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Why does Scripture mention Sodom and Gomorrah from beginning to end?

Richard Agee
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Why do the prophets, Yeshua the Messiah and His apostles repeatedly refer to Sodom and Gomorrah when talking about judgment and mercy? [read more]

Shmeni Atzeret pictures God wanting to be with mankind

Richard Agee
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Shmeni Atzeret (Convocation of the Eighth Day) pictures a just God beyond human understanding. His goal is that all of mankind be with Him. [read more]

Matthew 5:38-42: Yeshua restores the mercy-full meaning of ‘eye for eye’

Jeff Quackenbush
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“You have heard it said, but I say…” was a common rabbinic phrase used when a rabbi wanted to encourage yeshiva students to dissect and discuss a particular Torah principle. A “problematic” Torah edicts is “eye for eye, tooth for tooth,” etc. Many Christians and Jews are very uncomfortable with this “barbaric” “tit-for-tat” law. [read more]

Numbers 34-36: Maximum justice, maximum mercy

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In the closing chapters of the book of Numbers, among a discussion of land grants to the tribes of Israel we read of a justice-and-mercy system for murderers that prophetically links ransom of the accidentally guilty to the death of the high priest. [read more]

Luke 6:1-11: Law vs. mercy: Does picking grain violate the Sabbath?

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There are three main classes of interpretation: 1. Yeshua is heralding the “end of Torah” and the “beginning of Grace.” 2. Yeshua was simply correcting unwarranted additions to the Torah. 3. Yeshua is talking about a “higher standard” for the Torah. [read more]

Leviticus 26-27 — God mixes justice with mercy

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The topic of these two chapters is God’s anger: the just anger that comes when His people do not follow the way He has laid out for them. God reveals the blessings He will give them if they obey Him and give their hearts to Him and the curses that will come upon them they disobey Him by running towards other gods. [read more]

2nd Samuel 12 part 2 — David expresses true sorrow for adultery and murder

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After the prophet Natan (Nathan) confronted David over his adultery with bat-Sheba (Bathsheba) and murder of her husband, Uriah, David expresses true repentance — revealed in Psalm 51 — and is granted mercy. [read more]