Missio Dei

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Missio Dei

• In the Historical Books of the Old Testament

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Missiology in Joshua

• J.C. Beker and the Book of Joshua
• It is a difficult book in our time because of
  our difficulty in understanding its seeming
  justification of genocide.

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• While we would like to deny Gods absolute
  rejection of human evil and his judgment on it.
  It does not fit with postmodern notions of
  absolute moral tolerance and celebration of moral
  diversity.
• The Good News is not that God will not judge,
  but that he is willing to forgive. That
  declaration is our mission.

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Missiological Principles

• While our mission of conquest is very
  different from that of Joshua, his mission was
  sanctioned by God and provides insight into our
  mission.

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Gods Accompanying Presence

• Joshua 11-9
• 11 the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, . . .
  get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land
  I am about to give to them-to the Israelites. 3 I
  will give you every place where you set your foot
  . . . 5 No one will be able to stand up against
  you all the days of your life. As I was with
  Moses, so I will be with you I will never leave
  you nor forsake you.
• 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and
  courageous. Do not be terrified do not be
  discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with
  you wherever you go."

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Obedience to Gods Word is Success

• 6 "Be strong and courageous, because you will
  lead these people to inherit the land I swore to
  their forefathers to give them. 7 Be strong and
  very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law
  my servant Moses gave you do not turn from it to
  the right or to the left, that you may be
  successful wherever you go. 8 Do not let this
  Book of the Law depart from your mouth meditate
  on it day and night, so that you may be careful
  to do everything written in it. Then you will be
  prosperous and successful.

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• It may take 40 years to see the success of our
  efforts, and we may not live to see the success,
  but when we obey Gods Word, the success of our
  mission is guaranteed.

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Failure to obey God can mean disaster

• Joshua 710-12
• 11 Israel has sinned they have violated my
  covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They
  have taken some of the devoted things they have
  stolen, they have lied, they have put them with
  their own possessions. 12 That is why the
  Israelites cannot stand against their enemies
  they turn their backs and run because they have
  been made liable to destruction. I will not be
  with you anymore unless you destroy whatever
  among you is devoted to destruction.

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• Throughout the histories of Israels battles,
  obedience is shown to be better than sacrifice.
  When Israel obeys God, victory ensues. When
  Israel is disobedient, defeat is assured.

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The Great Commission Reaffirms

• Matthew 2819-20
• 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
  and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and
  teaching them to obey everything I have commanded
  you. And surely I am with you always, to the very
  end of the age."

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God of All the Earth

• Joshua 311-13
• 11 See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of
  all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of
  you. 12 Now then, choose twelve men from the
  tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. 13 And as
  soon as the priests who carry the ark of the
  LORD-the Lord of all the earth-set foot in the
  Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut
  off and stand up in a heap."

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• Though Israels entry into Canaan means disaster
  for the inhabitants of the land, the advance of
  its priesthood is salvation for all the earth,
  over which God extends his saving purpose.

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The Conversion of Rahab

• The conversion of Rahab the Prostitute is the
  ironic first fruit of Gods graceful purpose in
  Israels advance. (Joshua 2).
• Her name means broad, but it sounds like
  Rahab, which is another name for the Sea
  Monster whom the Canaanites believed had been
  defeated by Baal in the creation of the world.
  (This creature is the prototype of Satan as the
  ancient dragon.)

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Isaiah 519-10

• Isaiah refers to the parting of the Red Sea by
  poetically referring to this myth

9 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O
arm of the LORD awake, as in days gone by, as in
generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab
to pieces, who pierced that monster through? 10
Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters
of the great deep, who made a road in the depths
of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?
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Irony

• Just as Isaiah derides Baal by mocking the myth
  of his victory, the book of Joshua presents the
  triumph of Yahweh over Baal when Rahab the Ritual
  Prostitute becomes the first Canaanite to be
  spared in the Conquest of Gods priestly people,
  whose victory is everyones victory who will turn
  and believe in Israels God instead of vain myths.

