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Trying to Keep it Simple

  • Gimme that Ole TIme Religion
  • Relationship over Religion?
  • Do All Religions Lead to God?
  • What Is the Gospel? Or why Christ is the Answer…
  • Jesus Is the Rock, Charlie Brown Got a Rock
  • Bringing Back Jesus
  • Read the Bible as a Story 1
  • Read the Bible as a Story 2
  • Read the Bible as a Story 3
  • Read the Bible as a Story 4
  • The Lamb and the Dog
  • The Bremen Town Musicians
  • Give Me This Mountain!
  • The Covenant Wisdom of Daniel

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Framing the ‘Gospel’ - Jesus’ Yoke

Framing the ‘Gospel’ - Jesus’ Yoke

Humanity: Revelation & Righteousness

  • The Diagrams Above: a Biblical Categorization through Judaism
  • The Nature of Antisemitism: Not Lineage, but the Name.
  • The Mamzer
  • Part One - What about the Non-religious Chochmei Umot HaOlam?
  • Part Two - What About Those Who Never Heard?
  • The Split: 70-1300 CE (Part 1)
  • Forgotton Jewish Voices about Christianity (Part 2)
  • The New Testament’s Authority within a Jewish Covenantal Framework (Part 3)
  • The False Yeshu of the Talmud: a Twisted Tale to Confront the Partial Hardening (Part 4)
  • Reframing Sabbateanism

Preamble & Definitions

  • WHY this site?
  • Messiology and George Verwer
  • The Covenant Is a Wound
  • The LXX and Masoretic Text: The Veiled Messiah and the Hidden Torah
  • The God of Abraham, Not Aristotle
  • Esau, Edom, and the New Testament
  • The Messiah at the Gates of Rome
  • What is a Hebrew?
  • Messianic Jews & Hebrew Rooters?
  • Jesus Spiritual Genealogy: Our Need and Correction
  • Israel is a Relgious Destination NOT a Nation State
  • Who Is Israel? The Lost Sheep, the Judeans, and the Commonwealth of G-d
  • From Derekh Eretz (The Way of the Land) to Universal Law
  • Orthodoxy? Heretical Movements and the Jewish Influence
  • Christendom, No! Christianity? The Christian Faith, Yes.
  • Martyr’s Mirror & The Trail of Blood: ‘Follow the Money’
  • Why I Am Not a ‘Pan-Millennialist’
  • Proclamation and the Problem of Sola Scriptura
  • What Is a Mystic?
  • The Church and Supersessionism
  • Who are the Guardians of Orthodoxy?
  • Christian Zionism and the Forgotten Destination
  • Covenantal Realism: A Theological Method

Alliance History & Theology

  • Alliance Missions
  • Premillenialism and The C&MA by Steve Irwin
  • The Millennium as a period though Consummative Travail: A Response to Dr. Steve Irvin
  • Pre-Millennialism or Pre-Messianic Age? The Canadian Alliance’s Precedent
  • Rethinking Historical Premillennialism (Part Two)
  • A. B. Simpson’s Overlapping of the Ages
  • A Sacred Reflection: Romanism and Alliance Theologians (AWF Theological Academic Paper 2020)
  • A.B. Simpson’s Narrative Theology: The Deep Church for the Old Faith? (AWF essay from Paper 2020)
  • The Alliance and Italy: Evangelism over Ecclesiology (AWF Theological Symposium 2023)
  • The Old Faith vs Romanism: Newman, Simpson, Nardi (RLSN 2024 presentation)
  • A.B. Simpson, Paul King, and Healing for the Nations
  • Alliance Word Fellowship Theology, History and Research
  • A.B. Simpson: A Judeo-Centric Eschatology?
  • Back to the Branches: Recovering the Early Alliance Movement that Bore Fruit
  • The Samaritan Woman’s Messiah and A.B. Simpson’s Savior & Coming King
  • The Gospel to the Jew or from the Jew? Revisiting a 1917 Alliance Vision
  • A Biblical and Historical Defense of Women in Ministry in the C&MA

Torat Edom (The Teaching or Mirror of Esau)

  • Torat Edom: The Otherside of the Covenant
  • Job:The Edomite Sage?
  • Christianity as Edomite Error?
  • Edom and Saducces
  • Torat Edom vs. Torahism: Why Yeshua Doesn’t Take Us Back to Sinai
  • Edom as Rome?
  • Edom as Gog?
  • Edom & the IDF?
  • Christian Zionism as Edomite Distortion
  • The Nail of Esau

Judaism Misread and Ascertained

  • Defending the Talmud
  • Is Jesus of Nazareth found in the Talmud?
  • Misinformation and Fear about the Noahide Laws
  • Paul and The Works of the Law
  • Pardes: A Rich Orchard or Some Bad Fruit?
  • The Conflation of Kabbalah and Mysticism
  • Zoharism and the Sacred Seed
  • The Lost Jesus of Judaism
  • Michael Heiser (1963 -2023)
  • Is Jesus in the Talmud? Peter Schäfer and the Limits of Critical Distance
  • Walter Brueggemann (1933–2025)
  • Judaism and Revelation
  • The Question of Israel in Early Rabbinical Judaism
  • Reframing Sabbateanism
  • Ziggy Stardust and Adam Kadmon

