Shabbat Sabbath

Being a missionary kid, I remember as a teenager resenting the fact that I did not fit into the world. I did not do many of the things that “normal” teenagers did, nor did I think the way they did. I simply did not fit into their way of life, and it was often a lonely road.  When I went to Bible College, where I found many other missionary kids and preacher’s kids, I felt much more at home.

But that was not destined to last long, because within a few years God began to teach me things that were quite different from what was being taught in the church. So once again I was led away on the road less traveled. But by this time I was married, and so I did not need other friends as much as before.

The Greek word translated “service” is latreia, the technical word for an offering. It is used five times in the Septuagint as the equivalent of the Hebrew word aboda, “service, labor, work.” Examples are found in Exodus 12:25, 26 and in Exodus 13:5, where the NASB says, “you shall observe this rite.” Hence, Jesus was telling them that the Jews would justify their murder by thinking of it as a sacred rite, an offering to God. More literally, they would say they were doing God’s work in obedience to Him.

The entire purpose of the Bible is to record the account of the making and keeping of certain promises which Yahweh God had made to one man whom He chose out of all other men for which to execute His will and to display His being and sovereignty. That plan has not changed, and that same God has often asserted that…

Opening our presentation of this epistle to the Ephesians, we saw Paul of Tarsus begin to describe the purpose of the will of Yahweh God in relation to His plan for the ages: that He has had a particular people who were chosen from the “foundation of the society” who were preordained for the position of sons of God. Because of that predestination, in Christ these particular people have redemption and the dismissal of their transgressions.

I am going to state right up front here that this article is not for everyone.

My target audience are those of you who no longer feel comfortable or welcome in your Christian Church due to all the things that have happened during the past 2 plus years since the Plandemic was unleashed, or to those of you who see the insanity around you and are searching for answers to understand everything, but know all too well that you will not find those answers in organized religion, including the Christian religion.

When her father died of cancer in 2019 when she was just 13, Suzette Sheft realized that one should never delay recording family stories and histories. It was too late for her to interview her dad, but there was still time to ask her grandmother about her Holocaust story and get it down on paper.

Sheft, a high school student, turned her paternal grandmother Monique Sheft’s experiences into a work of narrative non-fiction. Targeted at young readers ages 11 to 15, “Running for Shelter” was released on November 9, the anniversary of Kristallnacht — the event that signaled the beginning of the Holocaust.

We live in a time when much of what we have learnt in the past is being challenged. In fact, we are beginning to see it everywhere.

Some of it is too hard for us to comprehend after believing a certain way all our lives. Now, they are saying, it could be quite different to what we thought.

Are we living in the days just before the return of Jesus Christ to this planet?

Right now, there is a tremendous amount of chatter about the “end times” all over the Internet. So many really crazy things are starting to happen all over the world, and many people correctly recognize that we were specifically warned that a lot of these crazy things would happen in the last days.