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The Persecuted Church

 

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International Church of Christ Dominionism

From the inception the ICC has tried to make itself unique and separate from all other churches.

Clearly there is a strain of dominionism that runs through McKean’s teachings. This is why the church was so abusive in its inception.

Speaking of the Rock not made with hands in Daniel, Kip McKean says

"While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces ... But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth." Daniel 2:34-35

Obviously, if something is "not made by human hands," it is of God! The rock is Christ! The mountain is the Kingdom - the church – and those of faith in heaven, for this kingdom will never be destroyed! (Daniel 2:44) However, let's focus on Daniel 2:35. In the dream, the rock becomes a mountain and fills the whole earth! This is what God desires for His Kingdom, to "fill the whole earth!" God through prophecy lays the foundation for Jesus and His Great Commission to the apostles, "Go and make disciples of ALL NATIONS baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit..." (Matthew 28:19) This is how God plans to bless all people on earth! Simply stated, this is the mandate of God for world evangelism. (The Mandate of God for World Evangelism Part I: Old Testament Prophecy)

Yes it is God’s mandate Kip, but if you read the Bible carefully you will find that it takes Jesus return to bring the kingdom and set the nations in order. No, the kingdom is not the church (not your church nor anyone else’s.) Its not his desire for us to establish his kingdom because it something only the Son of God can do.

We know this is what McKean means because of all the previous statements by this churches teaching. “God’s church is spiritually His Kingdom on Earth.” (Media and Law, A Church Big Enough To Hold Us All)

There is one church! There is one God. There is one kingdom of God and this is it! (Cheers from the audience.) (The Great Commission audio tape Weger/Rock, Hodge/Hamann/Fulcher/Fields)

The Church and the Kingdom are the same and will be built on the truth that Jesus is the Christ…. The Church is the Kingdom of God on Earth. We are citizens” (First Principles Study).

And this is how they get people dedicated to their church because they convince them it’s the kingdom. So they tell them they must be baptized (or rebaptized) to be part of their church membership. Baptism is the entry into the kingdom- much like the Roman Catholic church.

Jesus gave this prayer “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven"(Matthew 6:9-10). The kingdom means God’s will is being done on earth like it is heaven. For this to take place it can only mean Jesus is ruling over the nations, not the church who have sinful flawed people.

Many ignore the hope of being taken to heaven replacing it with the church is destined to take over the world and establish the kingdom of God. That is what McKean is speaking of.

But to establish the kingdom on earth Christ must return and be king. McKean is saying, We must establish the kingdom on earth first (then Christ can return and be set up as king?)

He has made his church too important for the initiating of this kingdom.

Speaking of Jesus “She bore a male Child (Christ the Son) who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron” (Revelation 12:5). “And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron”(Revelation 19:15).

Christ the God/man is to be the ruler of the kingdom, not any man or the church. What McKean shows is that he is a “Kingdom now” advocate - the Church taking over the world…by the gospel of course.

What Daniel sees is the messiah destroying the last kingdom of man, “a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces” (Daniel 2:34-35).

It takes the Ancient of Days to come and break his rule for the saints to possess the kingdom. The saints needed to be rescued; they did not establish the kingdom (Daniel 7:25). Daniel 7:21-22: “I was watching; and the same horn (little horn) was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.”

Clearly there is no Church ruling triumphantly now nor will there be in the future. It is nothing short of Christ coming back for God’s kingdom to rule over the nations.

How do we know this is what is meant by the Scripture?

When Jesus stood before Pilate He made it clear his kingdom is not on earth, “If my kingdom were of this world my followers would fight,” “but now My kingdom is not from here” (John 18:36). There are two aspects to the kingdom; those who are born again are citizens of heaven (Phili. 3:20), because they are translated from the kingdom of darkness to light (Acts 26:12-18). There is the spiritual aspect to the Kingdom, which is God's rule, in the heart of every believer today. This is an invisible spiritual kingdom that resides within every believer because the Holy spirit has made them a temple through believing the gospel. Christ as the head of the church exerts his rule to His church, but not the world, not yet (though God’s will is exercised in the affairs of mankind). Jesus explains in other places that the kingdom will one day literally come to earth, when He comes back physically present to rule. The Lord Jesus Christ “will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom” (2 Timothy 4:1).

Paul spoke of this Kingdom in a future tense (1 Cor. 6:9; 15:50; Gal. 5:21; Eph. 5:5). 2 Peter 1:10-11 also speaks of the Kingdom in a future tense. As we can see from Scripture His kingdom comes accompanied with his physical appearing, they are simultaneous events, and it comes with judgment as well as a blessing (Matthew 25:31-34). He will rule from Israel for 1,000 years and the saints will co-reign under Him throughout this new kingdom he establishes.

  Isaiah 2:2 speaks of the Lord’s house established on the top of the mountains (Israel).  All nations will flow to it (see also Zech. 14:16-21).  In Isaiah 2:3, we find that it is the Lord Himself who is present in the Kingdom and will teach the nations.  Verse 4 shows the end of war, and peace among the people. 

This is the “true kingdom” that will come on earth, a literal kingdom that we look forward for the king to establish in His timing, not ours.

 

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