Today’s Word
Seeing with Your Ears
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem, which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Isaiah 1:1 NASB Vision – Today you’ll read this short analysis. You will see it with your eyes. But if I were to have a vision, you wouldn’t see it at all unless…
God of the Past – Part 2
Article “Pannenberg on the Past” previously published Part 2 (continued from July 28) The first thing to see is that Pannenberg asks us to abandon completely the defective Cartesian model of existence—the clock model. God is not the clock maker, putting the thing called creation together; winding up the springs, and letting it run. Every…
God of the Past – Part 1
THIS IS LONG. Take your time. Article “Pannenberg on the Past” previously published Part 1 God of the Past More than 50 years ago, Wolfhart Pannenberg wrote the book that was translated into English as Jesus – God and Man. On page 230 of that work, Pannenberg makes a suggestion about the relationship between Jesus’…
Don’t Wait for It
Now it will come about that in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it. Isaiah 2:2 NASB In the last days – Oh how the “end times” people love verses like…
The Way Back
Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and those who turn back in her, through righteousness. Isaiah 1:27 Robert Alter Through – The NASB renders this verse differently. “Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.” The difference is the translation of the preposition bĕ. As you know, Hebrew prepositions play a lot of…
