The Theocratic Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus, the Christ, as Covenanted in the Old Testament and Presented in the New Testament

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Funk & Wagnalls, 1884 - Bible - 694 pages

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The doctrine of the Kingdom can become better understood and appre
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Without study of the prophecies no adequate idea can be obtained of the Kingdom
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The prophecies relating to the establishment of the Kingdom of God are both conditioned and unconditioned
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The New Testament begins the announcement of the Kingdom in terms expressive of its being previously well known
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To comprehend the subject of the Kingdom it is necessary to notice the belief and expectations of the more pious portion of the Jews
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The prophecies of the Kingdom interpreted literally sustain the expec tations and hopes of the pious Jews
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John the Baptist Jesus and the disciples employed the phrases King dom of Heaven Kingdom of God etc in accordance with the usage of the Jews
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There must be some substantial reason why the phrases Kingdom of God etc were thus adopted
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The Kingdom is offered to an elect nation viz the Jewish nation
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The Theocracy was an earnest introductory or initiatory form of this Kingdom
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The Theocracy thus instituted would have been permanently established if the people in their national capacity had been faithful in obedience
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The demand of the nation for an earthly king was a virtual abandon ment of the Theocratic Kingdom by the nation
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God makes the Jewish king subordinate to His own Theocracy
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This Theocracy or Kingdom is exclusively given to the natural descend ants of Abraham in their corporate capacity
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The prophets however without specifying the manner of introduction predict that the Gentiles shall participate in the blessings of the Theocracy or Ki...
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This Theocracy was identified with the Davidic Kingdom
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This Theocratic Kingdom thus incorporated with the Davidic is re moved when the Davidic is overthrown
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The prophets some even before the captivity foreseeing the overthrow of the Kingdom both foretell its downfall and its final restoration
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The prophets describe this restored Kingdom its extension glory etc without distinguishing between the First and Second Advents
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The prophets describe but one Kingdom
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The prophets with one voice describe this one Kingdom thus restored in terms expressive of the most glorious additions
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The Kingdom thus predicted and promised was not in existence when the forerunner of Jesus appeared
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John the Baptist preached that this Kingdom predicted by the prophets was nigh at hand
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John the Baptist was not ignorant of the Kingdom that he preached
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The disciples sent forth by Jesus to preach this Kingdom were not igno
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The Jews had the strongest possible assurances given to them that
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This Kingdom will be the outgrowth of the renewed Abrahamic cove
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The relation that the Kingdom sustains to the covenants of promise
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The genealogies of our Lord form an important link in the comprehen
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PROP 56The Kingdom was not established during the ministry of the Christ
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The doctrine of the Kingdom preached by the apostles and elders raised
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The doctrine of the Kingdom as held by the churches established by
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The doctrine of the Kingdom was changed under the Gnostic and Alex
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The doctrine of the Kingdom as held by the early Church was finally
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The early Church doctrine was revived after the Reformation
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The Kingdom of God promised by covenant and prophets is to be dis
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This Kingdom as covenanted belongs to Jesus as the Son of Man
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This Kingdom is a complete restoration in the person of the Second
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This Kingdom is given to the Son of Man by God the Father
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As this Kingdom is specially given to the Son of Man as the result of His obedience sufferings and death it must be something different from His Divi...
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Neither Abraham nor his engrafted seed have as yet inherited the King dom hence the Kingdom must be something different from piety relig ion Go...
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The object or design of this dispensation is to gather out these elect to whom as heirs with Abraham and his seed Christ this Kingdom is to be given
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The postponement of the Kingdom is the key to the understanding of the meaning of this dispensation
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The Church is then a preparatory stage for this Kingdom
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Christ in view of this future Kingdom sustains a peculiar relationship to the Church
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Members of the Church who are faithful are promised this Kingdom
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The Kingdom of God is not the Jewish Church
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This Kingdom is not what some call the Gospel Kingdom
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PROP 93 The covenanted Kingdom is not the Christian Church
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The overlooking of the postponement of this Kingdom is a fundamental mist id fruitful source of error in many systems of Theology
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if the Church is the Kingdom then the terms Church and King dom should be synonymous
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The differences visible in the Church are evidences that it is not the pre dicted Kingdom of the Messiah
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The various forms of Church government indicate that the Church is not the promised Kingdom
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That the Church was not the Kingdom promised to Davids Son was the belief of the early Church
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The visible Church is not the predicted Kingdom of Jesus Christ 67
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Neither the visible nor invisible Church is the covenanted Kingdom
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This Kingdom is not a Kingdom in the third heaven
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The Christian Church is not denoted by the predicted Kingdom of the prophets
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The Lords Prayer as given to the disciples and understood by them amply sustains our position
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Our doctrine of the Kingdom sustained by the temptation of Christ
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Page 222 - Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Page 165 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee : and he saith, I am not learned.
Page 313 - And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Page 124 - The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Page 387 - And think not to say within yourselves. We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Page 333 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Page 112 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : " For he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evil deeds.
Page 480 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 288 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.
Page 313 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise Christ to sit on his throne...

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