Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa for the continuing saga of the “Suffering Servant,” Yosef\/Joseph, and how THE Plan of YHVH continues to play out, in the second part of a series of parsha “cliff-hangers”. (Parsha “Mikketz,” Genesis 41:1 – 44:17. And a look at I Maccabees, and Zechariah 2-4, too.)<\/p>\n
The Erev Shabbat overview teaching again covers the story itself, from Pharoah’s TWO dreams to the ‘cliff-hanger,’ as at least PART of Yosef’s plan — but not evidently YHVH’s —
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SSM Miketz 2017<\/a><\/p>\n The Sabbath Day teaching this week again really covers a LOT of ground. How interesting is it that this parsha usually coincides with the time of Chanukah? (And, yes, there’s a LOT of ‘tradition’ around this one, but that’s only PART of the story!)<\/p>\n Yosef’s story is that of a man who looks a look like a “harbinger”, or “type\/shadow”, if you prefer, of at least one potential picture of the Meshiach then still yet-to-come. And while he literally brings ‘salvation’, to “preserve life” — what happens thereafter is a people who descend into slavery.<\/p>\n Why were there (so far as we know) not any “Egyptian Preppers?”<\/p>\n The answer to THAT question seems to tie, Mark suggests, closely to the OTHER story that fits in so many ways for this “time and season” — the tyranny and Evil of yet another time in history where the parallels, and the lessons, are too important, even if unsavory, to be ignored.<\/p>\n “Mikketz: I Love it when a PLAN comes together…<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa’s teaching on parsha “Miketz” for the 2017 Torah cycle, and a look at some of the connections to I Maccabees and Chanukah as well. Continue reading
\n Messiah, and NOT…and what does <em>that <\/em>have to do wih Channukah? “<\/strong><\/p>\n