Messianic Messages With Izzy

Teaching on Deuteronomy 32 and Revelation 19-20 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Remembering the past, knowing history, asking old people, running to your elders. Follow up from last week's message on emerging from Babylon. Simple prayer. Greatest Jewish wedding ever. Hebraic courtship and betrothal versus Western dating and engagement. Reflections of ultimate wedding such as bride wearing white and big festive meal. List of people who worshipped Yeshua. Hallmark of the prophetic spirit. Yeshua the warrior riding a war steed, wielding a sword, leading an army, crushing the opposition, killing his enemies. Thoughts for sacred namers. Ramifications of Yeshua as Word of God. Truth as weapon. Rod of iron as Hebrew idiom for tough and totalitarian rule. Signs will deceive the world. Thousand year reign of Christ, Millenial kingdom. Chiliast theology. Lineup of early Christian Chiliasts including Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Commodian, Lactantius, Methodius, and Apollinaris. Marcion f

Teaching on Deuteronomy 33-34 and Revelation 21-22 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Apex of Gospel of God's kingdom. Jehovah's Witnesses have something right. Fantastic hermeneutic question. First as protos and new as kainos. Eating swine and mice won't be cool in the kingdom. Jerusalem comes down. Ezekiel's temple and sacrifices. Dream of no death, pain, crying. Everyone's thirsty and drinking. Toilets and poison fluid sources. Prerequisite to receiving promises. List of people disqualified from the Kingdom. Cowards, unbelieving, gross, murderers, pornos, drug users, liars, idolaters are going to the second death. Gad or God will be a name on gate of New Jerusalem. Extremist sacred namers will have to get over it. Apostolic foundations. Human and angelic measurements. Pearls aren't kosher. No Temple after thousand years. Sun is shrinking, study from Eddy and Bornazian. Torah defines unclean and abomination. Months without the sun and moon. Do the mizvot. Come Yeshua.

Izzy sets the tone for the Crown's journey through the Torah and Gospels. Favorite childhood verses. Messianic Jewish movement pictured by sofer who becomes a talmid of the Kingdom. Staying in the red letters, Yeshua's words, as path to true discipleship. Cultivating the approach of Miryam to Scripture, planting ourselves at the Master's feet just to listen, learn, and fall in love. Torah study as gazing into a mirror, or two lovers gazing deeply into each other's eyes.

Teaching on Matthew 1 and the doctrine of Yeshua as Mashiach Christos King from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Christ isn't his surname. Understanding what Christ means is a salvation issue. Etymology of Christ and Messiah. Unpacking the verb to anoint. Hallmarks of physical anointing with oil. Anointed prophets, priests, and kings. Coronations of Saul, David, Solomon, Jehu, Hazael. Jehu anointing to destroy Jezebel. Prophecy from Daniel on timetable of King Mashiach's arrival. Why Rachmiel Frydland and many Orthodox Jews believe in Yeshua. Anointing as preaching engine and primary criterion for preaching. Yeshua Ben David, Son of David. Yeshua the heroic and valiant king who deserves allegiance and affection. Be caught up in a great adventure as a staunch supporter of the fugitive King. Yeshua is returning and will oversee the torture and execution of his enemies. Tackling errors in Neo-nazism, Democracy, Islam, Jewish anti-missionaries, Roman Catholicism, and Reformed Theology.

Teaching on Matthew 1-2 and seven key titles of Messiah from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Yeshua Ben Avraham. Parallels with Isaac son of Abraham. Solution to Middle East peace process. King of the Jews. Mystical term surfacing at his birth and death. Israel from Hosea and early Christian position. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch unpacks the concepts of Ruler and Shepherd. Job description of preaching pastors. Nazarene and tree shoots causing societal upheaval. Good news. Yeshua as Savior and Deliverer, not from Romans, Nazis, or Hamas, from sin. Salvation from the root versus relief from symptoms. Defining sin as violating the Torah.

Teaching on Matthew 1 and the doctrine of Messiah's virgin birth from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Four defining moments in life of the King. Birth, mysterious visit from eastern sages, assassination attempt and narrow escape, anointing by herald. Teenage Jewish girl. Supranatural conception. Importance of virgin birth. Virgin birth of Hammerhead shark in 2004. Natural parthenogenesis. ZW and ZZ gender determinative systems. It takes a male to produce a male, true on physical and soul levels. John Eldredge, Robert Bly, and the Christian and spiritual artistic men's movement. Jewishness isn't ultimate question. Six lines of evidence of the virgin birth of Mashiach. Protoevangelion. Yitzchak ben Avraham. Psalm Two and Yalkut Shimoni. Son of God as Jewish title of Messiah. Book of Enoch and Dead Sea Scrolls. New Testament as authentic Jewish literature. Isaiah and the great almah versus betulah polemic. Septuagint, Jewish Publication Society, Artscroll perspectives. Anwering the agnostic and atheist claim tha

