Daily Bread — Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Good Morning. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty...
10 Sivan — Unity of the Faith
Believe it or not, followers of Yeshua are facing situations, debates and a cultural environment that is very similar to what believers of the 1st century faced. In many ways we are reliving the 1st century. If that’s so, what can we learn from those 1st century...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Good Morning. And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you, for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food. (Leviticus...
9 Sivan — Don’t Ignore Your Weakness
It was on this day in the year 70 that Titus put battering rams in position to assault the walls and gates of Jerusalem. This tactic was employed in order to create a weak spot in the fortifications of the besieged city. Day after day, sometimes for weeks, these heavy...
Daily Bread — Monday, May 29, 2023
Good Morning. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. (Leviticus 25:3-4) The Sabbatical year, the...
8 Sivan — Sifted As Wheat
It was on this day in 1940 that the extermination camp known as Auschwitz was opened. In the course of its existence, two and a half million people would be killed there. Another 500,000 would die of starvation and disease. That totals about three million...
Daily Bread — Sunday, May 28, 2023
Good Morning. And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.'" (Leviticus 25:1-2) During the Sabbatical year, the...
7 Sivan — With His Fiery Finger
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses received the first tablets of the law, written by the fiery finger of God, as in the book of Exodus: “And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the...
Daily Bread — Saturday, May 27, 2023
Good Morning. You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 24:22) In connection with the instructions given in relation to the incident we discussed in the previous devotion is the commandment...
6 Sivan — Let Him Speak
Today is the day we celebrate the festival known, in Hebrew, as Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks. Most people in the western world refer to it as Pentecost because, in Greek, it is known as Pentecostus or “fiftieth” referring to the fiftieth day since we started...
Daily Bread — Friday, May 26, 2023
Good Morning. Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought each other in the camp. (Leviticus 24:10) This may seem a strange passage to use for the...
5 Sivan — Mandrakes Don’t Make Miracles
According to tradition, it was on this day that Reuben brought mandrakes to his mother, Leah. It’s recorded in Genesis 30: “Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then...