JESUS APPARENTLY COULDN'T DO OR SAY ANYTHING RIGHT. Whether teaching the thirsty or healing the indisposed, it seems like His entire ministry was hamstrung by the bureaucracy of religious allegation and pleas for messianic impeachment. The scribes and the Pharisees,...
Part 1 They Ate Passover with Their Shoes On (and Buried the Lamb of God in Haste) THE MAN NAMED Joseph of Arimathea could not have possibly slowed his stride to mull over the fragrant herbs and wildflowers presently dressing the outskirts of the road,...
THE OCCASION BY WHICH JESUS MOUNTED upon the foal of a donkey and descended down the southeastern slope of the Mount of Olives was no ordinary day. It was the tenth of Nissan, a Sabbath—or Saturday, April 21, 31 AD by the Gregorian calendar. We can quickly deduce that...
WHY EMPEROR Maxentius chose to meet Constantine in open battle, rather than endure a siege in Rome, is a question best relegated to histories prodigious book of blunders. Rome was undoubtedly stockpiled for such an event. Evidence points to the fact that both Valerius...
THE ANSWER TO ISRAEL’S PROBLEM RELIES ON THE SIMPLE FACT that Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, is the good shepherd whom King David and the Prophets spoke of. He is the angel of Yahweh who stood before Moses in the burning bush—the pillar of cloud who led Israel by...
THE SEVENTY SHEPHERDS WERE LIKELY REJOICING from the frosty, windswept slopes of the Golan Heights, hungry and salivating for a scattered flock, the very day when the last prophet of Israel took unto himself a wife of whoredoms. The word of Yahweh had come unto Hosea....
BY CLAIMING THAT HE HAD KILLED A LION and a bear, the shepherd boy David was making an astonishing connection. The giant Goliath, he told King Saul, might as well have been a wolf, a bear, a lion, a desert jackal, tiger, a Congolese ape, or an east African...
Part 1 Judah & Israel — A House Divided Cannot Stand THE BOOKS of Moses ended with a curse. If the children of Abraham did not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh, if they did not observe His commandments, then curses would be their lot....