Two Kingdoms
There are two kingdoms, the kingdom of hell, and the kingdom of heaven…
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There are two kingdoms, the kingdom of hell, and the kingdom of heaven…
Two Kingdoms
There are two kingdoms.
The kingdom of hell, and the kingdom of heaven.
The kingdom of darkness, and the kingdom of light.
The kingdom of Satan and death, and the kingdom of God and life.
The Old Testament history of the “Israel of God”—which St Paul calls “The Church”—is centered around the “kingdom of life.”
Without a king there is no kingdom.
Without a kingdom there is no king.
A kingdom with its king is proclaimed by the “Israel of God” throughout the Old Testament.
For David himself prayed in I Chronicles:
“Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, the power and the glory, the victory and the majesty.”
Without a contest there is no victory.
Without a conflict there is no crown.
The contest begins in Genesis with the seed of the serpent lying in wait to strike the seed of the woman.
Satan writhes and slithers to bite the heel of the coming Messiah.
The coming Messiah—in His brush with death—waits to crush the head of Satan.
The conflict unfolds throughout the Old Testament’s duration of the “Israel of God” until it reaches its threshold and realization in the New.
All of Israel’s institutions, its statutes, the prospects opened to it by the prophets—over against the opposition of surrounding kingdoms—signaled the coming rule of heaven and kingship of its Lord.
There is no kingdom without a king.
There is no everlasting “Davidic kingdom,” as promised by God, without a “Son of David.”
This “Son of David” would be “Messiah King,” fulfilled and realized by Yeshua ha Moshiach, Jesus the Messiah.
The mission of the Messiah—taught in the rabbinic writings of “Tractate Yalkut”—yet discounted today—was to “enter into battle with Satan” and “cast him into Gehenna.”
With Satan conquered, death is destroyed, and life issues forth in victory, as promised by the prophet Isaiah.
Judaism today, the religion of my childhood, in its bankruptcy of Scriptural understanding, has lost all conception of Messiah’s mission to conquer Satan and death, and usher in God’s kingdom and everlasting life.
“If I,” said Jesus to his adversaries, “cast out devils by the Spirit of God, no doubt the kingdom of God has come upon you.”
That “kingdom of God,” with its power and authority over devils, inherent in the divine nature of Jesus Christ, is shared in the human nature He assumed.
He, Who clothed Himself fully in our humanity as the Second Adam—Who got the better of Satan unlike the First Adam—proclaims Himself as king with the kingdom “come upon you,” present in Himself on behalf of those who would receive it.
To enter the kingdom of life you have to have the right relationship with the king.
“Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,” Jesus told Nicodemus, “he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, Jesus stressed, “and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
Of all fleshly attainments, man may rise to moral improvement, aesthetic refinement, and the heights of self-development.
This will not get you in.
To attain to the high calling of our humanity—which is entering the kingdom of heaven—a kindred spirit with the king is needed.
For as Jesus insisted, “that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
This is obtained in the sacrament of holy baptism of the Orthodox Church by which man becomes a new creation in Christ.
Our first birth springs from bodies that decay.
Our second birth springs from the Holy Spirit, imbued in the water, Who lives forever.
“When will this ‘kingdom of heaven’ of yours appear?” mocked the enemies of Jesus.
Knowing their mockery and their plans to kill Him, Jesus answered:
“You will never see it.”
“You won’t be able to say, it’s over there, or over here, for the kingdom of heaven is within you.”
You must have it within before you experience it without.
And you can’t have the kingdom of heaven within until you spit on the devil, renounce him pointing west—the region of darkness on the boundary of the Garden of Eden—by being baptized by triple immersion in the Orthodox Church.
The ascetic fathers of the Orthodox Church teach that on Judgment Day the adversaries of the Lord Jesus Christ will condemn themselves.
They will instantly know they don’t belong in heaven with Jesus.
Michael the archangel will simply open the door and they’ll leap into hell.
Awesome !!.. my Wise Spiritual Brother
Oh, good for you, Brother Nathanael. What a courageous guy you are! You’re going to be, in a magnificent palace of your own, in Heaven!!
Glad to see you on YouTube again. Hope you reach a lot of people. The world sure needs it.
Thank you Brother, God bless you.
All these years waiting for a bible study, or indepth teaching. OUTSTANDING BroNat.
-Tim
Thank you Brother Nathanael. I hope to see many more such videos via Bible With Brother.
Thank you, Brother Nathanael, and I pray you will bring us many more messages like this one.
no arguments from me thanks for the vid Bro. N
indeed, torment is the disease of lost or corrupted soul.
wish we can save more and more souls from sheol, but the task is huge and almost impossible.
But for the great serving of life and Heavens, we, the righteous, have the responsibility to do it as much as we can.
Glory to God for all things.
I’ve always enjoyed and found edification when you covered Scripture, and now here is the answer to my prayers that you would do more.
This is a beautiful start, and I’m so looking forward to more ‘Bible with Brother’.
God bless you for all of your labors.
I’ve watched you for a long time but I have to say this is one of the more ‘informative’ to date. Well done.
“Michael will open the door and they’ll leap into hell!”
That’s a good point. For the damned Heaven will be more painful than hell.
I asked you more than a few moons ago to start doing bible videos and help people understand scripture without a Laodicen influence. And it appears you are finally doing just that. Thanks!