Seven Hebrew Names of God

and the book. Our team is led by Doctor Charlie Dyer, and I'm John Gager asking, how do you share the gospel with a Jewish person? Because of cultural, historical, and religious differences, it can be challenging to sort of navigate a gospel conversation with somebody from a Jewish background. Have you ever wondered how the quote professionals do it?

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in the next election. Preliminary polls suggest that right now, most do blame Netanyahu and expect him and his party to lose the mandate to govern whenever the next elections finally held. There are even some within his own party who are quietly jockeying to replace him as head of Likud. But it's probably too early to write Netanyahu's political obituary right now. The favorite to replace him is Benny Gantz and the National Unity Party. In early polls, Gantz seems

virtually unstoppable. However, in some more recent polls, the numbers have shifted just slightly, though Gantz's party is still predicted to receive 30 Knesset seats to Likud's 19. But Netanyahu remains the political chess master, which is what makes him so hard to write off. For example, in the matter of drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the military, Netanyahu proposed a plan endorsed by Gantz when Gantz was part of the previous administration. Gantz has now come out opposing the plan,

claiming that the situation since October 7th has changed. However, this allowed Netanyahu to picture Gantz as a political opportunist who endorsed a plan when he was in the government, only to now oppose it. Netanyahu has also been slow to put forward a specific plan for Gaza after the war ends. Those criticizing him for this are then forced

to explain what they would do. And depending on what happens on the battlefield or with the US or with the Palestinian Authority, they could end up being criticized for promoting flawed answers by refusing to commit. Netanyahu is forcing them to push forward their solutions, which will have their own share of critics. Right now, the polls don't look good for Netanyahu, but he's banking on two very real possibilities. First, the war with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran could continue for

some time, holding off elections. And second, any number of events could happen militarily or diplomatically to create a dramatic change in the political landscape between now and those elections. Netanyahu might seem to be down politically, but it's still too early to count him out.

a liberation group. Erdogan has welcomed senior Hamas officials for visits, and more than a thousand wounded Hamas fighters are currently being treated in Turkish hospitals. Documents discovered in Gaza included plans for establishing a secret Hamas base in Turkey to help coordinate attacks against Israel. Erdogan publicly said Hamas is helping defend Turkey, and said Israel would set its sights on Turkey if it succeeded in defeating Hamas in Gaza.

He called Israel. The rogue and terrorist state that. Recently, Erdogan announced that Turkey would halt all trade with Israel and cut off all economic ties with Israel in response. Israel's financial minister proposed raising the import duty to 100% on all goods coming from Turkey. Of course, if Turkey isn't selling any goods, then the move is just symbolic. But it would suggest Israel is responding to Turkey's efforts to support Hamas. Israel is wary of any future offers

by Erdogan under his party's rule. Turkey has not proven to be a reliable partner with Israel.

who helped distribute the oil. Hezbollah has developed a plan to extort funds from Europe using Syrian refugees. There are approximately 2 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Hezbollah's leader said in May that Lebanon should open its maritime borders, so Syrians living in Lebanon could board boats heading to Europe. It's only 100 miles from Tripoli, Lebanon, to Cyprus, which is part of Europe. From there, the refugees could then travel throughout Europe. But here's the rest of the story.

Europe has been paying Turkey and countries in North Africa to keep refugees from leaving their borders and heading to Europe by encouraging Lebanon to allow Syrian refugees to flood into Cyprus. Hezbollah's trying to create a crisis to also extort funds from Europe, and of course, a significant portion of any funds that would come to Lebanon from Europe

would find their way into Hezbollah's coffers. Finally, Jordan recently thwarted an Iranian led plan to smuggle weapons to a muslim Brotherhood cell in the kingdom that was planning to carry out acts of sabotage. The goal was to destabilize the Jordanian government, to enable Iranian backed terrorists to open up a new front against Israel, and to encourage the

smuggling of weapons from Jordan into the West Bank. Iran and Hezbollah planned to encircle and wear down Israel, and they hoped the West will remain willfully ignorant of all this until it's too late.

agree on this. They were quarried further to the south, and they were brought to the area on the Nile River by boat or barge. But the pyramids are located 4 to 5 miles west of the river today, and that's a long distance to haul blocks of stone over land, especially when that land is sandy. Using radar, satellite imagery, deep soil coring, and other geophysical tests, this team was able to map out the remains of a branch of the Nile River that flowed for about 40 miles, much

closer to the site of the pyramids. Many of the pyramids they found had causeways that led to this branch of the Nile, and acted, in a sense, as harbors where the stones could be offloaded and then brought right to the pyramid site. Eventually, this branch of the Nile River shifted to the east during the Middle Kingdom era, drying up and getting covered with sand during a period

of prolonged drought about 4200 years ago. The discovery of the course of this now lost branch of the Nile helps explain why the pyramids are located where they are. They were actually very close to the river at that time, though, miles away today.

