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Apostolic Writings Chanukah Discussions

Why was Yeshua in the temple on Chanukah?

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.

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Apostolic Writings Appointments With God Tabernacles

Sukkot: What Is the Will of God?

People often ask, “How can I know what God wants me to do?” and “What would Jesus do?” Richard Agee explores those questions in a study of John 6-7, in which Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) explains what it means to “do the will of My Father” (John 6:40). Yeshua is the Living Word (John 1:1; John 1:14), the Living Law (Matt. 5:17-20), the Living Torah.

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Apostolic Writings Appointments With God Chanukah Tabernacles

Sukkot: The Timing of the Birth of Messiah

The accounts in the Bible about the births of Yochanan the Immerser and Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) seem to point to their being born around the times of the Biblical festivals of Passover and Tabernacles, and for very good reason based on their missions.

Point is, the Bible teaches clearly that Yeshua wasn’t born on Dec. 25.

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Apostolic Writings Discussions

Matthew 24 — Interpreting the ‘signs of the times’ by studying the lessons of the past

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Matthew 19:1–12 — divorce

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/070428%20Matthew%2019%20vv1-12.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:30 — )Subscribe: RSSReader: Daniel Agee Teacher: Jeff [contact] Thought questions What value is gained in looking at Messiah’s teaching on divorce from parallel passages from the other apostles? What were differences between the House of Shammai and the House of Hillel, two schools of rabbinical thought […]

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Apostolic Writings Discussions Pentecost/Shavuot Unleavened Bread

Matthew 16 — Good or bad “yeast”?

Yeast is commonly seen as a symbol for pride, something bad. Why does God command us to not eat leavened bread for seven days after Passover then at Shavuot (Pentecost) command that He be offered two loaves of leavened bread? How is the answer to this paradox found in Yeshua’s cryptic instruction to His disciples to beware of the “yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees”?

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Matthew 2: Magi from Parthia visit the toddler Messiah

It was a shocking event when a sizable delegation of scholars from the empire of Parthia, a competitor with Rome, visited the land of Israel looking for a recently born “King of Yehudah.” It turns out that this was the legacy of the prophet Daniel. Another prophet foretold “Rachel” would be weeping for her children, and that prophecy was fulfilled not only with the killing of newborns and toddlers in Beit Lekhem (Bethlehem) but also the driving out her descendants into the nations with the Assyrian exile.