Teaching on Genesis 5 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Bible as true story. Chapters in great metastory and overarching plot. Appeal of myths, epics, and fairy tales. Gospel in the Old Testament. Classic opening line in Genesis and Matthew. Names as indigenous to language and bearing meanings. Question of prima lingua, original language. Quotes from Jerome, Venerable Bede, Dante Alighieri, Charles Chauncy on Hebrew as original language of humanity. Hebrew names in early chapters of Genesis. Analysis of human psyche and condition from meanings of names of earliest people. Red blooded and passionate men and women. Craving to get someone or something. Struggling with depression. Hope in the Son to come. Chronic illness. Praising God. Going down. Dedicating and training. Damage and wounding. Relief and comfort. Fairytale spun about Princess Vivacious, the wise fatherly King, the wicked witch, and the Prince to come.

Teaching on Genesis 6-11 and Matthew 3 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Vast sweeping parasha and the great great grandparents of all humanity. Profile of the Creator, his friends, everybody else, and the Herald of the King. Father and Son communicating. Listening between the lines for the divine dialogue. Involved in human affairs and international issues. Contrary to Deism. Communicating with humans. Views of Islam, Rabbinic Judaism, and Messianic Judaism on prophecy. Issuing mitzvot. Remembering, caring, acting on behalf of friends. Salvation available to everyone. Covenant relationships versus casual relationships. Yahweh forms clouds and looks at rainbows. Noach the wholehearted tzaddik. Relationship with God takes time, emotional energy, and intentional choice. Countercultural preacher. Doing crazy out of the box things. Lunar calendar with no aviv in sight. Differentiating between clean and unclean animals. Prioritizing prayer. Father blessing and speaking into sons' lives. Journalling. Total depra

Teaching on Genesis 12-17 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Overview of parasha including Egyptian fiasco, Abram's largesse, walking your turf, ancient World War and our father of faith as a military strategist, the unilateral covenant, knowing where you're going, signs of the Abrahamic and Yeshuic covenants, and questions related to the One Law position in the Torah movement. Lessons from Avram's journey of faith. Gift of prophecy and rapport with the Creator. Lacking the big picture. Going by a handful of promises and a couple altars. Faithing it. Time lapses between epiphanies. Faithfulness of God. Faith as a dynamic journey, not static city. Questioning, wrestling, moving. Homeostasis as physical friend and pschological enemy. Paradise music video by Cold Play. Why Izzy plays secular music videos, in this case Paradise by Coldplay, at Shabbat gatherings. Every disciple is called to be a missiologist and sociologist, to watch and study people. Seeing image of God in the hopes and dreams of totally depra

Teaching on Genesis 18-22 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Original vision to bless the nations. Izzy's nomenclatural angst. Meaning and etymology of blessing. Cliched terms and commercialized Christianity. Fathers and sons, kings and knights, senior executives and sponsors. Jewish understanding of conferring a blessing from Garden of Peace by Rabbi Shalom Arush. World of Warcraft and the blessing of the old god transforming you and giving you special powers. Initiation rite in the Los Angeles based Blood gang includes the blessing of being punched in the forehead. Origins of English word to bless from pagan Germanic blood application rites. Broader understanding of barach from Rabbi Hirsch's research. Connection between blessing, kneeling, and swimming pools. Yeshua was responsible for killing a herd of 2,000 hogs, costing at least $400,000. Unrolling the red carpet. Averting judgment and bringing mercy. Communities of tzaddikim averting natural disasters, economic catastrophes, health related crises. Sa

Teaching on Genesis 23-25 and Matthew 10-12 from a Messianic Jewish perspective. Abraham gave his son Isaac everything, and God the Father gave God the Son everything. Meditation on the relationship between the Father and the Son, and what has been given to Yeshua and his bride by Yeshua's Abba. Listening between the lines for the divine dialogue. Losing oneself in the rich fellowship and glorious interaction passing between God the Father and God the Son. Eternal life is all about knowing God right now. You become like the people you idolize and spend most of your time watching. Learning the spiritual art of beholding. Understanding Yeshua's relationship with the Father and what has been given him precedes understanding your relationship with the Father. Doctrine of our inner union with Mashiach. Love and approval, practical application for parents. Conditional versus unconditional approval. You have a new Dad, a new role model. Mission, a job to do, specific assignments. Yeshua's mission to accomplish the w

Teaching on Leviticus 12-15 and Luke 10-13 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Principles of halacha, how you walk out the Torah. Do what you can and offer what you can afford. Quote from the Didache. Understand the underlying principle and the spirit of the law. God is personally involved in childbirth and parenting. Explanation of Hebrew terms tamei and tahor, clean and unclean. Simple status change, a time of greater dependence on the Creator according to the research of Rabbi Hirsch. Buffer zone of privacy, quiet, and bonding time for mother. Time for her body to recover and re-energize. How to pray for your baby. Symbolism of numbers for sons and daughters. Pray for boy to grow to complete men and full reflection of God as his image. Pray for girl's husband, for the preservation of their sexual purity, for her spiritual connection, and for healthy relationships and friendships. Pray that child would receive Mashiach's kaparah and be a living sacrifice. Yeshua's parents did this for him in the gospel of

In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy tells the story of Yeshua as a baby and little boy growing up as a Jew, going to synagogue, and having a Hebrew name. Names mean something. What does the name of Yeshua means. Random interview. Yeshua wasn't called Yehoshua. Iesus in the Greek New Testament. Encouragement to use our Savior's original name.

