Insights

The short answer: Scripture speaks of the heavens in the plural, of the highest heavens, and of a third heaven that Paul connects with paradise. When Pastor Chris and Josh compare the Bible with the Enochic writings, a picture emerges of an ordered unseen creation: a royal court, ranks of heavenly beings, rebellious powers awaiting judgment, and a paradise that carries the imagery of Eden. Above it all reigns the One through whom every throne and authority was created, Messia

What are the five crowns in the Bible, who receives them, and can a believer lose one? A scripture-by-scripture guide to eternal rewards and the judgment seat of Messiah.

Where did the 3½-year ministry of Jesus come from? A look at the Passover count in Matthew, Mark and Luke, the eight disputed words in John 6:4, and Isaiah 61's "acceptable year of the Lord."

The short answer: No one has ever found the Ark of the Covenant, and Jeremiah prophesied that a day would come when no one would even miss it. Pastor Chris teaches that the reason is that the Ark was always pointing to Someone greater. The same Spirit that overshadowed the Tabernacle overshadowed Mary, Paul calls Yeshua by the very name of the mercy seat, and John says the Word pitched His tent among us. For a thousand years Israel carried a box that pointed to one Person; th

The short answer: No. When the hardest Old Testament passages are read in their full context and in the Hebrew, they show justice, protection and mercy, not cruelty. In Part 2 of this series on the character of God, Pastor Chris and Josh walk through the death of Egypt's firstborn, Pharaoh's hardened heart, the bears, Uzzah, Numbers 31 and the laws critics quote most, and show that the God of the Old Testament is the same Father who gave His own Son. Read the chapter before P

The short answer: Yes, they are the same God. Yeshua took the name God gave Moses at the burning bush, proved the resurrection from that same passage, and said He came to fulfill the Torah and the Prophets, not abolish them. The claim that the Old Testament God is a lesser or evil being is not new; it is the heresy of Marcion, rejected by the early church in the second century. In Part 1 of this series, Pastor Chris and Josh lay the framework: the Father and the Son cannot be

The short answer: Between the ages of twelve and thirty, Yeshua was not traveling the world learning from other religions. Pastor Chris teaches that He was living faithfully inside the covenant life of Israel in Nazareth: working as a craftsman, studying the Scriptures, keeping the Sabbath and the feasts, praying in the hills of Galilee and being prepared by heaven for His mission. Those years were not empty. They were hidden. And God often hides preparation before He reveals

The short answer: Constantine did not create faith in Yeshua; that began with a Jewish Messiah, Jewish apostles and the Hebrew Scriptures. But Pastor Chris teaches that Constantine reshaped the church. Once he embraced Christianity in the early 300s, it became the path to power in Rome, and many converts brought their pagan practices with them. Pagan statues were renamed, Mary was elevated to a place Scripture never gives her, and Sunday replaced the Sabbath God made holy. To

The short answer: Prophet Sergio Nazir Chavez met the Lord in a radical encounter at age 15. Years later, as a pastor hungry for more of God, he obeyed an instruction to separate himself for three days in the mountains of Virginia, where the angel of the Lord visited him in 2019 and placed the prophetic mantle on his life, warning him it would cost him everything. In this interview with Pastor Chris and Josh, he teaches that true prophetic ministry flows from intimacy with Go

"I will put enmity between your seed and her seed." Two lineages, one war, running from Cain and Abel to the tares among the wheat to the dragon making war on the woman's offspring in Revelation 12 — and what Scripture actually says decides which line you stand in.

The short answer: A prophetic calling is an identity before it is a title. "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you... I have appointed you a prophet to the nations" (Jeremiah 1:5). Pastor Chris describes ten signs that often mark those God is raising as prophetic voices, from seasons of hidden isolation and a burning burden for truth to the fear of God over the approval of people and a deep grief for the purity of the church. You don't need all ten; but every true prophe

The short answer: Isaiah 53 describes a servant who is despised, pierced for our transgressions and makes many righteous by bearing their iniquities. Pastor Chris reads it as a portrait of Yeshua; classical Jewish commentary reads it as the suffering of the nation of Israel. In this conversation with Orthodox writer Eliyahu Berkowitz, the two men disagree honestly about Isaiah 53, the new covenant and the identity of the Messiah, and model how to do it with love. A conversati

The short answer: The "seven spirits of God" in Revelation (1:4; 4:5; 5:6) are not seven separate beings but the fullness of the one Holy Spirit. Isaiah 11:2 describes the Spirit resting on Messiah in seven dimensions: the Spirit of the Lord, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Pastor Chris teaches that these same dimensions are meant to form maturity in believers today, with the fear of the Lord keeping all the others pure. Seven flames

The short answer: Scripture describes heaven not only as a throne room but as a court. God is the Judge (Psalm 82:1), Yeshua is our Advocate (1 John 2:1), and Satan is the accuser who brings charges day and night (Revelation 12:10). You do not win in that court by shouting louder. You win by confessing sin, standing on the Word and pleading the blood of Yeshua, which cancels every charge against you (Colossians 2:14). Heaven is a courtroom Pastor Chris and Josh call this one

The short answer: Walking in the Spirit is not a technique or behavior management. It is surrender: living under the leading of the Ruach HaKodesh so that His fruit grows in you instead of the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:16–25). "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God" (Romans 8:14). The Spirit does not flow through performance. He flows through people who have yielded their will, crucified the flesh and learned to obey His voice. Not a techniq

The short answer: After the resurrection, people who had walked with Yeshua for years did not recognize Him: Mary at the tomb, two disciples on the road to Emmaus, the fishermen at Galilee. Grief, human reasoning and old routines clouded their eyes, and recognition came only when He spoke Mary's name, opened the Scriptures and broke bread, and filled the empty nets. Pastor Chris teaches that we learn to recognize God's voice the same way: through relationship, the Word and a

The short answer: Pastor Chris teaches that the Torah (God's instruction) and the law of Moses were together at one point, but they are not the same thing. When Yeshua gave His life, He fulfilled the law of Moses: the animal sacrifices, the incense, the Levitical priesthood and temple worship for atonement. He also "redeemed us from the curse of the law" (Galatians 3:13), the condemnation we were under. What remains is God's instruction for righteous living, now written on ou

The short answer: Melchizedek was the king of Salem and "priest of God Most High" who brought bread and wine to Abraham and received a tenth from him (Genesis 14:18–20). Hebrews says he has no recorded genealogy, beginning or end, and was "made like the Son of God" (Hebrews 7:3). Whether he was a pre-incarnate appearance of Messiah or a divinely appointed prototype, his priesthood points to Yeshua: an eternal Priest-King, appointed by oath, not by bloodline (Psalm 110:4), who

The short answer: God designed His people to study His Word together. The early believers "continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer" (Acts 2:42), and Yeshua promised to be present wherever two or three gather in His name (Matthew 18:20). A Bible study group keeps you consistent, opens revelation you would miss alone, sharpens your faith and holds you accountable. One believer with a Bible lights a candle; believers s

A claim circulating widely online says Jesus and Lucifer share the title Morning Star, so they must be the same being. The two verses are in two different languages and use entirely different words. Here is the Hebrew, the Greek, and the context.