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The Voice from Heaven

While re-reading the Book of Psalms, I ran across a prophecy that was at first puzzling, as follows: “And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah” (Psalm 50:6) Has that prophecy been literally fulfilled and, if so, when and where did the heavens declare God’s…

Jesus’ Age at His Baptism

The prophecy of the Seventy Weeks in Dan. 9:24 identified the start of the public ministry of Jesus with his baptism. According to the chronological constraints of the prophecy, the final “week” of the Seventy Weeks, during which his baptism took place, was located between the Day of Pentecost in…

First Sabbath Year in Canaan

The Romans destroyed Herod’s Temple in 70 CE, which the ancient Jewish book of chronology, the Seder Olam, records as an event that occurred in a Sabbath Year. Counting backwards in time in seven-year increments from 70 CE reveals the following chronology for the year of the Exodus and the…

It was the wrong eclipse!

The Bûr-Saggilê eclipse (alternate spellings: Bur Sagale, Bur-Saggile, Pur-Sagale, Par-Sagale) is not mentioned in the Bible. It is an event that is recorded only on Assyrian cuneiform tablets unearthed at Nineveh in the early 1800s and now stored in the collections of the British Museum. Despite the lack of mention…