Also there's this wrinkle: On the Passover the death angel was only interested in the firstborn, which is why God requires Israel to redeem the firstborn (Ex 13:15): "And it came to pass, when Ph...

As I was saying to somebody ... just saw for the first time what was the traditional Jewish interpretation of the two goats (Lev 16:5): "And he shall take of the congregation ...

Four enigmatic expressions describe the last half week of Israel's redemption - "a time, times, and half a time" (Dan 7:25; Dan 12:7; Rv 12:14), "forty two months" (Rv 11:2; Rv 13:5), "...

Have been trying to understand "the last half week" -- meaning the last three and one half years before Messiah comes.  Here, let me lay out Daniel 11:32 with grammatical parsing.&...

Here’s that section of the Babylonian Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 31a) that remembers which Psalms were sung by the Levites with the morning sacrifice in the Temple in Jerusalem.  Becaus...

For the past year or so I've been reading (to myself) the weekly Torah portion that is read everywhere in the synagogue that Sabbath (Acts 15:21) -- who knows -- maybe the Spirit moves in season ...

We ought to question the doctrine of the Trinity because of its history and development (for a fascinating and readable account see When Jesus Became God - The Struggle to Define Christianity during t...

The concept of incarnation is not biblical — it is pagan. Whereas there is no such concept in all of the TaNaKh, the incarnation of a god was a rather common theme in paganism — it’s the general sense...

I wanna talk about the Government of God.
Let me begin by going back to New Testament times. In the past, at least, Christians seldom contemplated the Jewish world in which Jesus and his students (tal...

 
The god of this world exercises power (2Cor 4:4; Ep 6:12) -- not through the barrel of a gun (as Stalin thought) -- but through lies (Jn 8:44; 2Cor 10:3-6).  Satan cannot amble up and shov...