Your enemy has fallen!
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The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" And he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
Luke 10:17-20 (ESV) |
Prophecy Fulfillment
A light dawned in Galilee as Jesus announced the arrival of the kingdom of heaven...
The prophets of ancient Israel had spoken of an age in which an heir to the throne of David would come to save her from her adversaries. God's people learned to look forward to the promises of forgiveness, of the Spirit of God, of their bodily resurrection, and of glad tidings announced to the poor, all in order that they might freely worship him without opposition in the Messianic age of peace. As the long-awaited heir whom David himself had hailed as Lord, Jesus fulfilled the prophecies and demonstrated his full divinity by healing diseases, defeating demonic authorities, forgiving sins, proclaiming the good news to the poor, laying down his life, and rising from the dead. Now exalted to the right hand of his Father and having received as man all power, he gives his Spirit to those who, despairing of their own goodness, intellect, and power, trust the promise of forgiveness through Christ's blood shed for the whole world. Through offering his life in word and sacrament, he brings the prophesied realm of his Father into this fallen age, before the final judgment of his enemies and the full, glorious presence of the Spirit with the resurrected heirs of the kingdom. | Sing with joy
Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Dawning Realm proclaims the good news of the kingdom as confessed at Caesarea Philippi, Nicaea, and Augsburg.
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Author information. David Bickel confesses the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, the Augsburg Confession, and the other documents of the Book of Concord because they faithfully summarize the sacred writings of the prophets and apostles. As a layman, he lacks the call needed to publicly teach in the church. | personal web page
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A great light
"…the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for
those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned."
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand!"
Matthew 4:16-17 (ESV)
The accuser cast down
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!"
Revelation 12:10-12 (ESV)
