There more than ten things to know about the promised Kingdom, the following are but a short list that we hope to get you started.
It’s a Kingdom God prepared from the foundation of the world.
After judging the nations in Mat 25:34, the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”
It will be on earth.
Jesus taught his disciples to pray to the Father, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Mat 6:10; Luke 11:2).
[Watch John Piper’s exposition on what it means to say “Your kingdom come” in Desiring God website.]
It will break to pieces all the other kingdoms on earth.
Dan 2:44 says, “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever.”
The nations will no longer be deceived.
John foresaw in Rev 20:3 how Satan was thrown “into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore.” And Hab. 2:14 we read, “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. ” While in Psa. 22:27 it is written that the ends of the earth “shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship” God.
It will be marked with lasting peace, righteousness, justice, love and compassion.
In Hos 2:18b-19 says, “I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.”
The people of God will receive it.
Dan 7:22 says, “until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.”
It will be a lasting Kingdom.
Dan 7:18 says, “the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.”
The Son of David will sit on its throne.
In 1 Chr. 17:11 God says to David, “When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.”
The Son of David is Jesus Christ, the Son of God who was crucified.
In Lk. 1:32 the angel told Mary, “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.” Days before his rejection Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey as if to receive him as their king, “And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!’” (Mat. 21:9)
It’s fulfillment will be in the future, upon his return.
Jesus said in Mat 26:29, “I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom.” And Paul taught the disciples in 2 Tim 4:1, “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom.”