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1 KINGDOMPRINCIPLESPREPARING FORKINGDOMEXPERIENCE ANDEXPANSIONKINGDOMPRINCIPLESPREPARING FORKINGDOMEXPERIENCE ANDEXPANSIONDr. Myles Munroe Copyright 2006 Myles MunroeAll rights reserved. This book is protected by the copyright laws of the United Statesof America. This book may not be copied or reprinted for commercial gain or use of short quotations or occasional page copying for personal or group study ispermitted and encouraged. Permission will be granted upon request. Unless other-wise identified, Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNA-TIONAL VERSION Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Scripturequotations marked (NKJV) are taken form the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Please notethat Destiny Image s publishing style capitalizes certain pronouns in Scripture thatrefer to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and may differ from some publishers note that the name satan and related names are not capitalized.

2 We choose notto acknowledge him, even to the point of violating grammatical photography by Andy Adderley, Creative Photography, Nassau, BahamasDestiny Image Publishers, Box 310 Shippensburg, PA 17257-0310 Speaking to the Purposes of God for this Generationand for the Generations to Come. Bahamas Faith Box N9583 Nassau, BahamasFor Worldwide Distribution, Printed in the 10: 0-7684-2373-2 HardcoverISBN 13: 978-0-7684-2373-0 ISBN 10: 0-7684-2398-8 PaperbackISBN 13: 978-0-7684-2398-3 This book and all other Destiny Image, Revival Press, MercyPlace,Fresh Bread, Destiny Image Fiction, and Treasure House booksare available at Christian bookstores and distributors 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 / 09 08 07 06 Paperback1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 / 09 08 07 06 For a bookstore nearest you, more information on foreign distributors, reach us on the OFCONTENTSP reface ..7 Introduction ..11 Chapter OneThe Priority of the kingdom .

3 23 Chapter TwoThe kingdom of God Versus the Governments of Man ..37 Chapter ThreeThe Original kingdom Concept: Colonization of Earth ..57 Chapter FourKingdom Concept #1:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Kings ..75 Chapter FiveKingdom Concept #2:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Lord ..97 Chapter SixKingdom Concept #3:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Territory ..113 Chapter SevenKingdom Concept #4:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Constitution ..127 Chapter EightKingdom Concept #5:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Law ..141 Chapter NineKingdom Concept #6:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Keys ..157 Chapter TenKingdom Concept #7:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Citizenship ..177 Chapter ElevenKingdom Concept #8:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Culture ..189 Chapter TwelveKingdom Concept #9:Understanding the kingdom Concept of Giving to the King ..203rPREFACEW hilewriting this book, I have at some time privatelypondered the following questions: 1.

4 Why is there so much hatred in the world? 2. Why do we discriminate against people who possesshuman value?3. Why is there racism in the world?4. What are the benefits of war? 5. Why do men in every generation pursue power at theexpense of peace?6. Why are there so many religions? 7. Why do the religions conflict? 8. Why can t we love one another on earth? 9. Why is no one religion good enough for all men? 10. What can I do to make a difference in this world?11. Why is there always tension between politics and religion?12. Will there ever be global peace and harmony on earth? 7 13. Why has man s scientific and intellectual advancementnot been able to solve his social, cultural, and religiousproblems? 14. Is there hope for our world? 15. What about the future for our children? What kind ofworld will they live in? Simply asking these questions can ignite a spirit of depressionand despair because they expose the deficiencies and defects ofhumanity and cast a somber cloud of doubt about our achievementsas a race as well as our potential to improve our , I wish to declare with positive hope and excitementthat this book presents the solution an idea that is older than timeyet as fresh as tomorrow in addressing the heart cries of humanityin our search for a better world.

5 This solution is not found in reli-gion or politics but in an idea that has been misunderstood for sixthousand years a concept that was established at the foundation ofcreation but then was lost. It is an idea that provides for the value,equality, significance, and purpose for each of the over six billionhumans on this planet, all of whom deserve the best in life. This ideais about you and me and something that was always ours by divineright. It is a beautiful idea that has been lying dormant for centuriesawaiting our book is about your original purpose for existence and thesource of meaning behind your life. In these pages you will discoverthe Creator s divine motivation, design, and mandate for His cre-ation and your role in that creation. After reading this book, you willbe equipped with the knowledge to answer some of the questionslisted above. I am convinced also that you will come to believe, as Ido, that there is hope for mankind, but only as we reconnect to thesource of creation and our Creator s original concepts for life onplanet earth.

6 kingdom Principles 8 Moses, the great freedom fighter and former prince of Egypt,first recorded this idea 3,500 years ago in his writings, documentingthe creation narrative. But it was already an ancient concept even inhis day. Then, 2,000 years ago, this wonderful idea was reintroducedby a young country teacher from Galilee but later was misunder-stood and lost in the complicated formation of another is this idea? The kingdom !When one hears the word kingdom , immediately many differentideas, concepts, and pictures come to mind. Most of our concepts inlife are the result of our culture, social development, and formal andinformal education. We are products of our culture and interpretthe world through our mental conditioning. The concept of kingdomin its original and pure sense has beenlost to our modern world. kingdom as a concept does not exist any-more in the minds of people in Western civilization, particularly inthe past few generations, because all the prototypes either have beendestroyed or abandoned.

7 Because there are no kingdoms or rem-nants of kingdoms left in the western world, we live in a generationwhere the true meaning of the greatest message ever told cannot befully understood. It is this concern that this book will attempt to address. The goalof this book is to reintroduce the concepts, principles, and nature oftrue authentic kingdoms as presented by the Creator and show thesuperior and advantageous nature of kingdom as compared to anyreligion, political ideology, government system, or social me as we explore and understand the precepts and principles of the kingdom . Preface 9 rINTRODUCTIONT hegreatest threat to civil society is mankind. Everyday the flood of images on our television screenstells the sad story. Blood, death, diplomacy, conflict,hatred, fear, poverty, starvation, rape, genocide, refugees and humanmigration, natural disasters, daily bombings, economic uncertainty,immigration, corporate corruption, moral decay, sexual revolution,and clash of counter cultures all of these testify to the undeniablefact that we are our own worst of our universities, cyber-space technology, blackberries,think tanks, G-8 meetings, fiscal and immigration policies, medicaladvancements, social experiments, religious conferences, peacemarches, and declarations of cease-fire and peace on earth all seemto collapse at the mercy of our own self-imposed destructive build buildings and then bomb them; we make weapons andthen use them on ourselves; we invent medicines that heal and thenwithhold them from the sick.

8 We improve the World Wide Web toenhance global communication and then use it to destroy the moralfiber of our children. We are our own greatest enemy. 11 THE SOURCE OF RELIGIONAll of this is compounded by our establishment of sophisticatedreligions into which we retreat to escape the social chaos we havecreated. Religion is the most powerful force on earth. Despite theclaims of many to the contrary, everyone on earth is is defined as the adherence to a set of beliefs that regulatethe moral, social, and ritualistic behavior of the individual. This def-inition would include the so-called atheist, secularist, communist,socialist, humanist or agnostic, for they all adhere to a belief systemof some kind, even if it is the belief that there is no providential com-ponent in creation or life as we know it, or a belief in the power ofthe human as the supreme measure of truth and right.

9 Virtually every major problem in history and in our contempo-rary world can be traced to some religious foundation. Religion hasmotivated the massacre of millions over the years in such horrificevents as the Crusades, the Inquisition, and wars related to theProtestant Reformation and the Catholic , ethnic cleansing, apartheid, segregation, racial discrimina-tion, and other oppressive practices all have been justified by somereligious code or this new millennium commenced with definitive acts ofreligious terrorism. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 sentshock waves through the global nervous system of mankind andcontinues today to fuel the fires of conflict, hatred, fear, and murderthroughout the world. How ironic it is that religion, the very thingthat by its nature is supposed to provide the solution to mankind sproblems and provide hope and faith for life, has itself created moreproblems throughout history than it has this is one reason so many millions have turned awayfrom all forms of institutionalized religions and opted to embracesuch philosophies as humanism, communism, and have simply given up and lost all hope in humanity.

10 I myselfhave struggled long to come to grips with this dichotomy of human kingdom Principles 12 nature our desire to worship and serve some deity that we claim tobe benevolent and loving, while at the same time demonstrating adestructive zeal motivated by our allegiance to this same the way I too lost faith in the concept of religion and in a realsense had to seek for something beyond and superior to these defec-tive practices created by religion is a natural phenomenon that exists in some form inevery human culture and always has. Primitive and modernhuman societies alike manifest religious rituals that define their cul-ture and communal life. This raises the natural question: What is thesource of religion, and why is it such a natural, inherent characteris-tic of the human spirit?Thirty-five years of research and personal exploration of thisquestion have led me to the conclusion that religion is the result ofan inherent hunger in the human spirit that man cannot define yetmust seek to satisfy.