GOT HOPE? Christianity Delivers
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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According to the LORD, (Deuteronomy 34:5), Moses died in Moab, but no one “to this day” knows where his grave is. An odd little passage in Jude (1:9) says that the archangel Michael fought with Satan over Moses’ body. Jeremiah (2 Kings 2-12) wrote that Elijah didn’t die but was taken up to heaven in …
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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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In a prior blog, I shared a quote from a critical scholar called Ulrich Berges on the book of Isaiah that made clear the faulty premise upon which the Deutero Isaiah theories are based, which is that fulfilled prophecies aren't possible. Access that blog here: https://christian-apologist.com/2021/10/25/evidence-of-a-dogmatic-anti-theistic-originator-of-the-deutero-isaiah-theory/?preview_id=3205&preview_nonce=4c93ae6e04&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=3165 This blog continues this discussion with several rebuttals to …
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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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Did you know that most English translations of the Bible in Western Christian traditions rely heavily on the Masoretic texts, which were crafted between the 6th and 10th centuries after Christ walked the earth? Well, it's true. The Greek Orthodox church instead relies on Hebrew translations in the Septuagint, which were written between the first …
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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), a wonderful counselor, and a Prince of …
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