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Question: How are the main people in the book of Esther also thematically tied to other people in the Bible?

Daniel Agee

Question: “I heard a reference to Queen Vashti possibly being a Levite in one of your lessons, and would like to know if you have spoken on that more in other lessons on the Hallel Fellowship site, or if you could provide me with a reference.” Daniel Agee responds. [read more]

Question: Is there messianic significance to Eliyahu’s lying on the dead child three times (1st Kings 17)?

Daniel Agee

Question: In 1st Kings 17:21–22, where Elijah lies down on the dead child three times and revives him, is this a Messianic reference, and if so, can you tell me it’s significance? —Anna C. [read more]

Yom Kippur and being ‘released from the law’

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Most Christians interpret Rom. 7:6 to mean that the Torah has been cast aside and that we don’t have to live by the rules of the Torah anymore. Life does not come from the letter of the Law — and it never did. We deserve death under God’s holy law, but Yeshuah the Messiah gives us life to live the law with a new “heart.” That’s the message of יום כיפרים Yom Kippurim, the Day of Atonement. [read more]

Did the Apostle John and Ezekiel meet each other in vision at God’s Temple? (part 1)

Daniel Agee
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In the vision Yekhezqel (Ezekiel) had of a temple, he watches a man measuring the temple. In the vision apostle Yokhanan (John) had of a temple, recorded in Revelation, God tells him to measure the temple. Was Yekhezqel watching Yokhanan measuring the temple? Did God give allow Yekhezqel to see someone who was born 600-plus years after him? [read more]

Why do we wash each other’s feet at Passover?

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Those of us in the Messianic community have excitedly embraced the Passover and “gone back to our roots” as a commemoration of the Exodus. However, many Messianics forget that Yeshua did ask us to add something new to the celebration in commemoration of Him: foot washing. Richard explains why Yeshua insituted this ceremony and how it turned the disciples hearts away from themselves and closer to Him. [read more]

Question: What is ‘the gospel’?

Richard Agee
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Richard Agee answers a submitted question — “What is the Gospel?” Unfortunately, the answer is not often clearly communicated. [read more]

Lessons from The Name

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In Ex. 3:14, God tells Moshe to identify Him to the elders of Israel as, in Hebrew, “‘Ehyeh ‘Asher ‘Ehyeh.” It’s translated various ways, such as “I Am Who I Am” and “I Will Be Who I Will Be.” Richard Agee explores the teaching of The Name. [read more]