Playlist: Intertestamental Period (topic)
The Intertestamental Period
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsDuring the Intertestamental Period, spanning over 400 years between the Old and New Testaments, the Jewish people experienced significant national and spiritual changes that shaped the world into which Jesus Christ was born. This era, often seen as a dark period in the history of Israel and Judah, was marked by the absence of …
What Happened Between the Testaments?
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsThe Intertestamental Period, spanning roughly four centuries between the Old and New Testaments, was a time of profound transformation that shaped the world into which Jesus was born. During these 400 years, Israel and Judah experienced a dark historical interval with neither prophet nor inspired writer, leaving historical …
Matthew (Part Twenty)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughDuring the Intertestamental Period, roughly 200 years before Christ, significant religious and political developments shaped the landscape of Judaism. The Pharisees succeeded in persuading the Sadducees and other religious political parties in Jerusalem to concede that the oral law held the same value as the written Word of God. …
'But I Say to You' (Part One): The Spirit of the Law
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe intertestamental period covers the history between the prophetic ministry of Malachi and that of John the Baptist. That span extends from approximately 420 BC to about AD 25, a duration of roughly 445 years. During those centuries empires such as Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Babylon, Greece, and Rome successively controlled the …
Chronicles: Answered Prayer
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughChronicles was written post exile in the late fourth century bc around the time of Alexander the Great. This places the writing in the Greek period in intertestamental history. The chronicler summarizes the lessons of Israelite history from the perspective of a Jew in the intertestamental period looking back at the time of the …
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Sixteen)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe period between the Testaments, spanning roughly four hundred years from Malachi to Matthew, witnessed extensive developments during which Judaism became a corruption of the religion God delivered to Moses. This era produced a syncretic system blending elements of paganism with fragments of truth and binding them through …
Government (Part Two)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe Intertestamental Period spans from roughly the time of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerubbabel. During this period God practically disappears from the scene. The period begins around the time that Alexander the Great invaded Palestine, which occurred somewhere around 327 BC. Alexander conquers Palestine and takes it away from the …
The Spirit World
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughMisconceptions about angels increased in the centuries between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. These ideas reflect deuterocanonical, pseudepigraphical, and Greek literature of the Hellenistic period from 323 to 30 BC. Jewish views on angels developed during pre-New Testament and New …
The Angel of God
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe Jews between the Testaments sought to expand the Bible's sparse information about angels into a complete angelology, initially to satisfy curiosity about what Scripture only sketches. This effort soon turned diabolical as demons influenced their thinking, leading through Philo and other Neoplatonists to the view that demons, …
The Bride of Christ (Part Two)
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Mark SchindlerThe water ritual involving the drawing of water from the pool of Siloam and its procession through the Water Gate to the Temple altar originated a few centuries before Jesus Christ, very possibly during the Maccabean period. That era encompassed Jewish armed resistance and the rededication of the Temple after the persecution …
Inventing Goddesses and Demons
Sermonette byThe Jews turned a Babylonian myth of Lilith into a fabrication about a woman before Eve. Some translations suggest Israel sacrificed to a demon named Azazel.