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Jesus only said "my kingdom is not of this world"...he never went into this crazy story about setting up a rulership on earth. He never mentioned a new jerusalem, he never mentioned the 144,000 and he never mentioned a paradise earth.
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Are you saying you only believe Jesus' words in the four Gospels, but not the Book of Revelation?
Revelation 1:1 -- The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants -things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified [it] by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.
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All verses from the New King James Version...
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RULERSHIP FROM/ON EARTH:
Isaiah 9:6 -- "For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of [His] government and peace [There will be] no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this." - NKJV
Rev.19:11 -- "Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes [were] like a flame of fire, and on His head [were] many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He [was] clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on [His] robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." -- NKJV
Zechariah 14:1 -- Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zech 14:3 -- Then the LORD will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, [Making] a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.
Zech 14:5 -- Then you shall flee [through] My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the LORD my God will come, [And] all the saints with You.
Zech 14:9 -- And the LORD shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be -- "The LORD [is] one," And His name one.
Zech 14:16 -- And it shall come to pass [that] everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be [that] whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they [shall have] no [rain;] they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Daniel 2:34 -- "You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Daniel 2:44 -- "And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever."
Devil to be bound for 1,000 years so he cannot mislead the nations anymore...
Revelation 20:2 -- He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is [the] Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years
Revelation 20:3 -- and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
Revelation 20:4 -- And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received [his] mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. [Note in Rev. 19, previous chapter, the Lord returns with his saints and angels to the earth, Zech 14 says he will stand his feet again on the Mt. of Olives, etc.]
Revelation 20:5 -- But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished...
Revelation 20:6 -- Blessed and holy [is] he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years...
Revelation 20:7 -- Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison... [what for, if not to attempt to mislead the nations again?]
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"144,000" -- (all from the Tribes of Israel who will be called to witness to the Jews and the nations DURING THE TRIBULATION and not before, and who certainly are not the JW "Elite"):
Revelation 7:4 -- And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred [and] forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel [were] sealed:
Revelation 7:5 -- of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand [were] sealed;
Revelation 7:6 -- of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand [were] sealed;
Revelation 7:7 -- of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand [were] sealed;
Revelation 7:8 -- of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand [were] sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand [were] sealed.
Revelation 14:1 -- Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred [and] forty-four thousand, having His Father's name written on their foreheads.
Revelation 14:3 -- They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred [and] forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.
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"NEW JERUSALEM":
Revelation 3:12 - "He who overcomes, I [Jesus Christ] will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And [I will write on him] My new name.
Revelation 21:2 - Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:10 - And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...
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There's plenty more about the reign of Christ... help yourself to an online Scripture search engine: http://www.olivetree.com/cgi-bin/EnglishBible.htm
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As for the "privatized NWO," very true. It is Satan's counterfeit to God's Kingdom. So it has to come, the false first, then the real thing.
And there had to be an Israel again, too, before the false "Golden Age" and false Messiah could come.
So the Masonic ruled Zionist Israel is exactly where she ought to be in the stream of things...
They will go together like two peas in a pod, ie:
First: (a) A godless false Israel + (b) The false Messiah = Temporary [false] Bliss/Golden Age/NWO = The Seven-year Tribulation.
Then: (a) True Messiah Returns w/His saints and angels + Saves the Remnant of natural Israel from total destruction = True/Real Kingdom of God (through which the Lord will "RULE THE NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON") so there will be nations and people left, and a Kingdom "government" with Christ ruling from earth with the saints that came back with Him.
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And it's true, Jesus' Kingdom is NOT OF this world... He brings it back with Him when He comes. Where He goes, His Kingdom goes.