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The Allocation Principle

• Joshua 13 6 183-5
• 6 "As for all the inhabitants of the mountain
  regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is,
  all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out
  before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this
  land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have
  instructed you, 7 and divide it as an inheritance
  among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of
  Manasseh." 8 The other half of Manasseh, the
  Reubenites and the Gadites had received the
  inheritance that Moses had given them east of the
  Jordan, as he, the servant of the LORD, had
  assigned it to them.

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• Just as God used strategy in dividing his people
  into groups and sending them to different places
  to accomplish the mission, we should devise
  strategic deployments of missionary personnel
  under Gods calling.

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The Kinsman-Redeemer in Ruth
Ruth 39-13

9 "Who are you?" he asked. "I am your servant
Ruth," she said. "Spread the corner of your
garment over me, since you are a
kinsman-redeemer goel. 10 "The LORD bless you,
my daughter," he replied. "This kindness is
greater than that which you showed earlier You
have not run after the younger men, whether rich
or poor. 11 And now, my daughter, don't be
afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All my
fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of
noble character. 12 Although it is true that I am
near of kin, there is a kinsman-redeemer nearer
than I. 13 Stay here for the night, and in the
morning if he wants to redeem, good let him
redeem. But if he is not willing, as surely as
the LORD lives I will do it.
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The Goel

• The Hebrew word goel refers to a
  kinsman-redeemer who helps out a needy
  relativeespecially a widow or orphanby buying
  their property or defending them against an
  enemy. In Ruths case, the goel would marry
  her as well.

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Ruth 414-15

• 14 The women said to Naomi "Praise be to the
  LORD, who this day has not left you without a
  kinsman-redeemer. May he become famous throughout
  Israel! 15 He will renew your life and sustain
  you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law,
  who loves you and who is better to you than seven
  sons, has given him birth."
• How does a BABY constitute a Goel? This oddly
  prophetic word of praise finds its greatest
  fulfillment in Jesus, the son of Ruth and our
  kinsman-redeemer.

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Prophetic Surplus of Meaning

• 1 Peter 110-11
• 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who
  spoke of the grace that was to come to you,
  searched intently and with the greatest care, 11
  trying to find out the time and circumstances to
  which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing
  when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and
  the glories that would follow.

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Jobs Goel

• Job 1925-27
• 25 I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the
  end he will stand upon the earth. 26 And after
  my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I
  will see God 27 I myself will see him with my
  own eyes - I, and not another. How my heart
  yearns within me!

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The Goel in Psalms

• Psalm 191-14
• The heavens declare the glory of Godthe skies
  proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day
  they pour forth speechnight after night they
  display knowledge. 3 There is no speech or
  language where their voice is not heard. 4
  Their voice goes out into all the earth,their
  words to the ends of the world. . . . 7 The law
  of the LORD is perfect,reviving the soul.The
  statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,making wise
  the simple . . . 11 By them is your servant
  warned in keeping them there is great reward . .
  . 13 Keep your servant also from willful sinsmay
  they not rule over me . . . 14 May the words of
  my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
  pleasing in your sight,O LORD, my Rock and my
  Redeemer.

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Isaiahs picks up the theme (13 times!)

• Isaiah 446
• The Redeemer of IsraelWow, what a Chapter!

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The Redeemer and the Spirit

• Isaiah 5920-21
• 20 "The Redeemer goel will come to Zion, to
  those in Jacob who repent of their sins,
  declares the LORD. 21 "As for me, this is my
  covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit,
  who is on you, and my words that I have put in
  your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or
  from the mouths of your children, or from the
  mouths of their descendants from this time on and
  forever," says the LORD.

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Jeremiah and the Goel of Israel

• Jeremiah 5034
• 34 Yet their Redeemer is strong the LORD
  Almighty is his name. He will vigorously defend
  their cause so that he may bring rest to their
  land, but unrest to those who live in Babylon . .
  . 46 At the sound of Babylon's capture the earth
  will tremble its cry will resound among the
  nations.

