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In the Torah God tells us that from time to time God will hide God's face. This would seem to be such a time. How do we find God in our troubled world together?

There are four goals in this series, "The Gospel According to Moses: Genesis." The first is to see how scripture testifies of Jesus that He taught in John 5:39.  At the time He taught this all they had was the Hebrew Scriptures.  So, how does the Torah testify of Jesus?  The second goal is how did the Hebrews just coming out of Egypt understand the "Books of Moses."  The third goal is to understand how Jesus' first disciples understand the words of Torah.  The fourth is how do the words of Torah make sense for us today.  In this podcast we will see how Jacob's coming to Canaan to the ancient city of Shechem testifies of Jesus, promised by God for us through Abraham in Gen. 12:1-3.  We will also see how this portion of the text of His Word helps us understand the Exodus!  Once again the Lord puts real facts and history in His book to again and again validate the veracity of His word and the truth of the events in the Bible. With respect to helping us understand the Exodus, here are several links for your further study.  These links will provide more study material on the location of Mt. Sinai. DR. WOOD (Associates for Biblical Research) – THOUGHTS ON MT. SINAI https://biblearchaeology.org/research/chronological-categories/exodus-era/4217-thoughts-on-jebel-allawz-as-the-location-of-mount-sinai SINAI WHERE?? Map study of the Exodus https://lightofmenorah.podbean.com/e/exodus-39-exod-141-4-where-s-mt-sinai/ Another topic is how does Jacob coming to Canaan with his two wives, eleven sons, and one daughter to the ancient city of Shechem testify of Jesus?  The "Books of Moses" must relate to Jesus since the Lord inspired Paul to write ... For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Rom 10:4 If one knows the Greek it is better understood as ... For Messiah is the one to whom the TORAH (God' instruction) points to  for righteousness to everyone who believes. Rom 10:4 From the first verse of the Bible (Gen. 1:1) to the last (Rev. 22:21) it is all about He who is to come to be the promise through Abraham for all of us, Jew and Gentile.  So, we should not be surprised that the events we will study in this podcast at the ancient city of Shechem testify of Jesus from Abraham, to Jacob, to Joshua, and to Jesus.  Shown below are links to further resources for your more complete study. SHECHEM AND GOD'S PROMISES - chapter from Rev. Ferret's class book related to the ancient city of Shechem -  https://www.dropbox.com/s/v126xqgaev4jp1j/SHECHEM%20AND%20GODS%20PROMISES.pdf?dl=0 LINKS TO 5 MINUTE VIDEOS … Geography and the Bible - Shechem and Jesus VID 1 – https://lightofmenorah.podbean.com/e/five-small-stones-11-gen-121-geography-and-the-bible-shechem/ VID 2 – https://lightofmenorah.podbean.com/e/five-small-stones-episode-12-abraham-and-jacob-in-shechem-gen-126-3318/ VID 3 – https://lightofmenorah.podbean.com/e/five-small-stones-episode-13-josh-241-geography-and-the-bible-joshua-israel/ VID 4 - https://lightofmenorah.podbean.com/e/five-small-stones-episode-14-john-41-6-the-blessing-to-the-nations/ Lastly, I mentioned in this podcast that the word JEHOVAH is a mistranslation of the name of God.  It crept into the church in the Middle Ages as a mistake by Catholic monks translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin.  Shown below are links to scholarly resources for your further study. GOD'S NAME IS NOT JEHOVAH https://alwaysbeready.com/gods-name-jehovah-by-charlie-campbell/ https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/2610/ https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/4373/ Rev. Ferret - who is this guy?  What's his background?  Why should I listen to him?  Check his background at this link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ortnret3oxcicu4/BackgrndTeacher%20mar%2025%202020.pdf?dl=0

This week's teaching is all about the Tabernacle. Hidden in the many details and voluminous verses of these portions is the “picture section” of the Torah – God's own house which He designed for relationship with mankind. Join us as we explore within the three sections of the Tabernacle, finding insights into our own makeup […] The post Terumah-Tetzaveh 2022 appeared first on Beth Tikkun Messianic Congregation.

