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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A visitor to this website recently wrote me to ask, “If the restoration of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount to the Jewish people during the Six-Day War in 1967 was really the fulfillment of the prophecy in Daniel about the restoration of the sanctuary, as you say in your books,…