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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 Apr 27, 2026
Monday Apr 27, 2026
In part two we continue are introduction to the Ten Commandments - Aseret HaDevareem or the Ten Statements. God says these ten statements are His covenant as in Exod. 34:28. But, is it a contract? Is is an agreement? Is this covenant like a treaty?
The Lord gives us what He means by a covenant. It is like nothing ever seen in history then or now. The prophets of Israel are inspired by Yahvay, the Lord, to help us understand this unique and very special covenant. We realize that this is a NEW Covenant given at the mountain of God, Mt. Sinai, to His special chosen ones, Israel, who are led by Moses, the shepherd. All this seems to relate to another NEW Covenant given by the Lord - our Yeshua - at the mountain of God, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, to His chosen ones, His disciples, who are led by God's chosen one, Jesus, the Good Shepherd. The connections are too amazing. This must've been done one purpose. What is the Lord getting at? He is showing us that the 1st covenant, an integral part of God's redemption plan, needed to give birth to another New Covenant that brought completeness to His redemption plan. It was all related to the very words of God when Jesus said that all scripture testifies of Him in John 5:39.
So as we study the 1st it gives us an intimate connection to the 2nd. The 2nd finished what the 1st didn't address.
I mentioned other lessons you might consider studying. The first is Lesson 46 parts 1 &2 n this Exodus series. It sets the stage for the giving of the covenant at Sinai. Here's the link ...
Part 1 - https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uhhag-1...
Part 2 - https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-7uqgr-1...
Another series that even goes into this deeper are the podcasts entitled "The Archaeology of Pentecost/Shavuot." It is clear the Lord God is making an amazing connection between the first Passover and Pentecost and the 1st covenant and the 2nd covenant. Here's the link for this series.
Link - https://lightofmenorah.podbean.com/?s=shavuot
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
Sunday Apr 26, 2026
Sunday Apr 26, 2026
Bible study on the Ten Commandments. This is not a study to re-teach the Ten Commandments. But as we put the Bible into its historical context, as we put the Bible back into its textual context, we begin to see things in a new light. This simply enriches our understanding of the Ten Commandments.
In Part 1 of lesson 1 we will ask if there are ten commandments or are they something else? And ten? Could there be 12 or 15 or 17 commandments? What is God's purpose in all this?
It is recommended that you listen to lesson 46 parts 1 & 2 first before jumping in to the extensive study of Exod. 20:1-17. Here's the links to lesson 46 parts 1 & 2.
Part 1 - https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uhhag-127e43f
Part 2 - https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-7uqgr-1281e42
Who is this guy, Rev. Ferret? What's his background? Why should we take time to listen to him? Here's a link to check out his background ... - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Saturday Apr 25, 2026
Saturday Apr 25, 2026
Saturday Apr 25, 2026
Lesson 46 Part 2
It is critical that you make sure you listen to part 1 of this two part series. In part 1 we establish the real possibility that the Hebrews arrived on the 3rd day of the 3rd month. If this is the case then it seems as if יהוה Yahvay, the Lord, God, lead His people to His mountain to receive a new covenant at His mountain, Mt. Sinai. Interesting - 50 days after Passover, after the first day of Unleavened Bread, the Hebrews enter a covenant relationship with the Lord. This is an amazing event in that a new nation is born, a chosen people, and it's like a new beginning, a new start. It reminds me of the Year of Jubilee - every 50 years it is the year of Jubilee.
The Year of the Jubilee involved a year of release from indebtedness (Leviticus 25:23-38) and all types of bondage (vv. 39-55). All prisoners and captives were set free, all slaves were released, all debts were forgiven, and all property was returned to its original owners. (Like a new start) In addition, all labor was to cease for one year, and those bound by labor contracts were released from them. One of the benefits of the Jubilee was that both the land and the people were able to rest. (Accessed at https://www.gotquestions.org/Jubilee.html July 25,2022)
Link to Exodus Lesson 49 Part 1 - https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uhhag-127e43f
In this session we will see the awesome connection this has to the feast of Shavuot (Weeks) or Pentecost in Jesus' day. Jesus rose from the dead on a Biblical feast, the feast of first fruits, and 50 days later the 120 disciples received the Holy Spirit and these 120 as the "light to the nations" spoke in tongues of the Salvation of the Lord, the "Yeshua" of יהוה Yahvay. It was the New Covenant of the Lord at the mountain of the Lord, Jerusalem. Peter become so inspired, he does a short sermon in Acts 2 and as a result 3000 were baptized on the 50th day, Shavuot or Pentecost. Did he received the promised power to be the witness to the nations? You better believe it. So, the number 50 even takes on even more significance. Now it seems to be related to the days of Messiah and the coming of the רוח הקודש Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit.