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The New Testament Redeemer

• Hes not just for Israel!

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Luke 2421-49

• 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was
  going to redeem Israel. 25 He said to them, "How
  foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe
  all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the
  Christ have to suffer these things and then enter
  his glory?" 27 And beginning with Moses and all
  the Prophets, he explained to them what was said
  in all the Scriptures concerning himself. 46 He
  told them, "This is what is written The Christ
  will suffer and rise from the dead on the third
  day, 47 and repentance and forgiveness of sins
  will be preached in his name to all nations,
  beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of
  these things. 49 I am going to send you what my
  Father has promised but stay in the city until
  you have been clothed with power from on high."

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Galatians 328-47

• 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor
  free, male nor female, for you are all one in
  Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then
  you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to
  the promise.
• 4 But when the time had fully come, God sent his
  Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5 to redeem
  those under law, that we might receive the full
  rights of sons. 6 Because you are sons, God sent
  the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit
  who calls out, "Abba, Father." 7 So you are no
  longer a slave, but a son and since you are a
  son, God has made you also an heir.

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The Davidic Royal Grant Covenant

• 2 Samuel 75,13-16
• 5 "Go and tell my servant David, 'This is what
  the LORD says Are you the one to build me a
  house to dwell in?
• "'The LORD declares to you that the LORD himself
  will establish a house for you 12 When your days
  are over and you rest with your fathers, I will
  raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will
  come from your own body, and I will establish his
  kingdom. 13 He is the one who will build a house
  for my Name, and I will establish the throne of
  his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and
  he will be my son. . . . 16 Your house and your
  kingdom will endure forever before me your
  throne will be established forever.

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The Promise of a Messiah

• Based on Gods promises to David, the psalmists
  and prophets will develop the Messianic
  prophecies of a Son of David who will rule
  forever on the throne of Israel.

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The Davidic Reign

• Succeeded in establishing Israel within safe
  borders, with victories over neighboring peoples
  and diplomatic respect from great powers.
• Did not necessarily succeed in establishing the
  Law as normative in Israel nor in fully teaching
  Israel her national mission as a light to the
  nations.
• Israel (like many churches) lived for her own
  (national) interests rather than as a herald and
  example to the nations.

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The Queen of Sheba

• 1 Kings 109
• 9 Praise be to the LORD your God, who has
  delighted in you and placed you on the throne of
  Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for
  Israel, he has made you king, to maintain justice
  and righteousness."
• One example of Israels success in inspiring the
  praise of God among the nations.

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Missio Dei

• In the Poetical Books of the Old Testament

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The Royal Psalms

• Messianic Prophecies in Song

The Messianic prophecies all trace back to Gods
covenant with David and his promise to keep a Son
of David on the throne of Israel forever.
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Psalm 21-8

• 21 Why do the nations conspire and the peoples
  plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth take their
  stand and the rulers gather together against the
  LORD and against his Anointed One. 3 "Let us
  break their chains," they say, "and throw off
  their fetters." 4 The One enthroned in heaven
  laughs the Lord scoffs at them. 5 Then he
  rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in
  his wrath, saying, 6 "I have installed my King on
  Zion, my holy hill." 7 I will proclaim the decree
  of the LORD He said to me, "You are my Son
  today I have become your Father. 8 Ask of
  me,and I will make the nations your inheritance,
  the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You will
  rule them with an iron scepter you will dash
  them to pieces like pottery.

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Son of David, Son of God

• He will not only rule Israel, but all the
  nations of the earth. The Psalms dealing with
  this are too many to list.

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Isaiah 96-7

• 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is
  given, and the government will be on his
  shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful
  Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
  of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government
  and peace there will be no end. He will reign on
  David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing
  and upholding it with justice and righteousness
  from that time on and forever.

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The Universal Scope of Gods Reign

• The Kingdom of God is preached powerfully in the
  Psalms, and will provide a Scriptural basis for
  Jesus teaching on the Kingdom of God.

