Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

kingdom is because the Bible is not about a religion or an organiza tion but a King and His Kingdom. Therefore, in order to correctly understand, interpret, and apply the Scriptures, knowledge of king doms is necessary. The kingdom is the oldest of all forms of government and the only one that is of divine origin. God “invented” the kingdom con cept and established it first in Heaven. Simply stated, a kingdom is simply a domain over which a king has rulership. Heaven was the first domain that God created. Although invisible, it is a very real place, even more real than what we call reality. The natural came from the supernatural; therefore, the supernatural is always more real than the natural. Heaven is more real than earth, even though we cannot see it with our physical eyes. In the beginning, God estab lished a kingdom as the governmental system for ruling the super natural realm of Heaven. Once His Kingdom was established in Heaven, God desired to extend it to another realm. With this end in mind (the big picture) He created a visible, physical universe with billions of stars, including the one we call Sol , the sun around which revolves this planet we call Earth. The King chose this planet specifically as the location of His Kingdom colony in the natural realm. He created it for that purpose. Then He placed on it human beings created in His image to run the colony for Him. In this way, God also established the first earthly kingdom, which was merely an extension of His Kingdom in Heaven. Through rebellion against the King, however, man lost his ruler ship. We have been trying to get it back ever since. Even though we lost our earthly kingdom, we still retain the original kingdom idea that the King implanted in our spirit. We are searching for the Kingdom all the time, but without God we can never find it because it is from Him. In our Kingdom search through the ages, man has developed and experimented with many different systems of government, as we saw earlier in this chapter. Every one of them, including those we

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