Of course John makes it clear why Jesus waited.

God makes clear the obligation their freedom bound them to in v9-10: Keep silence and hear, O Israel:

Nebuchadnezzar only takes the best and brightest, and then he selects the cream of that crop to serve This opening chapter in Daniel is not making the point that one style of diet is better than another,

accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me— the very That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear,

Holy Spirit kindles in our hearts a true faith that embraces Jesus Christ, with all his merits, and makes

34  Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35  Now a slave has no The very people who had been saved from slavery in Egypt and now were under the thumb of Caesar ironically destructive to human personality … than the often crude, uncouth, and unchristian strategy of attempting to make This is why the ugly doctrine of total depravity is the very T in our TULIP, continually reminding us

the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male This battle seems to take place either right before or soon after the creation of the earth, since the That's what makes this passage so relevant to you. But the woman and her male child escape the serpent's reach, so the enraged dragon went off to wage

For the Father did not take on flesh, nor did the Spirit, but only the Son. Throughout the ages, many have tried to deny the divinity of both Christ and the Spirit, but John makes

the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  He was in the beginning with God. 3  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4  In him was life, and the life He is co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever; as the Canons put it: All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.   AAA Prayer (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, who made all things through the Word; A LIGN

The chapter has a very eschatological feel to it - this big word simply means it speaks of the future one) God in the opening words of the Bible as well, as the entire cosmos springs into being at the very Yet at the very end of that creative process, God stoops down to make something in a very different manner Since God is neither male nor female, why should we continually refer to Him in masculine, patriarchal