True, The kingdom of God is not meat & drink but Jesus did eat after his resurrection.
I don't think you are a Gnostic. Only that your Christian belief, as you have explained it is Gnositc "like".
An early church heresy mixed Gnosticism with Christianity. One of the main Gnostic beliefs was that there is a "divine spark"
in man but the physical or material creation is evil. They taught a mystical spirituality.
Our God told us that he created earth and man and the creation he made was was good. We are waiting for the redemption of
our bodies and all creation.
Israel wanted a king "to be like the nations around us" (1 Sam 8:4)
So God gave them Saul, who became a tyrant king. Both their timing and their motive for seeking a king was wrong.
But King David was God's choice. David is a type of Messiah though not Messiah himself. To avoid an excessively lengthy post
I won't to get in to too much detail. But Kingship itself is not wrong. Before Samuel, God gave instruction in the law for kings.
(Duet 17:14-20) Mary was told that Jesus is given the throne of David. Luke 1:32-33
Psalm 2 describes how God installs his son on earth as king to govern the nations.
Mat_11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist
until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Mat_12:28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is
come unto you.
Mar_1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom o
f God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Luk_17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the
kingdom of God is within you.
Luk 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
Luk 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
I don't think you are a Gnostic. Only that your Christian belief, as you have explained it is Gnositc "like".
An early church heresy mixed Gnosticism with Christianity. One of the main Gnostic beliefs was that there is a "divine spark"
in man but the physical or material creation is evil. They taught a mystical spirituality.
Most often i have been given the label of Calvinist . Which holds to total depravity . I do not understand what i have said to give you the impression you have . FYI i was raised from the cradle in Scofields version of dispensationalism. About 35-40 years ago checking his notes against the Scriptures i was freed of dispensationalism.
We just do not get the same understanding from Psalms 2
The Reign of the Lord's Anointed
Psa 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psa 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psa 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psa 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Psa 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Psa 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Psa 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Psa 2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Psa 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psa 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Heb 12:22
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Heb 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Heb 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.