Shalom Ha Makem – The Place For Our Life To Mature

Etz Chayim – Tree of Life.

Followers of Yeshua/Jesus understand that He (alone) is the Tree of Life, the Center of the true Paradise of God in Rev. 22:2. Yeshua/Jesus is the Seed, Root, Trunk, Branches, and Fruit that comes from heaven. 

Speaking words of life from the source of the tree of life, to give the Word a platform; with shalom, a place for our life, (lives/chaim), to mature; and connecting some more pieces together.

Faith comes (X) BY hearing and hearing (X) BY the word. (X = Sign for multiply in math.)

 see last post. https://www.minimannamoments.com/a-paradox-the-echad-of-elohim/)

When you hear yourself say the words, it reinforces your faith and God watches over His Word to perform it to cause it to come to pass.

Jeremiah 1:12 then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

Is. 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

When we speak words of truth from scripture, faith is stimulated and rises up in our hearts. When we give His words a voice, He hears and can energize them on our behalf, causing them to be filled with His life/lives (Chaim) and manifest His power in the natural, physical realm, where the answers are needed. We create a platform for His miracles to occur and (X) By His Word (X) By His Blood (X) By His Spirit (X)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-mystery-of-in-his-deaths/

By His death(s) we are raised in His life/lives/chaim. All the X multiples = 1 – the Echad of Elohim.

In Hebrew the word for “life” is chayim ( חַיִּים ), which is plural to show us that we cannot live life alone… within the word itself are embedded two Yods ( יי ), representing unity in plurality
(Yod-Yod is also a Name of God).
The LORD is called Elohim Chayim
( אֱלהִים חַיִּים),…
the living God and we only come to life BY our unity with Him in the truth.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/a-paradox-the-echad-of-elohim/

In the Ephesians armor of The Lord the sword (of the spirit) which represents the (S)Words of God coming out of our mouths with His authority which empowers them. The sword is the only offensive part of the armor, the rest are defensive, for protection. The Word only needs an S in the front of it to make it effective as an optimum offensive weapon.

The Sword contains the Word and is integral to its’ pronunciation, therefore you cannot have the sword of the Lord without the word in it, making up the majority of its letters. If this is the only weapon then it must be all we need, or God would have supplied more.

This is focusing on the Ephesians 6 armor and of course…

we overcome by the Word of our testimony and the Blood of the Lamb.

This is the testimony of what the Blood has done for us as regards salvation, deliverance, protection, etc. (see confession statement below.)

I testify to Satan personally as to what the Word of God says the Jesus/Yeshua’s Blood does for me. Through the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus, I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil. Through the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus, all my sins are forgiven. The Blood of Yeshua /Jesus Christ, Yeshua my God’s Son, continually cleanses me from all sin.

Through the blood of Yeshua /Jesus, I am justified, made righteous, just-as-if-I’d never sinned. Through the blood of Yeshua /Jesus I am sanctified, Made holy, set apart to Hashem my God. My body is a temple of the Ruach Ha Kodesh/Holy Spirit, redeemed, cleansed by the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Satan has no place in me, no power over me, through the Blood of Yeshua /Jesus.

It is not referring to our life’s story. (Unless we are thinking we can bore the enemy into submission! He already is well aware of what we’ve done. We instead need to declare the victory in our lives and what God has done for us.)

Angels also hearken to the Word of God: Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word. Psalm 103:20

This suggests we can expect angelic aid when necessary and when we speak out words of scripture.

A quick reference to one of the images on homepage – when we dig we will find our treasure here – this image highlights the letter TAV which is represented by an X

This in reference to the last post concerning Echad and a way to try and understand the concept of the oneness of God!

https://www.minimannamoments.com/a-paradox-the-echad-of-elohim/)

Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

In the picture above represented by an X as the Middle Age way of depicting the letter as shown in image below.

The image of the Early Paleo Hebrew script is in the shape of a cross!

Thousands of years before it was used by the Romans as a means of execution or became the well known ‘Christian’ symbol. As it evolved into today’s modern script, it was also represented in the shape of the X, the same symbol used today in mathematics as a sign of multiplication.

(See post for further explanation.)

As the last letter in the Hebrew alphabet Tav denotes the end, the finish, the Completion. These were among Jesus/Yeshua’s last words on the TAV/cross (It is finished). He said about Himself, He is the Alef and Tav. (In Greek, the alpha and the omega); the beginning and the end; the first and the last.

