This week is another two-fer, Son of God and Son of Man. Why do these two go together? Together the titles of Son of Man and Son of God express the incredible mystery of the incarnation–that the second person of the Trinity came down from heaven to become one of us so that we could…
Jesus isn’t just our Priest and King, He’s a Prophet. Do you stumble over that notion like I do? When I think of prophets, I think of “Thus says the LORD,” and “The word of the LORD came to the prophet so-and-so.” In Jesus’s case, that translates to, “Thus says Me,” and, “I came to…
This week’s name is a two-fer: Priest and Prophet. We’ll look at priest today, and the next post will focus on prophet. Ann Spangler says: Prophet, priest, and king–these were the three major offices in Israel, titles also ascribed to Jesus. While the king governed as God’s representative on earth, the priest’s role was to…
But when he had thought this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. – Matthew 1:20 Today, we start with a different heir to David’s throne….
King David had a lot of sons. A LOT of sons if you consider that, in Hebrew, all his male descendants were simply his “sons.” But referring to someone as “son of David” had special significance. He was the heir to David’s throne. King David wanted to build a temple for Yahweh, but the prophet…