The Bible is always brutally honest about its heroes (and of course its villans), often more honest than we feel comfortable with for Sunday School picture books… so I didn’t know Jepthah’s story until I read it for myself as a young adult. Which is a shame, he is a classic tragic-hero with all the Read More …
This is the introduction post to a new series highlighting how seven judges in the book of judges are actually saviours. As we saw in Sevens and full promises waiting for fulfillment when we meet seven of something in the Bible they are often promising an ultimate manifestation. So here, seven national saviors promise a Read More …
A description of how you can use the shape of the Old Testament to navigate this site… but if you’ve not seen it before it is useful to understand it anyway! Apostles on one side, Prophets on the right and the Wisdom of Priests in the middle! Or even more usefully you can watch the Read More …
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 about it that led Philip K Dick to believe it was a re-interpretation of the story of Philip meeting the Ethopian on the road to Read More …
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 between your offspring and her offspring, he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel. ” – Genesis 3:15 This is the first Read More …
The book of Ruth, like the first book of Samuel, joins the period when Israel was a tribal family, the age of the Judges, to the period when they where a unified kingdom under the proto-type messiah, the three times anointed King David. The book starts with 12 tribes, a famine and no king. The Read More …
There are many folks who will tell you a type of Christ is only a type of Christ if the Bible explicitly tells you it is. I don’t share this view, the Bible shows us there is legitimacy in seeing Jesus prefigured in the lives of others and as far as I am concerned if Read More …
