Shelach L'cha "send" send for yourselves... I am not issuing a command.... it is you who have decided according to your own council.... Numbers 13:1 -- 15:41. Judgment/punishment... can be instructive (warning through hearing or by seeing the results in another), corrective (by experiencing), or retributive (beyond instructive or corrective to punitive). Every [...]
THE FEASTS OF GOD or Moedim or Appointed Times Today we will speak briefly on The Feast of Tabernacles. Last week we spoke on The Day of Atonement... The Great Day Of Atonement for the Christian having that Day being filled with meaning.... but yet also understanding there is a future Great Day [...]
We should not have a romantic type view of current Israel, in that we have had idealized views of their reality. Deuteronomy 31 and 32. At the close of the life of Moses, he spoke to times in distant future- that is, in the same period, about the same future period that Balaam [...]
Lets go back a few verses from the beginning of our Torah portion. Deuteronomy 11:22 "For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the Lord [...]
Mike explores some of the types and shadows of the Toraha and illustrates how they point to the fact that we are to go on beyond redemption and on to sanctification, thus qualifying us to be a part of the FIRST RESURRECTION. Christ's purpose, in God's atonement plan, was not only to grant [...]
On the eighth day, following the seven days of their inauguration, Aaron and his sons begin to officiate as kohanim (priests); a fire issues forth from G‑d to consume the offerings on the altar, and the divine presence comes to dwell in the Sanctuary. Aaron's two elder sons, Nadav and Avihu, offer a [...]
 SUFFERING'S PURPOSE Joseph suffered... That "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose," is written large across Joseph's life. The most trivial and the most important, the most likely and the most unlikely circumstances are made to minister to [...]
That man is a three part being is understood from many scriptures.... Specifically from Heb 4:12 "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two- edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of [...]
Matt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar- jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.18 "And I say also [...]
The Parable of the Ten Virgins (The Wise and Foolish Virgins) THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN/ Kingdom of the Messiah A few words about them The Kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of The Messiah. It is limited in its scope as it is dispensational. Its scope is in [...]
