How Did God Reveal His Kingdom On The Earth?

After Adam and Eve rebelled against God's goodness and authority, they were not allowed to live in Eden so that they would not eat from the tree of life and live forever in their sin. But they continued to believe in God and to pass down their faith to succeeding generations. Their son Abel offered a blood sacrifice to God by faith (Hebrews 11:14). People began to call upon the name of the Lord (Genesis 4:26), and their descendant Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord (Genesis 6:8). These people all believed God and lived under His kingdom, love, and reign.

However, other men rejected God's authority and lived according to the kingdom of darkness. Adam's oldest son, Cain, tried to offer an unacceptable sacrifice to God, and when God rejected his offering, he became angry and killed his younger brother, Abel, who had offered an acceptable sacrifice (Genesis 4:1-16). People rejected God such that wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Genesis 6:5). So God told Noah to build an ark, and he sent a flood to destroy every living thing except Noah and his family (Genesis 6:5-9). After this, when men began to multiply on the earth again, they tried to build a tower at Babel in order to make a name for themselves. Instead of spreading God's kingdom to all creation, they tried to live together in one city. So God confused their languages so that they could not understand one another, and they were forced to separate and move out into the world (Genesis 11:1-9).

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God then chose a man named Abraham, a descendant of Noah's son Shem, in order to raise up a people who would represent his kingdom to all the nations of the earth. God promised that Abraham's seed would number as the sand and the stars. From this multitude of people would come one seed, or person, who would redeem mankind from the curse of sin (Galatians 3:13-16). God also promised Abraham a land for his people to dwell in, and he promised to bless them and to bless all the world through them (Genesis 12:1-7). Abraham believed God's everlasting promises to him, and his faith was counted to him as righteousness (Romans 4:3).

God kept His promise to Abraham and multiplied many descendants from him, called the Israelites. For many years, they were slaves in Egypt, but God raised up Moses to lead them from captivity to the land He had promised to give them in Canaan. However, the Pharaoh of Egypt refused to let them go, so God sent plagues and the angel of death to demonstrate his authority over the Egyptians. By sacrificing a Passover lamb and painting the blood on their doorposts, the Israelites were saved from the angel of death and were delivered from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 6:12).

However, the Israelites did not know Yahweh, the God of Adam, Abel, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. So, as they traveled across the wilderness to Canaan, God gave them His law, which taught them about God and His holiness, power, and love. If they trusted God and followed His law, they would be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. This means they would be a distinct nation of people, different from every other people, by living in obedience to God's laws. Through their example, others in the world would understand and believe in God's love and authority (Exodus 19:20). But if they disobey God, he will curse their land and allow them to be ruled by other nations until they return to him (Deuteronomy 30).

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Even though God had delivered them from slavery, taught them his law, and provided a land for them, the people of Israel were stubborn and did not trust or obey God. But God did not reject his people or forget his promise to them. Instead, he provided a way for their guilt and shame to be atoned for or covered, just as he had done for his first people, Adam and Eve. Leviticus 4 describes how God's people were to confess their sins before him and to offer a perfect, unblemished animal as a blood sacrifice (Leviticus 4:22-35). This demonstrated that the penalty for sin was death and that a perfect sacrifice must be offered in place of the one who sinned (Hebrews 9:22). By confessing their sins and trusting in the sacrifice offered in their place, they would be forgiven, and just like Adam and Eve, their shame was covered and they were reconciled to Him.

JESUS-THE TRUE SIN OFFERING!

In the Old Covenant, the Levitical sin offering required the regular sacrifice of unblemished animals—such as bulls or goats—whose blood was sprinkled before the Lord to temporarily cover the people’s unintentional sins and purify the sanctuary (Leviticus 4:1–35; 16:15–19). Jesus Christ definitively fulfilled and superseded this entire sacrificial system by acting as both our flawless Great High Priest and the ultimate, spotless Lamb of God (John 1:29; Hebrews 9:11–12). Rather than entering an earthly tabernacle with the blood of animals, Jesus entered the true heavenly sanctuary once for all, bearing our sins in His own body on the cross and shedding His own precious blood to satisfy God’s righteous justice (1 Peter 1:18–19; 2:24; Hebrews 9:24–26). Through this single, all-sufficient sacrifice, He achieved eternal redemption, tore down the barrier between a holy God and humanity, and secured complete, permanent forgiveness and cleansing for everyone who places their faith in Him (Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 10:10–14; 1 John 1:7).

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