Ch. 1 - Plan For The Kingdom
Chapter One - Plan For The Kingdom
God has had a "plan for the Kingdom" since before the foundation of the world.
1.1 Grand Conversations-
There are clues in Scripture that must have been conversations between the three persons of the Trinity that sound like this:
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion ...” Genesis 1:26
7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” Genesis 11:7
1.2 Before The Beginning-
Some of these conversations must have happened before the foundation of the world.
... even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him... Ephesians 1:4
... written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. Revelation 13:8 ... Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. John 17:24 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 1 Peter 1:20 God has been planning for a King and a Kingdom from before the beginning to after the end. What was the first thing that Jesus talked about in his public ministry?What is the first petition about in the Lord's Prayer?What will the final destiny be for all of God's people, where they will dwell with God?ANSWER: THE KINGDOM. 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 3:2 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come,your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10 9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, 10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:9-10 (more coming soon... if the LORD tarries)
... even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him... Ephesians 1:4
... written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. Revelation 13:8 ... Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. John 17:24 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 1 Peter 1:20 God has been planning for a King and a Kingdom from before the beginning to after the end. What was the first thing that Jesus talked about in his public ministry?What is the first petition about in the Lord's Prayer?What will the final destiny be for all of God's people, where they will dwell with God?ANSWER: THE KINGDOM. 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 3:2 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come,your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10 9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, 10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:9-10 (more coming soon... if the LORD tarries)