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The following is taken from The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy: Studies and Expositions of the Messiah in the Old Testament, edited by Michael Rydelnik and Edwin Blum, published by Moody Publishers in 2019, pp. 1300-1313. All emphasis will be mine. Zechariah 13:7-9 The Striking of the Shepherd King J. RANDALL PRICE The prophet Zechariah addressed the Jewish people who had returned to Judah from exile in Babylon. The goal of his ministry was to motivate the commu

The following is taken from The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy: Studies and Expositions of the Messiah in the Old Testament, edited by Michael Rydelnik and Edwin Blum, published by Moody Publishers in 2019, pp. 1285-1300. All emphasis will be mine. Zechariah 12:10-13:1 The Pierced Messiah DANIEL E. STUART The early rabbis and Christian expositors interpreted Zechariah 12:10 as a messianic prophecy.1 Today, many Bible scholars reject the “messianic interpretation

The following excerpt on Zechariah 12:10 is taken from Dr. Michael L. Brown’s Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, Volume 3: Messianic Prophecy Objections, published by Baker Books Publication in date ‏ 2003. All emphasis will be mine. 4.31. Zechariah 12:10 has nothing to do with Jesus. Although there are ambiguities in the Hebrew text, this passage clearly speaks of a time of national mourning in Israel over one slain, resulting in the spiritual cleansing of the nation

There are specific narrations where Muhammad’s child-bride Aisha is reported to have said that a girl of nine is a woman. Case in point: Qutaybah told us: Abdul Aziz bin Muhammad told us, on the authority of Muhammad bin Amr, on the authority of Abu Salamah, on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah said: “The orphan girl is consulted about herself. If she remains silent, that is her permission, and if she refuses, then there is no permission for her.

I share the legal rulings and opinions of the Muslim website IslamWeb (https://islamweb.net/ar/; https://islamweb.net/en/)., in respect to having sex with prepubescent, premature minors. The readers will see that Muslim scholars do allow men to have sex with girls younger than 9 years old provided they are able to handle penetration. Question What is the ruling on marrying a minor? Is the marriage contract valid? If the marriage contract is valid, what is the ruling on havi

In this post I will be sharing the response from IslamWeb (https://islamweb.net/ar/; https://islamweb.net/en/). where they refute the narration attributed to Aisha who supposedly said that a girl who reaches the age of nine is a woman. The sources prove that Aisha was still a premature, prepubescent minor when Muhammad married her and did not reach puberty until she was 14 years old, some five years after she had been deflowered by a 54-year-old man, old enough to be her gran

In this post I revisit Muhammad’s encounter with the spirit who psychologically violated and demoralized him. The spirit had so traumatized Muhammad that he repeatedly tried to kill himself because of it. The citations that I will be quoting are all taken from Volume 1 of Ibn Kathir’s The Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya), translated by professor Trevor Le Gassick, reviewed by Dr. Ahmed Fareed, published by Garnet Publishing Limited, 8 Southern Court, sout

I quote here Eikhah Rabbah 1:51, The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022, for the express purpose of showing that even the rabbis acknowledged that Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. What makes this rabbinic source all the more relevant is that it ascribes to the Messiah the following OT passages: Gen. 49:10; Ps. 72:17; Jer. 16:13; 23:6; Dan. 2:22. With that said, I now cite the reference. All emphasis will be mine. There was an incident involving Doeg ben Yosef who died and le

Among the discovery of the Dead Scrolls in 1947, a fragment was found in cave 4 called 4Q521, and named "Messianic Apocalypse" or "Resurrection Fragment." It has been dated around the 1st to 2nd century BC. This fragment is interesting in that it describes the heavens and earth obeying the Messiah. Beside the entire creation submitting to the Messiah, the scroll describes the Lord carrying out specific miracles and preaching the good news: Heaven and earth will obey his

