THE TRUE LIGHT OF THE WORLD – Isaiah 60
This prophecy received its highest fulfillment at the coming of Christ, the true Light of the World, which was followed by a great ingathering of the nations to the church of God, the church of Christ.
Art as expression – NOT as market campaigns, will still capture our Imaginations
This prophecy received its highest fulfillment at the coming of Christ, the true Light of the World, which was followed by a great ingathering of the nations to the church of God, the church of Christ.
We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
The sophistry of our generation has tended to ameliorate, or completely reject Jesus’s teaching on this subject, (such as the guys at The Bible Project) but such a tendency is profoundly sinful and foolish.
In this post, we shall classify some of the Scriptures relating to the kingship of Jesus Christ, inquire as to his credentials for such authority, explore the extent and duration of his kingdom and examine some of the symbols under which that kingship is presented in the Bible.
The central ordinance of Christianity is the Lord’s Supper, standing in a metaphor as a summary of the whole Christian religion: “Except ye eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of man ye have no life in you” (John 6:53).
The kingdom of the heavens is also always viewed in Matthew’s gospel as something future, i.e. beginning after the Lord’s ascension to heaven, whereas the kingdom of God, also in Matthew, is seen as being present already now (Matthew 12:28).
“All things” includes all sufferings, sorrows, infirmities, and everything else of a discouraging and calamitous nature which might befall God’s child on earth.