The God of Abraham was promising to consecrate Lot’s firstborn, but the sacrifice would not be substitutionary. For the introduction to this section (Isaiah 15-16), see Isaiah’s Kill List...
Isaiah subtly and ironically subverts Genesis 2 in order to ridicule Moab’s origin. Mo-ab means “Who’s your father?” For the introduction to this section...
Meredith Kline’s famous fivefold structure of Deuteronomy needs an upgrade. In his book, That You May Prosper: Dominion by Covenant (1987), Ray Sutton describes...
My latest at Theopolis Institute Isaiah 21 can only be understood in the light of its placement in the architecture of the second “volume”...
The first book of this four-volume commentary includes an interpretive “how-to” that can be applied to any part of the Scriptures. The entire Book...
The “fall of Lucifer” is the height of irony because it runs the pattern of the Tabernacle backwards. The king’s climb from the lowest...
In a grim satire, Sheol is portrayed as a negative world, a moon shadow that parodies the lunar calendar of Israel but where the...
The barrenness of Babylon is depicted through an inversion of Solomon’s Canticle. Instead of pasture there is wilderness; instead of the merry songs of...
Unlike Babel, Babylon was not a “tower to heaven,” but the arrogance of its rulers was an offense whose stink ascended to the court...
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The Boaz column focuses upon Israel’s renewed dominion of the earth. But to do so, it must first wipe the slate of rebellious man...