Tag: Door

Hippatach!

There is an old saying:

Theres’s None So Blind As Those Who Cannot See!

Hippatach

is Hebrew for:

you must right now be opened.

Consider this:

aren’t we all born blind, naked and dead in prison!

Spiritually that is..

If that is not the case,

why did Messiah come and say in Luke 4

that this day the scripture was fulfilled

as He quoted from Isaiah 58:6; 61:1,2?

Releasing the captives,

recovery of sight to the blind,

clothing us with the garment of salvation/

robe of righteousness

and stating He is the resurrection and the Life

and those that believe and follow Him will never die!

So, if we need these provisions…

then that is exactly how we were!

Truly we don’t need to be living our lives while running around blind; how will we see where we are going?

and Yeshua/Jesus said

don’t follow people..

because it’s the blind leading the blind

and both will fall into a pit.

Those being casual, will become casualties.

Are we going to become victims or victors!

Matthew 20:29-34

also

Mark 7:34;10:46-52

& Luke 18:35-43

There were 2 blind men who cried out

as Yeshua/Jesus was passing by.

He asked them.

What do you want Me to do for you?

Their reply was:

Lord that our eyes would open.

What are we asking the Lord for?

Paul prays for the Ephesians in chapter 3: that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

And when they were/regained their sight,

what did they do?

They followed Him.

The meaning of

followed Him,

is not just a mental assent,

agreeing or confessing belief

in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

and His Son Jesus/Messiah Yeshua.

It is so much more than that it means that

their lives

BECAME LIKE HIS,

they followed His example.

In

Matthew 24:34 and in Mark 8:23

The word for eyes in Greek is OMMA,

And means the eyes of the soul

as well as the natural eyes.

This word is only used here otherwise it is ophthalamous.

We often think only in terms of the physical realm however the spiritual realm is the one that is eternal this physical realm will not last forever. According to scripture the worlds systems and the earth itself have expiry dates.

In Mark 7:31-37 is the account of the deaf and mute man.

In this account, Yeshua/Jesus looks up to heaven and

said to him in Hebrew/Aramaic

 פְּתַחח

hippatach – you must right now be opened.

The ref. here is to Isaiah 61:1 where the word means:

to open the prison

and refers specifically to:

opening eyes and ears

both physical and spiritual.

In the following chapter of Matthew 8:22

there was a blind man healed in Bethsaida.

פְּתַח

aphtach

pâthach

Parts of Speech. peh’-thakh.

Definition. opening, doorway, entrance.

 

 Recall Dalet – the Door

Yeshua/Jesus said, I am the Door.

 

“aphtach” (English) in Hebrew is

פְּתַח

pᵉthach, peth-akh’; 

(Aramaic) corresponding to H6605;

to open, open oneself.

(Hithpael) to loose oneself.

pathach: appear.

Original Word: פָתַח.

Part of Speech: Verb. 

Transliteration: pathach. 

Phonetic Spelling: (paw-thakh’)

Definition: to open

Strong’s Hebrew: 6605. פָּתַח (pathach) — appear

Strong’s Hebrew: 6491. פָּקַח (paqach) — open

pâthach

פָקַח

Transliteration: paqach
Phonetic Spelling: paw-kakh’

Strongs #6605

(sometimes spelled with letters e

in place of a and a k in place of the c).

Definition to open; (Qal to open )

(Niphal: to be opened, be let loose,be thrown open.

pethach: to open

פְתַח

r to l

peth-akh’

pey tav chet

(paleo)

mouth cross fence

Original Word: פְתַח
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: pethach
Phonetic Spelling: (peth-akh’)
Definition: to open

Sometimes written with the H hey added.

The two words together

beopened

Hippatach

היפים

Here it was for the man who was deaf and mute.

You must right now be opened

Mark 7:34 and Is. 61:1 having same meaning.

Mark 7:34 

And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him,

“Ephphatha!”

or aphtach, (which means, “Be opened!”)

which [in Aramaic] means,

“Be opened and released!”

Ephphatha or Ethphatha

– This word is Syriac/Aramaic/Hebrew, the language which Yeshua/Jesus used in addressing the man, and means

Be opened.

that is, being interpreted, be opened, both ears and mouth.

This Aramaic word, is found in the Greek text of Mark 7:34.

We there read that Yeshua/Jesus said to a man who was ‘deaf and had an impediment in his speech,

Ephphatha ’ ( ἐφφαθά ).

The writer appends a Greek translation of the word:

ὅ ἐστιν διανοίχθητι, ‘that is, Be opened.’.

