The Mileses

Paul and Olena Miles with Grace Abroad Ministries

Semitic languages

Some concerns with Michael Heiser’s “The Unseen Realm”

Several months ago, a friend started reading Michael Heiser’s book, The Unseen Realm. It’s on the topic of angelology and she asked me if I had heard of the book or if I knew of any dangerous teachings therein. I had never heard of the book, nor the author, so I did a quick google search. I didn’t want my friend to get into some weird hyper-charismatic teaching on angels and demons, so when I saw that Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary endorsed the book, I assumed that it would be pretty safe.

Boy, was I wrong.
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Kingdom Postponement in the Talmud

A Disclaimer

I have recently been doing some research on the topic of how Christ offered to establish the kingdom during His earthly ministry, but postponed the kingdom to a later date upon His rejection. This research took me to an interesting place in the Talmud that I thought would be of interest to our readers, but before any discourse on the Talmud, I feel obligated to begin with a disclaimer.[Read More]

Guest Post on Rabbinical Judaism

I’ve recently had some good discussions through email with my friend, John Schumacher, on the origins of Rabbinical Judaism. He has done a lot of research on this topic and has some great insight, so I asked his permission to include some of his thoughts on our blog.[Read More]

Reconsidering the Talmudic Definition of “Day”

I’ve recently had the privilege of being able to edit Robert Courtney’s article on the day when Christ died. This is a huge topic in apologetics. Mark and Luke record Jesus’ tomb being empty on Sunday, the first day of the week, the day after the Sabbath (Mark 16:1–2; Luke 24:1) and Matthew records Jesus saying:[Read More]

The Time I was in a Jewish Prison Gang

Our friends at Dispensational Publishing House have recently posted my testimony about why I am a dispensationalist. It’s a short story that follows my journey from church to apostasy to war to prison to conversion to seminary to today. I glossed over some details for the sake of brevity in that article, but today, I am going to zoom in on my prison story a bit.

I was a notorious vegetable smuggler in a Jewish prison gang! In a federal prison, no less. Sounds pretty tough, right? I assure you it is not.[Read More]

Hamantaschen!

You’re probably thinking, “What?!? This isn’t hamantaschen season! Who makes hamantaschen in October?!?” Well, poppy seed filling was on sale at Walmart for only 25¢ per can, so I bought some. The cans aren’t good forever and the expiry date will come before Purim, so it looks like we’re cooking hamantaschen in October this year.
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