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1. Love: The Happiness of a Godly Family

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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James Merritt

... it, preach the love of God to it, and practice the love of God through it, and you will have a happy home. 1. Real Life, January/February, 1989, p. 15. 2. Hal David and Burt Bacharach, "What the World Needs Now" (Los Angeles, California: Blue Seas Music Publishers & Jac Music, Inc., 1965). Lyric by Hal David; music by Burt Bacharach, Copyright O 1965 Blue Seas, Inc., Jac Music, Inc., International Copyright secured. Made in USA. All rights reserved. See also, Charles R. Swindoll, Dropping Your Guard (Dallas ...

2. The Law of the Temple

Ezekiel 43:13-27, Ezekiel 44:1-31, Ezekiel 45:1-12, Ezekiel 45:13--46:24

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... the laws regarding the priests in 44:15–31 to the laws to follow regarding the prince in 45:9–17 (Hals, Ezekiel, p. 322). Then, as the legislation regarding the prince opens with a prophetic critique (v. 9), another critique, in verse ... in the Elephantine Papyri (AP 30) for Ostanes, brother to the high priest. The first governors of Judah after the exile were descendants of David (see 1 Chr. 3:18–19), so perhaps the Law of the Temple used nasiʾ as a compromise—in continuity with Ezekiel’s usage ...

3. Oracles of Restoration

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 35:1-15, Ezekiel 36:1-38, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... will be established once more (vv. 22–25; compare 34:23–24). Almost certainly, the lines in verses 22 and 24 which identify the future Davidic ruler as king (Heb. melek; by contrast v. 25, like 34:24, uses nasiʾ) represent the later editing of this book (Eichrodt, Ezekiel, pp. 511–12; Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2, pp. 271–72; Hals, Ezekiel, pp. 273–74). It is doubtful that Ezekiel, who has been so consistent in his avoidance of the term “king,” would change his characteristic usage now. Once more ...

4. Prologue to the Law of the Temple: The Lord Comes Home

Ezekiel 40:1--43:12

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... any real unity of purpose or meaning in the text as it stands (Eichrodt, Ezekiel, pp. 530–31; Wevers, Ezekiel, p. 4; Hals, Ezekiel, p. 287; and even me, in my earliest work: see Tuell, “The Temple Vision of Ezekiel 40–48: A Program of Restoration ... the palace grounds, see 2 Kgs. 21:18, 26) were buried in a royal cemetery outside the temple area, called “the city of David.” David Neiman (“PGR: A Canaanite Cult-Object in the Old Testament,” JBL 67 [1948], pp. 55–60) identified the term pgr in ...

5. Riddles and Metaphors

Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 16:1-63, Ezekiel 17:1-24

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... :10//1 Chr. 16:17), the covenant God gave at Sinai (Exod. 31:16; Lev. 24:8) and the covenant of kingship with David’s line (2 Sam. 23:5) are all said to be everlasting covenants. Yet these are all past covenants, not future ones. Further ... grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish” (v. 24). This portrayal of God as the “Great Reverser” (Hals, Ezekiel, p. 117, see also Zimmerli, Ezekiel 1, p. 367) is a familiar one to any reader of Scripture. It figures prominently in the songs ...

6. Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia

Ezekiel 25:1-7, Ezekiel 25:8-11, Ezekiel 25:12-14, Ezekiel 25:15-17

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... messenger formula, reason for judgment introduced by “because,” statement of penalty, and recognition formula) is called a “proof saying” (Hals, Ezekiel, pp. 179–82; 353–54). It holds, with slight variations, for the four brief oracles in Ezekiel 25, the ... important in the nt (e.g., Matt. 28:18–20). But the book of Ezekiel does not sound that theme. 25:8 Moab. Though David defeated and annexed Moab (2 Sam. 8:2), a 9th-c. inscription called the Moabite Stone describes how King Mesha (2 Kgs. 3:4) ...

7. Angels in the Wilderness

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... AS MUCH ABOUT SATAN AS SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO. A popular paperback says that “Satan is Alive and Well on Planet Earth” (Hal Lindsey and C.C. Carlson, Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1972)...in spite of the fact that Jesus said precisely the opposite ... and I do not become angels when we die. That’s a relief! In a famous little book entitled “He Sent Leanness,” Englishman David Head gives us the prayer of a “natural man” who says, “...I am not the least bit cheered by the thought of harps ...

