Ferdinand Bol 1616 – 1680 -- Gideon and the Angel, etching — ca. 1640

I’ll be preaching at Blackhawk Ministries in a few hours on the life of Gideon (Judges 6-8).

Thank you, LORD, for Your grace both to Gideon and to me.

Judges 6-8

Hebrews 11:32-38

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The last posting of the semester. Here’s to another great season together in the New Testament.

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It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man’s moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God’s unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.
… R. J. Campbell (1867-1956), The Call of Christ [1932], London : Skeffington & Son, 1942? (see the book; see also Num. 14:11;

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I apologize.

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Here’s our second entry. We’re off to a good start.

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Key: Avoid asking questions that you can answer yourself (what words mean, definitions).

Enjoy.

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Entry of The Animals into Noah’s Ark, Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1613

Margaret Manning, another new friend from the RZIM conference at Wheaton this past week, wrote this very helpful paragraph on the narrative on which I’ll be preaching on Sunday morning (Genesis 6:5-8:22).

The ancient world features several parallels to the Biblical account of the Flood

“Ancient myths and legends that bear some resemblance to biblical history add to the credibility of the biblical witness, and do not diminish it. For example, many cultures have some sort of flood narrative. Does this mean that the story of Noah’s Ark is just another myth? No, it does not. Rather, ancient cultures all had within their “cultural memory” a recollection of a massive flood. Details of this flood were passed down through oral history, and later written down for posterity. Oral tradition was the primary means by which stories were transmitted in the ancient world, a practice continued by the Jews well into the first century, when Jesus would have lived. Oral tradition, based on memory, was a highly reliable (since memorization was the main means of learning and transmitting information in the ancient world) means of preserving historic events. The abundance of flood narratives found in various cultures is an illustration of the credibility and reliability of the flood story.”

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The grace of God is, and has always been, amazing.

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