World of the Bible

In reciting their thrice-daily prayers, observant Jews around the world turn in the direction of the site of the former Temple in Holy Jerusalem. However, according to a recent survey of Israel’s public 43 percent…

For over a century the Jewish People had suffered the humiliation of subjugation to Rome. Entering Jerusalem in 63 BC, the triumphant Roman General Pompey had even dared to enter the Holy Temple, initiating a…

What is Premillennialism? Premillennialism is the belief that Jesus Christ will physically return to earth (Zechariah 14:3; Acts 1:11) to set up a throne in Jerusalem (Psalm 2:6; Isaiah 2:2-4; 1 Chronicles 17:14; Matthew 19:28;…

“And let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all…

“Then he made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its base and its shaft; its cups, its bulbs and its flowers were of one piece with it.” (Exodus 37:17)…

“They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your God,…

Israel’s three great offices were prophet, priest and king. Of these, the most enigmatic to moderns is that of priest. However, without the priesthood the Nation of Israel could not have existed, for only the…

In the instructions given to Moses by God in the erection of the Tabernacle was the command to make a place for sacrifice: “You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall…

The menorah was an important component of the Tabernacle. It had two purposes: to furnish light and to remind all Israel that God is light. Indeed, from the second Temple through the Greco-Roman period, the…