The Hebrew scriptures, which Christians call the Old Testament, refer to kings such as Saul, David, and Solomon as messiahs. Even the Persian king Cyrus was called a messiah because he freed the Jewish people from slavery in Babylon. By the second century B.C. some Jews had blended the ...
And YHWH God has also declared in the Old Covenant Scriptures of the Jews that "All who hate Me love Death!" This would certainly apply very well to the murderous Muslim suicide-bombers that are so common for our modern world in these Last Days of the age. Check Online Audio-Visual Bibl...
our writer says, by means of the Eternal Spirit, the Holy Spirit. This was not just a physical offering, but one brought about by the Holy Spirit according to the will of God. The crucifixion is not an accident, but
TheOld Testament(OT), as we have seen in the previous chapters, points ahead to the person God was going tosendfor bringing an end to the curse of death. From theHebrew Scriptureswe also come to know that this special messenger of God, a prophet, would come to call people to return f...
I am a Christian and therefore a creationist. I am honestly exploring science and the Scriptures to understand human and animal origins. I have spent the last year investigating YEC science. As I read respected YEC scientists (Kurt Wise, Todd Wood, Marcus Ross, Matt McClain) the more the YE...
For us to know that Jesus is all He claims to be, our eyes must be opened to understand the scriptures. Otherwise, we will be like the pious religionists who knew and practiced religion the way they desired it to be, with all the trappings of pride, power, and control. They didn’t...
(seeEphesians 2:8). When we forget our baptismal sojourn in the Holy Spirit and His Word the Scriptures, then we are lost. Yes, wear the green today but do not forget to pray and make the sign of the Cross giving thanks to Lord our God, for the missionary bishop who baptized many....
To read more about how translations of the Bible affect our understanding, read Chapter 4, “Painting in Hebrew” inReading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus,Baker Publishing 2017. Also of interest is my article:Translation Debates: A Jewish Viewand my earlier book,Listening to the Language of the ...
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall ...
Pertinent to our study is to focus on the imported theme of “resurrection” which is obviously an important part of salvation as well as the ministry and life of Jesus. To understand this more we will engage a few key scriptures from this era to help us see how salvation and at times ...