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Over the past few weeks, we have been laying some foundations for understanding what God has prophesied about the future.
Why should we take time to study what God has said about the future?
Taking time to study prophecy is an encouragement to us today!
Why study prophecy?
Assurance of the truth
Assurance of God’s faithfulness
Proper Priorities for Life
1. Assurance of the truth of God’s Word:
When we looked at scripture that has already been fulfilled, we find real evidence that we do have the truth in the word of God!
This book is true!
That is seen in the fact that things that foretold future events happened exactly as they were foretold!
We can know we have the truth, and that we can trust what it says, even if we do not understand how the things foretold could happen.
2. Assurance of God’s faithfulness
As we saw in the covenant God made with Abraham, God is faithful to keep his promises.
He remains faithful even when men are not.
Disobedience does rob us of some of the blessings of what God promises, but it cannot rob us of the promise.
God is always faithful to do what He has said.
I’ll say it again… Disobedience does rob us of some of the blessings of what God promises, but it cannot rob us of the promise.
God is always faithful to do what He has said.
3. Proper Priorities for Life
Today, as we talk about the kingdom, I believe we will find this study of prophecy will teach us to make proper priorities for life.
Prayer
The Kingdom of God
Honestly, this is a huge topic!
I will do my best to give a summary of this topic.
I hope that you will do some research yourself during the week.
I am including some verses in the homework to help you as you study during the week.
First what is a kingdom?
More learned men than myself have said there are three essentials to have a kingdom.
Any ideas what they may be?
Three essentials for a kingdom:
Ruler
Realm (area and subjects)
Reign (period of rule)
The Bible has a lot to say about kingdoms, and about God’s kingdom in particular.
As we look at passages about the kingdom of God, we begin to see that the Bible does speak of different aspects of God’s kingdom.
For example, sometimes the Bible refers to God reigning over all from heaven.
Sometimes it refers to God as the king of Israel.
Sometimes the kingdom is from now to forever.
Other times the kingdom is spoken of as coming in the future.
Why the discrepancies?
Well, they are not discrepancies.
Scripture is not contradicting itself.
At times, God is speaking of different aspects of His Kingdom.
Sometimes God is referring to His Universal Kingdom.
Sometimes He is more specific in talking about His reign over Israel.
Other times He is speaking of His spiritual kingdom, reigning over those who follow Him.
And, yet other times, He is more specific in talking about an aspect of His kingdom which is yet to come.
All of these are a part of His universal kingdom.
This is not much different that what we can do when talking about things.
For example, Tony is a father.
Sometimes we can talk generically about him being a father.
Other times, we can speak specifically of him as a father of his daughters.
Still other times we can refer to his fatherhood over his son.
And still other times we can speak of him as the father, or patriarch of his whole family, including his grandkids.
And, still other times we can speak of him being a spiritual father to those of us that he has helped spiritually.
All of these are different aspects of Tony being a father.
None contradict.
It is just that sometimes we can be specific in addressing different aspects of his fatherhood.
In the same way, the scriptures can speak of different aspects of God’s kingdom.
And each aspect can be defined by these three elements of a kingdom.
That is, if we define who the ruler is, what realm they are ruling over, and when the reign occurs, we can recognize which aspect of God’s kingdom specific passages are addressing.
Today, we are going to focus in on two specific aspects of the kingdom, and try to summarize what the Bible is talking about.
The first aspect of God’s kingdom in the Bible is God’s Universal Kingdom.
As we read the verses, see if you can figure out the ruler, the realm and the reign.
Or, as King Jehoshaphat said,
Or, as David exclaimed,
The Universal Kingdom
The Universal Kingdom
Ruler - the LORD
Realm - Universe, visible and invisible
Reign - past to everlasting
The first aspect of God’s Kingdom is His universal kingdom.
The ruler is the LORD.
He reigns over all the universe, both the seen and the unseen.
His reign has been, and will be, for all generations.
It is happening now, and will continue forever.
It is everlasting.
The fact that our God is sovereign overall, makes his promises real.
Because He is overall, we can trust that He has the authority and power to do what He says.
When He promises to work all things for the good of those who love Him, we can trust that He is going to do that!
That doesn’t mean bad things do not happen.
But it does mean that even when the bad things do happen, we can trust that He is going to work things out for us.
Now, when God created the heavens and the earth, He was sovereign over all.
We see that He then puts man over the created things of this world.
Adam was meant to rule this world under the Lord’s authority.
This is like when Joseph was the ruler of Egypt in Genesis 41.
Pharoah was the sovereign ruler, but he put Joseph in charge, so that no one would lift a finger without Joseph’s “ok”.
Joseph was in charge, but still under Pharoah.
So too, Adam was in charge, but under God.
Unfortunately, Adam decided to follow Satan instead of listening to the Lord.
A consequence is that this world is now under the authority of Satan.
Satan is in charge of this world for now, but God is sovereign over all, and has a plan to restore things to their proper order, with God over all, and His people ruling under His authority.
God’s promise to send one born of a woman who would crush the serpent’s head is a prophecy of the promised one breaking the power of Satan.
Later, God made promises to Abraham which spoke of how the world would be blessed through Him, and how a nation and kings would come through him.
Ultimately, the covenants God made point ahead to when He is going to reestablish His kingdom over the earth, removing Satan and every other evil authority.
In your notes, you will see this diagram.
It is from Paul Benware, who wrote, Understanding End Times Prophecy: A Comprehensive Approach.
I like this diagram, because it shows the relationship between what we were looking at the last couple weeks, the Abrahamic Covenant, and what we are looking at today, the Kingdom of God.
On the Left, you will see the Abrahamic Covenant.
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