Who or What is Ts D K and is it Found in Bethesda?

Ts D K 

is Hebrew for

Righteousness

Ts’dakah

Tsedek

is a masculine noun meaning:

righteousness

Righteousness Tzedaqah or tsedaqah

Ts D K (without the vowels)

צדק

There are many scriptures that speak of righteousness and because of language differences and translations we sometimes miss the Hebraic meaning of a word and instead attach our western mindset to a word, phrase or scripture. 

(Mindsets covered in previous posts).

One of the well known scriptures is in Ephesians 6:

the breastplate of righteousness

but what does righteousness really mean?

Strong’s Hebrew: 6664. צֶ֫דֶק (tsedeq) — rightness

צדק.

Righteousness, Fairness, Justice. Integrity

Righteousness, in human standards, is defined as:

the quality of being morally true or justifiable.

It can be considered synonymous with

rightness or being upright.

Righteousness: conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong.

Another definition of Righteous is:

acting in accord with divine or moral law: free from guilt or sin.

In Hebrew it is from

tsadaq: the right (natural, moral or legal);

also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity.

Righteousness: Tzedaqah or tsedaqah.

Below is a quick look at the ancient Hebrew meaning:

The original pictographs give us a picture of

צֶדֶק:

צֶ Tzade = Fishhook,

Hunt, Chase, Catch, Desire, Trail, Journey, a man on his Side.

דֶ Dalet = Door, Entrance, Gate, Pathway of Life, Hang, to Move in and out.

ק Qoof = Back of Head, Follow, Behind, Last, Least, Horizon.

With these meanings it could be read as:

Hunting for the Door by Following the Least.

Tzade, is the 18th letter of the Hebrew Aleph-bet.

It is pronounced like the Tz sound in Tsunami, and Pizza.

The letter looks like a

Hook dragging a fish on a path through the water,

and the shape creates a visual description of how it feels to be Hooked by Desire:

This word Tzedeq, contains 3 sub-roots.

צַד Tzd, = Side,

צוּד Tzud to Hunt, and

דַּק Daq = small, as in finely ground, or threshed.

The letter Tzade and the meaning of the word Daq

placed together form a picture of the need for our

Desire to be made Least,

or figuratively Threshed.

Like the chaff that is separated from the grain at harvest, in the winnowing/sifting process.

(See previous posts below for more on threshing/winnowing)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/why-a-threshing-floor/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/what-did-yohanan-say-was-in-his-cousins-hand/

In the Hebrew language the meaning of

Righteousness צֶדֶק Tzedeq,

Is also paralleled  with

Evenness מֵישָׁר Meshar.

This is a word, a noun, derived from the 3 letter verb root

יָשַׁר Yashar,

meaning

Straight, or Equal:

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matt.7:14

In Ps.98:9 the scripture says that:

before יְהוָֹה YHVH, for He comes to judge the earth.

He will judge the world with Righteousness צֶדֶק Tzedeq

and the peoples with Equity מֵישָׁר Meshar.

A 

צַדִיק  Tzadiq 

is a person who

does what is Right.

“Blessed are those who

hunger and Thirst for Righteousness,

for they will be filled,” Matthew 5:6

The Hebrew word for Thirst is:

צָמָא Tzama.

It is a word picture of a person

Tzade  צָ = Hooked by their cravings/lust/desire,

for

Mem.  מ   = Water,

Aleph.  א.  = Strongly.

To a truly thirsty person water really is a serious matter,

that of life and death.

Likewise, צְדָקָה, Tzedaqah, the Righteous person

Desires the Water of Life:

“…I Am the Aleph and the Tav, the Beginning and the End.

To the Thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the Water of Life.”

Revelation 21:6; 22:17; John 4:10; Isaiah 55:1

Torah defines Righteousness

“In the Way of Righteousness צְדָקָה Tzedaqah is Life, in its Path there is no Death,” Proverbs 12:28

There is only one way to enter the Dalet/Door, or Pathway of Life, and that is by doing what Yehoveh/YHVH has shown us is Right.

That is Yeshua/Jesus

John 10:9. I am the Dalet/the Door of the sheep.

Jesus answered,

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

No one comes to the Father except through Me,” John 14:6

YHVH, the Eternal, is our RighteousnessJeremiah 23:6

Jesus Yeshua is our Righteousness1 Corinthians 1:30; Romans 3:22

Keeping His commandments

sets us free from our selfish desires,

 Deuteronomy 6:25; Romans 10:3

The robe of righteousness

Blessed are those who Wash their Robes, (these are those who are faithful to the Covenant ) so that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and may enter the city by its GatesRevelation 22:14; Revelation 2:7Exodus 19:10Psalm 118:20

The core of Torah in spirit and heart is: Doing Right.

Yeshua/Jesus summed this up in Matthew 7:12

In everything, then, Do to others as you would have them Do to you. For this is the Essence of the Law and the Prophets

“Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.  Beloved, I am Not writing you a new Commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning.“ 1 John 2:6.

Strong’s Hebrew: 6662. צַדִּיק (tsaddiq) — just, righteous

KJV: the LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people

Yhvh Tsidqenu: the LORD is our righteousness,

יְהוָֹה צִדְקֵנוּ

ye-ho-vaw’ tsid-kay’-noo

the LORD is our righteousness

The word Tsidkenu,

is the Hebrew word used for righteousness in

The Lord Our Righteousness ,

means: upright, straight, and narrow.

The righteousness of God is the root of all integrity. It is the definition of all that is genuinely good in this life.

in Hebrew: Jehovah tsidkenu or Yahweh tsidqenu

Jer. 23:6; 33:16

But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him. Matthew 3:13

John’s baptism also symbolized preparation for the coming kingdom of heaven.

To fulfill all righteousness 

is to 

submit yourself to life in God.

In Hebrew fulfill is

and in Greek word for fulfill is pleroo which means:

to fulfill or to complete.

In Luke 1:17 Yeshua/Jesus was identifying Himself with John’s ministry as the forerunner for the coming Messiah and

he fills to the full the right

requirement of YHVH/Yehoveh in the Tanakh.

The word righteous

is a translation of the Hebrew verb

צדק 

Ts.D.Q

Strong’s #6663,

which means

to walk a straight line.

From this root comes the noun 

צדיק 

tsadiyq, 

Strong’s #6662

 which means

a straight line.

This can literally mean a straight line,

or figuratively what is right;

which is where we get the words

right and righteous.

As discussed earlier, Torah is:

a way of life

or

a WAY of WALKing.

Jesus/Yeshua is the living Torah

The Torah IS a straight line

and teaches God’s children

how to WALK a straight line.

