Biblical Heritage Center Blog

Not only did Yeshua read and speak Hebrew, so did his followers and disciples! Two very well known, but not accurately understood words in the Gospel of Matthew prove it – jot and tittle. For some reason jot and tittle stick in the minds of Christian Bible readers. But when you ask them what jot or tittle mean, you get a lot of conflicting and some really weird answers. Today, you are going to get the facts about what Yeshua originally said and how they ended up in English translations of the Bible as jot and tittle. Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/08/its-yod-not-jot-and-tittle.html

Yeshua was a very skilled reader and speaker of the Hebrew language. Luke 4:16-17 provides us with important evidence that reveals just how skilled of a reader of Hebrew Yeshua was. See pictures and read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/08/yeshua-read-and-spoke-hebrew-at.html

We, Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor and former pastor Jim Myers, have learned a lot about living life over the past thirty-years as congregation leaders in a synagogue and church, chaplains of law enforcement agencies, teachers and counselors. We have experienced the happiest moments in life – marriages, births, victories, successes -- and the saddest and most feared moments – deaths, divorces, tragedies, failures. Read the complete blog at -- https://lives1st.blogspot.com/2018/08/leynor-and-myers-on-living-life-as-human.html

We are amazingly good at objecting, disapproving and opposing everyone else’s Christian beliefs, as well as the beliefs of people of other religions and especially people with different political ideas. What if Christians could find a way to agree with other about one of the most important words of all – the name of the one we call “Christ”? Read the complete article at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/08/it-is-time-for-christians-to-agree-on.html

For most Christians, one of the most important words in their religious vocabulary is “saved.” Their mission is to save as many people as possible. Why? They have been taught that only those who are “saved” will spend eternity in Heaven with God. That was not the focus of Yeshua’s message. His goal was to bring as many people as possible into the Kingdom of Heaven -- while they are alive. He taught that it will only be those that live in the Kingdom of Heaven before death that will ultimately enter eternal life later. We will be learning much more about that in this series of discussions that we call “Yeshua’s Kingdom of Heaven Handbook.” We will reconstructing the teachings of Yeshua so we can understand them more accurately by incorporating new information that we discover as we learn about his language, culture and the time period in which he taught his followers. Read the complete discussion at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/08/how-to-enter-kingdom-of-heaven.html

Sometimes, when trying to make the point that we need to start with ourselves. A famous Hasidic rebbe once proclaimed that when he was a young rabbi: his idealistic and romantic goal was to change the world. There is a common human tendency to view all wrongs in the world as the fault of everyone but yourself. Read the latest TOV Center Lives 1st Blog by clicking here.