The Kingdom of God, Student Workbook, SW02

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III. God’s Reign Has Been Inaugurated through His People Israel, Whom God Chose as the Head of the Nations out of Whom Messiah Would Come.

A. Israel is chosen to be a kingdom of royal priests to display God’s glory.

1. Exod. 19.3-6

2. Israel is chosen to be a vessel through whom God would make himself known to the nations.

B. Of the families of Judah in Israel, God extends the covenant promise to King David which becomes the family through which God’s Messianic Seed would come, 2 Sam. 7.12-16.

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1. Now we can trace the history.

a. The proto-evangelium , Gen. 3.15

b. The covenant of Abraham, Gen. 12.3

c. The identification of Judah as the tribe from which Messiah would eventually come, Gen. 49.8-10

d. The covenant with David’s clan, 2 Sam. 7.12-17

2. Confirmation to David as the family through which Messiah himself would come