Kingdom Of God

There is a God, the God of Abraham, and then there is the Son of God which is Jesus. The Jew’s had a different set of ideals of a Kingdom of God although it was not the same as Jesus interpretation of it. What the Jew’s thought the Kingdom of God was that it would be lead by a military leader, or “messiah,”  function as a nation state, and be free from pagan influence. But when Jesus came to earth, all the Jew’s were confused because some guy (Jesus) claims to be the son of God and says that he would bring the Kingdom of God to earth.

Since he did not fit the description of the Jew’s, Jesus was ridiculed and thought of as a joke. The messiah was supposed to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth physically by taking the Romans down, and freeing them from pagan influences.  Jesus did not do this and said that is not The Kingdom Of God.

It was rare to find people believing  what Jesus claims to be because his set of ideals were new, and different to the Jew’s thought. Since Jesus knew that the kingdom of God was not a place, and not lead by a military leader, but a spiritual leader, the Jews were all over the place. They wanted to put Jesus behind bars because he was now going against their beliefs. And so the kingdom of God, according to Jesus, was hard to believe for the Jew’s. These are the fundamental facts as to why they did not believe in Jesus right away.      

                                                                                                                 Christopher Vintimilla