The timing of Jesus’ crucifixion, death, and resurrection is one of the strongest pieces of evidence proving that the Sabbath  is on a Saturday and NOT a Sunday.   Let’s take a look at the following text.   The setting is immediately following the crucifixion.  Jesus has just been taken down from the cross and […]

Today we begin teachings from Genesis Chapter 2. For the Complete Jewish Bible click here. If you’re a King James diehard, click here. Let’s start by taking a look at the following excerpt from Genesis Chapter 2. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them.   On the seventh day God […]

I remember when the classic Spielberg movie Jaws first came out. It was a beautiful sunny day in rural Minnesota. I was about 12 years old and riding in a truck with my mom and her friends. Suddenly, in a burst of excited inspiration it was decided that we would all go and see this […]

Hebrew is constructed using a system of “root” words. The Hebrew language takes a word, gives it a meaning, and then there are offshoots of that word that gives us different words for different uses (more similar to Chinese or Japanese in this sense I would say).   However, the different words coming from the […]

When reading Scripture, we’re all guilty of superimposing our own ideas, insecurities and bias into the text. This is called “eisegesis” in convoluted seminary talk. For example, in the Genesis account, most people assume the first human created was a male. However, the Scripture isn’t so crystal clear on this point. Let’s take a good look […]