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Feature Pages(5+)
- FeatureEpsilon (Εε) — the Greek letterShort e — and the first letter of the word we translate “church.”
- FeatureLiving Hope — 1 Peter 1:3-9Begotten again unto a living hope through the resurrection — the inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, the faith proved by fire, and joy unspeakable and full of glory.
- FeatureThe RaptureThe blessed hope: four anchor texts, and four timings plotted on one seventieth-week line — pre-tribulational flagged, the rest at full strength.
- FeatureGreat Is Thy FaithfulnessThree mercy-words packed into two verses, at the exact center of the most tightly ordered poem in the book: because of the LORD's mercies we are not consumed — they are new every morning, great is his faithfulness.
- Feature1 Peter — the Study GuideA living hope through undeserved suffering: sojourners of the Dispersion, a royal priesthood of living stones, the Suffering Servant's steps to follow, the spirits in prison, and the Chief Shepherd's crown of glory.
Verses(5+)
- VerseRomans 5:4perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- VerseJob 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- VerseProverbs 11:7When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- VerseRomans 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
- VerseJob 5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordG1680 ἐλπίς · elpís (Greek)expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence
- WordH8431 תּוֹחֶלֶת · tôwcheleth (Hebrew)expectation
- WordH7663 שָׂבַר · sâbar (Hebrew)to scrutinize
- WordH7664 שֵׂבֶר · sêber (Hebrew)expectation
- WordH982 בָּטַח · bâṭach (Hebrew)figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
Themes(2)
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
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Prophecies(1)
Authors(5+)
- AuthorPacian of BarcelonaPacian was bishop of Barcelona in the second half of the fourth century. Jerome, who included him in his catalogue of Christian writers, says he was distinguished both for his…
- AuthorJonathan CahnJonathan David Cahn (born 1959) is an American Messianic Jewish rabbi, author, and the founder/leader of Beth Israel Worship Center (Wayne, New Jersey). Born in New York to a…
- AuthorGregory of NyssaGregory was born about 335 at Caesarea in Cappadocia, into a family that produced more saints than most centuries do: his grandmother Macrina the Elder had survived persecution…
- AuthorJohn the SolitaryJohn the Solitary — also called John of Apamea, from the Syrian city where he lived — wrote in Syriac in the first half of the fifth century. Almost nothing is known about his…
- AuthorTim KellerTimothy James Keller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1950. He grew up in a Lutheran church, went to Bucknell University in the late 1960s, and there…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource2 Maccabees 9:22Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
- Study resource1 Enoch 104:4Be hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven.
- Study resourceSirach 2:9Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 3:18Or, if they die quickly, they have no hope, neither comfort in the day of trial.
- Study resourceSirach 34:14Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear nor be afraid; for he is his hope.
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