GROWING THE FAITH – One Step At A Time
In Part One, we saw that the ten virgins are one recognized company: all believers, all carrying lamps, all asleep when the midnight cry came. The number ten gave us the picture of a full, lawfully constituted assembly, divided from within. We ended with a question. If the lamp is something all ten can carry, what is the oil that only five brought?
Part One: Ten Virgins, One Assembly, and a Delayed Bridegroom This is Part One of a two-part study. Part One asks who the ten virgins are and why Yeshua chose
This is Part Two of the two-part series The Way We Thought We Knew. If you have not read Part One, which looks at what Yeshua meant by “least in the kingdom” in Matthew 5:19, you may want to begin there.
This is Part One of the two-part series The Way We Thought We Knew. This post looks at what Yeshua meant by “least in the kingdom” in Matthew 5:19. Part Two will turn to the narrow gate and the broad way in Matthew 7:13–14.
The series now arrives at its pastoral and prophetic destination. James’s literal greeting is “Greetings,” yet the Hebraic resonance of shalom gathers the article’s themes into a single vision: identity restored, exile answered, covenant relationships healed, and a scattered people brought toward wholeness under Messiah.
If the twelve tribes remain within God’s covenant purpose, their scattering cannot be the end of their story. This third installment examines Diaspora as geography, spiritual condition, and prophetic tension. Israel is dispersed, yet not erased; chastened, yet not abandoned; scattered, yet still addressed as chosen.