The Eternal gave His Covenant and Torah to His people on the day we celebrate as the Festival of the Weeks or in Hebrew: Chag Shavuot. In Greek however this day is called “Pentecost” (literally, the fiftieth). On the day of Pentecost, according to the Christian tradition and theology, in the upper room of apostle Peter, a new religious entity called “the Church” was born apart from Israel. The “proof text” the Christian theologians find...
Read More »What was the message Yeshua delivered in the letter to the church in Pergamos? He commended them for having held fast to His Name and not having denied the faith in Him, but what did He criticize them for? The heading And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write, ‘He who has the sharp two-edged sword, says this: (Rev 2:12) The warning in the letter to the church in Pergamos The message I know your works, and where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is. And you...
Read More »In a series of articles, we will study the seven letters to the seven churches in the Book of Revelation. But, first, who is the author of Revelation (aka the Apocalypse), the most prophetic book in the Bible and who wrote the seven letters to the seven churches and most importantly why? We will start with the letter to the church of Ephesus. The Revelation being the most prophetic book in the Scripture reveals to the readers the last three and half years of the world as we...
Read More »The Book of Revelation is rightly called the most prophetic book in the entire Bible. There is no other book in the Bible that has so many prophecies in it. The dramatic events of the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and seven bowls will start the last three and half years commonly known as the Tribulation of this world, or the sounding of the seven trumpets. The Book of Revelation encompasses all prophecy from Gen 3:15 to Rev 22:21-22 concerning the coming and return of...
Read More »Today, many in the Messianic movement say that we cannot know with certainty the pronunciation of the Name of YHVH, the Tetragrammaton Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey. They say that the exact pronunciation of the Name of YHVH was lost in antiquities and therefore impossible to know its correct uttering. Others go even further to say that we cannot know how to pronounce the Name of YHVH, because of “the conspiracy of the Rabbis” who have hidden it by purposely supplying...
Read More »The subject of our teaching is the article “‘God is Cool With Cannabis,’ Says Orthodox Jewish Cannabis Expert” by Eliana Rudee posted by Breaking Israel News on 21 March 2018. What does Rabbinical Judaism say about cannabis? In her article the author Eliana Rudee quotes Sarah Zadok, Content Marketing Manager for CannaTech and iCAN Israel Cannabis concerning the use of cannabis (marijuana). According to Sarah Zadok, “the use of medical cannabis among those...
Read More »Never before has the Iranian menace been so real for the region and the world thanks to the lifting of the Iranian sanctions, in accordance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of Obama, Europe, Russia and China. Had the sanctions been in place for a little longer, Iran would not have had the money to finance its presence in the Iraq and Syria, the proxy war against Yemen and Israel. The Iranian threat, therefore, would not have existed in the first...
Read More »In Part II of Reckoning of Time in Chapter “Daniel’s Vision and Babylon the Great”, we studied the ten-horned beast, which is the eighth and last empire of this world, or commonly known as the New World Order (NWO). This last empire Yochanan (John) calls “the eighth” as we read, The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits, are seven kings: five have fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he has...
Read More »When Mosheh came down to the camp to find out that Israel had already desecrated the Covenant of YHVH, commonly known as The Ten Commandments, by having broken the Second Commandment and threw the tablets and broke them before their eyes, did he not know what he did? Did he not know that the tablets were written with the finger of Elohim? Yes, Mosheh was completely aware of the consequences for his actions. When he broke the tablets of the Covenant of YHVH, he knew that...
Read More »When Mosheh broke the tablets of stone, aka the Ten Commandments, what happened to the pieces? Were they left on the ground and thus they were lost forever in the desert? Or they were stored somewhere. And if they were stored somewhere, where are they now? And why would Mosheh break something written with the finger of Elohim in the first place? These are all legitimate questions and in order to find answers to them, we need to follow the sequence of events in the first...
Read More »The present author holds the view that the Ark of the Covenant of YHVH had not been lost, but hidden, and the time will come when it will be revealed again to take its place in the Third Temple that is yet to be built in Jerusalem. This view is based on the accounts of the Apocryphal books of Baruch the disciple of the prophet Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) and of Maccabees, which we will study below. We read in the book of Baruch the disciple of Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) the prophet, And...
Read More »Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides or Rambam, teaches in his book the Mishna Torah (Hilchot Malachim 11:4) that when the Messiah comes, He will also reinstate the Third Temple. His teaching is based on a prophecy in Zec 6:12-13 in which YHVH of the hosts said thus, See, the Man whose name is the Branch! And from His place He shall branch out, and He shall build the Temple of Yehovah. It is He who is going to build the Temple of Yehovah. It is He who is...
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