Sinopsis
Izzy tells the story about how his family went from not caring about Yeshua's command to make disciples to going through crisis and paradigm shift, being challenged by Scripture, and experimenting with new times, venues, and styles of gathering.
Episodios
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"Intimate Leviticus, Unpacking Galatians, Tradition Versus Torah" Vayikra and Galatians 1-2
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 1-5 and Galatians 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Overview of the book of Leviticus, Vayikra. Continuation of Exodus. Bearer of message for all humanity. Book for all people, both genders. Opening thought of coming close, drawing near. Ratzon as will, desire, delight, pleaure, want, what you run after. Atonement as covering. Olah as going up. The fragrant aroma, attractive scent, engaging smell of prayer. Anointing oil. Why salt. Profile of offerings. Why the inwards, entrails, guts. Unintentional crimes. Levels of culpability. Kohen hamashiach. Proof that animal's blood doesn't atone for sin. Understanding Paul's epistle to the Galatian ecclesiai. Circumcision is a party. One sided phone conversations. Apostles aren't ordained by denominations or accredited by Bible colleges and seminaries. Freedom versus bondage. Circumcision is keyword for Jewishness and converting to Judaism. Difference between gentle direction and forceful pressure. Jewish context of remembering the poor as
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"Love Flame, Themes Of Galatians, Leviticus Offerings, Saudi Arabian Sinai" Tzav Galatians 3-4
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 6-8 and Galatians 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Profile of offerings and understanding each as a teaching. Burnt, sin, guilt, peace, thanksgiving, and grain offerings. Meditation on the altar fire. Fire of love in Song of Songs. Immersion in fire. Prophetic word as fire. The cross on the altar. Continual prayer. Prohibitions of fat and blood. Main themes of Galatians. Abraham the faithful believer and his children and seed. Faith is a verb. Staying in the Ruach. Promise to singular Mashiach. Nature of promise. Matrix of the supernatural. Goal of imparting life. Abba in Greek New Testament. Law, nomos, in Pauline literature equals legalism. Pre-existent and personal Torah. Function of law. Covenantal mechanics. Sinai is in Saudi Arabia. Two Jerusalems and your orientation. Roots of Catholic practice. Immersion in Messiah and unity in him. Understanding the no Jew and Gentile phrase in context.
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"Nailing Religious Jerks, Boasting In The Cross, Discussion On Food Laws" - Shemini Galatians 5-6
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 9-11 and Galatians 5-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Matzot in Galatians. Digging in your heels for freedom. Ramifications of Paul circumcising Timothy. Jewish obligation to Torah and Gentile relationship to Torah. Jewish identity issues versus the message of the Shema, faith and love. Truth must be obeyed. Crash of the cross. Irony of freedom to be a slave. Code of honour and where does the biting and devouring stop. Life by the Ruach will guard you from legalism. Unpacking Shaul's list of lawless and legalist sins. Unfriendliness, arguing, joy bashing, church politics, disunion, heresy. How to help someone in sin. Relationship between faith community and teachers. Spiritual investments and dividends. Boasting in the cross and new creation in Mashiach. Grand climax finale. Real men do mitzvot. Your masculinity is the glory of God. Offer and response. Families working together as evinced in Aaron and sons. Learn to bless your spouse, children, grandchildren, city, and country. Yes
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"Pauline Inclusion Theology, Leper Drama, Role of Mitzvot Commandments" Tazria-Metzora Ephesians 1-3
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 12-15 and Ephesians 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Martin Luther's Table Talk on Hebrew. Classic Jewish opening, baruch. Sons of disobedience classic Hebraism. Blessin in Mashiach. Parallel between redemption in Messiah's blood and mohar of five silver coins in betrothal ceremony. How to experience the Father's love. Yeshua as head, leader, boss, commander in chief, ultimate authority. Unpacking the concept of everything being summed up in Christ. Torah observance by grace through faith. Paul addressed non-Jewish believers are Gentiles. What is the therefore there for. Laying the groundwork for inclusion theology. Physical Jewishness. Were far, now near, to what. Breakdown of Greek terms in Ephesians 2. Defining commonwealth of Israel. Coheirs of what. Enmity occasioned by Torah. Yeshua is our shalom and common ground. Foundation of the Messianic community is the apostles and prophets, the OT and NT. Stay strong in the basics of faith and love. A wow verse. Middle verse of the
