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Numbers 7:17 And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.
Verses 12 to 17 give the detailed description of one tribe leader’s offering. Then, instead of saying that all the gifts of the other tribe leaders were exactly like this one and naming the leaders, the record goes on for SEVENTY verses repeating what has already been said, ELEVEN more times!
Why? These things “were written for our learning” [Romans 15: 4].
Let us seek the answer.
Other commentators give Matthew Henry credit for giving the correct view.
He says that, both by appointing that each tribal leader was to have a separate day for his gift, and in giving the reports equal space, regardless of the contrast in the tribe’s strength and rank in the camp, God had a definite purpose.
It was “that equal honor might thereby be put on each several tribe…..Thus it was intimated that all the tribes of Israel had an equal share in the altar, and an equal share in the sacrifices that were offered upon it.
Though one tribe was posted more honorably in the camp than another, yet they and their services were all alike acceptable to God…..Rich and poor meet together before God…..He was letting us know that what is given is lent to the Lord, and He carefully records it, with every one’s name prefixed to his gift, because what is so given [as a labor of love, Heb. 6:10] He will repay.
Christ took particular notice of what was cast into the treasury [Mark 12:41].”
Joshua 10: 1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them.
This is the first time the word ‘king’ is found in Scripture in connection with Jerusalem, but it is used 86 times otherwise, with other cities, before this.
Once in the New Testament Melchizedek is called king of Salem, which was the ancient name of Jerusalem [Heb. 7:1-3; Gen. 14:18; Ps. 76:2]
The word ‘Adonizedec’ means ‘Lord of righteousness’ which is the same meaning as ‘king of righteousness’, used of Melchizedek.
These were the official names of the kings of Jerusalem.
Here is the first time Jerusalem is mentioned in Scripture. It means ‘city of peace’, or ‘foundation of peace’.
It is one of the ironies of history that the city with such a name has seen so little peace and that for its possession rivers of blood have been shed.
It was originally also called ‘Jebus’ [Judg. 19:10-11; 1 Chr. 4:5; 2 Sam. 5:6-9]. This was the old name of ‘Jerus’. It is called ‘Jebusi’ [Judg. 18:16, 28]; ‘Ariel’ [Isa. 29: 1]; The ‘city of righteousness’ [Isa. 1:26]; And ‘holy city’ [Isa. 48:2; 52:1; Neh. 11:1].
David captured the city from the Jebusites and made it the capital of untied Israel [2 Sam. 5:6-9]. It remained the capital until the division of the kingdom about 1,000 B.C. Jerusalem then continued to be the capital of Judah until 616 B.C. when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.
It became the capital of Israel again about 546 B.C. and remained so until the nation and city were destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
Jerusalem has undergone no less than 28 sieges from Joshua’s time to our day. 10 Sieges being from Joshua to Nebuchadnezzar [Judg. 1:8; 2 Sam.5:6-10; 1 Ki. 14:25; 2 Ki. 18:13-19: 37; 2 Chr. 21:16-17; 28:5-15; 36:1-2].
In the period between the close of the O.T. to 70 A.D. It was besieged 10 times.
Since then it has been besieged 8 times to 1917 A.D., 9 times if we consider the recent war between the Jews and Arabs.
Jerusalem has a future as the capital of Israel and of the Anti-Christ [Ezek. 37; Dan. 9:27-11: 40-45; 2 Th. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:1-11], and as the eternal capital in the reign of Jesus Christ [Isa. 2; Ezek. 48; Joel 3; Amos 9:9-15; Oba. 15-21; Mic. 4; Zech. 14]. - Dake Annotated Reference Bible: page 248
The 30th Creation Festival, dubbed a “Christian Woodstock,” kicked off Wednesday with music, teaching and activities scheduled to jam pack the four-day event.
Thousands of believers, mainly young people, are flocking to the campgrounds of Agape Farm in Mount Union, Pa., for the major annual music festival where alcoholic beverages and drugs are not allowed and the dress code is “modesty.”
Several stages at the festival are featuring popular Christian music artists, including Newsboys, Switchfoot, TobyMac, Hawk Nelson and Chris Tomlin, just to name a few. But Creation ’08 is about more than music, organizers say.