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Psalm 471-4

• 1 Clap your hands, all you nations shout to God
  with cries of joy. 2 How awesome is the LORD Most
  High, the great King over all the earth! 3 He
  subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet.
  4 He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of
  Jacob, whom he loved.

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Psalm 671-7

• 1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and
  make his face shine upon us, 2 that your ways may
  be known on earth, your salvation among all
  nations. 3 May the peoples praise you, O God may
  all the peoples praise you. 4 May the nations be
  glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples
  justly and guide the nations of the earth. 5 May
  the peoples praise you, O God may all the
  peoples praise you. 6 Then the land will yield
  its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us. 7
  God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth
  will fear him.

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Psalm 1001-5

• 1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. 2
  Worship the LORD with gladness come before him
  with joyful songs. 3 Know that the LORD is God.
  It is he who made us, and we are his we are his
  people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his
  gates with thanksgiving and his courts with
  praise give thanks to him and praise his name.
  5 For the LORD is good and his love endures
  forever his faithfulness continues through all
  generations.

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Psalm 869-10

• 9 All the nations you have made will come and
  worship before you, O Lord they will bring glory
  to your name. 10 For you are great and do
  marvelous deeds you alone are God.

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1 Chronicles 167-10

• 7 That day David first committed to Asaph and
  his associates this psalm of thanks to the LORD
  8 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name make
  known among the nations what he has done. 9 Sing
  to him, sing praise to him tell of all his
  wonderful acts. 10 Glory in his holy name let
  the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

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The Theology of Zion

• The Davidic Theology developed the concept of
  Zion from being simply Davids capital to making
  Zion Gods eventual world capital.

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Psalm 48

• 1 Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise,
  in the city of our God, his holy mountain. 2 It
  is beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the
  whole earth. Like the utmost heights of Zaphon is
  Mount Zion, the city of the Great King. 3 God is
  in her citadels he has shown himself to be her
  fortress. 4 When the kings joined forces, when
  they advanced together, 5 they saw her and were
  astounded they fled in terror. 6 Trembling
  seized them there, pain like that of a woman in
  labor. 7 You destroyed them like ships of
  Tarshish shattered by an east wind. 8 As we have
  heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD
  Almighty.

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• 8 As we have heard,so have we seen in the city
  of the LORD Almighty,in the city of our GodGod
  makes her secure forever. Selah 9 Within your
  temple, O God,we meditate on your unfailing love.
  10 Like your name, O God,your praise reaches to
  the ends of the earth your right hand is filled
  with righteousness. 11 Mount Zion rejoices,the
  villages of Judah are glad because of your
  judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, go around her,
  count her towers, 13 consider well her
  ramparts,view her citadels, that you may tell of
  them to the next generation. 14 For this God is
  our God for ever and everhe will be our guide
  even to the end.

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• Why would the Israelites need to describe Zion
  to future generations?

Because it wouldnt be there anymore.
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After the Destruction

• Psalm 10215-22
• 15 The nations will fear the name of the LORD,
  all the kings of the earth will revere your
  glory. 16 For the LORD will rebuild Zion and
  appear in his glory. 17 He will respond to the
  prayer of the destitute he will not despise
  their plea. 18 Let this be written for a future
  generation, that a people not yet created may
  praise the LORD 19 "The LORD looked down from
  his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the
  earth, 20 to hear the groans of the prisoners and
  release those condemned to death." 21 So the name
  of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his
  praise in Jerusalem 22 when the peoples and the
  kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.

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Prophetic Announcement

• A day is coming when all the kingdoms of this
  world will join together in praise before the
  throne of God.

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Isaiah 21-5

• 2 In the last days the mountain of the LORD's
  temple will be established as chief among the
  mountains it will be raised above the hills,and
  all nations will stream to it. 3 Many peoples
  will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the
  mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of
  Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may
  walk in his paths. The law will go out from
  Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 He
  will judge between the nations and will settle
  disputes for many peoples. They will beat their
  swords into plowshares and their spears into
  pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword
  against nation, nor will they train for war
  anymore. 5 Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk
  in the light of the LORD.

