The End of the Empire (9)

“Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [a]completely destroy…

The End of the Empire (1)

The king reflected and said, “Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”  Daniel 4:30  NASB 1995 I myself – “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that…

The Ides Have It

Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. Ruth 1:1 NASB Judges – Today is Brutus day, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated, March 15, the Ides of March. That is Roman history. So what does it have to do with the Bible? In…

A Matter of Origin

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36 Of – Peter Leithart argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the intention of the Kingdom because we have converted this New Testament concept into something that fits our culture.[1] We don’t think in terms of kings and kingdoms these days.  We think in terms…