This Is Hallowed!
"Your kingdom come.
Your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven."
Matthew 6: 10
In 2023, this answer appeared in the $200
box on the television program Jeopardy:
“Our Father which art in heaven, ________
be thy name.” The three contestants
looked
perplexed as the buzzer sounded. The host
supplied the question: “What is hallowed?”
How tragic that people no longer know the
Lord’s Prayer!
Every phrase of that famous prayer is
meaningful.
For example, when we pray, “Your kingdom come,”
we're really praying for the Millennial reign of Christ.
The Lord’s Kingdom is “already but not yet.”
When He came the first time, Jesus established the
Kingdom of His Church.
Christ-followers are truly the
vanguard of His Kingdom. We're already here, serving
Him now. But the ultimate fulfillment is yet to come.
When He comes again, He will establish an earthly,
physical, geographical, political Kingdom. He will
reign over the earth from His throne in Jerusalem.
Every time we pray, “Your kingdom come on earth
as it is in heaven,” we are looking forward to God’s
glorious thousand-year-long answer!
It’s important
to know—and to pray!—the Lord’s Prayer.
When you pray “Thy kingdom come,”
you are asking for the second coming
of Jesus to this earth.
Elmer
Towns
