1.
Prepared by Armando S. Capangpangan
Session 2

2.
 "Whatever may he man’s intellectual
advancement, let him not for a moment
think that there is no need of thorough
and continuous searching of the
Scriptures for greater light," —
Testimonies.Vol. 5, 708.

3.
 "Those who start up to proclaim a message on their own individual
responsibility, who, while claiming to be taught and led of God, still make it
their special work to tear down that which God has been for years building
up, are not doing the will of God. Be it known that these men are on the side of
the great deceiver. Believe them not. They are allying themselves with the
enemies of God and the truth.THEYWILL DERIDETHE ORDER OFTHE
MINISTRY as a system of priest craft. From such turn away, have no fellowship
with their message, however much they may quote theTestimonies* and
seek to entrench themselves behind them. Receive them not; for God has not
given them this work to do.The result, of such work will be unbelief in the
 Testimonies,7"—Test. Ministers andWorkers, 51.

4.
 "It is such messages as these men have borne
that divide the church and put us to shame
before the enemies of truth, and IN SUCH
MESSAGES IS PLAINLY REVEALEDTHE
SPECIOUSWORKING OFTHE GREAT
DECEIVER, who WOULD HINDERTHE CHORDS
FROM ATTAINING UNTO PERFECTION IN
UNITY,"—Test. Ministers andWorkers, 56,

5.
 "I am encouraged and blessed as I realize that
the God of Israel IS STILL GUIDING HIS
PEOPLE, and that 'HE WILL CONTINUETO
BE WITHTHEM, EVENTOTHE END.”—Life
Sketches, 437,438.

6.
 TheTime of setting
 Location of the Kingdom
 The Stone Kingdom
 The Situation of the Kingdom

7.
 a)“Kingdom of grace” - in the
kingdom of grace Christ is a new
gracious king who forgives
repentant sinners and helps them to
live happy new lives.

8.
 As used in the Bible, the expression “kingdom of God” is employed
to designate both the kingdom of grace and the kingdom of glory.
The kingdom of grace is brought to view by Paul in the Epistle to
the Hebrews. After pointing to Christ, the compassionate
intercessor who is “touched with the feeling of our infirmities,” the
apostle says, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace.” [Hebrews 4:16.]
The throne of grace represents the kingdom of grace; for the
existence of a throne implies the existence of a kingdom. In many
of his parables, Christ uses the expression, “the kingdom of
Heaven,” to designate the work of divine grace upon the hearts of
men. GC88 374.1

9.
 b)“Kingdom of Glory” – In the
kingdom of glory Jesus reigns as a
literal king, maintaining world peace
and promoting universal prosperity.

10.
 So the throne of glory represents the kingdom
of glory, and this kingdom is referred to in the
Saviour's words, “When the Son of man shall
come in his glory, and all the holy angels with
him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his
glory; and before him shall be gathered all
nations.” [Matthew 25:31, 32.]This kingdom is
yet future. It is not to be set up until the second
advent of Christ. {GC88 347.1}

11.
The Kingdom of Grace and Kingdom of Glory

12.
 “timed and designed to reveal
the Davidian Kingdom rising
anew before the appearing of
Christ in the clouds.”
The Answers 2 (1944): 77.

13.
 That these events shall ultimate in the setting
up of the Kingdom (Dan 2:44; Isa 2:1-4; Mic 4;
Ezek 37), wherein the 144,000, those who
follow the Lamb “withersoever He goeth”
(Rev 14:4), shall stand with Him on Mt. Zion
(Rev. 14:1), and there “receive the forces of
the Gentiles” Isa. 60:5, 11.1

14.
 “receive the forces of the Gentiles” (Isa
60:5,11).This meant that while the time of
probation had closed for the SDA Church, it
remained open for the great multitudes who
were to be saved from all nations

15.
 “house of David—the kingdom that is
to be set up, which is but the church
purified, no sinners among them (Isa
52:1), shall be as the angel of the Lord
before the people.”
Timely Greetings 1, no. 10 (1946): 26.

