Israel Today Ministries Blog

Shavuot: Feast of Pentecost

Shavuot, or the Feast of Pentecost, is one of the seven feasts described in Leviticus 23. Originally, Shavuot was an agricultural feast. Eventually, it became known as the day Moses received the Law from Mt. Sinai.

Historically, the Jews would...

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Messiah: Spirit and Light, Rabbinic Insights

“And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Genesis 1:2)

A young Jewish carpenter stood up in the synagogue in Nazareth, stood up to read the Torah. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed...

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Regarding Regrets

O God, You Who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. I am often wearied by the many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. Let the learned be still, let all creatures be silent before You; You alone speak to me. – The Doctrine of Truth, The Imitation of Christ. Thomas A Kempis

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Jesus and Hanukkah

Jesus & Hanukkah

The Enemy

In 168 B.C. the Syrian emperor Antiochus came from the north and defeated Egypt. During the process of celebrating his victory he was pressured by Rom to withdraw. In his anger at this reversal, he directed his resentment towards, and made a swath through, the land of the Jews. He set out to destroy Judaism making any observance of the Jewish religion...

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Q & A With Dr. Jeffrey Johnson

Q&A with Dr. Jeffrey Johnson Founder of Israel Today Ministries

Why should evangelicals seek to understand the Jewish roots of Christianity?

The Abrahamic covenant states we will be blessed if we bless Israel. The Apostle Paul and Jesus himself also told the Gentiles that they were to bless the Jewish people. (Romans 15:27; Matthew 25:40). Evangelicals will also find many scriptures to be more understandable and...

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