Why do the Scriptures go into so much detail concerning the borders and boundaries of the various lands conquered and redistributed and which territory was given to which tribe and so on and on? The answer is actually a cinch…especially to anyone who has ever purchased a home. Personally, I’ve never bought a home or […]

Remember a couple of posts back, how I kept hammering home why it’s important to NOT take certain passages in the Bible literally. For example, take a look at verse 23 from Joshua Chapter 11… “Y’hoshua took the whole land, in keeping with all that Adonai had said to Moshe and to Israel according to […]

Today we begin Joshua Chapter 13. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James version, click HERE. “Now Y’hoshua was old; the years had taken their toll. Adonai said to him, “You are old, and the years have taken their toll; but there is yet a great deal of land to be […]

Today, let’s talk a little bit about why God did NOT want Israel to have an earthly king. The reason why is because installing a typical gentile monarchy into Israel would have radically altered the Lord’s relationship with His People. In other words, the people would have become divided in their loyalties. Remember, Yeshua said…“No […]

Although I lightly touched upon it yesterday, I want to talk a little bit more about how Israel’s kingdom was different than any other pagan kingdom in the world at the time. In the gentile world, when a king took over new territory, this freshly conquered land was never given to the common people. In […]