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1 Intro | that the ways and will of God will become more clear to 2 1,2 | Israel are a special gift of God (Amos 2:11) without real 3 1,2 | 7:1f. The prophet is to God what Aaron was to Moses. 4 1,2 | Pharaoh (“I have made thee a god to Pharaoh”), Aaron does 5 1,2 | shalt be to him (Aaron) as God.” In other words, the prophet 6 1,2 | other words, the prophet is God’s spokesman. Speaking for 7 1,2 | spokesman. Speaking for God may involve foretelling 8 1,2 | never merely to show that God knows the future, or to 9 1,2 | normally a revelation of God attached to it. We can know 10 1,2 | can know the character of God better now, if we know what 11 1,2 | present we can interpret God’s activity the better for 12 1,2 | to the council chamber of God (Amos 3:7; Jer. 23:18, 22), 13 1,2 | 23:18, 22), from knowing God and speaking with Him (Num. 14 1,2 | merely a revelation of God’s will, but of God Himself, 15 1,2 | ation of God’s will, but of God Himself, it follows that 16 1,2 | revelation of the unchanging God, it has an unchanging significance. 17 1,3 | itself, a revelation of God. Their record of it sought 18 1,3 | account of the doings of God in and through Israel. This 19 1,3 | thought of Jehovah as the God of history permeates the 20 1,6 | character and purposes of God, and would best make them 21 1,7 | had no gain from Tyre, but God has given him Egypt instead ( 22 1,7 | when it is confirmed by God’s oath. ~ It is only because 23 1,8 | Hebrew people. This was God's judgment for the betrayal 24 1,8 | comfort ye, My people, saith God. Speak, ye priests, of the 25 1,8 | cities of Judah, Behold your God! Behold the Lord. The Lord 26 1,8 | lamentation a prophet of God's future deliverance and 27 1,8 | 12)~The night will pass, God's anger will pass. Be glad, 28 1,8 | and fear not; behold, our God rendereth judgment, and 29 1,8 | contemplating another revelation of God: an unprecedented spiritual 30 1,8 | and I will be to them a God and they shall be to Me 31 1,8 | only the instruments of God's anger and His chastisement 32 1,8 | churches, and dwelling place of God: for thou wast first to 33 1,8 | Apostle writes:~ ~“What if God, willing to show His wrath 34 1,8 | the people of the living God. Isaiah also crieth concerning 35 1,8 | ungodliness from Jacob... For God hath enclosed them all in 36 1,8 | wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His 37 2,3 | not show the perfection of God’s rule, and that the righteous 38 2,3 | sufferings in heaven, but expects God’s intervention by which 39 2,4 | limits normally imposed by God, that they can only be explained 40 2,5 | by spiritual turning to God, so in the judgments of 41 2,5 | the will and purposes of God should truly find expression 42 2,5 | supreme intervention of God in human affairs up to our 43 2,6 | never denied. It belongs to God’s attributes as “Judge of 44 2,6 | him. Their treatment of God’s people is to provide the 45 2,6 | reaction to the people of God illuminates his true character 46 2,7 | the final setting up of God’s kingdom here on a transformed 47 2,7 | transformed earth the goal of God’s purposes; and this is 48 2,7 | capable of apprehending of God’s purposes; it was also 49 2,7 | also the vindication of God’s wisdom and purposes in 50 3,3 | assumed that Jehovah was the god of the hills of Israel ( 51 3,3 | of the power and love of God needed urgently to be learned 52 3,3 | Assyria was to be the rod of God’s anger (Isa. 10:5), smiting 53 3,3 | of unparalleled distress God’s spokesmen had to see clearly 54 3,5 | grasp that Jonah is thanking God for saving him from drown 55 3,5 | was for him a guarantee of God’s forgiveness and ultimate 56 3,7 | God’s Tender Mercy (Ch. 4). ~ 57 3,7 | Jonah the certainty that God had accepted the repentance 58 3,7 | offended his sense of what God should do (4:2), it spared 59 3,7 | out the forty days in case God changed His mind (ver. 5).