In previous posts we have seen that the Hebrew letter Dalet, represents a door, or an opening and a place, (Hakem) of a threshold. It’s a point where one can CROSS from one place or location into another. A doorway or transition can also be called a portal.
It is where we get our English word Port from, where ships come and go to other places and destinations. Many towns have port as part of their names due to their proximity to water. It is also reflected in the French word for the door – la porte.
Sea going vessels have portholes for windows, again representing a connecting barrier and indicating two sides which are separated.
Interesting they are circular, not square and have 3 component parts which are connected into one unit.
Windows also represent a barrier and indicate a change, a threshold, and a place of passing, or looking through to a different Hakem.
Ha Makem’- ‘The Place’-המקום
We are quite familiar with the Exodus story and remember this event is inexorably linked through time to the events at Passover/Pesach. Ex.12: 21-27.
On the night of the Passover, the Hebrews were to put the blood of the Lamb on the wooden beams of their doorways. This was probably the only WAY /portal/in and out of their home, as slaves, they would have had little luxuries.
They would have then entered in through the bloodstained doorway and stayed inside their houses. When they passed through that WAY again, it would be for the last time. It would be to leave Egypt and never return.
It would be to depart from all bondage of that life of slavery and in going through the portal, they entered a new life of freedom.
They were entering a new realm and eventually a new land; with a new identity as the people chosen by the Lord when they accepted the covenant at Sinai. A people set apart – Holy, to the Lord. This is the gospel message! And the type for our lives and us both as individuals and corporately is clear.
The blood was not on the threshold, so they did not tread on it, it was on 3 sides and looked like a door.
The letter TAV also resembles a door shape.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/nail-i-am/
The last letter of the alef bet and is the symbol of the cross.
This blood marked the door transforming it into a portal – a spiritual transition point. A supernatural phenomena, enabling them to pass from the old to the new, effective in the spiritual realm for its divine purpose. This was so prophetic as, centuries later there would come the fulfillment of another Pesach, with another lamb, whose blood was shed for the world
and that blood created another supernatural portal.
The DOOR (Dalet) – THE WAY (Derech) back to the Father, spiritual reconciliation restored.
This portal transcended all previous types and shadows of His plan for He is the Dalet. He is the One between 2 realms; spanning the transition zone, the bridge. The Pesach Dalet in time that leads to eternal life.
The spiritual number 4, which is represented by Dalet in Hebrew, means message motion or world.
We should not mistake His death for a martyrs one. According to John 8:37, He came on purpose to die. It was His plan. He was a willing sacrifice, His free will choice to offer His life for ours. The key was in His deaths, reminding us that death leads to life and is not anything to be feared.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-mystery-of-in-his-deaths/
We merely exchange this body of flesh for something far better. Death has lost it’s sting of sin if we are truly saved; it’s just a simple transition through a portal in time. And Jesus/Yeshua Messiah is that Dalet.
The cross was a tree, made of wood, some translations say it was the same wood as the lintels of the Hebrews dwellings back in Egypt.
Both were marked with the Blood of a lamb.
The Romans used the cross beams as an execution stake, a most cruel, punishing death. And yet its very use became the fulfillment of God’s perfect plan to redeem all mankind.
Look at the cross from another perspective.
It’s a set of wooden beams just like those that formed the doorway, and marked with the Blood of the Passover Lamb, Messiah Jesus/Yeshua. In a sense, the cross is also a Portal… so the only Way it can truly be understood and known and experienced is BY (X) entering in.
How do we enter in?
BY (X) becoming One/Echad with Him.
Unlike physical doorways into places in the earth realm/kingdom, that take us from one place to another; this doorway, this portal is the WAY to a different realm. It’s a portal leading to a new Kingdom, a new reality and a whole new existence. This door enables us to leave behind our old lives, (just as the Israelites left Egypt,) and enter into a new realm. A new chaim, a new existence, a new reality with a new King and Lord.
The door is narrow, it’s only the width of a beam of wood and we must lay down all we are carrying because the door is not wide enough for burdens to be carried through it.
