Some notes from radio interview related to the video:
.“I’d like
to take this chance to share a few thoughts with you
today. God put something very different in my
life when I was about 19. I had a chance to go to
Israel and study, and when I was there, I discovered
that there was an element in my own Christian
background that had been somewhat lacking.
I began to discover
that if you put the Bible back
into its Jewish setting, ( it’s a Jewish book,
written by Jewish people, to Jewish people, initially
at least ), it suddenly comes alive in new and
different ways. Now that’s not to say
it’s not for Gentiles, or that it doesn’t
have a timeless message, of course it does!
It’s to say that it has an additional
nuance of meaning that can be found if you look at
the Bible in the setting in which God placed it.
I call it thinking Hebrew, and I’ve been involved
in my career as a teacher for many years, trying to
understand what does it mean, if we put the Bible back
into that setting? I would like to share a couple
thoughts coming out of that context with you.
I
remember very clearly sitting in an Orthodox Jewish
classroom, listening to a Jewish man lecture, a
brilliant Jewish individual, not a Christian, and he
was describing the marriage customs of the first
century Jewish people in the land of Israel. I
sat there as a Christian, not Jewish, I’m
Gentile, Dutch no less, and I’m sitting in the
classroom, and I’m listening to this Orthodox Jew
describe marriage. And he described how a young man
would reach marrying age, and the young man and his
father would pick out a family in the land of Israel
that had a daughter, a Godly family that had a
daughter, that would be an appropriate wife.
…And the young man and his father would go to
the young girl’s house and they would sit and
negotiate the bride price, because the loss of a
daughter was an enormous loss. When they’d
arrived at the price that was to be paid for this young
girl, 14, 15, 16 years of age, the young man would then
ask her to marry him, but he did it in a very Jewish
way.
The
young man’s father would take a flask of wine. He
would pour a cup of wine and hand it to his son The son
would then turn to the young woman, and with all the
solemnity of an oath before Almighty God Himself, that
young man would take that cup of wine and say to that
young woman, “This cup is a new covenant in my
blood, which I offer to you.” In other
words, “I love you. I’ll be your
faithful husband. Will you be my
bride?”
And
tears came to my eyes as I recognized Jesus at the last
Supper with His collection of Jewish disciples, who
knew the Passover liturgy since they were old enough to
think. Suddenly in the middle of the liturgy,
after the third cup, completely out of place, Jesus, on
His way to pay the bride price with His own blood,
turns to those disciples and says to them in the
language of the culture, “This cup is the New
Covenant in my blood”. I love you, Will you
be my bride?
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.>>We walked through these four questions from the final exam:
1)Say as much as you can about the Feast of FirstFruits, especially as it may relate to Jesus' death
See short video below and article links for answers
Help:
- pp. 193-204 of the study guide to today's"The Final Passover" video will remind you of much of the content..click here
3)What is your view of the Trinity at the Cross? Include discussion of Psalm 22 and intertextuality.
Do you think God the Father temporarily abandined/.forsook Jesus on the Criss? Was the fellwoship of the Trinity broken? Why or why not? Why is your answer important?
Help:
- Monday's post here, comment on the "I have a dream" reference" in the article under "penal substitution" there
- The Lord Be With You...Even When He's Not!"
- This chapter below:
4)Summarize RRWI vs. EPIC culture
See my article pp.. 38-39 here (or as a PDF pp. 36-37 here)
Talk some about which culture you most naturally gravitate to and why.
Which does Sweet suggest is most like the biblical culture and "historical world" of New Testament times and worldview and why?
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