The Q Gospel is a hypothetical sayings Gospel, which scholars have reconstructed from the material found in Matthew and Luke. These scholars theorize that since Matthew and Luke include some of the same sayings of Jesus not found in Mark, they must have used a common source. The scholars have labeled this nonexistent hypothetical reconstruction Quelle (“Q”), a German word meaning “Source.” Since this alleged Gospel predates the composition of Matthew and Luke, this would me

The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) grant us a window into the 3rd century BC–1st century AD messianic understanding of a particular segment of “Palestinian” Jewry, helping us appreciate how specific Jews interpreted particular [O]ld [T]estament texts which they regarded as prophecies which pointed to the coming of the Messiah. OT references such as 2 Samuel 7:10-14, Psalm 2:1, Isaiah 11:1-2, Jeremiah 23:5, Daniel 7:14, 27, Amos 9:11 and a few others are all explained in regards to

In this post I will be presenting evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls, which support the NT depiction of Jesus as the Divine Messianic King, being the unique divine Son of God who becomes Man for the express purpose of becoming the Davidic Messiah who rules and saves. The “Son of God” Text (4Q246) A pre-Christian Aramaic document was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS), dated to the late first century B.C., which describes the Danielic Son of Man as the Son of God Most High

Islamic tradition states that one of the individuals that Muhammad ordered to be murdered subsequent to his conquest of Mecca was Abdallah ibn Sa’d ibn Abi Sarh, the foster brother of Uthman ibn Affan: Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: Abdullah ibn AbuSarh used to write (the revelation) for the Apostle of Allah. Satan made him slip, and he joined the infidels. The Apostle of Allah commanded to kill him on the day of Conquest (of Mecca). Uthman ibn Affan sought protection for him.

I cite various translations and/or interpretations of Deut. 18:15-19 and 34:10-12 from a variety of writings. All emphasis will be mine. Rashi 15 A prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me, the Lord, your God will set up for you; you shall hearken to him. A prophet] from among you, from your brothers, like me. This means: Just as I am among you, from your brothers, so will He set up for you [another prophet] in my stead, and so on, from prophet to prophet. (T

ANOTHER QURAN ONLY DILEMMA The Quran boasts of being a perfect scripture that explains all things in detail, providing a thorough detailed explanation of its verses: Do they not then consider the Qur’an carefully? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much contradictions. S. 4:82 Hilali-Khan Say: “Shall I seek for judge other than God? – when He it is Who hath sent unto you the Book, explained in detail.” They know full well, to whom We have

This will be a short showing how the Quran testifies that it is the only hadith that Allah has inspired, being a scripture that explains everything in detail. This is why the Muslim scripture says that no other hadith is needed and therefore should be rejected. The Only Hadith Needed Allah! There is no god except He. He will surely summon you on the Day of Resurrection – the inevitable day. Whose Hadith is more truthful than that of Allah’s? S. 4:87 Have they not looked at

I will be referencing specific extracts from the letters and sermons of Pope St. Leo related to the Roman Supremacy and the Filioque. All emphasis will be mine. The following comes from Sermon 3, delivered on September 29, 443 AD, as translated in Leo The Great: Sermons (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series), and published by The Catholic University of America Press Publication in 1996, pp. 19-24. Every time that God in his mercy sees fit to bring back the day of his gi

In Daniel 7, the prophet beholds an astonishing vision wherein he sees two Divine Powers/Persons. I quote part of the vision here for the benefit of the readers: “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and said the following summary of the matter. Daniel answered and said, ‘I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great

The prophet Daniel is given visions in which he sees two distinct divine Powers or Persons, namely, the Ancient of Days and one like a Son of Man: “I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His clothing was like white snow And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with fire, Its wheels were a burning fire. A river of fire was flowing And coming out from before Him; Thousands upon thousands were attending Him, And myri

In this post I will be quoting from that section of the Book of Enoch called the Watchers. I will be using the following translation: The Book of the Watchers. All emphasis will be mine. My aim in doing so is to show that what Enoch says about God is precisely what the New Testament writings say about Christ. The very functions, characteristics and appearance of God in this section of Enoch are all ascribed to the Lord Jesus, and the reason seems obvious. Jesus Christ is be