Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Shmini” (Leviticus/Vayikra chapters 9 through 11) — and perhaps some insight as well into why what he refers to, especially now, as the ‘whore church’ would prefer to ignore it.

This one includes the death of the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, for offering “strange fire” before Yahuah, which “He had not commanded.”

But there’s much more to it than that.

The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha is first:

https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSM-4-14-23-Shmini-teaching-podcast-x.mp3This midrash, too, begins with a question: What were they THINKING? But the answer may sound even a bit TOO familiar.

And one of the biggest indicators is another ‘atbash,’ which Mark suggests is a bit similar to what we might now see as a Biblical Hebrew equivalent of an HTML tag, like a text equivalent of a flashing red sign.

And that setup, the warning, the event, and everything that follows seem to emphasize why we are to understand the “difference…between the unclean and the clean,” and the “holy” as opposed to the profane.

Again, the emphasis is that the “sharp, two-edged sword” of His Word TEACHES us to divide things.

“Shmini – Kadosh to YHVH – and NOT Profane Fire”

https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/WT-CooH-4-15-23-Shmini-Foreign-Profane-to-YHVH-podcast-xxx.mp3
The combined two-part podcast is here: