Exodus 23:26 HEB: מִסְפַּ֥ר יָמֶ֖יךָ אֲמַלֵּֽא׃ NAS: in your land;I will fulfill the number KJV: the number of thy days I will fulfil. INT:the number of your days will fulfill
And in Genesis 25:8 we are told :Abraham died “in a good old age, old and full of days”;
dies full of days; satisfied with living here, and longing to live in a better world.
And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.
This term does not mean what we think in terms of our western understanding and terminology that he lived to a ripe old age although by our standards he lived 175 years. which is very old.
He was about his Heavenly Fathers business, something Messiah was also:
9 And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I mustbe about My Father’sbusiness?”. Luke 2:49
Full of years—the words Of years,is not in the Hebrew, it is only,an old man, and full, or satisfied.
He had fulfilled the divine will, and served his generation, and was fully satisfied with life
Is there some other significance to the phrase:
full of days,
than merely to point to length of days?
It may be well to note some other instances.
In addition to this scripture, we find it used first, in reference to Isaac, inGenesis 35:29, where the words are repeated almost exactly.
Even though his life was calmer and very different to the active and eventful one of his father, Isaac also received this blessing at the end of his life.
Next is King David, in the turbulent and notable course of a life filled with temptations and challenges, both of moral character and of fortune; he is represented as having
died in a good old age,
full of days,
riches, and honour.’’
Then we read in 2 Chronicles 24:15,
of the great high priest Jehoiada,
whose history had been filled with danger, change, courageous resistance, and brave, strenuous effort; that with all the storms behind him he died at last,
‘full of days.’
The only other instance of the occurrence of the phrase is
Job 42:17
at the end of the book. The story of a good man going through suffering, and of the overwhelming restorations given by a loving God.
The picture of returning prosperity and family joy, ends with this statement no doubt with the intention to deepen the image of peace: ‘So Job died, being old and
full of days.’
In all the instances of the occurrence of this phrase, it’s meant to suggest not simply the physical length of days of a life, but some specific characteristic of the long life over and above its mere length. We may understand its meaning a little better if we make a very slight change in how we read the words, and instead of reading ‘full of years,’ read ‘satisfied with years.’ These men were satisfied with life; having completed all that they were purposed to accomplish.
The words point to a calm end, with a sense of fulfillment with no desperate clinging to life, but a willingness to let it go, because all they were called to be and do had been attained.
it is possible at the end of life to feel that it is complete, because the days have accomplished for us the highest purpose of life.
What is the end for which days and years are given?
Isn’t it that they may give us what eternity cannot take away; a character built upon the love of God in Christ, and moulded into His likeness?
‘Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever.’
Has our life helped us to do that?
If it has, we maybe only a child, and yet we are
full of days/years.
On the other hand, if it has not, and Messiah is not formed in us, our hair be white and we may be in our nineties, yet we will remain incomplete and immature.
The successful and victorious end of life is to make us like Messiah Jesus/Yeshua, and so be pleasing to both Him and our Heavenly Father. If life has done that for us, we have got the best from it, and our life is completed, whatever may be the number of the days. It is always the quality, not quantity, that is the element that determines the perfectness/maturity of a life. A life full of days/years.
A life’s whole harvest may be gathered into a very little space of earth time, and all may be done in mere hours, days or few short years, whichever is needed to make the life complete in our Fathers eyes. Has your life this completeness?
Abraham was a sojourner in a strange country and we must remember so are we.
Whether our stay in this life be long or short, is not important, provided what we leave behind us a testimony to the faithfulness and goodness of the Lord; and have set a good example to our families and friends of an life obedient to our Fathers will.
– having attained to the standard length of life in his days, and being satisfied with this life, so that he was ready and willing to depart.
… being found in the way of righteousness;
Full of years; in the Hebrew it is only full, or satisfied; but you must understand, with days or years, as the phrase is fully expressed, Genesis 35:291 Chronicles 23:1 29:28 Job 42:17Jeremiah 6:11. full of all good, as the Chaldee renders it; satisfied, and full of years; in the original it is only, “and full”;
“of all good”; temporal and spiritual, with which he was filled and satisfied;
We have studied a little about the end days…
acharit ha-yamim
אַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים in Hebrew.
…and we are certain of Messiahs return.
This next 12 months or 9 if you follow the Hebrew calendar; we should determine to be about our Fathers business more than our own or someone else’s.
Time is short, very short and individually, our days may very well be shorter.
What are we doing?
Where are we headed?
Who are we following?
Why are we choosing the above answers we have just thought or spoken out?
In Exodus the translations read:
God will fulfill the number of your days
and we read it as:
I will give you a long life
and some say
God will give you a normal life.
The ISV International Standard Version renders this verse as :
I will make every day of your life complete.
This makes more sense as in Hebrew the word
fulfill
is the word
MALA.
Which means:
to be full, abundant accomplished and satisfied.
And inGenesis 25:8we are told :Abraham died “in a good old age, old and full of days”; that is, he died full of faith and blessing from God.
