Questionable: Dan. 11:36-45 (?);
"And the king [Antiochus Epiphanes] sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow the foreign customs of the land, and keep burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and drink offerings out of the sanctuary; and that they should profane sabbaths and festival days; and pollute sanctuary and priests; build altars, and groves, and idol temples, and sacrifice swine's flesh and unclean animals. . . to the end they might forget the law, and change all ordinances. And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he should die." 1 Maccabees 1:41-50 Questionable: Dan. 8:11 (?);
"When therefore the end of the world comes, that abominable, lying and murderous one is born from the tribe of Dan. He is conceived from the seed of a man and from a most vile virgin, mixed with an evil or worthless spirit." Ephraim the Syrian, A.D. 373 Ref-0031, p. 112. "Rabbi Akiba proclaimed Bar Kokhba as Messiah in A.D. 132; the whole Jewish community of Crete followed a messiah named Moses in the fifth century; Abu Issa of Isfahan raised an army of 10,000 men; and European Jewry crowned Shabbetai Zvi messiah in the seventeenth century, although he later converted to Islam!" Ref-0010, p. 192. "The Antichrist will be a lineal descendant of Abraham, a Jew. We shall not stop to submit the proof for this, as that will be given in our next chapter; suffice it now to say that none but a full-blooded Jew could ever expect to palm himself off on the Jewish people as their long-expected Messiah." Ref-0215, "The Papacy Not the Antichrist" "It should, however, be pointed out that there is no express declaration of Scripture which says in so many words that this daring Rebel will be 'Jew;' nevertheless, the hints given are so plain, the conclusions which must be drawn from certain statements of Holy Writ are so obvious, and the requirements of the case are so inevitable, that we are forced to believe he must be a Jew." Ref-0215, "The Person of Antichrist" "The fact that Dan is not mentioned in verses 5-8 [Rev. 7:5-8] is not unusual. Dan, along with Zebulun, is not mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4-8, wh1Chr. 4:8-8, which was written after the Exile. Yet even with Dan's absence, the listing of the other tribes is normally taken in Chronicles in a literal way. Some speculate that Dan was omitted in Revelation 7 because of that tribe's idolatrous history, as narrated in Judges 18:30 and 1 Kings 12:29. 18 Others credit its omission to the view that the Anitchrist might come from the tribe of Dan. 19 ... [n19] - Irenaeus wrote the following regarding the Antichrist and the omission of Dan in Revelation 7. "And Jeremiah does not merely point out his sudeen coming, but he even indicates the tribe from which he shall come, where he says, 'We shall hear the voice of his swift horses from Dan; the whole earth shall be moved by the voice of the neighing of his galloping horses: he shall also come and devour the earth, and the fulness thereof, the city also, and they that dewll therein.' [Jer. 8:16] This too, is the reason that this tribe is not reckoned in the Apocalypse along with those which are saved." (Againste Heresies, 5.30.2)." Richard Shalom Yates, The Identity of the Tribulation Saints, Ref-0200, Vol. 163 No. 649 January-March 2006, 79-93, p. 83
"These three peoples will escape his fury. The reason for their escape seems to be a double one. In Ps. 83, which describes an event at a little earlier period, we are told, 'they have taken crafty counsel against Thy people, and consulted against Thy hidden ones. They has said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent, they are confederate against Thee: the tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalck; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur (the Assyrian) also is joined with them'? (Ps. 83:3-8). Thus we see that these three peoples acted in concert with the Antichrist when a determined effort was made to utterly exterminate the Jewish people. The Antichrist, therefore, spares these submissive allies of his when he goes forth to overthrow the other countries." Ref-0215, "The Doom of the Antichrist"
(PRIVATE) "Who then can fit the two numbers, 666 and 616? The answer is easy. The evil emperor's name was spelled in two ways: Nero or Neron. The letter n meant 50. If the copyist was familiar with only the form Nero, he could by dropping the n obtain 616. It is most difficult to think of any other reason for 616." Ref-0154, p. 48. "'Nero Caesar' transliterated into the Hebrew from the Greek (Neron Kaiser) adds up to exactly 666 in Hebrew. N=50, R=200, W=6, N=50 plus Q=100, S=60, R=200 totals 666. This spelling of Nero Caesar was found in the discovery of an Aramaic document in Wadi Murabba`at (BASOR 170, 65). The Latin form of 'Nero Caesar' when transliterated into Hebrew adds up to 616. This most likely explains the textual variant in Revelation 13:18 with the number 616. It should also be noted that the Greek word for 'Beast' when transliterated back into Hebrew adds up to 666. Ancient writers referred to Nero as a 'beast' (See Philostratus Vit. Apoll. 4.38; Sib. Or. 5.343; 8.157). For more detailed commentary see Word Biblical Commentary: Revelation 6-16 by David E. Aune." [http://bibleandscience.com/biblecodes.htm]
