Yoga, spiritual gurus, there is a new spiritual fad every year. All of it under the premise to help you achieve the best you—all of it perverting what God has called us to do: Die to ourselves. Not pamper ourselves.

The Hebrew month of Elul is a month that is set aside to traditionally focus on repentance and our need to make reconciliation with others and with God.

To make the celebration of Messiah’s birth common by cakes, balloons, and yard signs seems unfitting for a King, and in some ways, feels like a mockery of just how revolutionary the announcement was.

To make the celebration of Messiah’s birth common by cakes, balloons, and yard signs seems unfitting for a King, and in some ways, feels like a mockery of just how revolutionary the announcement was.

To make the celebration of Messiah’s birth common by cakes, balloons, and yard signs seems unfitting for a King, and in some ways, feels like a mockery of just how revolutionary the announcement was.

This prophecy takes a top down view of the distress that will come upon the earth. Do we presently see the powers of the heavens shaking, and are people fearing things coming upon the world? The answer is Yes.

Whenever I see these expressions in Scripture I feel motivated to understand what God is saying, but it also helps me to understand why others don’t seem to understand.  God has blocked some from understanding because they are not motivated toward God. 

I have seen the Messiah, just as the Father saw Him from the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies looking out above the altar. The Messiah was elevated on the cross on the Mount of Olives and was sanctified by the altar in the temple to be the “Lamb of God” sacrifice in accordance with the requirements of the Passover sacrifice.

This is an intriguing mystery in Scripture. In fact, the sages of Israel do not disagree with Stephen on his count, yet it is known as one of the hidden mysteries of the Torah.

Premillennialism rocketed to the forefront, commanding the attention of end-time Bible believers with the realization that Yeshua could literally return to the Mount of Olives and walk into Jerusalem.