Who JESUS Is…
Christ as the Completed Vision of Biblical Typology Genesis begins with God creating a binary world.10 The account in Genesis 1–2 comprehends God and man, heaven and earth, man and woman, good and evil, life and death, the beginning and the end.11 Later in the Genesis record a final binary will be introduced, namely, Jew and Gentile (Gen 17).12 We can display the horizons of… Read more »
Where in the Bible …is Resurrection
The Key to Understanding the Bible “And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb” Luke 24:2 The stone rolled away from the tomb opened up an entirely new world. A brave new world! The evangelist Luke captures this new reality by telling us that Jesus, whose resurrection from death had opened the tomb, afterward opened the eyes of the Emmaus disciples to understand the… Read more »
Where in the Bible …is Resurrection
Recalling Adam and the first garden, with its two trees of death and life in the midst (Gen 2:9), the evangelist poetically places Jesus’ cross in the midst (John 19:18) of his account of the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:1) and the Garden Tomb (John 19:41). It is upon the cross, then, that John presents Jesus as the new Adam, whose own tree of cursing… Read more »
Where in the Bible …is the GOSPEL
If we assume the integrity of the longer ending of Mark’s Gospel, Christ’s answer in Mark 9:12-13 to the disciples’ Elijah question occupies a position almost precisely in the center of the book. The centrality of the Elijah question suggests that one purpose of the Gospel of Mark was to respond to the query that arose as a consequence of the scribal teaching (certainly based… Read more »
Where in the Bible …is Resurrection
There is an evident pattern of remarkable deliverances from a decree of death, whether pronounced by God or the king, taking place on the third day. This theme runs through the entire Old Testament. This section will survey the suffering and glory pattern by such a deliverance as seen in the accounts of Isaac, Joseph’s brothers, the spies of Joshua, the Gibeonites, David, Daniel, and… Read more »