http://www.crownofmessiah.com en-us Crown Of Messiah http://www.crownofmessiah.com With Izzy Avraham Izzy Avraham Challenging Messianic Jewish Bible teaching, innovative Torah and Gospels commentary, deep Hebrew insights, practical discipleship applications, and missional house church strategy from Izzy Avraham and the Crown of Messiah community. Challenging Messianic Jewish Bible teaching, innovative Torah and Gospels commentary, deep Hebrew insights, practical discipleship applications, and missional house church strategy from Izzy Avraham and the Crown of Messiah community. Messianic, Hebrew, Israel, Torah, Judaism, Bible, Yeshua, Jesus, Islam, Christian, Wicca, Spiritual Izzy Avraham contact@crownofmessiah.com contact@crownofmessiah.com contact@crownofmessiah.com clean http://www.crownofmessiah.com/audio/podcast.jpg http://www.crownofmessiah.com/ http:// What happens when disciples who are all hearing from Yeshua get together? Snapshot of gatherings in early Yeshua movement. Danger of reading your church into the text. Early Christians went to Temple and synagogue when they could, but primarily gathered in homes in Jerusalem, Phillipi, Ephesus, Rome, Corinth, Colossae, and elsewhere. Time wasn't the sacred service hour on Sunday morning, it was Saturday night! Figurehead verse of the house church movement describing gatherings of disciples where each one had a gift, knew what it was, and contributed. Shaul's letter assumes that each person had a relationship with the Master, that the Ruach was present and moving, that they were gathered in a circle, not in rows facing the front, so that it was participatory and not spectator oriented and led by the Spirit rather than someone at the front, that it was an open meeting and not programmed or canned, and that it was small so that eveyone could be involved. Choice growing groups face to become huge and become less participatory, or multiply into a network of groups. Multiplication like a birth, not divorce. http:// The danger of hearing Yeshua's voice is becoming overly independent, individualistic, anarchistic. Yeshua doesn't speak to everyone about everything. He leads through leaders that he speaks to and through. His kingdom is not a democracy. Breakdown of the functions of apostles, prophets, and teachers. Apostle from Hebrew shalach to send, all about mission and goal oriented. Prophet from Hebrew navi, spokesperson experiencing messages, dreams, visions, often artistic or musical. Teacher from Hebrew yarah to shoot an arrow, pointing in a direction and giving impetus, sometimes uncomfortable. Practical assignment, pray and then look for the apostles, prophets, and teachers in your fellowship, and in your city and area. Listen to them, take them seriously, receive them as gifts from Messiah. http:// The letter from Dear John, as he was nicknamed by the other disciples. What is the anointing? Greek chrisma, related to christos and christianos, root of charisma and charismatic. Hebrew mischah, related to mashiach and meshichi, messiah and messianic. Halmark of a Christian or Messianic should be an experience of the anointing of Yeshua's spirit. How to get the anointing, an open, humble, trusting relationship with Yeshua. Where is the anointing, in you. Story in Darren Patrick's book Church Planter about Alex Early starting Four Corners Church in a gay bar, and the atheist lesbian owner coming into relationship with God and feeling that he was inside her. What does the anointing do, teaches you. Pathway of safety from deception, antidote to lies and false teaching. Corollary, you don't need anyone to teach you. Challenge to teach baby believers to learn from the anointing. Result of the anointing, a deepening relationship with Yeshua, staying in his teachings, life in union and communion with him. Fall in love with the bridegroom. http:// The how of hearing Yeshua's voice, through his Spirit. Unpacking Hebrew term for Spirit of Truth, Ruach ha Emet. Wind or breath. Is truth impersonal facts, or relational faithfulness? Hebrew root of truth emet is aman, meaning doorposts, faithful, lasting, and covenant. Yeshua's attractive offer to people hurting and disillusioned by broken friendships and failed relationships. Suicidal season in Izzy's life because people come and go. The mothering of the Spirit, pictured by nursing and carrying child on hip. The Holy Spirit is Yeshua's Spirit. How to grow in your relationship with Yeshua's Spirit, and hear the voice of the Ruach more clearly and frequently. Recognize Yeshua as the giver and say yes. Desire it. Relinquish control and become flexible and spontaneous. Ask. Listen, be quiet, cultivate inner silence. Disclaimer, the Holy Spirit always agrees with the Bible. Story of young man who hung out around a hooker's house and ended up getting seduced. Story of Tom Brown, wilderness survivalist, teaching his children to watch and listen in the forest. http:// How to have a relationship with Yeshua where you hear his voice and receive revelation from him, and how to gather as a community to cultivate and celebrate that relationship. Words to leaders, "let my people go" and "get out of the way". Torah-based communities need leaders though. Leaders not always present when groups in a network gather in homes across city. Lesson on transition from organisms including babies, plants, and caterpillars, communities grow and change. Lesson from construction site, time to lay foundation and time to build. Prophecy of covenant relationship in Jeremiah. Highlight, each individual knowing Yahweh personally. Results of relationship where the soul hears Yeshua voice. He knows you, you follow him individually and corporately, he gives life to your dead heart, and you're safe and secure, never to be lost or snatched from him. Danger of being deceived by doctrines of demons, false teachers, lying prophets. Solution, know the man who is truth, cultivate that relationship where you're hearing his voice. http:// How to prep to tell the stories of Scripture word of mouth, how to tell them in a group setting, and how to follow up with questions that get people freely thinking and talking. Telling the stories of the Bible is a mitzvah, a command of God! It doesn't just happen, it takes planning, intentionality, and practice. See Brass Tacks resource for storytellers and facilitators of gatherings at crownofmessiah.com. Story of man practicing telling a story on his unbelieving son and how it transformed his son's life. Exclamation marks look like clubs. Question marks look like hooks. Don't club your audience with your points, agenda, and thoughts. Ask questions to engage them, get the hooked, draw the understanding out of them. Suggested questions to kick off group discussion. http:// Telling the stories from God's word, word of mouth, to people from other religions. Welcome people from other religious cultures to your city and neighborhood instead of fearing them. Yeshua sent them because you're his body and he wants you to reach out and tell his stories. True account of restaurant owner missionary who told Muslims Bible stories about God's power and saw them and their wives believe in Yeshua. Tell stories to postmoderns, who are more open to hearing something from you if it's personal. Caesar Kalinowski with Soma Communities in Seattle, Washington who started a storytelling night at a coffee shop, and finished the evening with a Bible story. Learning pyramid diagram from National Training Laboratories. Conclusion, the emperor of how we teach people is naked! http:// The talk where the rubber meets the road and things get dirty, but you get somewhere. Everyone is a storyteller! Start with family, neighbors, coworkers, friends. Why telling stories is an effective way to engage and disciple children. Why a story is something that anyone from any religious background or education can understand. Why even atheists and agnostics are more open to a story than to points and disembodied concepts. Don't defend your sword, use it! http:// How is a return to telling word of mouth stories from God's Word an integral part of Torah, Jewish roots, and the prophetic restoration message? Five reasons for getting back to this. Torah was originally communicated orally.Telling the story of the Exodus, Haggadah, at Passover. Gospels were originally communicated orally, primarily as stories. Yeshua always told stories to mixed crowds and discipleship means imitating him. Reaching the massive niche market of nonliterate people in North America and globally. Statistics of 50 nonliterates in India who were equipped to tell 85 stories and went on to make 9,122 disciples and start 370 churches in a year. Candid confession from pastor Avery Willis: "They remember my stories better than my points!" Anyone can do it. What is a story? Technical and simple breakdown of "Once upon a time…" Five big questions stories attempt to answer. Stories as myth. Brain research on what happens when you hear a story you relate to. http:// Three reasons why most people don't preach the Gospel: don't know how, expect professionals to do it, or don't have any nonreligious friends. How telling God's stories, word of mouth, is the solution to this problem. How is someone saved and changed from the inside out? How is a culture transformed? By hearing God's Word, God's stories, and believing it. Breakdown of parallels between God's word and swords, snow, and seeds, and what happens when you tell a story from the Scriptures. Story from Truth That Sticks by Avery Willis about Randy Proctor telling a story at a Cowboy Church in Oklahoma about Israel's escape through the Sea of Reeds and asking a few questions and how God saved people through that story. Challenge to be intentional about friendships with nonreligious people. http:// How do you get God's word to stick in people's minds and change their lives? Shocking statistics from the Barna Group: roughly half of people claiming to be Christians believe that Satan doesn't exist, Jesus sinned, and the Holy Spirit isn't real. Third of people say that the Bible is true, and the Quran and book of Mormon. People are bombarded with truth claims, everybody's preaching to them through the media. How do we punch through the clutter? Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point says, by making your message sticky. Entertainment industry greatest influence on Western World, why? Sticky stories. Why be smart, strategic, cunning? Answers from Chip and Dan Heath, professor at Stanford and researcher at Harvard, respectively, on how to make your message stick. Story about little boy who got it. http:// Over half of Scripture is written in story form. And the other sections have stories behind them. Do you read, discuss, and teach them in context, or chop and sew them into a horrifying Frankensteinish theological monster? What Sesame Street and the children's blurb before the sermon has to teach you. Surprising statistics concerning Biblical illiteracy in North America and what to do about it. http:// Half of North Americans don't read books. Not that they can't, they don't. Two-third of people around the world don't read books. How are you going to communicate Yeshua's story to them? How are you going to disciple them? Story from Truth that Sticks by Avery Willis about Scott the Stonemason. http:// Starts & Stops Toward A Perfect World - Shemini Atzeret Talk http:// Dave & Leighton's journeys from traditional church pastors to simple/srganic/house church style and networks like www.seedlife.ca. http:// First revolutionary talk in a string on the power of telling the stories of Scripture word of mouth to change the world. True story of Red and Viv, i.e. Adam and Eve, and the tribe they started and how they would stop every seven days to tell the stories of how they got there, why there was evil in the world, and why weeds grew in the fields. True story of a virgin teenager having a baby boy that grew up to start a movement by sending his disciples to tell his stories to the world. Historical overview of how you got the Torah and Gospels. http:// What a wind undermining the sand granules under a water bottle until it tips has to teach you about how to change the world. Foundational undermining and the sudden gradual shift. Sapping, strategic digging under wall in medieval castles and bulwarks until collapse. In Jeremiah's prophetic call, plucking up breaking down destroying and overthrowing prededed building and planting. Yeshua taught that a person must be emptied before they can be filled. Applies individually, social, politically, and corporately. Succumbing to temptation until sudden collapse. Izzy's crisis in how we gather. End of the gladiatorial sports. How Yeshua flipped the Roman Empire. The grassroots movement that broke the power of Roman Catholicism. Abolition of slavery. How to take down abortion not through political process, legislation, the courts, and mass media campaigns, through invididual relationships and transformation. Dissolution of Communism in Russia. Back to Jerusalem movement in China, pest strategy of operating as ants, termites, grasshoppers, worms, and frogs. Chinese web traffic to www.holylanguage.com. http:// What lessons does starting a campfire offer for starting a movement and changing the world? Gather small dry sticks, bring them together but don't crowd them, introduce the fire into the group but don't breathe too hard on it, allow it to start naturally, as the fire grows add larger and larger sticks and logs. Shaul and Barnaba travelled through Asia Minor in modern day Turkey as firestarters, going into synagogues with the fire of the message of Mashiach. http:// True story of an administrator jumping a cultural barrier and starting a revolution, and a clash between an ex-wizard and apostle. Crises, trouble, and opposition can be your best friends if responded to correctly, force you to grow, break out, change. Don't pigeonhole people. You're bigger than your job. The adventure is over the wall. People are watchers and followers. Our mission is to get people watching and following Yeshua. We have a hard time receiving something for free. Pray for yourself. Yeshua is the Messiah, proved by the healing of paraglegics and quadriplegics. Yeshua's message is for all ethnicities, religions, socioeconomic stati, does your life declare that? Quandary of receiving the Ruach. Ask, believe, obey. Why Catholic apostolic succession is false. http:// True story of diverse multilingual Yeshua community developing creative solution with consensus support instead of splintering. From Acts of the Apostles, chapter 6. Imagine a country with no welfare system, pension plans, and life insurance. Plight of widows. Care of widows in the Torah and the early Yeshua movement. Negative spindoctors. Relate to needs not being met, marginalization as a minority, specializing in strenths, delegating tasks, new job. Embracing diversity. Growth pains and psychological preparation for it. Engaging instead of walking away when your needs aren't being met. Knowing each other, doing life together as community. Survival, maintenance, and growth mindsets. Need for administrators and fulltime prayer and Bible guys. Difference between the apostle Paul and most men. Yeshua not mentioned explicitly. He leads through leaders. He calls men to prayer and the ministry of the Word. Honoured when his people hang together. http:// True story about God killing a husband and wife for lying to his face. People getting along, sharing, happy, Sesame Street would be so proud. Like an action film or thriller. Ad hoc solutions. Partners in crime. Esp from God. Awe. Human capacity for selflessness or selfishness. Good deeds with a bad heart. Satan can fill the hearts of believers. Christians and Messianics can be demonically influenced. Warning, in a community of recovering sinners you will be wronged and hurt at times. God's watching and listening to everyone because he delights in them. God's plan A is mercy, plan B is justice. He gives changes but his patience and tolerance have a limit. God can be tried and doesn't take kindly to being messed with. God judges and kills people in the New Covenant era, church age, dispensation of grace, whatever you want to call it, both believers and nonbelievers. http:// True story about Yeshua's last meal with his disciples and final instructions to them before being taken up. Forty day romance. The man who can fly. Short time with loved one. Unanswered questions. Tips on conversational. Unhealthy obsession with instant success, chronologies, and timing in general. The law of growing influence. We need to be empowered to accomplish the mission. Yeshua is alive! He talks about God's Kingdom, not Christianity. He is returning physically. He's restoring the kingdom to Israel and answering the prayers of the Jewish people. Quotes from the Rambam and Talmud Bavli. Yeshua is returning as an ethnic Jew and the leader of national Israel. Yeshua will do what Yeshua did, including go to synagogue on Saturday and read from the Torah, rest on Shabbat, celebrate Festivals such as Passover, Booths, and Chanukah, wear tzitzit, and speak Hebrew. Don't stare into the sky or wait for the end, you have a mission. Pray for the Holy Spirit. Witness to Yeshua's cause and tell his stories. http:// True story about Yeshua's disciples enjoying a barbequed breakfast of fish and toast with him after he was raised from the dead. Eating and drinking together as social ritual. Yeshua is playful, mysterious, smiling, and optimistic when he looks at his people. Asking the tough missional questions. What does it look like to throw our nets on the other side of the boat as we reach out to our city? http:// Story of Moses praying for a new leader and comissioning Joshua in front of the nation. Lessons in mentoring, leadership, vision, and influence. Snapshot of Mashiach from life of Yehoshua. Story from Numbers 27, parashat Pinchas. http:// Story about Yeshua breaking a social taboo and watching the dirty camel-poop-encrusted feet of his disciples. Practical applications and challenges. Story from Yochanan 13. http:// Story about three siblings living in the burbs of Jerusalem, how one of them gets sick and died, and how Yeshua comes and brings him back to life. Picture of Jewish burial and mourning customs from Talmud and Midrash, quoting John Lightfoot, John Gill, and Alfred Edersheim. http:// Story about Yeshua's conflict with his brothers after being misunderstood and subsequent clandestine road trip. Crowds arguing about Yeshua and he almost gets arrested by the Temple Police. Yeshua's audacious invitation and wild claim on the biggest day of the party. True story from Yochanan John 7. http:// The gripping story of one man's thirty eight year struggle for change and the day it finally happened. Straight out of the Gospel of John, chapter 5. http:// Story of the tenderhearted criminal on death row and his last day on earth. Also the angry criminal who lashed out with cutting words. And the suffering young Rabbi. Based on the Gospel of Luke 23-24 http:// True story about some blinged up rich dudes and a poverty stricken threadbare widow, both giving money for a good cause. Teaching from Luke 21-22 and Leviticus 21-24, parashat Emor. What Yeshua thought. Yeshua is a people watcher. Some are haves, some havenots. Some are cheap, some are generous. You have to look deeper then dollar figures and clothing styles. Yeshua is a social commentator and he'll talk to you if you hang out with him. Sacrificial giving gets his attention. Yeshua sacrificially gave everything including comfort in paradise with his Father, his mom and brothers, his hometown, his reputation, his privacy to the ancient version of paparazzi, his time and emotional energy, and his life, and his Holy Spirit. Our response. Yeshua wants all your stuff. Overview of readings. Luke, Yeshua the prophet and the destruction of Jerusalem. Watching mouse traps on YouTube. Praying for strength to stand. Fruit of the vine, pri ha gafen. But a sword, the theological basis for gun ownership haha. Standing by the Master in his trials. Bad friends betraying and disowning you. Kangaroo court. Instructions for cohanim. Understanding holiness, kedushah, being kadosh. Pictured by engagement, being dedicated. Converse of holiness pictured by sand, flutes, tunnels, and corpses, all related in Hebrew. Good news that God makes us holy. How to have the bottle of extra virgin olive oil dumped on you. Moadim as dates, rendezvouses. Law forever. Take time off work. Oil for the lamp, dozen huge chalot, and story about a guy with an Egyptian dad and an Israeli mom who took God's name and was executed for it. http:// Yeshua's story about the strict religious snob and the sorry crooked taxman. God pays attention to prayer, accepts dirty hurting messed-up broken people when they apologize and ask for help. Poetry from a prophet about God being way up there and way down there with the guy in the gutter. God does takedowns on proud people. God offers a helping hand to the low. What we do in Yeshua's countercultural kingdom. Overview of Leviticus 16-20 and Luke 18-20. Lessons from Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. How is this faith different than all other faiths? Deep need in human psyche to be covered and cleansed. Paul and his apostolic team observed the Day of Atonement. How our culture worships. Banned sexual practices including incest, bestiality, and homosexuality. The practice of, the principle under, and the person behind the mitzvot. What, why, and who of Bible commands. Death penalties of the theocracy and the only good man who took your place. http:// Heads up on Izzy's new teaching style. Understanding the holy book as a long string of holy stories about real life messed up people and dysfunctional families, sometimes even sorded and R-rated. Yeshua always spoke to crowds with stories. We related to stories and remember them. Our culture is increasingly nonliterate and prefers to learn through visual and alternative means. The four questions Izzy will be asking and answering in his talks. What does this story tell us about Yeshua of Nazareth? What does this story tell us about his Kingdom and its culture? What does this story tell us about the Gospel, the good news about him? What does this story tell us about how we can follow Yeshua as disciples? http:// Teaching on Genesis 25-28 and Matthew 13-14 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. The stomach as the way to a man's heart. Challenge to husbands to pray for their wives as picture of Messiah interceding for