On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. "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. ...
Today’s gospel may well be one of the most challenging to understand, accept and live by:“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once.”So we must rely on scri...
12. Isaiah 65:17-20 “Anarcho-Preterism” is “the Gospel.”Let's start with the word "anarchism," which is even more offensive to most Christians than "preterism."In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10 (see more below), Jesus discovers His disciples arguing about who is going to be the ...
The seraphim were also thought of as winged, and in Isaiah's vision they were stationed above the Lord's throne (6:1-2). They seemed to possess a human figure, and had voices, faces, and feet. According to the vision their task was to participate in singing God's praises antiphonally...
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)...
John the Baptist(the last Old Testament prophet) referred to Jesus as “TheLamb 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 Testament...