kingdom come

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:[1] 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.”[2] By these sentences, Jesus seeks the establishment of the rule of God the Father over the Earth in the future.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm
• Hyphenation: king‧dom come

kingdom come (countable and uncountable, plural kingdoms come or kingdom comes)

1. (uncountable, colloquial) The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife.
   1. (figuratively) Death; also, a state of complete annihilation.
   2. (Christianity, specifically) Heaven or paradise.
      • 1843, Alfred Crowquill [pseudonym; Alfred Henry Forrester], “The ‘Plummy’”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, part I, page 624:

        "And where are all these brothers and sisters?" demanded the stranger. / "Dead! dead as herrings—gone to kingdom come a precious long time ago.["]

2. (uncountable, Christianity) 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.
3. (countable, by extension) A future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress; a golden age that is approaching.

• blow to kingdom come

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