Mike reconciles Colossians 1:13's statement that Christians have been transferred into Christ's kingdom with premillennial teaching by distinguishing between the kingdom as an internal present reality (God reigning in the heart) and the future global, political kingdom established at the second coming.

Mike argues the kingdom of God is present in a personal/internal sense wherever God reigns in human hearts (Luke 17:21, 'the kingdom is in you'). But the earthly, global, political dimension of the kingdom is future. He uses Jesus' statement in John 18 ('my kingdom is not of this world, otherwise my servants would fight') as logical support: if Christ's kingdom were fully established on earth now, Christians would be taking up arms to enforce it — but they are not, because it is not yet here in that full sense. He sees these as compatible rather than contradictory.