God is creating a government (Is 9:6-7; 65:17-18; 66:1) with positions for you and for me (Mt 16:18; Jn 14:2). When Messiah comes “then he shall reward every man according to his works” (Mt 16:27; cf. Rv 20:12) — we are in training now for those positions that will be our reward then — and so this side of immortality we hold those rewards provisionally (Rv 3:11): “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown."

Two points on the Elijah to come:1. The restoration of all things has only begun. Let me suggest that the greatest thing in our lives is being put on a track toward understanding -- not that the trut...

The New Testament, as more and more believers are coming to see, is a profoundly Jewish book. John’s λόγος simply cannot be understood apart from an entirely Jewish perspective.When I sometimes cite t...

Plato was pagan but he was correct in a couple of things: 1) The Greek philosophers believed in logic and reason and truth, something that was under severe attack by the time the apostles wrote (as in...

Once upon a time there was a garden and in that garden stood two trees -- two trees of KNOWLEDGE -- one a tree of the gnosis that "puffeth up" (1 Cor 8:1) and the other a tree of the truth that "shall...

The Trinity doctrine did not emerge whole cloth but rather grew out of the great Christology controversies of the fourth century. Why was Christ’s pre-existence so contentious an issue among Gentile C...

I believe that what I'm about to say — you got a minute? this could get lengthy — was the understanding of the apostles. It pertains to the priesthood chapters in the book of Hebrews, but I'm only go...

Yes, the Scripture is quite clear: “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Gn 6:5) Jesus, o...

When certain in the ministry asked Jesus for a sign, Jesus said there would be none except that of the prophet Jonah (Mt 12:39-41). Therefore not just Adam and Melchizedek and Isaac and Joseph and Da...

When certain in the ministry asked for a sign, Messiah said there would be none except that of the prophet Jonah (Mt 12:39-41). Therefore not just Adam and Melchizedek and Isaac and Joseph and David are types of the Messiah -- so also is Jonah.

And Jews read Jonah on Atonement. How might Jonah contribute to our messianic understanding of the Day?