Mark Huey of Outreach Israel Ministries delivers the following message on the Torah portion for this week: V’zot Ha’berakhah or “This is the blessing”
John McKee talks about a very inconvenient subject for many Bible readers: much of the record of Holy Scripture is present to reveal the faults and mistakes of God’s people. How do we need to better approach Scripture as a warning, with various stories and accounts to be heeded by the righteous?
Mark Huey of Outreach Israel Ministries delivers the following Apostolic Scriptures Reflection for Ha’azinu: Romans 10:14-21; 12:14-21; Hebrews 12:28-29
Mark Huey of Outreach Israel Ministries delivers the following message on the Torah portion for this week: Ha’azinu or “Hear”
John McKee discusses how many people in today’s Messianic movement, believe that they should have some kind of insider information or perspective—precisely because of their involvement with Israel, Jewish salvation, and the return of the Messiah. If indeed so, how can this be done in a responsible manner, facilitating Kingdom of God purposes?
Torah observance is much more than just Shabbat, the festivals, and kosher. A great number of ethical and moral issues/commandments become significantly conscious to the Torah reader. Likewise, a person has to encounter a world going not only back some 3,300 years to the time of the Exodus, but multiplied millennia to the Creation of the cosmos itself. The questions and the controversies that the first five books of the Bible present to us, not just as students of God’s Word, but specifically as Messianic Believers—are quite significant. Many people do not know what to do when the social norms of the ancient period are different than those of today, and are often at a loss when reading the Torah. Not infrequently, such issues are just avoided or outright ignored in Messianic Torah study.
Mark Huey of Outreach Israel Ministries delivers the following Apostolic Scriptures Reflection for V’yeilekh: Hebrews 13:5-8
Mark Huey of Outreach Israel Ministries delivers the following message on the Torah portion for this week: V’yeilekh or “And he went”
John McKee delivers the September 2023 Outreach Israel News update.
Anyone who enters into Pauline theological studies today will easily encounter the fact that there are scholars and exegetes who think that the term “works of law” or ergōn nomou—appearing first in Galatians (2:16[3x]; 3:2, 5, 10), and then appearing again in Romans (3:20, 28)—actually does designate something other than “works/deeds/actions required by the Mosaic Law,” or at least something a bit more specific than just “observing the law” (NIV) in general. These proposals, though, have been met with a great deal of criticism, and even some hostility, by those of particular theological traditions. Alternatives to the customary meaning of “works of law” have been proposed more frequently, as New Testament theologians, over the past fifty years or so, have had greater access to ancient Jewish literature and resources, and this information has had to be considered in their exegesis.
