The Arrival of the King: Tension Between Christ and Satan
Explore the significance of the arrival of the King in biblical context, delving into the tension between Christ and Satan as portrayed in Messianic prophecy, the Hypostatic Union, the death and resurrection of Christ, and the transition from the Old to New Covenant. Discover the eternal victory believers are bestowed over Satan through the Gospel, heralding the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ's redemptive work.
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Biblical Literacy Session 5 NT Intro: The Arrival of the King
Course Agenda Session 1 -The Bible: God s Word, Our Hope Session 2 The Gospel: Instructions for Hope Session 3 OT Intro: Knowing a Holy God Session 4 OT Intro: Looking for a Future King Session 5 NT Intro: The Arrival of the King Session 6 NT Intro: Living for the King
Session 5 Agenda Tension Between Christ and Satan Messianic Prophecy The Hypostatic Union The Death of Christ The Resurrection of Christ From Old to New Covenant
NT Intro: The Arrival of the King Tension Between Christ and Satan
Tension Between Christ and Satan The gospel then is: the Good News that the Kingdom of God has come to us in Jesus Christ and through His work (life, death, resurrection, ascension, gift of the Holy Spirit, and promised return), those who believe in Him are given eternal victory over Satan and the effects of sin.
Genesis 3:14-15 (Protoeuangelion) So the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 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.
Revelation 12:1-5 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.
Revelation 12:1-5 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
Revelation 12:17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring those who keep God s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.
NT Intro: The Arrival of the King Messianic Prophesy
Messianic Prophecy There are more than 300 prophecies fulfilled by the coming of Christ A professor with 600 students at Westmont College analyzed 48 messianic prophecies The statistical probability of Christ fulfilling just 48 of these is 1 in xxx
Messianic Prophecy Being struck by lightning in a year = 1 in 2M Becoming president = 1 in 10M Winning the Powerball or Mega Millions = 1 in 300M A meteorite landing on your house = 1 in 180T Jesus fulfilling just 48 of the 300+ prophecies = 10157
Messianic Prophecy 1 In 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Messianic Prophecy Matthew gives the clearest links between OT and NT detailing Messianic prophecy and its relationship to Jesus.
Isaiah 7:14 Virgin Birth Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel.
Micah 5:2 - Bethlehem But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.
Jeremiah 31:15- Herod This is what the Lord says: A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.
Isaiah 40:3 John the Baptist A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 53:4 Healings by Christ Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
Zechariah 9:9 Palm Sunday Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
NT Intro: The Arrival of the King The Hypostatic Union
The Hypostatic Union Is Christ both God and Man? Is He a Man, indwelt by God? Does He take on His deity at the Cross? Did Jesus humanity get absorbed in His Christness?
Council of Chalcedon 451AD The Council of Nicaea in 325AD declared that God the Father and Jesus the Son were consubstantial . This affirmed that Jesus is Divine as God is Divine This led to many other heresies overstating the divinity of Christ and minimizing His Humanity
Council of Chalcedon 451AD The Council of Chalcedon came together to study and clarify the position on the two Natures The result was the Hypostatic Union Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God s glory and the exact representation of his being
Hypostatic Union Hypostatic means personal Hypostatic Union describes how two natures are united in one person Chalcedonian Creed: Christ is acknowledged in Two Natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the difference of the Natures being in no way removed because of the Union, but rather the properties of each Nature being preserved, and (both) concurring into One Person and One Hypostasis
The Hypostatic Union There are two states of Christ as part of the two natures of Christ: Human Nature is His state of Humiliation Divine Nature is His state of Exaltation Most clearly expressed in Philippians 2:6-11
Philippians 2:6-8 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:6-8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:9-11 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Philippians 2:9-11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
What This Means In Humanity, Christ knows our pain and weakness Hebrews 4:15 - For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are yet he did not sin.
What This Means In Divinity, He meets every need Philippians 4:19 -And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Both of these are true in the Hypostatic Union
NT Intro: The Arrival of the King The Death of Christ
The Death of Christ Need for Substitutionary Atonement Christ is the perfect sacrifice Christ s Death Accomplished Three Purposes: Reconciliation to God through exhaustion of His wrath Revelation of God s character of love Every other purpose of God s
Hebrews 10:1-10 Reconciliation to God through exhaustion of His wrath
Hebrews 10:1-10 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Hebrews 10:1-10 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, Here I am it is written about me in the scroll I have come to do your will, my God.
Hebrews 10:1-10 First he said, Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them though they were offered in accordance with the law. Then he said, Here I am, I have come to do your will. He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Revelation of God s character of love
Isaiah 52:1353:12 See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness
Isaiah 52:1353:12 so he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 52:1353:12 Yet it was the Lord s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
