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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.
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.
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – Jeremiah completion – Ezekiel intro
This week the Torah teachers finally wrap up the study of the Book of YermeYahu (Jeremiah) and the final chapter 52, and introduce the next Book to be examined in detail, that of the prophet Ezekiel.
Now Is The Time w/Rabbi Steve Berkson | Unity & Division in the Body | Part 6
What is this “yoking” thing about? We see Yeshua telling His followers to take His yoke, we see Paul talk about not being unequally yoked. In this lesson Rabbi Steve Berkson teaches about taking on the yoke–what it meant then and what it means now, and why it is...
Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 30 – (Come Back Again)
In the last episode, “How Far Gone is the Night?”, we put forward a prophetic verse from Isaiah to help us understand the final beast kingdom. Here it is in its 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)
This is important because the last beast performs his deceiving signs “in the presence of the first beast.” The first beast is Babylon. This explains why Babylon the Great is “fallen, fallen.” The image of the beast King Nebuchadnezzar set up for the nations to bow down and worship was one image. Because Daniel had interpreted his gold-silver-bronze-iron dream of the image as the successive beast empires, the King of Babylon thought by forming the image ALL of gold, his kingdom would endure forever. He thought all he needed to do was bring in representatives from all the nations to bow to it. Of course, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego would not bow, and the king temporarily repented. He’d have to be turned into a crazy beast to be completely broken (Da 4:33).
Likewise, in Revelation, human beings who will not repent or who will only repent superficially and worship the image of the beast will be completely broken. If Babylon the Great falls, then all the beast empires fall with it, including its systems among the nations of the world upon which the iron-and-clay feet stand. From the Babylonian head to the Persian chest to the Greek lower torso to the Red Roman iron legs, the Beast will fall. It is empires and nations, yet ONE image, which helps us to understand how the last beast’s signs are performed in the presence of the first. The feet don’t rome too far from the head. Sorry. Couldn’t resist a pun.
Edom is Rome, the last beast kingdom, and its feet are standing upon the earth mixed with the clay, the peoples of the earth. It will be shattered by the Stone of Israel, and all the beast kingdoms that attached to the golden head of Babylon will fall. The night watchmen, who represent those skilled in knowing the times and seasons that turn in their cycle, are experts in the moedim. The moedim were set in place on the fourth day of Creation when the sun, moon, and stars were put in their place “for the sake of the moedim,” often translated as “seasons.” The night watchmen watch these stellar movements every “night,” or exile.
Parsha “Chukat” (Numbers ch 19 thru 22:1) teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
The parsha this week may be one of the most 'appropriately named' in the Torah, because 'chukat' may be translated as "statute," but it REALLY means, "do this because I say so!" Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha 'Chukat'...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – Jeremiah chapter 52
The torah teachers look into the end of the Book of Jeremiah, and chapter 52. (And in the process, cover a few of the misconceptions that have done so much damage, when the Torah has been 'twisted' to cover lies told when men try to rewrite Scripture.)
Now Is The Time w/Rabbi Steve Berkson | Unity & Division in the Body | Part 5
Unity and Division in the Body of Messiah is directly connected to believers growing and walking in maturity. What are the signs of maturity? Of immaturity? What is the “implanted word”? Rabbi Steve Berkson expounds on Deuteronomy chapter 8 and Philippians chapter 2 a...
Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 29 – (How Far Gone is the Night?)
In Shelach Lekha, the Israelites find themselves at the second major sin of the wilderness, the evil report of the ten spies. The Golden Calf had already brought a tempest of Divine anger and a significant period of judgment, repentance, forgiveness, and rebuilding. The Mishkan (Tabernacle) provided a constant reminder of the Divine Presence that would remain even when Moses departed. Nevertheless, the ten spies did not grow strong in the wilderness with Caleb and Joshua. Instead, their lack of faith brought about the removal of themselves and nearly a whole generation.
We are now in the “second exile” of Babylon, initiated by the Red Beast of Rome, and now Rome’s daughters hold us within the nations and their beastly systems. In this wilderness of the peoples, Israel is given an opportunity to exit the exile of of night and enter the morning of freedom from the Beast and Babylon the Great, the feet and head of the Beast’s image. In this wilderness of the peoples, we have the opportunity to grow strong and go up.
Grow strong and go up.
Mark Call – Parsha “Korach” (Numbers ch 16 thru 18) teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
The parsha this week from the annual Torah cycle is all about one of the first (outside the Garden, perhaps) and most famous acts of "rebellion" in the Book. And it just - OH, so coincidentally! - happens to fall right on the 248th anniversary, on the Roman calendar,...
