The idea, underlying all, is God's gracious manifestation in the world - the Kingdom of God; the meaning of all - the establishment of this Kingdom upon earth. That gracious purpose was, so to speak, individualized, and the Kingdom actually established in the Messiah. Both the fundamental...
How long is it supposed to take from capitalist Social Order to the next stage? Is society in the process of transformation? How can you tell? Communism. In the first paragraph we read: ancient, feudal, capitalist But what was before ancient societies and slave economies. Peopl...
Paul loved teaching out of His understanding of God’s Word in the Old Testament and his new understanding of the revelation of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Christ, the second Adam, is contrasted to the first Adam. Death came with Adam, life by Christ. Christ has reconciled all things thr...
Yes, they fought under the Roman banner, but they did this only because they were conscripted troops with no other option but to participate and had a bitter hostility for the Jews. “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of ...
If that were all there was to it, my correspondent’s paradox would be valid. The Mark of the Beast is first and foremost a worship system. So now, we have crossed over from the material to the spiritual. “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the ...
Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (1-2 Cent) thought the days of the Messiah would last 40 years. Before Bar Kochba the Mess. age was short; longer afterward 130 Rabbi Jose, the Galilean, a contemporary of Hyrcanus and Azariah, thought the Messiah would come in three generations (60 years), ...
It was my first summer as a college student. I was living in a tiny but expensive walk-up in the LES, spiritually vacant and utterly depressed, making frequent trips to visit my girlfriend in Philadelphia where a small, committed group of artists were turning me on to the rich ...
If that were all there was to it, my correspondent’s paradox would be valid. The Mark of the Beast is first and foremost a worship system. So now, we have crossed over from the material to the spiritual. “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the ...
“Could our leaders possibly believe that he is the Messiah? But how could he be? For we know where this man comes from. When the Messiah comes, he will simply appear; no one will know where he comes from.”~ John 7: 26b-27 ...
This title is also significant in the New Testament, where it is used by Jesus to refer to Himself, emphasizing His role as the Messiah and His identification with humanity. “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness,The elders of Israel were leaders ...