by Justin Marple | May 1, 2013 | General Teachings, TEACHING
The Presbyterian Church (USA) is in the process of voting on whether to replace the current translation of the Heidelberg Catechism in our Book of Confessions with a new translation. Thus it is appropriate for the church to review the importance of the Heidelberg...
by Justin Marple | Apr 29, 2013 | Book of 12 Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Malachi means “my messenger.” It is the word often used for angels because they are messengers of God. But people also can be messengers of God. It is not altogether certain that Malachi is the name of the prophet who wrote this letter, it is possible that the...
by Justin Marple | Apr 25, 2013 | Former Prophets, Kings Commentary, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
In 1 Kings 12 Jeroboam became king over “all Israel” (though in practice not Judah). And the text says, “And Jeroboam said in his heart, ‘Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David. If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of YHWH at...
by Justin Marple | Apr 22, 2013 | Book of 12 Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Last time we talked about the structure of the whole book and examined the first introduction, the seven visions, and the climax of the book (Zech 6:9-15).This time we have the second half of the book including the introduction to this half (chapters 7 & 8) and...
by Justin Marple | Apr 18, 2013 | Former Prophets, Kings Commentary, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
I have entitled this post Solomon’s Wisdom & Folly because we usually associate Solomon with wisdom. However, the author of Kings has no interest in defending Solomon when the king made stupid choices. Key to his folly was his multiple wives but you will...
by Justin Marple | Apr 16, 2013 | Former Prophets, Kings Commentary, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Having already given some introductory remarks regarding the book of Kings in the previous post, this post will take some of those insights further and will continue by looking in more detail at the opening chapters of Kings. I also hope to make explicit the...
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