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Oppose Anti-Semitism

During WWII, the Nazis required all Jews to wear a Yellow Star of David on their chest. It was intended as a badge of shame. Today, the shame is with the people who are criticizing Israel’s defense of its people from further harm by Hamas. Astoundingly, many Americans and even…

Statement on the Gaza War

Several people have asked if the Gaza War currently underway was predicted in the Bible. Other than the generalized statement spoken by Jesus saying that there would be wars and rumors of wars (Matthew 24:6-13), no it wasn’t. The Bible’s time-specific prophecy doesn’t work that way. Its purpose is to…

Science vs. Religion?

A reader who previewed my Bible chronology book emailed me about my views on the Young Earth vs. Old Earth controversy. In his words, he wanted to know if I believe, as he framed the question, “the Bible’s version of creation or science’s version of creation.” On this topic, I…

Are all Jews going to hell?

“Supersessionism, also called replacement theology, is a Christian theology which describes the theological conviction that the Christian Church has superseded the nation of Israel assuming their role as God’s covenanted people, thus asserting that the New Covenant through Jesus Christ has superseded or replaced the Mosaic covenant exclusive to Jews.…

Letter to Jews in Rome

adapted from the Book of Romans, chapter 4 (Hebrew Names Version) What then will we say that Avraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? For if Avraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. For what does the Scripture say? “Avraham…

Jesus predicted modern Israel

As regular readers of this website know, we shy away from the more Hollywood-ish aspects of prophecy interpretation. In our interpretations of Bible prophecy, you will not find cars and buses careening off the road, airplanes falling from the sky, or millions of Chinese soldiers leading the charge against Israel…

The Wise Shall Understand

“And he [the messenger from God] said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [the prophecies recorded in the Book of Daniel] are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none…

The seed promise to Abraham

Did pharaoh Merneptah know about the promise that God made to Abraham and his seed about the land of Canaan? The late scholar Frank Moore Cross said the following about the Merneptah Stele, with its inscription almost universally recognized as the first extra-Biblical reference to Israel: “The Merneptah Stele is…