John Walton is an author and Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. He has a Ph.D. of Hebrew and Cognate Studies from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. In this episode, we discuss his book, The Lost World of the Torah. We talk about what the Torah is and what is not (legislation v. wisdom), the purpose of the law, if the law was a means to salvation, if the law teaches morality, how to view sensitivities like slavery, capital punishment, patriarchy, tattoos, and much more! Guest's Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/John-H-Walton/e/B001IGOV8C?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1641445400&sr=8-1 YouTube: https://youtu.be/FDK6Swp94V8 Email Host: theweirdchristianpodcast@gmail.com

The Truth About God ? A Conversation w Author Dovid Krafchow#podcast #subscribe #interview #mystic #tarot #Torah #God #author #bookDovid Krafchow has been an independent, non-religious scholar of the Torah and other Jewish texts for over 50 years, studying them in their original language of Hebrew and Aramaic. He has been practicing the Tarot for the last twenty years. Krafchow is the author of twenty books of fiction and non-fiction related to Jewish life and mystical secrets. He has hitch-hiked 30,000 miles, been in two wars, and spent fifty years independently studying the secrets of creation through the Zohar and Cabala.Website: https://www.dovidhouse.com/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/dovidkrafchowTwitter: https://twitter.com/dovidkrafchowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dovidkrafchow/The Vibes Broadcast Network - Podcasting for the fun of it! Thanks for tuning in, please be sure to click that subscribe button and give this a thumbs up!!Email: thevibesbroadcast@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/listen_to_the_vibes_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thevibesbroadcastnetwork/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/the_vibes_broadcastTikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeuTVRv2/Teespring/Merchandise: https://teespring.com/shop/P-I-T-T-STOPPLUS

Doc Ryan and Matt Mouzakis with Expedition 44 look at the wrath of God. We just finished a series on hell and sometimes when we think of Hell we think of divine wrath. We are also doing a series on Tough Topics in the Bible at our church and did an installment on divine violence and wrath came up in our conversation pertaining to that. When we think of God’s wrath it is sometime in the context of an angry dad who “flies off the handle” without a moment’s notice. If we already think of God as a distant, all-powerful sovereign, then his anger will seem more like a dangerous and volatile expression of a deeply angry being. But if we already think of God as a generous, creative father, then his anger will seem measured, fair, and a reasonable expression of his justice and fairness. So, what we need to do is clear the deck and trace the development of God’s anger through the storyline of the Bible. The character of God We need to start with the way God describes himself: Exodus 34:6-7 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.” o Here God describes himself as slow to anger. It literally means “long of nose”. When someone gets angry their face or nose (burning nose) gets red so when the biblical authors say that God has a long nose it means that it takes him a long time to get angry. God’s anger God’s hot anger and wrath in the Bible are a major reason why many people struggle to read the Bible. These words are fairly common in the Hebrew Bible, and they depict God in ways that make many people uncomfortable. Conclusions from the Portrait of God’s Anger and Judgment in the Torah God’s anger is his just and measured response to the covenant betrayal of his own people. It is not a volatile or unpredictable explosion of abusive violence. o The most consistent response of God’s anger is to give people what they have chosen, even if it leads to self-destruction. o This anger is expressed either as exile from God’s presence or in the hiding of God’s face and the removal of his protective and or- der-creating power. God is slow to anger, which means: o God will put up with people’s betrayal for much longer than is reasonable. o God will always accept people who turn to him with soft hearts and genuine humility, no matter what they’ve done. Jesus, God’s Kingdom and Judgment, and Divine Anger When Jesus came onto the scene announcing the arrival of God’s Kingdom, part of his announcement was warning about the coming destruction of Jerusalem. Much like the Old Testament prophets, Jesus warned of God’s coming judgement if Israel did not accept his offer of the Kingdom. o God’s wrath is not abusive anger but a protective anger. God is not a rage-a-holic o God’s wrath is passive at times. Taking his hand off and allowing the natural consequences to happen o God is slow to anger, which means:  God will put up with people’s betrayal for much longer than is reasonable.  God will always accept people who turn to him with soft hearts and genuine humility, no matter what they’ve done. o God’s wrath is not an eternal attribute of God but rather a response to injustice.

