You Are Greatly Loved and You Are Not Alone!

At certain times of the year it is easier to feel more isolated and alone especially at seasons when tradition has family members come together.

Many are restricted for various reasons; health, economic, location, all factor in, and changes in personal circumstances make staying where you are the only option.

MMM invites all visitors, subscribers, family and friends to join together in prayer for those who are hurting, sad, grieving, without a home, without a job. There is without doubt not a single one of us that has not experienced at least one, if not all, of the above.

Always remember that you are NOT EVER alone

for Jesus/Yeshua Himself said

I will never leave you nor forsake you even to the end of the age.

It may not always feel that way but it is His Truth.

He said I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you.

He comes in the presence of His Holy Spirit, His Ruach,

to breathe His

Light

Love

Life

Hope and Comfort

into your life and situation.

Know that your brethren around the world are experiencing similar events.

Trust Him, put all your faith and hope in Him –

it will not be misplaced.

You are all prayed for daily and 

love and encouragement

are sent on the wings of His lovingkindness

and tender mercies

to surround, guard and keep you.

Roll your burden onto the Lord and believe Him to lead you every step of the WAY – because He has already been in your tomorrow and knows you and He can handle it.

You are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might,

do not fear nor be dismayed

He loves you with an everlasting love

and this physical life with its tests, trials and hardships

is soon to pass;

and we will rejoice with exceeding great joy

at the vision before us… of joy unspeakable and full of glory,

when we shall behold Him

face to face.

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, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen

Jude 24 & 25    

This scripture reads that we are presented before the presence of His glory and the exceeding joy is His !!!! He is so delighted that we are there…that we made it home .. Wow !

December 25th on the Gregorian Calendar is just a date.

Messiah abides with us and in us every day.

The kingdom of the heavens is within us.

We can rejoice at His 1st coming every day

because of that:

we are His,

forgiven,

redeemed by His precious blood;

and patiently waiting

with oil lamps filled

and wicks trimmed

for our bridegroom to return for us….

Soon and very soon there is going to be a wedding and we are going to see the King!

As you read the following list of countries which span the globe and cover every time line;

know that in every one listed are our spiritual family members reading the same list and by His Holy Spirit we are connected even though we cannot see one another we are united in Him….

Be comforted and encouraged as we pray for one another  –

soon, time will be no more….

and behold He will make all things new.

Then, the tears and fears of all the years will be dissolved in His presence forever…..

You are greatly loved more than you can imagine….

Shalom shalom family….

Father in the Name above all names …Yeshua HaMashiach Jesus the Messiah we thank you for all you have done, are doing, and will do.We thank you for our salvation and for filling us with Your Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh. We love You with all of our hearts and praise your Name for you alone are worthy to receive all power and honor and glory.

Be with the broken hearted and comfort those mourning and grieving. Surround each one with your true Shalom that passes understanding and fill each heart and mind with your unconditional love. Let all isolation, rejection and loneliness flee from before your presence as your joy becomes our strength and fills every cell of our being.

As we hide under the shadow of Your wings in the cleft of the Rock of our Salvation, bring healing to each one in whatever area is needed. Feed the hungry Father, house the homeless and clothe those in need.. You are the great Provider and need-meeter. Above all bring sweet sleep to all who are tired and weary and give them the Rest that you promise in Your Word. 

Thank you that where any 2 of us agree You are there, watching over Your Word to perform it and it will not return to You void but will accomplish what You send it forth to do.

We give you praise and thank you in Jesus/Yeshuas name..

amein – el melek ne’eman. God is a faithful King.

Please don’t leave this page without assurance in your heart that He loves YOU…

It’s all about Life and Relationship,

NOT Religion.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

NOT SURE if you know the One

who the shepherds were told had come?

YOU CAN BE CERTAIN..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART 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. Amen.

 

What or Where is Har Megiddon – Armageddon?

The end times is a hot topic these days and Armageddon is often involved in such discussions… This post offers some insights and also suggests food for thought, as well as possible answers to some of those most frequently posed questions. As always scripture is the base for all subsequent writing; and every reader is strongly encouraged to research and study God’s Word for themselves and to take everything before the Lord in prayer.

Why?

Because our personal opinions are just that, opinions and

His Word alone is TRUTH.

 הר מגידו ‎ 

 Har Megiddo

 in Hebrew:

Har Magedon.

Meaning in Hebrew: Hill of Megiddo

Revelation 16:16; Judges 4 & 5:19;

2Kings 9:27;23:29; Zech 12:11

 

According to the Book of Revelation,

Armageddon (/ ˌ ɑːr m ə ˈ ɡ ɛ d ən /,

from Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών

Ἐβραϊστί Ἃρ Μαγεδών 

Harmagedōn,

or

Armageddon.

Late Latin: Armagedōn,

taken from the Hebrew: הר מגידו ‎ Har Megiddo

It is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end of the age, variously interpreted as either a literal or a symbolic location.

Although Armageddon is a Hebrew word, it does not occur specifically in the Old Testament. Its meaning has raised questions, however it is best understood to mean

Mount Megiddo, since 

Har in Hebrew means mountain

and Mageddon is the place-name of Megiddo.

Armageddon is the symbolic name given to this event, based on scripture references regarding divine obliteration of God’s enemies.

The hermeneutical method supports this position by referencing Judges 4 and 5 where God miraculously destroys the enemy of Israel, at Megiddo.

Another Armageddon definition is – the site or time of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil.  (Probably so called in reference to the battlefield of Megiddo.)

The actual word for Armageddon only appears once in the Bible (Revelation 16:16). Even though most of the New Testament is written in Greek, this comes from the Hebrew word which as already mentioned means, Mount Megiddo.

in the New Testament, it is a place where the kings of the earth under demonic leadership will wage war on the forces of God at the end of history.

Armageddon,

sometimes rendered Har– Magedon 

(Hebrew: Har Meghiddohn),

here it is translated: Mountain of Megiddo.

Megiddo was once a city in the territory of ancient Israel.

History tells of decisive battles that were fought in its vicinity, including some that are recorded in the Bible.

 The place we know as Armageddon was also the site for two great tragedies:

1) the death of Saul and his sons (1 Samuel 31:8) and

2) the death of King Josiah (2 Kings 23:29-30; 2 Chronicles 35:22).

It is probably because of this history, the valley of Armageddon became a symbol of the final conflict between God and the forces of evil.

It is the name of a real place, 56 miles north of Jerusalem.

it is approximately thirty miles wide by two hundred miles long.

Is it also a war, or is this just a symbolic reference to a future event that will be particularly destructive?

Armageddon is mentioned in the Bible in the Revelation to John, or the Apocalypse of St. John (16:16).

Really it is the:

Revelation of Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach/Yeshua the Messiah, which was given to John.

Hebrew Translation.

הִתגַלוּת.

More Hebrew words for Revelation.

noun הִתגַלוּת. emergence, exposure, advent, epiphany.

Revelation [N] is an uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen.

God has been pleased in various ways and at different times Hebrews 1:1 

to make a supernatural revelation of himself and his purposes and plans, which, under the guidance of his Spirit, has been committed to writing.

