MATTHEW 16:2728

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MATTHEW 1627-28

• THE SON OF MAN WILL COME, IN THE GLORY OF THE
  FATHER, WITH HIS ANGELS, AND SHALL REWARD EACH
  MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS AND VERILY I SAY UNTO
  YOU, THERE ARE SOME STANDING HERE THAT SHALL NOT
  TASTE OF DEATH UNTIL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN
  COMING IN HIS KINGDOM.

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IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER

• R. T. FRANCE IN THE O.T. JUDGMENT IS GODS
  PREROGATIVE, AND THE WORDS ARE WORDS ABOUT GOD.
  THIS IS QUITE A REMARKABLE ASSUMPTION OF A DIVINE
  ROLE FOR JESUS IN HIS FUTURE GLORY. HIS COMING
  WILL BE IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER, IN THE SENSE
  THAT HE SHARES THE GLORY AND AUTHORITY.

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JOHN 519-23

• THE SON CAN DO NOTHING OF HIMSELF, BUT WHAT HE
  SEES THE FATHER DO FOR WHATEVER HE DOES THE SON
  DOES IN LIKE MANNERTHE FATHER JUDGES NO ONE, BUT
  HAS COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT TO THE SON, THAT ALL
  SHOULD HONOR THE SON AS THEY HONOR THE FATHER.

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THREE ISSUES

• 1.) WHAT THE FATHER HAD DONE, THE SON WOULD DO IN
  LIKE MANNER, I.E. IN REGARD TO JUDGMENT.
• 2.) THE FATHER WOULD NO LONGER JUDGE.
• 3.) THE REASON FOR CHRISTS JUDGMENT THAT MEN
  WOULD HONOR HIM AS THEY HONOR FATHERTO REVEAL
  THEREFORE, WHO JESUS IS!

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THE SON WILL DO LIKEWISE

• IF JESUS WAS TO COME IN JUDGMENT AS THE FATHER
  HAD COME, FOR THE SAME REASON THE FATHER HAD
  COME, THAT MEN WOULD HONOR THE SON AS THEY HONOR
  THE FATHER, THE QUESTION IS
• HOW HAD THE FATHER COME?
• THE FATHER HAD COME IN JUDGMENT MANY TIMES!

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FOUR FACTS TO ESTABLISH

• 1.) THE FACT OF THE FATHERS COMING IN THE PAST
• 2.) THE TIMING OF HIS PAST COMING
• 3.) THE LANGUAGE OF HIS COMING
• 4.) THE PURPOSE OF HIS COMING

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ISAIAH 19

• FACT JEHOVAH RIDES ON A SWIFT CLOUD INTO EGYPT!
  (V. 1)
• TIME WRITTEN IN CIRCA B. C. 720
• LANGUAGE RIDING ON THE CLOUDS
• SARGON (CHAPTER 20) DESTROYED EGYPT IN CIRCA B.
  C. 712
• PURPOSE 1921 THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD

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ISAIAH 30-31

• FACT OF COMING THE LORD WILL COME DOWN (314F)
  MIC. 12F-W/ SHOUT/ FIRE MOUNTAINS MELT
• TIMING AGAINST ASSYRIANS (314-8)
• LANGUAGE WITH A SHOUT, FIRE, STORM, HAIL
  (3030f)
• PURPOSE 3720 THAT THE NATIONS MAY KNOW THAT
  YOU ARE GOD.

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ISAIAH 34

• FACT DAY OF LORDS WRATH (V. 3F)
• TIME AGAINST ANCIENT EDOM (7-8)
• LANGUAGE CONSTELLATIONS MELT, EARTH BURNS,
  STREAMS BURNBUT SEE V. 11F
• JEREMIAH 25 / EZ. 35 / OBADIAH TIME WAS NEAR.
• B. C. 583 EDOM DESTROYED MALACHI 12 LOOKS BACK
  AT IT!

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THE PURPOSE A CLOSER LOOK

• EZEKIEL THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT I AM GOD 74
  TIMES
• 67-13 1215F AGAINST JERUSALEM, SO THAT THEY
  MAY KNOW I AM GOD.
• 29-30 AGAINST EGYPT (303) BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR
  (2917)
• 3025 THEY SHALL KNOW I AM GOD WHEN I HAVE PUT
  MY SWORD IN THE HAND OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR.

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SUMMARY TO HERE

• DAY OF LORD IN O.T. WAS A HISTORICAL EVENT TO
  MANIFEST JEHOVAHS SOVEREIGNTY
• OT PREDICTED THAT IN THE LAST DAYS, THE DAY OF
  JEHOVAH WOULD MANIFEST HIS SOVEREIGNTY AGAIN
• JESUS WAS TO JUDGE AS THE FATHER HAD JUDGED
• THEREFORE, JESUS JUDGMENT COMING WOULD BE A
  HISTORICAL DAY OF THE LORD

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A THOUGHT TO CONSIDER

• N.T. WRIGHT IT IS CRASS LITERALISM, IN VIEW OF
  THE MANY PROPHETIC PASSAGES IN WHICH THIS
  LANGUAGE DENOTES SOCIO-POLITICAL AND MILITARY
  CATASTROPHE, TO INSIST THAT THIS TIME (IN JESUS,
  DKP), THE WORDS MUST REFER TO THE PHYSICAL
  COLLAPSE OF THE SPACE-TIME WORLD.

