OUR FATHER WHOSE KINGDOM ON EARTH WILL OVERCOME DARKNESS AND BECOME THE GREATEST

The Lord Jesus continued to teach His disciples about the kingdom He was ushering in and He had explained to them how its moral framework worked and He had revealed the challenges that the kingdom would face from the kingdom of darkness and how those challenges would be overcome.

The Lord then gave the disciples a graphical illustration of the kingdom of heaven that was going to take root on the earth.

Matthew chapter 13 verses 31 - 32 says it this way;

 31 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, 

32 which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

The parable of the mustard seed uses the theme of a seed to visualise how a tiny installation  package would be implanted on the earth and it would unfurl into the greatest kingdom on the planet.

The tiny mustard seed is the human form of the Lord Jesus that would die and and be buried in the earth.

Even though this singular event is a very small moment in human history, it would grow into a massive administrative structure overshadowing all other kingdoms on the earth.

The metaphor of trees as kingdoms or adminstrative juridictions is used frequently in  the scriptures like where, in Ezekiel 31 verse 3, the cedar tree is directly equated to a kingdom.

Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.

The mustard seed, though small, grows into a large tree but just as birds inhabit the branches of a mustard tree, evil spirits will find perches in the mustard tree in keeping with the idea that the kingdom of heaven will face challenges from the kingdom of darkness as the agents of darkness infiltrate the kingdom of light to try to corrupt it and destroy it.

Lord have mercy on us.

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