The Greek name of the Bible book of Revelation,

A·po·kaʹly·psis (apocalypse), means:

Uncovering or Disclosure.

This name indicates the meaning of Revelation —it uncovers matters that had been hidden and discloses events some, that would happen long after it was written.

מגידו‎ 

Megiddo,

The city is located on a pass and commanding a road connecting Egypt and Syria; it was probably chosen as a symbol for such a battle, because it had been the scene of many previous battles.

noun זִרַת מִלחָמָה. Armageddon

The meaning of the word Armageddon is placed in the text, and is actually a compound of two thoughts.

The first part is taken from the Hebrew har. הַר

as this word means mountain or the place of.

The word megiddo is taken from the 

Hebrew root gadad (גדד).

This word means a gathering, to divide or cut.

 

Strong’s Greek: 717. Ἀρμαγεδδών

(Harmagedón) — Har-Magedon 

Every scholar will attest that  

Armageddon is the GREEK rendering of the 2 Hebrew words.

They are Har and Megiddon.

Har is the word for mountain and

Megiddon means

a place of crowds.

Those armies came together in a place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. Then the spirits brought the kings together in the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. So they assembled them at the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.

The spirits gathered the kings to the place that is called Armageddon in Hebrew. Rev 16:16

Taking a look at the ancient Hebrew pictographs:

Is there anything in the pictures that point to Yeshua HaMashiach Jesus the Messiah?

There is a curiosity within most people of wanting to know the future and more specifically what will happen to us as individuals. If we know beforehand whether it’s good or bad, we think we can hopefully prepare for either.

The Bible is filled with prophecies that describe many remaining future events in great detail so it’s the best place to look for future events and our final destination and probable events that will unfold prior to our reaching that destination.

One future event mentioned in scripture is an event often called the Battle of Armageddon.

It is mentioned more these days than ever before.

In the scriptures it’s described as not just a battle but also a place where in the future, a war the likes of which the world has never seen will take place.

We saw that in the Greek Translation of the New Testament The word Armageddon only occurs once and is used by the apostle John in Revelation 16:16:

“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”

In verse 14 John tells us who is doing the gathering and who is being gathered:

“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”

 

John earlier described this war of destruction which is the culmination of God’s wrath in Rev. 6:17:

“For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”

 

Taking a closer look at the Hebrew pictographs about this war and place of destruction;

the first part

Har

which is spelled

Hey Reysh. הַר

HEY   ה

REYSH ר

Hey    is the picture of the man

with outstretched hands to the heavens 

  

and means

behold

or

pay attention to what follows.

Reysh

is the picture of the head      

and means: the leader or

the prince.

 The pictures in Har depict behold the prince.

But what is the connection to mountain or hill, is it of any significance?

Is there a specific prince to whom this is referring?

Here we take a journey back to the time when Moses wrote about the Akedah.

Where in Genesis 22:14 Abraham was to offer his only son Isaac to the LORD, and at the very last moment God provided another sacrifice to take his place:

“And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah jireh as it is said to this day. In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.”  

This mount (HAR) was identified as being in the land of Moriah

and is believed to be the identical location where Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem.

Moses tells how God provided a ram instead of Abrahams son Isaac and because the ram died in his place, Isaac would live.

It all unfolded in this place and was a picture of the Prince who in the future would die a substitutionary death for us.

The Prince is Yeshua/Jesus who was and is the perfect Lamb of God, and more than 2000 years later, at this exact location.

Looking carefully at the Hebrew Scriptures it does not actually say 

in the mount of the LORD it shall be seen,

it is written

one shall be seen.

So here, Moses is referring to the Lord God Himself saying:

On the Har God shall be seen.

(Recall the SHEMA – God is one).

The next part of Armageddon is

Megiddon and means

place of crowds.

this is spelled:

Mem Gimel Dalet Vav Noon.

 מגידו

            ו   י ר ג מ      

Noon Vav Dalet Gimel Mem

(read from right to left.)

Mem מ

Gimel ג

Dalet ר

Vav י  

Noon ו

In the pictographs for this megiddon/place of crowds, it is:

Noon/Nun

   is the picture of

the fish  

or seedling

and means life or activity.

 

Vav  

is the picture of

the wooden hook or iron nail     

and means:

to fasten or secure two things together that are separated from one another.

Dalet   

is the picture of the door;

   and means:

a doorway or

a place of decision

that can lead to life or death.

Gimel 

is the picture of the foot

or later a camel      

and means to lift up, to be lifted up with pride,

or to lift up the name of the Lord.

Mem  

is the picture of waters

that can be waters of destruction like a tsunami or gentle waters that bring life.

We could read into these pictures that for this crowd it will be a place of decision, a doorway that will lead to either life or death.

The doorways connected to one of two possible groups and their future.

Those who are lifted up with pride who will suffer destruction like a tsunami.

Those that will receive the gentle waters of life, who lift up the name of the Lord.

Which doorway they will choose and to which group most in this crowd belong John writes:

“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.”

Revelation 6:15-16.

 

God will bring His wrath to force the reluctant to choose.

Everyone will go through one door or the other. Those doorways are open to us now just as they will be to those in Revelation. We must choose the dalet/doorway to life now before the unbearable wrath of God is unleashed.

IAM the door

Har Megiddon in the pictographs =

Behold the Prince.

Lift Him up and enter the doorway that is connected to life.

The book of Revelation associates Megiddo in northern Israel with the end of days.

John Martin – The Great Day of His Wrath: A vision of the apocalypse, circa 1851.

We often use the word “Armageddon” to mean the end of the world, and we now know from our study how it became associated with the final catastrophe that will end humanity.

Early Judaism had no tradition of the world ending in a day of divine judgment and no such idea appears in the 1st Temple period material in the Hebrew Bible. But the idea does suddenly appear in prophetic books penned after the late 6th century B.C.E., such as Deut. -Isaiah, Zechariah and Daniel. For example:

“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you” (Zechariah 2:11).

We saw in

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-revealing/

that Apocalypse is a Greek noun meaning uncovering, revealing or revelation. As it is the first word of the book in its original Greek, it became used as the name of the book as this was the common practice at the time.

Since the book describes the end of the world, and its Greek title began to be used by English speakers to refer to the end of the world itself, there is little doubt that this is how we got the word apocalypse.

Out of the mouth of dragons

Armageddon appears in In Revelation 16, where John tells us that he heard “a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, ‘Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.’”

He proceeds to describe these bowls of God’s wrath being poured on the earth: The 1st is an outbreak of “festering sores”;

the 2nd the turning of the sea to blood and the death of all that live in it;

the 3rd is the turning of the rivers into blood;

the 4th is the scorching of the people by the burning son;

the 5th is the kingdom of the beast being plunged into darkness;

the 6th is the drying up of the River Euphrates.

Then before he gets to the seventh and final bowl – a mighty thunderstorm accompanied by massive earthquakes and a hailstorm of biblical proportions – he says that “he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon” (16:16).

Who exactly is gathered to Armageddon is not exactly clear from context. It might be “three impure spirits that looked like frogs  and “came out of the mouth of the dragon” or “the kings of the whole world.”

