I have discovered something new. The English expression “my sanctified ones” in the KJV’s translation of Isaiah 13:3 probably refers to the saints. If this is the case, then the 144000 saints, or at least some number of the saints,...
A few days ago, after having examined the expression “the king of Babylon” in Isaiah 14:4, and the concept of “the abomination of desolation” in Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14, Daniel 12:11, Daniel 11:31 and Daniel 9:27, I said that “the...
Channel 7 recently reported that a South Korean messianic doomsday cult called “Shincheonji Church of Jesus” has a growing presence in Australia, after getting a foothold in Perth (ref. 1). ABC News also had a story about them a few...
Last year, a week or so after the raid of Hamas on October 7, Eyal Golan, famous in Israel for Mizrahi and pop music, released a new song titled “Am Yisrael Chai”, עם ישראל חי. This is a well-known expression...
When Solomon died, because his strange wives had made him turn away from God and serve demons instead, his kingdom was split by God into 2 parts: a northern kingdom of “Israel” and a southern kingdom of “Judah”. At this...
When Jesus Christ was here on earth some two thousand years ago as the Son of man, he promised his apostles that they would sit on thrones alongside him and reign over the 12 tribes of Israel. And Jesus said...
Late last year, shortly after I first figured out the idea of the saints, the 144000 of the 12 tribes of Israel, I realised that I am the servant in Isaiah 49 described as “Israel”. And said unto me, Thou...
I have just learnt that the original Greek of Erasmus’ Textus Receptus did not contain parts of 1 John 5:7-8. This is known to scholars of theology as the Johannine Comma, and it is the clearest statement in Bible translations...
I am currently reading Alister McGrath’s Historical Theology, a survey of theological debate in the church throughout the ages, to find out where it first went wrong. I just finished the Patristic Period and already I can conclude that at...
The translators on the committee that produced the King James Version 1611 of the Bible, and its 1769 respelling, which are based on the Hebrew of the Masoretic Text and on the Greek of the Textus Receptus, did excellent work....