S Don’t give up, You can Change! In past talked about Gods mercies regardless what sin we’ve committed. I've been thinking lately about God's mercies not just in terms of our sins of commission, but also of our sins of omission, the good, god-pleasing things we don't do.  I was going to simply title this talk "Don't give up!", I didn't record it last night and then this morning I received a First Light devotion from Brother Brian Biggers titled "You can Change" and believed God wanted me to add Brian's thoughts to this message, so my new title is "Don't give up, you can change!" Recently we were meeting in our Messianic church to celebrate the new moon for the month Ayar.  In the Torah God commanded that His people observe times and seasons, including the weekly Sabbath, the new moon, and His 7 feasts throughout the year.  It seems to me this serves multiple purposes.  For one thing, it reminds us we are His people and it keeps us fixed on Him, living our life connected to Him not apart from Him.  In In Dueteronomy and Nehemiah God commands us to observe and keep the Sabbath, but in Exodus 20:8 He says "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy". Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV says "Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness."  Lev 19:1-2 says "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy."  God wants us to be holy, because He is holy.  He's promised to never leave us nor forsake us.  He gave his only Son to pay the penalty for our sins and He gave us the Holy Spirit to comfort and guide us in our walk of sanctification. We are not under the law in the sense that we must obey the commandments to earn salvation.  Jesus took care of that once and for all.  But Jesus if you love me, keep my commandments, so we show our love to God by keeping His commandments and living a life that pleases Him. So the application of this is the same for all of us in some ways, and very different in other ways. We all have the same Bible and through it can learn of God's commandments which are for all of us. Yet our journeys are unique in so many ways, and so there are so many things that God is leading us individually toward for a life of abundance as He defines abundance, a life of peace and purpose, surrendered to Him. I'm going to share how I feel this applies to me and my life in the hope that it may spark some awareness in you of what God is calling you to, or calling you to return to something you've left or stopped doing. I recently finished my class in Hebrew.  Now I have to wait a while before the next class is available.  But I don't have to wait.  I can occasionally review what I learned to keep it fresh and so I can start to apply it now rather than waiting until I learn more.  This falls under the "Use it or lose it" axiom. This certainly applies to our work.  I learned the basics of AutoCAD a year or so ago, which is an amazing program that allows you to create drawings.  I haven't used it in a while and so I've been thinking about how I can use that in one of my projects, even if it's not essential at this time but in order to keep my skills sharp. How about marriage and relationship skills.  How many of us have read a book or heard a sermon on marriage and then forgotten it because we didn't apply it.  Through Covid I've gotten away from dating my wife and am going to change that. I spoke in the last Selah episode about a talk I heard on Evangelizing and how I had gotten out of the habit or handing out tracts or really any significant evangelism.  Don't give up, you can change! I used to listen a lot to Dan Mohler and hadn't done so in a quite a while, but recently listened to one of his messages.  Some key messages he shared where that God doesn’t want to just save you He wants to transform you, no one owes you anything, forget about your rights, hurt for people rather than be hurt by people, pray for your boss not about your boss, wake up every day and shine, don’t try to NOT sin but rather be like Jesus.  These are just life transforming ideas that I was fired up about in the past but had forgotten about.  It's a reminder that life transforming ideas don't transform unless you put them into action. Another habit is memorizing scripture.  I was reminded about this in a recent interview with Tom Meyer the Bible Memory Man.  It reminded me how I've gotten out of the habit of memorizing scripture. A good daily habit which will also help you understand what God thinks about which habits and behaviors are good and bad is to read the book of Proverbs daily. How about parenting your kids? I recently took my youngest daughter out to pick out a purity ring and take her to dinner, a tradition I began with my first 2 daughters. With the first 2 I honestly didn’t prepare well and didn’t have anything profound to say. This time I memorized the speech from the movie Courageous since I didn’t think I could improve on it. I’ll add a link to the video clip in the show notes. I cry whenever I watch it if I haven’t seen it in a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w__jZbXYwCg OK, that's it for my thoughts on this topic, now I want to share with you this great devotion from Pastor Brian Biggers from Lamb's Chapel in Burlington, NC.  