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MATTHEW'S Gospel could be called "the Gospel of the kingdom." This Gospel tells us that Jesus came to earth as God in the flesh, the Messiah, to begin his kingdom. This is a kingdom of the heart, and God's subjects include all who submit to him and acknowledge Christ as their sovereign Lord. Eventually, God's full kingdom will be realized at Christ's return, when he comes to annihilate the force...

evil king who “committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David. Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem” (1 Kings 15:3–4 NRSV). This son was the godly king Asa who “did what was right in the sight of the Lord, as his father David had done” (1 Kings 15:11 NRSV). No particular pattern appears—sometimes an evil king had a
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