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The Secret of O’gehn of Tiqvah PART 2

In Titus 1:2,

The HOPE of our future salvation not only ANCHORS us to wait on God in present storms…

BUT

Read that again…

HOPE was BEFORE the beginning of Time!

Wow! – It’s inseparable from Him because the structure of its’ components are eternal.

King James Bible
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Berean Study Bible
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: 

Young’s Literal Translation
upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle (special messenger, personally chosen representative) of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God’s chosen ones and [to lead and encourage them to recognize and pursue] the knowledge of the truth which leads to godliness, 2 based on the hope and divine guarantee of eternal life, [the life] which God, who is ever truthful and without deceit, promised before the ages of time began, 3 and at the appointed time has made known His word and revealed it as His message, through preaching, which was entrusted to me according to the command of God our Savior.

Amplified 1:1-3

When trouble comes all words are often Help! and Please!

And occasionally why? and why me?!

The Psalmist teaches that along with petition there is to be a multitude of praise… So which comes first HOPE or praise?

But I will continually

wait

with

HOPE

under the wings

and add to all Gods praise.

Psalms 71:14 – 16

Our understanding mind may agree in mental assent, but how do we apply His Word to our lives?

Where ever there is a lack, that is the place to start.

The goal is… continually wait with hope.

Both of these increase as we use our mouths, (the paleo Hebrew letter P, PEY is a pictograph of a mouth), to confess His righteousness and salvation. Giving Him praise and thanks.

Though they are beyond numbering, we are to recount them all day long. It is in this way we increase our HOPE, as there is no such thing as praising God too much.

Empty praise deflates hope.

The key is to let Praise build up our HOPE, and then respond to the HOPE we have increased, by praising Him some more.

He alone is worthy of praise and as we recall His righteousness, we will be able to come into His might with courage, in the same way as David encouraged himself in the Lord.

This strength comes from Him alone. It’s not our strength and only with His, can we persevere and overcome.

Endurance is not gained by simply crying out to Him.

The difference is in having the fortitude, endurance and patience to praise Him even in the worst of circumstances and to keep adding to that praise. Ps 150:6 and 

As we turn to Him, Adonai-Elohym whether in joy or sorrow, our HOPE is always increased and with it faith is too. And our love for all that He is, is embodied in Him. For we know we can trust and hope in the man that died for us.

Psalms 148:7-14  and All of creation is always declaring to us God’s glory.

Hope is the spiritual essence of encouragement.

 

In Hebrews 6:19 – Notice another important point – as well as This

Hope – Tikvah- תִּקְוָה 

we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,

The second part of the verse tells us this very important point… it is one which enters within the veil,

This one is hope and it, hope, enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain!

The hope, this anchor, enables us to

go beyond the veil which is now

torn in two

from TOP to bottom

and we can enter in to the inner sanctuary..

the Holy of Holies’/Kodesh haKodashim…

which contained ‘the ark of the covenant’.

Now in fulfillment of both the promise and the oath to Abraham taken by God that it would come to pass, we have been invited to this place that was never accessible before.

This is because Jesus/Yeshua went before us and operates as our High Priest before God having made atonement for us. What began in the wilderness Mishkan was concluded when from the cross, Jesus/Yeshua said.

It is finished. 

 “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:19-23).

The reason we can enter boldly into the Holy of Holies is because Yeshua/Jesus is there -shammah – waiting to welcome us.

His Blood has removed all traces of sin making us clean (Hebrews 7:27; 8:11-12; 9:26; 10:10, 12, 14, 18).

As High Priest, He makes intercession before the Father on our behalf. (Hebrews 7:16, 25: 9:24; 10:19-21).  

He eternally holds the rank after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 5:6; 7:16, 24, 28) and has fulfilled the promise made to Abraham that through his Seed a great nation would be born (Galatians 3:16-17).

https://www.minimannamoments.com/a-mystery-how-messiah-takes-blue-and-red-threads-to-make-purple-people/ .

He is the Dalet. John 10:7-9

The Door through the torn veil…

As grafted in believers, we are the result of that promise.

All of this combined gives us the HOPE needed to enter into God’s presence.

This is the ANCHOR for our soul keeping us steadfast and secure no matter what life holds.

The HOPE behind the curtain is not only an ANCHOR for our soul, it also gives us assurance for our salvation; because He is that present and eternal High Priest after the order of Melki Zedek. 

https://www.minimannamoments.com/why-was-the-priest-in-the-water-conclusion-of-the-mystery/

HOPE enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, Hebrews 9:7.

But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.

This hope this anchor, ushers us into the very presence of God, through the DALET-door Jesus/Yeshua Himself, which He made in the tearing of that veil between the realms and into the Fathers presence behind the torn veil/door in the Holy of Holies. 

There were many regulations that first had to be met. The High Priest did not enter in with confidence. In fact, the High Priest had to take a censer of coals and incense with him so the smoke would cover the mercy seat to shield him from seeing it, lest he die (Leviticus 16:12-13).

This was Holy Ground because Gods’ Presence was there, His shekinah glory. šekīnah

שכינה

The Shekinah is also mentioned (in Hebrew prayers) as an angelic essence of God. The two very similar common expressions regarding this angelic essence are “ta-chat kan-fey ha-she-chi-na,” (under the wings of the Divine Presence) and “al kan-fey ha-she-chi-na,” (on the wings of the Divine Presence). 

The divine presence of God actually descends into the physical world to dwell among humans. The original Hebrew word for this “divine presence” is the shekinah (שכינה).

Now, we have a HOPE,

an ANCHOR,

that brings us into the very presence of God, and an ANCHOR,

by it’s definition, keeps us

securely connected,

fastened, moored to Him.

 עוֹגֶן noun

support, assistance, hold, sustenance, countenance

לְעַגֵן     verb

o hold, hold, keep, possess, maintain tie, bind, connect, relate, bond

attach, add, enclose, join, append

The WAY was opened up and was

paved by Messiah

and unlike Israel’s High Priest,

we are able to enter boldly!

 “Let us then approach the throne of grace chen with confidence, so that we may receive mercy racham and find grace chen to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).

Everything is connected!

For more on all these subjects and connections click links below:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/mysteries-and-miracles/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-mystery-of-solomons-chok-part-2/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/are-we-boxed-in/

This was God’s throne and place of the letting down of wings

where the ark of His covenant with His Blood on the Kapporet /Mercy seat/ throne/throne/presence,

is the set apart/HOLY place that we enter in by Grace/Chen. (Remember the deeper meaning of grace/chen…)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-secret-of-the-letting-down-of-wings/

 

Hebrews 6:19-20. HOPE enters the inner sanctuary of CHEN behind the curtain and the Hebrew writer tells us that HOPE in the eternal life, is an anchor for us in the stormy seas of this life.

When darkness seems to obscure His face, we are to REST in His Eternal and Unchanging GRACE – Chen.

In every storm and through all the rough weather we encounter in our journey the anchor of HOPE holds firm within the veil where we are enveloped in His presence.

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

This is the place/ha makem of His true shalom and where we will meet face to face, the Sar Shalom/Prince of Peace and the Captain of our Salvation.

Joshua as an Old Testament type of Messiah, is the Captain who leads Israel into the Land, (and brought salvation to Rahab and her household the scarlet thread of HOPE a prophetic picture of Messiahs’ Blood.)

Yeshua/Jesus is the Captain of our Salvation (Hebrews 2:10), who brings believers today into His promised Rest.

A captain is one among a group who leads the others to achieve an objective. 

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Hebrews 2:10 C. S. Bible (Heb. 4:8, 9; Acts 20:32; 26:18).

As well as the author and finisher of our faith;

who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Strong’s Hebrew: 5387.

נָשִׂיא (nasiy’) captain

As our Captain and familiar with fishing men and their boats; we can see that an anchor would be an appropriate picture, in terms of being an Early Christian Symbol.

לְעַגֵן of תִּקְוָה,

anchor of hope

Furthermore having HOPE will give us COURAGE:

The same courage Rahab had and because of it, her future in the lineage of Messiah was secured!

Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab” (Matthew 1:5). 

Then Ruth and Boaz had Obed – who was the father of Jesse – who was the father of King David.

Two women, Rahab and Ruth, who were genetically close to King David, were definitely not in God’s sacred Israelite bloodline. Rahab was King David’s great, great grandmother. Ruth was King David’s great grandmother. The gentile/heathens were included even then!

18 Having HOPE will give you COURAGE. You will be protected and will rest in safety. 19 You will lie down unafraid, and many will look to you for help. 20 But the wicked will be blinded.  Job 11:18 NLT

Strong’s Hebrew: 553. אָמַץ (amets) — to be stout, strong … and

אֹמֶץ

while the English word courage comes from the Latin word cor meaning heart; (so that courage might be also be called heartedness,)

the Hebrew word

אומץ

might best be defined as

willingness to take action.

A related word is מַאֲמָץ – effort.

It is a uniquely strong and powerful descriptor of “courage” that comes from God.

Chazaq 2389

Original Word: חָזָק
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: chazaq
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-zawk’)
Definition: strong, stout, mighty

אומץ

 אָמַץ

Transliteration: amets
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mats’)
Definition: to be stout, strong, bold, alert

This statement,

HOPE will give you COURAGE,

is simple, so simple that we can mentally agree to it and dismiss it as simply common sense,

but in reality there is something tremendously powerful here!

First, we need to look at Hopelessness which is the opposite and makes us discouraged.

Interestingly scientists are now discovering that all depression can be sourced to hopelessness or helplessness, and we see once again that the Word of God clearly gives us the pattern of human behavior before finally science catches up.

In many areas of our lives we can lack the courage to make decisions. How can we get that courage? HOPE!

We must remember the hope of heaven,

the hope of Yeshua/Jesus’ return.

The hope that God’s Word is truth

and all His promises are proven trustworthy in our lives.

Truth – אֶמֶת – eh-MEHT
Strong’s Hebrew: 571. אֱמֶת (emeth) — firmness, faithfulness …
The Rabbis pointed out that the Hebrew word for truth 
– אֶמֶת (eh-MEHT) –
begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, א, continues with one of the two middle letters, מ, and ends with the last letter, ת.
This Biblical Hebrew word therefore encompasses the gamut of reality!
The word for real is אֲמִתִּי (ah-mee-TEE).
In Hebrew, the word for truth, emet (אֱמֶת), contains the first, middle, and the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, indicating that…
truth encompasses all things and endures from the beginning (א) to the end (ת)!

This is the measure of HOPE that we have!

Because the word HOPE in Hebrew actually means to expect or, have some sort of expectation. This means we aren’t merely hoping it to be completed.

We’re 100% expecting it to be completed.

There should be no doubt anywhere in our mind concerning the Lord’s promises to us.

Meaning Of The Word Hope In Greek:

Elpizo– this verb means to hope. The verb is followed by three prepositions:
  1. eis- “on”. Ususally translated “in” and used in John 5:45:
“Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust.“
  1. epi- “on”. Found in Romans 15:12, “There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope.”
  2. en- “in”.
“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.”
-1 Corinthians 15:19
These prepositions express that Messiah is the sphere and element where this ‘hope’ is placed. Since hope is a verb, those who walk in this hope are considered “hopeful” and have a character of hope.
Elpis- to anticipate, usually with pleasure.
As a noun it means, “favorable and confident expectation, a forward look with assurance.”
Elpis refers to the future and the unseen such as in Romans 8:24-25: “For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.”
Elpis is found over 50 times in the New Testament. The apostle Paul was constantly talking about anticipating future events with joy, such as in these scriptures:
“And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers.”
-Acts 26:6
“For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.”
-Galatians 5:5
“if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.”
-Colossians 1:23
“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.“
-Romans 5:1-
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,  and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power“
-Ephesians 1:17-19

HOPE is a purifying power.

According to 1 John 3:3: “And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

and since the term HOPE in Greek means anticipation, in order to get a deeper understanding of them, we could read all of these scriptures replacing those particular words.

This would change our perspective on these scriptures and how we see it.

Paul was constantly talking about expecting or waiting with absolute certainly for the Lord’s promises.

God, the God of HOPE. Certainly, the Lord isn’t an undecided being. Instead, He’s extremely trustworthy and can be relied on. When we place our HOPE in God, we shouldn’t feel unsure of His actions and intentions. Here we can see exactly what the scriptures mean when it mentions the word HOPE.

The ANCHOR of our soul keeps us connected:

Romans 12:12; 1Thessalonians 5:8; Hebrews 6:18,19.
I would have fainted- unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Ps 27:13

 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living! American Standard Version
[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living. The Complete Jewish Bible
This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. English Standard Version
We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, Berean Study Bible

 

Jesus/Yeshua IS the ANCHOR To Our Soul.

He is our anchor and He holds us even through the darkest of nights, the roaring of the raging seas and in our hour of temptations.

Give all your troubles to Jesus/Yeshua who is the author and the finisher of our faith, (Hebrews 12:2,) because through Him we can have abundant HOPE, and (Psalm 31:24.  Be of good courage.)

Then that hope becomes an anchor for our souls. 

The main reason we need an anchor is to keep from drifting into things that would destroy us, especially during storms. Abraham had his storms as he waited on God.

Faith in God and in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach, is the main anchor that we must have in our lives, to hold us fast, during times of social turbulence and wickedness, that seem to be everywhere today. This faith, this HOPE, this anchor, must be more than that of the generic dictionary definition.

The anchor of our souls is not a rope hanging in the air, waiting for our weak hands to grasp and hold. That would be no security, the links that hold us are unbreakable. 

The anchor of our soul is as solidly bound to us as it is to heaven.

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love. 1 Corinthians 13:13.

 If faith, hope, and love are the things that last forever, it becomes clear that these are the things we should pursue with our lives:

Faith

אמונה – emunah

There are a number of Hebrew words used in the Old Testament which are related to faith or believing in God. These are: aman, batah, mibtah, hasah, galal, mahseh, yahal, rechats and emunah.

The Hebrew word aman means believe, trust in, rely upon, believe in, have faith or be faithful trust, have belief, believe, to be certain.

And love/emunah/aman

is the greatest because

Faith/אמונה – emunah

and Hope/Tikvah – תִּקְוָה 

can only work by love/Ahava/emunah/aman, and only show themselves by love/אהבה Ahava (Ah-ha-vah.)

Love is as the undivided perfection of sevenfold light.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/what-does-the-mysterious-roy-g-biv-reveal-about-ahavah/

The Hebrew word for “Love” is Ahava (Ah-ha-vah.)

But, love is more than just a word. 

It is an emotion that involves action and in Israel, where Hebrew is the national language, love is also a way of life!

Strong’s Hebrew: 157. אָהַב (aheb) — to love

The Hebrew has two main words for love, ahab and hesed.

Love in ahab sense is the closest to the English meaning and is usually refer to the love between people (husband and wide, parent and child, friends) or of people toward God. More rarely, it may also refer to the love of God toward people.

 

Recall that Faith and HOPE are precious stones of one color, (see part 1) as a ruby and a sapphire; but love, as He has been showing us throughout the scriptures, is a diamond of many facets.

HOPE in Hebrews is a faithful or persistent HOPE, and love is a faithful or enduring love. All three rely on the faithfulness of God.

Strong’s Hebrew: 3176. יָחַל (yachal) — to wait, await

יָחַל

Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-chal’)

the Hebrew word תִּקְוָה, ‘tiqvah’ meaning ‘hope’, and another is

towcheleth- expectation, hope.

 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But when the desire comes,

it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12.

When HOPE comes to fruition

it is

a tree of life

When Yeshua the HOPE of our salvation came to fruition at Calvary, The Father’s Desire, He became the tree/cross of LIFE to the world.

The HOPE deferred finally came

tiquah- expectation; hope was fulfilled.

 The desire of the righteous is only good, But the expectation of the wicked is wrath. Proverbs 11:23.

We will finally get to eat of that eternal fruit as overcomers! 

