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Home›Topics›Redemption›Historical Examples

Historical Examples — Redemption

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God's Day of Visitation: Mercy and Judgment in Isaiah 10:3

Isaiah 10:3 poses a devastating question: "What will ye do in the day of visitation?" Joseph Exell identifies three distinct types of divine visitation in 1887's *Biblical Illustrator*.

Isaiah 10:3Universaldivine accountabilityGod's persistent call

Joseph S. Exell

191 words

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Sin's Inescapable Cords: The Wicked Bound by Their Own Iniquity

This divine knowledge produces fourfold effects: it stimulates spiritual activity, restrains from transgression, excites desire for pardon, and braces the soul in duty.

Proverbs 5:22Universaldivine omnisciencesin's consequences

Joseph S. Exell

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New Creation in Christ: Union, Life, and Transformed Purpose

Being "in Christ" involves three dimensions of spiritual reality.

2 Corinthians 4:17Universalunion with Christspiritual transformation

Joseph S. Exell

221 words

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The Incarnation: God's Condescension and Our Redemption

As the Eternal Word took flesh from the Virgin Mary by the operation of the Holy Ghost, so are we born anew through grace.

Hebrews 1:14UniversalGod's condescensionvirgin birth

Joseph S. Exell

213 words

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Humiliation as the Path to Christ's Exaltation

Working and suffering constitute the way to glory and honour.

Hebrews 1:7UniversalChrist's humiliation and exaltationsuffering leading to glory

Joseph S. Exell

205 words

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God's Purification: Removing Dross and Alloy from His People

True reformation remains God's own work, accomplished through just magistrates, righteous ministers, and the restoration of judgment among His people (verses 25-27).

Isaiah 1:24Universaldivine purificationhidden sin

Joseph S. Exell

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Great Deliverance: God's Redemptive Work Across History

The Hebrew concept of deliverance encompasses not merely escape, but redemption wrought through love, power, and righteousness—Yahweh's character made manifest.

Psalms 18:50UniversalGod's faithfulness across timepersonal and corporate salvation

Joseph S. Exell

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The True Tabernacle: God's Eternal Dwelling Place

Hebrews presents this contrast between the earthly and the heavenly, the shadow and the substance.

Hebrews 5:2UniversalChrist as mediatoreternal sanctuary

Joseph S. Exell

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One Sin and Many Sins: The Asymmetry of Condemnation and Grace

In the first, one offense brought condemnation upon all mankind by a just and inevitable law.

Romans 5:16UniversalGod's generosity versus human prideone sin versus many sins

Joseph S. Exell

206 words

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Jesus walked by the sea with sacred teaching purpose

Rather, it was a walk hallowed by sacred teaching—every step purposeful, every encounter redemptive.

Mark 2:13Universalunexpected gracepurposeful Christian witness

Joseph S. Exell

196 words

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Isaiah's Forty-Year Witness: Saving a City Through True Knowledge of God

For forty years, the prophet Isaiah had testified to a truer understanding of Elohim, warning that these supports were *rotten* and would fail at the crucial hour.

Isaiah 35:23UniversalGod's faithfulness amid crisisprophetic witness and social transformation

Joseph S. Exell

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The Boulder in the Desert: Christ as Shelter from Sin's Drift

Yet when a boulder interrupts this relentless current, something miraculous occurs: within seasons, a garden flourishes on its leeward side.

Isaiah 28:2UniversalChrist's transformative powershelter and protection

Joseph S. Exell

213 words

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Breaking the Yoke: Gospel Liberation from Sin's Burden

Sin operates as a *phoros* (burden)—an insupportable load that detains sinners from Elohim, the only source of relief.

Isaiah 9:4Universalliberation from sinGod's deliverance

Joseph S. Exell

197 words

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The Ransomed of the Lord Return to Zion

To ransom (*lutroo*) means to redeem or free from captivity by paying an equivalent—to rescue from danger and death, to deliver from an enemy's possession through warfare or purchase by gold.

Isaiah 35:10Universalspiritual rescue and adoptionheavenly citizenship

Joseph S. Exell

221 words

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The Nature of Angels and Their Relation to Redeemed Humanity

They are the holy ones who stand before Elohim's throne and behold His face continually.

Hebrews 1:16Universalangelic nature and human dignitythe superiority of redeemed humanity

Joseph S. Exell

228 words

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God's Tabernacle: From Strange Work to Eternal Dwelling

Exell observed that the present world presents a paradox: philosophers from Ray Lankester to John Stuart Mill cannot agree on nature's character.

Revelation 21:3Universaldivine restorationnature of suffering

Joseph S. Exell

208 words

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God's Covenant of Grace: The Mediator Between Two Agreements

Scripture reveals two distinct covenants between God and man: the covenant of works and the covenant of grace.

Isaiah 39:6UniversalGod's righteousness in redemptionChrist as Mediator

Joseph S. Exell

200 words

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Christ's Love Demonstrated Through Sacrifice and Suffering

Second, in His assumption of human nature: He passed by the higher nature of angels and took our nature with all its poverty and trial.

John 10:36UniversalChrist's incarnation and sacrificeGod's merciful character

Joseph S. Exell

232 words

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One Soul's Declaration: Righteousness and Strength in Christ

The prophet Isaiah, having just proclaimed Christ's kingdom as universal and permanent, introduces not multitudes but a single, isolated individual—one unknown soul.

Isaiah 45:24Universalpersonal conversion as kingdom progressChrist's righteousness imputed and appropriated

Joseph S. Exell

201 words

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From Childish Things to Mature Faith in Christ

Born in Tarsus to respectable tentmakers, circumcised on the eighth day and named Saul after Israel's first king, the apostle emerged from intensely Jewish household worship.

1 Corinthians 13:11Universalspiritual maturitytransformation in Christ

Joseph S. Exell

213 words

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Why the Crowds Sought to Destroy Jesus

Matthew 27:20 records the chief priests and elders persuading the multitudes to demand His destruction.

Matthew 27:20UniversalChrist's invincibilitysatanic opposition defeated

Joseph S. Exell

203 words

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Christ the Great Innovator: New Cloth on Old Garments

Christ asserted Christianity's novelty with uncompromising boldness—not the apologetic tone of uncertain reformers, but the conviction of one remaking the world.

Matthew 9:16Universalinnovation and traditionold covenant and new covenant

Joseph S. Exell

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The Cross as Divine Righteousness Revealed and Ratified

First, the objective reality: Christ's sacrifice demonstrates that Yahweh is a God against whom no sinner can rebel without incurring death.

Romans 1:26Universaldivine judgment and mercythe atonement

Joseph S. Exell

194 words

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Paul's Unwavering Theme: Christ and Him Crucified

Paul was emphatically a man of one idea.

1 Corinthians 1:2Universalapostolic witnesscentrality of the cross

Joseph S. Exell

210 words

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