Jewish/Christian Jeff Gutterman shares below some very important notes he gave at a Conference on the persecution of the Jewish people. The notes are powerful and should awaken believers who love Israel in understanding their troubles and pains through the last two-thousand years. - Mal Couch, Ph.D., Th.D.

• Part I
  The relationship and impact that the Reformation had on the Jewish people of the world
  
  
• Part II
  The early days of the church in which the foundations were laid that affected the relationship of the Jews and the people of the Reformation.
  
  
• Part III
  The Jewish believers were gradually tolerated back into society in Jerusalem after 70 A.D. In 132 AD rebellion again broke out and this time the Hebrew Christians fought side by side with their Jewish brothers.
  
  
• Part IV
  How some of the early Church Fathers saw the Jewish people.
  
  
• Part V
  Many Jews during the Spanish Inquisition had been forced to convert to Catholicism and were baptized. They were known as Conversos.
  
  
• Part VI
  Luther’s relationship with the Jewish people.
  
  
• Part VII
  Those who followed Luther’s writings and teachings continually pressured the Jews and often acted against them.
  
  

NEW SERIES by Jeffrey Gutterman:

Dispensationalism and the Jews After examining the role and relationship of the Reformation and the Reformers to the Jewish people in previous articles, we now turn our attention to the role and relationship that Dispensationalism and Dispensationalists had with the Jewish people. --Jeffrey Gutterman

• Part I
  We will examine the relationship that Dispensationalists had and now have with the Jewish people and we will see how this marks where we are in God" Plan for the Church and Israel.
  
  
• Part II
  For the Jewish people in the Diaspora, daily prayers kept and still to this day keep the promises of God before their eyes and in their ears.

Dr. Thomas Ice

• Hank Hanegraaff’s The Apocalypse Code:
  For the last fifteen years or so when I have heard Hank Hanegraaff, host of the Bible Answer Man radio program, field questions on eschatology (end times prophecy) it was very clear that he has been against the futurist perspective from the get-go.

Dr. David Ingram

• The Home Church: A New Phenomenon
  About 50 million American adults meet in home churches at least once a month so the factors responsible for this growing trend are most important.

Thomas S. McCall, Th.D

• Papal Primacy or Bible Primacy: The Associated Press reported that the new Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted Papal primacy, indicating that the Roman Catholic Church is the only true church because it has apostolic succession. The Pope’s teaching is that the Catholic Church can trace its successive line of bishops from the Apostle Peter to today

Dr. John Pappas

• Harmony of the Olivet Discourse, Part One: The Olivet Discourse follows the series of confrontations between Jesus and the Jewish religious leaders in the temple compound (Matt. 21:12-23:39). They had questioned and ridiculed Him. The hypocrisy and false religion which so characterized the Scribes and Pharisees resulted in it now being the time to lament over the city and leave it and them desolate.
  
  
• Harmony of the Olivet Discourse, Part Two: In the previous article the disciples asked "when will these things be? What will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" They receive their answer and what an answer it turned out to be. Matthew 24 and 25 are one of the greatest prophetic sections of the entire Bible.
  
  
• Harmony of the Olivet Discourse, Part Three: The topic now turns to the Tribulation. Our Lord will prepare the nation Israel for the Millennial Kingdom with a unique seven year period of Tribulation. This will be a time of discipline and purging for the nation. For the Gentiles, it is a time of pouring out divine judgment upon those who have not dealt justly with Israel. The period marks the end of the period known as the times of the Gentiles (Luke 21:24), that period marked by Gentile control of Jerusalem since 600 B.C.
  
  
• Harmony of the Olivet Discourse, Part Four: The last half of the Tribulation is the most horrible for Israel. The nation will see pressure from all sides, the whole world will come against her. The absence of the word of God will result in man turning into a dominating tyrant; trade, national sovereignty, and an earth full of catastrophic natural disasters bring in a global leader with its confederacy holding a heavy hand on society. The last half of the Tribulation will see the final hours of the earth in labor pains – can you imagine? Woe for the day.
  
  

• Theology in John 1-3, Part One: The book of John is unique in that it is more of a Jewish theology book than a historical narrative. His purpose in writing the gospel is so that "you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name" (John 20:31). Dr. Morris in his excellent work "New Testament Theology" writes, "One of the intriguing things about Johannine studies is the fact that, while the scholars learnedly pursue their abstruse quests, ordinary men and women – yes, and boys and girls too – read the book without asking questions and find not only that they understand it, but that they learn to their souls health." (Leon Morris, New Testament Theology, p. 225) God, through the apostle, provides the reader with a brilliant theology book taught through plain talk, illustration and symbols.
  
