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It’s not true that people only use 10% of their brains, but it is true that most Christians only use 10% of their Bibles.
The Bible is the most loved and the most hated book in the world, but for many people, it is also difficult, boring, frustrating, brutal, and weird. However, there is a simple key at the beginning of the book that makes all of this go away. This key is the pattern found in its first chapter. Everything that follows is governed by the same process of forming and filling with a promise of a future.
This means that Bible is a fractal. Every part of it is stamped with the image of the whole. This is the key not only to many of its puzzles but also to enjoying its full literary bandwidth. Once you possess this key you will never look at the text in quite the same way again.
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The reversal of the Creation pattern signifies a judgment of the utmost severity. De-creation means it would be as though the old World never...
In an ironic reprise of the table of nations in Genesis 10, Isaiah’s “kill list” in chapters 13-27 is a twin set of Mosaic...
Read Part One here.Read Part Two here. The content of this final section will be published in installments as time permits. Additions will be...
Read Part One here. 1. Introduction: The task of theological husbandry 2. The Puzzle Box: The nifty, shifty gift of the story 3. The...
1. Introduction: The task of theological husbandry 2. The Puzzle Box: The nifty, shifty gift of the story 3. The Camp and the City:...
The first book of the four-volume commentary is finally published, complete with a “how-to” that can be applied to any part of the Scriptures....
Isaiah’s description of a mountain where wild and domestic animals live together in peace is a favorite proof text for a future rule of...
Everything you know about the book of Revelation is wrong.
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Samuel Delgado and Mike Bull talk about the Book of Revelation and related things for 3.5 hours.Watch on YouTube | Listen on Radio
This is the preface from the forthcoming commentary:The Shape of Isaiah: a Covenant-Literary Analysis The Highest of the Mountains “Because it’s there.” Every story...
The smartest way to take over the world is to replace it with a fake one. The smartest way to replace it with a...
Identifying Isaiah’s suffering servant with the promised Messiah is unthinkable for a Jew because it combines the offices of humble priest and victorious king....
Theology Noir As a microcosmos, every man has a history: an Alpha and an Omega, an origin and a destiny. But men dwell in...
Theology Noir As a microcosmos, every man has a history: an Alpha and an Omega, an origin and a destiny. But men dwell in...
Redemption is always deliverance from captivity. The sword must cut not only the bonds but also the captors. The trainer wheels are off today....
The notion that we could move away from God’s Forming Words and remain culturally productive—or even literate—is proving to be an arrogant mistake. “Truly,...
Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus is a puzzle because he omits a number of names in order to present a triple sequence of 14 generations....
The prophetic texts are the most difficult parts of the Bible to understand. And, when it comes to baffling the reader, they are no...
One Body in Sickness and in Health Does the world really need another commentary on the Book of Isaiah? Well, does the world ever...
Turning back time in Revelation 8:7-11:19 Identifying the pattern of Genesis 1 in later texts as either a literary device or in the way...
When I came across James B. Jordan’s lectures in the mid 2000s, including his series on Revelation, I realised that, for the first time,...
Covenant Structure in Isaiah 40:1-8 When it comes to understanding Scripture, location is everything. This is especially true when it comes to the prophets....
Bible Symbols in the Wild The reason that so much of the Bible goes right over our heads is our inability to read the...
Exposing Nakedness “Picasso did not paint for the eyes but for the gut. He painted for the gut that the eyes might be opened.”...
God’s Humor in the Bible Man was made in God’s image, so we should not be surprised to learn that our Creator Himself has...
The name might sound silly, but the doctrine is deadly serious. In the movie Kingdom of Heaven, Balian of Ibelin, a crusader noble of...
Jesus’ first task as king was not to deliver the Jews from the Romans but to save the Jews from the Jews. The whiteness...
The continued push for equality between the sexes has been a disaster—not because equality is a bad thing, but because it is a good...
The psalm’s careful Mosaic structure reveals its comforts to be the spoils of conquest. In contrast to David’s songs of complaint, Psalm 23 is...
The logic behind Jesus’ seven “I am” statements in John is not immediately apparent. This is because each step is the solution to a...
Joseph’s three part narrative demonstrated to men what Adam should have been—and what the Son of Man would be. Read part 1. Read part...
We conclude the analysis of Numbers with the final of the five major cycles. Read Part One. Read Part Two. Read Part Three. Read...
We continue the analysis of Numbers with the fourth of the five major cycles. Read Part One. Read Part Two. Read Part Three. ANALYSIS...
We continue the analysis of Numbers with the third of the five major cycles. Read Part One. Read Part Two. ANALYSIS CONTINUED ETHICS: Leviticus –...
The Bible Matrix sheds light on Peter’s cryptic mention of disembodied beings to whom Jesus preached for some unknown reason. “For Christ also suffered...
We continue the analysis of Numbers with the second of the five major cycles. Read Part One here. ANALYSIS CONTINUED HIERARCHY: Exodus – VeilThe...
Here’s the updated program of lectures currently in production for the THEOLOGY ACCELERATOR course. Transform your Bible comprehension in 7 weeks. THEOLOGY ACCELERATOR will...
The book of the Minor Prophets is a literary edifice, Jacob’s ziggurat awaiting its “New Testament” capstone from heaven. In the Hebrew Bible, the...
Jacob’s story brings forth sons of Abraham as stars for the heavens. Read part 1. Read part 2. Read part 3. As James B....
Sex and Death in Donnie Darko The unique and oblique Donnie Darko is a revelation in the way the Revelation is a revelation. It...
WHEN CHRIST EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY While there are many tricky verses in the Bible, it’s clear that some of them were never intended to...
The difference between knowing about something and actually understanding it is the difference between shallow knowledge and deep knowledge. Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman shared...
A Passover sacrifice could be either a lamb or a kid, a smooth Jacob or a hairy Esau. The “sheep and goats” judgment was...
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The work of David Chilton on the book of Revelation is indispensable. It is also obsolete. David Chilton’s groundbreaking Revelation commentary, The Days of...