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10/07/2013 13:46
Continuing with the discussion of Isaiah’s ending chiasm—
B – The Jews are a rebellious people (idolatry) (65:2-7)
Back to the forward leg of the chiasm, God’s next point is that the Jews were rebellious. And their rebellion was as all human rebellion—trusting in something else other than...
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09/27/2013 07:55
Isaiah 64, especially verses 1 through 7, are a wistful reflection for what could have happened had God intervened. Most translations do a poor job in the English version of verse 1. It is not a hopeful plea that if only God “would tear the heavens open and come down.” Rather, the Hebrew...
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09/20/2013 06:59
From verse 8 of chapter 63 on through verse 14, the speaker contrasts God’s former care in rescue from Egypt with God’s seeming lack of care in their current situation. When his people were in Egypt, God felt their suffering; he suffered with them. Manuscripts actually carry a negative in...
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09/13/2013 06:18
Zion’s Rescuer was Christ. Zion’s Restorer is God. Chapter 62 discusses the Restorer God in the backwards progression related to Zion that we have been reading since Isaiah 60. We started there with Zion’s realization; stepped back to understand Zion’s Rescuer; and took another step back...
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08/31/2013 11:34
In Isaiah 61 we take a step back. Chapter 60 was the realization of Zion. In chapter 61 we have presented to us Zion’s Rescuer. The first three verses are familiar. In Luke 4:16-21, Jesus enters the synagogue in Nazareth, reads Isaiah 61:1-2a, and then proclaims that he is the fulfillment of...
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08/23/2013 06:48
Previously, I mentioned that Isaiah’s chapters 60 through 62 spoke of Zion—God’s Immanuel Purpose. I am going to modify that just a little. The first half of Isaiah 63 also belongs in this category. Isaiah 63a has to do with Zion’s Retaliator (obviously God), who will execute judgment on all...
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08/16/2013 06:44
Chapters 60 through 62 discuss Zion, each from different perspectives. But before we identify the perspectives, we need to know what God means when he speaks of Zion. The old city of Jerusalem (old, as in when David first captured it and made it his capital) was built on a ridge rising from...
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08/09/2013 08:16
After having presented problems with both premillennialism and postmillennialism, I want to insist that I am an amillennialist not because it is the only choice left, but because I do believe the amillennial idea ties in best with Scripture from the aspects of both purpose and plan....
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08/02/2013 06:43
We continue our discussion about postmillennialism after talking about two of its problems last time. In this summary we discuss five others.
Problem #3 –
The gospel is the proclamation that God has provided rescue through Christ for his image bearers to restore the three God-given...
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07/26/2013 07:16
We will begin our discussion about postmillennialism by letting some well-known postmillennialists define/describe it for us. In these statements, I emphasize certain ideas that truly separate amillennialists from postmillennialists and that mark the points with which I will take...
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