Index to Kline’s Kingdom Prologue Lectures

As of 8/2010, the hosting church has reorganized their .mp3s. Lecture .mp3s can be found at this link (or this link will also get you to a couple other lecture series’).

Lecture 1

1: kp1a1.mp3

0:00: The microphone is misplaced, Kline is virtually inaudible, until…

3:35: Literary structure of Genesis: creation prologue, 10 headings “The generations of…” (3+3+2+2)

8:40: Headings are superscriptions (headings), not subscriptions (summaries)

13:22: H1 (2:4), generations of Cain (City of Man) (begins first triad of headings)

29:13: H2 (5:1), generations of Seth (“as in Noah’s day…”, seed of serpent vs. woman)

39:43: H3 (6:9), generations of Noah

44:26: H4 (10:1), generations of Ham (2nd triad Ham/Shem/Abe parallels 1st triad Cain/Seth/Noah)

2. kp1a2.mp3

6:02: H5 (11:9), generations of Shem

12:16: H6 (11:27), generations of Abraham

12:57: H7-10 extensions of H6/Abe (25:12 Ishmael/25:19 Isaac; 36:1,9 Esau/37:2 Jacob)

21:20: Antiquity of Man

25:40: 3 views on genealogies: Complete, Dynastic, Selective:

32:55: Exegetical indications of selective genealogies, Matt/Ezra

3. kp1b1.mp3

0:00: Exegetical indications of selective genealogies, Luke

1:03: Exegetical indications of selective genealogies, back in Genesis

3:18: Summary of Genesis genealogies

8:12: Gilgamesh and the flood

13:13: Science vs bible? Calvin College (“all the evidence is in”) vs. Kline (19:24 “I’m ready to wait…”)

21:50: Antiquity of Creation

26:40: 3 most prominent views: Literal, Day-age, Framework:

31:13: 1st triad: Kingdoms

33:35: 2nd triad: Kings

36:04: 7th day: The Great King

Lecture 2

4. kp2a1.mp3

4:26: Review backtracking structure of Generations Headings: 3+3+2+2

4:26: Framework = same thematic backtracking: 3+3+1

8:27: Yom=’Days’, not ‘Ages’ (9:39 Parable of Sower)

10:57: 7th Day (God’s Sabbath) is eternal

18:48: Figures of speech in poetry (24:04: poetic does not imply ahistorical)

27:25: Space & Time in the Genesis Cosmogony

28:36: ? about intended readers

30:17: Upper/Lower Registers

34:08: Upper/Lower Registers in Gen 1:1

37:12: Upper/Lower Registers in Prov 8 (39:24 John 1)

5: kp2a2.mp3

5:39: Waters above heavens = clouds

10:19: Gen 1:1: invisible (spiritual) heavens vs. visible heavens (sky)

12:21: Gen 1:2: Glory-cloud, Images of the Spirit

17:13: New term: incarnation:Son::”endoxation”:Spirit

20:23: Upper/Lower Registers in Day 6 (“Let us”=God+angelic hosts)

25:42: Days 1-5

28:10: Narrative is not sequential, but thematically developed

29:00: Day 1 vs. Day 4 (light/sun)

33:35: “Because It Had Not Rained”

6: kp2b1.mp3

5:20: ? about Gen 2:5 (global/local?)

9:40: Rom 8:18–: Adam’s pre-fall environment “not just a marshmallow”

14:40: ? about state of nature in eternity

21:00: Definition of Covenant (“Divinely sanctioned committment”)

29:00: Covenant function: “Instruments whereby God administers His kingdom”

30:48: Murray’s def’n: “Sovereign administration of grace and promise”

35:37: O. Palmer Robertson’s def’n: “intimate religious bond”

38:00: Covenant of Works

44:12: Probation, approbation (justification), confirmation, glorification

7: kp2b2.mp3

4:00: Covenant of Redemption

7:30: Covenant of Grace

9:33: CoR/CoG distinction: Luk 22:28-30

14:16: CoG for salvation underlies “upper layer” Mosaic CoW for Nat. Israel

18:44: Fuller/Porter/Piper/Shepherd anti CoW

20:10: ? CoW/CoG upper/lower layers?