Col.1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

And he is before all things, and BY him all things consist. Col.1:17

BY (X) Him All things consist … It’s in the DNA.

For more on this interesting and amazing connection of the miracle about Laminin click link.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/hubble-cross-ing-the-great-divide/

Rev 4:11. “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

When we choose to look at the Word as if we are seeing/reading it for the first time, it will allow Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh, to quicken it’s meaning to us.

We have such a deep rooted western, greek influenced mind set on things; because it’s what we were told and how we raised. The roots of our faith are Jewish, Hebraic, Israelite in their origins, whether we like it, embrace it, or believe it or not, it’s still the truth.

During the last 2000 years, leaders of Christendom have sought to separate Christianity from those roots. (In the fourth century, during the Councils of Elvira and Nicaea, church elders established many rules and regulations to separate the Church from the Jewish roots of Her faith.)

Today Bible prophecy is being fulfilled as the reconciliation of both Messianic Hebrew/Jewish/Israelites and Gentile/Goyim/Heathen/Nations come together to become the one new man. With this restoration comes greater understanding of scriptures as the truths lost in translation are restored to His challah/bride, His ecclesia/called out ones.

The two are made “one new man;” the Gentile is not turned into a Jew, nor the Jew into a Gentile, but both into one new man, thus removing all grounds of jealousy. This transformation is “in himself;” in vital union to Messiah they are formed into one body.

Echad.

Many Jews in Israel today are traditional and Orthodox Jews and do not recognize that Yeshua/Jesus was the Messiah and for whom they are still waiting. Those who have accepted Jesus/Yeshua as Messiah are known as Messianic Jews. They are not to be confused with the orthodox Jews who are the ones wanting the 3rd Temple to be built as they are the same that Jesus/Yeshua had issue with in His day. We are to continue to pray for their eyes to see their true Messiah.

“Then Jesus said to them, ‘Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. 11 How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’ 12 Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ” (Matthew 16:6,11,12, NKJV also in Mark 8:15 and Luke 12:1)

Beware the Leaven of the Pharisees “Leaven was a common Jewish metaphor for an invisible, pervasive influence.”

Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees and be a wise Christian. When Messiah did the work of redemption, the Israelites blindly follow the Pharisees’ words to nail Jesus/Yeshua to the cross so that they were self condemned to destruction.

The Jews quickly assumed full responsibility for His death: We accept the punishment for such a crime; let it be upon us and upon our children. They were visited with the same kind of punishment and worse, for the Romans crucified them in such numbers that there were no more crosses or place for them (Luke 21:20-24).

As many as 500 a day were scourged and crucified. Their children for ages have gone through untold sufferings in all lands. They are yet to suffer the greatest time of tribulation that has ever been on earth or ever will be. Besides, if the Jews were the only ones who killed him, then he didn’t die for anyone else. But he died for all, not just for Jews: the righteous Messiah died for everyone who is unrighteous, which is to say, for everyone. Everyone, Jew and Gentile alike, is a sinner.

 If one does a study of who the Pharisees were and what they believed and practiced they would be shocked to find they are still among us today. Not just in the Judaism as in the Ultra Orthodox, but in some areas of under the guise of “Christianity”. This is why we are given the gift of discerning of spirits, so we‘ll not be deceived.

Since it only takes a small amount of yeast or other leavening agent to transform an entire lump of dough, Messiah must mean that it takes only a little bit of what the Pharisees and Herod have to offer to ruin a person.

The Pharisees used a form of dis-fellowshipping to keep the Jews inline. Being thrown out of the synagogue would mean complete ostracism from Jewish society. The Pharisees used that as a form of coercion to prevent the Jews from confessing their belief that Jesus/Yeshua was the Messiah.

If and when they do build the temple, the false anti, (against), messiah, the man of sin spoken of in Revelation will quickly arrive on the scene. Israel is an indicator of where we are in God’s timeline, we should keep an eye on Jerusalem as prophecy unfolds before our eyes. The scripture says if a peace treaty is signed it will trigger specific ‘end of this age’ events. (Not the ‘end of the world’, so don’t be scared, be prepared spiritually. Men and the devil think they are in control of things but they are not God is.)

1Cor.2:8 says None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Berean Study Bible.

