Lookahead: If we listen to what the apostles said in Acts 6, they envisioned the required task as "waiting on tables" where the widows sat.  It almost sounds like it was a directive to be "servants of servants."  Also, widows and orphans represented the lowest social classes in ancient Israel.  It is, therefore, my belief … Continue reading Unpacking #15 – Religion or Relationship in the New Year

Lookahead: It’s the time of year when we revel in the greatest promise that God ever gave us, and then precisely delivered on (carried it out).  ~450 Messianic scriptures in the Bible foretold that, in this insane human existence that people were slogging through, with meaningless battered lives of war and pain, someone was coming to save us.  … Continue reading Unpacking #14 – God Keeps His Promises

Lookahead: I believe that even after 30 years of walking with the LORD, I still have that same rage-capacity in me.  Every once in a great while, I will actually feel the rage rising up.  The only thing (One) that (Who) helps me keep the dam from bursting is the Holy Spirit.  When the rage … Continue reading Upacking #12 – Anger NOT

Lookahead:  To recap, I believe that James was expressly referring to new converts who had been born from on-high and it's not so much a matter of WHERE this occurred, but WHEN. God created the human race in the Garden of Eden.  I further believe Adam and Eve were the Beta Version.  Now, in recent times, … Continue reading Unpacking #11 – Firstfruits Again, Who and When

Lookahead: I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion! With him were 144,000 … They have been rescued as firstfruits to God and the Lamb…Rev 14:1,4  One could say that for the first time in history, we are seeing many Jews embrace Jesus in this new millenium, and certainly more than 144,000. (~350,000 … Continue reading Unpacking #10 – The First and Last of the Firstfruits

Lookhead: So a given episode would include the experience of intense joy when they would miraculously reunite, followed by the experience of gut-wrenching sorrow when they would have to say goodbye, seemingly for the last time.  Each time (until I fast forwarded and started screening based on plot descriptions), it seemed like there would be … Continue reading Unpacking #9 – To Transmute or NOT?