When we consider the Garden and the Promised Land, we see God's intentions revealed. His Kingdom has always been the same. There was no sickness, sorrow, lack, or death in the Garden. And in the Promised Land, there was abundance—wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olive oil, honey, and houses we didn't build. The same is true of the Kingdom Jesus described. He called it a treasure hidden in a field, a pearl of great price. A place prepared. And though Heaven is where God dwells, His plan has always been for His Kingdom to dwell with us.
God doesn’t change. From Genesis to Revelation, we see that His intention is to establish Heaven on earth. That’s what Jesus meant when He taught us to pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” His Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is life and health and provision and restoration. It is everything the world chases but can never grasp.
Jesus said, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” And what followed was healing, feeding, deliverance, resurrection—the evidence of that Kingdom’s presence. These weren’t random acts of compassion; they were signs of a greater reality. The Kingdom had come near.
This is a faith walk. We see the Kingdom by faith. The Garden and the Promised Land serve as witness, as the substance of what we hope for, and the evidence of things not seen. We see it with the eyes of our understanding. The gospel of the Kingdom is good news to the poor: “You’re not poor anymore.” It binds up broken hearts, proclaims freedom to captives, liberty to prisoners, joy instead of mourning, and double recompense for shame. It establishes us as oaks of righteousness.
We see it again in Acts: “Silver and gold we do not have, but what we do have, we give—rise and walk.” That’s Kingdom. People were healed by shadows, delivered by handkerchiefs, filled with the Spirit mid-sermon, and raised from the dead. The Kingdom wasn’t just preached—it was displayed. And perhaps the reason we don’t see these things as often today is that somewhere along the way, we began aligning more with the traditions of man than with the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
And personally—no, collectively—we’ve been believing God for things we might still be waiting to see. But the truth is: it’s at hand. Already done. We've already been taken from the sheepfold, lifted out of a horrible pit, our feet set on the Rock. We’ve been told, “Look, I’ve set you over all the land.” We are being called to see it as finished.
That’s the renewed mind. That’s the repentance Jesus was calling for. The Kingdom isn’t far off—it’s within reach. It’s within us. The question is: can we see it?
Let us pray that the eyes of our understanding be enlightened.
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