Study the Bible with Arthur Bailey

In this portion of Chapter 3, we continue with the conversation between Nicodemus and Yeshua.  Nicodemus says that no man can do the works and miracles that Yeshua did if YeHoVaH wasn't with Him.  Yeshua explains that you must be born again.  Nicodemus wants to know how can a man be born when he is old? Yeshua responds by saying, “You are a teacher, and you don't know these things?”   

In order to Be Born Again, we must focus on who Yeshua Messiah is.  He is the Word, the truth, the way, and the life.  We are supposed to proclaim His Word.  Why?  Because the Word is in us.  His Word is alive, it lives and abides forever.  The Word transforms us.  You cannot have the Word without the Spirit, and you cannot have the Spirit without the Word, they work together in tandem.  The Spirit is what enables you to know how to work and operate in the Word.   

In this portion of Torah, Genesis 49 opens with Israel calling his sons together to tell them what is going to happen in the future concerning them and their posterity. In the previous Chapter, he speaks to Joseph, adopts Joseph’s two sons, and speaks over their lives.  Those words that Israel spoke to Ephraim and Manasseh are still being used today.
 
Join Arthur in this portion of Torah, as Israel speaks prophetically to his sons and reveals their future in the message Israel Barak His Sons.

Apostle John is the only one of the Disciples that mentions Nicodemus.  Apostle John is the only one of the Disciples that deals with the subject of being born again that Yeshua discussed with Nicodemus.  Being born again means to be born of Elohim or born from above.  Being born again is a supernatural occurrence that takes place.  There is an internal change that causes an external manifestation. 

How do we know when a person is truly born again?  First and foremost, they receive Yeshua as the Messiah.  Second, being born again is a process of becoming.  We began as babes and grow to maturity or perfection in Messiah.  Yeshua says, “Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me.”  What are we learning?  We are learning of Him from His Word; the Word that became flesh.  Life is in His Word!  If His Word is in you, then life is in you.  If life is in you, and His Word is life, then what’s going to come out of you?  His Word! 

Israel approaches the end of his days, his sight fades, and he becomes ill.  Joseph gathers his sons and visits his father. It is during this bedside visit, thousands of years ago, that Israel establishes one of the most profound prophetic enactments that is still being carried out in the lives of Israelites to this day. Join Arthur as Israel recounts the blessings spoken to him by YeHoVaH and begins to pronounce blessings over the Children of Israel.

This passage in John Chapter 2 picks up when the Passover is at hand and many are headed to Jerusalem to celebrate. At this particular time in history, Jerusalem was the place where YeHoVaH’s people gathered for the Feasts. Jerusalem was in the land of Judea.  During the time in Jerusalem, many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles Yeshua did.   

There were miracles, signs, and wonders that followed the Disciples’ and Apostles’ Ministries.  As we went through the Acts of the Apostles, we saw there were miracles, signs, and wonders, that followed the Believers.  When we come into relationship with Messiah, we are brought into the household of the Almighty who desires to live His life through us.  We become the vessels by which He manifests His glory. The way we manifest the glory of Messiah, the glory of YeHoVaH, is by working the works we have been called to work.  So, if you are a Believer, signs should follow you that are a manifestation of the glory of Messiah that has been given to you.   

Join Arthur as he illustrates how Joseph, the Lord of Egypt, was a shrewd but wise businessman. Even though Joseph gathered all the money found in Egypt and Canaan, all the of the Egyptian’s livestock, land and reduced them to servitude, the Egyptian‘s acknowledged Joseph not only as the Lord of the land but as their Savior. Follow Arthur on this intriguing journey of how a dream given to a boy, created one of the greatest businessmen the world has never known. 

At the time of John Chapter 2, Yeshua had five Disciples following Him that attended the wedding in Cana where Yeshua turned the water into wine.  Through this event, we can see clearly how Yeshua taught in two ways.  He taught by what He said, and by what He did.  John writes that this first miracle manifested Yeshua’s glory and His Disciples believed on Him.   

There were disciples following Yeshua and when they saw the miracle, they believed on Him.  Did they not believe on Him before?  The question is, if they did, why would the author or translator indicate to us that now, they believed on Him.  There are many places in the Bible where there are people who believed in Him, but didn't believe on Him.   

After two years of famine, with five more years to go, Joseph convinces his brothers to bring Israel and all his family to Egypt.  Upon their arrival in Egypt, Joseph prepares his father, Israel, and several of his brothers to meet with Pharaoh.  Joseph meticulously instructs them how to answer Pharaoh’s questions. Their responses to Pharaoh are a part of Joseph’s devised plan to get all of the members of Israel’s family settled in the land of Goshen.  In Goshen is where the prophecy given to Abraham years earlier would be orchestrated by YeHoVaH. 

Join Arthur in this study From Canaan to Goshen. 

In the context of this passage, when John the Baptist says, “Behold the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world”; John is speaking of Messiah as our atoning sacrifice.  Passover was not a sacrifice for sin; the sacrifice for sin was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.  As our High Priest, after His crucifixion, Yeshua presented His own blood in the Tabernacle, not made with hands, and thereby atoned for the sins of the world.   

Unlike the earthly Levitical High Priest, who atoned for the sins of Israel year after year, Messiah did it once and for all.  Our High Priest has atoned for the sins of the world whether the world recognizes their sins have been atoned for or not. 

Therefore, we can declare with all boldness and confidence that our sins have been atoned for.  We are to live like people whose sins have been forgiven.  When Messiah returns, He is coming for those who recognize what He has done and are looking to His coming.   

After a couple of trips to Egypt to purchase food and return to the land of Canaan, Israel was informed by his sons that Joseph was not only alive, but was lord of Egypt, and had extended to him and all his household an invitation to come to Egypt. This pilgrimage of Israel and all his children going to Egypt would set the stage for the development of what would become the Nation of Israel as promised by YeHoVaH and the epic return to the Promised Land. 

Join Arthur for this historic journey as Israel Goes to Egypt.