Difference between revisions of "Luke 20:17-18 with Isa 8:14-15"
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| − | :Isaiah’s historical context refers the words to the stumbling of those who opposed Isaiah’s message and their consequent captivity in Babylon. Luke takes the same words and applies them to the stumbling of the generation of Israelites that rejected Jesus as the Messiah and their consequent judgment by God. Paul and Peter do the same with Isa 8:14-15 (Rom 9:32-33; 1Pet2:8).Note the change of reference. In the OT instance the words referred to the personal enemies of Isaiah and the temporal judgment inflicted on them; in the NT the generation of Israel that rejected Jesus at His first coming and the eternal judgment against them are in view. --Thomas | + | :Isaiah’s historical context refers the words to the stumbling of those who opposed Isaiah’s message and their consequent captivity in Babylon. Luke takes the same words and applies them to the stumbling of the generation of Israelites that rejected Jesus as the Messiah and their consequent judgment by God. Paul and Peter do the same with Isa 8:14-15 (Rom 9:32-33; 1Pet2:8). Note the change of reference. In the OT instance the words referred to the personal enemies of Isaiah and the temporal judgment inflicted on them; in the NT the generation of Israel that rejected Jesus at His first coming and the eternal judgment against them are in view. --Thomas |
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| + | To one who does not know how something is done, it looks like magic. In the same way that God commanded certain prophets to perform dinner theatre for Israel in order to prophesy, the very history of Israel is a dinner theatre which contains a prophesy of Christ. Rather than marvel that Luke used the scripture in such a way, one should assume that Luke was teaching us to use the scripture in such a way. It is the genre of the mystery. | ||
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| + | :[[Pr 25:2]] ¶ [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter. | ||
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| + | God has concealed the story of Christ in the history of Israel. One may ask, How do we know which parts are concealed prophecies, and which parts are not? It is certainly a legitimate question for those who wish to avoid free-for-all allegory. The answer is that it is all a prophecy of Christ. God has eliminated the human factor in determining which parts to interpret as prophecy by making it all prophecy. All the scripture speaks of Christ. | ||
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[[Category: New Testament exegesis]] | [[Category: New Testament exegesis]] | ||
[[Category: Robert L. Thomas]] | [[Category: Robert L. Thomas]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:14, 6 March 2014
- Isaiah’s historical context refers the words to the stumbling of those who opposed Isaiah’s message and their consequent captivity in Babylon. Luke takes the same words and applies them to the stumbling of the generation of Israelites that rejected Jesus as the Messiah and their consequent judgment by God. Paul and Peter do the same with Isa 8:14-15 (Rom 9:32-33; 1Pet2:8). Note the change of reference. In the OT instance the words referred to the personal enemies of Isaiah and the temporal judgment inflicted on them; in the NT the generation of Israel that rejected Jesus at His first coming and the eternal judgment against them are in view. --Thomas
To one who does not know how something is done, it looks like magic. In the same way that God commanded certain prophets to perform dinner theatre for Israel in order to prophesy, the very history of Israel is a dinner theatre which contains a prophesy of Christ. Rather than marvel that Luke used the scripture in such a way, one should assume that Luke was teaching us to use the scripture in such a way. It is the genre of the mystery.
- Pr 25:2 ¶ [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.
God has concealed the story of Christ in the history of Israel. One may ask, How do we know which parts are concealed prophecies, and which parts are not? It is certainly a legitimate question for those who wish to avoid free-for-all allegory. The answer is that it is all a prophecy of Christ. God has eliminated the human factor in determining which parts to interpret as prophecy by making it all prophecy. All the scripture speaks of Christ.
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