This lecture describes the logistical preparation before the birth of Jesus that made travel much easier between Africa and around Jerusalem during the 1st century A.D., particularly for the African Hebrew communities around Jerusalem. It dives into the biblical references to African Hebrews who were contemporaries of Jesus, and their communities. These Africans had planted churches, as well as taken the gospel to Gentiles, before Saul used the name Paul.
This lecture describes the general characteristics of the Messianic Hebrew faith community known as The Way. Their esteem for Jesus, higher than any earthly authority, often clashed with the agenda of the Roman Emperor. In the survey book that accompanies the lecture series, is Jesus' prophecy i...
In this lecture, the indigeniois Egyptian believers of The Way were an outlawed religion surrounded by Roman officials, non-messianic Hebrews and a host of pagan religions of the culture. Being outnumbered, physically and philosophically attacked by non-believers, they fought back using spiritual...