The Holiness Code

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel. Ezra 10:10 NASB Unfaithful – Ezra’s solution to the problem of the presence of foreign wives in the community of those who returned from Babylon is simple and radical. “Now…

Excommunicated

“Fear not for you will not be put to shame; neither feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;  but you will forget the shame of your youth, . .”   Isaiah 54:4 NASB Not be disgraced – Let’s consider the Hebrew word haper.  The letters are Chet-Pey-Resh.  The word picture is Fence-Word-Person.  Perhaps we can…

Prayer Request

Today I got a request from one of our community.  His wife is demanding a divorce without biblical grounds (from Matthew).  He does not want this and is trying to work through it.  There are children.  He has asked for prayer about the up-coming legal confrontation.  Yeshua makes it very clear that marriage is glued…