All people all over the world of all times and all places have a dream of living in an ideal kingdom under an ideal king; some day there will be a place and time where life is peaceful, pleasant and prosperous. A perfect king who rules under the direct guidance of the Lord of creation is needed to bring about this “utopia.”
This ideal king rules in equal justice and perfect righteousness for all citizens. Rain, fertility, prosperity and abundance is provided freely. Safety, security and protection is guaranteed by this king for his kingdom. This kind of king was never realized for Israel, yet the dream never died and the hope of a future, idealized Messianic Kingdom under a Son of David grew stronger and stronger until one day a Man announced, “The kingdom of God has come.”
The Good News is: the ideal kingdom under the ideal king has come, is present, here and now; He lives and rules in the spirits of all who believe Him. It doesn’t get any closer than that and it is always available for us to enter by repentance and faith. We can leave the cardboard construction (world and flesh) of the Enemy and enter the real.