~ 60 3,7 | gourd seemed the last straw. God was then able to bring home 61 3,7 | mere ephemeral plant what God’s creation must mean to 62 4,1 | the Women.~3 — Ch. 4:4-12. God’s Visitations in Nature.~ 63 4,2 | spiritual history or of how God called him (but see p. 33). 64 4,2 | succession came the signs of God’s wrath, drought (4:6ff), 65 4,2 | will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but 66 4,2 | denial, for they had known God’s appointment as prophet, 67 4,3 | as shepherds, for under God this was a life that could 68 4,3 | stones of true religion, that God was not merely just Himself, 69 4,3 | gives a one-sided picture of God, but it was a foundation 70 4,3 | Himself perfectly in His Son, God’s self-revelation had to 71 4,3 | earth do right?” and in God’s commendation of him ( 72 4,3 | judge stands in the place of God, and to go to the judge 73 4,3 | to the judge is to go to God (Exod. 21:6; 22:8, 9, 28 — 74 4,3 | true or false, that he, God’s representative, was not 75 4,3 | otherwise inevitable judgment of God.~ ~ 76 4,4 | stranger is so often stressed. God had entrusted the care of 77 4,4 | were peculiarly affronts to God (cf. Exod. 22:21-24, 23: 78 4,4 | ignorance of or indifference to God’s character and the privileges 79 4,4 | 21ff), and the ignoring of God’s warnings (4:6-11).~ The 80 4,4 | as merely their Baal, a god of the same type as the 81 4,4 | from a false conception of God, and that if the people 82 4,4 | to a true conception of God, the other matters would 83 4,4 | a “correct” knowledge of God, and still less of “correct” 84 4,5 | not against Israel at all. God will not punish the nations 85 4,5 | bility of publicly serving God to show his zeal and love. 86 4,6 | stressing that not merely is God’s justice even-handed — 87 4,6 | far more. It affirms that God’s dealings with men follow 88 4,6 | were the best evidence that God had rejected their offerings.~ 89 4,7 | calf of Bethel — cf. “thy God, O Dan” — but on the basis 90 4,7 | essentially all peoples are God’s people, and that all movements 91 4,7 | the nations are as much God’s doing as the Exodus from 92 4,7 | the certainty that a just God will justly judge Israel. 93 4,7 | stone fall upon the earth.” God is not merely the God of 94 4,7 | God is not merely the God of the nation, but also 95 4,8 | future. Sooner or later God’s purpose in the choice 96 5,2 | revelation of the love of God. This is the best explanation 97 5,2 | Hosea, the revelation of God’s justice before the revelation 98 5,3 | conquered. While Jehovah was the God of the people of Israel, 99 5,3 | Canaanite was three, the chief god (a sky god), his wife (an 100 5,3 | three, the chief god (a sky god), his wife (an earth goddess) 101 5,3 | the worshipping of a false god, and so no distinction is 102 5,4 | Hosea’s call came through God’s command about his marriage ( 103 5,4 | whoredom” should do so too.~ God will have commanded Hosea 104 5,4 | Hosea will have realized God’s purpose in His command 105 5,4 | prophetic interpretation of God’s command won through experience. 106 5,4 | Either in sheer love or at God’s command he did not divorce 107 5,4 | the prophet’s message is God’s word and he speaks for 108 5,4 | s word and he speaks for God, yet in ways we cannot grasp 109 5,4 | Testament is the love of God more dearly and tenderly 110 5,4 | Hosea did. Hosea, like all God’s messengers, had to experience 111 5,5 | While it is true that God chose Jeroboam as a punishment 112 5,5 | relationship. Applied to God it means mercy and love, 113 5,5 | sacrifice:~And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.~ ~ 114 5,5 | meaning is clear; the love of God to man will only be satisfied 115 5,5 | not merely use chesed of God’s love to man (2:19) and 116 5,5 | 19) and of the love that God asks of man, he also uses 117 5,5 | Israelites were linked to God in the one covenant, they 118 5,6 | from Hosea’s own action how God will carry out His promise.