Either way, according to John, just before the world comes to an end, they will convene at “a place which in Hebrew is called Armageddon.”

Whatever John meant by this, it is clear that he believed that just before the end of the world, something momentous would take place there. Later Christian theologians interpreted this as meaning that this would be the site of the showdown between the forces of good and evil, which will obviously end with the victory of God and the good.

The view from Megiddo

The identification of the town of Megiddo with the site of apocalypse has some merit, since it is mentioned several times in the Bible, tellingly, as the site of several epic battles, such as the Israelites vs. the Canaanites (Judges 5:19) and Judah vs. Egypt. In the latter struggle King Josiah who the bible explicitly calls the best of the Judean kings, was killed:

“While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo”

(2 Kings 23:29).

The main challenge to the interpretation that John was referring to a Hebrew text that talked of har Megiddo, is the fact that Jews never referred to a “Mount Megiddo” – and for good reason. There is no mountain at Megiddo. At most the site could be called a small hill, or more accurately,

a TEL.

In fact, when the Bible actually refers to a geographic feature related to Megiddo, it is not a mountain but a valley:

Below are some pictures of the ongoing archeological digs and some of the items recovered from the area.

Excavating Megiddo Tel:

A neighborhood of small homes and workshops

Credit: Ariel David

Tel Megiddo

Credit: Yaron Kaminsky

“On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo” (Zechariah 12:11).

“In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate” (Ezekiel 38:8).

Other theologians and scholars suggest that the original word was

megiddon, not Megiddo at all –

but a word derived from the root G-D-D (or G-D-ayin),

which would mean this mountain was

the mountain of gathering or being cut off – meaning, destruction.

The Greek translation of Zechariah 12:11 may relate to the plain of Megiddo in this way, but no such high-altitude gathering places appear anywhere in the Hebrew writings that have become available.

GOG the Battle of the ROOF!

Here is another view of what the world calls the Battle of Armageddon:

could it be already in full fury and is the problem that the church is asleep and does not even know about it?

It seems as if the church is too busy anticipating gog and magog trying to figure out how and when Russia and others are going to join with China or other countries to attack Israel, seemingly not aware of the spiritual battles that are in full fury right now.

Is it possible that if the church wins the spiritual battle there will be no ground war?

Certainly if we lose the spiritual war the world will be all but destroyed.

Has the enemy kept the church wrapped up in fund raising and building programs which is another great distraction keeping focus off the spiritual battles?

Has the church ignored the scriptural terminology allowing the half truths of the world to dilute the truth?

The battle recorded in 2 Kings 23:29,30 and 2Chronicles 35:22;

tells the story of the battle in which Josiah king of Judah is mortally wounded.

The Hebrew name is: The valley of Jezreel and it lies at the foot of the mountain,

Har mediggo – meaning Mt Mediggo.

This was also the location of the Midianite army that Gideon chased off with trumpet and lanterns.

In 1Samuel 29:1 the philistine armies gather at Jezreel. but the battle is at Mount Gilboa in the valley of Esdraelon, which is east of the Valley of Jezreel. In the new testament the armies gather at Har Mediggo in Revelation 16:12.

12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. 

Judges 5:19, 2Kings 9:27;23:29, Zech 12:11

Har Mediggo in English translation is taken from the Latin text, which has Armageddon. The Greek text has Harmageddon, where the armies gather but the battle is not at Har Mediggo.

Note:

There is no battle but the bowls of God’s wrath!

It would seem from reading here that later

at the end of the millennium,

the battle of Gog and Magog

is formed at the valley of Jehoshaphat.

The word jehoshaphat (yehoshafat in Hebrew) means ‘God has judged’, and this narrow furrow of land located between Temple Mount/Al Haram Ash Sharif and the Mount of Olives is where it is said the events of Judgment Day will take place (Joel 3:12) and all nations will be judged. At the southern end is a series of tombs dating from the Second Temple period.

 

Joel 4:2

I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Y’hoshafat [ Adonai judges]. I will enter into judgment there for my people, my heritage Isra’el, whom they scattered among the nations; then they divided my land. 

verse 12 “Let the nations rouse themselves and go up to the valley of Jehoshaphat. For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.”

The valley of Jehoshaphat is a few miles south east of Jerusalem also called the valley of Beracha in 2Chronicles 20:26.

King James Version (KJV). 26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the Lord: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

God takes care of the armies when they surround Jerusalem.

and

In Revelation 20:7

 And when the thousand years are completed, the Adversary/hasatan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 and he shall go forth to lead the nations astray, that are in the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog –

to gather them together to war, of whom the number [is] as the sand of the sea;

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

(Ezekiel 7:2 ) Gog and Magog 

and

(Ezekiel 38:2)  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, King James Version (KJV)

In 2Kings 1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

Ezekiel 39:6  And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

 

Maybe we are looking for the wrong war?

Maybe we got the name of the place wrong?

Maybe we thought we knew what the scripture said? and hopefully, maybe we won’t even be here?!

Scripture says this is at the end of the millennium and is often referred to as apocalypse, which is the Greek word for revelation/ revealing.

This is the terrible time when it takes seven months to bury the dead.

In Ezekiel 39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

If we look at the current war, it is against humanism and the war, the battle of the roof. What is happening on the ground now is but a mild example of what is going on in the spiritual realm, the invisible dimension of the heavenlies.

Believers in humanism align themselves with compromise and tolerance of pagan beliefs and is a spiritual battle which offers the choice of loyalty to God’s teachings vs. those who tolerate all manner of evil and accepting other lifestyles in preference to that which God lays out for us in the Scriptures.

The need to be politically correct and extending people’s rights beyond what the Scriptures tell us has only succeeded in accelerating the changes we see in the world today. Materialism is another powerful spirit at this time; warfare against principalities and powers need to be corporate as it is becoming increasingly too dangerous for individual prayer, in the same way that one soldier does not go into battle against an army!

These alternatives encourage teaching of occult and false religions in public schools yet forbid teaching and practice of Christianity and godly values; all in the name of multiculturalism. The battle will not be won with the weapons of war however it will be won in the hearts of those individuals where repentance and/or revival takes root.

There is an inner connection between the names gog and magog and the fall/autumn feast of sukkot/tabernacles/Booths.

The Hebrew word gog means roof and there is a major difference between a real roof and the flimsy sukkah, the singular of sukkot.

The sukkah is a weak unstable shelter made with branches. A driving rain will soak right through it. And a driving wind will blow it away.

People have the power to make themselves safe and secure against their earthly contemporaries by buildings sturdy walls; so they delude themselves into thinking that they can make themselves safe and secure up against that which comes from above, against God and his power to direct matters.

They think that they can find security in the protection of their own might, they take their fate in their own hands, and crown the building of human greatness with sturdy roofs, with no need to depend on God.

The war of gog and magog is also the battle of gog; (the Hebrew word for roof,) against sukkah,

it’s the fight of the roof illusion, of human greatness which never allows the rest,

against

the sukkah-truth of cheerful confidence and serenity which comes from placing trust in God’s protection.

