When the violence takes place between nations, we call it war when it takes place within a nation, we call it crime, but the reality is the same. Wars ravage the countryside and unjust death goes unavenged. In this age, people starve and children cry and the rich grind the faces of the poor and go to their soft beds and sleep well afterward. This is not entirely true, since behind every democracy of any size stands a hidden plutocracy. One may imagine that where democracy is the prevailing form of government, the will of the people carries the day. Rather it is the will of the rich and powerful that is carried out, the will of tyrants, liars, the elite, the 1%. Currently, in this age, God’s will is not done. In this age, the Kingdom was present as a sacramental reality, one which brought healing, forgiveness, and transformation to the human heart and bestowed eternal life.īut a more powerful manifestation of the Kingdom would come at length, as the kingdoms of this world became the Kingdom of the Lord God and of His Christ (Revelation 11:15), and it was this Kingdom for which the Lord taught His disciples to pray.
In fact, it was already present among them: whenever Christ healed and liberated the oppressed, there was the Kingdom of God (Matthew 13:24f, Luke 17:20-21). Instead, evil tares and good wheat would grow side by side until the end of the age. That was the point of all His parables about the Kingdom: it was not to be a political kingdom, nor one that would sweep evil from the earth. This was the Kingdom that most of Christ’s hearers were expecting that God would bring when Christ announced that the Kingdom of God was at hand (Mark 1:15), and so Christ took pains to correct their erroneous notions of the coming Kingdom of God. Perhaps they only sharpened the swords and looked for opportunities. The Zealot movement may or may not have called it that. Qumran, for example, called this the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness. It would be a political and military Kingdom, swept to power by God’s miraculous wrath on the nations, though of course the people of Israel would have a hand in such a revolution. Such a Kingdom would come about by the power of God and His Messiah. Instead, decrees of power and justice would proceed from Jerusalem, where the Messiah would rule the nations in God’s Name. In this Kingdom, it was popularly thought, the hated Pax Romana would be replaced by a glorious Pax Hebraica, and the nation of Israel would be exalted to a place of supremacy in the world. Suffering under the iron boot of Rome, Israel in the first century looked forward to a time when the Gentile kingdom would be no more and would give way to the Kingdom of God. The concept of the Kingdom of God was part of the Jewish apocalyptic inheritance. It seems clear that these words constitute a single petition expressed with Hebrew poetic parallelism, and not two separate petitions, since the Lukan version of the Lord’s Prayer in Luke 11:2 simply reads, “Thy Kingdom come”, omitting the further elaboration contained in Matthew’s more Jewish version. We continue with our examination of the Lord’s Prayer, and come now to the petition “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. It does not store any personal data.DecemThe Lord’s Prayer: “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done” The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
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