Although I can’t be absolutely certain, I think the Messiah was presented to the crowd at this location.  It’s just outside the Old City wall.  They yelled, “Crucify Him.”

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Today’s Feature

There Can Be Only One Messiah

Grant Jeffrey, an author and scholar, came up with a very conservative estimate of the probability that anyone in the history of the world could have fulfilled the prophecies in the Bible about the Messiah by chance.  Below are the prophecies Jeffrey used along with his educated guesses about the probability of each one occurring by chance:

Estimate 1: He will be born in Bethlehem and descend from Judah (Micah 5: 2 and Genesis 49: 10); probability: 1 in 2,400.

Estimate 2: A messenger will precede the Messiah’s coming (Isaiah 40: 3 and Malachi 3: 1); probability: 1 in 20.

Estimate 3: He will enter Jerusalem riding on a donkey (Zechariah 9: 9); probability; 1 in 50.

Estimate 4: He will be betrayed by a friend (Psalm 41: 9); probability: 1 in 10.

Estimate 5: His hands and feet will be pierced (Psalm 22: 16); probability: 1 in 100.

Estimate 6: His enemies will wound Him (Isaiah: 54: 5); probability: 1 in 10.

Estimate 7: His betrayer will receive 30 pieces of silver for betraying Him (Zechariah 11: 12); probability: 1 in 50.

Estimate 8: He will be spit upon and beaten (Isaiah 50: 6); probability: 1 in 10.

Estimate 9: The money for His betrayal will be thrown into the Temple and used to buy a potter’s field (Zechariah 11: 13); probability: 1 in 200.

Estimate 10: He will be silent before His accusers (Isaiah 53: 7); probability: 1 in 100.

Estimate 11: He will die with thieves (Isaiah 53: 9); probability: 1 in 100.

Estimate 12: People will gamble for His garments (Psalm 22: 18); probability: 1 in 100.

Estimate 13: His side will be pierced (Zechariah 12: 10); probability: 1 in 100.

Estimate 14: None of His bones will be broken (Psalm 34: 20); probability: 1 in 20.

Estimate 15: His body will not decay (Psalm 16: 10); probability: 1 in 10,000.

Estimate 16: He will be buried in a rich man’s tomb (Isaiah 53: 9); probability: 1 in 100.

Estimate 17: Darkness will cover the earth at His death (Amos 8: 9); probability: 1 in 1000.

Using Jeffrey’s estimates, the probability of these 17 prophecies occurring by chance is 1 divided by 480,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.  Stated another way, it’s 1 divided by (5 trillion times 96 trillion).

How likely are those odds?  The answer is mindboggling.  Here’s a way to think about it.  That many dollar bills would fill the entire state of Texas several feet high.  And by the way, there are hundreds of Messianic prophecies in the Bible, not just 17.  Therefore, logic and probability rule out more than one Messiah.  So does Yahweh’s Word.

Commentary

• Embattled ACORN orders independent investigation
• GOP seizes on ACORN funding
• FBI chief unaware of ACORN until last night
• FIU student central to probe of ACORN

It’s about time the GOP did something substantial to choke the life out of ACORN.  Folks, that’s government money, our money, they’re spending.  We’ve been footing the bill for their corrupt practices long enough.  Even the president is distancing himself from ACORN, and I respect him for it even though he waited until they were being smeared by the mainstream media before taking action.  At least he’s astute enough to realize that you can’t lead this nation while cozying up to a radical, leftwing organization with the kind of baggage ACORN carries.

Even so, there’s still big trouble on the Potomac River.  The FBI director was unaware of the countless accusations swirling around ACORN.  What planet does he inhabit?  It’s not as though Fox News is the only source for information on ACORN.  NPR has run stories on ACORN.  I think it’s impossible for any legitimate news organization not to realize that something fishy is going on at ACORN, even though it caught Charles Gibson and the ABC news hounds totally by surprise.  You may not know this, but in the early days the people at NBC and CBS referred to ABC as the Almost Broadcasting Company.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Here’s a question for FBI director Mueller.  Where are you getting your intelligence?  If something that big is happening in plain sight and you don’t know about it, well Mr. Mueller, it’s obvious that you need to look into shortcomings in your own organization.

FBI Director Robert Mueller

Today’s Events Shaping Our World

U.S. and Western Hemisphere

• U.S. to shelve nuclear missile defense shield
• Russia is waiting for an official announcement by the U.S.
• Moscow welcomes Obama’s anticipate move
• Bones found at home of suspected kidnappers
• U.S. industrial output rises again, inflation tame
• Healthcare plan could help states with Medicaid
• Connecticut police lab rushing DNA tests in Yale killing
• DNA links Raymond Clark to Annie Le murder
• Jimmy Carter’s racism charge triggers next U.S. race debate
• Obama disagrees with Jimmy Carter on race issue
• Spokesman says criticism of Obama not racial
• The race from race: dems rebut Carter

Mr. Carter, your friends in the Democrat Party have left you dangling on this one.  That should tell you something.  Are you getting the message?

