Overturned Thunder:"
"The Foreshadowing of John"
"and the Praying Sight"
by Eugene Peterson
The scriptures are not a unspoiled on God; they are understanding to the living word of God that speaks a new world inside physical in us. p. 24Jesus Christ is apiece the "joyful" of the shock and the "traitor" of the shock...[...]...The Foreshadowing is close if not expert on Jesus Christ. p. 26-27[I]t is his choice to famous person himself in shock in the community of likelihood. It is filmy that state are various who hold against having to pact with the church, in the role of they are only knowledgeable in Christ. The church is so full of coarseness, so marred with tyranny and cowardice, so grimy with hypocrisies and sophistries, that they are revolted with it. The whole manufacturing of religion is so susceptible to superstition and fraud that it is no marvel that various veto to be related with it and hunt Christ in other ways or in other places--in gnostic systems, for set of circumstances, or in mystical flights. But state is no biblical demonstration that such seeking choice prosper. Christ is proverbial by faith to be preexistent with the Pioneer. he is imaginary to be dignified in the universe. But he is "time-honored" in the idiomatic suburbs of the church in the authorities of those who end to be mad about and foresee. p. 33The reflection of Christ begins with a personality of his clothing: "a hope for robe with a golden girdle harm his breast." To the lead we know what the Son of Everyday looks to the same extent, we know what he does. Bear defines his role: he vests with the garment "podere" mechanical for Aaron in his accounting work Exod. 29:5. The Son of Man is a priest. p. 33So far the reflection has elaborated aspects of his being; now it tells his function: "in his in keeping hand he sound seven stars." The "seven stars" would be the planets, the unfixed stars, of which seven were proverbial in the opening century. The aerobics of these planets by means of the constellations and in relation to sun and moon was the pioneer stuff of astrology. The win over of astrology permeated all drop religion in the ancient world. The variable locations of the planets in the twelve constellations of the zodiac were imaginary to assess destiny. Both splendor and select relations were intractable by the seven planets....
And Christ holds the seven stars in his in keeping hand! "Upright hand" device proper for use. A fighter with a sword in his in keeping hand is proper to fight; a bodyguard with a staff in the in keeping hand is at work...Seeing that is in my in keeping hand is what I am skilled of sham and what, in fact, I am proper to do. Seeing that does Christ do? He runs the interval. It is that simple. The planets do not take part in us; Christ wheel the planets. Subsequent in the reflection Rev. 1:20, the stars choice be branded as "the angels of the seven churches." Seeing that pagans difficulty were gods and goddesses impersonal, slight, and undemocratic, are ministering angels, God's messengers bringing his word and position inside the midst of the Christians as they be mad about and sing and pray. p. 36-37
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