The Kingdom foretold

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The Kingdom foretold

• Immanuel's kingdom will be theocratic. The King
  will be
• (a) "Immanuel, God with us"
• (b) by human birth a rightful
• heir to David's throne
• (c) born of a virgin in
• Bethlehem.

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The King will be "Immanuel, God with us"

• "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a
  sign Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a
  son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isa.7
  14).
• "Now all this was done, that it might be
  fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the
  prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with
  child, and shall bring forth a son, and they
  shall call his name Immanuel, which being
  interpreted is, God with us" (Mat. 1 22, 23).

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The King will be heir to David's throne

• Isaiah 111 A shoot will grow out of Jesses root
  stock, a bud will sprout from his roots.
• 112 The Lords spirit will rest on him
• a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom,
• a spirit that provides the ability to execute
  plans,
• a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the
  Lord.
• 113 He will take delight in obeying the Lord.
• He will not judge by mere appearances,
• or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.
• 114 He will treat the poor fairly,
• and make right decisions for the downtrodden of
  the earth.
• He will strike the earth with the rod of his
  mouth,
• and order the wicked to be executed.
• 115 Justice will be like a belt around his waist,

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• Ezek 3423 I will set one shepherd over them, and
  he will feed them namely, my servant David. He
  will feed them and will be their shepherd. They
  will follow my regulations and carefully observe
  my statutes. 3725 They will live in the land I
  gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers
  lived they will live in it they and their
  children and their grandchildren forever. David
  my servant will be prince over them forever.
  3726 I will make a covenant of peace with them
  it will be a perpetual covenant with them. I will
  establish them, increase their numbers, and place
  my sanctuary among them forever. 3727 My
  dwelling place will be with them I will be their
  God, and they will be my people. 3728 Then, when
  my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations
  will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.

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• "For the children of Israel shall abide many days
  without a king, and without a prince, and without
  a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an
  ephod, and without teraphim afterward shall the
  children of Israel return and seek the LORD their
  God, and David their king and shall fear the
  LORD and his goodness in the latter days" (Hos.
  3 4, 5).

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The King was to be born of a virgin in Bethlehem

• Isa 714 For this reason the sovereign master
  himself will give you a confirming sign. Look,
  this virgin is about to conceive and will give
  birth to a son. You, virgin, will name him
  Immanuel.
• Mic 52 As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
  seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah
  from you a king will emerge who will rule over
  Israel on my behalf, one whose origins are in the
  distant past.

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2. Immanuel's kingdom will be heavenly in
character.

• Isa 24 He will judge disputes between nations
  He will settle cases for many peoples. They will
  beat their swords into plowshares, and their
  spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not take
  up the sword against other nations, and they will
  no longer train for war.
• 114 He will treat the poor fairly, and make
  right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth.
  He will strike the earth with the rod of his
  mouth,
• and order the wicked to be executed.115
  Justice will be like a belt around his waist,
  integrity will be like a belt around his hips.

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• Jer 3314 I, the Lord, affirm The time will
  certainly come when I will fulfill my gracious
  promise concerning the nations of Israel and
  Judah. 3315 In those days and at that time I
  will raise up for them a righteous descendant of
  David. He will do what is just and right in the
  land. 3316 Under his rule Judah will enjoy
  safety and Jerusalem will live in security. At
  that time Jerusalem will be called The Lord has
  provided us with justice. 3317 For I, the Lord,
  promise David will never lack a successor to
  occupy the throne over the nation of Israel.

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• Hos 218 At that time I will make a covenant for
  them with the wild animals,
• the birds of the air, and the creatures that
  crawl on the ground. I will abolish the warriors
  bow and sword that is, every weapon of warfare
  from the land, and I will allow them to live
  securely.

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3. Immanuel's kingdom will be.

• (a) in the earth
• (b) centered at Jerusalem
• (c) over re-gathered and converted Israel
• (d) and extending to the nations

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In the earth

• Psalm 28 Ask me, and I will give you the nations
  as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as
  your personal property.
• Jer 235 I, the Lord, promise that a new time
  will certainly come when I will raise up for them
  a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He
  will rule over them with wisdom and understanding
• and will do what is just and right in the
  land.

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centered at Jerusalem

• Isaiah 21 Here is the message about Judah and
  Jerusalem that was revealed to Isaiah son of
  Amoz. 22 In the future the mountain of the
  Lords temple will endure as the most important
  of mountains, and will be the most prominent of
  hills. All the nations will stream to it, 23
  many peoples will come and say, Come, let us go
  up to the Lords mountain, to the temple of the
  God of Jacob, so he can teach us his
  requirements,
• and we can follow his standards. For Zion
  will be the center for moral instruction the
  Lord will issue edicts from Jerusalem.

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The kingdom will be over re-gathered and
converted Israel

• Jer 236 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety
  and Israel will live in security. This is the
  name he will go by The Lord Our Righteousness
  237 So I, the Lord, say A new time will
  certainly come. People now affirm their oaths
  with I swear as surely as the Lord lives who
  delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.
  238 But at that time they will affirm them with
  I swear as surely as the Lord lives who
  delivered the descendants of the former nation of
  Israel from the land of the north and from all
  the other lands where he had banished them. At
  that time they will live in their own land.

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• Jer 3237 I will certainly re-gather my people
  from all the countries where I will have exiled
  them in my anger, fury, and great wrath. I will
  bring them back to this place and allow them to
  live here in safety. 3238 They will be my
  people, and I will be their God.

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The kingdom shall extend to the nations in the
earth

• Psalms 7211 All kings will bow down to him all
  nations will serve him. 7217 May his fame
  endure! May his dynasty last as long as the sun
  remains in the sky! May they use his name when
  they formulate their blessings! May all nations
  consider him to be favored by God! 7218 The Lord
  God, the God of Israel, deserves praise!
• He alone accomplishes amazing things! 7219
  His glorious name deserves praise forevermore!
• May his majestic splendor fill the whole
  earth!

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• "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one
  like the Son of man came with the clouds of
  heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they
  brought him near before him. And there was given
  him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all
  people, nations, and languages, should serve him
  his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which
  shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which
  shall not be destroyed" (Dan. 713, 14).