To sign up for this devotion go to www.TLCAlive.com   You Can Change   No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will be wasted and the skins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins and both will be preserved. And no one having tasted the old immediately desires the new for he says, "the old is better". Luke 5:37-39     This passage has nothing to do with wine. It is dealing with the attitudes of people and their willingness to change for the better. Our unwillingness to change even when we know it will be for the better is portrayed as an "old wineskin". When wineskins get old, they begin to stiffen and harden. They become resistant to change. They become crotchety and stubborn. Since new wine is still expanding as it ferments, the skin must be flexible enough to change with the shape that the wine demands. I've even met some "old wineskins" that are proud of their "hardness". People that are content to stay right where they are until they croak! You may wonder what's wrong with being stuck in the fifty's? One problem. The God of heaven is always (and I mean always) wanting to do a "new thing" in you. Contrary to religious thinking in this country, the God of the Bible is always working to take you from "glory to glory". He is always orchestrating the details of your life to move you into a greater revelation of His Son in you and for you to become a greater revelation of His Son in the earth! Wine in the Bible always refers to the Holy Spirit. It is His Spirit that is always expanding His presence in my heart to change me more and more into what I was created to be which is a reflection of Christ to His world. To demand to stay like you are, where you are and always be who you are now is comfortable, easy, familiar and painless. It is also deadly! "No one puts new wine in old skins". Want to take a guess at the spiritual revelation? God stops working in lives that become stiff and set, refusing to change. He won't waste His precious Spirit on lives and churches that are stuck in the past refusing to change and grow into His likeness. High price to pay for being stiff and unbendable before His Spirit. The good news? New wine MUST be put in new wineskins! The heart that is pliable in His great hand and willing to be shaped and molded by Him will always experience God at work to bring them into His best plan for them! Change is uncomfortable. It is inconvenient. It can be humbling! But the result is wonderful! Our Father has promised to work in our lives to keep bringing us to greater levels of glory by His Spirit. New experiences of His joyous plans in us constantly. My part is to be willing to overlook the discomfort that comes with change as God keeps moving me toward His ultimate great plan for me! The slight pain is very much worth the glorious gain! Let me admonish you, especially those of you who are "well down the road" since age and stiff seem to go together, that you will always be willing to be pliable in His hand and be ready for any change He wants to make in you for the greater glory!     Father, I don't want to become an old wineskin that you have to shelve because I would not adapt to what you are doing today. I will gladly give up yesterday's good for today's greater!     E     End Times (Eschotology) Nelson Walters Youtube Channel to help give you insight into how prophecy may be playing out today.  One video in particular is titled "How the 7 Feasts of the Lord will be fulfilled in the Tribulation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1KtyFQ0V4Y   L     ... I have become all things to all men,  that I might by all means save some. 1 Corinthians 9:22b - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Corinthians%209:22&version=NKJV   We work with all types of people in our work place.  Learn to listen to others at work, and adapt yourself to their style and what's important and interesting to them.   You can do this without sinning and without compromising the Gospel     A -  Apologetics-Something to say if topic comes up about getting grey hair: "The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, If it is found in the way of righteousness." or if you're not quite that bold maybe just the first half "The silver-haired head is a crown of glory".  It will probably take them back since they probably never heard someone say that and they may wonder where you got that from, and they may ask. Proverbs 16:31 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Proverbs%2016:31&version=NKJV   From Ben LaCorte No-one can refute your testimony, and you're sharing something deep-rooted in yourselves, and it's a real-life true story.     H - John Shirey - Time Management The rule of 13 divides the week into 21 time periods and says if you're committed to more than 13 of those time periods you're too busy.  That's bondage, captivity.  You have no time for spontaneity, to relax, time with your family.  If you don't have that bondage, you have more freedom to be creative and to respond to opportunities.  

