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Many times during my life while attending various churches, I heard over and over that Christ could return any second and that we need to be ready.   The preachers at those churches made it seem like nothing needed to happen before Messiah (Hebrew for the Greek Christ) could return.   As a I studied the Scriptures,…

People’s beliefs concerning Satan can range from the silly…that he is an ugly small guy in a little red suit with horns who sits on our shoulder urging us to sin, to the abstract…that Satan is the personification of evil, to out right non-belief…that Satan is purely created by religious zealots.    If you understand the…

Did you know that even Christians who supposedly study the Scriptures divorce almost as often as non-Christians?  The Holy Scriptures are full of Yahweh’s teaching on marriage and it is clear Yahweh hates divorce.  Marriage is a covenant relationship between husband and wife.  It mirrors the covenant relationship between Messiah and His saints.  Marriage is…

To begin our journey of understanding the Holy Scriptures, we must first believe that the Holy Scriptures are the Words of Yahweh written over centuries by many authors inspired by the Holy Spirit (1 Peter 1:20-21 and John 6:63).   We must believe the Bible is true.  That it is the inspired, divine, revelation of Yahweh,…

Believers agree that we ought to pray, but do we ever stop and think about whether or not we are praying scripturally?  Or that what we are praying for is something Yahweh’s children should pray for?  Everyone wants to pray for physical healing, but is it Scriptural?  Believers want to pray for material blessings, such…

What do the Scriptures say about following men’s traditions or religious leaders?  It is interesting to observe, Yahweh has a lot to say on this matter!   First, we see over and over in the Scriptures warnings that saints should not follow traditions of men but should follow Messiah.   So, it is clear, if traditions of…

With Yahweh’s help we will attempt to define women’s role in the kahal. This is monumentally important because women have been put down in so many cultures and so many ways over the millennia that the last thing we want in the Body of Messiah is to unnecessarily restrict and suppress women. It’s a sobering…

It is interesting to note all the different denominations in Christianity.  And if you ask a Christian about his spiritual beliefs, he might start by saying he is a “Catholic”, “Methodist”, Pentecostal”, etc. or that he goes to this church located on Main Street or to a non-denominational church located on 2nd Street.   Should…

Every person has fallen short of the glory of Yahweh and sinned.  And as believers, we all want to be forgiven of our sins!  So what do the Scriptures say we need to do for Yahweh to forgive us of our sins?  It is clear, if we want Yahweh to forgive us of our sins,…

Why we should we make changes to the English Bibles   In the following article, I will explain why I make changes to the King James and other English versions of the Scriptures.  Did you know that there are over 30 well known English Bibles in use today?  And that they all translate the Hebrew…