1. Abingdon Community Church God’s Big Picture The Prophesied Kingdom
Sunday 2nd December 2018

2. The story so far…

3. Samuel / David / Solomon BUT it doesn’t last…
Promise to Abram
Through Joseph
Under Moses & Joshua
Samuel / David / Solomon
BUT it doesn’t last…
Many descendants
Family together
People delivered
Nation of Israel, following after God
Division
(Israel & Judah)
Idolatry
Be blessed
Be a blessing
Blessed in Goshen
Saved many
God’s plan – law
God’s presence - tabernacle
Under God’s law, blessed & influencing nations
Covenant broken,
Invaded & destoyed
God’s king established
God promises a ‘forever king’
Kings go astray
Last king captured
Promised Land
Place of provision in Egypt
In God’s land, temple showing God presence
Disobedience
leads to exile,
Temple destroyed

4. Decline &
Exile

5. Enter the Prophets…
The concept: Exodus 4: A spokesperson for God!
The prototype: Moses
Terms: ‘Seer’, ‘Man of God’, ‘nabhi’ – called out / calling out
Become main representatives of God as partial kingdom declines
Oral prophets: in the history books e.g. Samuel, Nathan, Elijah
Writing prophets – ‘major’ & ‘minor’

7. Samuel
Nathan
Gad
Ahijah
Elijah
Elisha
??Joel
Nahum
Zephaniah
Habbakuk
Obadiah
Jonah

8. Role of the Prophets… e.g. Micah 6, 4
Looking back: ‘covenant enforcers’
Message of JUDGEMENT
Warn, remind, explain: calling God’s people BACK
Looking forward: declaring HOPE
God is not finished with His people!
His covenants are both conditional and unconditional
He will bring about the perfect kingdom…

9. The prophets message to us…
Challenges our Priorities Calling back
Commissions for Purpose Calling higher
Comforts us with Promise Calling forward

10. A new exodus A new passover lamb All nations included Jer 16:14-15
Prophetic hope
Example references
A new exodus
A new passover lamb
All nations included
Jer 16:14-15
Isaiah 53:6
Isaiah 49:6
A new temple
A new creation
Ezekiel 40-48
Isaiah 65:17-19
A new covenant
Jeremiah 31:31-37
A new king
Isaiah 9:6-7

12. God is not finished with you yet!
Hold on to His promise!
Align your priorities with His!
Step into His purpose for you!

13. The Big story is about to move on… Last words of the OT: Malachi 4 Judgement, Hope, Prioirities, Promise
The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all.
2 “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.[b] And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture. 3 On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
4 “Remember to obey the Law of Moses, my servant—all the decrees and regulations that I gave him on Mount Sinai[c] for all Israel.
5 “Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives. 6 His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.”