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).
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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