Magog is gog with the prefix M; this prefix expresses the idea of projecting something, representing the philosophy that man can insulate himself against the heavenly power of God –

Magog is possibly the attempt to affect this philosophy on earth.

for more on Apocalypse click link

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-revealing/

Time to get our house /sanctuary spiritual house in order. Working out our salvation with fear – reverent respect -and trembling

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, Phil 2:12-13

work out your salvation with fear and trembling;

Very serious and sober, being vigilant, with a godly clean heart and motives, observing the times, for the days are evil, short and few and the night comes when no man can work.

Our salvation/ Full redemption will be manifested as we are birthed into our sanctified supernatural bodies in which we can enter His presence.

No unclean thing can enter in. No flesh will survive the transition for we shall be changed into a new creature like unto Himself and we shall see Him as He is. Our feeble attempts to visualize what is ahead, pales in comparison to what glories will be revealed and no doubt will bear little if any resemblance to our earthly images.

We make the mistake of bringing God down to our level and to our likeness. The image and likeness of our Father that is within us is purely spiritual in nature. He has no form like we do or like Jesus/Yeshua did in His incarnate form while present on the earth. And yet He said if you have seen Me you have seen the Father!

Our limited concepts belie reality and do His incomparable being an enormous disservice. It is most certain that all of us will gasp in true awe and amazement at the inevitable realities that await the eyes of our understanding when they are finally enlightened.

It is on a serious note that we must be ready for encounters in the spiritual realm as the veil between the realms continues to thin prior to His return. It is not that these entities both good and evil, are suddenly there, merely that we can now see them just as Elisha prayed for with his servant.

The fight is in the spiritual realm. The war is in the heavenlies and we merely observe the outworking below in this earthly realm we inhabit.

Angelic Messengers are at work always and around us continually; and so to are the spirits of darkness. They have been crouching at the door since Cain’s day waiting an opportunity to work their mischief and evil. (evil=out of harmony with God) 

Don’t give him a foot hold – not even a toehold!

Keep our sanctuaries pure and holy

keep out the unclean and ungodly.

Immerse ourselves in His Word  and His presence, praying in the Holy Spirit Ruach HaKodesh, and building ourselves up in our most holy faith.

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy

Jude 20-25

For the days are evil and waxing worse. This is a time to draw closer to him then ever before and Have no fellowship with the fruitful works of darkness

Romans 13:12. The night is nearly over/far spent; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.” Romans 13:12, KJV:

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather {e} reprove them. (e) Make them open to all the world, by your good life. Ephesians 5:11

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.” John 9:4

We are to shun the man made festival days that are rooted in idol worship and rather spend the 31st of October in prayer and fasting not in celebrating sin and death.

A quote below concerning this date, should send shivers down our spine and shake us to the core; from the now deceased leader.

What are we thinking?????

Forgive us Father in Yeshua/Jesus name.

Almost every festival and observance on the Gregorian calendar has its roots in pagan worship of idols, false gods/ demonic entities and evil spirits.

What are we doing? Thinking it is acceptable to a Holy God. Would we take Jesus/Yeshua with us when we go trick or treating???

If not – why are we even going?

The WAY – HIS WAY is narrow

and in His words..

few there are that find it…

We need to and must follow Him and Him alone

and enter in through Yeshua/Jesus, the gate the Door the Dalet.

A serious message for serious days.

our times are in His hands and

today is the day of salvation/ deliverance.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what we know we should do,

or not do, today.

IT”S LATER THAN WE THINK!

Trust Him and obey.

There is no disappointment in Him.

He is the way, the truth and the life …

let’s not miss our day of visitation.

Shalom shalom

‘Mishpachah’

‘Family/Tribe’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa,

Please don’t leave this page before making certain Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

He is coming back very soon – so let’s keep looking up!

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

Its all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus 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 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 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. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

 

 

Disciples Divine Design – Moadiym

The Moedim are:

the Appointed Times of the Lord

or also called

The 7 Feasts.

They can also be seen as

The Divine Design for Discipleship,

simply because they are an annual cyclical sequence of reminders to aid the observers to keep moving forward on the straight and narrow WAY.

These times are much more than an opportunity to focus on the Hebraic roots of our faith and beliefs. They are more than simply days to think on the prophetic meanings without physical participation, even though they are essentially fulfilled through Jesus/Yeshua’s Life, death and resurrection.

These Moadiym/Moedim, offer great spiritual insight and give us a unique opportunity for being discipled by His Holy Spirit/Ruach haKodesh; as we walk in the WAY of His Son, ever moving towards realizing our full potential and servant-hood for our Heavenly Father.

As we spend time learning their meaning in light of Jesus/ Yeshua and then living out the fullness of each of the Moedim as it relates to a disciples lifestyle; believers in Messiah will draw closer to Him and in that personal and intimate relationship, will become that much more effective and victorious. (Living a life of victory for and in Yeshua/Jesus.)

Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות ‎ or סֻכּוֹת Hebrew pronunciation: , sukkōt; traditional Ashkenazi spelling: Sukkos/Succos),

commonly called the Feast of Tabernacles or in some translations the Festival of Shelters, and known also as the

Feast of Ingathering

(חג האסיף, Chag HaAsif),

Sukkot at the Western (Wailing) Wall, Israel.

It is a biblical Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the seventh month, Tishrei (varies from late September to late October). (October 2-9, 2020) one of the three biblically based pilgrimage holidays (chaggim or regalim) of the year.

It is the time to give thanks and appreciate the shelters of our homes and bodies as Sukkot is a hut-like structure in which the children of Israels lived when they were traveling during 40 wilderness years.

While walking through the seasons and the corresponding Moedim each year, we must allow His spirit/ruach to sow into us the deep truths that each Moed is designed to help us remember, integrating the revelations into our understanding and spiritual perception.

The end goal being, that our Heavenly Father may gather in a great harvest through us, for His glory and to lift up His Name and the Name of His Son Jesus/Yeshua, our Savior and soon returning King.

Why observe and why bother with these old testament feasts?

One good reason is the root of the words disciple, which is discipline. Paul is the great example, 

1Corinthians 9:24. 

But what made him so effective? Discipline! And the fact that he was successful because he understood the importance of submission to the Lord.

We are well aware that discipline is the key to perseverance, yet many times we allow our flesh to determine our tolerance level. If we submit to fathers discipline as Yeshua/Jesus did…

..rather than what we think we are able to endure, it teaches us our true potential and everything becomes less of an overwhelming mountain. Then we can run the race, however if we refused to submit to the discipline of our heavenly father – the race makes us – So we need His discipline to become His disciples and run to win on the straight and narrow way; leaving the flesh in the dust that it was formed from and will one day return to.

Yom Kippur just past as an appointed time of meeting with God.

The day of atonement –

at one ment

– is not so much a feast day as others but rather a day of

repentance/teshuvah.

It is significant to all, not just for Israel.

Paul refers to it

Saying the fast had already gone by.

in Acts. 27:9

It is a time for thinking,

assessing,

keeping the flesh and its desires under.

