THE TRIUNE GOD’S REVELATION AND HIS MOVE

MESSAGE EIGHT

THE TRIUNE GOD’S REVELATION AND HIS MOVE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

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Scripture Reading: John 1:1, 14; Rev. 21:1-2

OUTLINE

1. The facts:
   1. God was incarnated to be a man in the flesh-John 1:1, 14.
   2. The man Jesus experienced the human living on earth for thirty-three and a half years.
   3. Jesus was crucified to accomplish God’s redemption for man-Matt. 27:33-50; Eph. 1:7; Heb. 9:12.
   4. Christ resurrected from among the dead on the third day after His crucifixion-Matt. 28:1-7; Acts 10:40; 1 Cor. 15:4b.
   5. In the evening on the day of His resurrection the resurrected Christ came to breathe the Spirit, whom He had become, as breath into His believers-John 20:19-22.
   6. Christ ascended to the heavens, was enthroned, and received the crown of glory (Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9; 2:33; Heb. 2:9); He has been made Lord, Christ (Acts 2:36), the Ruler of the kings of the earth (Rev. 1:5), and the Savior (Acts 5:31), and also has been established by God to be the Minister of His new covenant (Heb. 8:2), the High Priest (2:17; 4:14; 7:26; 8:1), and the Mediator and guarantee of the new covenant (8:6; 9:15; 7:22).
   7. In His ascension the ascended Christ poured out the Holy Spirit as a violent wind upon His believers-Acts 2:1-2.
   8. Christ sent out the apostles and disciples, upon whom He had poured out the Spirit, to different places to preach the gospel and establish churches.
   9. The gifted ones among the believers build up the Body of Christ through the transforming Spirit.
   10. The coming back of Christ will end the church age and bring in His kingdom, the millennial kingdom (Rev. 11:15), in which He and His overcoming saints will be priests of God to serve God and kings to rule over the nations (20:4, 6).
   11. In His coming back Christ will judge the saints and give His kingdom as a reward to the saints justified by Him (2 Cor. 5:10); He will marry the justified, overcoming saints as His spouse, who will be led by Him as His overcoming army to defeat Antichrist, Antichrist’s partner-the false prophet-and the nations who follow them in rebelling against God (Rev. 19:7-9, 11-16); He will cast Antichrist and the false prophet into the lake of fire (vv. 19-21); in the meantime, Satan will be bound for a thousand years and cast into the abyss (20:1-3), and then the millennial kingdom of Christ will begin (vv. 4-6).
   12. At His coming back to the earth, Christ will be on the throne of His glory to judge the nations (the living-Acts 10:42; 2 Tim. 4:1) who remain at that time-some as goats will be condemned to perish eternally and some as sheep will be justified to enter into eternal life-Matt. 25:31-46.
   13. At the end of the millennial kingdom, Satan will be released and will deceive the nations again to rebel against God; the nations will be devoured by fire from heaven, and Satan will be cast into the lake of fire-Rev. 20:7-10.
   14. After the millennium, Christ will be on His great white throne to judge all the dead throughout the generations and cast them into the lake of fire-Rev. 20:11-12, 15.
   15. The new heaven and new earth will come, in which the holy city, New Jerusalem, is manifested-Rev. 21:1-2.