God's Farm: One Purpose Through All Seasons
Isaiah's parable answers the Jews' incredulity about divine judgment. They reasoned: God built us up; therefore He cannot tear us down. The prophet responds with...
This is historical examples on god's sovereign purpose and divine patience and method, drawing on Isaiah 28:23-29.
Isaiah's parable answers the Jews' incredulity about divine judgment. They reasoned: God built us up; therefore He cannot tear us down. The prophet responds with the image of a husbandman whose apparent inconsistency conceals perfect consistency. The farmer ploughs in winter, scatters seed in spring, reaps in summer, threshes in autumn. He exchanges ploughshare for seed-basket, then trades both for flail and threshing-oxen.…
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