The Jubilee presents a beautiful picture of the New Testament themes of redemption and forgiveness. Christ is the Redeemer who came to set free those who are slaves and prisoners to sin (Romans 8:2; Galatians 5:1; 3:22). The debt of sin we owe to God was paid on the cross as Jesus died on our behalf (Colossians 2:13-14), and we are forgiven the debt forever. We are no longer in bondage, no longer slaves to sin, having been freed by Christ, and we can truly enter the rest God provides as we cease laboring to make ourselves acceptable to God by our own works (Hebrews 4:9-10). (Accessed at https://www.gotquestions.org/Jubilee.html July 25,2022)
God has clearly done something on purpose. He has connected the New Covenant at His mountain, Mt. Sinai, to the New Covenant at His mountain, Jerusalem. The giving of the Ten Commandments is intimately connected to Pentecost or Shavuot.
Here's a link to the podcast series on the feast of Shavuot. In this study you'll even go deeper into your understanding of Passover and Pentecost. Link to the podcasts series on the feast of Shavuot (Pentecost) - https://lightofmenorah.podbean.com/?s=shavuot
I taught this is a class. Here's a link to the chapter from my class book. If you need the bibliography email me and I will get it to you.
Link to the article from Light of Menorah on Shavuot - https://www.dropbox.com/s/2rs9dwl481eb9s1/Chapter%204%20-%20The%20Spring%20Feasts%20-%20the%20End%20of%20the%20Beginning.pdf?dl=0
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 Apr 24, 2026
Friday Apr 24, 2026
Friday Apr 24, 2026
Poor Rachel, the love of Jacob's life, is supposedly executed by God for stealing the families "gods." Rabbis in Rabbinic Judaism (Judaism after the Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., claimed that Jacob cursed Rachel, unintentionally but cursed neverthess. Thus, Rachel will be killed by God in childbirth. But, all this rabbinic opinion, made up views, with NO basis in scripture. The very word of God suggests no such claims as the rabbis made.
For example, in the "Chumash," the Orthodox Rabbinic Torah commentary, the rabbis state Jacob cursed Rachel. They go on to say that God will uphold a curse even it its unintentional. Huh? No where in the Bible do we find God's word supporting such a view. No where. Matter of fact thsi view of the rabbis about curses is actually contradicted in God's word. If you recall the one who stole the special cup of Joseph when Joseph was "hidden" from his brothers since he was 2nd in power in Egypt, was supposedly Benjamin. But, this was a set up by Joseph. Then we read about the curse on whoever stole the cup as we read ...
"Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house? "With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves."
(Gen 44:8-9)
This is similar to the way Jacob supposedly "cursed" Rachel when we read ...
"Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?" Then Jacob replied to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. "The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our kinsmen point out what is yours among my belongings and take it for yourself." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
(Gen 31:30-32)
Rachel died in childbirth and the rabbis say she was cursed. On top of tha thte rabbis say God will uphold our curses even if they are made by mistake. But, the brothers of Joseph supposedly "curse" Benjamin. It was unintentional since they did not know the whole truth. Yet Benjamin lives! He does not die. God did not uphold an unintetional curse. The rabbis are wrong.
This tradition seeps into the church. Many naive Christians have taken up the beliefs and views of the orthodix rabbis. LIttle do they know or understand what the Bible says and the what the Bible doesn't say. It's like many Christians believe that all God's feasts in the Old Testament are Sabbaths. THEY ARE NOT! Even Jewish sources will tell they are not. Check out this link. An orthodox Jewish site that teaches about the feasts and they are not sabbaths but are treated like sabbaths - https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/708510/jewish/How-to-Celebrate-Yom-Tov.htm
It was the Pharisees who claimed they were. The Pharisees are the ones who were the predecessors of Orthodix Rabbic Judaism. This is one example of how naive unknowledgeable Christians believe a tradtion of he Pharisees and the rabbis and it is Biblically wrong.
