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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
One of the hardest things to grasp about the nature of God is the idea of the Trinity. It is a stumbling block, especially for my Jewish friends who often ask me, “Doesn’t the Shema clearly say, Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is ONE? Then…