2:7 To him that overcometh, to him will I give to

eat of the tree of life,

which is in the Paradise of God.

Webster’s Bible Translation.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Greek: tree
ξύλου (xylou)
Noun – Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong’s Greek 3586: From another form of the base of xestes; timber; by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance.

of life
ζωῆς (zōēs)
Noun – Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong’s Greek 2222: 

Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence.

From zao; life.

His wooden cross was and is

the Hope

the

tree of life

to those perishing..

this is the Hope and that

Hope is for now,

for today, we won’t need it in heaven.

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 

For now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality] face to face. 1Cor. 13:10-12 AMP.

Hosea 6:3 (KJV). 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

And then we will KNOW…

HOPE is a golden cord connecting us there –  it helps us stand firm and strong. It’s the support to our weary arms, legs and head when tests and trials and spiritual buffeting is abounding; and when it does, GRACE CHEN does much more abound.

That place/ha makem of safety.

This journey through life is UPHILL, and HOPE lifts our viewpoint from the path where the next foot step will fall, carefully placed so we do not trip or slide off the narrow mountain trail/Way.

HOPE lifts our head and then we see the view from the high road, for its’ destination is the glory of His Heavens/shamayim. And when our focus is on the goal, we consider the condition of the road we travel with less significance.

Rough or smooth matters much less, yet He still requires our focus to be on two things. One is HOPE and the second, He never leaves nor forsakes us – He is ever present – Jehovah Shammah.

The hope of the heavens/shamayim, and the Kingdom thereof,

Hope thou in God – faith is the evidence of things hoped for.

Romans 5:5 now HOPE does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

We are a blessed people we have the Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh, of the living God living in our hearts; and our faith in Him, gives us HOPE that that love shed abroad in our hearts, can be counted on to sustain us as long as we need it to.

There are times in every believers life that our humanity rises up with questions.

Has God forgotten me?

For all who have failed, fallen, sinned, all who have lost people and things and wondered at the events unfolding all around.

There is a HOPE to be found in an unusual person…in Zicharayah!

When Israel’s sins where so great, having turned from God, broken the covenant, rejected His ways, persecuted his prophets, did and celebrated what was the evil, (ra – out of harmony with God), and lifted/given their children as sacrifices on the altars of foreign gods. They had every reason to believe that their days as a nation were over, exile from their homeland which was destroyed, they sat and wept by the river, by the waters of Babylon remembering…

After many years in exile, a remnant returned to the land of Israel, only to find it a wasteland and Jerusalem in ruins. They were hindered at every effort in trying to rebuild it. They were discouraged and felt like God had forgotten them because of their unfaithfulness…

until a baby was born.

He was called Zicharayah, who would grow up to become the prophet sent to them in their days of discouragement and sorrow. Zicharayah is the Hebrew spelling of Zechariah which is more familiar to us.

Strong’s Hebrew: 2148.

זְכַרְיָה

(Zkaryah) — Zachariah

זְכַרְיָה

Strong’s Hebrew: 3050.

יָהּ (Yah)

 the name of the God of …

However it has a special meaning;

the yah

יָהּ

(yaw)

of the name means

God –YHVH/YHWH

Yahweh   יְהוָֹה   (yeh-ho-vaw’)

Strongs 3068

And the Zichar means

remembers or

has remembered.

Hebrew origin, meaning

“Yahweh remembers.”

It comes from the Hebrew word

zakhar, meaning to remember,

and yah,

one of the names of the Hebrew God.

This child was the sign in flesh and blood that He/God has remembered them even in their greatest fall and darkest times through sins of disobedience.

Even when they had forgotten God, He had not forgotten them.

He upheld His covenant, remembered His promises and with love and tender mercies He did not give up on Israel but encouraged them that they would be restored.

The prophet called ‘God has remembered,’ came with a message that they were to rebuild Jerusalem; and that it would be to this rebuilt Jerusalem that the Messiah would come, and He did.

Here is the key for all who have failed, fallen, sinned, who have lost and questioned in discouragement and dismay. Our answer is Zicharayah… remember his name and when we feel God has forgotten and abandoned us …Zicharayah.

It is a reminder of His promise, He has not forgotten us and when we repent and return to Him, His faithfulness to us will always be greater than our sins.

This is the reality and true meaning of the HOPE of the Bible.

Faith, Hope and Love – Zicharayah!

Believe/Faith

we are anchored/Hope

to Him in

indestructible Love

because

He has not forgotten us –

Zicharayah

– in truth –

He has remembered us.

Lee lee shoo ah!

the children of Israel sang this after they saw His act of deliverance through the Reed Sea in Ex 15:2.

The Lord is my strength and my song He has become my salvation.

We could say something like…

Zicharayah lee lee shoo ah yachal o’gehn tikvah!

God has remembered my salvation waiting (with hope)!!

is this our song too?

If not Please don’t leave this page without the knowing in your heart that your

HOPE is in Him

and you can say with all His Family

‘Mishpachah’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa

You are my salvation,

Lee lee shoo ah,

You saved me from death from myself from my enemies and from hidden danger.

No one is like you Lord….Jeremiah 10:6

 For thou art my hope (tikvah), O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth. (Ps. 71:5)

SHALOM SHALOM

Still not certain?

YOU CAN BE..

Make sure 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 greatly loved and precious in His sight.

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.

Mysteries in The Dereck of Rosh Pinah

The Dereck of Rosh Pinah

דֶּרֶךְ ראש הפינה 

The WAY of the Cornerstone

or

The Cornerstone Way

Messiah IS

derech HaYashar –

הישר  דֶּרֶךְ 

the straight way – the right path –

the way (דֶּרֶךְ – derekh) and the truth (אֶמֶת – emet) and the life (חַיִּים – chayim)

The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

Psalms 118:22

Isaiah 28:16

Messiah is the Rejected stone

The word for rejected in Hebrew is

Ma’as – מָאַ֗סְ

Messiah is the stone and according to the Hebrew word for rejected – Maas – מָאַ֗סְ;    He, as that stone, would be spurned, abhorred, held in contempt, despised and loathed, and so He was.

We can expect the same treatment from the world which hates Him.

Why?

Because He told us this… recorded in

John 15:18, If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

In Mizmor: מזמור :81:15, we read of ‘haters of God/YHVH’.

These are those who do not prefer God/YHVH to the rest of what life has to offer and they distance themselves from Him in varying degrees.

There are many other Hebrew words that correspond to our modern understanding of hate: bazah (despise), ma’as (to loathe), to’evah (abominable). 

The Hebrew word mizmor, is a word meaning “melody of praise/ song comes from the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew word mizmor.” It’s where our word Psalm originates (mizmorim – psalms).

Strong’s Hebrew: 4210. מִזְמוֹר (mizmor) — a melody.

Another Hebrew word used for psalms is tehillim.

Psalm 19:1 HEB: לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד׃ הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם

Psalm 23 KJV: A Psalm of David.

לבחול – to despise, to loathe (ב-) – Hebrew conjugation tables

Strong’s Hebrew: 3988. מָאַס (ma’as) — abhor

Can also be spelled with a letter c – ma’ac

Phonetic Spelling: (maw-as’)

מָאַס   Definition: to reject

ma’as – to loathe

Strong’s Hebrew: 4100. מָה (mah or ma- or meh) — what? how

Strong’s Hebrew: 4639. מַעֲשֶׂה (maaseh) — a deed, work

And of course Ma’asim is the plural.

Maas – מָאַ֗סְ – also means cut off. Which is the idiom in scripture for saying killed and Messiah was killed – crucified.

We can be assured that, as certainly as Jesus/Yeshua fulfilled the first part of that prophecy from thousands of years ago, that He will fulfill the second part as well.

Daniel also spoke of the Stone not cut by human hands..

The rejected stone will become the chief cornerstone.

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; Eph 2:20

Prophetically fulfilled from Ps. 118:22

21. I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation. 22 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 23 This is from the LORD, and it is marvelous in our eyes.…

One day He will become the final and most glorious crowning stone of the kingdom of Israel and will be lifted up.