bride. Dealing with disspointments and failed expectations. Family history and the leadership birthright. Listening as the heart of relational Torah observance. Torah as teaching. Redigging the wells plugged by the Philistines as the rallying cry of the Hebrew roots movement. The power of a wife who seeks God in prayer. Mayim chayim, living water, as fresh flowing water. Destiny of Jacob as a congregation of many people groups. Stumbling blocks and torahlessness. Removal of the wicked and the triumpant optimalism of the righteous. Yeshua the Jew singing the traditional Hebrew bracha, the hamotzi. Yeshua wore tzitzit, fringes. http:// Teaching on Genesis 23-5 and Matthew 11-12 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Torah as record of real estate deals and business transactions, stories of passion and romance, miltary accounts, family trees, practical advice, and the survival manual for the great tribulation. Messianic perspectives on Pirkei Avot. Jewish mourning customs and grieving process. Importance of Hebron to the Jewish people. Baruch, to bless. Blessing as kneeling. City gates as strategic power centers, seats of government, societal influence. Anti-semites will lose because Mashiach is taking over the world. Chesed devotion as key to finding a spouse. True beauty is not chocolate facials. The yoke of the Master and rhythms of grace. Relationship of Yeshua to Shabbat. http:// Crown of Messiah is gathering at the Kinette Amphitheatre at Kinsmen Park in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on Saturday afternoons this summer. Overview of times in Scripture and history where God's people encountered him and men of God preached outdoors. Adam and Eve running naked in the park. Israel in the wilderness for forty years and Moses' outdoor sermons. Yochanan the Immerser's shouting campaign in the desert. Yeshua's teachings, Matthew 5-7 outdoors on a hill, Matthew 13 outdoors on a boat by the lakeshore, Matthew 24-25 on another hill. Early Quaker movement in England, George Fox preaching outdoors and people gathering in houses, barns, and outdoors on hilltops. John Wesley who said he lit himself on fire, and people came to watch him burn, preaching outdoors much of the time. George Whitefield also preached outdoors. http:// Story about a guy who threw a party and no one came. Context, Saturday lunch at elite religious leader's home, being told between bites. Retelling, Lyndee and Kyla's big party. People declining on Facebook event and texting excuses. Just married, yippee!!! Inviting the soup kitchen lineup and the people at the hospital and old folks home. Packing out the mansion and swimming pool. It was the best party ever. Who is Yeshua? Not like Edward Mike Davis, owner and CEO of Tiger Oil Company. Hilarious grumpy memos. What does this story tell us about the good news of Yeshua? The greatest party ever. Contrast with sour grumpy faced religious people. Yeshua loves people and wants a full house! It's possible to reject the invitation and miss the party. The challenge of being Yeshua's disciple. Safety versus risk. Story about Yeshua scolding the rich man who invited him to his party. Story about the shepherd leaving the ninety nine other sheep to look for the one lost sheep. Challenge to break out of the box and reach out to people not like you, jailbreak the religious ghetto. http:// Heroes of the early Yeshua movement. Usage of the term Jesus movement or Yeshua movement versus early church, primitive church, etc. How the Yeshua movement was like Al Quaeda with underground cells and a revolutionary ideology. Profiles of Yochanan the rugged survivalist black sheep from an elite priestly family who was martyred after a dirty dancing episode, Stephen the unbeatable administrator, Antipas in Satan's city, Polycarp the regional leader of Smyrna, and Justin Martyr and associates. How living for Yeshua and dying a bloody violent premature death for Yeshua's cause glorifies God. Proof that the early Christians celebrated the seventh day Sabbath and called Friday the 'preparation day'. Foxe's book of Martyrs. <br><br> http:// Fourth talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Yeshua did miracles, paranormal phenomena from the fifth dimension were operating through him. The explicitly states purpose for the accounts of paranormal phenomena in the Gospel of John. Reading from Organic Leadership by Neil Cole. We testify of God and his grace, and he in turn testifies of us and our message. Hebrew term for witness, spelled ayin dalet, in the feminine form also means community, edah. Powerful principle, facts are established by multiple witnesses. Practical applications including going from an "I me" vocab to an "us we" vocab and recognizing that if you're from an Evangelical or Charismatic background you have churchhopperitis. Value unity and togetherness over arguments, nitpicking, and majoring on minors. Don't give up getting together! Tell your stories. Moon, lunar calendar, blowing shofar, and biblical Festivals are a witness of Mashiach. Examples from Pesach, Matzot, and Sukkot. Why songs get stuck in your head, synchronization of left and right hemispheres of your brain. Second last parasha in the Torah is a song that was written as an unforgettable witness. Practical applications, write songs and pray for songwriters. Share songs, religious and secular, that tell something of your story, use them to springboard into your story. Where does it start, your own home with your children and your neighborhood. Have strong local and global visions. Don't outsource your children's education to government funded and run schools and religious schools, be the primary influence in your child's life. Why we're witnesses, it's who he is, it's who we are, we love him, and we can't stop. We're going to win through the testimony we carry. http:// Third talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Mechanics of salvation, how does God save someone? By testifying to them through another person or by his written Word. Option to say true that and accept the testimony, or say no and call God a liar. Testifying of Yeshua takes the power of the Holy Spirit, the gift of prophecy. Even bad dads give their kids scrambled eggs and toast, not scrambled scorpions and toasted snakes. Ask and obey. Crazy demon possessed guy who ran around naked had a story. Lazarus six feet under had a story. You have a story. How to tell you story. Yeshua's the hero and you're the villain. Keep it short for our 140 characters in a Tweet culture. Snapshots of what Yeshua's done for you. No one can argue what you've experienced, stories are accepted in our postmodern tolerant culture. Point to how Yeshua fulfilled prophecy. How Justin Martyr and Mark Driscoll became followers of Yeshua. The Torah and writings of Israel's prophets are engineered to point to Yeshua and proclaim the gospel. Be strong in the Old Testament and strong in the New Testament. Be a whole Bible Christian. http:// Second talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Seven threads of the message we carry. We're witnesses that Yahweh is the only God. What rock meant then and now. Everyone has a god, we were created to worship something or someone. We testify that the gods behind Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Wicca, Satanism, pantheism, panentheism, humanism, atheism, and hedonism are not real gods, they're fakes, imposters, let downs, temporary at best. Enlarged ayin and dalet in Shema in Deuteronomy, Devarim. We testify that God's in the saving business. Like the Apostles, we're witnesses of who Yeshua is and what he's said and done, that he suffered and rose from the dead, that God gives repentance and forgiveness through Yeshua when people turn to him, that God exalted Yeshua and invested authority in him as his anointed leader and King, and that Yeshua is in the saving business. Practical applications. Stay in the Gospels. Meditate on the red letters and let them burn into your soul. They're radical as ever. Major on the majors. Meditate on what the death and resurrection of Mashiach meant to you, the subjective side of the Gospel. Be immersed in Yeshua's name. Remember where you came from. Go back to the dirty chapter and skeletons in your closet, and learn to tell your story about how Yeshua saved you. You're the villain and he's the hero of your story so don't be scared of what people will think of you. Those who have been forgiven much love much. The whole life of a Christian is one of repentance, Martin Luther in his 95 theses. Go on a quest to see and understand Yeshua's kingdom and its culture. http:// First talk on TESTIFY! The what, who, how, where, and why of witnessing to Yeshua's cause. Definition of witness in Torah, one who tells what he has seen or heard. Hebrew terms ed and edut, Greek terms martur, martureo, and marturion. Witnesses tell a story, they say "This is what happened. I was there!" Instances from the Gospel of Yochanan and Acts of the Apostles. People telling the story of Elazar's resurrection were testifying of Yeshua. Speaking well of someone, making them the hero of the story, giving them props, contributing to their good reputation, are all wrapped up in the Greek word for witness in the Apostolic Writings. Examples include Yeshua, Timothy, Cornelius, Ananias, the seven including Stephen and Philip, and the criteria for elders. The Father is a witness and testifies of Yeshua. The Holy Spirit is a witness and testifies of Yeshua. Yeshua is a witness and was born to testify to the truth. He is the true and faithful martyr, the leader of our movement. Yeshua's apostles testified to what he did and wrote the Gospels as eyewitnesses, and were witnesses of his sufferings and resurrection. http:// In defense of the celebration of Passover and God's appointed times from Paul's Epistles, early church history, and the writings of the church fathers. First mitzvah after redemption from Egypt was time related. We march to the beat of a different drummer. Appointed times from Genesis to Revelation. Description of the thousand year reign of Christ, the Messianic Era, in the prophets of Israel Zechariah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel. God said Passover is a law forever to be celebrated by Israel forever, not temporarily or only for one dispensation. Evidence that the Apostle Paul celebrated God's festivals including Passover, Pentecost, and the Day of Atonement, and that he was Torah observant in general. Quartodeciman controversy between Easter Sunday and Passover on the fourteenth including Anicetus and Polycarp, Victor and Polycrates, Melito, John Chrystostom, Nestorius, Constantine, and Eusebius. Tertullian on Passover as the best day to baptize new believers. Satan opposes restoration, especially the restoration of biblical practice that proclaims the Gospel. As the Anabaptists and early Reformers fought for baptism, so must we fight for Passover. http:// "To My Old Master", authentic Civil War era letter from ex-slave Jourdan Anderson to ex-owner Coronel Anderson, parallels with Israel as nation of ex-slaves and Pharaoh. Journey from Egypt to Israel parable of journey of discipleship with Yeshua. Immersion into Moshe via cloud and sea picture of immersion into Yeshua via public water immersion and receipt of Ruach ha Kodesh. How God dealt with Pharaoh and how God deals with your old nature, by killing both. Unpacking concept of inner union with Yeshua, pictured by eating bread and imbibing wine. You're not a body, you're a spirit in an earth suit. How to deal with sin, addictions, and unhealthy behavior patterns. Stand and see Yahweh's salvation versus try harder and use will power. Returning and rest versus grit and gumption. Our response, to rejoice! Why a girl asked Izzy if he smoked weed. Danger signs on the journey. It will be hard and slow, way of the Philistines versus way of the wilderness. It will be dry and you'll feel like dying sometimes. Don't complain or impugn God's motives. Ask instead. You don't always know where you're going and people will think you're wandering aimlessly. Israel's modus operandi of moving on the mouth of Yahweh and following the cloud. You'll be tempted to go back. Why this message is important for individuals, families, and communities. http:// You are a priest. What does that mean? God's original intent for a mamlechet cohanim, a kingdom of priests. Breakdown of Hebrew terms and commentary from Delitzsch and Gill. Historical overview of priests in Judaism and Christianity. Adam and Melchizedek as priests. Original order of priestly firstborn son. Practical application of double portion principle, servant leadership takes resources in the form of time, energy, and finances. David wrote Messianic psalm about Mashiach belonging to Melchizedekian priestly order. Yeshua is a cohen gadol. Yeshua's talmidim are members of his priesthood. We don't replace the Levitical priesthood. Highlights of unfulfilled prophecies from Ezekiel and Isaiah about restored Levitical priesthood. Two priesthoods operate contemporaneously. Letters of Ignatius requiring the bishop's presence. Constantine's new Roman religion and evolving hybrid priesthood half based on snippets of Old Testament Levitical law and half based on pagan priestly practices. Reformers and Anabaptists gave lip service to priesthood of all believers but didn't practice it in church services and meetings. Comparison of job description of Catholic priests, Protestant pastors, and Messianic Rabbis. Irony of people poopooing everything old covenant as bondage and yet operating under an old covenant concept of clergy and the bondage of a controlling priestly class. Revolutionary proposition, let's go back to Yeshua's way. He chose laymen and they never stopped being laymen. They didn't call themselves pastor, rabbi, or father. Prophetic call to come out of her my people. Unpacking Hebrew term for priest, kohen. How to operate as a priest, including smiling and hugging. How to structure community and gather to enable every person to function as priests. Smaller, open gatherings versus larger scripted gatherings. Taking your birthright back and create a new culture. http:// Blood covenant relationships. God's with Israel, Yeshua's with his disiples, a man's with a woman. "It's not about religion it's about relationship" mantra. Defining relationship not as casual dating but as a Middle Eastern blood covenant relationship. Seven strands that compose the cord of the blood covenant relationship. Proposal, when God states his intentions and gave Israel a choice. Advice for young men. When did Yeshua propose to his talmidim? Promises, then God promised Israel his presence, protection, loyalty, leadership, provision, care, and a home. Going with your spouse through personal wildernesses and keeping the compass of your heart on the true north of love. Of course you'd take a bullet for your honey. But does she feel safe sharing her deepest feelings, struggles, and fears with you? Will you love, accept, care for, and empathize with her, or criticize her? Core of leadership is passionately following God and being a great servant. Yeshua the healer. Wife makes a house a home. Words exchanged and put in writing. Yeshua's relationship with his disciples largely consisted of words. Love is a conversation that never ends. Marriage covenant as the pinnacle of words exhanged in one respect, and just the beginning of the conversation in another. Practical application, be intentional about conversation. Ask questions, turn off the phone, create memorable contexts. Ketubah as written marriage document. The new covenant, brit chadasha, is both brand spanking new, and a renewal of the previous covenants. Torah written on the heart by the Spirit. Promises to patriarchs fulfilled in Yeshua. Develop a burning paper trail of love letters, emails, Facebook messages and comments, and written marriage vows. http:// The second of two talks on the seven strands in cord of a blood covenant relationship. Hebrew, to cut a covenant. Why bloodshed? Entering into the covenant with one's whole life, dying to all outside the covenant, "forsaking all others." Going home blood spattered. Human marriage between virgins is a blood covenant. Discipleship is based on a blood covenant with Yeshua. Shimon Kefa wrote to followers of Yeshua in the Diaspora as if they were they on the day of his torture and execution and were spattered with his blood. There was no turning back. Sign given. Ot spelled aleph vav tav in Hebrew. Covenantal signs include rainbows, circumcision, Passover meal, week of Unleavened Bread, phylateries, and Shabbat. Signs of new covenant include immersion in water, authority over demonic entities, supernatural ability to speak in new languages, survival of assassination attempts, power over lethal animals, and healing. Wedding ring sign of covenant. Rant about guys who take off their wedding rings. Feast, wedding banquet, reception, marriage supper of the Lamb. Meal as a covenantal act. Covenant partners revealing themselves. People long on a soul level to be like first humans, naked and unashamed. To know and be known. Four overlapping seasons culminating in a covenant relationship: discussing activities, disclosing the mind, divulging the heart, disrobing the body. What you're doing, what you're thinking, what you're feeling, and what you are. Order in the Exodus account. Mitzvot are the love language of God. Reading from Daniel Lancaster and Restoration by First Fruits of Zion. How our culture has the four seasons of a relationship backwards. Physical intimacy follows soul intimacy. Why Izzy never dated, held hands, or kissed a girl until his marriage commitment to Genevieve. Why pornography is wrong. Final goal, living together, sharing life together. Pictured by the instructions to build God's tent and furnish it before they went on their trip to Canaan together. http:// How is a community of Yeshua's disciples like a family? Part 1 of 3. Losing family members for Yeshua and his message's sake and gaining a hundred times as many in this world. Yeshua uses the familial relationship to describe his relationship with us and ours with each other. Cranked Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Prince Albert Saskatchewan and the family attraction. Increasing urbanization and decrease of family relationships. Analogies for the ekklesia include the human body, the field, the building, the temple, and the family. Family most frequently used analogy. Called brothers 160 times in the New Testament and 130 times in the Pauline Epistles. If we don't understand how we're family, we'll either function as a corporation, or a dysfunctional family. Excerpt from Reimagining Church by Frank Viola. Family composed of father, mother, children. 12 relationships or lines of communication in family of four, 166 in family of 13 or Yeshua and his inner circle of talmidim. God's the Dad in this family, the Abba. He makes us siblings. Fatherhood and motherhood are both God's image. Yeshua's the older brother and he's proud of you. What do families do? Eat together. Excerpt from the House Church Book by Wolfgang Simson, meating together. Spend time together. Litmus test of your love for each other, do you spend time together? Show each other affection. Izzy's British and Russian sides of the family. Western equivalent of the holy kiss, the holy hug. Demonstrations on how to hug and how not to hug. Share work and resources together. Chores, hand me downs, the car. Care for each other. Babysitting, helping when sick, doing yard work, fixing stuff. http:// The analogy used most often to describe Yeshua's community is that of family. It's not that we're like a family, we are a family of talmidim. Spirit is thicker than blood. Reading from Reimagining Church by Frank Viola and Organic Church and Church 3.0 by Neil Cole. Basilica church versus home setting, pros and cons. Quote from Winston Churchill, first we share our buildings, then they shape us. Quote from Watchman Nee on intimacy of upper room. Best group size, extended family of 12-15. How do we resolve conflict and confront sin, in the context of secure family relationships, as with a dad, mom, brother, or sister. How do we train leaders, it starts with a man serving his wife and children. Two extremes of neglecting family for kingdom work, and hiding behind family from kingdom work. How do we understand mission. Not that the church has a mission, the mission has a church. Our missiology determines our ecclesiology, as Alan Hirsch says. Did Jesus die for this?! We want to change the world and have a cause worth living and dying for. What do we do with the kids? Kids don't interrupt family, kids are family! http:// Yeshua and Street/Biker Gangs make the same offers. Only one delivers, makes good on the promises. Gangs function as families and offer what families are designed to offer. Yeshua's gangs offers what families are designed to offer too because Yeshua's gang is a family. Sociologists call it fictive kin relationships. Yeshua's gang offers identity. Surname or family name indicates who you are, who your family is. Our name is from the Father. Yeshua's gang offers belonging. You can't overestimate the human need to belong. Paul's letter to a Yeshua gang in big city Ephesus. Yeshua's gang offers care, help, and support. Yeshua's gang offers solidarity, protection, and escape. People in gangs often comes from homes where they faced sexual abuse, herion addiction, criminal relatives, and violence. Yeshua's gang offers gender initation and modelling. You were created to glorify God as a man or as a woman, not just a genderless homogenous blob. We are a brotherhood. We are a sisterhood. Gang warfare versus honour. http:// Annoying people who try to psychoanalyze you and a psychoanalysis of Pharaoh the control freak. Deep teaching from Shaul on the old and new person, anthropos in Greek and Adam in Hebrew, and the difference between the fleshly mindset and the spiritual mindset. Yaakov's evaluation of human wisdom as soulish and demonic. Religion as the default mode of the old person, all humanity eithers falls to the good or the bad side of the tree, either lawlessness or legalism. Pharaoh as picture of old person, old nature, that all villains and that you have from your great great grandpa Adam. Example of Pharaoh's response to Moshe, who is Yahweh, I don't know him and get out of my face. Why Yeshua said told Nakdimon a highly religious and observant Jew that it wasn't enough, he had to be reborn. Excerpt from George Fox the founder of the Quaker