prophecy
Defense and exploration of biblical prophecy, its fulfillment, and interpretive challenges.
The Messiah in the Jewish Traditions Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun New Testament application of OT texts In this particular section of our series we will be quoting the NT corpus to see how Jesus and his followers understood and applied the specific OT texts and promises which we sourced in the first part of our series. We will
The Messiah in the Jewish Traditions Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun Introduction Here we begin a series of articles where we will be looking to specific OT passages concerning God’s promise to raise up a King for his people, a King who would reign forever. We will then proceed to examine such statements in light of the explanation
The Glory and Splendor of King Messiah Paid Members Public
Addendum – Kiss the Son! Sam Shamoun Some Jewish anti-missionaries argue that translating the word bar (ַּבר ) as "son" in Psalm 2:12 is a deliberate Christian distortion of the passage in order to turn it into a prophecy of Jesus. They assert that this is not a Jewish
The Glorious Splendor and Majesty of King Messiah Pt. 3 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We now come to the final part of our discussion. As far as the inspired Christian Greek Scriptures are concerned, the Lord Jesus is the only One that perfectly fulfills all of what passages such as Psalm 21 say concerning the Messiah. For example, the NT affirms that
The Glorious Splendor and Majesty of King Messiah Pt. 2 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun We continue from where we left off. The Messiah is the divine Son that shares in Yahweh’s worship and honor What makes this all the more amazing is that certain rabbinic sources combined Psalm 21:7-8 along with Psalm 2:7 and Daniel 7:13-14: Our Rabbis
The Glorious Splendor and Majesty of King Messiah Pt. 1 Paid Members Public
Sam Shamoun In this particular article we are going to be examining the Hebrew Bible to see what it has to say concerning the Messiah being crowned with the very splendor and majesty of God Almighty himself. Yahweh – The Gloriously Splendid and Majestic King The Hebrew Scriptures describe Yahweh as
The Son of Man as the Son of David Paid Members Public
Examining the OT Evidence for The Messianic Identity of Daniel’s Heavenly Figure Sam Shamoun Sometime in the sixth century BC the prophet Daniel received visions concerning future events, and in one of those visions he saw a heavenly Being in the likeness of a man coming to rule forever
The Messiah in the Jewish Traditions Pt. 3 Paid Members Public
The Witness of the Old Greek Version of the Hebrew Bible Sam Shamoun We resume our examination of some of the specific Jewish traditions concerning the coming and person of the Messiah. We will be focusing on the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible which was produced by Jews before