Rick Ortiz highlights some of the attitudes of Korach, from the Levital clan of Kohath, and shows how these attitudes were spread to to his neighbors in the tribe of Reuben. A cautionary story of how we need to be careful of what our neighbors say.
Patrick Shannon shares the importance of keeping the Passover at it’s appointed time and explains the cycles of the moon to know the times for certain. He also shows how the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai most likely happened on Shavuot (Pentacost) and how the Spirit that was put on the 70 elders in the 2nd year probably occurred on Shavuot as well. Then the pagan origins of birthday celebrations are exposed with the original meanings of many birthday traditions.
R. Paul Falk connects the Passover command to eat bitter herbs with the hard bondage in Egypt, the bitter waters at Marah, and the test for an adulterous wife to reveal a very interesting meaning of it all pertaining to what comes out of our mouths.
Rick Ortiz shares from the Torah portion, BeMidbar, highlighting God’s separation of the firstborn sons, choosing of the Levites to replace the firstborns, and how the commanded redemption of the firstborns is connected to the Creator’s threat to Pharaoh about releasing Israel, His firstborn son, or He would kill all the firstborn sons of Egypt.
R. Paul Falk continues the series on Passover and specifically on purging out the leaven from our lives, which often takes the form of idolatry in ways that we many not recognize. He also shows from Leviticus how the Father removes this leaven when we do not.
Patrick Shannon analyzes the story of the man that is stoned to death by for blaspheming the name of YHVH, starting from exactly what the name is, the elusive pronunciation, what it means to blaspheme or profane the name, and a central point revealed by the chiastic structure of the story.
R. Paul Falk delves into the meaning of Yeshua’s mysterious charge to his disciples to eat his body, and to drink his blood. Though represented by bread and wine, this difficult-to-understand metaphor holds the key to having true life “in” Messiah. Many relevant passages are pieced together to finally understand what Yeshua meant by, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.” (John 6:53)
Patrick Shannon examines the Biblical terms translated to mean leprosy and shows scriptural links to the sin of slander, its source, and some interesting correlations as to how this insidious disease is destructive to the body.
Rick Ortiz analyzes several instances of FIRE used in the tabernacle, such as the fire from YHVH which consumed Nadab and Abihu after they “brought strange fire,” and shares some interesting observations about fire throughout the scriptures.
Patrick Shannon presents the verses used to conclude that Yeshua’s death ended all sacrifices “once for all,” and then points out some contradictory verses, finally to reveal a deeply hidden answer to the apparent discrepancy.