Biblical explication

  • The Peace Offering He Called for

    The Hebrew words translated as peace offering are zevah shelamim (“sacred gift of greeting”). What is the Hebrew greeting? Shalom. What does shalom mean? Peace. This peace is a wholeness of being in body, mind, spirit. The shelamim, translated as… Continue reading

    The Peace Offering He Called for
  • The Burnt Offering He Called for

    The burnt offering is the first offering mentioned in Leviticus. In Hebrew, it’s called the ‘olah. It’s the same word from which we get Holocaust. It was completely burned up on the bronze altar. None of it was eaten by… Continue reading

    The Burnt Offering He Called for
  • He Assembled His People to Follow Him According to all the Accounts

    This time, I’ll focus on three things: the repetition of the tabernacle instructions and what it has to do with Jesus, the glory of the Lord in the tabernacle and what that has to do with Jesus, and the leading… Continue reading

    He Assembled His People to Follow Him According to all the Accounts
  • When You Take the Chance to Stand up and be Counted in God’s Census with Unveiled Face

    This reading portion takes us through instructions for the half-shekel census, the bronze basin, the recipe for holy anointing oil, the recipe for holy incense, the commissioning of Bezalel and Oholiab to make everything associated with the tabernacle, Shabbat, the… Continue reading

    When You Take the Chance to Stand up and be Counted in God’s Census with Unveiled Face
  • The Pure Order

    The Torah portion for February 28, 2026, Tetzaveh (You Are to Order) covers the vestments of the priests, the ordination process, and the altar of incense. The Haftara covers part of the instructions God gave Ezekiel about the future temple.… Continue reading

    The Pure Order
  • The Light’s Contribution to the World

    The Torah portion for February 21, 2026, T’rumah (Contributiuon), concerns the material contribution and instructions for the tabernacle, God’s dwelling place among His people. The Haftarah portion concerns how this tabernacle structure meant for a nomadic people in the wilderness… Continue reading

    The Light’s Contribution to the World
  • His Rulings Are Upright

    This portion begins with various rulings on social situations between people concerning slaves and restitution for losses in various situations, includes the confirming of the covenant between God and Israel, and ends with Moses, Aaron, Aaron’s sons, and 70 elders… Continue reading

    His Rulings Are Upright
  • To Proclaim His Excellencies

    First, I want to talk about how the giving of the Ten Commandments at Sinai (Horeb) foreshadows the coming of the Holy Spirit and the second coming of the Messiah in the last days, as well as how the Mosaic… Continue reading

    To Proclaim His Excellencies
  • After He Had Let Go

    This portion takes us through the beginning journey of the Israelites out of Egypt, to the parting of the Red Sea, to the bitter water at Marah, to Elim with twelve springs and seventy palm trees, to the wilderness of… Continue reading

    After He Had Let Go
  • Chanukah: “I Will Live Among You.”

    In this post, I go through Zechariah’s vision and explain how Yeshua Jesus is the Branch, the Servant, the High Priest, the Stone, the Menorah, the Temple, and the Capstone. The accuser constantly tries to take what belongs to God,… Continue reading

    Chanukah: “I Will Live Among You.”