KING OVER ALL THE EARTH

This verse is taken from:
Zechariah 14. 1-9
Thought of the day for:
31 May 2022

For centuries men have longed for global government. Ever since the fall and the loss of the authority which was vested in the first man, it has been the ambition of fallen man to gain complete control. The new world of Noah was defiled by the cruel campaigns of Nimrod and the intervening centuries bear the blood marks which grasping greed has left as a sad testimony to the ferocity yet failure of man’s lust for power.

In spite of the many failures of the past, it is God’s intention to place the government of earth entirely in the hand of one man. That man has already been identified, 1 Cor. 15. 25.

The Appointment of the King is divine. Others have scrambled to power, some by force and some by craft, but this King will be installed by God Himself. As David prophesied, ‘Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion’, Ps. 2.6. Daniel predicted that the God of heaven shall ‘set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people’, Dan. 2. 44.

The Authority of the king will be undisputed in that day. His claim to rule will be underpinned by a number of rights which leave His position unchallengeable. The genealogical right of His royal ancestry; the moral right of His sinless character; the redemptive right of His atonement; the royal right of prophetic oracles will all combine to secure the righteous sceptre in His hand and the diadems of dominion on His head.

The Administration of this King will have all the qualities of perfect government. It will have neither the weaknesses endemic to democracies, nor the cruelties so characteristic of dictatorships. Under His sovereign sway there will be perfect justice, economic prosperity, political peace and spiritual bounty.

The Area of His control will be universal. All nations and tribes, all countries and continents, all lands and islands will be under His control. His kingdom will have its geographical centre in Jerusalem, its administrative nucleus will be the restored nation of Israel, the rebuilt millennial temple will be the focus of its worship and all the nations of the Gentiles will enjoy the beneficence of His global dominion.

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