The Eternal New Covenant Kingdom

by Kent Secor

Not much is taught today about the different covenants and kingdoms that God established and are recorded in the Bible. We do hear about the kingdom of God, but few really teach how God’s kingdom progressed from the first of creation with the first citizens, Adam and Eve to the present eternal kingdom of God in Christ Jesus. Though mention is made most seem to place little importance upon the kingdom of God, yet this is one of Jesus’ main topics during his ministry.

Another way to discuss this is what is called Covenant Theology. There are some parallels of thought between Covenant Theology and Dispensational Theology, but there are many differences, one major one is that Covenant Theology sees present Israel as simply another nation of people who need Christ. Some term this Replacement Theology, and in part I think that is correct. Dispensational Theology sees Israel being restored as a civil nation an important step towards fulfilling end time prophecy (eschatology) and setting the stage for the events of the end as they understand them.

I see the revelation of God as a progressive revelation, starting with simple ideas and building complexity over successive ages. On this topic of covenant and kingdom, for both are always linked in God’s kingdom, it would not be wrong to say God establishes Covenant Kingdoms, as I shall show.

When God created man, “ male and female created He them”. He gave mankind dominion over all of the earth and the creatures upon it. This established both the first covenant of God with man and the first kingdom of God upon the earth, with Adam and Eve the first citizens of the kingdom and God the only King.

This first Covenant Kingdom of God being the first was also the simplest and had one stipulation, one law, don’t eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The blessings under this covenant was that they would remain in the perfect garden and their work would be easy. Their assigned task under the covenant was to take dominion over the whole earth.

Within the story of God and man in the garden we see God walking with man in the cool of the evening, and God tasking man with naming all of the animals as the start of his task to take dominion over all the creatures. So before the rebellion of man, they enjoyed fellowship with God and were actively obeying God to take dominion over the earth.

After the fall the terms of the covenant were amended, with added stipulations. Man was kicked out of the perfect garden and now his work of subduing the earth would progress much slower because now he would have to work against the weeds. Women would suffer pain in child birth, and the serpent was promised the Messiah who would over come him.

Between Adam and Noah there are two kingdoms. One the Kingdom of God, the other the kingdom of men. They are referred to as sons of God and sons of men. The sons of God followed and obeyed the teachings of the first father Adam as taught and handed down through the patriarchs. The sons of men went their own way completely. Consider Cain as the first son of man, leader of the kingdom of men, and Able, then Seth as the sons of God after Adam, and so on till only Noah was left of the sons of God.

Gen 6:1-4 (NIV references throughout this article, paragraphs are mine)
1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Here is contrasted the sons of God with the sons of men, actually the subject at hand is the daughters of men, whom the sons of God found beautiful and they took them for wives. It is assumed from this that it was a less than good thing, that something bad came from it. Perhaps it was like when the Israeli’s married a woman from another nation and got carried away into that nations idolatry. We don’t have full detail about this, so can only conjecture, but that seems like a reasonable explanation.


Gen 6:5-9
5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them."

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

Now we come to Noah, the only living son of God. Notice the description of Noah, he was righteous, blameless among the people, and he walked with God. His forefather, Enoch, had that same distinction, “ Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away. “ (Gen 5:24)

In the second covenant, that with Noah, the first, Adamic covenant is repeated with some added leeway. Now mankind may eat of the animals for nourishment.

Gen 8:18-9:17
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. 22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. 6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man.

7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." 17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

Under the Adamic covenant/kingdom of God all who followed the teachings of the patriarchs were sons of God, those who did not were of the kingdom of men, the sons of men.

Now under the Noahic covenant all his descendants are included. The kingdom of God gets a fresh start with Noah’s sons, daughter in laws and their children. Within a couple generations there is another kingdom of men raised up by Cush and Nimrod.

Kingdom of Men under the Noahic covenant.

Gen 10:8-10
8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar.

Under Nimrod the first Babylon was built with its idolatrous tower.

I am trying to show that in the progressive revelation and the history of men from creation there have always been two kingdoms, the kingdom of God, where his will is sought out, taught and obeyed and the kingdom of men where they set their own will as supreme and obey their own laws. One could say this is a direct result of the eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil by Father Adam and Mother Eve. Their children could now chose who they would serve. Those who chose the best good and followed God and his will were the sons of God kingdom, those who chose the evil, followed the will of men and were the sons of men kingdom.

In the Adamic covenant/kingdom age we had the sons of God and the sons of men kingdoms. In the Noahic covenant/kingdom age we have again the sons of God, who are led by Shem, and the sons of men kingdom started by and lead by Nimrod, later his son, Nimrod the second.

In Nimrod we find the first real reference to another kingdom, before this I could only conjecture and apply a more modern term to the situation of men from Adam to Noah/Nimrod.

The next major covenant is with Abraham.

It starts with the calling out of Abram from where his family had settled in Haran.

Gen 12:1-3
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. 2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."

God in calling out Abram, promises to make him a great nation, or kingdom.

Gen 13:14-17
14 The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."

Now God promises to give the land that Abram is now living in as a nomad to him and his children, who will be uncountable, like the dust of the earth.

God makes Covenant with Abram

Gen 15
1 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."

2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."

4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

7 He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."

8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"

9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon." 10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. 12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."

17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."

God makes covenant with Abram, establishing the land for what will become the kingdom nation of Israel.

After the 400 years in Egypt, where the children of Jacob/Israel were mistreated as slaves. After they were sent out by Pharaoh’s decree with the riches of Egypt in their carts and upon the backs of their animals. God met Israel in the desert and established a covenant with them. This covenant was part of the founding of the kingdom nation of Israel. Israel by it became not a group of escaped Egyptian slaves, but the covenant kingdom of God.

Ex. 19:3-6
3 Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, "This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: 4 "You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites."

The descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Israel are now on the way to the land promised to them by God and recorded in the covenant he made with Abraham. The kingdom/nation promised in the Abrahamic covenant is now to be a reality.

This covenant kingdom is limited to one people, the children of Israel. But by this one nation, this one kingdom all the nations of the earth would be blessed, for the Messiah, the King of the eternal kingdom of God would come from it. “I will make you into a great nation ...and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Gen.12:2,3) A kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. God’s covenant kingdom on earth, until the coming of Messiah and the founding of the eternal New Covenant Kingdom.

As the revelation of God progresses, more detail is given regarding the promised redeemer first mentioned in the amendment of the Adamic covenant after the rebellion. The seed who would crush the head of the serpent was given more detail. Many Messianic promises were given. Details of a Messianic kingdom were given. He would be a son of David, the Anointed one of the Lord. The New Covenant would be the covenant of his kingdom, which is an eternal kingdom made up of all men, not just of Israel. There are a lot of Messianic prophecies, and it makes an excellent study in itself. I will only address a few of these statements showing the new covenant and the eternal kingdom promised.

1. The Son of David, Messiah, would be born of a virgin.

Isa 7:13,14
13 Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

This is reported as fulfilled in the gospel accounts of Matthew and Luke, in the conception of Mary and the birth of Jesus. (Matt. 1:23; Luke 1:35)

2. The Son of David, the Messiah, would be born king of the eternal kingdom of God.

Isa 9:6,7
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

Isaiah records that the child and son, who is the Messiah, is born with the government upon his shoulders. In this titles one is the Prince of Peace, which peace with God, he brought to the whole world by his shed blood.. His government, or kingdom and peace will increase and have no end, it is an eternal kingdom.

Dan 7:13,14
13 "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Dan 7:27 Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be handed over to the saints, the people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.'

Jesus called himself by the title of the son of man, which is a Messianic title. Daniel tells us also that his dominion or kingdom is everlasting or eternal. Here also is the idea that all men, peoples, nations will worship the Messiah, also his kingdom will never be destroyed. It might be attacked, its people persecuted to death, but it would not be destroyed as other kingdoms have been and would be. Notice also that the all other kingdoms are handed over to the saints, the people of God the Most High. The people of the new kingdom will rule under the Messiah.

Dan 2:31-35
31 "You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

After Daniel explains the meaning of the statue as representing kings and kingdoms starting with Nebuchadnezzar, as the head of gold. It is the last kingdom that is the Messianic kingdom that interests us now.

Dan 2:44,45
44 "In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. "The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and the interpretation is trustworthy."

Daniel tells us when the Messianic kingdom would start, “in the time of those kings...”, it will crush those other kingdoms, the ones referred to in the vision, and bring them to an end, but the Messianic kingdom will never be destroyed or be taken by another people, it will endure forever, or be eternal.

3. Messiah will be a son of David.

Psa 89:3,4
3 You said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant, 4 "I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.'" Selah

Psa 89:35-37
35 Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness— and I will not lie to David—36 that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun; 37 it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah

God’s covenant with David was that his line would be king over God’s people for ever. In the Messiah, the seed of David, the son of David is the eternal kingdom found and God’s promise to David fulfilled.

Jer 23:5,6
6 "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. 6 In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

The Messiah will be the son of David, the righteous branch, the King who will reign wisely and do what is right. This will happen in the days of Judah. During the time of the Messiah, Jesus. Israel was most often referred to as Judah, as the tribe of Judah was the ruling tribe. In the NT we often have the reference to Israelis as Jews, which is a form of the name Judah.

4. The Messiah will establish a new covenant with Israel.

Here we come to the other aspect of the Messiah’s rule, the establishing of a new covenant that replaces the old Mosaic covenant.

It is promised in the words of the prophet Jerimiah.

