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6 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
- 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…
- ThemeKingdom of God"The kingdom of God" names not a place first but a reign — God's kingly rule breaking in, which then produces a people and a realm who live under it. The storyline starts long…
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3 results- ProphecyThe Veil Torn — a Picture, Not a PredictionThe way into God's presence is opened at the Messiah's death. The veil is a picture Scripture itself later reads, not a promise it made.
- ProphecyBorn of a WomanThe first messianic prophecy in Scripture. The 'seed of the woman' would crush the serpent's head while being wounded in the process — a picture of Christ's victory over Satan…
- ProphecyStone Rejected Becomes Head CornerstoneThe rejected stone becoming the cornerstone pictures a reversal of fortune only possible through resurrection. The builders (religious leaders) reject the stone (Messiah), but…
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14 results- VoiceProcopius of GazaProcopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…
- VoiceIgnatius of AntiochIgnatius was bishop of Antioch in Syria — the city where believers were first called Christians. He called himself Theophorus, "God-bearer." He was condemned to die in the…
- VoiceOecumeniusOecumenius wrote the earliest Greek commentary on the book of Revelation that has come down to us. He wrote it in the first half of the sixth century, most likely in the 530s…
- VoiceDon PiperDon Piper is an American Baptist minister and author best known for his 1989 near-death-experience and the resulting bestseller *90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and…
- VoiceJoseph A. SeissJoseph Augustus Seiss was born on March 18, 1823, at Graceham, Maryland, into a family of Moravian descent. He attended Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, studied theology…