Luke’s Gospel pairs careful history with a pastor’s heart, revealing Jesus the Savior and the Spirit’s promise. It sends a praying, merciful Church into the world in hope.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Luke’s Gospel pairs careful history with a pastor’s heart, revealing Jesus the Savior and the Spirit’s promise. It sends a praying, merciful Church into the world in hope.
Daniel pairs court faithfulness with apocalyptic vision. From Babylon to Persia, God humbles empires, reveals the Seventy Weeks, and grants the Son of Man an everlasting kingdom that steadies His people in exile and points to the world to come.
Daniel 7 lifts our eyes from beastly empires to heaven’s courtroom, where the Ancient of Days sits and the Son of Man receives an everlasting kingdom. This chapter steadies fearful hearts with the certain verdict of God and the sure hope of the saints.
God raises Ezekiel to his feet and sends him to a stubborn people with a scroll full of lament. The chapter redefines success as faithful speech by the Spirit’s power, sustaining hope that judgment serves mercy’s long plan.
Psalm 8 frames the universe with God’s majestic name and places a crown on human heads for wise stewardship. The New Testament shows that Jesus fulfills this calling, so believers work and worship in hope until all things rest under his feet.
Jesus opens physical eyes and awakens saving faith as opposition hardens. Learn how suffering becomes a stage for God’s work and how sight grows into worship.
Mark 8 binds a wilderness meal to a road of crosses. Jesus feeds four thousand, opens eyes in stages, corrects a Messiah expectation, and calls disciples to lose life to save it in light of his coming glory.
Mark 2 moves from a roof opened to a field argued over, and in each scene Jesus heals, welcomes, and rules. The chapter calls us to bring others to him, rejoice in his presence, and rest under his lordship.
Revelation 1 opens with blessing and authority, placing the risen Christ among His churches and promising His visible return. This study follows the chapter’s flow and applies its courage to today.
Daniel’s “Ancient of Days” is God enthroned in eternity, best understood as the Father, who confers the kingdom on the Son of Man. The New Testament then applies Ancient-of-Days imagery to Jesus to confess His full deity while keeping Daniel’s persons distinct and the future kingdom in view.