The Divine Rescue: The Gripping Drama of a Lost World and of the Creator Who Will Not Let It Go

by Fudge, Edward William

• ISBN13: 9780891126454
• ISBN10: 0891126457
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Abilene Christian Univ Pr

Summary

Everyone loves a story, and The Divine Rescue retells the grandest Story of them all. It is the tale of a perfect world gone astray, and of the God who stops at nothing to rescue that world and the people who inhabit it. In a style both illuminating and entertaining, the author recounts highlights of the multi-layered saga of salvation from Genesis to Revelation. Seamlessly woven into this gripping drama are profound Christian truths shared by all the faithful. This book is intended for anyone, from seeker to scholar, who has ever wept for a broken world, who has tasted pain and passion as a partner in the human plight, who has glimpsed a glory as yet unfulfilled and sensed that there is more to come.

Author Biography

Edward William Fudge is a Bible teacher, preacher, and attorney in Houston, Texas, whose favorite pastime is encouraging believers in person and through his writings. He has ministered across many denominations in the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand, and his Internet column gracEmail is read and appreciated around the world. You can visit his website at www.EdwardFudge.com.

Table of Contents

Reality
Crisis confirmed	p. 13
Raw reality	p. 15
Chaos to cosmos	p. 18
Independence	p. 22
The first Adam	p. 25
Consequences	p. 27
Possible impossibility	p. 31
Repetition
Starting over	p. 36
Creation reversed	p. 40
Creation renewed	p. 42
Distant cousins	p. 44
Pride hits a brick wall	p. 46
Mass confusion	p. 50
Readiness
Chosen people	p. 55
A liberator is born	p. 60
Power play	p. 63
Making covenant	p. 70
Blood in the house of God	p. 74
From nomads to nation	p. 78
Saul and David	p. 81
Solomon	p. 83
Decline and dissolution	p. 86
Revelation
Declare, save, proclaim	p. 93
General announcements	p. 96
Symbols and metaphors	p. 101
In a song	p. 103
What seers saw	p. 105
Rapprochement
Creator incarnate	p. 111
Heavenly introduction	p. 115
The Word becomes a baby	p. 117
Execution	p. 121
Offense or boast	p. 128
Redux
The Last Adam	p. 129
The New Israel	p. 132
Covenant man	p. 134
Embodied convenant	p. 137
Realization
It is finished	p. 141
It is enough	p. 143
Left but not alone	p. 145
Trusting, not trying	p. 151
Semper fidelis	p. 153
Supernatural change	p. 159
New birth	p. 162
New heart	p. 165
New life	p. 167
New creation	p. 169
Mandate and model	p. 171
Significant sign	p. 175
Relationship
Preview of paradise	p. 183
The earliest community	p. 188
Portraits of community	p. 190
Reassurance
Before time to eternity	p. 197
Five great scenes	p. 199
Your face in the crowd	p. 203
Doxology, not debate	p. 205
Results
The kaleidoscope	p. 211
Tour of the town	p. 213
Grace in three tenses	p. 217
Stories and the Story	p. 220
The consummation	p. 222
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