Artists for Israel International · An Exhibit
Sixty-six turns on the road from death to life, one in every book of the Bible, from the call of Avraham out of Ur to the gates of the Holy City, where there is no more death.
This week the stores are full of plastic skeletons and rubber tombstones. But death is no Halloween joke. Multitudes in the valley of the shadow of death need a roadmap to life, because it says “every believer has life forever” (Yochanan 3:16).
At Artists for Israel International, we work with the goal of reaching all 7,000 world Bible languages so that this inerrant roadmap is in their hands. You can help with the equivalent of “Trick or Treat” candy.
Each turn is anchored in one verse from its own book, read with one or two companion verses that give it context. The road runs in canonical order, Bereshis to Hisgalus, and every turn is a life-or-death turn. Excerpts beneath each turn quote the anchor verse in the King James Version.
The Five Books of Moshe
Forsake the dead idols of your father’s house and follow the call of the true and living G-d.
Joshua 24:2; Genesis 12:1
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee.
Genesis 12:1 · KJV
Look for the Lamb of G-d who will die so that you can live. Where the blood is applied, the destroyer passes over.
Exodus 12:3; Isaiah 53:7
They shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house.
Exodus 12:3 · KJV
Draw near only by the dam of kapporah, the blood that makes atonement for your nefesh. The life is in the blood, and a life was given for yours.
Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22
For the life of the flesh is in the blood … it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17:11 · KJV
Bitten and dying, look up at the One lifted on the pole, and live.
Numbers 21:8–9; John 3:14–15
Every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers 21:8 · KJV
Hear, O Israel: love Hashem your G-d with all your lev, all your nefesh, and all your strength, for He is your life and the length of your days.
Deuteronomy 6:4–5; Mark 12:29–30
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.
Deuteronomy 6:4 · KJV
Yehoshua through Ester
Choose this day whom you will serve. Life and death are set before you: choose life.
Joshua 24:15; Deuteronomy 30:19
Choose you this day whom ye will serve.
Joshua 24:15 · KJV
Stop doing what is right in your own eyes. That road only seems right; its end is the ways of death.
Judges 21:25; Proverbs 14:12
Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges 21:25 · KJV
Take refuge under the wings of your Go’el, the Kinsman-Redeemer, who turns a house of funerals into a house of new life.
Ruth 2:12; 3:9; Psalm 91:4
The LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Ruth 2:12 · KJV
Let Hashem look upon your heart, and ask Him to create a clean one, for there is but a step between you and death.
1 Samuel 16:7; Psalm 51:10
Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7 · KJV
Kings of flesh go down to the grave. Trust the promise of the everlasting throne of Ben Dovid, whose kingdom has no end.
2 Samuel 7:12–13; Luke 1:32–33
I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
2 Samuel 7:13 · KJV
Stop limping between two opinions. Dead idols cannot answer by fire. If Hashem is the living G-d, follow Him.
1 Kings 18:21; Matthew 6:24
How long halt ye between two opinions?
1 Kings 18:21 · KJV
Go down into the water as Hashem commands, and come up clean, with new life like the flesh of a little child.
2 Kings 5:10, 14; Acts 22:16
His flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2 Kings 5:14 · KJV
Seek His Face continually. Those who seek Hashem shall live.
1 Chronicles 16:10–11; Psalm 27:8
Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
1 Chronicles 16:11 · KJV
Humble yourself, pray, seek His Face, and turn from your wicked ways. The One who sends the plague is the One who heals.
2 Chronicles 7:14; James 4:10
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways …
2 Chronicles 7:14 · KJV
Set your heart to seek the Torah of Hashem, to do it, and to teach it, for it is not an empty thing: it is your life.
Ezra 7:10; Psalm 1:2
Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Ezra 7:10 · KJV
Hear the Word read and explained, and let the joy of Hashem be your strength. He shows you the path of life.
Nehemiah 8:8, 10; Psalm 16:11
The joy of the LORD is your strength.
Nehemiah 8:10 · KJV
Do not keep silent while a decree of death hangs over your people. You were brought to this place for such a time as this.
Esther 4:14; Romans 8:28
Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Esther 4:14 · KJV
Iyov through Shir HaShirim
Know that your Go’el lives, and will stand upon the earth at the last. Though this body is destroyed, yet in your flesh you shall see G-d.
Job 19:25–27; John 11:25
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.
Job 19:25 · KJV
Kiss the Son, and take refuge in Him, before you perish from the way.
Psalm 2:12; Acts 13:33
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry … Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalm 2:12 · KJV
Ask the Name of the Holy One, and the Name of His Son. Whoever finds Wisdom finds life; all who hate her love death.
Proverbs 30:4; Isaiah 9:6
What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
Proverbs 30:4 · KJV
Remember your Creator now, while the road is still open, before the silver cord is snapped and the dust returns to the earth.
