ST627 Lesson 22
Update: 2016-08-26
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Explore Isaiah 40 and John 1. We read in John 1:23 , "He said, 'I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” Isaiah 40 states, "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: 'In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.'" Isaiah 40 begins with the language of deliverance. Consider the verb morphology and that plurals are used. Consider the Genesis 6 reversals. The Watchers/Sons of God were rebellious divine sons of God and were replaced by believing, human sons of God. The Watchers/Sons of God were divine and immortal and punished to death. The reversal sons of God were earthly and mortal and given eternal life. The Watchers showed a proliferation of evil including spells, lust, violence, and astrological secrets. The reversal sons of God have the fruit of the Spirit and astrological coup. The Watchers were council members who lost their status through pride, forbidden to return. In reversal, council outsiders gained that status through faith in Christ, exalted at the eschaton. For Watchers, the earth was to be ruled by many quasi-divine offspring produced by divine fathers and human mothers. In reverse, earth will be ruled by one fully divine offspring born only of a human woman. The Watcher's offspring die to inhabit the Abyss, overspread earth and displace human life. In reverse, God's offspring die to inhabit glory and replace the sons of God. Explore the genealogy of Jesus. Explore why Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba are in the genealogy of Jesus. Consider that Gematria is the practice of assigning value to each letter of the alphabet.
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