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The Big Idea
Starting to collect instances and resources around big biblical themes.
Similar Ideas: Notes from Conversation with Sarah Salzburg
From Sarah Salzburg
- Temple and Mountain of God
- The two important mountains are Mount Zion and Mount Esau as kind of opposing places of authority and power but the end of the book pictures saviors going up to rule on both mountains under the authority of God alone.
- Mountains of Scripture
- The Tabernacle
- Sacred Space
- Sabbath
- Image of God
- Tree of Life
- Exile
- Water of Life
- Day of Yahweh or Day of the Lord
- Amos 5:18–24 - warning about desiring the day of the lord
- Isaiah 2:11–12
- Joel 2:30–31
- Joel 3:14–16
- 2 Peter 3:10–13
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 - Description of coming of the Lord from the perspective of believers.
Themes
- Family Relations
- Edom and Israel decedents of brothers.
- High vs Low and Pride vs Humble
- They thought they could raise themselves up or be safe because they lived in high places.
- Chosen Nation and All Nations
- Transition from chosen nation to all nations
- In The Book of Obadiah, Edom becomes an emblem of all the nations in the middle of the book in verse 15 where is switches to judgment against all nations for refusing to acknowledge God
- Justice
- Justice according to God’s rule and definition of what is right not what the Edomites convinced themselves was right.
- Rule of God
- Picture the rule of God as deliverance and restoration of Israel’s proper place as well as the humbling of the proud nations.
- Cup of Wrath and Cup of Blessing
- Psalm 11:5-6
- Psalm 75:6-8
- Ezekiel 23:31–33
- Isaiah 51:17
- Jeremiah 25:15-17
- Matthew 26:39 - Jesus asking that the cup would pass from Him.
- Revelation 14:10
- Revelation 16:1–17 - The seven bowls.
- New Jerusalem and New Creation- Heavy in Isaiah, Revelation
- Blood and Fat
- Sacrifice
- Babylon, Assyria, Egypt - Place of captivity and enemies
- Pure vs Impure
- Holy vs Common
- Blessing vs Curse