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The study of the Bible in its historical context - with a focus on the archaeology, history, geography, customs , culture, and even the languages of the ancient Middle East. WE ask what did they understand THEN - the original intent of the Lord - so that we can expand and enrich our understanding NOW and thus become true disciples of Adonai Yeshua as in John 8:31-32.
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Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
THE STORY OF JOSEPH - lesson 5
GOD'S PARADIGM OF SALVATION OF THE WORLD
JUDAH AND TAMAR - PART 2
What is going on? Joseph is nearly killed by his brothers, saved by Rueben, and Judah suggests they sell Joseph to a group of Ishmaelite traders. They sell Joseph and the caravan carries Joseph as a slave to Egypt. The story is just beginning and then out of nowhere comes Genesis 38 and the saga of Judah and Tamer. Why did God cause this baffling interruption to the Joseph story? Perhaps one reason is when we return to Joseph we will see that Joseph will not see his brothers, specifically Judah, for 20 years. In those 20 years Judah has his encounter with his daughter in law, Tamar. So, the Lord may have interrupted the Joseph story to do a kind of “meanwhile back at the ranch” side story. But, this is God’s word! His written word, especially His Torah, is said to be the Way and the Truth and the Life. From the face of it, the Judah and Tamar story, though interesting in itself, is still baffling. There must be something else going on.
The great scholar Nahum Sarna, the author of the JPS Torah Commentary – Genesis, says there must be more to the Judah and Tamar saga since this saga is closed up in scriptural bookends. Here’s the verse just before the Judah and Tamar event …
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer, the captain of the bodyguard. (Gen 37:36)
After this verse is chapter 38 or the Judah and Tamar saga. Then we read the verse in chapter 39:1 – the verse immediately following the Judah and Tamar story …
Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there. (Gen 39:1)
These two verses are almost identical repeats of each other. It is as if God packed in the Judah and Tamar story between these verses as to say that He engineered it, designed it exactly as is, so as to seemingly tell us this event, the saga of Judah and Tamar is a “big deal” and it critically related to the Joseph story. Now, the Torah itself does not tell us why God inspired Moses to write it tis way. All we can do is guess and speculate. Dr. Sarna is a brilliant mind and awesome scholar and he thinks the story packed in between Gen. 37:36 and Gen. 39:1 is done on purpose to shake up our minds to really focus on Judah and Tamar. There must be a significant reason why God is seemingly calling attention to this interruption. In this podcast we will consider the possibilities. We’ll find it seems to be a story that is intimately connected to the Joseph story and, on top of that, the coming of Jesus! Just wait till you study along with me. The Judah and Tamar saga is a story that gives us insights that God is designing amazing events. He is behind it all. Through all this we see the Cross of Christ in the distant horizon of time being planned by יד האלוהים Yad Eloheim - the hand of God.
The rabbis have a saying for this ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
HaYay HaAvot Hem Seemaneem Lay Baneem
The Lives of the Fathers are Signs for the Sons
In light of this the rabbis early on connected Joseph to the Messiah. They said Joseph was a prototype of the Messiah. For us that means Jesus. Over and over again as we see Joseph we see the Messiah, our Jesus. Joseph is God's model of what a savor of the world should be like. We will continue to see these unbelievable connections of Joseph and Jesus. God designed it this way so that Joseph is a picture of the coming Messiah. And, the Judah and Tamar story adds to God’s engineering for Jesus, His birth, and His mission.
Here are some resources to study that will add to your knowledge of these awesome and critically important last chapters of Genesis.
