Paul Wasn’t There Either
Paul never saw the cross — he came in years late, on the wrong side of it — yet no one in the New Testament staked more on it than he did. Why would a man build everything on an afternoon he wasn’t there for?
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Not the Destination
The food laws plainly changed — plants in Eden, every creature after the flood, clean and unclean at Sinai. If God never changes, what do we make of that? It turns out none of the stages was the destination.
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He Kept Reaching
The leper wasn’t the only one. Again and again Jesus crossed the line the law drew around the unclean — the leper, the bleeding woman, the dead — and every time, it was the uncleanness that gave way, not him.
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An Entire Message
A wedding runs out of wine. Jesus says “not yet” — then does it anyway. Two odd snags in one short story. What if they were put there on purpose?
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Feast of Weeks/Firstfruits/Leaven & Pentecost Food for Thought Fulfillments Jesus/Christ/Logos Learning to See
The Disciples Didn’t Understand Either
For three years they had the closest seat in the room — the miracles, the private explanations, every day at his side. And the Gospels are oddly honest that they understood almost none of it. Not before the cross. Not even after the empty tomb. So when did they finally understand — and where does that leave the rest of us?
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Days of Unleavened Bread Feast of Weeks/Firstfruits/Leaven & Pentecost Feasts & Holy Days Fulfillments Jesus/Christ/Logos Passover Pattern of Seven Sabbath
Why Pentecost Has No Fixed Date
Every feast God gave sits on a fixed date — except one. The Feast of Weeks you don’t look up; you count to it. And the day you count from refuses to sit still. Why does Pentecost slide?
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The Law Was Always Pointing
The Bible runs to 66 books and hundreds of thousands of words — but a single thread runs through all of it. And “fulfill” turns out not to mean what either side of the usual argument assumes.
