The Son’s Victorious Kingdom
Daniel 2:36-45 - New International
Version (NIV)
36 “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the
king. 37 Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The
God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in
your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds
in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You
are that head of gold.
39 “After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a
third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. 40 Finally,
there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes
everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all
the others. 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were
partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet
it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed
with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly
clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And
just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture
and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a
kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It
will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will
itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the
vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock
that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.
What was Daniel going to do with the dream (verse 36)?
Who has given the king “dominion and power
and might and glory” (verse 37)?
What is the king (verse 38)?
How will the next kingdom compare to the
current kingdom (verse 39)?
What will the fourth kingdom do (verse 40)?
How do we know that the fourth kingdom will “be
a divided kingdom” (verse 41)?
Why will the people of the fourth kingdom not
remain united (verse 43)?
When will the God of heaven “set up a
kingdom that will never be destroyed” (verse 44)?
What will this kingdom do to “all those
kingdoms” (verse 44)?
How long will this kingdom “endure”
(verse 44)?
What did not cut the rock that is the kingdom
that will never be destroyed out of the mountain (verse 45)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
John
8:30-38 - New
International Version (NIV)
30 Even as he spoke, many believed in him.
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to
my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you
will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have
never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”
34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a
slave to sin. 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the
family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son
sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know
that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill
me, because you have no room for my word. 38 I am
telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing
what you have heard from your father.”
What happened while Jesus spoke (verse 30)?
Who did Jesus tell “if you hold to my teaching,
you are really my disciples” (verse 31)?
What else will happen if the hold to Jesus teaching
(verse 32)?
In your opinion, why would the Jews say “we are
Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone” (verse 33)?
How did Jesus respond to them (verse 34)?
Where does the son belong forever (verse 35)?
What happens when the Son sets you free (verse 36)?
Why were the Jews looking to kill Jesus (verse
37)?
What are the Jews doing (verse 38)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about our part in God’s victorious and eternal
kingdom?
In
your opinion, what do the words of Jesus in John 8:30-38 help us understand
about the kingdom that Daniel 2:36-45 says God will set up?
2 John 4-11 – New International Version (NIV)
4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in
the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now,
dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the
beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this
is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard
from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus
Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any
such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch
out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be
rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not
continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in
the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone
comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house
or welcome them. 11 Anyone who welcomes them
shares in their wicked work.
What
has given John “great joy” (verse 4)?
What
is the command “we have had from the beginning” (verse 5)?
What
is love (verse 6)?
Who
does “not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh” (verse 7)?
Who
is the antichrist (verse 7)?
What are the readers to “watch out” for (verse 8)?
Who “does not have
God” (verse 9)?
Who has “both the
Father and the Son” (verse 9)?
How should we respond
to someone who “does not bring this teaching” (verse 10)?
Who “shares in their
wicked work” (verse 11)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what
does 2 John 4-11 help us understand about how the kingdom that God is setting
up in Daniel 2:36-45 is different from the worldly kingdoms that will be
crushed?
In
your opinion, what differences do John 8:30-38 and 2 John 4-11 show us between
the kingdom of God and worldly kingdoms?
Revelation 13:1-10 – New International
Version (NIV)
1 The dragon stood on the shore
of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and
seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous
name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had
feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon
gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One
of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound
had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed
the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had
given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who
is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and
blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It
opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling
place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power
to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was
given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All
inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not
been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from
the creation of the world.
9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.
10 “If anyone is to go into
captivity,
into captivity they will go.
If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
with the sword they will be killed.”
This calls for patient endurance and
faithfulness on the part of God’s people.
Where did the dragon stand (verse 1)?
Where
did the beast come from (verse 1)?
What
did the dragon give the beast (verse 2)?
How
did the “whole world” respond to the beast (verse 3)?
Who
did people worship (verse 4)?
Why
was the beast given a mouth (verse 5)?
Who
did the beast slander (verse 6)?
What
was the beast given the power to do (verse 7)?
Who
will worship the beast (verse 8)?
What
are people with ears to do (verse 9)?
What
is called for “on the part of God’s people” verse 10)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about our part in God’s victorious and eternal kingdom?
In your opinion, what does Daniel
2:36-45 help us understand about the seeming dominance of the beast in
Revelation 13:1-10?
In your opinion, how does the conflict
between Jesus doing what He saw in His Father’s presence and the Jews doing
what they heard from their father in John 8:30-38 help us better understand the
conflict between those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life and
those whose names are not in Revelation 13:1-10?
In your opinion, why is 2 John 4-11’s
command to “love one another” important in relationship to the worldwide
worship of the dragon and the beast revealed by Revelation 13:1-10?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Daniel, John, 1 John and Revelation teach
us about how we are freed from the seemingly overwhelmingly powerful world
kingdom?
In
your opinion, what part do we have in the conflict between the world and Jesus?
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