From peirazo; a putting to proof (of good), experience (of evil), solicitation, discipline or provocation); by implication, adversity.
Original Word: πειρασμός, οῦ, ὁ.
Transliteration: peirasmos.
Phonetic Spelling: pi-ras-mos’
Peirazo: to try or prove
peirasmos: a trial, proof
w’al-t’bi’enu lidey nisayon ki ‘im-t’chal’tsenu min-hara`
(ki l’ak hamam’lakah w’hag’burah w’hatiph’ereth l’`ol’mey `olamim ‘Amen).
Matt 6:13 “And do not bring us into the hands of temptation,
but rescue us from what is evil.
{For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the majesty, forever and ever. Amen.}”
In Aramaic as well as Hebrew there are several words for temptation:
Nasah, nisa or nesa נסא
with the Hebrew letters: Nun Samek Aleph
and bacan.
All the above mean:
to test
however,
bacan means: to test for qualification
and
nasah means: to test one’s limits or abilities.
Nacah: to prove, try, tempt.
Another word for temptation is
Strong’s Hebrew: 4531.
מַסָּה (maccah) — temptation
Transliteration: maccah.
Phonetic Spelling: mas-saw’
Definition: despair. a trial, temptation;
Temptation is pronounced: tem-ta’-shun and in the Biblical sense is: a situation in which an individual experiences a challenge; and has to choose between fidelity/faithfulness and infidelity/unfaithfulness, in our obligations and obedience toward our Heavenly Father.
When the King James Version of the Bible was translated in 1611, the word temptation meant all of the above, however today the word has narrowed in meaning and modern translations use words such as testing, proving, trying.
What exactly is temptation?
What does the Word of God tell us?
Here are some scripture references.
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matt 26:41
4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[ a] by the devil. Matt 4:1-11
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. Luke 4:1-13
When Jesus/Yeshua was tempted, tested and tried, He was led by the Fathers Holy Spirit and it was to prove Him worthy and able. Applying the meanings above it was, to test for qualification; to test one’s limits or abilities, and for Him to understand what it means to be under that type of pressure in a flesh body so that He can help us to overcome.
Heb. 2:18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Looking at nesa the Aramaic word for temptation it is the same in terms of language to the Hebrew word nasah, which does not mean temptation, it means to test; and in the English language, we have just one word test. In Hebrew, it’s used as:
a word of determination,
as a way to see if something or someone can qualify
or attain a certain standard for usefulness.
The word is also used to:
determine the limits of something or someone.
In Aramaic as well as the Hebrew language there are two words
nasahand bacan.
Both mean to test, but bacan is: to test for qualification and nasah is used to test one’s limits or abilities.
In this sense, the enemy was not tempting Messiah but he was testing Him.
He was giving Messiah the same chance that he gives to all of us. The opportunity to exercise our free will in choosing between the flesh or the spirit.
Jesus/Yeshuas temptations were indeed offered to Him as a short cut to His goal and He fasted for 40 days to keep His flesh life under the control of His Spirit; and He overcame them with the Word of God., with Scripture from the Bible.
His goal was to die as the perfect sacrifice for all sin and to reveal to the world Who He was, and to save humanity from eternal separation from our Heavenly Father.
The first opportunity was to try out, to test the physical desires.
He was tempted to turn stones into bread when he was hungry to satisfy flesh needs, but He did not.
Our Heavenly Father God is a life giving Spirit (John4:24); and does not have a human body, so before this event, He could not know exactly what it was like to go hungry and be faced with the test/temptation, choice of eating bread to fulfill His fleshly desires. Jesus/Yeshua chose to satisfy His hunger on the Words of God, and to feed His Spirit and not His fleshly body. He fully understands our struggle between feeding the body over the spirit.