Ἐφφαθά {ephphtha} (Aramaic) This could be from the Aramaic ethpthah, the passive imperative of the verb pthah, ‘to open.’ Διανοίχθητι : [unique] ( verb 2nd sg aor imperat pass ) “Be opened” is dianoigo , which means “to lay open”, “to open so as to connect”, “to reveal,” and “to explain.”

Why is this important?

Because this way of speaking is used by the Jews,

of a deaf man being restored to hearing, as of a blind man’s being restored to sight;

These actions of looking up to heaven and sighing, as they may be understood in a spiritual sense, or with relation to the spiritual healing of a sinner, may show that such a blessing comes from above: it is received from heaven; it is our Heavenly Father Who gives the

hearing ear,

as well as

the seeing eye;

and that is in a spiritual, as well as in a natural sense:

and therefore this directs us to apply to Him for it, whether asking for a ourselves, or for others;

Opening of the prison – In Hebrew is,

the most complete opening,

namely,

of the eyes to them that are bound,

that is,

deliverance from prison,

for captives are as it were

blind

in the darkness of prison

(Isa 14:17; 35:5; 42:7)

So Luke 4:18 and the Septuagint interpret it; Luke 4:18, under inspiration, adds to this, for the fuller explanation of the single clause in the Hebrew, “to set at liberty them that are bruised”; thus expressing the double “opening” implied; namely, that of the eyes (John 9:39), and that of the prison (Rom. 6:18; 7:24, 25; Heb. 2:15).

His miracles were acted parables.

and in the

opening of eyes for those who are bound.

The literal meaning of

opening

is referring to specifically:

opening both spiritual and physical natural eyes and ears.

With the Hebrew verb here doubled for emphasis, this is really powerful,

promising total deliverance from

spiritual AND physical evils.

Which begs the question

why are we in the state we are in today??

Verse 3 says

the garment of praise

instead of

the spirit of infirmity

often translated

heaviness

This word

KEHEH or cheHah

כֵּהֶה

Phonetic Spelling: kay-heh’

Strong’s Hebrew: 3544.

כֵּהָה (keheh) — dim, dull, faint,

literally means:

to be pale or dim

and it is used as an expression for:

being weak, sickly.

And then they are called

oaks as the opposite of weak sickly.

While studying, the other point found here,

(as we are all learning together,)

is the

garment

referred to is:

the prayer shawl /tallit

and all for His glory!!

Is 61 :2 adopted in Luke 4:18, gives

recovery of sight to the blind;

and as the verb is never used for

the opening of a room or door,

it is used in Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 42:7,

for the opening of the eyes,

that is probably it’s meaning here.

However, it is true that the word is generally used

of the opening of eyes (once of ears).

Added here for those who like further study:

[In the Heb. read pĕqaḥqôaḥ as a single word, = “opening.”]

Peqach-qōăch is written like two words (see at Isaiah 2:20).

The Targum translates it as if peqach were an imperative:

“Come to the light,” probably meaning

undo the bands.

But qōăch is not a Hebrew word;

for the qı̄chōth of the Mishna (the loops through which the strings of a purse are drawn, for the purpose of lacing it up) cannot be adduced as a comparison. Parchon, AE, and A, take peqachqōăch as one word (of the form פּתלתּל, שׁחרחר), in the sense of throwing open, viz., the prison.

But as pâqach is never used like pâthach (Isaiah 14:17; Isaiah 51:14),

o signify the opening of a room,

but is always applied to the opening of the eyes

(Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 42:7, etc.),

except in Isaiah 42:20, where it is used for the opening of the ears,

we adhere to the strict usage of the language,

if we understand by peqachqōăch the opening up of the eyes

(as contrasted with the dense darkness of the prison);

and this is how it has been taken even by the lxx, who have rendered it καὶ τυφλοῖς ἀνάβλεψιν, as if the reading had been ולעורים (Psalm 146:8).

Matthew 5:3

Hippatach

this is the word meaning

in the translation of the Hebrew scripture of Is 61:1

to open the prison

it refers specifically to

opening both

spiritual and physical eyes and ears.

This is so important to understand

because it was the statement

Yeshua/Jesus made in His home town synagogue.

He was literally declaring that He was the Messiah

the one to fulfill this prophecy.

And immediately they rejected Him because

their

spiritual eyes and ears

were

blind and deaf.

We are born dead in our sins the scripture says,

and death stinks by its very nature of decay

and we are born into decay;

(which is where our word decadent comes from

so we should use it wisely!)

So what does all this mean for us as individuals?

(References can be found in Mark 8 and John 9.)

