The Gospel of the Kingdom

Part I

A Light to the Gentiles

I would have lost heart, unless I had

believed
That I would see the goodness of the LORD
In the land of the living.
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The Image of the King
Let Us Make Man into Our Image

intoinare
Numerical & Geographical Focus
all
before

Designed for Dignity: What God has Made it Possible for You to Do
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A Defaced Image
You Shall Surely Die
day
Curses on Expansion & Dominion
Defacement & Hope of Redemption
are
heilsgeschichte
The Three Pillars
Responsibility
Depravity
Promise of Redemption
The Sabbath Blessing

de jure de facto
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Continuation of Purpose
The End of His Original Creation
not
A Bit about Ancient Covenants
covenant
parity
suzeraintyvassal:

The One Purpose of God

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The Covenant with Noah
Increase in Wickedness

physical
Covenant Obligations
Covenant Promises

away

The Wellspring No. 36

The Wisdom of Solomon
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The Covenant with Abraham
A Unilateral Covenant
all by Himself
alone
Me
Accommodating not Endorsing
they
 A Blessing to All Nations
A Mighty Nation
A Blessing to the Other Nations

God’s Overall Purpose

so that
God’s Continuing Plan
reforming
The Sign of the Covenant
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The Covenant With Moses
From Abraham To Moses
“Let My People Go!”
spiritually
Judgement on the Egyptian Gods
The Passover
The Mosaic Covenant
The giving of the law of God
The giving of blessings and cursesthisthat
in order that
Conditional or Unconditional?
The Facets of a Covenant Relationship
better
Visible & Invisible Covenant Communities
invisible
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Israel the Firstborn
The Firstborn
The Firstfruits
Passover
Pentecost
Tabernacles

Hebrew Union College Annual Messianic Revelation in the Old Testament

A Father Who Keeps His Promises
 Seeing is Believing

The Song of Moses

Kingship in the Ancient Near East
YHWH Demonstrates His Superiority
seeing
Why Judgement is a Blessing
not
only
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The Throne of David
Kingship: Good or Bad?
His right
The Covenant With David
Dynastic Kingdom
David’s
God’s David’s
The If Word Again
if
Off to a Good Start
Solomon’s Failure

Ark of the Covenant

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The New covenant
ZionJerusalemIsrael
through
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Daniel’s Hope
The Great Law Court Scene
through
A Suffering Messiah?
after
 Part II

Your Kingdom Come

“Your Kingdom come,
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.”

─ Matthew 6:10
“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel,
For He has visited and redeemed His people,
And has raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of His servant David,
As He spoke by the mouth of His holy
prophets,
Who have been since the world began,
That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,
To perform the mercy [Gk. ‘covenant
faithfulness’] promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,
The oath which He swore to our father
Abraham:
To grant us that we, being delivered from the
hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear, in holiness and
righteousness
Before Him all the days of our life….
Through the tender mercy [Gk. ‘covenant
faithfulness’] of our God,
With which the Dayspring from on high has
visited us;
To give light to those who sit in darkness and
the shadow of death,
To guide our feet into the way of peace.

─ Luke 1:68-79
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The Hope of First Century Judaism
Deliverance at Hand
Salvation and Resurrection
earth
on the earth

A Blessing to the Whole World

Wisdom
A Change of Heart
did nottalk

Paul & Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of ReligionWhat St. Paul Really Said
op. cit
 The Messiah’s Forerunner
Simeon and Anna Recognize the Messiah
A Call to Repentance

usthem
Who Are The Children of Abraham?
Make Straight His Paths
 The Gospel of the Kingdom
The Lamb of God
Not According to Plan
insignificant that John’s doubts arise when he is in prison. He must have thought
something like this: “If Jesus is really the Messiah, then why am I in prison? The
Messiah is meant to make judgement in favour of the saints of the Most High, but things
are clearly going differently or I wouldn’t be where I am.” Understandably
The Signs of the Kingdom
not
The Kingdom of God is indeed something that is yet to come (future). But you
now see the firstfruits of that kingdom. I have fulfilled enough of the promises for you
to believe that I will fulfil the rest .has
A Foretaste of the Kingdom
The Gospel of the Kingdom
ourChrist’s
Rewards, Punishments and Bread
zoe aionios
already have
, Vine’sExpository Dictionary of Bible Wordstwo
The Offer of the Kingdom
The Greatest Shock

What Saint Paul Really Said

New Heavens, New Earth: The Biblical Picture of the Christian Hope

reserved in heaven for youfrom.

