GENESIS Lesson 19 – Chapter 19 The point of Torah Class is to study the Holy Scriptures, and not to establish or learn doctrines; nor are we a class that centers on topical discussions. However, as I said in the introduction to Torah Class several months ago, while we’re generally going to go verse-by-verse through […]

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GENESIS Lesson 18 – Chapters 18 and 19 Last week we started the story of the 3 men suddenly appearing to Abraham, that he brought them to his tent, and that they sat down and ate what was prepared for them. There is much disagreement on whether these were men, or angels, or some of […]

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GENESIS Lesson 17 – Chapters 17 and 18 Today we begin Genesis chapter 17. It’s a pretty long chapter, so we’re going to break it up a bit. We’ll start by reading the first 14 verses. READ GEN 17:1-14 In the first part of chapter 17, we are given a benchmark: Avraham is 99 years […]

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GENESIS Lesson 16 – Chapters 15 and 16 READ GENESIS CHAPTER 15:12 to end Let’s look at verses 15 and 16 a little closer. As I have taught you on a few occasions, there was no concept of “dying and going to heaven” in Abraham’s era; in fact, that concept is nowhere to be found […]

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GENESIS Lesson 15 – Chapters 14 and 15 It’s amazing what becomes clearer when we put the Jewishness that was removed like an inflamed Appendix out of the Bible, back into the Bible…. And a prime example is the story of Abraham and Melchizedek. The traditional Roman and Western Church’s answer to “who is Melchizedek” […]

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GENESIS Lesson 14 – Chapter 14 Before we discuss this chapter, I’d like to take a few minutes to discuss something of a general, but important, nature concerning the Bible. And, it involves a rather scholarly and legal term: the word is “redacted”. Redacted is a word you’re going to hear with some regularity in […]

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GENESIS Lesson 13 – Chapter 13 While Torah Class is all about studying the first 5 books of the Bible….the Torah…..it also is probably the most profitable for us when we can understand the relevance it has for us in our day and age, and apply it to our lives. It’s said by many preachers […]

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GENESIS Lesson 12 – Chapters 12 and 13 READ Gen 12: 4- end We begin by now understanding that a God-created covenant is nothing less than a new or modified law of nature. There is no other word we can come up with that expresses the unfathomable force of a covenant. A promise, a contract, […]

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GENESIS Lesson 11 – Chapter 12 READ GEN 12:1-3 God, Adonai (means Lord or Master), makes a covenant with Abraham (still called Avram at this moment). This covenant occurs while Abraham was residing in Haran, up in Mesopotamia. And, basically what occurs is that God tells Abraham to leave Haran, and go where God will […]

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GENESIS Lesson 10 – Chapters 10 and 11 The importance of Genesis chapters 10 and 11 is that they are the bridge from the beginning of the New World, after the Flood, to the greatest of the Biblical patriarchs, Abraham. As brief as these two chapters are, we get a linkage of genealogy between Shem […]

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