The Victorious Kingdom: Understanding the Book of Revelation Series Volume 3 by Richard Booker

Author:Richard Booker
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780768441987
Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2013-01-15T08:00:00+00:00

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Write a summary of what you have learned in this lesson. Write the summary in clear, concise words as if you were going to present it to another person.

2. Describe how you can apply what you have learned in this lesson to your life.

3. Share what you have learned with your family, friends, and members of your study group.

Chapter 8

The Second Coming of Messiah

REVELATION REVIEW

In the Book of Genesis, God created Adam and Eve to fellowship with Him and rule over His creation. Genesis 1 explains:

God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:27-28).

God gave Adam and Eve a free will to obey or not obey Him. Tragically, they chose not to obey God. When they disobeyed God, they lost their God-given authority and right to rule over His creation. Satan usurped their authority and established an anti-God world system that has been in place since Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. In Revelation 17–18, we see that system coming to an end.

Beginning with Abraham, God put in motion His plan to take back control from satan and return it to humankind. The Bible is God’s record of how He called a people through whom He would accomplish this task. We learn about how God advanced His plan in history through Moses, King David, and the Hebrew prophets. Because of sin and human failures, none of God’s own people were worthy to receive the authority and right to rule for Him as God originally intended Adam and Eve to do.

So God prepared for Himself a body and became one of us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In His first coming, Jesus fulfilled His mission as the Lamb of God who died for our sins. After He was resurrected, His followers asked Jesus, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:6).

Jesus replied:

It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth (Acts 1:7-8).

Jesus clarified that He would not physically establish God’s Kingdom on the earth when He was resurrected. He would establish it spiritually in the hearts of His people instead. However, in God’s own time, He would return as the worthy One through whom God would restore His rule over the earth, through a man.

The story in Acts continues:

When He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

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