From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The line · 19 of 26 · Psalm 118 · Isaiah 28

The stone the builders refused

The builders said no. Then it became the corner. He quoted it about Himself.

The text
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.

The word

אֶבֶן

stone, a building stone, the corner (eben)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01The stone they refused

    Psalms 118:22

    Builders inspect, and say no. Then it is the head of the corner. The psalm already calls that the Lord’s doing.

  2. 02A stone in Zion

    Isaiah 28:16

    A tested stone. God lays a precious cornerstone. Whoever believes will not be in haste. Trust, not panic, on that stone.

  3. 03Have you never read?

    Matthew 21:42

    After the vineyard. Jesus puts the psalm in their mouths. The rejected stone. They know He is talking about them.

  4. 04You builders

    Acts 4:11

    Peter does not soften it. This Jesus is the stone you builders rejected. Salvation in no other name.

  5. 05A living stone

    1 Peter 2:6

    Peter writes Isaiah onto the church. Coming to Him, a living stone, rejected by men, chosen by God. Then you too, living stones.

The builders

Threw it out. Not this one.

The Lord

Made it the corner. Marvellous in our eyes.

Read it this way

Eben (אֶבֶן) is a stone. Psalm 118 is a procession: open the gates, this is the day the Lord has made. In the middle of it, a stone the builders threw away becomes the head of the corner. Isaiah had already said: I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone. Whoever believes will not panic.

Jesus tells a vineyard story, then opens this psalm on the men who are about to kill Him. Have you never read? Peter, in front of the same council, says this Jesus is the stone you builders rejected. Peter later writes the Isaiah line onto the church: a living stone, and you living stones with Him. He did not invent the picture. He stood in it.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

Matthew 21:42Acts 4:111 Peter 2:6

Some sayCornerstone is church architecture talk. The psalm is about a king’s parade.

He quoted the psalm about Himself while the builders were in the room. That is not later church talk.

Open Psalms 118Isaiah 28:16

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.