Eschatology

  • What is the Rapture?
  • The Temple Is Us: How the Antichrist Deception Has Already Arrived
  • End Time Passages That Fuel an Industry
  • The Term “Flat Eschatology”
  • Acts 1–2 and Realized Eschatology vs. “Flat” Eschatology
  • Who is Gog from Magog?
  • Preterism and Judaism
  • Rethinking Gog and Magog
  • The term Antichrist (ἀντίχριστος)
  • Nero as 666 or Yeshu Notzri?
  • The Book of Daniel: Escaping the Prophecy Traps
  • Gog rages on! The Post-Millennial Era?
  • The Fall of Gog and Babylon: The Dawn of the Messianic Age
  • The Millennium & Messianic Age Conflation
  • The Khazar Conspiracy and GOG! A PSYOP in the Information War
  • Ariel Cohen-Aloro, Pidyon HaBen, and the Antichrist Paradigm
  • Yimakh Zikhron U Shemo
  • Are you a Full Preterist? The ‘Talmudic Jesus’, the Paul of NPP and Albert Schweitzer

Biblical Theology

  • The Seed of the Woman from Eden to the New Jerusalem
  • Manasseh, the 144,000, and the Fullness of the Gentiles (Part 1 of 2)
  • Dan, Edom, and the Mystery of Missing Tribes (part 2 of 2)
  • Dry Bones, Edom, and the Spirit of Zion
  • Hagar and the Samaritan Woman as Keys to Covenant Renewal

Christology

  • Theocentric Christology and the Incarnation
  • The Metaphysics of the Heavenly Flesh
  • Heavenly Flesh Christology: Biblical Exegesis
  • Heavenly Flesh Christology: The Chalcedonian Indictment
  • Remembering Nicaea
  • Sabellianism? Clarifying Heavenly Flesh Christology and Hebraic Trinitarianism
  • The One Like a Son of Man
  • What is Arianism?

The 2nd Temple Era

  • Israel & Judea: From David to the Maccabees as Theological Correction
  • New Perspectives on Paul? Ask a Pharisee
  • A New Perspectives on Paul Primer
  • Israel defined in the Second Temple Period
  • The Scarlet Thread and the Temple’s Destruction
  • The Historical Layers of Notzrim and Netzarim:
  • Diaspora Jews in the Roman Empire
  • The Gospel of John, Jewish Identity, and Roman Rule
  • The Enochian Watchers as a Conflation with the Notzrim (Watchmen)
  • Samaritan Eschatology: A Mosaic Restorer, Not a Davidic King
  • The Last Watchman or Faithful Netzar

Español - Spanish

  • El Cordero y el Perro
  • La Historia de la Redención y la Senda Olvidada de Edom
  • ¿El último papa?
  • ¡Dame Este Monte!
  • ¿El Milenio o la Era Mesiánica?
  • Lo Suficientemente ‘Ingenuo’ para Creer
  • A.B. Simpson: ¿Una Escatología Judeocéntrica?
  • Esaú, Edom y el Nuevo Testamento
  • El Verdadero Templo
  • La presencia de Dios y la vida más profunda

Para Estudo Mais Aprofundado em Português

  • #1 Simpson e Tozer: A Santificação e Sua Leitura dos Místicos
  • #2 O Messias da Mulher Samaritana e o Salvador & Rei Vindouro de A.B. Simpson
  • #3 De Volta aos Ramos

Reformed Covenant Theologies

  • The Sons of Seth
  • Theonomy, Nations and the Law
  • Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987): The Covenant of Thought
  • After Sproul, Van Til, and Schaeffer
  • Esau have I Hated and Calvin
  • Recovering the Forgotten Rival: A Response to Paul Martin Henebury and the Covenant Debate
  • Proclamation Theology
  • Revelation as Covenantal Speech
  • Doug Wilson and Children of Hagar
  • Semper Reformanda: Recovering the Jewish Light of Nicaea

Reforming Martin Luther

  • Where Luther Got the Hiddenness of God
  • Semper Reformanda: Recovering the Jewish Light of Nicaea
  • From Nicaea to the Marian City
  • From Scripture Alone to Torah of Truth

Medievals & Modernity

  • Before Virtue: it’s just a story - Murdoch, Hauerwas and Macintyre
  • Before the Secular Self: Charles Taylor and Language
  • Before Bliss: Thomas Aquinas’ Imperfect Happiness
  • Meister Eckhart and the Reformation (RSLN research 2016 --17)
  • Out of the Dark Ages? Participative Metaphysics behind Nature and Grace (RSLN 2018 presentation)
  • Meister Eckhart: Could God Create a Better World? In honor of Walter Senner OP 1948-2020
  • Thesis: Meister Eckhart Parisian Question IX
  • Modernity’s Hegemony and the Evangelical Reckoning
  • Micah 4 : The Post-Industrial Control Grid and the Unveiling of the Messianic Age
  • Beyond the Narrative Turn & The Collapse of Postfoundational Theologies
  • Beyond the Arena: Toward a Biblical Way of Witness in the Age of Combative Apologetics

