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PROPHECY: USING THE OLD TESTAMENT TO EXPLAIN THE NEW. Isaiah 53.

You see prophecy in fiction all the time. Here is how it works: authors let you in on a secret, and later that secret plays an important part in the story. Consider an example from Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. While he is in prison, we learn Jean Valjean is stronger than four men. LaterContinue reading “PROPHECY: USING THE OLD TESTAMENT TO EXPLAIN THE NEW. Isaiah 53.”

God Sends Philip to the Ethiopian Eunuch. Acts 8:26-40.

Read Acts 8:26-40. An angel (from the Greek “angelos” meaning “messenger”) tells Philip to go to the Ethiopian eunuch who is in a chariot heading back to Africa after worshipping in Jerusalem. Philip finds the eunuch—a high ranking royal servant—reading the scroll of Isaiah and struggling to understand the prophecies in chapter 53 (“He wasContinue reading “God Sends Philip to the Ethiopian Eunuch. Acts 8:26-40.”

QUARTERMASTER. Isaiah 6:8.

When I was eleven, I joined the Boy Scouts. my friends Chris and Paul joined too, and my brother Dennis came along as soon as he was old enough. What red-blooded American boy wouldn’t want to join an organization that promised to take him on a camping trip in the woods every month for theContinue reading “QUARTERMASTER. Isaiah 6:8.”