Ecclesiastes 12:1, 13; 2 Corinthians 6:2
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 · KJV
Open when the Beloved knocks, for His love is strong as death.
Song of Songs 5:2; Revelation 3:20
It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love.
Song of Songs 5:2 · KJV
Yeshayah through Daniel
Let the Suffering Servant carry your iniquity. He poured out His nefesh unto death, and by His stripes you are healed.
Isaiah 53:5–6; 1 Peter 2:24
He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities … and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 · KJV
Enter the Brit Chadasha, with the Torah written on your heart. Hashem sets before you the way of life and the way of death.
Jeremiah 31:31–33; Hebrews 8:8–10
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 31:31 · KJV
Among the ruins and the dead, hope in His rachamim. It is of Hashem’s mercies that we are not consumed; they are new every morning.
Lamentations 3:21–23; Psalm 30:5
His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22–23 · KJV
Receive a new heart and a new ruach. Why will you die, O house of Israel? Turn, and live.
Ezekiel 36:26–27; John 3:5
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.
Ezekiel 36:26 · KJV
Bow before the Bar Enosh, the Son of Man, whose kingdom shall not pass away. Those who sleep in the dust shall awake, some to everlasting life.
Daniel 7:13–14; Matthew 26:64
One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven.
Daniel 7:13 · KJV
The Twelve Prophets
Return to Hashem, and seek Dovid your King in the latter days. He will ransom you from the power of the grave.
Hosea 3:5; Jeremiah 30:9
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king.
Hosea 3:5 · KJV
Call upon the Name of Adoneinu Moshiach Yehoshua\Yeshua\יֵשׁוּעַ and be delivered from death before the great and terrible Day.
Joel 2:32; Romans 10:13
Whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered.
Joel 2:32 · KJV
Prepare to meet your G-d. It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment. Seek Hashem and live.
Amos 4:12; Hebrews 9:27
Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Amos 4:12 · KJV
Come down from the heights of pride; the eagle’s nest will be brought down. Deliverance and life are on Mount Tziyon.
Obadiah 3–4, 17; James 4:6
But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness.
Obadiah 17 · KJV
And Yonah was in the belly of the dag shloshah yamim and shloshah leilot (three days and three nights). Out of the belly of She’ol he cried, and Hashem brought up his life from the pit. On the third day the Lord will raise us up.
Jonah 1:17; Hosea 6:2
Salvation is of the LORD.
Jonah 2:9 · KJV
Look to Beit Lechem for the Ruler whose goings forth are from everlasting. The Everlasting One entered time to give you everlasting life.
Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:5–6
Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 5:2 · KJV
Run into the stronghold in the day of trouble, before the overflowing flood of judgment.
Nahum 1:7; Proverbs 18:10
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nahum 1:7 · KJV
Live by emunah. The proud shall not endure, but the tzaddik shall live.
Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17
The just shall live by his faith.
Habakkuk 2:4 · KJV
Seek Hashem in meekness before the Day of His wrath, and He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 2:3; 3:17; Luke 15:7
He will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 · KJV
Consider your ways. A life spent on your own house is wages put into a bag with holes. Build the House of Hashem first.
Haggai 1:5, 8; Matthew 6:33
Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:5 · KJV
Look upon Him whom they pierced, and mourn as for an only son who has died. In that day a fountain is opened for sin and uncleanness.
Zechariah 12:10; John 19:37
They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son.
Zechariah 12:10 · KJV
Let your heart be turned before the great and dreadful Day. For you who fear His Name, the Sun of Righteousness shall rise with healing in His wings.
Malachi 4:5–6; Luke 1:17
He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.
Malachi 4:6 · KJV
The four Gospels
He is risen from the dead. Go, therefore, make talmidim for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach of all the nations, giving them a tevilah in a mikveh mayim in Hashem, in the Name of האב, הבן, ורוח הקודש HaAv, and HaBen, and HaRuach Hakodesh.
Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Kings 5:10
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28-30 · KJV
Make teshuvah and believe the Besuras HaGeulah. What does it profit to gain the whole world and lose your own nefesh?
Mark 1:15; Isaiah 52:7
Repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Mark 1:15 · KJV
Come home. The Father runs to meet you, for this son was dead, and is alive again.
Luke 15:20; Luke 19:10
When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luke 15:20 · KJV
Be born from above, so that believing you shall not perish, but have chayyei olam.
John 3:3, 16; 1 Peter 1:23
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:3 · KJV
Ma’asei HaShlichim
Receive Yeshua, the Prince of Life, whom G-d raised from the dead. There is no other prophesied Name of the Savior in the Bible.
