Readings: Isaiah 11;Psalm 72; Romans 15; Matthew 3. *Full, free access at PewPewHQ.com/tfw/a-a02.
The Divine Warrior motif reveals God's power as fundamentally creative rather than combative. Where Babylonian cosmology imagines creation emerging from divine conflict, the Hebrew imagination presents a God who speaks reality into existence—conquering not through violence but through divine intent and breath. This contrast between conflict-based and creativity-based cosmologies defines the difference between worldly power systems and the kingdom that emerges through ordinary humanity.
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