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Preamble & Definitions

WHY this site?
What Is the Gospel? Or why Christ is the Answer…
Messiology and George Verwer
Torat Edom—Recovering the Other Side of the Covenant
Christianity’s Edomite Error: A Paradigm Shift of “Biblical” Proportions
The God of Abraham, Not Aristotle
Hagar and the Samaritan Woman as Keys to Covenant Renewal
The Messiah at the Gates of Rome
What is a Hebrew?
Messianic Jews & Hebrew Rooters?
Jesus Spiritual Genealogy: Our Need and Correction
Judaism and the Preservation of Knowledge
The Sabians: Connecting the Abrahamic Faiths
Islam: The Rest of the Story
Exposing the SIN (The Standard Islamic Narrative)
What is the Quran?
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.
Reclaiming Judaism as the Framework for Ecclesiology
Martyr’s Mirror & The Trail of Blood: ‘Follow the Money’
Why I Am Not a ‘Pan-Millennialist’
What Is a Mystic?
The Church and Supersessionism
Who are the Guardians of Orthodoxy?
My Youtube Channel
Hakim Jo’s Weekly Show

Eschatology

To My Friend Who Still Believes in 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
Preterism and Judaism
Edom as Rome
Islam and the Temple Mount
Rethinking Gog and Magog
Edom & The IDF
Edom & Gog
The term Antichrist (ἀντίχριστος)
Nero as 666 or Yeshu Notzri?
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
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)

Framing the ‘Gospel’ - Jesus’ Yoke

Humanity: Revelation & Righteousness

The Diagrams Above: a Biblical Categorization through Judaism
The Mamzer
Part One - What about the Non-religious Chochmei Umot HaOlam?
Part Two - What About Those Who Never Heard?
Adam, Not Aliens: Reclaiming Genesis from the Alt-Right Gnostics
The Sons of Seth: A Bridge Between Jewish and Reformed Christian Thought
The Limits of the Artifact: the Fallacy of Material Evidence
Jo’s Blog

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

Judaism Misread

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

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)
Israel & Judea: From David to the Maccabees as Theological Correction
Beyond the Arena: Toward a Biblical Way of Witness in the Age of Combative Apologetics
Beyond the Narrative Turn & The Collapse of Postfoundational Theologies
Recovering the Forgotten Rival: A Response to Paul Martin Henebury and the Covenant Debate

The 2nd Temple Era

New Perspectives on Paul? Ask a Pharisee
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)
Israel & Judea: From David to the Maccabees as Theological Correction

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

Ecclesiology

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

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
Theonomy, the Nations, and the Law
Gospel Proclamation, Ideology or Idealogy?
Esau, Edom, and John Calvin
Micah 4 : The Post-Industrial Control Grid and the Unveiling of the Messianic Age

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
40 years of Ministry Archive

Alliance History & Eschatology

Alliance Missions
Premillenialism and The C&MA by Steve Irwin
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 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!

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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 you Hear Me Knocking?

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