Author: Jim Staley

Jim’s life’s desire is to help believers everywhere draw closer to the Father by understanding the truth of the scriptures from their original cultural context (a Hebraic perspective) and to apply them in faith for today.

Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Anti-Christ Part 1

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Okay, I admit, it’s a strange title. How on earth could all three of those topics be connected? Well, as you are about to see, not only are they connected, they’re all related…blood related. Before we talk about Christmas, let’s talk about a...

Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Anti-Christ Part 2

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Part 2: When Was Jesus Actually Born? In Part 1 of this series, we went through the story of Hanukkah and unpacked the incredible heroism that arose from the pits of the Greco-pagan influence that almost wiped out the people of God two hundred years...

Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Anti-Christ Part 3

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Part 3: The Christmas and Antichrist Connection THE CHRISTMAS CONNECTION Now that you know the story of Hanukkah, how it was celebrated in the first century by our Messiah, and how we’ve used it to discover when He was actually born, we can turn...

Christmas, Hanukkah, and the Anti-Christ Part 4

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Hanukkah Traditions We’ve learned a lot in the first three parts of this series. We started in Part 1 with the historical account of Hanukkah, discovering the incredible story of how one man, with God’s help, stood up to evil, triumphed against all...

Total Consecration

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In this week’s Torah portion, the instructions continue on the five main sacrifices that were to be made within the temple courts. But what I’d like to focus on is one short verse near the end of the portion – in chapter 8 – that deals...

The Sacrificial Offerings: Then and Now

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The Creator gave instructions on how to build the tabernacle and what the garments and office of the priests look like. Then we spent a considerable amount of time revealing the spiritual connections for our temples today. Now, as we move through the...