Christian Cults
By James Jacob Prasch Introduction In the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24 and Luke 21, Jesus warned about false teachers, false prophets, false Christs. Now when I was a young […]
The Book of Ruth
by James Jacob Prasch Introduction The book of Ruth is read in the Jewish Synagogue at the feast of Pentecost, which is the first day, as it were, of the […]
Ezekiel’s Scroll
by James Jacob PraschEzekiel prophesied at a time when God’s judgment of Israel was not merely impending, but had already begun; the Captivity was underway. Eat What I Am Giving […]
Midrash
The Way The New Testament Writers Handled The Old Testament by James Jacob Prasch Midrash is the method of hermeneutics (Biblical interpretation) used by the ancient rabbis in the time […]
hanukkah Part 2 o 2
The Jewish Holiday Season In John 9, Jesus does a messianic miracle: He gives sight to a blind person, blind from birth. As He passed by, He saw a man […]
Principles of Persecution
by James Jacob Prasch And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this: “I […]
Abraham’s Journey
by James Jacob Prasch Introduction Open with me, please, to Genesis 12. In Hebrew we call the book of Genesis “B”reshit” €“ “in the beginning”. This is about 2,166 years […]
What the Reformers Forgot Part 2 of 2
Erasmus of Rotterdam These failures of the Reformers were recognised by their own harbinger, Erasmus of Rotterdam, who advocated rebaptism in the preface to his translation of Matthew’s Gospel. […]
Divine Aristocracy
By James Jacob Prasch Introduction Let us look at a few verses in Proverbs before turning to our main text in Ecclesiastes.Proverbs 8; 6-11: “Listen, for I shall speak […]