But it seems like there’s no opening in the cross… that is because it is a spiritual experience. His kingdom and realm is not of this world. It is supernatural, above natural. The only WAY to know this doorway, to experience this portal, is to go through it – through Him.
Those who do, will leave the kingdoms of the world behind and enter in, to the realm of His kingdom of the heavens/shamayim; which spiritually began here, and is our equivalent of entering the promised land through the portal of His cross.
It’s the only WAY to leave what we can never leave.
It’s the only WAY to go where we could never go.
By entering the portal, the Dalet of His cross. He is the door, the portal in time, the Dalet of Pesach.
The Door of the sheep of which He was the Passover Lamb.
A Question of Jonah’s Timing.
Yonah is the name Jonah in Hebrew and means dove. The connection to Jesus/Yeshua is referenced in Matthew 12:40 and can be understood when examined from the Hebraic mindset and the Jewish way of counting days and nights. Sunset always starts the Hebrew day, it’s roots are in Genesis 1.
In Hebrew Weeks is Shavua. [שבוע] A cycle of seven days, mirroring the 7 day period of the book of Genesis in which the world is created.
The names for the days of the week, like those in the creation account, are simply the day number within the week, with Shabbat being the seventh day. Each day of the week runs from sunset to the following sunset and is figured locally.
The Hebrew calendar follows a seven-day weekly cycle and in Hebrew, these names may be abbreviated using the numerical value of the Hebrew letters,
for example יום א׳ Day 1, or Yom Rishon יום ראשון:
Day 1 Yom Rishon – abbr. יום א meaning first day corresponds to Sunday יום ראשון
Yom Sheni – abbr. יום ב meaning second day corresponds to Monday יום שנ
Yom Shlishi – abbr. יום ג׳ meaning third day corresponds to Tuesday יום שלישי
Yom ReviʻI – abbr. יום ד׳ meaning fourth day corresponds to Wednesday יום רביעי
Yom Chamishi – abbr. יום ה׳ meaning fifth day corresponds to Thursday יום חמישי
Yom Shishi – abbr. יום ו׳ meaning sixth day corresponds to Friday יום ששי
Yom Shabbat – abbr. יום ש׳ meaning rest שבת, or more usually Shabbat יום שבת
Also known as Yom Shabbat Kodesh יום שבת קודש (“holy rest day”).
This means that our Friday really begins on Thursday evening at sunset. The 2nd day begins at sunset on our Friday and continues through the daytime of our Saturday. Then our equivalent of Sunday begins at sunset on Saturday and continues through Saturday night and the hours of daylight of Sunday, making the third day.
Because the Jewish system was to count any portion of daylight as a full day, then Friday a.m. through Sun a.m. would have been understood as, and seen as, 3 complete days and nights. Reference to Jonah.
1st Day of the 3 days: Friday (really Day 6 of the week) was sunset on Thurs. night to sunset on Friday (really Day 5 of the week).
2nd Day Saturday (really Day 7 of the week) was from sunset on Friday night to sunset on Saturday night
3rd Day Sunday (really 1st day if the week) was from sunset on Saturday night to sundown on Sunday. Resurrection that day.
He was crucified at 9am on Friday and released His Spirit to the Father at 3pm. His body was prepared for burial and interred at sunset the same day. That was the beginning of the festival of Unleavened Bread. Then on Sunday after sunrise He became the first fruits.
To help explain the hours look at The Roman versus Mosaic Time Clocks
Sundials were used prior to the numbers on a clock face that we are accustomed to.
Venetians and Germans, both under Roman Influence, developed the modern clock. According to authorities, and Roman Catholic Church Archives, (Vatican Library); the first hour of the day began at what we now call 6 o’clock in the evening – directly opposite to the God’s original time clock as described in the Bible! This was likely done by demonic spirits (Eph. 6:112) influencing leaders, in order to spiritually disorient and disempower people.
This causes confusion and made understanding the scriptures harder. God is not the author of confusion, and why would He change that which He originally set in place and said was good? When we read of the 3rd hour, it is really 9 o clock and the 6th hour is 12.
