Thy Kingdom Come--On Earth

Jesus wrote what we call the Lord's Prayer to teach his disciples how to pray.  This included the phrase, "Thy Kingdom Come, on earth."  So Jesus put the focus on the kingdom here on earth.
In Luke 4:18-19, Jesus gets even more specific.  He says kingdom people release the oppressed by doing Jubilee justice.

I have asked hundreds of people--Presbyterians and Pentecostals, Mennonites and Methodists to give me a one sentence of the kingdom of God.  Nearly all have presented me a spiritual and future dimension of the kingdom of God.  Few have emphasized the present and social dimensions of the kingdom.  No one has ever used the phrase, "Release the oppressed." as an essential component of the kingdom.  No one has ever tied the kingdom to the six messianic passages found in Isaiah--9:17; 11:1-4; 16:5; 28:16-17; 42:1-4; 61:1-4.
These six messianic passages stress justice as the essential characteristic of the kingdom.

There are three hundred dik-stems in the Greek New Testament.  In essence a dik-stem has justice as its central meaning, but English New Testament translations, and English theologians have dejusticized the New Testament.  In the process they have dejusticized the kingdom of God.

 The best Old Testament model for describing the New Testament kingdom of God can be found  Nehemiah 5 where we see both the oppression problem and the justice solution.  

If the church is going 

to implement the kingdom of God, as a Jubilee justice that releases the oppressed, it should follow the 

Nehemiah model.

The kingdom chant should be: "Release the oppressed by doing justice."

If I were given permission to edit the Lord's Prayer, I would add, "Your kingdom comes on earth when kingdom people release the oppressed by doing Jubilee Justice."