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I’m A Dominionist! Are you?

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I am a dominionist who believes wholeheartedly in dominionism!

To the Christian critic of dominionism and its dominionist proponents, I have some questions?

Are you a defeatist who believes in defeatism?

  • Do you believe the prince of darkness will extinguish the Light of the world?
  • Do you believe the prince of the power of the air will defeat the One who created air?
  • And do you believe the prince of darkness will chase the citizens of light off the planet?

Are you an escapist who believes in escapism?

  • Are you looking for Jesus to come rescue you off the planet He loves?
  • Are you willing to relinquish the planet you are to inherit?
  • And are you resigning yourself to one day go to a place called heaven instead of every day being a vessel through which God wants to reveal and release heaven in earth?

Genesis 1:28 KJV

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.'”

Did you notice the writer of Genesis said God said, “Have dominion?”

What is the purpose in having something you have been given if you are not going to use what you have that was given to you?

Jesus said, “Freely you have received, freely give.” [Matthew 10:8] The context of that command was the preaching [revealing, declaring] of the present tense reality of the arrival and expansion of God’s kingdom on earth.

The manifestation of God’s kingdom of light materializes in the undoing of everything the prince of darkness has done, is doing or will ever do.

Original man’s original sin does not alter God’s original mission for men!

The failure of men does not cause God to fail nor does it cause the commission of man to partner with God to fail.

Jesus came along and along with many commands said this ~ “18 “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” [Matthew 28]

Jesus literally said to His disciples [apostles] to go evangelize the world. Somehow through the corridors of time His command has been corrupted and His design has been diminished.

He said “Go and make disciples of all nations” and that has been reduced to hopefully get some converts in the nations.

I believe this is the same commission His first disciples [Adam and Eve] were given in Genesis 1 – “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.”

Fruitfulness speaks of successful productivity as well as successful reproduction in having children.

Multiply speaks of having children but more importantly their reproduction was to reproduce children who would love and serve God and His purposes for the planet.

Replenish speaks of cultivating a culture where the earth would constantly be filled with the fulness of what God intended when He commissioned His “man” to take Paradise to the planet.

Subdue speaks of using the authority God gave them to bring anything and everything not in subjection to God under the rule of God.

And then the command to ‘rule’ or ‘have dominion’ speaks of being the head, not the tail; being leaders not followers; being givers not borrowers; being those blessed by God to be a blessing for God in the earth He created for His people to inhabit.

The question then arises on how are we to rule or have dominion.

The how is through servant leadership, not physical force!

It is through leading people to the Lordship of Jesus Christ!

It is through leading them out of the land of their limitations into the land of plenty!

John said this, “When the seventh angel blew his trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will rule forever and ever.” [Revelation 11:15 ISV]

People have placed this verse, and many others like it, into a future time. I believe Jesus began His rule on the earth when He ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God and received His kingdom!

29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,  31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.” [Acts 2]

Luke writes that Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost that David prophesied the resurrection of the Christ included His being seated on David’s throne. That smacks down any doctrine that has Jesus returning to earth to sit on a physical throne.

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“41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, ‘What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?’ They said to Him, ‘The Son of David.’ 43 He said to them, ‘How then does David in the Spirit call Him “Lord,” saying:44 “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘ Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool’ “?” [Matthew 22]

Jesus is quoting David in Psalm 110:1, which by the way can be found numerous times in the New Testament.

Jesus is on David’s throne as you read this blog and He began ruling the moment He sat down next to His Dad!

And He will continue to sit there and rule with His Dad until His enemies surrender and submit! However looooooooong that takes!

That knocks the “imminent return” theology out of contention in my mind!

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“9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,  10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” [Philippians 2]

And finally, look at what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15 ~ “ 20 But, in reality, Christ has risen from among the dead, being the first to do so of those who are asleep. 21 For seeing that death came through man, through man comes also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again. 23 But this will happen to each in the right order—Christ having been the first to rise, and afterwards Christ’s people rising at His return. 24 Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power. 25 For He must continue King until He shall have put all His enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that is to be overthrown is Death; 27 for He will have put all things in subjection under His feet. And when He shall have declared that “All things are in subjection,” it will be with the manifest exception of Him who has reduced them all to subjection to Him. 28 But when the whole universe has been made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also become subject to Him who has made the universe subject to Him, in order that GOD may be all in all.” {Weymouth Translation]

So, I am a proud card carrying domionist, and I believe in the total dominion, rule, and eventual subjection of the world to the Lordship of Christ Jesus, and then THE END will come!