movement on seeing the old nature within by the light of Christ, rather than in the villains of history. Process of moving from old person to new person. God delivered a series of hammerfist blows to the face of Pharaoh in Egypt and will do the same to Pharaoh in you, it's called the cross. Symbolism of the three days' journey. All about Yeshua's death and resurrection. Objective historical and subjective experiential sides of the cross. How to ruthlessly kill Pharaoh in you, by doing the mitzvot in the power of the Ruach haKodesh. The old you is like Herod, crafty and adept at surviving. God will send the cross to you through personal crises and interpersonal conflicts. How not to respond and how to respond, by taking up your cross and dying. Contrast between Pharaoh's kingdom as all you, self oriented and humanistic, a complicated manmade system, all about control performance and stress, and Yeshua's kingdom which is all about him, is simple and natural like the wilderness, and is all about freedom, joy, and shalom. Let go of your kingdom and step into his, the day the old you dies is the day your eyes open to his kingdom. http:// What freaked out the new Egyptian dynasty about Israel. Analysis of Israel in Egypt, they were productive, fertile, teeming like fish and swarming like insects, had a high degree autonomy, had fangs and claws, were multiplying, and filling the country. Joy of fulfilling the first commandment in the Torah, to make babies is hardwired into the dna of humankind. Parallels between Adam and Chavah's mission, and Yeshua's and our mission. Profile of exponential growth in early Yeshua movement. Stats on church growth from J.D. Payne, Larry Kreider and Floyd McClung, and Tony and Felicity Dale. We are not multiplying and it's a problem. Five ways our reproductive dna has been scrambled and our growth impulses have been blocked. Starts with desire. Irony of pro family people who don't want spiritual babies. The excitement, risk, and adventure of going on mission with Yeshua. Creating the right environment for growth versus doing community in unnatural ways. What if God sends 100 or 1000 new believers to you? Go the megachurch route? Prophetic call in Revelation to come out of the Roman system. Neil Cole and Church 3.0. Control and busyness as two satanic strategies that Pharaoh employed and that are used today. Cut the programs and spend quality time with Yeshua and nonreligious people and see your influence grow. God's call to come out of the system into the wilderness and be with him. Yeshua made time to go to solitary places to be with his Father. http:// Teaching on Matthew 26-28. Funny true story about Buddhist who first read the Gospels and thought Jesus was reincarnated four times and then reached nirvana. Why did Yeshua die and why was he raised from the dead. Gospel by which you're saved and by which you stand. Objective and subjective sides of the gospel. Yeshua's talmidim worshiped him. Authority invested from the Father in Yeshua, and from Yeshua in his community. Apostolic sending. Go versus come mentality, missional versus attractional approach. Going into people's homes and neighborhoods not only as individuals but as communities. Disciple as student who's learning from Yeshua and knowing him personally. Your job is to learn your teacher's words and imitate his lifestyle. Messianic Judaism's original mission is to all the nations, not only the Jewish people. You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are. Grow in your discipleship. Immersion is Greek word baptismos, to dye a piece of cloth. Axing clunky religious words from our vocabulary and using normal English words. Why paedobaptism, being immersed or sprinkled as an infant, doesn't count. All that Yeshua commanded includes the Torah. He was the God of Israel, and is. Four passages in Matthew where Yeshua commands or assumes that his talmidim keep the Mosaic law. Attitude for mature and new believers. Takes a village to raise a child, and a community to make a disciple. Choice between maintaining tradition, and making disciples. Yeshua is with you, not just out there in the cosmos, but right next to you, backing you and supplying you with the resources you need to get the job done. Going on mission with Yeshua, not for him. http:// Teaching on Genesis 44-47 and Matthew 23-25. How Joseph the seeming Egyptian is a picture of Yeshua the misunderstood Jew. Academic trends hit the general public several decades later. Hebrew concrete verb for forgiveness means to throw from you and let go. Key to forgiveness is your perspective. Red letter eschatology. Yeshua expected that his disciples would so cherish Shabbat they wouldn't even want to flee on Shabbat at the time of the end. Do you shop or schedule flights for Shabbat, because that's not what the Master expected. http:// Teaching on Matthew 21, the King who rode a donkey instead of a horse. Prediction of King Messiah in Zecharyah. Quotes from Midrash Kohelet and Bavli Sanhedrin. Yeshua bucked the status quo and did things differently. Difference between horse and donkey. Story from the early Quaker movement, George Fox's journal on their refusal to doff hats and 'thee' and 'thou'. Contrast between what people highly esteem and God detests. Abuse of titles and degrees is the tip of an iceberg of human pride and worldy ways. Meditation on Aleximenos Graffito on Palatine Hill, Roman soldier worshipping Yeshua. Slander against Jews and Christians of onolatry, worshipping donkeys. Let's saddle up our donkeys and ride. http:// Teaching on Genesis 37-40 and Matthew 19-20. Talk on Yeshua's question to you, "What do you want me to do for you?" Challenge to desire, to be discontent, to think honestly, to buck the status quo, to yell to Yeshua, to ignore the religious people, to dream big, and to pray big. If you see yourself as a civilian you will become a casualty in a world that is in a crossfire between Yeshua and his kingdom and Satan and his losing kingdom. Encouragement to wrestle, to not let go, to be tenacious and to pray until you see results. God is entirely good, absolutely powerful, and is attentive to your voice. http:// Teaching on Genesis 32-36 and Matthew 17-18. Centrality of Yeshua. What is your primary identity. Anachronism of inserting current Christianity into first century history. Yeshua started a movement that we are in today. Torah community versus Yeshua community. Is your Messianic Judaism all about you and your Jewishness, or all about Messiah. God is a wrestler. He wants you to engage, to be desperate, to desire, to wrestle with him through your crisis and through the dark night. Imagine God inviting you into the ring. Is it time for you to put on your gloves and step into the ring.Imagine being in a UFC cage fight with the God of Jacob. Don't give up, don't just go belly up, go the the Belly Up Pub in Prince Albert, have five beers, and just forget everything. Wrestling in your marriage and interpersonal relationships. Plan for what to do when someone sins against you. Basic howtos of conflict resolution. Yeshua's counterculture and against the human nature grain instructions for what to do when someone wrongs you. Questions Izzy's wrestling with regarding sickness and lack of God's power. <br><br><br> http:// Teaching on Genesis 28-32 and Matthew 15-16. Knowing Yeshua's passion for the Jewish people and the word of God. Yeshua came across as cold and racist in at least once instance, why. Mission to disconnected, the non-religious, the marginalized, the fringe, the "lost". Evaluating historical Christian missiological priorities. Mashiach's two-pronged mission to the Jewish community and to the Gentile world. How the Jewish story glorifies God for his faithfulness, and the Gentile story glorifies God for his mercy. Quote from Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho the Jew on correlation between Leah, the Jewish people and synagogue, and weak eyes, and Rachel, the Gentile ekklesia, and idolatry. Mistaken application of buzzword "lost sheep of house of Israel" to northern tribes, Ephraim. Gentile isn't a dirty word. Did Paul address non-Jewish believers as Gentiles. Neither Yeshua's death, nor the destruction of the first and second Temples, cancelled God's covenants to Israel. Practical ways to foster Messiah's passion for the Jewish people in you. Identify with Israel, say us and we instead of them and they. Get acquainted with the Jewish people. Read history books, watch documentaries, get a Siddur. Structure community tone and lingo to be welcoming and friendly to Jewish people. Dangers of homeostasis and hilarious example from sheperds of Aram. Yeshua lay into the entrenched religious people. Commandments versus traditions. Example of command to make talmidim for the Master. Ways we invalidate God's commands with traditions in the Christian and Jewish worlds. http:// Teaching on Genesis 25-28 and Matthew 13-14. Quote from Iranaeus that resonates with Izzy's speaking style and hopes. Connection between Isaac's hundredfold harvest and the seeds on the good soil that produce a hundred times as much. Evaluation of majority of Messianic communities in the area of making disciples. High median believer age, teachings and midrash not geared for new believers. Messianic Judaism wrestling with lower influx of new Jewish disciples than seen in the 1970's. Overview of body of Christ in Prince Albert's effectiveness in reaching the city. The Sunday morning church crowd is not reaching the Saturday night casino and bar crowd. Important and highly personal talk for Izzy who is wrestling with failure to quantifiably make talmidim. We will be evaluated for how we've accomplished the mission to make disciples. The Master's parable about the unfruitful tree that was cut down. Understanding fruitfulness from the Hebrew perspective as a powerful and virile bull. Corporate business parallel as end results and the bottomline. Physical fruitfulness equals babies and spiritual fruitfulness equals baby disciples. Shaul and Shimon Kefa called their proteges their sons. Way to fruitfulness based on the story of Yitzchak and Rivkah. Start with honesty and desire. Be real about your productivity of lack thereof, and desire to change. What's your dream for your city. Grow in intimate abiding with Yeshua. Imagine a women trying to get pregnant without a man. Unpacking the Hebrew verb to entreat. Taking responsibility for your situation and asking instead of blaming. Be ready for the unexpected and uncomfortable. How to be a new wineskin. Getting out of your comfort zone. Westerners focus on quantity over quality. Think outside the box and focus on quality discipleship. What does the Father want to prune from your life. Time wasters and restucturing your schedule. Becoming the kind of disciple you'd want to reproduce. Jewish institution of discipleship. Plug for HaYesod by First Fruits Of Zion. Making disciples built into Jewish DNA. Quotes from Pirkei Avot and Midrash Rabbah. Isaiah 53 precedes Isaiah 54. Metaphorically building the huge addition on your house. Be message of Mashiach focused and new covenant oriented. Don't get sucked into religions and humanistic systems devoid of the power of God. Persevere, press on, don't get discouraged, your dreams for your city will come true. Unpacking the Hebrew term for barren as uprooted, hamstrung, socially isolated from fear or anger, and materialistic. <br><br> http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we read from the writings of Yeshua's Apostles on a weekly basis http:// Teaching on Genesis 1 and the doctrine of Creation from a Messianic Jewish perspective. God as artistic Creator. God in motion sculpting, creating color and hue, arranging and moving stuff around, admiring his creations. Yeshua as chochmah in Mishlei, metaphorical wisdom in Proverbs. God is communicating, verbal, coining terms. Ontological discussion with cup as object. Creator's friendship. Winning the game of life with the truth card. You will worship something or someone. God will kick his non friends out of this universe. Answering objections from agnostics, atheists, Jews, and Muslims. Two tenets of atheism. Study by Eddy and Bornazian on shrinking sun. Proof of young earth creationism. Carbon 14 dating is a joke. Origins of big bang. Second law of thermodynamics, law of entropy. Creator as Father and Son duo. Living with Joy. Practical application, observe Shabbat. Answering fallacies about the biblical Sabbath. Lord's day. Sabbath was changed to Sunday. Samuele Bacchiocchi. Failure of Protestant Reformers. Sabbath is universal, not only for Jewish people. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why he sits on a bar stool to teach, and reviews the custom of sitting to teach in the Bible and Jewish history and tradition. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy tells the story of Yeshua as a baby and little boy growing up as a Jew, going to synagogue, and having a Hebrew name. Names mean something. What does the name of Yeshua means. Random interview. Yeshua wasn't called Yehoshua. Iesus in the Greek New Testament. Encouragement to use our Savior's original name. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 12-15 and Luke 10-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Principles of halacha, how you walk out the Torah. Do what you can and offer what you can afford. Quote from the Didache. Understand the underlying principle and the spirit of the law. God is personally involved in childbirth and parenting. Explanation of Hebrew terms tamei and tahor, clean and unclean. Simple status change, a time of greater dependence on the Creator according to the research of Rabbi Hirsch. Buffer zone of privacy, quiet, and bonding time for mother. Time for her body to recover and re-energize. How to pray for your baby. Symbolism of numbers for sons and daughters. Pray for boy to grow to complete men and full reflection of God as his image. Pray for girl's husband, for the preservation of their sexual purity, for her spiritual connection, and for healthy relationships and friendships. Pray that child would receive Mashiach's kaparah and be a living sacrifice. Yeshua's parents did this for him in the gospel of Luke. Understanding mitzvot as essential components of discipleship, connectors, for the whole family, and as the physical side of holiness. Showering and throwing clothes in wash after seminal emission or conjugal relations. Laws of niddah, menstruation, as time for quietness and inner reflection. Misinterpretation of passage in Orthodox Jewish laws of family purity. Middle of the Torah marked with enlarged Hebrew gimel. Adam and the universal condition of humanity. Leprosy as wide array of skin diseases. Facts on Hansen's disease. Graphic picture of fallen humanity. Thousands of leper colonies in countries like India. Ritual of cleansing leper acted out and dramatized featuring agent, objects, venue, procedure, and timing. Communicates the gospel. Prediction in Talmud that Yeshua-faith would go viral on a global level. Allegorical interpretation of black hair from Shir ha Shirim. Practical application, be grateful like the Samaritan. http:// Teaching on Genesis 23-25 and Matthew 10-12 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Abraham gave his son Isaac everything, and God the Father gave God the Son everything. Meditation on the relationship between the Father and the Son, and what has been given to Yeshua and his bride by Yeshua's Abba. Listening between the lines for the divine dialogue. Losing oneself in the rich fellowship and glorious interaction passing between God the Father and God the Son. Eternal life is all about knowing God right now. You become like the people you idolize and spend most of your time watching. Learning the spiritual art of beholding. Understanding Yeshua's relationship with the Father and what has been given him precedes understanding your relationship with the Father. Doctrine of our inner union with Mashiach. Love and approval, practical application for parents. Conditional versus unconditional approval. You have a new Dad, a new role model. Mission, a job to do, specific assignments. Yeshua's mission to accomplish the work and glorify the Father. Our shared mission to humanity in general and Israel in particular to preach, teach, and heal. Yeshua the supreme court justice and chief sheriff of this town we call planet Earth. Name, as identity and reputation, given by the Father to his Son. The bride. Practical advice for young single people waiting for the one. How to pray for individuals, cities, and nations from the leverage point of Mashiach's worthiness and Yahweh's invitation. Really alive. Teaching for the bride. Yeshua in charge of spiritual revelation. Poetic couplet of suffering and glory. Grand finale, a throne and kingdom. Everything else to boot. The one thing the Father hasn't given the Son. http:// Teaching on Genesis 18-22 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Original vision to bless the nations. Izzy's nomenclatural angst. Meaning and etymology of blessing. Cliched terms and commercialized Christianity. Fathers and sons, kings and knights, senior executives and sponsors. Jewish understanding of conferring a blessing from Garden of Peace by Rabbi Shalom Arush. World of Warcraft and the blessing of the old god transforming you and giving you special powers. Initiation rite in the Los Angeles based Blood gang includes the blessing of being punched in the forehead. Origins of English word to bless from pagan Germanic blood application rites. Broader understanding of barach from Rabbi Hirsch's research. Connection between blessing, kneeling, and swimming pools. Yeshua was responsible for killing a herd of 2,000 hogs, costing at least $400,000. Unrolling the red carpet. Averting judgment and bringing mercy. Communities of tzaddikim averting natural disasters, economic catastrophes, health related crises. Salt as preservative. Commentary from Rabbi Michael Munk in Wisdom Of The Hebrew Letters by Artscroll. Racham versus chamal. Revisiting the cliched concept of the intercessor. Interceptor, intervenor, negotiator. Practical way to pray for your city including with your spirit and with your mind, groaning, tongues, the Priestly Blessing, and the Lord's Prayer. Biblical sodomy according to Ezekiel 16 wasn't homosexuality, it was having a comfortable life and not caring about others, especially those in need. The blessing of Abraham is the gift of the Ruach haKodesh. Calling on Yahweh's name on behalf of those unable to. Blessing in mishnaic Hebrew as grafting in. Practical ways to help your neighbors and friends get grafted in to Yeshua and his community. Reading from Radical Reformission from Mark Driscoll. The epidemic of loneliness in the Western world. http:// Why Izzy plays secular music videos, in this case Paradise by Coldplay, at Shabbat gatherings. Every disciple is called to be a missiologist and sociologist, to watch and study people. Seeing image of God in the hopes and dreams of totally depraved humanity. Using legitimate needs as springboard for explaining message of Yeshua. Example of Yeshua as a bad Jew breaking the cultural norms of his time to speak to the sexually loose Samaritan woman at the well. Lessons of the Incarnation. How to reach a generation. Understanding versus condemnation. http:// Teaching on Genesis 12-17 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Overview of parasha including Egyptian fiasco, Abram's largesse, walking your turf, ancient World War and our father of faith as a military strategist, the unilateral covenant, knowing where you're going, signs of the Abrahamic and Yeshuic covenants, and questions related to the One Law position in the Torah movement. Lessons from Avram's journey of faith. Gift of prophecy and rapport with the Creator. Lacking the big picture. Going by a handful of promises and a couple altars. Faithing it. Time lapses between epiphanies. Faithfulness of God. Faith as a dynamic journey, not static city. Questioning, wrestling, moving. Homeostasis as physical friend and pschological enemy. Paradise music video by Cold Play. Why Izzy plays secular music videos, in this case Paradise by Coldplay, at Shabbat gatherings. Every disciple is called to be a missiologist and sociologist, to watch and study people. Seeing image of God in the hopes and dreams of totally depraved humanity. Using legitimate needs as springboard for explaining message of Yeshua. Example of Yeshua as a bad Jew breaking the cultural norms of his time to speak to the sexually loose Samaritan woman at the well. Lessons of the Incarnation. How to reach a generation. Understanding versus condemnation. http:// Teaching on Genesis 6-11 and Matthew 3 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Vast sweeping parasha and the great great grandparents of all humanity. Profile of the Creator, his friends, everybody else, and the Herald of the King. Father and Son communicating. Listening between the lines for the divine dialogue. Involved in human affairs and international issues. Contrary to Deism. Communicating with humans. Views of Islam, Rabbinic Judaism, and Messianic Judaism on prophecy. Issuing mitzvot. Remembering, caring, acting on behalf of friends. Salvation available to everyone. Covenant relationships versus casual relationships. Yahweh forms clouds and looks at rainbows. Noach the wholehearted tzaddik. Relationship with God takes time, emotional energy, and intentional choice. Countercultural preacher. Doing crazy out of the box things. Lunar calendar with no aviv in sight. Differentiating between clean and unclean animals. Prioritizing prayer. Father blessing and speaking into sons' lives. Journalling. Total depravity of humanity. All bad, only bad, nothing but bad. Gospel of internal change. Majority rejects prophetic voice. Roots of alcohol abuse in despair and escapism also expressed in sleeping in, gaming, fantasizing about the rapture. Excitement over illicit spectacles. You need your own thing with Yahweh. Walking on water Hebrew idiom for floating. Buoyant Mashiach. Profile of the King's herald and the Elijah generation. Wilderness survivalist. Kingdom oriented. Offensive to religious people. Message of repentance. Focused on Holy Spirit and exalting Yeshua. http:// Teaching on Genesis 5 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Bible as true story. Chapters in great metastory and overarching plot. Appeal of myths, epics, and fairy tales. Gospel in the Old Testament. Classic opening line in Genesis and Matthew. Names as indigenous to language and bearing meanings. Question of prima lingua, original language. Quotes from Jerome, Venerable Bede, Dante Alighieri, Charles Chauncy on Hebrew as original language of humanity. Hebrew names in early chapters of Genesis. Analysis of human psyche and condition from meanings of names of earliest people. Red blooded and passionate men and women. Craving to get someone or something. Struggling with depression. Hope in the Son to come. Chronic illness. Praising God. Going down. Dedicating and training. Damage and wounding. Relief and comfort. Fairytale spun about Princess Vivacious, the wise fatherly King, the wicked witch, and the Prince to come. http:// Teaching on Matthew 1 and the doctrine of Messiah's virgin birth from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Four defining moments in life of the King. Birth, mysterious visit from eastern sages, assassination attempt and narrow escape, anointing by herald. Teenage Jewish girl. Supranatural conception. Importance of virgin birth. Virgin birth of Hammerhead shark in 2004. Natural parthenogenesis. ZW and ZZ gender determinative systems. It takes a male to produce a male, true on physical and soul levels. John Eldredge, Robert Bly, and the Christian and spiritual artistic men's movement. Jewishness isn't ultimate question. Six lines of evidence of the virgin birth of Mashiach. Protoevangelion. Yitzchak ben Avraham. Psalm Two and Yalkut Shimoni. Son of God as Jewish title of Messiah. Book of Enoch and Dead Sea Scrolls. New Testament as authentic Jewish literature. Isaiah and the great almah versus betulah polemic. Septuagint, Jewish Publication Society, Artscroll perspectives. Anwering the agnostic and atheist claim that the virgin birth is a pagan concept. Classic rebuttal from early Christian giants. Islam's perspective on the virgin birth. Addressing Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian doctrine of eiparthenos, the perpetual virginity of Mary. Christian squeamishness and proto-Victorian attitudes towards sex. http:// Teaching on Matthew 1-2 and seven key titles of Messiah from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Yeshua Ben Avraham. Parallels with Isaac son of Abraham. Solution to Middle East peace process. King of the Jews. Mystical term surfacing at his birth and death. Israel from Hosea and early Christian position. