The message of the New Testament represents the timeless truth of God. As each generation seeks to apply that truth to its specific context, and up-to-date commentary needs to be created just for them. The editors and authors of the Twenty-First Century Biblical Commentary Series have endeavored to do just that. This team of scholars represents conservative, evangelical, and dispensational scholarship at its best. The individual authors may differ on minor points of interpretation, but all are convinced that the Old and New Testaments teach a dispensational framework for biblical history. They also hold to a pretribulational and premillennial understanding of biblical prophecy.

Do you want to know why Jesus really came to earth? The Book of Hebrews transforms our understanding of Christ from abstract theology to intimate relationship. The motivating purpose behind Jesus"very real incarnation was that he might become a "merciful and faithful high priest," who, because he had been tempted in that which He has suffered" is now empowered to "come to the aid of those who are tempted." Hebrews declares Jesus 'identification which every believer as well as His personal invo...

God uses ordinary people like you and me. We easily identify with the people in Acts because Luke never allows us to forget their humanity. It's impossible to confuse Peter or Paul with fictional characters. No ancient novelist would ever have created men whose lives were characterized by such dramatic contradictions: the brash and blustering everyman who blossoms overnight into an elder statesman; a movement's most infamous persecutor who develops into its most prominent advocate. Luke has dra...