We were looking at the actIONs of the apostles and the attributes noted in the scriptures which identified them as: little christs/christians/disciples/apostles.
These are words that should also describe us, and be evident in our lives for the world to see as we follow Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.
Chet/Chen is represented by the fence and describes a protected garden (Eden), private place, an inner room or a sanctuary…
Recall the pictograph depicting grace as a place, the place of our hiding and the womb where we are conceived and develop before birth. We are in His grace now also and in ‘a womb’ waiting to be reborn into a new resurrected glorified body; then we know we shall be like Him.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:19
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. 1John 3:2
And we will become aware of a new desire in our hearts placed there by our Fathers’ Spirit.
A new direction maybe?
New instructions?
New Fire for His Word?
and the Lord He gives the increase.
Hearing about Him is insufficient.
Reading about Him is not enough.
Thinking we know is not fullness.
We have to be doers,
this is ACTions of the sent ones.
Not readers, talkers and thinkers, but doers of His word.
Just reading will not benefit, especially speed reading! We have to take it in, like real food, chew it and digest it for it to give any benefit of its’ nutrients into our bodies; both physical and spiritual.
We are told to Consider Our Ways in Haggai 1:5-7
Not Make Excuses.
The people were saying, and giving reasons not to act.
“ The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt ” (Haggai 1:2).
We Must Get Our Priorities in Order.
The people said that it was not time to rebuild the temple
(Haggai 1:2). …
Remember Our Dependence Upon God. …
Obey the Word of God… Not what people are saying!
5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts;Consider your ways.
Acts 5:36 and 2:39
The CALL is by His spirit and we have the choice to accept or refuse it.
By doing nothing we have refused and usually go on to live a life just like our peers saying to ourselves, ‘this is Gods’ plan for me’…is it because its an easier more comfortable and familiar way?? Four decades ago our Heavenly Fathers’ call came to this life and the message He gave for this servant to share has not changed… Repent… Turn around …come out from the world be saved, delivered, healed, filled with His spirit and make disciples; teaching them to do the same.
Imagine, if we, all of our generation had done this, just think how many would be in the Kingdom today…but we always think it’s someone else’s job… we just want to live a nice, comfortable life….BUT… It’s not too late, we have today to share freely what we freely received.
The mission field of a ready harvest is right where you are…
We are not man appointed (vs. 38, 39) and if it’s not by His Spirit, it will fail.
The anointing of His spirit of holiness
by His grace brings the power
manifest through boldness
to witness and to DO
what God has called us to do in His Word.
Obedience in the name of Yeshua/Jesus and by His power we work the works of Him who sent us Yeshua/Jesus.
And by His power to destroy the works of the devil… this is what the power is for and why He came.
Acts 4:13 Holy BOLDNESS it was obvious they’d been with Yeshua/Jesus…. do people see that in us?
5:29Obey God rather than man OBEDIENCE
29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.
Then Peter . . . answered.
1 that God must be obeyed rather than earthly rulers;
2 God raised up Jesus whom they hanged on the cross;
3 exalted him to his right hand;
4 to be a Prince and Savior, to grant Israel the opportunity to repent, and to obtain forgiveness;
5 that they were witnesses of these facts, and so was the Holy Spirit.
To Hear and Obey
are the essence of the
shema
with which they were all familiar.
6:6,7 Brought INCREASE and BLESSING 6 whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them. 7 Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.
6:10 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. 8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen 10And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
the POWER of His Spirit of Holiness is IRRESISTIBLE brings anointing /POWER
BOLDNESS attracts GLORY/anointing.
Prov. 28:1+12
The Boldness of the Righteous.
1 The ungodly man flees when no one pursues: but the righteous is confident as a lion
Proverbs 28:1 doesn’t have in mind that kind of boldness when it says the righteous have it and the wicked don’t. The boldness here is the boldness required for a just/righteous cause. What is it about the wicked that makes them so often flee (in the presence of justice) when no one is pursuing?
