Solomon broke the laws given by Moses for Israel’s kings. 1 Kings records his rise and fall with five cycles that recapitulate the Torah’s covenant pattern in a blaze...
The abandonment of worship was the underlying cause of the Great Flood. In contrast, the tower and city of Babel established false worship. Evil...
“Make yourself right at home in the Garden, Tabernacle and Temple…
The prophecies in the final chapters of Zechariah, taken in isolation, are extremely confusing. They seem to describe, very darkly, some events which took...
In Matthew 24:29, Jesus employs “cosmic language,” signs in the sun, moon and stars, to predict the imminent end of the Old Covenant. His first-century audience would have recognized...
Like the books of Samuel and Chronicles, the book of Kings is so long and detailed that it was divided into two scrolls. But...
Every one of God’s houses throughout Bible history has “former days” and “latter days.” This pattern of construction and reconstruction is a process of...
Our familiarity with the Bible is a two-edged sword. Knowing it well enables us to wield it, but it often shields us from being truly...
The book of Daniel is itself the blueprint for a new Temple. It is a “literary ziggurat.” …by his knowledge shall the righteous one,...