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Hi and shalom, For the past several months, I have been participating in many of the on line Life Of Yeshua Bible studies offered free of charge from www.hebrewroots.com a UK Messianic web site. This is chronologically going through the birth and life of our Savior, Yeshua the Messiah. Here is a sample from week 17. WEEK 17 : The Childhood of Yeshua 1. SCRIPTURE Luke 2:40 And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him. Lk. 2:40 Luke 2:40 (NKJV) Other versions ... 2. COMMENTARY With this one statement the development of Yeshua from the age of four until the age of twelve is summarized by stating that physically He waxed strong; mentally He was filled with wisdom; and spiritually the grace of God was upon Him. The question is: what kind of an upbringing did Yeshua have? Although the Bible does not give that much information concerning Yeshua’s early years, the Mishnah gives the breaking down of the ages of development of a Jewish c...

Hi and shalom, This article, lengthy excerpt here, may cause many Sacramentalists to ponder and I don't mean those residing in California but those who believe Holy Communion is a God-given sacrament. See below from author Bruce Chilton in the BAR resource, 24 hours that changed the world, an Easter discussion. What Jesus was doing at the Last Supper has not been understood for the better part of 2,000 years. The reason for the misunderstanding is that Jesus, a Jewish teacher who was concerned with the sacrificial worship of Israel, has been treated as if he were the deity in a Hellenistic cult. A generation after Jesus’ death, when the Gospels were written, the Romans had destroyed the Jerusalem Temple (in 70 C.E.); the most influential centers of Christianity were cities of the Mediterranean world such as Alexandria, Antioch, Corinth, Damascus, Ephesus and Rome. Although large numbers of Jews were also followers of Jesus, non-Jews came to predominate in the early Church. They c...