... , suffering, sinful, saved people there. “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” We ought, in our listening to and study of the Bible, to step courageously into the text. The Rabbis say that, God, having been angered by sloppy reporting and editorial second guessing, to say nothing of what he had suffered at the hands of college professors of religion, hired a human as a secretary and began to dictate his story. It is well known that although God loves to talk, God hates to write. For forty days ...
... it's like to suffer, to bleed, and to die, now rules with God, as God, at the center of a great shout of acclamation. The vision is of a great victory celebration. The battle is over, the battle with death, and defeat, and dishonor. The battle is over, and guess who won? The Lamb! A Lamb is small, frail, vulnerable, no match for the powers of death and destruction. Those powers thought they had ended the life of the Lamb on the cross. But no, here in the center of heaven, enthroned, is the Lamb in a great ...