In this strategic story we all learn that nationalism born of theocracy in the Mosaic covenant is not all there is to God’s larger plan.
Just as Yahweh can command the sea to be quiet, he can whistle for Leviathan and Leviathan comes.
Divine intermediaries, or mediators between the gods and humans, were well-known throughout the ancient Near East.
The book of Jonah was not simply preserved for the sake of recording history—it was preserved to teach future generations about the mighty acts of God and his ambitions for his people.
What is the call of the biblical prophet? In today’s post, Brian Russell shares the two primary threats to the people of God, and how idolatry and injustice stand in the way of the future kingdom that God envisions for our world.
