The Scriptures on the Cross, The cross in the Scriptures. Biblical answers to the Cross of Christ...Why the Cross, Why the Crucifix
as I’ve thought of things I’ve never considered before… things I need to work on to improve myself, to grow my faith and receive the promised blessings.
2012 came and went, and as I had written in a book on it back in 2009, 2012 was not going to be the end of the world. Nor, as I correctly pointed out, did the world end from Comet Ison or the Viking Apocalypse in 2014. Nor the blood moons in 2014 and 2015 that I denounced....
The Community of the Renewed Covenant: The Notre Dame Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series 10. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.The Bible in the Making: The Scriptures at Qumran." Pages 77-93 in The Com- munity of the Renewed...
on the southern wall of the Temple Mount, stand the remains of two ancient gates. Today these gates are sealed, and archeologists simply call them the “Double Gate” and the “Triple Gate” on account of the number of arches they have. Yet anciently these gates were called the “Huldah...
God's plan is that His children begin to experiencethe inheritance of the heavenly life while here on the earth. We're already His children, and we have been given special rights. Learning to walk in the Word of God, brings the benefits of the Word of God into a living, functioning ...
a national psalm of complaint of the period of the Babylonish Exile (Syriac, Rosenmüller, De Wette), or on account of its long continuance (Chald., the Rabbins) or of the approach of that catastrophe (Hengst.). Nor should any more weight be attached to the attempt to connect the Psalm...
on earth between the absence of Shaka Nyorai (Historical Buddha) and the future coming ofMiroku(Skt. = Maitreya). Jizo would function most effectively during the Mappō (末法) period, the period of degenerate law, when Buddhist faith and practice were at all time lows. The sūtra also says...
Again, though, the force of the Savior’s argument depends upon a single word in the Old Testament text —“gods” (Psa. 82:6). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus stated that not a single “jot” or “tittle” of the Mosaic law would pass away until all things be accomplished (Mt...
Psalm 49:5.The iniquity of my heels(ormy sup- planters, or of those who have trodden on me). This explanation of the phrase (Syriac and most others) suggests the meaning of “evil days—days of adversity,”i. e.not adverse times simply, but those in which bad men abuse their power...