Covenant of Grace

Biblical and Historical Precedents

The content of my book moving forward will shed light on the gospel narratives, with emphasis focused on Luke and the book of Acts. As we encounter the gospel accounts, the above criticisms will help find a more explicit meaning from God’s word. The book of Luke and Acts narratives are biblical and historical accounts about the revelation of Jesus Christ. Luke wrote in declarative terms founded upon the association of the intent that garnered the descriptive content within historical accounts during Jesus’s time on earth. History always repeats itself when those who make history live in the way of worldly sin.

Biblical theology is historical missteps that allow for the Savior’s righteousness to correct the errors of those fallen into sin. Therefore, the elects’ predestination comes from their deliverance through repentance from their apostasy and oppression. It is through salvation we become the nātan berîth too, as those who are faithful by the call of God. The application of biblical precedent for historical precedent helps define Luke as a historian—thus, the view of biblical precedent as historical precedent lessens the historicity of the Lucan Doctrine (LD).

The biblical precedent for historical precedent complements the LD, as various criticism applies. The textual, philological, historical, source, and form criticism help to address the historicity. The story about Jesus is every part of Luke’s testimony and without absolute biblical truth based on historical precedents undermines the LD. Luke derives the theological aspects of LD from the word of God as shown chronologically. The revelation of Jesus Christ is the power of the cross, and the books of Luke and Acts are practical in the theology of Christ in his birth, death, and resurrection accounts. The LD edifies the body of Christ and brings glory unto God the Father from its theological and historical truths about Jesus. The Lucan Doctrine’s chronological order defines biblically historical content. When applying form criticism of Luke’s historical intent, it reveals synoptic narratives to justify its historical accounts.

The Holy Spirit alone brings illumination to the word of God during an undertaking of the hermeneutical process. An appointed time has determined from the Old Testament scripture’s history as an eclipse for the New Testament content of Jesus that renders a historical record of his life cycle. The LD provides an exegetical view from the then and time of Luke’s gospel account into the here and now from Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection some two thousand years ago. Properly studying scripture will address timed events of people, places, politics, and polities of the determined biblical era.

My book aims to prove that the timing of the biblical prophetical events in the past were future events fulfilled in Christ. The word of God in the old covenant is a shadow (logos), and in the new covenant, it became our kingdom reality (rhema). The word of God will not come to life from its shadow until the Spirit fills a believer with the reality of the Son of God personally. To assist us in how to study biblical matters, then, using a Jewish telescope will help to draw out the entire understanding of scripture of the Old Testament. We must use a Greek microscope to work through the interpretive process of the New Testament. Luke’s writing style finds him using Old Testament scripture derived from Deuteronomy’s part of the Septuagint.

Luke’s narratives can become difficult in understanding, but this does not mean Luke had entered erroneous information. The explanation for Luke’s biblical entries comes from ancient history to substantiate Luke’s historical accounts. The biblical precedent on predestination emphasizes the importance of the historical precedent on the election of those called by faith. The application of God’s word used by Luke develops the historical precedent that allows the biblical precedent to become a normative doctrine.
There are many unidentified dates considering Jesus’s time on earth. Luke’s historicity is clear that a time record existed to place a chronological order of biblical history. There are variables to be applied when considering the timing of Luke’s accounts about our Savior. The narratives of Luke are historical records accounted for within various cultures and their customs and traditions. The biblical precedent for historical precedent allows for Luke’s authorship to justify as history. God is eternal, and a rebellious angel brought about time because of disobedience. The chosen people of God established and followed time through the lunar cycle for more than the reason for a waxing and waning moon. The Jewish priesthood scheduled courses to perform priestly duties structured within the nineteen-year lunar cycle.

Using historical criticism helps to determine the Lucan Doctrine as historical writings. The narratives written by Luke are in an intentionally didactic formality. The meaning of each word used by Luke influences the gospel message by defining the contextual meaning. The narrative genres from the Gospel of Luke, such as the rejection at Nazareth, cleansing the temple, and Christ’s Crucifixion, are prominent examples used to develop biblical precedent for historical precedent. The following scriptures from each narration build a foundation for Luke’s historian position.

The rejection at Nazareth is a narrative found in Luke 4:18–19, and the historical precedent it references is Isaiah 61:1–2. The scripture from Luke finds Jesus quoting verbatim the prophet Isaiah’s writings and then proclaiming to his audience that he fulfilled the scripture reading that day. Of course, the acceptance of Jesus’s proclamation turned the priestly crowd very bitter, even to the point of bringing harm to Jesus, but their attempt failed. Jesus departed and returned to Galilee.
The historical precedent derived from fulfilling Old Testament scripture that marked the old way into the new way of God’s word fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Luke’s basis for accounting this narrative as history is that Jesus Christ is God’s Word of truth fulfilled in the prophetical writings of Isaiah’s instructional gift.