Isaiah Berlin

Week #13 Reading Response Question 1: What did I learn about the nature and activity of God? In Isaiah 1:18-20 God sees the sins of the people of Israel and they are scarlet colour, but He promises to make them white as snow I 'd the will only obey Him. He will even feed them. However God tells Israel if they don 't listen to Him, they will be devoured by their enemies. God was revealing the need for Israel to rely upon Him. He was demonstrating that they need to depend on Him or be vanquished…

Section 2: Short Answer (5 pts. ea.) Please answer the questions below in 1 or 2 sentences. 1. What is the typological significance of the supper of the lamb in Exodus 12:8-11? The typological significance of the supper of the lamb is that of Christian sanctification. The character of the believer is to align with the character of God, and to “eat” of the lamb in its entirety means to establish a “complete” relationship with Christ, the Lamb of God. 2. How would you answer the apparent…

human can predict the future with complete accuracy but the Bible did do so time and time again. Even, one case with King Sennacherib's death but let us review some other prophecies that were spot on. Around the year 732 B.C., the prophet Isaiah foretold at Isaiah 44 and 45 that a man named Cyrus would conquer the mighty city of Babylon. Now this was a "fairy-tale" idea of itself. Babylon was a dynasty for a time, this would be a hard defeat. The prophecy goes on to say that Cyrus would dry up a…

The paper examines the story of Jeremiah’s calling as recorded in the first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, using the particular passage Jeremiah 1:4-10. The goal of examining this passage is to explore the historical, sociological and cultural obstacles involved in receiving one’s call and living it out. The selected text touches on the prophet's concerns regarding his age and ability while speaking God’s truth to the nations. The issues involved in receiving one’s calling and its relevance…

Anna Funder’s literary journalist text Stasiland explores the lingering impact that the former German Democratic Republic had upon its citizens. Through investigating the struggles faced by individuals in rebuilding their lives within unified Germany, Funder acknowledges that the horrors of the GDR are still controlling those who once lived under its communist regime. Through the victims Funder interviews, she identifies that as East Germany is rebuilt, so too are its people, as they attempt to…

The history of the Berlin Wall was ignited by World War II. Germany plotted an attack on Poland, yet was intimidated by the fact that the Soviet Union might interfere. So, before raiding Poland, Hitler made sure to sign a non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. This pact secretly stated that Poland should be divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, with Germany receiving the western third, while the Soviets gained control of the remaining two-thirds. Germany began their attacks on Poland on…

known to many as The Berlin Wall. It became a significant symbol that represented all of those things depending on which side of the wall you were on. The events leading up to the building and destruction of the wall were very important to not only the Germans, but also to the whole world. The wall itself was a very complex security system and claimed many lives of those who tried to flee from East Berlin to West Berlin. When World War II was winding down, Russia claimed Berlin as a spoil of…

transported 1.5 million tons of supplies and a plane landed every three minutes at Berlin 's Templehof airport (BBC). The Russians saw that their allies were not going to give up. Russia called off the blockade. At this point is where East and West Germany became the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). They each then gained rights of their own portions of the city of Berlin. The Soviets were not happy about having to give up a portion of what they thought…

A symbol of oppression for the German people, the Berlin Wall was a barrier that separated the city of Berlin in both the physical and metaphorical form of the word. Officially designated the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart” by the government of the German Democratic Republic, the wall split the city of Berlin into two segments. One half was controlled by the Soviet Union and the other half of Berlin was administered by an alliance of the three Western allied powers, comprised of the United…

The Berlin Wall On August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall had been placed; Berlins demise was now imminent. The Berlin Wall was a major result of Cold War tensions. “From the 1940s on Germany itself had become a monster of the communist-capitalist conflict. It divided West Germany into the ‘Federal Republic of Germany’ and the smaller East Germany the ‘German Democratic Republic’.”(Taylor,1) It divided a city from the outer world and completely separated family and friends. At the end of World…