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When Does the New Jerusalem Arrive? Before or After the Millennium?
This short addendum asks whether New Jerusalem descends with Yeshua at the beginning of the Millennium or after the final judgment. The speaker argues for an arrival with Yeshua, comparing Ezekiel 47’s healing river, trees, fish, seasons, and unhealed marshes with Revelation 22’s tree of life and healing of the nations. He also compares recurring earthquakes, darkening, hail, blood, and judgments across the seals, trumpets, and bowls, proposing that Revelation revisits the same end-time period thematically rather than advancing as one uninterrupted timeline. He links the returning saints in Zechariah 14:4-5 to the Bride/holy city of Revelation 21:9-10, while inviting listeners to challenge his conclusion.
Fear – Where Love Cannot Exist!
This Teaching examines fear, worry, anxiety, and the peace that the speaker associates with trusting Yehovah. Beginning with everyday concerns about provision, it distinguishes immediate fear from anticipated anxiety, then studies 1 John 4:17-21 and 2 Timothy 1:7. The speaker argues that perfected love and trust displace tormenting fear, illustrating his position with Yeshua calming the storm in Mark 4. The final sections contrast reverent fear of Yehovah with terror, examine Israel at Sinai and Hebrews 12, and consider how believers may face future turmoil with hope. The closing fellowship discussion and the speaker’s explanation of an interruption remain preserved in the transcript.
The New Jerusalem – Is It Real or Is It Metaphorical?
Ed presents the first side of a friendly discussion on whether the New Jerusalem is a real city or primarily a spiritual metaphor. He argues for a tangible heavenly city that will descend to earth, citing Revelation 21’s gates, measurements, materials, and God’s dwelling with humanity. He relates the city to Mount Zion, the prepared place in John 14, Abraham’s city with foundations in Hebrews 11, and Ezekiel’s measured sanctuary. Through the image of a bride arriving in a carriage, he distinguishes the redeemed Bride from the city that may contain her. The lengthy closing fellowship explores the city’s timing, outer darkness, and symbolic interpretations. Ed expressly invites correction and says Glenn will present a different perspective in a later Teaching.
Bible Study Boot Camp – No More Lazy Reading
Bible Study Boot Camp challenges believers to move beyond passive or selective reading. The speaker emphasizes knowing who is speaking and addressed, tracing Israel’s covenant history, studying the Torah and Prophets alongside the apostolic writings, reading difficult passages in context, verifying claims rather than inheriting them, and becoming careful students of Paul. The closing fellowship reinforces sustained study habits and discernment.
The Gospel According to Jacob
This Teaching explores Jacob’s life as a proposed typological picture of the believer’s journey. Ed begins with Isaac and Rebekah, linking Rebekah’s willing departure to the Bride of Messiah. He follows Jacob from grasping Esau’s heel, the birthright and blessing controversy, and the vision at Bethel through fear of Esau, wrestling, and travel to Egypt. He sees a pattern of moving from human striving and conditional faith toward covenant identity and dependence upon Yehovah. The closing fellowship discusses loneliness, employment and worship choices, family losses, peace, and seeking fellowship. These typological links are the speaker’s interpretations of the Genesis narrative, not explicit equations made by Genesis.
Why Animal Sacrifice Returns in the Millennium
This Teaching examines why the prophets describe animal sacrifices during the future millennial reign of Messiah. It argues that Ezekiel 40-48, Zechariah 14, Isaiah 56, and Jeremiah 33 should be allowed to speak in their future kingdom setting rather than being dismissed simply because sacrifices seem difficult to reconcile with the cross. The Teaching repeatedly emphasizes that these offerings do not compete with Yeshua’s once-for-all sacrifice. Animal blood cannot permanently remove sin; Messiah’s blood alone provides eternal redemption and cleansing of the conscience. The proposed role of millennial sacrifices is therefore ceremonial, memorial, instructional, and connected with the ordered worship of mortal people living under Messiah’s visible reign. The Teaching also explores the prince in Ezekiel, the distinction between atonement/covering and final removal of sin, the cross reaching backward and forward, faith versus sight, and obedience as the expression rather than the purchase of salvation.
