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Creation Mandate

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  • Commentary & Exposition

How Christ’s Toil Made Light Work

The condition of Israel's affliction & redemption from Egypt
  • rah
  • June 30, 2023
In the end, the LORD made affliction to become a servant to Israel’s flourishing. This, in fact, predicts the gospel: The curse would not prevent God’s promise.
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    • Matthew's Gospel
    • Matthew 19:1-30

For this Cause

Marriage, divorce, & the kingdom of heaven
  • rah
  • August 28, 2020
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
    • Exodus
    • Exodus 1:1-22

When History is Made Prophecy

Eve, the Hebrew midwives, & God's salvation
  • rah
  • July 24, 2020
If Israel’s deliverance from Egypt eventually forecasts Christ’s redemption of sinners, it should be of no surprise that Israel’s bondage is also associated with the effects of the Fall.
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    • Exodus
    • Exodus 1:1-22

When History Serves Prophecy

The Exodus & Eschatology
  • rah
  • July 17, 2020
This is why it is never sufficient to speak of Egypt in the shallowest aspects of its typology, as if its contrast to Israel were merely ethical—or that ethics can be separated from God’s revelation of himself. If the distinction between Egypt and Canaan were confined to the realm of ethics and culture, Egypt could have sufficed as the resting place of the Hebrews.
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    • Genesis
    • Genesis 9:18-29

Noah is No Second Adam, After All

The shame of Adam & Noah was covered by Christ
  • rah
  • July 1, 2020
Genesis 9 instructs us in the gracious and surprising work of God; but of course, this sentence suffers from an obvious redundancy, for God’s grace should always strike us as surprising. But should the surprising and gracious elements of this chapter not initially be evident, a brief survey of the chapter will prove helpful before the gracious surprise is considered in a following article.
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