I never would have guessed that when lines would be drawn at the school where I’m studying that I would find myself firmly on the side of Zane Hodges. But I am. Perhaps the memory that will stay with me most distinctly from my years of study here is the moment in one of my… Read More »
Everything about the following sentence is wrong. For analysis, I ‘ll break it down into phrases, but it’s all one sentence. From Bruce Waltke, An Old Testament Theology, page 824: The prophets ‘ predictions embrace a beginning of fulfillment in Israel’s restoration from the exile, a victorious fulfillment in the church age stretching from Christ’s… Read More »
I can’t get over Isaiah 7:14. I probably think about it one way or another every week, and probably every day at times. One point that seems to me to refute decisively the majority of scholars who insist on an 8th-century fulfillment is verse 15. Isaiah 7:14–15 (NIV) — 14 Therefore the Lord himself will… Read More »
“I find myself aware that in reading the Hebrew scriptures [the Old Testament] I am handling something that gives me a closer common link with Jesus than any archaeological artifact could do.” Christopher Wright, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament (IVP Academic, 1992), ix.
I ‘ll always remember this Christmas season as the one in which I learned Handel’s Messiah. By that I don’t mean that I sang it in a choir. I do mean that this was the first time I sat down and listened carefully to it in order to understand it. If you ‘re interested in… Read More »
I may have mentioned here before that one of my college professors once said that there are two kinds of people: those who read commentaries and those who write commentaries. I don’t remember what my response was, but I wouldn’t be surprised if in my pride I thought that I would be one of the… Read More »
One of my favorite “Christmas” albums of all time is Behold the Lamb of God, by Andrew Peterson. I put “Christmas” in quotation marks because unlike all other Christmas albums, I listen to this one year round. That’s because it captures the heart of Christmas, which is not a glory limited to one day a… Read More »
I’ve had a few requests for my Sunday School lessons as I teach through Isaiah chapter by chapter. This week I start the well-known chapter 53 (technically, it begins in 52:13). And I’ve just posted the available handouts and mp3 files for chapters 1-52 here. There are many better resources, including: Layman level, easy reading,… Read More »
I really don’t know how many readers here also read the BiblePlaces Blog. My sense is that many of you do not, and for that reason on the rare occasion when I post something there that could equally belong here, I may link to it.
Read this slowly and determine who said these words. I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He. Clearly this could be no one but God. This conclusion is obvious when you see what the Lord said in Isaiah. Who then is like… Read More »