“Creation is also about honoring the Word of God,” they state on their Web site.
Every year, tens of thousands of people attending the festival hear messages that challenge and inspire them in their faith walk. Among the speakers this year is the Rev. Rob Schenck, president of Faith and Action, who will speak out in favor of life.
Schenck said he will give this year’s pro-life message in the context of the Scripture passage Psalm 139 and the recent hit movie “Juno,” a film about a pregnant 16-year-old who realizes the importance of life and decides not to abort her baby.
“Creation has always been a highlight for me,” Schenck said of the festival, which features dozens of Christian bands, sports activities, and live public baptisms.”
“Few places pack so much spiritual energy into such a compact period of time. The kids and adults who attend Creation get their spiritual batteries recharged while they also have a lot of fun. Hundreds will come to Christ, renew their Christian commitments and experience a deeper sense of calling on their lives,” he added.
Schenck, also part of a network of people “who share a common concern about the moral integrity of our American culture,” will speak Saturday on the final day of the festival.
This year’s Creation Festival is being held on June 25-28 and is expected to draw as many as 50,000 visitors.
“Hundreds of thousands of people have been spiritually enriched and made life-changing decisions for Christ and we give God all the glory,” according to the festival Web site. “The Creation Festival is all about changing lives and glorifying our Creator. Our prayer for at Creation ’08 is that people will be changed, restored, and challenged to serve the Lord and to make a difference in this world.”
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, local governments across the country set aside concerns over privacy and installed surveillance cameras in public streets and plazas.
Now — even after a damning report by the head of London’s extensive surveillance network and with little evidence that the systems work — police in many cities are trying to add thousands more cameras to their networks.
“‘Cameras Everywhere’ continues to be the best description of the trend in the video surveillance market,” security market analysts J.P. Freeman Co. said in a report in 2006 that estimated that a quarter of major U.S. cities were investing in the technology.
Two years later, the trend shows no sign of slowing. Officials in many cities are eager to take advantage of money from state and federal security agencies to install the cameras on street corners and intersections, and in cities that already have dozens of cameras, officials are seeking real-time access to thousands more in schools, transit facilities and private businesses:
* In Washington, Mayor Adrian Fenty consolidated monitoring of more than 4,800 video cameras in his emergency management office this spring, including more than 3,500 in public schools and more than 700 inside public housing hallways.
* In Chicago, whose network of nearly 700 neighborhood cameras is widely considered to be the most sophisticated in the nation, police in March took over monitoring more than 4,500 units in the public schools. They added hundreds of transit cameras on the city’s buses last year.
* Rochester, N.Y., police announced a program last week to install 50 more cameras across the city, paid for with state money.
* Seattle officials approved a plan this month to expand the use of cameras in the city’s parks, at a cost of $400,000.
* In Kansas City, Mo., police expanded their camera surveillance beyond the downtown entertainment district last month, adding cameras along a corridor that has been plagued in recent years by gangs, violent crime and drug deals.
* And in Austin, Texas, the police chief has called for round-the-clock camera surveillance across the city before the end of the year.
J.P. Freeman said the domestic market for such systems last year had doubled over five years, to $9.2 billion, and estimated that it would more than double again by 2010, to more than $21 billion.
‘The eye of Big Brother’?
Privacy activists have always resisted the cameras, and they find the enthusiasm to expand the programs especially troubling.
“It really does become the eye of Big Brother,” said James C. Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
“If you could just even keep it focused on the narrow area that the government says it’s going to, it would be a different story, but we know that every time the government opens the door, however slightly, it’s going to keep pushing until it gets that door open all the way.”
The American Civil Liberties Union has opposed public cameras in many cities, arguing in a position paper titled “Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains” that they were creating an American “surveillance society.”
“To the extent that these cameras are there to protect the public safety, it’s fine, but once they cross that threshold of getting into areas where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, they can expect to be challenged,” said Redditt Hudson, manager of the Racial Justice Initiative for the ACLU’s Eastern Missouri affiliate.
Privacy advocates face a difficult task, however: overcoming the push for cameras by an energetic coalition of police agencies and community activists motivated to try almost anything to reduce violent crime.
