--- Paradise Restored! ---
Are you a follower of Christ?
This is What God Promised!
Written: May 2026

The Kingdom of Jesus Christ!
Do you believe? (Mal 3:16-4:3)

The Bible verses below paint this picture for Christians!
(Isa 11:1-12:6; Isa 2:1-5; Rev 21:9-12; Rev 21:21-22:5)

The Kingdom of Jesus Christ was prophesied some 6000 years ago and has been being implemented by God in the years since. The Kingdom is now in the process of taking rulership of the earth. Armageddon is God's war to install it! The Bible is God's method of explaining all that to us. The Kingdom is for the sole purpose of breaking up and destroying what Jesus's unfaithful and wicked brother did to God's Creation, including you and I. (1 John 3:8)

God planted Adam and Eve [mankind] in a garden paradise named Eden. They were his human sons and daughters and were given the wondrous responsibility of caring for and enjoying the earth. They were unique becasue He gave them the ability to pro-create. They were free moral sons and daughters of God, with the ability to create new little free moral agents... Even the angels couldn't do that. God is good! (Heb 11:6) The Paradise of Eden would likely have looked much like the picture above. What was not there in Eden were any people besides Adam and Eve. What also was not there was the New Jerusalem, as home of the Kingdom of Christ. So... How did we get from there to here? More importantly, how do we get from here to our rebirth as citizens of New Jerusalem, and into the restored paradise pictured above?

It's really simple! We just recognize from the Bible the work God is doing; and hang on to truth...

Untold times ago, Jesus was God's firstborn spiritual son. (Col 1:13-20) I'm sure it's impossible for us to grasp the love they shared. (Pro 8:22-31) Jesus worked with God creating everything that came after... One of God's other sons was watching, and took special interest when God created mankind. He might have wanted the worship of the humans for himself, but, of course, we don't know what motivated him. In any case, that bad son approached Adam and Eve before they had children. He enticed Eve with a lie she allowed herself to believe and Adam followed Eve. They disobeyed God under knowledge of his express penalty of death for disobedience. Death for disobedience might seem harsh to some. One reason God didn't kill them immediately was to give them the chance to display whether God's judgments and decisions are too harsh. God didn't actually need to kill them. Their disobedience severed their connection to Holy Spirit, so, of course they would die. The world we have created in the 6000 years since they disobeyed stands as an eternal witness of why death for disobedience of God's perfect standards is not too harsh. It is the only penalty there can be for ones who refuse to learn better! Else, the wicked would soon have killed us all. (Mat 24:21-22)

The production of the Kingdom to destroy the works of the devil are the central theme of the Bible. Let's give attention here to many of the scriptures that announce and define the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, and how believing in that Kingdom gets us into the restored paradise pictured above! It has taken a lot of generations of people, many of them faithful, to accomplish God's work (John 6:28-29) of getting us here; of producing the Kingdom of Jesus Christ...

The Promised Seed of the Woman
The early Kingdom Hope

Genesis 3:15

The first prophecy of the coming kingdom deliverer.
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” — WEB

Genesis 12:1-3

God promises Abraham that all nations will be blessed through his seed — ultimately fulfilled in Christ’s kingdom.

Genesis 17:6

“Kings shall come out of you.” — WEB

Genesis 22:17-18

Abraham’s seed will possess the gate of enemies and bless all nations.

Genesis 49:10

“The scepter will not depart from Judah… until Shiloh comes.”
A direct kingdom prophecy pointing to the Messiah.

Numbers 24:17

“A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel.” — WEB

Deuteronomy 18:15

Moses foretells the coming prophet like himself whom the people must obey.

David Was a Good King
His Kingdom brought the best the earth had seen since Eden.
The Throne of David promised to an Eternal King.

2 Samuel 7:12-16

God promises David an everlasting throne, an eternal kingdom through his descendant. (Mat 1:1)

Psalm 2

The Anointed King (Messiah) receives the nations as inheritance. Mankind's warring efforts to rule and control himself without God is futile. God laughs at them!

Psalm 22

Prophecy of the suffering of Messiah; whose rule would then extend over all Creation and “to the ends of the earth.” (1 Cor 15:24-28 of 15:1-34)

Psalm 45:6-7

“Your throne, O Christ of God, is forever and ever.”

Psalm 72

A prophetic picture of Messiah’s righteous worldwide reign:
- justice for the poor
- peace
- dominion “from sea to sea”

Psalm 89:3-4

God confirms the covenant with David forever.

Psalm 110

“יהוה says to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under you.’”
The Messiah rules as king and priest.

The Kingdom Foretold by the Prophets

Isaiah