daniel
Expositions of the Book of Daniel, especially prophecy, eschatology, and messianic interpretation.
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
RABBINIC JUDAISM ON THE TIME OF MESSIAH’S APPEARANCE Paid Members Public
In this post I will quote some of the statements of Jewish rabbis who, on the basis of texts such as Daniel 9:24-27, believed that the Messiah was supposed to show up right around the same time that Jesus appeared on the scene claiming to be the Messiah of
Who is Ezekiel’s Daniel? Paid Members Public
Daniel Wallace In Daniel 1:6 we are introduced to the author of this book: דניאל. An increasing number of scholars have argued that the book of Daniel is pseudepigraphical, written during the Maccabean era (c. 165 BCE). By late-dating Daniel they can speak of vaticinium ex eventu, or prophecy