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The Holy Spirit On You In You and Through You
This Teaching examines the distinction the speaker draws between the Holy Spirit coming upon people for particular assignments, dwelling within believers in connection with the New Covenant, and working through believers. The discussion includes historical examples, Acts, baptism, obedience, spiritual gifts, and extended audience questions.
Sukkot: It’s Ultimate Fullfillment
This Teaching approaches Sukkot as both a memorial of Israel’s wilderness experience and a forward-looking picture of gathering, dependence on Yahovah, the reign of Yeshua, and the ultimate dwelling of Yah with His people. It begins with the biblical commands for the Feast of Tabernacles and emphasizes harvest, ingathering, rejoicing, and temporary dwellings. The Teaching then connects those themes to a proposed future wilderness experience or Greater Exodus, while repeatedly distinguishing the speaker’s interpretation from what Scripture states explicitly. The discussion closes with practical and theological questions from the fellowship about observing Sukkot, Jerusalem, temporary dwellings, the temple, sacrifices, the abomination of desolation, and tradition.
The Day of Atonement
This Teaching approaches the Day of Atonement as a study of access to Yehovah’s presence. It begins by stating that observing the appointed day does not repeat or supplement Yeshua’s sacrifice; rather, Leviticus 16 provides a pattern through which sin, atonement, cleansing, mediation, priesthood, and access to the holy presence can be understood. The account of Nadab and Abihu in Leviticus 10 becomes an important starting point. Their unauthorized approach is used to emphasize the words, ‘By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy,’ and the Teaching develops the theme that fallen humanity cannot approach Yehovah on its own terms. The boundaries, washing, clothing, blood, incense, and mediation surrounding the high priest are presented as purposeful provisions for approaching the holy presence and living. The Teaching then turns to Yeshua. Hebrews 9 is used to show that Messiah entered the greater sanctuary with His own blood and obtained eternal redemption. The speaker emphasizes that the Day of Atonement pattern did not end with the high priest entering the Most Holy Place: the people waited for him to reappear. This becomes the Teaching’s central connection to Hebrews 9:28, where Messiah appears a second time, apart from sin, for salvation to those eagerly waiting for Him. Hebrews 10 is then used to connect Yeshua’s priestly work with believers drawing near with confidence. The Teaching also asks what the Day of Atonement means after Yeshua’s return. It is careful to state that Scripture does not explicitly assign a particular prophetic event to a future Yom Kippur. Several possibilities and participant observations are discussed – including cleansing, the removal of evil influence, Israel, the millennial period, and the memorial character of the appointed time – but these are presented as matters for continued study rather than as explicit statements of Scripture. The closing discussion also considers afflicting oneself, fasting, Isaiah 58, serving others, and approaching unresolved prophetic questions with humility, faith, and trust.
The Feast of Trumpets the sound of the Second Coming
This Teaching examines the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) by beginning with the written commands and then tracing the biblical use of trumpets, shouts, remembrance, gathering, and the return of Yeshua. It opens with Ezra’s example of seeking, doing, and teaching the Law of Yehovah and Matthew 5’s emphasis on doing and teaching the commandments. The Teaching distinguishes the biblical Feast of Trumpets from later traditions associated with Rosh Hashanah and emphasizes Leviticus 23’s wording that the appointed times are the feasts of Yehovah. Leviticus 23 and Numbers 29 identify the day as the first day of the seventh month, a Sabbath rest, a holy convocation, and a day or memorial of teruah. The Teaching explains that teruah can describe a trumpet blast, alarm, loud shout, joyful cry, or triumphant proclamation. It then follows trumpet imagery through Leviticus 25, Joshua 6, Numbers 10, Nehemiah 8, Nehemiah 4, and Exodus 19, highlighting uses connected with remembrance, salvation, gathering, movement, and response. The Teaching next compares these patterns with New Testament passages concerning Yeshua’s return and the sound of a trumpet. It explicitly notes that the Bible connects Yeshua’s return with trumpet imagery but does not explicitly state that His return will occur on the Feast of Trumpets. A later section considers the call-and-response pattern in which a trumpet sounds and the people gather, move, shout, or respond. The discussion also addresses uncertainty surrounding calendar calculations and includes comments from participants about obedience, continued study, and keeping the focus on Yehovah and Yeshua.
Walking in the Spirit What does it mean?
This Teaching examines Paul’s phrase ‘walk in the Spirit’ and argues that it describes a practical way of life rather than a mysterious or elite spiritual experience. It connects Paul’s language with the Bible’s longstanding call to walk in Yahovah’s ways, statutes, commandments, truth, and light. Galatians 5 is central: the Teaching distinguishes receiving life from the Spirit from bringing one’s actual conduct into step with the Spirit, contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit, and emphasizes that believers still make real choices about how they live. Romans 8 is then used to connect Spirit-led living with fulfilling the righteous requirement of the law—not as a means of earning salvation, but as the obedient evidence of living faith. The Teaching closes by asking whether the Spirit truly dwells in a person and by distinguishing genuine Spirit-produced obedience from merely behaving religiously.
