THE KINGDOMTHE KINGDOM IN A GLIMPSEIN A GLIMPSE

THE KINGDOM IN HEAVENLY HISTORY

THE ETERNAL KING

• THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ETERNAL AND HEAVENLY SOVEREIGN KINGDOM

• IT HAS DOMINIUM OVER EVERYTHING IN HEAVEN AND UNDER THE HEAVEN

KINGDOM GIVEN• Old Testament: Genesis

– Creation of the world and humanity– Kingdom dominium was given to the 1st couple

• 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

• 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

• 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

– , which they lost: Gen. 1- 3

KINGDOM LOST

• BUT ADAM AND EVE LISTENED TO SATAN AND LOST THE KINGDOM AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE WORLD.

• THEY WERE BANISHED FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

• THEY LOST THE DOMINIUM AND BECAME SUBJECTS TO THE DOMINIUM OF THE ENEMY AND SIN

KINGDOM PROMISED• Old Testament: Genesis through Deuteronomy

–God made covenants with humanity: kingdom seekers: the patriarchs: Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob–He promised to form a nation from Abraham:

Gen. 12– It would be God’s nation, where God would

rule– The whole world would be attracted to the God

of Israel and the nations would fear God.

THE KINGDOM PROMISED

• 1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. 2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

• 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."

• Gen.12:1-3

PRE-KINGDOM PERIOD: THE NOT YET PHASEPRE-KINGDOM PERIOD: THE NOT YET PHASE• Old Testament: Genesis through Deuteronomy– A people is called: from Abraham’s family– And a nation is formed: Exodus

• Moses gives the Law- the kingdom principles for a nation under God (Leviticus & Deuteronomy)

• The preparation of the nation’s army under Moses: (Numbers)• The “not yet” phase of the kingdom of Israel- based on promises

and prophecies- the people failed in obeying the principles, the rules, and the commands given by God during the “not yet” period

• That generation missed the opportunity to conquer the kingdom’s land because it didn’t learn the more important lesson for the kingdom of heaven to prosper on earth: OBEDIENCE

PRE-KINGDOM PERIOD• Old Testament: Joshua

• The kingdom’s land is then given to a new generation under Joshua• The new generation takes possession of the land

for the kingdom of Israel• But then, Joshua died and the new generations

disobeyed God again.

DISORDERED PERIOD• Old Testament: Judges & Ruth

• The Book of Judges describes the disordered period- • “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did

what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 21:25). The kingdom did not advance during that period.

• The Lord then during that period, brings to life Obed, the grandfather of King David, from Ruth and Boaz.

• 16Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her lap, and became his nurse. 17The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi!" So they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. (Ruth 4:16-17)

KINGDOM PROPHESIED• Old Testament: 1 Samuel- 2 Chronicles

• God reproved the priesthood of Eli during the end of the times of the Judges

• Eli was not seeking God’s kingdom anymore. He pleased his children before God.

• God reproved him and took the priesthood from him and his descendancy

• God brought the prophetic then- God created a total new office __ the prophet__ to speak through them in order to establish His kingdom through Israel.

KINGDOM PROPHESIED• Old Testament: 1 Samuel- 2 Chronicles– Proclamation of the Kingdom: the prophetic

proclamation of the kingdom starts with Samuel.– God called the prophetic to give guidance to the

people of Israel: theocracy– The people asked for a king though– God told Samuel to anoint a prince (not a king)– The instruction meant: God will still be the king, but

he will have a prince anointed by Him to walk with Him, under God’s guidance through a prophet: prince+ prophet= God’s reign over Israel

Saul is anointed to be prince over Israel

• 1Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage. (1 Samuel 10:1)

KINGDOM OF SAUL• Old Testament: 1 Samuel- 2 Chronicles

– The nation was then formed and had a king– Saul’s reign was the first for Israel – Saul, the prince chosen by the people didn't learn the

more important principle for a kingdom to prosper: obedience.

– He reigned for 40 years and didn’t prosper the kingdom of God, because he didn’t learn lesson # 1.

REJECTION OF SAUL AS A KING

" 22And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?Behold,Behold, to obey is better than sacrificeto obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 23For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king.“

• (1 Samuel 15:22-23)

KINGDOM LESSONSKINGDOM LESSONS

TO ESTABLISH A KING FOR GOD:• Love Him in the first place, more than

anybody else• Obey him in everything• God is fast in replacing the disobedient: the #

1 priority for God is the kingdom

KINGDOM OF DAVID• Old Testament: 1 Samuel- 2 Chronicles– The prince chosen by God– David- was a man of worship and prayer with a

shepherd heart- he had a heart according to God.– 1 Samuel 16

1Now the LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons."

