Messiah

  • Caught in the Gap

    Many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah  Psalm 3:2  NASB No salvation – Man on Fire Do you think God will forgive us   MOVIE CLIP “You think God will forgive us for what we’ve done?”  Rayburn replies, “No.”  Such is the life of those who sin.  Oh, wait a…

  • Medley Music

    But I know my redeemer lives, and in the end he will stand up on earth and after they flay my skin, from my flesh I shall behold God.  Job 19:25-26  Robert Alter My redeemer – Job never met Samuel Medley, but if he had, perhaps we would have corrected the lyrics Medley used in…

  • What Day Is That? (1)

    Then you will say on that day, “I will give thanks to You, Lord; for although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.  Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.”  Isaiah 12:1-2 NASB On that day –…

  • Setting Him Up

    The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.” Job 1:8  NASB No one – God lifts the veil.  Job is happily—and righteously—going about his life, being the faithful servant he desires to be.  It’s God who draws…

  • The Rational Apologetic

    “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.”  John 3:16 NASB Believes – In an online document entitled, “How to Motivate Anyone to Become a Christian,” the author offers the following as “compelling” proof (I will not cite this source) that…

  • A Remedy Comes Before The Sickness

    And not only this, but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.  Romans 5:11  NASB Reconciliation – Reconciliation: noun: 1 the restoration of friendly relations: his reconciliation with your uncle | the colonel was seeking a reconciliation with his wife. 2 the action of making one view or belief compatible with another: he aims to bring about a reconciliation…

  • Jude’s Law

    to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.  Jude 1:25  NIV Only – Jude wrote this letter toward the end of the first century CE.  By then Messianic assemblies were established in many cities of the Mediterranean world.  Jude’s language shows…

  • Theological Correctness

    Are You not from time everlasting, Lord, my God, my Holy One?  We will not die.  Habakkuk 1:12a  NASB We – What is a tiqun sofrim? As you might guess, it is a written restoration, a place where a scribe corrected the text because of the theological implication.  In this case, the Masoretic text reads “we,”…

  • The Jewish Messiah

    And He continued by questioning them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ.”  Mark 8:29  NASB Who – Most of us realize that virtually all the followers of Yeshua in the early part of the first century were Jewish.  That means Jews thought Yeshua was the Messiah long…

  • Messianic?

    “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a…