End Times - Week 29

STUDYGUIDE-142-180517 - length: 60:00 - taught on May, 17 2018

Class Outline:


Thursday Evening Bible Study

Series:  the End Times - Bible prophecy about future events and periods

Teaching Summary for Week 29

The Kingdom and the Covenants

 

Part 6.  The future Messianic Kingdom in Old Testament prophecy

The Old Testament prophets wrote extensively about the future Messianic Kingdom.  In fact,  the future Kingdom is referred to by nearly every Old Testament prophet.

We now turn our attention to the facts about the Kingdom that the Old Testament prophets describe.

 

The Government in the future prophesied Kingdom

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Five major subjects in the future prophesied Kingdom

The five major subjects in the Millennium

  1. The Enemy - satan will be bound for the 1,000 years
  2. The Messiah -our Lord Jesus Christ will be revealed to earthly people in all His glory
  3. The Land - Palestine, the promised land
  4. The City - Jerusalem, the world capital
  5. The Temple (worship)

 

  1. The Enemy - satan will be bound for the 1,000 years
  2. The Messiah -our Lord Jesus Christ will be revealed to the people on earth in all His glory.
  3. The Land - Palestine, the promised land

 

  1. The City - Jerusalem, the world capital

 

  1. Note: Zion is another name for Jerusalem

 

  1. The 12 gates of the city will be named for the 12 tribes of Israel. 

            EZE 48:30-35

 

  1. The boundaries of the city will be greatly enlarged:

JER 31:38-40

 

  1. Jerusalem will be the center of the entire earth.

ISA 2:2-4

Also MIC 4:1-2

 

  1. The Millennial Jerusalem is not the same city as the New Jerusalem described in REV 21:10-18.

 

  1. Jerusalem will dwell in peace and security (safety). The city will be protected by the power of the King.

ISA 26:1-4

ISA 33:20-24

ZEC 14:10-11

 

 

  1. The city will be glorious.  Jerusalem will reflect the glory of the King.

ISA 60:14-21

ISA 62:5-10

ZEC 2:1-13

 1 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is and how long it is." 3 And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him, 4 and said to him, "Run, speak to that young man, saying, ' Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it. 5 'For I,' declares the Lord, 'will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.'"  6 " Ho there! Flee from the land of the north," declares the Lord, "for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens," declares the Lord. 7 "Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon." 8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, "After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye. 9 "For behold, I will wave My hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me. 10 " Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," declares the Lord. 11 " Many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. 12 "The Lord will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 " Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for He is aroused from His holy habitation."

 

 

  1. Zion will be the center of worship for Israel and the nations

ZEC 8:20-23

20 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

 21 'The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, "Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I will also go." 22 'So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.' 23 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'In those days ten men from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."'"

 

 

  1. The Temple: Worship in the Millennial Kingdom

 

  1. The character of the worship

 

JER 33:9-11

 ' It will be to Me a name of joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the good that I do for them, and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.'

10 "Thus says the Lord, 'Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, "It is a waste, without man and without beast," that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, 11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say,

" Give thanks to the Lord of hosts,

For the Lord is good,

For His lovingkindness is everlasting";

and of those who bring a thank offering into the house of the Lord. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first,' says the Lord.

 

EZE 20:40-41

40 "For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel," declares the Lord God, "there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will accept them and there I will seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things. 41 " As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will prove Myself holy among you in the sight of the nations.

 

  1. The Temple in Jerusalem will be the world center of worship. The entire world will unite in the worship of God and His Son the Messiah.

ISA 45:22-25

22 " Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;

For I am God, and there is no other.

23 " I have sworn by Myself,

The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness

And will not turn back,

That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

24 "They will say of Me, 'Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength.'

Men will come to Him,

And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

25 "In the Lord all the offspring of Israel

Will be justified and will glory."

 

ISA 56:6-7

6 "Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,

To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord,

To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath

And holds fast My covenant;

7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain

And make them joyful in My house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;

For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples."

 

ISA 66:18-23

18 "For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. 19 "I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations. 20 "Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the Lord, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the Lord, "just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. 21 "I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites," says the Lord.

22 "For just as the new heavens and the new earth

Which I make will endure before Me," declares the Lord,

"So your offspring and your name will endure.

23 "And it shall be from new moon to new moon

And from sabbath to sabbath,

All mankind will come to bow down before Me," says the Lord.

 

ZEC 8:20-23

20 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities. 21 'The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, "Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I will also go." 22 'So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.' 23 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'In those days ten men from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."'"

 

MAL 1:11

11 "For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be  great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be  great among the nations," says the Lord of hosts.

 

  1. The Levitical priests will return as the ministers of the Lord.  They will present offerings and prepare sacrifices to the Lord.

 

See ISA 66:20-21 above.

 

JER 33:17-22

17 "For thus says the Lord, ' David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel; 18  and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to prepare sacrifices continually.'"

19 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, 20 "Thus says the Lord, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time, 21 then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers. 22 'As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'"

 

EZE 44:9-17

9 'Thus says the Lord God, " No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary. 10 "But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity. 11 "Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them. 12 "Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn against them," declares the Lord God, "that they shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

13 "And they shall not come near to Me to serve as a priest to Me, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed. 14 "Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the house, of all its service and of all that shall be done in it.

15 "But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood," declares the Lord God. 16 "They shall enter My sanctuary; they shall come near to My table to minister to Me and keep My charge. 1