Did Jesus ever speak in tongues? The answer is “yes,” he did speak in tongues, that is, if we accept the testimony of Luke. It was in the Book of Acts, written by Luke, where the concept of speaking in tongues is introduced, and where we have documented evidence of…
Edwin R. Thiele is little known in Christian lay circles, but he is famous among theologians and in the academic community for his book, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, which supposedly harmonizes the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah. However, Thiele got it wrong. There is…
Always at Passover, someone writes an article in a Christian magazine about Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers and driving the merchants out of the Temple. All too frequently in recent years, they speculate that he was out of control with anger, throwing what would today be called…
A reader asked about where to find the United States mentioned in Bible prophecy. I am aware that many expositors have included the U.S. in their interpretations of end-time prophecies, especially when explaining the Book of Revelation, but I haven’t found any specific mention of the U.S. in any end-time…
Excerpt from my book Errors in Time (Chapter Two) “The Hebrew calendar that Moses instituted for the Children of Israel to observe once they had entered the Promised Land was based on the celestial method of time-keeping recorded in Genesis 1:14. It had twelve months of either twenty-nine or thirty…
As long as deep in the heart,The soul of a Jew yearns,And towards the East,An eye looks to Zion,Our hope is not yet lost,The hope of two thousand years,To be a free people in our land,The land of Zion and Jerusalem. HaTiqvah (literally “The Hope”) is the national anthem of…
Reproduced below is a Hebrew-to-English transcript of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) radio traffic on the morning of June 7, 1967, recorded live as the 55th Paratroopers Brigade liberated the Temple Mount and Western Wall during the Six-Day War. The following people are featured … Col. Motta Gur commanded the…
With every word you speak, you are almost certainly using some of the same air breathed by Jesus during his ministry. The average person breathes about 23,040 breaths a day, or by volume at 0.5 liter per breath it comes to about 11,520 liters of air breathed each day. In…
Readers who have found Daniel Unsealed, my commentary on the Book of Daniel, to be edifying, have written urging me to publish a commentary on the Book of Revelation. However, my Bible research has not yielded any new insights about Revelation, so I have no plans for writing a commentary…
Beware the Oral Law (the oral tradition) of the Rabbis, it isn’t from the mouth of Moses or God. Modern Rabbinic Judaism is primarily based on what is called the Oral Law. It consists of thousands of teachings that are not found in the written Bible, the Tanakh. In essence,…