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Who Told You that You were Naked?
This Teaching uses Yahovah’s question to Adam in Genesis 3:11 – ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ – as a framework for examining where believers get their doctrines, traditions, interpretations, and standards of holiness. The Teaching argues that inference becomes dangerous when it is elevated to doctrine and imposed on others as though Yahovah explicitly commanded it. Adam’s physical condition did not change after the fall; the Teaching emphasizes that his perception and source of authority changed. From there it compares competing sources of truth – feelings, experience, teachers, tradition, pride, perceived blessing, and personal reasoning – with the written Word. The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes are used as historical examples of communities that, in different ways, departed from what was written. The repeated challenge is to ask, ‘Where is it written?’ and to distinguish personal conviction or commentary from commandments that can rightly be required of others.
The Peace That Passes Understanding
This Teaching examines Philippians 4:6-7 by asking what Scripture means by the peace of Yahovah that surpasses understanding. It contrasts the common idea of peace as a calm feeling produced by favorable circumstances with shalom as wholeness, well-being, security, and right relationship with Yahovah. Using Genesis 15, Philippians 4, Psalm 55, 1 Peter 5, Isaiah 26, John 14 and 16, Jeremiah 6, Isaiah 59, Psalm 119, and Proverbs 3, the Teaching develops a path from knowing Yahovah through His Word, to believing, obeying, experiencing His faithfulness, growing in trust, and receiving His peace. Trials are not presented as proof that peace has failed; rather, biblical peace is described as a settled condition that can remain while trouble, uncertainty, suffering, or loss are still present. The closing discussion adds personal testimony and cautions against assuming that anxiety or depression automatically proves spiritual failure.
The Full Armor of Yah – Part 2
Part 2 moves from identifying the spiritual opposition in Ephesians 6 to examining the armor itself and the kinds of tests each piece is meant to withstand. The Teaching emphasizes that the whole armor is required: truth establishes the believer’s authority and readiness; righteousness joins faith with obedient living; the gospel of peace grounds the believer in reconciliation and covenant harmony with Yah; faith becomes a shield when trust remains firm even through silence, loss, or an unwanted answer; salvation protects the mind through confidence in Yah’s saving work and promises; and the sword of the Spirit is the whole living Word of Yah, not merely selected New Testament passages. The recurring practical test is whether the believer will submit feelings, traditions, culture, fear, groupthink, and personal expectations to what is written. The Teaching closes with Yeshua’s model for spiritual conflict: ‘It is written.’
The Full Armor of Yah – Part 1
This Teaching opens a two-part study of Ephesians 6 by asking two foundational questions: where did Paul get the imagery of the full armor of God, and why do believers need armor at all? Rather than treating the armor as a Roman military illustration invented by Paul, the Teaching traces the imagery back to Isaiah, where YHWH Himself is described with a breastplate of righteousness, a helmet of salvation, and belts of righteousness and faithfulness. The central claim is that the armor belongs to YHWH before it belongs to the believer. Putting it on therefore means taking on His provision, character, authority, truth, righteousness, salvation, Word, and cause in the spiritual conflict.
Part 1 then concentrates on Ephesians 6:10-13 and the nature of the opposition. The Teaching treats Paul’s four expressions – principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness, and spiritual hosts of wickedness – as meaningful descriptions of an organized kingdom of darkness rather than four interchangeable phrases. Drawing from Deuteronomy 32, Daniel 10 and 12, Psalm 82, Job, Jude, 2 Peter, Colossians, and the ministry of Yeshua, it presents a biblical worldview in which unseen spiritual authorities influence nations and human rebellion. The conflict is described as personal and close, not distant: believers ‘wrestle’ against these forces while living in the visible world.
The Teaching also cautions against becoming obsessed with spiritual beings or speculative details Scripture does not reveal. Awareness is necessary, but the focus must remain on YHWH and His Word. The purpose of understanding the enemy is to recognize why the armor is necessary and to stand faithfully in the conflict. Part 1 intentionally stops before explaining each individual piece of armor; that deeper examination is reserved for Part 2.
New Covenant or RE-Newed Covenant? It Matters!
The Teaching presents that Jeremiah 31 promises a genuinely new covenant rather than a renewal of the Sinai covenant. Although Torah remains central, the speaker emphasizes changed covenant mediation, ratification through Yeshua’s blood, and the promised writing of Torah on the heart through the Spirit. He argues the new covenant was inaugurated through Messiah’s death and is active now, while its full consummation awaits His return. The speaker presents these as his interpretations and encourages loving discussion.
Alien Disclosure – It will not be full disclosure
This Teaching urges believers to interpret reports of UFOs and alien disclosure through the speaker’s biblical worldview. Beginning with Genesis 1 and humanity as Yahovah’s image-bearers, the speaker reads Genesis 6 as a supernatural transgression involving the sons of God and the Nephilim. He draws on 1 Enoch and Jasher as historical sources but explicitly does not regard 1 Enoch as inspired Scripture. The Teaching links the days of Noah to Yeshua’s warning in Matthew 24 and proposes that apparent alien visitors, human enhancement, and AI could become elements of an end-time deception. These forward-looking connections are the speaker’s interpretation and stated opinion; the transcript does not establish that extraterrestrial disclosure, angelic DNA, or a DNA-based mark has occurred or will occur.
