Say, “Father, ... Let your kingdom come.”—Luke 11:2, NW.

When King David was ruling in the midst of his foes in the Promised Land, he had to come against all them and subdue them all until he had reached every border of the kingdom’s God-given domain. Likewise, Christ Jesus, the Son of David, who is now ruling in the midst of his enemies, must yet come like a thief at an unexpected day and hour against them lined up at Armageddon and must break up their organized power and grind them to powder. The first expression of the Kingdom’s coming was when it began the tribulation on Satan’s world organization and hurled him down from the heavens. The complete expression of its coming will be when it revives this tribulation which has been interrupted since 1918 and wipes out Satan’s organization at Armageddon. There Jesus the King binds him and his demons, casts them into the abyss, and seals it up for a thousand years. Then he begins reigning for a millennium. So then is when the prayer is fully answered. W 8/15