Transcript The Kingdom of God Understood through the Learning Model of the Tree of Life to Tree of Life! Luke 4:43-44 But he said,

The Kingdom of God
Understood through the Learning Model of the
Tree of Life to Tree of Life!
Luke 4:43-44 But he said, “I must preach the good news of
the kingdom of God…because that is why I was sent.”
Lesson 2: Jesus The Way Back Home
The Kingdom of God
Lesson 2: Jesus The Way Back Home
Today’s Agenda Introduction KOG
• Tree of Life Learning Model for Kingdom of God
• Kingdom of God Beginning and Ending Intent
• Israel’s Role and Place in the Kingdom of God
• The Church’s Role and Place in the Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God is the eternal spiritual home
where Believers will live with God in infinite (ZOI)
blessing, provision, love, joy, intimacy & holiness as his
children.
The Kingdom of God is the very purpose and will of
God expressed in creation and throughout the Bible.
Why then do we live (BIOS) in a World filled with
violence, illness, natural disasters, hate, rage, addiction,
family dysfunction, jealousy, sadness and religious
fervor that continually interrupts our happiness and
sense of well-being.
The Kingdom of God is the eternal spiritual home
where Believers will live with God in infinite blessing,
provision, love, joy, intimacy & holiness as his children.
Ephesians 1:3-15 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless
in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus
Christ…
Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those
who are God’s
Jesus: The Way Back Home
Tree of Life Learning Model Summary
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1.
Faith
the Bible is the living word of God
2.
Jesus
the Jewish Messiah is the key to understanding
3.
Intent
Understand God’s beginning and ending intent
4.
Redeem
God redeems for His Glory and Glorifies the redeemed.
5.
Heart
God is a Person who desires love and relationship
6.
You
All scripture is for you: Time, Place and Audience
7.
Character
God is Love and Holiness and we are becoming Love
8.
Love
Even God’s Judgment is based on Love
9.
Eternal
God does not change but we mature
10. Paradigm
We must make a paradigm shift to Yeshua’s viewpoint
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come
that they may have life, and have it to the full or abundantly.
Eternal Life Prospective
Yeshua/Jesus
(ZOI)
World/Temporal
Satan/Humanism
(BIOS)
1 John 4:3-7 They are from the world and therefore speak from the
viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.
We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us;
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Tree of Life Learning Model Summary
Is the Kingdom of God about Power?
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come
that they may have life, and have it to the full or abundantly.
Eternal Life Prospective
Yeshua/Jesus
(ZOI)
World/Temporal
Satan/Humanism
(BIOS)
Kingdom of God/Father in Heaven
Kingdoms of Men
Power to Submit to Holy Spirit
Power to Defeat
Power of God’ Spirit and His Word
Military Power
Living in your Victory in God
Power to Win
Ephesians 6:10-12 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full
armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our
struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against …the spiritual forces of evil in the
heavenly realms.
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come
that they may have life, and have it to the full or abundantly.
Eternal Life Prospective
Yeshua/Jesus
(ZOI)
World/Temporal
Satan/Humanism
(BIOS)
B:
I drive safely because I don’t need another ticket.
Z:
I drive safely to protect others and myself from harm.
B:
I don’t fool around because a divorce would bankrupt me.
Z:
I don’t fool around because I love and honor my spouse.
B:
The Law of Moses has been nailed to the cross.
Z:
Through the Law I learn to submit to the Holy Spirit in Love
God’s Heart for Israel
Romans 9:1-5 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience
confirms it in the Holy Spirit— I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish
in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from
Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, the people of
Israel.
Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the
receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the
patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is
God over all, forever praised! Amen.
Romans 11:12-25 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the
apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry in the hope that I
may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
Let’s make a Paradigm Shift:
W: Why don’t the Jewish people get it?
E: How can the Church better help Jewish people find Jesus?
1. Canaanites and Egypt
2. Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans
3. Roman Church State: Replacement Theology: 300 AD and after:
condemned Jews, accusing them of being idolaters, torturers,
spiritually deaf, blasphemers, gluttons, adulterers, canibals,
Christ-killers, and beyond God's forgiveness. With the rise of
the Church-State, certain religio-political attitudes such as Jesus
ruling the world through the Roman Christian government
became evident in the Church.
4. Crusades
5. Spanish Inquisition
6. Russian Pogroms
7. Protestant Reformation- Martin Luther Anti-Semitism’
8. Holocaust-Lutheran Church and World-wide Church
9. Islamic and Arab Wars and Terrorism
Parable of the
Muslim and
Christian Post
911
Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the Heaven
and the Earth…
Genesis 1:23-25 And God said, “Let the land produce
living creatures according to their kinds: …wild animals,
each according to its kind.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:30-2:4 God saw all that he had made, and it
was very good. …
Genesis 1:30-2:4 And God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the
work of creating that he had done.
