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02/15/2013 08:44
The major Cyrus prophecy in Isaiah 44b through 45 is actually the central them to a chiasm that has been building since the servant rescuer had been introduced in chapter 42. The chiasm is developed as follows:
Is 42:18-43:13 – God rescues rebellious Israel
Is...
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02/08/2013 07:26
In his Romance of Bible Chronology, Martin Anstey attempted to show that the Ptolemaic dating system was off by 80 years during the Neo-Babylonian-Persian time period. But do any scholars agree with him?
On page 24 of his The Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation, Phillip Mauro wrote that...
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02/02/2013 07:04
Air expelled,
Expected to return…
Fleeting, fleeing
Into the atmosphere
Crystaline cloud
In January
Yet disappearing quickly,
Gone where?
Does air dissipate in air?
‘And God breathed
Into the earth creature Adam
And he quickened’
Into life
Into lies
Into living a lie
His death knell
Takes...
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02/01/2013 07:25
In the section of our study called Rescue Revelation Shown (Isaiah 42:17 – 43:13), we encountered three ideas about God’s caregiving revelation that were presented in chiasms. The caregiving ideas and the chiastic emphases are as follows:
1. Caregiving revelation among the distrustful...
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01/25/2013 08:37
Verses 26 through 28 of Isaiah 43 complete this mini-section that actually started back with verse 14. This whole section (14-28) emphasizes that the rescue of Jacob (Judah or Israel) will be by God without any contribution toward that rescue by Jacob. In these last verses of the section,...
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01/18/2013 11:23
The central points of the three chiasms that we discussed in chapters 42 and 43 make clear God’s purpose in his interaction with Judah at the time of the Babylonian captivity, but they also highlight God’s intention at all times. God created for relationship. God rescues for relationship....
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12/09/2012 11:10
In verses 10 through 16, we see the normal order of activity and victory reversed. Normally, we would view God acting, and then in victory, we would rejoice. But we view this scene from God’s perspective. In keeping with his declaration that he is able to “announce [these events] to you...
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11/30/2012 13:32
In verses 1 through 4 of Isaiah 42, we saw the Servant’s mission as bringing the truth of God to the world (“justice to the nations”). That truth or justice is both the realization that God is the caregiver and that he will provide care in rescue (or, for those who refuse, judgment). In...
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11/16/2012 08:00
In Isaiah 41:21-24 asks the nations who don’t follow him to state their case for their gods. He asks, in verse 22, whether those idols can prophesy. It is more than merely being able to predict the future. God phrases it in such a way as to understand control of the future. As he asks them...
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11/09/2012 09:36
Isaiah 41 presents God as the one—the only one—able to rescue. The prophecy is meant, in its immediate context, for God’s people, Judah, while in captivity to Babylon. The entire second half of Isaiah (chapters 40-66) concerns God’s rescue. The first of the three subsections involved...
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