The standard Mosaic Time Clock was in use for many thousands of years and people began their days in the evening according to Genesis 1:5 and John 11:9.
It’s physical orientation was changed upside down and back to front! We know who is responsible for that!
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Isa.24:1
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. Ps. 146:9
Theoretically by reverting back to God’s WAY of keeping time, left and right brain function would improve as so too would people’s spiritual receptivity.
In the Creation Calendar, Hebrew Hours begin at sunrise and sunset.
A Hebrew Hour occurring between sunset and sunrise is called a Hebrew Night Hour.
A Hebrew Hour occurring between sunrise and sunset is called a Hebrew Day Hour.
Sunset occurs and the First Watch begins exactly at the beginning of the first Hebrew Night Hour.
The Second Watch begins exactly at the beginning of the fourth Hebrew Night Hour.
Mid-night occurs and the Third Watch begins exactly at the beginning of the seventh Hebrew Night Hour.
The Fourth Watch begins exactly at the beginning of the tenth Hebrew Night Hour, and ends at sunrise at the end of the twelfth Hebrew Night Hour.
Sunrise is always exactly at the beginning of the first Hebrew Day Hour.
Mid-day occurs exactly at the end of the sixth Hebrew Day Hour.
Sunset occurs exactly at the end of the twelfth Hebrew Day Hour.
The duration of a Hebrew Hour varies with the season.
A Hebrew Day Hour is shorter in duration during winter when a Hebrew Night Hour is longer in duration.
A Hebrew Day Hour is longer in duration during summer when a Hebrew Night Hour is shorter in duration.
JEWISH TIME DIVISIONS IN THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Jesus/Yeshua replied, ‘Are there not 12 hours in a day?’
John 11:9
Why did He say this? Is it in reference to the importance of the Hours, Days, Times and Seasons of which we are to be mindful? They all have a deep meaning and He was not one to waste words, so it must have an importance that we have not fully understood.
A Hebrew Day consists of 12 Hebrew Night Hours and 12 Hebrew Day Hours.
The midpoint of the 12 Hebrew Night Hours is called Mid-Night. The moment of Mid-night occurs exactly halfway between sunset and sunrise separating the 6th and 7th Hebrew Night Hours.
The midpoint of the 12 Hebrew Day Hours is called Mid-day. The moment of Mid-day occurs exactly halfway between sunrise and sunset separating the 6th and 7th Hebrew Day Hours.
Between the moment of sunset at the end of the 12th Day hour and the 1st hour of the Night is called Between the Evenings or evening twilight.
At the last moment of that hour as the night begins is called Twinkling of an eye!
These are the 12 Day hours of a day and what follows is what took place at each of them. As everything is connected to Messiah and speaks of Him and His fulfillment of Fathers’ plan of redemption, read with that perspective of, type and shadow, in mind and allow Ruach HaKodesh to reveal Himself to us in them.
The numbers on a Hebrew clock are the letters of the alef bet which each have numerical value. This one represents the modern clock with 12 at the top.
FIRST HOUR DAWN-8AM
After the priests prepare the altar (Lev 1:7; 6:1-6/8-13; Mishnah: Tamid 1:2), the first male lamb of the Tamid sacrifice is brought out and tied to the altar at dawn (Mishnah: Tamid 3:2-3:3)
Sunrise over mount of Olives.
The twice daily communal sacrifice of the Tamid is the focus of religious life for the covenant people (Ex 29:38-42; Num 28:4-8). It is the only sacrifice other than the Feast of First Fruits or the Sabbath that requires a single male lamb for the liturgical service. The Sabbath requires a male lamb in addition to the Tamid lamb for each of the two Sabbath services (Num 28:9-10)
SECOND HOUR 8-9am
THIRD HOUR 9-10AM
The incense is offered in the Sanctuary and the first Tamid lamb is sacrificed as the Temple gates open [Mishnah: Tamid 3:7; Edersheim, The Temple, chapter 7,
ROMAN TIME 9-10AM
It is the time for the communal “Shacharit” (morning) prayer service (Acts 2:15) at the start of the 3rd hour. Individual morning prayer may be recited until noon (Mishnah: Berakhot 4:1A; Acts 10:9)
FOURTH HOUR 10-11AM
FIFTH HOUR 11-12PM
SIXTH HOUR
The second lamb is brought out and tied to the altar at high noon. [Mishnah: Tamid 4:1]
NOON -1PM
The second Tamid lamb is given a drink from a gold cup and remains near the altar until the time of sacrifice (Ex 29:41; Mishnah: Tamid 3:4; 4:1G; Josephus, Against Apion, 2.8[105]).
