A lot of bewilderment seems to arise whenever I talk about the distinction between “spiritual Israel” and “physical Israel”. Let’s try to clear up this confusion by going back to the basics. First, in the beginning, before the Hebrew people and the nation of Israel ever existed, the idea of Israel was just a thought in God’s […]

I think one of the main reasons behind a lot of the theological confusion existing today is that we try too hard to apply a black-and-white Greek linear way of thinking to Scriptural realities that cannot so easily be fitted into nice and easy-to-understand categorical boxes. The general black-and-white assumption prevalent in so many churches […]

“A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it. The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”-Exodus 12:48-49 I’ve met a lot of […]

 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive […]

“Take a bunch of hyssop leaves and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and smear it on the two sides and top of the door-frame. Then, none of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.”-Exodus 12:22 I once heard a pastor say something interesting about the […]