American Torah Shorts

The two biggest events in Israel's history happened at Passover, and throughout the Bible, revivals were marked by a subsequent Passover celebration.

Get to know your local farmers. Offer to help out in exchange for some produce or instruction. Buy your produce locally and encourage their profitability in other ways.

You don't have to obey your parents when they tell you to do something immoral, but you need to give them the benefit of the doubt when you can. Even bad parents have accumulated some wisdom about the world.

Your parents know things you don't. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. No matter how (un)smart, mean, or ignorant, your parents have lived longer than you have.

You can't understand the Bible without understanding the agrarian society in which it was written. Almost everyone in the Bible made their living through agriculture.

You need to know what you're reading before you can really begin to understand it.

Understand historical context of a #Bible book before you study.

Three things you need to know before you start studying any Bible passage.

Once you've committed yourself to Jesus, with the Holy Spirit's help, you need to start extracting yourself from Egypt, all of the old, corrupt ways that you used to know. This means doing things God's way, not your way, and not your church's way. Leave the idolatry, pagan traditions, man-made rules, and all other forms of rebellion against God's commandments behind and don't look back. Full video at https://rumble.com/veph4h-dont-go-back-to-egypt.html?mref=9hbzn&mc=c2lpy

Rewards for faithfulness don't always come in this lifetime, but they do come. No matter what you face, God hasn't forgotten you. Keep the faith, and it will work out in the end, no matter what it looks like today.

Some people's default behavior is to wreck what others have created. It's easy. It takes time, effort, and discipline to build something worthwhile and lasting.

While all wealth ultimately comes from God, having wealth doesn't mean that you are being rewarded. Being poor doesn't mean you're being punished. It could mean that your character is being tested and revealed.

To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Galatians 3:15 ESV

Jeremiah 31 says that the New Covenant is only with the houses of Israel and Judah and that it includes the same Law as the Sinai Covenant.

A good leader knows what his people can withstand and doesn't put them in positions likely to compromise them.

We have a divine mandate to replace elected officials and judges when they become unjust.

Ephraim might have been able to save everyone a lot of trouble in the future if they had not feared to face a daunting challenge. Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/wnpAvy20DAk.

Joshua and the Israelites faced multiple armies that were more powerful than they, but they were victorious because they believed God. Those battles were opportunities to take more territory, to drive out their enemies, to strengthen their own faith, and to show the world who God is. Every trial that you will ever face is also an opportunity. Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/wnpAvy20DAk.

Zelophehad's daughters believed God's promise to them and they weren't about to back down, even before Joshua and Caleb. Watch the full video here: https://rumble.com/veh9f5-zelophehads-daughters-in-joshua-17.html?mref=9hbzn&mc=c2lpy

God doesn't need you to tell him what he promised--he never forgets--but he wants you to remind him in order to increase your own faith. Watch the full video here: https://rumble.com/veh9f5-zelophehads-daughters-in-joshua-17.html?mref=9hbzn&mc=c2lpy

The stories of the patriarchs, including those in the books of Joshua and Judges, aren't just history. They're also prophecy. Watch the full video here: https://rumble.com/veg96h-a-metaphor-of-the-divine-plan-in-joshua-15.html?mref=9hbzn&mc=c2lpy

Joshua 15 illustrates an ancient marriage practice that has been common around the world: an exchange of gifts between the families of the bride and groom. The nature and value of these gifts can sometimes have a profound impact on the couple's later relationship. You can watch the full video here: https://rumble.com/veg6ll-calebs-daughter-in-joshua-15.html?mref=9hbzn&mc=c2lpy

It's not wrong to want more than you have, so long as what you want is something that can legitimately be yours. Just keep in mind that the needs of God's kingdom always come first. If you seek the good of the Kingdom first, seek to do God's will before your own, and conform your desires to his, then God will give you want when the time is right. Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/gfiBF6nJnFU.

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Romans 1:20 ESV God doesn't take pleasure in the destruction of the wicked, but eventually it has to be done. We have been warned for thousands of years and nature itself shows that the wicked will eventually be destroyed. We have no excuses.

He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. Romans 2:6-8 ESV And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Revelation 20:13 ESV You can't earn eternal salvation by doing good works, but you will still be judged by your works in the end.