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Genesis 3:14-24 — Curses for Man, Woman & Serpent

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080927%20Genesis%203vv14-24%20-%20Curses%20on%20Man,%20Woman,%20Serpent.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:00 — )Subscribe: RSS  The curses on Adam, Eve and the Serpent are well-known but misunderstood. For example, how many snakes eat dirt? Is a husband to be a dictator for his wife? The original language of Gen. 3:14-24 holds the answers.

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Discussions Prophets and Writings

1st Samuel 2 — Hannah’s prophecy and the sins of Eli’s sons

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080920%201st%20Samuel%202.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:33 — )Subscribe: RSSMuch of 1st Samuel 2 contains Hannah’s prayer of praise to God. Then we hear about high priest Eli’s wicked sons and how their actions made people despise following God’s instructions. A prophet comes to Eli and gives God’s message that his priestly line […]

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1st Samuel 1

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080906%201st%20Samuel%201.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:35 — )Subscribe: RSSView a map of places discussed in the presentation.

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Genesis 3:7–14 — Adam’s & Eve’s eyes opened to their ‘nakedness,’ shame covered by prophetic fig leaves

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080906%20Genesis%203vv7-14.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:04 — 9.5MB)Subscribe: RSSWhy do the fig tree show up in the Genesis 3 account of Adam and Eve’s decision to pursue knowledge of good and evil? What does the fig tree symbolize throughout the Bible?

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Apostolic Writings Discussions

Acts 6:7-10 — believing priests, Stephen’s signs & wonders

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080830%20Acts%206vv7-10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:42 — 7.5MB)Subscribe: RSSActs 6:7-10 shows us that many priests who witnessed the words and wonders of Acts 2-5 believed in Yeshua (Jesus) as Messiah, as many Pharisees had. We also begin to see God’s servant Stephen emerge as a powerful, faithful witness.

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Genesis 2:25 – 3:1 — ‘naked,’ ‘ashamed,’ ‘serpent’ & ‘subtle’

Unknown to the English reader, the original Hebrew words for Gen. 2:25 and Gen. 3:1 contain a word play with root words translated as “naked,” “ashamed,” “serpent” and “cunning.” Some have made fun of this description as one of the first nudist colony or claimed that the first couple were really clothed with light. Yet there is a vital lesson in the nakedness.

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Apostolic Writings Discussions

Acts 6:1–7 — ‘deaconing’

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080823%20Acts%206vv1-7.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:13 — )Subscribe: RSSThe apostles, who were busy teaching and praying for the thousands of new believers in Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah, appoint seven exceptional men as deacons to manage a dispute over "equal treatment under the Torah" of needy Greek Jews and Hebrew Jews in the […]