The Jerusalem Council

Matthew 24 involves three separate time frames and verse 36 can be seen in reference to a time frame apart from the Second Coming.

In Genesis 1:14, we see that the sun, moon and stars were given to us for “signs.” At precisely 5:58AM on March 2nd, 2013, this sign will appear in the Jerusalem sky…

Without knowing how, because it is yet to be and no man knows, we know enough to this; that in the very same way that the Appointed Times of the Spring Feasts were brought to their literal fulfillment at Messiah’s first coming, so to will the Appointed Times of the Fall Feasts be brought to their literal fulfillment at Messiah’s return.

The following is a chart showing the various divisions of Daniels prophecy in Chapter 9 and how they lay out for us in our time.

In biblical typology, “the fig tree” is the nation of Israel . But when did the fig tree nation begin to bud forth again?

The angel Gabriel was sent to the prophet Daniel giving him a precise timeline for the coming of the Messiah. Since the Messiah comes twice at two different times in history, the prophecy concerns two different time frames simultaneously.

If you want to properly understand anything about end time prophecy, there are a few things to bear in mind. One is that proper understanding of scripture includes respect and appreciation for the Hebraic and Aramaic context from which they were written. Then, there is something else, and that is the inner witness that can only come to the believer when the Spirit of Truth, the Kadosh Ruach (Holy Spirit) has opened his or her eyes to what has been there all along. If it is not in the Hebrew and Aramaic scriptures to start with, this will never happen.

Worrying about the future, living in fear of what might happen takes our focus away from the present…and, in extreme cases, can actually cause us to violate one of the basic precepts of Torah: Being a light to the world.

There are several Rabbis in the Messianic movement who have high levels of smichah, but they are scattered and isolated. I believe that we need to be uniting these leaders so that they can form a Beit Din to oversee the conversion process within a believing community, so that those who are seeking conversion out of proper motives can do it without denying their faith.

The foundational premise of all Messianic Jewish apologetics is this: one must reduce every argument to a Torah argument alone. This is based on the understanding that the Prophets and Writers could not add to or subtract from the Torah which is the Word that G-d commanded to Israel, and neither can we do so. Thus, the first question in any apologetic discussion should be “where is this (argument) found in the Torah?”