Gnosticism

  • The Greek Material-Spiritual Dichotomy, and Jewish Cosmology
  • The Term “Gnostic” and the Conflation of the Notzrim
  • The False Light of the Elohim: A Theological Critique of Raëlianism
  • Aliens, Angels, and the Ancient Near East: Why Paul Wallis Gets It Wrong (But Why His Questions Still Matter)
  • Adam, Not Aliens: Reclaiming Genesis from the Alt-Right Gnostics

Islam

  • The Sabians
  • Islam the Rest of the Story
  • What is the Quran?
  • Islam & The Temple Mount

Partial Hardening seeking Fullness

  • Divine Unveiling - Isaiah 63 & Talmudic gloss
  • Collective Hardening: Exodus, Covenant, and the Education of Nations
  • The Messiah’s Iron Scepter: Bitcoin?
  • Early Church Fathers and the Jewish Roots: A Trustworthiness Perspective
  • The Ninth of Tevet, Simeon son of Clopas, and the “Notzri Question”
  • Pandera, the Lion of Judah, and the Custody of a Wounded Memory

Ecclesiology

  • The True Temple
  • Havdalah, Passover, and the Christian Weekly Renewal
  • The Liturgical Calendar, Passover, and Christian Worship
  • John Williamson Nevin (1803–1886)
  • The Sabbath
  • The Myth of Apostolic Succession
  • The Shadow and the Body: Sabbath in the Age to Come - Colossians 2:16-17 & Isaiah 66
  • Judaism for Ecclesiology?

Global Relations & Missiology

  • Pikuach Nefesh (To save a life) & Christian World Missions
  • Religion & International Relations Theory
  • The Globalization of the Christian Nation
  • Walter Kaiser’s Portrayal of Israel: Ethnicity, Mission, and the Nations
  • The Apostle Paul and Jewish Continuity in Italy To Rabbi Benamozegh

Bringing Back the King!

  • From Nicaea to the Marian City
  • Semper Reformanda: Recovering the Jewish Light of Nicaea
  • No Gospel Without the Wound: Reconciling the Reformed & The New Perspectives on Paul
  • Others May, You Cannot By G.D Watson

Reasoning Together

  • Why I watch MythVision?
  • The Zeitgeist Fallacy and the Messianic Mission Across Ages
  • Joel Richardson: A Well-Meaning But Flawed Approach to Islam and Eschatology
  • Travis Snow: The Need for Maturity in Eschatology and Theology
  • René Girard (1923-2015)
  • Beyond the Arena: Toward a Biblical Way of Witness in the Age of Combative Apologetics
  • Beyond the Narrative Turn & The Collapse of Postfoundational Theologies
  • Adam, Not Aliens: Reclaiming Genesis from the Alt-Right Gnostics
  • Bitcoin as Parable of the Logos: An Analogical Reading with Aquinas
  • Three Paths to Salvation: Why Boccaccini’s Matrix Helps—But His Title Misleads
  • On the Divinity of Jesus and the Nature of Trinitarian Language

The Trail of Blood

The Trail of Blood
The “Trail of Blood” is a concept within Landmark Baptist theology, asserting that true Baptist type churches have existed continuously since the time of Christ, maintaining independence from both the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant denominations. This perspective is rooted in the belief that an unbroken lineage of Bible-believing, autonomous churches has endured persecution throughout history. This perspective emphasizes the importance of continuity and doctrinal distinctiveness among historical independent church movements that may or may not have functioned close to practicing Jews, but were more aligned to frame their faith by a simple reading of the Bible and the Revelation of Mount Sinai. While this theory is widely criticized, I find value in recognizing groups that were often silenced and labeled by their persecutors rather than being able to define themselves, thus the chart above clearly identifies and links such groups together. Where did this impulse originate? That said, certain core beliefs resonate with free churches and simple Bible Believers: • Local church autonomy • Believer’s baptism by immersion • Rejection of national religion and ecumenical ties over revelation and mission, yet open to evangelical and missionary alliances • An observant identity focused on the Great Commission and also resistence to economic coercion!

My Substack Favorite Jams

  • Dylan, Hendrix, U2 - All Along the Watchtower
  • Alice in Chains - Man in the Box
  • Yes - Prologue: A Soundtrack to the ‘Heavenly’ Jerusalem
  • Yes - Siberian Khatru (1)
  • We’ve All Been Played
  • Arcade Fire - Everything NOW
  • Yes - Long Distance Runaround (2)
  • The Rolling Stones - Can’t you Hear Me Knocking?
  • First Aid Kit- My Silver Lining
  • The War on Drugs - Pain
  • Gillian Welch - By the Mark
  • Rush - Tom Sawyer
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