We interrupt our series on Otis Q. Sellers’s biblical research into nephesh and psyche (“the soul”) for a refreshing prophetic pause. For today I resolved, at least to my own satisfaction, a problem that had been nagging me, and I’d like to share its resolution.
If asked what Jesus’ first miracle was, every biblically literate believer will answer, “His changing water into wine at the wedding feast at Cana.”
This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. John 2:11 (KJV)
John, carried along by the Holy Spirit, called that displacement of liquids the “beginning” (ἀρχὴν, archen), so it falls to the faithful believer to believe that.
But what about Jesus’ “pre-beginning” escape from certain death at the inception of His public ministry? Continue reading “Jesus’ Great Escape: A Miracle, But Not a Sign”