Then the enemy launched a temptation against Yeshua/Jesus’ free will, this appeal was to Messiah’s soul, which wanted to be recognized and accepted. People could not believe that Yeshua/Jesus was the Son of God, the Messiah, yet the enemy had a plan and it would be easy to prove it to everyone. The devil challenged Him by tempting Him to throw Himself down from the pinnacle of the Temple right in front of the High Priest, the Pharisees and religious leaders of the people, which would prove to them He was Messiah. A miracle in front of them and all the other witnesses and when the angels came to His rescue there would be no doubt in anyone’s mind as to His Deity. But Yeshua/Jesus said You shall notnesa – testthe limits of God.
Finally, the enemy appealed to both the soul and the body of Messiah by offering to bypass the crucifixion, rejection, torture and all the other things he had to endure for our salvation. Messiah was tested by being tempted to yield to a shortcut, and to receive all the kingdoms of the world and every person in them and become king of all without having to die; but He would have had to give in to the adversary and bow in worship to him.
As with any compromise there is always a consequence to our choices, decisions and actions.
Messiah came to die, it was His purpose and goal and there was no quick fix, no alternate way to fulfill the will of His Father. All tests, trials, griefs and disciplines are outweighed by the blessings that follow in the wake of our victory.
He came to destroy the works of the devil which began in Gan Eden. He was the last Adam and like the temptations recorded in Genesis the same 3 areas were leveled at Messiah just as they were in the beginning; only this time, Messiah, the last Adam overcame them and was victorious.
The enemy was willing to let us all go if Messiah would just worship him.
The word worship in Aramaic here is seged which literally means:
to give recognition, honor, and attention to something or someone.
Lucifer was once the light bearer of God in the heavenlies and then he fell and this task of being a light in the darkness and carrying the light of the Gospel of His Kingdom, was passed on to us. All Messiah had to do was give in to the enemy and His body and soul could have avoided the cross. Is it possible that as the adversary ‘spoke’ to Him, His body and soul pressed Him to’ just do it.,’ or it would not have been a real temptation? However, the Spirit of God in Messiah knew that man would still be doomed and again the Spirit overcame the desires of the body.
The result is that Yeshua/Jesus knows what our battle between the flesh and spirit is like.He knows how hard it is for us sometimes to follow our spirit, because He himself had His body and soulnesa,tested to the limits.
It is the same for us, each day the desires of the body and soul are being tried to the limits. Each day the enemy offers our body and soul with opportunities, the lust of the flesh, that are opposed to our spirit which is joined with the spirit of our Heavenly Father God. Do we feed the desires of our souls with movies, internet sites, activities that are opposed to the holiness of God; or do we choose the desires of our spirit over the desires of the flesh?
What we choose to feed will grow stronger.
The spirit has no objection to eating, but it does to some things we eat that are harmful to us. It has no objection to an occasional movie but it does object to movies that arouse the desires of lust, fornication, violence, jealousy, hate and murder. Every day the enemy nesa’s us to choose the flesh over the spirit.
Because Yeshua/Jesus experienced our humanity, our suffering, and our temptation, tests and trials, He overcame them and is worthy to be our High Priest and the perfect sacrifice for our sins John 4:6-8
James 1:13-18. 13
When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.
We are taught not to think of the temptation in which, lust meets opportunity, as that into which we are led by God.James 1:13-14.
Lusts or desires of the flesh, are the carnal, physical, bodily wants, which go above and beyond the basic needs to sustain life. Our Heavenly Father provides for and meets our needs, not our ungodly wants. Unbridled lust/desires could be summed up as the appetites of unclean and addictive spirits manifesting in and through peoples physical bodies, where the natural flesh life not submitted to the indwelling Holy spirit and controlled by the life of Messiah in us.
James 1:12-16. Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Luke 22:40. 40 On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”
Matthew 6:13. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
Matthew 26:41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 Tim. 2:22.