This is the WAY

דֶּרֶךְ – derekh

of Messiah.

The cornerstone…

the rosh pinah…

and if we as believers are following Him in His footsteps,

then as we do,

every rejection, ma’as מָאַ֗סְ

every pain, wound, abuse and wrong we have ever suffered will be turned around for our good as the Lord lifts us up and turns every sorrow to glory and

this will be the final chapter of the stone of contempt.

Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures (Psalms): ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Mark 12:10
Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Mark 12:11
This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

Luke 20:17
But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
Acts 4:11
He is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

Ephesians 2:20
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

1 Peter 2:7
To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

Genesis 49:24
Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Psalm 118:23
This is from the LORD, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Isaiah 28:16
So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

In Hebrew, Rosh Pinah or Pina, means “Cornerstone” and signifies that Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah is the cornerstone of our faith.

Strongs 7218 rosh: head

Original Word: רֹאשׁ
Transliteration: rosh
Phonetic Spelling: (roshe)
Definition: head

פִּנָּה רֹאשׁ

Strongs 68 – e-ben stone ןאֶ֣בֶ

The cornerstone of the Galilee – old Rosh Pinah

Rosh Pina is a town and local council in the Korazim Plateau in the Upper Galilee on the eastern slopes of Mount Kna’an in the Northern District of Israel. 

It is a piece of history of the early modern settlers in Israel, now being restored.

Historical records show that in 1877, when a number of families formerly living in S’fat, bought land from the Arabs of the Ja’uni village and tried to establish a Jewish settlement which they called Ge’oni.

Five years later, over fifty Romanian pioneer families arrived, liked what they saw and made their homes here. They changed the name to reflect the very stony ground they had to clear. Taking the phrase from Psalm 118, which we read in Hallel,” the stone rejected by the builders became the cornerstone”, they changed the settlement’s name to Rosh Pinah, which means “the cornerstone”.

The new arrivals tried farming and grew tobacco and started a silk industry. They planted mulberry trees and Baron Rothschild gave each new settler family silkworms and larvae to start them off. The British Mandate saw a customs post erected here as it was the last stop on the route to the ‘Galilee panhandle ‘ and Syria beyond.

Gradually the population of Rosh Pinah declined until some twenty five years ago, when a restoration and regeneration project breathed new life into the village.

The rosh pinah or cornerstone is always the foundation in every building

and this is true of the Temple in Jerusalem whose foundation stones are still there today..

these Herodian foundation stones are huge.

Jerusalem is where God said He has put His Name.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/i-will-put-my-name-here/

Even though Jerusalem is a city of rocks on the edge of a desert. It is still His choice.

In Hebrew, Jerusalem is Yerushalayim –  ירושלים; and as we have seen in previous posts, the suffix  I M means it is plural in all Hebrew words that have the letters at the end.

Here is another secret of the IM’s…

As we have seen in previous posts

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

there is more than one Jerusalem

Yerushalayim –  ירושלים;

There is one of time and space here on the earth which we can see with our natural eyes and physically go and visit: and there is another Jerusalem Yerushalayim, ירושלים which is in the book of Revelation called the New Jerusalem Yerushalyim ירושלים that is to come – the one we don’t yet see.

Click link for more on New Jerusalem/Yerushalyim
https://www.minimannamoments.com/21-12-21-12-12-12-12-12-12/

This is also the meaning of AYIM which incorporates the IM…

The New Jerusalem/Yerushalayim/ירושלים will be Perfect but the one now is Imperfect; the ending of the city’s name is AYIM as the last 4 letters of the word Jerusalem/Yerushalayim/ירושלים in Hebrew.

AYIM is also a separate word in Hebrew that speaks specifically of duality as in 2. Emphasizing the 2 Jerusalems/Yerushalayim/ירושלים

And if we are children of God then we all connected by association to Jerusalem/Yerushalayim/ירושלים, both the one now and the one to come. Because of God’s focus on the city, Ha Makem’- ‘The Place’- המקום, it is also important to us and in a way we share its’ nature of dualism.

Our lives are AYIM….

meaning there is always more to it than meets the eye or what we can see with physical eyes. There are two realms and we have two lives. Just as the city is imperfect in it’s current position/state; so is our earthly life, yet we shall become like Him, flawless and perfect in the new Jerusalem/Yerushalayim/ירושלים, in our new bodies, in the New resurrected life to come.

This life may seem to be real to us now, however, the reality is, it is temporal and the truth is always better than what we think we know!

There is coming a glory that is beyond anything we see; beyond anything all of our five senses tell us to feel or understand.

There is a measure of comprehension of an ayim – a duality, yet to be revealed in its’ fullness, and yet it is a choice we have now. We can choose to live NOT by the earthly which we see, but by the heavenly which we don’t; and live by what is yet to become; looking unto Jesus/Yeshua, the author and finisher of our faith.

The AYIN is also a letter of the alphabet and it has the symbol of the eye clearly seen in the Paleo Hebrew below.

Strong’s Hebrew: 5869. עַ֫יִן (ayin) — an eye

The 16th letter of the Hebrew alef-beis/alphabet is AYIN. The numeric value of AYIN is 70.

The pictogram, or symbol, behind the shape of the letter AYIN is two eyes.

Seeing. Watching.

Rabbinical tradition has it that the letter represents the optic nerves of the two eyes, leading back to a solid foundation for life.

This is because the form of the letter AYIN, is very similar to the form of the ‘optic nerve’ structure in the EYE: each of the 2nd pair of cranial nerves, transmitting impulses to the brain form the retina at the back of the eye.  Hebrew defines the EYE as a spring or a fountain; the showing of mental and spiritual faculties.  

The word AYIN

(spelled AYIN YUD NUN) means “eye”.

According to some Rabbis, the ayin is a letter vav contained in a letter nun, combining the 2 pictographs – with the tail of the letter nun being the vav and the ayin/eye being the head of the nun.

The nun represents humility.

The vav signifies Torah, which descends from Heaven to earth in its inherent design of a hook or a chute.

Just as Messiah is the WORD/Torah and descended from the heavens to earth and hooked us as the fisher of men!

 The spiritual number of the letter is 16 and means ‘Sacrifice’.

AYIN is the singular of AYIM which is both eyes.

The 2nd of the duality is of our vision; which gives depth to a three dimensional image.

Photographers call it depth of field.

DOF

We need both eyes to see this 3D effect.

For photographers, it is all about FOCUS! And which part of the image is the focul point….

the place in the image that we are being directed towards; above the focus is on the flower as the dof is adjusted.

It is the difference between a photograph on a flat piece of paper and

the real object that we can walk around, touch and see all sides.

This is a great image of our education and understanding of God and His Word.

We read the Bible on flat (2D) two dimensional pieces of paper.. but the Word is alive and living like a two edged sword it has 3D substance – like faith – that we can get hold of with our spirits.

It’s all about FOCUS for believers also – what are we giving our attention to??

Below the tree is in focus yet both the foreground and background are not. If we don’t use DOF, everything in our pictures is in focus at the same time.

The spiritual application for our lives is; to use our spiritual attributes and put everything out of focus except the Lord, keeping Him as the central point.

even of the things not seen but understood by our faith and trust in Him.

As we see through a glass darkly, we comprehend the things of the spirit by the spirit, as they are spiritually discerned.

The Bible tells us that 

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

the Word of God encourages us that we can do it.

Our AYIM are open and we see Him as He reveals Himself to us; and we begin to comprehend the length and breadth and depth and height of His love for us; and as the entrance of His Word brings light and life, we become a bearer of that light to the world around us in response to His command.

His life is the light of men.

That life that ended in Jerusalem Yerushalyim; will come again a second time to that very same location/place and bring with Him the new restored city of our God.

Meanwhile, with our AYIN/eyes open; we need to be focusing on and seeing Yeshua/Jesus in everything we do in our lives.

