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Clear searchEitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…experience discussing Yeshua with Jewish people bring valuable context to questions about messianic prophecy, the New Testament, and rabbinic interpretation. The book is most useful when it sends the reader back to the Hebrew Scriptures to ask whether the traditional objection re…
View recommendation →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…ts, it creates a strong presumption in favour of that conclusion. Psalm 69:8 is part of a messianic unit Psalm 69:8 should not be treated as an isolated remark inserted between otherwise messianic sufferings. It belongs to a tightly connected account extending from verses 7 to 12…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…fore cannot fairly be dismissed as a translation created after the event to manufacture a prophecy. The Greek evidence does not settle every interpretive question. Parthenos itself can occasionally be used more broadly, and a translator's choice is not inspired proof of the later…
Read article →Seth D. Postell, Eitan Bar & Erez Soref · Messianic biblical theology · 2017
…ip between the Mosaic Law and believers in Christ is deeply disputed among Christians and Messianic Jews. The authors argue a definite position and do not represent every Messianic approach to Torah observance. Test their larger framework from both Testaments, distinguish endurin…
View recommendation →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…its sanctuary. That creates a serious question. If Jesus is the Messiah, and if Daniel’s prophecy speaks of the Messiah being cut off before the Second Temple was destroyed, how can the Qur’an preserve His title while denying His death? The argument must be made carefully. Danie…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…tate is not yet the cleansed, believing, peaceful Israel described at the consummation of prophecy. It does force an important question: how should we read the many passages in which God promises to preserve Israel as a nation, gather its scattered people, restore them to the lan…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…dational to the Church, so their rule could describe apostolic authority over the renewed messianic community rather than a future role for national Israel. There is real truth behind this proposal. The Church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Chris…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…of twelve establishes The Twelve do not, by themselves, prove an entire system of future prophecy. Their appointment does establish several important facts: Jesus deliberately framed His messianic mission in relation to Israel's twelve-tribe identity. The apostles began as a fai…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…ust flee to the mountains. Flight on the sabbath day creates a specific difficulty. False messianic claimants exploit Israel's expectation. The Son of man appears in the Danielic cloud-coming scene. The elect are gathered as the kingdom approaches. These features do not make the…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…entieth week. Seventy sevens for Daniel's people and city Daniel 9 begins with Jeremiah's prophecy of Jerusalem's seventy years of desolation. Daniel confesses Israel's covenant rebellion and pleads for "thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain" (Daniel 9:16). Gabriel's answer retai…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ospels begin with Israel's covenant hope The announcement of Jesus' birth is unmistakably messianic and national: "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…she will receive a new name from the mouth of the LORD. The geographical character of the prophecy is difficult to miss. Isaiah speaks about Zion, Jerusalem, her land, her walls, her watchmen, her grain, her wine, her gates, and the highway by which the people return. The chapter…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…of Jewish identity. This distinction matters when reading Zechariah's description of the messianic age: “Ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God i…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…h the Father: the Father speaks to the Son at His baptism (Mark 1:11). Yet he has taken a prophecy about preparing the way for the LORD and placed Jesus at its point of arrival. That is not yet a complete doctrine of the Trinity. It is something more basic and disruptive to the c…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…emoved from the narrative which gives those titles meaning. He is called Messiah, but His messianic mission is not explained. He is called a word from God, but not the Word who was with God and was God. He is associated with the Spirit, but is made to deny the divine identity pro…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…Judea and flight to the mountains; the Sabbath; Daniel's abomination of desolation; false messianic claimants; the coming of the Son of man; a worldwide gathering as the public advent unfolds. An argument from silence is not decisive by itself. Here, however, the silence is speci…
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