Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far, to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was […]
‘Messianic Good News’ – what’s in a name?
October 5, 2012 by
Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ [i.e. the Messiah] (Acts 5:42). In 1950 John Düring, a Jewish Christian who had fled from Germany to South Africa during the Second World War, founded the Good News Missionary […]
Remember the Sabbath Day
October 5, 2012 by
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the […]
The New Covenant – part 10 of ‘The Hope of Israel’
October 5, 2012 by
This is an edited version of the tenth chapter of Mauro’s book. It was shown in a previous chapter that in God’s covenants with Israel, both in the covenant of Horeb (Deut. 5:2-3) and in the substitute made in the land of Moab (Deut. 29:1), all the promises were expressly made to depend upon conditions […]
The travail of Zion – part 9 of ‘the Hope of Israel’
October 5, 2012 by
This is an edited version of chapter 9 of Mauro’s ‘the Hope of Israel’. We have shown by the prophecies of Moses, the founder of the nation, of Joshua the conqueror of the original possessors of the Promised Land, and of David the greatest king of Israel and one of its greatest prophets, that the […]
What were Gentile believers grafted into?
October 5, 2012 by
The latest misconception spreading within the ‘Messianic’ and ‘Hebrew Root’ movements is that Gentile Christians are being grafted into an ethnically defined, and predominantly unbelieving, ‘Israel’ at the present time – rather than historically, into the faithful remnant described in Romans chapter eleven. YHVH spoke of Israel as an olive tree whose branches would be cut off and […]
Simchat Torah – the sting of death & the fulfilment of the Law
October 5, 2012 by
While Judaism celebrates the Law with great rejoicing, particularly on the days of Shavuot and Simchat Torah, few would be left to dance the Torah scrolls around the synagogue if the Rabbis enforced its requirements with any truth or sincerity. The Law of Moses, like any other law, imposes a penalty for transgression. What modern Judaism calls ‘Torah’ […]
The Christian’s Relationship to the Mosaic Law
October 5, 2012 by
This is an edited version of Mauro’s original article. The Gentile Believer and the Law We have said that the experience of the ‘wretched man’ of Romans 7 is not the normal experience of a converted Gentile. It is, nevertheless, a sad fact that it may (and often does) become the abnormal experience of converted […]
Salvation in Zion (the sure mercies of David) – part 8 of ‘The Hope of Israel’
October 5, 2012 by
This is an edited version of chapter 8 of Mauro’s book, ‘The Hope of Israel’. ‘The hope of the gospel’ is for those, whether Jews by heredity or Gentiles, whom God has ‘delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of His dear Son’ (Col. 1:12,23). For the gospel brings a glorious hope even […]
The Feast of Tabernacles – it’s origins and prophetic significance
October 5, 2012 by
‘Nations will come to your light’ (Isaiah 60:3) Israel had always to look back on its history in order to understand its future. It’s annual feasts especially were both a remembrance of its past as well as an anticipation of things to come. The feasts are described as ‘signs’ and ‘appointed times’ (Exodus […]