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch unpacks the concepts of Ruler and Shepherd. Job description of preaching pastors. Nazarene and tree shoots causing societal upheaval. Good news. Yeshua as Savior and Deliverer, not from Romans, Nazis, or Hamas, from sin. Salvation from the root versus relief from symptoms. Defining sin as violating the Torah. http:// Teaching on Matthew 1 and the doctrine of Yeshua as Mashiach Christos King from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Christ isn't his surname. Understanding what Christ means is a salvation issue. Etymology of Christ and Messiah. Unpacking the verb to anoint. Hallmarks of physical anointing with oil. Anointed prophets, priests, and kings. Coronations of Saul, David, Solomon, Jehu, Hazael. Jehu anointing to destroy Jezebel. Prophecy from Daniel on timetable of King Mashiach's arrival. Why Rachmiel Frydland and many Orthodox Jews believe in Yeshua. Anointing as preaching engine and primary criterion for preaching. Yeshua Ben David, Son of David. Yeshua the heroic and valiant king who deserves allegiance and affection. Be caught up in a great adventure as a staunch supporter of the fugitive King. Yeshua is returning and will oversee the torture and execution of his enemies. Tackling errors in Neo-nazism, Democracy, Islam, Jewish anti-missionaries, Roman Catholicism, and Reformed Theology. http:// Izzy sets the tone for the Crown's journey through the Torah and Gospels. Favorite childhood verses. Messianic Jewish movement pictured by sofer who becomes a talmid of the Kingdom. Staying in the red letters, Yeshua's words, as path to true discipleship. Cultivating the approach of Miryam to Scripture, planting ourselves at the Master's feet just to listen, learn, and fall in love. Torah study as gazing into a mirror, or two lovers gazing deeply into each other's eyes. http:// Izzy Outlines His New Teaching Style. Going from hitting multiple points in a theological sports car and tackling pop theology and controversial questions to forcefully communicating one point in greater depth and bringing in passages from the Prophets. Using street talk and slanging up the message for fun, entertainment, and relevancy. Hitting the basics every week and preaching in understandable language. Communities that focus on the basics are powerful. Profound truth is simple. Explaining why doctrines are important. Answering objections from various world religions and ideologies. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 33-34 and Revelation 21-22 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Apex of Gospel of God's kingdom. Jehovah's Witnesses have something right. Fantastic hermeneutic question. First as protos and new as kainos. Eating swine and mice won't be cool in the kingdom. Jerusalem comes down. Ezekiel's temple and sacrifices. Dream of no death, pain, crying. Everyone's thirsty and drinking. Toilets and poison fluid sources. Prerequisite to receiving promises. List of people disqualified from the Kingdom. Cowards, unbelieving, gross, murderers, pornos, drug users, liars, idolaters are going to the second death. Gad or God will be a name on gate of New Jerusalem. Extremist sacred namers will have to get over it. Apostolic foundations. Human and angelic measurements. Pearls aren't kosher. No Temple after thousand years. Sun is shrinking, study from Eddy and Bornazian. Torah defines unclean and abomination. Months without the sun and moon. Do the mizvot. Come Yeshua. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 32 and Revelation 19-20 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Remembering the past, knowing history, asking old people, running to your elders. Follow up from last week's message on emerging from Babylon. Simple prayer. Greatest Jewish wedding ever. Hebraic courtship and betrothal versus Western dating and engagement. Reflections of ultimate wedding such as bride wearing white and big festive meal. List of people who worshipped Yeshua. Hallmark of the prophetic spirit. Yeshua the warrior riding a war steed, wielding a sword, leading an army, crushing the opposition, killing his enemies. Thoughts for sacred namers. Ramifications of Yeshua as Word of God. Truth as weapon. Rod of iron as Hebrew idiom for tough and totalitarian rule. Signs will deceive the world. Thousand year reign of Christ, Millenial kingdom. Chiliast theology. Lineup of early Christian Chiliasts including Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Commodian, Lactantius, Methodius, and Apollinaris. Marcion first opponent of literal thousand year kingdom. Jewish eschatology. Gog and Magog. Refutation of Seventh Day Adventist eschatology. Great judgment, you can run but you can't hide. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 31 and Revelation 15-18 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Times of transition. Torah entrusted to priests and elders. What happens when we're not present to God. Sores, earth shutting down, irreversible water pollution, solar disruption, darkness, drought in Middle East and globally, unprecedented earthquake. Repentance glorifies God. Religious clerics, political leaders, and cultural celebrities can have demons speaking through them. Reason, Babylon being judged. Profile of historical Babylon as founded by Nimrod, first world empire. Profile of mystery Babylon, mother of harlots. Application of Reformers including Luther, Knox, Calvin, Zwingli to Roman Catholic Church. Seven mountains equals Rome. Call to reject Rome and come out of her. http:// Teaching on Revelation 11-14 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Profiling main time periods, geographical places, individuals and groups of people, governments, and spiritual entities in the Apocalypse. Jerusalem as holy city, spiritual environment of Sodom and Egypt. Time period of roughly 42 months, 1260 days, 3.5 years. Two witnesses as prophets, spokesmen. Israel birthing person or movement wielding great kingdom authority. Michael and his angels in combat. Red dragon and his hallmarks of deception and accusation. Governmental beast. False prophet opposite of Pesach and Tefillin. 144,000's distinctives as biblical Zionists, bearers of God's name, sexually pure, committed to Yeshua's cause, and theologically sound. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 26-29 and Revelation 8-10 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Seven shofar blasts. Prayer as incense and challenge to men. Golden and bronze altars. Pray up, fire down. Contemplation on symbolism of fire. Global deforestation inferno. Massive tsunamis. Water pollution. Atmospheric haze. Three oys. Army from Euphrates. How to worship demons. Little scroll symbolism. Important of context. Greatest mitzvah has two verbs. Definition of shemaing. Blessings of the Torah including global supremacy economically, militarily, politically, scientifically. Blessed babies and tupperware. Agricultural prosperity. Entrepreneurial and business success. Employers and employees, Being a leader, influencer, mover and shaker. Being in the black and not the red. Being a creditor and not a borrower. Cognates of the Hebrew term to be quiet. Practicing biblical contemplative prayer. Madame Guyon, Fenelon, Molinos, Brother Lawrence. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 16-21 and Revelation 5-7 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Mashiach the indomitable and fierce Jewish lion. Yeshua the murdered Galilean peasant. Profound paradox. Symbolism of eyes. Symbolism of bowls of incense. Motto of Moravian movement. First glance replacement theology. Reigning on the earth. Father and Son are both worshipped, Quote from Justin Martryr on amein. Point of Revelation is to inspire worship. Military conquest, chaos, violence, inflation, food shortages. Deuteronomy and Ezekiel as keys to understanding Revelation. Decimation of 25 per cent of the world population. Sealed bondservants are committed disciples and they identify with Israel. Favorite Bible verse of cults. Connection between martrydom and offerings. Puzzle of absence of Dan. Yom Kippur and Sukkot allusions in the Apocalypse. Why you're going through the Great Tribulation based on internal evidence. Attractive modus operandi for introducing people to Torah from law on returning lost items. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 16-21 and Revelation 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Tough and tender sides of Yeshua, Balancing out doctrines of grace, positional righteousness, and justification by faith. Dissection of Mashiach's personal epistles. Template for interpersonal relations and conflict resolution. Blotting out names and eternal security. Jewish concepts of temple and Jerusalem in book of Revelation. Key to understanding challenges, warnings, rebukes. Connection between aliyah and Spirit. Doing coffee with the Master. Biblical definition of evil. Hesitations with traditional texts cited in support of Rabbinic authority. Torah as rule of law. Importance of red letters. Reductionist policies of Gideon and Yeshua. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 11-16 and Revelation 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Obedience predicates blessing. Example of racking up credit card debt. Yeshua's mission to obliterate idolatry. Origins of Christmas trees and balls and Easter eggs and ham. Don't do pagan stuff for Yahweh. Reminder that we haven't arrived yet. Christian adders and Jewish subtractors. Categorizing other gods. Tel olam. Fatherhood of God. Losing distinctives ends in losing kids. Difference in Torah between alien and native. Financial decisions evince who you respect. Cutting God the tenth. Intoxicants in the Pentateuch. Guarding chodesh Aviv. Place for Sukkot. Neglecting the Festivals symptom of identity amnesia. Overtones of book of the Revelation of Yeshua the Messiah. The glory of our exalted Rabbi. Synagogue context of blessing on readers and hearers. Ancient biblical version of Alcatraz. Shofar voice. Menorah as original biblical symbol of Christian communities. Inconsistent handling of Greek term synagogue in New Testament. Danger of focusing on Yeshua's physical human Jewish side and neglecting his glorious Son of God side. Importance of actions. Yeshua has stuff against you. Call to repentance. Warnings to early Messianic communities. Words of comfort. Hebraic concept of overcoming. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 7-11 and Hebrews 11-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Why the wilderness. How to respond to discipline. How to forget God. Birkat ha Mazon, grace after meals in the Bible and Jewish tradition. Meditation on God as consuming fire. Cutting self-righteousness off at the knees. Biblical perspective on modern Zionism. Drashing the land of Israel. Plug for totafot aka tefillin aka phylacteries and proofs that Yeshua wore them. Day of the ecclesia. Sensitive hearts. Meditation on spiritual union with Mashiach. Confronting dispensationalism. Hebrew meaning of faith as emunah and physical act behind it. Power of a woman's faith. Prophecy according to faith. Inclusion in the hall of faith of cowards, doubters, and sheer idiots. Concept of better resurrection. Jewish tradition in Epistle to the Hebrews. How to overcome discouragement. Bitter roots. Language of nomadic wanderers. Now and not yet of the heavenly Jerusalem. Context of Hebrews and plight of first century Messianic Jews. Challenge to anarchistic Messianic mavericks and the hyper idealistic perfectionistic crowd. Responsibility is the heart of leadership. http:// Teaching on Numbers 30-32 and Hebrews 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Perspective on seemingly irrelevant Bible verses. Your history. Spousal relationship and job description of the husband and father. Humorous examples of annulling a vow. Spiritual authority and veto power. Response to extremist feminism and egalitarianism. How to have spiritual conversations with your wife. How to be a safe place. Picture of God's forgiveness. Understanding God as father and Yeshua as husband. Lessons from Balaam to the Christian Zionist movement, Helping others discover their strengths and use their gifts. Yamim Mashiach, Messianic Era, now. Yeshua is impressive and relevant. Yeshua is addressed as God. Staying Gospel oriented and New Covenant based. Yeshua is one of us. Holy brothers and sisters, and sacred brotherhoods and sisterhoods. Yeshua the Shaliach and Cohen ha Gadol. Challenge to be outspoken and bold in the face of Canadian culture and Western political correctness and relativism. http:// Teaching on Numbers 25-30 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. R rated Torah portion. Profile on Pinchas, Phinehas. Meditation on pasion. Encouragement to youths. Korach, the rest of the story. Gospel for people with dysfunctional parents. Five girls named Dancer, Mover, Dovie, Princess, and Delightful. God responds favorably to initatiors. Torah background to story of Ruth and Boaz. Moses' foremost concern for the nation. List of offerings for moadim. Do the work, don't flaunt the title. Pauline employment of military and sports analogies and lingo. Glimpse of apostolic team in action. Jewish concept of beautifying the mitzvah and Pauline concept of adorning the doctrine from the cosmetic perspective. Jewish myths i.e. aggadot e.g. Jasher, Enoch, some Midrash. Warning to midrashers. How to deal with obsessive arguers. Unpacking the mission of senior ladies. Understanding the biblical concept of a wife's subjection to her husband. http:// Teaching on Numbers 13-15 and 1 Timothy 4-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Cultivating faith and desire for God's vision. Basics of doing Shabbat. Who when why and how of tzitzit, tassels. Challenging hypocrisy and inconsistency in Messianic congregations. Yeshua wore tzitzit, kraspidons in Greek. Spiritual doesn't equal good. Mandatory celibacy hallmark of demonic doctrine. Dietary laws and ganja. How to start a conversation about God with anybody. God as savior of everyone. Unpacking the mitzvah to give attention to Scripture reading, preaching, and teaching. The stuff heroines are made of. Danger signs for ladies. Pauline job description for elders and congregational leaders. Unpacking the term for ruling as leading, having charge over, managing, engaging. First family, then community. Logos and didaskalia. Community relationship with leadership. Blowing the tentmaker fallacy out of the water. Tackling Christian teetotalism. Agreement with healthy words and apostolic halacha versus arguing and other extremist sacred namer hobbies. Practical advice for the wealthy i.e. Westerners. Faith is a fight and eternal life is something to grab and hold onto. http:// Teaching on Numbers 8-12 and 2 Thessalonians 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Menorah as picture of ecclesia. Job descriptions of candelabrum and kohen. Explaining contradiction between ages 25 and 30 in Levitical career launch. Musings on raising up next generation of leadership in Messianic community. Story of church history as neglecting Passover and being cut off from Israel. One law for the ger too. Modus operandi of Israel in transit. Mobility and tents versus static and city. Following the cloud versus curating a museum of a past move of God. Hebrew phrase, on the mouth of Yahweh. Hebrew phrase, in the hand of Moshe. Judah first as principle in Davidic dynasty and Messianic Jewish movement today. Promise of good on Israel. Genesis of Sanhedrin of seventy elders. Lashon hara and leprosy. Lessons from Miryam and roots of slander, malicious speech, and trash talk. How God feels. How to respond to verbal attacks and abuse. Obeying the Gospel. Tentmaker fallacy. Ingathering as kibbutz hagaliyot. Explanation and expose on inconsistencies of dispensationalism. Man of Torahlessness as figurehead and ultimate manifestation of humanism, relatavism, and anarchy. Safeguards in preparing for future. Cultivate passion to be like early church. Study and apply Torah. Know your identity and mission in Yeshua. Signs follow you, not vice versa. Foster love for the truth. http:// Teaching on Numbers 1-4 and Colossians 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Certificate of debt. Shabbats, New Moons, and Festivals as shadows outlines sillhouettes vignettes pictures of Yeshua our beloved to be studied, cherished, and practiced. God's order and decrees versus human order and decress, e.g. mandatory celibacy for priests. Identity before behavior. Historical objective and experiental subjective sides of the Gospel. Death and resurrection of Mashiach. Where and who you really are. Self-actualization versus Yeshua-actualization. Radical countercultural movement against sexual activity outside of marriage. There's wrath in the New Testament. Old and new you. Renewal of God's image bearers transcends Jewish Gentile dichotomy. Treating others as Abba treats you. How and why of forgiveness. Masculine qualities of kindness, gentleness, humility, patience. Dropping expectations and accepting people. Hebraic meaning of 'in the name of Jesus'. Advice for husbands and employees. Devotion to prayer. Jewish custom of having a Hebrew and a Greek name visibile in Jesus also called Justus. Baptists' beloved Bible verse. Significance of age 20 and capability for spiritual combat as hallmark of spiritual maturity. Understanding the Melchizedek and Levi priesthood. What does working for the big M agency look like. Symbolism of the tabernacle. Camping around the presence of God. Preserving the nation and killing the trespasser. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 25-27 and Colossians 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Overtly, explicitly, in your face Christologically rich epistle from Shaul. Context of Colossians, influential and vocal individuals with agendas and lots of good points were taking over the place. Imaginary profiles of individuals in Paul's audience. Angela the angel lady always having spiritual experiences and seeing angels and demons. Yeshua as head of ekklesia and all authority. Breakdown of exousia as used throughout the New Testament. Percival the political activist. Riled up during elections. Thrones were created for Yeshua. National expressions of darkness. Path to societal redemption. Philip the philosopher. Mashiach as deep person in whom all gnosis resides and sofia dwells. Through in Hebrew means in the hand of, through the agency of. Trophimus and Tevya the tradition guys. Response to icons of Jesus and statues of saints. Don't tolerate critical people. Yosi the proud Jew. Gentile believers complete in Yeshua. Circumcision in the Ruach Hakodesh. Challenge to be baptized. Why paedobaptism, infant baptism, isn't true to earliest church tradition. Zerrubabel the Torah guy. Messiah's pre-existence, firstborn status, worthiness of first place, and fullness of deity. Refutation of dual-covenant theology. Olga the order freak. Fasting Frank. Depressed Damon. Proclaiming Yeshua and walking in him from halachic perspective. Staying connected to the head path to qualitative and quantitative growth. Discussion on particle physics, the strong interaction, and the mechanics of atomic glue. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 21-24 and Philippians 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Joy, simcha as a safeguard against grumpy religious people and dead religious systems. Chinese proverb about laughing at yourself. You can only think about one thing at a time. True Jew. Unpacking the concept of worship in spirit. Bragging, boasting, and vaunting Yeshua. Contemplation on knowing Yeshua. Understanding the Hebrew versus Hellenist dichotomy in the first century. Shaul as quintessential Hebrew and Torah observant to the max. Where is your righteousness. Expose on self-righteousness. Be dissatisfied. Irony of the mature pressing on. Citizenship in heaven. Anavah, gentleness, response to immanence of Mashiach. Irrational shalom. Action plan when facing stress, how to deal with it. Overview of Moadim, Appointed Times, Feasts. Belong to God. Rendezvous. The festivals you observe indicate what spirit you listen to, whose authority you're under, what people you belong to, who you are, and what your priorities and values are. Journal entries. Making family memories and developing warm fuzzies and nostalgia over the decades and generations. Shadows silhouettes pictures snapshots vignettes of Yeshua. WWJD means doing the festivals. Challenge to be seriously committed and not trendy. Doing moadim in prison or on a deserted island. Mikra kodesh, holy assembly, as time to invite people, preach, read Scripture, and pray. Shabbat means stop. For him not you. Spring and fall cluster of festivals depict debut and comeback of the King. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 19-20 and Philippians 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. High Christology, Mashiachology. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Yeshua. Yeshua had equality with God. Trailer of future global reality, every knee bowing to Yeshua. What is the Name that is above every other name. Yeshua as Kurios in Greek NT and Yahweh in Peshitta Aramaic NT. Relationship between Father and Son as two people. Dangers of low Christology. Deity of Yeshua is a hill worth dying on and is non-negotiable. Yeshua as model for husbands. Prioritize her, place her wants ahead of yours, initiate, empty yourself, humble yourself and die. Equality in congregation doesn't exclude leadership roles. Overseers are also called elders, pastors, shepherds. Deacons as admins. Love abounding in knowledge. Do you desire unity. Desiring and acting for God's pleasure. Fellow soliders. High code of honour. Being kedoshim. Behavior flows from identity. Nomological slicing and dicing between moral and ceremonial. Hebrew definition of cursing. Idolatry as what you turn to, radio chocolate etc. Definition of profaning God's name and broader applications. Gossip as character assasination and soul murder. Dealing with hatred and grudges. Standing for elders and honoring sages. How to communicate with sexually loose people. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 16-18 and Ephesians 4-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Paul and Luke observed Yom Kippur as the Fast. Evidence to come to grips with. Sirim, goat demons. Religious bondage behind and paganism ahead of the Yeshua movement and our historical failure. Remedy for soul depression. Forbidden marital unions and sexual expressions. Mad guy's blog and chapters of Torah not for squeamish, puritans, and Victorians. Underlying parenting philosophy in the Torah's commands. Uncovering nakedness as euphemism for sexual relations. Abraham's and Jacob's disqualified marriages. Practical way to respect your wife. Homosexuality and eating pork are both abominations. Value humility, gentless, and patience. Relational shalom. Difference between church, body of Messiah, Christian community as terms. Job description of apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastor teachers. Gentiles as outsiders. Learning Mashiach and Yeshua oriented truth versus Satanic distractions. Words can give grace and build people up. Paul was Judgmental. Sexual immorality as Greek pornos, unclean as ceremonially tamei according to Torah, Greed is idolatry. Challenging Christian teetotalatarianism. How to love your wife. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 12-15 and Ephesians 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Martin Luther's Table Talk on Hebrew. Classic Jewish opening, baruch. Sons of disobedience classic Hebraism. Blessin in Mashiach. Parallel between redemption in Messiah's blood and mohar of five silver coins in betrothal ceremony. How to experience the Father's love. Yeshua as head, leader, boss, commander in chief, ultimate authority. Unpacking the concept of everything being summed up in Christ. Torah observance by grace through faith. Paul addressed non-Jewish believers are Gentiles. What is the therefore there for. Laying the groundwork for inclusion theology. Physical Jewishness. Were far, now near, to what. Breakdown of Greek terms in Ephesians 2. Defining commonwealth of Israel. Coheirs of what. Enmity occasioned by Torah. Yeshua is our shalom and common ground. Foundation of the Messianic community is the apostles and prophets, the OT and NT. Stay strong in the basics of faith and love. A wow verse. Middle verse of the Torah and deeper meanings of Leviticus as core of gospel. Inner leprosy universal condition of humanity. Tzaarat, skin disease, leprosy, Hansen's disease. Drama of cleansed leper. How to pray for newborn sons and daughters. Understanding the stati of clean and unclean, tamei and tahor. Understanding the role of commandments as mitzvot, components of discipleship, connectors, Word for the whole family, physically applicable. Emissions, relations, and periods. Misinterpretation of Orthodox Judaism in Laws of Family Purity. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 9-11 and Galatians 5-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Matzot in Galatians. Digging in your heels for freedom. Ramifications of Paul circumcising Timothy. Jewish obligation to Torah and Gentile relationship to Torah. Jewish identity issues versus the message of the Shema, faith and love. Truth must be obeyed. Crash of the cross. Irony of freedom to be a slave. Code of honour and where does the biting and devouring stop. Life by the Ruach will guard you from legalism. Unpacking Shaul's list of lawless and legalist sins. Unfriendliness, arguing, joy bashing, church politics, disunion, heresy. How to help someone in sin. Relationship between faith community and teachers. Spiritual investments and dividends. Boasting in the cross and new creation in Mashiach. Grand climax finale. Real men do mitzvot. Your masculinity is the glory of God. Offer and response. Families working together as evinced in Aaron and sons. Learn to bless your spouse, children, grandchildren, city, and country. Yeshua drank alcohol. Spiritual sobriety. Middle letters of the Torah and belly of the Law. Discussion on food laws. Diet is essential component of holiness. What to do with carcasses, lessons from Anne of Green Gables. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 6-8 and Galatians 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Profile of offerings and understanding each as a teaching. Burnt, sin, guilt, peace, thanksgiving, and grain offerings. Meditation on the altar fire. Fire of love in Song of Songs. Immersion in fire. Prophetic word as fire. The cross on the altar. Continual prayer. Prohibitions of fat and blood. Main themes of Galatians. Abraham the faithful believer and his children and seed. Faith is a verb. Staying in the Ruach. Promise to singular Mashiach. Nature of promise. Matrix of the supernatural. Goal of imparting life. Abba in Greek New Testament. Law, nomos, in Pauline literature equals legalism. Pre-existent and personal Torah. Function of law. Covenantal mechanics. Sinai is in Saudi Arabia. Two Jerusalems and your orientation. Roots of Catholic practice. Immersion in Messiah and unity in him. Understanding the no Jew and Gentile phrase in context. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 1-5 and Galatians 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Overview of the book of Leviticus, Vayikra. Continuation of Exodus. Bearer of message for all humanity. Book for all people, both genders. Opening thought of coming close, drawing near. Ratzon as will, desire, delight, pleaure, want, what you run after. Atonement as covering. Olah as going up. The fragrant aroma, attractive scent, engaging smell of prayer. Anointing oil. Why salt. Profile of offerings. Why the inwards, entrails, guts. Unintentional crimes. Levels of culpability. Kohen hamashiach. Proof that animal's blood doesn't atone for sin. Understanding Paul's epistle to the Galatian ecclesiai. Circumcision is a party. One sided phone conversations. Apostles aren't ordained by denominations or accredited by Bible colleges and seminaries. Freedom versus bondage. Circumcision is keyword for Jewishness and converting to Judaism. Difference between gentle direction and forceful pressure. Jewish context of remembering the poor as the evyonim, ebionites. Issue was Jewish tradition, not Torah observance. Defining Judaization. Faith and grace. http:// Teaching on Exodus 30-34 and 2 Corinthians 8-10 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Yeshua as the prophet like Moshe gathering Israel as the kahal, ekklesia. Yeshua builds his ekklesia and adds to his community. Gathering in Mashiach's name. Symbolism of abstention from igniting fires on Shabbat. Heart stirred and spirit moved as congregational modus operandi. What's in your heart. What precedes unity. Women's function as mirrors in society. Pictured by sun and moon. Avodah as service. Second year and second covenant. Mashiach's body as mishkan kevod Elohim. Dangerous distractions and eyes only for Yeshua. Another Jesus and different Gospel. Shaul was an unimpressive orator. Danger of boasting about being Israel, child of Abraham, and Hebrew instead of boasting about the cross of Messiah. Pardes in the Apostles. Praying three times. Contentment. Being a nobody. Signs of true apostle. Christ who speaks in you. Power. http:// Teaching on Exodus 30-34 and 2 Corinthians 8-10 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Baptists' least favorite Bible verse. Money as memorial and atonement in Acts and Leviticus. Symbolism of biblical spices cinnamon and myrrh. Prefiguration of recent covenant in previous covenant. Importance of Shabbat. Understanding karet, being cut off. Overview of church history. God's presence as distinctive. Calling on the name of Yahweh. Ten commandments as ten themes. Broader understanding of apostolic role. Physical vesus spiritual combat. Paul's manner of speech. http:// Teaching on Exodus 27-30 and 2 Corinthians 4-7 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. False gods as blinding influences. Glory of Yeshua. Death life principle. Defining faith. Focusing on the invisible in Torah observance. Appearance versus heart. Being a crazy mad wild insane for God and a solid and intelligent person for people. Knowing Yeshua physically and spiritually. Future evaluation of deeds. Judgment Seat as bema, rostrum, tribunal, throne. Scandalous apostolic resume. Snippet from real 1 Corinthians. Torah as definer of defilement of flesh. List of the actions Leviticus states are a law forever. True prayer and the fire of God. Yeshua's job description as cohen hagadol. Symbolism of priestly garb and accoutrements. Understanding biblical ordination. His glory as distinctive above and beyond less popularly touted distinctives. http:// Teaching on Exodus 25-27 and 2 Corinthians 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Mitzah to build sanctuary. Shachan, mishkan, and shechinah. Langenscheidt Pocket Hebrew Dictionary on 'in their midst'. Paradox of local versus omnipresent. Community construction project. Freedom and voluntary verve. God's love letters. Kaparah of Mashiach's blood. Connection between the King's table and the Apostolic. Vision and implementation. Point of glory. Tear-spattered epistle. Be proud of each other. List of promises. Letter versus spirit. Glory of the giving of the Law. Condemnation and death. Torah as old or older covenant. Transformed into who you're looking at. http:// Teaching on Exodus 21-24 and 1 Corinthians 14-16 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Mitzvot from the Master in Apostolic Literature. Challenge to the lackadaisical, anarchistic, anti-community attitude in the Hebrew Roots movement. Three hallmarks of bona fide prophecy are building up, encouraging, and comforting. Recalibrating Pentecostal and Charismatic priorities. Midrash versus prophecy. Tongues as Hebrew idiom. Myths related to tongues, including that it was Hebrew, that it's unimportant, that it's too controversial, and it's not a prayer language. Challenge to desire tongues. Mind versus spirit praying. Amein as early Christian liturgy. Intelligent communication versus babbling. Public relations. Shalom as hallmark of Spirit-led and Spirit filled meetings and churches. Strengthening the husband-wife relationship. Centralizing the Gospel. Shavuot, Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, in Pauline Epistle. Relationship between community and leadership. Danger of character assasination. Practical applications of Torah in property ownership, possessions, human rights, dating and marriage, relating to leadership and officials, tithing, roadkill. Refuting extreme sacred name theology on Lord as Baal. http:// Teaching on Exodus 18-20 and 1 Corinthians 11-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Imitation of Mashiach as lifelong quest and worthy goal. Literal head coverings and priestly head coverings. Understanding the husband's role as head. Man as glory of God. Women praying and prophesying. Original intent versus egalitarianism. Long hair and commendable feminine defiance. Getting drunk at communion. Seder questions. Common good. Body analogy. Word to movement, will we be a teacher movement, or apostolic and prophetic. Desiring spiritual endowments. Excellent path of love. Replacement, supersessionist, and inclusivist theology. Vertical and horizontal mitzvot. On God's face. God's passion and covenant devotion. The name Hashem. Words of covenant in Izzy and Genevieve's marriage vows. Earthen altar and shalom stones. http:// Teaching on Exodus 10-13 and 1 Corinthians 4-7 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Moshe the typical male and the real reason for forty years in wilderness. Shabbat as act of faith in provision of God. Escape through Yam Suf picture of salvation and mystical immersion in Mashiach. Salvation as experience. Spiritual wilderness and the house church movement. Ten songs in midrash, siddur, and book of Revelation. Tradition on demise of Ephraim after jumping the gun. Core bitterness and expressions thereof including unforgiveness, anger, rage, negativity. Humanistic physical perspective versus God-oriented spiritual perspective. Cross sweetens cup of bitterness. Torah and emunah in Hebrew. Silence as spiritual warfare. Yahweh as warrior. Conditional promise of healing. Danger of becoming a knowledge-based instead of love-based movement. Challenge to Ephraim. Evaluation of becoming a Jew. Offenses. Special knowing. Core message of Shema flies in face of extreme sacred name ideology such as Jesus being related to Zeus in Greek. Epiphanius and Eusibius on what happened to the family of Yeshua's apostles, where did they go. The avot of Jews and Gentiles. Torah as example. Midrashic versus literal contextual hermeneutic. All things for the gospel and glory of God. http:// Teaching on Exodus 10-13 and 1 Corinthians 4-7 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Exodus as object lesson for the kids. Distinction between God's people and secular world. Physical redemption including property and possesions. Family relationships in structure of Torah. Who, what, when, and why of Pesach and Matzot. Worship in the great tribulation. Mystery of not knowing. Journey to Sukkot. Attitude check for non-Jewish believers. Father as teacher. Jewish discipleship versus Greek academy and seminary model. First mitzah after freedom is calendar related. Hermeneutic principle. Third epistle to the Corinthians. Power versus blah blah blah. You will judge the cosmos and angelic entities. Travelling in spirit. Power for the body. One spirit with Yeshua. Izzy's story of not seeking for a wife. Devotion to the Master. http:// Teaching on Exodus 6-9 and 1 Corinthians 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. You can't do anything for God until you're 80 based on the Mosaic pattern. Publicly stated objectives of Exodaic phenomena. Exodus as preservation template for End of Days. You are Mashiach's representative. Navi as spokesperson. Prophetic call to the wilderness. Hebrew root for midbar is davar, word. Immersion as time to gather thoughts in prayer. Hebrew idiom finger of God for the supernatural. Mo'ed as definite time. Spreading palms Hebrew idiom for prayer. Unity is non-optional. Don't settle for less. Unanimous versus majority decisions. Personal partisanism to FFOZ, Torah Resource, MIA, UMJC, MJAA, Luther Benedict, Tim Horton's. Division symptom of spiritual immaturity. Humility as solution to problems of disunity. Don't let Jewish angst over the cross eclipse your comprehension and experience of the reality of the cross. Power demo. World and church paradigms versus kingdom paradigm. Yeshua centered theology. Mashiach founded doctrine. Call to fellowship with the Son. Salvation as process versus once saved always saved. Everything belongs to you. http:// Teaching on Exodus 1-6 and Romans 14-16 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Exile of the shechinah. Yeshua as embodiment of mystical shechinah, the Aleph and Tav, first in the sefer of Israel's neshamot. Messianic drash. Child is the father of the man. Profile of key players and overview of verve dynamics. Midwives Shiphrah and Puah, mommy Yocheved, sister Miryam, and wife Tzipporah. Redemption stories open with stories of daring, audacious, brave, and strong. Moshe the slouch and sloppy mitzvot man. Plug for natural childbirth and midwifery. Ancient Hebrew birth stool. Two witnesses of Revelation a replay of exodus from Egypt. Pharaoh's main concern. Dangers of aliyah. Satanic strategies to keep Israel busy, burdened, exhausted, distracted, and not keeping the feasts. Program maintenance and Christmas shopping. Covenant God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Contrast between God's and men's methods for training men. Wilderness versus seminary. Foster your inner child and healthy curiousity. Focus on him, not you. Asher as will be, not is. Successful accomplishment of mission. Different testimonies from Jews and Gentiles. Congregations of Gentiles. Gentile is not a dirty word. House churches in Rome. Subsets of disciples. Listen to Paul. Warning to kosher police. http:// Teaching on Genesis 47-50 and Romans 11-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Pauline Israelogy. Israel not rejected, duh. Izzy's story of travelling from an evangelical home through the house church movement to the Messianic Jewish faith. Movements and denominations as extended shadows of great men. Is Gentile a dirty word. Tradition of pinching off challah. Jewish people must be grafted in through faith. The times of the Gentiles and the fulness of the Gentiles. You are a korban. Mental reprogramming. Body parts and humbly moving in gifts. Active ingredients in spiritual endowments. Hebrew wordplay between love and debt, chov and chovev. Blessing on Ephraim in Erev Shabbat prayers in Siddur. Not recognizable to Israel. Proliferating like fish. Ixnaying the natural order and your past. Chesed and emet. Bed versus staff. Eternal property. Hope as prayer. Employment of analogies and comparisons in blessing. Gather to hear prophetic voice. The angel that redeems and blesses. Prophecy of Mashiach to whom the peoples will gather. http:// Teaching on Genesis 44-47 and Romans 9-10 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Stupid diver and drowning swimmer. Treatise of Paul on national Israel and ethnic Jews. Romans 9-11, the untold story. Spectrum of covenants. Roadmap to the glory of God. Promise of land of Israel including West Bank and Gaza Strip. Avodah as Temple service, synagogue liturgy, and traditional Jewish prayer service from Siddur. Adoption and calling God Abba. Understanding the heart of Paul and heart of God. Christ the end of the law versus Messiah the goal of Torah. Fellowships of the heart. Rejection of Joseph and murder of Notzrim under Bar Kochba. Revelation of Mashiach to Israel in times of global crisis and great tribulation. Messianic Judaism as Judah sent before Jacob to point out the way, i.e. teach Torah. http:// Teaching on Genesis 41-44 and Romans 7-8 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Connection between dreams and egg whites in Hebrew. Connection between the end and awakening from a dream in Hebrew. Yeshua and Peter as interpreters of dreams and history. Spiritual gifts in the Old Testament. Middle name of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Pauline nomology. Equating the Spirit filled and Spirit led life with the Torah observant life. Practical instruction in prayer. The Hebrew term Abba and the Hebrew speaking Spirit in you. http:// Teaching on Genesis 37-40 and Romans 4-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Our forefather Abraham. The unholy trinity of works, pride, and boasting. Favour versus entitlement. Inheriting the cosmos. Defining legalism. Practical points for setting goals and seeing promises materialize. Shalom as a relational term. Grace by which we stand. Tangible salvation from global catastrophe and population decimation. Practical ramifications of union with Mashiach. Meaning of immersion into Yeshua. Quote from Pirkei Avot in Artscroll Siddur. A mitzvah leads to a mitzvah. The cord of Judah. Drivers licenses, birth certificates, and major credit cards in the ancient Middle East. http:// Teaching on Genesis 32-36 and Romans 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Exchanging our glory for cheap trinkets. Masculine strength and feminine beauty. To the Jew first on the three levels of the focus of Messiah, the strategy of Paul, and the heart of God. Kiddush as a picture of training for the Apostolic mantle. Warning to congregations that spend much time in midrash and little time in prayer. Analysis of human degeneration and warning against pride and judgementalism. Hebrew concepts in Pauline Epistles, Ruach haKodesh and Echad. Suppressing the truth through unbiblical practices including Christmas and Easter. Defining circumcision as legal Jewish status. Torahless Jews and Observant Gentiles. The value of the Jewish heart. Respecting Judaism. The universal Torah. The faith that upholds the Torah. Connections between the Return of Israel, the Great Tribulation, and Yom Kippur. Finding your true identity in God. http:// Teaching on Genesis 28-32 and Jude from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Our gallant God who wants to prove himself to us. Aramaic in Torah. Dynamics of exile and return to Israel. Practical discussion on dreams. Cutting ten percent to the Almighty. Protestant inconsistency in abolishing Torah and retaining tithing. Meaning of Christ as King. How to love the Jewish people. Mitzvot as standing with Israel. Practical points from Jude. http:// Teaching on Genesis 25-28 and 1 John 1-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Way to heart through stomach. How to sell your birthright by denying Yeshua, losing a new covenant orientation, forgetting the gospel, and becoming an exclusivist Jewish club and lose influence and leadership. Community clout. Inheriting the Gaza Strip. Setting Johannine terminology including life, fellowship, light, truth, commandments, word, walking as he walked, antimessiah, sin, love, and hatred, in their original Hebraic context. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we started reading the second half of the Apostolic Scriptures with the book of James instead of the Pauline Epistles and does an expose on the Hieronymic Order of the New Testament, starting with the Pauline epistles with Gentile overtones, as innovated by Jerome and the Roman Catholic church versus the original order of the New Testament, starting with the Universal epistles with Jewish overtones. http:// Simon Peter as Shimon Kefa the Jewish Emissary. Defining Godliness as Devotion and Chasidut according to Delitzsch and Strongs Concordance. Lovingkindness and truth as covenant terms for committed devotion and fiercy loyalty. Love story of Isaac and Rebecca. Practical tips for young men and women preparing for marriage. Letting God write your love story. How to bless your descendants to be aggresively missional, outreach minded, and leaders in the civic, economic, and governmental spheres of society. The Biblical genre prefaced by a warning. Whole Bible eschatology. The one thing not to be ignorant of. Quote from Babylonian Talmud regarding timing of the coming of Mashiach. Quote from Barnabbas on early Christian echatology. http:// Teaching on Genesis 18-22 and 1 Peter 3-5 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Humorous comments on how North American, French, Japanese, German, British, Russian, Swiss, Hindu, Chinese, and Israeli Agri-Corporations handle cattle. Why the Bible says women shouldn't wear dresses. Hyperliteralism versus spiritual halacha. Role of the external and internal. Becoming daughters of Sarah. Hebraic understanding of the weak vessel. Action points for husbands. Church and FFOZ bashing. Word study on Gentiles. Using your gift in the Messianic community. Communicatory gifts of preaching and teaching. Privelege and abuse of midrash. Messianic angst about Greek terms. Glorifying God as a Christian. Gospel that demands obedience. How to handle a faith crisis or depression. The deeds of Abraham, including hospitality, meat and dairy, intercession, listening to your wife, teaching your children, observing moadim, circumcision, and weaning parties. Drunk people do stupid things they regret. Testing and going to the next level. E.W. Bullinger and the 134 emendations of the soferim. Our wild, transcendent, and mysterious God who cannot be boxed and must be known. Theological quandaries of this parasha. http:// Teaching on Genesis 12-17 and 1 Peter 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Humorous laws including Going Down to Egypt. Avram the first Emergent. Homeostasis as mortal enemy. Receiving your true name. Running from versus going to. The paranoia of the anti-church orientation. Concept of praise as causing to shine. Olam in the hermeneutical law of first mention. Bread and wine as ancient tradition. Tithing as deed of Abraham. Abraham as shrewd businessman and example to entrepreneurs today. Challenge to men to develop their spiritual sensitivity. Drama of piling coats on wife. Prophetic call to body of Messiah to return to Appointed Times and Calendar of Israel. Tackling One Law hypocrisy. Avram the immigrant. Non-quantifiable but highly qualifiable children of Abraham. Replacement, Supersessionist, and Inclusionist Israelology. Spirit of Mashiach then and now. Behavioral holiness and Torah as standard. Yeshua the Mashgiach Ruchani. http:// Teaching on Genesis 6-11 and James 4-5 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Story about Izzy's Doukhobour ancestors who immigrated to Canada from Georgia in sight of Mount Ararat. Parashat Noach as prophesy of End of Days and the coming perfect firestorm. Parable of special file transferred from hard drive before total system restore and removal of worms, viruses, and trojan horses. Torah as survival manual for global cataclysms. Keys to surviving as told by great great great Grandpa Noah. Grace and the power of the Gospel. Practical steps to humility. Lifestyle righteousness. Robust construction worker faith. Taking yourself for a walk. Noach as leader in family and community. Noahs wife as unsung hero and lifesaver. Funny skit. Microcosmic beasts such as biological warfare and pandemics. Macrocosmic beasts such as Chamas and Islamic terrorists. Noah hammered and unclothed. Honouring fathers in church history. The difference between physical and soul pornography. The legendary tzadik. Running for the cupboard for vitamin C, echinacea, oregano oil, hydrogen peroxide and MMS versus running first for the phone for prayer. http:// Teaching on Genesis 1-6 and James 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Understanding commandments as blessings. Yeshua the Ben Adam, the Bar Enosh. Parallels between the blessing given to Adam and the Great Commission. First mitzvot in the Torah relating to diet and sexuality. First and last Shabbats in history. Hebrew connection between hope, intention, and immersion, that is tikvah, kavanah, and mikveh respectively. Gods appointed times in Genesis 1. Clothing the naked. The voice of the murderer. Hebrew connection between the bride and completion. The absence of Adam on a business trip, watching football, out for a beer, at an elders meeting, or gone to another Bible study. Union with Mashiach. Hebrew undertones and Jewish context of the epistle of James. Letter to the Twelve Tribes of Israel, not the 38,000 denominations of Christianity. Torah as mirror and gazing. Church as synagogue. Good religion versus bad religion. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 33-34 and Acts 27-28 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Message for Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret. The how, what, when, and who of leaving a legacy for the ?generations to come, focusing on spoken and written blessings. Yeshua the Aleph and Tav coming with ten ?thousand holy angels. Messianic connections betwen the giving of the fiery Torah and the relationship of ?Yeshua and his disciples. Torah as national legacy. Difference between God as popular King and God as ?absolute Ruler. Keys to the full manifestation of the Kingdom of God and unity of the body of Christ. Watershed coronation of David at Hebron. Why Izzy is part of the Prince Albert ministerial. John and Stacy ?Eldredge dispel the myth of the bland helpmeet. Women as lifesavers and lifesustainers. Messianic ?Chassidim. Hebraic understanding of hating family members. Elohim the Bush Dweller. The sacred ?partnership between businessmen and Torah scholars. The prophetic illumination of the First Day. The Fast ?of Yom Kippur in the Acts of the Apostles. The fickleness of crowds. The crunch of crisis. Six snapshots of ?Saul, intrepid emissary of Mashiach in action in the midst of real life danger. ? http:// Teaching on Chag Sukkot, Festival of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Season of our Joy. Jewish traditional practices ?including bringing your nice furniture and fine china and cutlery into the Sukkah, eating, drinking, and taking ?your leisure in the Sukkah, and studying the Torah in the Sukkah. The royal pavilion of the King. The Baal ?Shem Tov on the all encompassing mitzvah. 70 bulls and the times of the Gentiles. Story from Avodah Zarah ??3a about Gentiles kicking over their booths. Zionist act and connection to Jerusalem. Imitation of God. ?Renewal of family prayer. Uriah the noble and David the slouch - a call to the body of Messiah to stand with ?the Jewish people. Future Exodus and Great Tribulation. Encounter with Esau, the dark night, and a new ?name. Key to revival. Romantic secret place. Object lesson on Lulav - willow, myrtle, palm, and citron. Hallel ?and Hoshana. ? http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 32 and Acts 24-26 from from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Epic drama of the song of Moshe, replete with hero, villain and fair maiden, narrator and audience, and ?five gripping acts ending with the equivalent of the cowboy riding off into the sunset, the happy couple wed in ?the Jane Austen story, and smiling faces in Little House on the Prarie. How this song is for the last ?generation in the Acharit Hayamim, the End of Days, and how it is just as much about the Church as it is ?about Israel. Why Gentile believers, especially Hebrew Roots or Ephraimite types, are a source of jealousy ?and irritation to some Messianic Jews and mainline Messianic Jewish organizations. Mosaic ?dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Practical instruction on how to respond when hurt or offended. ?Relational reconciliation and conflict resolution. Jewish Sect of the Nazerenes. Nazis raised from the ?dead. Paul the member of the Sanhedrin. The anti-Hebrew bias of English Bible translators. A worthy life ?goal.? http:// Teaching on Yom Teruah, the Day of Trumpets and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Celebrating a triple whammy of Messianic revelation. Breaking down the ?directives of the day to Shabbaton or rest, Zikkaron or remembrance, Mikra Kodesh or holy convocation, ?Teruah or shouting and trumpet blasts, and Offerings by Fire . Explaining traditional terms for such as Day ?Trumpets, Day of the King, Covered Day, Day of Judgement, Birthday of the World, Head of the Year, Day of ?Remembrance, and the Day or Today. Examining David Stern's interpretation of the Lord's Day in ?Revelation. Reviewing moments of shouting and shofar sounding including the giving of the Torah, Joshua ?and the Jericho conquest, Gideon and Ehud, and Saul and Solomon's coronations. Previewing the future ?Great Tribulation, Ingathering of exiles, Return of Mashiach, Resurrection of the dead, and Judgement. ? http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 29-31 and Acts 19-23 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Biblical revival ?according to Deuteronomy 30 includes a return to the land of Israel and to the Torah of Moshe. National unity of klal Yisrael. Mediatorial presence of the Aleph and Tav in the Mosaic covenant. ?Disgusting idolatry and that which goes into the toilet. Message of the enlarged Lamed. Dealing with ?disappointment and confusion. Surviving the faith crisis. Embracing mystery. Anti Judaism of Ignatius. ?Jewish context of believers meeting on Sunday. Paul observing Unleavened Bread and Pentecost, ?keeping the Law, giving speeches in Hebrew, and shouting, I am a Jew. ? http:// Balanced Position Paper on First Fruits Of Zion's Divine Invitation Theology And Questions On Acts 15. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 21-25 and Acts 13-15 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Crowds and flash mobs are fickle and unstable. Saul's name was never changed to Paul, he was always called by both names, a Hebrew and a Greek Diaspora name. Other examples, Justus, Mark, and Jesus. Gospel according to Torah. Hebrew wordplay for fulfillment through resurrection and freedom through forgiveness. Worthy goal to serve Elohim's purpose in your generation. Write this unpopular Bible verse on your fridge with a happy face on it. Debate in Acts 15 is about salvation. More mitzvot in this parasha than any other. Technical least of the commandments. Great people scrutinize this passage. Contains more laws that God haters mock who'll either be in the nosebleed seats in the kingdom, or in the frontrow seats in hell. Three P's of Torah hermeneutics, practice, principal, and person. What do do, why, and who told you. Mocked mitzvot. Stoning the rebellious son. Mother bird and eggs scenario. Pauline nomology. Messianic silhouettes. The bechor, firstborn. Yeshua the Talui. Humorous applications. Building parapets and eating from your neighbor's garden. Make every effort to restore the lost Torah to your brother. Adenda by extremist feminism to remove all gender distinctions in the home and society. Devastating byproducts of abortion, semiorphaned daycare children, and skewed marital relationships. Gender roles run deeper than physical functions of biological reproduction. Shaatnez and the polyester. Key to greatness in the kingdom. Tzitzit are for Mashiach's bride. Sin unto death in 1 John defined by the Torah. Johannine hamartiology. St Louise Ship and repentance for Canadian antisemitism with David Demian and Watchmen for the Nations. Yeshua's teachings on divorce and remarriage square with Torah. Remember where you came from. Don't muzzle the ox and support your preachers. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 16-21 and Acts 10-12 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Tzedek tirdof. Mazal tov. False basis for Rabbinic authority and Oral Law. Context is court based in Jerusalem and civil law. The Christmas tree Asherah pole connection. Fertility rituals, addictions, and perversions are incompatible with true worship. Sacred pillars, steeples, and spires. Imports from Egypt by Constantine. Opposite of false spirituality is being wholehearted in worshipping Yahweh. You are a soldier. Don't freak out and lose heart. 'Waking the Dead' by John Eldredge. Spiritually mature people pray over events in their area. Ananias, Paul, Cornelius, and the Jerusalem congregation were all praying. Yeshua the Judge, Teacher, King, Prophet, and Redeemer. Cast the first stone is a quote from the Torah. Qualifications for a true king of Israel. Not a foreigner, a brother of the Jewish people. Yeshua hasn't yet fulfilled the whole Torah. He will at his return. The resurrected Prophet. Yeshua used to say something often. Hebrew highlights. Chassidim in the New Testament. Tamid, regular prayers of shacharit and mincha. Tanners stunk because they used dog poop. Arba kanfot are the four corners of the tallit in Peter's vision. Preaching shalom. Paul's name was not changed from Saul to Paul. He was always both. Night of escape through the reeds. http:// Teaching on the month of Elul, the sixth month on the Biblical/Hebrew/Jewish/Israel calendar, from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Follows two months of golden calf and sin of spies. Quote from Rashi. Month of repentance, forgiveness, and mercy. Romantic month. Hebrew acronym for Elul from Song of Songs. Symbolism of Pesach and Shavuot. Drawing near. Going from 'back to back' to 'face to face' at Yom Kippur. Constellation is Betulah, the Virgin. Story from Likkutei Torah, the king in the field. What John Maxwell calls moving slowly through the crowd. Practical applications and Jewish customs for Elul. Blow the shofar, God's alarm clock. Theme of awakening. Pray Tehillim 27. Meditate on Shir ha Shirim. Pursue shalom and reconciliation with everyone. Have tefillin and mezuzot checked by sofer. Symbolism of phylacteries and doorpost. Questions for men. Month of preparation, comparable to Friday. Soul-searching, praying slichot, humbling oneself. Story of Rabbi Saadia Gaon, an Arabic speaking Jew. Romantic lines from ancient Hebrew love poetry. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why he's always tackling popular misconceptions and controversial topics. Quotes from Stalin and HItler. Ideas are dangerous and can be disastrous. Satan as the liar and progenitor of lies, deceiving the whole world. Lies, incorrect ideas, ignorance of the facts, and off-base theology are the greatest weapon in Satan's arsenal. You are a warrior for the cause of truth. The restoration prophesied by Yeshua includes a return from lies to truth. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 11-16 and Acts 8-9 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Receiving the Holy Spirit was separate experience from faith and baptism. Came through prayer and laying on of hands. Hebraisms and Hebrew expressions and idioms in Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles evidence of original Hebrew or Aramaic. Immediate immersion in water practice of early Yeshua movement. Eastern holistic approach to life as a way explains term for early Messianic community. Yeshua's body is Yeshua, so don't speak against his body. Shimon Kefa knelt in prayer. Early Christians raised the dead. The dowhatchacan principle. Mission of Israel entering Canaan picture of mission of Yeshua's disciples. Church history opposite of mission accomplished, replete with Christmas trees, mistletoe, easter eggs and ham, all foreign elements from worship of other gods, the sex and fertility cults of Baal and Asherah, mystery cults of Mithra and Tammuz. Makom as title of Mashiach. We haven't arrived yet, so grow humbly and follow Yeshua's leadership. Commandments as Biblical definition of what is good and right from God's point of view. Nerot shel Shabbat and netilat yadaim are both adding to the Torah. Don't be wowed by signs and wonders. Safeguard is to be a wholehearted lover of Yahweh. Six seasons in spiritual life and pictured in the Apostle's training. Following, fearing, keeping commands, listening to his voice, serving, and clinging to him. Historical God of the Exodus. Dietary guidelines start with identity and relationship. Israel was called his sons and the adoption belongs to Israel in Romans 9. DIfferent law for the ger, a thought for one law theology. Evil eye as a Hebrew idiom. Guard chodesh Aviv. Problem with fixed Rabbinic calendar. How to approach pilgrimage festivals. The reason for eating matzah. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 7-11 and Acts 6-7 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Dynamic hallmarks of the Yeshua movement, the early church. Holy Spirit, wisdom, faith, grace, power. Two false theses from false witnesses that have wormed their way into pop theology on the Temple service, Jewish people, and Jewish tradition. Disproof of false charges. Hellenists and Hebrews explains Shaul, Paul. Messianic cohanim continued as cohanim. In Messianic nomology, Torah is living oracles, living words. Eighteenth blessing in Amidah. Church in the wilderness and the ecclesia of Israel. Inconsistent translation. Ekklesia was born on Pentecost 3500 years ago at the base of mount Sinai. Izzy's debut as celebrity singer. Live tefillin/phylacteries demo. Literal mitzvah. Five lines of evidence that Yeshua bound tefillin. Torah commands us to. Halachically, Yeshua was a Pharisee. Even radical Essenes bound phylacteries as common Jewish tradition. Mashiach was a traditional Jew, raised by Yosef who was a tzaddik. Eusebius writes in Panarion 29 of the Sect of the Nazarenes. They were still Torah-observant Jews. Tefillin represent radical devotion to Mashiach and intense dedication to the Word of God. Law of growth applied to discipleship and application of Bible. Birkat Ha Mazon, Grace After Meals. Love the ger means love your visitors and newbies. Circumcision of the heart is all over the Old Testament. Use of the term Adonai Yahweh. Respect traditional Jewish prayers. Don't be paranoid of terms like 'Lord'. The wilderness and Elohim are both called gadol and nora, great and awesome. He guards the covenant and his grace with his lovers and guardians of his mitzvot. Special level of grace and power springing from covenant devotion. http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 3-7 and Acts 3-5 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Jewish context of book of Acts. Yeshua's apostles prayed mincha at the traditional time in conjunction with the afternoon sacrifice, the tamid offering. Linguistic and historical background for 'Nazarene' as title of Mashiach. The concept of the tzaddik in the Jewish world and our ultimate legendary Tzaddik. Refuah shlemah, complete healing. Jewish Christology, that Mashiach Ben David would raise Mashiach Ben Yosef from the dead. Period of restoration described by all the prophets of Israel. Bless you by turning you from wickedness. Tactical prayer. God uses uneducated and untrained blue collar workers and trades guys. God kills people for messing with him. Healing is God's will. All who came to Yeshua and the Apostles were healed. Yeshua grants repentance and forgiveness to Israel. Ruach ha Kodesh to those who shema to his voice, obey him. Listening precedes love and other secrets of the Shema. Role of Torah study in the Messianic community. Say the Shema and discuss Torah. Do mezuzah and tefillin as literal commands. Adonai is a good and Scriptura title for God, contrary to extreme sacred name ideology. Moshe wasnt complacent. Generally, Jews add to and Christians subtract from the Torah. Biblical definition of wisdom. Unpacking the closeness of God. Be very careful not to forget. Under the mountain basis for under the Law. God's top 10. Images and quote from Sam Keen. Elohim speaks from the fire and causes your heart to burn. God is gracious to a specific category, his lovers and guardians of his mitzvot. Work six days. Remember you were slaves. Pop theology is the opposite of Pauline nomology. God's love basis of faithfulness to his promises to his people. http:// Acts 1-2 (poor sound quality) http:// Teaching on Deuteronomy 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Overview of book of Deuteronomy. Repetition of the Law, the Mishneh Torah. Hebrew linguistic context of comments on Priesthood in Epistle to the Hebrews 7. Daniel Lancaster's brilliant series on Hebrews explaining the deuteros. Value of review in studying Torah and textbooks for exam for high school or university. Brain research and key to unlocking long term memory. Audience of Deuteronomy. Anachronistic reading and preaching. Unity of klal Yisrael and presence in spirit. Take the Scriptures personally. Eleven days from Sinai to Canaan. Geographical distance relative to dimension of faith. Bible exposition and expositional preaching as writing clearly and digging a deep well. Moshe clarified the Torah, as does our sage Yeshua. 