Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
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- The view taken by the friends is the following: that sin and suffering are measured out by God, as it were, ounce for ounce, so much sin, so much suffering. One man is just so much better than another, as he is happier. He who is as unfortunate as Job, must assuredly be, not merely a sinner, but a criminal. To doubt this is to do dishonor to God. And even if, in the case of a man suffering severely, like Job, we do not actually know of any great crime, we must still assume that he has committed one, in order to save God’s honor. Nor may we allow ourselves to be deceived, even though appearances be of the fairest kind. These only show that the pretended saint is a thoroughly skilled hypocrite. Classical Evangelical Essays in Old Testament Interpretation. Pg 98.
- Accordingly, Genesis 1 correctly used the name Elohim, for God’s role as Creator of the whole universe and of all living things and all mortals is what the chapter teaches. The subject narrows immediately in Genesis 2–3, however; there it describes God’s very intimate and personal relationship with the first human pair, Adam and Eve. God is depicted as walking and talking with Adam in the Garden of Eden. Therefore Yahweh is appropriately joined to Elohim to indicate that the Elohim of all creation is now the Yahweh who is intimately concerned to maintain a personal relationship with those who will walk and talk with him.
- As always dear senior brother, you prove once again to be God's humble servant to this generation. Thank you so very much for insight given you of God's Holy Spirit! "Have You Seen the Power of God Lately". Amen
- What is notable about the Early Bronze sites is their fortification system. Walls surrounding the sites, some three to four meters thick, with horseshoe-shaped towers, were seen at Arad, Taanach, Ai, Jericho, Yarmuth, and Megiddo (Stratum XVIII). In the latter part of EB II and EB III, the walls tended to thicken and to be strengthened, some reaching seven or eight meters in width. Now elongated, rectangular towers also begin to appear at points where the fortifications were the weakest along with earthwork glacis (an artificial solid steep slope) composed of layers of dirt and crushed lime, to strengthen the foundations of the city wall and to prevent easy access to the wall by the enemy’s siege equipment.
- Many thanks my dear brother.
- Seven excruciating years for Nebuchadnezzar passed, and finally he lifted up his eyes toward heaven. God restored his sanity (v. 34), and immediately he began to praise the Most High. In three active participles (praise, exalt, and glorify, v. 37), he gave continuous anthems of thanksgiving and praise to God. And he knew why God had done this as well: it was “because everything he does is right” and because “all his ways are just” (v. 37). Nebuchadnezzar had found out what too few find out or too many find out too late: “Those who walk in pride [God] is able to humble” (v. 37). The essence of pride is to take to oneself honors that rightly belong to another. This king, like the prodigal son, had to “come to his senses” (Luke 15:17). Yes, God’s dominion is everlasting and his kingdom will go on and on, unlike all mortal kingdoms. In comparison to God, all the peoples of the earth are simply nothings. God did what he wanted to do in the past, and he will continue to do as he pleases in the present and the future. Nothing and no one will stop him and say, “What are you doing?” (vv. 34–35). Was Nebuchadnezzar truly con
- Therefore, that we might be informed what we ought to do and what to avoid, it hath pleased God, the great Governor and righteous Judge of all, to prescribe laws for the regulating of our actions; and, that we might not be ignorant what they are, he hath openly promulgated them in his word. For when we had miserably defaced the law of nature originally written in our hearts, so that many of its commands were no longer legible, it seemed good to his infinite wisdom and mercy to transcribe and copy out that law in the sacred tables of the Scriptures; and to superadd many positive precepts and injunctions not before imposed. Hence the Bible is the statute-book of God’s kingdom, wherein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law, the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one. Classical Evangelical Essays in Old Testament Interpretation.
- One more video to go and the Tabernacle Video Series will be complete. The Altar of Incense is below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9jRKKKM2HQ