(compareNumbers 20:16)--God or the angel leads Israel out of Egypt;Exodus 23:20--the people are commanded to obey the angel;Exodus 32:34-33:17(compareIsaiah 63:9)--Moses pleads for the presence of God with His people;Joshua 5:13-6:2--the angel appears to Joshua;Judges 2:1-5-...
Holy One. Of the fifty-six lexical attestations to God's holiness in the Old Testament, many include the name/title of "The Holy One" or "Holy One of Israel, " which occurs thirty-one times in the Old Testament, twenty-five occurrences being in Isaiah. The demand for human holiness ...
"Redeemer" ~ Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 41:14 Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord...
To avoid an avalanche of angry emails, it's prudent to point out that in the Bible Leviathan is classified as atannin, a large and unspecified sea creature, which was created on the fifth day, long before the fall (Genesis 1:21, Isaiah 27:1). Leviathan was as perfect as the rest of...
This cannot be reproduced exactly in English, which has a very different alphabet of twenty-six letters.55 Another example is the formal verbal play in Isaiah 5:7, where the prophet says that God looked for "justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress" (NIV)...
(Isaiah 52:7, Romans 10:15). Unlike digitigrade animals whose entire existence pivots on their distinction between good (run toward) and evil (run away from), plantigrade animals always run home. To plantigrades, not their own private tastes sits at the heart of all reality but rather ...
destruction of Jerusalem the altar of incense is not found, nor is any mention made of it inHebrews 9. It was at this altar Zacharias ministered when an angel appeared to him (Luke 1:11). It is the only altar which appears in the heavenly temple (Isaiah 6:6;Revelation 8:3Revelation...
( Isaiah 8:2 ; 2 Kings 16:10-16 ) He is probably the same as Urijah the priest, who built the altar for Ahaz. ( 2 Kings 16:10 ) (B.C. about 738.) A priest of the family of Hakkoz, the head of the seventh course of priests. ( Ezra 8:33 ; Nehemiah 3:4 Nehemiah 3:...
Mary then wondered how this was possible since she had not been with a man. The Angel Gabriel then explains the miracle of Christ's incarnation. He was born of a virgin, just as the prophecy had predicted inIsaiah 7:14, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin wil...
John the Baptist (the last Old Testament prophet) referred to Jesus as “The Lamb of God” (John 1:29,36).Lamb of Godis an Old Testament phrase referring to the sacrifices (Leviticus 4:32-35.Isaiah 53:4-12). Sin is a separator between man and our holy God, and in the Old Testam...