The Seven Churches of Revelation – Sardis, Philadelphia & Laodicea
The final installment of the Seven Churches discussion concludes the study of Thyatira and then examines Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. It explores spiritual compromise, judgment and rewards, reputational self-deception, the key of David and messianic authority, faithful endurance, and the danger of confusing wealth or comfort with spiritual health. The closing conversation includes different views on food sacrificed to idols and practical discernment. The speaker calls followers of Yeshua to examine their lives and remain faithful to Yehovah’s Word.
The Seven Churches of Revelation – Smyrna, Pergamum & Thyatira
This second installment of the Seven Churches study explores Smyrna, Pergamum, and the opening of Thyatira. Smyrna is spiritually rich despite poverty, hardship, and impending testing. Pergamum holds fast amid idolatrous civic pressures yet tolerates the teaching of Balaam. Thyatira is praised for increasing love, service, faith, and patience but warned about a self-appointed prophetess. The speaker’s broader applications address confidence during suffering, spiritual compromise for material gain, and the need for loving discernment. The discussion continues with fellowship testimony and introduces Thyatira for completion in the next Teaching.
The Seven Churches of Revelation – Ephesus
The first installment of the Seven Churches series introduces four perspectives on the seven first-century congregations and studies Ephesus in detail. Yeshua commends the Ephesian assembly for labor, perseverance and discernment but rebukes its loss of first love. The speaker examines John’s vision of the lampstands and messengers, the watchman theme, and the importance of truth joined with compassion. He draws on the repentance recorded in Acts 19 to illustrate early devotion and warns against mechanical worship, outward reputation and correction without love. The closing Q&A considers fellowship, the Torah and the meaning of the ekklesia.
ISRAEL – And End-Time Alignments
This Teaching opens a two-part study of Israel and end-time alignments by asking how believers should think about biblical Israel, the modern State of Israel, covenant promises, present conflict, and future restoration. Genesis 12:2-3 supplies the starting point, but the Teaching then narrows the covenant thread through Isaac and Jacob and distinguishes covenant from general blessing or promise. It considers whether modern Jewish achievement can be viewed as an expression of Abrahamic blessing, while both the speaker and a guest explicitly acknowledge uncertainty in that application. The Teaching also stresses accountability: covenant identity does not mean that every governmental action is righteous, and political policy should not simply be equated with the biblical promises. In the extended discussion, participants raise the twelve tribes, Judah, Ephraim, the mixed multitude, Romans 9 and 11, Ephesians 2, Genesis 48-49, Ezekiel 37, and Isaiah 49. Several comments are personal interpretations rather than conclusions established by the Teaching. Part 1 intentionally leaves major questions – including 1948, the modern nation’s prophetic role, and how Israel’s restoration relates to Messiah’s return – for Part 2.
Many Are Called Few Are Chosen – What does this mean?
This Teaching examines Yeshua’s statement in Matthew 22:14, “many are called, but few are chosen,” in the context of the wedding-feast parable and the broader scriptural pattern of Israel, the remnant, the Father’s drawing, and a person’s response. It challenges uses of the verse that make a denomination or religious organization the exclusive group of the chosen. The Teaching emphasizes that Yah desires people to repent and be saved, while Scripture also describes a faithful remnant. In the Teaching’s explanation, the call is an invitation that requires a response; the Father draws by teaching, stirring, opening, convicting, and changing the heart; and the person may respond or resist. The wedding garment represents being properly attired in the grace and righteousness provided through Messiah, expressed in a faithful life. The closing emphasis is Revelation 17:14: those with the Lamb are “called, chosen, and faithful.”
Job – His Story Is About So Much More Than Suffering
This first part of the Teaching reexamines Job through the lens of faith rather than suffering alone. The speaker argues that Job’s upright conduct and regular offerings can be read alongside a possible tendency toward precautionary, transactional religion. Comparing Job with Enoch, Noah, and Abraham, the Teaching contrasts outward blamelessness with walking relationally with Yahovah. It examines the accuser’s challenge, the assumptions of Job’s friends, and Yahovah’s sovereignty over adversity. The central invitation is to move beyond a formula of good deeds for blessings into personal trust and faith, even when circumstances are painful or unexplained. These are the speaker’s interpretations, not claims that the biblical text explicitly states Job lacked a relationship with God.
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