August 2020 | East of Everest

Marriage, divorce, & the kingdom of heaven

Matthew 19 reminds us that better questions often obtain better answers; but it more strikingly reminds us that the character of a question is first found in the integrity of a man’s heart. In the end, an inquirer’s ignorance is not nearly as damning as his unbelieving disposition.

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Commentary & Exposition

- John 3:1-13
- John's Gospel

The Spirit Blows on Some but not Others

John 3:8 & irresistible grace

This article presents another view, that the easy and natural reading of John 3 does not beg the importation of the Reformed idea. Indeed, this section does require readers to account for redemptive history, but not one in which that history’s individual beneficiaries are determined from eternity.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Revelation 20:1-10
- The Book of Revelation

A Prelude to Eternity

Eschatology: Eden & the Millennium

From the moment that Adam sinned in time, salvation would be mediated through covenants, all of which were inaugurated in time. Those same covenants are now the record of history, and yet some of us are persuaded that their fullest expression is yet to come. The Lord Jesus is the seed, subject, and fulfillment of those covenants, but some of them find their complete expression in the Millennium.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Genesis
- Genesis 2:4-25

A Mountain Sanctuary

Eden & Canaan typified a heavenly tabernacle

The heavenly order, then, eventually arrives upon the earth. It is a treasure city, perched upon a high mountain. It is the fountain of a river. The LORD and the Lamb are its temple. A throne is there; the Tree of Life is there (Revelation 22:1-10; 22:1-5). Egypt was its counterfeit; Eden was its prophecy.

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