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 STUDY XIV.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

OF THF SUBJECT. THE CHARACTER OP THE KINGDOM. THE KINGDOM DURING THE GOSPEL AGE FALSE VIEWS COKRBCTED BY PAUL. RESULTS OP FALSE IDEAS OP THE KINGDOM. Two PHASITS OP THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE SPIRITUAL PHASE AND ITS WORK THE EARTHLY PHASE AND ITS WORK THEIR HARMONIOUS OPERATION THE GLORY OP THB EARTHLY PHASE THE GLORY OF THE HEAVENLY PHASE. THE COVENANT ROOT PROM WHICH THESK BRANCHES GROW THE EARTHLY PHASE OP THE KINGDOM, ISRAELITISH. THE LO&T TRIBES. THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. ISRAEL A TYPICAL PEOPLE. ISRAEL'S Loss AND RECOVERY THE ELECT CLASSES. THE HEIRS OP TII& KINGDOM THE IRON RULE. AN ILLUSTRA-.

TION OF THE OujrCT OF THE MILLENNIAL RfilGN. THE KINGDOM DELIVERED

TO THE FATHER. GOD'S ORIGINAL DESIGN FULLY ACCOMPLISHED.

A NY who have not carefully examined this subject, with doing so, to find its prominence in the Scriptures. The Old Testament abounds with promises and prophecies in which the Kingdom of God and its King, Messiah, figure as the very centre. It was the hope of every Israelite (Luke 3:15) that as a people God would exalt their nation under Messiah ; and when the Lord came to them, it was as their King, to establish the long promised Kingdom of God upon the earth.
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John, the forerunner and herald of our Lord Jesus, opened his mission with the announcement, " Repent ye; for the Kingdom of Heaven 5s at hand." (Matt. 3 : 2.) The Lord commenced his ministry with the same ani^ouncenient ex- acftly (Matt. 4: 17); and the apostles were sent forth to preach the same message. (Matt. 10: 7; Luke 9: 2.) Not only was the kingdom the topic with which the Lord began his public ministry, but it was really the main topic of all hia

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