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Christianity originated during Jesus’ ministry on the earth, which began around 30 AD. Islam originated during Muhammad’s life around 622 A.D. Today, around 2.6 billion people consider themselves Christians, while 1.5 billion consider themselves Muslim. While these two religions share some of the history in the Old Testament, they share very little else in their …
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Around 960 years before Christ appeared on the earth, King Solomon built the first Jewish Temple. In the 6th century B.C., King Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem and its Temple fell in 586 B.C. In 539, King Cyrus of the Medo-Persian kingdom captured Babylon and permitted the Jews to rebuild their temple. It was completed in 516 …
Modern Jews often say that Jesus was not the fulfillment of their expectations. They expect a conquering king who will restore Israel’s sovereignty. But are these modern ideas in alignment with all Jews’ expectations in ancient times? Who were the Jews expecting to be their Messiah around the time of Jesus’ arrival? Daniel (9:24-27) prophesied …
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When Jesus appeared, He fulfilled multiple Jewish prophecies that pointed to His timing (Daniel 9), lineage through David (2nd Samuel 7; Psalm 132:11; Isaiah 11:1, Jeremiah 23:5); birthplace in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), birth through the seed of a virgin (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14); humble and righteous King (Zechariah, 9:9). He would make an appearance in …
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Modern liberal revisionists can't stomach the view that Daniel correctly prophesied a variety of events that occurred decades and centuries after his time, so they have invented the notion (following the 3rd century A.D. pagan Porphyry) that Daniel was written by an imposter in the 2nd century B.C. who duped ancient Jews into thinking his …
Around the 8th century B.C., the major prophet of the Jewish Scriptures, Isaiah, made a good number of prophecies that concerned his own existence as a Judean under Assyrian rule in the 8th century B.C. Many of his prophecies would be fulfilled over a hundred years later when Babylon overtook Assyria - and then after …
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Around the time of the Assyrian exile of the Hebrews in the 8th century B.C., the prophet Isaiah wrote some very specific prophecies that described the way King Cyrus would permit the Jews to return to their land from the Babylonian exile in the 6th century B.C. The divine implications of such prophecies are as …
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Around the 1800s, "critical" scholars in German universities realized the divine implications of fulfilled prophecies in the Bible, so rather than accept their possibility, they produced theories to discredit the original authorship and dating of books by Isaiah, Daniel, and others. Their theories are often complicated (such as proposing multiple authors over centuries and mysterious …
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Around 700 years prior to Jesus’ birth, the prophet Isaiah stated that He would come from a stem of Jesse (11:1) in the line of King David and the tribe of Judah. He would be born of a virgin (7:14) and would be called Immanuel (God with us). Daniel (9) predicted the precise time of …
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The faulty notion that the book of Isaiah had multiple authors over centuries (rather than a single author ~700 BC) was first shoveled into Biblical thought by Abraham Ibn Ezra in 1145 AD. Before that, everyone (including numerous people in the New Testament, such as Jesus, John, and Paul) attributed the book to a single …
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