daniel
Expositions of the Book of Daniel, especially prophecy, eschatology, and messianic interpretation.
MICHAEL: ONE AMONG SEVERAL RULERS Paid Members Public
The New Testament explicitly identifies Michael as an archangel: “Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones. But Michael the archangel, when he, disputing with the devil, was arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce
JUDE TESTIFIES: JESUS IS NOT MICHAEL! Paid Members Public
This post expands on the following article that I wrote on this subject: Michael’s Contention With Satan. As I showed in my previous post, what Jude says about Jesus and Michael clearly shows that they cannot be one and the same Being. Whereas Michael is depicted as a mighty
MARK’S DIVINE SON OF MAN Paid Members Public
A QUICK DEFENSE FOR CHRIST’S DEITY According to Jesus, the Holy Spirit inspired David to recognize and worship the Messiah as his very own Lord whom God exalts to sit enthroned at his right hand: “And Jesus began to say, as He taught in the temple, ‘How is it
JESUS IS NOT A CREATED ANGEL Paid Members Public
There are specific cults that believe that Christ is an angelic creature who became man. These religious movements claim that Jesus, in his prehuman existence and in his post-resurrection exaltation, is actually Michael the archangel!(1) In this post I will show the readers an effective manner of how to
JOHN CALVIN ON MICHAEL BEING JESUS CHRIST Paid Members Public
Many folks may be unaware of the fact that the Swiss reformer and lawyer John Calvin actually thought that the archangel Michael was actually Jesus Christ. This view can be found in his commentary on Daniel 10:13 and 12:1. All emphasis will be mine: “He adds next, Behold!
RASHI’S INTERPRETATION OF DANIEL Paid Members Public
In this post I will be referencing the commentary on Daniel 2:34-35, 44-45 and 9:24-27 by renowned Medieval rabbi and anti-Christian polemicist Shlomo Yitzchaki, otherwise known as RASHI. Rashi’s commentary is important since he candidly admitted that the Messianic era or kingdom would be ushered in during
TWO POWERS IN HEAVEN: REVEALING ISRAEL’S SECOND GOD Paid Members Public
RABBINIC JUDAISM’S STRUGGLE WITH DIVINE PLURALITY In this post I will be citing from specific rabbinic sources highlighting the difficulties that rabbis had with the very same [O]ld [T]estament texts cited by Christians and others to prove the existence of multiple divine Persons within the Godhead. The
MESSIANIC PROPHECIES PT. 3: THE TIME OF MESSIAH’S APPEARANCE Paid Members Public
There are two passages in the Hebrew Bible which speak of God doing something amazingly miraculous during the second Temple. The first comes from the book of Haggai: “In the seventh [month], on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet, saying: Say