“So far, I’ve been stopped by two citizens who have thanked me and said they’ve been praying for these,” said Kansas City police Sgt. Patrick Rauzi, head of the city’s camera project.
They are people like Lauri Turner, owner of the Hatbox Haberdashery in Austin, who said her shop had been the victim of crime more than a half-dozen times. “I don’t care about the perpetrator’s rights anymore, at all,” she said.
Melanie Anderson, a mother of young children in Rochester, said with relief that she could go to the store “without people asking you if you want drugs.”
“All these young guys aren’t hanging on the corner anymore,” Anderson said.
Little evidence to bolster backers
By and large, police agencies enthusiastically back public surveillance cameras, saying they deter would-be criminals and make it easier to prosecute crimes.
But there are few statistics to back them up. Nearly seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks spurred cities to deploy the networks in significant numbers, no systematic national research has been undertaken to assess their effectiveness.
“There is little if any information available to us that surveillance cameras actually reduce crime or lead to higher convictions,” Nick Licata, the only member of the Seattle City Council to vote against the city’s plan to install more cameras in its parks, wrote this month in a newsletter to his constituents.
Licata noted that he had supported the plan when it was introduced in May, but he said he changed his mind after Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, head of London’s Metropolitan Police, reported that the city’s network of near-ubiquitous public cameras had been “an utter fiasco.”
“Only 3 percent of crimes were solved by CCTV,” or closed-circuit television cameras, Neville said in an address to the Security Document World Conference last month. “There’s no fear of CCTV.
“Why don’t people fear it?” he asked. “The cameras are not working.”
In light of the evidence — or the lack of it — other officials are starting to have second thoughts. Fenty, for example, was forced to implement his plan by issuing emergency rules after a majority of the D.C. Council took steps to block it.
Police officials in San Francisco, meanwhile, have delayed approving installation of new cameras pending a final study from researchers at the University of California, who said in a preliminary report this spring that the city’s 68 anti-crime cameras had failed to deter street crime. Where the cameras had any impact, the interim report said, they simply moved crime down the street or around the corner.
“There are piles of studies that show the greatest deterrent to criminal and uncivil behavior in public parks is through active social programming and the presence of police or similar official personnel,” Licata said in his newsletter.
Where should crime go?
Lois Frankel, mayor of West Palm Beach, Fla. — which started using 13 cameras this year and plans to install 12 more — agrees with Licata on that point, saying video surveillance “is not a replacement for good police work.”
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t a worthwhile “tool in the toolbox,” she said.
Rochester Police Chief David Moore echoed that assessment. He welcomed plans to install about 50 more cameras in the city but said he was also beefing up street patrols, because criminals usually moved elsewhere.
Indeed, critics and some researchers make a point of the tendency of cameras to simply relocate crime.
“The real issue for us is that once you put cameras in one area, what happens is crime doesn’t stop, it just moves a little bit,” said Rebecca Burnhart, policy director for the ACLU in Texas. “That creates an incentive to put cameras on the next street and the next street and the next street.”
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, who has tangled with Burnhart over the city’s cameras, doesn’t understand why some would consider that a problem. If cameras chase criminals around, he said, “so be it.”
“I really believe in my heart that if you keep the heat on the criminal element, that eventually they get tired of your city, and they’ll move somewhere else,” Acevedo said.
He added: “We have lost our innocence in terms of the number of people that are getting killed and injured out here.”
Islamic nations should be represented in an expanded U.N. Security Council “in proportion to their membership of the United Nations,” according to foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
In a resolution passed at a meeting in Uganda last week, the ministers pointed to size of the Islamic bloc in the international community, noting that its members make up “one-fifth of the world population.”
Any proposal to reform and enlarge the U.N. Security Council “which neglects the adequate representation of the Islamic Ummah [community] in any category of membership … will not be acceptable to the Islamic World,” they said.
“The OIC’s demand for adequate representation in the Security Council is in keeping with the significant demographic and political weight of the OIC member states.”
The Security Council currently has five permanent, veto-wielding members — the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia — and 10 non-permanent members that serve for two-year periods. Various proposals under consideration to reform the institution include expanding it to have more seats in both categories, earmarked for various geographic regions.
