THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION: LEADERSHIP ALWAYS EXPERIENCES A CRISIS OF CONTENTION. ONE MUST BE PREPARED TO DEAL WITH IT IF S/HE IS TO FUNCTION AS AN EFFECTIVE LEADER. ONE MUST BE ABOVE REPROACH IF HIS/HER LEADERSHIP IS TO BE OF A GODLY CHARACTER. NUMBERS 16:8-15 VERSE 15: VA’YACHAR LE’MOSHE...
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Definition Parsha means to divide - specifically: a sequential section of the Torah assigned for weekly reading in synagogues and Messianic congregations all over the world. Every year at the Simchat Torah (A celebration that takes place after Sukkot), the Torah scroll is returned to Genesis 1 to start the process all...
FI Y4 P. 36: P. BE’HA’ALOTCHA (WHEN YOU SET UP) THE VOICE ABOVE THE MERCY SEAT
THEME OF THIS DEVOTION: THE VOICE ABOVE THE MERCY SEAT IS “THE WORD OF THE LORD” THAT CAME TO THE PROPHETS. (1 Samuel 3:7) THIS IS “THE WORD THAT HAS BEEN MADE FLESH” FOR US IN THE INCARNATION. (John 1:1-14) THIS IS ALSO THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO...
FI Y4 P. 34 BA’MIDBAR THE WILDERNESS—The Lonely Place
THEME: This devotion explores the root meaning of “Ba’Midbar”—in the wilderness— and correlates it to the spiritual aspect of the Christian’s wilderness experience. The Book of Numbers is actually the Book of the Wilderness. During that 40 year walk of Israel through the Sinai Desert there was a census registered...
FI Y4 WK 33. P. BECHUKOTAI (MY STATUTES): THIRTY SHEKELS FOR JESUS
THEME: Man’s valuation of you and God’s valuation of you are two different things. Your true value is God’s valuation. Leviticus 27:1-8 (KJV) “Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to...
FI Y4 WK 32 P. BEHAR (in the Mount [Sinai]) THE WALK OF FAITH (The Sabbatical Year Shemittah)
THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION: The Shemittah Sabbatical Year required faith in what God could do apart from what our natural minds can comprehend. It was a regular exercise in utter dependence on God, year to year, season to season, month to month, week to week, day to day, hour...
FI Y4 WK 31 P. EMOR (SAY) PERFECTION OF THE PRIEST
THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION CONCERNS THE FACT THAT: THE PHYSICAL PERFECTION OF PRIESTS WHO OFFER THE SACRIFICES OF GOD, WHO APPROACH THE ALTAR AND WHO ENTER BEHIND THE VAIL, IS A PICTURE OF THE PERSON OF YESHUA—THE GREAT KING-PRIEST OF ETERNITY WHO IS SINLESS, SPOTLESS, AND ABLE TO MINISTER...
FI Y4 WK 29 P. ACHAREI (Afterward) YOM KIPPUR SERVICE AND NEW TESTAMENT SIGNIFICANCES
THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION IS: THE ELEMENTS OF THE YOM KIPPUR SERVICE PERFORMED BY THE HIGH PRIEST (KOHEN GADOL) AND CERTAIN OF THEIR MEANINGS RELATED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT SACRIFICAL SYSTEM IN THE OFFERING OF OUR LORD ON THE CROSS. LEVITICUS 16:3, BE’ZOHT YA’VO AHARON EL-HAK’KODESH With this [the...
FI Y4 WK 27 P. TAZRIA (commonly translated “leprosy”) YESHUA THE HEALER OF “LEPROSY”
THE THEME OF THIS DEVOTION IS: YESHUA IS THE HEALER OF “LEPROSY” THROUGH FORGIVENESS OF SINS. Leviticus chapters 13-15 deal with the law of Tzaraat (commonly translated “leprosy” but actually untranslatable, according to Orthodox interpretation). All the varieties of this skin disorder have to do with white patches on the...
FI Y4 WK 25 P. TZAV (He commanded)— TENDING THE FIRE
KEY BIBLE VERSES: *THE PARASHAH SECTION FOR THIS DEVOTION IS LEVITICUS 6:1-6, “THE PERPETUAL FIRE” *HEBREWS 12:29, “OUR GOD IS CONSUMING FIRE” (cf. The Burning Bush of Exodus 3, “…and the bush was not consumed”—Hebrew shoresh, A’CHAL—"eat.” *Leviticus 6:3. “…of what the fire consumed”—“ASHER TO’CHAL HA’EISH ET-HA’OH’LAH AL—HAM’MIZ’BEI’ACH” (“…THE BURNT...