David
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“The Thoughts of the Righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful” (Prov. 12:5; NASB).1 “Hence the Christian alternative to the hopelessness of autonomous reasoning is revelational epistemology or ‘analogical thinking.’ This requires beginning with God’s Word as the most certain truth available to man and basing all reasoning upon it.” –Greg…
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INTRODUCTION: Biblical typology has been a subject of particular interest of mine for sometime. For those unfamiliar, the study of Biblical types is in reference to various symbols, motifs, or types that serve as shadowy representations of an anti-type. As a prefix in Greek “anti-” has the primary meaning of “instead of, or, in exchange…
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The Roles of the Different Types I have taken a long time to get here, I know, but I have finally arrived at a point in my discussion where I can begin to offer a general compare and contrast between David and Jesus. In my last post (read here), which I called a precursor to…
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Both Matthew and Luke present to their readers a genealogical record of Jesus’ lineage. In the last post on this subject (Offspring (Seed) of David: Part II, Matthew’s Genealogy) we focused on Matthew’s emphasis in tying Jesus to Abraham and David. This time around we are going to look into Luke’s emphasis and see what…
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Jesus was (is) called the son of David on numerous occasions, and not once did he rebuke or correct the statement, but enjoyed the application to himself. As he made his “way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the…
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