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Your Bible Read
This
Genesis 1; Revelation 20.11 - 21.5
Here
Is Your Memory
Verse
He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be
no more death
or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has
passed away.
He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making
everything new ! Rev.21, 4-5
Afterwards
Talk
About This
All that you have to look forward to in the
glorious and
certain future
planned by God from eternity for you.
Something
To Do
Before Next Time
Ask permission to go into schools, colleges
and
universities to share
this Christian world view of the past, present and future.
Written
Diploma Work
Describe on one page what Hebrews 6, 4-5
means by
tasting the
gifts and powers. What can the full banquet be like?
Meditate
Word By
Word On This Verse
Revelation 20.15
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Discovering your roots
You may think
that Christianity is
something quite new in the earth, or that it is a western
religion that makes a bit more sense than local beliefs. But you
would be very wrong. You are about to discover your true identity
and see that you are part of a huge living family with a history
that stretches back to before time began, and reaches forward
into a glorious future. Here is a brief explanation of the chart:
1. Pre-History
Before
history began is the unending ‘time’
of eternity, Psalm 90.2. Little is known but the Bible gives
clues like Psalm 2.7. Ezekiel 28, 12-19 refers to the birth of
Lucifer or Satan as does Isaiah 14, 12-20.
2. This Age
This present
age began by God’s
creation of the universe, the Earth and Adam and Eve, not by
evolution from a ‘big bang.’ After the fall of man,
this age up today is represented by the list on the chart, titled
death, sin and Satan.
Early
Events In Human History
Creation, sin, the fall of man, death, the
promise of God to put things right, the birth of enmity with Satan and
the start of his contest for world power. Mankind divides into Cainites
who are known for violent ungodliness and Sethites like Enoch who are
Godly. However there is intermarriage between spirits and humans, or a
spiritual invasion, and this brings a major crisis of sin on earth.
Genesis chapters 1 to 5.
Noah, The
Flood And A Covenant
Genesis chapters 6 to 11.9. However
sin remains: Gen. 9.20-22, and soon turns to idolatry which God judges
at the Tower of Babel, where the nations and cultures are born: Gen.
11.1-9.
Abraham
In Genesis 11.27-12.1 onwards God turns
his attention to one man, Abraham, who is destined be father of a new
people, the people of God.
Isaac
And Jacob
Abraham’s son and grandson inherit the
same promise as he received, Genesis 12,1-3, which is passed through
Joseph into Egypt and 400 years of slavery. See Genesis 21-Exodus and
lesson 29.
Moses
To Israel And Judah
Moses rescued the entire nation out of
Egypt by God’s hand and they met with God at Sinai, Exodus ch. 19 and
20, lesson 29. Even though they never became a kingdom of priests and a
holy nation, they represented faith in the one true living God for
1,500 years, always looking for a future kingdom. Judges - Malachi
Jesus
The announcement of something new from God
came to a peasant girl in a northern bush town. To shepherds who didn’t
even have the right to testify in a court of law and perhaps most
amazingly to astrologers. Where were the theologians, the media people,
the powerful and the religious who would make sure that the Son of God
would haul Judaism back to God and his holy calling? God knew that
demon powers lodge in those who control society. Therefore this gospel,
this child, was entrusted to peasants, shepherds and to astrologers
seeking something beyond the stars." From Gerald Coates.
Jesus,
The First Of The Age To Come
John the Baptist announces that the
kingdom is near, the end of the Old Testament. Jesus preaches good news
that the kingdom is near, and teaches men how to enter. Jesus sends out
his disciples to say the same and his miracles prove the arrival of
God’s kingdom. Jesus confidently announces the future laws of the
kingdom and teaches kingdom life and destiny through the parables, as
fact not hope. He promised that his kingdom would transcend his death
and told us to pray for more of this kingdom to come. In effect Jesus
declares war against Satan’s kingdom rule.
Matthew 3.2;
5.20; 7.21; John 3.3; Matthew 10.7; 12.28; Matthew chs. 5, 6 and 7;
Matthew 13.11; Luke 22.30; 11.2; Mat. 12.26 and 1 John 3.8.
The
Cross Clears The Way
The enemy is disarmed, Col. 2.15, but is
still present and very dangerous until Jesus comes again.
3. The Age To Come Begins To Enter
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The
resurrection. John ch. 20 to 21.
The first bible school, Acts 1.3
The promise of the Holy Spirit, Acts 1.5
The long-term strategy, Acts 1.8
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The
Church Age Begins
The age of Christ’s concealed glory.
We only taste, but not yet feast on that list on the chart titled
‘Taste.’
The Holy Spirit empowers the counter attack as the two kingdoms enter
into conflict until Jesus returns. Acts 2.1-4. Satan receives a setback
every time the sick are healed, every time a demon is cast out, every
time a lost soul is saved; every time races live together in love and
harmony; every time greed is exposed and punished; every time families
maintain holiness and purity. Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy,
but Jesus comes to give abundant life."
From C Peter Wagner, Spreading the Fire.
The Second Coming Of Christ As King
The age of Christ’s manifest glory.
The first resurrection, 1 Cor. 15,35-57.
Satan is bound and Jesus physically reigns on earth for 1000 years unti
Satan is released and men follow him again, still captive by sin,
Revelation 20, 1-8.
Second Resurrection
The final judgement and the opening of
books at the great white throne of God. The eternal confinement of
death, Hades, Satan, his servants and all whose names are not written
in the book of life, in the lake of fire. Revelation 20, 11-15.
4. The Kingdom Of God Fully Comes
Unending
time, a new earth and a new heaven
and the just rule of God. See the final list on the chart and
thank God for bringing you safe into his kingdom.
To Close Pray
For The
World's Most Unreached Peoples By Name
Taken from
the
Joshua
Project Unreached Peoples List these people have no
church
and as yet no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
United Arab
Emirates
|
People Name
|
Language
|
Population
|
Pashtun,
Western (Pushtun, Pathan, Afghan)
|
Pashto,
Western
|
38,100
|
Yemeni Arab
|
Arabic,
Ta'izzi-Adeni
|
15,000
|
|