Prov. 28:13 Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
1 Cor. 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
Paul comforts the saints with the fact that no temptation or affliction has befallen them, but what is common to human nature, and that God is faithful to provide a way of escape and God is faithful He had called them; 1 Corinthians 1:9, and since he knew “how to deliver the godly out of temptations”2 Peter 2:9, he would surely keep His side of the covenant, and, if they did their parts, He would establish and keep them from evil, 2 Thessalonians 3:3. He also promised that the way of deliverance will be ready, simultaneously with the temptation. A way to escape; rather, the way to escape. The way to escape is different in different temptations, but for each temptation God would provide the special means of escaping it, meaning we would not give in to it and therefore avoid sinning. However it is still our choice, to take the way out that is offered or not.
1 Cor. 10:15
An individuals innermost nature, what a person possesses in the inner spiritual part of his/her being, usually determines what they are tempted by externally.
As we are all different, he temptation fits the nature of the person being tempted and reveals the possibilities and weaknesses of that inner nature. In truth, each person actually determines or sets the level of his/her own temptation because temptation will come in agreement with the level of their controlling inner nature. What is a temptation to one person may not be a temptation to another.
Temptation comes as a thought, a suggestion, often as a quick option, a possible shortcut to reaching a personal goal; it does not usually point us towards what is obviously evil, but to what we initially believe and understand to be good.
This temptation is something that can confuse us at first and we aren’t sure whether it’s right or wrong, and we sway between telling ourselves ‘its ok’and ‘I shouldn’t give in’ finally convincing ourselves and by justifying and defending our actions. At this point we yield to it and make lust a god, an idol, and the temptation itself becomes the proof that our own fear was the only thing that stopped us from giving in and falling into sin earlier.
We struggle and suffer from temptation of the fleshly desires and lusts, simply because we have resisted and refused to allow our Heavenly Fathers Holy Spirit to lead us to a higher level, where we will face temptations of another kind.
Hebrews 2:18 Hebrews 4:15 – 16. Each man is tempted when he is going or led away by his own lust, it comes from within us, its’ sources are in us from mind sets, culture, learned behavior and developed habits, both internally as well as externally.
Uncontrollable lust is the expression of unclean spirits manifesting in human flesh through our souls, a combination of our minds thoughts, our will and our feelings or emotions, which pervert by excess, the natural inclinations in our physical bodies.
Until we are born from above, until the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit of the Living God causes our spirit to become alive from being dead in sin; the only kind of temptation we know or comprehend is mentioned inJames 1:14 where each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires lusts.
Through the regenerating power of His Spirit of Holiness into our spirit, we can overcome those fleshly lusts, be set free from any unclean spirits and as Messiah did in Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. After He had the victory over His flesh, He began His public ministry full of the Holy Spirit. This is the pattern for us also, then we too will face temptations of another kind because we have been lifted and exposed to another realm. In the realm of the spirit we will face similar temptations to that which Messiah experienced during His life, however He has equipped us and is with us, to deal with whatever we face.
The things that Jesus/Yeshua went through have little to do with unbelievers, they are not of the natural realm; nor were they overcome by natural means.
Until we all become family, united together with Messiah, as children of the Most High; they mean nothing to us other than lifes’ challenges which are dealt with the same way as people in the world deal with them. Those that Messiah experienced were far more, because they were temptations of God as man.
The Son of God, Messiah, is formed in us through regeneration and in our physical life, Galatians 4:19, we have the same situation that He had while here, which is the life of the Son of God in us. It is no longer I that live but Messiah Who lives in and through me.
Satan doesn’t test and tempt us just to make us sin and do wrong things, but in order to make us, and cause us, to lose what our Heavenly Father has imparted to us through the regenerating, born from above by His Spirit experience.
He wants to destroy the possibility of us being of value to our Heavenly Father and His Kingdom.
He doesn’t come on the premise of tempting us to sin, but on the premise of shifting our point of view that its not really sin; and only our Heavenly Fathers Spirit can identify this as the enemies lies and deception.
Temptation is a test by a power outside of ourselves which is not natural to humans and It is focused on that which is held in the inner spiritual part of our being.