We are not perfect and all of us are working out our salvation. Walking daily in repentance and forgiveness in newness of life dealing with daily sin as it becomes an issue, thoughts attitudes etc..

We need to vow each year to be better than the year just passed.

It is the one day a year the High Priest enters into the Holy of Holies where the ark is, to take the blood of the sacrifice and place it on the Mercy seat Kapporet/ lid of the ark, between the cherubim, where rested the presence of God/the throne of His presence.. Leviticus 23:26 – 32

This action was to atone for his and the people sins. The High Priest wore all the symbolic clothing and the light of God’s Shekinah filled the Holy of Holies where there was no other source of light. Hebrews 9:24 Jesus/Yeshua became our High Priest; Hebrews 6:20, when He presented Himself to the Father. He told Mary I have not yet ascended to My Father don’t touch Me. (This may have been because it would’ve caused uncleanness before He ascended?) The real ark/ mercy seat/ throne/ His presence – is in the heavenlies/ha shamayim. And Yeshua/Jesus’ blood paid the price for all time. Hebrews 3:1; 2:14; 4:14; 5:9; 9:7; 9:11.

To be a propitiation means to be the agent through whom forgiveness and atonement can be achieved.

Yom Ha Kipuriym – Day of the Atonements.

יום הכיפורים‬

It is the holiest day on Israel’s calendar perhaps even surpassing the 7th day Shabbat.. Like the 7th day, Yom Ha Kipuriym is designated a Shabbat Shabbaton. This means it is a day to stop from all kinds of work and to rest completely once a year and begins the evening before at sundown.

Not primarily a feast because it is a day to deny self or afflict ones soul. As the High Priest performs the atonement for himself, the altar, the Tabernacle and the whole community of Israel; the people participate through their non participation! Not only are they not to come near the Holy place on this day but are to deny their own existence. They are in essence – to: stop being. By not even giving in to themselves for basic needs such as food and water.

Like Passover/Pesach, many scholars agree that Yom Ha Kipuriym find it’s clear fulfillment in Jesus/Yeshua as He is both High Priest and our sacrifice. He atoned for us once and for all and is continually making intercession for us before the Father

Intercession is more than prayer:

It is entering in and making a difference in someone’s life.

In Greek it is ENTUGCHANO, meaning to petition or to intercede.

The act of intervening or mediating between differing parties; particularly the act of praying to God on behalf of another person.

In Hebrew: PAGA – פָגַע. – paw-gah’. 

A primitive root; to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity — come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, to meet, encounter, reach.

Intercession is prayer that pleads with God for your needs and the needs of others. But it is also much more than that. Intercession involves taking hold of God’s will and refusing to let go until His will comes to pass. Intercession is warfare  fighting the good fight of FAITH– the key to God’s battle plan for our lives.

He does not need to make sacrifices for Himself and for us year after year in order to atone for our sins.

It is already been accomplished forever.

Our self denial on this day therefore does not cause, aid or enhance our atonement but allows us to become acutely aware of our own mortality, our sin, our need for atonement and our desire for life. At the same time it causes us to appreciate on some very tiny level the sacrifice Messiah made on our half as He denied His own life. The sanctity and holiness of this day cannot be overstated.

Though we may find great joy in our eternal atonement in Messiah Yeshua, this is a day for remembering that atonement (at one ment) in such a way that will be very hard to forget. We ought to be completive, repentant, humble and dead/ die to self. We are to remember that we live and breathe only because the Father chooses. And that by His choice, He has the power to take it away as well.

These are the themes to think on, that without Messiah, we are truly hopeless, without hope, truly dead,

but

through His atoning blood and intercession

we are truly alive forevermore.

Five days after Yom Ha Kipuriym on the 15th day Office seventh month for seven days is the feast of the tabernacles Chag ha Sukot . (Leviticus 23:33-36, 39; 40-43)

Also called Chag ha Asif – feast of the ingathering….

Why?

Because it occurs at the outgoing of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labor from the field. Lev.23:16

Like the feast of Matzah (unleavened bread), Sukot (Sukkot) lasts for seven days and is a time of great celebration. It is different to Matzah in the way that only the first day of Sukot is a holy convocation. On this day Israel is commanded to do no regular work and to rest.

The main focus is the SUKAH – booth or tabernacle, constructed from various trees and flora from around Jerusalem. This is to remind the Israelites that brought them out of Egypt.

The spiritual significance is of

divine protection,

deliverance and

provision.

The temporary and flimsy construction of the SUKAH reminds us of our own weakness, fragile and temporary condition of our physical bodies that we dwell in on earth.

It is also symbolic of how Adonai

cares for us,

shades us, and

hides us from the elements that focus on our destruction.

(Those that would seek to steal, kill & destroy, prince of the power of the air)

At the time of the final ingathering we are to celebrate with overwhelming joyfulness that:

1. He has delivered us.

2. Watched over us.

3. Will soon be taking us to dwell permanently with Him in the SUKAH that will have no end.

The seventh day became known as

Hashanna Rabba

and was celebrated with a huge water libation ceremony to ask for abundant rain over the coming season.

 

This was the moment Jesus/Yeshua cried out…

click links below for more:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/sheltering-presence-god/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/endings-are-simply-new-beginnings/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-sheltering-presence-of-god-cont/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/seeds-and-seasons/

The Eighth Day assembly.

In the scriptures: Leviticus 23: 36, 40. Nehemiah 8:14. 

it is written that this is to be observed

On the 22nd day of the seventh month.

The 7 day Sukot is the last moed of the year.

Yom HaShmiyniy Atzaret – The 8th day assembly.

The commands for this day are simply:

do no regular work, rest and assemble together.

It is a time to say goodbye to Sukot and the past years moedim/moadiym.

It is time to rest and reflect

but also a time to look forward to the future

because in six months time,

the cycle of life and annual rehearsal for the ultimate wedding of all time begins again.

Though this moed is often deemed insignificant or instead celebrated as Simchat Torah (Joy of the Torah) which is an extra biblical Jewish holiday; it can also be very meaningful as we look back at the journey along the WAY that we have just completed.

The cycle of life that has come full circle and also to look forward to the new one that lies ahead.

Messiah fulfilled an intermediate fulfillment of all three Fall Feasts at His first coming:

1.) Announcement: Yom Teruw’ah, ushering in the King.

2.) Circumcision: Yom Kippur, removal of the veil (foreskin) called “face-to-face.”

3.) Dwelling with us: Sukkot; dwelt with us in a corruptible body.

John 1:14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among & we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.

If Jesus/Yeshua was born on the 1st day of Sukkot, the 15th day of the 7th month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord?  Lev.23:34,

Then He would have been circumcised on the eighth great day – a festival following sukkot,

Shemini Atsaret – Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly

is a festival observed immediately after Sukkot Tabernacles,

i.e. on 22nd Tishrei (the seventh month) Luke 9:23

Messiah will fulfill all three Fall Feasts at His second coming: 

1.) Husband Ushering in the Bride: Yom Teruw’ah.

2.) Husband removes veil from the bride’s face: Yom Kippur.

