It's a big setup. Everything we are going through is pre-planned. Really? Yes! God foresaw your EXACT location, experience, family, trials, struggles, and sins and has COMPLETE POWER to save you, heal you, restore you, and bless you beyond what you can ask or think! The kingdom of God as established in Eden was a threefold union of the family, the school, and the church, and God is reestablishing this pure, holy kingdom in the family as each home becomes a place where Jesus will abide. Jesus' family was blessed by His presence, and we can know that we are part of His family as we surrender to Him and respond to His final Elijah message that unites the hearts of EVERY MEMBER of the family in love because Jesus is COMING SO SO SOON!!
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse" (Malachi 4:5-6). What does this kingdom look like in actual practice? It looks like husbands sacrificially loving their wives even if their wives have disrespected them or hurt them; it looks like wives respecting their husbands and being the grave of their husband's faults (meaning they pray for their husbands rather than accuse them with faultfinding); it looks like children loving their father and mother, and being an example to them by looking always to the perfect Example, Jesus. Many will say, "I have had a bad example." If you want to say that, then you will inevitably drift lower in the moral scale of worth, for by beholding we become changed. We can look at our fallen human parents and families, or we can look upon Jesus and let Him be the Example and Head of the family. Then we will be HOME MISSIONARIES on a prophetic mission to bind EVERY HEART to Christ and to exert a saving, sanctifying influence. The kingdom of God looks like future homes being established on the high, noble principles of purity, simplicity, and godliness with a resolute purpose to do the will of God and train their family for heaven. When we truly believe that Jesus is coming soon, it will truly begin in our hearts that we surrender FULLY to Christ so He can cleanse us from every stain of sin, imbue us with all of the fruits of the Spirit without one missing, and lead us to affectionately obey the law of God (the Ten Commandments) with a love that deepens and widens forever!!
"The kingdom of God comes not with outward show. The gospel of the grace of God, with its spirit of self-abnegation, can never be in harmony with the spirit of the world. The two principles are antagonistic. 'The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.' 1 Corinthians 2:14." {The Desire of Ages, page 509, paragraph 1}
Let us allow God's kingdom to start right where it needs to today--in my heart, your heart, then in the family, then the church, then the community, then the state or country, the continent, and then THE WHOLE WORLD!! The whole world will be lightened with His glory, and the glory of God is seen in His selfless giving of His Son to save us from our sins!! Oh, how I love Jesus!! O, what wondrous love is this!! Will you behold Jesus, look away from self and the faults of others, and look to Him who alone can sanctify and cleanse His people to make them all He ordains them to be? I pray you will join me in this incredible privilege of being a missionary WHEREVER you are today and each day!!!