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Daily Life for a Biblical Woman

While we often focus on the specific lives of individuals, today we want you to encounter the life of a woman in the Bible. What was she doing every day? What was she involved with? How much freedom of movement did she have, did she have a choice in how she spent her time? Was she as subservient and “poor” as some like to call her? Or was she a woman who could own, trade, make, create, decide and steward well when and if she wanted to? What was daily life like for women in Ancient Israel? In this teaching, Aliyah answers these questions with thrilling insights and scholarly depth.

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Queen Shelamzion the Maccabee

When Alexander the Great died, his vast empire was split between the Seleucids and the Ptolemies. The Seleucids set about radically imposing their values and Greek ideas on to the Jewish people. Some fell to the influence of Hellenism, while others resisted. Mattathias and his sons rebelled against Greek ways and stood against the Seleucid army. This family became known as the Maccabees, but their brave fight to ward off Greek ideas seeping into Jewish life, was short-lived.

Their ancestors soon slipped steadily into Hellenism and lusted for power. Civil war broke out, and the Jewish people felt only animosity towards these rulers. A Maccabean descendant, Shelamzion married her cousin Alexander the king, and her destiny would begin to unfold during a time of war, terror, murder, and injustice. This is her story, a story worth reflecting on during the feast of Chanukah.

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Mary & The Alabaster Jar

In this teaching, Aliyah takes us through the crowd as it parts, to where the followers and enemies of Yeshua recline around the table, at Mary and Martha's home in Bethany. Mary makes her way through the crowd to where her Rabbi sits and loosens her hair. The smell of spikenard fills the air and Mary anoints the Saviour for His death.

Reflecting on Mary's act of love, Aliyah uncovers the meaning of our own alabaster jars, the cost of love, the nearness of the Saviour, and the presence of women during Yeshua's ministry on earth. This message is one for the heart in need of a space to rest and to be refreshed again.

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Who was Candace of Ethiopia ?

When Philip meets the Ethiopian eunuch on the road to Gaza, we are told that this mysterious man is the state treasurer to Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. But this strange description is inaccurate and the Candace, was never an Ethiopian queen. So who was she, and what kingdom did she rule over? In this teaching, Aliyah unpacks the importance of Candace, and her kingdom, a kingdom that ruled Egypt, and featured as a world player on the stage of history for thousands of years. It's a kingdom South of Egypt, and it's history is rich with fierce warrior queens who fought against Rome, and immortalised their victories in temples and pyramids. This is a story from the pages of the Bible that tell of the history of Africa, and its female queens.

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Sarah – Princess, Mother, Disciple

In this teaching, Aliyah takes us into the life of Sarah, Princess of God, faithful Disciple, and Mother to God’s chosen people. While many sermons and bad theology have painted Sarah as a bad woman and wife, this teaching reveals all that was right with Sarah. As a woman who guarded the covenant of God and was divinely chosen as the mama of YHWH's people, Sarah deserves a closer look as both a faithful woman and prophetic visionary.

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Nehushta, Co-Regent Queen

Jehoiachin the young king took the throne during a turbulent time in Judah. His father had passed away and Jehoiachin was soon to face the mighty king Nebuchadnezzar whose world renown army was marching on Judah to sack the city and pillage the people. The throne needed guidance and a strong hand leading it, and it was Nehushta’s hand that would guide her son. She became the first woman in Ancient Israel to rule as co – regent and to fully embody the political role of “queen mother,” to a sitting king. This is her tragic story, in the time of Judah’s final stand off against Babylon.

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Chloe of Corinth

"My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says , " I follow Paul"; another , "I follow Appollos'; another, "I follow Cephas"; still another. "I follow Christ". (1 Cor 1v1-12) This scenario resembles common problems experienced in faith communities today, followers align themselves with different leaders and it causes division, once they forget the true Leader is always Messiah Yeshua. Paul received this letter, and he also received some of Chloe's household who further explained the problems. This woman Chloe is our feature focus and what do we know about this woman concerned for the Corinthian congregation? Aliyah unpacks what we know about her and some of her contemporaries in this exciting teaching

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Phoebe of Cenchrae

She leaned in as the warm evening breeze blew in from the Meditteranean. The candles flickered momentarily as Tertius brought the quill down on to the parchment. Paul walked in front of the low desk, his eyes gazed upwards and his words were calm and fluid. She did not want to miss a single sentence, a single minute of Paul's heartfelt statement of faith. She did not want to miss it because she needed it for her own faith, and for the faith of others. For the Roman believers whose lives she would touch as letter carrier for the apostle. Her task was hold, and she felt its gravity, somewhere inside she knew this letter would carry weight, somehow she sensed it was for a greater purpose, so she kept leaning in to every word.

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Hamutal – The Lioness Queen Mother

Welcome to Hamutal’s story! If you’ve never heard of her before, you are in for a treat, not because she was a bold example of righteousness but because her and her sons are vitally important in the history of Judah. She was queen mother to two sons who would both sit on the throne, but their wickedness would lead to the Babylonian exile at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. The Babylonian exile influenced the people of Judah, so much so that parts of modern Judaism were birthed in the exile and Hamutal played her part as a person of influence and a woman of power. This is her story.

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A Word of Encouragement – Hagar the Slave

Today's teaching is a word of encouragement from the heart of God. Hagar the slave lived a life of invisibility and harshness. Oppressed and abused, she took to the deserted road, her belly swollen, her heart empty. She dropped to her knees at the road side in despair and then an angel appeared with the deciding question. Where are you coming from? And most certainly, where are you going? There's a Hagar in all of us, and the question remains, what's behind you dear one? And what's in your future? Listen in for a stirring word of encouragement.

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