The coming of Christ in His Kingdom includes bringing the Spirit of God into the people and land of Israel so that what Israel is and does is directed into truth. Israel is destined to be glorified, eternal, and incorruptible. The nation of Israel shall become the leading Christian nation of the world, not "Christian" as we would think of today, like the Catholic Church, but Christian in the sense that the power and glory of Christ will be enthroned there.

Because men have turned the Presence of Christ into a religion, the receiving of Jesus by the Jew is perceived as a change from one religion (Judaism) to another (Christianity). But the truth is that which we have presented above. The receiving of Jesus is the receiving of the Hope of Israel so that the worshiper enters incorruptible eternal life.

Would you like to see a picture of the enthroned Jesus so that you do not misunderstand our meaning when we say Jerusalem will become the Throne of the Lord?

And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. (Ezekiel 1:26-28)

We understand that to present Jesus of Nazareth as God is offensive to our Jewish brothers and sisters. Nevertheless He is God. He is Christ, the Lord, the Glory of Israel. Let the seraphim cover their face and feet! Let all the creation cry Holy! Holy! Holy!

This is the carpenter's Son who died on the cross to make an atonement for our sins. This Personage is the One who will be crowned King on the throne of David in Jerusalem.

It is not a case of man becoming God but of God becoming Man.

To receive the Lord Jesus is not a change of religion. It is the receiving of eternal life and was presented as such by the Lord Jesus from the beginning. But men have constructed the "booths" of religion, thereby obscuring the eternal life the Lord came to give, and setting the rulers of Judaism against the rulers of Christianity.

The Kingdom of God always is to the Jew first. It is the "children's bread."

Judaism and Christianity will remain as competing religions until the end of the present age. But in the sincere worshiper, both Jew and Gentile, the Lord Jesus Christ will fulfill all that religion attempts to provide but cannot possibly provide.

The goal of every human being, whether known or unknown to him, is rest in the bosom of the Father. The way to the Father is found only in the Lord Jesus Christ.

To be continued.