This morning I didn’t update you on the previous day’s activities because I was caught up in watching the election results. 7 am Israeli time is midnight eastern time, so as many of my readers back home were waiting to go to bed, I was rising and having breakfast. The hostel where we were staying […]
Author Archive | Rosemarie Pinto
Amazing Feats
Everywhere I look in the Land, I am surrrounded by one amazing feat after another. Yesterday, there were two things I saw that were totally amazing – one ancient, one modern. Our first stop was the City of David. As I looked around, I couldn’t help but think about the people who lived there. They […]
Jew or Gentile?
Whenever you get a group of people together, there is naturally going to be differences of opinion. Each one of us has our own perpective, understanding God’s Word from our own paradigm. Our group is no different. A discussion ensued when I referred to myself as a Gentile. The issue was a difference in understanding […]
Messiah’s Walk is His Own
Did you ever finally do something right and the tone of the whole day is so much better? That’s what happened to us here in the land. Because there are ten of us, there are ten different expectations, each pulling in it’s own direction. Not that it’s wrong, because it’s not. But it makes for […]
Is Everything Now Clean?
We typically hear that God did away with the laws of clean and unclean in Peter’s vision. But is that true? Is that really what He did? Let’s go to Peter’s own explanation to find out. In Acts 11:4 Luke tells us, “Peter began explaining in detail what happened.” Then in verse 9 Peter says, […]
What’s Wine Got to do With It?
Here’s something that always puzzled me: why, at His last Seder, did Jesus say that He wouldn’t drink wine again? (Matthew 26:26) It always seemed significant. After all, He did say it and it was important enough to be remembered and recorded. But what it meant was beyond my grasp. So I did what most […]
New Moon, New View
Have you ever spent time just looking up at the stars? When I homeschooled, we spent a season in astronomy. Lying on a blanket in the yard and gazing up at the marvelous works of the Lord was truly amazing. Yet it’s strange how I never connected the beauty of His handiwork with times and […]
Hear and Understand
Do we really understand what we hear? When we listen to the words of Jesus, do we get the message? I was on Facebook today and Toby Janicki shared an article by Michael Hidalgocalled “4 Things that Jesus Never Said”. Toby quoted a paragraph that points out how Jesus taught more on living in the […]
Why Did Jesus Curse the Fig Tree?
Did you ever wonder why Jesus killed the fig tree in Matthew 21? I have. I mean, did He go around cursing things that didn’t do what He wanted? It seems out of character for Him, doesn’t it? I had the privilege of attending a bible study with Rabbi Matthew Salathe at Temple Aron haKodesh […]
Shabbat in the Land?
My first Sabbath in the land what not what I expected. For the last year, I have changed my lifestyle to honor God on the Sabbath. It’s been so sweet, keeping His Sabbath rest. But yesterday, Shabbat was a whirlwind of activity – all delving into the land of Israel and the history of God’s […]