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[1] {kingdom of our God}
The Dispensation of the Kingdom
# 2Sa 7:16
refs.) begins with the return of Christ to the earth, runs through the
"thousand years" of His earth-rule, and ends when He has delivered up
the kingdom to the Father
» See Note "1Co 15:24"
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[2] {rise up}
Daniel's fourth beast
» See Note "Da 7:26"
The "ten horns" are explained in
# Da 7:24 Re 17:12
to be ten kings, and the whole vision is of the last
form of Gentile world-power, a confederated ten-kingdom empire covering
the sphere of authority of ancient Rome.
# Re 13:1-3
refers to the ten-kingdom \\empire\\; vs. 4-10 to the \\emperor\\, who
is emphatically "the Beast"
» See Note "Re 19:20"
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[3] {like unto a leopard}
The three animals, leopard, bear, and lion, are found in
# Da 7:4-6
as symbols of the empires which preceded Rome, and whose characteristics
all entered into the qualities of the Roman empire: Macedonian swiftness
of conquest, Persian tenacity of purpose, Babylonish voracity.
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[1] {wounded to death}
Fragments of the ancient Roman empire have never ceased to exist as
separate kingdoms. It was the imperial form of government which ceased;
the one head wounded to death. What we have prophetically in
# Re 13:3
is the restoration of the imperial form as such, though over a federated
empire of ten kingdoms; the "head" is "healed," i.e. restored; there is
an emperor again--the Beast.
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[2] {world}
\\Kosmos\\, Summary: In the sense of the present world-system, the
ethically bad sense of the word, refers to the "order,"
"arrangement," under which Satan has organized the world of
unbelieving mankind upon his cosmic principle of force, greed,
selfishness, ambition, and pleasure.
# Mt 4:8,9 Joh 12:31 14:30 18:36 Eph 2:2 6:12 1Jo 2:15-17
This world-system is imposing and powerful with armies and fleets; is
often outwardly religious, scientific, cultured, and elegant; but,
seething with national and commercial rivalries and ambitions, is
upheld in any real crisis only by armed force, and is dominated by
Satanic principles.
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[3] {he causeth}
Antichrist the \\person\\ is to be distinguished from the "many
antichrists"
# 1Jo 2:18
and the "spirit of antichrist"
# 1Jo 4:3
which characterizes all. The supreme mark of all is the denial of
the Christian truth of the incarnation of the \\Logos\\, the eternal
Son in Jesus as the Christ
# Joh 1:1,14
» See Note "Mt 1:16"
The "many antichrists" precede and prepare the way for \\the\\
Antichrist, who is "the Beast out of the earth" of
# Re 13:11-17
and the "false prophet" of
# Re 16:13 19:20 20:10
He is the last ecclesiastical head, as the Beast of
# Re 13:1-8
is the last civil head. For purposes of persecution he is permitted
to exercise the autocratic power of the emperor-Beast
» See Note "Re 19:20"
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[1] {gospel}
Gospel. This great theme may be summarized as follows:
I. In itself the word Gospel means good news.
II. Four \\forms\\ of the Gospel are to be distinguished"
(1) The Gospel of the kingdom. This is the good news that God
purposes to set up on the earth, in fulfilment of the Davidic
Covenant
# 2Sa 7:16
a kingdom, political, spiritual, Israelitish, universal, over which
God's Son, David's heir, shall be King, and which shall be, for one
thousand years, the manifestation of the righteousness of God in human
affairs.
» See Note "Mt 3:2"
(2) The Gospel of the grace of God. This is the good news that
Jesus Christ, the rejected King, has died on the cross for the sins
of the world, that He was raised from the dead for our justification,
and that by Him all that believe are justified from all things. This
form of the Gospel is described in many ways. It is the Gospel "of
God"
# Ro 1:1
because it originates in His love; "of Christ"
# 2Co 10:14
because it flows from His sacrifice, and because He is the
alone Object of Gospel faith; of the "grace of God"
# Ac 20:24
because it saves those whom the law curses; of "the glory"
# 1Ti 1:11 2Co 4:4
because it concerns Him who is in the glory, and who is
bringing the many sons to glory
# Heb 2:10
of "our salvation"
# Eph 1:13
because it is the "power of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth"
# Ro 1:16
of "the uncircumcision"
# Ga 2:7
because it saves wholly apart from forms and ordinances of "peace"
# Eph 6:15
because through Christ it makes peace between the sinner and God, and
imparts inward peace.
(3) The everlasting Gospel
# Re 14:6
This is to be preached to the earth-dwellers at the very end of the
great tribulation and immediately preceding the judgment of the
nations
# Mt 15:31
It is neither the Gospel of the kingdom, nor of grace. Though its
burden is judgment, not salvation, it is good news to Israel and to
those who, during the tribulation, have been saved
# Re 7:9-14 Lu 21:28 Ps 96:11-13 Isa 35:4-10
(4) That which Paul calls, "my Gospel"
# Ro 2:16
This is the Gospel of the grace of God in its fullest development, but
includes the revelation of the result of that Gospel in the outcalling
of the church, her relationships, position, privileges, and
responsibility. It is the \\distinctive\\ truth of Ephesians and
Colossians, but interpenetrates all of Paul's writings.
III. There is "another Gospel"
# Ga 1:6 2Co 11:4
"which is not another," but a perversion of the Gospel of the grace
of God, against which we are warned. It has many seductive forms,
but the test is one--it invariably denies the sufficiency of grace
alone to save, keep, and perfect, and mingles with grace some kind of
human merit. In Galatia it was law, in Colosse fanaticism
# Col 2:18
etc.). In any form its teachers lie under the awful anathema of God.