First Century Christianity

Why are Christians Keeping the Feast of Tabernacles? The page to learn about the North Kansas City Feast site is https://firstcenturychristianity.net/fot-2025/ You may be hearing about Christians who keep the biblical festivals and are wondering what that’s all about. As it turns out, the first century church continued to observe the biblical holy days. In fact, both Gentile and Jewish people who...

This one is a total slam dunk for us. There is no question the first century church kept Passover. Paul explains Messiah is our Passover and what we just did is as mirrored off the first century church as was can possibly do. This is not so we can be technically accurate, although that is important. But if we are to believe in this faith, we must pattern our lives after it and fully adopt it. Beli...

The Wedding Supper of the Lamb is an analogy... until itisn't! Throughout history, Yahweh has given warnings about impending destruction. The invitation to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb is a metaphor for this warning. This years' message on First Fruits shows the warning throughouthistory and why we need to accept the invitation lest we end up outside, weeping and gnashing our teeth. Writ...

Understanding the cost of sin and what we can learn of the Messiah from the details of the offerings.

Messianic Torah Portion Pekudei: The transition from common to holy and the relationship between the tabernacle, Ezekiel's temple, and when Jesus will drink the cup new with us in the kingdom.

Restoring a pure language – that’s not today and we’re not going to do that on our own. Genesis 11:1 Trying to do this ourselves is likely prohibited. We know that when mankind tries to act like YHVH, He is not pleased. The verse from Isaiah about rebuilding Jerusalem better. Isaiah 9:8-11 when Ephraim and the Samarians say in their heart ehy will rebuild Israel better, it is considered from pride...

Messianic Torah Portion Vayakhel show us the Holy Spirit in action in the Old Testament with the building of the Tabernacle!

We’re about to commemorate the death of Jesus, whom we call Yeshua more accurately. This is an annual set of observances that are commanded for believers. This time of year, we often spend a lot of time discussing when to do what. Most of Christianity keeps a thing called Easter, which isn’t biblical at all. Then there are those of us who do what the Messiah commanded and Paul demonstrated. But th...

The Gospel According to Moses Opening with a very broad overview of why to study the whole bible and the true goal of the Gospel. Highlights of this study are establishing the role of mediator, parallels between Moses and Yeshua, and the Book of Life.

Revision 2 of a message about the myths that circulate the commandment keeping Christians such as Messianic, Hebrew Roots, and Sacred Name Movement folks. A pdf of the chart is available at h ttps://firstcenturychristianity.net/myths-versus-truth/

Three Days and Three Nights Slide 2 Do this in memory of me – has been corrupted over time. It’s an annual observance that’s in addition to what they were already doing. This is not optional. It may sound odd to hear “you have to do something” if you’re from many of the traditional Christian faiths, but this is the hard reality. He commanded us to do something in memory of Him. We have to take tha...

Messianic Torah Portion Tetzaveh establishes anointing, Yahweh's mechanism for identifying people He calls for specific missions. Anointing is associated with light, oil, high office, and specifically Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. This Torah portion also establishes the concept of holiness, something our civilization has forgotten. Holiness is a hierarchal structure where believers mus...

History is Repeating: The Comeback of Totalitarianism. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Did you know there are people who purposely want to erase history so that it does repeat? Do you know this was a very common weapon used against nations just a few decades ago? Communism and Fascism were universally rejected in the 1990s. Somehow these are making a comeback and we have to stop...

Messianic Torah Portion Terumah shows how the Hebrews overwhelmingly did not contribute to the making of the golden calf. The building of the temple included the work of the nations, showing Yahweh’s house was meant for all mankind. This all ties into the building up of the church, where each individual’s talents and expected to be used to edify the entire body of Messiah.

Do Not Follow the Masses in Doing Evil How this commandment is tied to the crucifixion of the Messiah, the problems in our society today, and the end of days.

Messianic Torah Portion Mishpatim (Laws) This is the section of Torah after the Ten Commandment but before the golden calf incident. The laws given to Moses are very fair and this shows the original intent was not to have a Levitical priesthood but for each man to be able to commune with YHVH himself through the altars of stone. Within this section, though, are specific commands that Sanhedrin bro...

Did DOGE Accidentally Reveal the Babylon of Revelation? There have been some significant developments with the world’seconomy in recent years that shows us who the Babylon from Revelation may be. This video also includes a lesson on when to take the bible literally and whento not.

Messianic Torah Portion Yitro (Jethro) This portion includes Moses being reunited with is first wife and children through his father-in-law Jethro. Moses greets Jethro by bowing, shachah in Hebrew, proskuneo in Greek, which shows that we cannot use this action to determine who God is without specific context. Moses listens to Jethro and establishes a tiered leadership infrastructure just before th...

When and How to Interpret Scripture The bible is written in a style that us westerners aren’t familiar with. By learning a couple things about how scripture was written and expected to be received, we can glean a lot more truth even in our native languages. This message touches on the way first century believers would have interpreted the Old Testament and subsequently wrote the New. These tips wi...

Messianic Torah Portion Beshalach (When He Sent) The Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb

Establishing the Lamb of God

Coming to the faith once delivered These things take time. My testimony. 3-4 years of unraveling stuff. Videos make it much more difficult today. Very hard to tell the wheat from the chaffe. Read the whole bible first. Then set boundaries for what you will study. If it goes against the fundamentals, it’s probably not worth your time. If it becomes ridiculous when taken to it’s logical conclusion,...

What the Torah Teachers won’t Teach James 3:1-5 The responsibility when a man thinks he knows the bible enough to start talking about it is enormous. We most often invoke this passage when speaking about bad teaching, but there’s another type of bad teaching that needs to be addressed today – omission. Lots of folks sound like me but I’m afraid once we peel back the layers, we find they are still...

Messianic Torah Portion Vaera (I appeared) chronicles the beginning of the Exodus. In our study, we parallel the plagues of Exodus with those in Revelation 6 and contrast the purposes of each set of plagues.

The recent history of time keeping can make it very difficult for us to understand how those who wrote the books of the bible kept time. When you stop to think about it, can you even relate to how we kept time just thirty years ago?