Individual afternoon prayer lasts from the sixth hour (noon) to about the eleventh hour (5 PM), the length of the time from when the second lamb is tied near the altar to the conclusion of the afternoon service (Mishnah: Berakhot, 4:1C; Acts 10:9).
SEVENTH HOUR 1-2PM
EIGHTH HOUR 2-3PM
NINTH HOUR 3-4PM
The second Tamid lamb is sacrificed [Antiquities of the Jews 14.4.3 (14:65); Philo Special Laws I, XXXV (169)]
3 PM is the second hour of prayer [Acts 3:1; 10:9] “Minchah” (gift-offering); also called the hour of confession.
TENTH HOUR 4-5PM
ELEVENTH HOUR 5-6PM
The afternoon liturgical service is concluded with the burning of the incense (sacrifices of the two lambs is embraced by the burning of the incense, making it a single sacrifice) and the priestly benediction (Mishnah: Tamid, 6:3-7:2; Num 6:24-26).
TWELVETH HOUR 6PM-SUNDOWN
The end of the 3rd watch and the beginning of the 4th watch was signaled by a trumpet call, which occurred at the end of every watch.
This one was known as the cockcrow, as Jesus/Yeshua noted in Mark 13:35:
So stay awake, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming: evening, midnight, cockcrow or dawn.
Matthew 26:34, Luke 22:34, and John 13:38 all record: “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “This very night, before the cockcrow, you will disown me three times.
Cocks crow in the morning not during the night. This is the end of third watch of the night, in the time of Christ and the beginning of the tenth Hebrew Night Hour.
So it would seem He was saying that Peter would deny Him before the start of the tenth Hebrew hour, which was a full 2 hours before sunrise.
In our Lord’s time the Jews had adopted the Greek and Roman division of the night into four watches, each consisting of three hours, the first beginning at six o’clock in the evening (Luke 12:38; Matthew 14:25; Mark 6:48). But the ancient division, known as the first and second cock-crowing, was still retained.
The cock usually crows several times soon after midnight (this is the first crowing), and again at the dawn of day (and this is the second crowing). Mark mentions (14:30) the two cock-crowings.
Roman Horn
Matthew (26:34) alludes to that only which was emphatically the cock-crowing, the second, kok’-kro-ing (alektorophonia):
An indefinite hour of the night between midnight and morning
(Mark 13:35), referred to by all the evangelists in their account of Peter’s denial (Matthew 26:34, 74 ; Mark 14:30; Luke 22:34; John 13:38). (It is derived from the habit of the cock to crow, especially toward morning.)
And is also a symbol of the Resurrection, our Lord being supposed to have risen
from the grave at the early cock crowing:
Roosters were not allowed in the city, according to Jewish ritual law. More likely, the Gospels refer to the trumpet call marking the changing of the guard at 3 A.M. This trumpet blast, heard city-wide, was called the cock-crow.
Roman signal horn.
Notice that according to St. Mark, Jesus went to the cross at the third hour, which in Jewish time corresponds to our 9AM [Mark 15:25], and according to the Gospel accounts He gave up His life at the ninth hour, our 3PM.
At the 9th hour during the temple lamb sacrifices, the same words were also shouted.
It is finished!
The Jewish day began at sundown.
sunset over old city
The daytime was divided into 12 seasonal hours, but the day division of hours was focused on the schedule of the Tamid sacrifice.
Twelve-hour night time division.
