He Stayed — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

Dorian Gray's face never aged because a portrait in a locked room took the damage, and Leviticus 16 says sin marks God's house the same way. Yom Kippur is God cleaning it so he can stay, and Yeshua stayed on the cross.

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Yom Teruah and Hannah's Prayer — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

The loudest day on God's calendar is paired with a woman praying so quietly the priest thought she was drunk. Vander Els traces teruah and zikaron from Leviticus 23 through Egypt, Hannah, Romans 8 and the golden bowls of Revelation, and lands on a God who moves when he remembers.

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The Other Genesis — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

A child in Babylonian exile asks her father whether Marduk beat Yahweh, and he answers with the first line of Genesis. Vander Els reads Genesis 1 and 2 against Babylon's own creation story, where people are blood and clay made to carry the gods' work.

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The Mark of the Beast — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

The dragon never invents anything, he only counterfeits, and Revelation 13 is where he forges the image bearer's job description. Vander Els follows the lamb with the dragon's voice from Solomon's golden age to Bethel to Berlin, and asks whose name is on your forehead.

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The Garden Grows — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

Gardens never stay where you plant them, and Eden was not supposed to either. Vander Els follows the command to fill the earth from Genesis through Ezekiel's rising river, Daniel's growing stone, Yeshua's mustard seed and Zechariah's city too crowded for walls.

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You Become What You Worship — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

Nebuchadnezzar built a ninety foot gold image and an entire government bowed to it. Vander Els asks the question the story usually skips, why everyone else bowed, and follows Psalm 115's autopsy of an idol through the calf, Isaiah, 2 Kings and Romans to the one man whose eyes never moved.

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The Image in Ruins — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

A wrecked painting sold at a London auction for 45 pounds as a worthless copy, then sold in 2017 for 450 million dollars once the world learned whose hand made it. Vander Els uses that reversal to ask what the fall actually did to the image of God in us.

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The Skull Crusher in the Bible — full teaching, notes and transcript on our site.

One promise is made to a serpent in Genesis 3:15, and the rest of the Bible spends itself asking where the son is who will crush his head. Vander Els traces the candidates from Cain to David, and finds the answer on a hill whose name means skull.

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