God's Glory in Salvation through Judgment Quotes

“Omri (16:26), Ahab (16:33; 21:22), and Ahaziah (22:53). Idolatry is provocation because it gives what is due to Yahweh, worship, to those who are not worthy of worship. Not only does this deny Yahweh the glory due his name, but idolatry also corrupts and destroys those who engage in it.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“3.5 The Book of the Twelve Hosea identifies Israel’s idolatry as spiritual adultery. Joel connects a locust plague to the curses of the covenant Yahweh made with Israel. Amos calls Israel to seek Yahweh, the roaring lion, and live. Obadiah denounces Edom for violence to Jacob. Jonah sees Nineveh repent in response to the proclamation of coming judgment. Micah beholds the mountains melt when Yahweh treads on them to judge and save. Nahum prophesies the fall of Nineveh. Habakkuk questions Yahweh, and trusts him, regarding the judgment Babylon brings against Israel, then experiences. Zephaniah proclaims that those who seek Yahweh will be hidden on the day of his wrath and delivered, and that he will sing over them. Haggai calls the people to rebuild the temple. Zechariah declares it will be rebuilt not by might or by power but by the Spirit of Yahweh. Malachi assures Israel of Yahweh’s love and points to the day when Elijah will prepare the way for Yahweh to be glorified in a decisive act of salvation through judgment.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Amos calls Israel to seek Yahweh, the roaring lion, and live.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Though God is beyond our comprehension, we can know him and speak meaningfully about him because he has revealed himself to us in the written and living word.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Without the Bible’s bad news, its good news will have no meaning.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“it is righteous for God to seek his own glory. He is God and has no other gods before himself.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“to know God is to perceive his worship-inspiring holiness and love, severity and kindness, righteousness and mercy.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“God’s righteousness condemns every attempt to be justified by works.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“God saves Christians not because they have been righteous but because he is merciful”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“From eternity past God planned for his ministers to suffer as they proclaim the gospel in the face of hostile opposition from Satan, sin, death, and hell.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“From eternity past God purposed to visit judgment on Jesus so that he could show mercy to the elect.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“From eternity past God planned to destroy death.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“The love of Jesus upholds justice and extends mercy.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“The cross uniquely displays that both Jesus and the Father are committed to justice and mercy, even unto death.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Jesus exhaustively receives the wrath of God.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“The Bible is more to be admired than the Louvre Museum, and the Gospel of John is perhaps its Mona Lisa.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Jesus has shown the world its bankruptcy so that the world might feel its need for the bailout he provides.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“The path to wealth is the path of trusting Yahweh, not the path of greed.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Yahweh is the central reality in the universe, and seeking to understand life apart from him is folly.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“God judges all human pride and presumption based on worldly estimations of beauty, and he hears the humble who cry to him.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Yahweh is mighty to save, whether the saved desire his salvation or not.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“God’s mercy often comes folded into his justice.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“The transformation the church needs is the kind that results from beholding the glory of God in the face of Christ (2 Cor. 3:18–4:6).”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Great books make great readers,129 and exposure to lofty thoughts is a challenging and inspiring experience. Loftier thoughts than Isaiah’s, recorded in chapters 40–66 of his prophecy, are scarcely to be found.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“If Yahweh’s worth is not so great that those who reject him have committed a crime that cries out for infinite justice, then the zero-tolerance policy against the people of the land is a brutal, unjust, egomaniacal atrocity.3 But Yahweh’s policies are not like those of mere men, whose importance does not warrant the slaughter of their opponents. Nor is this a kind of immature self-centered phase that Yahweh eventually grows out of when he decides to be nice and send his Son, Jesus. Rather, the ban on the Canaanites heralds the infinite majesty of the justice of Yahweh, whose holiness demands perfect loyalty, whose worth is such that anything less than absolute allegiance defiles unto death.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Israel has a genuine choice between life and death, blessing and curse (Deut. 30:11–18), and heaven and earth are witness to the covenant between Yahweh and his people (30:19). Israel is urged to choose life, to love Yahweh, to cleave fast to him (30:19–20). They have a real choice, but their “chooser” will always select sin because Yahweh has not given them the heart they need (29:3, ET 4). But they will make their choice, and they will be judged for the rightness or wrongness of the choice they make. The fact that Yahweh promises to change their chooser by circumcising their hearts does not remove their responsibility for the choice they will make. Nor does it make Yahweh unjust if he chooses not to change their chooser, or if he chooses only to change the choosers of those he chooses. People are responsible. And Yahweh is sovereign.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“The transformation the church needs is the kind that results from beholding the glory of God in the face of Christ (2 Cor. 3:18–4:6). This glory of God is a saving and judging glory—an aroma of life to those being saved and death to those perishing (2 Cor. 2:15–16), and this saving and judging glory is at the center of biblical theology.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“Israel has forsaken Yahweh for a man who cannot find his father’s donkeys.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“The proclamation of judgment against those who would justify themselves by the law is meant to lead to salvation.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment

“if we will listen carefully to the Bible, it will proclaim to us the glory of God. If we do not hear this, the problem is with us, not the Bible.”
― James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment