WITHOUT ANY DOUBTS THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENT

First of all I want to notify to my vallued visitors that from this week only I will publish my reflections on Tuesday.

Let's enter matter...

  IS IT JESUS CHRIST OR THE CHURCH THE SAME GOD'S KINGDOM?

  

The dictionary defines the term "kingdom" as "subject to the rule of a king territory." It is outside every reason to think that a person can simultaneously be king and kingdom. What does the Bible say? For example, in Lc.11.2: "And he said to them: When you pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come ... "is he was the same kingdom of God, why taught to ask him to come, if he was already with them?

   Speaking of himself, of his second coming, (. Mt.24 25-27), said: "So if anyone tells you, it is in the desert, go not forth; behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man. " In other words, the person of the Savior will be fully evident, localizable, whereas the Kingdom of God, no. Luke says. 17.20-21: "Asked by the Pharisees, when it was to come the kingdom of God, answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! for behold, the kingdom of God is within you "See also 1-Co.15.24:".. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after he has abolished all rule and all authority and power "means he himself delivered? Obviously not.

   also notes the clear distinction made by Paul between the one and the other: "And Paul dwelt two whole years in a rented house and welcomed all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ Boldly and without hindrance ". There are tares in the Kingdom of God (Mt.13.41) but there is not Jesus Christ, as he is king, a person, and kingdom else, comparable to a tree, a network, etc. It is everywhere, area or dimension where he exercises sovereignty.

   However. The Church is the Body of Christ (1 Cor.12-12-27;. Ro.12 4-5;. Eph.1 15-23;. Col. 1. 18). The Church is the human part of his Kingdom. Are the believers, the faithful. The king wishes to exercise its sovereignty, in these particular individuals, as in the whole of them, considered God's own people, the holy nation (1-P.2.9-10), so that "speaking the truth in love we grow up in every way into him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint help each other, according to the working by which every part does its growth to go edifying of itself in love ", thus creating works that bear witness to the glory of God (Mt.5.14-16).

 Jesus said to those who rejected (Mateo.21.43): "Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.". He said to his disciples (Lc.12.32): "Fear not, little flock, for your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom" If the Kingdom of God is something that can give or take, then obviously that is something different people to whom it is given or taken away.

     Let's see more. Matthew. 25.34 says: "Then the King will say to those on his right. Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" We may then ask: How will inherit something if they themselves are that something? The New Testament says that believers are the Kingdom of God, but declares that we are "participants" of it (Ap.1.9).

  We infer, therefore, not only by what has been said but by the general context of the Bible, which is a comprehensive system of government where, based on the sacrifice of the Lamb of God (1-Co.3.11), intervenes Holy Spirit of God himself, and collaborate angels Salvador (He.1.14), provided everything under the teachings and principles of the word of the kingdom (Mt.13.19, 2-P.1.19).

   Further notes that the gospel is preached Kingdom (Mt.4.23; 10.7; Hch.28 31, etc..); Jesus Christ is preached (Hch.5.42; 8.5; 1-Co.1.23, etc.); But in the Bible the Church is never preached, nor any particular local church or the universal Church (what unfortunately does happen today under the trademark representing some religious institutions).

   It is very clear that the Church is not the same Kingdom of God, but is made up of the people chosen by God to fulfill both her, the Church, and through her, her government on Earth (Dn.7 . 22:27; Rev. 2: 26-27)..