“It was at that time that Adonai said to Y’hoshua, ‘Make yourself knives of flint, and circumcise the people of Isra’el again, a second time’”.-Joshua 5:2 Over the past week, we’ve been discussing the circumcision ceremony that took place at Gilgal. This mass surgical operation was an absolute requirement necessary before the very first Passover […]

Before I became fully immersed in Messianic Judaism, I’ve attended quite a few Christian churches in my time and the one thing I’ve noticed about most of the lawless congregations is they’re really only concerned about two things. Avoiding hell after death and getting blessed by the Lord while living out their lives on this […]

“On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.  The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.  The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from […]

“When all the nation had been circumcised, every one of them, they stayed where they were in camp until they had healed.  ADONAI said to Y’hoshua, ‘Today I have rolled off from you the stigma of Egypt.’ This is why the place has been called Gilgal [rolling] ever since.”-Joshua 5:8-9 Today I wanna explore the […]

The last time we met we saw that a 2nd circumcision was required of Israel once they crossed over the Jordan River into the land of their inheritance. Recall I mentioned that the purpose of the 1st circumcision was to establish Israel as a nation and as a separate people group distinguished from every other […]