One thing we read about in the story of Jacob and his family leaving Haran and traveling to Israel, are camels. There are those who say camels were no domesticated befire 1000 B.C. and thus they ake the claim the Bible is not true but made by those early Hebrew writers. But, real archaeology poves these supposed scholars wrong. Check out the article and videos to help you go deeper in your Bible understanding.
Here are the links ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bTMNFJZcSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVtTN7F4NU
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?
(Ferret - in Timnah Park just north of Eilat Israel)
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
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
EXODUS LESSON 70 PART TWO
If you haven't watched part one, make sure you do. Can't watch part two unless you have watched part one. Here's the link to part one ...
We’re at Exodus chapter 30 and once again we find another example of verses in God’s word that we might read once and never again. It seems like the detail has no transferable meaning for us now, today, and our walk with the Lord. So we "read over" the words and seem to say we don't need to understand this detail.
But, we’d be wrong. This chapter is at the end of an amazing set of chapters from 25 through 30. It’s all about God’s Holy Dwelling place, His Mishkan Kodesh, or as its better known as His TABERNACLE which comes from the Latin meaning tent. As we have seen so far as we dig deep, as we put the Mishkan HaKodesh in its historical context, as we try and study the garments of the High Priest and the Priests, as we focus in on the Menorah, the Table of Shewbread, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies in their ancient cultural context, we find a depth of meaning so powerful and so related to us today.
The video podcast (I call it a vidcast) is in two parts.
PART ONE ... is on the Altar of Incense and the Bronce Laver. Getting the foundational understanding of there parts of Hs Mishkan HaKodesh, we are able to see how this relates to our Lord, our Yeshua, God Himself who came to dwell with us. Once we study the specific events in Jesus’ life as related to the Altar of Incense and the Bronze Laver, our understanding becomes clearer. To know the events in Jesus’ life many time s we need to set them in their context in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.
PART TWO ... is on the meeting between Nicodemus and Jesus. It was a critical meeting and Jesus tells Nicodemus he and all Jews and Gentiles they must be born again. Nicodemus is confused. Born again? We must re-enter our mother’s womb and be reborn. But, Jesus is talking about a Jewish set of requirements related to Tehveelah – טבילה or immersion or dipping or dunking or baptism in a Miqveh – מִקְוֶה or an object where water is gathered alike a bathtub of a pool.
My personal picture of an ancient Miqveh at the ancient site of Qumran that was in use in Jesus' day.
A modern Miqveh from Wikimedia
It is related to the use of the High Priest and Priests of the Bronze Laver we’ll study in part two of this two part vidcast. Once we put all this in its historical context things make a whole lot of sense. We’ll learn that “being born again” was a Jewish concept so well understood in Jesus’ day.
Here's a link to study the idea of ritual immersion and where it came from. The idea of Jewish ritual immersion (baptism) is an unbiblical idea. God never commanded it or created it.
Link - https://www.thetorah.com/article/on-the-origins-of-tevilah-ritual-immersion
Also, in PART TWO we will study the census and the collection of a half shekel from each man 20 years of older; in other words from the Israeli army of those days. It seems likely that this tax was a means for soldier to pay a symbolic amount for his atonement since he had to kill in battle. It’s almost as is God is saying, even in a just war, that life is precious, and even killing another, our enemy, in a just war, that God views this as necessary but against His view that all life is important. The half shekel is a symbol of the bigger picture that all human life is important in God’s eyes even if it is a cruel and evil enemy. They were made in His image and likeness. It is a way for the Israeli soldier to do a real act to seek God's "covering" over the killing the soldier may need to do ina just war.