~ 119 5,7 | triumph of the grace of God (Rom. 9:25f) and goes on 120 6,1 | Hezekiah.).~6 — Chs. 34-35. God’s avenging and redeeming.~ 121 6,3 | future.~ We do not doubt that God could do this, but we may 122 6,3 | message is a revelation of God that comes from God, it 123 6,3 | revelation of God that comes from God, it has to come through 124 6,3 | through the prophet, and God limits Himself by the prophet’ 125 6,6 | so arranged as to present God’s “Great Arraignment” of 126 6,6 | earth, in ver. 2a — for God Himself is the judge; the 127 6,6 | unchangeable character of God is assured, the blame for 128 6,6 | morality of life only angers God, and is a sin. Indeed, 129 6,7 | start with a picture of God’s ideal (2:2-5), possibly 130 6,7 | ushering in of the kingdom of God. The purification and final 131 6,7 | Assyrians, the instruments of God’s wrath (5:25-30); when 132 6,7 | on Assyria, threatening God’s judgment when her work 133 6,8 | autumn feast celebrating God’s sovereignty. The dying 134 6,8 | Israelite recognized that God was holy (qadosh), i.e. 135 6,8 | had to learn respect for God first). Now Isaiah realized 136 6,8 | barrier between man and God, though it did not exist 137 6,8 | his feet” as referring to God. In any case, it was the 138 6,8 | stress on the holiness of God runs right through Isaiah, 139 6,8 | side Isaiah). Not only is God holy, but Israel should 140 6,8 | function as a nation in God’s purposes, though her national 141 6,8 | and a half. From now on, God is working out His purpose 142 6,8 | can more easily understand God’s action in the light of 143 6,8 | light of chs. 2-5. Though God hardens, there is an antecedent 144 6,9 | likes that he may trust God, but Ahaz in mock piety 145 6,2 | raise the question whether God confines His judicial activities 146 6,2 | answer, for in them we see God’s judgments on most of the 147 6,2 | another question, viz., was God’s activity among the nations 148 6,2 | eschatological chs. 24-27. Here God’s final judgment is seen 149 6,2 | moving dimly until the sun of God arises in all its glory.~ 150 6,7 | setting up of the kingdom of God. In 26:13f there is the 151 6,8 | The second woe deals with God’s wonderful purpose for 152 6,8 | altar-hearth, or hearth of God.~ The third woe is uttered 153 6,0 | rather the recognition of God’s mercy by one who knew 154 6,3 | the Near East was that a god and his people were inextricably 155 6,3 | inextricably bound together. The god (or gods) needed his people 156 6,3 | meant the conquest of their god by the god of the conqueror, 157 6,3 | conquest of their god by the god of the conqueror, and he 158 6,3 | tremendous revelations of God, 40:1-11 and 40:12-31. The 159 6,3 | ance is to be the work of God alone, and the assurance 160 6,3 | assurance of it is based on God’s Word.~ Fancy interpretations 161 6,3 | Quite so,” says the prophet. God’s “firstborn” may expect 162 6,3 | been cast off, but is still God’s firstborn!~ The second 163 6,3 | wonderful descriptions of God’s power ever penned. The 164 6,3 | sider man’s best concepts of God (ver. 18ff). A similar gulf 165 6,3 | has been revealed as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 166 6,3 | Christ. In the light of God’s greatness, the despondency 167 6,4 | doing (42:24; 43:28). And as God’s agent he is given a remarkable 168 6,4 | unknowingly he carries out God’s will.~ Jehovah’s vindication 169 6,5 | Israel will fail to carry out God’s Purpose (48:22).~ The 170 6,5 | introduced to the Servant in God’s school, a hard school 171 6,6 | stood for in the purposes of God. Isaiah had experienced 172 6,6 | its stupendous wonder as God and man met in Christ Jesus?