21:20: ? Glorification/approbation?

24:42: ? Salvation by Mosaic CoW?

Lecture 3

8: kp3a1.mp3

0:00: Prayer

3:17: Ancient Near-East Treaty structures

8:48: 6 standard components of ANE treaties:

10:20: (Outline on p. 133 of Structure of Biblical Authority)

10:53: Higher crit. vs. 2nd mill dating of pentateuch

11:58: 1. Title

16:00: 2. Historical Prologue

20:00: 3. Stipulations/Obligations

24:49: 4. Document Clause

30:43: 5. Divine Witness

33:36: 6. Sanctions

36:25: “Two Tables” = two copies of the whole treaty, not duty to God, duty to man

39:48: Did God “borrow” covenantal structure from pagan nations?

9: kp3a2.mp3

3:17: Covenant ratification ceremony

9:11: Covenant renewal/succession

13:22: Prophecy as covenant lawsuit

16:36: More on dating by 2nd mill. form of ANE treaties

17:50: Common Grace in relation to CoR/CoG/CoW layers

27:43: Common Grace is not holy (no “kingdom work”)

33:09: Mosaic Covenant=intrusion: local suspension of common grace

37:49: ? Relation of grace to Mosaic Covenant

40:34: Flood was a 1-year intrusion

42:07: Works principle in Mosaic Covenant

10: kp3b1.mp3

0:58: Challenges to works principle by Fuller et al (Covenant Theology Under Attack)

14:09: ? Monocovenantalism? demands/promises?

20:18: Back to Fuller et al

24:40: Strict justice

26:41: Fuller’s objections to merit

29:37: ? Mosaic: grace before works?

32:48: Fuller’s 2nd objection to merit: disproportionate reward

38:15: Sacrificial law –> grace in Moses

11: kp3b2.mp3

1:00: Law/Gospel contrasts

2:00: Jer 31: breakable new covenant?

7:40: N.T. fulfillment of Jer 31

13:55: How is New Covenant new?

20:28: ? from audience

Lecture 4

12: kp4a1.mp3

0:00: Review

5:49: Rom 5:3-14

20:14: ANE Treaty is useful structure for Gen 1-3 (although Gen is not such a treaty)

23:30: Preamble: God’s names/titles

31:43: vs. pagan views

34:24: Pagan creation myth Enuma Elish: full of conflict

13: kp4a2.mp3

7:10: God reveals himself as sovereign: no conflict in creation

13:09: Alpha & Omega in sabbath

17:16: Historical Prologue: what has God done for man?

19:20: First good thing: Imago Dei/glory-spirit

25:12: 3 elements of glory spirit: Dominion, Moral Excellence, Visible Luminosity

33:29: Son : Incarnation :: Spirit : Endoxation: shekinah glory-cloud

14: kp4b1.mp3

2:47: Comparison of glory-spirit in Sinai & Pentecost

20:00: ? Cherubim?

22:00: Back to Historical Prologue: man made in likeness of glory-spirit

24:00: Har Mageddon

28:08: Gen 1:26 “Let us” vs. 3:22 “Like us“: Heavenly hosts, not trinity

34:20: ? Does God need advice?

35:55: (back to “us”) Ps 82, God’s council

42:45: Gen 2:7 forbids evolution of Man; c.f. John 20:22

15: kp4b2.mp3

0:00: How does man have the 3 elts? 1. Man’s likeness = dominion

1:23: Gen 3:22: know good & evil?

5:23: Gen 9:6 positive statement of man’s judicial capacity

7:38: Sons of God: representations, not representatives

9:23: 2. Man has moral excellence when recreated in image of God

11:14: 3. Visual elt

15:30: Possible states of Imago Dei: Creation (fall) Regeneration (judgment) Glorification

21:42: Is reprobate man still an image bearer? (yes)

Lecture 5

16: kp5a1.mp3

2:25: Continue Historical Prologue: God gave man a kingdom

3:46: 2 concepts of garden: Temple & Protectorate

7:22: Proper xlation of Gen 3:8; not “cool of the day”

19:07: Def’n “Theocracy”: Holy, institutional integration of cult & culture

29:22: Garden is theocracy (vs. rest of world)

41:55: Theocracies are exceptional (e.g. tithe–> blessing)

17: kp5a2.mp3

3:38: What was Eden like? Non-violent/no death/no thorns? No.

