When would the everlasting kingdom come?

Six centuries before Christ and in two parallel dream-visions (Daniel 2 and 7), God set the time parameter within human history for the establishment of the eschatological and everlasting form of the kingdom of God on this earth. In Daniel 2 for instance, Daniel both declared and interpreted the king’s dream of a statue with four sections (head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, and legs and feet of iron and clay). He said these symbolize four earthly and succeeding kingdoms or world empires. They were: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Roman. Daniel next isolated the time parameter thusly:

• “In the days (time) of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever” (Dan. 2:44, italics mine).

Problem is, most commentators and Christians cannot accept the natural, plain, and straightforward meaning of Daniel’s inspired prophetic words. Why not? Because “the days of those kings” ended in A.D. 476! And there is no other, future-coming kingdom prophesied in Scripture.

Source:

1A Once-Mighty Faith (future book – est. 2014-2015) by John Noe