~ ~ 173 6,7 | to take 45:7 literally as God’s claim to be behind all 174 6,7 | behind all that is. We do God no honour by putting the 175 6,7 | sin and evil on Satan, for God is the creator and preserver 176 6,7 | statement on the sovereignty of God.~ ~ 177 6,8 | Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was 178 6,8 | Matthew 27:43.~1st verse: “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken 179 6,8 | 1st verse: “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken 180 6,8 | first person: “The Lord God hath given me the tongue 181 6,8 | and spitting. For the Lord God will help me; therefore 182 6,8 | the concluding words of God the Father: “For, behold, 183 6,8 | The Holy and Blessed God made the following agreement 184 6,8 | that the Holy and Blessed God answered: yes, I agree. 185 6,9 | which the Messiah is called God, attest to this (for example 186 6,9 | 5, Mic. 5:2, Mal. 3:1). God by His very essence is immortal. 187 6,6 | precedes it, it here stands as God’s answer. The idolaters 188 7,1 | Jerusalem — Chs. 1-3.~1 — Ch. 1. God’s Anger against Samaria 189 7,1 | 4. The Establishment of God’s Kingdom.~2 — Ch. 5. The 190 7,3 | God’s Anger against Samaria 191 7,5 | The Establishment of God’s Kingdom (Ch. 4). ~ There 192 7,7 | 4f), when the grace of God was supremely realized by 193 7,7 | misunderstanding people then ask how God is to be propitiated, suggesting 194 7,7 | to walk humbly with thy God, i.e. as befits His holiness — 195 7,7 | religion. Israel answers God (7:1-6, though this need 196 7,7 | long reign of Manasseh. God had spoken to Judah, but 197 8,1 | Nations.~3 — Ch. 3:1-8. God’s Judgment on Jerusalem. ~ 198 8,3 | always, the long-suffering of God produced the belief in some 199 8,3 | the belief in some that God was indifferent as to how 200 8,5 | God’s Judgment on Jerusalem ( 201 8,5 | teaching that Jehovah is the God of all the earth; national 202 9,1 | the deep satisfaction that God’s justice has been finally 203 10,1 | s Complaint.~2 — 1:5-11. God’s Answer.~3 — 1:12-17. The 204 10,1 | Prophet’s Protest.~4 — 2:1-5. God’s Answer.~5 — 2:6-20. Five 205 10,1 | idolatry.~ ~ B. A Psalm of God’s Intervention—Ch. 3.~ ~ 206 10,2 | condemned by the prophets. God answers (1:5-11) by saying 207 10,2 | the Hebrew), who will be God’s instruments of punishment.~ 208 10,2 | prophet then remonstrates with God (1:12-17), asking how He 209 10,2 | After some delay (2:1) God answers him, that in due 210 10,2 | but of his problems and God’s answers. We are not suggesting 211 10,3 | contribution to our knowledge of God is found mainly in two passages.~ 212 10,3 | being the instrument of God’s punishing (Isa. 10:5f) 213 10,3 | cannot understand how a pure God can use impure instruments. 214 10,3 | but of faithfulness toward God, and this in turn implied 215 10,3 | i.e. trust — where faith in God does not lead to faithfulness, 216 10,3 | man who shows his trust in God by his faithfulness to God 217 10,3 | God by his faithfulness to God will find God faithful in 218 10,3 | faithfulness to God will find God faithful in keeping him.~ ~ 219 10,4 | devout man. It is part of God’s irony that Babylon fell 220 10,5 | God Comes to Deliver (Ch. 3). ~ 221 10,5 | As Habakkuk prays for God’s intervention in the turmoil 222 11,2 | in itself a revelation of God, both his life and his spoken 223 11,5 | is virtually certain that God spoke to him through two 224 11,5 | sleep. Then the voice of God told him that even so the 225 11,5 | even so the purposes of God were on the verge of waking 226 11,5 | ledge that the judgment of God would break forth in his 227 11,5 | that the instruments of God’s doom were even then being 228 11,5 | out as the hot anger of God over the land.~ ~ 229 11,6 | pour out of the cauldron of God’s wrath, so here, when Jeremiah 230 11,6 | terror of the doom that God reveals to His servant, 231 11,7 | is that unless we worship God as He wishes to be worshipped, 232 11,8 | will accept the will of God.