By June 2012, God of War Collection had sold more than 2.4 million copies worldwide. Certainly, jeans have grown a lot more and additional popular because the initial pair was come out. We see this when John the Baptist comes out of the wilderness with his urgent announcement, “Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand.” We see it again when Jesus appears on the scene with the same pronouncement. For this reason, during His earthly ministry, Jesus made comments such as, “If I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you” (Luke 11:20). Similarly, when Jesus sent out seventy disciples on a preaching mission, He instructed them to tell impenitent cities that “The kingdom of God has come near you” (Luke 10:11b). How could the kingdom be upon the people or near them? The kingdom of God was near to them because the King of the kingdom was there. The scripture represents them as his goods, Luke 11:12. The devils watch them; they are ever by them at their right hand; they stand waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it, but are for the present kept back.

Christ is King right this minute. And when He ascended into heaven, He went there for His coronation, for His investiture as the King of kings and Lord of lords. There also exist in the Bahāʾī Faith appointive institutions, such as the Hands of the Cause of God and the continental counselors. God said: “I cannot violate the laws of heaven and earth just because of you. The world I have created is just like that. Some things at first sight may be unreasonable, but after being thought carefully they might be not wrong. Things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme. Extreme pleasure is followed by sorrow. Happiness will not last long and pain will not indefinite. True feelings have deception being hidden and deception involves goodwill. Love and hate are together. Cause and effect cycle. Nothing is absolute. We can just do along with time. It is no use to complain about.” Water was quite at a loss after listening to the words of God, but it was also speechless. Officials renamed it Spring Festival and urged citizens to use the Gregorian calendar prevalent in the West, which recognizes New Year on January 1. However, many Chinese still clung to the traditions connected with the lunar year.

I had a crisis on this point in my last year of seminary, when I was a student pastor of a Hungarian refugee church in Western Pennsylvania. My crisis came the next week, when one of the elders, who was a veteran, came to me and said, “Reverend, you’ve got it all wrong there on the chancel.” I asked, “What’s the matter? They asked, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? ” He said: “Well, the law of our land requires that any time any flag is displayed with the American flag, it must be placed in a subordinate position to the American flag. I didn’t want to violate the law of the United States and I didn’t want to communicate that the kingdom of God is subordinate to a human government. When He came, Jesus inaugurated God’s kingdom. At the heart of this theme is the idea of God’s messianic kingdom.

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to God’s anointed Son (Matt. So, while for pragmatic reasons, political authority was accepted for the majority of Islamic history as dynastically inherited, the community had to contend with the question of religious authority. While the majority sided with Abu Bakr, one of the prophet’s closest companions, a minority opted for his son-in-law and cousin – Ali. At the end of Jesus’ life, just as He was about to depart from this earth, His disciples had the opportunity to ask Him one last question. So Jesus’ kingship is not something that remains in the future. Like, if ‘God Only Knows’ is the greatest song ever written, then I’ll never write anything as good again! In 1990, I was invited into Eastern Europe to do a series of lectures in three countries, first in Czechoslovakia, then in Hungary, and finally in Romania. As we were leaving Hungary, we were warned that the border guards in Romania were quite hostile to Americans and that we should be prepared to be hassled and possibly even arrested at the border. Sure enough, when our rickety train reached the border of Romania, two guards got on.