Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: Is Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula? Answer: No, it is not. It is in Saudi Arabia across the Red Sea. The most common misunderstanding among the Christian theologians and historians is that Mount Sinai, where YHVH gave the Ten Commandments, is located in what is now known as the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. One can find maps of Israel’s exodus from Egypt as appendices to the Christian Bibles showing that Sinai is in Egypt, despite the fact that Apostle Shaul (Paul)...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: How many are the arks of the Covenant? Answer: There are two arks of the Covenant of YHVH. The Torah speaks of two arks of the Covenant and two sets of tablets on which YHVH wrote His Covenant with Israel. When Israel sinned before YHVH by making the golden calf, Mosheh (Moses) broke the first tablets of stone (Read more about why Mosheh broke the tablets). Just because he broke the tablets, that did not mean that the pieces of the tablets written with finger of...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: Who was the happiest man in the Bible? Answer: King Avimelech was the happiest man. King Avimelech abducted Sarah the wife of Avraham to be his wife, because Avraham told him Sarah was his sister. The God of Avraham was not pleased with that act of Avimelech and punished him and his household very severely with a strange disease. Avimelech asked Avraham to plead for him before YHVH and Avimelech and all around him were relieved, which must have made him very...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: Who was the saddest man in the Bible? Answer: Except the first man, Adam, there had never been a man that saw so much grief as Shem, the son of Noach. Not only did he see the apostacy God destroyed in the Flood, but he lived to bury eight generations of his descendants: Arpachshad, Shelah, Eber (he outlived Shem), Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Avraham (Gen 11:10-32). This should not surprise us, since the lives of men were rapidly shortened after the...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: How many were the plagues on Egypt? Answer: In Exodus, we count total of 10 plagues in Egypt. With them the God of Israel not only punished Egypt and Pharaoh for refusing to let Israel go, but He also mocked the ten gods that were worshiped by the Egyptians. However, another plague took place that devastated Egypt; it took place outside of Egypt, on the bottom of the Red Sea, that mocked another god of Egypt: Pharaoh himself; he was considered a god, too. While...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: What happened to the Egyptian princess after she adopted baby Moses? Answer: The Egyptian princess in a righteous act saved the future greatest statesman of Israel from a certain death. And the story continues with the adulthood of Moses forty years later. However, after the adoption of baby Moses by the Egyptian princess, we know nothing regarding her life afterwards; we are not even told what her name was. Or are we? Read more in the article “Guess who else left...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: How many were the disciples of Yeshua? Answer: Yeshua chose 12 disciples for His ministry: Simon Peter, James the son of Zebedee, John the brother of James, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot. (Mar 3:16-19) At the end of His ministry, we see 11 disciples: Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon Zelotes, and Judas the...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: How many are the tribes of Israel? Answer: In Egypt at the end of his life Jacob (Israel) adopted the sons of Joseph: Manasseh and Ephraim, thus Jacob’s sons became 14. And he told Joseph that if he would have other sons after that, they would be his own, but Manasseh and Ephraim would be Jacob’s. Joseph did not father any sons in Egypt. Therefore, at the time of the Exodus we see that 13 tribes left Egypt, as Manasseh and Ephraim replaced their father, since...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: How many were the sons of Jacob? Answer: This question may seem easy to answer. He fathered 12 sons and a daughter from four mothers (below they are listed by their mothers, in order of their births, and the meanings of their names): Sons of Leah: Re’uven = “behold a son” Shimon = “heard” Levi = “joined to” Yehudah = “YHVH praised” Sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan = “a judge” Naphtali = “wrestling Sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad =...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 17, 2018 in Q&A
Question: Did God work on the first Sabbath, and if He did what did He do and why? Answer: The Creator worked on the first Sabbath (the seventh day of the creation), as it is seen in Gen 2:1. And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. (Gen 2:1-2 JPS) From Genesis 1 we understand that the Creator made the universe...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 8, 2018 in Q&A
Who are the “Palestinians”? Yeshua said, “Avraham saw my day and rejoiced”. When did Avraham see him? Why does the Torah speak in the Creation story in third person? What do the religions teach about going to heaven? Why was the first cold pressed olive oil used in the Temple? Is Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) called ‘Sabbath’ as the weekly Sabbath? Why is Psalm 119 called “acrostic psalm”? What did the apostle mean by...
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Posted by Navah on Oct 27, 2018 in Bible Study
During the trial of Job, his wife said, ‘Curse God and die!’ but did she really say it, or she said something else? In the article “Misunderstanding of Job’s Trial Few Could Bear” the present author intentionally omitted in his teaching a verse in Job 2 according to which Job’s wife said, ‘Curse God and die!’ Let us recall the Job story. Iyov (Job) was a righteous man. And the messengers came to present themselves before YHVH. And YHVH said to the satan, “Have...
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