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 roots, shoots and fruits of the א-apleh ת-tav. The first, the last, the biggest sacrifice on a cross. For something written on the same subject see Jesus, first and last!
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 of Jesus’ ancestors and discovered that they formed short prophetic statements. We had come to Enoch and had various options such as: “Multi-part God the Read More …
(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 Elohim (God) to Kenan(Begotten or Sorrowful) could be read as “Multi-God the builder is appointed mortal born sorrowful” or “God a man is appointed mortal Read More …
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 spotted it in the names from Shem to Abram, for instance my concordance listed the name “Arpachsad” as meaning “healer” or “releaser” and “Reu” as Read More …
Proverbs 8 spells out the role of Wisdom as a active agent in Creation, the passage makes Wisdom female, but the didn’t stop first century Jewish Philosopher Philo refering to Wisdom as “The Word” and calling it/her/him “the first-born Son of God”. The early Church recognised Jesus in Wisdom because Proverbs 8:24 presents this agent, Read More …
One of the things people most enjoy when I’m teaching through the Gospels are the ways in which apparent contradictions and puzzles are resolved by discoveries in secular history or even science. For instance there is no documentary evidence outside the Gospels for an earthquake in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus death, leading many Read More …
In Luke 11:49, referring backwards to Israels history, Jesus says: “And so the Wisdom of God says: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles…’” It is interesting that we often think of Apostles as just belonging to the New Testament era… but here Jesus is clearly refering to the history recorded in the Old Testament, Read More …
Every now and again as I’ve searched and meditated on Jesus involvement in the Old Testament I come across something baffling, by which I mean I don’t really know what to make of it. There is a clear reference to Jesus in someway but the “why” is not so clear or the reference is so Read More …
The First five books of the Bible are collectively referred to as the Torah by Jewish communities and as the Pentateuch by the Christian church since the term was first coined by Tertullian in the third century AD. Traditionally they are ascribed to Moses even though they show clear signs of later editors and compilers, Read More …