Genesis 1:26-28 So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God he created him; male and
female he created them. God blessed them and said
to them,
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over ..every living creature that
moves on the ground.”
Genesis 2:24-3:1 For this reason a man will leave his
father and mother and be united to his wife, and they
will become one flesh.
The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt
no shame.
Genesis 2:14-18 And the LORD God commanded the
man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil,
for when you eat of it you will surely die.”
Genesis 3:3-5 (Satan) You will not surely die the
serpent said to the woman.
“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will
be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good
and evil.”
Genesis 3:7-10 Then the eyes of both of them were
opened, and they realized they were naked; so they
sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the
LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool
of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among
the trees of the garden.
But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are
you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I
was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
Genesis 3:13-15 The woman said, “The serpent
deceived me, and I ate.”
And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers; he will crush
your head, and you will strike his heel.”
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal
and kill and destroy;
Ezekiel 28:12-17
(Satan) You were the
model (image) of
perfection..You were
in Eden, the garden of
God;
You were blameless
in your ways from the
day you were created
till wickedness was
found in you. ..
So I drove you in
disgrace from the
mount of God, and I
expelled you,
World/Temporal
Satan/Humanism
(BIOS)
Genesis 3:20-4:1 The LORD God made
garments of skin for Adam and his wife and
clothed them.
And the LORD God said, “The man has now
become like one of us, knowing good and evil.
He must not be allowed to ..take also from the
tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Genesis 3:20-4:1 So the LORD God banished
him from the Garden of Eden to work the
ground from which he had been taken
Free Will: Blessing or Curse
The Journey Home is a choice!
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2 Corinthians 4:4-5 The god of this
age has blinded the minds of
unbelievers, so that they cannot see
the light of the gospel of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 11:13-16 for Satan
himself masquerades as an angel of
light.
The Kingdom of God
John 14:6-7 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and
the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you
really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now
on, you do know him and have seen him.” John 6:46-48 I tell
you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
Colossians 1:15-19 He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn over all creation. He is before all things, and in him all
things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church
When God talks about Israel he is talking about the Gentiles
And most importantly he is talking about you!
Genesis 12:1-2 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people
and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 15:5-6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as
righteousness.
Genesis 15:13-14 Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a
country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred
years. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will
come out with great possessions.
Exodus 3:6-8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the
Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a
land flowing with milk and honey —the home of the Canaanites, Hittites,
Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 11:25-29 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a
curse— the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I
am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands
Jeremiah 5:17-19 “ As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your
own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.
Zechariah 8:11-12 The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit ..As you
have been an object of cursing among the nations, O Judah and Israel, so will I
save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but let your hands be
strong.”
Isaiah 66:7-9 Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a
moment?
Ezekiel 36:35-36 This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of
Eden
Free Will: Blessing or Curse
Follow Jesus back home!
Revelation 21:2-14 Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will
live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with
them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high,
and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance
was like that of a very precious jewel, …
On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
…The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the
names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Revelation 22:13-16 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the
Beginning and the End.
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the
tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs,
those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the
idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am
the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
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KOG Timeline- Bible History of TOL to TOL
1. Garden of Eden- Tree of Life - Intended Kingdom of God
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Tree of Knowledge- Sin- Death and Humanity in Diaspora
Noah’s ARC- Type for Kingdom of God and Judgment
Abraham –Promise of Blessings: Land, Protection, Seed, Law, Messiah
5. Israel- Intended Kingdom of God
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Egypt
Need for God to Redeem
Desert
Sanctification- Law and Sacrifice
Promised Land
Eternal Life through Faith and Obedience
Judges and Prophets
God as King and Judgment
Kings and Prophets
Need for God-Man and Priest-King Messiah
Diaspora Judgment and Promise
Time of Yeshua
God’s Faithfulness and Un-Belief
Church age- Born Again Gentile and Jewish Believers
Secular Israel Re-Born as a Nation: God’s Faithfulness
End-Times: Ingatherings, Rapture, Tribulation and Redemption
Messianic Kingdom- Born Again Israel and Nations
Glorified Kingdom in New Jerusalem-Tree of Life
The Kingdom of God
Understood through the Learning Model of the
Tree of Life to Tree of Life!
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KOG Topic
Feasts as Signs
Law and Grace
Patriarchs
TrumpetsAbraham and
Issac
Judgment and
Love
David, Saul &
Jonathan
TabernaclesMessianic
Kingdom