This is what happened to Jesus/Yeshua, when after His immersion in John 1:29 and by accepting His mission of being the One Who takes away the sin of the world, He was led by the Fathers Holy Spirit into the wilderness Matthew 4:1, and into the testing devices of the enemy, which we looked at earlier in the post.
He didn’t become weary or exhausted to the point of giving in to the pressure, He went through the temptation without sin and He retained all the elements of His spiritual nature intact.
So being tempted is not sin
Luke 22:28,
a fact which gives all of us much relief.
Temptation always begins with a thought and is followed by a decision, a choice; which is where we must stop and take every thought captive bringing it into obedience to Messiah.
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Cor.10:5.
Jesus/Yeshua is with us through our temptations but are we going on with Him through His temptations? What does that mean? Many of us turn back from going on with Messiah from the very moment we have an experience of what He can do. When our Father changes our circumstances, pay attention and see whether we are choosing to go on with Messiah or will we align with the world, the flesh and the devil? We wear His identity, CHRISTians, but are we going forward with Him?
When tough and challenging times come, who or where do we run to first; and who do we go to for help? What alternate solutions and other sources of help do we seek for the answers to our problems? Are we looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, or a quick fix from a worldly source? In John 6:66 even some of the disciples went back and walked with Him no more.
Jesus/Yeshua was tempted continually throughout His life here on earth and the temptations will continue throughout the life of the Son of God in us. Are we going on with Messiah in the life we are living right now or are we going back?
It’s all about endurance and not giving into the flesh life or to what we see in this natural realm of earth and the world around us. We have the idea that we ought to protect and shield ourselves from some of the things that our Heavenly Father is allowing and brings around us. Do we think we know better than Him? If we truly believe that He knows and is in control of everything and that it’s He who allows and determines our circumstances and whatever they may be; we must see that we face them while continually abiding with Him in and through His temptations.
We need to begin to see that they are His temptations, not as temptations to us, but rather temptations to the Life of the Son of God in us; Messiah/Christ in us, His life, His mind, His thinking, His power, His honor, is at stake in our physical lives, our bodies.
Are we remaining faithful to the Son of God in every thing that attacks His life in us? Are we applying His word to our life and situation? Are we acting in faith that His promises are true, and are we waiting on Him to fulfill His promises? Are we being still and know He is God, or are we spending time looking for a quick fix and an alternate solution so that we can make things happen in our timing?
Are we going on with Messiah or are we turning back to the worlds ways?
The prince of this world has many ways to offer us and there’s only one Way for the true, faithful disciple. It’s the narrow way, it’s uphill, there’s only room for 1 to walk beside us, one to be yadiyad/ hand in hand with Messiah. This Way goes through the valley of the shadow of death and through Gethsemane, then through the city gate and on outside the camp. Hebrews 13:13.
The Way is lonely and goes on until sometimes there is no longer only the voice of the shepherd calling us to Follow Me but just an echo. Matthew 4:19. Where is our faith? Is it placed in Him, His word or elsewhere? When the answer doesn’t come according to our timeline and our preferred way, do we wait and allow our patience to work with our faith and trust by the Spirit, or do we look for a solution solely with the arm of the flesh?
Does the end justify the means, the compromise; and if we yield to alternatives now, how will we stand in faith if the only option to alternatives means taking the mark and denying the Lord we say we love and serve? And how can we counsel others to stand in faith if we do not?
Be encouraged and remember:
Temptation is NOT sin for Messiah was tempted yet He did not sin.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin. Hebrews 4:15
However, we must be on guard that we do not succumb to the desires of the flesh. We must do our part.
How? Jesus/Yeshua told His disciples to
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matt 26:41 This answer is true for each one of us and we must watch and be on guard because that how the enemy sneaks in. The Greek word for temptation that has one meaning of experiment, we could say that as the enemy of our souls experiments on them, maybe our reaction by the power of our Heavenly Fathers Holy Spirit, will simply blow up his experiment in his face and our victory is complete in Messiah.
