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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 Nov 10, 2025
Monday Nov 10, 2025
TRUTH NUGGETS 19 part 1
In this vidcast (video), "Against the Gods," we will again study God's word in its historical context. However, this time we add a new perspective to our study. We will continue to ask what those early believers heard and saw and understood when they first heard God's word. But, we will also see how God comes against the pagan gods and man made religions in the ancient Middle East in very unique ways in His word. This time we will see how God taught His people, the Hebrews, in ways that would make sense only to them in their day.
We would not recognize it as we read the Bible. God is writing to a people thousands of years ago using concepts only they understood and not us. Dr. John Currid, a highly credible Egyptologist, archaeologist, and theologian, wrote a book entitled, "Against the Gods." His thesis in the book is to show us how we in the 21st century miss how God taught His people in their time using things they were familiar with. Here's an example Dr. Currid uses his paper, "The Nature of Polemical Thought and Writing." He writes ...
A STRONG HAND - Some common expressions found in ancient Egyptian texts to describe the power of Pharaoh over his foes are that the monarch had “a strong hand,” or “he possessed a strong arm,” or he was “the one who destroyed his enemies with his arm.” It is ironic that the author of the book of Exodus assigns the same features to the Lord as he humiliates and destroys Pharaoh and Egypt (Ex. 3:19–20; 6:1; 7:4; 15:6, etc.).
James Hoffmeier, a famous Egyptologist, comments on this parallel, asking, “what better way for the Exodus traditions to describe God’s victory over Pharaoh, and as a result his superiority, than to use Hebrew derivations or counterparts to Egyptian expressions that symbolized Egyptian royal power?”
For most of us this would have escaped us completely. We are not familiar with ancient Egyptian writings nor are we into the ancient culture and customs on Egypt in the days of Moses. But, God is clearly inspiring Moses to use an Egyptian idiom that the Hebrews would have been familiar with. God uses this to come against Pharaoh and show His power over Pharaoh and all Egypt. In this way God uses something Egyptian to teach His people about Himself and His character. However, we will also see that these amazing lessons that made sense to those first believers also make sense to us today in the 21st century. Ready? Let's begin our first lesson. Let's see how God uses Genesis 1:1 to teach His people coming out of Egypt that He is God and not Amun Ra. Let's also see how this relates to us today, us being His people, and knowing that God never changes (Mal. 3:6). He was the same 3400 years ago and today.
Link to John Currid's article referenced above - https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/polemic.html
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 Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
Esau is not the man for the job. Yes, he is the first born. But, just because he is the first born, theבְּכוֹר Bekor H1060, he has tasks and responsibilities even before his dad passes away. He becomes a teammate with his dad. They together work to help the family with all its needs, they stand together to protect the family, they make sure all are safe and healthy, and the first born and the dad do all they can to make sure the family stays together. Esau, however, is seemingly focused only on hunting, the outdoors, adventure, fun, and not the day to day family business. It must’ve been a big job to stay home and take care of the massive holdings that Isaac was blessed with as we read.
Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him, and the man became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy; for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him. (Gen 26:12-14)
In this lesson we will delve into this more. I bring up Ken Baily’s book, “Jacob and the Prodigal.” Ken is an awesome Biblical scholar with many books and articles he has written. One I highly recommend is, “Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels.” Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead us into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context.
But, in his book, “Jacob and the Prodigal,” he shows us amazing connections between the parable of Jesus and the story involving Jacob and Esau. For example, here are 15 connections between these two.
- In both stories there are three major players: a father and two sons
- The blessing/inheritance is a critical part of both stories.
- In both stories the younger son seeks advantages from the father using dishonorable methods and succeeds
- In both stories the younger son is estranged from both the father and the older brother.
- In both stories the younger son goes to a far country.
- The older son remains at home in both stories.
- The younger son becomes a herder in the far country in both stories.
- In both stories the younger son decides to return home, but is afraid of how he will be received.
