After reading Kings and Chronicles, this reading marks a strange transition. Before, if there was a group of people that didn’t believe in Jehovah / Jesus — well, you’d just kill them and their children, on down to the fourth generation. But now it seems that there’s been a shift...
is designated by the historian (Genesis 49:28) "the blessing," with which "their father blessed them, every one according to his blessing." This blessing is at the same time a prophecy. "Every superior and significant life becomes prophetic at its close" (Ziegler). But this was especially...
12 A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares: 2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding ...
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.O...
Psalm 96 was amended to include an apparent prophecy about the Lord ruling from the tree (i.e. the cross). The fact that Jewish versions included no such line was explained away by the fact that the perfidious Jews had removed it from the text. In fact it was the Christians who had ...
6 A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes,the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels,to that unprofitable nation,7 to...
On prophecy in the ancient Near East and... The Ark of God Lost to the Philistines (1Sam 4:1–11) The Ark of God Lost to the Philistines (4:1 – 11) The Israelites camped at Ebenezer (4:1). No....
The beginning point and ending point of Jeremiah’s seventy years prophecy... Cyrus (2Chr 36:22–23) Cyrus (36:22 – 23). The death of Nebuchadnezzar II in 562 b.c. set in motion the beginning of...About About News & Know...
24 “Seventy ‘sevens’[c] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish[d] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.[e]...
On prophecy in the ancient Near East and... The Ark of God Lost to the Philistines (1Sam 4:1–11) The Ark of God Lost to the Philistines (4:1 – 11) The Israelites camped at Ebenezer (4:1)....