The same could be said today, the (spiritual) rulers still don’t understand, they think they are going to win.

Coming back to the One New Man – Here in Ephesians 2:15 it says: having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace.

This can also mean the new man made out of each individual that He molds and makes us into.

And also the Lords ‘body of believers’ the ecclesia, the called out ones, who are to be His Challah/kallah, His bride.

(Jeremiah 3:14 says the I AM (ANOCHI) married Israel. You will call Me ishi My husband and will no longer call Me Baali, My Husband.

חָתָן bridegroom 2860 chathan khaw-thawn’

כַּלָה bride Kallah 3618 kallah   kal-law’

Jeremiah 3:14 , saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: declares the LORD, “for I am your husband.

Husband in Greek

Isaiah 54:4 is One of the most significant names is husband\ bridegroom.

For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

My husband – ISHI in Hebrew.

Hosea 2:16 speaking of Israel and remembering we are grafted in to the Olive tree and are ‘spiritually Israel’.

Hosea 2:18/ and it will be in that day, says the Lord, you will call me Ishi, my husband, and will no longer call me baali, my husband.

Here Ishi and baali, both mean my husband, in Hebrew however baali, also means my master. Ishi is the equal status in which Adam and Eve were created. So His desire is for us, His ‘bride’, to no longer call Him Baali, Master, (meaning we are in a relationship as a servant); but to call Him, Ishi, the intimate, close relationship of a husband, kinsman redeemer.

It is not important how old we are or how bold we think we are, we are His children.

He is our loving Father and if we are really honest with ourselves, there is a childlike quality in each of us still …

that softens at the thought of curling up and nestling warm and safe under the feathers of His wings.

Even the furry members of our extended families seem to know this is true of blankets!

Just like we do under a blanket in our favorite chair, sofa or bed… but we have to let Him hold us.

He cannot, if we are always wriggling and restless, squirming around with life’s worries and problems. He said shalom alecheim. My peace I give it to you. We have be still.. and know that He is God.

Shalom,

It means to set, to establish you in shalom. the word normally translated peace, means health, welfare, security, justice, and tranquility, also freedom from all disaster. A Hebrew scholar gave the best English translation of shalom: no good thing is withheld. Jesus/Yeshua gave us in this peace in John 14:27 saying, ‘shalom aleikhem’.

Shalom it cannot be translated into English with a single word.

Shalom comes from shalem meaning to be complete, shalam = restore.

When there is shalom there is tranquility just as sufficient food clothing Housing. There is divine health, with no sickness. Shalom means an absence of: disorder, injustice, bribery, corruption, conflict, flat, hatred, abuse, violence, pain, suffering, immorality and all the other negative forces.

Therefore, when we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, we are praying for the shalom of Jerusalem. We are praying that there will not be any injustice, disorder, strife, violence, poverty, sickness, abuse, accidents, homelessness, pain, anger, and more. When shalom rains there will be no where morality, no injustice and the principles advocated in the scriptures will be followed by all. Then the command to love your neighbor will be to made complete.

And it appears that one aspect of the secret place is right in the center of those soft feathers. We need to learn the definition of that which Jesus/Yeshua gives us because as often as we need it…. it is always there for us.

In Ps 91, this feathery nest is a place of safety it is another place of our hiding protected against all snares, and destruction.

The wings, of Boaz’ blanket in Ruth, showed us it is a place of intimacy.

Boaz (who was a type and shadow of Jesus as the kinsman redeemer) his blanket was his prayer shawl and the skirt of it in the literal Hebrew is wing.

It was a Jewish practice for a groom to cover his bride with a garment, the wings of the tallit, his prayer shawl. It was a precursor of the chuppah in today’s Jewish weddings. Ruth was saying let’s get married you are my kinsman redeemer.

Under the Lord’s wings is a statement of intimacy with Him indicating conversion to worship of the Lord.

When we abide under his wings we are his betrothed, the bride saying let’s be married, let’s be echad one. 1X1=1

It is the agreement and acceptance of the covenant. Prophetic of Messiah, and as Ruth was a Moabitess, also refers to the Gentile nations becoming a part of the covenant forming the One New Man.

This is where we can enter in to a deep relationship akin to that of a marriage.

