(NUMBERS 4:21, “ROSH B’NEI…LE’MISH’PE’CHO’TAM” WITH EPHESIANS 4:4, “ONE BODY”) Numbers 4:21, VA’YI’DABER ADONAI EL MOSHE LEY’MOR NASSO ET-ROSH B’NEI GER’SHON GAM-HEYM LE’VEIT AVO’TAM LE’MISH’PE’CHO’TAM “And the LORD spoke to Moses saying, Take a census (ET-ROSH, “the Head(s) of the sons”) of Gershon by the house of their fathers, according...
FI Y5 WK 10 MIKEITZ (AT THE END [of two full years to the day]) –PAGAN PHAROAH’S AWAKENING TO THE LIVING GOD—THE GOD OF HOPE – December 24th – December 30th
VERSE 7b: VA’YI’KEYTZ PAROH—"Pharoah awoke.” A curious insight into the verb for “awoke” (va’yi’keytz)—root YUD-QOOF-TZADEE—is that the interior root QOOF TZADEE means “end”—especially with regard to a period of time (BDB). So then, at the end of his two troubling dreams about the cows and the ears of corn,...
FI Y5 WK 9 VA’YEISHEV: (HE DWELT) DWELLING IN THE LAND OF THE FATHER’S SOJOURN – December 17th – December 23rd
VA’YEI’SHEIV YAAKOV BE’ERETZ ME’GU’REI A’VIV BE’ERETZ CE’NA’AN Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourn, in the land of Canaan. It was a sobering but scintillating experience I had in 2022, walking down a path in the hills of Jerusalem which is known to be a place where...
FI Y5 WK 8 VA’YISHLACH (HE SENT) THE JOURNEY TO BETHEL—DIVINE PROTECTION THROUGH PURITY – December 10th – December 16th
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...