Expedition 44

The Old Testament ends with Israel in exile because of their sin.  To a Jew, forgiveness of sin would mean the release from exile.  - Zechariah's Song The end of exile and the forgiveness of sins would be marked by God’s presence returning to His people.  The Gospel of the Kingdom connects the Old and New Testament.   The 5 parts of a kingdom are: a king, a rule, a people, a law, and a land.  A King   King Jesus leads a new exodus and ends exile.  The simple Gospel is that “Jesus is the resurrected saving king”.  McNight - Wright Conclusion: • Good news about the end of exile(forgiveness of sin) and return of the Jewish king (presence of God) and the Kingdom of God (King, rule, people, law and land) • We tend to break the gospel down to just it’s benefits for us (me centered- western presentation) where in reality the Gospel is simply Jesus is king (It’s about Him) and he is inviting you to participate in his kingdom.     We can’t unhitch the Old Testament and the story of Israel from the Gospel. Acts 2:14-39; 3:12-26; 4:8-12; 7:2-53; 10:34-43; 13:16-41; 14:15-17; 17:22-31.  The purpose of the Gospel is allegiance to Jesus the king in all the nations. • Read the book of Acts the gospel presentations there are all about Jesus being king We are invited to be part of the Kingdom story through faith!

Dr. Will Ryan and Pastor Matt with Expedition 44 take a look at worship in the Bible.

Dr. Will Ryan and Pastor Matt use the Socio Rhetorical Method to break down Romans 8:28-30   This method contains 5 textures of the text are: 1) inner texture, 2) intertexture, 3) social and cultural texture, 4) ideological texture, and 5) sacred texture. A 6th was added at SBL by William Brodson which is the homiletical texture (for preaching).     -Inner texture -Intertexture -Socio-Cultural Texture   -Ideological Texture -Sacred Texture   -Foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified -Firstborn language -past tenses

Dr. Will Ryan and Pastor Matt  interview Dr. Matthew Bates on Gospel Faith and Allegiance   Gospel • We’ve often heard of the Romans Road, 4 spiritual laws, and justification by faith as the Gospel in the western church. Are these correct? What is problematic about letting the benefits of the gospel run the narrative?   • Many focus just on the cross alone when talking about the gospel, though this is very important, it is not the whole gospel. Could you describe the Biblical gospel to us as you describe in your book Gospel Allegiance and how the cross is just a part of the whole gospel?   • In your book you talk about the gospel as a royal announcement vs. persuasive rhetoric. Most modern Christians make the gospel a sales pitch, is this a correct way to present the gospel?   • What would ring in the original audience’s hears when they heard this king Jesus gospel in the first century (Jesus is Lord, Caesar is not)? What are the implications today?   • As we’ve talked about, most people see the gospel as salvation.  How are the gospel and salvation linked if the gospel is primarily a royal announcement of Jesus as king?   Faith/Allegiance    • The gospel requires a response of faith. You write about the concept of faith as allegiance in both Gospel Allegiance and Salvation by Allegiance Alone. Could you explain this concept vs. the usual western view of simple belief?   • In your book you talk about how we get grace wrong in the west. You mention 6 dimensions of grace (Jon Barclay) could you talk about how these tie into the first century view of grace and allegiance.    • Many conflate faith and works (especially in Paul). Could you speak to how faith and works are not at odds in context?   • You state that you wrote Gospel Allegiance for the church. What are you hoping the results of this view of the gospel and faith will have on congregations and discipleship (You talk a lot about disciple making in chapter 7 of Gospel Allegiance)?