מְשִׁיחָה. More Hebrew words for anointing. noun מְשִׁיחָה. unction, band, cord, strand, thread
The high priest’s anointment is otherwise designated by the verb kadesh ( qaddesh; “to sanctify”). Indeed, the anointment “sanctifies” the high priest by removing him from the realm of the profane and empowering him to operate in the realm of the sacred, i.e., to handle the holy items.
Thus the Hebrew word mâshach that means to rub with oil also, by implication, means to consecrate. Mâshîyach (a derivative) is translated into the English adjective ‘anointed’ and thus means a consecrated person or thing.
Anointing stands for greatness (Sifre, Num. 117; Yer. Bik. ii. 64 d ): consequently, “Touch not mine anointed” signifies “my great ones.” All the vessels of the tabernacle, also, were consecrated with the sacred oil for all time to come (Num. R. xii.).
From chrio; an unguent or smearing, i.e. (figuratively) the special endowment (“chrism”) of the Holy Spirit — anointing, unction.
The sick were healed, miracles were wrought, demons cast out…
Boldness with great power and grace and obedience
they were told to leave serving tables and give themselves to prayer.
We too must put the Word first place!
Josh 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Acts 6:4 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
Our Heavenly Father has a due time and season.
Be ready to do, or to stop doing, that which He is telling you.
Be open to change, to move on and serve in a deeper way.
Be a doer of His Word – not a hearer only…
ACTS of the apostles and disciples they ACTED.
מעשי השליחים
The Apostles were Hebrews.
Born and raised Jewish/Hebrew
so they were taught the language of their families. When Messiah appeared to Paul on the Damascus road, he said that Yeshua/Jesus spoke to him in Hebrew.
Acts 21, it is written about Paul, “He spoke to them in the Hebrew language.” And on his way to Damascus, Paul says, Jesus spoke to him in Hebrew: “I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’”
We need this same anointing now and its as available to us today as it was 2000+ years ago.
WHY?
It’s to work the works of Yeshua/Jesus and by so doing, destroy the works of the devil; which is why He came.
All we have to do is ask and receive
because we are to work while it is still day
for the night is coming
and very soon
when no man can work.
John 9:4
Grace
Boldness
Obedience
Power
Glory
Yeshua/Jesus told them in His own words when the promise of the power was given in v8;
to receive the power
to be witnesses
unto Him
not
for Him
but of Him about Him.
Gk. dunamis – authority
We can read in the following verses:
The call is by His spirit v. 39 43
signs and wonders done 3:7
vs 42 43 means 100% commitment
47 praising God
3:12 not by our own power or holiness
4:7 by what power
4:12 bold declaration by Peter vs. 13 & 29 & 19
Acts 4:13: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and” Acts 4:29: “unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,” Acts 4:31: “the word of God with boldness.“
v. 5:29 obey God not man
boldness with actions
v.v31 spoke the word of God with boldness
v.v33 great power they gave witness of the resurrection
and great grace was upon them
v. 5:12 power also manifests in unity of one accord
v. 15 Peters’ ‘shadow’/anointing.
The door of grace is closing, the end of the opportunity for salvation is coming close and then it’s over.
Choose today… will we be counted in that number?
6:8 Stephen was one of His Disciples,
he was full of faith and power;
he did great wonders and miracles
and loved not his life unto physical death.
Most significantly…Jesus/Yeshua stood up for him as he transitioned.
Deliverance brings Joy.
8:8 6-8
In the cities where they ministered. 9:27 and 29
Boldness in v.34 Aeneas had palsy and was raised up.
40 Tabitha was raised from dead.
10:38 anointed with His Holy Spirit POWER there were
healings,
deliverances
and salvations.
Their obedience and His grace brought power from their boldness, giving glory to the Father in Jesus/Yeshuas Name.
Boldness, Power, Grace, Glory, Obedience,
they are essential
ingredients for a walk/halak bearing much fruit.
