8)
“For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us and the government will rest on His shoulders. And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace…” (Isa. 9:6-7)
After 400 years of silence from God, Jesus came to earth with a stated mission and a clear plan. His mission was simple, “I have come only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” He commissioned His 12 with the same mission [see Matt. 10 above]. God’s clear and first priority in sending His Son was to gather the lost sheep of His own house. In fact, until Paul’s conversion in Acts 9 and Peter’s sheet in Acts 10, no one was commissioned to go to the Gentiles. According to Acts 1:8, after the Holy Spirit came, they would be commissioned to go to Jerusalem and Judea first, then to Samaria and then to the remotest parts of the earth.
And what was that clear plan [see Matt. 10 above]? “Preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” After 400 years of silence, Jesus came with just nine words, the most important nine words ever spoken, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The words, “at hand” here in the Greek mean literally “joined to.” This is not only the message God put in John’s mouth to introduce Jesus to the world, the Scriptures also tell us it was the message Jesus first and often preached. Via this mission and plan, Jesus took 12 of those lost sheep and turned them into kingdom champions! He also revealed to us an entirely new “church,” the church in the marketplace.
History is now repeating itself, as poll after poll after poll of self-professing Christians clearly reveal, by their own words, over 90% of them are “lost sheep in His house.” Then and now, God’s sheep have been betrayed by similar religious systems, which I refer to as temple worship. They feature the building of buildings, “temples” where individuals are exalted to be the dispensers of all knowledge and the sheep sit passively listening week after week, lost in those houses. Those individuals speak without leading and teach without being living examples as Jesus was. This creates a gospel of knowledge only, passed on from mouth to ear in words only, and creates a culture described thus, “This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from Me. But in vain do they worship Me…” (Matt. 15). We saw this system revealed in Israel, later in European cathedrals, and now in America’s version of big-box churches.
What God has revealed to me is the problem, lost sheep in His house due to religions of man, is the same now as it was then, and so is the answer: preach and, like Jesus, set an example of the kingdom of heaven on earth! What exactly is the kingdom and how do we seek it? These are the topics of my new book, The Kingdom Election, due out this summer. It begins when we realize two totally separate and distinct kingdoms exist here on earth: the kingdom of man, flesh, and religion, and the kingdom of heaven on earth. In the book I relate their relationship to the movie, The Matrix, because the differences are that stark and the process of realizing them that eye-opening. We have been led by religion to believe they can be intermingled, and we can be citizens of both when we can’t, and through current events God is opening our eyes and calling us to make a clear choice. The kingdom is now arising everywhere, mine is not the only voice proclaiming it. The foundations of our temple system have been severely shaken through the Covid pandemic, and Jesus has called His kingdom saints, through the seclusion it brought upon all of us, to solitude and an intimate relationship with Him that brings us into His kingdom.
From this time forward, as God sifts the wheat from the chaff, the kingdom of man will have nothing but fear and chaos to offer. Ah, but what is the cornerstone of the kingdom Jesus came to bring? Both then and now, as the verse from Isaiah 9 above states it is simply peace. There is no chaos in the kingdom because its King is Jesus and the government of the kingdom saint “rests upon His shoulders.” There is no fear in the kingdom because perfect love casts out fear and Jesus is perfect love. He said, “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful” (John 14). God has made it abundantly clear through the reaction of His sheep to recent world events which are found and which are lost, which are at peace because they live under a government of peace, and which are in chaos because they are still citizens of the world even though they say they follow Him.
The mission of this website and my new book will be now as it was for Jesus then, to call the lost sheep in God’s house into the kingdom of heaven on earth. The problems are the same, the results have been the same, and the solution will be the same: “And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand!’”
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