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Two Kingdoms, Two Seeds, Two Covenant


Two kingdoms: the kingdom of heaven; the kingdom of the world


Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying,"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."


John 18:36 Jesus answered,"My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."


Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."



Two seeds: the sons of the kingdom; the sons of the evil one


Matthew 13:37 He answered,"The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.

13:38 The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

13:39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

13:40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.


Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

2:16 And the L ORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."


Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"

3:2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,

3:3 but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

3:4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.

3:5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.


1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.


James 1:15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.



Matthew 13:27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?'

13:28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?'

13:29 But he said, 'No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.

13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, "Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn."'"


Genesis 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."


Genesis 4:1 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD."

4:2 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.


Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said to her,"Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."


Romans 9:11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—

9:12 she was told, "The older will serve the younger."

9:13 As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."


Galatians 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.

4:23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.

4:24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.

4:25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

4:26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.


Genesis 1:24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.


Genesis 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

6:5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.


Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

6:20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.


Genesis 7:2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

7:3 and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.




Two covenant: for freedom, Sabbath; for slavery, the Law


The first two tablets of stone, given by God, with the covenant of Sabbath written on them, were broken when the Israelites worshiped the golden calf:


Exodus 31:12 And the LORD said to Moses,

31:13 "You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, 'Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.

31:14 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

31:15 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.

31:16 Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.

31:17 It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"

31:18 And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.


Exodus 32:7 And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'"

32:15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written.

32:16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

32:19 And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.



The latter two tablets of stone were hewn by human hand. Though the words on them were the same as the first ones, they were the Law in the heart of stone:


Exodus 34:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.


Exodus 34:28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

34:31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.

34:33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.


2 Corinthians 3:15 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.

3:16 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.



Behold, the days are coming, when the LORD will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, written on their hearts.


Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

31:32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.

31:33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

31:34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."


Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

36:27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

36:28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.



2 Corinthians 3:3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.


Hebrews 4:9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,


2 Corinthians 3:6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.







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