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Bible Symbols in Pacific Rim “Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on […]

Priests and Levites of All Nations Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 In this final post on the structure of Ephesians, we will cover stage 6 (Conquest/Atonement) and stage 7 (Glorification/Booths). (Unfortunately, I can’t refer to them as cycles because there are 8 cycles, […]

or The Federal Vision Isn’t Big Enough But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?” (Matthew 12:25) ACT […]

or Gentiles Trouble Me In our weekly Bible study, we’re working our way through John, with the help of the Gospel of John DVD. It’s really very good. Watching the presention, one realises the impact of many of Jesus’ words upon His hearers moreso than when we read them and their familiarity washes over us. […]

or Inheriting the Earth Structure of Daniel 7 – Part 3 Now that we have covered the central point, Testing, we are working out way back out from the centre of the chapter. The main revelation is always given at Ascension to the Covenant Head (as in Moses on Sinai), opened at Testing (as in […]

or The Changing of the Guard Structure of Daniel 7 – Part 2 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today — every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes.” (Deuteronomy 12:8) And the people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a man!” (Acts 12:22) […]

For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God […]

or Meat to Eat – 1 “And whanne Moises cam doun fro the hil of Synai, he helde twei tablis of witnessyng, and he wiste not that his face was horned of the felouschipe of Goddis word..” —Exodus 34:29, Wycliffe Perhaps you’ve seen those bumper stickers that say, “If we’re not meant to eat animals, […]

41. The cities of the nations never fell in A.D. 70 (Rev. 16: 19). This is a symbolic passage, but when we understand its nature, its message is astonishing. The reference to Jerusalem being divided into three parts alludes to Deuteronomy 19:3 concerning cities of refuge. There is also a “trinitarian” judgment in Ezekiel 5. […]

or Timeless Truth is a Tree “Let his days be few, and let another take his office.” Psalm 109:8 The imprecatory Psalms seem to contradict the instruction of Christ to love our enemies. Ben Myers recently noted a campaign to pray for President Obama, to pray Psalm 109:8, that is: Apparently some Southern Baptist pastors […]

Peter Leithart writes: Solomon’s temple had windows, but they are mentioned only once, in 1 Kings 6:4. Ezekiel’s description of the visionary temple uses the word “window” twelve times.

21. The New Covenant is still not established, because Christians need teaching. Jer. 31: 34. The Jeremiah passage is actually not referring to the first century, but to the Restoration Covenant. Every death-and-resurrection of Israel starts with law on stone and ends with law on flesh, ie. law incarnate. See Jeremiah was a Bullfrog? The […]

or Through a Glass Sea Darkly “Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will […]

My Hebrew teacher was reading a Kabbalistic text and noted that it was the only place where he had seen an interpretation of Isaiah 6:3 that agreed with his own translation. We usually get something like this (NASB): “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.” The Hebrew […]

There’s a great deal of confusion concerning the place of modern Jews in God’s economy. This stems from a misunderstanding of what occurred in the first century, which is difficult to interpret if we ignore previous occurrences of the same pattern. Dispensationalists cherrypick Old Testament verses and rip them out of their historical contexts to […]