Are we Gentilizing the Word of God?
Voice Magazine Sept-Oct 2010 In my previous article (March/April 2010) I introduced the issue that we fundamentalists often subconsciously depreciate the doctrine of Messiah and the doctrine of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. In a very brief way I began to show that Jesus, who is the Second Person of the God-head, was active in the Tanakh as the “angel of the LORD” (Gen 22; Exod 3), the “caption of the LORD’s host” (Josh 5), the LORD (Isaiah 50:1-6; Zech 11:4-14), and the Shechinah (Exod 3; 13:21-22; 14:19-24;19:16-20; 33:12-23; 40:34-38). As I show in my new book, “Discovering the...
Read MoreHave We Minimized Christ and the Trinity?
Voice Magazine Mar-April 2010 Are you startled by the title of this article? Can this possibly be true? I trust as you read this short biblical treatise on the subject of the Tri-unity of God and the Deity of the Messiah that it will bring to your attention some fresh biblical material on this doctrine from the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) and expose a glaring weakness in the Church today as it relates to the doctrine of Christ as well as challenging believers in being able to share the Gospel of Christ with Jewish people. After being raised in fundamental Bible churches I am very...
Read MoreJerusalem and Islam
Israel’s Messenger Summer – 2006 This article will be historical in nature rather than biblical since the biblical perspective has been laid out clearly in pervious articles. Today in our newspapers and on the evening news two words have been used almost inseparably, Jerusalem and Islam. We have seen in previous articles in Israel’s Messenger that Jerusalem, the Land of Israel and the Jewish people are the focal point of human history. Does Islam have a claim to Jerusalem? They dogmatically say that they do. Here is what we do understand today. The Jewish nation has the right to...
Read MoreThe City of Jerusalem
Israel’s Messenger Spring – 2006 The most important city in the world is not Washington, D.C. nor is it London, Paris or Brussels. It is not Berlin, Moscow, Baghdad (Babylon) or Beijing. It is a city that from a modern mind is insignificant and unimportant and has been so for centuries. But in this city God has placed His name and has made an eternal covenant with a group of people that have been hated and persecuted like no other people. The name of their ancient capital city and the future capital city of the world is Jerusalem. The name Jerusalem means holy city or the city of...
Read MoreSecond Temple
Israel’s Messenger Summer – 2005 After the first temple was destroyed by Babylon in 586 BCE it was 70 years before the second and less glorious temple was erected. In this article we will look at the scriptures, timing & dating as well as the problems encountered with the building of the second temple. Then we will focus on the promise that was given by God and its fulfillment in the coming of the Messiah. Scriptures: The books of the Bible that contain the significant verses on the second temple or found in Ezra 3-6, Daniel 9:27, the prophecies of Haggai and Zechariah and...
Read MoreThe Tabernacle: God’s Plan and Purpose
Israel’s Messenger January - 2005 God is the greatest communicator that man has ever known and it is His desire to have fellowship with man. He gave us pictures and stories to capture the minds and hearts of children and adults alike. In the Tabernacle you have pictured the separation between a holy God and fallen man and how to approach God. The stories of Adam & Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses are a progression of people and events that capture the hearts and minds of all and illustrate God’s desire to communicate with us. God only used two...
Read MoreThe Imperative of Jewish Evangelism
Voice Magazine Sept-Oct 2003 What does the word imperative mean? It means “not to be avoided or evaded, urgent”! I’m responding to this topic with a sense of urgency. Are you familiar with this definition of interpretation from Dr. David L Cooper? “When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense, therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, … indicate otherwise”. I believe, without hesitation, that the literal method of interpretation is the only way to understand the...
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