16.
 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is
risen upon thee." Isaiah 60:1. Christ is coming with power and
great glory. He is coming with His own glory and with the glory of
the Father. And the holy angels will attend Him on His way.While
all the world is plunged in darkness, there will be light in every
dwelling of the saints. They will catch the first light of His second
appearing.The unsullied light will shine from His splendor, and
Christ the Redeemer will be admired by all who have served Him.
While the wicked flee, Christ's followers will rejoice in His
presence. {PK 720.2} continue…


17.
 …Then it is that the redeemed from among men will
receive their promised inheritance. Thus God's
purpose for Israel will meet with literal fulfillment.
That which God purposes, man is powerless to
disannul. Even amid the working of evil, God's
purposes have been moving steadily forward to their
accomplishment. It was thus with the house of Israel
throughout the history of the divided monarchy; it is
thus with spiritual Israel today. {PK 720.3}

18.
 By faith he (Abraham) sojourned in the land
of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the
heirs with him of the same promise: For he
looked for a city which hath foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.

19.
 But you have come to Mount Zion and
to the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem, and to
innumerable angels in festal gathering,

20.
 Not until the personal advent of Christ can his people receive the
kingdom.The Saviour said: “When the Son of man shall come in
his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon
the throne of his glory; and before him shall be gathered all
nations; and he shall separate them one from another, as a
shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; and he shall set the
sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.Then shall the
King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world.” [Matthew 25:31-34.] Great Controversy 322. 1

21.
 Man in his present state is mortal, corruptible;
but the kingdom of God will be incorruptible,
enduring forever. Therefore man in his present
state cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
But whenJesus comes, he confers immortality
upon his people; and then he calls them to
inherit the kingdom, of which they have hitherto
been only heirs. {GC88 322.2}

22.
It is then that the peaceful and long-desired kingdom of the Messiah shall be
established under the whole heaven. “The Lord shall comfort Zion; he will
comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the garden of the Lord.” “The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto
it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon.” “Thou shalt no more be termed
Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate; but thou shalt
be called My Delight, and thy land Beulah.” “As the bridegroom rejoiceth over
the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.” [Isaiah 51:3; 35:2; 62:4, 5
(MARGIN).] {GC88 301.4}
The coming of the Lord has been in all ages the hope of his true followers.
The Saviour's parting promise upon Olivet, that he would come again, lighted
up the future for his disciples,…

23.
…filling their hearts with joy and hope, that sorrow could not quench, nor
trials dim. Amid suffering and persecution, “the appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” was the “blessed hope.”When the
ThessalonianChristians were filled with grief as they buried their loved
ones, who had hoped to live to witness the coming of the Lord, Paul, their
teacher, pointed them to the resurrection, to take place at the Saviour's
advent.Then the dead in Christ should rise, and together with the living be
caught up to meet the Lord in the air. “And so,” he said, “shall we ever be
with the Lord.Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” [1
Thessalonians 4:16-18.] {GC88 302.1}

24.
At the Second Coming

25.
 Moreover, these prophecies show that the
renewal of the ancient kingdom of Judah is to
be a real thing, not something imaginary. Its
subjects are to be real people, not ghosts. Now
we can see that the common expression, “going
to heaven,” means first going to the Promised
Land, there to be fitted for the society of the
pure and eternal.
 Timely Greetings 1, no. 22 (1947): 28.

26.
 I am positive upon Bible authority that the kingdom restored is
not to be made up in heaven above. It is to be made up in the
very land where God’s people lived until they were driven out
because of their sins.Yes, the Bible teaches that all the twelve
tribes some day will return and possess that land--the land that
He gave to their fathers. After the millennium God’s people will
possess not only Palestine, but they will possess the whole earth.
They must first, however, return from among the Gentiles and
possess the land of their fathers in fulfillment of the prophecy we are
now studying. Necessarily, then, it must take place before the
millennium, before God's people go to heaven.
 Symbolic Code 13, nos. 1, 2 (1957): 8.

27.
 The servants of God shall then flee to the valley
of the mountains, where the Lord’s feet shall
stand, and all the saints with them; that is, the
Lord's “feet” will open the way for the
restoration of the Kingdom, and for the
gathering of the people into it.
 “The Restoration and theTime,”Timely
Greetings 2, no. 31 (1948): 6-7.

28.
 Subsequently, “Arab, Jew, or Gentile” will
“have to move away and give room to God’s
clean and purified people.”
“That Which Is to Be During theTime of the
End,”Timely Greetings 2, no. 42 (1948): 36.

