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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Posted by Navah on Oct 21, 2018 in Bible Study
Why do afflictions befall a righteous man? Why good things happen to bad people and bad things to good people? These are the questions, the answering of which is made the theme of Job’s trial. In Job’s trial lies the important truth, that there is a suffering of the righteous which is not wrath, nor is it the love of God or a dispensation of that love itself, as some theologians teach that there are sufferings which are the result of God’s love. This is...
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Posted by Navah on Oct 6, 2018 in Bible Study
The Pan-Arab identity and the Pan-Arab unity are the talking points in this article, but first who are the Arabs and what is the Pan-Arab identity? The Aramean Arabs from Nachor, Avraham’s brother From the Biblical account in Gen 11:26 we learn that Terach lived seventy years, and brought forth Avram (that is Avraham), Nachor, and Haran. The youngest son Haran fathered Lot and died in the land, Ur of the Chaldees, of his birth while his father Terah was still alive....
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Posted by Navah on Sep 30, 2018 in Oneness of the Creator, The Messiah
Is it in accordance with the Torah to call the Messiah Yeshua ‘Elohim’? To answer this question, first we need to find out what the Hebrew word “elohim” means. It may be a surprise for the reader to learn that there is no specific word in Hebrew that denotes what in the Gentile languages is known as “god”. The word “God” (German: “Gott”) is an abstract word that denotes a concept of any supernatural being...
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Posted by Navah on Sep 19, 2018 in The Messiah
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is perhaps the most recognizable parable among the Christians today, and the term the Good Samaritan has become synonymous with a good person and a good Christian. On the opposite side, however, very often the Parable of the Good Samaritan has been used to denote “Pharisaic hypocrisy”, as the parable has been interpreted as an apparent illustration of “religious legalism”. But is this the true story of the parable?...
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Posted by Navah on Aug 18, 2018 in The Messiah
In Deuteronomy 18, Mosheh told the people to wait a prophet like him, whom the Eternal would raise up for them from their midst. This prophet would be their brother. Mosheh admonished them to listen to him, according to all they asked of the Eternal at Mount Horev when they witnessed the thunders, the lightning flashes, the voice of the shophar, and the mountain smoking, and they heard the Eternal speaking to them the words of the Covenant. But they were scared and trembled...
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Posted by Navah on Aug 17, 2018 in Oneness of the Creator, The Messiah
When reading the Scripture, very often we overlook important passages, especially when the main Biblical event has come to its completion, and we relax our efforts to learn. For years the present author has been perplexing as to the meaning of a certain verse in the Scripture, even a phrase, in the first letter of Shaul (Paul) the Apostle to the Corinthians. We read thus in 1Co 15:28: And when all are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself shall also be subject to Him...
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Posted by Navah on Jul 22, 2018 in The Revelation from YHVH
Who is meant in the seven letters to the seven churches and why are they given exactly before the events that will transpire in the following chapters in Revelation? These are the questions whose answer we will try to find in this article. But before we begin, the present author has to admit that it was very challenging and difficult for him to come to any decisive conclusions over the years. The concise language in the short letters to the seven churches in Revelation made...
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