Building on the Foundation

Another topic of curiosity has arisen that I thought would bear some explanation. In some of my posts, you may have noticed that I will occasionally refer to Jesus as Joshua, and unless you are familiar with the reason behind it, you probably thought it was a typo. It's not. I intentionally wrote Joshua instead of or alongside of Jesus. The purpose of this post is to explain why I did so, and part of the explanation stems from the Sacred Name movement. If you aren't familiar with that movement, it's a movement (not relegated to any denomination) that pushes the belief that there is only one correct name for God. Not only that, but there is one correct language to pronounce that name in, and not stopping there, that there is only one correct way to pronounce that name in that language.  What if you don't do all of these things? Well then, God won't hear you or be able to understand you.  Shockingly, their particular group of people is the only one who knows of this t...

A Brief Explanation of the Miraculous Events Contained in the Riveting Opening Chapters of Joshua and Joshua Chapter Five From the Enlightening Perspective of the Hebrew Calendar Based on the Fascinating Biblical Narratives Contained in the Extraordinary Books of Exodus and Joshua.  By Brett Gray and Kyle Bacher On what day of the week did the 14th of Nisan fall in the year Israel entered the land of Canaan? Are there any clues from Scripture we can use to determine this?  When combined with the Hebrew calendar, Scripture provides a number of clues that tell us exactly what day of the week it was when they crossed the Jordan and what day of the week it was on that first Nisan 14 in the land of Canaan.  The Evidence The Hebrew Calendar, as made public by Hillel II, is a mathematical marvel that operates under a very specific set of rules, and using those rules, we can determine a great many things about the year the Israelites entered the land of Canaan.  We will set ...