Last week’s Torah portion ended tragically. Bilaam was hired by Balak to curse the Israelites; however YHWH did not permit the hired villain Bilaam to curse His blessed people. The Moabites were undone, defeat was at their doorstep and their heads were hung in fear and defeat. Until Bilaam provided them with a plan. A...
Year: 2013
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WILL YOU REMAIN REBELLIOUS?
Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice, Heb 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, Heb 3:9 where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. Heb 3:10 “Therefore I was grieved...
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My Faithful Few-Part 2 “The Faithful Two”
As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. (Pr 27:19) A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled the faithful few, this paper is a continuation of that theme. The following article is a commentary on this week’s Torah portion “SHELACH LECHA.” Daily I receive mails from people scattered throughout...
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The Song of Hagar
There is a desperation that lives within the soul of a slave. Every day the desperation grows louder until it cannot be contained. The slaves torn from their homes in Africa travelled to America bound in shackles bound for the New World of pain, in a word hell – bound. Those who died during the...
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Aaron and the Menorah’s
This week’s Torah Thought is once again a rich feast indeed! However, our thought for this week will primarily focus on the first three lines of the parsha. Numbers 8: 1 – 4 states that Aaron (and by implication, his sons) are to light the menorot (menorahs) and are to place them in such a...
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My Faithful Few- Part 1 “Faith”
Luk 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? The bible makes it very clear that many are called but few are chosen. It’s with this in my mind that I write this paper in the hope to spur...
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The Great Physician
Mat 9:12 And יהושע hearing this, said to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Mat 9:13 “But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering.’ For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.” Psa 26:2 ...
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The Seven Species of First Fruits
YHWH promised His people that He would bring them into a land filled with all kinds of good fruit, with milk, honey, vines and olives in abundance! However the Master of the Universe also ordered that once He brought His people into this land, that they are to present an annual first fruit offering in...
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Tamar – Princess of Israel
The following article first appeared in Sarah’s Tent Magazine Spring 2013. The book of Samuel narrates a tragic story that cannot help but leave us as readers, cold and sad. The reality is that the Bible is not a history book for the faint-hearted, neither is it a tall tale of make believe stories. Rather...
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One Body Many Members! Or Many Members no Body?
Over the past week Yeshua has really been speaking to me about the concept of being a body of believers that are supposed to function as a unit. Truth is that today we as “Messianics”, Hebrew Roots or believers are so far from being able to function as a body that it is rather scary,...