One model suggested by an expert panel appointed by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, for instance, would establish six new permanent seats – two each for Africa and Asia, and one each for Europe and the Americas.
An alternative model discussed by the panel would add no permanent seats, but create a new, semi-permanent tier of eight seats — two each from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, occupied for four-year stints, and subject to renewal.
Neither of the models put forward envisages seats earmarked for non-geographic groups, such as a bloc of Islamic nations.
The resolution passed in Uganda leaves unstated exactly how many seats in an expanded Security Council the OIC would want set aside for Islamic states, but to satisfy the demand of being represented “in proportion to their membership of the United Nations,” it could arguably press for 30 percent of the seats. (Of the 192 U.N. member-states, 56 are OIC members. An independent Palestinian state would push the number up to 57.)
The bloc, which has been in existence since the 1970s, in recent years has come to wield increasing clout in the international community. In U.N. agencies where it holds significant membership, critics have accused it of trying to promote Islamic interests at the expense of broader ones.
At the Human Rights Council, for instance, they charge that the OIC has protected allies, ganged up against Israel, and pushed measures limiting freedom of expression when it comes to criticizing Islam. Free speech advocacy groups in recent months have publicly voiced concern about the OIC’s growing influence in the U.N.’s top human rights watchdog.
The OIC enjoys a built-in advantage at the Human Rights Council because more than half of the body’s seats are reserved for the African and Asian regional groups, home to most Islamic states. Of the current council members, a full one-third are OIC members.
At the OIC meeting in Uganda, the foreign ministers reaffirmed that OIC member states should use their membership in key U.N. bodies like the Human Rights Council “to protect and promote the interests of the Islamic world.”
Much of the OIC’s expanded role in international affairs has come about as a result of a “new vision” initiative outlined in a 10-year program of action adopted in 2005 which calls on member states to coordinate effectively in all regional and international forums to protect and promote their collective interests.
OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu updated the Uganda gathering on other achievements in expanding the group’s influence, including the establishment last year of an OIC ambassadors’ group in Washington, D.C., and plans to open a mission in Brussels, seat of the European Union.
Last February, President Bush announced the appointment of a U.S. special envoy to the OIC. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice the following month named the envoy as Sada Cumber, a Pakistan-born Texas businessman.
The world-wide Anglican Communion has been skating on thin ice for decades now, skirting disaster only by an infinitely creative arrangement of compromises. Now, with the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops coming in just a few weeks, a group of 300 conservative Anglican bishops is meeting in Jerusalem. Their meeting will make history, and may well define the ultimate breakup of global Anglicanism.
The Global Anglican Future Conference [GAFCON] featured an address by Dr. Peter Akinola, Archbishop of Nigeria, on Sunday evening. Archbishop Akinola has emerged as one of the most courageous and theologically committed leaders of worldwide Anglicanism.
In his address, delivered as something of a keynote for the event, Archbishop Akinola declared that “a sizable part of the Communion is in error and not a few are apostate.” This gets to the heart of The Anglican dilemma. The issues now separating liberals and conservatives within the global Anglican Communion are no longer matters on which compromise can be reached. To the contrary, the doctrinal and theological explosions connected to the issues of human sexuality and biblical authority have distilled the fundamental issues down to what is considered non-negotiable by both sides. Conservatives are unwilling to surrender biblical authority and the liberals are unwilling to surrender their determination to normalize homosexuality and other liberal causes. In reality, the division has already happened – all that remains is the final form of the division.
As Archbishop Akinola lamented, doctrinal “revisionists” have attempted to create a new religion in the place of historic biblical Christianity. In his words: “Clearly the bedrock of the revisionist perspective is the humanist, rather than theological approach. This is the crux of the problem: they are going in the opposite direction from what Biblical orthodoxy demands, and with such a mindset, a meeting-point with those who are labeled conservatives – who have chosen to stand where the Bible stands, becomes a very remote possibility.”
As Ruth Gledhill of The Times reported, Archbishop Akinola expressed frustration that Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams had arranged the upcoming Lambeth Conference in such a way that dealing with the fundamental issues would be virtually impossible. “Rejecting all entreaties, Lambeth Palace chose not to be bothered about that which troubles us; decided to stick to its own plans and to erect the walls of the 2008 Lambeth Conference on the shaky and unsafe foundations of our brokenness,” he said.
