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137the departed spirits of the Prophets and the blessed believers, under the reign of a divine Lamb; with angels forits police and gendarmes; theCherubsforits governors and judges; the Seraphs for its officers and commanders; or the Archangels for its Popes, Patriarchs, Bishops, and evangelical preachers. The Kingdom of God on earth is a Religion, a powerful society of believers in One God equipped with faith and sword to fight for and maintain its existence and absolute independence against the Kingdom of Darkness, against all those who do not believe that God is One, or against those who believe that He has a son, a father or mother, associates and coevals.The Greek word euangelion, rendered “Gospel” in English, practically means “the enunciation of good news.” And this enunciation was the tidings of the approaching Kingdom of God, the least among whose citizens was greater than John Baptist (pbuh) . He himself and the Apostles after him preached and announced this Kingdom to the Jews, inviting them to believe and repent in order to be admitted into it. Jesus (pbuh) did not actually abrogate or change the Law of Moses (pbuh) , but interpreted it in such a spiritual sense that he left it a dead letter. When he declared that hatred was the root of murder, lust the source of fornication; that avarice and hypocrisy were as abominable sins as idolatry; and that mercy and charity were more acceptable than the burnt offerings and the strict observance of the Sabbath, he practically abolished the letter of the Law of Moses (pbuh) in favour of its spiritual sense. These spurious and much interpolated Gospels report frequent parables and references of Christ to the Kingdom of God, and to Bar-Nasha or the Son of Man, but they are so corrupted and distorted that they have succeeded, and stillsucceed, in misleading