Bible Commentaries

Ezekiel 48:1-35 — some faroff tomorrow. It is going on now. Christ has been reigning ever since Almighty God committed into his hands "All authority in heaven and upon earth"; and it will continue until the last enemy, death itself, has been destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:25). Oh, but some do not allow Christ to reign over them. True indeed, but that makes no difference whatever. Jesus Christ is over all; and the people who refuse him have chosen for themselves eternal death. Before leaving this section, we shall observe

Daniel 9:24-27 — (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1970), p. 700. (b)    A second school of interpreters (the dispensationalists) has many shades of beliefs; but generally, they deny that the six things to be accomplished in Daniel 9:24 were achieved by Christ in his First Advent. They interpose a gap between the 69th and 70th week and suppose that at the 2nd Advent of Christ, following the Church Age, the Christ will return and the seventieth week will resume at that time. The Scofield

Amos 9:11 — the restoration of the fallen tabernacle is the same thing as the raising up of one of David's posterity (Christ) to sit upon David's throne forever, a prophecy of the resurrection of Christ and his enthronement in heaven, as Peter pointed out (Acts 2:30-31). No one could possibly be expected to raise up again the kingdom of David, except one of his descendants, this being the significance of the genealogies of Jesus which show him to be of "the flesh of David." Thus, in this extended meaning of

Deuteronomy 18:15-19 — shall clear away some of the rubbish that one encounters in the commentaries: T. Witton Davies: "There is no primary reference here to the Messiah, though the words naturally suggest to Christian readers the Great Prophet."T. Witton Davies, op. cit., p. 239. The approach here is simply that of Satan to Eve, "Ye shall not surely die." Criticism often resorts to this device. When a truth is so glaring as to be self-evident to all, the knee-jerk response is, "Well, it doesn't mean that!" Also, note the

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 — is one. Jehovah is our God, Jehovah alone. "Whichever one is correct, the idea of one God (monotheism) is obviously in this phrase. There is, was, and always will be only one true God. See Deuteronomy 4:35; Deuteronomy 4:39; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Timothy 2:5; and 1 Corinthians 8:4."Bruce Oberst, Deuteronomy (Joplin College Press, 1968), p. 108. Keil also stated dogmatically that, "This clause not merely precludes polytheism, but also syncretism which reduces the one absolute God to a national deity."C.

John 1:3 — unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds … (And of the Son he saith) Thou Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands (Hebrews 1:2; Hebrews 1:10). Some seek to make a point of the fact that creation is not directly attributed to Jesus in the synoptics, claiming a "contradiction." The point fails in light of the fact that Matthew represented Jesus as having twelve legions

Romans 6 overview — At this point in Romans, it is customary for commentators to interrupt their exegesis and build a wall of separation between this chapter and the fifth, Moule, for example, expending some 200 lines of text for that purpose. Other devices of separation have also been employed as, for example, when that same author declared that: We shall now think less directly of the foundations than of the superstructure, for which the foundation was

Romans 8:16-17 — assurance of future glory, but we are not yet out of the life where there is suffering and fighting. Indeed, a definite suffering actually belongs to true discipleship. Whoever does not take up his cross and follow him, cannot be his disciple (Matthew 16:24 f). He who does not want to suffer with Christ cannot share in his glory either. The way of the Christian is not a path on the heights but down below. The way on the heights is in heaven, not on earth. Emil Brunner, op. cit., p. 73. Notice the contrast

Joshua 12:9-24 — Due to the nature of the remaining material in this chapter, we shall rely upon a different method of presenting it. Woudstra, and others, have also utilized this manner of reporting it:M. H. Woudstra, op. cit., p. 204. the king of Jericho.....................one the king of Ai, beside Bethel...........one the king Jerusalem......................one the king of Hebron......................one the king of Jarmuth.....................one the king of Lachish.....................one the

Joshua 8:30-35 — abbreviated nature of the Book of Joshua. Here we have a passage that the critics hate. The narrative here is denounced as misplaced, unfitting, and "impossible to be true, since Joshua had not yet conquered central Canaan."Samuel Holmes, op. cit., p. 252. What really troubles them is the proof this passage gives of the PRIOR existence of the Mosaic law. It is a vain criticism that the passage does not belong here; "Here is where it is!" Furthermore, it belongs here. As Schaeffer noted, "The victorious

Hebrews 7:1-3 — noted in the following study. MELCHIZEDEK AND JESUS The following likenesses in type and antitype are plain: (1) The word "Melchizedek" means "King of righteousness," thus the very name becomes a title of the Lord Jesus Christ. (2) "King of Salem" means "King of peace," and thus the title of Melchizedek is another appropriate title of our Lord (Isaiah 9:6 ff; Psalms 72:7). (3) Melchizedek was both king and priest, a double dignity not enjoyed by any illustrious

Hebrews 9:2 — tabernacle in this verse is identified by the articles of furniture in it as the holy place. In it there were the golden candlestick on the south, the table of showbread on the north, and the golden altar of incense near the curtain, or veil (Exodus 40:22; Exodus 40:24; Exodus 40:26). Such is the importance of these objects, as being the patterns of great spiritual realities which they typified, that some particular attention is due each of them. THE GOLDEN CANDLESTICK History, through the overruling