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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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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
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Here is a Bible study option for you to consider; a Bible study according to the schedule in Jesus' day!! If you are a disciple of Jesus then you want to be like Him. So you ask how did Jesus encounter the Bible in His day? What was their way of Bible study? Come and join us and study the Bible like Jesus, like all His first disciples did. Come and study Torah that testifies of the Messiah.
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
So when one simply reads the Bible there are verses we read and we don't understand the explosive meaning and connections there are. We definitely should read the Bible. No doubt about it. But, along with simple reading of the word is to study His word. It is one reason I am doing these podcasts - we are going deeper into our understanding and expanding our knowledge of the Lord's word.
In this podcast, lesson 82, we will study two such scriptures. It'll be amazing to you as it was to me to learn what is really going on. And again, it is NOT my opinion but as you will see THE VERY WORDS OF GOD as our "bread of life." One of these verses takes us from Genesis to Revelation. It shows us that those who are like "anti-Christ" are found in an amazing "string" of Bible characters all the way back to the days of Jacob and Esau.
Hold on - you are about to take an awesome ride from the camp of Isaac to facing the GREAT RED DRAGON. Ready?
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
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
This is the first time God, Yahvay, in His TORAH ( תּוֹרָה - TORAH - instruction not law) through the words of Jacob where the Lord tells us to get rid of the pagan gods. This focus of the Lord is found again and again in His Word. For instance the Lord tells Moses and all Israel that He is not coming to destroy Egypt and its people and the Pharaoh. NO! He says ...
"For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments--I am the LORD." (Exo 12:12)
He will execute judgments against the gods of Egypt. Later the Lord says that the gods the Hebrews took on in Egypt were not gods but שׁדים SHEDEEM H7700, 7736- wicked & destructive spirits that are called "demons" in Greek. We find this in Deuteronomy 32.
"They sacrificed to demons (שׁדים SHEDEEM H7700, 7736) who were not God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dread." (Deu 32:17)
As one studies the Ten Commandments we read ...
Then God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth." (Exo 20:1-4)
Over and over again the Lord speaks against the pagan gods, idols, pagan practices, and idolatry. Just like in the Ten Commandments we are to remember who God really is and then not to have any other gods before Him. But, there are NO other gods. The Bible is very clear on this.
"See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from My hand." (Deu 32:39)
"Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And you are My witnesses. Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of none." (Isa 44:8)
"I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; ... " (Isa 45:5)
So all the pagan gods of Egypt, the Canaanites, Greece, and Rome are not gods by שׁדים SHEDEEM!! These are evil spiritual entities - not devils, not fallen angels, but SHEDEEM. God through Jacob is now telling us to put away the שׁדים SHEDEEM among us.
But have we? It seems that the USA has turned against God in a big way. Our "house" was a Christian house but it has been "cleaned out" of God, His Word, His Salvation, our Jesus. Jesus warns against this.
"Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came'; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation." (Mat 12:43-45)
The spiritual "house" of the USA is cleaned out. We've taken God out of our lives, our society, our government, our schools, and even many of our churches (few teach God's word our "bread of life") Thus, it seems clear that by THE VERY WORDS OF GOD that we should see THE RETURN OF THE GODS by Jesus' own words. And these "gods" seemingly have returned. They are not gods but the שׁדים SHEDEEM.
Check out the interviews with the Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn parts 1 and 2.
In these interviews Jonathan talks about this idea that the pagan gods have returned to America and it explains so much of the chaos, evil, death, hate, and destruction around us. שׁדים SHEDEEM has a Hebrew root word that means "destruction." Here's the links to these videos ...
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NagR4QAyfQA
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_axTQ5Xquvg
More than this however is his commentary on the most popular movie of all time worldwide, "Barbie." This is no "child's movie;" it is an evil adult attempt to indoctrinate young girls to the anti God culture. It is a teaching tool for girls to reject womanhood, motherhood, and having children in Godly marriage. It is as if an ancient evil destructive goddess has returned, a SHEDEEM, and is symbolized in this doll called Barbie. It is as if Barbie is an idol of Ishtar whose picture is below.
The picture above is of the ancient goddess, Ishtar, and is royalty free and accessible at Wikimedia.
Check out the awesome and disturbing commentary on the "Barbie" movie by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn. .
The Mystery Of Barbie, Ishtar, and Smashed Babies! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKp-A6BBg-E
So in God's TORAH we see over and over again the Lord's focus against pagan gods, idols and idolatry. But, there are no other gods. Yes. That is true. But not the שׁדים SHEDEEM that were behind the worship of all the pagan gods. God knows this is REAL and this REALITY is of the utmost danger to us.
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 Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
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This video introduces a major podcast video lesson on the book of Esther and Purim. How is Jesus related to the book of Esther? He said in John 5:39 ...
"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;" (Joh 5:39)
So how does the book of Esther testify of Jesus? It is all dependent upon one word in the entire book. This will amaze you and for Christians the feast of Purim becomes special for us as well. Watch the video to access the video podcast Bible study lesson.
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 Feb 24, 2023
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