Many of Gods’ creatures are born blind and after a specific time their physical eyes open.

This makes them very vulnerable and their parents

watch over them VERY carefully.

Human babies are born with physical eyes open…

but our spiritual eyes still closed.

Similar to those creatures whose eyes open after some time.

In this way we all born blind and why Messiah said to Nicodemus.

John 3

Similar to those creatures whose eyes open after some time.

When we are born again by His Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh

our spiritual eyes are opened.

This opening of our spiritual eyes is the throwing open of the door of the prison, where we are in darkness, bound in chains of sin and in a state of decay. This door is open and we are to come forth like Lazarus and like Peter from the prison. Messiah has opened the lock and the door is swung wide, what are we still doing inside?

The blind had their sight restored and many other miracles were to stimulate the faith of the people, we however are to believe by faith in the Son of God not by sight and not by proof of signs. Proof is the enemy of faith. We don’t need signs to see Him because we have His Ruach HaKodesh/Spirit of Holiness within by Whom are eyes are opened!

As we have noted:

Hippatach

the Hebrew meaning

is You must right now be opened

And our heavenly parent watches over us more intently

until we can see better.

And what Jesus/Yeshua said is what it means for us

Matthew 10:29
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

You are worth much more than many sparrows

Matthew 6:26; Luke 12:6

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

There were many physical miracles

and those born blind

eyes were open by Messiah.

Prophetically, the healing of blindness was

a sign

of the Messiah!

It was

a sign – a Signal

prophesied by Isaiah 61

that when Messiah would come

He would open the eyes of the blind.

The Hebrew meaning of

sign – signal

 אוֹת

Strong’s Hebrew: 226. אוֹת (oth)

— a sign

Transliteration: oth
Phonetic Spelling: (oth)
Definition: a sign

omens (1), pledge (1), sign (43), signs (30),

standards (1), witness (1), wondrous (1).

אוֹת, ‘ot meaning ‘sign’

Strong’s 226

Sounds like our word Oath!

Also

nes: a standard, ensign, signal, sign

Original Word: נֵס

Transliteration: nes
Phonetic Spelling: (nace)
Definition: a standard, ensign, signal, sign

 signal (4), standard (12), warning (1)

sign 

(compare Late Hebrew) =

warning! 

Numbers 26:10

The word sign is ‘oth.

This is a military word which in its Semitic root, means:

to communicate by a signal.

Before the development of radio,

communication in the battle field was done by signals.

This type of communication was carried out by many cultures.

The native Americans are said to have communicated by smoke signals.

In Africa they communicated by drums.

Ships would communicate with each other with flags.

Even today a pitcher, in American baseball, communicates with the catcher through a hand signals.

Soldiers in a covert operation will use hand signals.

All this is

‘oth,

a communication that is not really verbal, but more of a sign that is very obscure and secret, that is understood by only those for whom the sign is given.

The thing about an ‘oth or sign is that it is limited and if we don’t pay close attention we might misinterpret the sign or if it’s a sign we don’t want, we might roll it around in our heads and make up our own interpretation, which would be less risky and then we plead a lack of understanding later if we got it wrong.

The signs/signals were there from Bresheet /Genesis

Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years

Let them be for signs לְאֹתֹת֙

Many signs and signals surrounded Messiah’s birth; as with the magi, the bethlehem star and the shepherds:

this shall be a sign/signal unto you!

This letter TAV is written as a cross

in the pictographic script and represents a sign or mark

The name of the letter is tav and is derived from the word תו tav [H:8420] meaning mark as well as a covenant.

Healing a person who was blind from birth…

It had never happened before prior to that time.

The religious leaders of the day, either ignored, denied or did not recognize the hand of God as the kingdom of the heavens came near to them.

Because they were spiritually blind  

Opening the eyes of the blind..

how was this done?

…by healing.

We looked at one case previously in

https://www.minimannamoments.com/heres-mud-in-your-eye/

click link for more.

However on other occasions, like that of Bartimaeus?

He cried out and Yeshua/Jesus asked him what he wanted.

That I might regain my sight

Do we want our spiritual eyes opened?

Or

are we still walking, living and seeing partially sighted?

Are we like the one who Yeshua/ Jesus laid his hands on

and said

I see men walking as trees?

(Mark 8:24).

What did this mean?

This is a Hebrew idiom, and we have missed that fact with our western mindset!

 Because in this instance it was not a strange thing for him to say, rather it was accurate in its meaning

Why?

because in the middle east it would be a strange sight to us to see men, women and animals walking along the road with such huge loads of brushwood, thorn bushes, or branches that you just couldn’t see what was carrying it.

