Jewish Commentary

The Jewish orthodox sages and Rabbis understood the literalness of all of the Old Testament prophecies. Premillennialists and dispensationalists are in good company in seeing the Bible interpreted in a normal, literal hermeneutic. Someday, the eyes of the Jews will be open in seeing the Lord Jesus Christ as the promised Messiah. Meanwhile, their interpretative notes and commentaries on great prophetic passages continue to support the “rightness” of looking for future prophecy being fulfilled actually, and literally!

    I have compiled and combined the commentary material from many sources, especially those listed below.

--Mal Couch, Ph.D., Th.D.

Sources:

• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs.
• Society and Religion in the Second Temple Period, Michael Avi-Yonah and Zvi  Baras (Jerusalem: Massada Publishing, 1977).
• The Messiah Texts, Raphael Patai (Detroit: Wayne State University, 1979).
• Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period, William Green, ed. (Peabody, MS: Hendrickson, 1999).

Genesis 12:1-9 The Foundation of Bible Prophecy and the Jewish People

Genesis 15:1-21 God expands the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant

Genesis 17: 1-8 The Promise Confirmed Again

Genesis 22:1-19 Is the Abrahamic Covenant conditional on Abraham’s Faithfulness?

Isaiah 24:1-23 (1/14/07) The Prophesied World-wide Tribulation

Genesis 25:19-26:5 God Confirms the Covenant with Jacob (not Esau)

Deuteronomy 28:63-68 Worldwide dispersion of the Jews Prophesied

Deuteronomy 4:27-31; 30:1-10 Restoration of Israel to the Land

Deuteronomy 29:16-29 Further Prophecies of Dispersion (The Diaspora)

Deuteronomy 30:1-10 The Prophesied Restoration of the Jews to the Land

Psalm 2 The Coming Prophesied Earthly Reign of the Messiah

Psalm 16 The Prophecy of the Resurrection of the Messiah