What’s So Great About Tentbuilders?
You gather at a Messianic synagogue or a church. People from hundreds of miles away have come. The group is not large, about thirty or so. But everyone there is connected heart and soul to messianic redemption, to a belief…
Leading in the Tent of David
Boaz Michael chose one of the most beautiful images in the prophets as the picture for his latest book, The Tent of David: “In that day I will raise up the tent of David that is fallen and repair its…
Come to Atlanta! April 21. Boaz Michael. Tentbuilders.
The Tent of David is a reference to the Davidic Kingdom, which Amos envisions will encompass even the Gentiles, non-Jews who attach themselves to Israel and to Israel’s Messiah. James reckoned that the believing Gentiles of his day were the…
Great Article Explaining the Error of One Law Theology
I found this article via a footnote in Introduction to Messianic Judaism chapter 2 and found that David Rudolph had (quite helpfully) posted it on his website, MJStudies.com. In the article, authors Dan Juster and Russ Resnik sum up the…
The Sabbath is Between God and the Jewish People
I am going to attempt to defend the title of this post from Exodus 31:12-17 and to explain the beauty of Sabbath according to Torah. If this is a topic you care deeply about, please read the entire article. I…
Discussion: My Conversion, Torah and Non-Jews
I got a blog comment yesterday from “Erol”, which “Rob” replied to. Their comments are worthy and I hated to delete them. But they did not fit the topic of the blog post, which was a set of MJ Basic…
Messianic Judaism and Torah
For most of the centuries from Yeshua until now, Jewish people drawn to faith in him laid down their Jewish identity in order to follow him. It was Jesus without Jewish continuity or no Jesus at all. The gospel of…
Why I Think Some Non-Jews Are Called to MJ
I was asked why I think God does call some non-Jews to be involved in Messianic Judaism. Here is my answer:
A Key One Law Verse, Acts 15:21
I just got a question via email about Acts 15:21. In case you are unaware of debates about who is obligated and who is not obligated to some parts of Torah, here is a quick introduction. Some Messianic groups see…
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Noah and the Clean and Unclean Animals Issue
In Genesis 7:2, God commanded Noah to differentiate between clean and unclean animals, taking seven pairs each of the clean species and only one each of the unclean. Any alert reader should ask, “How does Noah know about clean versus…