All Posts

Hello loyal readers!  Let me extend a heartfelt thank you for your patience over the lack of posts while navigating a difficult season. Though my hope for this blog is to facilitate a passionate connection with our Judeo-Christian roots of our faith, it is a tremendous blessing to use this post to update you on…

A little late, but no less sincere, Happy New Year to you all.  Christmas was a precious time with family celebrating the birth of the King as I hope it was for you too. Your patience during the writing hiatus has been greatly appreciated. However, it is time to roll up the sleeves and once…

On December 8, 2023, as it grew dark, Jewish families gathered around the dinner table to light the first candle on a nine-branch menorah called the Hanukkiah. It was the first evening of Hanukkah, an 8-day celebration by Jewish people around the world to mark their deliverance over 2000 years ago, from a brutal Syrian…

The dates for Jewish holidays may seem confusing as they change year to year from the perspective of our Gregorian calendar. Hanukkah (or Chanukah) in 2022, for instance, started on December 18. This year it begins on December 8. It may be helpful to refer to an earlier post on the Jewish calendar as a…

When considering the historical interpretation of Scripture, Dwight J. Pentecost, author of Things to Come, includes an excerpt by Louis Berkhof’s Principles of Biblical Interpretation. In that passage, Berkhof warns us to guard carefully against the rather common mistake of transferring the author of Biblical times to the present day and making him speak the…

Let the words of my mouth and meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.  Psalm 19:14 Following the holocaust in WWII, the words “never again” became a theme for remembrance and preparedness to never again let the evil, like the acts committed by Hitler’s minions, come…

Sukkot – Part one, explored the Feast of Tabernacles, a feast referred to throughout the Old Testament (Exodus 23:16, Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:34-43; Numbers 29:12-40; Deuteronomy 16:13-15; Ezra 3:4; Nehemiah 8:13-18). Because Tabernacles was the last of the seven Feasts of God, it completed the religious season. As the number seven in the Bible represents…

In the last post, we focused on the Feast of Trumpets, also known as the Jewish New Year or Rosh Hashanah. Prophetically, it is not entirely clear how or when this feast will be fulfilled. It is suggested that it centers around the second coming of Jesus and possibly Israel’s repentance and judgment of Israel…

Scripture provides for us a historical understanding of the fulfilled Feasts of God (the spring feasts) and a prophetical understanding for those feasts which have yet to be fulfilled (the fall feasts).  The first of the fall feasts is Yom Teruah or Feast of Trumpets, which just took place on September 15th this year. 24“Speak…