Posts filed under: Understanding the Bible

Change is slow but necessary among biblical scholars. How often do you change your position on a biblical doctrine? I imagine the answer is something like this, “Not very often,”...
Is the year of Jubilee a blindspot among Bible scholars? The year of Jubilee is possibly hiding in plain sight within Daniel’s famous seventy weeks prophecy. But if so, it’s...
Satan challenged the Word of God. Today, most people follow the lying snake. God’s Word to Adam and Eve was simple. If you eat of the tree of the knowledge...
Most people let others think for them. That includes Bible students. Do you think for yourself? If that’s an insulting question, then great. That was the intent. Everyone likes to...
The Apostle Peter thought he was living in the last days. And not only Peter but also the writer of the Book of Hebrews believed he was in the last...
Most teachers misunderstand the parable of the leaven. The word leaven is another word for yeast. Many Bibles translate the original word as yeast instead of leaven. So for this...
Matthew tells us the Magi visited Jesus. There is some mystery surrounding the identity and number of the Magi who came to visit Jesus around the time of his birth....
The birth of Jesus was the first Christmas miracle. The first Christmas miracle had nothing to do with an angel getting wings, a little boy with a drum, or a...
What is the Millennial week? The Millennial week is a term used by Bible scholars that refers to a particular version of interpretation in regards to biblical prophecy. The Millennial week...
Jesus explained the seeds, the sower, and the rejection. In this third section of chapter thirteen in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus explained what the parable of the sower means. The importance...