12:30: Pre-fall vegetarian? Address a number of arguments:

20:45: Gen 1:29?

24:12: Gen 9?

30:00: Lion & Lamb?

33:58: If death, how can pre-Fall be paradise?

35:35: Curse & Earth: Rom 8 + Is 24-25

18: kp5b1.mp3

0:00: Stipulations: King (cultural), Priest (cultic)

1:18: 2 general covenantal principles: likeness/imitation, under authority

4:04: Theocratic kingdom commission

11:29: King/Cultural Mandate

20:27: City of God: citizens, architecture, government

23:54: City of Royal human family

29:52: Imitation: worker/inventor/artist/loving/cov. keeping/naming/…

38:20: …/Sabbath-keeping

40:08: Sabbath as eschatological

43:48: Sabbath as weekly mirror

19: kp5b2.mp3

2:08: WHO? Validitity of Sabbath only for covnenant people

13:44: HOW? Cultic duties, then cultural activities irrelevant

21:51: WHEN? 7th day–>1st day

24:38: ? Sabbath years/jubilee?

Lecture 6

20: kp6a1.mp3

2:29: Review

5:59: Stipulation 2: Priestly duties

8:55: 1. “Positive” consecration: worship/symbols/sacrifice?

14:11: 2. “Negative” consecration: guard against unclean

25:21: Priest/Cult primal over King/Culture

29:21: Blessings & Curses: heaven/hell, not just life/death

41:36: Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil

21: kp6a2.mp3

2:04: Probation & Confirmation

7:34: Cultic Focus –> Cultural Fullness

11:51: Christian view of culture

17:45: ? Cultural mandate?

27:43: Sins (of omission) before the Fall

33:12: Gen 3:14- as Judgment

42:46: Seed of the woman vs. Seed of the serpent

22: kp6b1.mp3

3:44: We participate in trampling serpent (Rom 16:20)

5:04: Woman/serpent in Rev 12

12:48: Gen 3:14- as (Common) Curse(/Common Grace)

16:23: Physical death

20:34: Distinct curses for man/woman (implying common grace)

23:45: Expulsion

26:11: Gen 3:14- as CoR

28:22: Three new features: Messiah/grace/election

32:51: Inauguration/seal of the new covenant

37:41: Nakedness & double-divorce

41:14: Shedding of blood for atonement

42:49: Summary chart of CoR

23: kp6b2.mp3

3:12: Timeline of Christ’s CoW

10:16: Timeline of CoG

13:38: ? Kingdom of God?

15:59: Review 1st 3 “toledoths” leading up to Flood

22:21: Institutional features of common grace: Family & State

24:22: Inauguration of state in Gen 4:15

28:28: Mistranslation: “mark” should be “oath”

Lecture 7

24: kp7a1.mp3

1:17: Review common vs. holy

16:03: Noahic covenant of common grace; rainbow

20:48: …distinct from Noahic covenant of salvation

22:44: Chiastic form of Gen 8:20-9:17: Nat/Fam/State/Fam/Nat

29:09: Introduce Intrusion: Common:normal::unusual:Intrusion

36:57: Supreme example of intrusion: Christ’s incarnation

41:06: Intrusion of the Holy Spirit

43:31: Intrusion in Israel vs. in the church

25: kp7b1.mp3

1:07: Phyiscal intrusion (healing)

1:41: Intrusion of final judgment

6:88: Two categories of biblical symbolism: typological vs. sacramental

14:15: Communion=sacrament–>no symbolic death–>no ritual breaking of bread

18:21: Common grace institute of the state

22:35: State is God’s good gift: mitigates dispersal, government/justice

28:32: The City and the kingdoms of God/Satan

34:06: ? Gay marriage?

