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Tag: #Oldtestament

  • Thoughts on Zechariah

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    So just who was Zechariah?His name Z’kharyah/זְכַרְיָה֙ son of Berekhyah and the grandson of Ido and he lived about just after the fall of Jerusalem which was about 587 or 586 BCE.The name Zekharyah means “the Lord remembered” and he is part of the 12 minor prophets in some traditions.Although his book is small ,his prophecies…

  • Is the ten Sefirot Christian or Messianic or is it occult?

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    What are the ten Sefirot ( סְפִירוֹת) ? Sefirot is a plural word meaning emanations or that source or origin.The Ten Sefirot are one of the most important aspects of Kabbalah which is Jewish mysticism and make up the aspects of the Tree of Life and in some ways out line the personality attributes of the…

  • And to new readers and old ,please read!

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    I am still working out the bugs on this site and I admit it is not very user friendly.When you come to my site it only shows the latest article but if you scroll down it will show all of the about 50 total articles. If there is something specific you want to read I…

  • Is Psalm 83 happening now?

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    Just to let you know the verse numbers are different in the Hebrew text than in the King James or ESV or most English translations,so do not be confused.In the original Bible actually there was not chapter or verse,I think the RCC put them in in the 4th century,so don’t worry if it may be…

  • Is Jesus in the Zohar?

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    So first of all what is the Zohar? The Zohar is a Jewish sacred text first discovered in Medieval Spain by Moses De Leon in the late 13th century and the Zohar  זֹהַר meaning radiance or splendor and was written in Jewish Aramaic and is the basis of modern Kabbalah.The true believers believe it was…

  • Books left out of the Bible part II

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    What about extra Biblical Rabbinical literature like the Talmud or the Zohar or the Alpha-Bet of Ben Sirach. So that is very nuanced and so lets start with the Talmud.So what is the Talmud?Is the Talmud a commentary on the Torah? That is the Midrash that is a commentary on the Torah,the Talmud came from…

  • What about reading books excluded from the Bible?

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    Then you are asking the wrong question,you want to ask ,”which books excluded from the Bible are ok to read”? Although the Jewish cannon with the exception of smaller traditions ,the mainline Orthodox Jewish canon is uniform.The Christian Canon varies a bit more.The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches have book in the old Testament…

  • Was the King James Bible written in Old English

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    People often say the KJV was written in old English and in a sense yes was written in an archaic form of English (Jacobian English would be the technical term) but not old English.The King James version of the Bible or KJV for short was written in 1611 and that version went out of print…

  • Who were the wives of Shem,Yefet(Japheth) and Cham(Ham)

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    This will be a discussion on the daughters in law of Noah and who they were and most information on them comes from the Ge’ez Ethiopic text of Book of Jubilees.If you own that please have it handy. Lets start with the wife of Yefet (Japheth) who according to Genesis is the oldest (Gen 10:21)…

  • Kingdoms of Yishmael II

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    7.Mas’a ,in Hebrew meaning tribute or burden ,this Arabian tribe living in the northern Arabian desert towards Babylonia. Mas’a The records of Tiglath Pileser III mention the inhabitants of Mas’a and Tema, who paid him tribute. On the summit of Jebal Ghunaym, located about 14 kilometers south of Tayma, archeologists Winnett and Reed discovered some…