hobbs27
Senior Member
Can evil people enter the kingdom of God?
Was Israel considered old covenant Kingdom of God?
Was Israel considered old covenant Kingdom of God?
Can evil people enter the kingdom of God?
Only adulterers.
..scripture?
I didn't get it from scripture. I got it from reading the GON spiritual forum.
1 Corinthians 6:9-12
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, ADULTERERS, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.12 "All things are lawful to me," but not all things do profit. "All things are lawful to me," but I will not be mastered by anything.
Thanks Art.
Now was Israel an old covenant kingdom of God?
I think so. Does that make me a dispensationalists? Unless Israel was never the kingdom to begin with. Does that make me a predestination believer?
Maybe I'm a Reformed Dispensationalist.
It doesnt make you anything ...
Two kingdoms in the time Jesus was here in His earthly ministry . The Kingdom of God that was Israel...and the Kingdom of God that was at hand or near...
Agree so far?
I do, I see a Kingdom through Israel and I see a future Kingdom through a New Covenant with this same Israel. In this Kingdom, non-Israelites can become heirs to the promise.
The promise that God made to Abraham.
Mark 1:14-15 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
In this Kingdom of God that is on earth as it is in Heaven, today.
Isn't there still evil?
Evil outside the kingdom yes, but in the parable the two were to grow together until the harvest. The new covenant kingdom is only righteous.