If it was a donkey all you could see was the

lower part of four small legs.

The half-restored sight of the man who had been blind

prevented him from seeing clearly

between the branches and the animal that carried them,

but he remembered the days when he had his sight,

and he knew what these walking trees really were.

These were his physical eyes

his natural sight

which needed a second touch…

At the moment of new birth in the spirit our spiritual eyes are opened and we begin to see for the first time who Jesus/Yeshua is and who we are in relationship to Him and the Father.

We are probably aware of the popular hymn amazing grace and the line that says I was blind but now I see.

We sing it but do we fully comprehend its meaning?

We walk in the natural state of man with all our natural physical senses operating believing we have our lives under control and going along our own way.

Thinking everything is just fine.!

Spiritual new birth changes

EVERYTHING

and our spiritual eyes are opened.

However, sometimes we to need

a second touch

to clear

the fog of frustration

the cloudiness of confusion

the blurriness of bondage

the mists of self indulgence

the mud of misunderstanding

the blindfold of brokenness

and

the dinginess of disobedience.

 

For Paul it was something like scales

that fell from his eyes

when they were restored from the temporary blindness!

Scales make us think of reptiles or fish, a skin or membrane, a covering that prevents water from passing through.

When our eyes are open,

the waters of life are no longer prevented

from cleansing and washing us;

but spring up to eternal life and we are no longer thirsty.

Be opened He says to us

and Paul tells us to pray Ephesians 1

that the eyes of our understanding be opened for us to know the hope of His calling and the dimensions of His love.

Jesus/Yeshua said

Those born blind were for the glory of God

to be made manifest

not because they or their parents sinned.

WE ARE

ALL

BORN BLIND

so that His glory

may be seen in us too.

He came to open the eyes of the blind to see the truth;

the truth of the world systems and who’s they are, only for this season/age…

The truth of who is really in control

of ALL things in the heavens and the earth.

The more one reads in scripture, the more it becomes clear that this world is far more than we have been taught and it’s not we have been led to believe or, as science has informed us.

Science is not god, certainly not for believers.

Our trust must be in the creator, not the creation or the created.

Jesus/Yeshua said all will be revealed…

Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, neither anything secret that will not be known.

We are to make sure that we are

grounded only in Him

and in the truth of the Life/chaim

which we can obtain in Him

and the TRUTH of the WAY

in which we ought to walk.

Are we still blind?

Are we

Turning a blind eye

Are we still partially sighted

or

out of focus?

Do we need to second touch?

Hippatach

Matthew 10:49 He is calling you – the one who is born blind

Lets speak to our eyes in Yeshua/Jesus name

Hippatach be opened!

And let’s clearly see

the footsteps ahead of us in which we are to walk…

continually looking up, for our full redemption draws nigh.

Let’s make certain we are firmly rooted and grounded

and that our faith rests in Him alone.

That we are unshakable because everything is being shaken

Hebrews 12:27, 26–Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27–And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

There will be signs for us at the end of the age.

Read Matt.24, Mark 13 & Luke 21

Be genuine and be real, be authentic and, as a child does, trust in our Heavenly Father, the creator of the universe and lean not to our own understanding.

Prov.3:5

Let not your heart be troubled: ye in God believe also in Me.

John 14:1, 

and My word

Heaven and earth will pass away but my word will not pass away.

 Can we say with Isaiah My eyes have seen the Lord?

Open our eyes Lord that we may see…

Beloved Mishpocah,

have His word indelibly printed in your spirit

and let not your heart be troubled;

instead let it be fixed, focused, stayed on Him.

Days are approaching quickly when

the spiritual darkness will make it hard to see

and Messiah said, no man can work.

Hippatach let’s keep our

spiritual eyes open

and upon our Heavenly Father and Yeshua,

and immovable

as our eyes of faith look up

waiting to see the salvation of the Lord.

EYES OPEN!

and remember that He who has an ear let him hear means:

that the one who has heard is to accomplish the task that was given/spoken.

Similar to the meaning of shema, which is

to hear and obey/hear and do what you heard.

Let this song be our prayer today..

Purify me…

May His true Shalom rest upon each one in Yeshuas’ Name.

You are greatly loved and prayed for daily..

and make sure you are secure in the knowledge you are saved

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

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.

On The Threshold of a Divine Portal

Looking at the amazing connection between the Anochi of the flock and the DOOR WAY to our future.

While compiling the thoughts from Father for this post, a childhood memory of a sign on a door brought a smile; almost as much as at the time it brought confusion! It Read…

It was hard to know whether the shop advertising the sale of ice cream was open or closed!

