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This is a detailed look at the Lev. 23 Feasts, specifically their relation to the New Covenant. As part of this study it is helpful to also consider the connected topics of the respective priesthoods, Old and New Covenant, and the limitations of the one and superiority of the other. Some of...

I can't see how we can call holy convocations as feast days, especially given the description of these convocations and feasts. I used to believe that there were seven Levitical feasts, but could only find three mentioned as such. A quick search will reveal only the three mentioned above...

In ascertaining Biblical doctrine we ought to go from solid truth to peripheral possibilities. Our emphases ought to match the emphases of the New Covenant, not the Old. Also, the greater light of the New Testament should be applied to the Old, not the other way around...

It is tragic if any of his converts if they have seen God in the stars but have never been to the Cross. The Cross is what humbles us because it is the foolishness of the message that kills us. The Cross shows the extremes that God endured to rescue us from sin. “I am the Way and the Truth and...

https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/oswald-chambers-a-cautionary-look-at-a-popular-devotional-teacher-2/ Oswald Chambers: A Cautionary Look at a Popular Devotional Teacher Chambers, in common with many of the so-called “deeper life” advocates, builds up an artificial tension between...

https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/isaiah-6520-25-contrast-of-covenants-old-and-new-part-three-2/ Isaiah 65:20 – 25: Contrast of Covenants, Old and New. Part Three Notice the golden train of blessings here for the saints of God. It is an unbroken chain of certainty for those who love...

Very true. I was bringing out the truth that God's grace is also an experiential entity, enabling us to live as we ought.

I've had the privilege of preaching over the Internet to a church in Pakistan. These are mostly young men and women. Here is the sermon I gave yesterday. It was printed out and sent a day ahead of time so that the interpreter is not surprised by any hard words. I suspect that they are not very...

https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/isaiah-659-20-contrast-of-covenants-old-and-new-part-two/ Isaiah 65:9 – 20: Contrast of Covenants, Old and New. Part Two Jerusalem will eventually become a Valley of Achor, spiritual Babylon stoned by Roman onagers. This passage is worthy of further...

https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/isaiah-651-8-contrast-of-covenants-old-and-new-part-one/ Isaiah 65-66 can be seen both as an answer to the extended prayers of chapters 63 and 64 and as glimpses of both covenants, the closing of the Old, dawn of the New. Some commentaries are...

https://asterisktom.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/multitudes-in-the-valley-of-decisional-regeneration/ Years ago my wife and I visited a Baptist church in Del Rio, Texas. It brought back memories for both of us. Not good memories. The pastor wrested Joel and Joshua from context: “Multitudes...

"Another hit piece"? I don't do hit pieces. Translators have a hard task and I gave them due credit. Why the snarkiness?

This very interesting New Testament word has not fared well at the hands of well-meaning translators. Admittedly, a single word certainly may have various shades of meaning. But the reader – and certainly the translator! – of a text should always first consider consistency of meaning before...

Yes, for sure. We can now focus on what is really important in God's Word.

Very good cross-reference. I notice the threefold repetition of "My sheep".