SS Pentecost 13a (2)

Quick Context: Same as the last couple weeks.

Text

Verse 1: The chapter begins with a command, to look. Observation of what God is doing will be a major theme of this text.

The person looking is a person who pursues righteousness (sedeq). What is righteousness. How is the righteousness of the OT seen in the NT.

Why a metaphor of rock carving, (no easy task)

Verse 2: Again the command to look, now we are told what to look at. Abraham and Sarah. God give the reason to look to them…what is that reason.

What is the promise to Abraham and why is the fulfillment supernatural?

Bless: bârak, baw-rak'; a primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason):

Multiply: râbâh, raw-baw'; a primitive root; to increase (in whatever respect):—(bring in) abundance

Verse 3: God is now the actor he will comfort Zion, by comforting wasted places.

Wilderness to Eden

Desert to Garden

Outcome of God acting will be joy, gladness, thanksgiving and song

Verse 4: Continued command to be observant of God acting. Emphatic command in that there is poetic repetition.

Law: Torah

Justice: Mispat

Light: Or

Christological Fulfillment: Where in the NT do we see this in Jesus?

Verse 5: Noun and verb:

Righteousness/draws near

Salvation/goes out

Coastlands/hope

Arms/judge

Verse 6: Once again the command to observe

What is observed and why?

The temporal

The Eternal