TGR carries the latest in my series on the biblical epic of Babel:

So if God is removing the sin problem, and will thus reverse the curse of Babel, what will he do? He’ll remove the multiplicity of languages. Right?

The miracle that shows the pouring out of the Holy Spirit from the ascended Christ, marking the founding of the New Testament church as a new kind of community, will be everyone miraculously speaking the same language. Presumably Hebrew. Right?

Wrong. God’s pattern is to take things that were introduced because of sin and redeem them rather than remove them. God’s people demand a human king, and at that moment, God says to Samuel, “they’re rejecting me from being king over them.” But when Christ comes, he doesn’t eliminate the Davidic (i.e. human) kingship, he inherits it and occupies it eternally.

When Christ rises, he rises with the five wounds still in his body.

Let me know what you think!