The GRACE of His Spirit of Holiness infused them with the BOLDNESS to preach in POWER and demonstration bringing GLORY to the father by their OBEDIENCE.
The BOLDNESS came through the GLORY
and the POWER of His spirit of GRACE,
anointing them
to be OBEDIENT to their CALLing.
10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.
Let’s shake ourselves out of complacency;
let’s deliver ourselves from the spirit of entitlement which gives us ‘self time’ we think we deserve.
Procrastination will kill the anointing of the spirit of God in us.
They were all
changed
unto
obedient, bold, witnesses,
full of grace, power and truth
bringing glory to the Father...
we can be too…simply accept His call and
receive ALL that He has for you…
These words may assist you..
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua. I truly desire to be obedient to your call on my life, so I lay down my life right now and dedicate the remaining time you grant me on this earth to work in and for your Kingdom. I desire to work the works of Jesus/Yeshua and be a witness unto Him and humbly ask for You to equip me, in order to fulfill that which You have for me to do. Forgive me for procrastinating and putting off what I know has been in my heart. Strengthen me to make the step of faith that I need to take to be right in the center of Your will for me. Thank you for doing abundantly above all I can ask or even think and showing me the direction to take so I too can be changed. Thank you for the grace to be obedient so that the boldness and power of Your Spirit can bring glory to your Name through my life.
May His true Shalom/Peace
rest upon each one in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name.
‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’
משפחה
Mish-pa-KHa Mish-pa-KHa
you are greatly loved and prayed for daily..
NOT SURE if you are part of His Family?
YOU CAN BE..
Say the following and mean it from your heart…
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 came in the flesh and 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 in my spirit 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.
We are a curious people always wanting to know what’s coming or to provide proof of something.
The people of Jesus/Yeshua’s day were no different and they asked Him to prove He was who He said He was.
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and testing him desired that he would show them a sign from heaven. Matt 16:1-4
He replied with
Matt 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
The signs were all around them. Many were expecting the Messiah and watching for Him. Jesus/Yeshua uses their ‘discerning of the weather’ as an example of how every sign-oth, that they need has already been produced and yet their hearts are hard and closed to it.
He was the Word made flesh – the living Word
He said The scriptures speak of me
which is ALL of them from Genesis/ Bereshyt – beginning
Below is the meaning of the letters of the word Genesis in Paleo Hebrew letters:
and to the end – alef to tav.
The alphabet/alef-bet and Alpha -Omega.
He was and IS the Word
The oth
the sacred sign – oth
oath – covenant
He was the fulfillment of the re-newed covenant –
HE WAS the SIGN – OTH – Covenant.
That which they knew of Jonah was about to be realized in their Messiah but they could not see Him
This is why the Torah, the Prophets and Writings in the Bible – Old Testament/Covenant and New Testament/Covenant
is
a living testimony – a living book/scroll.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1:1-5
The phrase and the life was the light of menis in the Greek imperfect tense. This means thatthe lifebegan to be the light of men in the past and continues to be so in the present time. The Son of God is the source and essence of life itself.
The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple Ps. 119:130
Your word is a light to my path – Way – Derech. Ps. 119:105
God is Light and in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. John 1:1
The assertion now,isTHATLIFE, ζωή-Zoe, with all it’s manifestations and in all it’s regions; that the life of plant, tree, and animal, the life of man, of society, that the life of the body, soul, and spirit, the life transitory and the life eternal (ζωὴ αἰώνιος), was in the Logos, who was God and in the beginning with God.
Proverbs 4:22 Says, “For they (His Words) are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”
He is the living word and the scriptures
Jesus/Yeshua often referred to the Scripture (the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms) as evidence for His Messiahship.
He taught that they would all be fulfilled in Him (John 10:35; Matthew 5:18).
The Old Testament Scriptures spoke of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua, pointing us to Him.
Speaking to those who opposed Him, Jesus/Yeshua said,
“Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39).
On the road to Emmaus, He opened up the scriptures to them concerning Himself.