And not a day before!

Keep HIS Faith! Keep HIS Passion! Keep HIS Purpose!

Dr. Kevin. M. Drury, DMin

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The Last Days! The Last Day! And The End!

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I think I have written a blog, or two or more, about this in the past but, NOW that eschatological experts have what would seem to be the golden goose of prophetic happenings [i.e. Russian and Chinese military in the Middle East, possibly poised to pounce on the State of Israel], as well as the possible humongous discovery of oil in or near the Golan Heights [the possible reason they will pounce on Israel], I thought I would post a Biblically common sense answer to the question – Are we finally at the final end?

The end of all things is near! That is the mantra of many people who believe current events are signaling the world as we know it is finished. But, as I stated in a recent blog, a very important first century believer and writer of Scripture had this to say in and about his day, “The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.” [1 Peter 4:7]

If the end of all things was near 2000 years ago is it possible that life as we know it on earth could continue on for another 2000 years now that people are saying the end of all things is near? Let’s take a look at what another first century writer of Scripture had to say about the end.

1 Corinthians 15

20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep [dead in Him].

  • “Now” means “now that Christ was raised”, not “right now”.

21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.  22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

  • This speaks of Christ dying as a man and being raised to life again as a man. Also, this text reveals that there are only two men [people] alive on earth. 1] Adam the man of sin and death, and every person still dead in their sins, & 2] Christ the righteous man, and every person who has been raised to walk in newness of life [through water baptism] through their faith in Him.

23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming,

  • This tells us that Christ the resurrected man is coming again to earth and when He comes those who are His will be raised from the dead.

24 then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

  • Ahhh, the truth of when THE END comes. It comes after Christ has returned and hands the kingdom over to God the Father. He does that once He abolishes all rule and all authority and power that is not submitted to Him. PLEASE notice THE END comes only after Christ returns and when He returns.
  • This appears to indicate their is no room for a rapture where the saints are taken to heaven, or for a 7 year tribulation for all of the unlucky ones here on earth, or for a future descending again from heaven to set up His earthly rule and reign.

25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

  • “For He must reign until” speaks to His present rule and reign while He remains in heaven. This totally debunks the “Jesus will begin to rule and reign once He comes back to earth to sit on a earthly throne in Jerusalem in a rebuilt Jewish temple during the Millennium” [which by the way is not going to happen].
  • This is one of a dozen or more references to Psalm 110:1 found in the New Testament. It is also one of a multitude of verses with the word “until” in them that are must finds for the serious student of eschatology. Check them out! They are hidden in plain sight.

26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

  • Well that is rather clear – to me. THE END does not come until death is abolished. Kinda throws a huge wrench in the whole “Jesus is coming back to slaughter all of the infidels [unbelievers].” Wait a minute, that is the theology of Islam and Judaism.

27 For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him.

  • Keep in mind please we are talking about when THE END will come and that will not happen until Jesus comes again and very specific things are accomplished, like total submission to Him. The Father put all things in subjection to Jesus, except Himself.

28 When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

  • Well now, WHEN ALL THINGS are subjected to Him. I have a most important question for you – ARE YOU SUBJECTED TO HIM right now?

~~ Epilogue ~~

Jesus said when the resurrection would take place. THE END does not come UNTIL the resurrection of THE DEAD!

Trust Jesus and His words in John 6!

38 “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. 40 For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

Friends, and FB friends, please believe Jesus and Paul the apostle, the most revelatory teacher the Church has EVER known besides Jesus Himself, above the so called “experts”. And did you notice how in verse 40 John goes from the plural “everyone” to the singular “him”? Remember what I wrote above about there only being 2 people on the planet? There is Adam and all those in him. And there is Christ, the Last Adam, and all those in Him.

The end will not come because some human government’s military, or some rogue leader of some rogue terrorist group, does something dastardly.

God is is in complete control of when THE END comes! THE END and THE LAST DAY happen on THE SAME DAY!

A cursory reading of the New Testament will tell you the last days started when Jesus came 2000 years ago.

We are in the last days but we are not close to the LAST DAY!

FOR a more thorough study of this and other pertinent end time events please find on Youtube or iTunes my two series’, WHO IS THE ISRAEL OF GOD, And What Does That Have To Do With Me; and JESUS AND JERUSALEM!

And that is THE END!

Dr. Kevin M. Drury

His Hisstorymaker