If someone
had handed me a piece of paper with the words from a recent article I had
written, I would have said, “I have no interest in understanding the teachings
of Jesus and I don’t have a clue who Hillel is. And I have no interest in
learning Hebrew! I just read a story about the “sheep and the goats.” I know I
am a “goat” and “I desperately want to know how to become a sheep!”
Continue reading at –
https://mailchi.mp/db0a50c88aeb/i-desperately-wanted-to-know-how-to-become-a-sheep
Today
I was doing research on Jerusalem and the Temple that the New Testament
mentions in stories about Jesus. I dug out the two-volume work, The Jewish
People in the First Century: Historical Geography, Political History, Social,
Cultural, and Religious Life and Institutions . . . Here are some sections
that are loaded with great information. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/ffbbf9f500b2/visiting-the-jerusalem-temple-that-jesus-knew
Rabbi Leynor
wrote this on October 23, 2014. “Studying the Bible and discussing its
ancient words, concepts and ideas is something I enjoy very much. But, holding
the hand of a person that is about to take their last breath or that has just
discovered they have lost someone they loved very much is something very
different . . . But, if you come and study the biblical text with me
– that’s another matter! Choose Life, Do Tov & walk humbly
with “Your Higher Power” (whatever that might or might not be!)” Continue
reading at: https://mailchi.mp/383cc61077c6/hillel-and-jesus-a-kingdom-and-eternal-life-without-human-institutions
The primary
sources of information about “TZEDAQAH, The Original Jesus Movement, and Life
Today,” are the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew,
Mark, and Luke. It is essential to understand that a New Testament
with the books that are in our Bibles today did not exist until after 360 CE
(AD) – over 330 years after Jesus was crucified by Roman soldiers. Continue
reading at -
https://mailchi.mp/f9f3fcb39103/tzedaqah-the-original-jesus-movement-and-life-today
As you will see in future emails, almost all of the teachings of Jesus are about the Kingdom of Elohim. The next three lines of this prayer are very important and related to our daily lives.
Give us our food daily.
Our
Father wants everyone to have food.
He has created everything needed to produce crops and herds that provide the
foods we eat. The one thing He doesn’t do is personally deliver food to each
person. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/33931864d3ce/the-daily-prayer-to-our-father-part-3
When Jesus
taught his disciples to pray “The Prayer to Our Father” (aka The
Lord’s Prayer), it was before there were Christians and The New
Testament. In this email I discuss the following lines -- May You
continue establishing Your kingdom. May Your will be done on Earth as in the
Skies. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/f44f026abc41/the-daily-prayer-to-our-father-part-2
This is the minimum amount of
knowledge about the Bible required for mutually beneficial discussions to take between
place anytime – but especially especially political discussions in
2026! Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/a24817527d33/bible-101-facts-about-the-bible
Now, instead
of focusing on places, I will be focusing on events and speakers from the end
of the Cain story to the moment Noah enters the ark. I am not going to make any
comments, but I am pretty sure that most of you have never heard this story. Event
#1 (Genesis 4:25-26) - And ADAM knew his wife again, and
she bore a son and named him Seth, “For Elohim has
appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.” And Seth, had
a son; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to
call on the name of Yahweh. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/33fccb2cf568/judgment-day-for-the-man-and-woman-in-the-garden-17999737
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In the First
Story in Genesis, Elohim is high above the Skies and the Humans are on the
Earth. In the Second Story (Genesis 2:4b-3:24), Yahweh Elohim and the Humans
are on the Earth. In the Third Story (Genesis 4:1-16) Yahweh and four humans
are on the Earth. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/ab2c22b66160/judgment-day-for-the-man-and-woman-in-the-garden-17999715
In the first
story in Genesis, Elohim did seven acts that measured TOV (good)! In the second
story, the two humans did “one prohibited act together” and “the
process of dying began on earth.” This had nothing to do with “evil.” “Dying
wasn’t the punishment.” Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/f30b6aff8cb6/judgment-day-for-the-man-and-woman-in-the-garden-17999659
And
Yahweh Elohim said: “Who told you that
you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I
commanded you that you should not eat?” And the ADAM said: “The ISHAH (woman) whom
You gave to be with me, she gave it to me
from the tree, and I ate.” What
did Yahweh Elohim think when the man blamed Him for giving him the woman?
Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/9f0599e37d6d/judgment-day-for-the-man-and-woman-in-the-garden
Yahweh
Elohim planted every tree in the Garden, formed the humans and formed the
serpent. Everything in the Garden is there because of Yahweh Elohim. Yahweh
Elohim gave the command to the humans about not eating from the Tree of the
Knowledge of Tov (good) and Ra (evil) before the serpent existed. And
finally remember, both the humans and serpent are “subtle, shrewd, clever, crafty, and cunning creatures.” So who
will be the most subtle, shrewd,
clever, crafty, and cunning?” Let the Main Event begin! Continue
reading at - https://mailchi.mp/b4031b26e0d1/two-humans-vs-one-religious-talking-serpent
The first story in Genesis began with – “In the beginning
Elohim created the Skies and the Earth.” The notes below will help you see
differences between the two stories. There are others but I won’t discuss them
today. (1) In the beginning / in a day. (2) Elohim / Yahweh Elohim. (3) created
/ made. Continue reading at – https://mailchi.mp/db595a95eae4/setting-the-stage-for-the-main-event-in-the-garden-in-eden
The Hebrew word
“ADAM” reveals there are two kinds of humans: “male and
female.” In order to have an ADAM, there must be “one
male and one female bound together by the Alliance and Covenant” in
Genesis 1-10. There is no third type of human. When the two humans act
together to fulfill Elohim’s blessing, they reveal the image of
Elohim on earth by doing the following. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/8364fc46f77d/how-important-is-it-for-family-members-to-act-together
As many of
you know, I have written a lot about the link of the Jewish Jesus (Yeshua) to
Genesis 1-10. He even named his movement after it – The Kingdom of Elohim.
I have always been aware of the “words of the Creator” in the Declaration
of Independence, because George Walton (my 5th
Great Grandfather) signed it. However, for decades I have not been able to link
the Founding Father’s words to Genesis. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/043a1326a28b/the-link-between-the-declaration-of-independence-and-genesis
Below is one
of BHC’s most important Laws of Language: “We all think,
act, and communicate in ways that are primarily predetermined by our culture.” I often use the phrase, “seeing the
words of the Bible through their eyes.” In order to do that we must have an
understanding of the cultures of the of people in the Bibles stories. The title
of this email is -- Living in a “Natureless” Creation. What does “living
without nature” mean to you? As you read the following words change your
view to “to see the ancient world of the Bible through their eyes.”
Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/052cfa7b3d93/living-in-a-natureless-creation
Over 35
years ago, Dr. Ike Tennison, Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor and I spent a lot of time comparing
the Torah in Hebrew, with its Greek translation, the Septuagint. The
differences between Hebrew thinking Jews, Greek thinking Christians, and
American English language thinkers (Christians and Jews) became apparent very
quickly. There are major differences between them. How long did it take to find
the first problem? We found it in Genesis 1:1. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/6297bcfb7fd7/whose-meaning-of-god-should-we-use
Jesus taught
an “eternal life” message, but no “Messianic Figure” was going to come with
warrior angels and destroy the Roman Empire. The people that entered Eternal
Life did acts of Tzedaqah – gave food to the hungry, gave drink
to the thirsty, gave shelter to the homeless, gave clothes to the naked,
visited the sick, and went to those in prison. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/12cd9e65dfb7/jesus-was-also-a-sage-and-wisdom-teacher
The word TOV
is translated “good” and appears 7 times in Genesis (1:1-2:4a). Key words that
appear 7 times in a story are usually very important words in the Hebrew
Scriptures -- and the Hebrew teachings of Jesus. Below are the 7 times
in Genesis 1. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/00e09871a296/the-original-meanings-of-good-and-evil-in-the-bible
Have you
ever thought about that question before? I believe there is a very short and simple
biblical answer. Genesis 1:28 says: And the Creator blessed the man and
woman, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth
and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/8896e89209d1/why-does-the-creator-require-hungry-people-to-be-fed
Instead of using
lexicons, dictionaries or concordances to provide meanings of words, which are
usually expressed in one word, we create a “bundle of associations” from the
underlined factors above. “List thinking” requires tracking ideas
through multiple sections of the Hebrew Scriptures. This is what the Real Jewish Jesus taught! Have you ever heard of it before? Continue
reading at - https://mailchi.mp/3ce3b05d6e11/jesus-list-thinking-and-the-light-of-life
The language
of Jesus was the Hebrew language in the scroll Ezra carried to Jerusalem in 458
BCE. The scribal schools at the Temple in Jerusalem were around until 70 CE
when the Romans destroyed the Temple. And soon after that this form of Hebrew
was lost to the followers of Jesus. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/2b2d20b82f2b/a-list-thinking-lesson-from-jesus
You are
going to discover what the reader from the ancient world would know immediately,
while at the same time knowing that it is totally oblivious to most modern
readers. Get ready for an exciting and very important exploration! Continue
reading at - https://mailchi.mp/70d26bdc76c7/why-did-the-creator-rest-on-day-seven
Why is the “Creator”
in the Declaration of Independence? We can’t pretend to understand, “We
hold these truths to be self-evident . . .,” until we answer the first question.
In the very first sentence of the Declaration, the colonists describe
themselves as founding a country that would take its “separate and equal”
place on the world’s stage. Continue reading at: https://mailchi.mp/6b9fa539509f/why-is-the-creator-in-the-declaration-of-independence