Original Word: מָלֵא Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: male or mala Phonetic Spelling: (maw-lay’) Definition: to be full, to fill
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin a prim. root Definition to be full, to fill NASB Translation accomplished (1), aloud (1), armed (1), become full (1), been completed (1), come (1), complete (3), completed (9), completion
This seems to say that God id not talking about a long or normal life but rather a life full and abundant. He came that we might have life and more abundantly. John 10:10 and this does not refer to worldly wealth, but to spiritual riches that will never fade.
ThisMala life is fulfilled in spiritual maturity and like Abraham, faith filled, the father of faith and the friend of God with an intimate relationship. He was obedient and therefore completed all that he was here to do. A life with accomplishments according to the will of the Father; and when the time comes for us to leave here, our lives will have been a complete life –Mala,according to our Fathers plan and timing. If we are still here today, then there is still work for us to accomplish in His strength.
Here the reference is to the days of our life and if we serve God, then every day we live will be a day of accomplishments, a day of fulfillment, of purpose in Him.
We may have never taken the time to think or or like Mary, seriously ponder in our hearts the intensity of this profound statement.
I will fulfill the number of your days.
At the end of each day when we lay down to rest and sleep, it is one day we will never live through again and it is another day less for us to be here on earth.
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
It is one day closer to our transition into our eternal home. There are only a specific number of days assigned to us, some have over 100 years and some only hours… It is not for us to choose and if we believe God is in control there are no accidents, nothing takes Him by surprise. everything is purposed under heaven. Ecc. 3
Everything is in His plan and it is why He says our ways are not His. Isaiah 55:9 This should remove all fear and anxiety from us, knowing that He has everything in the palm of His hands, whatever it looks like to the natural eye.
Every day we are counting down towards our departure, what are we doing with our days? Are we dropping them carelessly to the side of the road along which we are travelling? Or are we using it to bring someone closer to our Father and Yeshua/Jesus?
When we lay down and close our eyes at night are we Mala – satisfied that our day was spent in His will and service; or was it simply another day we wasted on trivial earthly pursuits and worldly pleasures. How many of our allotted days have we let slip away? When the day comes and He asks us what we have done with all the days He has given us, what shall we say?
Romans 14:12 11 It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.” 12 So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Will we complain with excuses that so many of them were filled with pain and suffering and too heavy a burden, filled with fear and sorrow and He will say He appointed each one and gave them to us. Yes some pain and sorrow and suffering and He was acquainted with it all; Isaiah 53:3; and made provision for us to trust in the abundant life He provided; and in each of those days there were opportunities we were to overcome through Him. We say so often where did the week go. Time is flying past so fast and we lose track of all the days we had left ….and one day there will be only one day left.
No matter how painful or filled with joy, in each day there is something that He gives us and we are required to search for it; and when we do, at the end of those days we will be mala.
Is 55:6 6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jer 29:13 3 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Matt 6:33 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
In Acts 13:36 David served Now David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.
Like David who heart was after God, we are to serve God in our generation and we are to end up like Abraham, full of days, having completed all that God required of him and we too must complete that work that we have been given to do while we are here. If we aren’t yet sure what that is maybe this year it’s time to find out.
How ?
Ask Him..
Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me and I will answer you ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show yougreat and [ a]mighty things, which you do not know.’
Don’t just make new years resolutions that so many times we will never keep… instead recommit to the One who is able toJude 24 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from stumbling and falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
May he the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 1Peter 5:10
2 Thess 2:17 may he encourage and strengthen you to do and say everything that is good.
As we recommit ourselves to His service, to His plan, and one day at a time cherish the hours and opportunities within it… Seek His face, spend some of these precious hours in intimate communication in His presence. This may be our last day and are we truly ready to meet Him face to face?All of the first chapter of Proverbs is a support to these thoughts.
Amplified Bible Ecc 12:13 When all has been heard, the end of the matter is: fear God [worship Him with awe-filled reverence, knowing that He is almighty God] and keep His commandments, for this applies to every person.
1Pet 4:7-11
7 The end and culmination of all things is near. Therefore, be sound-minded and self-controlled for the purpose of prayer [staying balanced and focused on the things of God so that your communication will be clear, reasonable, specific and pleasing to Him.] 8 Above all, have [a]fervent and unfailing love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins [it overlooks unkindness and unselfishly seeks the best for others]. 9 Be [b]hospitable to one another without complaint. 10 Just as each one of you has received a special gift [a spiritual talent, an ability graciously given by God], employ it in serving one another as [is appropriate for] good stewards of God’s multi-faceted grace [faithfully using the diverse, varied gifts and abilities granted to Christians by God’s unmerited favor]. 11 Whoever speaks [to the congregation], is to do so as one who speaks the oracles (utterances, the very words) of God. Whoever serves [the congregation] is to do so as one who serves by the strength which God [abundantly] supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified [honored and magnified] through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Micah 6:8 sums it all up very simply He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy. and to walk humbly[ a] with your God
Soon and very soon we are going to see the King… so lets’ be a doer of His Word not a hearer only.
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
In Exodus 23:26 Our Heavenly Father God promises:
