‘Even though Jesus was born to be King of Judea, was recognized as the King of Judea by thousands of people, and even taught ordinances while spreading the Gospel of His Kingdom, He told Pilate that He was not interested in modeling His Kingdom after the pattern that Pilate represented for Rome (and many civil societies before and since). The “world” that Christ very deliberately washed his hands of is translated from the Greek “kosmos” which means “an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government“. The arrangement, constitution, order, and government of Christ’s Kingdom is incomparable and incompatible with that of Rome.

In spite of the clear message from Scripture that the Kingdom of God is a real kingdom, with a real government, with its own jurisdictions, laws, and civil society, most of Christendom throughout history has believed and taught the opposite. Some say the Kingdom is merely in the hearts of men and a place to go to after death, while others say that the mission of Christianity is to sanctify the governments of “this world” in an attempt to compel a bad tree to produce good fruit.’