Continuing our Lenten journey towards Easter, we are reclaiming and recalling God's covenant promises. With our Jewish sisters and brothers, we celebrate how the Torah—God's Instruction—comes as a gracious gift to liberated people. Observing the Ten Commandments is part of our discipleship, which is why we need to ask what Jesus is really up to on the Sabbath.Pastor Ben Masters preached "A Covenant for Free People" on March 7, 2021, the third Sunday in Lent.Scripture readings: Exodus 20:1-17 and Mark 2:23-3:5Megan shared the Exodus reading from The Spark Story Bible: Sunday School Edition, published by Augsburg Fortress © 2009. Download the transcript.

In this episode, we will be seeking to understand the teaching found in the feedings of the 5000 and 4000 and how that relates to the warning issued to us to not follow man-made religions such as Judaism and Christianity but rather just follow the Torah- God’s teachings.

This week we read about the infamous creation and worship of the golden calf, perhaps the greatest human mistake since Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge. Throughout the Torah God implores us not to worship idols. But in today’s world, this seems extremely strange: Where did a deep desire for worshiping inanimate objects come from? 

Text: Psalm 2Title: The Messiah PromiseTheme: In Psalm 1 we see the emphasis placed on the Torah - God's Law. In the next introductory Psalm (Psalm 2), the emphasis is on God's Messiah, His Anointed One, and His kingdom. Here we have a poetic retelling of 2 Samuel 7 and God's promise of the Messiah. Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 give us a context for reading the rest of the Book of Psalms - a context of Torah and Messiah. This context is still one that we live in today as we strive to follow God's commands, forgiven and redeemed by His Son.

Descending on Mount Sinai (Yeridah #6) / Lifting the Mountain / The Nations of the World reject the Torah / Esau lives by the sword, Ishmael by theft & promiscuity / Multitudes of Angels at Sinai / The Fiery Religion (Aish Das) / The Torah is given with endearment & an oath / Who swore at the reception of the Torah (God or the Jews)? / Is a Noahide obligated to keep his word? / The Torah is said to the Jews' left ear / Which shoe do you take off first on Tisha B'Av? / The Jews unite when camping at Mount Sinai / Horeb = Sinai (Sneh) / 5 Names for Mount Sinai (Har HaElokim, Bashan, Gavnunim, Chorev, & Sinai) / Why do we eat cheese on Shavuos?

9 February 2020 - Rev. David Pileggi has us consider the place of Torah in the life of the believer. Jesus says he hasn't come to cancel Torah (God's instruction) but to interpret it for us. The Torah is good, but Jesus wants to take us beyond the Torah. Jesus is offering us transformation. The intention of God's word is to make us holy. How do we talk toward transformation? By being honest with Jesus about our moral bankruptcy and then following Jesus and imitating him. A sermon dedicated to the memory of Dwight Pryor. Readings: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16; Psalm 112; Matthew 5:13-20 Blessed by our teachings? Consider saying thank you with a small (or large) donation. www.christchurchjerusalem.org/donate/

