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Some additional notes on Evan, the Cornerstone!
After the study I put up the other day on the Hebrew word ‘אבן‘ (even or evan) meaning ‘stone,’ I decided to build on it for our congregation’s Wednesday evening Torah study. I dug up a few more verses with the Hebrew word and we had a ‘ball’ just looking 
at familiar texts and ‘seeing’ new things as remez insights for Messiah.
Now, not all verses with the word ‘evan’ point to Mashiach, or at least we didn’t ‘see’ Him under every stone… pun intended, but we found some really cool verses that you will enjoy, and they’ll peak your interest in other references as you read.
If you have not read the ‘אבן‘ study, you need to do so to understand the rest of this post… 😉 Continue reading “Some additional notes on Evan, the Cornerstone!”
A thought… Biblical Exegesis.
Great short teaching on Biblical Exegesis.
Thus says Yahweh, …
Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you what is best for you,
Who leads you in the way you should go.
“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.”
Why do people spend so much time doing theological gymnastics in order to find reasons why His commandments aren’t really for them? In the next three weeks, modern Christendom will miss the most blessed days of the year because of willful disobedience!
If you will not pay attention to His commandments, you will not find peace and righteousness…. Ouch!!
Ready for the Fall Feasts? The ones He hasn’t fulfilled yet? The ones that tell of His coming and judgment?
Christian Pastor: Why you should celebrate Halloween.
75 seconds that will blow your mind! Paganism defined, justified, embraced.
From the pulpit.
Wow!
Sharing my journey… Some of the pain…
A few days ago I was reviewing the ‘About’ page trying to ‘see’ what others ‘see.’ You know, a sort of self assessment.
I noticed on the page that I had written that my goal for this blog is to ‘share the journey’ and ‘explain what I am learning.’ Well, it is pretty clear that I love sharing the fire in my soul that burns daily with new ways to challenge the reader to action and growth, but I realized that I have missed widely on the other ‘goal’ for the blog. Sharing my journey.
While I don’t have a particular story or encounter to share, I thought I’d take a post to give some general thoughts and experiences over the last two years as this transformation in my understanding of Scripture has happened. Certainly, my post on Antisemitism was heart wrenching, and the early RT series more personal as I related the early parts of this ‘walk’ but I have missed that area a bit lately. Continue reading “Sharing my journey… Some of the pain…”
Excellent passage defending Messianic Torah observance!!
Here is an interesting passage that I already knew was a solid defense for Torah observance by the believer in Yeshua (Jesus), but, while referring to it in today’s Shabbat message, I noticed a couple words that have been there all along! Funny how we can read verses and not SEE what is actually there.
Before we look at it, I want you to notice, this is a ‘last days’ passage. Verse two gets quoted with the coming of Yeshua, but most never notice the context is decidedly eschatological… End times! Last days! Has ‘not yet happened!!’
“[a]For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, Continue reading “Excellent passage defending Messianic Torah observance!!”
I Should Have Seen It Coming….
I have recently written several posts highlighting glaring translator error or bias. Predictably, I have received multiple requests about Bible translation recommendations, or thoughts on a particular version… I should have seen that coming! So, here is a short post with a few thoughts..
While I am no expert on translations, I think there a few assertions I can safely make:
- NO translation is perfect!
- There are a number of decent or even good translations out there.
- There are several really BAD translations out there.
- Learning to use several simple tools Continue reading “I Should Have Seen It Coming….”
YHWH was pleased for His righteousness’ sake to…
YHWH was pleased for His righteousness’ sake to make the Torah great and glorious! Is. 42:21
Did He stop being righteous?
Did He change His mind?
Or, is the idea that He did away with His Torah a FALSE teaching that does NOT square with Scripture in the front OR the back of the Book?
Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the TORAH will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. Isaiah 2:2-5
Got Torah?
By what standard?? Pray tell!
… I can tell you what is NOT the standard!!
The Westminster Confession of Faith is NOT the standard!!
The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith is NOT the standard!!
The Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church are NOT the standard!!
The Confessions of the Lutheran Church are NOT the standard!! ….
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15
The author of the book of Hebrews tells us that Messiah Y’shua was without sin. By what standard was this determination made?
the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. I John 2:3-6
The Apostle John tells us that if we abide in the Messiah, then we will ‘walk as He walked.’ We will ‘do as He did.’ By what standard did He walk/do?
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. I Cor. 11:1
If we are to imitate Rav Shaul who is imitating Messiah Y’shua, by what standard do we imitate? Continue reading “By what standard?? Pray tell!”
11:3 Restoration 