- Both younger sons show no remorse.
- In both stories there is a divine visitation – the man who wrestles with Jacob and the father who symbolizes God.
- In both stories the younger son receives the three-fold welcome of running, falling on the neck and kissing (In all of scripture this trilogy only appears in Gen 33:4 and Luke 15:20!)
- In both stories the older brother is angry about the return of the younger.
- In both stories the younger son is reconciled to the family.
- In both stories there is a concern that the younger son return in peace (Gen 28:21; Lk 15:27)
- Each story is critical for the community that remembers and tells the story.
For us we will consider this parable and other sources to study two major concepts. The first is the first born, or the Bekor, and the Bet Av, the house of the father. One great resource is Ray Vander Laan's lessons from Israel and the Middle East. Here is a "free" video where Ray focuses on the concept of the Bet Av - the father's house (pronounced bate av). Here's the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm7S101cyJM
As we study these we will gain a deeper and more expansive understanding of the Jacob and Esau story. We will perhaps even gain a deeper appreciation of why Rebecca did what she did to have Jacob deceive Isaac to get the blessing of the first born.
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
Saturday Nov 01, 2025
Saturday Nov 01, 2025
This lesson and the next will be awesome. Our focus will be on Exod. 6:1-8. It will unbelievable where this takes us. We will be dealing with the reason why there are four cups of wine in the Passover meal called the Seder (Hebrew for order). We will also deal with the 5th cup. Yes! There is a debate among the rabbis in the Talmud about whether there should be four or five cups. Shown below are links to articles from Jewish websites to show that this debate comes from the rabbis and it led to some amazing results. Check them out …
Sefaria (Jewish site to access ancient Jewish literature like the Mishnah, the Midrasheem, the Babylonian Talmud, the Jerusalem Talmud, and the rest) - https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/31880?lang=bi
Aish (Jewish website – aish means “fire”) - https://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/81091867.html
Gemara (Jewish site focusing on the study of the Hebrew scriptures in their historical and contextual context) - https://thegemara.com/five-cups-of-wine-at-the-seder/index.html
The 5th cup is connected to the text in Exod. 6:8 when we read, “I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD." (Exo 6:8) But, when will Israel possess the land with the borders God promised? They don’t now. Today Israel does not come close to holding the territory God promised and about half of all Jews do not live in Israel. We will see that after the battle against Gog of Magog in Ezekiel 38 and 39 that the first thing that must happen is that ALL Israel must be INGATHERED; they are to be gathered again in Israel never again to leave and there will be NO Jewish people remaining anywhere in the world except in the borders of Israel that God gave them. You can read this yourself in Ezekiel 39. All this happens after Elijah comes before the great day of the Lord when Messiah comes (Yeshua returns!). Interestingly the 5th cup is called the “Elijah Cup” by the rabbis.
The last concept we will discuss is what is popularly known as the “rapture.” As a Bible historian I was often concerned that most, if not all Christian teachers of the end times and the rapture, are so disconnected from our Jewish roots, the Bible in its historical context, and an understanding that there was NO New Testament in 50 A.D., the date estimated when Paul was in Thessalonica. I actually dismissed the “rapture” and thought it was only a view, an opinion, a unique man made interpretation. I was one who hoped it'd be true. It just didn't stand the test of scholarly examination. There were too many holes and not enough substance. However, I am beginning to look at the “rapture” perhaps the way Paul might have known it. We will take 1 Thess. 4:16-17 and study these verses in their historical context and in the context of that ancient Jewish culture. Perhaps there is a “rapture.” Perhaps the modern Christian end times gurus have it partially right. Perhaps Paul is teaching those Gentile believers in Thessalonica about something very Jewish based upon the Hebrew scriptures. Those Gentiles had no Bible, had no scripture, until they became “God Fearers” and attended the synagogue in Thessalonica. Perhaps there is a connection between the “rapture” and the ingathering of Israel; the ingathering of elect of the Lord that might be called, “The Jewish Rapture.”
