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Sooner or later another and greater John the Baptist is due to arise
proclaiming “the kingdom of God is at hand” — meaning a return to the
high spiritual concept of Jesus, who proclaimed that the kingdom is the
will of his heavenly Father dominant and transcendent in the heart of
the believer — and doing all this without in any way referring either to
the visible church on earth or to the anticipated second coming of
Christ. There must come a revival of the actual teachings of
Jesus, such a restatement as will undo the work of his early followers
who went about to create a sociophilosophical system of belief regarding
the fact of Michael’s sojourn on earth. In a short time the teaching of this story about
Jesus nearly supplanted the preaching of Jesus’ gospel of the kingdom.
In this way a historical religion displaced that teaching in which Jesus
had blended man’s highest moral ideas and spiritual ideals with man’s
most sublime hope for the future — eternal life.
And that was the gospel of the kingdom.
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And that was the gospel of the kingdom.
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