Therefore,

Torah is the straight line

by which his children are to walk. 

The word translated walk is halakhah in Hebrew.

Israel had to walk “in the way.

And as spiritual Israel we are to do also.

“I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be thou wholehearted.”

Genesis 17:1, JPS

The word “halakhah” is usually translated as “Jewish Law,”

although a more literal (and more appropriate) translation might be

the path that one walks.”

The word is derived from the Hebrew root Hei-Lamed- Kaf,

meaning to go, to walk or to travel.

הלך hâlak

 

Strong’s Hebrew: 1980. הָלַך (halak) — to go, come, walk

A tsadiyq is also

one who walks a straight line

or

a righteous one.

Those who follow the

righteous Torah 

are considered

righteous, a tsadiyq.

And if we are careful to obey all this Torah before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness (tsadiyq). (Deuteronomy 6:25)

You will again see the distinction between the righteous (tsadiyq) and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not. (Malachi 3:18)

The New Covenant also teaches that righteousness comes from obedience to the Torah.

For it is not those who hear the Torah who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the Torah who will be declared righteous. (Romans 2:13)

Hebrews 8:12 I will show loving kindness to them and I shall forgive their unrighteousness. And I shall no longer remember their sins.

12 I will show loving-kindness to them and forgive their sins. I will remember their sins no more.”

Strong’s Hebrew: 2617a. chesed — goodness, kindness

from chasad.

This word is variously translated as

mercy, lovingkindess,

steadfast love, compassion,

and even

goodness,

is the Hebrew word

chesed, or hesed.

The LXX usually uses ελεος mercy,

and the Latin uses misericordia.

In academia, the Septuagint

is often abbreviated as LXX,

the Roman numeral for seventy.

Chesed/hesed

is one of the thirteen attributes of God that the Jewish sages derived from the study of God’s revelation to Moses.

Exodus 34:6-7.

for more: https://www.minimannamoments.com/13-attributes-of-gods-mercy/

For thy loving kindness is before mine eyes:
and I have walked in thy truth. (Psalm 26:3 KJV).

One of the Hebrew words for

love is

hesed  חסד,

pronounced kheh-sed,

which is actually a difficult word to translate literally into English. That is because there is a range of meanings. 

Hesed surpasses ordinary kindness and friendship. It is the inclination of the heart to show

amazing grace to the one who is loved.

Hesed runs deeper than social expectations.

 Hesed is love, mercy, favor, grace, forgiveness kindness, gentleness, patience and more all rolled into one.

It is used many times in scripture and the best way to translate it is in the phrase

loving-kindness.

The Hebrew words meaning:

compassion, grace, love and mercy are:

Compassion, Pity, Rahamim

Compassionate: Rahum, Rahaman

Grace: Hen, Hanun/ Chen chanun

Love: Ahavah, Ohev

Loving Kindness: Hesed

Mercy: Rahamanoot

Mercy חֶ֔סֶד

Doing righteousness – Ts D K

Ts’dakah 

Most translations have Ts’dakah as righteousness

but that is really too weak an interpretation/translation as we understand the word to mean in English; because

Righteousness

means:

to do what is right,

to be just;

which is what the Father requires of us.

According to Micah 6:8:

He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

Act Justly

would have been understood by Micah’s audience as living with a sense of right and wrong. In particular, the judicial courts had a responsibility to provide equity and protect the innocent. Injustice was a problem in Israel at that time.

Micah 2:1-23:1-36:11.

To Love Mercy

it contains the Hebrew word hesed,

which means: loyal love

or loving-kindness.

Along with justice, Israel was to provide mercy. Both justice and mercy are foundational to God’s character

(Psalm 89:14).

God expected His people to show love to their fellow man and to be loyal in their love toward Him, just as He had been loyal to them

(Micah 2:8-93:10-116:12).

Walk humbly

is a description of:

the heart’s attitude toward God.

God’s people depend on Him rather than their own abilities. (Micah 2:3).

Instead of taking pride in what we bring to God, we humbly recognize that no amount of personal sacrifice can replace a heart committed to justice and love. Israel’s rhetorical questions had a three-part progression, and verse 8 contains a similar progression.

The response of a godly heart is:

outward (do justice),

inward (love mercy),

and upward (walk humbly).

The message of Micah is still pertinent today.

Religious rites, no matter how extravagant, can never compensate for a lack of love.

1 Corinthians 13:3.

External obedience to rules is not as valuable in God’s eyes as

a humble heart that simply does what is right.

God’s people today will continue to desire:

justice, mercy, and humility before the Lord.

Conclusion in Part 2…

Shalom shalom

‘Mishpachah’

‘Family/Tribe’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa,

friends, visitors and every reader…

Please don’t leave this page before making sure you are His..

Know of a certainty that Jesus/Yeshua is

your Redeemer, Savior, Lord

and soon returning King

and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

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

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry.

I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

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

 

 

 

Witness TO Me And The Secret of Being a Sent One

Witness UNTO Me

And The Secret of Being a Sent One.

In previous posts we have looked at Eden and also The Calling. Here is an insightful look at the paleo-hebrew pictographs for some other words.

In English we know that the name for the Garden that God planted in Genesis, is spelled Eden.

What we may not know is that the first 2 letters of EDen, E and D, when put together, are also another Hebrew word. That word is Witness.

They are spelled phonetically as ayd and pronounced phonetically as eye-ed.

In modern Hebrew text the 2 letters are Ayin and Dalet

 עֵד

Strong’s Hebrew (70 occurences): 5707.

עֵד (ed)

a witness

the Word Origin is from ud 

To what are we a witness and how do we become a witness?

The scripture says, Ye are My witnesses

What is a witness?

The dictionary definition is: One who testifies, who gives evidence, unfolds, clears up, makes plain, and helps men to right decisions in cases of disputed claims, or where personal integrity is assailed.

Witness means evidence 

Witness means the person who testifies of things or of people.

witness is something that is repeated over and over again.

Yochanan (John) 1:1-8 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

As a noun; an individual who, being present, personally sees or perceives a thing; a beholder, spectator, or eyewitness. a person or thing that affords evidence. a person who gives testimony, as in a court of law. a person who signs a document attesting the genuineness of its execution. Testimony or evidence: to bear witness to suffering.

This role of a witness was not to be taken lightly. (As noted in Exodus 20:16 there follows a warning for a false witness.)

In Greek Strong’s Greek: 3144. μάρτυς (martus – phonetic mar’-toos) an eye or ear witness

Matthew 18:16

Definition: a witness … testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. Prince — witness.