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Jeremiah 316-18

• 16 In those days, when your numbers have
  increased greatly in the land," declares the
  LORD, "men will no longer say, 'The ark of the
  covenant of the LORD.' It will never enter their
  minds or be remembered it will not be missed,
  nor will another one be made. 17 At that time
  they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD,
  and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor
  the name of the LORD. No longer will they follow
  the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

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The Transcendence of Jerusalem
Paul in Galatians 425-26
John in Revelation 118

• would reject the depreciate the earthly
  Jerusalem in favor of a heavenly Jerusalem where
  every nation, people, tongue, and tribe would be
  gathered together as one people of God.

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Missio Dei in Proverbs

• Proverbs 815-18
• 15 By me Wisdom Personified kings reign and
  rulers make laws that are just 16 by me princes
  govern, and all nobles who rule on earth. 17 I
  love those who love me, and those who seek me
  find me. 18 With me are riches and honor,
  enduring wealth and prosperity.
• The Logos theology in John 11 picks up this
  theme as Wisdom as the Personification of Gods
  wisdom in the Person of Christ.

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Missio Dei

• In the Prophetical Books of the Old Testament

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The Prophets advance missio dei

• in three ways
• The Covenant Lawsuit
• The Proclamation of Gods Universal Rule
• The Promise of a New Covenant

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The Covenant Lawsuit

• In the prophets, God brings a lawsuit against
  Israel to the heavenly courts for their failure
  to keep his covenant.

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Micah 61-8

• 61 Listen to what the LORD says "Stand up,
  plead your case before the mountains let the
  hills hear what you have to say. 2 Hear, O
  mountains, the LORD's accusation listen, you
  everlasting foundations of the earth. For the
  LORD has a case against his people he is lodging
  a charge against Israel. 3 "My people, what have
  I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer
  me. 4 I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed
  you from the land of slavery. I sent Moses to
  lead you, also Aaron and Miriam. 5 My people,
  remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and
  what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your
  journey from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may
  know the righteous acts of the LORD." 6 With what
  shall I come before the LORD and bow down before
  the exalted God? Shall I come before him with
  burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will
  the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with
  ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my
  firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my
  body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has showed you,
  O man, what is good. And what does the LORD
  require of you? To act justly and to love mercy
  and to walk humbly with your God.

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Isaiah 4121-22

• 21 "Present your case," says the LORD. "Set
  forth your arguments," says Jacob's King. 22
  "Bring in your idols to tell us what is going
  to happen.
• Because of their failure, judgment (and
  redemption) are coming.

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Hosea 12-3

• 2 When the LORD began to speak through Hosea,
  the LORD said to him, "Go, take to yourself an
  adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness,
  because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery
  in departing from the LORD."

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Hosea 41-3

• Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites,
  because the LORD has a charge to bring against
  you who live in the land "There is no
  faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God
  in the land. 2 There is only cursing, lying and
  murder, stealing and adultery they break all
  bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. 3
  Because of this the land mourns, and all who live
  in it waste away . . .

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Amos 26-8

• 6 This is what the LORD says "For three sins of
  Israel, even for four, I will not turn back my
  wrath. They sell the righteous for silver, and
  the needy for a pair of sandals. 7 They trample
  on the heads of the poor as upon the dust of the
  ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Father
  and son use the same girl and so profane my holy
  name. 8 They lie down beside every altar on
  garments taken in pledge. In the house of their
  god they drink wine taken as fines.

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The list goes on in all the prophets

• They have worshipped idols.
• They have oppressed the poor.
• They have not kept the Law.
• They have been immoral, dishonest, unfaithful,
  murderous.
• Therefore . . .

