This article traces God's promise of a king to his people, Israel. The account shows the difference between God's plan and the people's expectation of what a king should be like.

We do not find the expression "kingdom of God" in the Old Testament. The sovereign rule of God, however, is affirmed in various ways throughout the Old Testament. The royal rule of God is expressed in the kingdom of heaven. This essay reflects on how the presence of the kingdom functioned in the teaching of Jesus Christ and the future expectation of the kingdom in the return of Christ.

Christ is king of the church, but is also king of the world. Christ rules over these two kingdoms differently. This article shows the implications of this different rule for the Christian.

This article is about the reality and the last days of the kingdom of God.

This is the eighth article in a series on various doctrinal issues facing the church today. This article acknowledges the centrality of the kingdom of God throughout the New Testament. The kingdom of God is the dynamic rule of God.

This is the ninth article in a series on various doctrinal issues facing the church today. This article looks at the kingdom of God, discussing the citizens of the kingdom (those who are regenerated) and the characteristics of the kingdom.

The kingdom of God was central to the preaching of Jesus. This article surveys the Gospels on this point, explains four components of kingdom-focused preaching (from Mark 1:14), and challenges the reader to appropriate kingdom involvement.

The ministry, death, and resurrection of Christ inaugurated the kingdom of God, and believers enter the kingdom in Christ. This union of Christ the King with believers must shape the daily life of the Christian.

This article explains why it is good news that Jesus is King. In doing so it addresses three aspects of his kingship: how he is a king, how his’ kingdom is already and not yet, and how we can participate in his kingdom.

This article explains how the Lord Jesus defined in his Sermon on the Mount what it means to be part of the kingdom of God. Kingdom citizens recognize their sin, see the perfection of God, have a pure heart, and conduct themselves with the fear of the Lord.

The coming of Jesus marked an inaugurated eschatology that pointed to his second coming. This is so because Jesus brought the kingdom, bound the strongman, and through the preaching of the gospel is fulfilling the reality of the kingdom. This understanding is crucial to missional living.

The popular understanding that "latter-days" refers only to the end of the world needs radical adjustment. Beale demonstrates how “inaugurated eschatology” sheds light on a Christian understanding of the end times. The theological idea of the relation of the indicative to the imperative in the New Testament is used to enhance such an understanding.

Eschatology is a present reality that should shape the life of the church. Beale argues that the origin of the office of elder is partly related to the inauguration of the latter-day tribulation. This article discusses this inauguration of the tribulation in some detail, and also takes a look at the motivation for godly living during these end times.

What is the nature of the continuity and discontinuity between the Old and New Testaments? A related question has to do with the relationship between Israel and the church. The article further reflects on the nature of God's theocratic rule and his kingdom.

In the seventeenth century two commentators on the Bible who helped to fan the interest in the coming of the kingdom of God were Thomas Brightman and Joseph Mede. This essay compares the comments of these two men on the book of Revelation.

This article looks at what the book of Psalms teaches us about kingdom theology, authority, leadership, rule, and royalty.

This article looks at the Bible's teaching on the two kingdoms doctrine - the kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world. Focus is given to the eschatological nature of the kingdom of Christ. The author shows how the church functions as a experience of Christ's kingdom.

This article discusses John Calvin's stance on the two kingdoms doctrine in relation to eschatology, as well as in relation to spiritual, church and civil government

This article gives a broad outline of the biblical teaching on the kingdom of God.

Matthew 16:23-24 is interpreted in mainly three different ways. The purpose of the author of this article is twofold. First, he wants to identify and to understand how, through linguistic and contextual analyses, each of these traditions originated. In the second place, he wants to emphasize that Jesus was concerned with discipleship in the kingdom of heaven.

This essay is a reflection on different aspects of the kingdom of God or the kingdom of heaven.

What is the Lutheran two-kingdoms doctrine? The author examines how this doctrine was formulated in early twentieth century Lutheranism.

The book The Theocratic Kingdom by George Peters is reviewed here. Peters's book is a defence of dispensationalism. The article aims its refutation against the idea that God's purpose through Christ was to erect on earth a kingdom under direct divine rule. He aims at Peter's thesis that the sin of the Jews was that they rejected that theocratic ideal.

Does 1 Corinthians 15:23-24 testify about an intermediate kingdom of heaven? The author deals with the argument that these verses speak only about the resurrection of believers.

This article discusses the two kingdoms doctrine. This article shows how the perspectives around the kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world were used during the Reformation to argue against the separation of church and state, and is used today to support the social gospel. This warrants a new look into the discussion of the two kingdoms.

This article is about the kingdom of God as a spiritual kingdom. The author also discusses the kingdom of God in culture and society, the optimistic and pessimistic view of the kingdom of God in this world, and amillennialism.

The study considers the present reality of the kingdom of God in the coming and preaching of Jesus Christ, but also the fact that there are future aspects of this kingdom that still need to be revealed and manifested.

This essay describes the view of E. P. Sanders with respect to Jesus Christ and repentance, and that description leads to the identification of a problem within Sander's view. Sanders argues that Jesus offered the kingdom of heaven to the wicked without repentance. The article analyzes how this problematic view arose.

Saucy writes from the conviction that understanding the Holy Spirit is important for understanding the aims and means of the kingdom of God in the present age. His starting point is that the Holy Spirit is directly related to the manifestation of the kingdom in this world.

How can a Christian give himself to work for the coming of the kingdom of God, while we know that the present world is destined for destruction? A very optimistic view of the future and the possibilities of science often leads to a postmillennial view of eschatology.

What exactly is the kingdom of God? In his book The Kingdom of God, John Bright emphasizes the unity between the Old and New Testaments by looking at the biblical theme of the kingdom of God. This is a review of this book.

The purpose of this article is to re-examine some aspects of the kingdom of God, especially in the light of certain evidence about the Son of Man, and the relation of the kingdom to Jesus' person and mission. It focuses on two logia in the Beelzebul controversy as presented in Matthew 12:25-32 and its parallels in Mark 3:23-30 and Luke 11:17-30 and Luke 12:10,3.

This essay is a study of the significance and function of "Har Magedon" in Revelation 16:16. Kline wants to show how his interpretation leads to the recognition that "Har Magedon" is Mount Zaphon and that the Har Magedon battle is the Gog-Magog crisis of Ezekiel 38 and Ezekiel 39.

The issue of who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven was a matter of great weight to the Lord Jesus. The issue is addressed in all three Synoptic Gospels. For Jesus it is much more than a quarrel among his disciples; it is actually nothing less than the possibility that they will forego their place in the eschatological kingdom. The article focuses on Matthew 18:1-4, but the parallels in Mark and Luke are taken into account.