Shown below are links to some interesting articles that will show that this is NOT made up by me, not my opinion. It is a concept that might prove to be something to consider. Perhaps we will be part of the INGATHERING of Israel since it says we’ve been grafted into the olive tree, Israel, and are joint heirs in the promises. Perhaps.
The Torah and the Rapture - https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/0da55621/files/uploaded/4ZW5Bbv3Tz2gNtsgeqkL_The%2520Torah%2520and%2520the%2520Rapture.pdf
1 Thess. 4:16-17 from a Rabbinic Perspective - https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:34782/datastreams/CONTENT/content
The Jewish Understanding of the Rapture - https://torahlifeministry.com/teachings/articles/29-the-rapture/109-the-jewish-understanding-of-the-rapture.html
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 31, 2025
Friday Oct 31, 2025
Is Jacob a “mama’s boy?” It says in Gen. 25:27 he was a peaceful man living in tents and his mama, Rebecca, preferred Jacob over Esau. What we will find is Jacob is no mama’s boy. He is תָּם TAM H8535. In the Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon we get the picture of a complete man, a mature grown man, one who lacks nothing. This is no mama’s boy. He is a man you seemingly can count on do face his responsibilities, ready to go the extra mile.
And we read about Jacob being a man of the tents. That means he is attending to family business. He’s not out hunting and having fun like Esau. Jacob is one dedicated to the Bet Av (pronounced “Bate Av”) of the house of the father, the tents of Isaac. Once we put the Bible back into those days around 2000 B.C., into the culture of those days, we will then see that perhaps why Rebecca preferred Jacob over Esau is that Jacob was the one who would preserve the family and keep it together after Isaac died. Rebecca was an awesome woman and she seems to have a clear motive to deceive Isaac using Jacob – give Jacob the blessing of the first born to preserve the Bet Av, the family and keep it from Esau who was out all the time having fun hunting and not doing what he should be doing, being and acting like the first born.
I mentioned two other topics in this lesson. One is that Arabs are not descendants of Ishmael. Arabs are Polyethnic and come from a number of ancient peoples. One of those ancient peoples were around from 3000 B.C. to about 300 B.C. They existed at least 1000 years before Abraham was even born. Here’s a link to lesson 27 in this series. In this lesson you can learn about real Bible dating based upon real history and archaeology. In this lesson you’ll see that 2000 B.C. is an approximate time of Abraham’s birth. Here’s the link – https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8qb22-f6e039
I also mentioned a website that discusses this issue. Here’s a link to a website. Not the best but at least a beginning for those of you who want to study this further. Link - https://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-arabs-descendants-of-ishmael.htm
Related to this is my paper that proves that Allah is NOT the God of the Bible. This is a false claim made even by some Evangelicals. Even the pop himself "hinted" at this in a speech he did. Here’s the link to the paper. Link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/qve66ohtl87gygb/The%20Bible%2C%20Adonai%2C%20Allah%20and%20the%20Quran%20-%20Who%20is%20Who.pdf?dl=0
Finally, we address the location of Mt. Sinai. Some say it is in southern Saudi Arabia on the west coast. If that is the case these so called scholars must move the Wilderness of Shur, which we read about in these verses in Genesis, from its precise Biblical location to the western shores of Saudi Arabia on the Gulf of Aqaba. These pseudo-scholars have changed the wording of the Bible so that it agrees to their belief that is held only as a remote theory by real Christian and religious Jewish scholars and archaeologists.
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
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
RAPTURE RESTORED 5
Some say there is a rapture and are "Pre-Trib." Others say the same thing and are "Mid-Trib" and others "Post-Trib." Others say there is NO RAPTURE. But, regardless of your position the verses below clearly show something is up; something is coming.