This is the WAY of the rosh pinah – the Way of the cornerstone; the very cornerstone which was Maas = rejected; will be established and our AYIM eyes will see it in time – in both the IM’s of Yerushalayim

Ps 122
Ps 147:2-3
Rev 21: 1-2
Eph 1

The origin of the Hebrew word for Jerusalem Yerushalayim (ירושלים) comes from a city called Rushalimum or Urushalimum (Foundation of Shalem) ירושלים Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah’-yim}; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing/focus, seems to be that of Yruwshalem )); probably from (the passive participle of) yarah and shalam ; meaning: founded, peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine — Jerusalem.

The ending – ayim as we have seen, indicates the dual, thus leading to the suggestion that the name Yerushalayim could also refer to the fact that the city initially sat on two hills referenced in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish sources. The form Yerushalem or Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) first appears in the Bible, in the Book of Joshua.

We are to

“Shalu Shalom Yerushalayim” – “Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem”, 

AYIN, in Hebrew,  as we now know, means EYE and in Aramaic it refers to SHEEP. 

AYIN is the ‘EYE of the SHEPHERD‘ watching over His SHEEP and

The EYE of the SHEEP is ever on the Shepherd, because

the Shepherd is NEVER out of SIGHT or FOCUS. 

Psalm 121:4-4

I will lift up my EYES to the hills—
From whence comes my help?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

He will not allow your foot to be moved;  
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, He who keeps Israel 
shall neither slumber nor sleep. 

His ‘EYES’ are never closed to us.

The apostles gave an EYE WITNESS account of the gospel.

John 19:36-37  For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, ‘Not one of His bones shall be broken.’ 
And again another Scripture says, 
‘They shall look on Him whom they pierced.
Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him.  Even so, Amen.
Revelation 1:7 

AYIN reveals God’s DIVINE PROVIDENCE – His care for His sheep.  SHEEP, in Aramaic, talyâ means “lamb,” but also “child” and “servant.”  And such was the ‘LAMB of God‘, and the care for the SHEEP of His pasture who have all gone astray. 

1 Peter 2:25 For ye were as SHEEP going astray; but are now returned unto the SHEPHERD and Bishop of your souls. 
Psalm 23: 1 A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees;

He is The author and finisher

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa

Family

With Child-like faith…

Shalom Shalom..

Please don’t leave this page without a certainty in your heart that your eyes will one day look into His in Heaven.

Don’t put it off, the days draw ever closer to the door closing at end of this age – just as it did in the days of Noah.. and He told it would be so again…

NOT CERTAIN?

YOU CAN BE..

Make sure 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 greatly loved and 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. Amen.

A Whale of A Time?

Give Us a Sign!

We are a curious people always wanting to know what’s coming or to provide proof of something.

The people of Jesus/Yeshua’s day were no different and they asked Him to prove He was who He said He was.

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and testing him desired that he would show them a sign from heaven. Matt 16:1-4

He replied with

Matt 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

The signs were all around them. Many were expecting the Messiah and watching for Him. Jesus/Yeshua uses their ‘discerning of the weather’ as an example of how every sign-oth, that they need has already been produced and yet their hearts are hard and closed to it. 

He was the Word made flesh – the living Word

 He said The scriptures speak of me

which is ALL of them from Genesis/ Bereshyt – beginning

Below is the meaning of the letters of the word Genesis in Paleo Hebrew letters:

and to the end – alef to tav.

The alphabet/alef-bet and Alpha -Omega.

He was and IS the Word

The oth

the sacred sign – oth

oath – covenant

He was the fulfillment of the re-newed covenant –

HE WAS the SIGN – OTH – Covenant.

That which they knew of Jonah was about to be realized in their Messiah but they could not see Him

This is why the Torah, the Prophets and Writings in the Bible – Old Testament/Covenant and New Testament/Covenant

is

a living testimony – a living book/scroll.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1:1-5

The phrase and the life was the light of men is in the Greek imperfect tense. This means that the life began to be the light of men in the past and continues to be so in the present time. The Son of God is the source and essence of life itself.

The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple Ps. 119:130

Your word is a light to my path – Way – Derech. Ps. 119:105

God is Light and in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. John 1:1

The assertion now, is THAT LIFE, ζωή-Zoe, with all it’s manifestations and in all it’s regions; that the life of plant, tree, and animal, the life of man, of society, that the life of the body, soul, and spirit, the life transitory and the life eternal (ζωὴ αἰώνιος), was in the Logos, who was God and in the beginning with God.

Proverbs 4:22 Says, “For they (His Words) are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” 

He is the living word and the scriptures

Jesus/Yeshua often referred to the Scripture (the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms) as evidence for His Messiahship.

He taught that they would all be fulfilled in Him (John 10:35; Matthew 5:18).

The Old Testament Scriptures spoke of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua, pointing us to Him.

Speaking to those who opposed Him, Jesus/Yeshua said,

“Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39).

On the road to Emmaus, He opened up the scriptures to them concerning Himself.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/seeing-jesus-on-the-way/

There is no other way to come to the saving knowledge of Yeshua/Jesus and eternal life except by the written Word of God; and there is no other teacher than the Holy Spirit – Ruach HaKodesh, who leads us to all truth.

The very letters of the words

are pictures of who He is and we will examine some of them as they are depicted in the fascinating early Paleo Hebrew Pictograph picture symbols that eventually evolved into the letters we see today.

There are 2 pages, accessed through mmmHomepage, that are dedicated to alef bet; they are in the process of being updated so

for your patience.

 

תוyאוֹת – otiot –  signs, letters.

אוֹת – oth, ot – a sign, letter.

 

Words are made up of individual letters called OTIOT   אותיות

One letter is called an ot (pronounced oat); ot means sign.

A number of letters are referred to as otiot;

otiot, of course, means signs

strongs # 226

The word Otiot is Hebrew for sacred signs.  (pronounced: oat-ee-oat)

The Hebrew language is a very solid, physical, tangible language; meaning that each word is a description of an action of a person or object.

This is very different to our modern languages that are made up of abstract words. The word righteous is an example of an abstract: in that it has no connection to something physical that can be touched.

The ancient Hebrew language was one based on senses. They thought in agricultural terms and their language was based upon what they could

see, feel, taste, smell, hear or touch;

and all words made from any particular ancient two letter root have a similar meaning.

Hebrew thought is solid, physical and tangible, where as Greek thought is abstract. Abstract thought is the expression of things that cannot be sensed with the 5 senses.

Hebrew thought is circular whereas Greek thought is linear. The Bible was written in Hebrew and is circular in nature – as the end is declared from the beginning.

The concept is also seen in their calendars annual 7 appointed times of the Lord.

Even their Torah Scripture scrolls are rolled..

Look at the word anger as an example of solid vs abstract thought. to a Greek, anger is an abstract concept. To a Hebrew, the word for anger is Awph which means nose. When a person gets angry, the nostrils flare and the breathing gets harder. The Hebrew sees (using senses) anger when a person’s nostrils are flaring. 

With this in mind, this is how the pictographic Hebrew works in the word oth which is usually translated as sign, token, mark. It is spelled

alef vav tav.

אוֹת  

The Pictographic characters are

We have the alef which stands for the mighty one or Elohim,

the vav indicating a nail

and the tav

which is a picture of a cross.

The tav or cross symbol means mark, sign and covenant; because the sign of the covenant (all covenants are cut) is our mighty one, nailed to a tree or cross.

Messiah said

Also,

The keeping of the Sabbath is said to be a sign – (oth) between God/YHWH (Yahweh) and His people Israel forever.

In the paleo pictograph letters

It is also saying that Messiah is the Master of the Sabbath. (Matt 12:8, Mk 2:28, Luke 6:5) Our Sabbath keeping identifies us as being in a covenant relationship with Him.

The word oath is Alah (ela), which carries the meaning of a binding agreement and a curse for violating it. As the older or stronger ox binds, or yokes himself, to the younger ox to train him, through the covenant with man, God/YHWH binds Himself to us to teach us how to walk.

Next a deeper dig, to look at some Treasure in the Torah of Grace and Mercy Seat.

These words have been much in the text of the last posts, and while mmm is working on more information to add to the Alef Bet Ancient pictograph pages, here is a taste of the riches in this storehouse of the Lord concerning His Living Word who we know as Yeshua/Jesus.

