After explaining the final events of the world, the Apostle John arrives at the crowning jewel of the Bible’s storyline, the new heaven and the new earth: the eternal, glorious, sinless, anticipated home of every believer in the presence of the God.

After finishing an exhaustive defense of the sufficiency of Christ— both His person and work—Paul now addresses the direct threat of asceticism and works-based righteousness, reminding the believers of their completeness in Christ.

Throughout the history of redemption, God has called His people to look to Him for provision, protection, salvation, hope, joy, and peace, and has given them several reasons to trust in Him and to rejoice in His redeeming works.

Heavenly hosts of angels announce the incarnation of God, the birth of the Messiah, to lowly shepherds in Bethlehem, revealing the compassion of God in His condescension to men, and His exaltation in the worship of angels.

Yahweh speaks through Hosea to His people, delivering the charges He has sentenced each guilty party with, the reasons for the charges in their sinful behavior, the consequences of their behavior, and the judgements He will inflict.

The birth of Jesus Christ not only changed the measure of dating, and the course of history, but from a theological perspective, the incarnation of God demands not just our acknowledgment, but ever greater degrees of worship.

Yahweh speaks through Hosea to His people, delivering the charges He has sentenced each guilty party with, the reasons for the charges in their sinful behavior, the consequences of their behavior, and the judgements He will inflict.

The creation’s desperate need for redemption, is clearly manifested throughout redemptive history in Scripture, and the eager longing for a Redeemer expressed by individual believers, the people of God, and in the creation itself.

The Apostle Peter explains to his readers their only sure safeguard against unfaithfulness, temptations to sin, and the deceptions of false teaching, by knowing the inerrant, sufficient, authoritative, and indispensable Word of God.

Yahweh gives Hosea an even more difficult command, to illustrate the depth of Israel's spiritual adultery against Him, to reveal the height, width, breadth, and depth of God's steadfast love towards them, and His plans for them.