daniel
Expositions of the Book of Daniel, especially prophecy, eschatology, and messianic interpretation.
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
MESSIANIC TIMELINE OF DANIEL REVISITED AGAIN Paid Members Public
The following exegesis of the timeline of the appearance of the Messiah found in Daniel 9:20-27 is taken from the late Dr. Gleason L. Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, published by Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 1982, pp. 292-295. All bold emphasis mine. How can we make any sense
A Justification of the Translation of Dan. 9:24-27 in the KJV Paid Members Public
And of Related Questions Pertaining to the Coming of Messiah Jesus in A. D. 33. By Thomas Ross 1.) Is the KJV correct in translating “seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks,” or should the verse really read “seven weeks; and for sixty two weeks”? a.) To divide the weeks
MESSIANIC PROPHECIES SERIES PT. 2 Paid Members Public
I continue from where I previously left off: MESSIANIC PROPHECIES SERIES PT. 1. Second Prophecy: The Messianic Star from Egypt. In the book of numbers the Holy Spirit inspired a false prophet named Balaam to see and proclaim the coming of a Ruler from Jacob, whom Balaam described as a