Mark 1, continued:
- Mark 1:14-15 – Compare the message of John the Baptist in Matthew 3:2; 4:17; 10:7.
The kingdom promised and prophesied
- Daniel 2 – Prophesied the rule of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and then the kingdom of God.
- Daniel 7 – Four beasts: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. Then the kingdom of God would come and saints would prevail despite persecution.
- Daniel 7:14 – See Acts 2:14-47; Ephesians 1:18-23.
- What is the kingdom that is at hand?
- The word “kingdom” is used in different ways:
- The universal dominion of God – Psalms 145:13
- Heaven – II Peter 1:10-11 (see also I Peter 1:3-4)
- Inhabitants or population subject to a king Individuals who’ve been “translated into the kingdom” by being “born again” (baptized) – Colossians 1:13; John 3:3, 5
- The kingdom is the saved!
- The church is the saved!
- The church is the “called out.”
- II Thessalonians 2:14
- Romans 6:3-11
- I Corinthians 12:13 (Ephesians 5:26)
- Ephesians 5:23
- Ephesians 5:24
- The house of God is the saved!
- I Timothy 3:15
- Galatians 3:26-27
- Ephesians 2:16-22 – church, kingdom, and family
- Kingdom, church, and house of God – three different terms identifying the same group of people.
- The word “kingdom” is used in different ways:
- Acts 2 – Fulfillment of all
- Daniel 2; Daniel 7; Matthew 16:18; Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27
- This is what was at hand.
- Luke 1:32-33
- The kingdom coming with power!
- Mark 9:1
- Acts 1:6-8
- Acts 2:1-36
- The kingdom came with power when the Holy Spirit came with power on Pentecost in Acts 2.
- In the church, in the kingdom.
- Colossians 1:12-14
- Revelation 1:4, 9
- Churches:
- Baptized into – I Corinthians 12:3
- Member of body – I Corinthians 12:14-26
- A house / body of stones – I Peter 2:5-9
- Kingdom:
- Baptized into – John 3:3-5
- Citizen of kingdom – John 3; Ephesians 2; Hebrews 8
- A kingdom of priests – Exodus 19:6; I Peter 2:6-9; Revelation 5:10
- Jesus came to preach!
- Mark 1:38
- Salvation is at hand!