GENESIS 35:1-5 THEME: THIS JOURNEY TO BETHEL (WHERE JACOB BUILT AN ALTAR TO THE LORD AFTER THE DELIVERANCE FROM ESAU) AFTER THE SLAUGHTER OF THE MEN OF SHECHEM WAS ACCOMPLISHED ONLY BY MEANS OF DIVINE PROTECTION, WHICH ITSELF WAS AT THE COST OF COMPLETE CONSECRATION WITH THE PUTTING AWAY OF...
FI Y5 WK 7 VA’YEITZEI (HE DEPARTED) THE DUDAIM & RENEWED CONCEPTION – December 3rd – December 9th
THEME: THE WRESTLING OF LEAH WITH RACHEL LED TO A RENEWAL OF CONCEPTION FOR LEAH WHEN RACHEL EXCHANGED REUBEN’S “DUDAIM” FOR JACOB’S AFFECTION. (Genesis 30:14-21) This is a mystery related to how we must continually struggle to produce an increase of fruitfulness in our spiritual lives. Our wrestling is...
FI Y5 WK 6 TOLDOT (GENERATIONS) VICARIOUS CLOTHING / FRACTAL THEOLOGY – November 26th – December 2nd
THEME: Biblical theology is fractal—that is, it exhibits patterns that replicate infinitely in macro and micro directions. Therefore, the types of the Old Testament and those of the New Testament reflect each other. One such pattern is that of “Clothing with the garments of another”—a vicarious (substitutionary) work of identity...
FI Y5 WK 5 P. CHAYEI SARAH (LIFE OF SARAH) SUCCESSION
THEME: There is succession in the out-workings of the Kingdom of God. It is important that we know our time and come into our own inheritance when the passing of the former generation leaves in our care the continuing maintenance of the holiness of God in the world. “And...
FI Y5 WK 4 VAYEIRA (HE APPEARED) FROM ABRAHAM TO ALL NATIONS THROUGH THE GOSPEL
THEME: ALL NATIONS ARE TO BE FUNTIONALLY GRAFFED INTO THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT AND THEREFORE INTO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL THROUGH ISAAC THE PROMISED SEED OF ABRAHAM THROUGH SARAH, TO INCLUDE ISHMAEL AND ALL HIS NATIONS—ISHMAEL, THE SON OF HAGAR THE BOND-WOMAN, RECONCILED TO HIS BROTHER ISAAC—ISAAC WHO IS THE HIER...
FI Y5 WK 3 P. LECH L’CHA (GO) TROUBLE ON THE WAY
Genesis 14:12, “They also took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.” One might think that answering the call of God leads to a gentle road of life. But this is not so. Abram was on a divinely inspired journey when his nephew...
FI Y5 WEEK 2 – P. NOACH (Noah) THE FOUNTAINS OF THE GREAT DEEP BROKEN UP
THEME: THE RELIABLE RECORD OF THE BIBLE CONCERNING THE CURRENT GEOLOGY OF EARTH FOLLOWING THE GREAT FLOOD. THE MECHANICS OF THE GREAT FLOOD CITED IN GENESIS AND CONFIRMED IN JOB. THE COMFORTING ASSURANCE OF THOSE WHO ARE IN CHIRST THAT IN MESSIAH WE ARE THE HEIRS OF GOD TO THE...
FI Y5 WK 1 P. B’RESHIT (In the beginning) SHAMAI(IM) & RAQIA (Heavens & Firmament) – September 30th
THEME: This is an intricate word study that seeks to biblically unravel mysteries concerning the creation of (layered) heavens. This will include the possibility that the Raqia [“firmament”] was possibly layered in such a way as to allow for divisions of water below the earth as well as above the...
FI Y4 WK 52 P. HA’AZINU (Give ear) GOD THE ROCK – September 23rd
THEME: GOD IS THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION: PURE IN JUSTICE, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EQUITY. (Deuteronomy 32:4) TORAH & GOSPEL ARE NO MORE CLEARLY SEEN THAN HERE IN “GOD THE ROCK.” HA’TZUR (THE ROCK, THE NECKLACE), not EH’VEN (A STONE, A BUILDING STONE, A GEM STONE) Jacob set up an EH’VEN...
FI Y4 WK 51 P. NETZAVIM (Standing) ASSURANCE OF THE COVENANT – September 16th
THEME: God assures us who are his covenant children that He will bring us to himself from any place where we may wander away. When we return to him then he will faithfully renew and restore us. Deuteronomy 30:6 U’MAL YHVH ELO’HEI’CHA ET--L’VAV’CHA UV’ET—LE’VAV ZAR’EH’CHA And the LORD your God...