Branch of Israel

On Friday nights we celebrate Shabbat ( Sabbath ) with a group of people. We always open our meetings with the lighting of the candles and then communion. After this we might worship, or we might talk a little about something that God has shown one of us. We have even had meetings that were just discussions about different scriptures. Whatever we do we never try to put God in a box, and He always shows up faithfully every time. Keeping the feasts brings blessings. We have a man in our meetings that has his own business. When he kept all of the feasts his business was doing quite well, but once he stopped so did his customers. After he and I met he realized what had happened and came to our weekly meeting. The following week was the the busiest week he had not seen in a long time. He now is excited about celebrating all of the feasts because he knows the difference between keeping them and not keeping them. We want to do what the Word of God states rather than keeping tradition. ...

For centuries man has looked into what is recently come to be known as the Bible code. Searching for the hidden truths and prophecies that were not found in the original text to the common reader, unless they knew the hidden secrets. Well this is just one of many deep treasures that I believe God put in there. The more that I research God's Word the more I cannot understand how man can deny His word ( 2 Corinthians 4:3,4 ). Yet, atheistic men such as Josh McDowell, Lee Strobel and C.S. Lewis have given their lives to the Lord because of what they have found. In John 1:1 it reads “In the beginning was the Word... and the Word was God.” When we say Word what does it really mean? As Christians we believe that Yeshua is the Word, but what proof do we have that the Word from the Hebrew perspective refers to Him. In Judaism the Word is Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. It is also the same word commonly mis-translated in both the Old and New Testament as law. Yet, ...