Category: amillennialism

Monday, July 14, 2025

“Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21 KJV).

Is there really a “mis-translation” in the King James Bible here?

The Pharisees knew Jesus was called “the Son of David” (Matthew 9:27; Matthew 12:23; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 20:30,31; Matthew 21:9,15; Mark 10:47,48; Luke 18:38,39). They were also aware of the Hebrew Bible’s prophecies about Messiah, the Son of David, occupying David’s throne. “While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David” (Matthew 22:41,42). “And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?” (Mark 12:35).

Yet, they had trouble reconciling how Jesus—the so-called “Son of David”—continued to let the Roman Emperor reign. It made no sense that, though Jesus preached about His reigning from a throne, He had never sat on such a throne throughout those three years! He was the Son of David, yet He had not restored David’s throne that had been lost to the Babylonians (chief of the Gentile world-powers) hundreds of years prior? “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 23:5,6).

As concerning the kingdom of God that Jesus preached during Matthew to John, there was a spiritual aspect as well as a physical. For example, Israel had much more serious problems than being political prisoner to heathen Gentiles (the Romans). They had a sin problem that had to be addressed before physical problems such as material poverty. “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: ) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:31-33).

Here is what the Pharisees failed to realize….

Sunday, July 13, 2025

“Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21 KJV).

Is there really a “mis-translation” in the King James Bible here?

The heart of the Davidic Covenant is the LORD God’s promise to give King David a son or heir: “And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever…. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David” (2 Samuel 7:12,13,16,17).

Isaiah 9:6,7 builds on this: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” Jesus Christ is the fulfillment in Luke 1:31-33: “And, behold, 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 for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”

Although Amillennialists assert otherwise, the Lord Jesus Christ did more than simply preach a “spiritual reign of God in the hearts of men.” Proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God (“Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand [near];” Matthew 4:17,23; Matthew 9:35; Mark 1:14,15; et al.), He was there to bring in a literal, physical, visible, earthly, Davidic kingdom exactly as the Old Testament prophets foretold….