“Millie! Get out of the street!” The yelling from the room next to me pulled me from my nap. “Millie! Get out of the street!” The plea sounded again, and a few more times. By now, I was almost fully awake while sitting upright in my office recliner. My wife was trying to reason with a cat—not […]
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Spiritual Blindness and the Nation of Israel :: By The Gospelist
Late in the third century AD, the intellectual elite of the Christian faith decided to ‘allegorize’ certain Scriptures regarding the nation of Israel rather than take those Scriptures literally. In 135 AD, after having suppressed the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire, Caesar decided to put a permanent end to Israel’s constant uprisings. The […]