Clearly the sign was broken but its funny how things become stuck in the brain! Even now, whenever a sign beckons

it raises a question.

Are they really

or clopen or maybe they’re simply clopsed?

One thing is sure… the WAY through the DOOR to the Father is always open and there is NO confusion!

Yeshua/Jesus said I AM THE DOOR

Strongs Hebrew 1817 deleth

Phonetic Spelling: (deh’-leth)

דֶּלֶת

The Daleth (dalet) Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew letter D, is ד , the dalet,” meaning, he who possesses nothing of his own!

In man’s service of God, the dalet characterizes shiflut, lowliness, the consciousness of possessing nothing of one’s own.

Selflessness.

Together with the awareness of our own power of free choice, we must be aware that He gives us the power to achieve success, and not to think, that our accomplishments are our power and the strength of our hand. Free choice is no more than the expression of our will to participate, as it were, in the Divine plan.

The shape of the letter is two lines forming a right angle, with a corner point. Representing a man bent over.

The vertical line: represents selflessness and willingness to sacrifice one’s life for one’s people.

The horizontal line: submergence of the soul in its Divine Source.

The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt “door” (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door and

Daleth also represents a doorway. The door stands in the opening of the house, the beit.

In other words, when the letter is placed in a word, you have to keep in mind that not only is it the letter ‘D’, it has the numerical value of 4 and symbolizes a door.

A door, the door is twofold: it opens two directions: in or out.

Doors keep things and people in or out for security and safety.

A door is a portal, a threshold, when we cross it we enter into a new area in the natural realm and a new dimension, another time and another place in the spiritual realm.

 

In the days spoken of in scripture, when an important person came to a home, an animal was sacrificed at the threshold of the door.

The threshold was considered sacred.

You were to step over it and never on it.

This may be one reason the blood was placed only on the lintel and posts in the Israelites homes at the first Passover because they were not to tread on it and we are not to trample the blood under our feet either. Hebrews 10:26-31

Today when you come to the threshold of a country they give the dignitaries the ‘red carpet’ treatment. The practice is rooted in this
 offering of the animal at the threshold of the doorway.

This is also seen after a wedding where the Groom traditionally carries the bride over the threshold entering into a new life together the same as we do when we are born again and enter new life.

 

The door to God’s house allows for the humble of Ruwach/spirit to enter. The door itself, the dalet, is the property of humility and lowliness, and bitul, the entrance WAY to TRUTH. The dalet is also the initial letter of the word dirah, “dwelling place,” as in the phrase “[God’s] dwelling place below.” Thus the full meaning of the dalet is the door through which the humble enter into the realization of God’s dwelling place below.

We begin to understand more reasons why He said I AM the DOOR. If anyone enters in by Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture.

I AM the Good Shepherd.

In Him we see the Fathers’ name, and expression

The Nail (Yud) upon the Door of the tent (Hei) of Jesus/Yeshua, opens the veil/way /door/entry (Dalet) to YaHuWaH (Hei) Kingdom

And taking the last three letters we see The door is open before YHWH (YaHuWaH)’s Righteous house.

The Holy/Kadosh Yahrushalom, is the place where the Tent/House/Beit of our Father is (above), where Jesus/Yeshua placed His blood upon the door, as in the blood of the Passover lamb on the door.

The DOOR of the sheep

The sheepfold to which He was referring, looks like this..

The shepherd was literally the door blocking the entrance stopping any predators or anything else coming in so the sheep were safe.

Any predator would have to go through the shepherd first.

He also stopped the sheep wandering out unprotected.

So even if he slept, if the sheep tried to climb over him, he would wake up.

Shepherds tend God’s flock because they love those who God loves; they mirror His heart in regards to His people – the singular motivation for the shepherds is their love for sheep, just as God loves them.

Hireling’s have an altogether different motivation – they tend God’s flock for the money, for the prestige and sense of power, being in the lime light, to be esteemed by others – and just as EZEKIEL 34 declares, these hirelings – or false shepherds, will actually take advantage of God’s sheep, or even abuse them.

When danger comes, the hireling will abandon God’s sheep, whereas the shepherd will lay down his very life for his sheep!

