Israel as New Humanity
This is one meditation from the published book by John Mark Hicks, Around the Bible in 80 Days: The Story of God from Creation to New Creation (Abilene: Leafwood Press, 2022).
This is one meditation from the published book by John Mark Hicks, Around the Bible in 80 Days: The Story of God from Creation to New Creation (Abilene: Leafwood Press, 2022).
June 28th, 2019 at 12:54 pm
When God placed (“rested”) Israel in its own land after the exile, the Hebrew Bible uses the same word when God place (“rested”) Adam in Eden (Isaiah 14:1 and Genesis 2:15). The two events are thus tied together linguistically, confirming Hick’s representation here in his essay.