"The Good News" That IS "The Hope Of Heaven"
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The Hope Of Heaven
“For the Hope which is laid up for you in Heaven,
which you first heard in the Word of Truth that is the Good News”!
(Colossians 1:5)
The Hope Of Heaven
“The Good News”
There is a “biblical” translation that has been called “The Good News”, yet what of The Good News(The Gospel)?
What was the promise of The Good News that The Messiah preached?
The promise of The Good News for the Jews and “the lost sheep of Israel”, which The Messiah preached,
was recorded in Matthew 3:12,4:17,10:7, Mark 1:15, Luke 10:9, 21:31.
"The Kingdom Of GOD(Heaven) Is At Hand"
And what was the promise of “The Good News” which Paul preached unto the heathen(gentiles)
after The Messiah “was raised from among the dead”?
“Through the Good News those who are not Jews(heathens) will share with the Jews in GOD's blessing. They belong to the same body, and they share together in the promise that GOD made in The Messiah. By GOD's special gift of grace given to me through his power, I became a servant to tell that Good News.” (Ephesians 3:6-7)
And The Good News of The Promise!
“The Kingdom Of Heaven(GOD) Is At Hand”
A Lively, Living Hope Of Heaven!
When Paul began his ministry, after GOD had “raised up The Messiah from among the dead”,
he testified that “believers were translated into The KINGDOM OF GOD’s BELOVED SON”.
(Colossians 1:13)
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN HAD COME
And “The Good News” after the destruction of the earthly “kingdom” of Jerusalem was:
THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME!
All Thanks And Praise Be To Our Father!
Believers have a Living Hope of Heaven!
So why is it so many still believe that “The Kingdom of Heaven(GOD)” is yet to come?
"What is Truth"?
"Pilate" asked The Messiah that question after The Messiah testified, "You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause I came into the world, that I should bear witness to The Truth. Everyone that is of The Truth hears My voice"! (John 18:38)
Do you hear The Messiah’s voice?
The Messiah previously had testified, "The Words that I speak are not My Words”. “For I have not spoken of Myself; but The Father which sent Me, HE gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.” (John 3:34, 12:49) Later The Messiah testified to His disciples, "As GOD sent Me, so send I you"! (John 14:10)
“What is Truth”?
The Messiah bore witness unto The Truth, as He revealed The Way to The Truth of The Life,
both in His Teachings and Life example.
And The Truth of “The Good News” promise?
"The Kingdom Of GOD(Heaven) Is At Hand"!
The Hope Of Heaven
Now when The Messiah was raised from among the dead and ascended into Heaven He was given His rightful place at the right hand of Our Father and GOD, and "all power was given Him(by His Father and GOD) in Heaven and in earth?" "The Kingdom" HAD "Come"! And The Faithful "were translated into The Kingdom of GOD’s Beloved Son"!
"Giving thanks unto The Father, WHO has made us able to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in Light: WHO has delivered us from the power of darkness, and HAS translated us into The Kingdom of HIS Beloved Son:" (Col 1:12-13)
All Thanks And Praise Be To Our Father!
And Paul testified of the time when The Messiah would deliver up The Kingdom unto Our Father and GOD
and The Messiah would be submitted unto Our Father and GOD once again. (1 Cor 15:22-28)
"Then the END comes, when The Messiah shall have delivered up The Kingdom to GOD, even The Father; when The Messiah shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For The Messiah must reign(after He was resurrected), till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For GOD has put all things under The Messiah's feet. But when GOD said, all things are put under The Messiah, it is manifest that HE(GOD) is excepted, WHO did put all things under The Messiah.
And when all things shall be subdued unto The Messiah, then shall The Son also, Himself be subject unto GOD, HE WHO put all things under Him, so that GOD may be all in all." (1 Cor 15:22-28)
“Then the END comes, when The Messiah shall have delivered up The Kingdom to GOD, even The Father…….”!
(1 Cor 15:22)
Question is, “The END of what?”
Paul testified, "In that GOD said, A New Covenant, HE has made the first covenant old.
Now that which is decaying and waxing old is ready to vanish away”. (Heb 8:13)
That which was decaying and waxing old was the old, earthly “covenant of laws”, and “The END” was the destruction
of the earthly, natural “kingdom” of Jerusalem! The earthly “kingdom” would be no more!
All Praise And Thanks Be Unto Our Father!
So believers were, and are, exhorted to,
"Set their affections on things above(Heaven), not things of the earth"! (Col 3:2)
Believers are exhorted to, “Be not of those whose god is their belly,
and whose glory is in their shame because they mind earthly things.” (Phlp 3:19)
Now why such exhortations?
“Spiritually Reborn!” A believers “citizenship (Life) was, and is, in Heaven"! (Phlp 3:20)
And believers “had been translated into The Kingdom of GOD’s Beloved Son”. (Col 1:13)
They Had A Living, Lively Hope of Heaven!