JEWISH VOICE BLOG

April 25, 2019

God Gives Us Hope for Today On Passover night in Egypt, the Hebrew slaves were told to eat their meal in haste. They were to be dressed and ready to go, with shoes on and staff in hand. They were to expect God to show up for them at any moment. God wants us to live with that kind of expectancy of Him every day. He is always reaching out to us, always giving, always ready to interact with us. How do we live with expectancy for this day? Remembering how God has “shown up” for us in the past...

April 24, 2019

God Sets Us Free Passover freed the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Each one among the Children of Israel was born a slave to Pharaoh. They knew nothing else until God stepped in and delivered them. The Bible tells us we were formerly slaves to sin (Romans 6:6 NKJV). But now that we have placed our faith in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus), we no longer need to serve the master of sin. We have been given a new nature, the nature of Messiah. Though Yeshua died to set us free from this slaver...

April 23, 2019

God Gives Us Landmarks to Remember When Israel was coming into the Land He gave them, they faced much opposition, and they were often afraid. Over and over, God told them not to fear but remember what He had done as He freed them out of Egypt. Each of us has landmarks in our personal histories. Some milestone moments relate to the physical world, while others pertain to our spiritual lives. God is intimately involved in our spiritual journeys. As we follow Him, we can look back on particu...

April 22, 2019

.declaration figure{width:30%;} It was supposed to be a secret. Three hundred and fifty invitations had been sent for the momentous occasion held at a Tel Aviv museum. But word spread, and crowds gathered outside, singing in the streets. They sang words written some 70 years before, words that had become a part of their very lives and were the passion of their hearts. They sang of a specific hope. Hatikvah (The Hope) As long as in the heart within The Jewish soul yearns And toward t...

April 22, 2019

God Rescues and Protects With 10 incredible plagues and the parting of the Red Sea, God intervened to deliver Israel from their bondage to Egypt. He stepped in and saved His people, pulling them out of a bad situation and freeing them to live on for Him. In various ways, He does the same for us today. Most likely, each of us can think of a time when God rescued us from trouble and protected us from harm. Some may have dramatic stories, like coming through an auto accident without injury or...

April 20, 2019

God Hears and Understands In the Passover Seder, the unleavened bread is called The “Bread of Our Affliction.” It is to remind us of how the people of Israel suffered during their slavery in Egypt. They bore painful sorrows in their hearts and heavy burdens on their backs. Today, our physical burdens may not be as substantial as those of Israel in Egypt, but each one of us bears burdens of the heart. Loss, illness, rejection, physical pain, sorrow – there are plenty of “afflictions” to go ...

April 19, 2019

Israel made history last week when its Beresheet spacecraft came just short of a soft landing on the moon. An engine failure kept the braking system from working, and the spacecraft crashed to the surface. As the world’s first privately funded mission to reach lunar orbit, Beresheet was historic despite the less than perfect landing. “We are the seventh country to orbit the moon and the fourth to reach the moon’s surface,” said Opher Doron, general manager of the Israel Aerospace Industries s...

April 19, 2019

God Saves On that long ago night when God’s final plague swept through the land of Egypt, the angel of death came to take the firstborn of all families. But when he saw the blood of the Passover lamb on the doorframes of the Jewish homes, he passed over and spared them the sorrow of death. Only those homes not covered by the sacrificed blood endured death. What a vivid picture this is of how Yeshua’s (Jesus’) blood, poured out and sacrificed for us, covers our sin and protects us from sp...

April 18, 2019

God Searches and Cleans We are in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that follows Passover night. For seven days, Jewish people are to eat nothing containing leaven (such as yeast and baking soda). The day before Passover, Jewish people search through the entire house to remove all leaven. Every cupboard, drawer, nook and cranny is examined, and some families have even used a feather to clean out every last crumb. In the New Covenant, leaven is a metaphor for sin. “D...

April 18, 2019

As I write this, there is a grim, devastating reality every citizen living in Israel must face – They are surrounded by enemies who are determined not to rest … until they have destroyed Israel. Israel’s security services have thwarted hundreds of terror attacks in the last year alone. The attacks are far away from any place where tourists visit. But they continue in the border areas. Shira Ish-Ran knows this, as only a mother can. Last December, Shira and her husband, Amichai, were ...