Every Kingdom has social structures put in place for order and to protect status, power, wealth and interest. Christ's Kingdom has its own structures.That is why Kingdoms exist. And lords, rulers, Princes and protocol.
What made Christ so radical in his time was that he had the intention of changing the society. The social systems that existed not only in the Roman Empire but beyond. Men for thousands of years lived in oppression and usury, through the systems of not just slavery, but access to and availability of justice, just judges and impartial courts and generally, skewed human laws.
Christ bought a new system by introducing new leadership, new form of governance and Kingship. So he meant every word when he said ...
"Repent (leave your old ways) for the Kingdom of God is here."
He was changing the ideals that held together the Societal structures he lived under. That Kingdom was established (on earth) in his days. And a new social system to govern her people ...
If you carefully last look at Christ's preachings, he spoke mostly to human relations ... justice, mercy, love, patience and devotion to God. Give, and by the same measure, it shall be given back, love your neighbour, give no false testimony, because the systems of the world thrive on these things. Our individual centered capitalistism and the then autocratic rulers all thrive on usury, competition in place of love and skewed laws unequally applied instead of Justice. That is the social system that the Kingdom of Christ is here to replace.
His Kingdom come.
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