Of uncertain affinity; a witness (literally (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case)); by analogy, a “martyr” — martyr, record, witness.

Be a Witness

עֵד (ed)

μάρτυς (martus)

UNTO Me.

Jesus/Yeshua said …

“And ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

Fulfilling that which Isaiah 43:10 says

You are my witnesses, declares the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.

This expression is equivalent to that which occurs in the Book of Revelation (1:11),

‘I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last’ and it is remarkable that this language, which implies eternity, and is in the passage referred to is used in Isaiah to prove Gods’ divinity.

The paleo pictograph letters for the word

Ed – עֵד – witness,

are helpful in creating a better understanding of what a witness is in the Hebraic mindset.

Ayin Dalet

Ayin is the picture of the Eye: to see to know to experience

Dalet is the picture of the Door –meaning that it indicates a path, a way, a place of decision or an entrance to life or death.

The 2 pictures put together shows that a witness an עֵד – ed ,(eye-ed), UNTO the Lord, is the one who knows, or who has experienced Him and will now be a provision of the WAY and an entrance to Life/Chaim for others.

After this witness speaks and declares what God has told them, then the hearers will have to make a decision concerning what they have just heard. (Not making a decision is a decision in itself). This decision or lack of it will determine eternal destiny.

The Word cautions us that if we don’t enter in, by choosing to go through the Doorway/the Dalet; (Yeshua said He was the Dalet/Door in John 10:9); it is clearly revealed, (apocalypsed), in 14:6 there is no other WAY Derekh, to life/chaim with God.

 

Who is the witness in Isaiah and how and why is this witness chosen?

The answer is bāḥar.

The verb means, to choose, to elect, to decide for, but in almost every instance it includes the connotation that the choice is not random.

This is choosing for the purpose of serving.

The word is used to express that choosing; (which has ultimate and eternal significance), and being of service, rather than simply a random event, is at the heart of the choosing. Because God carefully chooses certain ones for a specific task, it is also in His power to reject them if they deviate from that purpose. I Sam 2:27.

This witness is a servant that was chosen by God.

Chosen in Hebrew is

Bachar

Strong’s Hebrew: 977.

בָּחַר (bachar) — to choose

A similar word in Strong’s Hebrew: 1069.

בָּכַר (bakar)

— to bear new fruit make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child new fruit . A primitive root; properly, to burst the womb, i.e. (causatively) bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree); also (as denominative from bikkuwr) to give the birthright — make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).

And the Greek word is:

ἐκλέκτος ‘eklektos’

meaning ‘Elect‘ or ‘Chosen

Strong’s 1588

Bachar is made up of 3 letters (remember no vowels)

it means: to select, examine, approve, to choose.

Isaiah says that God has approved of and selected certain servants who will faithfully declare that He is the one and only true God.

Bet/beyt, Chet and Reysh

bachyar (elect, chosen)

The Hebrew verb bahar means to choose, to pick, to take a keen look at. However, the pictograph is more revealing.

B H R

Bet-Chet-Resh

draws the picture of

house-fence-person.

(reading Right to Left.)

In other words,

separating the person from the household, dividing one person from the rest of the family. 

If we recall Joshua’s words,

As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

  Separation is the essence of choice. 

To choose life, is to separate from all those pathways that lead to death. 

To become obedient to Torah is to separate ourselves from the rest of the family of Man.  Choice by definition, requires a distinction of division.

House in Bethlehem.

As Bahar paints the picture of:

the house that separates (fences) the person. 

It connotes that which we make as a choice creates fences. 

When we choose something, it then rejects or leaves other things.  It is essential that lines must be drawn in our lives and with it doors must be closed. 

The Hebraic idea of choice is ultimately the idea of separation.  In God’s world and His Way we can’t have our cake and eat it too. 

Choosing life automatically means rejecting death.  Choosing God’s ways means forsaking all other ways because there is no middle ground, no gray area for in this decision, that would be a compromise.

This is the called apart /set apart / ecclesia, and the meaning of holiness.

It is interesting that an offshoot of the root bhr describe young man, youth and chosen.

As Hebrew is not narcissistic, this is not referring to a longing for youth, but rather the recognition that young men are chosen for military service. 

In Hebrew thinking strength and vigor are to be put into the service of others, not to become an idol of constant vanity.

Writing Systems – Definitions:

Pictographic or ideographic – each sign corresponds to a word.

Logographic – each sign corresponds to a word.

Syllabic – each sign corresponds to a syllabic.

Alphabetic – each sign corresponds to a sound unit that makes a difference in meaning.

Phonetic – each sign corresponds to a sound whether the sounds make a difference in meaning or not.

Bet is the picture of the floor plan of house or tent

and is the 1st letter in Torah that identifies Jesus/Yeshua as the Son of God.

The letter Beyt identifies is a picture of the Son of God, because Beyt/Bet is in the Hebrew word for create which is bara (בָּרָא), and the Aramaic word for son is bar (בַּר).

If we separate the letters within the word for bara, we will have Bar and Aleph (בַּר א), which points to the Son of the Father (Aleph).

Chet is represented by the fence and describes a protected garden, private place, an inner room or a sanctuary…

(Here is a connection to Eden and we also saw this picture in the word Grace/Chen).

Reysh is the picture of a head; meaning the leader, master, or the PRINCE.

(Note the same word prince, used in the definition of witness earlier in post).

When these 3 are put together, it indicates that:

to be chosen/bakar, is:

to be invited by the master leader or prince to enter his tent/house.

This by definition, is also: inclusive of his family, which is in a protected place or sanctuary, like a protected garden, (Eden) or like a womb/the place of our hiding.

So whose house and family is it that the chosen/bakar is invited to enter?

The bakar is invited into the

family of the Son of God by the Prince,

who is

Jesus/Yeshua Himself;

The Sar Shalom the Prince of Peace.

Rev 3:2 also tells us more about who else can enter in Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

We also have to choose Him as written by John in chapter 1:12 13

When Jesus/Yeshua said …

“And ye shall be witnesses UNTO me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

Read that one more time for He actually said,

you shall be

witnesses UNTO me

Note the word is UNTO and not FOR. It’s not what we do for Him of our choosing but what and with whom we are in relationship; and it is UNTO Him which includes obedience to His Will, plan and purposes. Many do things FOR the Lord, yet it may not necessarily be UNTO Him. 

(It may have a bearing on the scripture?)

This makes a big difference to what His statement was meaning and also how we interpret it.

1:8 But ye shall receive power – and shall be witnesses to me – That is, ye shall be empowered to witness my Gospel, both by your preaching and suffering. Acts. 1:8 Ye shall receive power. Not temporal power, such as they dreamed of, but spiritual and moral power. Ye shall be witnesses UNTO me.

