Something like the other kingdom of God? Or the next kingdom of God?
There is only one kingdom of God., which has been existing since John the Baptist, and shall continue to exist forever because that is what God promised through Daniel.
Conquer the wickedness that is inherent in fallen man, who all inherit our sinful nature from Adam?
Other than, of course, "conquering" wickedness as scripture suggests:
The scripture that I had in mind was this one:
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 1 Corinthians 15: 23 -25.
There is certainly no shortage of futurists that believe in a physical, millennial reign of Christ on earth. Or is it your view that believers will spend eternity with Christ on earth? I believe that Jesus Christ ushered in His kingdom, just as He promised those who He told wouldn't die before He came in it.
I do not believe in a thousand year reign of Christ over the ungodly. I was speaking about the eternity to come. All the elect of God shall spend an eternity with God and Christ upon this earth. That is why God turned this planet into a world. However, we enter the kingdom during our life time.
I believe He ushered in His kingdom when He returned from the Father in His glorified body after His resurrection from the dead. In any event, if He didn't usher His kingdom in while some of them were still alive, it would have made Him a false prophet. Let alone that His kingdom is not of this world:
The kingdom existed from the time of John the Baptist but the Lord Jesus Christ began his reign over the kingdom from the day of His resurrection.
And declared to be the Son of God (the King) with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. Romans 1: 4.
As I said before the term 'Son of God' in this verse is synonymous with the eternal Kingship of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, as prophesied by the prophet Nathan to King David. 1 Chron. 17: 4 -14.
This was confirmed unto us by the archangel Gabriel Luke 1: 31 - 33. Why can't you see that? It is as plain as day. When the people saw Him in His resurrected body then they realized that the kingdom of God had been officially established upon earth.
Because the kingdom is within us:
The kingdom is at present spiritual until all the elect have been called into it. Then the end shall come and the kingdom shall take a more concrete form upon the whole earth.
He rules His kingdom today. Are you suggesting that He will be replacing His/our current temple, with some carnal temple of the flesh, built on this earth, from which He will rule? If so, why?
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come ? So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15: 35; 42 -44; 50 - 53
Are you expecting some other household of God? Was Christ's finished work so unfinished, incomplete or insufficient that He would need to come back to build a better temple? That the temple He built in 3 days is so inadequate, that He would need a physical temple on earth, like the one that was torn down?
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God. Ephesians 2: 12 & 19.
The heathens who became believers were no longer strangers to the covenants of promise or foreigners to the people of Israel. They are now fellow citizens with Jewish believers of the people of Israel, or the kingdom of God.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Corinthians 3: 16 & 17.
The temple that Paul is speaking about here is the church, or the body of Christ. Ye (plural) are the temple of God. At present the temple is being built by the Holy Spirit. It won't be finished until the last person to be saved has joined it.
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians 2: 20 - 22.
In the eternal kingdom upon earth we shall have God dwelling among us like He did after the Israelites were freed from Egypt. There shall never be a physical temple again.
