Jehovah’s Witnesses teach
Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that God’s Kingdom is a government established by God and that God rules from heaven. Jesus is the King of God’s Kingdom. They believe that the Bible constitutes the laws of God’s Kingdom that the inhabitants of that Kingdom must follow.
The Bible says
God’s Kingdom is a government instituted by Jehovah God and, according to Daniel 2:44, will replace all other kingdoms on earth. It is a government that was first established in heaven and later on earth. This is evident from the model prayer at Matthew 6:10, in which Jesus prayed to Jehovah for His Kingdom to come and for God’s “will to take place on earth as it is in heaven.”
Luke 22:18 states that Jesus will drink from the fruit of the vine when the kingdom of God comes, confirming that Jesus will be on earth when the kingdom of God comes to earth.
The Bible says that humble righteous people who hope in Jehovah will inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5; and Psalm 37:9, 29). Humans were originally created to subjugate the earth and rule over all living creatures that move on the earth (1 Corinthians 1:29). (Genesis 1:26-28). But inheriting the earth does not mean inheriting God’s Kingdom.
When 1. Corinthians 15:50 says that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, it refers to the fact that people cannot inherit the kingdom of God until they have been resurrected. Paul explains that when a person is resurrected to life, the body is first made before he becomes a living person in the same way that Adam’s body was created and then Jehovah breathed into Adam (breathed) so that he became a living person (1 Corinthians 15:44,45; cf. 1 Corinthians 15:44,45; (see Genesis 2:7). Thus, the “spiritual” mentioned at 1 Corinthians 15:46 means that Jehovah breathes in the breath of life so that they are made alive after their bodies are finished.
There are some people who are alive at the time of the resurrection, and they do not have to die to be resurrected. These are “transformed” in the sense that their mortal bodies are “suddenly, in the blink of an eye” transformed from being human beings who had imperfect bodies that could die to having perfect bodies that could not die (1 Corinthians 1:1). Corinthians 15:52-54). These do not need the word of mouth method to become “spiritual” since they are already breathing1.
All who survive the 1000-year kingdom test will, in principle, inherit both the earth and the kingdom of God (Revelation 21:7 and Psalm 37:29). They inherit the earth in the sense that the original purpose of mankind is fulfilled, and they inherit the kingdom of God in the sense that the earth becomes part of the kingdom of God (Revelation 11:15). Humans then experience ruling over the earth and all the animals subject to God’s Kingdom.
- To be precise, 1. Deuteronomy 2:7 (Bible Online) that God blew “the breath of life … in his nostrils”, so the mouth-to-mouth method is only an illustration to give association to resuscitation. The resurrection is a kind of revival, but then with new bodies. ↩︎
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