The Kingdom
Good evening. I'll continue with the theme of the Kingdom as I write my book on this subject. Join me on this journey of understanding God's Kingdom. Introduction What Does the Word Even Mean? I believe words carry centuries of baggage. And to be honest, I watched a YouTube video not so long ago that played the English language backwards through time, and only from around the mid-1800s could I actually understand what was being said. By the time words reach us, they have been stretched, flattened, borrowed, and repurposed so many times that their original force is almost entirely lost. Kingdom is one of those words. When a modern person hears it, they picture something out of a fairy tale. A castle on a hill, a king on a throne, perhaps a dragon in the distance. Or they think of the United Kingdom on a map, a political arrangement that happens to have kept a monarchy in name. Whatever your view of a kingdom may be, it will rest on those distant references. Decorative. Mostly...