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Deuteronomy 1: Charter for born-again Israel

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There are times we just want a do-over on our lives, to hit the reset button. Ancient Israel needed such a new beginning after repeated rebellions against the LORD, the Savior from bondage in Mitsraim (Egypt), led to the nation’s judgment to remain outside the Promised Land for 40 years, until the first generation died out.

Thus begins the “second telling,” or deuteronomy, of who Israel was, where the nation was going and why. It’s also lesson for the “new creation” we become in the eyes of Heaven because of Yeshua haMashiakh (Jesus the Christ).

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Numbers 34–36: Big vision for Israel’s borders in Messianic age

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The borders of the modern state of Israel are a fraction of the territory the LORD granted the long ago. The promises for a much larger area from Genesis to Revelation speak to the wider vision of many nations in the Kingdom of Heaven and how our vision for our own potential may be too narrow.

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Appointments With God Firstfruits Pentecost/Shavuot

Timing of the Festivals of Firstfruits & Shavuot — Seven Sabbaths & 50 Days

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/070526%20Timing%20of%20Firstfruits%20and%20Shavuot%20-%207%20Shabbats%20and%2050%20days%20-%20Part%201.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:45 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: RSSTeacher: Richard Agee This is the third in a series of Bible studies exploring the connection in thought and time between Passover, Festival of the Wave Offering (Firstfruits or Bikkurim), Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzot) and the Festival of Sevens (Shavuot or Pentecost). For […]

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Appointments With God Firstfruits Pentecost/Shavuot

Timing of the festivals of Firstfruits & Shavuot — Journey Into the Wilderness of Zin

Richard Agee

There are three primary ways Judaism and Christianity use to determine when Shavuot — Hebrew for “weeks,” “sevens” or Sabbaths — will come. Richard considers another possiblity related to encampments the people of Israel during their exodus from slavery in Egypt leading up to their receiving the 10 Commandments from God at Mt. Sinai. The number of encampments after the people went through the sea and escaped Pharaoh’s army, the connection of those encampments with the weekly Shabbat (seeExodus 16) and the potential for a mistranslation of “day after the Sabbath” and “after the Sabbath, on the first day of the week” suggests that Yeshua’s resurrection and Shavuot came on weekly Shabbats. This isn’t just esoteric Bible-babbling. This connection to the Shabbat has an important bearing on what God is trying to teach with the festivals of Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits and Shavuot.

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Numbers 31: Israel battles Midian after prurient sneak attack

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The call for Israel to attack Midian, located on the southwestern coast of modern-day Saudi Arabia, comes after Midian’s plot to send in women to lure Israel away from the LORD. That, in turn, came because the LORD wouldn’t allow Bilam (Balaam) to curse Israel.

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Numbers 30: Daughter of Zion and the Father’s prerogative

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Asking for a father’s permission to marry his daughter is viewed as comically anachronistic today. Likewise, these instructions for a father’s ability to annul a daughter’s vow seem a relic of yesteryear. Yet God teaches through object lessons, and what’s being communicated here is far more important than a surface impression.

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Messiah in offerings on Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles (Numbers 29)

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Learn how to see Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus) in the qorbanot (offerings, sacrifices) presented in the Tabernacle on the moedim (appointed times, festivals) of Yom Teruah (Day of Blowing Trumpets), Yom haKippurim (Day of Atonement) and Sukkot (Tabernacles).