Link 1 - a great article from the awesome website, Hebrew4Christians, focusing on one title of the Messiah the rabbis used in the time after the 3rd century A.D., "Maschiach ben Yosef," or Messiah the son of Joseph. This has to do with the fact the rabbis recognized that the Messiah had to suffer and even die. They also recognized that the Messiah would also be victorious as well and establish the throne of Israel in Jerusalem in the days called "The Messianic Age" or the day Messiah comes to rule and reign - https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Mashiach_ben_Yosef/mashiach_ben_yosef.html
Link 2- a second article written by my lead teacher in my graduate program, Dr. Ron Mosely that discusses Joseph is a prototype of the the suffering Messiah just like David is a prototype of the conquering Messiah - https://www.academia.edu/3796976/Twice_Rejected_Mashiach_Ben_Joseph
Link 3 - a link to Netivyah ministries in Jerusalem. This is a Messianic Jewish ministry founded by Joseph Shulam, an amazing Jewish scholar who helps us reconnect to our Jewish roots of our faith. This link is to a book written by one of their resident scholars, Elhanan ben Avraham, "Moshiach ben Yosef" (Messiah the Son Of Joseph). I highly recommend you get this book and all the books you can buy from this ministry - https://netivyah.org/product/mashiach-ben-yoseph/
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy? What's his background? Why should I listen to him? Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
THE STORY OF JOSEPH - lesson 4
GOD'S PARADIGM OF SALVATION OF THE WORLD
As we see in lessons 1-3 Joseph is 1) hated by his brothers and 2) they are jealous or envious of Joseph and 3) the plot to kill him. But remember the rabbis of old recognized something truly amazing. The Lord is uses PARADIGMS or patterns, templates, or models. It is the Lord taking a person or event that becomes a prototype (synonym for paradigm) for another person in the future or an event in the future. The rabbis have a saying for this ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
HaYay HaAvot Seemaneem Lay Baneem
The Lives of the Fathers are Signs for the Sons
In light of this the rabbis early on connected Joseph to the Messiah. They said Joseph was a prototype of the Messiah. For us that means Jesus. And just as we will see in this podcast that Joseph is sold for 20 pieces of silver as suggested by Judah (his name in Hebrew is Yehooda), his older brother. We also see that Jesus was betrayed by Judas for 30 pieces of silver. Judas’ name in Hebrew is Yehooda or Judah. Amazing. Over and over again as we see Joseph we see the Messiah, our Jesus. Joseph is God's model of what a savor of the world should be like. Joseph was born of Rachel in a miraculous birth and grew up and saved the world with the bread of the earth. Jesus was born of Mary in a miraculous birth an saved the world with Himself and through Himself with the bread from heaven.
For more resources to study this in more depth check the links below.
Link 1 - a great article from the awesome website, Hebrew4Christians, focusing on one title of the Messiah the rabbis used in the time after the 3rd century A.D., "Maschiach ben Yosef," or Messiah the son of Joseph. This has to do with the fact the rabbis recognized that the Messiah had to suffer and even die. They also recognized that the Messiah would also be victorious as well and establish the throne of Israel in Jerusalem in the days called "The Messianic Age" or the day Messiah comes to rule and reign - https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Mashiach_ben_Yosef/mashiach_ben_yosef.html
Link 2- a second article written by my lead teacher in my graduate program, Dr. Ron Mosely that discusses Joseph is a prototype of the the suffering Messiah just like David is a prototype of the conquering Messiah - https://www.academia.edu/3796976/Twice_Rejected_Mashiach_Ben_Joseph
Link 3 - a link to Netivyah ministries in Jerusalem. This is a Messianic Jewish ministry founded by Joseph Shulam, an amazing Jewish scholar who helps us reconnect to our Jewish roots of our faith. This link is to a book written by one of their resident scholars, Elhanan ben Avraham, "Moshiach ben Yosef" (Messiah the Son Of Joseph). I highly recommend you get this book and all the books you can buy from this ministry - https://netivyah.org/product/mashiach-ben-yoseph/
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy? What's his background? Why should I listen to him? Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
LESSON 49 PART 2
GOD’S NEW LAWS ON SLAVERY
I mentioned in the audio lesson about a number of links I’d provide that will enhance and add to your study. These links are shown below.
Great article on slavery as found in the Bible – a must read for all of you serious about your understanding of God’s word -
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/slavery-in-judaism
Another awesome article reviewing slavery in the Bible – discussing that God was setting up conditions to eliminate slavery once and for all -
https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-treatment-of-non-israelite-slaves-from-moses-to-moses
Here’s a third article reviewing slavery Biblical slavery – these three articles are a great way to get a detailed view of what God’s word with His people 3400 year ago to be a witness to all the surrounding pagan nations as to who God is and His special and unique view of all men and women - https://www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/slavery-in-the-hebrew-bible/
In this podcast we will see how non-Hebrew slaves were to be treated by the Hebrews then, in the 15th century B.C. For example, check out Lev. 19:18 and 34.
