Kingdom, Royalty, Reign

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    Jesus before Pontius Pilate: "My Kingdom is not of this world." Painting taken from the series "The Life of Christ", by James Tissot - Brooklyn Museum.

    The Kingdom of God does not come with show. Only the eye of God sees it forming, for the eye of God reads the inside of men. The Kingdom of God is within you, inside you, in your spirit which Loves the Law.[1]

    In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

    • The first teachings about the Kingdom and about the Mission of the Christ reported by Andrew the Apostle and John.[2]
    • In the synagogue of Capernaum, Jesus announces the coming of the Kingdom.[3]
    • Jesus preaches the Advent of the Kingdom of God.[4]
    • The kingship of Jesus is not human, contrary to what Judas thinks.[5]
    • Announcement by Jesus of his Messiahship and the advent of the Kingdom - Vision, by the old dying Saul, of the Kingship of Jesus.[6]
    • "Thy Kingdom come.[7]
    • Proclaim that the Kingdom of the Heavens is near.[8]
    • Every kingdom divided Against itself is doomed to ruin…[9]
    • How is the Kingdom of God founded in the world and in the Hearts? By a return to the Mosaic Law and by accurate knowledge if it is unknown, and above all by the total application of the Law to oneself, in every event and at every moment of life.[10]
    • The Kingdom of God within you now can be obtained more easily because I obtained it for you by my death. I redeemed you by my suffering. Remember it. And let no one trample on Grace because it cost the life and the Blood of a God.[11]
    • Truly I tell you that if you do not change your way of thinking, of acting and of loving, and if you do not remake yourself in the image of the very little ones, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. – Capernaum about the young Benjamin ([12]-[13]-[14]) and [15]
    • During the Banquet of the 3rd Passover, Jesus defines the status of His Kingdom: Do not revolt – be good wives, good husbands – love one another – recognize Jesus in all sufferings – Belong to Jesus.[16]
    • How they trade the radiant Messianic idea, all holy and all spiritual, for a puppet of human kingship waved like a scarecrow to incite, to blaspheme the authorities and the truth![17]
    • The law to possess the Kingdom is nothing other than the law of virtue that every moral creature imposes on itself by rising through it and which, thanks to Grace through faith in the true God, becomes a law of human moral and virtue, a law of superhuman morality.[18]
    • My Kingdom is not of this world.[19]
    • It was at Tarichea, after the first multiplication of the loaves, that the idea arose among the people to make the Rabbi of Nazareth king of Israel.[20]
    • The Kingdom of God does not come with show. Only the eye of God sees it forming, for the eye of God reads the inside of men. The Kingdom of God is within you, inside you, in your spirit which Loves the Law.[21]
    • What gives the Kingdom is the will of man stretched toward obedience to God and not a heap of practices and science.[22]
    • The kingdom of the Messiah is not of this world. It is the Kingdom of God, founded on love. It is nothing else.[23]
    • She looks again at Jesus and cries: "Adonai! Adonai, You are great! Let us sing a new song to the Divine! Shalem! Shalem! Malchich!!... Peace! Peace! O King to whom nothing can resist!..."[24]
    • In the kingdom of God, there is no hatred, no War, no injustices. He who knows how to enter it no longer knows pain, anguish, vexations, but he possesses the joyful peace that comes from my Father.[25]
    • In the thought of God, the reconstruction of the Kingdom of Israel was not limited, as it has been in you, in time, space, and means.[26]
    • It is to this Kingdom, more urgently than ever, that He Calls with His love and the authority with which He is filled, the tribes of the world. As seen and foreseen by the righteous of Israel and the prophets, all peoples will come to the Savior.[27]

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