THE STORY OF THE BIBLELesson 1

God’s Eternal Plan

RANDY BROBERG

MARANATHA MENS MINISTRY

December 2, 2017

TOPIC 1: God’s Eternal PlanTHE BIG, BIG PICTURE

It’s not just about you….

Our View Of Time: Linear and Undetermined

CERTAIN PAST

UNCERTAIN FUTURE

TIMEA VIEW WE CAN RADICALLY CHANGE THE FUTURE , REQUIRES AND ASSUMPTION THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PATH AND THAT NONE ARE INEVITABLE.

Our View Of Time: Linear and Undetermined

CERTAIN PAST

UNCERTAIN FUTURE

TIME SKYNET

Sara Conner

John Conner

Terminator

Not Going To Happen!

A WORLD WHERE THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN IS A WORLD WHERE PROPHECY IS IMPOSSIBLE.

ETERNITY PAST

ETERNITY FUTURE

GOD

TIME

God Is Outside of Time

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CREATION

God Stepped Into The Timeline When He Creates The Heavens And the Earth

Transcendence and Imminence in Gen. 1-2

• Gen 1:26-27

• 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness,… .”

• 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them

• Gen. 1:7-8

• 7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

Our God is Transcendent

• Outside of time.

• exceeding all measures

• superior or supreme over all the creation

• transcending the universe and time

• OUTSIDE THE BOX

• When box = cosmos

• Gen 1:1-3

• In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth….and God said, Let there be Light and there was light.

Our God is Immanent

• remaining within;

• indwelling

• indwelling the universe and time, etc.

• Steps Into Time

• Enables a Personal Relationship With God

• Intimacy

Names for God • ELOHIM = God• Creator

• transcendent

• YAHWEH = LORD• YAHWEH: I am who I am

• immanent

• Promise Keeper

• ADONAI = Lord

• YAHWEH ADONAI = LORD God

NOTES:

• Don’t confuse names with persons

• Don’t confuse names with modes:

• form, or arrangement of being; specifically : a particular form or manifestation of an underlying substance

ETERNITY PAST

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GOD

TIME

CREATION

SATAN’S PRIDE, FALL AND REBELLION

ANGELIC REBELLION

Violation of God’s Law Results in Spiritual Death and Separation from God• GENESIS 2:15-17

• 15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.

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CREATION

ADAM and EVE in perfect fellowship with GodANGELICREBELLION

Man In Fellowship With God

Adam is federal representative of whole human race

God Allows Satan to Tempt Eve

• Genesis 3:31

• 3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD Godhad made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

• Compare story of Job: 1:12-1312 The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”

• Adam appears to have been near Eve and the Serpent because eve just handed him the fruit and that was two admissions?

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CREATION

SATAN TEMPTS EVE RESULTING IN FALL OF ADAMANGELICREBELLION

FALL OF MANKIND

Man In Fellowship With God

FELLOWSHIP SEVERED Adam and Eve Cast Out of Garden.

• GENESIS 3:22-24

• 22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to

cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

All Humanity suffers the Consequences of Adam’s Fall• Romans 5:14

• Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

• Adam’s descendants born:

• spiritually dead

• Separated from God

• Guilty in Adam

• Original Sin

THIS IS NOT PLAN B, IT’S PLAN A

Entire Creation Suffers From The Fall Of Adam

• Romans 8:20-22

• 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until

TWO MOST IMPORTANT THEORIES:• SIN NATURE IN OUR DNA, PASSED DOWN TO ALL MANKIND• FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE THEORY OF ADAM AND CHRIST

ETERNITY PAST

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GOD

TIME

CREATION

EFFECTS OF THE FALL: SPIRITUAL DEATH AND A CURSE UPON THE EARTH

ANGELICREBELLION

FALL OF MANKIND

THE CURSE

The Protoevangelium (First Gospel)

• Genesis 3:15:

• And I will put enmityBetween you (SATAN) and the woman (EVE),And between your (SATAN’S ) seed and her (EVE’S) seed;He (CHRIST) shall bruise you (SATAN) on the head,And you (SATAN) shall bruise him (CHRIST) on the heel.”

Gospel in the Zodiac?

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God Steps Into The Timeline When He Called Noah and Sent the Flood

Noah And The Flood

Noahic Covenant

Yahweh Covenants With Noah

• Gen 6:18

• 18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

• Gen 8:20-22

• 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the []intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

• 22 “While the earth remains,Seedtime and harvest,And cold and heat,And summer and winter,And day and nightShall not cease.”

NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

ETERNITY PAST

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GOD

TIME

God Steps Into The Timeline When He Calls Abraham

Call Of Abraham

Abrahamic Covenant

Abraham’s Faith

• Hebrews 11:8-10

• 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; 10 for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

It was never just about the LAND

Yahweh’s Covenant with Abraham

• Galatians 3:7-18

• Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. …The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU. "SO then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer. in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentile….

Abraham sought God’s Eternal city

• Hebrews 11:10

• for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

• Hebrews 11:16

• But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

• Hebrews 12:22

• But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

• Hebrews 13:14

• For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

It Has Always Been Salvation By Grace Through Faith• Romans 4:16

• For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

ETERNITY PAST

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GOD

TIME

God Steps Into The Timeline When He Calls Moses and Gives the Law

Call Of Moses

Mosaic Covenant

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ETERNITY PAST

ETERNITY FUTURE

GOD

TIME

God Steps Into The Timeline When He Calls David

Calling of David

Davidic Covenant

Throne Of David

ETERNITY PAST

ETERNITY FUTURE

GOD

INCARNATIONOF THE ONE

WHO WAS, IS AND IS TO

COME

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God Steps Into The Timeline With The Incarnation

THIS IS BIG, REALLY BIG. IT’S HUGE

GOD BECAME MAN!

IMMORTAL BECOMES MORTAL!

FULLY GOD AND FULLY MANNOT 50/50 BUT 100/100

SAME SUBSTANCE AS THE FATHER

Eternal immortal god becomes mortal flesh in what we call the Incarnation.

• John 1:14

• And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

• Philippians 2:6-8

• 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross

God in Timethe Death and Resurrection of Christ

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DEFEATS SATAN SIN AND DEATH

Last Adam (Jesus) undoes what first Adam did

God in Timethe Death and Resurrection of Christ

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DEFEATS SATAN SIN AND DEATH

Last Adam (Jesus) undoes what first Adam did

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THE VICTORY

THE VICTOR’S CROWN

God in Timethe Second Advent of Christ

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DEFEATS SATAN SIN AND DEATH

Last Adam (Jesus) undoes what first Adam did!

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All remaining promises fulfilled

Adam’s Fall Undone.

• Revelation 22:1-3

• 22 Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 There will no longer be any curse; …

ETERNITY PAST

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TIME

NEW CREATION

God Stepped Into The Timeline When He Creates The New Heavens And the New Earth