  
• Theology in John 1-3, Part Two: The last article examined the opening chapter of John's gospel which concentrated on the person of the One who came in the flesh – Christ, the Son of God. Though John does not move away from pounding the point of the deity of Christ throughout the book, he intertwines the major theme of the book, the fundamental concept that belief is what brings life – eternal life. This article continues the task of defining who Jesus is, by examining the method of pronouncing Him though the God's legal demand of the use of personal testimony.

• Millenial Worship, Part One: There is a great division among Bible teachers over the interpretation of Ezekiel chapters 40-48. As Dr. Feinberg points out, "Here amillennialists and premillennilists are poles apart. Moreover, neither camp is homogeneous in interpretation; there are many varieties of opinion within each school of thought." (Charles Feinberg, The Prophecy of Ezekiel, p. 233).
  
  
• Millenial Worship, Part Two: In the previous article the subject of hermeneutics and Biblical interpretation was examined in light of Ezekiel's Temple. In this article some of the physical and procedural characteristics of Ezekiel's Temple will be examined and compared with other Jewish temples in history.
  
  
• Millenial Worship, Part Three: The book of Ezekiel describes a future Temple its makeup and service with great detail. Ezekiel was trained as a priest before his freedom was taken and Jerusalem trodden down, her inhabitants taken captive. God commissioned Ezekiel as a prophet, a spokesman for God, so he served that commission in the Babylonian exile with a unique priestly perspective. Ezekiel is called "the father of Judaism" because of his influence on worship without the Temple.

• Sun Darkened and Moon turned to Blood: There are some who claim that Matthew 24 is using "dramatic hyperbole" when the Bible says "sun, and moon darkened" (e.g. Matt. 24:29) giving the interpreter license to dream up whatever he or she wants. For example, Dr. Gentry says of Matthew 24:29, "What does verse 29 mean?
  
  
• Sun Darkened and Moon turned to Blood, Part Two: The allegorical is what the Greeks used to minimize the moral difficulty of their gods. When one wants to change the plain sense, for whatever reason, the most typical method used to move the reader away from the plain to their perverse is by means of allegory or some variant thereof. In this article an examination of typical interpretative errors will be presented and a systematic look at the sun and moon will follow.
  
  
• Sun Darkened and Moon turned to Blood, Part Three: The last article described God's sovereign act of creation, control and sustaining of the sun, moon and stars. When God has come to the conclusion of His plan of the earth, He will change the sun, moon and stars, using them as "signs" and judgment upon the inhabitants of the earth. Then, He will remove them since He will provide the illumination upon the earth. In this final article these objects will be examined as they are used in the metaphorical since. But first we must examine the claim by some that they are used as "dramatic hyperbole."
  
  
• Isaiah - The Suffering Servant: Chapter fifty-three is the most quoted chapter of Isaiah in the New Testament (42 times). In second place is chapter forty which speaks of God's salvation of national Israel in the last days.
  
  
• Psalm 2: Psalm two is attributed to David in Acts 4:25-26. On what occasion it was written is not known, but it is prophetic in scope and highlights the final work of the Messiah - the Son of God, the Son of Man, indeed, the Son of David. The One who will deal with the nations that plot against the Lord.
  
  
• Psalm 8: Psalm 8 is the second of the Messianic psalms. While Psalm 2 presents the King-Messiah in rejection, Psalm 8 presents Him as putting all things under His feet. The occasion of David's writing this psalm is not specified. Jewish tradition supposed that it was written when David brought the ark up to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite, as mentioned in 1 Chronicles 13:12-14. But there is nothing in the psalm to link such an occasion.
  
  
• Three Views Regarding Joel 2:28-32 in Acts 2:15-21: In Acts two, Peter quotes the prophet Joel. He does this just as the Holy Spirit descends and fills them (2:4). The people become perplexed as a result and they all speak in different languages. While others watch and mock them saying they are drunk, Peter takes his stand and quotes Joel two. This article explains how Peter uses Joel two in Acts two.
  
  
• Jeremiah 30: You will be my people and I will be your God: The phrase "you will be my people and I will be your God" is a popular one in the Bible. The phrase is a popular one with Jeremiah as he uses it six times! The expression (or rather equivalent expression) is first found in the Abrahamic Covenant of Genesis 17 ...

