Planetary Judgments

      In his lectures on Comparative Religion, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy points to five fundamental gods that were over ancient man and still can dominate us today, and which must be respected. When we sin, we respect these gods more than we respect the Creator, disobeying the First Word: “You will have no other gods before Me.” [...]

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Was the Last Supper a Passover?

      Some readers of my earlier essay, “Strange and Glorious New Rites,” have written to object that I have strained a gnat and swallowed a camel. I have strained out the gnat of a possible link to the memorial bread of the minchah (Lev. 2), while overlooking the camel that the Last Supper was a [...]

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Notes on the Book of Judges

                                                    Notes on Judges A. Israel’s failure to hold land against the Canaanites. Progressive compromise, leading to judgment. 1:1–2:5.   B. Israel’s idolatry, the cycle of judges, and war as God’s chastisement. 2:6–3:6.     C. Northern Gentiles (Mesopotamia), and Othniel. 3:7-11.       D. Lot: Moab, and Ehud. 3:12-13.         E. Minor judge: Shamgar. 3:31.           [...]

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Principalities and Powers, Part 2

The great question for the emerging East, for Asia and other awakening third world areas, for an emerging nation like China is, “what fate awaits them?” They are now emerging from an analogous paganism that the West emerged from centuries ago. Here an amazing quotation from David Aikman, the Time Magazine religious editor. He is [...]

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The Principalities and Powers, Part I

Paul contends that with the death of Christ on the Cross, there was an overcoming of the Principalities and the Powers (Col. 2:15). A great deal has been written on this subject over the last 60 years. What was for a long time either ignored, or regarded by liberal scholars as a mythological element in [...]

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Strange and Glorious New Rites

Rite Reasons: Studies in Worship No. 90 Copyright (c) 2005 Biblical Horizons July, 2004　 At the last supper, Jesus took bread and, having given thanks, He broke it and gave it to His disciples while saying, “Take, eat, this is My body given for you. Do this for My memorial.”  What Jesus did was recognized [...]

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