It helps to put Biblical individuals, places, and events in a framework to understand the cultural influences or explanations, along with references in the Bible that lack context for modern readers which affect our interpretation of Scripture.

When you understand the limitations it avoids a tendency to overstate the importance of these factors on Scripture. They can clarify archaic linguistic issues or provide historical context to a passage of Scripture, but we should approach these emerging details with the awareness that they only share a part of the full picture that relies…

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This refers to a cleansing where the Lord intervenes in man’s affairs and wipes out evil as He will eventually eradicate it completely. In its wake He brings new life and renewal as He will eventually establish the new Heaven and new Earth.

Yes, because I have been through major challenges that put me in distress that only clinging to the Lord could sooth. When Habakkuk takes his concerns about these unsettling prophecies directly to God it brings him comfort to have the reassurance that his job is to trust, not understand. I think this is especially timely in our society,…

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These books provide excellent Old Testament examples of God’s grace and mercy to show how deeply God wants to redeem us all. Sometimes people will refute the Gospel by saying the Old Testament is all “fire and brimstone”, but there are always multiple opportunities where God warns people and desires to preserve them before his judgement comes.

I don’t really, but this is a good reminder to check any feelings of resentment when others do not receive consequences for unjust actions, because God in His sovereignty may have a different plan to bring their salvation. It boils down to obedience and trusting God to direct His plans rather than trying to run things our way because it…

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This is an area I want to study more. I feel the role is to support and expand certain themes from canonical texts.

It helps to understand what may have influenced the organization and selection of books, but ultimately God’s will was done by including the works he ordained.

God uses Ezekiel to deliver a message of hope from within Babylon as he endures exile alongside his fellow Israelites. This depiction of God being with His people provides hope and comfort.

The transformation of Jerusalem is a vision of the new Jerusalem God will bring about after Jesus’ second coming.

One encouragement from Jeremiah is that our obedience and faithfulness to sharing God’s truth is all He asks of us – not results. The outcomes belong to the Lord and if people reject Him, it doesn’t mean we’ve failed the Gospel. It just means we need to pray even harder that they will turn to Him and be saved. It’s all in His timing and…

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He always provides hope to the Israelites, even while they endure the consequences of their erring ways. Through symbolic statements and actions Jeremiah demonstrates God’s love for His people and His faithfulness.

They took theology back to the literal interpretation of scripture rather than multifaceted levels of interpretation that can move far afield from the original intent and meaning of Biblical passages. If God had not used these men to call believers back to a purer understanding of God’s inspired Word the waves of liberalism would have bowled… Read more

These movements have denied the literal, veracity of Scripture and placed scientific thought in judgement and authority over it. When anything supplants the Bible as the authority and will of God, we are sinfully placing man above God. It is not man who will sit in judgement, but God who will judge man at the end of his days.

There is a difference between viewing Scripture as whole Truth that can be applied to a person’s life and viewing Scripture as writing that takes on truth and meaning from the one reading it. The latter is dangerous moral relativism which denies the absoluteness of Truth and instead makes man the arbiter of knowledge and morals, which will… Read more