Are You a Disciple of Yeshua? Are You Sure?
This Teaching asks whether identifying as a believer or attending religious gatherings is the same as being a disciple of Yeshua. The speaker traces the Hebrew eved (servant) and language of learning and following from Isaiah’s faithful disciples through the examples of Moses and Joshua, Elijah and Elisha, and other biblical relationships. He argues that discipleship means belonging to the Master, learning His instruction, submitting to His authority, imitating His conduct, and serving others. Yeshua’s call to leave the nets, deny oneself, take up the cross daily, count the cost, and wash one another’s feet challenges passive religious affiliation. The Teaching closes by urging personal examination: do our desires, decisions, loyalties, and actions reflect Yeshua’s rule?
A Biblical Response to Dr. Todd Phillips Part 2
Part 2 responds to four difficult biblical questions raised by Dr. Todd Phillips: Lot offering his daughters in Genesis 19; the consequences of David’s sin for his household and child; the treatment of Midianite captives in Numbers 31; and the command concerning Amalek in 1 Samuel 15. The speaker argues that biblical narration is not necessarily divine endorsement, distinguishes personal guilt from consequences experienced by others, and urges careful reading of the actual wording and wider Scriptural context. He also offers a Nephilim-related explanation for the Amalek account as his own interpretation, and emphasizes Yahovah’s authority as judge. A separate future Teaching on slavery is proposed; the closing community discussion addresses related questions and Paul’s letters.
A Biblical Response to Dr. Todd Phillips Part 1
This Teaching opens a two-part biblical response to difficult passages raised by Dr. Todd Phillips. It establishes a framework of Yahovah’s kingship, perfect justice, and human humility through Job and other Scriptures, then examines the Sabbath stick-gatherer, covenant penalties, Elisha and the bears, the priest’s daughter, and laws concerning sexual offenses in Deuteronomy 22. The speaker argues for reading each account within its legal, historical, and scriptural context. Some explanations, particularly the interpretation of Deuteronomy 22:28-29, are interpretive claims rather than undisputed conclusions.
Christ Plus Nothing
“Christ Plus Nothing” examines the difference between receiving salvation by faith and living as a disciple afterward. The speaker affirms that a person does not need to become Torah-observant before coming to faith in Yeshua, but challenges the use of the slogan to portray obedience, repentance, or discipleship as additions to Messiah’s saving work. Drawing on Acts 15, Matthew 7 and 28, John 14, James 2, and the Hebrew Scriptures, the Teaching argues that genuine faith leads to growth and obedience. The discussion also explores how the Torah and Prophets illuminate the Messiah and concludes with a call to share biblical convictions graciously.
Generational Curses – Biblical Fact or Religious Fiction?
This Teaching examines whether Scripture supports inherited spiritual curses from ancestral sins. It distinguishes consequences and repeated family patterns from inherited personal guilt, considers Exodus 20 and Numbers 14 alongside Deuteronomy 24, Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 18, and critiques bloodline-deliverance formulas. It also explores the interpretation of Proverbs 22:6 and closes with the believer’s freedom in Yeshua.
TORAH IS LIBERTY
In this Teaching, “Torah Is Liberty,” the speaker explains why he understands Yahovah’s commandments as a path of freedom rather than bondage. Building on the earlier Teachings “Who Told You?” and “Babylon: Come Out of Her, My People,” he challenges inherited assumptions about Torah, examines passages in Galatians often associated with bondage, and distinguishes salvation by grace through faith from the redeemed person’s walk of obedience. He also warns Torah-observant believers against replacing church traditions with new human-made rules, criticizing others over personal interpretations, or treating added restrictions as holiness. The Teaching draws extensively from Psalm 119 and other passages describing the law as delight, wisdom, peace, and liberty, and concludes with a call to hold to what is written and extend grace in fellowship.
Babylon Come Out of Her My People – What Does This Mean?
This Teaching asks what Revelation 18:4 means when Yah’s people are told to ‘come out of her.’ It begins with historical Babylon and the Babel pattern of organized human rebellion, then argues that spiritual Babylon is broader than a geographic location: it is any system that competes with Yahovah’s authority by offering its own truth, morality, identity, security, worship, or standard of holiness. The central application is separation from Babylon’s sin and rebellion, not automatic separation from ordinary society or technology. The Teaching warns against allowing fear, tradition, or personal conviction to create commands that Scripture does not give. The extended discussion adds an important balance: believers should not fear modern tools, but should use discernment, examine their purpose and dependence, test everything by the Word, and remain willing to separate when obedience to Yahovah requires it.