TREASURE – Otsar:

’ō·w·ṣā·r

אוֹצָרֽ

There are at least five different Hebrew words that may be translated into English as treasure.

Each of these has a slightly different meaning. usually we think of treasure as valuable objects such as precious gem stones, gold, or silver kept hidden for security.

Deuteronomy 28:12 has The most frequently used word for treasure where Moses writes:

The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.    

The Hebrew word Otsar is the word used here for treasure and is most often used with the meaning of a storehouse for treasure rather than the treasure itself, this verse says that the LORD is opening His storehouse of treasure in order to bless His people. 

In Proverbs 15:16 Otsar is also used to describe us and our storehouse of treasure:

Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

This scripture indicates that our Otsar could bring us trouble and that we should do well to fear/reverently respect, the LORD and be content with whatever He chooses to grant us from His storehouse of blessing.

  What do ancient pictographs reveal to us about this word for treasure? 

Otsar is spelled

Aleph Vav Tsade Reysh. 

is read from right to left in Hebrew…below in modern hebrew:

and for our ease here it is in

Aleph Vav Tsade Reysh order

The ancient pictographs for Otsar

   Aleph       Vav        Tsade      Reysh

Aleph

 is the picture of the

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

Vav

is the picture of the

iron nail or the wooden hook or peg and means to secure, to add, or join two things that are separated from one another.

Tsade

is the picture of the

fishhook and means to catch, to have a strong desire, or a harvest.

Reysh

is the picture of the

head

and denotes the leader, the master, or the prince.

Ancient pictographs for Otsar reveal that the strong leader, God the Father, is joined to the harvest found in the prince.

The prince is Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah,

the Otsar or treasure is the harvest of the lost for eternity.

Yeshua said

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6

Another nugget is in the fact that the Vav connects what is on one side of the word to what is on the other. Already revealed is God the Father/the strong leader, who is on one side, but what is on the other side?

The letters Tsade Reysh

Tsade Reysh

form the word sorry

and can be translated

narrow.

Meaning what exactly?

We are sorry when we are reminded that not everyone will choose to be joined to the Father and to be included in His treasure.

The answer is in Matthew 7:14:

In Isaiah 33:6, he writes of Otsar of the LORD: And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.   

Out of the treasure, or the Otsar of the Fear of the LORD, will come the source of wisdom and knowledge that will provide stability

Otsar here again is the word treasure,

a 2nd verse connecting Otsar with the fear of the LORD, revealing just how much the Lord values us viewing Him with the awe and respect deserving of His majesty.

Here it is clear that those that choose Him are His treasure, but also part of His Otsar is how He is viewed by those that choose Him.

In Isaiah 33:6

is another word for treasure where the word strength in Hebrew is the word

חֹ֥סֶן   (C)hocen ḥō·sen

spelled Chet Samech Noon.

Chet

or

is the picture of the fence and means to protect, to separate, a sanctuary, or a private place.

Samech

is the picture of the prop

and means to support and uphold symbolized by the trellis supporting the vines and their fruit.

Noon/Nun

or

is the picture of the fish

and means activity or life

and it’s translated as wealth, riches, strength, and treasure.

The Otsar of the LORD, is that His fear (reverential awe), brings us to a place of trust/faith, where the Father/Avinu and the Prince /Sar, join together for the purpose of the harvest of souls.

If we will just trust in Him, we can be protected, supported, and receive life/chaim.

This is the real treasure,

Otsar –

חֹ֥סֶן   (C)hocen ḥō·sen

not the physical blessings He showers upon us.

A hidden mystery in the word

TORAH   תּוֹרָה  to-raw’

meaning:

direction, instruction, law

The Hebrew letters for Torah are

Tav Vav Reysh Hey.

The Torah is the complete instructions, directions and commandments of the covenant law for the nation of Israel.

It is the first 5 books in the Hebrew scriptures. Also sometimes called the Five Books of Moses because it was revealed to him by God on Mount Sinai.

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. EX 8: 32

The word Torah first appears is in Gen.26:5 where God/YHWH appears to Abraham and tells him he will be blessed:

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes and my laws.

That word used here is for laws, is Torah, giving us 2 things.

One, that blessing comes through obedience to Torah, and secondly, that its’ essence existed even before Moses would be born or given the Torah on Sinai’s mountain in the wilderness.

Tav means to seal or to covenant and is a picture of crossed wooden sticks or a cross.

 

Vav means to join together or to bind together and is a picture of a wooden hook or peg or an iron nail.

 

Reysh is a picture of the head and stands for the leader or the master or the prince.

 

Hey means to behold or to pay attention to what follows and is a picture of a man looking up.

The letters tell us to

behold

the prince

who is fastened

to a wooden cross.

The word Torah contains a picture of the Messiah who was to come, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach, and shows us that He would die on a cross.

Matthew 5:17, Jesus/Yeshua prophetically declared:

Think not that I come to destroy the law, or the prophets:  I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.

In John 5:39, he wrote these words of Jesus/Yeshua:

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Here the word scriptures can mean either a book of the Torah, a passage, or a very specific portion.  The One who proved Himself to be the Messiah/the Living Word, declared He can be literally found in the written Word. 

The Torah testifies to Him in ways only Our Heavenly Father could have planned; as well as Messiahs life and death actually fulfilling the law.

Behold the prince, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach fastened to a cross so that we could be free from the curse of the law of sin and death.

Messiah is found in Torah by Grace.

GRACE

Noon   Chet

50        8

chn

One meaning of Grace is unmerited Favor. Grace is something that is given freely without conditions or obligation by the giver.

The very act of giving grace discloses two fundamental facts:

The first thing it discloses in most cases is a need. The person or persons receiving grace are usually unable to provide what is needed by their own power and receive it freely from another who has the ability to provide what is needed.

The second thing grace discloses is generosity on the part of the giver. He may be giving out of a great abundance and showing favor may cost him little. Or he may be giving all he has, thus enriching another at his own expense.

The ultimate expression of this is God’s Grace extended to sinful man.

The First use of GRACE in Scripture is Genesis 6:8

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord

Chet

Private – To Separate – Fence – Sanctuary   Inner Room

Noon

Activity – Life   Fish

God produces life in us and then puts a fence or wall of protection around that life so that is may not be destroyed or removed.

An acrostic for

G R A C E:

Gods – Riches – At – Christ’s – Expense.

 

The Mystery in the

Kapporeth – MERCY SEAT

Do the Hebrew pictographs of Kapporeth describe a hidden mystery that will reveal a connection to Messiah?

Moses, directs his people in an exodus towards the land promised to them in their father Abraham, God/YHVH gives Moses instructions to build Him a special dwelling place. In the book of Exodus 25: 8 and 9 Moses records the words of YHVH:

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make them. 

Additionally,

Moses writes in Ex. 29:45,46:

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God, and they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.   

Even more specific instructions were given for what was to be housed inside this tabernacle.

Ex. 25:10 continues:

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.  

Finally, God/YHVH tells Moses in vs. 21 how the lid on this ark will be crafted:

And thou shall put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.  

The words mercy seat are the Hebrew word Kapporeth. This Kapporeth was to be made of pure gold with a cherub of beaten gold mounted on each end facing each other.

What was the purpose of this seat? In Chp. 25:22, God/YHVH tells us:

And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim who are upon the ark of the testimony. 

The only time that this commune with God/YHVH would take place, was each year on the fall feast of Israel we call the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, when the High Priest would sprinkle the blood of a lamb on the Kapporeth. This blood sacrifice was offered yearly on this most holy day of the year and was intended to cover the sins of the nation for one more year.

What is the significance of all this?

Can the Hebrew pictographs of Kapporeth give us a clearer understanding?

Kapporeth is spelled

Kaf Pey Reysh Tav.

reading from right to left below

Kaf

is the picture of the hand

and means to cover, to open, or to allow.

Pey

is the picture of the open mouth

and means to speak.

Reysh

is the picture of the

head

and means master or the prince.

Tav

is the picture of crossed wooden sticks

and means a sign, to seal, or to covenant.