1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.  9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 

א.אֵָמןאָמֵןֲאנִיֹאֵמרלָכֶםאִיׁשֲאֶׁשרלֹא

-יַבֹאּדֶרְֶךַהּׁשַַעראֶל

-ִמכְְלאֹותַהֹּצאןִּכיאִם-ַיעֲלֶהְבדֶרֶךְַאחֵרַּגָּנב הּואוְֹׁשֵדד:

  1. Amen amen ani o•mer la•chem eesh asher lo-ya•vo de•rech ha•sha•ar el-mich•le•ot ha•tzon ki eem-ya•a•le ve•de•rech a•cher ga•nav hoo ve•sho•ded.

ב.וְאִיׁש ַהּבָאדֶרֶךְהַּׁשַעַרהּוארֵֹעה ַהּצֹאן:

  1. Ve•eesh ha•ba de•rech ha•sha•ar hoo ro•eh ha•tzon.

ג.לֹויְִפַּתחהַֹּׁשֵערְוהַּצֹאןּתִׁשְמַעְנָהבְקֹלֹוְוהּואּבְׁשֵמֹותיִקְָראאֶל

-ֹצאנֹווְיֹוִציֵאן:

  1. Lo yif•tach ha•sho•er ve•ha•tzon tish•ma•a•na ve•ko•lo ve•hoo be•she•mot yik•ra el- tzo•no ve•yo•tzi•en.

ד.ּבְהֹוִציאֹוֶאת-ּ

כָל-צֹאנֹויֲַעֹברִלפְנֵיֶהןוְהָלְכּואַחֲרָיוהַּצֹאןִּכייֹדְעֹותאֶת-ֹקלֹו:

  1. Be•ho•tzi•o et-kol-tzo•no ya•a•vor lif•ney•hen ve•hal•choo a•cha•rav ha•tzon ki yod•ot et – ko•lo.

ה.ְואַחֲרֵיזָרלֹא ֵתַלכְָנהּכִיתָנֹוְסָנהמִּפָנָיוַיעַןקֹולזִָריםלֹאָידָעּו:

  1. Ve•a•cha•rey zar lo te•lach•na ki ta•nos•na mi•pa•nav ya•an kol za•rim lo ya•da•oo.

ו.אֶת-הַָּמׁשָלהַּזֶהָנָׂשאעֲלֵיֶהםיֵׁשּועְַוֵהםלֹאהֵבִינּומַה

-ֶּזהֲאֶׁשרִּדּבֶרֲאלֵיֶהם:

  1. Et-ha•ma•shal ha•ze na•sa aley•hem Yeshua ve•hem lo he•vi•noo ma-ze asher di•ber aley•hem.

ז.ַוּיֹוסֶףיֵׁשּועַוְַיַדּבֵרֲאלֵיֶהםָאֵמןאֵָמןאֲנִיאֵֹמרלָכֶםָאֹנִכיׁשַעַרַהֹּצאן:

  1. Va•yo•sef Yeshua va•y`da•ber aley•hem Amen amen ani o•mer la•chem ano•chi sha•ar ha•tzon.

Another characteristic of sheep: they follow after their shepherd that goes before them and leads them at the head of the flock. Goats are very different: they are not led by their shepherds at the head of the flock; rather Goat herders drive their goats from behind. This difference is significant in a special way: you see, sheep are led, but goats are driven.

JOHN 10:1-2

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.  2 But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 

When He said that only a thief and a robber would try to climb over and not come in through the gate, there are 2 people identified here: the ‘robber/thief’ and the shepherd. They are marked by the way that they go in order to gain access to the sheep.

The shepherd goes by the door, which is the legitimate “WAY” to the sheepfold; the robber/thief goes by “some other way”. 

They must climb over a wall, and by so doing, they are exalting themselves. A true under-shepherd of Messiah Jesus Christ never exalts himself, but only Jesus/Yeshua – and Him alone (Luke 18:14)!

Any true shepherd will enter in among God’s sheep by THE WAY, just as our Chief Shepherd (as written in the Scripture, 1 Pet 5:4) is Himself – the Way.

False shepherds – who are in fact robbers and thieves, taking possession of that which does not belong to them, neither by purchase – (Jesus/Yeshua purchased us, His sheep, by His blood; Acts. 20:28) – nor by stewardship – (those that God has accounted as acceptable as His ‘under-shepherds’ 2 Cor. 3:1-6).

Both Acts and 2Peter warn us that there are those who are self-appointed authorities in today’s world, who claim to speak for God in the church, but are actually enemies of the cross (Phil. 3:18-19) and have risen up in our midst to draw others away from the Good Shepherd and into error and apostasy (Acts. 20:29-31; 2 Pet. 2:1).

Sheepfolds can still be seen today in parts of UK/Europe.

There was only ONE tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.