39:05: ? Ethical standards for the state?

41:15: Illegitimate/demonic state?

43:37: Proper (biblical) functions of state wrt family/church…

26: kp7b2.mp3

0:00: …Support, supplement, surrogate

6:52: Biblical limits to state’s role

11:43: State & church

16:50: Prayer in schools, oaths in court, Christ in the constitution

24:20: ? Perjury?

27:40: Millenial views: Pre=pessimistic, Post=optimistic, A=just right

42:03: Moses: localized intrusion into common grace

44:07: Summarize Dominion Theology

27: kp7c1.mp3

4:47: ? Great commission & eschatology?

16:37: How to justify apparently barbaric Mosaic ethics (God makes ethical progress)?

26:08: Intrusion!

Lecture 8

28: kp8a1.mp3

2:21: Review/intro toledoths

4:34: Decline of City of Man in 1st toledoth (Gen 4:16-24)

12:11: Gen 4:25-26: City of God, as transition to next toledoth

14:31: Gen 6:1-4: City of Man, as transition to next toledoth

23:58: The pre-flood covenant community (City of God)

28:08: Identified by presence of God’s altar

31:45: Ingestion of blood

35:16: Universal priesthood in covenant community (except Israel)

38:36: No sanctuaries (outside Israel): “spirit & truth”

29: kp8a2.mp3

2:28: Back to altar/priests: “unto the Lord” vs. holy

6:36: Altar = witness

11:16: Toledoth 3: Flood = trial by ordeal

13:03: Flood geology

18:58: Chiastic structure of flood account (Gen 7-8 )

26:44: Back to flood geology

34:11: Universal death of man in the flood?

35:44: 1. Flood as Redemptive Judgment (Judicial Ordeal, Remnant, Day of the Lord)

30: kp8b1.mp3

1:33: 2. Flood as Re-Creation

2:29: 3. Flood as Consummation (ark as temple, Sabbath theme)

6:11: Noah as Christ figure

11:23: “Habiru”? Actual descendents of Abe vs. oppressed Canaanites/Egyptians

14:04: Oracle of Noah: blessings/curses ~ Gen 3:15–

18:13: Blessing on Shem->Abram (Japheth=Gentiles/Nations)

21:05: Abrahamic covenant: Covenant of promise

22:31: Election vs. Covenant: Circumcision & Baptism

29:18: Symbolism of circumcision

37:57: Theological implications of circumcision

44:13: Function of circumcision: sign of inclusion in covenant

31: kp8b2.mp3

0:00: Proper subjects of circumcision

3:43: Traditional Presb. argument is a confusion

5:17: Problems with trad. bapt. liturgy: “Holy” yes, but not “holy in Christ”

9:32: Baptism as a death ordeal

15:11: Function of baptism: sign of inclusion in covenant

15:46: New. Cov. administration: are children holy? (yes)

Lecture 9

32: kp9a1.mp3

2:13: John and transition of baptism

8:49: Covenant structure & lawsuits

14:44: John as messenger of covenant ultimatum

23:55: Jesus submitting to baptism foreshadows judgment ordeal

32:44: Summing up…

42:03: ? (audience questions)

33: kp9a2.mp3

10:15: Promises of Abrahamic Covenant

16:06: Dispensational view (bad)

31:18: Typological approach (good): “God remembers his covenant”

36:35: AbCov promise: King

34: kp9b1.mp3

4:08: AbCov promise: People

12:39: AbCov promise: Land

20:54: Typological continuity for 3 AbCov promises

30:21: ? Theonomy & Old Testament?

31:27: Why Israel? Why not just Abe–>New Covenant?

42:32: Any future for Israel? (Rom 9-11)

35: kp9b2.mp3

4:07: ? (audience questions)

9:37: Cov. foundations: compare patriarchal/church ages w/ Mosaic/age to come

11:29: Nature of God’s presence/theophanies

22:38: Polity of God’s people

26:33: Relationship between two kingdoms

35:39: Mos. law normative? moral/cerem/civil vs. (cult/culture)x(moral/typological/technological)