{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "(duality)=\n", "# Duality\n", " \n", "**_Hidden Riches in Secret Places: Isaiah 45 Through the Journey of Abram_**\n", "\n", "In the ink-black silence before dawn, when the stars still burn with secrets and the earth hums low with unseen promise, a voice speaks. “I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches in secret places…” (Isaiah 45:3). The tone is sovereign, the speaker absolute. These are not conditional gifts. They are declarations, bequests carved into the contours of reality—perhaps unseen, perhaps terrifying, but unfailingly real. And somewhere in the long memory of scripture, this promise shimmers back onto the figure of Abram, that archetypal wanderer, called not to know but to go.\n", "\n", "Isaiah 45 emerges as a thunderous oracle, divinely addressed not to an Israelite prophet but to Cyrus, a Persian king—an outsider, a gentile, a vessel of unknowing obedience. This fact is not incidental. God uses what is not “of the tribe,” what is not expected, what is not rehearsed in the categories of tradition. And Abram, too, was not born within the bounds of covenant. He was called from Ur, a land of moon worship and dense cultural complexity. The divine voice came not from within his lineage, but from without, just as it did to Cyrus centuries later.\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
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\n", "\n", " Roots\n", "\n", "Abram's first altar was built under a sky he did not yet understand. He pitched tents in lands he would not possess in his lifetime. He entertained strangers, unaware they were emissaries of the divine. Isaiah 45 declares that the knowledge of God will come to the nations—that every knee shall bow. Abraham’s quiet table with angels is a foreshadowing of that universal gesture. His hospitality becomes prophecy. His patience becomes law.\n", " \n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
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