Manifesting the Kingdom - Invitation and Challenge

The goal of incarnation is the kingdom of God - i.e., God becoming "all in all" through "summing up" everything in His creation in Jesus the Messiah. The Father had sent the Son to usher in His everlasting kingdom as He'd promised through His prophets, and all of the gospel writers constructed their accounts around this work and its completion. Thus they record that, following His baptism and testing, Jesus began proclaiming the good news of this kingdom and challenging Israel to embrace it by embracing Him and the way of being Israel (son, servant, disciple and witness) that He was disclosing to them.