This is the secret place,

Strong’s Hebrew: 4565. מִסְתָּר (mistar) — a secret place

mistar: a secret place, hiding place, concealment

מִסְתָּר

Transliteration: mistar g

Phonetic Spelling: (mis-tawr’)

The place – ha makem

‘Ha Makem’- ‘The Place’-המקום

The place of closeness, of relationship, of communion, Holy – set-apartness. This is the holy of holy’s הַקֳּדָשִׁים קֹדֶשׁ Kodesh HaKadashim. 

Termed also the “miḳdash ha-ḳodesh” (Lev. xvi. 33 The Inner Sanctuary. The Holy of Holies (Kodesh HaKadashim in Hebrew Qṓḏeš HaQŏḏāšîm), as its name implies, was the most sacred part of the entire Temple.

Today our bodies are His Sanctuary/Temple, His spirit dwells in us. Could it be said our spirit is the ark the container the Kodesh HaKadashim, The Inner Sanctuary – miḳdash ha-ḳodesh?

And when we make Him our refuge, when we abide in this place of habitation, we will look out from there and see He has taken care of all that would trouble us.

There are angels watching over us and all the power of the enemy is under his feet. Psalm 91:11

Verse 4, His protection extends around us, we are enveloped by His buckler; which means that which goes around – (see post)

 https://www.minimannamoments.com/because-10/

A buckler*. (*Heb. ‘Buckler’ means, ’that which goes around’, a very large shield to protect the whole body on 3 sides. The Lord gives full protection).   His Glory is also our protection/ rereward behind us.

Most likely it is referring to the large shield that protected on three sides and because we all have a north, south, east, and west direction to our person. He is also our re-reward, which is the protection for the fourth side, behind us, where unforeseen sudden attacks sometimes come.

Isaiah 52:12 the God of Israel shall be your Rear guard

and

Isaiah 58:8 the glory of the Lord shall be your Rear guard.

Just as the protection came after the ark of his presence –we are the ark of his presence today. Just as His presence protected them in the wilderness and at the Reed sea.

Isaiah 58:12 the Lord will go before you and the God of Israel will be your rearguard.

So who is the Lord in this verse?

There are 2 here The Lord and The God of Israel.

Is that the pre-incarnate Messiah? Is it Holy spirit? Is this an example of Echad as 1X1?

Is it likely referring to Messiah, who is the subject of the following verses from 13 in chapter 52 to the end of Chapter 53?

Image from Christian Inspirational Designs

In verse 15 when we call upon Him with our whole heart requiring Him [as a vital necessity] He promises to answer and declares I AM – anochi – who is with us in trouble.

Delivering us from trouble and in verse 16 with long life that is everlasting, eternal, lives, chaim in both realms.

And He will reveal to us and show us His full salvation. Salvation, meaning, rescue, deliver, bring us out deliver from bondage. Restore the broken fellowship, redeeming us by His life’s, (lives chaim), blood as His family His kin, and taking us to Himself as His challah.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

It does not matter how ‘macho’ we are, or how independent we are, we are all His children and are required to be as little ones, it’s not a sign of weakness but of great, strong and enduring faith and trust.

For it is BY(X) and in Him, not of ourselves that none should boast. Will He find faith, (that faithfulness), on the earth when He returns?

Could this be what He will be looking for, the humility of the childlike faith?

Humility is akin to meekness, which has been inverted by modern definition to be associated with weakness, insipidity and ineffectiveness. When He said the meek shall inherit the earth, it is indicating to us that the contrary is Truth, as we misunderstood the concept of meekness, because it means exercising God’s strength, demonstrating power without undo harshness. He was the humble servant and did not use His power to rule over others but rather to serve, instead being the servant leader, yet not a ‘pushover.’

So let’s continue speaking, to give the Word a platform; with shalom, a place for our life to mature; and in meekness exercise God’s strength, demonstrating His power without undo harshness.

How to do the word – simply take scriptures that answer your need and read them out loud. Make it personal by reading it in the first person, with your name, or ‘I’ in the verse.

It’s up to us to make the Words of scripture personal, making it our own. We have to ‘own the Word’, by praying the words, for confession is made into salvation, deliverance, healing etc.

Some more examples will be posted on a separate page link below and have been a daily source of strength since compiling them many years ago.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/first-things-first/

This is only an aid and starting place for personal secret places!