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"Torah Sexuality, Mad Bloggers, Relational Shalom, Greek Pornos" Acharei Mot Ephesians 4-6
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 16-18 and Ephesians 4-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Paul and Luke observed Yom Kippur as the Fast. Evidence to come to grips with. Sirim, goat demons. Religious bondage behind and paganism ahead of the Yeshua movement and our historical failure. Remedy for soul depression. Forbidden marital unions and sexual expressions. Mad guy's blog and chapters of Torah not for squeamish, puritans, and Victorians. Underlying parenting philosophy in the Torah's commands. Uncovering nakedness as euphemism for sexual relations. Abraham's and Jacob's disqualified marriages. Practical way to respect your wife. Homosexuality and eating pork are both abominations. Value humility, gentless, and patience. Relational shalom. Difference between church, body of Messiah, Christian community as terms. Job description of apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastor teachers. Gentiles as outsiders. Learning Mashiach and Yeshua oriented truth versus Satanic distractions. Words can give grace and build people
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"High Messianic Christology, Loving Your Spouse, Bloody Soul Murder" Kedoshim Philippians 1-2
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 19-20 and Philippians 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. High Christology, Mashiachology. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Yeshua. Yeshua had equality with God. Trailer of future global reality, every knee bowing to Yeshua. What is the Name that is above every other name. Yeshua as Kurios in Greek NT and Yahweh in Peshitta Aramaic NT. Relationship between Father and Son as two people. Dangers of low Christology. Deity of Yeshua is a hill worth dying on and is non-negotiable. Yeshua as model for husbands. Prioritize her, place her wants ahead of yours, initiate, empty yourself, humble yourself and die. Equality in congregation doesn't exclude leadership roles. Overseers are also called elders, pastors, shepherds. Deacons as admins. Love abounding in knowledge. Do you desire unity. Desiring and acting for God's pleasure. Fellow soliders. High code of honour. Being kedoshim. Behavior flows from identity. Nomological slicing and dicing between moral and ceremonial. Hebrew definition of cur
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"Biblical Festivals Verve, Bodyguard Named Joy, Self-Righteousnss Expose" Emor Philippians 3-4
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 21-24 and Philippians 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Joy, simcha as a safeguard against grumpy religious people and dead religious systems. Chinese proverb about laughing at yourself. You can only think about one thing at a time. True Jew. Unpacking the concept of worship in spirit. Bragging, boasting, and vaunting Yeshua. Contemplation on knowing Yeshua. Understanding the Hebrew versus Hellenist dichotomy in the first century. Shaul as quintessential Hebrew and Torah observant to the max. Where is your righteousness. Expose on self-righteousness. Be dissatisfied. Irony of the mature pressing on. Citizenship in heaven. Anavah, gentleness, response to immanence of Mashiach. Irrational shalom. Action plan when facing stress, how to deal with it. Overview of Moadim, Appointed Times, Feasts. Belong to God. Rendezvous. The festivals you observe indicate what spirit you listen to, whose authority you're under, what people you belong to, who you are, and what your priorities and value
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"Hilarious Characters, Yeshua Orientation, Atomic Physics" Behar-Bechukotai Colossians 1-2
04/01/2018Teaching on Leviticus 25-27 and Colossians 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Overtly, explicitly, in your face Christologically rich epistle from Shaul. Context of Colossians, influential and vocal individuals with agendas and lots of good points were taking over the place. Imaginary profiles of individuals in Paul's audience. Angela the angel lady always having spiritual experiences and seeing angels and demons. Yeshua as head of ekklesia and all authority. Breakdown of exousia as used throughout the New Testament. Percival the political activist. Riled up during elections. Thrones were created for Yeshua. National expressions of darkness. Path to societal redemption. Philip the philosopher. Mashiach as deep person in whom all gnosis resides and sofia dwells. Through in Hebrew means in the hand of, through the agency of. Trophimus and Tevya the tradition guys. Response to icons of Jesus and statues of saints. Don't tolerate critical people. Yosi the proud Jew. Gentile believers complete in Yeshua. Cir