Meanwhile, Archbishop Peter Jensen of the Australian archdiocese of Sydney described the Anglican breakup as tragic. Nevertheless, Dr. Jensen insisted that the issue of truth was more important than the imperative of unity. “We’re not dealing with the secular world here, we are dealing with the Christian church, and the Christian church has a constitution which is the Bible,” he said.
In his address, Archbishop Akinola described how many Anglican believers around the world, especially in Africa, view the liberals in Western churches:
“Having survived the inhuman physical slavery of the 19th century, the political slavery called colonialism of the 20th century, the developing world economic enslavement, we cannot, we dare not, allow ourselves and the millions we represent to be kept in a religious and spiritual dungeon.”
“We will not abdicate our God-given responsibility and simply acquiesce to destructive modern cultural and political dictates.”
Even as the meeting began in Jerusalem, observers were warning that the day of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s spiritual leadership over the Anglican Communion “is over.” The GAFCON meeting produced a plan for a new fellowship of more orthodox Anglican churches. As Ruth Gledhill explains:
The new fellowship for orthodox Anglicans would have a leadership of six or seven senior conservative bishops and archbishops, such as the Bishop of Pittsburgh, the Right Rev Bob Duncan, who chairs the US Common Cause partnership that acts as an umbrella for American conservatives, Archbishop Henry Orombi, Primate of Uganda, and the Church of England’s Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali.
The aim is not to split with the worldwide Anglican Communion, which counts 80 million members in 38 provinces, but to reform it from within.
Formal ties will be maintained with the Archbishop of Canterbury but fellowship members will consider themselves out of communion with provinces such as the US and Canada.
There are orthodox and faithful Christians in the American and Canadian churches, but those in leadership in those churches have steadfastly refused to stop an onward march into theological and ecclesiastical disaster.
Jerusalem was a controversial location for the GAFCON meeting. But, after all, the famous “Jerusalem Council” of the early church was held there as recorded in Acts 15:6-21. In that council, the apostles and elders of the early church met and reached the consensus that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is for both Jews and Gentiles, and that Gentile converts to Christ were not required to first become, in effect, Jews.
Perhaps we are seeing before our eyes what we should have anticipated – that Jerusalem is a good place to remember what the Gospel is.
More than half of Britons think Christianity is likely to have disappeared from the country within a century, according to a survey.
Research by the Orthodox Jewish organisation Aish found that just over a third of people thought religions like Christianity and Judaism would still be practiced in Britain in 100 years’ time.
Although four in 10 people said they would choose to be a member of the Christian religion, almost the same number said they would rather practice no religion at all.
Buddhism however, proved more attractive than both Islam and Judaism, and was chosen by nine per cent of those questioned.
Aish UK’s executive director Rabbi Naftali Schiff said the results of the YouGov poll of 2,000 people were alarming.
“It clearly demonstrates that religion, including Judaism, is becoming unattractive to the British public.
“At Aish we know that Judaism provides real meaning and enrichment to one’s life. Whilst we have attracted many disinterested Jews back to Jewish identity it is clear there is much work to be done.”
Research published earlier this year suggested that church attendance is declining so fast that the number of regular churchgoers will be fewer than those attending mosques within a generation.
According to Religious Trends, an analysis of religious practice in Britain, the huge drop off in attendance means that the Church of England, Catholicism and other denominations will become financially unviable.
In contrast, the number of actively religious Muslims is predicted to increase from about one million today to 1.96 million in 2035.
One can learn many things from the new PEW study on religion in America, but my interest is mostly the things one can learn about the Jews. What I like about the way this new study is presented, is that one can compare the different religions on various matters. Here are some of the things I found:
American Jews do not have as many children as believers of other religions. 72% of Jewish homes do not have children at all according to this study. This is probably due to the fact that many of them marry late. And anyway, Jews are older: 22% are 65+, the second highest percentage of all religions, 29% are 50-64, again, second highest of all religions. At the ages 30-49 the Jewish community has the lower percentage of all: 29%.
