FI Y5 WK 35 P. NASSO (TAKE) UNITY OF ISRAEL AND OF THE BODY OF MESSIAH

(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...