There was only ONE door in Noah’s ark; any who would seek salvation from the coming flood would have to enter in there – there was no second door. 

There was only ONE way that led into the Temple’s Holy Place and the inner chamber the Holy of Holies – there wasn’t a multiple choice!

Likewise, there is just ONE door, ONE way to salvation – and that is Messiah; and The WAY to God’s sheep is by the DOOR.

There are many examples of Doors in the scriptures. One is Revelation 4:1 – …I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven.

“In the Spirit,” John goes through the open door into Heaven and in Rev.3:8, Philadelphia was given an “open door” to spread the Gospel unhindered.

The “open door” in Heaven is different. This open door is the physical entrance to the Kingdom of God, which today is still in Heaven. It will be open to those that had already spiritually entered the door to Heaven upon salvation and closed to those not saved:

Luke 13:23-28 Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there few who are saved?” And He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’ then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’ But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.

It is only through Jesus that we (the “sheep”) can enter the Kingdom (the pasture):

John 10:1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber. 2 “But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 “The doorkeeper opens for him, and the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 “And when he has brought out his own sheep, he goes before them. And the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 5 “And they shall by no means follow a stranger, but shall flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 יהושע used this figure of speech, but they did not know what He had been saying to them. 7 יהושע therefore said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 “I am the door. Whoever enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and find pasture.

10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure. 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12 “But the hireling, and not being a shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. 13 “Now the hireling flees because he is a hireling and is not concerned about the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd.1 And I know Mine, and Mine know Me, Footnote: 1Ezek. 34:11-12, Heb. 13:20, 1 Peter 2:25, 1 Peter 5:4. 15 even as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this fold – I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. 

1Ezek. 34:23, Ezek. 37:24. 17 “Because of this the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, in order to receive it again.Joh 10:18 “No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

There is an interesting point in

Exodus 21:6 then his master shall bring him before Elohim, and shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall serve him forever.

As we have read in John, Jesus/Yeshua is the DOOR.

It is not insignificant that the town of Silwan the area where Jesus/Yeshua was nailed to the tree means pillar or post as in a door.

When we are nailed to the door we are in fact committing ourselves for ever to Jesus/Yeshua.

Remember the fact that Jesus/Yeshua was sacrificed at the door or the same side as the entrance to the east side of the Temple as was the Passover Lamb. It
 was His blood that was shed at the door to Father’s house. Even the two door posts were made from Olive trees also known as the two witnesses.

In Eze 46:1 ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “The gate of the inner courtyard facing east is shut the six days of work, but on the Sabbath it is opened, and on the day of the New Moon it is opened. 2 “And the prince shall enter by way of the porch of that gate from the outside, and he shall stand by the post. And the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. And he shall bow himself at the threshold of the gate, and shall go out, but the gate is not shut until evening. 3 “And the people of the land shall also bow themselves at the entrance to this gate before יהוה, on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons. 4 “And the burnt offering which the prince brings to יהוה on the Sabbath day is six lambs, perfect ones, and a ram, a perfect one. 5 “And the grain offering is one ĕphah for a ram, and the grain offering for the lambs, a gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for an ĕphah. 6 “And on the day of the New Moon: a young bull, a perfect one, six lambs, and a ram, they should be perfect.

This is all symbolic of the 7th Millennium when the door will be open and not shut. It is shut for the other six days of work.

Jesus/Yeshua is to be King during this 7th Millennium and He is the DOOR by which we must enter and cross over the THRESHOLD. It is His blood that has made the CARPET RED for our coming.

We read of the same in the Prodigal son in Luke 15:23 ‘And bring the fattened calf here and slaughter it, and let us eat and rejoice,

When this calf is killed it is done at the threshold of the door. The son is being given the red carpet treatment. The older brother never got this treatment because he was already in the house with the father.

I Am the Door

The Greek words translated “I am” occur exactly 37 times in the NT (in referring to the LORD).

I AM: Εγω ειμι

In Hebrew I Am is Anochi.

Strong’s Hebrew: 595. אָנֹכִי; (anoki)

 אָנֹכִי       ;

Phonetic Spelling: (aw-no-kee’)
Short Definition: myself

No doubt the most famous statement ever uttered in all of history begins with an unusual four-letter word: Anochi. The Ten Commandments. 

Fire and smoke poured from the mountain and the earth shook. The entire Community of Israel stood together in awe at the foot of Sinai as the Divine Presence thrust them into profound revelation. The thunder of awakening surged through each heart and mind as a transcendent voice spoke out: Anochi Ha-Shem Elokecha.

