Given the size of the Old Testament over the New Testament, and that my preaching comes almost exclusively from the New Testament, how do we understand the Hebrew Bible as Christian Scripture? A point lifted up from the OT is the human response to God’s grace (Kindle Locations, 2922-2926). Although God initiated a covenant, was that covenant irrevocable? According to the OT, some in ancient Israel thought so, and the Davidic dynasty thought so, but the destruction of the Temple certainly altered this view. On the one hand, God acts on His own initiative, calling people with a call that is irrevocable, precisely, because it depends on God and not on the one called. On the other hand, the relationship thus initiated is a real one in which
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7: 14; 9: 1– 7 [8: 23– 9: 6 MT]; 11: 1– 9) is straightforward: If Jesus is the redeemer, why is the world so unredeemed? Christian reading of these passages in relation to Jesus is inseparable from the fundamental re-construal of messiahship and salvation that runs through the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament (3754-3756). We (Christians) have re-construed the ultimate Messiahship as something that has yet to be revealed; thus, in that regard we do have something in common with Jews who await a Messiah to return and establish justice and peace (in this regard, some ultra-Orthodox Jews). Our caveat is that this Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, has come to us and revealed God’s character before the final revelation as …show more content…
His own qualities are those of patient endurance (53: 7), refusal to misuse other people (no “violence”), and honesty (v. 9b): in other words, he is surely “humble in spirit [shĕphal-rūaḥ]” (57: 15), and his death is brought about by “a perversion of justice” (53: 8). So, third, it is because of the servant’s astonishing faithfulness amid suffering and humiliation that he is seen to be raised to that (4134-4137). He is raised up to reveal the truth that he was, indeed, the Messiah. This did make sense as to how early Jewish Christians made sense of the death of the
7: 14; 9: 1– 7 [8: 23– 9: 6 MT]; 11: 1– 9) is straightforward: If Jesus is the redeemer, why is the world so unredeemed? Christian reading of these passages in relation to Jesus is inseparable from the fundamental re-construal of messiahship and salvation that runs through the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament (3754-3756). We (Christians) have re-construed the ultimate Messiahship as something that has yet to be revealed; thus, in that regard we do have something in common with Jews who await a Messiah to return and establish justice and peace (in this regard, some ultra-Orthodox Jews). Our caveat is that this Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, has come to us and revealed God’s character before the final revelation as …show more content…
His own qualities are those of patient endurance (53: 7), refusal to misuse other people (no “violence”), and honesty (v. 9b): in other words, he is surely “humble in spirit [shĕphal-rūaḥ]” (57: 15), and his death is brought about by “a perversion of justice” (53: 8). So, third, it is because of the servant’s astonishing faithfulness amid suffering and humiliation that he is seen to be raised to that (4134-4137). He is raised up to reveal the truth that he was, indeed, the Messiah. This did make sense as to how early Jewish Christians made sense of the death of the