Mentor's Manual

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at the Second Coming of Jesus, where death, disease, and all evil will be put down, all heaven and earth shall be renewed, and God will become All-in-all. The Story of the Kingdom is the story of Jesus, and God’s intent is to bring the world back under his rule in him. Our prayer is that your love and service to him will abound as you study the Word of God on the forever rule of God! Objectives for Capstone Module 2, The Kingdom of God After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: 1. Describe how God as Lord, reigns over all, but that his reign was challenged through satanic rebellion in the heavenlies, and through the voluntary rebellion and disobedience of the first human pair on earth. 2. Demonstrate how this challenge resulted in the curse upon creation, leading to death, and the greatest of all human tragedies, called by the Church, “the Fall.” 3. How this disobedience by Satan and the first human pair has produced tragic and corrupting results in three spheres of personage and existence: kosmos (the world), sarx (fleshliness of human nature), and kakos (ongoing influence and chaos of the evil one). 4. Recite from memory a passage relating to the challenge of God’s reign. 1. Show from Scripture that since the Fall, the reign of God has been inaugurated in this present world. 2. Describe how God is bringing his reign concretely into the world in an intentional way, firstly, in his own predisposition as a Warrior over his enemies. 3. Show how through the covenant promise of deliverance given to Abraham God worked out his Kingdom’s inauguration, and through the history of God’s dealings and workings with Israel, his covenant people. 4. Articulate how Jesus of Nazareth in the world represents the Kingdom’s presence realized in his incarnation, death, resurrection, and ascension. After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to:

Objectives for Lesson 1 God’s Reign Challenged

Teaching Objectives for Capstone, by Module

Objectives for Lesson 2 God’s Reign Inaugurated