His iron-clad commitment to keep His promises spares us the trouble of building His Kingdom without Him. As C.H. Spurgeon once said, it is quite difficult to have a Kingdom without the King present. We are to bear witness of His Kingdom coming, but we’ll never establish it here without Him. The dominion mandate in the Garden was usurped by the one whose head Jesus will crush finally and forever, and “the kingdoms of this world [will] become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever,” “gloriously.” - Stephanie Quick, Kingdom Come