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Matthew 5-6 — Preparing ourselves to do God’s will

Did the Father give us believers to Yeshua (Jesus), or did we come to Yeshua? What is the “first love” of a Christian? How is this lost, and how can it be reclaimed?

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Studies from Matthew

Because of limited disk space on the server. most of the Hallel Fellowship Bible studies from Matthew in 2006 and 2007 have been archived offline. If you are interested in these studies, please let us know via the Contact page.

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Matthew 24 — ‘appointed times’ provide a roadmap for the end of time

Sometimes we have an idea that the only purpose of prophesy is to predict the future. God is telling us, through a human agent, what He is doing. The true prophet is not guessing or extrapolating from context, he is simply stating a fact. Matthew 24, Revelation 6 and Revelation 12 show us how the “appointed times” are a roadmap for the end of time.

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Apostolic Writings Discussions Firstfruits Pentecost/Shavuot

Matthew 28:1: What is meant by ‘first day of the week’ in Greek?

More than 2,000 years of debate lies behind the question of when Messiah Yeshua rose from the dead. Rather than an esoteric inquiry, timing matters because Yeshua’s life, death, and resurrection happened “according to the Scriptures.”

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

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/070804-Matthew-24-part-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:57 — 13.3MB)Subscribe: RSSReader: Daniel Agee Teacher: Jeff

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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”?