~ Vers. 10-1 la is Jeremiah’ 233 11,8 | identifies himself with God, so that the message of 234 11,8 | so that the message of God’s fury has become a burden 235 11,8 | poured out. Ver. lib berins God’s answer — not “I will pour 236 11,2 | earlier in 2:1-4:4, for God made it clear to Jeremiah 237 11,3 | turned people away from God rather than to Him. And 238 11,4 | for the date see p. 142). God told Jeremiah to make one 239 11,5 | critical time of waiting what God’s word would finally be.~ 240 11,5 | thing was clear to all: God would not speak with two 241 11,5 | knowledge that he had stood in God’s council chamber (vers. 242 11,6 | those to whom he brought God’s message of doom (8:18- 243 11,6 | The only consolation that God had for him was that much 244 11,6 | Jeremiah down, and he turned to God in his fierce agony (15: 245 11,6 | no sympathy apparent in God’s answer; He shocked him 246 11,6 | see above). He turned to God in even greater but fluctuating 247 11,6 | agony (20:7-18). He accused God of deceiving or, better, 248 11,6 | could have used. He accused God of having enticed him under 249 11,6 | to remain one. His cry to God ends with the wish that 250 11,6 | apparently cut off from his God. We do not know how God 251 11,6 | God. We do not know how God dealt with him in the years 252 11,6 | that one had to come to God, and as an individual one 253 11,7 | until the fixed time of God’s judgment had run its course ( 254 11,7 | proclaimed him as the man of God’s appointing against whom 255 11,7 | opposition to the ruler of God’s choice. Submission was 256 11,8 | proved right. In his heart God had written His will.~ All 257 11,8 | rise to the whole truth. God revealed to him that true 258 11,8 | means in itself nothing to God (Matt. 3:9). But the fact 259 11,8 | the blood of the Lamb of God it was freed from every 260 11,8 | way than is the Church. God does not abolish physical 261 11,9 | the people the king was God’s anointed, and therefore 262 11,0 | his supreme vindication by God. He was the one man from 263 11,0 | mind was also the voice of God (42:7-18) — no other answer 264 11,0 | the obligation of seeking God’s face. Note that in accordance 265 11,0 | He could not do without God, but he would not obey Him; 266 11,0 | contact with the living God unbound by the ties of family, 267 11,1 | wants to teach Judah that God has given Judah to the Babylonian 268 12,4 | the drinking of the cup of God’s wrath, of which Judah 269 12,4 | merely that the kingdom of God should be established.~ ~ ~ ~ 270 13,2 | such circumstances that God revealed Himself to Ezekiel ( 271 13,3 | was the chariot-throne of God (1:5-28). We shall make 272 13,4 | much in the confidence of God to have used such a picture, 273 13,4 | is clearly divine, from God — this is symbolized by 274 13,4 | task is the building up of God’s new community. Jer. 24 275 13,4 | community. Jer. 24 gives both God’s purpose for those taken 276 13,4 | principles that were leading God to hand over Jerusalem to 277 13,5 | serious opposition. Now God commands him to abstain 278 13,5 | of physical restraint — God would match restraint with 279 13,7 | countries. Here he is the god of vegetation, killed off 280 13,7 | alteration out of respect to God.~ ~ 281 13,8 | prophet is powerless to avert. God makes it clear that it is 282 13,8 | on the chariot-throne of God are scattered on the doomed 283 13,8 | the flames of destruction. God tells them that the only 284 13,9 | God’s Grace to the Exiles (11: 285 13,9 | is small.