a Jewish friend. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the Jewish community is diverse. So what's the most effective approach to sharing the gospel with Jewish people? Again, very diverse. Wes Haber is with life in Messiah. Any thoughts here?

do when your retirement is over? I love that one and your understanding how can we be made righteous before a holy God? I love this.

Her content offers a unique blend of biblical and modern Hebrew taught together, all from a Christian perspective, of course. Melissa's website is Explore Hebrew. Co.Uk. Hey, welcome back to the land and the book, Melissa.

his different names or titles in the Bible. They're all insights into who he is, and he is so good, so righteous, so powerful. Sometimes the modern culture can try to sanitize God, to try to make him in our image or make him more politically correct, perhaps. Or we can make assumptions about God based on what words mean in the English language. And the truth is that some things about God are surprising. In each of these Hebrew names, we find that God is even better than what we

could hope for or imagine. And I love digging into these truths because they point us to the very heart, the very nature of God.

independence from anyone else. However, like in the story of Ruth and Boaz, Boaz didn't just redeem Ruth and then abandon her or send her off on her own. Rather, the redemption was the beginning of their intimate union and family life. Biblically, a goel like Boaz buys back their destitute, estranged relative to belong to the family again to be under their care. It's a beautiful picture of what Jesus has done to bring us into right relationship with our Heavenly Father.

your father. Isaac, son of Abraham. Jacob, son of Isaac. This is a picture of how God wants our identity to be completely rooted in him. Psalm 68 tells us that God is a father. To the fatherless. And in Psalm 27 David spoke of Father God accepting those rejected or hurt by their parents. It says, you, Lord, have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me. God my Savior, though my Father and mother forsake me,

the Lord will receive me. I think God chose this powerful fatherhood metaphor exactly because he knew that our human family relationships could be so complicated by sin. God meets us in our place of pain and he offers the solution. He offers himself to us as Father ABBA. The message of ABBA is that there is healing and wholeness available to all. Jesus connects us to His Father so that we might be made whole emotionally and spiritually when we open up our hearts to him.

words for faith, faithfulness, pillar and to support. So the Hebrew language provides this beautiful imagery of faith and truth as the pillars that should be supporting our life. You know.

in me will never die. Jesus himself, he's the door. He's the truth. And he challenges us that the actual content of our faith cannot be glossed over lightly. He is truth.

large number. This powerful name of God found 235 times in the Hebrew Scriptures. It spotlighted in first Samuel 17, where it says, David said to the Philistine, you come against me with a sword and a spear and a javelin, but I come against you in the name of Adonai Sabaoth, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. So our true hope and Israel's true hope is Adonai Tzeva'ot.

with our host, Doctor Charlie Dyer. Charlie's been a pastor. He's been a school administrator. He's been a tour host, tour guide, tour leader. And I don't know what else. Charlie, you've worn a lot of hats in life, but you always come back to the Bible, don't you?

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are used for cursing. Because in the parallel passage in Genesis 2729, that's where Isaac blesses Jacob. The normal word for curse is used in both parts of the statement, and those blessing and cursing are also both in the plural. It says they're cursed. Be those who curse you, and

blessed be those who bless you. Since Abraham and his descendants are the chosen mediators of God's blessing, God will bless those who seek to bless Israel, while he also promises to curse those who reject him by rejecting the mediator he's chosen.

where Ezekiel describes his version of the New Covenant. He says, God will bring Israel out of the nations and back into your own land. That's verse 24, but they're not. They're just physically. He also says, God will cleanse you from all your impurities. That's verse 25 and give you a new heart. Verse 26, put my spirit in you. That's verse 27, and save you from all your uncleanness.

That's verse 29. And then in verse 33 he says, on the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. In other words, the fulfillment will happen when Israel is restored physically to the land and spiritually to her God. And that didn't happen following the Babylonian captivity and it also didn't happen in 1948, but it will all take place at the second coming. And then in chapter 37, Ezekiel gives two illustrations to show how God will do

it the valley of dry bones. God's going to restore the nation, he says, physically and spiritually. And the two sticks he puts together says, I'm going to restore all Israel, not just the southern kingdom of Judah. Now the other passage,

Isaiah 66, also looks forward to the future time. Isaiah looks ahead to that day, and he sees a number of, I'd call them mountain peaks of prophecy in the distance, and they include the new heavens and the new Earth, the dramatic restoration of Israel and Jerusalem, and a time of universal peace and longevity of life. Now, later writers provide additional details to help clarify the order of those events.

