The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime... But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh... (Romans 13:12-13)
i will untie the knots.
type. type. type.
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To understand biblical eschatology, we need to move beyond the categories of modern Christian thought and think in terms of the motifs, symbols, and narratives that informed the eschatological worldview of Jesus himself, as a first-century Jewish man living in the Land of Israel.
And like many Jewish people in his day, when Jesus was thinking of the end of this age and the establishment of God's kingdom, at the forefront of his mind was the original Passover story.
-Travis M. Snow
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Paul describes life lived by faith in Christ’s sacrifice as being analogous to a “race” (cf. 1 Cor. 9:24; Gal. 5:7; 2 Tim. 4:7), wherein conversion is the starting line and the day of the Lord is the finish line. How you start is not as important as how you finish, though obviously you cannot finish without starting. Who puts blood on their door at dusk, but then goes down to frolic in the Nile before midnight? Who looks at the snake on the pole once, but then goes about tending to his wounds? The dead man does. The atonement only applies if faith is held unto the time of judgment. The Scriptures leave no room for the popular notion of “once saved, always saved." - John P. Harrigan
Sunday, February 11, 2024
"Without doubt, they [the Jews] will return to their own land; because when their unbelief ceases, their dispersion, the dreadful and signal punishment of their unbelief, will cease too. . . . And as they have hitherto continued a distinct nation that they might continue a visible monument to His displeasure, for their rejecting and crucifying their Messiah, so after their conversion will they still be a distinct nation, that they may be a visible monument of God's wonderful grace and power in their calling and conversion.
But yet, we are not to imagine that the old walls of separation will be set up again. But all nations will be as free to come to Judea, or to dwell in Jerusalem, as into any other city or country, and may have the same privilege there as they themselves. For they [the Jewish people] shall look upon all the world to be their brethren, as much as the Christians in Boston and the Christians in other parts of New England look on each other as brethren."
"Nothing is more certainly foretold than this national conversion of the Jews is in the eleventh chapter of Romans. And there are also many passages of the Old Testament that can't be interpreted in any other sense, that I can't now stand to mention. . . . The world affords nothing else like it- a remarkable hand of providence. When they shall be called, then shall that ancient people that were alone God's people for so long a time be God's people again, never to be rejected more, one fold with the Gentiles, and then also shall the remains of the ten tribes, wherever they are, be brought in together, and shall be united as one people as they formerly were under David and Solomon (Hos. 1.11), and so in the last chapter of Hosea, and other parts of his prophecy."
"And it is the more evident, that the Jews will return to their own land again, because they never have yet possessed one quarter of that land, which was so often promised them, from the Red Sea to the river Euphrates (Ex. 23.31; Gen. 15.18; Deut. 11.24; Josh. 1.4). Indeed, it was partly fulfilled in Solomon's time, when he governed all within those bounds for a short time; but so short, that it is not to be thought that this is all the fulfillment of the promise that is to be. And besides, that was not a fulfillment of the promise, because they did not possess it."
(The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Apocalyptic Writings, ed. Stephen J. Stein; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977-- 5:135., etc.)
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Lo! He comes, with clouds descending,
once for our salvation slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of His train.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.
Ev’ry eye shall now behold Him,
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at naught and sold Him,
pierced, and nailed Him to the tree,
deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.
Every island, sea, and mountain,
heav’n and earth, shall flee away;
all who hate Him must, confounded,
hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment! Come to judgment!
Come to judgment, come away!
Now redemption, long expected,
see in solemn pomp appear!
And His saints, by men rejected,
coming with Him in the air.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
See the day of God appear!
Yea, amen! Let all adore Thee,
high on Thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the pow’r and glory,
claim the kingdom for Thine own:
O come quickly, O come quickly,
Alleluia! Come, Lord, come!
(Cennick/Wesley, 18th cent.)
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
You can know some things about God by studying his creation, but the supreme way we can know God is by knowing Jesus from the words in the Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, God is telling us the story of his Son and he invites us into that story by reading and studying and relating to this Perfect Man.
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The Day of the Lord, the kingdom of God, the resurrection, and the judgment were all part of the apostles' unified eschatological expectation. Gentiles turning to the God of Israel in advance of that Day accords with the prophets and confirms (not redefines) that expectation. - Josh Hawkins
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