Mat 24:29-31 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. (30) "And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. (31) "And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
1Th 4:16-17 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. (17) Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
Are we missing something? Is there a viable realistic alternative understanding to all this? Not one of the so-called "end-times" expert today, not one of the "RAPTURISTS" you hear on the radio or YouTube, ever teach these verses in their HISTORICAL CONTEXT. Not one! But, if you do, this results in a restoring the understanding of the Rapture to its Biblical foundation - THE INGATHERING OF ISRAEL, as predicted by Adonai Himself in Torah. This is so amazing. It takes the mess created by the "end-times" experts of today and brings order and understanding.
We strongly urge you to listen to the previous videos in this series. They build one upon the other. If you listen to this one without listening to Episode 1 parts 1 & 2 and Episode 2 parts 1 & 2, the study will not be complete or understood in its entirety. For the previous videos do the following ...
1) Go to the website - www.LightofMenorah.org
2) Click on OTHER RESOURCES in the upper right at the home page.
3) Then click on TRUTH NUGGETS 27 - THE RAPTURE RESTORED
4) "Slide down" with your mouse and you'll find all five videos and associated links. This will provide a detailed study foundation to go deeper into this topic.
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 Oct 29, 2025
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
God commands that the feast of Unleavened Bread will be 7 days, and 7 days ONLY. Not 8 as the orthodox rabbis changed it to. By changing it the orthodox rabbis again show they can change God's word to their own personal views. This is crazy. It also takes away from the unbelievable importance of the number 7 from Genesis to Revelation.
In this lesson we will just focus on the number 7. When we do we will find patterns of the use of the number 7 that can only be the handiwork of the Lord. It is as if the number 7 and the patterns God creates in his word is like God's watermark. Watermarks, very faint printing on a picture or a document such that it is used to protect the document/picture from being used if illegally copied and other confidential information and to indicate the validity of a legal document. You'll also see watermarks on any paper banknote, where they're used to help prevent counterfeiting. See below for a picture showing a picture with and without a "watermark."
It is as if the 7 is like God's watermark. It shows that the word of God written by men under the direct inspiration of the Spirit of the Most High is not created by men but by the Lord. You won't believe what you are about to study. It'll take us from Gen. 1:1 to Rev. 22:21, the first and the last verses of the Bible. It will seem to indicate that the Living Word of the Lord, Yeshua, is connected to the number 7 in ways we have never seen before. And, this is NOT Numerology which is more related to the occult. It is not a Bible Code which are very problematic. What we are about to study is FACT and proven again and again by highly credible scholars, Jew and Gentile.
In the podcast I said I'd provide many links for your further study. Here they are.
Link 1 - a video, one of many at this site, that shows the work of Professor Ivan Panin and his discovery of the mathematical patterns in God's word. It so amazed Prof. Panin that he became a Christian based upon the amazing things he discovered that showed him that the Bible is true, it is God's word, and the Jesus is the Lord, the Savior, and the long awaited Messiah.
https://www.thelivingword.org.au/grand-design/session16.php
Link 2 - a fantastic video done by Chuck Missler of Koinonia House. It is another presentation of Panin's work done in a style that is true Chuck Missler. Awesome material you will find most intriguing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f9WYGBfpaw
Links 3, 4, and 5. Awesome articles that are related to Panin's work and the number 7 and the patterns that seem to suggest the number 7 is God's watermark.
Link 3 - https://www.thetorah.com/article/seven-the-biblical-number
Link 4 - https://www.differentspirit.org/evidence/numerics.php
Link 5 - https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/the-number-7-in-the-bible/
Link 6 - an article from a great scholarly site, GotQuestions.org addressing Bible codes and that the Bible, God's word, suggests that they are very problematic and not what the Bible says about the COMPLETENESS of God's word as it stands.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-codes.html
Link 7 - an article on the famous Jewish rabbi, Nachmanides and his teachings on the number 7.