In Judaism, an hour is defined as (1/12), one twelfth of the time from sunrise to sunset, so, during the winter, an hour can be much less than 60 minutes, and during the summer, it can be much more than 60 minutes. This proportional hour is known as a ‘sha’ah z’manit’ (lit. a timely hour).
The daytime hours are often divided into Sha`oth Zemaniyoth or “Halachic hours” by taking the time between sunrise and sunset or between dawn and nightfall and dividing it into 12 equal hours.
Halachically, a day ends and a new one starts when three stars are visible in the sky.
The time between true sunset and the time when the three stars are visible (known as ‘tzait ha’kochavim’) is known as ‘bein hashmashot’.
The nighttime hours are similarly divided into 12 equal portions, albeit a different amount of time than the “hours” of the daytime.
(Roman night watch division was adopted after Roman occupation began in 63 BC)
THE NIGHT WATCH IN THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Sundown to 9PM First watch
9PM to midnight Second watch
Midnight to 3AM Third watch
3AM to sun rise Fourth watch
Sixth to the ninth hour were the hours of darkness when Messiah was on the cross.
The Roman calendar took precedence with the Julian calendar. Julius Caesar first implemented it in 46 B.C. Since the Roman emperor’s system miscalculated the length of the solar year by 11 minutes, the calendar had since fallen out of sync with the seasons.
The Julian Calendar marked a major change from the Lunar Republican Calendar, being a Solar calendar and the predecessor of the Calendar still in use today. It was not until 1582 AD that Pope Gregory XIII decreed a modification to the Julian calendar, giving us the “Gregorian Calendar” that governs modern time.
He removed 10 days from the calendar!
In reference to Jesus/Yeshua, the year was returned to 0 and separated B.C. from A.D. We are now at 2019 A.D. It is really approx. the year 6019, if we count from Creation to Messiah 4,000+ years and then add 2019!
Gives a whole new meaning to the statement no man knows the day nor the hour.
Some other references to hours
In contrast to Matthew, Mark, Luke and Acts, the book of John, as it now exists in the Greek manuscripts, numbers hours from midnight as the Romans did.
Pilate questioned יהושע the Messiah at the sixth hour Roman reckoning according to John 19:14 which is the twelfth Hebrew Night Hour.
יהושע the Messiah sat at Jacob’s well at Sychar at the sixth hour Roman reckoning after a tiresome journey according to John 4:6 which is the twelfth Hebrew Day Hour.
A nobleman travelled the better part of a day from Cana to Capernaum and met יהושע the Messiah at the seventh hour Roman reckoning according to in John 4:52 which is the first Hebrew Night Hour.
The disciples came to the place יהושע the Messiah was staying at the tenth hour Roman reckoning and stayed with Him for the rest of that day according to John 1:39. The tenth hour Roman reckoning is the fourth Hebrew Day Hour.
Acts 2:15 Peter speech at pentecost/ Shavuot four these are not drunk as you assume as it is the third hour of the day. 9 AM is the hour of morning prayer how is hour three equal to 9 AM?
John 4:6 it was about sixth hour which was noon 12 o’clock this also fits with the evening morning the first day. John 4:2 1 PM the seventh hour.
Because the clock has been reversed and that was 2000+ years ago and since that time everything has been altered to benefit those under the influence of the god of this world. Primarily to hide the truth and to throw everything out of kilter. The scriptures say he will change the times and seasons, that spirit of antichrist working in the worlds systems. The opposite of and in contrary rebellion to all that which was set in place by the Lord. He is the wrong DOR, an acronym for Direct Opposite Reverse.
For example: The evening and the morning constitutes a day, not morning and evening. The english language goes from left to write instead of right to left and books are red from left to right. This is not the way that the Hebrew language is written and read.
If we follow the scripture in Matthew 20:1–6, then 9 AM is the third hour.
vs.5, six and nine are equal to 12 Noon and 3 P.M.
vs 6. 5 PM is the 11thhour.
So if the day begins at sundown which is 6 P.M. to us, with the original clock that would be 12 PM.
Then 1 AM would begin and two cycles of the clock face for 24 hours would give the 24 hours of the day.
