Sabbath Thoughts And Reflections

With this post we begin the final leg of our 3-year Torah Reading trek: Deuteronomy -- A Rehashing and Retelling of Torah for a New Generation.

What I want to provide to you here today is in this post is an explanation as to why observationalists in our faith community are observing the biblical New Year at different times this year. This is an explanation of the current calendar confusion that exists among observational calendar keepers this year.

This week's Parashah is the 125th reading of our 3-year reading cycle and it entails the Torah of the Cities of Refuge. Herein we gain insight into the righteous concepts of atonement, redemption, and grace. Our text is found in Numbers 35.9-34 Key Terms and Concepts Discussed   Refuge (aka asylum): miq-lat Die or dying: mwt (mem-vav-tav) Kill or killer or murder or murderer; manslaying or manslayer: rot-zah. In our reading, Yehovah distinguishing for us the difference between murder/intentional homicide and what we call here in the West, manslaughter, accidental, or unintentional homicide. Yah's Torah of the Cities of Refuge clarifies the distinction between these two forms of killings/homicides. Besides distinguishing between intentional and unintentional homicide, Yehovah, through His instructions on the Cities of Refuge, further emphasized the extreme value that He places on life. Yah's extreme value for life must serve as a mandate for us to value life as He does. We value life in a Godly man

This 122nd Reading discusses the high expectations God has for His chosen people through the story of three tribes who sought to make a home in a place other than Canaan.

What does God expect from us when we make a promise to Him and to others in the form of vows, oaths, and other obligations? This week's Torah Reading answers this question. Shabbat Shalom.

In this 3rd installment to our Israel's Inextricable link to our salvation, we explore the dangerous lie of replacement theology.

Considering ongoing antisemitic violence throughout the world, we continue our teaching series on Israel's Inextricable Link to our Salvation. This installment looks at the Apostle Paul's statement that there is neither Jew nor Greek in Messiah. Does this statement nullify our contention that our salvation is inextricably linked to Israel?

Because of the broad display of antisemitism that has overtaken the world in the past 55 or so days, I've been led to conduct a teaching series on Israel's inextricable link to humanity's salvation. I hope you join me.

Here's one for you: Are God's People Required to Wear Tzitzit Today and Is the Wearing of Tzitzits a Salvific Issue? We discuss this critical issue in this TMTO post.

To become a Christian, the church requires a would-be convert to recite a version of the sinner's prayer. But is reciting the sinner's prayer the biblical path to salvation? In this post, I discuss the seven steps necessary for Messianic Discipleship.

In this installment of TMTO, I discuss 10 things that God expects His children to do for Sukkot, aka, the Feast of Tabernacles 2023.

#YomKippur, aka #TheDayofAtonement2023, is upon us. In this installment of TMTO, we explore various paradigms and meanings that are popularly attached to this holiest day of God's calendar year.

Yom Teruah, aka The Feast of Trumpets 2023 is upon us. So, for this installment of TMTO, I unpack the Father's instructions on this set-apart day and reflect on this feast's applicability to New Covenant Believers today. 

In this 95th Reading of the 3-yr Torah Reading Cycle, we learn of the realities of the Messianic's liberty in Yeshua Messiah.  

This is a Messianic Torah Observer ministry update. 

This week's Torah Reading helps us recognize that true worship of God is holy and that it must be treated as such by the disciple of Yeshua Messiah.