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What Do The Bitter Herbs Represent?

What do the bitter herbs represent at the passover? According to Jewish tradition, bitter herbs like romaine lettuce and dandelion and horseradish were to be eaten at every passover service. But none of that is in the Bible at all. In fact, bitter…

There is a doctrine floating around among those few churches that keep anything close to a passover service; a doctrine which says that for the passover service grape juice is just as good as, if not better than, wine. Now if a person chooses not to…

Most of the information about the showbread is in one place; Leviticus 24:5-9 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table…

Israel was commanded to keep seven days of unleavened bread, during which they were neither to eat, nor possess, leavened bread (Exodus 12:15-20, Deuteronomy 16:3-4, etc.). But Israel did not have access to supermarkets to rush out after sundown and…

There are probably more opinions about this question than any other; some keep it whenever they feel like it; some do it daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly; some in the morning, some in the evening; some use wine, some use grape juice; adding…

Now and again you hear of the “hidden manna”. It’s one of those buzz-words that people toss around, usually in connection with some pet doctrine, perhaps about prophecy. In any case, it is usually used to make themselves feel somehow…

This is an issue that isn’t very important in the western hemisphere. Nonetheless, for the globetrotters amongst us and those who value knowledge in any form, it becomes an interesting question. Few people in westernized nations eat…

“Why are unclean meats unclean?” “God said so.” “Well why did He say so?” “Because He knows something we don’t.” “DUH! Is that the best you can do?” “Well … maybe it’s because they’re unhealthy…” ***** You know,…

We know that in the Garden of Eden, God told the animals “every green herb have I given you for meat”. In Eden, even the animals were vegetarians; But, I have to ask – how did God enforce that law? With Adam and Eve it is easy to…

Are you BEING the salt of the Earth? Do you even know HOW? The salt of the Earth is not a title, it is a JOB. A job that requires WORK, requires EFFORT to perform it – and to do that, you have to know what that job entails – you…