Eternal Kingdom

Kingdom of Heaven icon (19 c. S-Peterburg)

2 Samuel 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

 

2 Peter 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

 

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The Son of David

T'oros Roslin Gospels, The Ancestors of Christ, Walters Manuscript W.539, fol. 15r

2 Samuel 7:12 (KJV) And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

 

Matthew 1:1  The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

 

 

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All Authority

Christ enters Jerusalem on an ass. Etching by F.P. Massau af Wellcome V0034549

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I Samuel 2:10 (KJV) The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

 

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

 

John 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.

 

 

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