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Appointments With God Tabernacles

Sukkot — Solomon dedicates the temple and foreshadows his fall and that of the temple

Day 2 — Solomon’s life mirrors my own to a certain extent, minus the world-inspiring wisdom and riches plus hundreds of nuptials of geopolitical convenience.

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Appointments With God Trumpets

Introduction to Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpet Blasts)

Called Rosh haShanah on the Jewish calendar, Yom Teruah contains many teachings that point forward to the return of Messiah Yeshua, echoed in the writings of the prophets of Israel hundreds of years before He arrived and in the decades after His return to Heaven.

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Discussions Prophets and Writings

Judges 21 — cleaning up the mess from Benjamin’s travesty and Israel’s indifference

The Book of Judges comes to an end with the seemingly bizarre account of Israel ganging up on an entire tribe of countrymen and women for the egregious acts of one town. Because the account, chronologically, fits with the events at the beginning of the book, this account is a fitting bookend to set up the spiritual drift detailed in the following historical books.

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Apostolic Writings Discussions

Book of Hebrews, part 2 — What is meant by ‘angels’?

Angels as described in the Bible are mysterious. They have great power and a dazzling appearance. Today, some are so enraptured with angelic beings that they seek to commune with them, and the situation wasn’t much different in the first century. Was Messiah Yeshua simply one of the mighty angels, elevated above the others for a certain role? The Book of Hebrews explains.

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Apostolic Writings Discussions

The Book of Hebrews — Bible or baloney?

This discussion is “meat in due season,” because a noted Messianic teacher has written a couple of articles strongly questioning the canonicity of the Book of Hebrews. One unintended consequence of throwing out the Book of Hebrews would be to negate Yeshua’s (Jesus) role as the High Priest of His own sacrifice.

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Appointments With God Pentecost/Shavuot

What ‘crop’ is God going to ‘harvest’ from your life?

Pentecost is described in the Bible first as a celebration of the wheat harvest. Then the timing of it coincides with God’s giving of His Torah at Sinai. Then it is connected with the giving of God’s Spirit to the first believers of Messiah Yeshua. How are all of lessons connected?

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Discussions Torah

Deuteronomy 29: ‘New Covenant’ isn’t entirely so new

This chapter points out that the “New Covenant,” or “New Testament,” isn’t so new and doesn’t replace deals cut between God and Adam, Noach (Noah), Abraham, Moshe (Moses), David, etc. The LORD intended the Torah from the very beginning to be “written” on the hearts (emotions) and minds (reason) of His people.