http://www.betemunah.org/seven.html
Link 6 - an article from a great scholarly site, GotQuestions.org addressing Bible codes and that the Bible, God's word, suggests that they are very problematic and not what the Bible says about the COMPLETENESS of God's word as it stands.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-codes.html
Link 7 - an article on the famous Jewish rabbi, Nachmanides and his teachings on the number 7.
http://www.betemunah.org/seven.html
Link 8 - an article with background information on Prof. Ivan Panin - http://www.wordworx.co.nz/panin.html
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 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
RAPTURE RESTORED 4
It is highly recommended that if you have not watched the previous videos that you do so before watching this 4th lesson. Each builds on what was taught in previous lessons. To easily access the entire series go to the website and once there click on the words OTHER RESOURCES on top of the page on the right side. A small menu will open and then click on TRUTH NUGGETS: THE RAPTURE RESTORED. This will open up the series page - just slide down with your "mouse." There you'll find links to all the lessons and many other links for your continued study. Below is the link to the website ...
Many know the famous verse ...
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. (1Th 4:16-17)
This seems to be the primary verse end times experts use to justify the "rapture." It is in the letter that Paul wrote in Corinth in and around 50 A.D. to the Messianic congregation in Thessalonica. When Paul wrote this letter there were NO other books of the New Testament available; none of them had been written yet. There are other very critical facts about this book that few Christians even consider. In this vidcast (video podcast) we will now study this letter in its historical and its ancient cultural context. Once we do the facts suggest that the so called rapture, as we understand it today, may not be what we think. Matter of fact it suggests that the rapture should be renamed to the INGATHERING of Yahvay's elect, His chosen, at the last blast of the Great Shofar. The rabbis teach that the righteous will then be gathered and then (in Hebrew יקחך YEET-KA-CHE-KA H3947 ) brought or captured or seized by the Lord back to the Promised Land in the clouds. They get this from ...
“Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows? For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God and for the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 60:8-9
This is from Deut. 30:1-4 where God predicts this amazing event that seems similar to the event as written by Paul in 1 Thess. 4:16-17. Interesting. Paul is a Torah expert. It seems he is only trying to teaching the Gentile Romans and Greeks who worshiped Yahvay in the Jewish synagogue about what Jews knew as part of their culture; they knew of the good news that the Lord will gather them again, all Israel, and they will live in peace and safety forever.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name. They will forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid. When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall be sanctified through them in the sight of the many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then gathered them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer. I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD.
(Eze 39:25-29)
So come and join us in this interesting study. Come and join us to consider a realistic and viable alternative as we restore the Rapture to its Jewish foundation, its Torah foundation, to the Ingathering of the Elect (Chosen) of the Lord.
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 Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
RAPTURE RESTORED 3
In this video Bible study we go back 1000’s of years to investigate a prediction made by the Lord through Moses near the place called Shittim (pronounced SHH TEEM).
It was the camping place of the Hebrews just before Moses' death and then the crossing of the Jordan. This prediction seems to connect to Jesus’ prediction that He, Jesus, the Messiah (known as the “son of man” when He was here the first time) would gather His elect or His “chosen” in Matt. 24:29-31. Could it be that the “rapture,” that is discussed and debated today, has been named incorrectly? Is it possible that the rapture is really the ingathering of Israel as predicted in Deut. 30:1-5, Isa. 11:12, 27:13, 56:8 (Gentiles gathered?), 66:20 and Ezek. 20:34, 20:41, 37:12, 37:21 ? When we study the Bible in its historical context, when we focus on the words in the ancient Greek and Hebrew, when we consider the ancient Jewish culture of Jesus’ day and Paul’s day, it seems probable that the ingathering of Israel as predicted by the Lord, יהוה Yahvay, is what is mistakenly called the “rapture” in the 21st century.
