So, let’s continue with our mini-study of Jerusalem’s little-known but fascinating history. When we left off, we discovered that the root for Yerushalayim is SHALEM, from which the word for SHALOM (peace) comes. But when did the word SHALEM first make its appearance in Scripture? Well, let’s travel back to these verses from the Book […]

Lemme kick things off today with a quiz question. Which language would you say is the mother language of Hebrew? Now most scholars would say Ugaritic, Phoenician, or Aramaic. Well, I got a news flash for all them academic homies. They’re all WRONG! The true mother language of Hebrew is Akkadian. The more we learn […]

“The king and his men went to Yerushalayim to attack the Y’vusi, the inhabitants of that region. They taunted David, ‘You won’t get in here! Even the blind and the lame could fend you off!’ — in other words, they were thinking, ‘David will never get in here.’”-2 Samuel 5:6 Verse 6 tells us about […]

I want you to notice something interesting about David becoming king. It took a freakin’ looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time! Of course, we see this same pattern with Messiah Yeshua. Let me remind you of an important Hebrew term we learned earlier. Do you remember the word NAGID or נָגִיד? Most concordances say it just means a “leader,” […]

“David was thirty years old when he began his rule, and he ruled forty years.”-2 Samuel 5:4 Lemme kick things off today with a couple of quiz questions. QUESTION ONE: In Judaism, what is the earliest age allowable for a Jew to become a Rabbi? QUESTION TWO: At what age did Yeshua begin his ministry? […]