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Judgment is coming

• But a remnant will be saved

Ezekiel 1117"Therefore say 'This is what the
Sovereign LORD says I will gather you from the
nations and bring you back from the countries
where you have been scattered, and I will give
you back the land of Israel again.' Isaiah
1021A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob
will return to the Mighty God. Jeremiah 233"I
myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of
all the countries where I have driven them and
will bring them back to their pasture, where they
will be fruitful and increase in number.
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• Micah 212"I will surely gather all of you, O
  Jacob I will surely bring together the remnant
  of Israel.
• Micah 718Who is a God like you, who pardons
  sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant
  of his inheritance?
• Zephaniah 29The remnant of my people will
  plunder them the survivors of my nation will
  inherit their land."
• Zech 812-13I will give all these things as an
  inheritance to the remnant of this people. 13 As
  you have been an object of cursing among the
  nations, O Judah and Israel, so will I save you,
  and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but
  let your hands be strong."

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The remnant must return

• In order to fulfill Gods promise and his mission.

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The Universal Rule of God

• Just as Gods judgment was on all nations
  (especially the enemies of Israel) in the
  burdens of the prophets, so all was the
  extension of Gods rule and salvation to all, as
  we have seen in the Zion passages in the
  prophets, especially Isaiah.

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Among Isaiahs many promises of salvation for all
nations

• Isaiah 451-6
• "This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to
  Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue
  nations . . . 2 I will go before you and will
  level the mountains . . . so that you may know
  that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who
  summons you by name. 4 For the sake of Jacob my
  servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by
  name and bestow on you a title of honor, though
  you do not acknowledge me. 5 I am the LORD, and
  there is no other apart from me there is no God.
  I will strengthen you, though you have not
  acknowledged me, 6 so that from the rising of the
  sun to the place of its setting men may know
  there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and
  there is no other.

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Isaiah 496

• 5 And now the LORD says he who formed me in
  the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to
  him and gather Israel to himself, for I am
  honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has
  been my strength 6 he says"It is too small a
  thing for you to be my servant to restore the
  tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I
  have kept. I will also make you a light for the
  Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the
  ends of the earth."
• 7 This is what the LORD says the Redeemer and
  Holy One of Israel to him who was despised and
  abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers
  "Kings will see you and rise up, princes will see
  and bow down, because of the LORD, who is
  faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen
  you."

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Jonahs Mission

• Jonah 11-3
• 1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of
  Amittai 2 "Go to the great city of Nineveh and
  preach against it, because its wickedness has
  come up before me." 3 But Jonah ran away from the
  LORD and headed for Tarshish.

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Jonahs Creeds

• Jonah 19"I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD,
  the God of heaven, who made the sea and the
  land.
• Jonah 42bYou are a gracious and compassionate
  God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God
  who relents from sending calamity.
• But what did this mean to him?

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Jonah 310-43

• 10 When God saw what they did and how they
  turned from their evil ways, he had compassion
  and did not bring upon them the destruction he
  had threatened. 41 But Jonah was greatly
  displeased and became angry. 2 He prayed to the
  LORD, "O LORD, is this not what I said when I was
  still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee
  to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and
  compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in
  love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3
  Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better
  for me to die than to live."

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Gods response

• Jonah 49-11
• 9 But God said to Jonah, "Do you have a right to
  be angry about the vine?" "I do," he said. "I am
  angry enough to die. 10 But the LORD said, "You
  have been concerned about this vine, though you
  did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up
  overnight and died overnight. 11 But Nineveh has
  more than a hundred and twenty thousand people
  who cannot tell their right hand from their left,
  and many cattle as well. Should I not be
  concerned about that great city?"

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Zephaniah 211

• 11 The LORD will be awesome to them when he
  destroys all the gods of the land. The nations on
  every shore will worship him, every one in its
  own land.

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Zechariah 210-13

• 11 "Many nations will be joined with the LORD in
  that day and will become my people. I will live
  among you and you will know that the LORD
  Almighty has sent me to you. 12 The LORD will
  inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and
  will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be still before
  the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused
  himself from his holy dwelling."