There is no other way to come to the saving knowledge of Yeshua/Jesus and eternal life except by the written Word of God; and there is no other teacher than the Holy Spirit – Ruach HaKodesh, who leads us to all truth.
The very letters of the words
are pictures of who He is and we will examine some of them as they are depicted in the fascinating early Paleo Hebrew Pictograph picture symbols that eventually evolved into the letters we see today.
There are 2 pages, accessed through mmmHomepage, that are dedicated to alef bet; they are in the process of being updated so
for your patience.
תוyאוֹת – otiot – signs, letters.
אוֹת – oth, ot – a sign, letter.
Words are made up of individual letters calledOTIOT אותיות
One letter is called an ot (pronouncedoat); ot means sign.
A number of letters are referred to as otiot;
otiot, of course, means signs
strongs # 226
The word Otiot is Hebrew for sacred signs. (pronounced: oat-ee-oat)
The Hebrew language is a very solid, physical, tangible language; meaning that each word is a description of an action of a person or object.
This is very different to our modern languages that are made up of abstract words. The word righteous is an example of an abstract: in that it has no connection to something physical that can be touched.
The ancient Hebrew language was one based on senses. They thought in agricultural terms and their language was based upon what they could
see, feel, taste, smell,hear or touch;
and all words made from any particular ancient two letter root have a similar meaning.
Hebrew thought is solid, physical and tangible, where as Greek thought is abstract. Abstract thought is the expression of things that cannot be sensed with the 5 senses.
Hebrew thought is circular whereas Greek thought is linear. The Bible was written in Hebrew and is circular in nature – as the end is declared from the beginning.
The concept is also seen in their calendars annual 7 appointed times of the Lord.
Even their Torah Scripture scrolls are rolled..
Look at the word anger as an example of solid vs abstract thought. to a Greek, anger is an abstract concept. To a Hebrew, the word for anger is Awph which means nose. When a person gets angry, the nostrils flare and the breathing gets harder. The Hebrew sees (using senses) anger when a person’s nostrils are flaring.
With this in mind, this is how the pictographic Hebrew works in the word oth which is usually translated as sign, token, mark. It is spelled
alef vav tav.
אוֹת
The Pictographic characters are
We have the alef which stands for the mighty one or Elohim,
the vav indicating a nail
and the tav
which is a picture of a cross.
The tav or cross symbol means mark, sign and covenant; because the sign of the covenant (all covenants are cut) is our mighty one, nailed to a tree or cross.
Messiah said
Also,
The keeping of the Sabbath is said to be a sign – (oth) between God/YHWH (Yahweh) and His people Israel forever.
In the paleo pictograph letters
It is also saying that Messiah is the Master of the Sabbath. (Matt 12:8, Mk 2:28, Luke 6:5) Our Sabbath keeping identifies us as being in a covenant relationship with Him.
The word oath is Alah (ela), which carries the meaning of a binding agreement and a curse for violating it. As the older or stronger ox binds, or yokes himself, to the younger ox to train him, through the covenant with man, God/YHWH binds Himself to us to teach us how to walk.
Next a deeper dig, to look at some Treasure in the Torah of Grace and Mercy Seat.
These words have been much in the text of the last posts, and while mmm is working on more information to add to the Alef Bet Ancient pictograph pages, here is a taste of the riches in this storehouse of the Lord concerning His Living Word who we know as Yeshua/Jesus.
TREASURE – Otsar:
’ō·w·ṣā·r
אוֹצָרֽ
There are at least five different Hebrew words that may be translated into English as treasure.
Each of these has a slightly different meaning. usually we think of treasure as valuable objects such as precious gem stones, gold, or silver kept hidden for security.
Deuteronomy 28:12 has The most frequently used word for treasure where Moses writes:
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
The Hebrew word Otsar is the word used here for treasure and is most often used with the meaning of a storehousefor treasurerather than the treasure itself, this verse says that the LORD is opening His storehouse of treasure in order to bless His people.
