We’re full into March and every baseball fan knows what time of year it is. Furthermore, this is an especially wonderful time of year for true Cub fans. We have especially elevated spirits and look forward to another potential championship year. And it’s been especially feverish for that last few. The 2003 season had a significant impact on the mind of those who frequent Wrigley Field. Now we have "real" hope. We have a front office willing to spend money to bring a championship to the North Side of Chicago for the first time since 1908. We have a fighting chance to reverse the curse. We’ve all heard that phrase with the 2004 Boston Red Sox and the 2005 Chicago White Sox (I’m getting sick) World Series wins. The Cubs have won the division two years in a row, and the delusional Wrigley Faithful are looking forward to another season.
As amazing as a Chicago Cubs "curse" reversal would be, what about the curse of the Fall? We all live under the curse of corruption and death due to the failure to be obedient under the covenant of works. What does the Bible say about reversing the curse? Actually, Scripture is very forthright in demonstrating how God will reverse the effects of the fall in the new heavens and new earth.
The blessing and curses of the covenant are spelled out in Deuteronomy 28. Interestingly, the picture of the new heavens and new earth in Isaiah 65 are very similar, though they show the reversal of the curses. This blessing to the people of God is rooted in Genesis 3:15 and later in Genesis 12 with the promise to Abraham. At the heart of the blessing of Abraham is the receiving of the Holy Spirit. Considered in terms of a prophetic perspective, we get a strong indication of the deep connection between Acts 2 and Genesis 12. What takes place in Genesis 12 is in redemptive response to the Babel confusion of Genesis 11. So what takes place in the day of Pentecost as the people hear others speaking an intelligible gospel in their own language is the eschatological initiation of the reversal of the confusion. We have an eschatological advance on God reversing the curse.
Thanks for the food for thought, Camden. Being a Cubs Fan myself, I especially appreciate this piece, of course. I knew there was a reason I identify so much with the suffering and curse talk that swirls around the Cubs. It helps, living in KC, to have such great examples of the faith. After all, we do have our Royals here ;0)
Camden, have you considered that by moving to Philadelphia, you fixed the baseball karma and achieved a championship — except it was for the wrong team? If so, many thanks for your reversing the Willie Penn curse.
uggghhh…
Cubs fans are almost as annoying as Big-box “evangelicals”, maybe worse…
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