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Mark Call – Parsha “Devarim” (Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22) teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
This week the annual Torah cycle means we begin the study of the final Book in the Torah: Devarim, or, literally, "the WORDS" that Moshhe spoke to the 'sons of Israel" during the final days of his life. ... why it is that this nation and world are utterly collapsing...
Now Is The Time w/Rabbi Steve Berkson | Making the Calendar Decision
What is the “biblical calendar”? Who has the authority to say so? At this point in time does anyone really know? This teaching is not intended to proclaim a “correct” calendar, but rather how the decision was made concerning the biblical calendar issue that would...
Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 33 – (The Dust of Jacob Pt 2)
We continue this week from where we left off last week in “The Dust of Jacob Pt2” Here we delve into where John writes about how the angels of the four winds held them back until the righteous were sealed. If the righteous are somehow in the Clouds of Glory, even in a preliminary gathering among the nations, their smoke of sacrifice and prayer would go straight up as in the Wilderness, unaffected by the four winds:
“After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.” (Re 7:1)
The stillness of winds upon the earth reflects what happened within the protection of Sukkot of Glory in the wilderness. The smoke of the altar fire went straight up, unaffected by the winds. The job of the four winds can be to gather, to scatter, vitalize, or simply hold still/stasis. ”Holding back” may be complemented by another angel’s mission of gathering. Typically, angels do one thing at a time, requiring multiple ministers to address multiple steps in a mission.
Mark Call – Parsha “Matot – Masei” (Numbers 30:2 – End) teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
This week the double-parsha of Matot-Masei (from Numbers 30:2 on) completes the Book of Numbers. But it is the very first chapter of the set that Mark has long suggested is among the most vital in all of Scripture when it comes to understanding Yah-ordained authority...
Drive Time Friday
David Justice and Mark Call discuss the week's major events, and the continued breakdown of the 'Official Narrative'. But the real question, for those of us who wonder if most AmeriKans will EVER actually wake up, is just how much more "in your face" can the Truth...
Now Is The Time w/Rabbi Steve Berkson | Unity & Division in the Body | Part 8
With the absence of division, unity is revealed. This teaching focuses on how we should treat each other as the Body of Messiah. Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us first to Matthew 5:43 where we see Yeshua teaching to love not only each other, but also those who may be...
Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 32 – (Torahfying cont & The Dust of Jacob)
Our Footsteps series has considered the signs of Messiah’s coming within key verses of the Song of Songs. Our most recent text is a prophecy of the final wilderness “of the people” and the Mishkan (Tabernacle) of Israel:
What is this coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
with all the scented powders of the merchant? (So 3:6)
Israel emerges from the wilderness of the peoples in Clouds of Glory. When we look for evidence of how Yeshua is working among us to gather us, the Wilderness Mishkan is a logical place to look. Last week, we took a close look at the “two witnesses” of fire in the wilderness that amazed and terrified the surrounding nations. There was the fire of two altars that never went out, one of sacrifice and one of incense, each with its column of smoke. There was a pillar, or column, of cloud by day and one by night, the night pillar revealing fire in the darkness. And according to the sages, the two tablets in the Ark of the Covenant produced two tongues of fire that cleared the area of the encampment of serpents and scorpions when the cloud and Ark stopped. Sound familiar? Hint: Acts Two.
This description of the “two witnesses” sounds very much like the Midrash’s description of how the Mishkan settled down:
“And if anyone wants to harm them, fire flows out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and so if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.” (Re 11:5)
The Midrash Rabbah to Shir 3:5 describes why the nations marveled at the Israelite camp in the wilderness:
“When Israel was roaming from encampment to encampment in the Wilderness, the Pillar of Cloud would sink in the evening and then the Pillar of Fire would spring up, and the smoke of the burning pyre atop the Outer Altar would rise straight up, unaffected by the wind, and two darts of fire would issue from between the two staves of the Ark and incinerate the snakes, fiery serpents, and scorpions before the Israelites. [commentary to Ex 40:38]
Mark Call – Parsha “Pinchas” (Numbers 25:1-30:1) teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
More often than some might suspect, the weekly Torah portion reflects uncannily well the issues and events in the world today. And especially this week, parsha Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1) inspires us to ask the question, "just what does it MEAN to be 'zealous' for...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – Ezekiel ch 1
The Torah teachers have now started the in-depth study of the Book of Ezekiel, and chapter one. And there is certainly a lot of imagery.
“Come out of her, My people” Show ~ Mark Call weekly
By now it's pretty clear that there is a deliberate, well-planned, systematic destruction of not only the Rule of Law, but the national and world economy, food supply chain, and energy infrastructure. While the greatest mass bioweapon deployment in history takes...
Now Is The Time w/Rabbi Steve Berkson | Unity & Division in the Body | Part 7 – Problems/Solutions
In this the first of two parts, straight from the mouths of those in the Body of Messiah comes a lively discussion about some of the problems that may be prohibiting the unity in the Body that is so greatly desired. Rabbi Steve Berkson moderates this forum of ideas,...
Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 31 – (Footsteps are Torahfying)
In last week’s teaching, we examined Isaiah’s prophecy in couplets:
“The pronouncement concerning Edom:
One keeps calling to me from Seir,
‘Watchman, how far gone is the night?
Watchman, how far gone is the night?’
The watchman says, ‘Morning comes but also night.
If you would inquire, inquire;
Come back again.’” (Is 21:11-12)
The third couplet urges the inquirer to ask twice, or “come back again.” Return from the second exile, the long exile of The Red One, Edom of Seir.
In a layer of Jewish understanding about King Messiah’s hiding place, Isaiah implies that not only are those in exile calling, anxious for the night of exile to end, so is Messiah, who has been tying and untying the bandages of the sick outside the gates of Rome, anxiously awaiting the Father’s appointed time for his return, to “come back again.” The midrash is not to be taken literally, but illustratively.
