Tag: Isaiah

Luke 20:17-18: Don’t mock the Rock: The standards of God’s Chief Cornerstone

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Post date November 9, 2013
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Before delving into Yeshua’s battles with the leadership of the Temple recorded in Luke 20-21, let’s explore the quote from the Hebrew Scriptures in Luke 20:17-18, that God’s true Temple would have at its foundation a Chief Cornerstone that the leadership would reject. A cryptic “hearing but not hearing” message from God in Isaiah 28 about this Stone holds a key to these arguments between Yeshua and the leadership.

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Luke 6:20-26: Sermon on the Mount vs. Sermon on the Plain, part 2: Beatitudes in Isaiah 61

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Post date July 30, 2011
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Yeshua preaches in the synagogue in Nazareth quoting from Isaiah. Photo by the LUMO project (www.LumoProject.com).

The focus of Isaiah 61 is the status of the poor. Notice there are several similarities between that passage and Yeshua’s “happy are”/“woe to” discourse, commonly known as the Beatitudes.