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THE LEAVEN AND THE THREE MEASURES OF MEAL

During the time that Jesus walked on the earth in flesh and blood, He taught many parables about the Kingdom of Heaven.   He wanted His disciples at that time (and all of His disciples down to this current age), to understand how the Kingdom works, and how we should function as citizens of that Kingdom.   The longer we consider God's Kingdom only as a place we will inhabit one day after Christ's return, the longer we hinder enjoying the blessings and power of that Kingdom in this life.   We are waiting for Christ to return, yes, but God is waiting for us to grow up into Christ and become the mature sons of God that He expects us to be (Ephesians 4:14-16).   "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness , looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God ." (2 Peter 3:11,12a).   In Matthew, we find a very simple parable that speaks of the mystical nature of the Kingd...
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THE CHRIST AND THE ANTICHRIST

There are two figures in the Bible who stand in opposition to one another.  They are the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and the Anti-Christ, the son of perdition.  Jesus Christ is the Word of God made flesh, the express image of God in human form; the King of righteousness and Prince of Peace; the Savior of the world.  The Antichrist is the man of sin, the manifestation of Satan’s darkest lies and the very image of the devil in human form.  The same spirit of rebellion and lawlessness that resides in Satan will reside in the Antichrist.  His allegiance is to the god of this world and to the prince of the power of the air (the devil).  Through him, Satan will try to drown mankind in sin and destruction.  It will be the devil’s final effort to reverse God’s plan to redeem man and restore to him the dominion that he lost in the Garden of Eden.   God has not chosen to reveal the Antichrist to the world just yet, though you can see his influenc...
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A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED

"Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof ." (Matthew 13:31, 32).   Jesus illustrates the power of the Kingdom of God in this parable.   It began in obscurity through the birth of a baby in a stable and the Word that He brought to the world when He became a man.   It has since grown until it now overspreads the earth and has influenced kings and kingdoms.   Once that Word was sown in the world, it became an irresistible force that has continued to grow from that day to this.   Through the Roman persecution, the Catholic inquisition, and every attack of Satan from the first century on, the Church of God has grown, and the Kingdom of Heaven flourished.   Compared to the ...
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