There are other examples of scripture based prayers for specific needs at..

https://www.minimannamoments.com/scripture-based-prayers/

Image above from MMM family at Christian Inspirational Designs,

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Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week, you are greatly loved and don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation or without the joy of the Lord ENVELOPING you and the assurance that you are sealed to the day of redemption by the Blood of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

Not sure ..you can be…

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

It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are very precious in His sight.

SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute, SAY IT RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. 

A Paradox – The Echad of Elohim?

The first 3 words of the first book of Genesis are: B’resheet bara elohim. – In the beginning God

אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם אֱלֹהִ֑ים בָּרָ֣א בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית

אֱלהִים Elohim (el-o-heem’) is a plural word IM. There are various interpretations of the word Elohim but this is not the main focus this post; however to briefly recap. One meaning of Elohim/elohiym is God, or because its plural in the Hebrew text, it reads gods.

Strong’s Concordance number: 430.  the (TRUE) God,  הוא האלהים   Yahweh is (the) God. Deuteronomy 4:35,39

First Bible reference: Gen. 1:1 and over 2300 times. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1, KJV)

’Elohim is the plural of ’Eloah.

It places more emphasis on God’s strength, might, and power.

Plural of H433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative. KJV Usage: angels, (gods) divine (1), divine being (1), exceedingly (1), God (2326), god (45), God’s (14), goddess (2), godly (1), gods (204), great (2), judges (3), mighty (2), rulers (1), shrine* (1).

Paleo-Hebrew Amazing Meanings of Letters in Bereshyt!

The mystery here is that in the Hebrew language, when we see a plural word, ending in IM, it is telling us there is something deeper behind the nouns and the verbs used in the text.

It’s telling us there is something profound about the reality behind the word itself.

(If this is your first time on mmm click link below for more on IM’s in scripture.)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-mysteries-of-im/

Important note:

All the subjects and content are all so far reaching they cannot be fully covered within the limits of a single post. Rather they are all tips of the iceberg and designed to encourage further personal study and all are encouraged to dig further into the word of God for themselves and to check out the validity of what is discussed. It’s not a matter of being right or wrong but of seeking the truth: who is the express person of Jesus/Yeshua. The whole of scripture points to Messiah Yeshua, Jesus Christ the anointed son of the living God.

It’s often hard to find a stopping point and as always some details have to be left out. As everything is so interconnected, it is only as Ruach Hakodesh gives inspiration, can the posts flow and reveal patterns within texts, with which we are so familiar and thought we knew and understood. It’s not that what we knew, was, or is, wrong; it is the line upon line, precept upon precept thinking of the Hebrew mind, that there are levels of understanding. All are correct, it is always the Father, adding to and revealing more of Himself in His Word.

This post is no exception and many have questioned. How is God one, yet three at the same time? The Trinity is a common reference to the image of a triune God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost/Spirit.

Here is a look at a possible way to understand this concept.

These are some thoughts to ponder and stir our hearts to know Him in a more personal and deeper way, everything is to direct us to the Father in Jesus/Yeshua’s Name by the power of His Holy Spirit.

No apologies for repeating some pertinent statements, as that’s the way we all learn; and not least because this may be the first post for some, and will make little sense if previous ones have not yet been read. So please bear with seeming repetitions.

His ways are not ours and this is most relevant in our western ways of thinking and doing. God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel and is the God of the Hebrews so we should look at the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith.

Studying the Hebrew culture to understand the Bible better. Holy days, manners, thinking, concepts, customs, and daily life at the time of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

Here we need to understand that not only is Gods way of thinking and doing not ours, but our Greek western mindset and how we perceive things, is also at odds with the Hebrew mindset that came from the Father. This being the case, it would behoove us to gain a little insight and get some understanding of what HE IS SAYING if we are to begin to obey. Get wisdom get understanding.

The wisdom is not based on the worlds wisdom and common sense as James 3 states:

15. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

However, on the wisdom of Ruach HaKodesh.

‘But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.’

James 3:17 The wisdom from above. He noted that, bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, can wreck any relationship, including those in a family, however he was equally convinced that true wisdom comes from above, and that divine wisdom will surely shape our souls in ways that create peaceful, generous living. Full of Shalom.