Young’s Literal Translation
but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.’

King James Bible
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

This includes the Secret of Being a Sent One:

This is because He makes His disciples His very own possession, becoming responsible for them.

The desire that comes into a disciple is not one of doing anything FOR Jesus/Yeshua, but of simply being a perfect delight to Him.

The secret of being a sent one is truly being able to say, I am His, His alone; and He is accomplishing His work and His purposes through me. Not me, not mine, not myself, I am entirely His.

John 17:6 They were yours you gave them to Me..

1Corinthians 6:19 You are not your own….

To be able to say that I am not my own, requires reaching a high point in our spiritual maturity. A disciple, or those we call missionaries, really come under the function name of apostle, which simply means a sent one. It is not a title in itself but the description of a function within the body of Messiah.

An individual to whom this position of service refers, is someone in whom the Holy Spirit has brought about this realization. Those whom we call missionaries are those who are on His mission, sent ones with a purpose.

None of the disciples were sent out on the basis of what He had done for them. It was not until after His resurrection that they received the Holy Spirit, then they perceived who Jesus/Yeshua really was.

That’s when He said,

Now go.

Matthew 28:19; Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8.

God always gives His servants power equal to the work He asks of them.

A disciple is not born,

a disciple is made

…molded, formed and then subjected to intense heat.

The Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh, interprets and explains the nature of Jesus/Yeshua, so that we can be made one with Him.

He does not win us to Himself in order to just display us in some showcase as a trophy or for us to live a problem free and carefree life of luxury doing what we choose to do.

When we choose to answer His call, it is a life long one and that of total commitment.

It’s not something that we try to see if we like it and then if we don’t and its too uncomfortable, we choose not to continue.

It is covenant and as above means to select/choose the best!

A sent one, is someone who the Holy Spirit has brought to a point of clear understanding of 1Corinthians 6:19.

What this means in reality is, that to confess and fully believe, embracing such a statement, the true nature of such a life is only evidenced by a sovereign decision and a deliberate giving up of self to another person and that person is The Lord Jesus Christ/Yeshua haMashiach.

His hard sayings are so often refuted and the emotions of our souls will argue the seeming severity of such a statement, however, we belong to Him not to each other. He paid the ultimate price for us. Therefore, Luke 14:26 means what it says, as in a comparison to and an example of, our allegiance and commitment. This does not mean that these individuals cannot be good, upright and saved but it does mean we cannot be entirely His and therefore we cannot be someone over whom Jesus/Yeshua can write the word Mine.

In truth, any one of the relationships Jesus/Yeshua lists here, can compete with our relationship with Him, including ourselves. We have a free will to choose who we belong to, spouse, children, parents or just living the life we want to as a single person and He clearly says if this is the case, you cannot be My disciple, for we are not entirely His.

Is this then the meaning of Acts 1:8 you shall all be witnesses to me/UNTO me, not for Me.

Ye Shall be Witnesses UNTO Me.

In Hebraic thought, human consciousness comprises both a yetzer ha-ra and a yetzer ha-tov, an inclination for evil and an inclination for good. 

Together, these seem to define the meaning of being created in the image and likeness of God?  The human condition seems to exist in the tension between good and evil or, it could be said, between the tension of action on behalf of the self or on behalf of another.  Every human action is a result of this tension.

A well known example of choosing is found in Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Here, Moses seems to have reflected this essential tension in his request for a decision. 

I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you:  I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.  Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed, to love YHWH your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him  . . 

Notice that he calls heaven and earth to be witnesses.

Moses’ appeal uses bahar in a verb tense that is active and complete, (qal is the perfect tense). 

That means that we do it, we are not to wait for God to somehow either choose for us, or force us to choose.  It is for us to decide and when we decide, the action is done, completed finished, terminated, comes to an end. 

It is accomplished/finished, was Jesus/Yeshua’s declaration that the choice is complete and an ongoing present tense.  This is how it must be for those who choose life. 

The ever present enemy is in the wavering, the hesitation of double-mindedness, as James referred to it when he shows the double-mindedness of embracing one point of the Ten Commandments while breaking another point of this law of love. Notice that the breaking of one point of the law is the same as breaking the whole law

(James 2:10-11)  For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Every person seems to have two heads. Humanity seems to be a world comprised of two-headed people. James called this double-mindedness. At times we think and act one way, and at other times we think and act another way; uncertainty and insincerity in the emotions and the mind lead to doubt, skepticism and fickleness where loyalty is divided. 

God’s Word says that a double-minded man is unstable in all he does. (James 1:8)

No wonder old habits seem to hang on indefinitely in the life of a double-minded believer. Those old habits are simply the fruit of an unstable heart and mind.

When we reconsider over and over, it is not choice, but rather it is the failure to choose, and that failure has eternal consequences.   Every human being has essential tension within them, animals do not have this, so if we don’t feel the tension in our lives, we may should examine ourselves?

Do we need to rethink our ideas of election, salvation, deliverance, predestination and sovereignty? Maybe we need to re-read John 9 and pay closer attention to the Messiah’s claim that the blind man’s condition was for a purpose, not a consequence.

Perhaps we are chosen because God has a purpose in mind. It appears that His choices are always based on His purposes; and the roles that each of us play, are determined by us choosing to fulfill that purpose.

bāḥar is at the heart of the Kingdom of the heavens. It is the word of divine sovereignty made evident in the lives of its’ citizens. Today is the day of His choosing us it is up to us to live accordingly.

Moses makes it clear that we cannot opt out without a risk to our humanity.  We cannot sidestep the focal point of choosing without becoming someone controlled by mere animal-like instinct. 

The essential part of being human is to continually decide between good and evil.  Until we are no longer in this earthly realm there is no time off, no break from being human, only then all choosing will end.

The choices we make not only define us, it is probably one of the most powerful forces God created and placed in the earth. Because He did so, it makes the ability to choose a most important characteristic of our humanity. 

The verb bahar is an ideal verb to describe being human.  We are the sum of our choices and are where we are at any given point as a result of those choices, we exist in the interconnecting of those decisions. 

Each and every choice we, or those which others make that affects us, results in a repositioning of our direction, so in a WAY we are always at the CROSSroads.  A life of choosing obedience and going consistently in the same direction, is a life well-lived.

We are called to

follow Him along the narrow WAY’.

Is Proverbs 3.5 a choice? Trust in the LORD with all your heart.. It would seem that absolutely it is; and in whom are we to trust? The ONE who made it all, the ONE who formed and fashioned us when we were inside the womb.

