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A SABBATH-REST FOR GOD’S PEOPLE Brief Summary: This document provides a detailed theological analysis of Hebrews 4:1–8, arguing that the passage focuses on the promise of entering God’s rest rather than establishing a moral-ceremonial law distinction or affirming the weekly Sabbath as separate from ceremonial sabbaths, while also challenging the assumption of Pauline authorship of…
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At the intermission of the video on the Law of Colossians, Part 1, an Elder makes a comment and asks a question about the Sabbath in Hebrews 4:1-8 and in Colossians 2:16. For my response click here–>COMMENTARY ON HEBREWS 4: 1-8 The Law In Colossians Part 2 will feature on April 17, 2026 @ 8:00 PM…
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A Cadillac mechanic cannot tell a Ford mechanic how to understand and interpret a Ford manual. Someone asked a question about Matthew 21:43 WHERE IN MATTHEW 21:43 DOES IT HINT THAT IT’S TALKING ABOUT A DIFFERENT NATION [OTHER THAN ISRAEL] AND NOT A DIFFERENT GENERATION? That is actually a very perceptive question, because it goes straight…
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PART 6 – Memra, Logos, and the Jewish Roots of John 1 Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and…
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PART 5 – Word Study Ἁρπαγμός (harpagmos) Harpagmos and the Jewish Meaning of “Not Grasping” Ἁρπαγμός (harpagmos) never appears in the Septuagint (LXX). This is one of the reasons Philippians 2:6 is so debated: Paul uses a rare Greek noun that has no LXX precedent, so we cannot simply look up how Jewish translators used…
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PART 4 – The Three Questions of Apostolic Judaism For an Apostolic Jew: 1. Is Jesus God (Elohim)? 2. Is Jesus worshipped? 3. Is Jesus worshipped as God? These three questions sit at the very heart of apostolic Jewish faith. To answer them faithfully, we need to stay inside Jewish categories, Jewish Scripture, Jewish Second Temple thought, and Jewish…
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PART 3 – The Textual Backbone: MT, LXX, and Qumran Did Hebrews 1:6 Change the Bible? The MT, LXX, and Qumran Evidence Here is a clear side‑by‑side comparison of Qumran –DSS or The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint or LXX, and the Masoretic Text or MT for Deuteronomy 32:43 and Psalm 97:7 that shows exactly…
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A Jewish Reading of Hebrews 1 and Philippians 2 PART 2 – HEBREWS 1:6 FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ISRAEL AND HER SCRIPTURES 1. What Hebrews 1:6 is actually quoting Hebrews 1:6 (KJV): “And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith,And let all the angels of God worship him.” This line…
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A Jewish Reading of Hebrews 1 and Philippians 2 PART 1 – PREFACE Israel and Her Scriptures The Scriptures are not just a wandering collection of ancient religious ideas. They are the literary inheritance of a particular people—Israel, the covenant family chosen to bear the Name of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. From…
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Avodah Zarah is a Jewish term that literally means “foreign service” or “strange worship,” and it refers to worship that turns a created thing into a god or treats God in a way that distorts who He really is. Simple definition in Christian terms For a Christian, it can be explained like this: avodah zarah…
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Prologue: The Root and the Rift What if the greatest barrier between Jews and Christians today isn’t history, politics, or even doctrine—but something deeper, more buried, and rarely examined? What if the very theological soil in which Christianity has grown has, for nearly two thousand years, been fertilized with ideas that quietly stripped Israel of…
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The Curse Reconsidered – What Really Happened in Noah’s Tent “And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.” – Genesis 9:24 (KJV) A Misread Moment That Shaped History Few passages in Scripture have been more distorted or more devastatingly misunderstood than the account of Noah’s drunkenness and…
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The Hamitic Hypothesis – Rethinking Melchizedek’s Lineage “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.” – Genesis 14:18 (KJV) Reexamining an Ancient Mystery Having surveyed the traditional identification of Melchizedek with Shem and seen its theological elegance yet geographical inconsistency, we now turn…
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The Traditional View – Shem as Melchizedek “Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.” – Genesis 9:26 (KJV) The Birth of a Tradition For centuries, Jewish and Christian interpreters alike have identified Melchizedek with Shem, the son of Noah. From the Targums to the writings of early church fathers…
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Dividing the Nations: The Inheritance of the Sons of Noah “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” – Deuteronomy 32:8 (KJV) The Divine Division of the Earth After the…
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