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Redemptive Reversals and the Ironic Overturning of Human Wisdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is full of ironic situations in which God overturns the world’s wisdom by doing the opposite of what is expected. In this new volume from respected New Testament scholar G. K. Beale, readers will see how God’s pattern of divine irony is exhibited in both judgment and salvation, finding its greatest expression in Jesus’s triumph over death through death on a cross. God has designed...

The principle is this: if you worship idols, you will become like the idols, and that likeness will ruin you. If you read Isaiah 1–5, you’ll see that one of Israel’s main sins, not coincidentally, was idol worship: Their land has also been filled with idols, They worship the work of their hands That which their fingers made. (Isa. 2:8) But the idols will completely vanish. Men will go into caves of the rocks And into holes of the ground Before the terror of the LORD.… In that day men will cast away
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