For weeks now, we’ve been looking at the exile that the Jews found themselves in for 1000 years before Jesus. The slavery and torment they suffered at the hands of their captors, the Babylonians. The reasons for this slavery.
We’ve looked at the Jews’ misplaced trust and idolatry of the relics of their faith (the temple, their worship practices, their sacrifices); their refusal to be a “light to the nations,” focusing the message of God’s desired relationship inwardly; their failed economic policy, neglecting the needs of the widow, the orphan, denying justice to the poor; and their sense of entitlement and ownership of the good gifts God had blessed them with.
And we’ve seen along the way how we share much in common with these Jews – how our actions and inactions as Christians have relegated us to an obscurity in the world, a new kind of exile, where we cry out, like slaves in a foreign land, for rescue.
And it’s when we’ve discovered ourselves in this exile that we can finally hear from God the words of rescue he has spoken:
The Resurrection of the Dead. Continue reading ‘The Resurrection of the Dead’






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