Jer 31:31, 34
31 "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

Here God declares that he would make a new covenant with Israel and Judah, the two kingdoms that split from the original one kingdom of Israel. This new covenant would be different than the first one made with the children of Israel in the desert of Sinai, or the Mosaic covenant.

One difference is that where the Mosaic covenant was based on the ten commandment carved in stone tablets by God, this new covenant would be written in the hearts and minds. And each member of the new covenant nation or people would know God directly. Also their sins would be forever forgiven.

Jer 32:40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.

The covenant is declared to be an everlasting covenant.

Ezekiel 37:24, 28
24 "'My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. 25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 28 Then the nations will know that I the LORD make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.'"

Here Ezekiel tells us that the Messiah, “my servant David”, will be king and the one shepherd over the people of Israel. The Messiah, :David my servant” will be prince forever, eternally. Again stating that the kingdom of Messiah is an eternal kingdom. The covenant of that kingdom is one of peace with God. It is an eternal or everlasting covenant. The people of this new covenant will increase their number. God’s sanctuary will be among them forever, eternally.

Some New Testament references showing the fulfillment of the eternal new covenant kingdom in Christ Jesus, The Messiah Yeshua.

Luke 22:20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

Jesus stated that his blood, that was soon to be shed, was the blood of the new covenant. Jesus was directly referencing the words of Jeremiah and Ezekiel regarding the Messianic Kingdom new covenant. All covenants are made with blood, and the eternal new covenant would be the same. Where in the other covenants the blood was that of animals, here it would be the blood of the King, Messiah himself.


2Cor. 3:6-8
6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

Paul here is making a comparison between the Mosaic covenant and the Messianic new covenant, showing that it was a present reality to Paul.

Heb 8:6-13
6 But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises. 7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.

8 But God found fault with the people and said: "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. 10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

13 By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

The writer of Hebrews, (I hold is Paul, some think Barnabas or another writer), compares the old Mosaic covenant with the new covenant of the Messiah, Jesus. He quotes Jeremiah 31 about this covenant stating that Jesus is the mediator of it. He also makes statements that the Mosaic covenant was faulty in some manner and was replaced with the superior new covenant that is founded on better promises.

Paul also says the old covenant is obsolete and aging and will soon disappear. Just a note on the preterist interpretation of this verse, the statement that the Mosaic covenant was aging and would soon disappear is reference to the end of the administration of that covenant and the temple that was necessary to fulfill the requirements of that covenant in its rituals, rites and ordinances, that soon happened in 70AD.

Paul says that the new covenant of the Messiah Jesus is superior to the old and that the old is on its way out.


Heb 9:15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

Paul links the new covenant in Christ/Messiah with the promise of receiving the eternal inheritance and salvation from their sins as judged under the Old Covenant.

Heb 10:15-22
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 16 "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." 17 Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more." 18 And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.

19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Paul in a comparison between the required annual sin sacrifices of the Mosaic covenant and the once for all sacrifice of Messiah/Christ, states that the blood of Jesus is the sacrifice of the new covenant. That the blood of Jesus is the fulfillment of the words of Jeremiah 31.


5. Jesus Messiah, King of the Kingdom of God.

Luke 1:30-33
30 But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. 31 You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end."

The angel who made the announcement to Mary about the child who would be born of her, repeats the words of Isaiah 9:6,7, regarding the son who would be born to be king, “give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign...forever; his kingdom will never end.”

Mat 12:28 But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Jesus preached the kingdom of God during his earthly ministry. Here he declared that his work of casting out demons from those possessed was proof of the kingdom of Gold being among them. This is the same eternal kingdom of the Messiah prophesied by Isaiah, Jeremiah and the other prophets.

Mat 26:63,64
63 But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, "I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Mat 26:64 "Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied. "But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."

When Jesus is questioned by the high priest, he directly declares himself to be the Messiah, the Son of God.


Luke 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Christ, a king."

John 18:33-37
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

34 "Is that your own idea," Jesus asked, "or did others talk to you about me?"

35 "Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?"

36 Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."

37 "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

The rulers and priest accused Jesus to Pilate of treason against Rome by claiming to be Messiah King, and subverting the nation of Israel against Rome by teaching that one should not pay taxes to Rome, again a charge of treason.

When Pilate asks Jesus directly if he is the king of the Jews, Jesus declares that he is. But he adds that his kingdom is not of this world, but from another place. Jesus directly refers to Isaiah’s prophecy regarding the child who would be born and the son given to be King of the eternal kingdom of God.

I have shown with a few references that the Messiah was to both be the king of an eternal kingdom, that it started with his birth and increased from there to ultimately fill the whole earth. That Messiah would institute a new eternal covenant, replacing the old Mosaic covenant.

This is what I refer to as the eternal new covenant kingdom of God in Christ Jesus.

There are more references that can be considered, but that in itself is another and well worthy study.