The first mystery we can see in these pictographs is that there will be a cover on the mouth of the prince.

But what prince?  Surely that would be the prince of the cross which is Yeshua Ha-Mashiach, Jesus the Christ. Why is His mouth covered, what is He not saying? Look below the seat and into the ark itself for the answer.

 

The first three letters in Kapporeth are the root word Kapher which in conventional Hebrew means to cover. The Kapporeth or mercy seat is not just a place for God/YHVH to meet with the High Priest, it is covering something important.

What is in the Ark of the Covenant? According to Hebrews 9:4, the tabernacle in the temple contained:  

Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant. 

Although each of these items are symbols of the providential hand of God/YHVH in the lives of His people, they are also reminders of the sin of His people. When YHVH provided manna for food, the people complained it wasn’t enough so He gave them quail.

Aaron’s rod that miraculously budded was a sign that Moses had been given authority from God/YHVH to lead the nation as a shepherd, but the people rejected the leadership of Moses and therefore were also rejecting God/YHVH.

The stone tables or tablets containing the Ten Commandments were the law given to the nation for their instruction and their well-being. But the people again refused to obey and they rebelled against YHVH.

The prince with the covered mouth is Messiah, who by the blood shed on the cross on behalf of His people, has made amends for the sins of His people.

Those sins have not been just covered by His blood sprinkled on the Kapporeth

but have been taken away forever! 

The people of God/YHVH no longer need the blood of a lamb once a year on Yom Kippur, for as the writer of Hebrews 10:14;

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.  

Each of the letters in Kapporeth is also a number which will tell us even more about this mystery.

Kaf 

is the number 20 and when found throughout scripture refers to redemption.

Pey

is the number 80 and stands for a new beginning ordained in heaven.

Reysh

is the number 200 and contrasts the insufficiency of man with the sufficiency of God.

Tav

is the number 400 and points us to a divinely ordained period of time that will bring about deliverance and renewal.

These numbers combine to paint a wonderful picture for us. God/Elohim has ordained in heaven a plan of redemption for man who could never make amends for his own sin and rebellion.

This plan was found at the perfect time in the Tav, the cross, where Messiah the Prince brought about deliverance and renewal for His people.   

Not only will Messiah the Prince not speak against us regarding our sin, but in 1 John 3:1 we see how our Heavenly Father will speak for us:

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. 

Mentioned in a previous post but worth reiterating –

The word for Truth is EMeT – אמת,


spelled with the following Hebrew letters,

Aleph א

Mem מ

Tav ת

It’s essentially the title/name for God Aleph-Tav – את, 

The beginning and the end letters of the alef bet –

as in the first and the last

the alpha and omega

as we saw at the start of this post.

It is declaring the end from the beginning 
with a Mem – מ inserted in the middle!

 We looked at the ancient pictograph for the first letter of the Alphabet –

ALEPH א – was the Ox-head, and it symbolized the Chief, the Head, the Strength, the Leader of something.

Ideally, it speaks of God as being all of these things – as He is always placed at the place of preeminence and rank of First.

The ancient pictograph for MEM – מ – is the imagery of water flowing.

The ancient pictograph for TAV – ת was that of 2 crossed sticks – a Cross.

Strung together, it appears to form the picture of,

the Ox [with water flowing] from the Cross

As the Gospels indicate, Messiahs’ crucifixion and death portrayed this picture perfectly when the water flowed from His side where the spear pierced His body.

 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and WATER. John 19:34

He who saw it has borne witness – his testimony is TRUE, and he knows that he is telling THE TRUTH – that you also may believe. John 19:35

This was the ultimate manifestation of TRUTH

in ancient Hebrew thought.

Indeed, Yeshua/Jesus reminded us several times when He said I AM the TRUTH [EMeT אמת] John 14:6.

Finally, its good to remember that when the ALEPH א  – the Ox – (symbolic of God’s presence in this line of thought)

is REMOVED from the word for TRUTH – ‘EMeT אמת’,

all we have are the letters,

Mem מ

Tav ת

which spells the word

MuT – מת –

this is the Hebrew word for

DEATH.

Clearly meaning that when we remove God from the equation of Truth we are left only with Death.

All the scriptures from Alef to Tav – Genesis to Revelation is truly

He has indeed given us a sign and more than just one!!

Shalom Mishpachah/Family!

Please don’t leave this page until you 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 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.

 

 

 

Revealing The Overcoming Resheet of Bikkurim

Who is The Overcoming Resheet of Bikkurim ביכורים

First Fruits – Reishit Katzir

Passover is always on 15th Nisan it begins at sundown on 14th.

Pesach is the first day of the celebration – Passover, that lasts for a week and is called the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The day following the first day of Unleavened Bread is called Reishit Katzir the Day of FirstFruits.

It is the beginning of the harvest, sometimes confusingly called the Feast of Firstfruits.

Re’shiyth – ראשׁית

Strongs #H7225 re’shiyth, ray-sheeth’; from the same as 7218; the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit): — beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing. Pronounced ray-sheeth’

ראשׁית קָצִיר – Reishit Katzir

קָצִֽיר qasir

Strongs 7105 Katzir-קָצִיר – qâtsı̂yr

pronounced kaw-tseer’.

Of first fruits harvest, harvesting, crop, what is harvested or reaped.

קָצִיר – Katzir

In ancient times on this day, a sheaf, (an omer) of barley, (the first grain crop to ripen); was waived before the Lord in a prescribed ceremony.

This was to mark the start of the counting of the Omer, thereby initiating the 49 day countdown to the harvest festival of Shavuot – Pentecost. Lev. 23:9-12.

For the Passover Lamb to become the Sheaf of First Fruits and present Himself as the Omer, He had to give up/lay down His life and take it up again.

John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Deuteronomy 26:1–11
Speak to the Israelites and say to them; “When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.  He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.  On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[a] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil— a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma— and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin[b] of wine.  You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God.  This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.  Leviticus 23: 10-14

Temple plate and scythe for the first cutting.

On this day, the priest would waive a sheaf, an Omer of green barley before the Lord as a symbolic gesture dedicating the upcoming harvest to Him.

The day following the first day of Unleavened Bread, (the day after the Sabbath – the morning the women go to the tomb), is called Reishit Katzir – 

Reishit Katzir represents the resurrection of Yeshua our Mashiach Yom HaBikkurim) whereas Shavuot, (Chag HaBikkurim), represents the giving of the Torah at Sinai and the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) at Jerusalem. Nisan 17 in the Old Testament – Torah.

A Note about Chag Ha-Bikkurim

Pronounced: Hahb-bik-koo-REEM

The Hebrew term bikkurim derives from the same root as bekhor – “firstborn.” A frequent synonym for bikkurim is reshit, “the first [fruits].”

Bikkurim ביכורים

literally, firstfruits

First ripe, Hasty fruit, the first-fruits of the crop

Hebrew: בִּכּוּר, bikkûr (H1061)

Pronunciation: bik-KOOR

Definition: The first-fruits of the crop.

In the torah, the general principle that the firstborn of man and beast belong to the Lord is also applied to the first fruits to ripen each agricultural season. Beginning with a sheaf of the new barley harvest, the omer on Reishit Katzir, and culminating in the celebration of Pentecost – Shavuot. Also known as Chag HaBikkurim, which is the festival of first fruits representing the birth of the church/ecclesia; and our future glorious state as part of the coming harvest at the end of the age.

The Torah begins with the words:

“Be-reishit bara Elohim et ha-shamayim ve-et ha-aretz,”.

The most popular translation of “be-reishit” is “In the beginning,” and the phrase would read, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The Hebrew word for “in the beginning” in Bereishit 1:1, could have been reishit. However, the word used was bereshit. Pronounced: beh-ray-SHEET

It is possible that the use of Bereishit (reishit with the second letter, bet, at its beginning) is significant in that, by its inclusion it may indicate a second beginning, or a recreation?

Where there may be unknown time between  verse 1 and 2 in Genesis chapter 1.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

and also where there seems to be a second reference to creation. The first story runs from Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3; the second story picks up at Genesis 2:4 and runs to the end of the chapter at Genesis 2:25? Interesting thought!

