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Sunday, July 9th, 2017
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes another two-part look at parsha “Balak” this week (Numbers 22:2 through 25:9).
Yes, this is the story that includes Balaam’s famous talking ass, and that certainly makes a humorous and enduring point, but it’s only a part of the entire lesson in this one.
During the Erev Shabbat overview teaching, Mark reviews the “whole story,” including elements that simply must be “spiritualized” to be understood.
SSM Balak 2017
The Sabbath teaching, however, is perhaps even more poignant and relevant than usual — as well as more “politically incorrect”. And THAT is because it hits directly on the very war that is still being waged on a people who no longer know what is “self-evident”, as opposed to what is really “whoring”.
Balak: Spiritual war, ‘Whoring’ vs prostitution, or dinner and a movie”
Tags: Balaam, Balak, Bilaam, hostile witness, idolatry, Mark Call, prostitution, torah, tzanah, whoring, zanah
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2017
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes a two-part look at parsha “Chukat” (Numbers chapters 19 through 21). Among other things, the confusing “chuk” of the Red Heifer.
During the Erev Shabbat overview teaching, Mark reviews the “whole story,” including the dual themes that really DO form the whole backbone: Death, and why “Because I said so!” means exactly that.
SSM “Chukat” 2017
The Sabbath teaching centers on one of the most confusing, perplexing, and thus often just plain ignored, “chukat” or “statues” in the Book. Mark uses the occasion to “wax nerdy,” but perhaps that’s a good reason not to miss this one. And don’t let the title fool you, all the dots will connect!
“Super Symmetry, Convolution Integrals, the Red Heifer, and Other Stuff We Don’t Understand”
Tags: because I said so, choose life!, Chukat, chuq, convolution integral, Mark Call, Moses, Moshe, red heifer, torah, wax nerdy
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Sunday, June 25th, 2017
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes a two-part look at parsha “Korach” (Numbers chapters 16 through 18)…and in particular, the issue of “rebellion”.
During the Erev Shabbat overview teaching, the story describes one of the most famous rebellions in history, that of Korach, and also Dathan and Abiram, and their 250 followers. And their ends, too. But there’s more, albeit still part of the same lesson.
SSM “Korach” 2017
The Sabbath day teaching will no doubt offend some who have what might be called a “subtle contempt for law”. His Instruction, anyway. But if we fail to recognize what happens when “lawlessness abounds” – well, look around…
Do we “tremble at His [s]Word”?
Tags: antinomianism, Isaiah 66, Korach, Korah, Mark Call, Plagues, rebellion, torah, tremble at HiSWord
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes another two-part look at parsha “B’ha’alotecha” (Numbers chapters 8 through 12). Again, it looks like another “potpourri” of perhaps disparate topics, in spite of the fact that it ALSO clearly contains another major “turning point” in the Story.
During the Erev Shabbat overview teaching, Mark outlines several of the themes, and why they remain “timeless”.
SSM Beha’alotecha 2017
But it’s during the Sabbath Day teaching, where it’s time for some spiritualizin‘ — and even a bit of speculation.” If we see a ‘turning point’ in this story of Whining in the Desert, isn’t it about time we became “teachable” ourselves? (Moses certainly was, as we shall see.)
“Food – Control – Trust – and Vulnerability:
…Time for a Turning Point”
Tags: Beha'alotecha, Food, Mark Call, trust, two houses, vulnerability, whining, YHVH
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Monday, June 5th, 2017
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes another two-part look at parsha “Naso” (Num. 4:21 through the end of chapter 7) — which MIGHT look like a veritable potpourri of disconnected topics, until you take a deeper look at it.
During the Erev Shabbat overview teaching, Mark attempts to do just that. There’s a reason why most mainstream Christian denominations tend to ignore these, too…and it’s very much related.
SSM “Naso” 2017
During the Sabbath Day teaching, Mark takes an in-depth look at one specific aspect of the portion that is sometimes called the “remedy for the jealous husband,” or the “law of the sotah”. But it’s in fact a theme that is SO fundamental to the entire history of the “sons of Israel,” the two houses that have both been “sent out” for cause, and our continuing exile, that it’s no wonder ‘the church’ would prefer to ignore the entire issue. (And, yes, it’ll be clear why Mark freely uses the term ‘whore church’ — since that’s what Scripture makes clear.)
“Naso – Shalom – and ‘The Cup’ in History and Prophecy”
Tags: Mark Call, Marriage, Naso, nazerite vow, Numbers 5, remedy for jealous husband, sota, sotah, The Cup, two houses, whore church
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Sunday, May 28th, 2017
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes a two-part look at the first parsha in a new Book – Number, or “Bemidbar” in Hebrew. (Num. 1:1 – 4:21)
Yes, there are a lot of ‘numbers’ (starting with a head count) but perhaps what happens “in the wilderness” really IS more important, in a number of ways.
