Thanks to social media and cable news, many of us have found ourselves overly caught up in politics. We have our own opinions about how the government should work for us and we vote every two to four years. But what we should have in our minds first is the Word of God, and knowing that He’s in charge. Our obedience to God is more important than our voting record. Our obedience to God is everything. Here are some lessons from major Bible leaders.
An offshoot Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) group, which calls itself the Restorative Scriptures Foundation, and incorporated under the name Restoration Archive LLC, published a Hebrew Roots paraphrase of Restorative Scriptures Foundation’s version of the Book of Mormon in 2019. The work targets Orthodox Jews and Messianic believers through social media with a Hebraicized, unorthodox spin on the faith of Yeshua. Learn more about this effort.
We should not be too hasty to hit the “cancel” button on someone whose understanding of God is different from ours, even if the chasm between their understanding is very large and seemingly insurmountable. A little humility can go a long way in making us better people and better servants of the Kingdom.
We received this question: How do you respond to those who say that the law is a “shadow,” as we read in Colossians 2:16-17?
In short, those who claim that since we know Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah, we can throw away the shadows are missing out on learning the heart and intent of God. How can we know who the Messiah is supposed to be if we don’t as regularly as God prescribes immerse our hearts and minds in the patterns for the Messiah in the Scriptures?
If we ignore the patterns or the shadows of the Messiah, we can be just guessing as to Who He is and what He is doing. We would be changing the Word of God and misunderstanding the Word made flesh.
“And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” (Rev. 20:10 NASB)
Do death and Hades (the grave) persist forever, or is the message of “lake of fire” that whatever goes into it ceases to exist forever?
The Torah reading Yitro, which covers the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20, is a perfect time to tackle the eyebrow-raising claims of an influential pastor that the Law of God and the rest of the “Old Testament” need to be “unhitched” from the gospel of Yeshua the Mashiakh (Jesus the Christ).
God gave apostle Peter a startling vision in of unclean animals lowered to him on a sheet for him to “kill and eat.” The common interpretation of this elaborate and repetitive vision is it’s now permissible for believers in Yeshua (Jesus) as the Mashiakh (Christ) to eat meats like pork that were not on the Leviticus menu.
Another interpretation is there was a much greater lesson for Peter: God has always wanted a the family of Heaven to include both Jews and Gentiles. We’ll explore both views in this study.