The Old Testament points us to Jesus. Jesus teaches the same message in Luke 24 when He goes through the Old Testament with the disciples showing how Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms all tell of the Christ (Luke 24.27, 44-45). One of the joys of studying Scripture is seeing Jesus ...
Feature 1 – Old Testament References The Gospels show how Jesus fulfills the Old Testament story through constant reference to the Scriptures. The authors assume a high degree of familiarity with the Old Testament Scriptures by the way they refer to them. They do this in multiple ways: Direct...
It is by knowing the Torah, and all Old Testament Scriptures, that we can fully understand the life of Jesus and His great sacrifice to save us. Photo credit: Unsplash/Ben White What Is the Central Theme of the Torah? There are many themes throughout the Torah, yet God’s loving ...
But it remained in use liturgically in Jewish communities (who only ever read the Scriptures in their original languages) until it was intentionally revived by European Jews in the late 19thto early 20thcenturies. Aramaic: The Language of Jesus Aramaic is a descendant of Hebrew that was widely ...
Whichever way we choose to refer to God does not change God’s nature, and it is the same with the Holy Spirit. As long as we are in full understanding that the Holy Spirit is a person, a full and complete part of God, that is what matters.
Luke 13:3-5.People often confuse the term perish here with eternal punishment in hell. But Jesus has just been talking about people who continued in their sin, and so experienced premature physical death. The term perish does not refer to spending eternity in hell, but to dying physically ...
TWO DIFFERENT "HELLS" — The Greek word Gehenna — translated "hell" in the New Testament — refers to the Valley of Hinnom just outside Jerusalem where, in the days of Jesus, refuse was thrown to be burned. Right: The Greek word hades, also translated "hell," simply means the "grave...
Central to Islamic faith, the Quran is organized into chapters called surahs, each consisting of verses known as ayahs, while the Bible is divided into two main parts: the Old Testament, shared with Judaism, and the New Testament, which describes the life and teachings of Jesus. 9 The Qura...
Sermon on the Mount E32 – In his fourth teaching on relationships and conflict in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus encourages his listeners to ask God for what they need. Because the three previous teachings don't directly tell us how to respond in specif
Tim and Jon will wrap up their discussion by looking at Jesus’ response to the law. He was the answer to Old Testament prophecies, but he didn’t come to get rid of the law, Jesus came to fulfill it. As Jesus followers, we have to wrestle with what this means fo...