Last week ex-president Donald Trump said in a radio interview with media broadcaster and friend, Glenn Beck, that if he regains the White House in the presidential election next year, he will have “no choice” but to imprison his political enemies. And Trump reportedly has been talking lately on the campaign trail about his vengeance he will exercise against some people who were instrumental in getting him indicted four times in the past five months. When Donald Trump ran for... Read more
One of the most important texts in the Bible is Daniel 7.9-14, and it contains perhaps the greatest revelation of Jesus in the Bible. But we need to get the background first. Daniel first relates, “In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream” (Daniel 7.1). In vv. 2-8, Daniel records this dream which is one of the most significant... Read more
Twenty-five year old Viktor Hovland of Norway dominated the PGA Tour’s season-ending FedExCup Playoffs by holding on to his lead yesterday, shooting a seven-under par 63 final round to win the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta by five strokes over the charging Xander Schauffele, who shot 62 while playing with the champ. Vikor had won last week’s BMW Championship as well to make it a runaway finale. In the victory presentation afterwards, Hovland said, “I played basically my... Read more
I’m almost finished writing a small book about the Christian gospel. The noun “gospel” appears in the New Testament of English Bibles about 100 times. The New Testament documents have come down to us in the Koine Greek language. Prior to the invention of the printing press, scribes used to hand copy manuscripts written in the Koine Greek language. Scholars now have over 5,000 of these ancient manuscripts, or portions of manuscripts, from which they compile a Greek New Testament.... Read more
Twenty-five year old Norwegian Victor Hovland broke the course record today at Olympia Fields, Chicago, by one stroke in shooting a 9-under par 61 to win the BMW Championship by two strokes over Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick with a total of 17-under par 263. It was his second PGA Tour win this year, and it vaulted him into second place in FedEx Cup standings. Victor said it was the best round of his career as he scorched the back... Read more
World #1 pro golfer Scottie Scheffler shot 64 today and Matt Fitzpatrick shot 66 to finish tied for the lead at eleven under par 199 for three rounds in the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship at Olympia Fields CC in Chicago. Last year, Scheffler won the Masters and Fitzpatrick won the U.S. Open. Recent British Open winner and left-hander Brain Harman is two strokes back, in third place, and Max Homa is three strokes back of them, in fourth... Read more
The Bible doesn’t mess around when it predicts the future. When Donald Trump was campaigning for the U.S. presidency in 2015-2-16, and then during his presidency in 2017-2021, I took a chance with my Kermit Zarley Blog, you might say, and began predicting what was going to happen to him due to his lying and braggadocious ways. I often quoted wisdom literature in the Bible, applied it to Trump, and thereby predicted he would have a miserable and embarrassing fall.... Read more
The death toll of the Russian war in Ukraine has now exceeded that of both the Vietnam War and the Afghan War. The U.S. suffered 58,000 dead troops in its nearly twenty-year war in Vietnam. The Afghan security forces lost 69,000 troops in its twenty-year war against the Taliban. And according to U.S. estimates, Ukraine’s military has now suffered 70,000 dead troops from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Russia suffering about 120,000 dead troops. Yet this most brutal war... Read more
Dr. James Tabor is a biblical scholar, a Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I’ve been a friend Dr. Tabor for over forty years. He often is interviewed on major television networks for his expertise. James has written about ten books and fifty journal articles. He is also an archaeologist in the Holy Land. His colleague at UNC at Charlotte is Dr. Bart Ehrman, who... Read more
Donald Trump became America’s president by accusing Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, of being a political cesspool of dishonesty. It was the pot calling the kettle black. On October 17, 2016, thus three weeks before Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, he tweeted on his Twitter account, “I will Make Our Government Honest Again — believe me. But first, I’m going to have to #DrainTheSwamp. What did Trump mean by “drain the swamp”? That expression means literally to remove water... Read more
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