The Doctrine of the Trinity is Under Attack

• Part One: The doctrine of the Trinity is a popular doctrine for the cults to attack. The reason of course is that if Christ is brought down to a lower level, then His authority crumbles. His death, burial and resurrection are meaningless. The fundamentals are destroyed, so the whole house crumbles! In essence those who argue against the Trinity argue from their own reason. They ignore their observations of the Bible. They define their doctrine instead of letting the Bible define their doctrine. The argument can be summarized by the claim that man makes god in his own image.
  
  
• Part Two: The doctrine of the Trinity defines God as one, but three in Person. This is observed in Scripture by the description that God is one, yet plural in person. The terms First, Second, and Third as applied to the persons of the Trinity are terms of order and relationship : the First person being the Father, the Second person the Son, and Third the Holy Spirit...
  
  
• Part Three: In these last articles about the Trinity, the concentration will be placed upon the doctrine of the deity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There is little disagreement over this subject of the deity of the Father. Most cults attack the deity of the Son and most eastern mystics attack the deity of the Holy Spirit. The Trinity, however, ties the Godhead into one unmistakable union. And that undeniable thread that links them is the doctrine of the deity of each.
  
  
• Part Four: This article brings us to the central doctrine under attack – the deity of Christ. The cults either deny the deity of Christ or pervert His deity in such a way that they claim themselves to be "Christs." The reason of course, is that if Christ is brought down to a lower level, then His authority crumbles.
  
  
• Part Five: In this final article concerning the doctrine of the Trinity, the deity of the Holy Spirit is presented. The early heresies of the church concerning the Holy Spirit are found in the Gnostics and Montanism (151-171) who claimed for themselves special knowledge, spiritual gifts and the powers of the apostles.

Prophecy and the Sovereignty of God

• Part I : In the area of Biblical prophecy, the sovereignty of God is the most fundamental of doctrines. Sovereignty is required in order for prophecy to come to pass.
  
  
• Part II : In the last article of prophecy and the Sovereignty of God, His sovereignty was revealed by words used in the Bible and the language used in prophetic passages.
  
  
• Part III : In the previous article, God’s sovereignty was defined in the context of who He is. That is, He is Creator so He is the sovereign over all creation.
  
  
• Part IV : In the previous article, God’s sovereignty was viewed in light of prophecy and His decrees. Since God is sovereign over an eternal kingdom (1 Chron. 29:11; Ps. 97:1; 103:19; 145:13 & etc) which has existed for all time, He has decreed and all subjects of His domain must abide.
  
  
• Part V : In this final article of God’s sovereignty and prophecy, the capstone of the doctrine – Christ’s millennial kingdom, is examined. In the previous article, God’s sovereign decrees were examined in view of His divine attributes. He sits on His throne in heaven and is in control not only because He is all-powerful, but also because He is unchangeable.

Dr. Randall Price

• Why Wright is Wrong: The Reverend Jeremiah Wright yesterday addressed the National Press Club seeking his fifteen minutes of fame. That fifteen minutes, of course, lasted more than an hour and will continue for several days as his banter is broadcast and debated on the network news and various talk shows.

Pastor Steve Spurlin

• The Sufficiency of Scripture: Is God’s Word Enough?: I have played the great game of basketball from the time I was in the fifth grade all the way through my college years. One thing that all teams, schools, leagues, conferences and divisions had in common was a single book; the official rule book of basketball. During any game the rules written in that book governed the competition and were binding for everyone involved whether it is the coaches, players, scorekeepers, or referees. No one involved would dare question that book for it is the final authority for all things basketball. It is also sufficient to answer any question, settle any dispute, and completely govern the game.

Dr. Daniel Woodhead

• Israelology and Theology in the Old Testament, Part One: Covenant Theology is by definition a system of theology whereby the entire system rests upon two or sometimes three "covenants." These are the fundamentals of this system. Dr. Showers expands this definition to embrace the view of theological systems in general as developing a Biblical philosophy of history. Covenant Theology is included in this attempt to provide a philosophy of history.
  
  
• Israelology and Theology in the Old Testament, Part Two: The term Dispensationalism is a system of theology, which seeks to unfold the absolute truth of Scripture. Several prominent theologians have provided us with concise definitions that can help us in reaching our definition.
  
  
• Israelology and Theology in the Old Testament, Part Three: Approximately 4500 years ago God initiated a covenant with mankind. In Genesis 12 we find God calling one man, Abram (whose name was changed later to Abraham), to relocate with his family from his home of Ur, in Mesopotamia (between the rivers) and to go to a land that He would show him. In Abraham's day, Ur was a wealthy advanced city in Mesopotamia, with a complex system of government and a well-developed system of commerce.