The Kingdom of God

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The Kingdom of God
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Three Windows A Growing Vision
The Exodus Event
The Davidic Monarchy
The Prophetic Promise
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The Prophetic Promise of the Kingdom
Exodus
The Lord is King
Davidic Monarchy
Isaiah
The Lord will become King
Daniel
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Prophetic Warnings The Loss of the Kingdom

• A repeated formula about the later kings (2
  Chron.331-3)
• The dark night of Israels captivity (Ps.1371-9)

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The New Promise God Will Come Again
Habakkuk
The past repeated
Isaiah Daniel
The past eclipsed
Prophetic language
The Day of the Lord
The latter days
The last days
That day
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Isaiah

• The Imax Movie!

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Yahweh will come
Salvation
The Davidic Messiah
Rivers of the Spirit
Forgiveness
Healing
New People
Liberation
New Jerusalem
Shalom
New Heaven Earth
Resurrection
Judgment of Evil
Festivity
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Daniel 2 7 Two Visions
Son of Man
Age to come
This age
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The Inter-Testamental Period

• Waiting for 500 years with such expectations!
• The expectation was
• Trivialized
• Politicized - reduced

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The NT Coming of the Kingdom

• The dramatic arrival of John the Baptist,
  introducing Jesus

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Three key words
1. Immediately or at once
2. Authority
Teaching
Summons
Over demons
Over sin
Over death
Over nature
3. Mystery
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The Mystery of the Kingdom
The Kingdom
Will come in the future
Has come is now present
Is near or at hand
Has been delayed
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Age to Come
The Christian Life
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The End
History
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Explaining the mystery Theological language
The presence of the future
The already and the not yet
Inaugurated eschatology
Living between the times