442. One King and One Lord
Zechariah 14:9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
The promise: the Lord will be king over all the earth. John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed: “The kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe the Gospel.” Jesus told Pilate: “My kingdom is not of this world.” At the end of time when Jesus returns to earth in physical, visible form, “the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.”
Jesus is king right now, but not of this world. We live in that kingdom and that kingdom lives within us. The earthly kingdoms of the present world will all pass away, when everything passes away. The kingdom of the “world” is presently ruled by Satan, the prince of the power of the air. It will be absolutely conquered by the King of kings, and He will rule all worlds and kingdoms and all the earth. However, the Lord Jesus will be king over all the “New” Earth (the old one will pass away). In that New Heaven and New Earth there will be no evil kingdom, no other kingdom of any kind.
In that day (the days since the First Coming of Christ) there will be only one Lord, and one name shall be exalted over all other names. There is no other name. No one else may rule, as they do now. One name, one king, one Lord, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all, will rule alone. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
It would be a good idea to get into that kingdom now, to accept Jesus Christ as Lord now, and to join the winning side of the Great War. And it will be eternal. The promise also means that that very all-encompassing, all-powerful King is ruling even now. It doesn’t look like it when we see and hear about the evil all around us every day. But it is true. We need to believe in that kingdom and walk into it. We do so every time we repent and believe the gospel. Submit to the Winner, and win.