The Beginning wraps the End –

The End wraps the Beginning.

Isaiah 46:9-10

Genesis 1:3 God said let there be LIGHT and

John 8:12. Jesus said I AM the LIGHT.

He IS THE Beginning – 

He is the God of New Beginnings.

The Wave Offering is called Tenufat HaOmer and is performed the day after the Sabbath, (our Sunday), Yom Rishon.

Strongs 8573 – Original Word: תְּנוּפָה

Tenuphah: a swinging, waving, wave offering, offering

Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: tenuphah
Phonetic Spelling: (ten-oo-faw’)

Exodus 29:24  HEB: וְהֵנַפְתָּ֥ אֹתָ֛ם תְּנוּפָ֖ה לִפְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

KJV: and shalt wave them [for] a wave offering before..

ephah: an ephah (a measure of grain)

אֵיפָה   (ay-faw’)

Strongs: 374 ephah

HEB: וְהָעֹ֕מֶר עֲשִׂרִ֥ית הָאֵיפָ֖ה הֽוּא׃ פ

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

6016 omer – a sheaf – עֹמֶרה

The Sheaf of firstfruits – the day after the Sabbath.

This is the day of firstfruits, the Resheet. Reishit Katzir. 

(Spelled both Reishit and Resheet)

The Wavesheaf Offering (Beginning of the Harvest/Reishit Katzir or Day of the Firstfruits/Yom HaBikkurim

The start, the beginning of the harvest. It is the time of the First grain, the first blossom of the first, new harvest. This firstfruits, the resheet, would represent all that would be reaped and gathered in during the rest of the harvest in the following days.

The first sheaf of the harvest in spring was lifted before the Lord and dedicated to Him on the day of Resheet.

How this applies to Messiah and resurrection day. They were to reap the harvest – and then bring, “THE sheaf of the First Fruits of your harvest to the priest” – notice here it does not say – “a sheaf” but rather – “the sheaf” – it is one marked off as the First Fruits of the harvest.

אֲלֻמָּה

Strongs #485

alummah: a sheaf

אֲלוּמָה   al-oom-maw’

(‘alummah, `omer, `amir)

Yeshua’s Resurrection was our FirstFruit wave offering that was pleasing to the Lord.

As He offered to the Father the early crops on what will be an overwhelming harvest at the end of this age – Acharit Hayayim.

We understand the fact that Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 1Cor.15:20-23

Total = 3 days and nights (Matt 12:40)

Yeshua raised on the 3rd day (Luke 24:45-6)

Yeshua/Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week, after being in the tomb three days and nights.

The disciples and then encountered the risen Lord on Nissan 14, a Sunday morning (Matthew 28:1 – 10).

This means He was crucified on Nissan 14 and resurrected on Nissan 17 (the corresponding Gregorian dates for these dates vary from year-to-year).

The women came to the tomb while it was still dark. Matt 27:61. Mark 16:1-8. John 20:1-2

Pesach/Passover represents all salvation and deliverance by the sacrifice of the Lamb of God.

Yeshua Ha Mashiach in whose blood we are trusting that we’ve been justified.

יֵשׁוּעַ  is a verbal derivative from “to rescue”, “to deliver”.

Its root word is yasha . עַשָׁי. H3467 yasha (below) which is also the root word of salvation. H3444: עַשָׁי H3467 yasha to save, be saved, be delivered (Blue Letter Bible).

 

mashiach: anointed מָשִׁיחַ

maw-shee’-akh strongs 4899

Anointed (1), anointed (34), anointed ones (2), Messiah

Chag HaMatzot represents our sanctification as we rid ourselves of the old – שׂאר, seor, Strong’s #7603 – leaven/sin

of Egypt/world and die to the carnal flesh nature of the old man. This is represented by the burial of Messiah Yeshua/Jesus and with us identifying with His death.

The Lords supper was a Passover seder the same meal that is celebrated every year. It is not simply a meal it is in fact a service.

The leader is the one who serves the Matzah/bread and all the other elements which are required.

It’s not about serving yourself at a buffet or a smorgasbord; it’s about being served and letting the leader serve you. This is clear that the Lords supper is not about serving self.

So when we sit at His table

He is the one who serves us the bread of life.

Sometimes even as believers we live to serve ourselves. However, in the Lords supper, Our Heavenly Father is saying, in effect, that He will take care of our needs. He will give us the bread of life and the new wine of joy. He wants us to sit at His table and allow Him to minister to us. Then in His love, we serve another, because it is the Lord’s supper, not a buffet.

The main focus of this post is that..

Yeshua the Messiah is our Firstfruit Bikoreem/Bikkurim

Chag Ha-Bikkurim

The Hebrew term Bikkurim comes from the same root as the word bekhor –first Born.

In the Torah there is a principle that the firstborn of both man and beast belong to the Lord. It is also applied to the firstfruits to ripen in each agricultural season.

Beginning with a sheaf of the new barley harvest (omer) on Reishit Katzir, and ends in the celebration of Pentecost Shavuot.

This is also called Chag Ha-Bikkurim – the first fruits festival, which bears repeating, also represents the birth of the ekklesia (church) the Called Out Ones.

They are not happening coincidentally, the wave offering and the resurrection of Jesus/Yeshua are linked together prophetically by the apostle Paul. 1Cor. 15:20-23

Which says that in fact Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach, has been raised from the dead, the first fruits all those who have fallen asleep.

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

Here Paul clearly links the first fruit offering with the resurrection of Jesus our Messiah Yeshua our Mashiach.

Yeshua/Jesus’ resurrection was like a wave offering presented before the Father, as the firstfruits of the harvest to come. Jesus/Yeshua, presented His firstfruits offering to the Father on this day.

Because it was representative of the entire harvest by it’s consecration, it encompassed every sheaf that would follow.

It took place that day after the Passover Sabbath. It was the day of new life. This was the day that also marked the beginning of spring and at the same time sealed the ending of the winter. This is a day that reveals a mystery.

This world is a fallen world. Everything is under the curse of sin and death, everything that lives also dies. It’s like the shadow of winter that hangs over it all year – but God’s will is to redeem that which is fallen; to give life in place of death.

The promise of this redemption is that one day the barrenness of winter will be broken, the cause of death will be destroyed once and for all.

The one thing that will break that winter and bring new life is the first fruits and that date HAS COME!

Some 2000+ years ago on the Day of Resheet He rose as THE first fruit, EXACTLY when the firstfruits are lifted up to the Lord.

Resurrection Day is the Day of the Resheet. And why? Because He is Resheet.

Day of the Resheet – the first fruits are raised up from the Earth.

It ended the winter of our lives and began the spring that gives new life.

Matthew 27:52 –53 the tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

Yeshua/Jesus is the first begotten of the father (Hebrews 1:6)

The firstborn of creation (Col. 1:15)

The first begotten of the dead (Rev. 1:5)

And is the firstfruits of those who are to be resurrected (1 Cor. 15:20-23)

Pesach/Passover represents our salvation and deliverance by the sacrifice of the lamb of God, Yeshua the Mashiach. We are justified by trusting in the blood of the Lamb of God.

Chag HaMatzot represents our sanctification as we rid ourselves of the old leaven of Egypt. (The type of the world) and die to the carnal nature. This is represented by the burial of the Messiah/Mashiach and our identification with his death.

The best part is that the Resheet/sheaf, stood for, and represented ALL that would follow. It means that as He overcame death unto life, so can we; and so can everyone who comes after the first.

Jesus the Messiah of New Beginnings. Yeshua the Overcoming Resheet of Bikkurim.

Messiah is our Passover Lamb, our Tamid. He is also our Bikkurim/the Firstfruit.  Be certain that He is in your life and heart as the days draw ever closer to the end of the age..Open the Door/dalet of your heart/lev and let the Resheet of Bikkurim in..

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

NOT CERTAIN?

YOU CAN BE..

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

You are greatly loved and very precious in His sight.

He longs to give you the Shalom He paid the ultimate price for..

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. Amen.