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Theophany: A Biblical Theology of God’s Appearing is unavailable, but you can change that!

Each time God appears to his people throughout the Bible—in the form of a thunderstorm, a man, a warrior, a chariot, etc.—he comes to a specific person for a specific purpose. And each of these temporary appearances—called theophanies—helps us to better understand who he is, anticipating his climactic, permanent self-revelation in the incarnation of Christ. Describing the various accounts of...

The appearing of God in a theophany takes a variety of forms. We will devote a chapter to each of the main kinds of theophanies found in the Old Testament. (The New Testament also contains some theophanies, but the situation is different at that point, because Christ has come into the world!) In each chapter, we consider some representative examples of theophany, but we will not try to list them all. Once we understand a pattern in theophanies, we can see how still
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