THE KINGDOM HERALD

Some have the idea that the political structures of the nations would be entirely abolished and replaced with those of Christ and His saints during the Millennium. I do not think so, even as “General Sam” does not do it that way. Not only does he realise that he would be unnecessarily burdening himself and cluttering the way to achieving his real motives for invading a territory, the natives would hardly be impressed by such a policy. Give an otherwise helpless man some sense of relevance and respectability and you would be accumulating on him incentives to faithfulness. If you do it right you would also be winning the allegiance of the people he represents. This, I believe, would be the strategy of Christ and His saints in the millennial kingdom, with the “rod of iron” tactfully reserved for the unreasonably stubborn. In other words, it is the very broad priestly functions and activities of the Zion Mission that would be most visible in the settled kingdom, while the day-to-day

Daniel wrote: “And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, were given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him” (Daniel 7:27). All nations shall serve and obey the Most High for He will be physically manifested in His human vessel, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Global Potentate of His promised earthly kingdom . The dominion of Christ in the kingdom will be twofold: political and religious. This is discernible from the testimony of the prophet Zechariah: “And the LORD shall be king over all the earth [political dominion]: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one... And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the kin g [religious dominion], the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of Tabernacles” (Zechariah 14:9,16). As the Commander-in-Chief