How long did the Israelites sojourn in Egypt? The Bible is correct, they were there 430 years. In the Tanakh (Old Testament), it says “Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years.” (Exodus 12:40) But, despite that clear statement about…
Quoting from the JPS 1917 Tanakh and the King James Version “He was despised, and forsaken of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with disease, And as one from whom men hide their face: He was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (Isaiah 53:3) “He was in the world,…
The most popular traditional interpretations of Daniel 9:24-27 (aka the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks or the Messiah Prophecy) begin their exposition with a Persian decree, most often the one issued by Artaxerxes I Longimanus to Nehemiah. That decree is usually dated by most traditional interpreters to 445 BCE. The…
Today, the hope for a coming Messiah, an Anointed One from God who will usher in an age of peace, is shared by Jews and Christians alike, with one important difference: Judaism believes that the Messiah is yet to come to reign over a future kingdom of Israel. The followers…
Were there really more than half-a-million men (and more than 2 million Israelites if women and children are included) who left Egypt in the Exodus, as the Bible seems to say? If so, why is there no mention of such a mass exit in the ancient Egyptian records or any…
The Book of Daniel describes a detailed history of the Jewish people and must be interpreted from that viewpoint. The seventh chapter of Daniel describes a period of Jewish history involving four kings described as beasts, with the fourth beast having ten horns, each horn in turn representing a king.…
Chronology, together with prophecy, is one of my main areas of Bible research, so I am often asked why I avoid getting involved in the Young Earth vs. Old Earth debate. It’s a fair question. The simple answer is I don’t believe that man can establish a date for Creation…
The story of the woman caught in adultery and brought by the scribes and Pharisees to Jesus for judgment is recounted in the John 8:3-11 as follows: “And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They…
If Judaism ever builds a new Temple in Jerusalem, what attitude should followers of Jesus have toward it? In short, we should ignore it. A new Jewish Temple in Jerusalem won’t have any positive supernatural meaning for New Covenant believers or anyone else, and here’s why … Since the time…
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…