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"Big M Agency, Countercultural Masculine Qualities, 20 Year Old Warriors" Bamidbar Colossians 3-4
04/01/2018Teaching on Numbers 1-4 and Colossians 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Certificate of debt. Shabbats, New Moons, and Festivals as shadows outlines sillhouettes vignettes pictures of Yeshua our beloved to be studied, cherished, and practiced. God's order and decrees versus human order and decress, e.g. mandatory celibacy for priests. Identity before behavior. Historical objective and experiental subjective sides of the Gospel. Death and resurrection of Mashiach. Where and who you really are. Self-actualization versus Yeshua-actualization. Radical countercultural movement against sexual activity outside of marriage. There's wrath in the New Testament. Old and new you. Renewal of God's image bearers transcends Jewish Gentile dichotomy. Treating others as Abba treats you. How and why of forgiveness. Masculine qualities of kindness, gentleness, humility, patience. Dropping expectations and accepting people. Hebraic meaning of 'in the name of Jesus'. Advice for husbands and employees. Devotion to prayer. J
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"Ecclesial Menorah, Leadership Training, Dealing With Verbal Attacks" Behalotcha 2 Thessalonians 1-3
04/01/2018Teaching on Numbers 8-12 and 2 Thessalonians 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Menorah as picture of ecclesia. Job descriptions of candelabrum and kohen. Explaining contradiction between ages 25 and 30 in Levitical career launch. Musings on raising up next generation of leadership in Messianic community. Story of church history as neglecting Passover and being cut off from Israel. One law for the ger too. Modus operandi of Israel in transit. Mobility and tents versus static and city. Following the cloud versus curating a museum of a past move of God. Hebrew phrase, on the mouth of Yahweh. Hebrew phrase, in the hand of Moshe. Judah first as principle in Davidic dynasty and Messianic Jewish movement today. Promise of good on Israel. Genesis of Sanhedrin of seventy elders. Lashon hara and leprosy. Lessons from Miryam and roots of slander, malicious speech, and trash talk. How God feels. How to respond to verbal attacks and abuse. Obeying the Gospel. Tentmaker fallacy. Ingathering as kibbutz hagaliyot. Exp
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"Tzitzit 101, True Heroines, Leadership Vibe, Tentmaker Teetotaler Fallacies" Shelach 1 Timothy 4-6
04/01/2018Teaching on Numbers 13-15 and 1 Timothy 4-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Cultivating faith and desire for God's vision. Basics of doing Shabbat. Who when why and how of tzitzit, tassels. Challenging hypocrisy and inconsistency in Messianic congregations. Yeshua wore tzitzit, kraspidons in Greek. Spiritual doesn't equal good. Mandatory celibacy hallmark of demonic doctrine. Dietary laws and ganja. How to start a conversation about God with anybody. God as savior of everyone. Unpacking the mitzvah to give attention to Scripture reading, preaching, and teaching. The stuff heroines are made of. Danger signs for ladies. Pauline job description for elders and congregational leaders. Unpacking the term for ruling as leading, having charge over, managing, engaging. First family, then community. Logos and didaskalia. Community relationship with leadership. Blowing the tentmaker fallacy out of the water. Tackling Christian teetotalism. Agreement with healthy words and apostolic halacha versus arguing and other
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"R Rated Parsha, Pinchas Passion, Cosmetic Torah, Senior Ladies' Mission" Pinchas 2 Timothy Titus
04/01/2018Teaching on Numbers 25-30 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. R rated Torah portion. Profile on Pinchas, Phinehas. Meditation on pasion. Encouragement to youths. Korach, the rest of the story. Gospel for people with dysfunctional parents. Five girls named Dancer, Mover, Dovie, Princess, and Delightful. God responds favorably to initatiors. Torah background to story of Ruth and Boaz. Moses' foremost concern for the nation. List of offerings for moadim. Do the work, don't flaunt the title. Pauline employment of military and sports analogies and lingo. Glimpse of apostolic team in action. Jewish concept of beautifying the mitzvah and Pauline concept of adorning the doctrine from the cosmetic perspective. Jewish myths i.e. aggadot e.g. Jasher, Enoch, some Midrash. Warning to midrashers. How to deal with obsessive arguers. Unpacking the mission of senior ladies. Understanding the biblical concept of a wife's subjection to her husband.
