Doug Hershey is an author, conference speaker, and expeditions leader of Ezra Adventures. For more information, visit www.EzraAdventures.com. Doug enjoys thick Turkish coffee with baklava, darbukas and Sheba, his motorcycle.
The real beginning of the Church’s ritual of taking communion did not start at the Last Supper, but through the Passover traditions set down over thousands of years before.
There are tangible things that God is doing in the earth right now with Israel and the Jewish people that we can point to for illustration, and these things were meant to be a sign to the world.
After 500 years, the Jews had completely obeyed the Lord’s command. From God’s merciful perspective, when we do make the right choices, it’s worthy of a feast.
If the last 70 years have shown us anything, it’s that the Bible IS true, God does keep His promises, and that the “prophetic scriptures” regarding Israel are not so mysterious and hard to understand — they are literal.
Yeshua often referred to vineyards or the vines in His teachings, but for us that are removed from that culture, we often miss what was readily understood to His listeners.