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NT USE OF LANGUAGE

• MINEAR AS ONE RECALLS OT PASSAGES LIKE THESE
  (DAY OF LORD, DKP), ONE IS FORCED TO CONCLUDE
  THAT EVERY ESSENTIAL FEATURE IN THE NT PROPHECIES
  WAS AN ECHO OF THESE. NO CHRISTIAN PROPHET TRIED
  TO EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF THESE REFERENCES TO
  SOLAR DISASTERS. A FACT THAT SUGGESTS THAT THE
  AUDIENCE WAS EXPECTED TO UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE.
  MODERN READERS MUST, THEREFORE, COMPARE THIS
  IDIOM NOT WITH MODERN VIEWS OF THE COSMOS, BUT
  WITH AN ANCIENT OUTLOOK WITHIN WHICH AN
  INTELLIGIBLE MESSAGE WAS CONVEYED WITHOUT UNDUE
  DIFFICULTY.

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N.T. APPLICATION THE OLIVET DISCOURSE

• MATTHEW 242-3, 29F JESUS FORETOLD THE
  DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM DISCIPLES UNDERSTOOD
  THIS AS THE END OF THE AGE / PAROUSIA.
• BASED ON THE O.T., WHAT WOULD THE DISCIPLES HAVE
  THOUGHT?
• JERUSALEM HAD BEEN DESTROYED IN THE DAY OF
  JEHOVAH (JER. 4 EZEK.7 ZEPHANIAH)!

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OT SOURCE / NT PREDICTIONS

• WE HAVE SEEN THAT JEHOVAH CAME IN JUDGMENT OFTEN
  IN THE OT. HE NEVER CAME BODILY, VISIBLY.
• JESUS JUDGMENT COMINGTO JUDGE ALL MEN WOULD BE
  IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER. THIS WAS FORETOLD BY
  THE OT PROPHETS
• WE WILL FOCUS ON ONE KEY O.T. TEXT
• ISAIAH 64-65

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WHAT PETER HAD SAID

• SALVATION FORETOLD BY PROPHETS WAS NEAR (15-12)
  (HETOIMOS)
• JESUS WAS READY (HETOIMOS) TO JUDGE THE LIVING
  AND DEAD (45)
• THE END OF ALL THINGS HAD DRAWN NEAR (47)
• THE APPOINTED TIME (HO KAIROS) FOR THE JUDGMENT
  (TO KRIMA) HAD ARRIVED (417).

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ISAIAH 64-65 2 PETER 3

• PETERS DOCTRINE OF THE DAY OF THE LORD AND NEW
  CREATION WAS FROM THE OT PROPHETS (31, 13)
• NO ONE DOUBTS THAT 2 PETER 3 IS THE ULTIMATE
  END, THE FINAL PAROUSIA
• REMEMBER HOW JEHOVAH HAD COME!
• JESUS PAROUSIA OF 2 PETER 3 WAS TO BE IN THE
  GLORY OF THE FATHER!!

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PETERS SOURCE--ISAIAH

• ISAIAH FORETOLD DAY OF THE LORD AND NEW CREATION
  (64-65).
• OH THAT YOU WOULD REND THE HEAVENS, THAT YOU
  WOULD COME DOWN! THAT THE MOUNTAINS MIGHT SHAKE
  AT YOUR PRESENCE!..WHEN YOU DID AWESOME THINGS
  FOR WHICH WE DID NOT LOOK, YOU CAME DOWN, THE
  MOUNTAINS SHOOK AT YOUR PRESENCE! (641F)

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ISAIAH AND THE NEW CREATION

• ISRAEL WOULD FILL HER SIN (656-7)
• JEHOVAH WOULD COME (656)
• HE WOULD DESTROY ISRAEL (6513)
• HE WOULD DESTROY HEAVEN AND EARTH (V. 17F)
• HE WOULD CREATE A NEW PEOPLE, NEW CREATION, NEW
  JERUSALEM!
• THE NEW CREATION AT THE DESTRUCTION OF O.C.
  ISRAEL!

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ISAIAH AND THE NEW CREATION

• REMEMBER ISRAEL WANTED JEHOVAH TO COME AS HE HAD
  COME IN PAST (641-3)
• HE HAD NEVER COME BODILY, VISIBLY
• ISAIAH IS THE SOURCE OF PETERS PREDICTION OF THE
  DAY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!
• JESUS WAS TO COME AS JEHOVAH HAD COME- BUT THAT
  WAS NOT BODILY, VISIBLY (IS. 642-3)!!

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SUMMARY

• WE HAVE SEEN THE FACT THAT JEHOVAH CAME IN THE
  O.T.
• THE TIME STATEMENTS WERE LITERAL
• THE LANGUAGE WAS METAPHORIC
• THE PURPOSE WAS TO MANIFEST GODS SOVEREIGNTY
• JESUS WAS TO COME IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER
• AS THE FATHER HAD COME AND THIS MEANS IT WOULD
  NOT BE BODILY OR VISIBLE.
• IT WOULD PROVE HIM TO BE KING OF KINGS AND LORD
  OF LORDS!!

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CONCLUSION

• THE COMING OF CHRIST IN 2 PETER 3 WAS TO BE THE
  COMING FORETOLD IN ISAIAH 64-66.
• BUT, THE COMING OF CHRIST FORETOLD IN ISAIAH
  64-66 WAS TO BE OF THE SAME NATURE AS JEHOVAH HAD
  COME BEFORE.
• JEHOVAH HAD NEVER COME VISIBLY, BODILY,
  (LITERALLY) BEFORE.
• THEREFORE, THE COMING OF CHRIST IN 2 PETER 3 WAS
  NOT TO BE VISIBLE, BODILY, (LITERAL).
• IT WAS TO BE IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER.