Tag: Bible
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What People Think About the Bible
Last week I conducted a survey on what people thought about the Bible. I set out to survey ten and got forty instead, and I was pleasantly surprised by the responses. Most people used positive and fitting words to describe the Bible. There were a lot of answers like “the word of God” and “divinely […]
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Tracing God’s Kingdom Program and Covenants. Part 14: Millennium & Conclusion
Millennium Eventually Jesus Christ will come back to earth (Rev. 11:15) and resume God’s theocratic kingdom program with Israel. He will judge all unbelievers and bound the ruler of the false kingdom (Rev. 20:2-3). He then will sit on David’s throne in Jerusalem and rule as King. “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in […]
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What is the Relationship Between Each of the Four Main Covenants? Part 4: New Covenant
The New Covenant is defined as a covenant between God and his people that is anticipated in the Old Testament (Jer 31:31) and fulfilled in the New Testament (Luke 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25; Heb 9:15; 12:24). The new covenant involves forgiveness of sin, spiritual transformation, and the fulfillment of God’s promises to Israel.[1] Before going […]
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What is the Relationship Between Each of the Four Main Covenants? Part 2: Mosaic Covenant
The Mosaic Covenant is “the covenant that Moses mediated between God and Israel at Mount Sinai when Israel received the Law (including the Ten Commandments). Also referred to as the ‘old covenant’ (in contrast with the new covenant of Jer 31:31–34; Ezek 36:25–28) …”[1] By the time this covenant is made with Israel at Mount […]
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The Palestinian Covenant: Weaknesses
To start with, the way Pentecost writes in his books (Thy Kingdom Come: Tracing God’s Kingdom Program and Covenant Promises Throughout History and Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology) he makes it seem as thought the Palestinian covenant is literally confined to Deuteronomy 30:1-10. Although I consider it the heart of the prediction […]
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 8: We Have a Savior
So, then we have a 400-year period that sometimes is referenced as the silent years, where the Greeks come to power. Then we start the New Testament where the Word became flesh, and we have a Savior. God surprises us of how he did it. He begins to tie all these things together, because this […]
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 7: The Prophets
If we hit the pause button here and look at the five books of poetry, we see they are written by David and Solomon. We realize that what God had really longed for was a people that had a living relationship with Him and lived out the covenant in community. Carrying on in the chronology […]
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 6: The Kings
The story begins to take a turn in 1st Samuel chapter 8 when the people cry out for a king, and God said “it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.” Thus, the first king of Israel chosen by the people is Saul. Things started off well for Saul, but it didn’t […]
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The Story of Scripture – Genesis to Revelation – Part 3: Abrahamic Covenant
Abrahamic Covenant Then in chapter 12, suddenly, something radically changes, because it is there we begin to see where we had a problem, there is a solution. It is found in the fact we have a covenant God, and what God says is always true. What He promises, He will make good on. So, where […]
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The Whole Bible Story
I recently read The Whole Bible Story by Dr. William H. Marty, and I wrote this blog to analyze the overall organization of Marty’s presentation, why I think he ordered the structure in the manner he did and what components he utilized that I found helpful in telling the biblical narrative. Marty presented The Whole […]
Surrendered and Free 