At a recent Christian conference in Germany the issue of collective guilt over the holocaust was quite palpable. There was an emotional spectacle of German Christians kneeling before a handful of Jewish believers asking for forgiveness for the holocaust, which is, apparently, a recurring theme at conferences of this nature in Germany. It seems that, […]
The Seventieth Week of Daniel
October 4, 2012 by
“Seventy weeks (sevens) are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy one … He will confirm a covenant with many (one week). […]
The New Covenant with Israel | Jeremiah 31
October 4, 2012 by
God chose one nation, Israel, to make known his ways and reveal his character to all mankind. God called Israel into a covenant relationship with himself and entrusted his law to them to reveal his plan of salvation for all the nations. The Bible is the record of God’s dealings with Israel through the covenants. […]
The Prophet like Moses
October 4, 2012 by
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; according to all that thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of […]
The origins of Christian-Jew hatred ― Is the New Testament Antisemitic?
October 4, 2012 by
This was the provocative title of a talk held at the Sydenham Highlands North Community Centre recently, under the auspices of the CAJE as part of a series of talks on Antisemitism. While not agreeing with many of the conclusions reached, the speaker, Dr. Jocelyn Hellig, to her credit, was well aware of the provocative […]
The Mystery of the Olive Tree
October 4, 2012 by
“The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken” (Jeremiah 11:16). Israel – the Olive Tree The Lord referred to Israel as a beautiful and fruitful olive tree. The imagery […]
The Leprous House
October 4, 2012 by
And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, When you come into the land of Canaan which I give you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession, and if he that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, A […]
The Judgement of the Sanhedrin on Jesus
October 4, 2012 by
Many Jewish people reject the claim that Jesus is the Messiah on the assumption that the religious leaders of Judaism, who are learned in the Scriptures, would have accepted him as such if it were true. They reason, that if the religious leaders rejected Jesus as the Messiah, they can trust in their judgement which […]
The Hope of Israel Part 2
October 4, 2012 by
ONE NATION UNDER ONE KING We will now consider the second part of Ezekiel chapter 37, the re-uniting of God’s holy nation under one King – a descendant of David (My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd). This is unquestionably a prophecy of the Messiah who would […]
The Hope of Israel | Ezekiel 37
October 4, 2012 by
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12) The modern Zionist movement was established as a direct response to anti-Semitism, born of the hope of establishing a Jewish state where Jews would be able to return to the land of their forefathers and live in peace […]