KINGDOM OF DAVID• Old Testament: 1 Samuel- 2 Chronicles– During the cave time David received deep revelations

from God about the Messianic King and the kingdom: Psalms

– He cleaned up the kingdom from all strongholds and principalities during his kingdom of 40 years.

– He got the design of the King’s Palace, the Temple of Jerusalem from God.

– David advanced the kingdom and established it in Jerusalem.

KINGDOM OF SOLOMON–His son Solomon built the King’s Palace: the

temple of God– The Kingdom was glorious during the first period–Nations came to see the glory of that kingdom– 34Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom

of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.” (1Kings 4)– The kingdom of Solomon was for a while a figure

of the future promised kingdom of God.

GOD’S WARNING TO SOLOMON

• 3The LORD said to him, "(E)I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built (F)by putting My name there forever, and (G)My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

• 4"As for you, (H)if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,

• 5then (I)I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' (1 Kings 9)

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• 6"(J)But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 7(K)then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and (L)the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight So (M)Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8"And this house will become (N)a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, '(O)Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?‘ 9"And they will say, '(P)Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.'"

KINGDOM OF SOLOMON WAS TORE APART– Solomon built God’s temple, but also brought the

nations strongholds back during his 40 years and built temples for them too.– The kingdom was initially advanced and then

Solomon became the king and sought his kingdom instead.–He made wrong alliances with other kingdoms–He gave his heart and his strength to many

women (1000) and became controlled by them–He pleased his women more than God

KINGDOM TORE–God took the kingdom away from him and from

his sons. He only left “David’s lamp” lit: the kingdom of Judah- because God would bring His kingdom to earth anyhow. His promise to David would become truth.–But God’s kingdom stayed alive in the prophetic

promise.– The south and the northern kingdoms go to exile so the

world kingdom’s seeds would be killed and open space for God to raise His own kingdom.

KINGDOM PERIODS

• AFTER SOLOMON, THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL IS SPLIT: – THE NORTHERN KINGDOM: Israel– THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM: Judah

• A sequence of many kings seat at both thrones

• There were good kings (followed God’s rules) and evil kings (did wrong before God’s eyes)

ELIJAH COMES TO SCENE IN ISRAEL

• GOD CALLS A PROPHET AGAIN• AN UNUSUAL PROPHET WITH A POWERFUL

ANOINTING AND AUTHORITY• HE CLEANS UP THE KINGDOM OF F THE

DOMINIUM OF FALSE PROPHETS WHO WERE LEADING THE PEOPLE AWAY FROM GOD

• HE KILLS 950 PROPHETS IN ONE DAY• 1 Kings 18

PROPHETIC MISSION

• 15The LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazael king over Aram; 16and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. 17"It shall come about, the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death. 18"Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him."

KINGDOM RESTORED IN ISRAEL

• Elijah anoints Jehu as king of Israel and Elisha as the next prophet

• God’s team= king Jehu & prophet Elisha• Elisha and Jehu finalized what Elijah started• He kills the 70 sons of the evil king Ahab; kills

Jezebel; and all the left prophets of Baal• 2Kings 9

KINGDOM RESTORED IN JUDAH

• Jehoiada the priest is raised by God to clean up Judah from the evil prophets and queen.

• He established Jehoash as the king. He was 7 years old.

• There was a great revival and they made a covenant with God.

• 2 Kings 11

ISRAEL GOES INTO EXILE TO ASSYRIA

• Israel Captive• 6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of

Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. (2 Kings 17)

Why Israel Fell

• 2 Kings 17:7-23• 7Now this came about because the sons of Israel had

sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they had feared other gods 8and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had introduced.

ASSYRIA THREATENS JUDAH

• The king is Hezekiah• The prophet is Isaiah• Isaiah encourages Hezekiah to trust in the

Lord• Judah is spared• Assyria is defeated by God’s Army• 2 Kings 19

NEXT SEQUENCE OF KINGS

• Manasseh did evil before the Lord• Amon did evil before the Lord• Josiah did right before the Lord- there was a

revival during his reign; the book of the Law was found; he reinstituted the Passover; made new alliance with God

BABYLON CONTROLS JUDAH

• Jehoiakim is controlled by Babylon• After him, Jehoiachin reigns• During his reign Judah goes into exile to

Babylon (2 Kings 24)• Jeremiah, the prophet, prophesied and

brought God’s words to these kings, but they did not listen to him.

