WELCOME TO THE MESSIANIC REVOLUTION

More often than not, prophetic events in the Bible are both figurative and literal and repeat themselves continuously throughout history. For example, in reference to God rescuing the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, the prophet Hosea said the following: “When Israel was a child, I loved him,     and out of Egypt I called my son.” -Hosea 11:1 […]

“Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.”-Genesis 35:8 Suddenly out of the blue, the death of Rebecca’s much beloved nurse Deborah is reported to us. If you recall that when Abraham’s servant Eliezer brought Rebecca back from Mesopotamia to be Isaac’s wife, she was accompanied by […]

“Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.  Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”-Genesis 35:2-3 I mentioned in my last post […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 35. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. God said to Jacob, “Get up, go up to Beit-El and live there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled ‘Esau your brother.”-Genesis 35:1 I’m sure anybody who […]

Did God call Jacob to go to Shechem? Absolutely not! Okay, technically it’s in the promised land. But it’s not where God called Jacob to go. He was supposed to travel to Hebron. And as we have already seen, in the final analysis, this “partial obedience” resulted in the rape of his daughter and the […]