A chiasm is a literary structure where the themes of the first section of a passage are repeated in reverse order in the second. Typically whatever is in the center of the chiasm is what is being emphasized. https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/MattChiasmAppendix.pdf
Matthew 24:15 states, "when you see the abomination (a neuter noun) of desolation... standing (a masculine participle) in the holy place." Who is this man in the holy place of the temple? The answer is found in 2 Thessalonians 2:4 where Paul describes the antichrist "in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God."
The Bible begins with an empty, dark, water-covered earth (Gen 1:1-2) and ends with an earth with no night (Rev 21:25) nor sea (Rev 21:1), inhabited by the people of God (Rev 21:2). https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/Gen-1.1-2d-and-Rev-21.1-25.pdf
In Galatians 6:16 Paul refers to "the Israel of God." Paul's purpose In writing the book was to oppose the Judaizers who held that circumcision and keeping the Old Testament law contributed to salvation. In verse 16 "those who will walk by this rule" were the Gentile believers who were following Paul's teaching and "the
Galatians1:8-9 is a chiasm where the same vocabulary is used in the first and the final phrase. The center which is being emphasized is that Paul had said this before and is now saying it again (v 9a-b). https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/Gal-1.8-9a-Chiasm.pdf
How can husbands have a leadership role in marriage if men and women are equal before God? How should a husband's headship and a wife's support of that headship work out in practice? How should one answer the arguments of evangelical feminists? https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/Eph-5.23a-Roles-in-Marriage.pdf
A chiasm is a literary structure where vocabulary of the first section of a passage is repeated in reverse order in the second. The center of the chiasm is typically the climax of the passage.The book of 2 Corinthians was written by Paul as a chiasm. https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/2-Cora-Chiasm-In-ESV.pdf
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-7 Paul makes it very clear that the gospel (1 Cor 15:1) is not simply that " Christ died for our sins" (1 Cor 15:3) but "that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day" (1 Cor 15:4) and appeared to hundreds (1 Cor 15:5-8). https://www.howthebiblefitstogether.org/files/1-Cor-15.1-8a-The-Gospel.pdf
What is the future described in the Bible for the descendants of Jacob? In Deuteronomy 32:8-9 we learn that as part of the dispersal of the nations following the incident of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9), God placed one of the angelic sons of God over each of the seventy nations listed in Genesis
The story lines of Revelation 12-13; 17:1-19:6; and 19:7-20:6 contain overlapping parallels. The purpose of Revelation 12:7-13 being surrounded by parallel verses being dated as three and one-half years before the second coming is no doubt to communicate to the reader that the war in heaven described in Revelation 12:7-13 has the same terminus a