THE KINGDOM IN EXILE

• ISRAEL IS IN ASSYRIA• JUDAH IS IN BABYLON• ONLY THE VERY POOR PEOPLE STAYED IN THE

LAND• GOD RAISES PROPHETS IN THE EXILE TO

REVEAL THE FUTURE: THE KINGDOM WILL BE RESTORED

PROPHET EZEKIEL IN BABYLON

• EZEKIEL 1:1-3• 1Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth

day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. 2(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,

• 3the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.)

ISRAEL WILL BE RESTORED: EZEK.37• 21"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will (Y)take

the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

• 22and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

• 23"They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

ISRAEL WILL BE RESTORED• 24"My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have

one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them. 25"They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons' sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever.

• 26"I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

• 27"My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

• 28"And the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever."'"

EZEKIEL PROPHESIED• JUDAH AND ISRAEL WILL BE BROUGHT

FROMALL THE NATIONS WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN SENT TO

• JUDAH AND ISRAEL WILL BECOME ONE KINGDOM AGAIN

• THEY WILL HAVE ONEKING FROM THE DESCENDANCY OF DAVID

• THIS KING WILL BE THEIR SHEPHERD FOREVER• GOD WILL BE THEIR KING FOREVER AND WILL

LIVE IN THEIR MIDST

PROPHET DANIEL IS IN BABYLON

• DANIEL 7:• 24'As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings

will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings.

• 25'He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

• 26'But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever. 27'Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.'

DANIEL SAW THE FUTURE KINGDOM

• There will be wars among nations• Israel will be persecuted and put down• God will judge the nations• God will give the kingdom to His people• His kingdom will last forever

The transference of God’s Kingdom

• The kingdom was taken away from Israel and given to another people who would give Him the expected fruits.

• Mat. 21:33-45• Mk 12:1-12; • Lk 20:9-19 • In the present age God has transferred

stewardship of His kingdom from unbelieving Israel to other stewards: the church

A kingdom Parable: Mat. 21• 33"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted

a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. 34When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. 35"The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37Last of all, he sent his son to them. 'They will respect my son,' he said.

• 38"But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance.' 39So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

• 40"Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"

• 41"He will bring those wretches to a wretched end," they replied, "and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time."

• 42Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: " 'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone[a]; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'[b]?

• 43"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."[c]

• 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus' parables, they knew he was talking about them.

A PROPHETIC TIMING PARABLE

• Jesus taught through a prophetic timing parable

• This parable explained exactly what was going on in God’s Kingdom timetable: the Son had been sent to inspect the vineyard and they were about to kill Him; and the kingdom would officially be taken off from Israel. It was a present parable for them.

THE KING HAD TO COME FROM HEAVEN• No man could hold God’s kingdom and to advance it

because of the human nature: DISOBEDIENCE AND MAN’S KINGDOM FIRST

• God had to send His own son to guarantee that His kingdom would be established.

• The parable of the tenants explains that Jesus was the chief cornerstone of that kingdom and they didn’t understand.

JESUS KINGDOM WILL PROSPER

• For God’s Kingdom to advance in the soil of the earth Jesus has to be the King. He will advance the kingdom of the Father.

• He conquered it and when everything is finished and all the enemies destroyed He will bring glory to the Father and give the kingdom back to Him (1 Cor. 15).

• Guaranteed.

KINGDOM PERIODS• New Testament:– The 1st Coming of the King: 2000 YEARS AGO• Salvation; Formation of the church• 1st phase of the kingdom: the MYSTERY phase

• Now: the church age– The Mystery Phase: • the kingdom inside the church- • the church using the keys of the kingdom-• The church proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom to all

nations

• Future: The 2nd Coming of the King: The Millennium• The Kingdom of the Father and Eternity

Table discussion

• Why did Israel lose the kingdom of God?

– During the promise and preparation period?– During the pre-kingdom period?– During the kingdom period?

• How can we learn from their experience in order to advance the kingdom?

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

• REVELATION• Kingdom FAITH• AUTHORITY• ENGAGEMENT• OBEDIENCE