Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

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The Parable of the Minas(A)

11 Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because (B)they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately.

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The Coming of the Kingdom(A)

20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

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27 Then the (A)kingdom and dominion,
And the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven,
Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High.
(B)His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
(C)And all dominions shall serve and obey Him.’

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The Signs of the Times and the End of the Age(A)

Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, (B)the disciples came to Him privately, saying, (C)“Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

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24 (A)“David My servant shall be king over them, and (B)they shall all have one shepherd; (C)they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. 25 (D)Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, (E)forever; and (F)My servant David shall be their prince forever. 26 Moreover I will [a]make (G)a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and (H)multiply them, and I will set My (I)sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 (J)My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be (K)their God, and they shall be My people.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 37:26 Lit. cut

15 ‘In those days and at that time
I will cause to grow up to David
A (A)Branch of righteousness;
He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
16 In those days Judah will be saved,
And Jerusalem will dwell safely.
And this is the name by which she will be called:

[a]THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’

17 “For thus says the Lord: ‘David shall never (B)lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

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  1. Jeremiah 33:16 Heb. YHWH Tsidkenu; cf. Jer. 23:5, 6

“Behold, (A)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and [a]prosper,
(B)And execute [b]judgment and righteousness in the [c]earth.
(C)In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel (D)will dwell safely;
Now (E)this is His name by which He will be called:

[d]THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

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  1. Jeremiah 23:5 act wisely
  2. Jeremiah 23:5 justice
  3. Jeremiah 23:5 land
  4. Jeremiah 23:6 Heb. YHWH Tsidkenu

(A)For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a (B)Son is given;
And (C)the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
(D)Wonderful, Counselor, (E)Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, (F)Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of His government and peace
(G)There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
From that time forward, even forever.
The (H)zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

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29 And (A)I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me,

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21 And He said to her, “What do you wish?”

She said to Him, “Grant that these two sons of mine (A)may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom.”

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11 Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming [a]first and will (A)restore all things.

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  1. Matthew 17:11 NU omits first

The Coming King(A)

“Rejoice (B)greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, (C)your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.

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15 The Lord has taken away your judgments,
He has cast out your enemy.
(A)The King of Israel, the Lord, (B)is in your midst;
You shall [a]see disaster no more.

16 In that day (C)it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Do not fear;
Zion, (D)let not your hands be weak.
17 The Lord your God (E)in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
(F)He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”

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  1. Zephaniah 3:15 So with Heb. mss., LXX, Bg.; MT, Vg. fear

Israel’s Final Triumph

17 “But on Mount Zion there (A)shall be [a]deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph (B)a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.

19 The [b]South (C)shall possess the mountains of Esau,
(D)And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As (E)far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
(F)Shall possess the cities of the [c]South.
21 Then (G)saviors[d] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the (H)kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:17 Or salvation
  2. Obadiah 1:19 Heb. Negev
  3. Obadiah 1:20 Heb. Negev
  4. Obadiah 1:21 deliverers

Israel Will Be Restored

11 “On(A) that day I will raise up
The [a]tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And [b]repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:11 Lit. booth; a figure of a deposed dynasty
  2. Amos 9:11 Lit. wall up its breaches

16 The Lord also will roar from Zion,
And utter His voice from Jerusalem;
The heavens and earth will shake;
(A)But the Lord will be a shelter for His people,
And the strength of the children of Israel.

17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
Dwelling in Zion My (B)holy mountain.
Then Jerusalem shall be holy,
And no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”

God Blesses His People

18 And it will come to pass in that day
That the mountains shall drip with new wine,
The hills shall flow with milk,
And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;
A (C)fountain shall flow from the house of the Lord
And water the Valley of [a]Acacias.

19 “Egypt shall be a desolation,
And Edom a desolate wilderness,
Because of violence against the people of Judah,
For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall abide forever,
And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will (D)acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted;
For the Lord dwells in Zion.”

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  1. Joel 3:18 Heb. Shittim

26 (A)then I will (B)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”

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26 I will restore your judges (A)as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward (B)you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

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10 (A)The [a]scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor (B)a lawgiver from between his feet,
(C)Until Shiloh comes;
(D)And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:10 A symbol of kingship

21 Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “But Lord, what about this man?”

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12 Then He answered and told them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all things. And (A)how is it written concerning the Son of Man, that He must suffer many things and (B)be treated with contempt?

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The Coming Messiah

“But you, (A)Bethlehem (B)Ephrathah,
Though you are little (C)among the (D)thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be (E)Ruler in Israel,
(F)Whose goings forth are from of old,
From [a]everlasting.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 5:2 Lit. the days of eternity

For the children of Israel shall abide many days (A)without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without (B)ephod or (C)teraphim.

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