Part 7: Luke's list: secrets and lions
Aug 16, 2016 11:24:56 GMT
Post by Colossians on Aug 16, 2016 11:24:56 GMT
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LUKE’S LIST: SECRETS AND LIONS
[3] “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
[4] Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
[5] Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
[6] Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
[7] Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
[8] The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”
The (sequence of) rhetorical questions which begin these 6 verses from the prophet Amos, serve to produce the rhetorical question we had (further) expected at v7a in place of the declarative we actually find there:
“Shall the Lord God do anything if He hath already done everything?”.
That is, what is in (ultimate) focus here in this passage is our Lord’s work at Calvary, where all was done … all finished, and commensurately, this “secret” of v7 is in fact none other than that of Rom 16:25,26.
And so at v8 (which we here repeat) we are told:
“the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”
: the work of the Word (Calvary) and the (relative) work of the Holy Ghost, respectively.
Shall then this lion that we are (additionally) told about at v8 be any other than the Lion of Judah whom we worship? And are we not told at Luke 1:32 and Acts 2:30,31 that such Lion has been given the throne of his father David? If then God has done all in our King, shall He not prefigure this in him who was the consummate type of our King?
And so given that the primary work of man is procreation and that with regard to the (Godly) line that was Adam to Abraham to David such (procreation) was understood to be the blessing and (therefore) work of God1, then if God has (now) done all in Christ so that we understand that only the declaration [= activity = prophecy] of the Holy Ghost in us counts toward God’s kingdom, should we not expect to see as type [= prophetic foreshadow] for this the (progenerative) blessing of God up to David and from then on the replacement thereof by a succession of prophets?
1 The birth of Isaac being the most notable.
This then is our theological basis for declaring Luke’s list, in particular from David down, a succession of prophets.
In part 8, we shall begin our technical proof.
Amen.
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LUKE’S LIST: SECRETS AND LIONS
[3] “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
[4] Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
[5] Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
[6] Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
[7] Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
[8] The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”
The (sequence of) rhetorical questions which begin these 6 verses from the prophet Amos, serve to produce the rhetorical question we had (further) expected at v7a in place of the declarative we actually find there:
“Shall the Lord God do anything if He hath already done everything?”.
That is, what is in (ultimate) focus here in this passage is our Lord’s work at Calvary, where all was done … all finished, and commensurately, this “secret” of v7 is in fact none other than that of Rom 16:25,26.
And so at v8 (which we here repeat) we are told:
“the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”
: the work of the Word (Calvary) and the (relative) work of the Holy Ghost, respectively.
Shall then this lion that we are (additionally) told about at v8 be any other than the Lion of Judah whom we worship? And are we not told at Luke 1:32 and Acts 2:30,31 that such Lion has been given the throne of his father David? If then God has done all in our King, shall He not prefigure this in him who was the consummate type of our King?
And so given that the primary work of man is procreation and that with regard to the (Godly) line that was Adam to Abraham to David such (procreation) was understood to be the blessing and (therefore) work of God1, then if God has (now) done all in Christ so that we understand that only the declaration [= activity = prophecy] of the Holy Ghost in us counts toward God’s kingdom, should we not expect to see as type [= prophetic foreshadow] for this the (progenerative) blessing of God up to David and from then on the replacement thereof by a succession of prophets?
1 The birth of Isaac being the most notable.
This then is our theological basis for declaring Luke’s list, in particular from David down, a succession of prophets.
In part 8, we shall begin our technical proof.
Amen.