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Yom Kippur: Repentance and the Well-Watered Desert Garden
Yom Kippur is the only biblically mandated fast day or Israel. The day is spent in prayer for forgiveness of sins. At the close of the day, the final shofar is sounded, a long extended blast, and by tradition it… Continue reading
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Vayelekh: He Went Ahead of You, For You
Moses gave Israel the Torah, but Joshua led them into the promised land. They miraculously crossed the river that dried up at their crossing point and piled up upstream. The walls of their enemies in Jericho fell down for them.… Continue reading
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Rosh Hashanah: Isaac, Ishmael, and the Well
Today, Muslims of Mid Eastern descent claim their lineage to Abraham through Ishmael. Jews claim theirs through Isaac. God tells Abraham, “through Isaac shall your offspring be named” (vs. 12), though God would “make a nation of the son of the… Continue reading
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Nitzavim: He is Coming and His Reward and Recompense Is with Him
This section of Isiah and the next several chapters that follow describe the Messiah who will come and conquer Israel’s enemies, Messiah ben Judah. Christians believe this is the prophetic description of the second coming of the Messiah. The nations… Continue reading
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Nitzavim: Do Not Ascend. Do Not Descend. Do Not Cross. He Has.
God gave us His word through Moses, and then God gave us the Word in Jesus. He came down. He was raised. He crossed over and back again. We don’t have to because He is near us now (Mt. 28:20),… Continue reading
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Nitzavim: The Tree that Made Wormwood Sweet
The root bearing poisonous fruit in Deuteronomy chapter 29 is associated according to Hebrew tradition with hemlock, an herb deadly to humans. Socrates was executed by drinking hemlock. This phrase in Deut. 29 literally is translated “a root bearing a… Continue reading
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An Interpretation of the River Rider in the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony
I’ve already introduced the river rider in my previous posts, particularly in my post about angel wings and light. In this post, I will take a deeper look at this particular figure and argue this is the manifestation of a… Continue reading
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An Interpretation of the Oarsman/Torchbearer of the 2024 Paris Olympic Ceremonies
This post is the third in a series that I am doing on the 2024 Paris Olympic opening and closing ceremonies. So far, I have covered an interpretation of the prominence of the river as the stage for the opening… Continue reading
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An Interpretation of the Symbolic Meaning of Angel Wings and Light in the 2024 Paris Olympics
This post is the second in a series I am doing as an explication of the 2024 Olympic ceremonies. In my first post, I explicated the setting for the opening ceremony, the Riven Seine, and in this post, I will… Continue reading
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An Interpretation of the Use of Rivers in the 2024 Paris Olympic Ceremonies
Introduction The Olympic 2024 summer games held in Paris was something I was looking forward to sharing with my children. We don’t have cable and we don’t have an antenna like we used to, and I’m glad we didn’t. The… Continue reading
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