But taking Isaiah's words at face value, I see a gathering to the land and a time of universal peace. And that didn't happen when Israel came back from Babylon or in 1948. And that's why I actually believe both of those passages describe a time that is still future.

speak of the angels stirring up the water. Why are these verses left out? Seems like they're a crucial part of the story.

have the verses. Now, my personal feeling is that the verses were part of the original and are left out of some manuscripts, because later copyists saw them as problematic. That is, they saw that what was being described there doesn't match the character of God. I think the potential problem can be easily resolved if we understand the angel of the Lord that stirred up the waters wasn't a

good angel. It was a fallen angel. In this sense, the incident seems to have Satan's fingerprints all over it. You're holding people captive to a site while they waited desperately for a miracle, and archaeological evidence has been found there at the site linking it to an asclepion, a pagan place connected to the worship of Asclepius, the Greek

god of healing. So when the angel does arrive, it says, the person who can get into the pool first, which would be the most healthy, gets healed, while the most needy is never able to get there in time. So I do see the verses as genuine. I believe they help explain how Jesus demonstrated his true grace and mercy at the house of mercy in this place that otherwise was dominated by a false religious practice.

picturing the crown of thorns. I don't see any other incident in the Old Testament either pointing that direction, and I'm hesitant to find meaning in in details of a story like that of the ram caught in the thicket. Since there's nothing in the account to connect that ram with the crown of thorns.

he directly identifies Jesus as the Messiah. And in verse 22 he connects Jesus to Moses's prediction from Deuteronomy 18. And what that says there is God's going to call them to account, uh, if they don't listen to the words of this prophet. So Peter is saying, individuals who reject God's promised Messiah, Jesus, will be judged by God. However, I think we need to be very careful not to use this verse to argue that all Jews have been

rejected by God. In verse 17, Peter makes it clear that they acted in ignorance when they called for Jesus to be crucified. And then in verses 19 to 20, he offers his audience an opportunity to repent and turn to God so your sins may be wiped out. So here's the bottom line for me to be cut off from among the people in the mosaic covenant had the idea of coming under divine judgment and experiencing physical death.

It was a strong and serious warning, and Peter is using that same language to describe the importance of the decision now facing his audience and by way of application. By the way, it's not just for the Jewish people in his day. I think it's a decision faced by all unbelievers today. What will you do with Jesus? It has eternal consequences from Mary.

image and likeness. That is, the image God placed on. Adam was then reproduced in Adam's offspring. And the second passage is Genesis nine six, which describes events after the flood, and it says, whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed. But in the second half of the verse it explains why. For in the image of God has God made man.

of all the messages that he has for me. I'm just so excited to have a whole new world open up to me.

but running behind schedule. And the two of us, John and I suspect everybody else listening, have all experienced times like that. Times when we try to squeeze the hours of work needed to finish our project into the scant few minutes remaining until the deadline, or at times when an avalanche of interruptions seems to keep us from making it to an important meeting, our internal alarm clock begins sounding and a sense of panic starts to set in. Oh dear, oh dear, I shall be too late. Well,

if you've ever felt that way recently, take heart. So did the Apostle Paul. The important event Paul didn't want to miss was the festival of Shavuot, what we know as the day of Pentecost. The problem is that Paul was in Greece. He needed to make it to Jerusalem by shavu'ot. That festival happens to be this coming week on our calendar. Let's see what happened when Paul felt

pressured to make it to Jerusalem on time. Paul's eventful great race to Jerusalem began when he was in Greece, where Luke tells us in acts 20, verse three that he stayed three months. It was early spring, just before Passover.

