Daniel Botkin
May 12, 2019
Things That Should be Left Behind
As I write this, Passover, the festival of freedom, has passed. Now we are counting the seven Sabbaths to Shavuot (Pentecost), the anniversa
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Daniel Botkin
May 5, 2019
Forty Exciting Days: Always Watching for Yeshua to Appear
“He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days” (Acts 1:3) “After these things Yeshua s
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Daniel Botkin
Apr 28, 2019
MATZAH: Time to End the Deadly Myth and Bring Peace to the Passover Table
MATZAH, transliterated into English as matzah, matzoh, or matzo, is unleavened
bread. The history of matzah goes back to early Biblical time
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Daniel Botkin
Apr 21, 2019
Horseradish and Other Items on the Seder Plate
In the spring of 2000, I had a solo exhibition of my artwork at Peoria’s Contemporary Art Center. My exhibition consisted of around thirty
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Daniel Botkin
Mar 31, 2019
Theorizing Vs. Inferring: A Review of Common Biblical Misinterpretations
People who read and study the Bible arrive at conclusions about what the Biblical text teaches. Some people arrive at their conclusions by t
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Daniel Botkin
Mar 24, 2019
Sabbath-Keeping in the Messianic Movement
My spiritual identity is centered in Jesus (Yeshua), not in Sabbath-keeping. However, this does not lessen the importance of keeping the Sab
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Daniel Botkin
Mar 17, 2019
Haman's Gallows: A Picture of Christian Anti-Semitism
It has been said that Martin Luther hated the Book of Esther, "a document which permits no Christological interpretation because it is
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Daniel Botkin
Mar 10, 2019
The Fear of the LORD
"Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort
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Daniel Botkin
Mar 3, 2019
Yeshua, the Holy Terrorist
We live in a world inhabited by two sorts of intelligent beings: visible and invisible. There are two categories of visible beings: children
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Daniel Botkin
Feb 24, 2019
The Spirit Behind Art
I have often heard people use the words spirit and spiritual when talking about art and art-related topics, but I have rarely if ever heard
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Daniel Botkin
Feb 17, 2019
O Taste and See!
I grew up in the 1950s and 60s in Peoria. Peoria is not a big city like Chicago, but it's not a small town, either. Kids growing up in a
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Daniel Botkin
Feb 10, 2019
Happy is the People Whose God is Yahweh
"Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is Yahweh." (Psalm 144:15)
Every loving father
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Daniel Botkin
Feb 3, 2019
Why So Many Unanswered Prayers?
You have probably heard the old worn-out cliché about God answering prayer: "God always answers prayer. Sometimes He says Yes, and some
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 26, 2019
The Jethro Model: Of God or Man?
What is the Jethro model? For readers who may not be very familiar with the Bible, we are not talking about television's Jethro Bodine o
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 20, 2019
How Saved Are You?
"Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Isaiah 59:1
If you
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 13, 2019
Compromise: Identifying Enemy Warfare Tactics
Compromise can be good or bad, depending on the situation. It can be good when trying to make a decision that will satisfy everyone. For exa
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Daniel Botkin
Jan 6, 2019
October 31st & December 25th
About 25 years ago the pastor of the congregation I attended preached a sermon telling Bible believers why they should not celebrate Hallowe
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 30, 2018
Yom Sylvester: January 1st in Israel
According to the Bible, spring marks the beginning of the year. “This month [Aviv, the month of Passover] shall be unto you the beginning of
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 23, 2018
The Name of God: "I AM THAT I AM"
"And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent m
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 16, 2018
A Time for Wheat, a Time for Tares
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven....” (Eccl. 3:1)
From Ecclesiastes chapter 3, we learn that
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 9, 2018
Preparing the Way of the Lord: Landscaping & Road Reconstruction
The gospel of Jesus Christ (the good news of Yeshua the Messiah) does not begin with a manifestation of the Messiah Himself. The gospel begi
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Daniel Botkin
Dec 2, 2018
Hellenization or Hanukkization: "How Long Halt Ye Between Two Opinions?"
The Hanukkah story is found in the Book of Maccabees, a Jewish inter-testamental book. The Jews, to whom "were committed the oracles of
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 25, 2018
Forbid Not To Speak With Tongues
“Forbid not to speak with tongues” (1 Cor. 14:39).
Among Christians there are two extreme views of speaking in tongues.
One extreme view
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 18, 2018
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
With some help from his mother, Jacob tricked his father Isaac into giving him the blessing that Isaac had planned to bestow on his firstbor
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