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There is no shortage of books on eschatology—the study of the last things and the end-times. Many arise out of incoherent or superficial readings of the Bible that detract from the “once and for all” achievements of God through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Others fail to consider the manner in which God reveals himself through the Lord Jesus and by the power of his Spirit. Too...

a slave’s death on a cross (Phil. 2:6–8). In response God the Father raised the Messiah to his right hand and bestowed his own name, Lord, on the royal and eternal Son. In effect Paul’s words act as an exposition of Peter’s Pentecost proclamation ‘that man Jesus whom you crucified, God has made Lord and Messiah’ (Acts 2:36). In Philippians 2 Paul is associating the exaltation of the risen Jesus with Isaiah’s promise that everyone will bow before YHWH the saviour (Isa. 45:23). The name YHWH is the
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