Judaism and Jesus’ Divinity
I am a good deal more than halfway done with Divine Messiah, my upcoming eBook and limited release paperback on a Jewish perspective on the divinity of Messiah. Some interesting things have happened....
View ArticleCareful but Confusing Language About Yeshua as Divine Messiah
The eBook, Divine Messiah, is getting close to completion. I have just finished chapter 4. And the book only has six chapters. And chapter 6 will be brief, since it is called “Is Messiah Divine? A...
View ArticleThe Shechinah and the Divine Messiah
I am in the final stages of writing Divine Messiah, my exploration of the “Divine Messiah realization” from a Jewish perspective. The Divine Messiah realization is what happened to the early...
View ArticleJerusalem’s Divine Destiny
Isaiah is famously messianic. Most people interested in Isaiah are inspired by a number of passages about Messiah or the coming Messianic Age. A parallel theme is the glorious future of Jerusalem. I...
View ArticleIs the New Testament as Reliable as Torah?
One reason I included the explanation which follows in my sixth chapter of Divine Messiah is that I heard from more than one Jewish friend some variation of this objection to belief in Yeshua. It is...
View ArticleANNOUNCEMENT: Divine Messiah is written
I am finished! Divine Messiah is finished as of about 9:30 p.m. last night. Five of the six chapters have been edited. Last chapter was sent to my volunteer editor last night (Krista in the Czech...
View ArticleBook Announcement: Divine Messiah
In the early half of the first century, it happened so suddenly that there are no records of the way the innovation came about. The early community of Yeshua-followers started believing and practicing...
View ArticleDivine Messiah Now in the Amazon Kindle Store
You can buy it now for $9.99 and you don’t need a Kindle device to read it. Get the Kindle Reader app for your phone, laptop, or tablet. Here is a direct link to Divine Messiah:...
View ArticlePREVIEW: Divine Messiah
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Seated at the Right Hand. 2. God’s Nature in the Hebrew Bible. 3. Jewish Precursors, Parallels, and Provenance. 4. The Early Believer’s Devotion to the Divine Messiah. 5. Being...
View ArticleJames Pyles Reviews Divine Messiah
Christian literature is replete with apologetics in support of Jesus as Deity, as co-equal with God the Father and God the Spirit. It’s not as if what Derek Leman wrote was the first ever attempt at...
View ArticleCome, Let Us Go Up
I have been working on a commentary on Isaiah for almost three years now. The first two years were just for a close reading of the whole book and of commentaries on the book of Isaiah. 2014 and 2015...
View ArticleDivine Messiah Countdown: Messiah’s Story
I’m calling this the countdown to Divine Messiah because the paperback is about to be available at last! On Sunday, I will be taking pre-orders. Many bought the book in eBook form. Some did so just to...
View ArticlePre-Orders: DIVINE MESSIAH in Paperback
In the early half of the first century, it happened so suddenly that there are no records of the way the innovation came about. The early community of Yeshua-followers started believing and practicing...
View ArticleCongregating in the Name of Our Divine Messiah
In chapter 5 of Divine Messiah; I briefly discuss aspects of living out the reality of Messiah’s divinity. What does it mean practically? How does the revelation of Yeshua from heaven as equal to God...
View ArticleIsaiah 3:1-9
It may not seem like the most inspiring of passages. But perhaps if you take time to read the commentary below you will come to think otherwise. Isaiah foresaw a doom that did not happen in his...
View Article“Messianic Isaiah” and Isaiah 4
I have an email list called “Messianic Isaiah.” It consists of people who wish to support my work in making commentaries on the book of Isaiah (which is the task I consider to be my life’s work, on...
View ArticleDivine Messiah Seminar, A Taste, #1
Talking about the early believers in Yeshua and the inconvenient truth of his divinity is something I’ve done a few times. I’ll be continuing to share seminars on the topic in 2015. I’m updating my...
View ArticleAre We Apostates? Yeshua’s Divinity
This is another excerpt, like yesterday’s post, from my presentation on Divine Messiah, which I am sharing this weekend in Columbus, Ohio, at Beth Messiah. Any statement that begins with “God cannot”...
View ArticleThe Early Believers and the Divine Messiah
This is yet another taste of my book Divine Messiah and of a seminar I present to groups. I will be presenting in Columbus, OH, this weekend and the following is an excerpt from my notes. Many people...
View ArticleA “Where It All Started” Tour
Calling on friends in Australia, New Zealand, England, and South Africa . . . I have been growing contacts and friends in far-off places and I’m going to make an effort to do some speaking tours late...
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