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This year's election was anomalous in many ways. There is a temptation to view the results with despair. This would be an error. The believer's attitude is that there is now work to be done to change things in a direction favorable to God and His people.

At Sinai God made a big deal of the fact that the reason He took them out of Egypt was to set them free. The idea that the covenant at Sinai, as delivered to Moses by God, is something that puts you under bondage is in contradiction to what God said when he gave them the Torah. The purpose of the Torah is so that you stay out of bondage and have a fruitful society that is pleasing to God.

There is a very human tendency to assume that God's mercy will be applied to oneself and that He will give that other fellow what he truly deserves. Such presumption is a grave error. God will judge everyone according to His own standards, not man's standards.

The standard Christian interpretation of the binding of Isaac is that it was a rehearsal for the crucifixion. While this is correct, there is an additional layer of meaning. What was God saying to the world of the Patriarchs?

Paul uses two metaphors to describe the effect of the Torah: that of an heir under a guardian and that of the son of Hagar, Sarah's slave. These examples are often cited as evidence that the Torah is done away with. This is a misunderstanding. Just as the two sets of tablets given to Moses were identical, the conditions of the New Covenant are the same as the Old. The difference is where God's law is written.

The letter starts with an assertion of the TANAK principle that righteousness is by faith. The first chapter describes the pathologies of those who deny God, lack faith and follow after their own vain imaginations.

In both Luke 16 and Matthew 6 Y'shua warns against a wrong view of worldly wealth. The parable of the unrighteous steward, which ends with the advice not to serve mammon, has some seemingly strange aspects. Were the tenant farmers in on the deception? Why did the master commend the unrighteous steward after he learned of the unauthorized rent reductions? Why did he not take any action against the steward or the tenants?

The Galatians had received the Spirit when Paul taught them the Gospel. Paul is telling them here that that Spirit is sufficient evidence of their salvation and that adding anything beyond that risks them falling away from Grace.

Continuing from chapter 51 the prophet declares God's vengeance on Babylon. This because she used her economic power to lead the nations away from God. Since much of this chapter is echoed in Revelation 18, it is not always clear when Jeremiah is speaking of the conquest by the Medes or of the eventual destruction at the end.

The Torah is a very compact book. Why is this story included? What are we to learn from it today? In light of the globalist project to create an overarching world government and to thoroughly mix ethnicities via mas migration, the story of the Tower takes on a very contemporary significance. God did not approve of homogeneity then, perhaps He still doesn't.