In the second cycle of John’s first epistle, John shifts his focus from the Tabernacle itself to the guardians of worship, from Transcendence to Hierarchy.
Matthew’s account of Jesus, Peter and their miraculous payment of the Temple tax is a classic literary puzzle. Providentially, the Bible’s own covenant-literary matrix...
To understand where John is coming from in his first epistle, we must understand where he is. John has brought us with him into...
Why are there seven bowls of wrath in Revelation 16, and from where did they come? Those familiar with the Old Testament will relate...
This psalm of David is so well-known that parsing its Covenant-literary structure is like seeing an old friend in a new light.
“Make yourself right at home in the Garden, Tabernacle and Temple…
Genesis 9 does not tell us what Ham’s intention was when he “saw the nakedness” of his father, Noah. Did he steal Noah’s robe...
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,...
The Psalms were all composed with the history, images and patterns of the Torah in mind. So it makes sense if the arrangement of...
The prophecies in the final chapters of Zechariah, taken in isolation, are extremely confusing. They seem to describe, very darkly, some events which took...