3.) Husband consummates the marriage with the 4th cup: Sukkot; Dwells with bride for 1,000 years of Sabbath rest.

Coming very soon – so let’s keep looking up!

Shalom shalom

‘Mishpachah’

‘Family/Tribe’

משפחה 

Mish-pa-KHa,

friends, visitors and every reader…

And spread over us the sukkah (shelter) of Your peace. Blessed are You, HaShem, Who spreads the Sukkat Shalom upon us, upon all of His people and upon Jerusalem.

Please don’t leave this page before making certain Jesus is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

Its all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus 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 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 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. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Bones of Fire and Graffiti?

The (hand)writing on the wall is an idiom meaning there are very apparent and obvious signs that something bad will happen in the future. The phrase comes from the Book of Daniel chapter 5, in which the prophet interprets some mysterious writing that a disembodied hand has inscribed on the palace wall.

The expression ‘the writing is on the wall’ is used whenever an inevitable result or imminent danger has become apparent; it came to refer to any prediction or omen that a venture was doomed to failure.

In our Modern understanding we think graffiti is writing or drawings, humorous, rude, or political, scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place usually as a form of artistic expression, without permission and within public view.

Although the common image of graffiti is a stylistic symbol or phrase spray-painted on a wall by a member of a street gang, some graffiti is not gang-related.

One dictionary definition is: Drawings or inscriptions made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and so as to be seen by the public.

God certainly did not need permission to write but it was an inscription made on a wall so as to be seen by the public!

This was no trendy slogan or tag! For Belshazzar it was a day of reckoning

Day of reckoning meaning:  God’s judgment of wickedness – the time when one is called to account for one’s actions.

Brief explanation of who was the king in this verse and why the Temple Menorah was in his possession.

Timeline of Jeremiah / Daniel (3304-3399 / 457-362 BCE)

Date Ref 553 BC Dan 7 30 has dream of the 4 beasts

551 BC Dan 8 31 in 3rd yr of Belshazzar, vision of Ram & Goat

539 BC Dan 5 32 Daniel brought to Belshazzar to read writing on the wall by a hand.

I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem” (Daniel 9:1-2)

Daniel is from David’s royal family For hundreds of years, a descendant of David had been on the throne in Jerusalem. In 605 B.C., the dynasty was in its twilight years.

Nebuchadnezzar successfully besieges Jerusalem and carries off some of the treasure from the temple of God to Babylon.

Judah’s exile from Jerusalem. Jeremiah’s prophecy of a 70-year exile was fulfilled

Daniel 5 tells the story of the 539 BC Babylonian ruler Belshazzar, a rich and debauched king/ co-regent of Babylon and a descendant of the great Nebuchadnezzar.

He is referred to as the son of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 5:18, 22), although he was not Nebuchadnezzar’s immediate successor (Jeremiah 52:31).

Belshazzar gave a banquet to his court. During the drunken party, the sacred vessels from the Jewish temple, stolen by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, were used in a blasphemous manner including using them to ‘toast’ and honor their gods and giving praise to idols.

Note Over by the candlestick was a reference to the temple Menorah

The lampstand in front of the wall where Nebuchanezzer saw the finger of God write was the Temple menorah. He was abusing and disrespecting the Holy/set apart things of the Lord and the words written were a warning and a judgment

At the height of the festivities, a man’s hand was seen writing on the palace wall the mysterious words (verse 25).

The biblical account of the mysterious and shocking/frightening appearance of the phrase was no doubt the origin to the modern expression “the handwriting on the wall,” meaning “a portent or warning of inevitable misfortune.”

The biblical record in Daniel 5 has Belshazzar’s knees knocking in fear.

Daniel 5:5-6 In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees knocked against each other.

The king was terrified. But no one could understand what the words meant.

All attempts at interpretation by Belshazzar’s wise men failed. Interestingly it was a woman who told him who to ask. Reminds us of Pilates wife giving wise counsel and advice at critical times. She recognized the True God as she said in 5:10-12 and Daniel was given the name Belteshazzar by the king. (Verse 12)

Daniel was one of the captives from Judah brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, so taking the advice given, Daniel is called out of retirement to interpret the writing for Belshazzar, he references Nebuchadnezzar’s eventual obedience to God,

Nebuchadnezzar’ was cut down like tree to a stump until he acknowledged there was a God in heaven who controls everything

He was to be humbled and cut down as the great tree was cut down. As the stump of the tree remained with a protective band of iron and bronze, so Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom would eventually be restored.

Daniel 4:15 But leave the stump and the roots in the ground, bound with a band of iron and bronze and surrounded by tender grass. Now let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the wild animals among the plants of the field.

The Tree would sprout again from the stump so his kingdom would be restored.

Natsar

(reminds us of another branch that sprouted from a root!) see

https://www.minimannamoments.com/who-or-what-is-the-mystery-of-the-choter-or-is-it-both-conclusion/

Daniel advised the king to humble himself, turn away from his sins, and show mercy to the poor.

Daniel 4:24-27. God sent a clear warning to Nebuchadnezzar. Through Daniel, the Lord encouraged Nebuchadnezzar to repent of his sin before it was too late.

However, the King did not take this warning to heart.

Now the same warning had come to Belshazzar,

and then Daniel says this:

“But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.23 Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.”

He was cut down like a tree to a stump, until he acknowledged there was a God in heaven who controls everything.

Daniel was given wisdom from God to read and translate the words, which meant:

“numbered, numbered, weighed, divided.”

Daniel told the king, “Here is what these words mean:

Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians” (Daniel 5:26–28).

Peres is the singular form of upharsin.

The Bible never identifies what language the words were in.
Some translations spell upharsin as parsin.

Parsin – ‘to divide (into many pieces)’

Peres – ‘to divide (once)’

mene mene tekel upharsin

you are weighed in the balance and found wanting

here wanting means empty.

As a menorah lamp is empty of oil and is no longer capable of supporting a flame and thus gives forth no light, If we are empty as the lamps in the parable of the 10 virgins awaiting their bridegroom; we too will be found wanting and will not be inside after the door closes.

Daniel read it Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin and explained it to mean that God had numbered the kingdom of Belshazzar and brought it to an end; that the king had been weighed and found wanting; and that his kingdom was divided and given to the Medes and Persians (Dan. v. 1-28).

MENE – ‘numbered’ or ‘mina’.

Mina is a measure of weight and money weight

TEKEL – ‘weighed’ or ‘shekel’ Shekel is a unit of weight and money

UPHARSIN – ie ‘Parsin’ (singular Peres (verse 28)),

Parsin – ‘to divide (into many pieces)’

Peres – ‘to divide (once)’

As can be seen the words ‘mene’ and ‘tekel’ carry meanings which indicate weight and monetary value. (As a result of this observation many have felt the word ‘upharsin’ should likewise be understood as ‘half mene’ or ‘half shekel’.)

Belshazzar, co-regent of the Babylonian Empire, watched as these words were supernaturally written on the palace wall the very night his kingdom fell (539 BC).

Each of the words the hand wrote on the wall is a measure of weight (like our ounce, pound, and ton, or milligram, gram, and kilogram).