The Women Who Carried the Promise
This Teaching highlights women whose courage, faith, perseverance, and decisions were essential to the preservation and advancement of the biblical promise. The speaker frames the promised “seed” through reception, preservation, and progression, beginning with Eve (Havah) and continuing through Sarah. Women from the fellowship then share reflections on Ruth, Rahab, Jehosheba, Tamar, and Leah, alongside personal testimony. The central invitation is to recognize women as integral participants in Yahovah’s covenant story rather than incidental figures. The discussion also includes interpretive claims and personal applications that should be distinguished from direct biblical statements.
Life in Desert – Then Jacob was Left Alone
Using Jacob being left alone and wrestling in Genesis 32 as its central pattern, this Teaching considers the spiritual wilderness experienced by people who leave familiar religious structures while seeking to obey Yahovah. The speaker describes lost fellowship, disrupted routines, questioned traditions, and the struggle to trust Yahovah rather than former support systems. Deuteronomy 8 frames wilderness testing as humbling and exposing the heart. The Teaching connects Jacob receiving the name Israel with the believer’s process of wrestling, perseverance, covenant obedience, and a transformed identity. Luke 14 and John 6 are used to discuss the cost of discipleship; Ezekiel 20 is presented as a picture of Yahovah pleading with His people in the wilderness. The closing community discussion includes personal accounts of illness, family tensions, leaving church communities, and encouragement to share honestly and extend grace.
Whitewashed Tombs – How Obedience Became Burden and Tradition Became Law
This Teaching uses Yeshua’s rebuke of the Pharisees in Matthew 23 as a warning to believers who sincerely desire obedience. It traces the Teaching’s account of how zeal for Torah and covenant faithfulness can drift into ‘safeguarding obedience,’ building extra boundaries, elevating interpretation, and eventually treating human tradition as if it were Yahovah’s command. The central warning is not against obedience; it is against replacing Yahovah’s standard with a system that only looks righteous. The Teaching repeatedly turns the Pharisee example inward, asking Torah-minded believers to examine pride, elitism, groupthink, claimed authority, and inherited interpretations in their own communities. Its proposed safeguards are humility, testing every teaching against Scripture, refusing to make human teachers into rabbis, keeping Yeshua as Teacher, serving rather than seeking preeminence, and remaining willing to repent when Scripture exposes error.
Is Yeshua God? Does it matter?
Beginning with the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4, this Teaching asks whether the claim that Yahovah is one excludes Yeshua from divine identity. The speaker argues that Scripture must be interpreted as a unified witness rather than allowing an isolated text or reaction to earlier doctrine to overturn other passages. He reviews objections involving Yeshua’s humanity, prayer, subordination, firstborn language, and agency; then considers the Hebrew word echad and cautions that it does not inherently establish a compound unity. He draws together Yeshua’s statements about His identity, attributes Scripture reserves for Yahovah, manifestations of the invisible God, Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1. The speaker describes Yeshua as the definitive, visible image of the invisible God, while explaining His obedience to the Father with an image-and-source analogy. He then connects Yeshua’s death to the redemption of the divorced house of Israel, explores Zechariah 12:10 and the New Testament’s direct identification of Yeshua as God, and examines biblical accounts of worship and prayer directed toward Yeshua. In the extended group discussion, participants raise alternative interpretations and questions about the Father and Son, the resurrection, authority, and exaltation. The speaker maintains that Yeshua is God while acknowledging the difficulty of explaining fully how God reveals Himself.
Sanctify – What Does This Mean Anyway? You’ll be surprised!
This Teaching examines sanctification as more than a label meaning “set apart.” It presents sanctification as an ongoing process of spiritual preparation in which a believer responds to Yahovah through faith, obedience, repentance, and submission to His Word, while Yahovah is ultimately the One who sanctifies. The Teaching distinguishes the free gift and starting point of salvation from the continuing work of growth and maturity. It uses the Sabbath, Joshua’s preparation before entering the Promised Land, Leviticus 20, Yeshua’s prayer in John 17, Romans 6, and other passages to show a life moving toward holiness. The closing discussion expands the theme by emphasizing the work of the Ruach (Holy Spirit), perseverance, baptism, and growth “from glory to glory.”
The Biblical Calendar – Signs & Seasons
This Teaching begins a study of the biblical calendar by asking believers to work from Scripture rather than adopt a named calendar system as the final authority. The speaker openly states that he does not claim to have every calendar question completely resolved and calls for patience, love, and respectful reasoning where believers disagree. Genesis 1:14-16 is foundational: the heavenly lights are presented as serving signs, appointed times, days, and years. Leviticus 23 then identifies Yahovah’s appointed feasts and holy convocations, which the Teaching describes as scheduled gatherings or rehearsals with prophetic significance. The Teaching explains its understanding of a biblical day, week, month, and year: a day beginning at sundown, a seven-day week ending in Shabbat, lunar months associated with the new moon, and a lunisolar year whose beginning is connected with Aviv barley in the land of Israel. When necessary, an additional month is understood to keep the festivals in their proper agricultural seasons. The latter portion connects Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, and Pentecost with Israel’s Exodus and with Yeshua. Several prophetic connections – including the two Pentecost loaves representing Judah and the house of Israel/grafted-in nations – are explicitly presented as the speaker’s interpretation. The Teaching ends by preserving unresolved questions for continued study and a later part.