Revelation 19:11-16
So He knocks on the door where the emperor was staying during his visit to Caesarea. The door opens; the Roman overlord scowls, and the visitor asks, “You Tiberius, the Roman emperor?”
“That is who I am,” the Roman says. “And who are you?”
“I’m Jesus of Nazareth.”
“And what is your business here?”
“I came to tell you that I have come to dismantle your empire—to bring it down in ruins.”
“Talk like that will have you hanging on a tree!” said the most powerful man on the planet.
Over his shoulder as he walked away the young Jesus said, “I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
“You say that now,” the emperor barked after Him, “but when we hang you up on that tree that’ll be the end of you.”
Still over his shoulder the young Jewish prince shouted back, “Good luck with that! When I’m lifted up I will draw multiplied millions of people to me and into service in My kingdom while yours is in ruins.”
“Talkers like you, poor little man, we’ve heard hundreds of you. Here today, gone tomorrow. Before long they’ll have forgotten your very name.”
“You wish,” comes the reply, now from a distance and fading, “Millions will be singing, writing, speaking, praying and glorying in My name when you and your empire will be remembered only by its ruins and visited by tourists. I have seen empires like yours. Here today and gone tomorrow.”
- Jim McGuiggan,
The Irish Papers
In Daniel’s visions of the four beasts and the Ancient of Days (chapter 7), the prophecy is made that the kingdom of “one like a Son of Man” will be everlasting.
And so it will be. PRAISE HIM!!