In Proverbs 15:16 Otsar is also used to describe us and our storehouse of treasure:
Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
This scripture indicates that our Otsar could bring us trouble and that we should do well to fear/reverently respect, the LORD and be content with whatever He chooses to grant us from His storehouseof blessing.
What do ancient pictographs reveal to us about this word for treasure?
Otsar is spelled
Aleph Vav Tsade Reysh.
is read from right to left in Hebrew…below in modern hebrew:
and for our ease here it is in
Aleph Vav Tsade Reyshorder
The ancient pictographs forOtsar
Aleph Vav Tsade Reysh
Aleph
is the picture of the
ox and means the strong leader, the first, or God the Father.
Vav
is the picture of the
iron nail or the wooden hook or peg and means to secure, to add, or join two things that are separated from one another.
Tsade
is the picture of the
fishhookand meansto catch, to have a strong desire, or a harvest.
Reysh
is the picture of the
head
and denotes theleader, the master, or the prince.
Ancient pictographs for Otsar reveal that the strong leader, God the Father, is joined to the harvest found in the prince.
The prince is Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah,
the Otsar or treasure is the harvest of the lost for eternity.
Yeshua said
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6
Another nugget is in the fact that the Vav connects what is on one side of the word to what is on the other.Already revealed is God the Father/the strong leader, who is on one side, but what is on the other side?
The letters Tsade Reysh
Tsade Reysh
form the word sorry
and can be translated
narrow.
Meaning what exactly?
We are sorry when we are reminded that not everyone will choose to be joined to the Father and to be included in His treasure.
The answer is in Matthew 7:14:
In Isaiah 33:6, he writes of Otsar of the LORD: And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
Out of the treasure, or the Otsar of the Fear of the LORD, will come the source of wisdom and knowledge that will provide stability
Otsarhere again is the wordtreasure,
a 2nd verse connecting Otsar with the fear of the LORD, revealing just how much the Lord values us viewing Him with the awe and respect deserving of His majesty.
Here it is clear that those that choose Him are His treasure, but also part of His Otsar is how He is viewed by those that choose Him.
In Isaiah 33:6
is another word for treasure where the word strength in Hebrew is the word
חֹ֥סֶן (C)hocenḥō·sen
spelled Chet Samech Noon.
Chet
or
is the picture of the fence and means to protect, to separate, a sanctuary, or a private place.
Samech
is the picture of theprop
and means to support and uphold symbolized by the trellis supporting the vines and their fruit.
Noon/Nun
or
is the picture of the fish
and means activity or life
and it’s translated as wealth, riches, strength, and treasure.
The Otsar of the LORD, is that His fear (reverential awe), brings us to a place of trust/faith, where the Father/Avinu and the Prince /Sar, join together for the purpose of the harvest of souls.
If we will just trust in Him, we can be protected, supported, and receive life/chaim.
This is the real treasure,
Otsar –
חֹ֥סֶן (C)hocenḥō·sen
not the physical blessings He showers upon us.
A hidden mystery in the word
TORAH תּוֹרָה to-raw’
meaning:
direction, instruction, law
The Hebrew letters for Torah are
Tav Vav Reysh Hey.
The Torah is the complete instructions, directions and commandments of the covenant law for the nation of Israel.
It is the first 5 books in the Hebrew scriptures. Also sometimes called the Five Books of Moses because it was revealed to him by God on Mount Sinai.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. EX 8: 32
The word Torah first appears is in Gen.26:5 where God/YHWH appears to Abraham and tells him he will be blessed:
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes and my laws.
That word used here is for laws, is Torah, giving us 2 things.
One, that blessing comes through obedience to Torah, and secondly, that its’ essence existed even before Moses would be born or given the Torah on Sinai’s mountain in the wilderness.
Tav means to seal or to covenant and is a picture of crossed wooden sticks or a cross.
Vavmeans to join together or to bind together and is a picture of a wooden hook or peg or an iron nail.
