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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Daniel Botkin
Nov 11, 2018
What was Nailed to the Cross in Colossians 2:14?
"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to hi
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Daniel Botkin
Nov 4, 2018
Heady Days of Dreamers and Devils
It is a Jewish custom to recite a psalm before saying grace after meals. On the six weekdays, Jews recite Psalm 137: "By the rivers of
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 28, 2018
The Abomination of Homosexuality
"Queers wear red on Thursdays." At least that was what students said at my high school in 1964. We didn't know where that rumo
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 21, 2018
Destined for Stardom
I don't know about you, but I want to be a star. Not a rock star, not a movie star, not a football star, but a star like the ones mentio
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 14, 2018
The Two Words that Saved the Planet: "But Noah . . ."
There was a time in history when the Creator was so grieved by the great wickedness of man, and by the continually evil thoughts of man, tha
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Daniel Botkin
Oct 7, 2018
"It is finished."
“And I [God] will put enmity between thee [the serpent] and the woman, and
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between thy seed and her seed: it [o
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 30, 2018
The Four Species for Sukkot - or is it Five?
Judaism makes much of the arba’a minim, the four species traditionally used in the celebration of Sukkot: the etrog or citron fruit, which i
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 23, 2018
The Feast: What Shall We Call It?
Christians who read the KJV usually know it as the Feast of Tabernacles (Zech. 14 & John 7) or the Feast of Booths (Lev. 23 & Neh. 8
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 16, 2018
Shabbat Shuvah in the Season of Repentance and Atonement
On the Jewish calendar, the Sabbath between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur is called Shabbat Shuvah. It is the Sabbath which occurs during yam
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 9, 2018
The Blowing of the Shofar: Discerning the Sound of the Trumpet for Our Generation
Rosh HaShanah, the first of the Fall Feasts, is marked by the blowing of the shofar, the ram's horn. In Biblical times the blowing of tr
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Daniel Botkin
Sep 2, 2018
Apostasy: The Real "Falling Away"
The word apostasy does not appear in the 1611 KJV, but according to Webster's it has been in the English language since at least the 14t
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 26, 2018
The Warrior King and His Captive Bride
Psalm 45, which is subtitled "A Song of loves," begins with these words: "My heart is indicting a good matter: I speak of the
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 19, 2018
COMPROMISE: Nipping it in the Bud
Our family has a board game called Tri-Bond to help develop thinking skills. It provides you with three words or phrases, and you have to fi
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 12, 2018
Biblical Literacy in America, Past & Present
"Atheists, Agnostics, Mormons and Jews Score Best on Religious Knowledge Survey." These are the results of a nationwide poll condu
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 5, 2018
"Church" Versus Ekklesia
The Greek word ekklesia is usually translated "church" in English translations of the New Testament. When people hear the word &qu
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 29, 2018
The Torah-Friendly Reformation: "It's a Whole New Paradigm"
The word paradigm has been around for centuries, but it seems to have become something of a buzz-word in the world of academics and corporat
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 22, 2018
Tisha B'Av and the Book of Lamentations
Tisha B'Av (the 9th day of the lunar month of Av) falls on July 21 this year, but will be observed on July 22. If the morning of Av fall
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 15, 2018
The Blessing and the Curse of Independent Thinking
Several years ago I saw a book that was a compilation of testimonies of Jewish people who had come to the conclusion that Yeshua of Nazareth
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 8, 2018
ZEAL: The Vaccine Against Apathy
Shortly before Passover, Yeshua went into the Temple and cleaned house. He drove out the sellers of sheep and oxen and doves, poured out the
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