The ONE who knows the end from the beginning, and the ONE who was crucified and made His choice to die in agony and shed His blood upon the tslav, the cross that we might have life and have it abundantly! (John 10.10; referring to things of the Spirit. )

As the days draw closer to His return, we need to draw ever closer to the one who died for us; through whose sacrificial death we are reunited with our heavenly Father and are forgiven of all that would separate us from His presence.

We are redeemed from a hopeless future.

The soft and comfortable messages will only soothe our emotions and make us feel good for a while. We need the truth of His Word spoken in love to keep us straight on the narrow Way which promises  to bring us into life everlasting.

Let’s press in and become the ED עֵד ayd (eye-ed) witness choosing His Truth.

So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendents. Deuteronomy 30:19

Choose this day and choose Him- who is the Living Word of God.

Saved or not, please don’t leave this page without making a choice, for every choice is followed by what? A consequence. Good choices? – good consequences and the opposite is also true.

The consequence of obedience??? is always blessing..

Shalom, Shalom!

Please don’t leave this page without making a decision, today is the day of salvation, it does not say tomorrow is….

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.

Back To The Future Past? Part 2 ..plus.. Who Was Eating Bread On Day 6?

Continuing from part 1 … now a look at the original definition of the English word

Grace.

Elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion or action.

Mercy; clemency; pardon

While these definitions do apply to the Hebrew word חן chen, (hhen), they do not completely convey the full emotion and spectrum of the Hebrew word. This is the problem with translating Hebrew into English. The English vocabulary is limited in how it can express the full meaning of a given Hebrew word.

Grace as unmerited favor.

This was also manifest in Eden.

What does the English word grace means outside of theological reference?

The dictionary provides two basic definitions for grace, first:

Elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion or action.

Secondly: Mercy, clemency; pardon.

Because the Hebrew language is vastly different from English, we need to examine the Hebrew meaning of this word to see if one or both English definitions are appropriate definitions for the Hebrew word translated as grace.

Remembering they lived/existed in a state of continual grace before they fell from grace.

And that carries the meaning:

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

This is in fact what He did at creation.

The Hebrew word has to do with freely giving without condition or obligation. 

The act of giving grace reveals 2 things, first: a need (like Adam suddenly found he had!). Those in receipt of grace are usually unable to provide the need themselves; so it’s received from another freely, one who can provide and meet the need.

Secondly, it reveals generosity on the part of the one giving, whether out of the individuals abundance or out of what little they have. The supreme act of grace and giving that God extended to humanity can be seen in the acrostics:

which helps us to remember what the definition is, no doubt there are many more than 3.

Now let’s look at Grace with the pictographs again to refresh our memory.

Remember the shape of the letter for Noon or Nun/Nuun, changes over time that is why sometimes it looks different in the illustrations and Hebrew letter  ן
is the Noon sofeet
/sofit which is how you write the letter for N, Noon at the end of a word; as shown here in Grace/Chen; and why so many pictures are included so we don’t get too confused.

There are 22 letters in the Hebrew Aleph-bet. 5 have a sofeet/sofit form (used when the letter appears at the end of a word).

Noon – a seed of life and later a fish = activity and life, continue or air.

Chet – private place of refuge, fenced and protected sanctuary. To separate from outside or protect life – beauty or loveliness. (again sounds like Eden – paradise.)

Eden had to be chet because outside of the garden God planted was not a place of chet/chen or where chen was available. (Not yet anyway!)

Chet as connected to the Mishkan – His Kingdom, qodesh/holy/set apart, according to His Pattern, and His instruction.

The Pattern of the Mishkan is our straight path our narrow WAY/Derek. Our refuge is in Him, walking through the Dalet/Door of Blue Purple and Red.

Chet = 8 carries the meaning eternity, new creation, new birth, new beginning.

Nun/noon = 50 signifies Holy Spirit Pentecost Deliverance followed by rest and Jubilee. (again this sounds a lot like our future as well as the believers life right now.)

The revelation embedded in the value of these numbers is:

8 = the new birth that God graciously initiates in every believer.

50 = delivers us from the bondage of sin and by God’s Holy Spirit produces eternal life.

Again a verse so over read that we miss its deep significance.

Eph 2:8-9 for by CHEN are we saved …..it is the gift of God.

Grace given freely without conditions or obligation by the giver. Gods grace is extended freely to fallen sinful man. Giving back what he lost in Eden.

Grace/Chen is

first seen in Genesis 6:8

(Have to add in the pictographs for Genesis here as they are too good to leave out!)

Bet /Beyt: house tent family son of God – tent house

Reysh/Resh: a person the prince the head the highest – Head

Aleph: strong leader, first, God the Father –Ox

Sheen/Shin: to consume, to destroy, to press against – Teeth

Yood/Yud: work, a deed, to make – Hand

Tav: to seal, to covenant, a sign, crossed sticks –Cross.

The meaning of the very first word,

In The Beginning,

also the title of the first Book,

contains within it the whole of Hisstory and prophetically declares the plan of redemption!

The Son of God destroys (the works of the devil) by (His) hand (nailed to) a cross (by) covenant.

Or the son of God pressed by his own hand to a cross! Wow!

Now to Genesis 6:8

But Noah found grace.

חַנ

Noach/Nuach pronounced No’ahch found Chen

(noo’-akh) nuach or noach means: rested

Or nowach {no’-akh}; from נוּחַ  nuwach (noo’-akh);

quiet — rest(-ed, -ing place)

Here also have to include the progression and possible meanings in the names of the following men in the Genesis 5 genealogy, as their meanings appear to declare the Truth.

(May aid in reading long lists of names elsewhere that apparently seemed to serve little purpose…not so!)

(Noah seems to be spelled both ways but for this post we’ll look at the נחַ Chet and noon/nun spelling.)

Chet is pictured as an inner room to separate a fence a sanctuary like a garden that is protected and away from any harm; (like EDEN!)

Nun/Noon is pictured as a fish which means life and activity.

Again the Meaning:

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

Same 2 letters make up his name which means RESTING,

or, in the paleo,

the heir separated from the outside..

as he was in the ark/box, he was given the ability to fence/save/enclose in his seed!

Eden

equal to

rest

equal to a

place of Grace.

REST – SHAKAT

Shin/sheen – quph/qof – tet

Sheen = teeth, destroy

quph qof = sun on horizon, back of head.

tet = fence, inner Eden = a place of shalom.** 

(**for full definition see previous post)

Rest in the Lord. Psalm 37:7

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: KJV

 (dō·wm) דּ֤וֹם

Strong’s Hebrew 1826: 1)

to be silent, be still, wait,

Ex 31:15 Strongs 7677 of rest

שַׁבָּת֛וֹן
šab-bā-ṯō-wn

Strongs 7965; Shalom: completeness, soundness, welfare, peace

Original Word: שָׁלוֹם

נוּחַ

noo’-akh

   5118 nuach or noach: rested,

Or nowach {no’-akh}; from nuwach; quiet — rest(-ed, -ing place).

