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Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic is unavailable, but you can change that!

What are we to make of Isaiah's image of Mount Zion as the highest of the mountains, or Zechariah's picture of the Mount of Olives split in two, or Daniel's "beast rising out of the sea" or Revelation's "great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns"? How can Peter claim that on the day of Pentecost the prophecy of Joel was being fulfilled, with signs in heaven and wonders on earth, the sun...

removal of the kingdom from Solomon’s hands as part of God’s judgment. On one occasion Saul tore Samuel’s robe, and Samuel responded with a prophecy that the Lord had already tom the kingdom away from Saul (1 Sam 15:27–28). Later the Lord told Solomon that he would punish him by tearing the kingdom away from him; he then qualified that to say that he would tear it away from his son (1 Kings 11:9–13). Ahijah’s prophetic symbolism of tearing his own robe and then saying to Jeroboam that the kingdom
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