Restoring the brethren to the Son of Joseph, one day at a time
To frame my thoughts on the full ramifications of Yeshua's sacrifice, I need to start by rambling philosophical on the nature of "spirit." If we don't understand what a "spirit" is or what we mean when we talk about a "spiritual realm," how can we understand what the Bible means when it uses spiritual terminology. …
God's presentation in Job rubs a lot of people wrong. Christians look at the book as an inspiring story of a man's faith, but there's a real problem that Hashem's followers need to address: Here is this perfectly nice, righteous, family man, and God lets Satan ruin his life--and murder his children--over a bet. To …
I'm trying to decide the best way to frame the next in the Prophecy in the NT series, and while pondering that came across something that looked like fun to tackle. I recently discovered Dominic Bnonn Tennant's blog via a post to one of my Facebook Groups--specifically, his post, "Presupposing freewill theism is the opposite …
One reader of this blog, Andy Doerksin, asked a question in the "About the Author" page that I thought deserved it's own post: Hmm, why do you say “G-d” and “L-RD” when Yahweh has clearly invited us to call Him by name? Why do you cut off intimacy with Him when that’s specifically what He’s …
Last night, Jake Ruchotzke from the Seek4Truth podcast / screencast was kind enough to have me join him on the show. While I failed to actually get around to explaining the tag line: "Why Israel is no longer under the gods of the nations," we had a good time and I got to give the broad …
In my previous post, I ignored the most obvious objection to the idea that the time of Israel's punishment, known as the Curse of the Law, is coming or has come to an end: "But that can't be! The Jews still haven't accepted Jesus as their Messiah and Savior!" Okay, let's deal with that. As …
Yes, that's a rather ambitious title. But I think it's true. I think that there's a particular prophecy that ultimately answers all of the arguments of both preterism and supercessionism. It also stands as a stark warning to the Church. To set understand why this particular prophecy is so important, first you have to understand …
Continue reading "The Most Important End-Time Prophecy in the Bible"
I'm currently reading David A. deSilva's Honor, Patronage, Kinship, & Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture. It's a fascinating read, and not too dense or pedantic for a scholarly work, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to better understand the New Testament. I'll have to do a full review sometime, but at the moment, I'd …
[Author's note: I'm playing around with some features in Google Docs, namely the EasyBib Bibliography Creator, Bible Verse, and Docs to WordPress add-ons. Consequently, this post is going to look a bit more like an academic paper than usual. Let me know what you think!] If you spend any time at all in academia--or with …
It's been a while since I really wrote on spiritual warfare, and that's not because my life has lacked it. I've actually been frustrated with how subtle the battle tends to be. It'd be much easier if the demons would just pop out in full manifestation so that they could be driven out in the …
The Return of Benjamin 