5117 nuach: to rest

Original Word: נוּחַ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: nuach
Phonetic Spelling: (noo’-akh)
Definition: to rest

Pre Hebrew, (ivri-crossing over), Israelites and was in action form with Noah; so with the later definition of a camp it’s not just any camp; it is talking about Gods’ camp. The tents themselves formed a protective wall for those within. (The image comes to mind of circling the wagons, or soldiers standing with backs to each other, gives the same image of protecting that which is within.)

Beauty in the camp = a place of refuge was also for those not of the seed = leviticus 19:33,34, grace. If a stranger came to the camp, they saw its beauty and came to be saved. It was a place of refuge for them. When they did come in, they kept the rules of the house (of God) exactly the same as a seed had to. Egypt was a place of refuge for the Hebrews initially (Goshen).

Deut. 26:13

So a working definition of grace could be said to be brought into a protected place.

Unmerited favor is more of a Greek conceptual image, meaning something we don’t necessarily deserve.

Channah used in relation to those who would camp near the Tabernacle/Gods presence Num. 1:52; the ones seeking refuge.

Camping near to those we find beautiful.

This is not a new thing

God provides instruction for those He favors and we are protected through Yeshua/Jesus, so if we want to camp near God for His protection, and have Him consider us beautiful enough to protect; then we must receive His Grace, and that through Messiah.

Grace also has a space/time element to it, where we are to enter in to the place of protection however, it has an expiration date!

Just as in the days of Noah, there was a time for them to enter the ark of grace all but Noah and his family chose not to. And once the door closed their space time opportunity also closed, and there was not way back from their decision. The time to enter in is when the beauty of grace is still in operation making the narrow WAY available for whosoever will.

Chet, vav, nun = a pardon – when one enters a place of grace, it’s because we are being pardoned of an offense against the Lord or His children. If you don’t conform you will not be able to stay just as in Eden.

(they were put outside the camp).

It also has to do with the remnant of 8 with Noah in the ark/box, they received grace.

The door or the physical representation.

Open the door for the family to come indraw all men unto me –

into grace;

into the camp. Matt 24:37.

The place of grace is available for all today, just as prior to the flood; we enter the place of grace, (which at this time is with the family of believers who are the faithful remnant,) through the Word of God, the narrow gate or door. (Dalet, 4th Hebrew letter, that also represents the tribe of Judah and Messiah.) He said I am the …. Door and also He is the Word made flesh.

Those who don’t come in through the Gate/Door is a thief and a robber.

No one can come to the Father without coming into the camp into grace into Jesus/Yeshua and grace comes through and by Jesus/Yeshua.

So far we have seen that Eden was a protected place,

a camp of safety within the chen/grace

of God’s presence where

shalom-peace

and

nuwach-rest

were in a

compassionate

racham-womb

of

life-chaim

noon with no ra!

……..

So Who Was Eating Bread On Day Six and WHY? What’s the connection?

The Hebrew word for man is Adam

And he was created on the sixth day so the day of man was day six.

1 Corinthians 15:21,22

Luke 22:19, 39 – 46

Genesis 3:19

Jesus/Yeshua was also called the Son of Man.

Luke tells us the grace of God was on Jesus/Yeshua as a child, now we see that was not simple unmerited favor but this

Grace-chen also means

to fence, or protect life.

chet-fence

noon-life action.

Here an interesting correlation is that

Garden – gan – גָּן

Strong’s Hebrew: 1588. גָּן (gan)
an enclosure, garden

gimmel/gimel-noon/nun

gimmel – camel, lift up

nun/noon – life, seed

means:

To lift up life,

let it grow and flourish!!

And are there any other links to this connection?

If we examine the last days of Jesus/Yeshua, we can see that day six was the day that the crucifixion took place.

We need to remember the Hebrew Day begins at dusk on what is the evening of the same day to everyone else.

It was not a Jewish invention but God’s design from the beginning. Genesis the evening and the morning was the first day. The evening and the morning, evening always comes first, for God, darkness always gives way to the light.

The sixth day began at sundown, Sunset on our Thursday night before the crucifixion.

On the day Adam fell from grace, chen, he was basically told, you shall eat bread until you return to the ground. (Have to grow it provide for yourself.)

Adam was destined to work for his food/ bread in order to live and would do so until he died.

This was part of the curse from their disobedient behavior and resulting sin. It brought forth death, so in the curse, bread is linked to death!

All the more reason for Jesus/Yeshua to say.. I am the bread of life.

The sixth day began at sundown with the start of the Last Supper which was not a coincidence, it was an Appointed Time of the Lord – since Moses day.

This (Passover/Pesach – Last Supper)

had to take place on the day of Adam,

in fulfillment of God’s prophetic Plan which centers around His Annual cyclical Appointed Times.

It was the feast of bread, and more particularly the feast of unleavened bread. Leaven represented sin in the Bible.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/sonset-sunrise-sunset-sonrise-apocalypse-of-the-tamid/

This bread had no sin in it.

Remembering the first Adam was told you shall eat bread  – his bread was a result of sin.

Jesus/Yeshua was without sin.

And again said

I am the bread of life.

Sin has death.

Without sin there is only LIFE.

Jesus/Yeshua was also called the Last Adam. So as this sixth night began,

the start of the Hebrew day,

Messiah ate bread right in the face of death. Knowing He was about to die, due to sins out-working and its requirement.

The wages of sin is death.

When He lifted up the bread at the Last Supper Meal, He was doing it to join it to His death as in the curse of Adam when the bread was joined to death.

Jesus/Yeshua died on the day of creation because it was necessary in order to become a new creation and become the first born from the dead.

Furthermore He said

I am the bread of life

not the bread of death!

This is My body, broken for you take eat and remember.

He had said: I am the bread of heaven who ever eats of Me will not die. This is the curse destroyed… He broke the curse with His broken body… He said it is broken for you.

The passover zeroah

זְרוֹעַ (zeroah)

the pesach sacrifice.

The mystery emblem was always present until He was revealed.

גָּלָה gâlâh, gaw-law’

We examined this in a previous post.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/tag/zeroah/

In the original language there was a secret hidden in the translation; within the question, to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

MI HE’EMIN LISHMU’ATEINU UZERO’A HASHEM AL-MI NIGLATAH?