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"Irrelevant Bible Verses, Family Structure, Warning To Christian Zionism" Mattot Hebrews 1-3
04/01/2018Teaching on Numbers 30-32 and Hebrews 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Perspective on seemingly irrelevant Bible verses. Your history. Spousal relationship and job description of the husband and father. Humorous examples of annulling a vow. Spiritual authority and veto power. Response to extremist feminism and egalitarianism. How to have spiritual conversations with your wife. How to be a safe place. Picture of God's forgiveness. Understanding God as father and Yeshua as husband. Lessons from Balaam to the Christian Zionist movement, Helping others discover their strengths and use their gifts. Yamim Mashiach, Messianic Era, now. Yeshua is impressive and relevant. Yeshua is addressed as God. Staying Gospel oriented and New Covenant based. Yeshua is one of us. Holy brothers and sisters, and sacred brotherhoods and sisterhoods. Yeshua the Shaliach and Cohen ha Gadol. Challenge to be outspoken and bold in the face of Canadian culture and Western political correctness and relativism.
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"Grace After Meals, Phylacteries Of Jesus, Messianic Nomadic Lingo" Ekev Hebrews 11-13
04/01/2018Teaching on Deuteronomy 7-11 and Hebrews 11-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Why the wilderness. How to respond to discipline. How to forget God. Birkat ha Mazon, grace after meals in the Bible and Jewish tradition. Meditation on God as consuming fire. Cutting self-righteousness off at the knees. Biblical perspective on modern Zionism. Drashing the land of Israel. Plug for totafot aka tefillin aka phylacteries and proofs that Yeshua wore them. Day of the ecclesia. Sensitive hearts. Meditation on spiritual union with Mashiach. Confronting dispensationalism. Hebrew meaning of faith as emunah and physical act behind it. Power of a woman's faith. Prophecy according to faith. Inclusion in the hall of faith of cowards, doubters, and sheer idiots. Concept of better resurrection. Jewish tradition in Epistle to the Hebrews. How to overcome discouragement. Bitter roots. Language of nomadic wanderers. Now and not yet of the heavenly Jerusalem. Context of Hebrews and plight of first century Messianic Jews. Challen
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"Tough Yeshua, Exalted Rabbi, Stuff Against You, Pentateuchal Intoxicants" Reeh Revelation 1-2
04/01/2018Teaching on Deuteronomy 11-16 and Revelation 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Obedience predicates blessing. Example of racking up credit card debt. Yeshua's mission to obliterate idolatry. Origins of Christmas trees and balls and Easter eggs and ham. Don't do pagan stuff for Yahweh. Reminder that we haven't arrived yet. Christian adders and Jewish subtractors. Categorizing other gods. Tel olam. Fatherhood of God. Losing distinctives ends in losing kids. Difference in Torah between alien and native. Financial decisions evince who you respect. Cutting God the tenth. Intoxicants in the Pentateuch. Guarding chodesh Aviv. Place for Sukkot. Neglecting the Festivals symptom of identity amnesia. Overtones of book of the Revelation of Yeshua the Messiah. The glory of our exalted Rabbi. Synagogue context of blessing on readers and hearers. Ancient biblical version of Alcatraz. Shofar voice. Menorah as original biblical symbol of Christian communities. Inconsistent handling of Greek term synagogue in New Testam
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"Tender Messiah, How To Resolve Conflict, Biblical Definition Of Evil" Shoftim Revelation 3-4
04/01/2018Teaching on Deuteronomy 16-21 and Revelation 3-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Tough and tender sides of Yeshua, Balancing out doctrines of grace, positional righteousness, and justification by faith. Dissection of Mashiach's personal epistles. Template for interpersonal relations and conflict resolution. Blotting out names and eternal security. Jewish concepts of temple and Jerusalem in book of Revelation. Key to understanding challenges, warnings, rebukes. Connection between aliyah and Spirit. Doing coffee with the Master. Biblical definition of evil. Hesitations with traditional texts cited in support of Rabbinic authority. Torah as rule of law. Importance of red letters. Reductionist policies of Gideon and Yeshua.
