Today, in the United States, we inaugurate our 45th president, and politics aside, there's

always something majestic about presidential inaugurations and royal coronations.

They carry with them an unusual weightiness.

These rare events transcend time by the regalia of their gravity, something more like a wedding

or a funeral or some combination of the two.

Regions are events so significant, they almost seem to overshadow the person at the center

of it all, the people present, and even the generation who witnesses it.

In an inauguration, we get a small sense of a nation's weight.

The theme of kingdom is a very significant one in scripture.

Christ himself is a sovereign king.

He was coronated in his resurrection and ascension, and he now reigns over a kingdom yet fully

manifested.

Here to explain how this works out from Genesis to Revelation, we welcome to the podcast,

Dr. Don Carson.

Carson is the co-founder and president of the Gospel Coalition, and he's also the editor

of the NIV, Zondervin, a study Bible.

I recently talked him on the phone and asked him to explain the doctrine of the kingdom

as it develops from Genesis to Revelation.

Before I start to trace out the theme of kingdom through the Bible, it will prove helpful,

I think, to make four distinctions about how the word kingdom is used in the Bible.

These are distinctions that every Bible reader comes to terms with time, but they really

are very important.

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