Let’s talk a little bit about shofars since they appear so frequently and play an important role in the Scriptures. A shofar is an animal horn, usually taken from a ram. The first thing you need to know is that when our English Bibles translate shofar into “trumpet”, that’s a mistake. Shofars were NOT musical […]

“Y’hoshua the son of Nun called the cohanim and told them, “Take up the ark for the covenant, and have seven cohanim carry seven shofars ahead of the ark of Adonai.”-Joshua 6:6 From verse 6 of Joshua chapter 6, we’re given an interesting piece of information. We’re told that the Ark of the Covenant was […]

“Adonai said to Y’hoshua, ‘I have handed Yericho over to you, including its king and his warriors.’”-Joshua 6:2 The divine commander of Hashem’s army now standing in front of Joshua informs him that Israel’s victory over Jericho is already a done deal. Every inhabitant of the city is to be exterminated including even those folks […]

“Jericho had completely barricaded its gates against the people of Israel — no one left, and no one entered.”-Joshua 6:1 I hate to keep beating a dead horse here but understand that everything I teach in this blog is coming at you from one singular perspective. And that perspective is… …the Lord says what He […]

When we buy into the premise that God has changed or replaced Laws and commands that He once declared are forever we are standing on very unstable theological ground. Or as Yeshua put it, we are building our house on shifting sand instead of solid rock. That’s precisely what we’re doing when we say the […]