Have you ever read the story of Jacob stripping bark off tree limbs in order to get his sheep to give birth to streaked, speckled, or spotted offspring? It is from this week’s Torah parashah Vayetze and you can find it in Genesis chapter 30. Having completed his fourteen years of labor, as payment to…
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The Torah requires a thanksgiving offering for many situations and Thanksgiving is perhaps the perfect celebration to bring Christians and Jews together today without any pagan influence or mixture!
Many ancient manuscripts and Dead Sea Scrolls equate Melchizedek with Shem, and to support this understanding, I provide a few quotes…
In light of God having “called out” Avraham in this week’s Torah parashah Lech Lecha, you may be surprised to find the many scriptural references to God calling out His assembly from the earliest of times… If you are being called out of something, you are naturally being called from something to something. If you are…
Often prophecy in Scripture is revealed by type and antitype, by symbols hidden in stories with dual meanings and application and fulfillments. For over 20 years I have shared understanding showing how the seven days of creation reveal Hashem’s 7000 year Plan of Redemption. The following is a short excerpt and outline of that one and…
Upon meditating on the hidden words within the first hebrew word recorded in Scriptures, “Bereshit”, (‘in the beginning’) many truths are discovered and we see God’s whole plan of Salvation is laid out in this one word.
The Word literally “Tabernacled” in Human Flesh on God’s Holy Day for Tabernacling John 1:14 relates Yeshua’s body as temporary dwelling like a tabernacle/booth: And the Word was made flesh, and “tabernacled” among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Many versions…
Understanding Yom Kippur and How to Observe it
Shabbat shuva always falls on the Shabbat before Yom Kippur and is a time for Repentance and Return to Covenant! Shabbat Shuvah (“Sabbath [of] Return” שבת שובה) refers to the Shabbat that occurs during the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur!
Each year to prepare for the fall feast and the prophetic foreshadowing of the coming of the King all of Israel would begin repenting from the beginning of the month of Elul for 30 days up to Rosh Hashanah/Yom Terumah and then 10 final days leading up to Yom Kippur the 10 days of Awe!