“The descendants of Y’hudah approached Y’hoshua in Gilgal, and Kalev the son of Y’funeh the K’nizi said to him, “You know what Adonai told Moshe the man of God about me and you in Kadesh-Barnea.  I was forty years old when Moshe the servant of Adonai sent me from Kadesh-Barnea to reconnoiter the land, and […]

Today I’d like to talk about how the Levitical Priesthood serves as a model for the New Testament believer in Yeshua today. There are three key principles we can glean in terms of how we are to live our lives as believers whose sin debt has been paid for by the Messiah. FIRST, we are […]

We know the the Tribe of Levi was NOT to receive any land inheritance. However, if that’s the case, where were they to live? Well, the answer to that question is that they were given cities located inside each of the 12 tribal territories. They were also given some farmland outside of each city for […]

Today, we’re going to follow on the heels of my last post when I talked about how Jacob adopted Joseph’s two sons Ephraim and Manasseh away from him. Honestly, it might not even be appropriate to use the word “adopted” because through Jacob’s own “untraditional” version of the cross-handed blessing, Ephraim and Manasseh literally (not […]

I think today is a good time to give you a quick review on how the one tribe of Joseph became the two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, neither of which went by Joseph’s name. So let’s rewind the tape all the way back to Genesis Chapter 48. The scene that we have is the […]