600,000 stars available to the naked eye. Torah math indicates the ideal population of the state of Israel is 600 million. Birth control and abortion are two of the greatest enemies of Israel. Intermarriage and assimilation two of the greatest reducers of Jewish community. Sneak peak at concrete figures on Israel's census from Messianic Era. Israel's geo-political boundaries in Messianic Era. Dealing with fear, panic, shock. Preaching the gospel may result in your premature and violent death. Make aliyah in Torah study. Climb the mountain. Faith isn't based on external stimuli or personal experience. It's based on the spirit you're influenced by. Strengthen Joshua. Church history repeat of Israel's history. Edom/Seir in Jewish midrash as Rome. Circling the mountain of religion and dying of dizziness or boredom. God is wild and uncontrollable and your job is to follow. Dangers of reducing God to a theological system or religious routine. Father carrying son, RIck and Dick Hoyt, picture of God carrying you. Poetic remix of 'Footprints In The Sound', 'Buttprints In The Sand'. http:// Teaching on Numbers 30-36 and John 18-21 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Seemingly irrelevant Bible verses such as Atarot and Dibon. Read the whole parasha and don't skip verses. Read at home and at synagogue. Crossing over to yourself, armed to the teeth. Find yourself in your going over to Israel, arming yourself with tools for the mission, and helping your brothers come into their inheritance. Your militancy affects the nation. It takes a community to raise a child, make a disciple, and take the world for Messiah. Your inheritance as your speres of influence including work, family, friends, school, media. Addictions, problems, weakness, dysfunction, fear, are giants to be taken down. Countering hyper-feminism, both secular and evangelical. Foundation for heatlhy family relationships and shalom in the home. Challenge to men to be involved in their families' lives. Paul taught Torah to Gentiles. Silence is agreement in issues such as abortion and antisemitism. Picture of Yahweh's forgiveness. Practical advice for girls and young women. Lessons from the Bielski brothers. Pinchas and leadership training. 42 encampments in the wilderness correspond to 42 month of Great Tribulation. First stop en route out of Egypt is Sukkot. Yeshua walked into conflict and was bold and in your face. Yeshua always taught in synagogues and the Temple. Yeshua says he's the King. Our job as witnesses. Yeshua and Hashem. Political ends and violent methodologies. Yeshua spoke Hebrew. Mashiach's first words. Aliyah to the Father. Take for yourselves. Why was Yeshua unrecognizable. Talmidim as spiritual sons. Mashiach advocated unconventional techniques. Hebrew idiom for crucifixion. Violent and premature death for Messiah's cause glorifies God. Kiddush Hashem in the Jewish world. None of your business. http:// Teaching on from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Personal discipleship and spiritual growth first. Then power and numerical growth. Applies individually and communally. Sent to yourself, who you really are. Travelling to Israel. Hebrew meaning of Paran. Beautification of the bride. Joshua is Yehoshua. No evidence Yeshua was ever called this. Enlarged Samech in Vayahas. Can't versus Can. Correct details and wrong conclusions. Counterculture attitudes. The land of Israel is very very good. Reputation of God in prayer. Enlarged Yod. Physical dimensions subsumed in overwhelming divine reality. Evil church of Israel. Justice and getting what you want. Age 20. Comfort, creative ways of communicating, and the Holy One's love language. One Torah for all, but not forced. Marching out with boldness and defiance. Context of Gospel of John in Jerusalem, Judaism, and the Festivals such as Sukkot and Hoshanna Rabba. The Jews in John mean Judean political and religious leadership, or the Judean people. Moadim are deeply Jewish. Principle of speaking from Mashiach and for his glory in midrash. Circumcision and dietary laws are from the Avot. Positive mitzvah takes precedence over negative. Where I am - a mystical glimpse into the inner life of the Master. Truth is defined by and as the Torah. http:// Teaching on Numbers 16-18 and John 9-10 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Have a parsha named after you and go down in infamy. Understanding the Biblical concept of judgment as valuating correctly. Laura and Almanzo from Little House on the Prarie. Conclusions based on physical criteria are incorrect. Faith perspective and practical atheism. You are every wicked ruler and sick villain in the whole Bible. That's where the Gospel comes in. How to respond when criticized and verbally attacked. Yahweh's glory vindicated Moshe and Aharon and will vindicate his Mashiach. Fruitfulness means making talmidim. Unhealthy approaches to Shabbat and disgusting self-righteousness. Almonds picture of excellent teaching producing alertness. Shiloach pictures those sent into your life. Not all Pharisees were bad and rejected Jesus. God uses people with inglorious backgrounds and uneducated, uncredentialed types. Yeshua hiked several days to Jerusalem for Chanukah. Tehillim are Torah too. http:// Teaching on from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Expansive parsha stretching from Sinai to threshold of Canaan. Connection between lighting menorah and seven readers making aliyah to bema. Menorah is the emblem of Yeshua faith, Messianism, early Christianity. Many flamed candelabrum picture of local body of Christ. Parallels between priestly and apostolic work. Early tradition of James the Righteous, Yaakov ha Tzaddik. Age 25 to 30 is training phase. 30 to 50 years olds are on the front lines and working hard. Seniors as mentors, training and offering vital support. Questions that start with 'and'. Femininine attributes of God. Pesach Sheni, the Second Passover, and practical applications for Yeshua's people. Halacha for specific situations. Dire warning. Observable trend that slowly took over the early church. Moving according to Yahweh's word. Example of holy community gathering. Law forever. Days of joy and learning to celebrate. Messianic Judaism's history. FFOZ, First Fruits of Zion. Presence and written Word. Inverted nuns and Hebrew liturgy. Picture of anointing. Prophecy as sign of Holy Spirit. Personal issues cloaked with religious talk and false fronts. Simple prayer. Connection between inner disease and outer disease, lashon hara and leprosy. Salvation by works. Spiritually disabled and Torah-observant. Yeshua flagrantly contradicts oral law, mishneh she b'al peh. Jesus did not break the Sabbath. Yeshua as Son of Man, Ben Adam. The rejoicing insect. Yeshua's drash in the Capernaum synagogue. http:// Teaching on Numbers 4-7 and John 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Hebrew wordplay in ruach as wind and spirit. Wind as picture. Earthly things include basic commands of Torah pertaining to lifestyles, work schedules, diets, who we marry, etc. ABC's of faith. Danger of being too earthly or too heavenly. Be physical and spiritual. Understanding chayei olam, eternal life. Mission to save, not judge. Blowing arrogance out of the world. Defining light. The Master's intensive leadership training techniques. Shavuot story in Gospel of Yochanan paralleling Ruth. Object lessons as powerful communication medium and springboard point. Hebrew wordplay of mayim chaim, living water. Yeshua sidesteps religious debates and cuts through to real issue. No dis on Jerusalem and the Temple system. Samaritan Gerizim a false and unbiblical system. Hebrew wordplay, Yeshua and Yeshuah. Yeshua refers to Jewish people as 'we'. Jesus was and is a Jew. Why two days. Priestly work is of a military nature and involves warfare more intense, grueling, dangerous, and challenging than any Marine, Ranger, or Navy Seal will ever face. Confess your sins verbally and publically. Paramount import of shalom bait, peace in the home. Story of neder ha nazir, the Nazarite vow that Izzy took. Why Birkat Cohanim follows Sotah and Nazir. Hebrew baby names mean something. Overview of ethos of exodus generation. The anointed altar. http:// Teaching on the Festival of Shavuot/Weeks/Pentecost from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Tackling popular misconceptions. New covenant is not antithetical to previous foundational covenants. Parallels between the gift of the Torah and the gift of the Ruach ha Kodesh. Same date, the fiftieth day. Same time, early in the morning. Boy taking girl out on date showing up at 5 in the morning. Both public events. Visible glory. Thundering, earthshaking, audible. Tangible, indeniable, in your face theophany. Common misconception that the disciples were in the upper room when they were in the temple. 70 languages of the nations. Flames of fire reminiscent of Moshe's burning bush. Violent rushing wind and shofar blast. Same people, the nation of Israel. When was the birth of the church. Mystical birth of Mashiach's bride from his side pictured by Chavah from Adam's side. Same person glorified. Same Law given, clarified, upheld, and proclaimed. Same preparation. People redeemed and brought out of the system and into the wilderness. Third day in millenial terms. http:// Teaching on from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Times of the Gentiles have been fulfilled. Crisis liturgy for Gentiles. Yeshua prays for you. When Mashiach joins a midrash. Yeshua had a hallmark way of breaking bread. Shalom aleichem. What precedes forgiveness of sins. Power from on high. Shnat HaYovel, the Jubilee year. Beginning of Jewish civic year in autumn. Return to family farm and extended family. Redemption, geulah, of Israel. More than people, it's the land and cosmos. More than individuals, it's national. Role of ritual and ceremony. Sacred space and time. Quote from 'Iron John' by Robert Bly. Nothing sacred in our culture. Hashem the mikdash m'at, the little sanctuary. Conditional blessings. Selective theology of Word of Faith and Prosperity Gospel hermeneutic. Persona, marital, civic, and national shalom. Shalom as title of Mashiach. Evil beasts and negative life forms including terrorists, political entities that compromise and sell their country out, doctors that murder infants, corporations that inject gmo and carcinogens into the populace's diet, and mosquitoes. No sword not a reference to gun control. Being fruitful, i.e. having many children, is a blessing. Curses as consquences of choosing the liar, murdered, and destoyer and limited experiences of hell. Coldness. Note of hope in Hoshea 1. Solution to exile. Ashes of Isaac. Yeshua's blessing on the Messianic community. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why he wears a kippah/yarmulke/skullcap, underscores the dangers of getting noogies, interprets Paul's statements about men covering their heads, gives an overview of the tradition, and tells his story of returning to Judaism, sorting through tradition and mitzvah, discovering his Ukrainian Jewish family's past, and remembering his extended family members who were killed in the shoah/holocaust. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 21-24 and Luke 18-20 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Too easy to focus on others instead of ourselves in spiritual growth and Torah observance. Pharisaic practice of fasting twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. Looking up to heaven in prayer. Quotes from Siddur and Didache. Tradition of smiting the chest. Bringing babies. Which mitzvah the Master left out and why. Yeshua's question, 'What do you want?' Value of desire and setting quantifiable goals. What the term Ben Avraham, Son of Abraham, meant to Mashiach. Cities responding to Yeshua and disastrous consequences of rejection of Yeshua and Yochanan the Immerser. Celebration of the festival commandments contributes to greatness in the kingdom. Feasts bad translation of moa'dim. Whose are the appointed times. Proclaim with a loud voice and cry out the truth of the holy convocations. Breakdown of Hebrew verbal root qara, to call or cry out, as calling on the name of Yahweh in prayer, publicly reading the Scriptures, preaching, and inviting others to join us. Sabbath first of the feasts of the Lord. Also a mitzvah to work from Sunday to Friday. Quote from Brian Tracy. We're commanded to have holy gatherings, not just rest. Journal entries and warm fuzzies. Matzot, Bikkurim, Omer/Sheaf counting. Kindness to the disadvantaged. Spring Festivals partially fulfilled in first coming of Mashiach. Yomei Teruah and Kippur and Sukkot. Offerings by fire. Vignette from early church history, the quartodeciman controversy. Tertullian and the Sabbatati. http:// Boaz Michael - "Disciples Of Peace" http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy points out that men don't wear shawls, proposes that tallits be called prayer-capes or prayer-cloaks in English and explains why some men at the Crown wear them. BIblical commandment. Greek term for tassels, tzitzit, is kraspidon and is the word used for the hem of Yeshua's garment in Matthew and Mark. Tassels indicate nationality, social status, and job description, pictured by the cord of Judah in Genesis. Ancient ID. Coming under the Father's covering in the morning in prayer. Healing in the wings of the Sun of Righteousness in Malachi 4 a prophecy of healing powers of Mashiach. Wearing tzitzit on the belt. Pioneering practical, functional version of the Torah. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 9-11 and Luke 7-9 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Megashift by Gene Rutz. You have a mission to stop hearses and liquidate death. It starts with compassion. Deep love, spiritual power, and and a Torah-lifestyle are a powerful combination. John the Baptist's message today is the same as Elijah's. Warning from Shimon the Pharisee for the Messianic Jewish/Hebrew Roots movement. Yeshua wore fringes. Go to shalom. Path to cool spiritual experiences. Stay focused on Yeshua, centered on Mashiach. 'Heavenly Man' about Brother Yun. 'Through The Fire Without Burning' by Dimitri Duduman. Yeshua's aliyah to Jerusalem. Tough face. Yeshua challenged people and wasn't always seeker-sensitive. Understanding the eighth day. Middle of the Torah as the belly of the Torah. Obedience and Glory. Priestly Blessing and Glory. People die when the Glory comes. Call to be sober and serious. Call to differentiate. One mitzvah in Gan Eden, related to appetite and diet. Old Testament is the dictionary of the New Testament. Enemy says 'has God really said". Returning to Pauline Nomology. Explaining Peter's vision in the book of Acts. Enlarged Vav in middle of the Pentateuch in gachon, belly. Biblical definitions of abomination, disgusting things, that which is gross. Clean out the pork, rabbit, and shellfish. How to avoid the error of Anne of Green Gables. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we count the omer, the fifty days from Passover/Pesach up to Shavuot/Pentecost, emphasizes the challenge, gives practical ideas, and sets the practice in the context of God's mitzvot and love language. http:// Go to http://www.crownofmessiah.com to connect with us. Izzy tells the story of his Ford F-250 crisis, the heroic Nissan, and the importance of community and communication. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 6-8 and Luke 4-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Expose of Satan's tactics. Attack relationship with Father. Tempation to act independently. Yeshua quotes book of of Deuteronomy, the Penateuch. Yeshua's custom of going to synagogue on Saturday morning. Yeshua preached because he loved the Jewish people and was passionate about preaching. Context of puzzling sunset phrase. Sky shut up three years six months Jewish extrabiblical tradition. Careers and spiritual mission. Wilderness. New wineskins and D. Thomas Lancaster's book 'King of the Jews'. Questions of correct Sabbath observance. Word for the movement. What does discipleship look like. Plug for HaYesod video course by First Fruits of Zion. Connection between neck and commandment, tzav and mitzvah, as connectors. Profile of offerings olah, minchah, chatat, asham, zevach shlamim. Burnt, grain, sin, guilt, and peace offerings. Studying Torah for its own sake. Principle of first the natural. Olah and fire picture Mashiach's submersion, testing, and power. Matzah and challah. Lawes forever. Why does Yeshua say 'do no think'. Profiles of offerings zevach todah, neder, and nedavah. Desiring compassion and not sacrifice. Developing a culture of thanksgiving. The physical action of ordination. Filling the hands and the filling of the Holy Spirit. Hands-on equipping with tools. Makita tools. http:// Teaching on Leviticus 1-5 and Luke 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Ben Adam, Bar Enosh, Son of Man. Temple Service in Leviticus and Luke. Cohen ha Mashiach, the Messianic Priest. Collective mitzvot. Tzaddik attitude. Jewish context of Gospel of Luke. Jacob and David. Yeshua named on eight day, Jewish tradition. Joy and brit milah. Keren yeshuah in fourteenth blessing of Amidah. Greatest enemy of Israel not Romans, Nazis, Hamas, or Hizbullah. Ultimate enemies are sin and death. Christ the Lord as Aramaic Maryah Meshicha in Peshitta. Stones and sons as Hebrew wordplay in avanim and banim. Stereotype of Leviticus as boring. Vayikra central to Torah and heart of divine revelation. Why does book begin with and. Leviticus as heartcry of Elohim. Word to Gentiles from Shaul. Diminished Aleph represents Yeshua as concealed anointed Cohen. Universality of Torah and message of Leviticus. All humanity invited to worship, and the house of prayer for all peoples. Karav and korban. Drawing near and relational intimacy as heart of temple service. Olah and aliyah as living sacrifice. Fire of the Holy Spirit and Cross in etzim and esh. Fragrance in offerings and Apostolic Epistles. Understanding nefesh. Bikkurim and aviv. Zevach shlamim and shalom. Inner element of Torah. Liver picture of the glory filtering out toxins, poisons, dangerous elements. Adat and kahal. Shag, Avishag, Meshuga. Leader and group sin. Yesod. Understanding forgiveness in the original Hebrew. Am ha aretz. Witnesses must speak out. http:// Celtic swordplay and Messianic Jewish dance. David the manly man and terrorizer of the Philistines. David the passionate dancer. Saul the calm, cool, and collected with the Clint Eastwood stare. Izzy's Scottish roots and an ancient Celtic proverb. http:// Part 3 of a trilogy on the Biblical calendar, the Hebrew/Jewish/Israel calendar. Tackling popular misconceptions about the calendar and stating the facts. Dangers of judgmentalism, bad attitudes, and arrogance. Divisiveness and false unity versus true unity. Why did Yeshua say, 'do not think'. Following Orthodox Judaism for the sake of unity with greater Israel. Expiration date on arguments. Foremost objective to look like Rabbinic Judaism, or Yeshua. No evidence laws of postponement were the halacha of Yeshua Rabbeinu. Danger of downplaying historical facts and objective truth in halachic decisions. Torah and Gospels teach that the majority are usually wrong, therefore following world Jewry isn't always right. Using same calendar to unify Judah and Ephraim so the sticks of Ezekiel 37 came become one is incorrect methodology. Danger of following Sanhedrin in all halachic decisions. Yeshua has all authority. he gaves the Apostles the keys of the kingdom to bind and to loose, i.e. to render halachic decisions. Emissaries broke with Sanhedrin when asked to discontinue following the Master. We can be sure. Fixed calendar and Rabbinic Judaism is not First Century Pharisaic Judaism. Accurate represention of and witness for Mashiach to the Jewish community. Conversancy in calendar sign of Israel's return, harbinger of the end of the exile, portent of soon coming of Mashiach. We are a foreglimmering of the restoration of Israel, the ushering in of the Messianic redemption. We are leaders in Judaism. Yeshua is the ultimate authority in Judaism and has the authority to restore the calendar. That is good news. Elijah restores all things, not the nascent Sanhedrin. Watching for the New Moon is not Karaite. It's Orthodox Jewish. Fixed calendar more result of Roman persecution than exile. Jewish people's return to Israel and the end of the exile in 1948. Dangers of tradition, psychological homestasis, and the ghetto mindset. Lunar Sabbath false teaching. God is precise, not sloppy. Call to love God with all our minds. Objective of reconstructing Torah lifestyle as practiced in Yeshua's time. Sighting Aviv barley. Remembering Jerusalem and Torah coming from Zion. Observation of New Moon in Maccabean, Herodian, and Mishnaic periods according to Mishnah. Rosh Hashanah as head of the year. http:// Part 2 of a trilogy on the Biblical calendar, the Hebrew/Jewish/Israel calendar. Message of John the Baptizer was repent, return. Mantle of Elijah on Yochanan the Immeror and the Messianic Jewish movement. 144,000 in book of Revelation. Torah is roadmap to God's glory. Appointed times essential to the Torah. Meditation on donkeys. Mashiach came on a donkey, prophesied in Zechariah. Theme in Jewish tradition. Donkey emblem of specific tribe of Israel. Relevance of tribes of Israel to present and future in Acharit Hayamim, Ezekiel's vision of Millenial Kingdom, new Jerusalem's gates in Revelation, 144,000. Issachar as Torah scholars and calendar experts. High number of heads of Sanhedrin and Soferim from Issachar. Not social trending season marketing. Experts in art of intercalating the leap month in Jewish calendar. Story of Rosh Chodesh sighting. Lunar months. Smoke signals and calculation in Second Temple and Mishanic eras. Rabbi Hillel Ben Yehuda and fixed calendar. Arguments with Karaites. Problems with fixed Rabbinic calendar include switch from first visible crescent to conjunction, molad. Rules of postponement prohibit Rosh Hashanah from falling on Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday so Yom Kippur and Hoshanna Rabbah don't fall on certain days. Example of tradition nullifying mitzvah. Calendar drift. Pesach will be in the summer if not changed. First mitzvah to Israel after Exodus. Inserting the thirteenth month. Metonic cycle. Letter from Rabban Gamliel. Pesky Samaritans. Calendar rectification movement in Orthodox Judaism. Appointment of nascent Sanhedrin at Tiberias in 2004. Committee Concerning The Fixing Of The Calendar. www.sanhedrin.org. Legal rulings and opinions. Israeli New Moon Society, Dr. Roy Hoffman. Institute for Kiddush Ha Chodesh Studies. Machon Le Limudei Kiddush haChodesh. Babylonian month names. www.torahcalendar.com http:// Part 1 of a trilogy on the Biblical calendar, the Hebrew/Jewish/Israel calendar. Rosh chodesh, the new month. Purpose for the moon's creation. What would Jesus do? What Jesus did. How Yeshua planned his day, scheduled his time, and structured his worship life. Greatness in the kingdom and mitzvot. Paul and the early Christians and the calendar and feasts of Israel. Festivals as shadow. How celebrating the Festivals is a component of discipleship. How keeping the feasts is a component of ushering in the Kingdom and crowning Yeshua our King. Sneak peak of what we'll be doing when Mashiach comes. How to celebrate Rosh Chodesh. How the new moon is a picture of Messiah, Israel, and the New Covenant. Why it's important. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy tells a humorous story about show and tell at school featuring a Catholic rosary, a Muslim prayer mat, and a Messianic crockpot and explains why we do oneg (potluck-fellowship luncheon) after services. Joy of eating together. Original Baptist jokes about crockpots. Calling Shabbat a delight and not a day for vegging out. Yom Kippur as test. http:// Teaching on Exodus 35-40 and Mark 16 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Sitting Shiva for the Master. Messianic halacha of immersion in water, baptism. Signs of the covenant including circumcision/milah, unleavened bread/matzot, redemption of firstborn/pidyon haben, Shabbat/Sabbath, and tefillin/phylacteries. Being moved by a willing heart. Leaders who cut loose, wildmen who are wild, and men who are uncontrollable. Heart of nobility. Yeshua adds to and builds his ekklesia. Mishkan as picture of union of body of Mashiach. Unity is a mitzvah. Resurrection of the tabernacle. Yeshua as artist, workman, carpenter. Meaning of Hebrew names Bezalel and Oholiab. Do what's in your heart to do. Curtains picture of healthy sisterhood. Frequently repeated phrase as Yahweh commanded Moshe. Messianic Judaism rising up in spirit of Elijah. Understanding the anointing on Aaron and sons. International Woman's Day. Understanding the essence of femininity. Don't light fires on Shabbat and irony of Messianic practice. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we finish our gatherings with the singing of the Birkat Cohanim, the Priestly Blessing from Numbers 6. http:// Izzy tells a story about getting his wedding ring repolished as alalogous with returning to Shabbat, the sign of the covenant. http:// Teaching on Exodus 30-34 and Mark 13-14 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Yeshua's inner circle. Check out our Passover seder teaching. Hebrew term for Dad, Abba, makes it through Greek to English. Jewish context of Gospel of Mark. Mashiach Ben Hamevorach. Yeshua used circumlocutions. Chronology of Acharit Hayamim. Abomination of desolation kickoff. Holocaust was worse than destruction of Second Temple, rules out preterist position. Rapture and the kibbutz hagaliyot, ingathering of the exiles from Amidah in Siddur. Small differences are BIG. Enlarged nun and Rav Chesed. Hebrew roots of English words. Book show and tell with The Word by Isaac Mozeson. Bitterness, pain, and suffering resulting in freedom. Ancient copyrighted essential oils recipe. His presence distinguishes us. The ten commandments as ten words, aseret hadvarim, eser hadibrot. Inconsistency of netilat yadaim. Shabbat as sign of eternal covenant. Global catastrophe on economic and geographical scales. Allah as curse. Old Covenant connections with freshness and freedom. Picture of New Covenant. Divine revelation of mercy, grace, patience, forgiveness at the heart of the Old Testament. Asherah and book show and tell The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop. New Covenant experience prophesied by Ezekiel includes restoration of God's honour, ingathering to Israel, deep cleansing, new heart and spirit, and inspired Torah-observance. http:// London dating service stats on the rise of digital dumping via Facebook, Twitter, Text, and Email. Social commentary on the dating world, cheap relationships, and the easy-come easy-go approach. Why Izzy doesn't believe in dating. Dangers of broken hearts, practice for divorce, and premature physical involvement. Contrast with the biblical model of courtship and betrothal which is designed to protect people's hearts. Yeshua the Messiah will never dump you because you are betrothed to him. The lie of replacement theology that God dumped the Jewish people. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we have precisely seven readers go up, make aliyah, to the bema or reading pulpit every Shabbat. http:// Teaching on Exodus 27-30 and Mark 12 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. People-watching at the mall. Watch the world with your Rabbi Yeshua. Shema greatest mitzvah, first verse learned by Jewish children, last words of observant Jew. Drought predicted by Josephus. Song of the vineyard in Yeshayahu. Roman legions and multi-layered catastrophe. Strength zones and errors of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. Spirit and power combo. Have you never read favorite question of Mashiach. Hierology. Book show and tell. Truth bomb from Ezekiel's vision. Temple dimensions, dedication of the altar/chanukah hamizbeach, circumcision in heart and flesh, detailed job description and practical instructions for cohanim, temple property, monetary system and just weights and liquid and dry measures, Messianic Nasi's provision for grain, drink, burnt, sin, and peace offerings, festivals of Rosh Chodesh, Pesach, and Sukkot, river flowing from millenial Temple rejuvenating Dead Sea, allotment of land of Israel to twelve tribes, and dimensions of the holy city, Yahweh Shammah. Keeping the menorah burning. Modesty in worship. Priesthood belongs to Aharon and progeny as a law forever. Reason for the Exodus is, his presence. His glory sets us apart, not our actions or lingo. Glory as the full weight of who he is. Only genre of Scripture preceded with a disclaimer. Yeshua will spearhead and build the Temple in the Messianic Era. Cohen ha Gadol as spiritual warrior slipping back and forth between physical and spiritual dimensions. Tachra as coat of mail. Bells striking, pounding, like blacksmith hammer, like hoofbeats of massive war steed. Pray audibly. http:// Teaching on Exodus 25-27 and Mark 10-11 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Personal glimpses of Yeshua. His custom to teach people. Thinking in terms of history. Asking the Rabbi. Yeshua hugs kids and blesses them. Yeshua feels love. Yeshua the man's man. Stereotypical male values from Why Men Hate Going To Church by David Murrow of the Christian men's movement. Challenging. Calls his disciples his sons. Stand to pray. Guys, seriously dynamic equivalent of verily verily. Sacrifice and reward. Courageous, valiant, bold. Shows the path to greatness. Downright aggresive for righteousness. Moving mountains is a Hebrew idiom. Halachic questions on divorce and the context of Hillel and Shammai. Torah wasn't given to angels. Marriage and separation. Invitation to desire, dream big, set quantifiable goals. Vision on the mountain and implementation in the camp. Connection betwen har and harah in Ivrit. God wants your cash and major credit cards. Men are like boards and women are like curtains. Building sisterhood. Men who stand. Building a sanctuary for Hashem in our speech and actions. Hebrew root for mishkan and shechinah. Hebrew root for pattern, tavnit, as son, preceded by aleph and tav. Resurrecting the tabernacle. Blood seals the testimony. The place where the Holy One will meet with you, speak to you, and reveal his glory to you. Breakdown of the aron/ark/chest/box. Exposition of the mercy seat/kaparah/lid. Illustration of the cherubim/kruvim. Our mission to protect the gospel and gaurd the message of Mashiach. Faces of each man to his brother over the atonement. Meaning of the phrase, and lift up his countenance to you. Differentiating between holiness and extreme holiness. http:// Creative teaching on the roles of teaching and midrash in the Messianic Jewish/Hebrew Roots movement. Videos of swerving and exploding arrows. The place where the Holy One will meet with you, speak to you, and reveal his glory to you. Breakdown of the aron/ark/chest/box. Exposition of the mercy seat/kaparah/lid. Illustration of the cherubim/kruvim. Our mission to protect the gospel and gaurd the message of Mashiach. Faces of each man to his brother over the atonement. Meaning of the phrase, and lift up his countenance to you. Differentiating between holiness and extreme holiness. Torah as archery, shooting arrows. You are called to teach. Path to greatness in the Kingdom. Abunch of babies versus teachers. Classical archery and Newton's First Law of Motion. Why Biblical teaching will make you uncomfortable. The why of teaching. Office in the ekklesia. Stricter evaluation and standard. Mission of Messianic Judaism to direct the body of Christ. Relationship between congregation and teacher. Employees deserve their paycheques. Midrash as a search. History of midrash in Jewish world. Beit Midrash and holy texts. Yeshua asked questions and made his talmidim think. What midrash is and isn't. Privelege. Prophetic gift. Short teachings. No arguments, wranglings. dumb speculations, Jewish myths/aggadot. Married women asking husbands. Community life strengthens families and reinforces marriages. No spiritual adultery. Focus on mitzvot and stay practical. The role of grace. Asking God for revelation. Be personal. Speak from God's heart. Give me the facts and apply them to my life. Use parables, stories, analogies, and object lessons like your Rabbi. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we pray the 'Avinu', the 'Our Father' prayer. http:// In Part 2 of this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy reviews the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament, the Delitzsch Hebrew New Testament, the Zalkinson Hebrew New Testament, James Trimm's Hebrew Roots Version Scriptures, the Jewish Publication Society's Tanach, and Artscroll's Stone Edition Tanach, http:// Teaching on Exodus 13-17 and Mark 6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Humour in omer tenth of ephah. How to deal with people from your past who refuse to accept who you are. Healing connection. Corrective and directive message for the Hebrew Roots and Messianic Jewish movements. Bones of Joseph and essence of Yeshua. Remember Yeshua. Read the Apostolic Scriptures, the New Testament. First Fruits of Zion and Torah Portions. Core identity not as Messianic Jew, Torah-Observant Ephraimite, Karaite, Sacred Namer, Circumlocutor, follower of this or that ministry or teacher, rather as a disciple of Yeshua. Being wrapped up in who Mashiach is. Messiah's Torah versus Rabbinic Torah in areas including names of calendar months, laws of postponement, brachot for washing hands and candle lighting. Life-giving, love-based, and freedom-giving complete Torah. Profile of Miryam as spiritual prophetess with propensity towards bitterness, negativity, gossiper, and character assasinator. Staff of Moseh and authority of Torah. Explaining Peter's vision of the sheet that historically has been misunderstood as abrogating the dietary laws. Prophetic elements in first exodus and greater second exodus in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Egypt and emergent Israel, Globalist one world government and economic system in Great Tribulation. Hebrew insights. Halacha. Preparing for Shabbat. Prerequisites to healing. Yeshua wore tzitzit and so should you. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy reviews various Bible originals and translations including the Message by Eugene Peterson, the Hebrew Tanach, the Greek New Testament, the Scriptures by the Institute for Scripture Research, the New American Standard, contrasts word for word with dynamic equivalent translations, and discusses the ideals of a translation - accuracy, understandability, original Hebrew pronunciation - and the practice of intentionally replacing English nomenclature with the original Hebrew when reading standard Christian English translations. http:// Teaching on Exodus 10-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Easy and hard aspects of discipleship. Bundles of mitzvot in Matzot and Pidyon ha Ben. Important of Passover and Unleavened Bread. The why of guarding. Do this in remembrance in me a reference to a cup of the Passover seder. Pesach is for Jews and Gentiles. God looks at the physical sign. Similarity between ancient and modern hagadot. Lambs will be slaughtered in Ezekiel's temple. Bitter herbs, maror. Hiking boots, backpack, passport, and full tank of fuel. Eating fast. Memorial of Mashiach. Holy gatherings. Why food preparation forbidden on Shabbat. Removal of leaven, bedikat chametz. Science of intercalation of the Jewish calendar. Babylonian calendar names. Powerful redemption of firstborn son ceremony in the Torah is a sign on your hand and totafot between your eyes. Yahweh is a generational God. He saves families. Going with the youth. High apostasy rate in Evangelical churches. Complete salvation. Mystery of future. Sukkot first stop in Exodus, similar to Jacob en route to Israel. http:// Teaching on Exodus 6-9 and Mark 3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Two phases of discipleship. Yeshua's nicknames for his boys. The Rock and the Thunder Boys. Quote from Pirkei Avot on average age of apprenticing to a Rabbi in the Jewish world. Some Pharisees were evil. Unified and divided houses. The second, greater Exodus prophesied in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Two witnesses of the Exodus and the book of Revelation. Distinction between Goshen and Egypt. The three days resurrection power that takes us through the coming New World Order to safety. Why the coming beast system and anti-Messiah will be empowered and allowed to rule the earth. Comparison of plagues in Exodus and Revelation. Seven verbs of the Pesach cup. What God's name is all about. Resurrecting the covenant. Commandment as mission and charge. Militant side to Yahweh as the God of armies. Navi as spokeman. God of the Hebrews. Finger of the Almighty in Old and New Testaments. Importance of the mo'ed, the definite time. Aviv barley. Hebrew idiom for prayer. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why going up to the bema to read from the Torah is called 'making aliyah'. http:// Teaching on Exodus 1-6 and Mark 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Israel's exile and the scattering of Yeshua's disciples not the end of the story. Analysis of Israel's dynamic dna in action. Parellel with dna of body of Mashiach in the nations. Recommended reading including Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Martyr's Mirror, Heavenly Man with Brother Yun, and Voice of the Martyrs with Wurmbrandt. Profile of dark spirit behind world system. Fears aliyah, uses tactical burdens and anti-shabbat theology, promotes infacticide i.e. abortion. Profile of God of Israel. Calling you out of the system into the wilderness, is engaged and involved and not absent or distant, is forever to all generations, is THE God, is allied with the Hebrew ethnicity. Profile of Moshe. Resorted to violence, negative, pessimistic, worse-case scenario-generator, poor public speaker, sloppy with mitzvot, became discouraged and doubted the mission, wasn't fluent with Hebrew, never really belonged, and was a reject. Healing of leprosy and believing the second sign. Israel as title of Mashiach. Plug for midwifery and natural birth. Hebrew flash insights on chayot, chorev, and hineni. Breishit in gospel of Mark. Son of God is a Jewish title in Tehillim and Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran community. Message of God's kingdom. New Torah backed with power. Cultural context. Yeshua and solitude in secluded places. Jesus is tough and intolerant. http:// Teaching on Genesis 47-50 and Matthew 26-28 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Unity prerequisite to outpouring of Holy Spirit. Understanding Shiloh. Yeshua as salvation. Unilateral grace, reciprocal devotion and faithfulness. Israel belongs to Israel forever. Hope as essence of prayer. Unpacking the blessing of Ephraim as it applies to Jews and Gentiles. Adoption, citizenship priveleges and inheritance rights, filling the nations, names of Abraham Isaac and Jacob living on, reproducing like fish, forgetting and fruiting, and unrecognizability to Israel. Yeshua's charge. Yeshua's forgiveness. One of Izzy's greatest heroes is a lady named Miryam. Christ's Last Supper as Last Seder. Reclining, dipping, Rabbi, bracha, breaking bread, cup, fruit of the vine, Nazarite vow, Hallel, coming Kingdom. Mysterious title of Melech Ha Yehudim. Destined for greatness like the Rock. Remember your failures. Mission to make disciples to a man, not a new world religion. Conversation on mode of baptism. Messiah will back you. Power, gevurah, as cirumclocution. Problems with Greek New Testament manuscripts not present in Aramaic Peshitta and Hebrew Matthew. Yeshua Bar Abba versus Yeshua Bar Abba. http:// Traditional Jewish approach to Torah and Talmud as ocean with innumerable points to be submerged in versus typical Christian approach of a one point sermon based on one verse. Take what's relevant and file the rest in your long term memory. Good news for hyper and attention deficit disorder people with short attention spans. http:// Teaching on Genesis 44-47 and Matthew 23-25 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Controversy of the Pharisees. Yeshua resembled a Pharisee. Yeshua wore tefillin and tzitzit. Disproval of Nehemiah Gordon's book Hebrew Yeshua Versus Greek Jesus. Karaites are biased, have an agenda, and don't factor in all the evidence. Why Izzy doesn't let people call him Rabbi. Irony of lawlessness and anarchy in the Messianic community. Plug for leadership, structure, and healthy attitudes. Anomia equals cold love. This good news. Hanukkah story as eschatological key to gospel of Matthew. Sabbatarian proof. Why you will go through the Great Tribulation and won't be raptured out beforehand. Yeshua the King of the Jews. Trailer of drama when Yeshua reveals himself to Israel. Judah as pointer and teacher in body of Christ and Messianic movement. Poetic expression for unity. Going up and down. http:// Teaching on Genesis 41-44 and Matthew 21 and 22 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Meaning of the Hebrew words Hosanna ahnd Baruch Haba. People producing results for the Kingdom. Giving to Caesar and paying your taxes. Conceptual connection between awakening and the end. Awakening to the Jewishness of Jesus and the New Paul paradigm in academia and that Christian community. Religious blindness and historical anti-semitism. The shock, outrage, and emotional reaction of chalilah. How to see Yeshua's face. The divining cup of Joseph. Spiritual experiences via the Tim Horton's cup. Remez of the mission of Yosef. Kicking babies. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we sing the birchot ha Torah. http:// Teaching on Genesis 37-40 and Matthew 19-20 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Sit on thrones governing the tribes of Israel. Burden and scorching heat. Quote from First Fruits of Zion's Torah Club and Why Men Hate Going To Church by David Murrow. What do you want? Haven't you read? Foremost emotion of Yeshua. Sadducean make-believe. Irony. When God doesn't come through, lessons from Yosef. The mysterious man. Dots over Hebrew word spelled aleph and tav, alpha and omega. Masters of Joseph. Strategic ulpan for high-ranking government position. Characteristics of Yosef include no fear of public opinion, walk with God, humility, sober judgment, intentionality, integrity, and care. Hebrew insights into shalom and hineni. The ptil techelet in the cord. The stolen Mashiach ben Yosef. Sheaves bowing to Joe and worlds to Yeshua as alumim and olamot. Pasim and peis in the Midrash Rabbah. Yeshua's dream. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why our Messianic synagogue sits facing each other instead of facing the front, shows pics from the ancient synagogues of Masada and Capernaum, and discusses why architecture depicts theology. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we read from the Torah. http:// Teaching on Genesis 32-36 and Matthew 17-18 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Listening, shemaing, to Yeshua as the prime orientation of the Messianic community. The prophesied restoration of all things. The Saskatchewan Roughriders. Quit your job, cancel your 500 channel satelite tv, end the friendship. Do whatever it takes. Running and desiring. Procedure for dealing with interpersonal conflict and public sin. Treat him as a Gentile. The Jewish context of binding and loosing versus the charismatic misunderstanding. You never know when you're going to die. The strategy of two camps. Seeing the face of Esau like the face of God. The enlarged Zayin of prostitution. Conflicting definitions of success. Devotion and loyalty. Face to face on Yom Kippur. God is proud to be your God. Sukkot and the prophetic return to the land of Israel. The kahal amim, a multi-peopled church. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we greet each other with 'Shabbat Shalom'. http:// Teaching on Genesis 28-31 and Matthew 15-16 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. The original biblical singles site. Where to find your spouse. Encountering God in the unexpected. Recognizing and memorializing defining moments through conversation and journalling. Hebrew verb paratz, to expand, break out, prosper, increase. Opposite of a pessimistic overly defensive trench worldview. Jewish theology of the Makom, place, omnipresent, the ultimate context. Mashiach as the Makom. Great love of Yeshua for his bride. Jewish theology of Mashiach ben David and Mashiach ben Yosef. Nivrechu as both blessed and grafted in. Confession, thanksgiving, and praise as the meaning of Judah and core of Jewishness. Vayizkor as acting on behalf of. Passion of Yeshua for mitzvot. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we sing the Shema, the Hear oh Israel passage from Deuteronomy 6 that Yeshua said in Mark 12 was the greatest commandment. http:// Hannah tells about her adventure harvesting grapes in Judea and Samarian, the 'West Bank'. http:// In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why our we're called Messianic and explains the different nuances between the groups of terms including Messianic, Mishichi, Anointed, and Hebrew Christian, and the group of terms including Christian, Christ, and Christos.