This article is written in opposition to the proposition of certain Futurist and Preterist theologians that Paul had one of Jerusalem’s temples in mind while penning Hebrews 9. In Hebrews 9, Paul is not writing about the necessity for Herod’s Temple to be destroyed by Roman armies. Nor is Paul claiming that the final day [...]
Ben Witherington III has a well deserved career in the academic world. He has produced several commentaries in the Socio-Rhetorical Commentary series of his and they are masterpieces. In one particularly celebrated book, Jesus, Paul and the End of the World (IVP, 1992) Ben interacts with a series of NT texts dealing with eschatology proper. [...]
Perhaps one of the most explicit chapters on the humanity of the son of God is Hebrews 2. There, Jesus is “made a little lower than the angels”. Psalm 8, a psalm of Adam and his creation, is applied to Jesus. Jesus is “made perfect” through suffering, which probably has to do with his being [...]
In these chapters, Paul is definitely speaking of the change the new covenant regeneration brings to the believers. Again, I believe that he speaks proleptically, writing as if already living in the age to come (since it was to dawn in his own generation). The “powers” of that age were “already” starting their transforming work [...]