The vidcast ends with God’s directions on making His anointing oil and His incense. It is the last orders of God for the entire Tabernacle. The anointing oil is a perfume that is put on all objects and the High Priest and Priests. The whole Tabernacle was filled with the fragrance of God’s anointing oil. God knows we can’t see Him. But, in chapters 25-30 not only do we see His dwelling place and His priests but now we can smell the fragrance of the Lord as we come near to Him where He dwells with us. REminds me of us to be the fragrance of Christ to the world. We are to be His disciples which means we are to be like our rabbi. We are to a reflection of Yeshua to all. We are to be the Fragrance of Messiah. ASs God spread His fragrance throughout the Tabernacle so now Yeshua has His fragrance from the annointing oil on Him as Messiah. And, we are to be like Him and so His fragrance is on us so we spread it to the world.
For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. 2 Cor. 2:15-17
We end with the incense. The priest must burn incense when the Menorah is extinguished in the morning and incense it to be burn when the Menorah is again relit for the night as a light shining in the darkness. Our question might be is God using the cloud of incense to tell us He is here, in the Tabernacle, 24/7, dwelling with His people, and the smoke of the incense is like His Spirt among us? Perhaps. It seems to make sense. Ad our final conclusion to all this is all this is
קדושים ביותר יהוה אלוהינו
Kodesh Bayoter Yahvay Elohaynoo
Most Holy to the Lord our God
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?
(Ferret - in Timnah Park just north of Eilat Israel)
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 Apr 22, 2026
Wednesday Apr 22, 2026
Lesson 46 Part 1
They made it. The Hebrews led by Moses by the hand of Yahvay, the Lord, finally arrive at the Mountain of God. Here they will receive the Ten Commandments which the Lord says is His Covenant as we read …
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. (Exo 34:27-28)
Israel comes to the Mountain of God in the Sinai and there they will enter a New Covenant - nothing like this ever happened before – and become a chosen people, a holy nation, and nation of priests. But, wait a minute, that sounds so familiar. It reminds us of Jesus and His lifting up His cup at His Last Supper – the cup of the New Covenant. This happens in Jerusalem.
There’s more. It so happens that the Mountain of God was Mt. Sinai as can be found in Exod. 3:1 and 3:12 and 19:1-3. We got this. No problem. But then we see that God moves His mountain to a new location. Just consider a few proof texts …
Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For the law will go forth from Zion And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (Isa 2:2-3)
"I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations. "Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD. (Isa 66:19-20)
And it will come about in the last days That the mountain of the house of the LORD Will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, And the peoples will stream to it. Many nations will come and say, "Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD And to the house of the God of Jacob, That He may teach us about His ways And that we may walk in His paths." For from Zion will go forth the law, Even the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (Mic 4:1-2)
He moved His mountain. It is now the Temple Mount in Jerusalem also known as Mt. Zion. (The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:5; 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2) and later for the Temple Mount, but its meaning has shifted and it is now used as the name of ancient Jerusalem's Western Hill) And, this is where the New Covenant of God is given through Yeshua HaMashiach, Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. On top of that we read the following …
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; (1Pe 2:9)
Wow. What an amazing connection between the New Covenant at the Mountain of God Mt. Sinai and the New Covenant at the Mountain of God Mt. Zion - a Biblical name for the Temple Mount. God is connecting these covenants. He is not replacing the latter with the former. They are intimately related and you can not have on New Covenant without the other.
Is there more? You won’t believe it. This is another awesome chapter in Torah that meets the goals of this podcast series. Here are those goals. (Note - you can "right click" on the picture and open the picture in a new tab to read it)
So come and join us in this study. This is another awesome example that there is ONE book, ONE Bible, from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21, ONE God, ONE Lord, with ONE goal, Jesus!
Who is this guy, Rev. Ferret?
(Ferret - up on Tel Safi - the ancient city of Goliath)
What's his background? Why should we take time to listen to him? Here's a link to check out his background ... - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
EXODUS LESSON 70 PART ONE
We’re at Exodus chapter 30 and once again we find another example of verses in God’s word that we might read once and never again. It seems like the detail has no transferable meaning for us now, today, and our walk with the Lord. So we "read over" the words and seem to say we don't need to understand this detail.