The basic unit of the Babylonian/Chaldaic monetary system was the Gerah.

The unit of weight/table of measures, was the gold Shekel (Tekel in this verse).

The Mena equalled 50 shekels;

the Upharsin (half a mena), equalled 25 shekels.

The four words stood for:

Mena 1000 Gerahs or 50 shekels/tekels;

Mena 1000 Gerahs or 50 shekels/tekels;

Tekel, 20 Gerahs or 1 shekel;

Upharsin, 500 Gerahs or 25 shekels.

The total equalled 2520 Gerahs or 126 shekels.

Twenty of these Gerahs formed one Shekel, or Tekel.

One thousand Gerahs made a Minah or Mena.

Peres or Upharsin (the plural of Peres) means division and was used as we use the word half, for e.g. a half dollar. It referred to a half Minah which was equal to 500 Gerahs

The people of Babylon use shekels and mina for their currency. One shekel weighed one fourth of an ounce. One mina was worth 50 shekels. Sometimes if a Babylonian had to pay a large amount they would sometimes use clay tablets. The people of Babylon could also trade money. E.G one mina for 50 shekels etc.

In addition, each shekel can be divided into even smaller units (as a pound can be divided into ounces, for example). The shekel was equal to 20 gerahs (Ezekiel 45:12). The 126 shekels of Daniel 5:25 is equivalent to 2,520 gerahs.

mene: maneh, mina (a measure of weight) 4484

Original Word: מְנֵא
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: mene
Phonetic Spelling: (men-ay’)
Definition: maneh, mina (a measure of weight)

te’-kel (teqel)

tqal: Tekel 8625

Original Word: תְּקַל
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: tqal
Phonetic Spelling: (tek-al’)
Definition: to weigh

Tekel, be weighed

means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the scales/balances and have not measured up.

shaqal: to weigh 8254

Original Word: שָׁקַל
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: shaqal
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kal’)
Definition: to weigh

UPHARSIN is plural: divisions;

PERES is singular: divided.

Babylon is being divided once into two branches

(Media and Persia will take their respective portions).

There is no contradiction here, just a linguistic variation to highlight two different aspects of this prophecy, (one separation into two pieces).

Upharsin and they divide, or, And they are dividing. 

A Chaldee word, an active plural form with the conjunction prefixed; while PERES or PHARES, from the same root, is a passive participle, and means divided,  It is a pure Chaldean word. Peres is only a simple form of the same word.

The u in Upharsin is the conjunction and, while pharsin, or, rather, parsin, is the plural of peres, a noun which implies divisions and also Persians. It appears from Daniel 5:28 that the empires of Babylon and the Medo-Persian empire are those signified as being divided.

The Difference between Upharsin and Peres.

Specifically, the fact that one verse reads upharsin while another has the word peres. Apparently both share the meaning of being divided. The difference is that upharsin is the singular form while peres is the plural.

Most prophetic scriptures clearly portray a time dimension.

The words of the handwriting on the wall symbolize that God had weighed Belshazzar’s kingdom and found it wanting (Daniel 5:26-27). Empty of anything to do with the true living God.

The empire would be given to the Medes and the Persians, who entered and captured the city of Babylon that same night.

Belshazzar is slain by Darius that night and Darius becomes king that night, (he is a Mede, son of Xerxes.

God was about to punish Belshazzar’s realm for 2,520 years.

This is confirmed by another prophecy found in Daniel 4.

Through Daniel, God told King Nebuchadnezzar that a total of seven times of punishment would befall Babylon (verses 16, 25). In prophecy, a time equals a year of 360 days.

This can be seen by noting that 3 1/2 times equals 42 months or 1,260 days (Revelation 12:6, 14; 13:5).

Seven times, therefore, equals 2,520 days, and Nebuchadnezzar himself spent seven years without his human reason, living like a beast (Daniel 4:31-37).

In certain prophecies, however, such as in Daniel 5, each day represents a year in fulfillment (Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6). These back-to-back prophecies in Daniel 4-5 show the type (Nebuchadnezzar) and anti-type (Babylon) fulfillment of many biblical prophecies. This is the prophetic principle of duality.

So, then, from the experiences of both Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, it is evident Babylon would be punished for a period of 2,520 years.

Interesting notes: After that time, it will rise again, as symbolized by the tree that sprouted and grew after the iron band was removed (Daniel 4:10-16, 19-26).

Since this period of 2,520 years expired in 1982, we can expect to see the rise of modern Babylon in this present generation (also foretold in Revelation 18); it may even now be well advance in its  formation.

Also Daniel is a Hebrew name meaning “God is my judge”!

Daniel Interprets the Handwriting … 26 And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. 27 TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. 28 PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”…

The Aramaic tekel, similar to the Hebrew shekel, used in the writing on the wall during the feast of Belshazzar according to the Book of Daniel and defined as weighed, shares a common root with the word shekel and may even additionally attest to its original usage as a weight. Second Temple period half-Shekel Temple tax

Hebrew: מָנֶה, māne (H4488)

Strong’s Number: H4488

Hebrew Base Word: מָנֶה

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

Usage: Maneh, pound

Definition: Properly, a fixed weight or measured amount, i.e., (technically) a maneh or mina.

 

As for the bones of fire………

the prophet Jeremiah had been the one to warn Belshazzar’s predecessor Nebuchanezzer and we usually associate Jeremiah with his sadness and distress over Gods rebellious People when he had repeatedly called for them to repent in the generations before Daniels time.

in Jeremiah 46 13 25 because of 44:20-23 he was warning that God would come and strike the land of Egypt.

This description of Jeremiah is not the usual one we see of him weeping over the nation for he was Gods chosen mouthpiece. He was laughed at and even told from the beginning that he would declare God’s word and that no one would listen.

What a calling!

And if he decides to keep his mouth closed and not speak any more in Gods Name, speaking forth His Word, he says; describing it as a burning fire shut up in his bones; he says he is weary of holding it in, indeed he is unable to refrain from speaking.

Is this the case with us or is it that we simply fear the ridicule and rejection of peoples reactions and if we do is it because we are unsure of what we believe what is true reality to us.

Jeremiah was overwhelmed by the power of the word of God not just dwelling but burning within him and he had no choice but to voice Gods words of warning.

Are we like Jeremiah or do we say I am not able. We should be saying I am not able to stop.

The love of God compels us to share, to speak,

to be the voice of hope,

to be the voice of warning,

the voice of comfort,

the voice of faith,

loving kindness compassion, truth and love.

The Voice of declaring the Way to salvation.

Let us no longer be weary of well doing. 

Let us desire of the Lord that He ignite a fire in us that cannot be contained.

Let us burn with the Holy Fire of Pentecost/shavuot…

That same fire that filled the room….

The same fire that flowed out to 3000 souls in a day.

Let the fire burn up all flesh that limits those life-giving words…

The Ruach of Shavuot did not come to make us feel comfortable but to burn up everything that is not of Himself.

Let us be the fire brand in the hand of God setting ablaze all that is in our path,

אֵשׁ ʼêsh, aysh;

 fire (literally or figuratively):—

burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.

