https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080524%20Acts%201%20part%201.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:07 — 8.3MB)Subscribe: RSSIs the book of Acts the record of God’s creation of “the church”? Or is it a continuation of the story of God’s reaching out into the world through Israel, a people who “struggle with God and men” and prevail in bringing a blessing […]
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https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080510%20John%2021.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:39 — )Subscribe: RSSMessiah Yeshua (Jesus) had a special encounter with seven of His closest students and was out to rebuild a special one, Peter, following a heart-breaking betrayal. Yeshua taught Peter that to truly love God, he must have not just brotherly love but self-sacrificing love.
Why does God tell us to remove leaven — “yeast” in the NIV translation — from our mouths, homes and community during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the seven days right after Passover? Why does God tell us then to put leaven in our mouths at Shavu’ot (Pentecost) a short time later? What does this have to do with Messiah? The connection is startling.
Why are we to teach our children about plagues, blood, and death of animals and people 3,500 years ago?
God’s ways may be mysterious, but when He lays out patterns and times important historical events accordingly, He is inviting us to learn more about what He is doing. There’s a “new beginning” lesson in the spring festivals of the LORD on Yeshua (Jesus).
More than 2,000 years of debate lies behind the question of when Messiah Yeshua rose from the dead. Rather than an esoteric inquiry, timing matters because Yeshua’s life, death, and resurrection happened “according to the Scriptures.”
Why was Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) go to the temple on Chanukah, the Festival of Dedication, in John 10? The healing of the blind man in John 9, an obscure messianic prophecy in Haggai 2 and Yeshua’s bold statements gave Israel’s leaders their ultimate test of loyalty to the Holy One or to anti-God human laws.