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Knowing the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

We tend to think of the Holy Spirit as the straggler of the Trinity, a latecomer in God’s interaction with the world. But we first meet the Holy Spirit in the second verse of the Bible, hovering there, speaking the world into existence. Christopher J. H. Wright begins here and traces the Holy Spirit through the pages of the Old Testament. We see the third person of the Trinity in the decrees of...

• The sea (Ps 33:7). In Canaanite mythology the sea was also a powerful god (called Yamm). The sea was associated with chaotic power and evil. As we saw above, this myth is reflected in Job and elsewhere with the concept of Yahweh’s victory over the great deep. But in Genesis the great deep is itself the creation of the Lord God. And here in this psalm, far from something to be afraid of, the sea is put in a very diminutive perspective. The oceans? God’s got them in a jam jar. They are just another
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