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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...

That all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away. The words “One like a Son of Man was coming, and He came up to the Ancient of Days and was presented before Him” refer to the enthronement procession of the Son of Man. We have seen that while Daniel’s prophecy appears to describe the Messiah’s entrance up to the divine throne as occurring very briefly and majestically, the Gospels show in detail exactly how this
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