29.
 Then I was pointed to some who are in the great error of believing
that it is their duty to go to Old Jerusalem, and think they have a
work to do there before the Lord comes. Such a view is
calculated to take the mind and interest from the present work of
the Lord, under the message of the third angel; for those who
think that they are yet to go to Jerusalem will have their minds
there, and their means will be withheld from the cause of present
truth, to get themselves and others there. I saw that such a
mission would accomplish no real good, that it would take a long
while to make a very few of the Jews believe even in the first
advent of Christ, much more to believe in His second advent.
 Early Writings p 75

30.
New Jerusalem not Old…

31.
 The prophecies of judgment delivered by Amos and
Hosea were accompanied by predictions of future
glory. . . . Until the end of time, they were to be
‘wanderers among the nations.’ But through Hosea
was given a prophecy that set before them the
privilege of having a part in the final restoration that
is to be made to the people of God at the close of
earth’s history, when Christ shall appear as King of
kings and Lord of lords.
Patriarchs and Kings 298

32.
 Promises not already fulfilled to literal Israel either would never be
fulfilled at all or would be fulfilled to the Christian church as spiritual
Israel. Prophecies that fall into the latter classification are to be fulfilled
in principle but not necessarily in every detail, owing to the fact that
many details of prophecy were concerned with Israel as a literal nation
situated in the land of Palestine.The Christian church is a spiritual
“nation” scattered all over the world, and such details obviously could
not apply to it in a literal sense. Prophecies of the former classification
cannot now be fulfilled because they were strictly conditional in nature
and limited in scope, by their very nature, to literal Israel.
“Role of Israel in OldTestament Prophecy,” SDABC, 4:36-37.

33.
 "The Bible, the Bible, is the foundation of our
religion." And we want to search the Scriptures,
praying the God of heaven to give us light upon
it. And when these doctrines come pouring in
upon us from every side, then we can say, "The
Bible, and the Bible alone, is the foundation of
our religion.
 {2Sermons AndTalks 28.5}

34.
 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone
of offense and a rock of stumbling to both
houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.And many shall
stumble on it.They shall fall and be broken;
they shall be snared and taken.”
 Isaiah 8:14-15

35.
 The stone that the builders
rejected has become the
cornerstone Psalms 118:22

36.
 But he looked directly at them and said, “What
then is this that is written: “‘The stone that the
builders rejected has become the
cornerstone’? Everyone who falls on that stone
will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on
anyone, it will crush him.”
 Luke 20:17-18

37.
 Act 4:10 let it be known to all of you and to all
the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom
God raised from the dead—by him this man is
standing before you well.
 Act 4:11 This Jesus is the stone that was
rejected by you, the builders, which has
become the cornerstone.

38.
 built on the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the
cornerstone, Ephesians 2:20

39.
 The mountain from which it is cut out, must necessarily
represent the church from which the first fruits of the
kingdom, the 144,000, are gathered. And as the stone
grows and becomes “a great mountain” (Dan. 2:35) after it
is “cut out,” it obviously at first represents the kingdom
in its infancy--the “first fruits” only.The fact, also, that the
stone grows and fills “the whole earth,” is another
evidence in the proof that after this long-looked-for
kingdom is “set up,” a great multitude is to join it
 Tract Studies 9 (1942): 41.

40.
 The dream of the great image, opening before
Nebuchadnezzar events reaching to the close of time,
had been given that he might understand the part he
was to act in the world's history, and the relation that
his kingdom should sustain to the kingdom of heaven.
In the interpretation of the dream, he had been plainly
instructed regarding the establishment of God's
everlasting kingdom.
 Prophets and Kings, 503

41.
 The prophecy of Daniel pictured the glory of His
reign over an empire which should succeed all
earthly kingdoms; and, said the prophet, "It
shall stand forever." Daniel 2:44.While few
understood the nature of Christ's mission, there
was a widespread expectation of a mighty prince
who should establish his kingdom in Israel, and
who should come as a deliverer to the nations.
{DA 34.3}

42.
 KINGDOM OF GRACE BEING ESTABLISHED.—
The kingdom of God’s grace is now being
established, as day by day hearts that have been
full of sin and rebellion yield to the sovereignty
of His love. But the full establishment of the
kingdom of His glory will not take place until
the second coming of Christ to this world.
 {Heaven 167.2}