"The popular Islamic picture of the Antichrist, or Dajjal, graphically portrays him as blind in one eye, with the word kafir--unbeliever--written on his forehead; his primary function is to mislead the unbelieving masses by claiming divinehood and the power to perform miracles." Ref-0161, p. 113. "[The] view [that the beast is literally resurrected from the dead] has many more advocates down through history than some might realize. . . . It is interesting to realize that even Augustine believed like [Tim] LaHaye on this matter (The City of God, Book XX, Chapter 19). Another ancient one who held views similar . . . is Lactantius (early 300s) (Divine Institutes, Book VII, Chapter 17; Commentary on the Apocalypes, Chapter 13). More recent individuals include: Lewis Sperry Chafer, J. A. Seiss, Charles C. Ryrie, Leon Morris, Walter K. Price, Robert Govett and Robert Thomas." Thomas Ice, "The Death and Resurrection of the Beast, Part 2", Ref-0181, Vol. 8 No. 23, May 2005, p. 5. Questionable: Zec. 11:17 (?);
Paul contrasts the unconditional Abrahamic covenant with man-made covenants in Gal. 3:15 placing it in a different category. In Gal. 3:20 Paul appears to be emphasizing the contrast between a man-made covenant (which mediates between two parties) and the Abrahamic covenant which Abraham did not participate in. Unlike the giving of the Mosaic Law where Moses mediated between God and the Israelites, with the Abrahamic covenant God was both the promise-giver and the mediator.
Questionable: Ps. 2:6-8 (?);
The covenant was ratified by blood in Ex. 24:1-11.
Questionable: Zec. 11:10-11 (?);
"A biblical and Talmudic scholar, [Rabbi Israel] Ariel is a researcher whose published writings include an Atlas of the Land of Israel: Its Boundaries According to the Sources, the first of a projected four-volume work which argues that the original boundaries of the land promised to Abraham extend west to east from a point near the Suez Canal to the Persian Gulf, and north to south from northern Syria along the Euphrates River to a boundary line running from Eliat on the Red Sea to the border with Persia. Within these boundaries today fall the countries of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and portions of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. According to Ariel, when the Temple is rebuilt and all those outside the land of Israel return, these lands will provide the necessary room for the increased population." Ref-0144, pp. 105-106. Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Mannaseh received land east of the Jordon (Num. 32:33; Deu. 3:12-17; Jos. 13:7-8; 22:4) east of the borders given in Numbers 34:2. Many verses (Deu. 30:5; Eze. 36:28; 37:25) indicate the promised land is a literal region on earth ('where your fathers dwelt') and not a hazy spiritual notion of redemption.
"If. . . promises regarding the land were fulfilled in Joshua's time or in Solomon's, why do the Scriptures which were written later still appeal to the hope of future possession of the land? Practially every one of the Major and Minor prophets mention in some form the hope of future possession of the land. All of them were written after Solomon's day. . . The original promises of the land involved (1) possession of the land, (2) permanent possession, (3) and occupying the land. Even in Solomon's day at the height of his kingdom the land was not all possessed. At best it was placed under tribute as. . . [1K. 4:21] indicates. Certainly all must agree that possession was not permanent. Further at no time was all the land actually occupied by Israel." Ref-0081, pp. 178-179. A example which ignores this obvious problem and asserts fulfillment is: "Joshua 21:43-45 explicitly declares that all the land that God promised Israel was given to them. . . God fulfilled the promises He made to Abraham." Ref-0189, p. 27. Some have interpreted 'permanent occupation' of the land to be fulfilled by the bones of the Patriarch's which are buried there--which hardly does justice to the character of God. Also--if the promiser were fulfilled during Solomon's reign as some suppose, then why do post-Solomonic prophets expound it to be yet future? "several of these restoration passages speak of a restoration in which the ten tribes of the north are reunited with the two tribes of the souch (Ia. 11:12; Jer. 3:18; 23:5-8; 31:27; Ezek 37:15-23; Hosea 1:11; Zech 10:6), and this did not happen under the three previous returns from exile (Kaiser 1992: 105-07; idem 1998: 2016; Jelinek 1998: 242)." Ref-0697, p. 107. See especially Ref-0697, pp. 107-109.
"The Abrahamic Covenant gives the ownership of the Land, unconditionally, to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This ownership is irrevocable and forever, as long as this earth stands. Israel does not have to do anything to obtain ownership of the Land. They already have it. However, ownership of the Land is different from possession of the Land. The Mosaic Covenant spells out how Israel can earn the right to possess the Land which they already own by divine grant." Thomas S. McCall, "Who Owns the Land?", Ref-0055, Vol. 8 No. 24 August 2004, 156-164, p. 162.