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"Jewish Lion, Worthy Mashiach, Global Disaster, Unlocking Apocalypse" Ki Tetze Revelation 5-7
04/01/2018Teaching on Deuteronomy 16-21 and Revelation 5-7 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Mashiach the indomitable and fierce Jewish lion. Yeshua the murdered Galilean peasant. Profound paradox. Symbolism of eyes. Symbolism of bowls of incense. Motto of Moravian movement. First glance replacement theology. Reigning on the earth. Father and Son are both worshipped, Quote from Justin Martryr on amein. Point of Revelation is to inspire worship. Military conquest, chaos, violence, inflation, food shortages. Deuteronomy and Ezekiel as keys to understanding Revelation. Decimation of 25 per cent of the world population. Sealed bondservants are committed disciples and they identify with Israel. Favorite Bible verse of cults. Connection between martrydom and offerings. Puzzle of absence of Dan. Yom Kippur and Sukkot allusions in the Apocalypse. Why you're going through the Great Tribulation based on internal evidence. Attractive modus operandi for introducing people to Torah from law on returning lost items.
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"Oyoyoy, How To Worship Demons, Quiet Prayer, Torah Success" Ki Tavo Revelation 8-10
04/01/2018Teaching on Deuteronomy 26-29 and Revelation 8-10 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Seven shofar blasts. Prayer as incense and challenge to men. Golden and bronze altars. Pray up, fire down. Contemplation on symbolism of fire. Global deforestation inferno. Massive tsunamis. Water pollution. Atmospheric haze. Three oys. Army from Euphrates. How to worship demons. Little scroll symbolism. Important of context. Greatest mitzvah has two verbs. Definition of shemaing. Blessings of the Torah including global supremacy economically, militarily, politically, scientifically. Blessed babies and tupperware. Agricultural prosperity. Entrepreneurial and business success. Employers and employees, Being a leader, influencer, mover and shaker. Being in the black and not the red. Being a creditor and not a borrower. Cognates of the Hebrew term to be quiet. Practicing biblical contemplative prayer. Madame Guyon, Fenelon, Molinos, Brother Lawrence.
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"Main Apocalytic Epochs, Locales, Individuals, Groups, Governments, Spirits" Revelation 11-14
04/01/2018Teaching on Revelation 11-14 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Profiling main time periods, geographical places, individuals and groups of people, governments, and spiritual entities in the Apocalypse. Jerusalem as holy city, spiritual environment of Sodom and Egypt. Time period of roughly 42 months, 1260 days, 3.5 years. Two witnesses as prophets, spokesmen. Israel birthing person or movement wielding great kingdom authority. Michael and his angels in combat. Red dragon and his hallmarks of deception and accusation. Governmental beast. False prophet opposite of Pesach and Tefillin. 144,000's distinctives as biblical Zionists, bearers of God's name, sexually pure, committed to Yeshua's cause, and theologically sound.
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"Roman Catholicism AKA Mystery Babylon, Reformed Theology" Vayelech Revelation 15-18
04/01/2018Teaching on Deuteronomy 31 and Revelation 15-18 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Times of transition. Torah entrusted to priests and elders. What happens when we're not present to God. Sores, earth shutting down, irreversible water pollution, solar disruption, darkness, drought in Middle East and globally, unprecedented earthquake. Repentance glorifies God. Religious clerics, political leaders, and cultural celebrities can have demons speaking through them. Reason, Babylon being judged. Profile of historical Babylon as founded by Nimrod, first world empire. Profile of mystery Babylon, mother of harlots. Application of Reformers including Luther, Knox, Calvin, Zwingli to Roman Catholic Church. Seven mountains equals Rome. Call to reject Rome and come out of her.