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Garden of the Gods: The Garden of Burial and Resurrection
Only John of all the Gospel writers mentions that Jesus’ burial site was in a garden. At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: Garden of Betrayal
Gethsemane was not only a garden of desperate prayer. It was also a garden of betrayal, and betrayal of two kinds. 18:1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: Garden of Desperate Prayer
Gethsemane is a garden of olive trees sitting on the side of the Mount of Olives. It was a relatively short walk from Jerusalem, where Jesus had Passover with his disciples and prayed publicly for them.
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: Gardens of Residency
It takes a long time to create a garden, and if it is a fruit or herb garden, it takes time to get the produce from the garden. And the garden must be continually tended if it is to continue being fruitful.
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: The Gardens of Love
In the metaphorical language of love between husband and wife in the Song of Solomon, Solomon calls his wife a garden, nay, a paradise of delectable delights: 12 You are a garden locked up, my sister,
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: Gardens of Idolatry
Israel was guilty of using gardens for worship of pagan gods and improper worship of Yahweh Himself: Green trees and watered gardens were rare and special places among those living in (semi-)arid conditions
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: The King’s Garden
“The King’s Garden (Hebrew: Gan HaMelekh) is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Nehemiah 3:15 and 2 Kings 25:4), and associated by biblical archaeologists with the Al-Bustan neighbourhood
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: The Garden of Israel
What does God want for His nation, Israel? What does He want for all His people, for that matter? Exactly what He wanted in the beginning. 24:1 Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: Eden, the Garden of Failure and Redemption
3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals Yahweh Elohim had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did Elohim really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” 2 “Of
Continue reading...Garden of the Gods: The Garden of Eden
In August 1859 a surveyor came upon some beautiful red sandstone formations in what is now Colorado Springs, Colorado, and rather flippantly said to his companion, “this would be a capital place
Continue reading...The Mountains of God: Golgotha
“While the Gospels merely identify Golgotha as a “place”, Christian tradition has described the location as a hill or mountain since at least the 6th century. It has thus often
Continue reading...The Mountains of God: Mount Zion
Though it started out as the stronghold of the Jebusites on the eastern slope of Jerusalem which King David conquered (2 Samuel 5:7), Mount Zion became the city of David, Jerusalem, which expanded to include
Continue reading...The Mountains of God: Mount Moriah
Before there was the mountain of God in Sinai as Israel’s history, there was Mount Moriah. Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “Yahweh will provide”). To this day,
Continue reading...The Mountains of God: Sinai
It was not uncommon for the ancients to believe that their god or gods lived on a mountain. Mount Olympas for the Greek pantheon, Mount Zaphon for Baal. The Israelites did not believe that God, Yahweh,
Continue reading...The Lamb Who Would Be Shepherd
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