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Tabletalk Magazine, December 2007: The Kingdom of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Possibly no other theme has generated as much debate as the kingdom of God. What is it? When will it arrive? Has it already? In what way? Who are its recipients? And the list goes on. This issue of Tabletalk, however, will not be entertaining such question in any great detail, for it is our desire to share with our readers some of the sweeping themes found in Scripture regarding God’s kingdom —...

When Jesus started his earthly ministry, he began by “proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom” (Matt. 4:23). Yet nowhere in the Gospels do we see Jesus giving a clear definition of the kingdom. The reason is simple: Jesus didn’t have to define what the kingdom meant, because his hearers were well-schooled in the Old Testament. The puzzle for them was trying to work out how the coming of Jesus fitted into their Old Testament expectations. That is why Jesus later said, “Therefore every scribe who has
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