The PaRDeS sys­tem was first pub­lished in the Zohar in the sec­ond cen­tury, but it is evi­dently much older than that. The NT authors use all four lev­els, and thus, their under­stand­ing is cru­cial to under­stand­ing the NT. (more…)

There is a grow­ing move­ment world­wide that teaches that Jesus returned in 70 AD. If you wish to check out their argu­ments, search on Google for “prethe­ism”. They teach that the tribu­la­tion occurred at 70 AD. While they make a num­ber of valid points in inter­pret­ing rel­e­vant bib­li­cal pas­sages, I can­not agree with them that the King­dom has arrived at 70 AD. (more…)

These writ­ings are from Rabbi Moshe Schul­man. Just take a deep breath and read it, for there is much we can learn from it. I will make notes within the text in [*** … ***] brack­ets, except where I expand J. to J[esus]. Hope this writ­ing doesn’t frighten you too much, just be patient, there is much gold here. The arti­cle is quite long, it will take some time to read through and check the rel­e­vant verses.

As expected, the author attacks Chris­t­ian doc­trine. If you are not mature enough to han­dle oppo­si­tion, then don’t read these. (more…)

This is the sec­ond part of the post. Here Rabbi Moshe Schul­man gives his own com­men­tary on the pas­sage in ques­tion. Hope you are mature enough to read it, for there is much gold in it. The Jews know their Scrip­tures very well. In the third post I will show you how Jesus could still ful­fill it. (more…)

Read­ing Rabbi Schulman’s com­metary we realise that the ser­vant of God spo­ken of by Isa­iah is the right­eous rem­nant of Israel in the mes­sianic times.

How can that be still applied to Jesus? How did he ful­fill these prophe­cies? Are the gospel writ­ers at fault when they claim he did ful­fil these prophe­cies? (more…)