Hebrews 2:18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted he is able to help those who are being tempted. And these tests and trials will not overtake us when we place our lives in His hands and trust Him to bring us through every time.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he must flee.
Use the same solution that Messiah did to counteract the ememy’s schemes; speak the Word od God, find relevant verses in the scriptures..and declare boldly it is written …..I am an overcomer seated in heavenly places with Messiah and His sacrificial blood has been applied to my life, I am redeemed, sanctified and set apart for His will plan and purposes, I am His child, who has been made righteousness and my life is hid with God in Christ.
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
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 very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
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.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Yea.
It’s a word we read but we may not stop to consider what it really means in the context of the sentence. On first glance, we may assume it is just a KJV, older word used in the modern English language for yes.
Think of other verses that have the word yea in them,
and insert
But better yet….
For example Psalm 23
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
But better yet….
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
It is a great encouragement to us but better yetmeans,
it is more to us than we thought at first.
We need this encouragement because n this world we will have tribulation:
In the worldyouhavetribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, John 16:33
These are words from Messiah, Himself, not only to those with Him at the time He said them; but to all His followers down through the ages.. With the warning comes hope and comfort, because He says
I will be with you even to the end of the age. Matt.28:20
Isaiah encourages us with this promise in chapter 41:10, “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
And this promise is still in effect and true to us today.
We will all experience times of testing and trial, Peter tells us to think it not strange Beloved, concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 1Peter 4:12-13
We are told that, far from being strange and surprising in God’s plan, these fiery trials are “necessary.”
Instead he urges them tobe sober and to pray,1 Peter 4:7; and to help one another through the trials. 1 Peter 4:8–11.
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith — more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire— may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
In Acts 14:22we are reminded that tests and trials are necessary.“Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God”
This is a godly “must.” It’s the same word and the same concept as Peter says in
The fiery ordeal that is coming upon us to test us is not strange.
Why is it necessary? Its the question many ask, why do believers/christians suffer?
The answer is because it’s God’s refining judgment in our lives, working maturity in trust towards our Father, so that our faith may result in our Heavenly Father receiving praise, glory and honor. Whatever trials come our way, we should not be surprised, simply place our spirit/souls and bodies in the hands of our faithful Creator, and don’t be ashamed of Messiah and His gospel of the Kingdom,. Rejoice in hope, and fill our lives by planting good seeds, while walking obediently in His will and His ways.
The trials and testings of our faith reveal to us, where we are in our faith walk with the Lord. He already knows where we are.
Many of us will never experience true hardship or enduring circumstances that are unthinkable in a modern western society. Books like the Insanity of God and Fox’s book of Martyrs among countless others, reveal a faith in God beyond what many believers will ever have to show. And yet, we will all experience situations where we will be required to rely on our faith and trust implicitly in our Savior.
This is why there are so many verses of encouragement and promises of protection, assuring us that He is with us through every trial we face whatever they may be.
In Isaiah 41:10 for that is exactly what this verse is saying. When we face a real threat, God is telling us not to fear. Many times when we read the word fear, it is in reference to the fear of the Lord not as in terror or being afraid, but having reverential respect for Who God is.
In this verse the word for fear used here is a fear is for one’s own personal safety. The reason we need not fear is because God is with us – Emanuel.
He continues, saying, “Be not dismayed.”
In Hebrew, the worddismayedhere is
tisheta’
which has a Semitic root meaning
to be blind.
Be dismayed –
תִּשְׁתָּ֖ע tista
tisheta – tsht – tet sheen tet תִּשְׁתָּ֖
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance 8159
depart, be dim, be dismayed, look away, regard, have respect, spare, turn
A primitive root; to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered -blind to- depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.
If a person is really terrified, that fear causes an irrational reaction, and they are blind to what is actually happening, as their imagination runs wild about what is about to occur.
Here our Heavenly Father is reassuring us saying
“I am with you.”
In those days there were many gods being worshipped and demanding all kinds of sacrifices for favors, but not one of them was promising,
God will not only give us courage to enter this fight, but better yet, He has our backs/our six;
but even better than all of the previous promises,
He is upholding us.
