It was during my first college-level Bible class when I heard the word Torah. At the time, I was not familiar with what that word actually meant. I was grateful for my professor’s explanation and have come to learn even more about the Torah since then.
The ancients had little if any knowledge about how the universe worked, how old the earth was, how life came to be, etc. Moreover, their world was infused with powers that are more akin to what we would call magic than what we would call science. History was a mix between factual kno...
where Magician translates to Wizard. Sir Isaac Newton said the Torah is a book of Alchemy written using Witchcraft, he said it was a living bible, meaning that they did not make copies of it, they just wrote a new one. To hide what they were writing, they came up with a language whe...
Tim and Jon will wrap up their discussion by looking at Jesus’ response to the law. He was the answer to Old Testament prophecies, but he didn’t come to get rid of the law, Jesus came to fulfill it. As Jesus followers, we have to wrestle with what this means for us. In the...
a spinning top with four Hebrew letters used to mimic a gambling game played by Jewish people in the Seleucid Empire. An oral tradition that has been passed for generations states that Jewish men would illegally study Torah during Antiochus’ reign. When an officer came to inspect them, they ...
A“strongman” (or woman) is somebody who rules a country by undermining and weakening rules, regulations, constitutional mandates and restrictions. And often that’s done very stealthily. Before, we had the old kind of strongman, the Mobutus of the world, the Francos, the Hitlers. And then...
As John 1:10-11 explained, "He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him." This section is an adapted excerpt from "The Light of the World" by Albert Moh...
The first thing he said, when he came home, he was like, you have got to meet Andre. So I'm really excited and thank you obviously again for another episode. Thanks to Joe Polish and Brandon for setting it up. Andre Norman: Joe Polish is the man and Brandon was a great guy to ...
During the inauguration of the Tabernacle, the two older sons of Aaron, Nadav and Avihu, bring an illicit offering of incense before YHWH and are destroyed by a divine fire (Lev 10:1-2). When this happens, Moses turns to Aaron and says (Lev 10:3): That i
Meat. The Torah says kosher meat can only come from animals that have split hooves and chew their cud, like cows, sheep, and goats. When these animals eat, partially digested food (cud) returns from the stomach for them to chew again. Pigs, for example, have split hooves, but they don...