Have you ever had a bad day? Sometimes God uses the worst days to bring about the best good. According to an old legend, the Messiah was born on Tisha B'Av, the day that the Temple was destroyed. Here's part one of a two part teaching on the Messianic significance of Tisha B'Av and the destruction of the Temple with correlations to Yeshua's birth, death, and resurrection.

The three weeks this year are illuminated by the light of Comet Neowise, the latest sign and portent of the birth pangs of the Messiah. Here's a teaching about the new comet and its significance in relation to the three weeks and the coming of the Messiah. 

People with deep convictions can be characterized as "zealots," and zeal is a good thing ... sometimes. Here's another warning to disciples regarding the toxic social discourse and cultural divide tearing apart the United States of America with reference to the Fast of Tammuz and the three weeks. 

If salt loses its saltiness, with what will it be salted? Here's a fourth of July message for disciples for the Fast of Tammuz on the significance of the fast days and the mission of the kingdom. 

Rebooting Beth Immanuel after the Covid-19 shutdown, we come back together on Shabbat Korach and learn a lesson about our inner Moses and our inner Korah while working through the implications of Distinction theology in the synagogue service. 

The story of Korah's rebellion helps us understand a passage from Paul's epistle to Titus about "worthless and unprofitable arguments about the Torah." 

"Love is patient, love is kind." 1 Corinthians 13 wasn't written for the sake of flowery ornamental text inside a Hallmark wedding card. The original meaning of the passage within the context of Paul's discussion of spiritual gifts and revelations reveals new insights into the meaning of the famous love passge.  

An international pandemic, riots in American cities, Chinse brinkmanship, rivers in Russia turn blood red, canibal rats in the streets, the American flag torn assunder, the Washington Monument struck by lightning--it's all in another week of the signs of the times during the birth pangs of Messiah.

Why do we eat dairy on Shavuot and stay up all night studying Torah? What's the connection between Pentecost and Shavuot? Here's a quick overview of the festival in the form of excerpts from an unpublished manuscript of the forthcoming First Fruits of Zion book The Holy Days.

A forgotten apostolic tradition about "the three camps" of Israel puts us on the trail of an ancient teaching about New Jerusalem and the World to Come. This teaching from just before Shavuot 2014 was the basis of the article that later appeared in Messiah Journal under the title "What No Eye Has Seen."