HOUSECHURCH

1.         Yeshua is the Gospel of the Kingdom: Yeshua announced the Kingdom; that entrance is through repentance , being born again and doing the will of the Father (Matt. 4:17; 4:21; John 3:3-5). He gave power and authority to his disciples to preach the Kingdom and gave them a mandate to make disciples of all nations (Luke 9:1-3; Matt. 28:19). He taught Kingdom prayers, “Thy Kingdom come on earth ” (Matt. 6:10). Like God who taught Torah to Moses for 40 days, he taught his disciples about the Kingdom for 40 days (Acts 1:3). He prioritized the Kingdom , “ Seek ye first the Kingdom of God ” (Matt. 6:33). He defined the Kingdom “Wherever he is, even if only 2 or 3 are gathered” and unfolded the purpose , “Christ in you is the hope of glory of the Gentiles” (Matt. 18:18-20; Luke 17:21; Col 1:27). The expression “Kingdom of God” comes 162 times in the NT, while Yeshua used the word “Church” only 3 times. A Kingdom has a King and his...

This Feast was celebrated by the Jews as a remembrance of their redemption from slavery in Egypt and sojourn in the wilderness for 40 years when they lived in temporary Sukkots or booths or tabernacles. Today, they build these temporary Sukkots with fresh leafy branches, fruits and flowers. They spend 7 days with family and friends, reminding themselves of how God redeemed them from slavery and lived among them in a Tabernacle and protected, fed and watered them, that their clothes and shoes did not wear out. Sadly, only Caleb and Joshua, out of the 601,730 men who had crossed the Red sea, also crossed the Jordan. Numbers 26:51 Many believe that Yeshua was born in the Sukkot (Tabernacle) sometime in September, on the first day of the Sukkot and circumcised on the last day of the Feast. We have romanticized the cowshed and the manger with cows and donkeys, but every farmer knows that by morning the place becomes filthy and stinky.   More likely, he was born in a Sukkot of the f...