Did Jesus declare his deity when he claimed he could quench thirst on the last day of the Feast of Taber­na­cles? We read the following:

Jn. 7:37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and pro­claimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. 38 He who believes in me, as the scrip­ture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of liv­ing water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glo­ri­fied. (more…)

Let me share my thoughts con­cern­ing expres­sions of divine favour, a con­cept so often ignored by the expos­i­tors of the NT. As an exam­ple let us con­sider the fol­low­ing passage:

Col 1:16 for in him all things were cre­ated, in heaven and on earth, vis­i­ble and invis­i­ble, whether thrones or domin­ions or prin­ci­pal­i­ties or author­i­ties — all things were cre­ated through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (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…)

The story of the repen­tant crim­i­nal cru­ci­fied on Jesus’ side gives way to var­i­ous inter­pre­ta­tions. The debate is over where the comma should be placed in Jesus’ answer. Since in the ancient Greek text there were no point­ings, we may expect that it is the the­ol­ogy of the trans­la­tors that deter­mine the cor­rect ren­der­ing, or is it? What if we the con­text gives us a clue? (more…)

The Jew­ish hope all along was the mes­sianic age. They call it the “Olam Haba”, that is “the Age to Come”. It is the King­dom of God or more rev­er­ently, the King­dom of Heaven. (more…)