Kingdom Principles

r Chapter Six K INGDOM C ONCEPT #3 U NDERSTANDING THE K INGDOM C ONCEPT OF T ERRITORY T he essence of a kingdom is property. Land or prop erty is the validation of a king. Land or property defines a king or queen and gives him or her right to claim kingship. Remember that the first thing God created in the creation narrative was property…the earth. Earth was created before mankind was formed because it was necessary in order for man to be a legitimate ruler. Man was created to dominate, and it is impos sible to dominate nothing. Thus the mandate of God to Adam was to be king over a prop erty. Every kingdom must have territory. The word kingdom derives from the phrase “king domain.” Domain refers to the property, the territory over which a king exercises his dominion. A “kingdom,” then, is a “king’s territory.” Without territory, a king is not a king because he has nothing to rule over. You cannot be “king” over nothing. Let me give you an example from history. The “discovery” of the new world by Christopher Columbus in 1492 set off a wave of west ward expansion over the next several centuries. The great maritime empires of Europe such as England, France, Holland, Spain, and

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