May 2019

Our last post mentioned that inmillennialism rests on pillars found in the Olivet Discourse. We examined the definitions of four key words. We also mentioned two other supports: a key prophetic image and a literary device. This post will discuss the image and our next post will consider the literary…

The AD 70 blog has come full circle. We published our first post on Nov. 3, 2016. Our fourth post appeared on the last Wednesday of that month. Since then, the Lord has blessed us to post each Wednesday for 129 consecutive weeks. We have covered much ground. Our first…

“The Synoptic Gospels give more details of the teaching of Jesus on this Tuesday in the Temple and on the Mount of Olives than for any other single day.” Matthew devotes more than four chapters to those details (Matt 21:19–25:46). Our last post (here) discussed the four questions in Matt 22.…

Matthew 22 shows a theological battle between Jesus and the apostate Jewish leaders of his day. The skirmishes comprise four rounds of Q&A. They occurred on Tuesday of Passion Week in AD 30. We have seen two in previous posts. We will review these before looking at the other two. Question 1…