A CONSUMING FIRE – KAESH  כאשׁ  

Jeremiah 20:9: “Then I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name.  But his word was in my heart as a burning fire and shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forebearing and I could not stay.”

The metaphor that God is a Consuming Fire suggests that He is both indescribable and passionately concerned with our devotion to Him.

“Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire” ( Heb. 12:28-29).

Consuming Fire in Hebrew: ’Esh ’okhlah. Strong’s Concordance numbers: 784, 398.

Esh Oklah is literally translated from the Hebrew to eat by fire. Interesting to think that for a moment there are people who claim to commit crimes in the heat of passion.

Burning fire in the Hebrew text is kaesh which is a destructive or all consuming fire as used in this context.   In Semitic literature a kaesh or consuming fire is a metaphor for passion.

As Jeremiah was voicing his complaint to God, God allowed Him to enter His heart and feel His passion. When he felt it he just couldn’t contain it.

As Moses recounts for the people the events of Sinai and commands them to keep the covenant, Moses declared,

“For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God” (Deuteronomy 4:24).

He would not tolerate worship of others; He was a consuming fire in the sense that He desired all of the worship of the Israelites. Deuteronomy 9:3 also refers to the Lord as a consuming fire. In this context, God would serve as a consuming fire to destroy Israel’s enemies.

Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name. But His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not hold back.

aish – esh – fire –

alef, sheen/shin,

aysh

Eshshah – strongs# 800

eshshah: a fire

Original Word: אֶשָּׁה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: eshshah
Phonetic Spelling: (esh-shaw’)
Definition: a fire

Esh – strongs#784

Feminine of ‘esh; fire — fire.

esh: a fire

Original Word: אֵשׂ
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: esh
Phonetic Spelling: (aysh)
Definition: a fire

the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.

Sometimes we forget this…. We forget that we only live because He deems that we can still be here. We breathe and live at the hand of God and for no other reason. As the Presidents people serve at the Presidents pleasure, it is the same in Gods kingdom. Everything we do is known to the king: not just people like Daniel, who acknowledge Him, but those like Belshazzar who turn and spit in His face and choose to worship other gods.

And there will be a day of reckoning for all.

In case we might choose to relegate this standard to the old testament time and therefore has no relevance to us; consider…. Jesus/Yeshua, said He had the keys of hell and death; and this means no one dies but it is in His hand. He has the keys of death so He approves the timing. We belong to Him not to ourselves. The spirit returns to God who gave it! If we are not His at death then hell follows immediately after… as Rev. 6:8 tells us it will be for those who have not repented and turned to Him.

Yes we are in the age of grace, but grace is not a license to sin and live how we please, we are still required to obey His written Word  and Jesus/Yeshua’s teaching as He is the Living Word.

Just as on the road to Emmaus our hearts will burn within us as we allow Him to open the scriptures to us.

The consuming fire is the Akal Esh

pronounced: okhlah aish

Akal is translated consuming and is spelled

Aleph Kaf Lamed.

 

Aleph

 is the picture of the  ox 

and means the strong leader, the first, or God the Father.

Kaf 

 is the picture of the  palm 

 of the hand and means to cover or uncover, to open, or to allow.

Lamed

is the picture of the shepherd staff

and means to control, to have authority, or can mean the tongue.

Ancient Paleo Hebrew

Modern Hebrew

 Esh – Fire – Alef Shin/Sheen, we find a clear picture of God the Father consuming or destroying.

What He is going to allow or not allow has something to do with the Esh / the fire.

Our Heavenly Father is also a consuming fire, it is an indication that our heavenly Father is going to exercise His control over us by applying Esh to either consume and destroy us or not.

Look at the pictographs of Esh combined with those of Akal.

Esh or fire is spelled Aleph Sheen and is translated fire, flames, or burning.

The fire of God will consume those who refuse to follow and obey His commands, but His fire will also be allowed to lead His faithful followers through any darkness, as well as burn away the dross in the process of purifying their lives.

This process is tied in to the Kapporet/Mercy Seat and the High Priest/Kohen haKadol. Both are connected to Jesus/Yeshua in Lev. 16. The cloud in which God would appear above the mercy seat was the cloud of fire or Esh. Heb. 10 reassures us how each of us can enter the Holy place without fear of destruction. ( Being consumed by fire)

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. 

Only by the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach, that we can enter the Holy place and we are allowed there because we are under the authority and control of the Heavenly Father who has intended all along that we should be guided and purified by the fire we will experience there and not consumed by it.

The handwriting on the wall proved true.

In fact, it proved fatal for the rebellious Belshazzar.

Just as Daniel had said, the kingdom of Babylon was divided between the Meded and Persians (Modern day Iraq), and it happened

that very night.5:30

When Belshazzar was killed, and his kingdom passed to Darius the Mede (Daniel 5:30–31).

It was his day of reckoning

The scriptures say there are days of reckoning ahead for everyone so we need to be like Jeremiah…on fire for Messiah!

The appearance of mene mene tekel upharsin on the king’s wall is a reminder that whatever we sow, that we will also reap (Galatians 6:7–8).

God is the Judge; He justly weighs all matters and metes out retribution in His time (Psalm 94:2).

Sometimes God speaks very clearly into our lives, convicting us of sin and warning us of pending judgment (see John 16:8).

It does not pay to ignore the “handwriting on the wall.”

The graffiti is for our benefit!

We are to seek to acknowledge a King who holds us, all we do. All our ways, where we live, move and have our being: all of this too is in the hand of God and is of importance to Him.

He love is unconditional and unchanging,

He is always there for us in time of need.

Is our passion for the living God of Yisrael/Israel, a burning raging fire on the inside of us, or has our affection for Him waned and been reduced to a glow?

Has the fire gone out?

Sometimes circumstances overwhelm us and that is when we need encouragement to keep the fire going!

Songs by Janny Grein

 

It is time to let his Ruach/spirit blow on these embers stirring up the fire, and fanning them until they burst into flame.

Have we given ourselves so completely to the word of Adonai/God that we have to be restrained from bringing Him anymore?

As disciples of Messiah may our hearts be set ablaze and no longer cold or lukewarm towards him. (See Revelation 3:16 for the end of those who are lukewarm).

We are to give Him all that He is due, with everything we have and all that we are. Let us give of ourselves continually, abundantly and passionately, to the one who died for us. Let’s forget our religious traditions and doctrines of men making us rigid and conformed to accepted images of what a Christian should be; and exchange it from a shriveled dried up bunch of leaves, for the childlike innocence of a new flower opening its petals and releasing the zeal of youth. He will renew our spirit like the eagle, that is His promise.

Father/Avinu in the name of Jesus/Yeshua, restore to us the joy of our salvation which will by its very essence strengthen us and then let us rise up and declare You are My Lord and we will not simply shine but be ablaze with Your Holy Fire and raise our voices like a Yubel!

Let us not grow weary of well doing of boldly presenting the truth and love of Messiah; instead may our zeal be so hot shut up in our bones, that we instead become weary of holding it in.

The answer to not being found wanting is in the yoke!

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