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10th to the 18th October 2019 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 bo...

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...

Many of you must have heard that Gospel for Asia (GFA) raised US $93 million in 2013, of which it has been asked by a US court to return 37 million back to the donors. We are not here to go into the merits of the case or to condemn them but simply to learn lessons from it. We know that corruption is rampant in the church, it is not new. The seven model churches in the Book of Revelation were evaluated by Jesus, “I know thy works…” and found them wanting. Long before that, even the first man Adam had problem of disobedience. Even after the flood, Nimrod in Babylon acquired divine attributes and tried to defy God’s command to Noah, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” by building a tower to stop people from scattering (Genesis 9:1; 11:4). Over 500 BC, while in Diaspora in Babylon, the first synagogues were established, which God had not mandated. Later the free worship was replaced with structured and formalized prayers to be recited. The leadership was taken over by Rabb...

Ordinary Muslim brothers believe that the Prophet Jesus did not die on the cross, but Allah made another man as His look-alike and crucified him and instead raised up Jesus alive nearest to Himself. This belief is based on The Quran’s al-Nisa" (4:157,158) "... That they (Jews) said, " We (Jews) killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they (Jews) killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they (Jews) killed him not.  But Allah took him up unto Himself. Allah was ever Mighty, Wise.” The Muslim ulema (Scholars) have made all kinds of interpretations of this verse. However, these verses do not deny the sacrifice of Jesus, but only dismiss the claim of the Jews, that they crucified Jesus and killed him. This is true because the Jews had authority to kill by stoning (Leviticus 20:27; 24:16) b...