A brief look at the way the Greek mindset is at odds with the Hebraic mindset. For we are to renew our minds not in accordance with the ideologies of the Greek, Hellenistic world, but with the Word of God. Rom.12:2

Briefly, our old thinking and old behavior has to change. Let this mind be in you .. renewed by the washing of the word.. then we will have the mind of Messiah, for He was the Word made flesh.

Hebrew Concept of Knowledge is:

Right Acting Leads To Right Thinking.

From: Action – Reflection – Embodiment – Mentoring – Modeling.

We often end up with new thinking and old behavior blending the Greek mindset and not depending on, thinking our way into a new way of acting, because the Greek concept of knowledge is:

Right Thinking Leads To Right Acting’ and everything comes from the Academy,(Academia/Education), Information, Ideas, Conferences and Books.

For the Greek mind, new thinking and new behavior comes from the action of learning – as opposed to the Hebrew mind which as a disciple who is ‘doing’ first, vs. the Academy WAY (academic).

Yes, we need to study to show ourselves approved but to be Hebraic, it must be action first. Hear and DO.

The Hebraic thinking is: we act our way into a new way of thinking!

In Hebrew, our Education begins with knowledge of God.

In Greek, knowledge of man.

In Hebrew, the Essential quality is holiness of God; (set-apart to Him).

In Greek the aim is transference of knowledge.

In Hebrew, Education is for all the people.

In Greek it’s for the privileged, the wealthy and for leisure classes.

In Hebrew, Education’s purpose is to develop the whole person.

In Greek it’s focus is on personal aptitudes and talents (self-improvement like body beautiful, etc.).

In Hebrew the reason why we learn, is to revere God.

In Greek, we learn just to comprehend with no further action.

In Hebrew the object to learn, is to know God and submit to the authority of His Word.

In Greek the object is to know thyself!

Rom.12:2 is saying, don’t copy the behavior and customs and the WAYs of the world, but let God transform us into a new person; (a new creature 2 Cor.5:17), by changing the WAY we think.

This is truly only possible, if we are thinking with a Hebrew mind – like Jesus/Yeshua. (No wonder some of the scriptures are hard to both understand and emulate!)

One interpretation is that the word, ElohIM, is revealing that no matter how much we think we know of God there’s always more. There is no end, He is infinite and beyond amazing, more than wonderful, more than beautiful, more in every way. He is Avinu, Yeshua, Ruach HaKodesh and yet He is ONE – Echad …

How is that possible?

How can He be One of many?

The Echad of Elohim – seems like a paradox!

The Bamidbar of Echad, the number of one.

Perspectives of Echad – equations and dimensions.

Echad – Is God’s ‘oneness’ explained BY a math equation? …What???

Debarim – Deut. 6:4; Mark 12;29.

A definition of ECHAD…

Oneness and strength derived from twisting and binding together.

An example is seen in the threads of a rope. Although varying in size and thickness, when twisted together they form one single continuous rope; which derives its strength from it’s fibers, twisting against themselves.

The tzit tzit of the Tallit is an example too, especially with its meanings.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/life-on-the-fringe/

Hear, understand and obey Israel, Yahveh is your God, His majesties. Yahveh is echad (one) Deuteronomy 6:4

The roots of our faith are undoubtedly in the land of Israel. Jesus/Yeshua, was a Jewish man of Israelite descent and of the line of David and Judah. God was of course His father, Messiah Himself told us to love the Lord our God. He answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind;” and “your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

We are not required to become Jewish or to convert to that faith, in doing so one would have to deny Jesus/Yeshua is the Messiah.

Jesus/Yeshua said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Matt 22:37

It all begins with our heart/leb or lev. When our heart is turned away from the Lord by sins such as are subtly disguised by the enemy in preoccupations, and love for worldly things; our heart is covered by a veil, and we can’t see or reflect the Lord. When we turn our heart to the Lord within us, the veil is removed, and we can see the glorious Messiah.

Click Link to more on the Heart.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/because-9/

To Love God with All our Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength means to make Him our greatest treasure. This gives us the desire to value our relationship with Him, over and above anything and everything else in our lives.

Jesus/Yeshua was quoting Deuteronomy and the 10 sayings or 10 commandments. (Which were a list incorporating other guidelines for living a holy -kadosh- set apart – life).

This portion of Torah is a declaration of faith. It is a call to love the Lord your God and have no other gods before Him.

It is contained within a short prayer, said daily by most Jews. It’s called the SHEMA and is taken from the first word of the prayer meaning, hear, in Hebrew.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is ONE.