• Tooth helps restore desperate woman’s sight
• House ethics panel defers probe on Jessie Jackson Jr.
• Head of wrestling empire says she wants Dodd’s Senate seat
• World’s oceans warmest on record this summer
• What’s with all the public outbursts?

Taylor Swift and Kanye West

• Watch and wait is good option in prostate cancer
• Yale student suffocated
• Baucus releases healthcare bill
• Senate health plan a “building block”
• Rockefeller rips Baucus bill
• Conservatives score string of scoops
• FBI searches home of Colorado man in terror probe
• Under fire, Napolitano halts projects for review
• Burt Reynolds enters Florida rehab for pill addiction
• Naked man riding motorcycle charged with DUI
• U.S. seeking 60-day delay in Guantanamo trials

Israel and Middle East

“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent.  You who remind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

Isaiah 62: 6-7

Monument outside Caiaphas’ house marking the spot where Peter was asked, “Do you know the Man?”

• The Goldstone Report: rewarding Palestinian terror
• Prospective Iran-P5+1 meeting: is this really progress?
• Mitchell extends Middle East peace mission
• On eve of Rosh Hashanah, Israel’s population reaches 7.5 million, 75.4% Jewish
• Assad: Israel always ends every chance for peace

I wonder if Mr. Assad remembers the Camp David meeting in 2000.  Israel bent over backwards to secure a peace treaty, and what did they get.  According to Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat refused to agree.  He went home, orchestrated a brouhaha on the Temple Mount with Ariel Sharon, and declared an Intifada.  That wasn’t Israel’s fault, and it’s not Israel’s fault that Assad’s buddy from Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is calling for Israel’s destruction.  Mr. Assad is being disingenuous at best.  At worst, he’s just plain ignorant.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Assad

• IDF nabs Palestinians trying to infiltrate settlement with knife
• Goldstone to Israel: probe war crimes detailed in U.N. Gaza report
• U.N. smears Israeli self-defense as “war crimes”
• War crimes in Gaza
• Goldstone’s daughter: my father’s participation softened U.N. Gaza report
• Netanyahu calls U.N. Gaza report “kangaroo court” against Israel
• Lieberman: U.N. commission established in advance to blame Israel
• IDF: U.N. Gaza report is biased, radical, and groundless
• Israel seeks Obama backing over Gaza War probe

Here’s a question for you.  If a nation, any nation, was firing rockets at us, what do you think we would do?  If you believe we would retaliate, then why would you blame Israel for taking steps to defend herself?  That’s a flagrant example of the double standard the world imposes where Israel is concerned.  It’s time to put an end to that hypocrisy.

• U.N.: evidence of Israel and Hamas war crimes in Gaza
• Israel rebuffs inquiry into Gaza war crime allegations
• The one thing worse than denying the Gaza report
• Why Europe wants stiffer sanctions on Iran
• U.S. is ready to talk with Iran
• Iraq leader seeks investments as rockets fall
• Iraq’s vice president says Iraq should call on U.S. for security help
• Iran replaces reformist cleric for Quds Day Friday sermon
• Iran opposition leaders to attend anti-Israel rally
• Egyptian police kill Eritreans crossing into Israel
• Israel starts removing 100 West Bank roadblocks
• U.S. military closes largest detention camp in Iraq
• At Gaza’s only spa, the well-heeled find relief
• IDF chief: Iran not an existential threat
• Turkey-Syria leaders hold Middle East peace talks

These are the very steps the Messiah walked as He was being led to Caiaphas’ house for His trial before the Sanhedrin.

• Headlines in Aljazeera
• Headlines in Gulf News
• Headlines in Tehran Times
• Headlines in Arab News

China, Russia, India, and Asia-Pacific

• Russia is one of the most important partners for the Republic of Korea
• Indonesian police kill 4 terror suspects
• The father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb tells just how easy it is
• U.S.-Japan alliance remains cornerstone of security in Asia
• Japan should contribute to Afghanistan: minister
• Japanese PM pledges big change in government
• Obama sets Afghan, Pakistan goals, waits on troops also click here
• Obama says no immediate plan to send more troops to Afghanistan
• Karzai leading Afghan vote with 54%
• Karzai insists on integrity of vote It looks as though Mr. Karzai has been consulting with Baghdad Bob.  Does anyone know if he’s gone into the consulting business?
• Decriminalizing gay sex: government won’t oppose HC order
• WTO concerned about U.S. move on tire tariff
• China to unveil new weapons systems in National Day parade
• China issues regulation to curb marine pollution by ships
• Hu urges implementation of scientific outlook on development to military
• China’s growth creates opportunities for other countries

Chinese Fashion Models

• Headlines in The Moscow Times
• Headlines in Voice of Russia
• Headlines in Xinhua News
• Headlines in The Times of India
• Headlines in The Asahi Shimbun

Europe and Africa

• Trafigura knew of waste dangers
• Investors call for action on global warming
• Spiking the road to Copenhagen
• World Bank says developing countries worse hit by climate change
• EU to support stimulus, push on trade talks at G20
• China culture month opens in Rwanda

Sunset over the Sinai with the Red Sea in the foreground.

• Headlines in the BBC
• Headlines in The Times of London
• Headlines in Der Spiegel
• Headlines in Deutsche Welle-World

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