By Enedina Guerrero When Christians hear the term “Oral Torah” (or “Oral Law”), they’re either unfamiliar with what it is, or they assume or were taught that it’s a collection of man-made rules that were added to Scripture. But in Jewish life, the Oral Torah is better understood as the tool that Israel received to […]
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By Enedina Guerrero In Matthew’s account of Yeshua’s earliest years, he highlighted two sets of people whose opposing motives and actions deeply impacted Yeshua and His family’s life, as well as history at large. On one side stood Herod—a restless man threatened by uncertainty, who was assigned to be king by one of the strongest
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The Appointed Times are G-d\’s way of marking redemptive history. These divine appointments reveal G-d\’s character and His plan for humanity.
The Wheat and the Tares: A Warning
Yeshua’s parable of the wheat and the tares reminds us that not everything that looks righteous truly is. Rabbi Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik explains that tares resemble wheat at first, but over time they change form—they “deviate from the correct path.” In the same way, people may appear godly outwardly, yet their actions lead others away from God’s truth.
Yeshua warns us to use discernment: to watch the fruit, not the appearance, and to measure every teaching against God’s Word. The righteous and the unrighteous may grow side by side for a season, but the harvest will reveal the difference. God calls us to remain steadfast as wheat—rooted, fruitful, and guided by His light.
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