I love connectivity. I’ve been reading a lot of older comics lately and finding minor things to some but they are key moments to me because I find where characters like Midnight connected with the original Spider-Man/ Punisher/ Moon Knight tale the Round Robin saga that got me into comics connect with one another but you know what’s even better is finding major things that connect in the Bible. Like how Isaiah will say something many years before Christ and then later in the Gospels Jesus will quote it.
Isaiah 8:13-16
“The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread, and he will be a sanctuary; but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare. Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.
Matt 21:42-44
“Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read the scriptures:
‘The Stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes?
Therefore I tell you that the the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
I’ve said this before when you are confronted by God with the weight of your sin and the power of his Word you either turn from your evil or you reject him. He becomes your Savior or you stumble over Him.
1 Corinthians 1:18
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to those who are being saved it is the Power of God.”
This is why we keep sharing God’s Word. It’s not just the pastor, or Bible study teachers but every Christian. People need the chance to face the truth of the gospel for themselves.
Romans 1:16-17
“I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: First for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from the first to the last, just as it is written the righteous will live by faith.”
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