This begins to make sense in that God over and over again says He will gather His chosen people, Israel, in the end times into the land He promised Abraham. It is the land Israel has never ever controlled. Solomon was close in his rule and reign. Once Israel is “gathered in” they will live securely in peace forever as the chosen of יהוה Yahvay, Adonai, the Lord. Paul teaches that in the end times all Israel will be saved. ALL. Paul does not separate non Christian religious Jews from Jewish or Gentile Christians. Paul even teaches we Gentile believers are “grafted in” to Israel and become joint inheritors of the promises of God. Paul does not separate the non Christian Jews from Christians. He says under the Lord’s inspiration, we are one family. So does the Lord. Jesus says in John 10 that He is the Good Shepherd and His Jewish disciples know this means Jesus is claiming to be the Shepherd of Israel as found in Ezekiel 34. The Hebrew Scriptures was all they had. But Jesus said there is another flock He will bring as well implying us Gentiles. And Jesus will make them one flock with one Shepherd. But, “rapturists” especially pre-tribbers, condemn all Israel to the horrors of the Tribulation but Christian Jews and Gentiles will be spared. These views go against the very words of God. This is man’s view and not God’s.
So, come join us. Come and consider the real viable alternative view of the “rapture” as we restore it to its Jewish roots. We restore the “rapture” to the INGATHERING OF THE LORD’S ELECT.
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 Oct 26, 2025
Sunday Oct 26, 2025
RAPTURE RESTORED 2
Have you read Matt. 24:29-31. No? Here it is …
“But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.” (Mat 24:29-31)
There are so-called end-times experts, probably devout Christians, who say this verse is all about the Pre-Trib Rapture. Here, supposedly according to the opinions of the end-times expert, Jesus will come and rescue the Church from the terrible times, the horrible times, of God’s wrath falling upon all the pagan nations before Jesus returns. But, you can also find end-times experts who argue that Matt. 24:29-31 is Jesus teaching on the Mid-Trib Rapture. The Church will need to go through at least half the terrible times before being “caught up” or “raptured” and taken to Jesus to be with Him forever. But, on top of that you can also find end-times experts, again probably devout sincere Christians, who say Jesus is teaching that the Rapture will not come till after the Tribulation period. So, we see there are three groups of end-times experts and three separate views and interpretations on this one verse. So, who do you believe?
In these video lessons we will again study the Bible in its historical context. It is clear not one, no one, none of the end-times experts even addresses the Bible in its historical context nor do with focus on the Hebrew culture and language of Jesus' day. We will go back 2000 years ago to try and grasp what Jesus’ disciples, devout Jewish believers, understood when Jesus spoke the words in Matt. 24:29-31. But this time we will focus on the fact that in Jesus’ day there was NO New Testament. All they had was “Jesus’ Bible” or the Hebrew Scriptures that is called today the Old Testament.
Also, in Jesus’ day Jewish eschatology, Jewish end-times theology, was discussed and understood from the very words of God in Torah and the Prophets. So, in these lessons we need to get to what Jewish eschatology was and the fact that Jesus NEVER came against it.
We will also focus on the Hebrew. Why? There is solid strong evidence that Jesus’ everyday language was Hebrew. I mentioned some links I’d provide so you can study this further. Here they are …
LINK 1 – the book “Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus”
LINK 2 - Skip Moen’s article on the Hebraic foundation of the Gospels
https://skipmoen.com/subscribe/hebrew/the-hebrew-gospels/
LINK 3 – scholarly article found at “Hebrew 4 Christians”
https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Articles/Jesus_Hebrew/jesus_hebrew.html
As one studies this Rapture Controversy it is wise to consider becoming familiar with Jewish end-times views or Jewish Eschatology. One will find great connections between what the Church believes and it source in Second Temple Judaism, the days of Jesus. Here’s a link to an article that will give you the listener an introduction …
LINK – Jewish Eschatology
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/eschatology
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 Oct 25, 2025
Saturday Oct 25, 2025
RAPTURE RESTORED 1
Links and session notes are found under the picture for Part 2.