But, we’d be wrong. This chapter is at the end of an amazing set of chapters from 25 through 30. It’s all about God’s Holy Dwelling place, His Mishkan Kodesh, or as its better known as His TABERNACLE which comes from the Latin meaning tent. As we have seen so far as we dig deep, as we put the Mishkan HaKodesh in its historical context, as we try and study the garments of the High Priest and the Priests, as we focus in on the Menorah, the Table of Shewbread, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies in their ancient cultural context, we find a depth of meaning so powerful and so related to us today.
The video podcast (I call it a vidcast) is in two parts. Part one is on the Altar of Incense and the Bronce Laver. Getting the foundational understanding of there parts of Hs Mishkan HaKodesh, we are able to see how this relates to our Lord, our Yeshua, God Himself who came to dwell with us. Once we study the specific events in Jesus’ life as related to the Altar of Incense and the Bronze Laver, our understanding becomes clearer. To know the events in Jesus’ life many time s we need to set them in their context in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.
Part two is on the meeting between Nicodemus and Jesus. It was a critical meeting and Jesus tells Nicodemus he and all Jews and Gentiles they must be born again. Nicodemus is confused. Born again? We must re-enter our mother’s womb and be reborn. But, Jesus is talking about a Jewish set of requirements related to Tehveelah – טבילה or immersion or dipping or dunking or baptism in a Miqveh – מִקְוֶה or an object where water is gathered alike a bathtub of a pool.
My personal picture of an ancient Miqveh at the ancient site of Qumran that was in use in Jesus' day.
A modern Miqveh from Wikimedia
It is related to the use of the High Priest and Priests of the Bronze Laver we’ll study in part two of this two part vidcast. Once we put all this in its historical context things make a whole lot of sense. We’ll learn that “being born again” was a Jewish concept so well understood in Jesus’ day.
Here's a link to study the idea of ritual immersion and where it came from. The idea of Jewish ritual immersion (baptism) is an unbiblical idea. God never commanded it or created it.
Link - https://www.thetorah.com/article/on-the-origins-of-tevilah-ritual-immersion
Also, in part two we will study the census and the collection of a half shekel from each man 20 years of older; in other words from the Israeli army of those days. It seems likely that this tax was a means for soldier to pay a symbolic amount for his atonement since he had to kill in battle. It’s almost as is God is saying, even in a just war, that life is precious, and even killing another, our enemy, in a just war, that God views this as necessary but against His view that all life is important. The half shekel is a symbol of the bigger picture that all human life is important in God’s eyes even if it is a cruel and evil enemy. They were made in His image and likeness. It is a way for the Israeli soldier to do a real act to seek God's "covering" over the killing the soldier may need to do ina just war.
The vidcast ends with God’s directions on making His anointing oil and His incense. It is the last orders of God for the entire Tabernacle. The anointing oil is a perfume that is put on all objects and the High Priest and Priests. The whole Tabernacle was filled with the fragrance of God’s anointing oil. God knows we can’t see Him. But, in chapters 25-30 not only do we see His dwelling place and His priests but now we can smell the fragrance of the Lord as we come near to Him where He dwells with us.
We end with the incense. The priest must burn incense when the Menorah is extinguished in the morning and incense it to be burn when the Menorah is again relit for the night as a light shining in the darkness. Our question might be is God using the cloud of incense to tell us He is here, in the Tabernacle, 24/7, dwelling with His people, and the smoke of the incense is like His Spirt among us? Perhaps. It seems to make sense. Ad our final conclusion to all this is all this is
קדושים ביותר יהוה אלוהינו
Kodesh Bayoter Yahvay Elohaynoo
Most Holy to the Lord our God
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?
(Ferret - in Timnah Park just north of Eilat Israel)
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 Apr 17, 2026
Friday Apr 17, 2026
God executes Rachel?? Why? Because she stole the family gods. Huh? God seems to be going against His own laws. One doesn't fear execution for being a thief in His Word. The orthodox rabbis say God delayed executing her until Benjamin was born. But, we never read this in the Bible. Matter of fact when we truly analyze it that God would execute Rachel makes no sense and even contradicts the Bible. Come and join us in this study. By putting the Bible back into its historical context we are blessed by His Spirit to have our knowledge of His word expanded and our faith enriched.
Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?
(Ferret - in Timnah Park just north of Eilat Israel)
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