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength”

Hear O Israel the Lord is our God the Lord is ONE. Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever.

Sh’ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai ECHAD.

It’s a unifying statement that conveys loyalty to God, the Torah, (Bible: first 5 books), to Israel, and to all the principles, values and commandments in the Bible.

As the Jewish Bible does not include the New Testament there is no specific mention of Jesus/Yeshua here, just God.

Shema means; hear, listen and obey. It is pronounced shem-ah’. Strongs 8086

Echad pronounced ekh-awd’ means ONE, alike, alone and it can mean unique, unit and united.

Strongs 259 God is ONE God here.

The Hebrews reverence the name of God very seriously and they do not pronounce it or say it flippantly and mostly never at all. The letters YHVH or YHWH (Yaweh) are said to not be known in how exactly they should be pronounced.

The name was only spoken one day a year by High Priest and now no one is certain how to pronounce it. Maybe that’s a good thing as we say god, so many times and so loosely, even reducing it to letters o m g. (It’s questionable as to which god it is referring?)

Two extremes, one group won’t voice the name due to deep reverential respect and often simply saying the words ‘the name’ which in Hebrew is ‘ha shem.

The other group texting in slang with 3 letters. Our glib use and disrespectful references show a lack of understanding concerning the ONE whose name we invoke. Small comfort to true believers is that the god to which they refer, is probably not the same God that we do.

God is ONE however. Referred to by Himself and other places in the scriptures, where His attributes and character are described, e.g. 

Here in Deut. 6:4, God is Echad – One. He exists as ONE and yet He exists as 3… so how can 3 be1?

He is one being yet 3 entities that are connected through the Lord by the Lord in the Lord. (Here are some dimensions.)

1+1+1 we know as Father, Son, & Holy Spirit.

Avinu – Yeshua – Ruach HaKodesh

and they do not exist independently of each other. Jesus/Yeshua, was very clear on that point: I and my father are ONE/ECHAD. John 10:30.

He also promised, when I go I will send the comforter. John 16:7.

Ruach HaKodesh comes when Jesus/Yeshua goes.

I can do nothing of Myself but the Father that DWELLETH in Me, He doeth the works. John 5:19.

Rather they exist BY the other.

They co-operate, co-exist, are ONE unit but 3 compartments.

Wisdom, ruach and Yeshua were present with the Father at creation the Word says they have always existed.

There was a moment, (and the only one instance recorded), in the New Testament. Here all 3 – ECHAD – were manifest at the same time. This is my beloved SON in whom I am well pleased..

and the RUACH came down on Him.

Matt. 3:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:32.

God is spirit, light, energy, like electricity. (People tell of tingling sensations and feeling heat when receiving prayer – like the effects of electrical power.) Pulses of light energy flow constantly from Him, He is the life force of the universe.

Revelation 4:5 tells us that lightning comes from His throne, the place of His presence. And…

Rays of light [stream] from his hand. That is where his power is hidden. And a brightness appeareth as the light; Rays hath He at His side; And there is the hiding of His power.

His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is the hiding of His power. Hab. 3:4

So as a being of light and energy, He can easily be everywhere all at the same time. Omnipresent and omnipotent.

Omni means all; of all things: “omniscient”

Word Origin and History for omni – word-forming element meaning “all,” from Latin omni- , combining form of omnis “all, every, the whole, of every kind,” of unknown origin, perhaps literally “abundant,” from *op-ni- , from PIE root *op- “to work, produce in abundance”

Existing BY each other

In mathematics, the word BY is represented as an X sign. The symbol that means, times or multiplication and not represented as the plus sign (+ addition).

So to reveal the mystery, we need to change the ‘math’ and the equation of

1+1+1 which =3

to

1x1x1 which is = to 1!

Have we simply made the mistake of adding God up to 3??

(my ways are higher than your ways)

and if so, then we make another math mistake of adding God together with us – meaning 2 separate lives 1+1=2 giving the picture of living side by side; co-habiting kind of living. When we should apply the same x principle and God x us is to say 1×1=1Echad. We are so blended with Him we are ONE.

However the scriptures speak of living IN – ABIDING IN – the Lord.

1 Cor. 8:6. Abiding has the Hebrew thought of make to abide, continue, cause to, make to, dwelling, ease self, endure, establish, fail. A primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge.)