The literal translation of this thunder is “I am The Name, your God.” Whereas the people of Israel received this realization in an explosive flash, we can receive this truth gradually by examining and thinking on the mystical meanings contained in these three words:

Anochi is the Divine ‘I’ — a description of the Divine Self.

Hashem – as in “The Name” refers to God’s attribute of Infinity, that is ‘beyond’ and transcendent.

Elokecha, (also called Elokim,) is a plural term, referring to the Divinity that interfaces with the finite world of multiplicity: meaning, “your personal God.”

Anochi is a synonym for etzem or atzmus, meaning “Essence”—the ultimate context and totality of Reality. Essence is no-thing and every-thing, and yet it is neither nothing nor everything.

The “I” of Anochi is not only the I of existence, manifestation or form, it is also

the “I” of thing, and

the “I” of no-thing,

the “I” of finite and

the “I” of infinite,

the “I” of fullness and

the “I” of emptiness.

As the Israelites received the revelation of Anochi, they experienced their own limited human existence and at the same time, the unlimited Divine Existence in the absence of conflict.

In this revelation, there was no duality, only Unity. Nothing exists outside of Essence, thus Essence cannot be “experienced” ― our own self-consciousness distances our minds and ourselves from the experience.

Although Essence is beyond the finite and the infinite, it also embraces and constitutes both of them. For this reason, Essence probably holds the key to resolving the connection between the finite and the infinite, the natural and the spiritual.

We cannot become that which we already are so the process may be simply a matter of revelation. Again we need a personal apocalypse which comes from communication and developing relationship with the Father who is spirit; and this could be a meaning behind Jesus words in John 4:24, God is a Spirit and those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Because God is a Spirit, He longs to have fellowship/communion with our spirits where He can reveal answers to these questions. We need to meet Him Spirit-to-spirit. We should approach Him humbly, transparently, and honestly, withholding nothing. Also recognizing who He is, and realizing who we are in His presence. We need to not be reticent but rather fully embrace the spiritual side of our beliefs. We walk so easily in the carnal physical realm and miss so much that He is trying to impart to our spiritually hungry hearts.

The word means ‘I,’ referring to God – I the Lord Your God took you out of Egypt… But ‘ani’ is the common Hebrew pronoun for ‘I.’

Explained in the Talmud (Shabbat 105a), that Anochi is an acronym for Ana Nafshi Ketovit Yehovit. Simply translated: I Myself wrote [these words and] gave [them to you].

But on closer inspection the actual translation is far more intriguing: I wrote down My very Soul and gave it to you.

Or more poetically: My Soul is inscribed in these words that I gave you.

Anochi captures the essence and purpose of all existence: To inscribe and reveal the soul in our every word and in our every experience.

The opening of the Ten Commandments, Anochi, defines the essence of life’s purpose, of all our interactions and of all our words – to manifest the unifying soul in our fragmented universe.

Had God not inscribed His soul into the words, our relationship with the Divine would have probably remained detached.

ANOCHI 

אָנֹכִי 

John 10:9 I am the DALET/DOOR and

John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life: 

no man comes to the Father, but by me unless the Father draws him. (John 6:65)

It seems very restrictive, however, so is the narrow WAY and the natural man has no ability to come to God, nor does he even have the desire to come. Because his heart is hard and his mind is darkened, the unregenerate person doesn’t desire God and according to Romans 5:10 is actually an enemy of God.

The days of shepherds in Jesus/Yeshua’s time were simple and when He said I AM the Door they understood the concept perfectly. We have doors of wood glass metal etc., and many places have people on duty by those doors. Their job it is to guard the entrance but that individual is not expected to take the place of the door, merely to enforce the boundaries that it represents.

Today the door is still open. Seek him now, while He may be found. There will come a day when there will be no such option… just as happened to those in Noah’s day…and God closed the door. This is also reflected in the Fall Feast, Yom Teruah/Trumpets where the end of the ceremony is called Neilah means closing the gates.

Enter through the narrow WAY into the joy of the lord. Joy is the fullness of the relationship we have been developing and that is the key and secret of the believer’s strength.

The Anochi, the I AM, Shepherd of the flock, is the Dalet, the Door, as we wait on the threshold to enter into our heavenly future; just as He was the Dalet, when we came into His sheepfold crossing the threshold of New Birth. He and the Father are One/Echad and we are indeed on the threshold of a divine portal.

Please, don’t leave this page until..

you are sure you are through the DOOR and safely in the sheep fold.. He is calling YOU today..

we all need to born again from above..His Mercy and Grace are all you need…for therein is His forgiveness.

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

Its all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

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.