Acts 4:12; Zechariah 6:11-12
There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Acts 4:12 · KJV
HaRomim through Filimon
Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that G-d raised Him from the dead. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of G-d is chayyei olam.
Romans 10:9–10; Deuteronomy 30:14
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth … and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:9 · KJV
Hold fast to the Besurah: Moshiach died, was buried, and rose on the third day. O death, where is your sting?
1 Corinthians 15:3–4; Hosea 6:2
Moshiach died for our sins according to the scriptures; and … he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3–4 · KJV
Be reconciled to G-d. When this earthly tent is taken down, there is a building from G-d, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:20; Isaiah 1:18
We pray you in Moshiach’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20 · KJV
Stop trusting your own works. Be justified through the emunah of Moshiach: crucified with Him, and now alive in Him.
Galatians 2:16; Genesis 15:6
A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Yeshua HaMoshiach.
Galatians 2:16 · KJV
Once dead in trespasses, now made alive with Moshiach: receive yeshuah (salvation) as a gift of chesed (grace) through emunah (faith), not of yourselves.
Ephesians 2:8–9; Titus 3:5
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 2:8 · KJV
Forget what lies behind and press on toward the prize of the upward call. To live is Moshiach, and to die is gain.
Philippians 3:13–14; Hebrews 12:1–2
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Moshiach Yeshua.
Philippians 3:14 · KJV
You died, and your life is hidden with Moshiach in G-d. Set your mind on things above, where Moshiach is seated.
Colossians 3:1–2; Matthew 6:20
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 3:2 · KJV
Turn from dead idols to serve the living G-d, and wait for His Son from heaven, who delivers from the wrath to come. The dead in Moshiach shall rise first.
1 Thessalonians 1:9–10; Acts 1:11
Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven.
1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 · KJV
Stand firm, and hold fast to what you were taught, while those who refuse the love of the truth perish.
2 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Corinthians 16:13
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 · KJV
Come to G-d through the one Mediator הַמְתַוֵּךְ, the man Moshiach Yeshua, who gave Himself a ransom for all.
1 Timothy 2:5; Job 9:33
There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Moshiach Yeshua.
1 Timothy 2:5 · KJV
Endure hardship as a chaiyal tov, a good soldier of Moshiach Yeshua, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light.
2 Timothy 2:3; 4:7–8
Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Yeshua HaMoshiach.
2 Timothy 2:3 · KJV
Say no to ungodliness, and look for the blessed hope of chayyei olam.
Titus 2:11–13; 1 John 3:2–3
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and מוֹשִיעֵנו our Goel Yeshua HaMoshiach.
Titus 2:13 · KJV
Let Moshiach say of your debt, “Put that on my account.” He paid the death you owed.
Philemon 17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:21
If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account.
Philemon 18 · KJV
HaIvrim through Yehuda
Enter the Kodesh HaKodashim boldly by דֶּרֶךְ חָדָשׁ וָחָי the new and living way, opened by His death through the torn parochet.
Hebrews 10:19–20; Matthew 27:51
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
Hebrews 10:20 · KJV
Draw near to G-d, and He will draw near to you. Your life is a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
James 4:8; Zechariah 1:3
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
James 4:8 · KJV
Come to the Living Stone, the chosen Cornerstone laid in Tziyon. All flesh is grass, but the Word of Hashem endures forever.
1 Peter 2:4–6; Isaiah 28:16
Behold, I lay in צִיּוֹן a chief corner stone, elect, precious.
1 Peter 2:6 · KJV
Make your calling and election sure. Soon you must put off this tent, and an entrance will be richly provided.
2 Peter 1:10–11; Matthew 7:13–14
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom.
2 Peter 1:11 · KJV
Know that you have chayyei olam. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son does not have life.
1 John 5:11–13; John 20:31
He that hath the Son hath life.
1 John 5:12 · KJV
Abide in the teaching of Moshiach. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
2 John 9; John 14:6
He that abideth in the doctrine of Moshiach, he hath גַּם־הָאָב גַּם־הַבֵּן both the Father and the Son.
2 John 9 · KJV
Walk in the truth, on the path of life.
3 John 4; Psalm 86:11
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
3 John 4 · KJV
Keep yourself in the ahavah of G-d, looking for the mercy of Moshiach unto chayyei olam. He is able to keep you from stumbling.
Jude 21, 24; Psalm 121:3
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy …
Jude 24 · KJV
Hisgalus
Wash your robe in the dam of the Seh, and enter the City by the gates to the Etz HaChayim, where there shall be no more death.
Revelation 22:14; 7:14; Genesis 3:22–24
They … have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:14 · KJV
Destination
The road that began when Avraham left his father’s house ends at the gates of pearl, where the Etz HaChayim stands again, the Seh is its light, and death shall be no more.
Hebrews 11:10 · Revelation 21:21–23 · Revelation 22:1–2