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Jesus declared that “the Spirit makes alive [‘quickens’]. The flesh profits nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life.” His words echo the scriptural principle that life and the “Spirit of God” are inextricably linked. The “flesh” is not inherently evil, but it has no life without the Spirit that God gives. And the gift of the Spirit is associated with the prophesied New Covenant and the dawning of the “last days,” the era of the Messiah and Fulfillment. The Spirit’s presence among God’s people characterizes the messianic age and is a foretaste of the resurre ..read more

The “promise of the Father” is the gift of the Holy Spirit, and the Apostle Paul links it to the Abrahamic covenant. Its promises find their fulfillment in the New Covenant inaugurated by Jesus. The bestowal of the Spirit marked the commencement of the “last days,” the time of fulfillment. Moreover, Paul equates the “promise of the Spirit” with the “blessings of Abraham.” The original covenant always envisioned the inclusion of the Gentiles, a point Paul uses when contending in Galatia for the acceptance of Gentile believers in the covenant community, without requiring their circumcision ..read more

The history of Israel includes national sins that resulted in her expulsion from the promised land. But God foresaw her failures and determined beforehand to institute a new covenant that would be energized and characterized by His Spirit, and one that would include the Gentiles. And the promised New Covenant would culminate in the resurrection from the dead and the “new heavens and the new earth.” With the death and resurrection of Jesus, a new era dawned - the “last days,” the age of fulfillment. In him, all God’s covenant promises began to find their intended fulfillment. [Photo by ..read more

 An angel appeared to Joseph informing him that Mary was with child “begotten of the Holy Spirit.” He was instructed to name the child ‘Jesus.’ As the angel declared, call his name Jesus for “he will save his people from their sins.” His name links him to the saving act accomplished by God for His people as promised in the Hebrew Bible. [Jesus - Photo by Eran Menashri on Unsplash] When his name is spelled ‘Jesus,’ it is an anglicized form of the Aramaic name ‘Joshua’ or ‘Yeshua,’ a name that is the shortened and popular form of the older Hebrew name ‘Ye-hoshua.’ (Matthew 1 ..read more

The book of Revelation is addressed to seven first-century churches in Asia, and it deals with their real-life situations and trials. In the process, it presents messages relevant to all churches throughout the present age. Their daily struggles are a microcosm of the great cosmic battle being waged between Jesus and the Devil. Every man and woman who heeds the book’s message is pronounced “blessed,” especially since the “season is at hand.” This clause alludes to the passage in Daniel where the prophet is commanded “to seal the scroll until the season of the end.” [Photo by Sebastien ..read more

The Apostle Paul links the start of the “last days” with the death and resurrection of the Son of God. The time of fulfillment has arrived, and all God’s promises now find their “yea and amen” in the risen Nazarene. “In these last days,” God has “spoken” His definitive “word” in His Son who now reigns from His “right hand.” [West Beach Dusk, Whidbey Island, Washington] And Paul declares that the church consists of those men and women upon whom the “ends of the ages have come.” While the term “last days” is not frequent in his letters, he does demonstrate his understanding that Hist ..read more

Jesus compared the final years before his return to the period leading up to the Great Flood of Noah. “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be” when the “Son of Man” returns. Some commentators take this saying as a prediction of the return of the same conditions that existed in Noah’s day; that is, a repetition of the moral anarchy and violence that prompted God to send the floodwaters in the first place. Certainly, all periods of human history have featured chaos, immorality, and catastrophes, but this popular interpretation ignores the literary context and the point of the analog ..read more

The King invested great effort to make his dream into reality. First, he “set up” an enormous image covered in gold to represent his majesty and the irresistible power of the Empire. Then, he commanded all the “peoples and nations and tongues” of his realm to pay homage to his image or face a horrific and certain death in the “burning fiery furnace.” [Photo by tommao wang on Unsplash] The story is the sequel to the dream and interpretation recorded in Chapter 2, and this is borne out by the several verbal and conceptual links between them, and by the omission of any chronologi ..read more

In his letter to the Galatians, Paul states that he was commissioned as an apostle to the Gentiles by the same God that raised Jesus from the dead and “delivered us FROM THIS EVIL AGE.” This statement anticipates his response to certain Jewish believers who were operating in Galatia as if the old era was still in effect. In the first two chapters, Paul details how he received his gospel for the Gentiles by revelation, and this was confirmed by the leaders of the Jerusalem church. And he recounts that during an earlier controversy at Antioch “false brethren slinked in to spy out our ..read more