During the Erev Shabbat overview teaching, Mark outlines the ‘why’ of all that.
SSM Bemidbar 2017
The Sabbath Day teaching this week is ultimately about the fact that it is impossible NOT to recognize the spiritual significance of being “in the wilderness”. In the process, Mark examines a number of themes, from the lessons of the ‘head count’ and the order of encampment to what any of that has to do with the haftorah selection, in Hosea chapter 2. If we can understand how a prophet, and then even his Creator, can love an unfaithful whore, maybe we can see how He can still love us, and plan for our return to Him.
“Bemidbar – Sound of Silence: The Still Small Voice In the Wilderness”
Tags: Bemidbar, census, Hosea, Hosea 2, In the wilderness, Israel, Mark Call, sound of silence, still small voice, torah, YHVH
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Sunday, May 21st, 2017
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes an in-depth look at the double portion Behar/Bechukotai, which rounds out the Book of Leviticus (Vayikra) – chapters 25 through the end.
And yet AGAIN, we find another segment in Scripture that we have probably been told is boring, obsolete, irrelevant, and – especially – “done away with,” and perhaps this time there is a bit of truth in that Big Lie. We are NOT “in the land” any more (as we were warned, it turns out) and the ‘Jubilee’ doesn’t apply, regardless of what the words on the Liberty Bell once said.
During the Erev Shabbat overview teaching, Mark outline the ‘why’ of all that.
SSM Behar/Bechukotai 2017
The Sabbath Day teaching this week ties a whole LOT of things that we’re told “no longer matter” together, because evidently they really do after all! Scripture warns about consequences that get seven times worse, and again seven times more, and continue, until, well, they look a look like what we see developing now. But there’s “good news,” too. We don’t have to go all the way there before turning around!
“We DON’T have to wait for the Reset!”
Tags: 7 times, Bechukotai, Behar, idolatry, jubilee, Mark Call, reset, slavery, yovel
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa for an two-part look at this week’s ‘special’ Torah portion, in-between “Shmini,” (Lev. 9-11) and the regular sequence for next week, but associated with what Mark calls the “third rail” of the ‘whore church’ — issues that simply CANNOT be discussed, especially since they are from Scripture, but not the “traditions of men” that turn it upside-down.
Part one from Erev Shabbat is the overview, and why this is so vital NOW, especially in light of world events that are literally of “Biblical proportions”.
Part 1: “The THREE ‘Third-Rails’ of Pagan Doctrine that CANNOT be Touched”
The Sabbath Day teaching this week continues with the importance of discernment — between the “holy” and downright abominably “profane” — and in particular a question that much of that whore church asks – but has no real interest in hearing an answer to:
“Why is ‘the church’ not OPERATING in the power of Jesus Christ?!”
Part 2: “Time for Some MEAT!”
Tags: 501c(3) "Church", Big Brother, Big Lie, Food, idolatry, Marriage, torah
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Sunday, April 16th, 2017
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa for an two-part look at this week’s Torah portion, associated with both “Shmini,” (Lev. 9-11) and the issues surrounding the week of Pesach/Passover.
This time the Erev Shabbat overview includes the story of Aaron’s sons Nadav and Abihu, their offering of “strange fire,” and subsequent deaths, as well as the necessity to discern the difference between the clean and the unclean.
SSM Shmini 2017
The Sabbath Day teaching this week starts with the importance of that discernment — between the “holy” and downright abominably “profane” — and explores the reason why “Easter” can NOT be pleasing to Him, whether we feel good about pagan traditions or not. Turns it, it really IS a matter of “life and death.”
“Shmini – the Eighth day and a pagan ‘goddess’ ”
Tags: Abihu, Easter, Ezekiel 8, Food, how much more so, idolatry, ishtar, Mark Call, Nadab, Nadav, paganism, Passover, Pesach, Shmini, strange fire, torah
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa for an two-part look at this week’s Torah portion (parsha “Ki Taso”, Exodus 30:11-34:35) which includes one of the most important “turning points” in all of Scripture – the ‘golden calf’.
As usual, the Erev Shabbat summary tells the story in detail, along with some of the key connections to the ‘rest of the Book’.
SSM Ki Tasa 2017
The Sabbath Day teaching this week perhaps even “pulls fewer punches” than usual, because the idolatry of the golden calf arguably pales in comparison to much of churchianity today. But it’s the other ‘parallels’ that REALLY should serve as a “sign of the times.”
“Golden calves, many gods, and other Really Big Lies”
Tags: Big Brother, Big Lie, golden calf, idolatry, Ki Tasa, Mark Call, torah
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