We know that Jews make more money than people of other religions, and the extent to which this is true is quite impressive. 46% of Jews make more than $100,000 a year, Hindus are a close second (43%) but the next group (Orthodox) is well behind (28%). If one looks at education, it is Hindus first (48% with post graduate degrees) with Jews second (35%), Buddhists third (26%) and the rest well bellow.
The number of Jews who are absolutely certain that there’s a god is fairly low, 41%. Only Buddhists and Unaffiliated have even less certainty. 10% do not believe in god, the third highest percentage (also third, following the unaffiliated and the Buddhists). Only 31% say that religion is very important to them, the lowest percentage except for the unaffiliated.
28% say religion is not important to their lives (again, only the unaffiliated rank higher). No wonder that Jews rank low on attendance of religious practices and frequency of prayers. Amusingly, Jews are like Buddhists in the sense that only few of them believe that their religion is the only true religion.
53% of Jews want the U.S. to be involved in world affairs (Mormons rank second with 51%, the rest well bellow). 47% are Democrats, second only to black churches, but only 38% call themselves liberals (39% are moderates, 21% conservatives). And Jews seem to be the most reluctant group when the role of government in keeping morality is discussed: 22% say government should do more to protect morality, the highest ranking group except for “other faiths”), 71% want government to do even less (again, second to other faiths).
Speaking at a Bethlehem press conference Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Jerusalem should be divided, and called on Israel to dismantle the West Bank security fence.
After meeting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Sarkozy said that Jerusalem is holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. “Can Jerusalem be held by one side alone? I don’t think so,” he said.
“The separation fence will not bring security to Israelis forever,” the French leader added. “The Israelis should secure themselves through a peace agreement with people who believe in peace, like the Palestinian president…there is no doubt that the best road to peace is through a diplomatic agreement.”
However, despite Sarkozy’s declarations, Palestinian sources told Ynet that neither France nor the European Union are expected to play a special role in the near future in promoting the peace process with Israel.
Still, the French president said Tuesday that France will make great efforts in order to remove the obstacles to peace between the sides. However, he noted that neither France nor the EU can make peace on behalf of Israel and the Palestinians.
A senior Palestinian source told Ynet later, “As Sarkozy said, the French and the Europeans are here to help with everything they can, particularly in diplomatic terms and in building Palestinian Authority institutions, yet not when it comes to involvement in controversial matters.”
1 Corinthians 15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Some false apostles at Corinth denied the resurrection of the dead [2 Cor. 11:13-15].
Proofs of the resurrection: 1. Proved from Scripture: [v 1-4; Job 19:25; Ps. 16:10; Dan. 12:2; Mt. 28; Mk. 16: Luke 24; Jn. 20-21; Acts 2:27]. 2. Proved from fact: [v 5-8; note k, Jn. 21:14; Eph. 1:20; Rev. 1:12-18] 3. Proved by absurdity of unbelief in the resurrection [v 12-19] 4. Proved by declaration of fact [v 20-22] 5. Proved by prediction [v 23-56] 6. Proved by the inconsistency of those who deny it [v 29] 7. Proved by faith and consecration in sacrificing all for it [v 30-34] 8. Proved by nature [v 33:49] 9. Proved by absolute necessity of immortality of body in order to inherit the Kingdom and other promises [v 50-54]. 10. Proved by fulfillment of prophecy in final victory over death [v54-57]
12 Calamities if Christ be not risen: 1 Corinthians 15:14 And if Christ be no risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 1. We have no guarantee of resurrection [v 12-13, 20-23] 2. Our preaching is in vain [v 14] 3. Our faith is in vain [v14, 17] 4. We are liars because we have preached such a doctrine [v 15] 5. We are yet in our sins [v 17] 6. All the dead are perished [v 18] 7. We have no hope [v 19] 8. We are most miserable [v19] 9. We are plain fools [v 30-32] 10. Nature is a farce [v 35-49] 11. Promises are lies [v 50-54] 12. Prophecies are false [v 55-56]
Christ’s resurrection is a fact and the guarantee of the resurrection of all other men [v 20-22]. - Dake A.R. Bible: page 188
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