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Haggai 26-8

• 6 "This is what the LORD Almighty says 'In a
  little while I will once more shake the heavens
  and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will
  shake all nations, and the desired of all nations
  will come, and I will fill this house with
  glory,' says the LORD Almighty.

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Amos 911-12

• 11 "In that day I will restore David's fallen
  tent. I will repair its broken places, restore
  its ruins, and build it as it used to be, 12 so
  that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all
  the nations (Gentiles) that bear my name,"
  declares the LORD, who will do these things.
• Quoted in Acts 1515-19 by James to include the
  Gentiles.

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Daniels Success as Light

• Daniel 434-37
• 34 At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar,
  raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was
  restored. Then I praised the Most High I honored
  and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion
  is an eternal dominion his kingdom endures from
  generation to generation. 35 All the peoples of
  the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he
  pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples
  of the earth. . . . 36 At the same time that my
  sanity was restored, my honor and splendor were
  returned to me for the glory of my kingdom .
  . . 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt
  and glorify the King of heaven, because
  everything he does is right and all his ways are
  just. And those who walk in pride he is able to
  humble.

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Daniel 625-27

• 25 Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples,
  nations and men of every language throughout the
  land "May you prosper greatly! 26 "I issue a
  decree that in every part of my kingdom people
  must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. "For
  he is the living God and he endures forever his
  kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will
  never end. 27 He rescues and he saves he
  performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on
  the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power
  of the lions."

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Daniels vision

• Daniel 713-14, 27
• 13 "In my vision at night I looked, and there
  before me was one like a son of man, coming with
  the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient
  of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was
  given authority, glory and sovereign power all
  peoples, nations and men of every language
  worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting
  dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom
  is one that will never be destroyed.
• 27 Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of
  the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be
  handed over to the saints, the people of the Most
  High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom,
  and all rulers will worship and obey him.'

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The New Covenant

• Jeremiah 3131-34
• 31 "The time is coming," declares the LORD,"when
  I will make a new covenant with the house of
  Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 It will
  not be like the covenant I made with their
  forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead
  them out of Egypt,because they broke my
  covenant,though I was a husband to them,"
  declares the LORD. 33 "This is the covenant I
  will make with the house of Israel after that
  time," declares the LORD."I will put my law in
  their minds and write it on their hearts.I will
  be their God,and they will be my people. 34 No
  longer will a man teach his neighbor,or a man his
  brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'because they
  will all know me,from the least of them to the
  greatest," declares the LORD."For I will forgive
  their wickedness and will remember their sins no
  more."

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A Summary of OT Missiology

• God created the world with a plan to bless
  humanity.
• Every human being bears the imago dei and is
  included in the missio dei. All nations are one
  family
• God desires to call both men and women into
  partnership for the fulfillment of the missio
  dei.
• Our first duty is to obey the mandates of God,
  including the Dominion Mandate and the Great
  Commission.
• Gods purposes are inexorable and no enemy can
  destroy them.
• Rest and satisfaction are part of the mission.

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• The Promise of Eves, Abrahams, Judahs Davids,
  and Gods seed, a Kinsman-redeemer for Israel and
  the Nations
• A blood Covenant to bless all peoples will be
  finally made in Christs body.
• Human Diversity is a means of grace and will last
  forever.
• No missionary is worthy of his task, not even
  Abraham. Salvation is by grace through faith.
• God is forming one great universal Kingdom of
  priests in the earth, in which justice and peace
  reign.

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• God contextualizes his message and so should we.
  But syncretism that distorts Gods message is
  unacceptable.
• Gods desire is to save, but he will punish also.
  Still, punishment will be used to fulfill his
  saving purposes.
• God will accompany those he sends in mission.
• Obedience is the key to missionary success.
• God will deploy his servants strategically to
  fulfill his mission.
• God will rule from Zion, the New Jerusalem, where
  he will dwell with his people forever.