Spectacular Sins
Finally finished.
Learned this:
Adam is a type of Christ
Joseph is a type of Christ
David is a type of Christ
Melchizedek is a type of Christ
Jesus is the Christ.
Appreciated this: Genesis 50:20.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
All of history’s spectacular sins such as the sin of Adam, the sale of Joseph, and the betrayal of Judas Iscariot, was for the the global purpose in the glory of Christ. ( Classic Piper 
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History’s most “Spectacular Sin”, being Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus Christ, is quite telling of the significance of the culmination of these sins, in that the entirety of these sins amounted to the crucifixion of Christ, predestined by God from eternity past. To add fuel to the fire. God was pleased in it (Is 53:6 KJV).
Divine Child abuse? By no means!
I like how Piper ends the book. (Spoiler alert!)
If you embrace the biblical truth (and I pray you will) that God ordains spectacular sins for the global glory of his Son, without God in any way becoming unholy or unrighteous or sinful in that act, then you will not shrink back from the cross of Christ as a work of God. You will not be among the number of those who call the world’s most loving act ‘divine child abuse.’ you will come to the cross and fall on your face. And you will say: This is no mere human conspiracy. This is the work of God and the love of God.