Doc Ryan and Pastor Steve Cassell - the the goal of translation is to carry over the meaning of the original text  -No translation explicitly translates every word   -The interlinear Bible   -it is not possible to translate Greek words with only one English word  -the doctrine of inspiration extends only to the autographs   -The essentially literal   - meaning-based, not word-based

TOPICS:  -equivalent translation or a functional more dynamic translation      -•  rules or laws of interpretation   • Honor, Patronage, kinship, and purity  • socio-rhetorical interpretation  • Methods of interpretation (literal vs. metaphorical vs. other)  • Original languages and translation choices  •  rhetorical books and practices that influence interpretation      Recommended reads:  to Read the Bible for all its worth by Gordon Fee Honor, Partonage,  Kinship & Purity by David Desilva  Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament by. John Walton     Trinity Radio (Apologetics): https://www.youtube.com/user/braxhunt  Trinity Radio Extra (Biblical Studies and Theology): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoKB...  Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary: https://www.trinitysem.edu

Dr. Will Ryan and pastor Matt  with Expedition 44 take a final look at the book of Revelation from a partial preterist foundation and conlcude the series giving an overview of the journey.      -Prediction after prediction has failed to materialize, and false hope after false hope has been teased upon the Christian community. Many Christians have been disillusioned, and are already looking for more reasonable explanations. The escapist ideas of futurism just don't see to stack of with Scripture. What is the better view?   Why a partial preterist view? If you watch this station much you will find that we always seek to interpret the context of scripture to find out what the best interpretation is. Unfortunately America has become dependent on the left behind thinking so much that they have a hard time understanding anything else. Yet our goal in this series has been to show that when you break down all the verses about the prophetic scripture it seems like a vast stretch to be a futurist.      One of the basic rules of Hermeneutics is to put everything together and say what makes the most sense. When you do this the futurist view almost seems like a fairy tale. The orthodox preterist view simply just seems to align with the complete lens of scripture much better. You don’t have to continually twist and hammer things in interpreting them unusually or differently than you do throughout the rest of the Bible to have them fit and make sense.      Join us on this final conclusion of the 11 part series.

Already or not yet?  • Ez 38-39 is about a true rescue of Israel • Many nations come up against Israel and are defeated    Many futurists look at the events of Ezekiel 38-39 and conclude that it must be future since we have a similar name in Revelation 19/20.   Gog and Magog are referenced together twice in Scripture by name, first in Ezekial 38-39 and very briefly in Revelation 20. A third related passage is Revelation 19:17-18, where Gog and Magog are not mentioned by name but the language there appears to be borrowed from Ezekiel’s prophecy. How are Gog and Magog to be identified?   Most Partial Preterists believe this is one past battle, some believe that it is possibly 2 battles. A futurist would typically just put this as more of a “last battle”: Armageddon thing.     This film explores what scripture says step by step from a basis of preterism.

Futurists believe that there is a 7-year tribulation out there to come based on a similar hermeneutic that we found in the Anti-Christ and the temple episodes. This hermeneutic is smashing together passages throughout scripture that are taken out of context.  The main passages they use are Jer 30:7 of Jacob’s trouble, and a future 39th week to Daniel 9’s prophecy of the abomination of desolation connected to Matthew 24:21 and Revelation 7:14.  Join Matt and Doc Ryan as they answer some of these questions!

When we think Apocalyptic Literature we think Daniel and Revelation. Through this series we have been seeking to break down exactly what apocalypse they were referring to. As we have previously mentioned the common majority of people within the western church just assume the bible teaches that in the end times their will be a tribulation, an antichrist, a mark of the beast, and a sudden disappearance type rapture. This doom and gloom type thinking actually isn’t really in the Bible or at least you may have to use quite a bit of imagination to see the scriptures saying something like this. In fact this thinking didn’t even really start until the 1800’s and is largely limited to a western culture. Those who think this way are called escapists or futurists.  As this series has shown, most of the book of Daniel was referring to the eminent destruction of the temple in 70AD and most of the reference that are linked to the book of Revelation also refer to that era. In fact you would be hard to pressed in scripture to find any prophecy in Daniel or revelation about “end times” other than the simple fact that the Messiah is coming back some day and no one knows the time or the hour.