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  • Bennymkje - 1 year ago
    Ez.6:1-7 "Rock of offense" (2 of 2)

    God has thrown His protective ring about His people. In the context of everlasting covenant we know is 'from henceforth even for ever. Christ as the Rock of Ages for His people is for eternity. "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King(Ps.48:2)" Similar to other instances we have the Spirit using the place name associated with Israel in the context of eternity.

    We have everlasting covenant and also eternal word. The Holy Spirit in organizing the narrative of Core Will must choose literary means to make it meaningful for man. Thus his Salvation covers all creation. When man is viewed in the image of God his glory covers not only man but also his world. Similarly judgment for the disobedient is not only on man but also his world.

    When the Spirit sets these into a narrative mode God sends Man having both deity as well as humanity. So the begotten Son is in relation to God the Father. The Spirit makes him bread from heaven and it has its match in Bethlehem or House of Bread. St Paul qualifies Christ as the spiritual Rock. "for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ(1 Co.10:4)". Christ as the Rock we shall come across many other places, St Paul speaks of the children of Israel slaking their thirst from the Rock that followed them Here in this verse from St Peter we read,"And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence,even to themwhich stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed(1 Pe.2:8)".



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