Today I want to talk about “redemption”. “Redemption” is the proper Biblical word for what the church calls “salvation”! There are two aspects to redemption. There is the physical side of redemption and the spiritual aspect of redemption. The timing is perfect to deal with this topic because from here on out, the overriding theme of […]

One interesting pattern we’re going to study once we get into the Book of Numbers is the Nazarite and the Nazarite vows. Understand that just as Levirate marriage has nothing to do with the Levites, a Nazarite has NOTHING TO DO WITH A NAZARENE!!! A Nazarene is somebody who hails from Nazareth (Yeshua’s birthplace). So […]

“Ritual is in fact an inevitable component of culture, extending from the largest-scale social and political processes to the most intimate aspects of our self-experience. Yet within this universality, the inherent multiplicity of ritual practices, both between and within cultures, also reflects the full diversity of the human experience.”-Kevin Carrico, Ritual https://culanth.org/curated_collections/4-ritual Hey everybody!!! Sorry, […]

The Hebrew name for the Book of Numbers is B’MIDBAR (בְּמִדְבַּר‎) and it literally means “in the wilderness“. Honestly, given that the majority of the content in this fourth book of the Torah doesn’t have anything whatsoever to do with numerical symbols, don’t you think “In the Wilderness” would have been a much better title than “Numbers“? […]

Let me ask you a question and I want you give me an honest answer. When you hear the word “numbers”, what comes to mind? The first thing that pops into my mind is a boring list of accounting records. For me, numbers represent a kind of cold objective reality I don’t want to deal […]