Notes on the Bible - Edwards - XVIII - Daniel and the Minor Prophets

Required reading

Read Notes on the Bible in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) by reading up to 'Matt. i. 3. "And Judas begat Pharez and Zara of Thamar.'

My summary

This week we have Edwards thoughts on verses from Daniel, Hosea, Amos, Jonah, Micah, Habbakuk, Zechariah and Malachi.

We hear about:

(i) the Son of Man;

(ii) the abomination of desolation;

(iii) God's judgements on the nations;

(iv) God's mercies;

(v) hell;

(vi) the birth of the Messiah;

(vii) the church's progress;

(viii) the coming of the Christ.

What grabbed me

I enjoyed these comments about the death of Christ: 'As the ship and company were saved by Jonah’s being cast into the waters, and his intended and supposed death, so was the church, which is several times typified by a ship saved by Christ, being cast into and overwhelmed by sorrows and troubles, which are represented by water, and by his death. Jonah being swallowed of a whale, or leviathan, represents Christ being as it were swallowed by him that hath the power of death, the devil, the spiritual leviathan; but however, it was but a means of Christ’s being under better advantages to come at his heart, and to give him the more mortal wound. The whale thought to have made a sweet feast of Jonah, but he found him a dreadful medicine, he was sick of him at the heart and vomited him up again. Vide Jer. li. 44. So the devil thought Christ was his food, but he proved not his meat, but his poison. The devil has deeply regretted putting Christ to death, since he has seen what the effect of it is. As Jonah was three days and three nights buried in the sea, so was Christ in his grave three days and three nights.'

God works all things for good, including Satan's schemes.

Next week's reading

Read Notes on the Bible in Vol 2 of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) by reading up to '[292] Matt. xxiv. 21, 22, 23, 24,. &c. “For there shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.'

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