Reyshis a picture of the head and stands for the leader or the master or the prince.
Hey means to behold or to pay attention to what follows and is a picture of a man looking up.
The letters tell us to
behold
the prince
who is fastened
to a wooden cross.
The word Torah contains a picture of the Messiah who was to come, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach, and shows us that He would die on a cross.
Matthew 5:17, Jesus/Yeshua prophetically declared:
Think not that I come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.
In John 5:39, he wrote these words of Jesus/Yeshua:
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Here the word scriptures can mean either a book of the Torah, a passage, or a very specific portion. The One who proved Himself to be the Messiah/the Living Word, declared He can be literally found in the written Word.
The Torah testifies to Him in ways only Our Heavenly Father could have planned; as well as Messiahs life and death actually fulfilling the law.
Behold the prince, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach fastened to a cross so that we could be free from the curse of the law of sin and death.
Messiah is found in Torah by Grace.
GRACE
Noon Chet
50 8
chn
One meaning of Grace is unmerited Favor. Grace is something that is given freely without conditions or obligation by the giver.
The very act of giving grace discloses two fundamental facts:
The first thing it discloses in most cases is a need. The person or persons receiving grace are usually unable to provide what is needed by their own power and receive it freely from another who has the ability to provide what is needed.
The second thing grace discloses is generosity on the part of the giver. He may be giving out of a great abundance and showing favor may cost him little. Or he may be giving all he has, thus enriching another at his own expense.
The ultimate expression of this is God’s Grace extended to sinful man.
The First use of GRACE in Scripture is Genesis 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
Chet
Private – To Separate – Fence – Sanctuary Inner Room
Noon
Activity – Life Fish
God produces life in us and then puts a fence or wall of protection around that life so that is may not be destroyed or removed.
An acrostic for
G R A C E:
Gods –Riches – At – Christ’s –Expense.
The Mystery in the
Kapporeth – MERCY SEAT
Do the Hebrew pictographs of Kapporeth describe a hidden mystery that will reveal a connection to Messiah?
Moses, directs his people in an exodus towards the land promised to them in their father Abraham, God/YHVH gives Moses instructions to build Him a special dwelling place. In the book of Exodus 25: 8 and 9 Moses records the words of YHVH:
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make them.
Additionally,
Moses writes in Ex. 29:45,46:
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God, and they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
Even more specific instructions were given for what was to be housed inside this tabernacle.
Ex. 25:10 continues:
And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Finally, God/YHVH tells Moses in vs. 21 how the lid on this ark will be crafted:
And thou shall put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
The words mercy seat are the Hebrew word Kapporeth. This Kapporeth was to be made of pure gold with a cherub of beaten gold mounted on each end facing each other.
What was the purpose of this seat? In Chp. 25:22, God/YHVH tells us:
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim who are upon the ark of the testimony.
The only time that this commune with God/YHVH would take place, was each year on the fall feast of Israel we call the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, when the High Priest would sprinkle the blood of a lamb on the Kapporeth. This blood sacrifice was offered yearly on this most holy day of the year and was intended to cover the sins of the nation for one more year.
What is the significance of all this?
Can the Hebrew pictographs of Kapporeth give us a clearer understanding?
Kapporeth is spelled
Kaf Pey Reysh Tav.
reading from right to left below
Kaf
is the picture of the hand
and means to cover, to open, or to allow.
Pey
is the picture of the open mouth
and means to speak.
Reysh
is the picture of the
head
and means master or the prince.
Tav
is the picture of crossed wooden sticks
and means a sign, to seal, or to covenant.
The first mystery we can see in these pictographs is that there will be a cover on the mouth of the prince.
But what prince? Surely that would be the prince of the cross which is Yeshua Ha-Mashiach, Jesus the Christ. Why is His mouth covered, what is He not saying? Look below the seat and into the ark itself for the answer.
