Are we captive????

O Come O Come Immanuel
And Ransom Captive Israel
That Mourns in Lowly Exile Here
Until the Son of God appears

Rejoice, Rejoice Immanuel
Has Come to Thee O Israel

So N.T. Wright talks about Israel thinking itself still in captivity in the first century, I think that others saw this before him. Maybe Paul really saw the Christian experience in parallel with the exodus of captive Israel. We are in exile until the Son of God ransoms us and takes us to be with Him in resurrection.

By the way, Christmas is ever approaching.

I guess this blog name should be explained

Well for those of you who do not know, hesed (pronounced with a guttural ch at the beginning) is the Hebrew word for covenant loyalty. Throughout the OT this word occurs to describe how God responds to His covenant, with faithfulness. God is completely faithful. In fact, I am studying the letter to the Romans this semester and the view of the "New Perspective" explains one of the major, if not the major, theme in Romans is God's faithfulness to His covenant is seen in the life and ministry and death and resurrection of Jesus. God is faithful to his covenant, no matter how faithless his people are. The title of my blog is about holding on to the hope that and fact that God is completely faithful to those who belong to God.