43.
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44.
 Moreover, in that day the Lord’s feet will stand on the
Mount of olives, and the mountain cleaves toward the
east and toward the west, making a great valley.Then
to this valley of the mountains, to the place where the
Lord’s feet stand.The people of God flee as hastily as
from an earthquake.Thus is Jerusalem to be re-
inhabited by God’s own people. … Plainly, Jerusalem
is to become the great gathering place for God’s
people.
Sheperd’s Rod Series 216

45.
 Here we see that there is to be peace in the valley of the mountains-
peace between beast and beast, and also between man and man,
for the Lion shall not hurt the lamb, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim
are nevertheless to be in conflict with the countries surrounding the land,
for they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Palestine's, and lay hand upon
Edom and Moab…The Ammonites though, shall obey them, God’s
people in these last days shall be gathered from every land, not from
the land of Egypt… Thus shall the kingdom of Judah and Israel
be restored, and be given peace and plenty.
 Sheperd’s Rod Series 366

46.
 Characterizing both the king and kingdom to be
established after the “many days” the prophet Isaiah
declares: ‘… with righteousness shall He judge the
poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the
earth: and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His
mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the
wicked.And righteousness shall be the girdle of His
loins. And faithfulness the girdle of His reins,…
 Tract Studies no 9, page 44-45

47.
 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the
bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the
lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the
cockatrice' den.They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
 Tract Studies no 9, page 44-45

48.
 This prophesied era of absolute
righteousness, peace, and knowledge of God
(in the kingdom) under the reign of the “rod”
(David) and of the “Branch” (Christ), must
begin.
 Tract Studies no 9, page 44-45

49.
 As the decree issued by the various rulers of Christendom against
commandment-keepers shall withdraw the protection of
government, and abandon them to those who desire their
destruction, the people of God will flee from the cities and
villages, and associate together in companies, dwelling in the
most desolate and solitary places. Many will find refuge in the
strongholds of the mountains. Like the Christians of the Piedmont
valleys, they will make the high places of the earth their
sanctuaries, and will thank God for the “munitions of rocks.
Great Controversy 626.1

50.
 But many of all nations, and all classes, high and
low, rich and poor, black and white, will be cast
into the most unjust and cruel bondage. The
beloved of God pass weary days, bound in
chains, shut in by prison bars, sentenced to be
slain, some apparently left to die of starvation in
dark and loathsome dungeons. No human ear is
open to hear their moans; no human hand is
ready to lend them help. {GC88 626.1}

51.
The groanings and lamentations of the creation shall cease,
but songs of praise and thanksgiving shall be heard.” “When
Jesus comes in the glory of his Father with the holy
angels,” “the dead believers shall rise first. 1Thessalonians
4:16; 1 Corinthians 15:23.This is what we Christians call the
first resurrection. Then the animal kingdom shall change
its nature (Isaiah 11:6-9), and shall be subdued unto Jesus.
Psalm 8. Universal peace shall prevail.” “The Lord again shall
look down upon the earth, and say, ‘Behold, it is very good.’”
{Great Controversy 88 359.1}

52.
 The members of the Kingdom-Church, are,
according to Isaiah, to be skilled in their
respective trades and proffessions. As builders,
engineers, carpenters, masons, mechanics,
whatever, they are to “build the old wastes,…
raise up the former desolations, and … repair the
waste cities, the desolations of many
generations.” Isa 61:4
 Answerer 5:22.1

53.
 Besides being skilled agronomist, artisans, and
tradesmen, these governors of the Kingdom, as living
embodiments of Living Christianity, are to be expert
international bankers, economist, personel and
traffic engineers, and provisioners, together
handling “the forces” and “the riches of the Gentiles.”
Isaiah 6:5, 11; 61:6
 Answerer 5, 23. 1

54.
 Our kingdom is not of this world. We are
waiting for our Lord from heaven to come to
earth to . . . set up His everlasting kingdom.
Faith I live by 240

55.
 His (Satan) purpose was to establish a kingdom which
would be governed by his own laws, and carried on
with his own resources, independent of God; and so
well did he succeed, that when Christ came to the
world to establish a kingdom, He looked upon the
governments of men, and said, "Whereunto shall we
liken the kingdom of God?" Nothing in civil society
afforded Him a comparison
 {Amazing Grace 14.2}