Today, the hope for a coming Messiah, an Anointed One from God who will usher in an age of peace, is shared by Jews and Christians alike, with one important difference: Judaism believes that the Messiah is yet to come to reign over a future kingdom of Israel. The followers…
Were there really more than half-a-million men (and more than 2 million Israelites if women and children are included) who left Egypt in the Exodus, as the Bible seems to say? If so, why is there no mention of such a mass exit in the ancient Egyptian records or any…
The Book of Daniel describes a detailed history of the Jewish people and must be interpreted from that viewpoint. The seventh chapter of Daniel describes a period of Jewish history involving four kings described as beasts, with the fourth beast having ten horns, each horn in turn representing a king.…
The story of the woman caught in adultery and brought by the scribes and Pharisees to Jesus for judgment is recounted in John 8:3-11 as follows: “And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say…
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If Judaism ever builds a new Temple in Jerusalem, what attitude should followers of Jesus have toward it? In short, we should ignore it. A new Jewish Temple in Jerusalem won’t have any positive supernatural meaning for New Covenant believers or anyone else, and here’s why … Since the time…
Did Jesus ever speak in tongues? The answer is “yes,” he did speak in tongues, that is, if we accept the testimony of Luke. It was in the Book of Acts, written by Luke, where the concept of speaking in tongues is introduced, and where we have documented evidence of…
Edwin R. Thiele is little known in Christian lay circles, but he is famous among theologians and in the academic community for his book, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, which supposedly harmonizes the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah. However, Thiele got it wrong. There is…
Always at Passover, someone writes an article in a Christian magazine about Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers and driving the merchants out of the Temple. All too frequently in recent years, they speculate that he was out of control with anger, throwing what would today be called…
A reader asked about where to find the United States mentioned in Bible prophecy. I am aware that many expositors have included the U.S. in their interpretations of end-time prophecies, especially when explaining the Book of Revelation, but I haven’t found any specific mention of the U.S. in any end-time…