My thoughts and teachings are subdivided in to four topics: (a list of topics on which I have taught already is available)

  1. Biblical
  2. Festivals of Israel
  3. Other essays / and little fancies.
  4. The ONLY email discusion group that I endorse.
  Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)

General Biblical

The festivals of Israel from a Messianic perspective.
All the Jewish holidays that are in Lev 23 will be examined. For each holiday, I hope to have an Messainic explanation and in some a selection of  images and in a few some liturgy will also be presented. In explaining the holidays we will examine its religious and / or historical significance; and discuss the laws, customs, and rituals surrounding its observance, but perhaps most importantly how Yeshua has fullfilled or will fulfill them. By reading these texts alongside their respective images, it is hoped that one will gain an understanding of the Jewish holidays within their Messianic Jewish context.

This section does not present every Jewish holiday in the calendar year. As a result of limits of time and space, it is not possible to form an exhaustive list of all the events. Consequently, I have chosen to concentrate on the Jewish holidays in Lev 23, i.e. the holidays which have the greatest historical & religious significance for the Jewish people. In addition, it should be noted that the length of the texts and the number of images selected for each holiday has nothing to do with the importance of that holiday in the Jewish calendar year.

Calendar of Jewish holidays (a very small explanation of the calendar)
Introdction to Leviticus 23 (Prophetic & Messianic significance of some of the feast in Leviticus, in a table format).
Spring festivalls
Pesach - Feast of Passover: Commemoration of freedom from slavery
Chag Matzot - Feast of Unleavened Bread
Chag ha-Bikkurim - Feast of First fruits: Commemoration of Yeshua resurection
Chag Shavuot:The Feast of Weeks (with a focus on the Two Loaves)
 
Introdction to the Fall Fast and Feast (only one page but more to come).
Rosh Hashanah: Feast of Trumpets   / Jewish New Year (this is a part of the "Introdction to Fall Fast and Feast") (a seperate page on the Shofar, the Rams Horn).
Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement (this is a part of the "Introduction to the Fall Fast and Feast") Chag Sukkot: The Feast of Tabernacles the final harvest festival (this is a part of the "Introdction to Fall Fast and Feast")

Shabbat: Sabbath or Day of Rest
Yovel: Year of Jubilee

Other Jewish fast and feast days that are not in Levticus 23.
Chanukah: Festival of Lights
Purim: Victory over Haman
Tu BeShvat, The new year of trees.
Simchat Torah: Rejoicing of the Torah (no text but great picture)
Tisha Be-Av: Commemoration of Destruction of Holy Temple.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)

Others writings

  1. Dr. Arnold G.Fruchtenbaum wrote a page on Jewishness and the Trinity of our God.
  2. A page about my favourite Messianic Jewish theologian; Ariel Ministries Director Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum.
  3. A very small but important response against British-Israelism.
  4. An essay on the relationship between the state and the various church denominations in Germany between 1931 - 1950. Written a long time ago but since the topic is interesting topic I have left it on.
  5. The rules of interpretation I happen to use.
  6. basic statement of faith.
  7. Coins from the biblical period
  8. How to make a Shofar.


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