Messianic Apologetics

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses how far any of us can be pushed, in terms of our theology and the subjects we can engage with. There is no doubting that in the mid-to-late 2020s, too many Messianic people are behind the curve, in too many areas. How can we be better equipped, to better navigate some of the external controversies and internal plurality, which will be building?

Is it not true that Ecclesiastes 9:5 says that “the dead know nothing”? Why are there people in today’s Messianic movement who believe that when they die they will go to Paradise or Heaven, when Ecclesiastes is clear that they will be unconscious?

John McKee discusses how “the last days” are somewhat broader, and actually more positive, than many who examine prophecy are willing or able to say.

John McKee delivers the May 2026 Outreach Israel News update. Far too many people across the Messianic spectrum, limit their engagement with Hebrew and Greek language matters to Strong’s Concordance. There are many more, affordable, useful tools, which definitely need to be considered by various people in positions of leadership and teaching.

Shabbat Weekly Reflection

John McKee discusses some of the development, history, revisions, and expansions of what is widely considered to be our ministry’s flagship book: The New Testament Validates Torah.

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee surveys the Book of Exodus from a Messianic perspective.

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews the difficult matter of born again Believers growing into a condition of being more mature, and able to take on greater and more complicated issues in life. What do today’s Messianic people need to be thinking about, as we prepare to enter into more unstable and complicated times?

Yeshua was seen to dismiss the claim that He was somehow “good,” instead stating that only God was good. Would this not imply that the Messiah was not God?

John McKee urges patience, calmness, and reason as information is steadily released about UFO and extra-terrestrial related matters.

Shabbat Weekly Reflection

John McKee discusses some of the development, history, revisions, and expansions of one of our ministry’s early books: When Will the Messiah Return?

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee surveys the Book of Genesis from a Messianic perspective.

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses the importance of faith, and not quite knowing where God is going to take us as His people. Today’s Messianic community is in a very tentative season of growing up toward maturity, and sits on the edge of a time where more things are unknowable than knowable.

Yeshua said, “the Father is Greater than I.” Some use this as a claim to prove that the Messiah cannot be God.

John McKee offers an introduction to the Frequently Asked Questions Volume II section of the Messianic Apologetics website.

Shabbat Weekly Reflection

John McKee discusses some of the development, history, and revision of one of our ministry’s main books: Messianic Beginnings.

John McKee is presently updating our ministry’s 2 Corinthians commentary. Why is this letter so important for leaders to sort through?

John McKee considers how One Law problems can often go way beyond some of its legalism and judgmentalism.

John McKee looks back on the first full year of our family being Messianic, and how it continues to affect him in ways involving his personal value system.

John McKee was recently able to speak at Adat Eytz Chaim, Comstock Park, MI, 24-26 April, 2026

Adat Eytz Chaim, Comstock Park, MI - 25 April, 2026

John McKee delivers the April 2026 Outreach Israel News update. There are many people who will make claims about supposed paganism present in the Apostolic Writings (NT). And, this actually does extend to concluding that the account of Yeshua of Nazareth was adapted from Greco-Roman mythology. But this standard is seldom ever held to the Tanach (OT) itself, and supposed influences from Ancient Nea...

John McKee reviews some of what happened, when the Abomination of Desolation anticipations for March 1997 did not materialize.