August 2024
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Although “peace” is a commonly stated translation of “shalom,” and legitimately so, the Biblical concept is far richer than a mere absence of war and conflict. My favorite definition of shalom is “the way things are supposed to be,” that is, according to God’s original design for this world. There is supposed to be a…
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Humans crave intimacy. Most of us have tasted the sublimity of at least one very close, mutually satisfying relationship, such as in the early stages of romance. But most will also concur that it is dismally difficult to find deeply intimate relationships which are robust, stable, and secure enough to thrive long-term. In the Platonic…
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It is important to understand the times in which one lives. These, I propose, are the days of Elijah and Moses. Many of Revelation’s commentators have noted that the “two witnesses” in chapter 11 have clear parallels to Moses and Elijah. “Power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall” and “power over the…
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Christianity today is not the 29th chapter of Acts. A better label for us might be Acts chapter 47, or something like that. Since the time of Paul’s house imprisonment in Rome some paradigm-shifting things have happened in this world and the spiritual realm which bear significant effects on the outworking of the dynamics of…
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God’s people standing next to a “sea” and singing “the song of Moses” in victory over a defeated foe. What does that sound like? You got it, Revelation 15 represents the final exodus of God’s people, a recapitulation and ultimate fulfillment of Exodus 15. The comfortable first-world reader of the book of Revelation as a…
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There are a number of literary peculiarities in the way the story of Elijah is presented in Scripture. I believe that Biblical “peculiarities” are intentional on the part of the Divine Author, serving as hints that there is an opportunity for the seeker of truth to search further and dig deeper to find hidden gems…
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I have no prediction regarding when the end of the world will come, but I do have a goal for it: seven years. Starting now. (Not joking.) Eh? Man setting a “goal” for the end of the world? Weird? Blasphemous? Arguably so. But I will argue instead that it is Biblically proper, suitable, and appropriate.…
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Judgment is a major theme in the book of Revelation. An earlier post stated that while the object of such judgment is clearly the world as a whole, within that global scope the text puts a particular emphasis on God’s judgment of the worldly church which conforms to the overall worldly system. Indeed, that is…
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