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Biblical and historical studies on the nation of Israel, covenant theology, and prophetic fulfillment.
MESSIANIC PROPHECIES PT. 4: SHILOH HAS COME Paid Members Public
This post needs to be read with the following: MESSIANIC PROPHECIES SERIES PT. 2. As he lay in his bed dying, the patriarch Jacob prophesied over the fate of his twelve sons. In respect to Judah, Jacob proclaimed that the Ruler of the nations would come forth from his loins:
MARY: ISRAEL PERSONIFIED Paid Members Public
The Holy Bible depicts our Lord’s blessed mother as typifying or personifying the nation of Israel by taking language, which is reminiscent to the way the Hebrew Scriptures portray God’s people, and ascribing it to her. For instance, the nation is collectively addressed as the virgin daughter of
CHALLENGE TO THE RABBIS: SEEING THE GOD OF ISRAEL Paid Members Public
In this post I will cite examples from the Hebrew Bible or [O]ld [T]estament where YHVH the one true God of Israel appeared visibly to various individuals. Some of these visible encounters include God eating actual food and physically wrestling someone till daybreak! My purpose is to challenge
RAMESES II WAS NOT THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS! Paid Members Public
In this post I will be excerpting the section of the late biblical scholar and linguist Dr. Gleason L. Archer’s book Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, where he provides a somewhat lengthy refutation of the claim that Rameses II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus, which would place this miraculous
THE MESSIAHS OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Paid Members Public
The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) grant us a window into the 3rd century BC–1st century AD messianic understanding of a particular segment of “Palestinian” Jewry, helping us appreciate how specific Jews interpreted particular [O]ld [T]estament texts which they regarded as prophecies which pointed to the coming of
DID THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS DROWN? Paid Members Public
Since some are going around claiming that the Holy Bible NOWHERE says that the Pharaoh of the Exodus drowned, I decided to write this short post and let the readers decide if this is true or not. Compare what the following biblical passages state in respect to God overthrowing the
THE KING OF ISRAEL IS THE KING OF THE NATIONS Paid Members Public
One of the proofs which Muhammadan polemicists give to show that Jesus was only a national prophet, one sent solely for the Israelites, is that the New Testament describes him as the King of Jews and physical heir of David’s throne over the house of Jacob: “He shall be
PROVING TO JWS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE GOD OF ISRAEL Paid Members Public
In this post I will show how to put Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) in a dilemma by getting them to either admit Jesus is the one true God of Israel (even though he is not the Father), or that the [N]ew Testament contradicts the [O]ld Testament. Neither of