Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 4 | THE NT WITNESS TO CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM: THE MESSIAH OPPOSED / 161

a. It would produce deliverance of the nation of Israel from political oppression and domination .

b. It would result in the refreshing and renewing of all nature back to its Eden-like glory and splendor .

c. It would establish peace and righteousness with justice among all the nations, with Israel at its head.

d. It would produce global spiritual transformation , with all nations changed to serve and worship the true God, YHWH.

e. It would be apocalyptic in its power: it would come suddenly, in the future, affecting all the world, both the material world and human affairs.

II. Jesus’ Appearance Is the Presence of the Kingdom of God in the Here and Now: He Opposes and Overcomes the Effects of the Curse and the Kingdom of the Devil.

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A. Jesus Christ in his person represents the Kingdom of God in the here and now .

B i b l i ca l S tud i e s

1. Jesus announced himself to be the promised Messiah through whom all of the effects of the curse, sin, demonic oppression, and social injustice would be overcome.

a. He announced with his coming the Kingdom as present, Mark 1.14-15.