Genesis

This post will bring the series I have been posting on the prophetic implications of Jesus Ancestor’s names right up to the end of Genesis. But the prophecy doesn't stop ...
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OK the title is a bit misleading, as I'm only considering the names "Abram", "Isaac" and "Jacob"... their stories make up 3/4 of the book of Genesis... and Jesus appears ...
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Watch the video overview. This is a slightly longer video... so we suggest you grab a pen and get comfortable. Once you've watched think about whether you should share it, ...
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Ok we are slowly getting there, this is post six in the series (see the first here) ... by the end of post eight we will have got through every ...
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This is the fifth in the series of posts unpacking the prophecy of Jesus hidden in the names of his forebears. In the last post,"The fame of the healer" we ...
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This is the fourth installment in the post series on the prophecies hidden in the names of Jesus' ancestors. In the previous three posts we made it down to Noah, ...
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I was teaching through Exodus recently when someone asked me if I had seen The-Bible-Projects video on Exodus... I hadn't but I have now and it was excellent... and given ...
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This post is part of a series, see Jesus' life in his ancestors and The glory descends. In these last two posts we looked at standard meanings for the names ...
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(This is a follow up post to Jesus life in his ancestors). In the last post we explored a couple of way of reading the names of Jesus' ancestors from ...
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It was way back when I first noticed that if you translated the names of Jesus' ancestors you got descriptions that sounded very much like his earthly life. I first ...
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I've just spotted this... I've had a hunch for a while that I would spot more in Genesis 1:1 than I've already written up (see "Jesus in the Beginning") and ...
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Test your knowledge of how Jesus appears in the first book of the Bible. This is a short quiz, just 11 questions, it doesn't by any stretch cover all that ...
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The Sci-fi writer and gnostic theologiser Philip K Dick once helped an African man in a petrol station, I dont know the details of the encounter, but there was something ...
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In chapter three of Genesis, God makes a statement heard both by humanity and the demonic powers: " I will put enmity between you (the devil) and the woman, and ...
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In Revelation, Jesus appears to John calling himself "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last", Rev 22:13 (see also 1:8, 2:8b and 21:6). John is reporting in ...
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I was teaching the introduction to Jesus in the Old Testament last night and afterwards someone started to quiz me on why the number seven was important and how it ...
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The New Testament starts with the words: "The book of generations...." Matthew 1:1, which in Greek reads "The book of Genesis..." The Greek title of the first book of the ...
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