"Since God was the ultimate owner of the land of Israel, since He had given tenant possession of the land to the people of Israel forever (Gen. 13:15; 2Chr. 10:7), and since the Israelites were only the tenant administrators of God's land, they were forbidden to sell the land forever [Lev. 25:23]. . . If . . . an Israelite became so poverty-stricken that he was forced to sell the portion of land that was his tenant possession, he did not sell the ownership of the land. Instead, he sold the tenant posession or administration of the portion of the land for a temporary period of time (Lev. 25:16-16, 25-27). . . . God required that a sold tenant possession be returned to the original tenant or his heir in the year of jubilee (Lev. 25:10, 13, 28; 27:24)." Ref-0220, pp. 78-79.
"The covenant referred to here [Rom. 11:26-27] must of necessity be the new covenant, for that is the only covenant expressly dealing with the removal of sins. And it is said to be actual after the coming of the Deliverer." Ref-0050, pp. 120-121 It appears Deu. 30:6 hints at the new covenant in the circumcision of the heart initiated by God and the resulting obedient walk. Questionable: Eze. 20:37 (?); John 7:37-39 (?);
"When used in a religious context, even in the case of deified Roman emperors, 'Lord' (kyrios) means that the bearer was worthy of divine recognition and honor. The apostolic writers and early believers were well aware of this meaning. Polycarp, for example, died as a martyr rather than call Caesar kyrios." Ref-0123, p. 107.
". . .with modern astronomy one can reckon a year very precisely as being '365.24219879 days, or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45.975 seconds.' However, in ancient times various systems were used. When one investigates the calendars of ancient India, Persia, Babylonia and Assyria, Egypt, Central and South America, and China it is interesting to notice that they uniformly had twelve thirty-day months (a few had eighteen twenty-day months) making a total of 360 days for the year and they had various methods of intercalating days so that the year would come out correctly. Although it may be strange to present-day thinking, it was common in those days to think of a 360-day year." Ref-0044, pp. 135-136 "The time measurements encountered in Genesis chapters 7 and 8 are the result of a lunar calendar. Gen. 7:11 states the flood began on the seventeenth day of the second month, and it ended on the seventeenth day of the seventh month (Gen. 8:4), exactly five months. Both Gen. 7:24 and Gen. 8:3 declare the waters were upon the earth 150 days. Assuming each month is the same length, they would have 30 days apiece. Skeptics say that is a big assumption because the story does not cover an entire year, and thus doesn't take into account any days the ancients may have added on to their year." Charles H. Ray, A Study of Daniel 9:24 - 27, Part II, Ref-0055, Vol. 5 No. 16, December 2001, p. 321. "Ussher found that the ancient Jews and the Egyptians did not use a year based on the moon. Instead they had a year made up of 12 months, each 30 days long. At the end of the year they tacked on 5 days. Every 4 years they added 6 days. However, a year of 365 days is too short, and one of exactly 365.25 days is too long. You have to drop days from it to keep the seasons from drifting." -- Larry Pierce in Ref-0222, p. 891. See also Ref-0117, pp. 114-115. Questionable: Jas. 5:17 (?);
"By far the majority interpretation is that the woman is 'the church' which is entirely unsatisfactory and ignores all sorts of basic interpretive cues: (1) Christ birthed the church (Mat. 16:18), not the other way around. (2) The sun/moon/stars have a direct corollary in Joseph's dream (Gen. 37:9). Sun = Joseph's Father (Jacob), moon = Jacob's mother, 11 stars = brothers (12 stars meaning all twelve tribes). Hence a strong reference to Israel. (3) The reference to 'clothed with the sun' and 'the moon under her feet' refer to many passages which declare that the promises made to Israel (especially for a Davidic ruler and the continuation of the nation) can be thwarted only if the sun and moon can be made to cease from before God (Ps. 89:35-37; Jer. 31:36). Hence the reference is to the permanence of Israel and its promises in the mind of God as evidenced by His oaths involving the sun and moon. (4) The woman travails to give birth to the man-child (singular, male) who is caught-up. This would seem a clear allusion to the promise of the seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15) and the man-child is obviously Christ and not (the rapture of) the church." "Rachel died . . . giving birth to Benjamin . . . Leah, no doubt, raised Joseph and Benjamin . . . Clearly, [in Gen. 37:10] Jacob was referring to Leah." [Note that Jacob interprets the moon as representing Leah. The dream was not fulfilled until much later in Egypt while Leah was presumably still alive (Gen. 44:14). Her death is not mentioned until Gen. 49:31] Ref-0057, September/October 2001, p. 34.