8. Headed in the Right Direction

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... the crisis Paul confronted in his very first canonical letter to the Thessalonians. In my day, it was preoccupation with the works of Hal Lindsay that seemed to provide a Christian distraction from real life for many people, but it is always something. Is it too much ... root of Jesse shall come, the one who rises to rule the Gentiles...." Jesse, David's father, reminds us that Jesus came from the house and lineage of David. The word "rises," regardless of its original meaning in Isaiah, now can be understood as ...

9. When the Unthinkable Happens

Mark 13:1-8, 24-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... topic: “When The Unthinkable Happens.” “Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” said the voice over the radio. It was the voice of David Johnston from his monitoring station on the North flank of Mount St. Helens. It was May 18, 1980. What Johnston had witnessed, as ... bestselling fiction list. Before the “Left Behind” series, there was The Late Great Planet Earth, a best-selling book by Hal Lindsey describing the same scenario. (5) These books and the movies that have been based on them have had a ...

10. Egypt

Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... :3). In the only other place where the expression “make a horn grow” occurs, the horn refers to a king in David’s line: “Here I will make a horn grow for David and set up a lamp for my anointed one” (Ps. 132:17; compare Dan. 7:24 and Rev. 17:9–11, ... emend it to teʾashur (“cypress”): “There was a cypress, a cedar in Lebanon” (e.g., Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2, pp. 141–42; Hals, Ezekiel, p. 218; Allen, Ezekiel 20–48, pp. 122–23). We find a similar error involving these same words in 27:6 (see ...

11. An Announcement for a New Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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King Duncan

... like a life-time ago. Besides, according to the ballyhooed Mayan calendar, the world should have ended December 21, 2012. [And according to Hal Lindsay and The Late, Great Planet Earth and numerous Left Behind books by Tim LaHaye, we should all have been raptured by now.] So ... of years bringing about just the right conditions for his birth. The prophets had testified to the Jewish people that out of David’s line a Savior would be born and of his kingdom there would be no end. When the Savior was born, Jews ...

12. Signs and Oracles of Judgment

Ezekiel 4:1-5:17, Ezekiel 6:1-14, Ezekiel 7:1-27

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... ; see also 17:12). Otherwise, “king” occurs in Ezekiel only in the editorial superscription (1:2), with reference to the future Davidic messiah (37:22, 24), and in the expansion of Ezekiel’s temple vision (43:7b–9). Ezekiel’s avoidance of the word ... again and again returning to the one theme” (Ezekiel, p. 101). 7:4 Then you will know that I am the LORD. R. M. Hals, Ezekiel (FOTL 19; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), pp. 41–42, notes that, like Ezek. 6, chapter 7 falls into three parts (vv. 1–4, ...

13. Epilogue to the Law of the Temple: River, Land, City

Ezekiel 47:1-12, Ezekiel 47:13-23, Ezekiel 48:1-29, Ezekiel 48:30-35

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... the scattering of the exile brought this ancient clan-centered social system to an end. With few exceptions (priests and descendants of David, plus a few zealots determined to preserve their genealogies; see Rom. 11:1; Phil. 3:5), by the Persian period the ... p. 547; Cooke, Ezekiel, p. 536; Wevers, Ezekiel, p. 233; Eichrodt, Ezekiel, p. 593; Gese, Der Verfassungsentwurf, p. 107; and Hals, Ezekiel, p. 347). However, the temple vision’s closing words concerning the city stand in intriguing parallel to the “ ...

14. Nabuchadnezzar’s Dream and Daniel's Interpretation

Daniel 2:1-23, Daniel 2:24-49

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

Nebuchadnezzar Is Troubled by a Dream (2:1-16): Big Idea: God sometimes allows mere mortals, however powerful, to discover the bankruptcy of their belief systems before revealing himself through his messenger. Understanding the Text Daniel 2:1–49 is woven into the book’s overall literary structure in two ways. First, it advances the narrative of chapters 1–6, in which the first four focus on Nebuchadnezzar (chaps. 1–2 with historical markers and 3–4 without) and the last two show the transition from ...

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