It is in the word revealed.

In Hebrews this word is NIGLATAH.

It means to be taken captive, what it is saying is,

the Arm of the Lord will be taken captive.

The zeroah will be niglatah!

However here is a deeper connection.

It also means to be put to shame, disGRACEd grace removed (the safety fence, the womb of protection within the place of His presence.)

Which allowed Jesus/Yeshua to become niglatahtaken prisoner, put to shame, disGRACEd

Only by being DISgraceD could the process be completed!

Later after the meal, He went in Gan Shemanim

Gethsemane (Matt. 26:36–46).

Gethsemane is derived from two Hebrew words:

גת – gat/gath, which means “a place for pressing oil (or wine)” and  שָׁמְנָא- shemen/shemanim, from the root שמן (smn) which means “oils.”

Strong’s Hebrew: 1588. גָּן (gan) — an enclosure, garden

Here in another Gan/Garden

the Garden of Gethsemane,

the Son of Man

the Last Adam,

Toiled – in Prayer

Sweated – drops of blood.

Ground – where they fell

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19

Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.Genesis 3:17

Weep = da-ma

– דָּמַע – (daw-mah’)

water coming out of the door of the eye

or

blood of the eye….

Strong’s Hebrew: 1830. דָּמַע (dama) — to weep

Sweated – drops of blood.

Dalet, mem = blood

Ayin = eye

Blood – dam – the door of water

Dalet – door (path )

Mem – water (liquid)

In Adam the dam is the path/door of water; here as a life giverthe first blood

and Jesus/Yeshua as the Last Adam

gave the dam-blood

as a

pathdoor of life (eternal)

restoring the

First Adams – loss of life

incurred by the

fall from grace

and ending up in ra.

Jesus/Yeshua pathWAY takes us

away from ra and to

the place of peace

as

the Sar Shalom,

He is the prophetic fulfillment that:

someone will come and destroy the one who is causing all the chaos and confusion!

Because Shalompeace, only comes:

 when the authority connected with chaos and confusion is destroyed.

Gives another insight to the water and blood from His side

and the fact that Eve

came out of

the First Adam’s

SIDE

whom God 

BUILT

 Eve was created by God by taking her from the rib of Adam, to be Adam’s companion. Genesis 2:18–24

Young’s Literal Translation Genesis 2:22
And Jehovah God
buildeth
up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

וַיִּבֶן֩ way·yi·en
Strong’s Hebrew 1129
וַיִּבֶן֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֧ים
from man, built/fashioned/made he a woman,

to be His Bride.

His SIDE was pierced and out of HIS SIDE flowed Water and Blood!

No coincidence!

Was this revelation some of what He was trying to communicate to Nicodemus??? 

The Last Adam shed His blood

for the bride 

kalah  כַּלָה   (kal-law’)

also spelled challa/challah

Strong’s Hebrew: 3618. כַּלָּה (kallah) 

From kalal; a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son’s wife — bride, daughter-in-law, spouse.

kaf/kaph, lamed, hey.

kaf/kaph = open palm, wing, cover

lamed = to protect, yoke

hey, H or Ah= look behold

meaning: all complete, covered, projected, joined/yoked, as if perfect; (which is what Messiah wants for us, His bride kalah  כַּלָה.) 

The Last Adam shed His blood

for the BRIDE 

to be cleansed

to enter in

through the door (dalet I am the door)

of water

the pathWAY back to Eden

to the Garden of Grace and Shalom.

Adam or A-dam means first blood 

BLOOD =

DALET-door

MEM-water

(he was the first of mankind) 

Alef: ox strong first

Blood: dalet mem

Man – mankind – being human: this word literally means red man from the concept of blood/dam; therefore red/adam.

Adam is also related to earth or ground

a da mah

out of which he was taken.

The ancient form of this word is:

yud/yod – alef, dalet, mem

arm, ox, door, water.

(Right to left in Hebrew)

To help avoid confusion:

All three were part of Adam’s curse which started in a garden.

Eden, where it all began and at the conclusion of the earthly life of the Son of Man,

He was also in a garden on the night of (Adams day) day six.

What happened to Adam on day six?

Because of the fall from Grace, he was removed from that place, the garden of God to a place outside that garden.

Outside of the place of grace,

he was no longer within and under grace… he was outside of the protected enclosure and instead was in the place of the curse which eventually resulted in his death.

God drove out the man

he was forcibly removed.

So too, Messiah, the Son of Man/ Last Adam was forcibly removed from the garden and taken to a place where the curse of Adam –death – would fall on him.

Gal.3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

And He was taken to Golgotha the place of the skull and taken to His death.

All this began on the night of Adam, the six day, the day of man; so that the children of Adam could be redeemed from the curse and saved from toil of their lives by the Last Adam.

He became the

DOOR

of

The WAY BACK

into the presence of God (Eden)

back into the blessing

leaving the curse behind.

Back into the place of his presence

under His grace chen,

enclosure

place of presence

of

Mercy seat

where the blood of His sacrifice

has paid the price for sin.

The law of sin and death is conquered and we are again under Grace as it was in the Beginning Genesis/Eden.

This extends our understanding of no longer being under the penalty of the law..

it is referring to the law of sin and death

(for the soul that sins it shall die)

the penalty has been paid.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.

And we are under GRACE;

this is the age/time of grace,

and we have been restored to that

place of grace

from which mankind fell.

The sixth day violation,

which began in a garden called Eden and ended in a curse;

has been reversed on the sixth day

in a garden called Gethsemane and ended in a blessing!

Mankind, (Adamkind), is now restored to that state of grace

in which we began.

Chen/Grace is the spiritual enclosure

He has provided for us

where we will remain until

the day He returns

and eventually creates a new heaven and a new.

This is redemption in action.

Come to me all who are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Matt. 11:28

Rest – navah – comes from the life that is secure

Noon: life

Vav: hook nail secure

Hey: what comes from

Meaning:

What comes from secure life!

Also

The Rest of God – the shevat/shabath to Cease, desist, rest

שָׁבַת

shaw-bath’

(Recall Hebrew letters v and b are interchangeable.)

The 7th day recorded in Genesis was the day God rested from all the work He had done.

(The word rest, means something different to us, it’s like taking a break and putting our feet up before continuing activities.)

The word in Hebrew translated as rested is SHEVAT or shabath and it is a primary root meaning to cease.

