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Ses s i on 1: Your Ki ngdom Come : “The Stor y of God’ s Gl or y” 25

D. Two manifestations of the Kingdom of God: The Already/Not Yet Kingdom (Oscar Cullman, Christ and Time ; George Ladd, The Gospel of the Kingdom )

1. The first advent : the rebellious prince bound and his house looted and God’s reign has come

2. The second advent : the rebellious prince destroyed and his rule confounded with the full manifestation of God’s kingly power in a recreated heaven and earth

V. The Christo-centric Order: Messiah Yeshua of Nazareth as Centerpiece in Both God’s Revelation and Rule

A. Messiah’s mission : to destroy the works of the devil, 1 John 3.8

“Jesus’ message was the Kingdom of God. It was the center and circumference of all He taught and did. . . . The Kingdom of God is the master-conception, the master-plan, the master-purpose, the master-will that gathers everything up into itself and gives it redemption, coherence, purpose, goal” (E. Stanley Jones, Is the Kingdom of God Realism? ).

B. Messiah’s birth : the invasion of God into Satan’s dominion, Luke 1.31-33

C. Messiah’s message : the Kingdom’s proclamation and inauguration, Mk.1.14-15

D. Messiah’s teaching : kingdom ethics, Matt.5-7

E. Messiah’s miracles : his kingly authority and power, Mark 2.8-12