UNLEARNING THE LIES ABOUT HEAVEN - 3

THE GOAL IS NOT TO MAKE HEAVEN

Jesus told his Father in John 17, “My prayer is not that you take them out this world… … as you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world”

What is Jesus talking about here? He should be talking about how we are supposed to leave this world and make heaven, so why is he praying that we should not leave the world?

Paul said in Ephesians 1, that the God of our lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. The eyes of your understanding may be enlightened; THAT YE MAY KNOW WHAT IS THE HOPE OF HIS CALLING, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints…

The amplified Version of the Bible renders the words I have capitalized as SO THAT YOU CAN KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE HOPE TO WHICH HE HAS CALLED YOU

With many heaven seekers and heavenly-minded Christians rampant in this generation, it is clear that some believers don’t know the reason why they have been called out of the world

There is a reason why the plan of redemption was exhibited

There is a foreordained counsel which was hidden throughout the old covenant but manifested to the sons revealing the essence of salvation

There is a reason for the death and resurrection of Jesus

There is a reason God had to sacrifice Jesus Christ to save the world to himself

It is simply because of the Kingdom!

The kingdom of God is the whole essence of salvation!

If you have ever wondered why you need to become a believer or that you are already a believer and have been wondering what’s next, I tell you that it is because of the kingdom of God!

The kingdom of God needs to be established on earth and this can only be done through the saved ones, through the believers!

The kingdom of God was given to the first man Adam, but he lost this Kingdom to Satan

And through the death and the resurrection of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, we regained back the dominion and kingdom from Satan

The kingdom was restored back into the hands of the sons of God

Jesus Christ being another Adam, the last Adam to be specific, came and recovered the lost kingdom of God from the Devil and handed it over to Man who was supposed to propagate this Kingdom

That is why all of Jesus’ preaching and parables was centered on the Kingdom!

Jesus Christ’s major goal was to defeat the powers of darkness and regain the lost Kingdom!

This is the theme of all the scriptures too!

The prophets Isaiah and Daniel have mentioned many times in their books about this Kingdom of God been established on earth and that this kingdom is everlasting

Due to their deficiency of not been filled with the Holy Spirit, they could not explain better, and that’s why Jesus centered almost all his teachings on the Kingdom of Heaven.

Painfully, the legal carnal Pharisees have taken the kingdom to be a physical restoration of Israel and the unskillful legal Christian have taken the Kingdom to mean a future ecstasy.

Jesus Christ, wanted the people of that era to change their mindset about this kingdom

And that is why both Jesus and John the Baptist always like to start their preaching about the kingdom with the word REPENT… and then they say the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

This is because the word “repent” as used in the scriptures means “to change one’s mind”, it is not associated with sins or guilt at all. It is a changing of the thoughts you have about something. It is the English meaning of the word that many are preaching today not the scriptural meaning.

In order words, Jesus was saying CHANGE YOUR MINDSET EVERYONE, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NOT A PHYSICAL KINGDOM NEITHER IS IT A FUTURE THING BUT IT IS AT HAND/IT IS NEAR!

All of Jesus parable is talking about Kingdom establishment!

All of Jesus parable about the kingdom is talking about how this kingdom will overthrow the current kingdom of darkness and how believers would be saddled with the responsibility of regaining our dominion over creation

All of Jesus parable is compelling us to see our dominion mandate and responsibility as believers

This is the meaning of what Paul said in Romans that “The creation waits for the manifestation of sons”. The creations have been subjected to corruption and death for a long time since the time that the kingdom was lost. Satan had been ruling the creation

God’s utmost intention for saving YOU AND ME is to ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH

It is not TO MAKE HEAVEN!

ANY BELIEVER WHO GETS BORN AGAIN and then they are thinking of MAKING HEAVEN is AGAINST THE ETERNAL PLAN OF GOD and therefore calling the work of redemption unnecessary.

Those who teach that believers should START THINKING ABOUT MAKING HEAVEN are enemies of the CROSS

The MANDATE HAS BEEN GIVEN even before we were born! WE ALL HAVE BEEN SADDLED with the responsibility to bring about kingdom establishment and kingdom advancement, you are not to waste all your live playing church or playing religion.

Do not LIVE WITH HEAVEN AS YOUR GOAL!

HEAVEN IS NOT THE GOAL OF THE CHRISTIAN!

Those who teach that heaven is the goal have forgotten how that the book of revelations says that we shall live on earth forever! Nowhere in the bible will you see that believers will live in heaven forever!

We were created to live and function on earth; angels are the set of God’s creation that should live in heaven forever, not man!

Man was created to dominate the earth and to rule all of God’s creation on earth!

IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME TRYING TO MAKE HEAVEN, YOU WILL BE DISSAPOINTED TO SEE THAT WE ARE COMING DOWN TO THE EARTH TO LIVE FOREVER!

THE BELIEVER WHO FAILS TO JOIN KINGDOM ESTABLISHMENT WILL BE BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES, he or she is not doing his or her lot in fulfilling the eternal counsel of God!

I hope you were blessed?

Philip Oklu