Job presents an anticipation of the New Heavens and New Earth contrary to many exegetical proposals.

Hosea makes an indictment against the visible people of God of covenant breaking, disloyalty, and infidelity of an ungrateful kind which Christians can be found guilty of as well.

Idolatry for the Apostle John is any idea of the true God that is not in keeping with his self revelation in Jesus Christ.

The acts of God in clothing Adam and Eve and their subsequent extirpation from the garden are chiefly merciful acts.

The act of Adam renaming his wife Eve is significant because it refers to something new in the redemptive purpose of God.

The Lord responds to Adam and Eve's sin in justice and mercy, anticipating the cosmic battle between Messiah and Satan.

Restoration and recovery can be attributed only to the intervention of God and only because he is the Lord God.

When Adam and Eve demoted God they demeaned themselves.

The preached Word was central to the spiritual flourishing of the church of the reformation as well as the church as it exists today.

We need a fresh conviction about the truth of the gospel and an understanding of the times.

Evil cannot be addressed unless sin is delt with.

Though our first parents embraced the distorted words of the serpent, God's Word comes with promises and freedom for his creatures.

We must focus our attention on the church's local and visible manifestations in the light of its catholic and invisible reality.

In the conversation about God's Word, Satan enlarged the prohibition, reduced the penalty, and distorted the divine intention.

The knowledge of good and evil with its positive and negative consequences is at the heart of human history.

Though he knew it would be ruined and marred, God brought everything into being to display His grace and mercy.

Genesis 3 is of the utmost importance because it is foundational to the Bible and foundational to life.

The relationship of the Word of God and the way of the godly is explored.

The burial of Jesus has significance in and of itself as it displays the Father's approval of Jesus Christ and his work.

The flow of blood and water from Jesus' side further reveals our Lord's humanity, death, and efficacy of his propitiatory offering.