Strong’s Hebrew: 3427. יָשַׁב 

(yashab) — to sit, remain, dwell

(yaw-shab’) יָשַׁב

Signifying progressively to “await,” “remain,” “lodge,” “sojourn,” “dwell,” “continue,” “endure”.

Abiding in Christ/Messiah, is not a feeling or a belief, but something we do. (The Hebrew mind-set).

It means to “remain” or “stay” and entails far more than the idea of just continued belief in the Savior.

We are to dwell in the secret place, this will cause us to be/remain stable in the place of hiding. See post 

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

BY the Lord and Through the Lord and He By us and through us.

It’s not us that produces fruit, but Him in and through us. We cannot do it and we cannot produce fruit of the spirit; only He can. And that’s how people see Him in us, not us doing the works. This is where we stumble and get it wrong and strive to do things, when we need to get out of God’s way. That’s the dying to self and to our works, our flesh and what we think we are doing FOR Him – that’s not what Jesus/Yeshua taught.

Again we need to go back and find out what did Messiah actually tell us to do? Shema – listen and obey.

The thing with the Shema and ONE God, is that it really, logically and mathematically, is correct. 1x1x1=1

1 by 1 by 1 = 1

1 God x 1 Jesus/Yeshua x 1 Ruach haKodesh are all part of the same 1. He is ONE – Echad

Could the secret of the life of victory be in a mathematical symbol? Simply change the equation from + to x?

It’s all a matter of perspective. We are trying to live, next to God, when we should be living BY and through Him and Him BY and through us as ECHAD/ONE. We are simply a channel, we are to employ His existence in order to truly exist. To live BY (X) and through His life/lives- Chaim.

Both natural, (physical) and spiritual, coexisting, just as Yeshua/Jesus did.

He came to show us how to live BY, (X), His life and to move in His moving BY, (X), the power of the spirit and to love BY (X) His love and it’s how we shall become ONE – ECHAD BY Him.

Not by adding Him, (+), to us but by multiplying 1×1=1.

It’s Him in us. It’s Him merged, melded, blended together with us. So much so, that people do not see us, they see Him.

It’s Him loving BY and through us – doing the work in, BY and through us.

Yeshua/Jesus understood, He said, I and the father are one/echad. John 14:6. John 10:30. He does the works. I must be about my fathers business; (not His own business). Whose business are we occupied with?

Why are we trying to do it some other way, usually our way? ‘God understands’ we say? Jesus said my sheep hear (and obey) My voice. They come in the door, BY Me and not by another WAY. He came to teach us, to show us how and so often we miss it and it may explain why some things seem so hard?

Are we still trying to to do things FOR God instead of BY God? Could this be a reason for the statement He will make…  I never knew you? We did all these things in your name! Yes we did – and not the Father in/by us, x, doing the works. If we are yielded vessels then He can use us. He promises that if we lose our life we will find it.

If we can get hold of the ‘math’, and live with 1x1x1 = Father, Yeshua, Ruach – the Echad of Elohim in us, through us and BY us, we will live By the x. And x usually marks the spot!

A little more perspective reveals that this is possibly the dynamic of miracles. 1×1 His power BY us = His power x us.

He is the original mathematician – numbers are in the Genesis of His creation. Bamidbar.

He is the original scientist, physicist, engineer, electrician, etc. etc. He is the genesis of omni and He is echad. He is chaim – with Him and X Him we are one /echad.

And its how we reconnect to the source of chaim/lifes. This is the secret to the victorious life of a believer for if all things were made BY Him and nothing was not made other than BY and FOR Him then if we do not resist His presence, we cannot fail. For He cannot fail and we are in Him from the beginning – Genesis – B’resheet -בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית

1×1 The dynamic of miracles, His power BY us.

Bringing us full circle! Alef to Tav! Genesis to Revelation – Beginning to End.

Yeshua/Jesus gave us the WAY, we just need to have our eyes opened and see what’s been right in font of us the whole time… ‘and seeing they do not see’.

We need to stop looking with the natural eyes, and look instead with the eyes of our spirit, for it is said, real eyes realize real lies and truth opens the eyes of our understanding – our leb/heart. 

(It puts another spin on the old chorus, ‘in the sweet BY and BY!’ Maybe the writer knew something too!)

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