In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why he sits on a bar stool to teach, and reviews the custom of sitting to teach in the Bible and Jewish history and tradition.

Teaching on Genesis 1 and the doctrine of Creation from a Messianic Jewish perspective. God as artistic Creator. God in motion sculpting, creating color and hue, arranging and moving stuff around, admiring his creations. Yeshua as chochmah in Mishlei, metaphorical wisdom in Proverbs. God is communicating, verbal, coining terms. Ontological discussion with cup as object. Creator's friendship. Winning the game of life with the truth card. You will worship something or someone. God will kick his non friends out of this universe. Answering objections from agnostics, atheists, Jews, and Muslims. Two tenets of atheism. Study by Eddy and Bornazian on shrinking sun. Proof of young earth creationism. Carbon 14 dating is a joke. Origins of big bang. Second law of thermodynamics, law of entropy. Creator as Father and Son duo. Living with Joy. Practical application, observe Shabbat. Answering fallacies about the biblical Sabbath. Lord's day. Sabbath was changed to Sunday. Samuele Bacchiocchi. Failure of Protestant Reform

In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we read from the writings of Yeshua's Apostles on a weekly basis

Teaching on Genesis 25-28 and Matthew 13-14. Quote from Iranaeus that resonates with Izzy's speaking style and hopes. Connection between Isaac's hundredfold harvest and the seeds on the good soil that produce a hundred times as much. Evaluation of majority of Messianic communities in the area of making disciples. High median believer age, teachings and midrash not geared for new believers. Messianic Judaism wrestling with lower influx of new Jewish disciples than seen in the 1970's. Overview of body of Christ in Prince Albert's effectiveness in reaching the city. The Sunday morning church crowd is not reaching the Saturday night casino and bar crowd. Important and highly personal talk for Izzy who is wrestling with failure to quantifiably make talmidim. We will be evaluated for how we've accomplished the mission to make disciples. The Master's parable about the unfruitful tree that was cut down. Understanding fruitfulness from the Hebrew perspective as a powerful and virile bull. Corporate business parallel a

Teaching on Genesis 32-36 and Matthew 17-18. Centrality of Yeshua. What is your primary identity. Anachronism of inserting current Christianity into first century history. Yeshua started a movement that we are in today. Torah community versus Yeshua community. Is your Messianic Judaism all about you and your Jewishness, or all about Messiah. God is a wrestler. He wants you to engage, to be desperate, to desire, to wrestle with him through your crisis and through the dark night. Imagine God inviting you into the ring. Is it time for you to put on your gloves and step into the ring.Imagine being in a UFC cage fight with the God of Jacob. Don't give up, don't just go belly up, go the the Belly Up Pub in Prince Albert, have five beers, and just forget everything. Wrestling in your marriage and interpersonal relationships. Plan for what to do when someone sins against you. Basic howtos of conflict resolution. Yeshua's counterculture and against the human nature grain instructions for what to do when someone wrongs

Teaching on Genesis 37-40 and Matthew 19-20. Talk on Yeshua's question to you, "What do you want me to do for you?" Challenge to desire, to be discontent, to think honestly, to buck the status quo, to yell to Yeshua, to ignore the religious people, to dream big, and to pray big. If you see yourself as a civilian you will become a casualty in a world that is in a crossfire between Yeshua and his kingdom and Satan and his losing kingdom. Encouragement to wrestle, to not let go, to be tenacious and to pray until you see results. God is entirely good, absolutely powerful, and is attentive to your voice.

Teaching on Matthew 21, the King who rode a donkey instead of a horse. Prediction of King Messiah in Zecharyah. Quotes from Midrash Kohelet and Bavli Sanhedrin. Yeshua bucked the status quo and did things differently. Difference between horse and donkey. Story from the early Quaker movement, George Fox's journal on their refusal to doff hats and 'thee' and 'thou'. Contrast between what people highly esteem and God detests. Abuse of titles and degrees is the tip of an iceberg of human pride and worldy ways. Meditation on Aleximenos Graffito on Palatine Hill, Roman soldier worshipping Yeshua. Slander against Jews and Christians of onolatry, worshipping donkeys. Let's saddle up our donkeys and ride.