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD. (Lev 19:18)
The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God. (Lev 19:34)
Here in the Torah, God’s instruction, the Lord is telling the Hebrews 3400 years ago that 1) to love your neighbor as yourself and 2) to love the stranger as yourself (Hebrew word translated as stranger means then one living close to you, not a Hebrew, and a pagan – it does not exclude the non-Hebrew slave who is a resident stranger, non-Hebrew, living among you – slaves are included). Thus, it is clear the Lord is telling them then and us now that the stranger among us, one who is not like us, one who is not even part of our religion, are to be loved by us as our neighbor. We notice that slaves are included in these laws. Why? Because God does not say that slaves, Hebrew and non-Hebrew slaves, are excluded from these laws. This would’ve been explosive in the ancient Near East back then when slaves were looked down upon as almost not human in some cases. But, our God, the only God, the true God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, and the God of Israel, as we shall see in this lesson, is saying to all of us that we are made in His image, plus that all men and women are equal in the eyes of the Lord, and all men and women are to be treated as if almost as if they were family. When we sit back and stop to listen as they heard God’s word then, we see that our God is totally awesome and has given us a perspective for us today of how we as His people should treat and love others. Jesus said it be when we read about a question He was asked in the Temple Courts …
One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' "This is the great and foremost commandment. "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' "On these two commandments depend (the Greek word translates a Hebrew word meaning “crucified.” WOW!! Is Jesus giving us a picture that the Written and the Living Word a day or two later were crucified together?) the whole Law and the Prophets." (Mat 22:35-40)
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy? What's his background? Why should I listen to him? Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
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Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
THE STORY OF JOSEPH - lesson 3
GOD'S PARADIGM OF SALVATION OF THE WORLD
In this lesson we continue on with the events in Joseph's life leading up to his brothers nearly trying to kill him. Judah saves Joseph and the brothers decide to sell Joseph to the Midianite or Ishmaelite traders. There is a question any of us would ask if we read the story carefully. For example check out Gen. 37:36 and Gen. 39:1. Who sold Joseph to the Egyptians? In one verse it says the Midianites and in the other verse it says the Ishmaelites? What is going on? Does this mean the Bible is a book with error and irreconcilable issues? NOPE. We will see the Bible actually helps us with the solution to this supposedly impossible issue.
So, Joseph is 1) hated by his brothers and 2) they are jealous or envious of Joseph and 3) the plot to kill him. But remember the rabbis of old recognized something truly amazing. The Lord is uses PARADIGMS or patterns, templates, or models. It is the Lord taking a person or event that becomes a prototype (synonym for paradigm) for another person in the future or an event in the future. The rabbis have a saying for this ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
HaYay HaAvot Seemaneem Lay Baneem
The Lives of the Fathers are Signs for the Sons
In light of this the rabbis early on connected Joseph to the Messiah. They said Joseph was a prototype of the Messiah. For us that means Jesus. And just as we will see in this podcast that Joseph is 1) hated by his brothers and 2) they are jealous or envious of Joseph and 3) the plot to kill him. We also see that Jesus was 1) hated by his brothers (fellow countrymen) and 2) they were jealous of Him and 3) they met in secret to plot how to kill Him. Joseph is a paradigm of the coming Messiah, our Jesus. Joseph is God's model of what a savor of the world should be like. Joseph saved the world with the bread of the earth. Jesus saved the world with Himself and through Himself with the bread from heaven.
For more resources to study this in more depth check the links below.
Link 1 - a great article from the awesome website, Hebrew4Christians, focusing on one title of the Messiah the rabbis used in the time after the 3rd century A.D., "Maschiach ben Yosef," or Messiah the son of Joseph. This has to do with the fact the rabbis recognized that the Messiah had to suffer and even die. They also recognized that the Messiah would also be victorious as well and establish the throne of Israel in Jerusalem in the days called "The Messianic Age" or the day Messiah comes to rule and reign - https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Mashiach_ben_Yosef/mashiach_ben_yosef.html
Link 2- a second article written by my lead teacher in my graduate program, Dr. Ron Mosely that discusses Joseph is a prototype of the the suffering Messiah just like David is a prototype of the conquering Messiah - https://www.academia.edu/3796976/Twice_Rejected_Mashiach_Ben_Joseph
Link 3 - a link to Netivyah ministries in Jerusalem. This is a Messianic Jewish ministry founded by Joseph Shulam, an amazing Jewish scholar who helps us reconnect to our Jewish roots of our faith. This link is to a book written by one of their resident scholars, Elhanan ben Avraham, "Moshiach ben Yosef" (Messiah the Son Of Joseph). I highly recommend you get this book and all the books you can buy from this ministry - https://netivyah.org/product/mashiach-ben-yoseph/
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy? What's his background? Why should I listen to him? Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Lesson 2 - The Saga of Joseph
Once again we join the rabbis of old who recognized something truly amazing is going on. The Lord is using PARADIGMS or another way of saying the same thing is the Lord uses patterns, templates, or models. The rabbis have a saying for this ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
Kahyay HaAvot Hem Seemaneem L’Bahneem
The lives of the fathers are signs for the sons
In this lesson we really begin to see that Joseph is a MODEL of what it means to be the savior of the world. It is like Joseph is wearing a mask to make himself look like someone else; Joseph "looks like" Jesus the true savior of the world.
For more resources to study this in more depth check the links below.
