God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The wounds of Christ were the greatest outlets of His glory that ever were. The divine glory shone more out of His wounds than out of all His life before.
God's…promises are not simply random good intentions. Rather, God's promises together point to and delineate a divine plan for history – a plan to rescue a people for the praise of His glory, and to effect that rescue, that salvation, through a judgment that God Himself would bear on our behalf. In other words, history is not cyclical, a 'mere repetition' of archetypal patterns. Rather, history is heading somewhere. It's linear. It's developing and progressing toward an end that God has already prepared.
