Many people ask me where they can study Scripture from the Hebraic perspective. Until now, I haven’t had an answer. But thanks to the hard work of Matt Woodward, a new school has been born with the express purpose of examining the Bible, all of the Bible, from the perceptive of a Jewish, Messianic point…
To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children; yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” Genesis 3:16 NASB Pain – What a twisted verse! When you read this, doesn’t it make you question the justice of…
“But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, . . .” Luke 6:27 NASB Do good – If you read this passage only in its Greek translation, you might conclude that doing good is essentially about benefiting the other. The Greek kalos is about what is…
The Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; and two peoples will be separated from your body; and one people shall be stronger than the other; and the older shall serve the younger.” Genesis 25:23 NASB The older shall serve the younger – God dictated that Esau would serve Jacob. At least…
For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord, . . . Joshua 5:6 NASB War – At the macro level, human history is filled with…
“I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 NASB Forsake – This verse in Hebrews is really a modified quotation from a verse in Deuteronomy 31:6. The passage in Deuteronomy reads eemach lo yarpeka velo ya’azveka (He will not fail you, nor forsake you). The promise is very old. It…
A man does not fully understand the words of the Torah until he has come to grief over them. Babylonian Talmud, Gitten 43a Come to grief – Rabbi Huna commented with these words when he acknowledged his own error in interpretation concerning a debate over the conditions of betrothal. Rabbi Huna called for a public…
If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear…
OK people. Here’s the deal. I have ONE opening for a single female for the trip to Israel in August. There is a discount for this one opening, so if you ever thought about going, this is the time since Bob and I will probably not be doing a trip to Israel again. This is…
“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16 NASB Good Works – It seems reasonable to suggest that Yeshua anticipated the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. It’s hard to read his teaching in Matthew 24 and…
