4.3. The Arrival of God’s Kingdom
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1 Alva J. McClain, The Greatness Of The Kingdom (Winona Lake, IN: BMH Books, 1959), 280.
2 The future aspect of the kingdom is found throughout Scripture: Ps. Ps. 110:1; Dan. Dan. 7:11-14, Dan. 7:21-22, Dan. 7:25-27; Mtt. Mat. 6:2; Mat. 7:21-22; Mat. 19:28; Mat. 25:31; Mat. 26:29; Mark Mark 14:25; Luke Luke 11:2; Luke 19:11, Luke 19:15; Luke 21:31; Luke 22:16-18, Luke 22:29-30; Luke 23:51; Acts Acts 1:6-7; Acts 14:22; 1Cor. 1Cor. 15:24; 2Ti. 2Ti. 4:1; Heb. Heb. 2:8; Rev. Rev. 3:21+; Rev. 11:15+, Rev. 11:17+; Rev. 12:10+; Rev. 19:20+.
3 “Bauckham asserts that Revelation as a whole can be seen as the fulfillment of the first three petitions of the Lord’s Prayer: May your name be made sacred, your kingdom come, and your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. The earthly scene, where his name is not made sacred and his will not done, is soon to be transformed by the sovereign action of the enthroned God.”—Grant R. Osborne, Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002), 33.
4 Jerome Smith, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992), Acts 1:6.
5 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of Messiah, rev ed. (Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries, 2003), 381.
6 Merrill C. Tenney, Interpreting Revelation (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1957), 30-31.
7 Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of Messiah, 15.
8 “The papacy has ever grasped at ‘temporal power.’ She wants to rule the world now, before Christ comes—thus proving herself false; . . . God’s saints, with their Lord, await expectantly the Father’s time.”—William R. Newell, Revelation: Chapter by Chapter (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1994,c1935), 60.
9 This is known as the doctrine of imminency which states that the return of Jesus for His church (the Rapture) can occur at any moment without warning. There are no preconditions —events which must transpire—before He comes. The pretribulation rapture position is the only position which preserves the doctrine of imminency in that every other rapture position holds that the Rapture takes place after the beginning of the Tribulation. If Jesus could truly come “tonight,” but the Tribulation (Daniel’s 70th week) cannot start until Antichrist signs a covenant with Israel (Dan. Dan. 9:27), then mid- or post-tribulation Rapture is not ‘imminent.’ NT passages which teach the imminency of His return include: 1Cor. 1Cor. 1:7; 1Cor. 4:5; 1Cor. 15:51-52; 1Cor. 16:22; Php. Php. 3:20; Php. 4:5; 1Th. 1Th. 1:10; 2Th. 2Th. 3:10-12; Tit. Tit. 2:13; Jas. Jas. 5:7-9; 1Jn. 1Jn. 2:28; Rev. Rev. 3:11+; Rev. 22:7+, Rev. 22:12+, Rev. 22:17+, Rev. 22:20+.