Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
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The Hope of a Child
About the Election
This is not a political blog, but Christians do vote, and we should consider Biblical truth when we vote. Here in Glenrothes, there are five candidates on the ballot.
Dear Mormon, Why Isn’t Jesus’ Baptism Good Enough?
This came up in our Bible study tonight. Mormons believe that baptism is required to enter the kingdom of God, and that you can be baptised for someone else by proxy. So it raises the question, why wasn’t the baptism of Jesus sufficient?
Isaiah’s Amazing Cyrus Prophecy — “Not for Price nor Reward”
I’ve saved this for the last in this series on the Cyrus prophecy because it has become my favourite part of the prophecy.
Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Tagged Christ, Cyrus, isaiah, prophecy, type
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Isaiah’s Amazing Cyrus Prophecy — The One True God Against “the gods”
Sometime around the year 700 BC, the prophet Isaiah gave an amazing prophecy, in which he stated that God would use someone named Cyrus to deliver His people from captivity. This was fulfilled in 536 BC, perhaps 150-160 years later, when Cyrus the Great of Persia invaded Babylon, took the city, and released the Jews who had been taken captive by the Babylonians, with instructions to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
I’ve been writing on this prophecy for a couple of weeks (and the series of articles is already longer than I’d planned), but I’d like to take time for two more articles. This one isn’t so much about the fulfillment but just to emphasise why this prophecy was given.
Genesis and the Seven-Day Week
The seven-day week is almost universal, across diverse cultures. It has no basis in astronomy (or anything else) that anyone can identify.
Different cultures vary on almost everything. What people eat (and how), standards of dress, etiquette, hospitality, all of these things can differ. But somehow, a week of seven days is found across the world, and has been for as long as anyone knows.
Isaiah’s Amazing Cyrus Prophecy — Not THOSE Gates!
The Bible in the British Museum
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Welcome to Room 6 of the British Museum! This picture appears to be taken at a time when the Museum was not open, with the Black Obelisk moved to where it could be in the picture in front of the Balawat Gate, with the winged lions of Ashurnasirpal II on each side. The gate is a reconstruction of gates on a palace in northern Iraq. Obviously, the original gates are decayed, but the brass bands, some 2800 years old, are still with us.
I’ve been writing about the famous Cyrus prophecy of Isaiah. The Balawat Gate actually has nothing to do with the Cyrus prophecy, but I’d like to write about the two of them in this article anyway. This article, then, is dual purpose — it’s part of the Bible in the British Museum series, and part of the Cyrus prophecy series. Two for the price of one!
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Tagged archaeology, Balawat, British Museum, Cyrus, isaiah, prophecy
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