~ The glory of God had been gradually leaving 286 13,2 | prophetic guidance (14:Iff). God refuses them an answer, 287 13,3 | of Zedekiah (Ch. 17). ~ God evidently revealed to Ezekiel 288 13,4 | a man’s relationship to God will be essentially an individual 289 13,4 | individual’s standing with God; Ezekiel, more of the reward 290 13,5 | attribute such sacrifices to God. So the most reasonable 291 13,5 | reasonable interpretation is that God deliberately worded His 292 13,6 | day when Jerusalem fell, God tells Ezekiel that his wife 293 13,7 | Jeremiah, the setting of God’s judgments on Israel against 294 13,7 | the general background of God’s judgments on the world. 295 13,8 | prophecy of doom on Jerusalem, God recommissioned him as watchman 296 13,8 | of the chariot-throne of God. God’s charge is accompanied 297 13,8 | the chariot-throne of God. God’s charge is accompanied 298 13,8 | he would do the will of God or not.~ Jerusalem fell 299 13,8 | and explain the will of God. With his changed task came 300 13,9 | king, whether it is used of God or man. Our understanding 301 13,0 | peculiarly His.~ First, God’s punishment on Edom is 302 13,0 | Ps. 137:7) that which is God’s. Edom’s sin was the worse 303 13,0 | fruitfulness which had been God’s original purpose for it ( 304 13,0 | implications of Jer. 31:31-34). God’s new people must be one 305 13,0 | stress is laid on its being God’s action done purely in 306 13,0 | exile make the response God demanded, while the older 307 13,1 | final rebellion against God foretold in Rev. 20:7ff. 308 13,1 | ends with the Spirit of God on the House of Israel ( 309 13,2 | setting up of the kingdom of God.). But the whole concept 310 13,2 | organization the will of God must be done; this is the 311 13,2 | Millennium, the Israel of God and the Church of God, the 312 13,2 | of God and the Church of God, the earthly and the heavenly 313 13,3 | being, and not directly God. When we add to this the 314 13,3 | principles of the unchanging God to the mysterious foretelling 315 14,1 | means for the discovery of God’s will, whether through 316 14,1 | learnt that we can know God’s will npw through His self-revelation 317 14,1 | that man needed to know of God had been given. All that 318 14,1 | their main work was done. God had said all through them 319 14,3 | made great sacrifices for God, whose chief purpose was 320 14,3 | chief purpose was to serve God more perfectly. When God 321 14,3 | God more perfectly. When God did not respond to the sanguine 322 14,3 | if they had been doing God’s will. There could be only 323 14,3 | God-fearing people was doing God’s will there could be only 324 14,5 | of the Temple could await God’s giving (ver. 8). From 325 14,5 | to see the fulfilment of God’s purposes (ver. 9). Here 326 14,6 | but also inward turning to God was necessary (Zech. 1: 327 15,3 | Just as in Ezek. 40-48 God does not appear, and in 328 15,3 | Zechariah stresses that though God is transcendent, far above 329 15,3 | the transcendent power of God is particularly stressed 330 15,3 | affirms that Jehovah is the God of whatever powers and hosts 331 15,3 | the future encouragement. God mil bless, but only a people 332 15,4 | would not have awakened God’s displeasure.~ The Angel 333 15,4 | Craftsmen (1:18-21). ~ How God is to carry out His purposes 334 15,4 | fray (ver. 21) is too weak. God has His remedy for every 335 15,4 | looks to a yet future act of God (ver. 9). That God is willing 336 15,4 | act of God (ver. 9). That God is willing to acknowledge 337 15,4 | light are maintained by God. It would seem that ver. 338 15,4 | with the sovereignty of God over the earth. The four 339 15,4 | the general certainty of God’s rule is the fundamental 340 15,7 | raising up of rulers by God who shall lead Judah and 341 15,7 | is the prophet, sometimes God, who speaks in the first 342 16,1 | You.”~ ~ A. The Proof of God’s Love — Ch. 1:1-5.~ B. 343 16,1 | Obstacles to the Enjoyment of God’s Love — Ch. 1:6-3:12.~1 — 344 16,1 | Respect and Reverence towards God.~a) Ch. 1:6-14. By the 345 16,1 | 2:17-3:6. Despising of God’s Promises and Commandments.~ 346 16,1 | Withholding of Tithes.