The first three letters in Kapporeth are the root word Kapher which in conventional Hebrew means to cover. The Kapporeth or mercy seat is not just a place for God/YHVH to meet with the High Priest, it is covering something important.
What is in the Ark of the Covenant? According to Hebrews 9:4, the tabernacle in the temple contained:
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant.
Although each of these items are symbols of the providential hand of God/YHVH in the lives of His people, they are also reminders of the sin of His people. When YHVH provided manna for food, the people complained it wasn’t enough so He gave them quail.
Aaron’s rod that miraculously budded was a sign that Moses had been given authority from God/YHVH to lead the nation as a shepherd, but the people rejected the leadership of Moses and therefore were also rejecting God/YHVH.
The stone tables or tablets containing the Ten Commandments were the law given to the nation for their instruction and their well-being. But the people again refused to obey and they rebelled against YHVH.
The prince with the covered mouth is Messiah, who by the blood shed on the cross on behalf of His people, has made amends for the sins of His people.
Those sins have not been just covered by His blood sprinkled on the Kapporeth
but have been taken away forever!
The people of God/YHVH no longer need the blood of a lamb once a year on Yom Kippur, for as the writer of Hebrews 10:14;
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Each of the letters in Kapporeth is also a number which will tell us even more about this mystery.
Kaf
is the number 20 and when found throughout scripture refers to redemption.
Pey
is the number 80and stands for a new beginning ordained in heaven.
Reysh
is the number 200and contrasts the insufficiency of man with the sufficiency of God.
Tav
is the number400 and points us to a divinely ordained period of time that will bring about deliverance and renewal.
These numbers combine to paint a wonderful picture for us. God/Elohim has ordained in heaven a plan of redemption for man who could never make amends for his own sin and rebellion.
This plan was found at the perfect time in the Tav, the cross, where Messiah the Prince brought about deliverance and renewal for His people.
Not only will Messiah the Prince not speak against us regarding our sin, but in 1 John 3:1 we see how our Heavenly Father will speak for us:
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
Mentioned in a previous post but worth reiterating –
The word for Truth is EMeT – אמת,
spelled with the following Hebrew letters,
Aleph א
Mem מ
Tav ת
It’s essentially the title/name for God Aleph-Tav – את,
The beginning and the end letters of the alef bet –
as in the first and the last
the alpha and omega
as we saw at the start of this post.
It is declaring the end from the beginning with a Mem – מ inserted in the middle!
We looked at the ancient pictograph for the first letter of the Alphabet –
ALEPH א – was the Ox-head, and it symbolized the Chief, the Head, the Strength, the Leader of something.
Ideally, it speaks of God as being all of these things – as He is always placed at the place of preeminence and rank of First.
The ancient pictograph for MEM – מ – is the imagery of water flowing.
The ancient pictograph for TAV – ת was that of 2 crossed sticks – a Cross.
Strung together, it appears to form the picture of,
the Ox [with water flowing] from the Cross
As the Gospels indicate, Messiahs’ crucifixion and death portrayed this picture perfectly when the water flowed from His side where the spear pierced His body.
But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and WATER. John 19:34
He who saw it has borne witness – his testimony is TRUE, and he knows that he is telling THE TRUTH – that you also may believe. John 19:35
This was the ultimate manifestation of TRUTH
in ancient Hebrew thought.
Indeed, Yeshua/Jesus reminded us several times when He said I AM the TRUTH [EMeT אמת] John 14:6.
Finally, its good to remember that when the ALEPH א – the Ox – (symbolic of God’s presence in this line of thought)
is REMOVED from the word for TRUTH – ‘EMeT אמת’,
all we have are the letters,
Mem מ
Tav ת
which spells the word
MuT – מת –
this is the Hebrew word for
DEATH.
Clearly meaning that when we remove God from the equation of Truth we are left only with Death.
All the scriptures from Alef to Tav – Genesis to Revelation is truly
He has indeed given us a sign and more than just one!!
Shalom Mishpachah/Family!
Please don’t leave this page until you make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
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