Last week (Wednesday evening to Friday evening) Jews around the world commemorated Rosh Hashanah...the civil new year in Israel. It was a time of celebration and blowing the shofar. Rosh Hashanah launches the fall feast season, leading up to Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Biblically speaking, those feasts are the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement …
Continue reading Yom Kippur to Commence at Sundown on Friday…Meanwhile, Days of Awe
There is a popular theme racing through cyberspace right now: that the unusual celestial happenings have some supernatural message from God wrapped up in them, and that they somehow confirm the end of the age. Today's eclipse is said to be a precursor of the "grand" celestial event of September 23, when the greatest alignment …
Though celebrated on June 4 in the US (Gregorian calendar), Israel will commemorate Pentecost beginning at sundown this evening. (In fact, it is already sundown in Israel!) Pentecost is the 4th of 7 great Jewish feasts each year, and as we've studied often, Jesus is the fulfillment of them all! To provide insight into Pentecost, …
Continue reading Pentecost: The Fourth Great Feast of Israel
Dear study friends, you have persevered to the end and I am most grateful for the opportunity to gather around the study table with you. We're going to finish the study with a challenge, and I have some very special things to share with you today. So let's dive in! This week we have focused …
