Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

motive, plan, and program of God the Creator was to colonize earth with Heaven. Understanding the concept of colonization is key because once we understand what God intended, we will understand what God is doing. He put people on this planet for the purpose of expanding His influence and authority from the supernatural realm to the nat ural realm. A colony, by definition, is populated by people who orig inally came from another place. It is an outpost inhabited by citizens of a faraway country whose allegiance remains with their home gov ernment. Stated another way, a colony is “a group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant land but remain subject to the parent country.” 1 Colonization involves citizens of one country inhabiting foreign territory for the purpose of influencing that domain with the culture and values of their native country and governing it with the laws of their home government. For example, the message of Jesus as stated in His mission statement recorded in Matthew 4:17, “…the kingdom of heaven has arrived” (author’s paraphrase), would indicate that the first colony of Heaven had returned to earth through Him. As citi zens of heaven, we inhabit the earth for the purpose of influencing it with the culture and values of Heaven and bringing it under the government of the King of Heaven. Paul of Tarsus, a first-century ambassador and colonizer for the King of heaven, described the King’s colonial intent this way: …to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to His eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord (Ephesians 3:9-11).

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