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Sukkot is the last and 7th fall feast of Israel mentioned in the Torah… It is from this word where we get the word Sabbath. These connections point to Succoth as the Feast of Rest, speaking deep into our souls and projecting us forward to a time and to a place we are all longing for. This time and place is when man will live in harmony with his neighbor and with nature…
But what is most intriguing, is that back in Leviticus 10 when the death of these two priests is detailed, no one could pin-point the reason why these two were suddenly killed. What was this strange fire they had offered to the Lord? One can count some 12 different rabbinical explanations on what might have happened there…
… were the Israelites supposed to blow the trumpet? For what occasion exactly?… Medieval rabbis have posed this same question. Ibn Ezra, spoke of religious mysteries, Rabbi Abarbanel, a 15th century rabbi and bible commentator asked, Why does the Torah not explain the purpose for this festival? It is indeed an enigma of a feast… Let us consider this mystery…
While the confession is not laid out, it encompasses everything we have seen before: that the divine Messiah took on flesh in order to atone for our sins. And through His resurrection and ascension, He has become our heavenly High Priest.
In this account, we see Judas Iscariot who is very engaged and seems so eager to have Yeshua arrested. His presence here was needed because the Romans required a formal accusation before arresting anyone…
We are now in the month of Elul…
Let us now follow the chronology and concentrate on the next event, the arrest of the Messiah. Here, the situation becomes so messy, that Jesus had to again intervene to make sure He would be crucified at the right time and place. The fulfillment of this prophecy was laid entirely in His hands…
…The unfortunate thing is that many translators, wanting to emphasize the severity of these upcoming events, used words that depict Yeshua as being so affected by the circumstances, as if to lose control over them, as if He was reconsidering the cross.We are going to investigate how these words were translated but let me begin by assuring you that Yeshua was in complete control of absolutely every event from the Garden to the Tav (cross) and onto His resurrection….
The Jewish ceremony connected to the breaking of bread, is the one called the afikomen. It is from the afikomen where Yeshua took this bread, and said, “Take it; this is My body.” Vs.23. What is the ceremony of the afikomen? Let us briefly look at it…
John places the washing of the feet of the disciples just after Mark’s account of the man carrying the water. More precisely, right after vs.17 in Mark 14 when the account of the supper began. And by placing the events chronologically, something major emerges from the text…
If Yeshua was crucified on a Friday, as the 4 Gospels and the Talmud testify to, this brings us to a Wednesday. This is where we are here at the beginning of Mark 14…
Mark 13:22 says, “But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” And so, since the Son does not know, many concluded that He is not divine. But that is too bad for they really are missing out on a great revelation of the God of the Bible in this verse…
This prophecy (Mark 13:28-30) of the fig tree is the sequel to an earlier one. Just a few days before in chapter 11, just after the Triumphant Entry, Yeshua searched for fruit on a fig tree, but found none, and as a consequence, the tree withered. This withering represented the leadership of the country…
In the Hebrew Scriptures and in the New Testament, the term commonly used by the prophets is the Day of the Lord. This is a term mainly describing the moments preceding the Second Coming of the Lord. Zephaniah hammers home the message that the Day of the Lord is a day of final judgment. (…) Our English word, tribulation is very descriptive. It comes from the Latin word tribulum, which means a threshing sledge.
Consider the courage the disciples could draw from the kind of influence Jesus had even at the point of death. Remember the centurion who came to believe at this very crucial moment while Yeshua had breathed His last…
Tradition has added that many other tragedies also came on this day…
Tradition has added that many other tragedies also came on this day…
There is a distinction between Israel which is a lampstand with seven lights and these seven churches. Here, the mystery is the fact that the seven individual lampstands symbolize the seven local churches. In the Book of Revelation, the lampstand represents a witness, such as in 11:3-4. Thus, each local church is to be a witness; if it fails to do so, their lampstand can be removed…
How then do these individuals mislead the many? They have a strategy which is found in vs.6. This is how Yeshua describes the process. He begins by saying how Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am!’ and will mislead many…
How then do these individuals mislead the many? They have a strategy which is found in vs.6. This is how Yeshua describes the process. He begins by saying how Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am!’ and will mislead many…