Saturday 31 October 2015

The Kingdom-Scheme

Israel's Promised Kingdom-Salvation:

1. Didn't fail

2. Wasn't postponed until the future

3. Wasn't fulfilled instead with a change of identity, and in some other, spiritual, ethereal way

4. Was 
fulfilled on location, on time, in Israel, literally

5. It's just that only the remnant of believers experienced it

6. Then Gentiles were grafted in next

7. But it wasn't over for Jews - because God began using believing Gentiles to provoke unbelieving Jews to faith

8. In that order (first in Israel, then from among the Gentiles) God created one new man - the Church - the body of Christ - the house of God - comprising Jews and Gentiles without distinction, and without the works of the Law - the very outcome foreseen in the Law and the Prophets

9. History recorded the destruction of the Temple, in the generation predicted by Daniel and Jesus - but as for the timing of His coming, and the resurrection of the dead, no-one knows, only the Father

10. Jesus inaugurated the Kingdom-salvation and grace on the cross - yet His Second Coming shall bring the consummation of that Kingdom-scheme - of the Gospel scheme - but only the born-again shall enter it

11. In the mean time we have received the power of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses unto JESUS among all nations

12. And then the end of all things - which was first announced after John baptised Jesus, and which is at hand - and the renewing of all things; the resurrection; final judgment; the visible Kingdom; and new heavens and a new earth - shall come

That is the Apostles' doctrine - the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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