Arts
Daniel – a Prophetic Vision Part 1
Life and Times in a Time of Tribulation I have purposefully left off addressing the Book of Daniel – can its central character even be regarded as a Jewish prophet who even existed at all? [more…]
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Christianity
Elisha – Picking up the Baton
We have finally got to the subject of the Elisha in my series of the prophets of the Old Testament, who I had meant to cover after addressing Elijah, but then got distracted by Isaiah, [more…]
Christianity
Ezekiel the Mystical Prophet Part 2 – the Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones
I wrote these articles at the prompting of Goodnight Vienna who became very interested in the Old Testament prophets at the end of her life, and the pair on Ezekiel were the last ones she [more…]
Christianity
Ezekiel – The Mystical Prophet Part 1
The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel is regarded as one of the three major prophetic books of the Old Testament, behind Isaiah and Jeremiah. After a period in the middle 20th century when scholars tended to [more…]
Christianity
Why Then? Why There? The First Coming of the Messiah
We are at the end of Advent, the Christian season that looks forward to Christ’s nativity. Today I am not going to tell you what you most probably already know about Advent, its significance and [more…]
Christianity
Isaiah Part 3 – The Second Coming of the Messiah
I wasn’t originally going to tackle the thorny subject of Biblical prophecies concerning the Second Coming of the Messiah, a subject that has caused more than a few people to lose their minds. However, a [more…]
Christianity
Isaiah Part 2 – Prophecies of the Christ
This is the second half, well final third perhaps, of the previous article about Isaiah published a few weeks ago and in this autumnal season as we start looking forward to Advent and then Christmas, [more…]
Christianity
Isaiah – A Prophet of Tetrarchic Vision
“Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens, who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts and calls them each by name, because of his great power, and mighty strength, not [more…]
Christianity
Job – Striving to Understand
This is dedicated to a fellow GP poster who saw a close friend die a horrible and early death of cancer only recently. His comments on this tragedy moved me deeply and inspired me [more…]