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Is the argument that the Sabbath simply disappears from God’s purposes after the Old Covenant? What do you make of Isaiah 66:22–23? 22. For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23. And it...

Grace is not permission to continue in sin; grace is God’s provision for dealing with sin. We are not saved by our obedience, but neither are we saved so that we can live in disobedience. Through Yeshua we receive forgiveness when we fall short, and through the Spirit God changes our hearts so...

When Paul says “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Corinthians 3:6), “the letter” means God’s commandment as an external written code apart from the transforming work of the Spirit. It does not mean that God’s Torah is evil. Jeremiah doesn’t say that under the New Covenant God...

Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Yeshua died in 30 CE on a Wednesday or 31CE on a Wednesday or somewhere around these years. A possible time for a rapture could be 2000 years after Yeshua’s death. I am...

YHWH does not judge merely by outward appearance or outward religious performance; He sees the inner person—motives, intentions, faithfulness, and what a person truly knows and desires. One of the clearest passages is 1 Samuel 16:7: “Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh...

When Yeshua said believers would do “greater works,” I don’t think He was necessarily saying that every believer would perform greater miracles than He performed. Notice why He says the greater works would happen: “because I go unto my Father.” After Yeshua returned to the Father, the Holy...

It is true that YHWH made the Sinai covenant with Israel. But it does not follow that Gentiles who come to the God of Israel remain completely separate from Israel and His covenant people. The Torah itself repeatedly says there was to be “one law” for the native-born Israelite and the stranger...

Yeshua was speaking to a Jewish audience and the only scriptures they had was Torah and Tanakh what we modern day Christians call the Old Testament. The connection between loving YHWH and keeping His commandments is explicitly Old Testament/Tanakh language. Yeshua’s statement in John...

I agree that John is speaking about keeping Yeshua’s commandments, but I don’t believe we can separate Yeshua’s commandments from the Father’s commandments. Yeshua said, “My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me” (John 7:16), and “I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me...

There is, however, an important qualification I’d retain. Being grafted into the olive tree doesn’t necessarily establish that every Torah command applies identically to every grafted-in Gentile. Torah itself contains distinctions—priests versus non-priests, men versus women, native Israelites...

And John later gives remarkably similar language: “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.” (1 John 2:3) That doesn’t mean commandment keeping earns entrance into the covenant. Rather, John treats obedience as evidence of knowing God.

As we approach what I understand to be the end of mankind’s six days/6,000 years of rule, I have been thinking about the biblical phrase “the restoration of all things.” Will the different dimensions of restoration occur on this side of the approaching seventh millennium, or will some continue...

I am studying and preparing for a presentation that I will present at my Sukkot fellowship. I have started with Malachi 4:4-6, Mal 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you...

I have alot of physical conditions, perhaps some inherited from my parents, but also my ailments are within the scope of a US epidemic. Inspite, of my efforts, which seem to be for nothing, I believe without a miracle from YHWH these ailments are going to kill me at an early age. (I'm 65)...

Absolutely, my efforts can only be to Yah's glory. I try to know conscious sins, but yet, there are unconscious sins, to ask for revelation and wisdom, asking Yah what should I do?

I was watching a short video this morning about the plastics polluting the rivers that eventually make their way into the ocean. Revelation 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy...

The fulfillment of Law is to Love God with all our heart, mind, and soul/might and secondly to love our neighbor's as ourselves. God is not all about what He can give us, but it is definitely a two way street and to fulfill the Law is to trust and obey the commandments that are so graciously...

If it is true Jesus received the punishment for our sins, which is death, and I accept Jesus' sacrifice and believe that I, too, am cleansed of my sins, then why does sin still pop up its ugly head, and why do I still have to die once, but not the second death? 1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin...

In Jesus time, there was still a monthly sighting of the new sliver moon. This would happen on the 29th day of the Hebrew month or the 30th day of the Hebrew month. If the moon could not be sighted on the 29th day, either because of its proximity to the sun or because there was cloud coverage...