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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...

in the language of West Virginia Whitewater (see figure 1.1). The prophets bring four subjects into clearer focus Figure 1.1. The prophetic focus Deity. Prophecy beholds God in raw anger—punishing rapids … fire and brimstone. And in soft love—pools of water smooth as glass … grace and peace. It is God at the extreme limit of his attributes. As Isaiah knew well, to stand too close to the Almighty is to be shaken to the very core (Is 6:4–5). Heavens convulse, mountains crumble, hearts cringe. Isaiah
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