In this episode Patrick explores the theme beating at the heart of the Torah: God’s mission to unite heaven and earth. We will explore how the Torah begins on a mountain garden where God dwells with humanity, and then traces his mission to recreate that reality through covenants in a world corrupted by human sin. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on website (http://www.biblefieldguides.com/) to learn more. We are still VERY early, so there isn’t much to look at, but we’ve got exciting things planed for 2019-2020… so stay tuned. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/) Website: http://www.biblefieldguides.com (http://www.biblefieldguides.com/) RESOURCES: On the theme of God’s mission to unite heaven and earth: T. D. Alexander’s https://www.crossway.org/books/?series=Short%20Studies%20in%20Biblical%20Theology (https://www.crossway.org/books/?series=Short%20Studies%20in%20Biblical%20Theology) G. K. Beale’s God Dwells Among Us. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QKKJ9BA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QKKJ9BA/ (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QKKJ9BA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) Here are some of my favorite, accessible introductions to the Torah: From Paradise to Promised Land (https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Promised-Land-Introduction-Pentateuch/dp/0801039983) by T.D. Alexander. https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Promised-Land-Introduction-Pentateuch/dp/0801039983 (https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Promised-Land-Introduction-Pentateuch/dp/0801039983) Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the (https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Old-Testament-Guide-Pentateuch/dp/083085309X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) Pentateuch by Gordon Wenham. https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Old-Testament-Guide-Pentateuch/dp/083085309X/ (https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Old-Testament-Guide-Pentateuch/dp/083085309X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)

Torah portion Ki Tisa contains what are perhaps both the lowest point in Israel’s history in the Torah (the golden calf) and the loftiest vision of God in the Torah (God’s revelation of His goodness to Moses). It is not an accident that both this nadir and apex occur together within the same story. Topics […] The post Ki Tisa 2018-19 appeared first on Beth Tikkun Messianic Congregation.

In scriptural terms, law is Torah - God's disclosure to His human image-bearers. And because everything God revealed in word and deed is oriented toward His purposes for the world to be fulfilled in His Messiah, all of Torah - including all of what Christians term -law- - has its meaning and fulfillment in Jesus. Virtually all Christians agree that Jesus fulfilled the Law- this message examines what that fulfillment entailed and accomplished.

Pentecost "Fullness" 2018 pt1 | www.warn-usa.com | WIBR/WARN Radio Check out the Watchman's new book, now on all Ingram distribution channels and Amazon distribution worldwide! Steel the Darkness, A Christian Mystery Thriller; this is book one in a four book series. Learn more here: Steel the Darkness paperback http://amzn.to/2z4Kcpe “It is the Fullness, given by God. Since the giving of the Torah God has worked, now with the arrival of the Holy Spirit, and the birth of the congregation of believers; we find the plan of God converge in this Festival of Pentecost Pentecost "Fullness" 2018 pt1 It represented the fruits of the grain harvest and also our Lord who died and was resurrected from the dead. He was the Lamb who took away the sins of the world. He was the first fruits, being raised from the dead. Now he is alive forevermore, Alpha and Omega; and he has the keys to death and hell. Now he has told the Apostles and believers to stay put and wait for the promise for the fullness of what God was doing would arrive.

Considering Martin Buber’s notion of a leitwort, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Melbourne looks at Psalms 123 and recalls a teaching of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev. Click here for more episodes in the series.          … Read the rest The post A Shot of Torah: God Showing Favor (Psalms 123) first appeared on Elmad Online Learning. Continue reading A Shot of Torah: God Showing Favor (Psalms 123) at Elmad Online Learning.

Why would Jesus, who warns against the sword in Matthew 26 threaten to use one in Matthew 10? Why would Jesus set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother, when in the Torah God commands that parents are to be honored? In Luke, the gospel heralds the coming of Jesus with the proclamation "peace on earth." Why, then, in Matthew, does Jesus say, "I did not come to bring peace?" If you are looking for a simple answer along the lines of "for" or "against," then turn off this podcast and watch cable news. If you hope to use Matthew 10 to support your just war theory, at best, you are being lazy. Yes, the Bible does bring a sword and it is connected to the real violence we experience in the world. The question is, on which end of the sword are the followers of Jesus expected to find themselves? (Episode 88; Subscribe: http://feedpress.me/the-bible-as-literature)