Questions, Questions, Questions

“I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom; preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.”  2 Timothy 4:1-2  NASB Be ready –…

Sukkot

“Three times a year you shall make a festival to Me.”  Exodus 23:14  (J. Green) Festival – Tonight as the sun goes down the worldwide Jewish community will begin the festival of Sukkot.  For the next few days, people who honor this commandment will live outside in shelters.  This experience is a remembrance of the…

Bottoms Up

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.  For yet in a very little while, he who is coming will come, and will not delay.  Hebrews 10:36-37  NASB Endurance – The marathon.  Some enter to win.  Most enter to finish.  That’s…

Abbey Road

Would YHWH reject forever, and never again be pleased?  Has His kindness ceased forever, has the promise failed for all generations.  Has El forgotten to show favour? Has He shut up His compassions in displeasure?  Selah.  Tehillim 77:7-9  ISR Never again be pleased – I’m right there with the boys.  “And in the end,  ….

Impossible Apologetics

“I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery, you have no other mighty ones against My face.”  Exodus 20:2-3  ISR You have no other – Why is this a commandment?  Why is it the first commandment?  Why is it that nowhere in the…

The Last Word of Life

The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.  Ecclesiastes 12:13  NASB Conclusion – The penultimate verse of Ecclesiastes is a statement of the final rational, moral and ethical purpose of life.  Notice that it applies to every person, not just to those who…

Explaining It Away

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.”  Luke 14:26  NASB Hate – What in the world can Yeshua possibly mean by this statement?  Taken at face value, it has…