THE KINGDOM
BUILDING CONTRACT
26.
The
first individuals invited to become party to this second
Kingdom contract, were the 11 apostles on the day it was
validated in April (Nisan 14th) of the year
33. Jesus officiated its inauguration between himself
and these first 11 apostles. A few hours before this
new contract was validated with his death, he stated:
"
This wine
representing my blood validates the covenant which
is to be dispensed out on behalf of many for the
cancelling of sin (Adamic and
personal), I will not drink any more this
symbolic wine until the day when I drink it again with you
in the Kingdom" Matthew 26:28-29 (NWT)
27.
This covenant offered them personal contractual involvement
in Kingdom activity with Christ and a share in judging when
people would receive a resurrection.
"I covenant to give
you, as my Father has covenanted to give me, a Kingdom so that you shall eat and drink
at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones as judges
over the twelve tribes of Israel" Luke 22:29-30 Weymouth New
testament Bible. 28.
28.
Later Paul confirmed the promised 'blessing to all nations'
given to Abraham would come by the final offspring in the
covenant blood line; Jesus Christ. He explained that
it incurred the need for radical changes in selected
faithful individuals by spirit power changing them into new
beings, referred to as new creations, in order for them to
become adopted as Sons of God and heirs of these
promises.
"Anyone in union with Christ
he is a new creation
..new things have come into existence"
2 Cor 5:17 "
if you belong to
Christ, then you are indeed true descendants of Abraham,
and are heirs in
fulfilment of the promise" (made to Abraham) Gal 3:29 Weymouth New testament Bible.
29.
Jesus followed a very precise time schedule set by his
Father for inaugurating this new contract. On its
validation day, he said at Luke 22:29-30 he would the next
time "eat and drink it in my Kingdom" (NWT),
with these 11, along with a further 143,989 contractors
(saints). When the contract's term matured, the
benefits of this Kingdom covenant would be paid out to them
by way of positions in the Kingdom administration. These
ones, he "bought from the earth" by his life, his blood
sacrifice.
Revelation 7:4 "I heard
the number of those who were sealed, one hundred
forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of
the people of Israel" New
Revised Standard Version.
Revelation 14:1 "Then I looked, and there was the
Lamb, standing on Mount Zion! And with him were one
hundred forty-four thousand who had his name
and his Father’s name written on their foreheads"
New Revised Standard Version.
Revelation 14:3 "they sing a
new song before the throne and before the four living
creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that
song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand
who have been redeemed from the earth" NRSV.
30.
As with the Abraham covenant, the Kingdom contract
also has a 2,000 year term. Started in 33AD
it matures 2,000 years later, when the full number of this
composite bride of Christ are completed and the Kingdom
administration is set up in the heavens in 2033. This new
government will step by step bring about the promised
benefits to all mankind.
"For an administration
at the full limit of the appointed times, namely, to
gather all things together again in the Christ, the things
in the heavens and the things on the earth.Yes,in him" Eph 1:10 (NWT).
TWO
CONTRACTS IN TANDEM
31.
These two contracts butt together at the pivot date 33AD. The first Abraham covenant
stretches back from 33AD for 2,000
years back to 1968BC. The
second the Kingdom contract, pivots forward from 33AD for 2,000 years to 2033.
Ref. Two
Covenants with 2,000
year terms.