 The Passover Lamb
The Passover Meal
same
The Blood of the Covenant
Changing Conditions for Covenant Membership
The Mystery of the Missing Cup
actually
on earth
The New covenant Community
community
community
within
that

The Gospel According to Mark

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He is Risen!
Our Hope Also
earth
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Yes and Amen in Christ
Jesus Fulfils the Covenant With Adam and Noah
reason
Jesus Fulfils the Abrahamic Covenant
how
entire earth
Jesus Fulfils the Mosaic Covenant
Jesus Fulfils the Davidic Covenant

in the line of David

His
not Thisanotheron earth as it is in heavenyet

The Calling of the New Covenant Community

A Father Who Keeps His Promises

fromJubilee Reflections at Westminster AbbeyThe Challenge of Jesus
The Wellspring No. 31: Occasional Papers of Arthur & Rosalind Eedle
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All Things under His Feet
Paul the Jew
from withinWhat St. Paul Really Said

The Firstfruits of the Whole World

especiallyespeciallyexclusively
not
so that they can image God to the rest of the world
Pauline Anachronisms

Paul & Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion What St. Paul Really Said Paul and
Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline TheologyPerspective on Paul

What Saint Paul Really Saidop. cit.

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The Glory to be Revealed
Saving Souls
Death: A Disintegrating Influence
Heaven: A Waiting Room
for
Meeting the Lord in the Air
Thennot
third
Some Practicalities About Resurrection
merely
A Spiritual Body
notpsychikos pneumatikoskospsychikospsyche pneumatikos
more fully clothed
yet in my flesh
Imaging God Through Resurrection
imperfect shall
Being Human
Being HumanBeing Human
The Weight of Glory
Matter Matters
in the flesh

two two
futureWestminster Abbey Lectures 2001by the Canon Theologian, Dr. N. T. WrightThe Resurrection of the
Son of God
Religio Medici
op. cit
Being Human: the nature of spiritual experience
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Eden Reawakened

The Redemption of Nature

Taking our Stewardship Seriously

Pollution and the Death of Man: The Christian View of Ecology

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The Gospel of the Kingdom for Today
The Passion of the Western Mind

City of God
away
present
The Future as the Key to the Present
looking for
Laying Hold of our Hope
ex nihilolay hold
God’s
Imagining Christ to the World
Working in Hope

Return to the First Works

…I believe God really has dived down into the bottom of
creation, and has come up bringing the whole redeemed nature
on His shoulders. The miracles that have already happened are,
of course, as Scripture so often says, the first fruits of that
cosmic summer which is presently coming on. Christ has risen,
and so we shall rise. St. Peter for a few seconds walked on the
water; and the day will come when there will be a re-made
universe, infinitely obedient to the will of glorified and obedient
men, when we can do all things, when we shall be those gods
that we are described as being in Scripture. To be sure, it feels
wintry enough still: but often in the very early spring it feels like
that. Two thousand years are only a day or two by this scale. A

The Passion of the Western Mind

Candles in the Dark: Letters to her friends
New Heavens, New Earth
The Future Great Planet Earth
The Problem of PainThe Problem of Pain
 man really ought to say, ‘The Resurrection happened two
thousand years ago’ in the same spirit in which he says, ‘I saw
a crocus yesterday.’ Because we know what is coming behind
the crocus. The spring comes slowly down this way; but the
great thing is that the corner has been turned. There is, of
course, this difference, that in the natural spring the crocus
cannot choose whether it will respond or not. We can. We have
the power either of withstanding the spring, and sinking back
into the cosmic winter, or of going on into those ‘high mid-
summer pomps’ in which our Leader, the Son of Man, already
dwells, and to which He is calling us. It remains with us to follow
or not, to die in this winter, or to go on into that spring and that
summer.
—C. S. Lewis

God in The Dock

 Appendix
Understanding the Destruction Verses
The Future Great Planet Earth
burned up
Common Misinterpretations of II Peter 3:10
but the earth and the works upon it will be found
not
heuretesetaiheuretesetai
heuretesetairuesetaiek purothesetai The Law and the Elements of the
Word
found
will be found
1. “The Elements”
dunameisthe heavenly bodies

The “Fire”
For he is like a refiner’s fire
3. “Destruction”

4. “The New Creation”

newnewneoskainosNeosneoskainosrenewed
neoskainosrenewed
transformation
the end of the world
the end of the world?
the end of the world.
the end of the world,
the end of the world
kosmos gè aiōn This age At the end of this age
end sunteleiatelos sunthe end of the agesunteleia

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