Torah Talk - The Harvest: Recent Episodes
Mark McLellan
Torah Talk, hosted by Senior Leader Mark McLellan and presented by The Harvest (Kehilat T’nuvah), is a purposeful deliberation of the Torah from a Messianic Judaic perspective. The Harvest is a Messianic Charismatic Congregation in Thornton Colorado, Just North of Downtown Denver. We believe this podcast will give you a fresh perspective on your life and the world we live in. Blessings and Shalom!
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Do the dietary laws help ensure our health and well-being? What relationship does diet have with diseases like the novel coronavirus of 2020? How can I better protect me and my family from infectious diseases?
In this portion we will take a brief look human trafficking in the ancient world and today. We will discover what God said in addressing it. For those who know God and His ways, it will not be surprising. However, for our current culture, God’s way of handling this travesty will be seen as being too harsh. This is due to the fact that for many, the perp needs the mercy and not the victim. It is very sad. But, if we implement the principles of God’s strategy, we can and will reduce dramatically the amount of those dehumanized and destroyed by this modern-day version of slavery. Let’s get done for the sake of the victims!!!
In this portion God we will take a brief look at the giving of the Ten Words that God Himself spoke and gave to those whom He had saved out of Egypt. These are commonly referred to as the Ten Commandments. They are the foundational laws of the covenant and all laws that come later. Seeing that God Himself spoke these words and wrote the in stone with His own finger, these fundamental commandments are to be cherished, and exalted higher than all other laws! It is alarming to see a growing trend in Christianity to either modify them or dismiss them as no longer obligatory. However, in Messianic Judaism, they are be exalted and safeguarded once again. If Christianity returns to the Law of God she will become relevant and influential in the world today, if not she will continue to be marginalized.
In this podcast I will be sharing on the Torah Portion Bo-Come. In this portion I will be sharing on the types and shadows of sin and salvation. We will note why it is important to remove leaven from our homes and lives on Nissan the 15th as God commanded us verses Nissan the 13th as tradition would have it. The ramifications are staggering.
In this portion God is revealing Himself to the Israelites with a name they did not yet know Him by. It is a beautiful and revolutionary name. It will engage them, free them, and transform them. It is found in nearly 7000 places in the TNK, but in almost every translation the Name is hidden, obscured, and replaced with fundamentally different names and titles. God’s name is not Adonai nor the LORD! That is simply a lie! Join me as we look more closely at God’s name as found in the sacred text of the TNK.
God blessed the 12 tribes of the sons of Israel so as to multiply and fill up Egypt the superpower of the day! Egypt tried to keep enslave and dominant them by legislating the killing of their baby boys by drowning them in the Nile. Later God kills their 1st born sons and their renown men in the Red Sea. In this passage I will discuss why Israel and specifically Messianic Jews and those associated with her will always increase and ultimately be given the nations as an inheritance.
God callsAbraham to sacrifice his son, his only son, his only son whom he loves. But this is the son of promise. Without him, the promises God made to Abraham would never come to pass. This was a huge test for Abraham. More than that, it would serve as a revelation to Israel of how God would secure her atonement and salvation. Rashi states “in all future generations: On the mountain of the Lord, Isaac’s ashes shall be seen, heaped up and standing for atonement.” Gen 22 is the type and shadow of How God will atone for our sins. Get ready, this show will rock you. I promise!
Abraham is the father of all Jews and all Gentiles who believe in the promised Messiah of God. He is the paradigm of how one becomes right with God through faith in the promised seed (Messiah). No change of ethnic status was required or needed; just faith in what God had promised. Faith is what secured the covenant and resulted in Merit for Abraham. And how that worked for Abraham would be how that would work for everyone else.
Tabernacles is the theological and cultural setting of the incarnation of Jesus, the eternal Son of the eternal God. He came by way of a supernatural miraculous conception and very humble birth. As Isaiah prophesied, He would be born of a virgin and be known as Immanuel – God with us! As glorious and exciting as this was, it spelled trouble for the young woman named Miriam (Mary), who was a virgin betrothed to Joseph. In this short teaching we will take a closer look into Miriam’s (Mary’s) calling to conceive and bear the eternal Son of the eternal God.
Yom Teruah is not about Jesus coming back to be coronated as King, He already is King of kings and Lord of lords. Yom Teruah is a memorial to His past coronation as King and His return to us as King. He will come in great power and glory because He is the great and glorious King. When He returns, He will judge the living and the dead, remove all evil and give a completed and consummate Kingdom back to His Father in Heaven. This teaching will focus on how Yom-Teruah finds its inaugural fulfillment in Jesus first arrival and how it finds its consummate fulfillment in His return
In this portion the second generation of those whom God delivered out of Egypt are standing ready to go into the promised land. Both the sons of Jacob and the mighty mixed multitude of Gentiles are represented. Together they stand before the Lord God to enter into covenant with Him and become established as His People, Israel. Not only are these descendants represented, but their descendants, yet to be born, are also comprehended in this covenant of promise.
There were blessings and curses for those whom God had saved out of Egypt for Himself. They were saved by grace through faith in the blood of the Passover lamb from the wrath of God poured out on Egypt for its systemic national sins. God instituted blessings and curses intended to form those whom He saved as a people holy unto Himself. In this podcast we will do a brief orientation to the purpose blessings and curses.
In this portion a second and greater Moses is prophesied to come and lead Israel into all that God has promised. Has he come yet? If so, who was he?
In Va'etchanan, the reason we, the redeemed of the Lord, are given for observing and keeping the Sabbath (His weekly day of rest and worship) is different than the reason stated in Ex.20. The reason is sublime and powerfully impacting for our lives
In this portion, we will look at the nature of faith and fear and how each leads to a very distinct destiny.
The Prophets had the authority and power to speak on God’s behalf in ancient times as well as today. Listen and obey them and you will succeed. Disregard and reject their words and you just may be uprooted and removed. Some things never change and this is one of them.
Faithfulness to God and His ways always brings rewards and blessings while disobedience always brings loss and curses.
Put tassels on my clothes? Why would God command this for all generations? How would one who is grafted into the olive tree of Israel do this today?
The Passover Lamb was a type and shadow of substitutionary sacrifice and atonement that would later be fulfilled in Messiah.
The power of disease to devastate and alienate is no match for the the power of God to heal and restore!
Seeing that the Temple has been destroyed and removed for nearly 2000 years, where can I find the dwelling presence of God today?
Work is forbidden on the Shabbat! But what is work? We will explore some of these ideas in this show.
How the Weekly Shabbat functions as a Mark of Identification Between God and His Covenant People!
Tamid – The perpetual daily blood sacrifices as the central core meaning of the Temple and the priesthood. What did they conceptualize, communicate, prefigure and why this is important for your life?
Faith in the blood of the lamb spared the children of Israel from the wrath of God against sin in Egypt.
Is Genesis 1:14 revealing climate seasons as Lunar Sabbatarians claim or religious days including the weekly Shabbat?
Rosh Hashanah finds it fullest meaning in the coronation of Messiah as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.