The Kingdom of God, Student Workbook, SW02

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T H E K I N G D O M O F G O D

1. The Bible’s two unequal parts:

a. From Genesis 1.1 through Genesis 3.15

b. From Genesis 3.16 to the end of the book, Revelation 22.21

2. In God’s condemnation and judgment of the serpent in Genesis 3.15, the Lord gives the basic structure of spiritual power in the universe, the Kingdom’s drama in miniature.

3. Identity of the characters of God’s kingdom drama

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a. Permanent, unyielding conflict between the serpent and the woman

b. Seed of the woman - the Messiah to come

c. Seed of the serpent - offspring of the serpent

d. The serpent’s head would be crushed, and the Seed’s heel would be bruised.

B. Tremper Longman and Daniel Reid: the picture of God as Divine Warrior begins in Genesis and sustains to Revelation.