7673a Strongs

Original Word: שָׁבַת
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: shabath
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-bath’)
Brought to an end (1), cease (21), ceased (7), ceases (3), did away (2), disappear (1), do away (1), eliminate (3), gone (1), hear…more (1), lacking (1), left you without (1), made an end (1), make an end (1), no* (1), observe (1), observe the rest (1), put a stop (3), put an end (3), puts an end (1), remove (2), removed (1), rest (3), rested (3), silence (1), stop (2), stopped (1).

שָׁבַת

Shin/sheen, bet/vet, tav.

To cease, stop completely.

He had finished His work it was complete.

So on the seventh day He ceased, SHEVAT because of this event this rest, this SHEVAT, comes the word Shabbat and from this we get our word Sabbath.

So the Sabbath is the Sabbath because God ceased/ SHEVAT. He rested and all its’ blessings come from the act of the SHEVAT of God. However because of the fall from grace, the peace, the shalom of the Sabbath rest and all the blessings connected with that rest/ SHEVAT were gone from the creation and from our lives.

So a new Sabbath was needed. However only God can bring the Sabbath and a Sabbath can only come when God ceases/ SHEVAT.(When He rests)

So for Him to bring a new Sabbath He would have to cease, and the timing of it would have to be linked to the 7th day…….

On a Friday afternoon 1,000’s of years later, on the end of the 6th day, the Day of Man,

this time it was not the week of creation but the week of redemption

and as it was in Genesis/beresheet the 6th day was the day of completion of all God’s creative work.

So also the work of the cross was completed and on the cross came SHEVAT of GodHe ceased and He said

it is finished.

It is complete, He ceased from His work and from His life. As it was in Genesis, God ceased/SHEVAT and then came the Sabbath

now there is a new Sabbath and a new Shalom,

not of this world but greater than this world and there for all who will enter in..

How do we enter in?

By ceasing, by SHEVAT,

by ceasing to strive and struggle, by ceasing from laboring, ceasing from our self, our own works… we are to enter His rest, His Shabbat and by doing so, we will experience His Shalom in the place of His Grace.

 

What we have seen in the paleo pictographs is that Grace and Eden and Shalom have much in common with each other

and with the redemption-salvation

that is gained through Grace.

It, the grace,

is to give us access

BACK into Eden

the place/state of grace

(including the paleo meanings would be something like this:)

Restored back into the future of an enclosed garden of God, where His presence is manifested and there is no sin only shalom and rest.

The mercy seat is there, typified both in the Eden layout and in the wilderness camp, tabernacle/mishkan and later in the temple floor plan.

The cherubim guarding

the way to the tree of life

were both at Edens entrance and on the veil/curtain separating the Ark of God’s presence as He manifested upon the Mercy seat/Kapporet.

In an enclosed womb like shape where eternal life was accessed by the High Priest.

Remember: The tabernacle (mishkan mish-kawn’ מִשְׁכָּן), first mentioned in the Torah in Exodus 25, was the portable sanctuary that the Israelites carried with them in the wilderness.

Mishkan comes from the Hebrew root meaning “to dwell”; the tabernacle was considered to be the earthly dwelling place of God.

The portion of the tabernacle and the Temple building in front of the Holy of Holies which contained the inner altar, the table for the showbread, and the menorah.

They lived in a state of continual grace and shalom.

He had produced life in them and then put a fence or wall of protection around that life so that it may not be destroyed or removed.

This way back has been opened by our High Priest,

the curtain rent,

the cherubim parted and

access to the throne/presence of God

on the kapporet

is available once again

as the mercy seat

is covered in Messiahs blood

and we are redeemed.

His trial in the garden, fulfilled all the criteria for Gods plan of the ages.

This is the grace that has saved us

the same grace that they lived in in Genesis, is the grace we are to live in now..

as He said to Paul, it is sufficient..

it’s chen/grace

the place where

God provides protection and provision for life a camp a graceful place of healing strength salvation and rescue!

It’s the Shalom

(remember the definition of shalom)

HIS shalom, the same that was in the grace, the placeeden, the place,

the garden of God, that He gave to us,

Eden, to see the judge of life;

and we must do that to be saved;

a judge is the door to life.

Judge offers justice and redemption. Eden is a place, where you open the door and enter the pathway that leads to life.

It also includes Mercy; clemency; pardon mercy, the womb…racham

is The house that surrounds life.

In the Garden of Olives He crushed the head of the serpent and the tree of everlasting life was once again made available through Jesus/Yeshua.

The Garden of Eden was meant to be a place of continual life.

Chaim both physical and spiritual…

(recall IM as plural – lives.)

First Adam – Last Adam

each in a garden one

began in one and ended in one .

It was outside the camp.. but Jesus/Yeshua is the DOOR the WAY into GRACE restored. Eden restored where we enter His REST 

 which is now secured as that Shalom – peace, which only comes when the authority connected with chaos and confusion is destroyed, which is has been by the Sar Shalom, the Prince of Peace.

Eden restored, regained, by eating of Him who is NOT forbidden fruit

and we enter into HIS rest.

We enter into a racham/womb of Shalom where nothing is missing or broken and no good thing is withheld.

Yes it seems Eden is the place of grace/rest and shalom and both Adams are there, in the garden of God, waiting for us to join them in His presence passing by the cherubim and right up to the tree of life, and it seems we are indeed

going back to the future past...

Full circle….

Eat of ME and LIVE forever!

It was the Son of Man –

the Last Adam

who was eating bread

on the 6th day.

In a WAY, He is not only the Last Adam but He is also Eden the DOOR/Dalet to eternal Life.

Hakarat Hatov, recognizing and appreciating the good, is the foundation of Hebrew thinking and a lifestyle in understanding how we are to walk ‘the way’ of Messiah Jesus. We are believers in and followers of Jesus/Yashua Messiach ‘ha-De-rekh’ (‘the Way’) the Messianic Messiah.

Righteousness is showing forth the goodness of Elohim by acts of loving kindness. Showing mutual respect, trust and love. Expressing truth, love, faith, praise and harmony. Most important are Faith, love, trust and humility and praising Him for that which we witness today declaring always that His glory illuminates the entire world.

Grace was the physical expression of, and provision for, humanity.

His love is unconditional and came down from the heavens

the grace stooping towards us

the stronger coming to the help of the weaker who stands in need of help either by reason of their circumstances or natural weakness.

Being lost and fallen from grace definitely qualifies us!

Our love that goes up is our worship;

love that extends outward is affection but the love that bends and stoops down..that is GRACE.

Shalom ‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’.

משפחה 

Mish-pa-KHa

Please Do Not leave this page without the surety in your heart that you are in the place of grace, as the days draw ever closer to the end of the age of that GRACE..

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.

Its 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.

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 killedcrucified.

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 SHEPHERDwatching 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.