The Bible contains lots of jokes. Very often, we don’t understand them because we are not reading the Bible “cumulatively” (keeping everything in mind as we go along).
“Instead of seeking wisdom from the created heavens, the wise men now understood that ‘there is a God in heaven’ who reveals such secrets.”
Oceans of ink have been spilled in the quest to make sense of the perplexing differences between the various biblical covenants. Understanding sacred history...
Having put enmity between the seeds of the serpent and the Woman, and then judging the Woman, John now judges the Man. The Covenantal...
The second cycle continues the pattern of subtle hints concerning what was to come. It reads like a ticking clock, building inexorably to the...
In the Bible, there are kings and queens, prophets and prophetesses, but there are no priestesses. As in Eden, the empowerment of the Woman...
Paul’s journey from self-styled nemesis of the Church to its premier human exemplar bears the stamp of the God who “calleth those things which...
The sixth cycle of Jude leaves the apostates behind in the wilderness and brings the saints into their promised inheritance. The seventh describes the rest and...
The New Testament is primarily a legal witness against the rulers of Jerusalem. Matthew hammers this home by structuring his Gospel after patterns in...
Why does Jude refer to Enoch? Because Jesus alluded to Lamech to illustrate the chasm between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of...