Thematic Bible: Spiritual kingship, conditions of


Thematic Bible




You are the ones who stood by Me in My trials. I bestow on you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one on Me,

You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us—and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!


and he will shepherd them with an iron scepter;
he will shatter them like pottery


just as I have received this from My Father.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father-to Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.


Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the people who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years.





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