kingdom come

Meanings

1. The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife.
2. Death; also, a state of complete annihilation.
3. Heaven or paradise.
4. The rule of God over the world in the future; especially, according to those believing in millenarianism, during a period of peace beginning with the second coming of Jesus Christ and lasting a millennium.
5. A future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress; a golden age that is approaching.

Etymology

From the phrase “Thy kingdom come” from the Lord’s Prayer which is recorded in Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4 in the Bible: see, for example, Matthew 6:10 in the King James Version (spelling modernized): “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven.” By these sentences, Jesus seeks the establishment of the rule of God the Father over the Earth in the future.

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