We saw that the content of Genesis 2 is meticulously arranged as a “social” version of Genesis 1, that is, a human temple. However, the formula is triune, which brings us to the...
In Luke 1, Mary’s song sounds nothing like Christmas as we understand it. This is because Mary understood Christmas in its covenant context. Here,...
What is the significance of the placement of the tribes of Israel around the Tabernacle in the book of Numbers?
The Fruit of Righteousness “In this shedding of immaturity, in obedience to the Covenant, Man is to outdo both tree and serpent.” When you...
God’s choice of David from among his brothers in 1 Samuel 16 not only prefigures the baptism of Jesus, it also presents David as...
The Psalms were all composed with the history, images and patterns of the Torah in mind. So it makes sense if the arrangement of...
Since most modern Christians do not have the Bible’s sacred architecture hidden in their hearts, much of the impact of Jesus’ words is lost...
The fortunes of earthly Jerusalem take us from the beginning of the circumcision in Abraham to the end of the circumcision in AD70, but...
The prophecies in the final chapters of Zechariah, taken in isolation, are extremely confusing. They seem to describe, very darkly, some events which took...
Psalm 1 and the Revelation Although the Covenant-literary “matrix” is consistent throughout the Bible, the biblical authors quite often play with it to make...