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 Suffering
“I bear on my body the marks of Jesus” Galatians 6:17 There is a pattern to our sufferings in this life. For Christians, no hurtful wound is merely random or meaningless. It is the goodness of God’s providence that makes our sorrows meaningful, for suffering always precedes glory, as the Savior said of his own wounding (Luke 24:26). Paul encouraged the little, struggling church in… 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 »
Where in the Bible …is Resurrection
The prominence of the “third day” in the Lord’s eschatological expectation is widely attested in the gospels. Jesus almost always associates his resurrection with the third day, and he begins by announcing the third day as the day of his triumph when he addresses the scribes and Pharisees about the prophetic significance of Jonah’s three days and nights in the belly of the great fish… Read more »