Jesus

By David Maas
{LAMB, KING, MESSIAH}

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  1. For All Nations - (The gospel of the kingdom announced by Jesus is a message of life for men and women of every nation) - {PDF Copy}
  2. Lamb and King - (The Bible declares that Jesus is both “Lamb” and “King of Kings,” present tense, and it is he who reigns supreme over the earth) - {PDF Copy}
  3. Exaltation of the Lamb - (The exaltation of the lamb is based on his past Death and Resurrection - The immovable foundation of his present reign) - {PDF Copy}
  4. The Shepherd King - (The Lamb’s reign commenced with his death and resurrection, and since then, he has been shepherding the nations) - {PDF Copy}
  5. The True Lamb - (Jesus is the sacrificial Lamb who redeems men, but both the Beast and the False Prophet mimic him to deceive humanity) - {PDF Copy}
  6. Anointed King  and Son - (Jesus is the promised Messiah, the King who reigns on David’s throne, and the Son of God) - {PDF Copy}
  7. Lamb or Beast -  (In Revelation, humanity is divided into two and only two groups – followers of the Lamb or subjects of the Beast) - {PDF Copy}
  8. Why do the Nations Rage? - (The conspiracy by the earth’s kings to unseat God’s Son is applied by the New Testament to the plot to destroy Jesus) - {PDF Copy}
  9. Supremacy over the Earth - {PDF Copy} - (The faithful witness, Jesus, now reigns supreme over the kings of the earth and even over his enemies)
  10. Beginning of the Creation - (Revelation looks forward to the reign of Jesus in the New Creation, a reality inaugurated by his Death and Resurrection) - {PDF Copy}
  11. The 144,000 on Zion - (Revelation 14:1-5 - The Saints that Follow the Lamb wherever he goes) - {PDF Copy}
  12. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon - (Revelation 12:1-6 - The Son received his messianic following his death and exaltation [Psalm 2:8-9]) - {PDF Copy}
  13. Opening of the Seven Seals - A Synopsis - (An overview of the Seven Seals opened by the exalted Lamb) - {PDF Copy}
  14. The First Four Seals - (Jesus as the reigning Lamb opens the first four of the Seven Seals) - {PDF Copy}
  15. Unlocking Prophecy - (Jesus, the Word become flesh, is the interpretive key that opens the Hebrew scriptures and the book of Revelation) - {PDF Copy}
  16. On the Clouds - (Phrases from Daniel’s vision of the four beasts and the Little Horn are applied to Jesus and his saints in the New Testament) - {PDF Copy}
  17. The Son of Man - (The one like a Son of Man in Daniel is the source of Christ’s self-designation as the Son of Man and his authority) - {PDF Copy}

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