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…