Paul's plan was to sail from Greece directly to Syria, but his plan was dramatically interrupted because Jews made a plot against him just as he was about to sail, narrowly avoiding a likely assassination plot aboard ship, Paul decided to go back through Macedonia instead of traveling by boat. He set off on a more roundabout journey by land. This added to his travel time, and time was starting to slip away. Paul and eight other traveling companions set

out by foot on the road north from Corinth. Passing through Athens, they retraced the route taken on their second missionary journey Berea, then Thessalonica, then along the Via Egnatia to Philippi. While Paul and Luke stopped off in Philippi, Paul, seven other traveling companions, boarded a ship and went on ahead to Troas. They planned to wait there for Paul's arrival after spending Passover and Unleavened Bread in Philippi, but with the arrival of these festivals, the clock is now

on its 50 day countdown to Shavu'ot Pentecost. And Paul still has a long journey ahead. The distance from Philippi to Troas was just 130 miles. But that's as the crow flies, and no crows or airplanes were available. Paul first had to walk the 12 miles from Philippi to Neapolis, the modern day town of Kavala. Then he had to wait for an available ship heading toward Troas. On his

second missionary journey, Paul found excellent travel connections. Then it took a day to sail from Troas to Samothrace, another day to sail from Samothrace to Neapolis, followed by less than a half day's walk to Philippi two and a half days. But now that Paul's in a hurry, everything seems to be conspiring against him. The two day journey from Troas to Philippi, on that earlier second missionary journey

now stretches out. As Luke so carefully records. We sailed from Philippi and five days later joined the others at Troas. And then, for whatever reason, they seem to have become stranded in Troas. We're not told if this was because of physical illness or lack of available transportation, but Luke notes in his log that the reunited group stayed seven days in Troas. Only 38 days remain until shavu'ot, and they're still in Troas, on the northwest coast of what

is today Turkey. Transportation is finally booked and the group is planning to leave the following day. Paul spoke to the believers in Troas that night and it turned into a long meeting. Luke provides a few additional details to help explain the next potential disruption. Paul kept on talking until midnight. There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep

sleep as Paul talked on and on. It's warm, it's dark. It's been a long day. The soot from all the lamps is lowering the oxygen level. And try as he might, young Eutychus slipped off to sleep. Unfortunately, he also slipped off his perch and tumbled three stories down to the ground below. Everyone rushed down, but it was clear he was dead. That is, until Paul wrapped his arms around him and raised him from the dead. Then they all went back up to the room, where Paul continued speaking

until the morning. And as the sun rose for the start of a new day, Paul bid the now very awake focusing. As goodbye and continued his journey. Oh dear, oh dear, I shall be too late. Paul traveled overland to Assos while the rest of his party went by ship. Luke then records in staccato fashion their progress from Assos. They journeyed to Mytilene the following day. This is now day three of the journey from Troas. They arrived off Chios on day four. They crossed over to Samos, and

on day five they arrived at Miletus. Only 33 days remain until Shavu'ot. Paul was quickly revising his schedule. Rather than taking time to visit Ephesus, Paul decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, for he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem if possible. By the day of Pentecost, Miletus was over 30 miles from Ephesus, so Paul still had another delay. He sent

to Ephesus for the elders of the city. It would take someone at least a day to travel to Ephesus, and another day for the elders to walk back to Miletus, allowing a day in between for the elders to be gathered and for the original messenger to rest. There was likely only 30 days remaining when these elders finally arrived for this brief visit with Paul, after an emotional gathering in a time of prayer, the elders then walked with Paul, the 6 or 7 miles from the city to the sea,

as they accompanied him to the ship. The remainder of the trip now seemed to go like clockwork. They sailed straight to cause the next day we went to Rhodes, and from there to Patara, where we found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia. Passing to the south of Cyprus, they headed toward Syria, landing in the port of tyre. We're not told the total number of days at sea, but it seems likely that the last stretch was several days. So perhaps it took seven days to get from Miletus

to Tyre. That was a rapid trip, but the clock is now down to something like 24 days to vote. According to acts 21, Paul stayed with a group of believers in tyre for seven days before boarding another ship to Ptolemais, where he stayed another day, then on to Caesarea, where he also stayed a number of days. We're not giving the exact number of days, but it would seem Paul made it to Caesarea with just under two weeks remaining until Shavu'ot. I suspect he was starting to breathe

a little easier. A few days later, Paul was in Jerusalem, first meeting with the leadership of the church there and then heading to the temple. Paul made it just in time to be falsely accused and arrested in the temple area. So what lesson can we take home after this exhausting journey with the Apostle Paul? How about this there are times in our lives when we find ourselves under pressure.

Sometimes it's of our own making, but sometimes it just seems like life intervenes to keep us from following through. On our commitments to the Lord. Paul kept his priorities in focus, and he adjusted his schedule to not let other good things get in the way of accomplishing those

things that were more important. But through it all, he never put his schedule ahead of his commitment to people, even if it meant staying up all night to speak the lesson for us keep your priorities straight, and then trust God to work out all the details.