Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 1 | FOUNDATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN MISSION: VISION AND BIBLICAL FOUNDATION / 379

a. Jer. 12.7

b. Jer. 15.14

c. Lam. 2.3-5

6. As Israel’s prophets continued to receive revelation about the coming of Messiah, they pictured God as a divine warrior who would engage the powers to come as in Israel’s earliest divine warrior poetry (e.g., Isa. 26.16-27.6; 59.15b-20; 63.1-6; Zech. 9.1-17; 14.1-21).

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F. The promise of David’s son: a King to reign in righteousness

U rban M i s s i on

1. God gave a solemn promise through the prophets that he would restore his reign among his people and in the earth, Isa. 9.6-7.

2. The nations would respond to his lordship of justice and peace, Ps. 72.8-11.

3. This King of Israel, who would restore God’s righteous rule, would be of David’s house, 2 Sam. 7.8ff.

4. The nations of the earth would bow to this exalted ruler whom God enthroned in his authority, Ps. 2; Ps. 110.

5. As an apocalyptic figure, this ruler would rule over the nations as Lord and King, Dan. 2.35-44; Dan. 7.14, 27.