Two Kingdoms
In the apostle Luke’s account of the Last Supper when Jesus was betrayed, He and His disciples are lounging at the table and after He told them that He desired to eat that supper with them “before I suffer, for I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” Clueless to what Jesus was referring, the disciples began to argue among themselves who among them would be the greatest in that kingdom that Jesus promised. (Luke 22:14-30) But Jesus told them that He would assign them to the same kingdom which God the Father had given Jesus: He was to serve, and in Jesus’ case, it was a brutal life and death. Being in God’s kingdom in this fallen world is costly. In the case of the disciples, tradition holds that all but one of them died in martyrdom.