Link 1 - an article on at least 60 ways Joseph's life and the things he went through testify of Jesus or are connections to Jesus - https://www.onepagebiblesummary.com/pad/pad_17.php
Link 2- a second article written by my lead teacher in my graduate program, Dr. Ron Mosely that discusses Joseph is a prototype of the the suffering Messiah just like David is a prototype of the conquering Messiah - https://www.academia.edu/3796976/Twice_Rejected_Mashiach_Ben_Joseph
Link 3 - a link to Netivyah ministries in Jerusalem. This is a Messianic Jewish ministry founded by Joseph Shulam, an amazing Jewish scholar who helps us reconnect to our Jewish roots of our faith. This link is to a book written by one of their resident scholars, Elhanan ben Avraham, "Moshiach ben Yosef" (Messiah the Son Of Joseph). I highly recommend you get this book and all the books you can buy from this ministry - https://netivyah.org/product/mashiach-ben-yoseph/
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy? What's his background? Why should I listen to him? Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
THE STORY OF JOSEPH - lesson 1
GOD'S PARADIGM OF SALVATION OF THE WORLD
We have come to Genesis 39 which is the beginning of the story of Joseph of the "many colored coat." Joseph (Yosef in Hebrew or Yosef Ben Ya'akov - Joseph the son of Jacob) was the prized and most beloved son of Jacob. This love seemingly created a deep jealously between Joseph and his brothers that led to them nearly killing him and finally selling Joseph into slavery. But, that's part of this awesome Bible study journey we are now to embark on.
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In this Bible study journey we will be put face to face with the Paradigms of Adonai. A paradigm can also be described as a pattern, a template. We might even say it relates to a the idea of a mirror image. An example is in the first Passover where we hear of the Passover Lamb picked by each father for his family to be sacrificed the night God will send death upon all first born in Egypt. The is a mirror image of the Passover of Messiah, our Lord who is the Lamb of God. The lambs are not the same but they seem to mirror each other. Paul seems to teach this when we read ...
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- things which are a mere shadow (like on being a mirror image of another - a shadow) of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
(Col 2:16-17)
Check this out in the podcast entitled, "The Mirror of Passover," at this link - https://youtu.be/ipaeu7AQZ8Y?si=2DlVO_ifvOIFP8z6
Our journey begins with this idea of God's Paradigms, His Patterns or His Templates. Again and again Yahvay shows us that what came before shows up again and again. The rabbis saw this early on in God's Word. Maimonides, the great Jewish scholar of the late 12th century said ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
HaYay HaAvot Seemneem Lay Baneem
The Lives of the Fathers are Signs for the Sons
It is like the first Passover lamb. It was the lamb of the fathers, the Hebrews coming out of Egypt. Its blood on the wood of the doorposts was a sign to the Lord to spare this family from His wrath He was pouring out on Egypt. The Passover lamb was a sign for the future Lamb of God who would come and whose blood on the wood of the cross would also deliver Jew and Gentile from God's wrath for those choosing Yeshua as Lord and God and Savior. This is a clear example of God's Paradigm. One of many.
Another is the Jubilee year. We read about it in Lev. 25 ...
The Year of Jubilee
Lev 25:8 'You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.
Lev 25:9 'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.
Lev 25:10 'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
Lev 25:11 'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.
Lev 25:12 'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.
Lev 25:13 'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.
The 50 year Jubilee also becomes part of God's Paradigms. One scholar who deals with this extensively is the Messianic rabbi, Jonathan Cahn.
I highly recommend you check out his books, "The Oracle" or another awesome book of his, "The Paradigm." In these books Rabbi Jonathan Cahn details how the 50 year Jubilee is also used by God as a paradigm, a pattern or template if you will to be a sign for us now, today. Here's his website - http://www.hopeoftheworld.org/
So let us begin our awesome journey into the life of Joseph. He is a clear example of those words we read ...
חיי האבות הם סימנים לבנים
HaYay HaAvot Seemneem Lay Baneem
The Lives of the Fathers are Signs for the Sons
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy? What's his background? Why should I listen to him? Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
LESSON 49 PART 1
GOD AGAINST SLAVERY
I mentioned in the audio lesson about a number of links I’d provide that will enhance and add to your study. These links are shown below.
Article reviewing slavery in the USA leading to the Civil War - Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/african/journey-in-chains/
Article reviewing slavery in the USA leading to the Civil War - History Channel
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Article reviewing slavery in the USA leading to the Civil War - American Heritage
https://www.americanheritage.com/stolen-slavery
Article on child trafficking - Save the Children
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts
STATE DEPARTMENT OF USA – Child Trafficking
https://www.state.gov/humantrafficking-about-human-trafficking/
Definition of Slavery - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml
ARTICLE ON DISCIPLESHIP IN JESUS’ DAY - Research Gate
ARTICLE ON SLAVERY IN ISRAEL OF A NON-HEBREW - Hebraic Thought
https://hebraicthought.org/examining-ancient-israelite-slave-law-leviticus/
ARTICLE ON FREE WILL – WE’RE NOT SLAVES - Got Questions
https://www.gotquestions.org/free-will.html
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRTANNICA – what is slavery
https://www.britannica.com/topic/slavery-sociology
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy? What's his background? Why should I listen to him? Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0