~ C. God’s Loving Protection of the 347 16,2 | together.~ His message concerns God’s love. In the difficulties 348 16,2 | easy to doubt the love of God. “Malachi” is concerned 349 16,2 | show that there is proof of God’s love, that the enjoyment 350 16,3 | The Proof of God’s Love (1:2-5). ~ The supreme 351 16,3 | The supreme proof of God’s love to the Jew was His 352 16,3 | Testament, ch. VI.) the love of God in the Old Testament is, 353 16,4 | Obstacles to the Enjoyment of God’s Love (1:6-3:12). ~ The 354 16,4 | 1:6-3:12). ~ The love of God, which made Israel His firstborn ( 355 16,4 | did not exist, the love of God could not be experienced. 356 16,4 | applied to all gifts to God, no actual Temple sacrifices 357 16,4 | So high do they stand in God’s economy that the priest 358 16,4 | already revealed will of God. It should be noticed that 359 16,4 | which was a contradiction of God’s love, was specially shown 360 16,4 | that even the judgment of God is a sign of His love and 361 16,4 | withholding His dues from God (3:7-12). There can be no 362 16,4 | barrier to the enjoyment of God’s love is removed, the gifts 363 16,5 | God’s Loving Protection of the 364 16,6 | back to the revelation of God on which the whole prophetic 365 17,1 | Present — Ghs. 1-6.~1 — Gh. 1. God the Protector of the captives.~ 366 17,1 | the captives.~2 — Gh. 2. God the Revealer of the future.~ 367 17,1 | of the future.~3 — Gh. 3. God the Lord of fire.~4 — Gh. 368 17,1 | Lord of fire.~4 — Gh. 4. God the Humbler of the proud.~ 369 17,1 | of the proud.~5 — Gh. 5. God the Avenger of His honour.~ 370 17,1 | of His honour.~6 — Ch. 6. God the Tamer of beasts. ~ B. 371 17,1 | stress on the sovereignty of God, which not only compels 372 17,2 | charged with a real message of God to his day and generation? 373 17,7 | reveal the sovereign power of God in action, so that we may 374 17,7 | believe the all-sovereignty of God over the future. Not Daniel 375 17,7 | but the sovereign power of God is the topic of each story ( 376 17,8 | quite usual to honour one’s god by giving him part of one’ 377 17,8 | or Marduk, his favourite god. The absence of Daniel need 378 17,9 | completely the past has been in God’s hand, we may be sure that 379 17,9 | opposition. Its picture of God’s absolute sovereignty in 380 17,9 | future is a guarantee of God’s succour for all who trust 381 17,0 | human history — why should God give this to a heathen king ? — 382 17,0 | but to teach him that God is sovereign in the affairs 383 17,0 | of an unspecified time of God’s own choosing, He would 384 17,1 | fourth has been destroyed by God’s action (ver. 11). Everything 385 17,1 | should be noted. Daniel sees God as an old man, because the 386 17,1 | man, because the form of God in this vision is as symbolic 387 17,1 | the Ancient of Days, i.e. God the Father. and of the beginning 388 17,3 | Daniel often began to ask God for this in fervent prayer. 389 17,3 | the prophet and said, that God had heard his prayer and 390 17,4 | reverent reader is not whether God could have so foretold the 391 17,4 | doctrine of the sovereignty of God is Daniel’s chief theological 392 17,4 | stress the gulf between God and man.~ ~ 393 18,4 | closes with a prayer to God (vers. 18-22). As mostly 394 18,5 | have the casting off by God of people, land and sanctuary. 395 18,6 | there had been the grace of God; otherwise he would have 396 18,6 | ver. 55ff) and a call to God for vengeance on his enemies ( 397 18,6 | of being separated from God by a sense of guilt and 398 18,9 | every facet of the impact of God’s revelation on man. There 399 18,9 | sphere of the operation of God’s Spirit, that is not illumined 400 18,0 | the Old Testament law — God's Ten commandments, which 401 18,0 | that concerning loving God with all one's heart, all 402 18,0 | edification. Eternal truths about God, the world, man, sin, about