Ezekiel Song

In Tony Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” it explores the discovery of ethnic identities. It depicts the life of Macon Milkman Dead, a withdrawn loner who doesn’t feel accepted by others and is disconnected with his family and heritage. With help from others in his community Milkman takes a trip to discover himself and his roots bringing him closer to the true meaning of his purpose. Milkman in turn realizes that flight represents liberation from a life of restrictions, set in an era of racism and separation. Flight may seem as a positive solution to such a life of problems and discrimination, however, holds very negative aspects in family settings. Abandoning your own and severing those mutual bonds plays a significant role in the life of the loved ones left behind. Most are left recovering from their loss, or completely lose hope such as Hagar. Solomon leaving his wife Ryna and children behind was necessary sacrifice he had to make in order to be free. Solomon is never punished or looked down for his decision; in his song it acknowledges his accomplishment as a great achievement. In “Song of Solomon”, the ability of flight symbolizes the escape from oppression while searching for freedom.

In A Lesson Before Dying, there is a church that everyone went to, praising the same God, of course, and even separating the blacks from the whites. This church hints at a bit of symbolism in the book, showing how anyone and everyone had one place to go to in order to strive for or make change in the world, no matter who or what they were. They always had someone to pray to, which was God and Jesus, while they could feel safe in their hands, giving them hope in the society that they lived in.

“So that, thus it is the natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and already sentenced to it…” (Edwards 122). In this section of the sermon he is striking fear in the listeners hearts. He is saying that they deserve what is going to happen to them since they aren’t living for their God, and thus it makes them reconsider what they’re doing. “It is everlasting wrath” (Edwards 124). This is also putting fear into the peoples hearts. When people think of their afterlife they often think of being in peace in heaven, but here he says that if they don’t change their ways they will be in hell for eternity with an everlasting wrath. “And now you have an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in the door calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners....” (Edwards 125). After all of the negative tone and emotional appeal he has had throughout the entire sermon he ends on a somewhat positive note. He is saying that although you all have been doing wrong, thankfully you will be given a second chance if you repent and live your life for god, because then he will have mercy on his people. In conclusion, Jonathan uses an enormous amount of emotional appeal throughout his sermon to get to the people's

Edwards goes through and talks about this verse and how people are risking their lives by a walk on the slippery slope of sin. Secondly, Edwards makes ten points about religion, sin, and God. He discusses that man lives at the mercy of God and that in the end, it is God alone who decided who belong in heaven or deserves to go to hell for eternity. In the final and the longest part, Edwards speaks directly to the sinners in his congregation and beyond. He describes the fires and pain of Hell and uses metaphors to help encourage his points. He reminds them that they are all simply “sinners in the hands of an angry God.”

The point that he is trying to make is that God has afforded humanity the opportunity to rectify their sins. This act of restraint has given humanity the chance to fixed their ways and return to Christ.

In the bible it states that one day Jesus Christ will resurrect from the dead and he will return one again. Rattner is portraying the beginning thoughts of this idea of resurrection through Ezekiel and the valley of dried bones.

Brown, M. L. (2010). Jeremiah. In T. Longman III & D. E. Garland (Eds.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Jeremiah–Ezekiel (Revised Edition) (Vol. 7, p. 358). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Which sets the stage for Israel victories and blessings. Also shows the downhill battle of Israel with abandoning their covenant. Israel was to

The book of Amos is the earliest preserved example of classic prophetic writings. It consists of nine chapters, but Amos did not write the entirety of them. “A majority of scholars think that not all of the material in Amos goes back to the prophet himself but was added later by ancient editors of the book.” The anthology contains a variation of materials: prophecies, visions and addresses from Amos to the people of Israel. Two major themes of the book are the social injustice in Israel, and the impending doom in Israel’s future.

Since its original publication in 1930, the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner has drawn much exploration and critique. Though this analysis is very far reaching and broad in topic, one interesting route of investigation is the novel's connection to the Old Testament. One does not have to be a Christian to study the similarities in theme; there are very many occurrences of biblical subject matter and correlation, these having been studied by student and scholar alike. The Old Testament is known commonly as the more historical part of the Bible; it sets up the background knowledge to the New Testament and gives readers an idea of the nature of the times. Many general themes of the Old Testament are reflected in the Bible as a whole,

The song “Go Down Moses” was an important song in the slave generation, it symbolized the slave and their masters. The word “Pharaoh” was called upon many times in this song, when used in slave times the word, referred to the slave master. When the song states “Let My People Go” it is referring to the slaves and how the activists wanted all slave owners to disown their slaves so all blacks could be free. The main reason the slaves used this song was to let themselves believe that one day a saviour will come and free them all. The slaves thought that this would lift their spirits and give them something to hope for. When the slaves used these songs the masters could not understand them so they used it as a way to communicate and talk about seeking

In effect, this solidifies the church's hold over the audience. The listeners are now willing and eager to part with their 'Worldly Goods', their money and their time, for the sake of avoiding "hell for time without end." (Scene 2, Line 4) The audience has no way to counter this attack, because even if they have no money, God had "offered [them] great riches of mercy." (Scene 1, Line 34)

He lets them know that there is no one that is without sin and stands guilty before God. Apart from being in a personal relationship with the Lord, the average person has always felt that they were a good person, or a morally good person that performs good deeds. Paul points out throughout the book that it is the saving faith in Christ Jesus’ virgin birth, death, burial and resurrection that saves our soul and not anything that we can or could do. With that faith, we are to live in the assurance that we are accepted by God and endowed with the power of the Holy Ghost to do, not just good but, godly works of righteousness, all by the motivation of love for Him. All the while, we are to understand that it is not the works that make us righteous but rather, our faith in Jesus. He points out that thinking we are saved by works is living under the Law, which is contrary to why God gave them the Law.

These verses cover some very deep doctrine which most people choose to discard, but I believe that if it’s in the Bible it’s here for a reason. These verses read,” For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;” In this verse they answer a very important question, what happens to those who never have a chance to know and accept God into their lives. In this verse it explains to us that after death Christ went a preached to others which were dead. This gives them the opportunity to know of Him, and to either accepted or reject Him just as we have chosen.

The reason behind this is the very nature of the content in it and the purpose the authors invoked when placing in it the stories they did. As noted before, within this section is what are called the ‘foundational myths’ of Israel, that is, the stories of how the people and nation came to be and the explanation of its purpose and uniqueness among the nations of the world. The existence of these stories, and so the purpose of this section, works as a uniting force for this new people and new nation, reminding them of their common past and of the God who rescued them and made a covenant with them. This remembrance also has the effect of reinforcing the importance of keeping the covenant as a response to the saving acts of their God and as the true way to ensure the rewards of the covenant rather than the curses.