The Cincinnati Church

The Kingdom of God Is At Hand (Mark 1:15)
Kingdom: “Kingly function, authority or power; sovereignty, supreme rule; the position or rank of a king,
kingship.”
I. In the words of John the Baptist (MAT 3:2) and the Lord Jesus Christ, the kingdom of
heaven/God was “...at hand.”
A. The system of eschatology represented by the footnotes of the Scofield Reference Bible
affirms that the promised Messianic/Davidic king and kingdom which the Jews awaited
were thwarted by the Jewish rejection of the Messiah and so were reserved to a future
advent of Jesus Christ.