devotional

  • 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 Secret to Risk-Free Investment

    Set your mind on things aboveAnd not on things below,For wherever your treasure isYour heart will be also.Do not store your treasure upWhere moth and rust destroy,Where thieves can break into and stealAnd you will none enjoy.Store your treasure in… Continue reading

    The Secret to Risk-Free Investment
  • 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
  • Names: Their Importance and Their Power

    The oppression of Israel to bitter slavery before the Exodus is the stage upon which we see a messiah arise, Moses, and I would like to argue he acts too as a foreshadowing of the Messiah Who was promised to… Continue reading

    Names: Their Importance and Their Power
  • He Approach: to Live Among Us

    The sages taught of two different messiahs, Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben Judah. This week’s parsha and haftarah reveals the mystery of the two messiahs becoming one and how God used Ezekiel to reveal it. Continue reading

    He Approach: to Live Among Us
  • At the End: The Suspense of the Latter Days

    This portion begins with Pharoah’s dream and ends with the dramatic climax between Joseph and his brothers, who still didn’t know it was him. Their money they tried to buy grain with had been returned to their bags with their… Continue reading

    At the End: The Suspense of the Latter Days
  • He Sent: Jacob and the Son

    In this portion, there is a lot to cover, but I will focus on the relationship between Esau and Jacob and Jacob’s faith in God, foreshadowing the Messiah and how believers can hold the same faith of Jacob in times… Continue reading

    He Sent: Jacob and the Son