The Hebrew 8851 word for
upholding istamar
I will uphold you
te·maḵ·tî·ḵā – תְּמַכְתִּ֖יךָ
This word in its root form means:
to take hold, hold fast,
or glue oneself to something.
Think of this, and visualize that our loving Heavenly Father not only gives us courage and protects our backs, but He will glue Himself to us, literally sticking with us!
Our confident assurance is that Father God is not only watching our back, but most importantly His presence isglued to us.
The more we stare at an overwhelming situation, our confidence in our reasoning quickly fades, However as we turn from it towards our Savior, it is quickly replaced by confidence in our Heavenly Father Who loves us.
Even if we don’t yet feel that we have all this courage and support, God promises that it will be there when we need it. Isaiah 41:10assures us of that. He will never be caught off guard because inPsalms 121:4: we are assured “Behold, he that keepth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”
Isaiah 41:10, “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
be afraid,
תִּשְׁתָּ֖ע (tiš·tā‘)
Verb – Qal – Imperfect – second person masculine singular Strong’s 8159: To gaze at, about, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed, bewildered
for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction Strong’s 3588: A relative conjunction
I
אֲנִ֣י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun – first person common singular Strong’s 589: I
am your God.
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun – masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong’s 430: gods — the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative
I will strengthen you;
אִמַּצְתִּ֙יךָ֙ (’im·maṣ·tî·ḵā)
Verb – Piel – Perfect – first person common singular | second person masculine singular Strong’s 553: To be stout, strong, bold, alert
I will surely help you;
עֲזַרְתִּ֔יךָ (‘ă·zar·tî·ḵā)
Verb – Qal – Perfect – first person common singular | second person masculine singular Strong’s 5826: To surround, protect, aid
I will uphold you
תְּמַכְתִּ֖יךָ (tə·maḵ·tî·ḵā)
Verb – Qal – Perfect – first person common singular | second person masculine singular Strong’s 8551: To sustain, to obtain, keep fast, to help, follow close
with My right hand
בִּימִ֥ין (bî·mîn)
Preposition-b | Noun – feminine singular construct Strong’s 3225: The right hand, side, the south
of righteousness.
צִדְקִֽי׃ (ṣiḏ·qî)
Noun – masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong’s 6664: The right, equity, prosperity
History records that King Solomon had twenty armed bodyguards, elite warriors guarding him every night as he slept. We have a security greater than any king or president, we have the God of all creation keeping watch over us.
Psalms 121:4: Behold, he that keepth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.
He is a body guard who does not slumber or sleeps. He is on duty every moment of each day 24/7. Our Heavenly bodyguard does not slumber and he also does not sleep.
In Hebrew sleep – ישן
Yod Shin Nun
yashan
Our Father God does not live in time like we do. He created time for us while we are in the earth. It is almost impossible for us to understand it from this physical realms’ perspective. He is not only with us every moment of every day, but we also have the added assurance that He neverslumbers norsleeps.
Why does it say both slumber and sleep?
The word sleepin Hebrew isyashan. It means: to sleep, but is can also mean: to grow old. The creator of the universe will never grow old. Obviously It is impossible to outlive God. He is there with us never growing too old or feeble to help us or encourage us.
Slumber in Hebrew is num
which means; a half sleep that is to get drowsy or have a tendency to doze off. We hear of many kinds of accidents which happen not because the operator or driver fell asleep; but because they were drowsy and not paying attention. Our Heavenly Father has His full attention on us both night and day, He will never sleep nor will His attention be diverted by drowsiness or slumber.
The word keepth in Hebrew is shamar
which means:
to be a body guard, one who watches over to protect.
As our body guard, He is unlike other body guards who need to sleep because God needs no sleep and He watches over us 24/7.
Are sleep and slumber the same thing?
Not if we understand it in the sense that, there may be a guard who is self-disciplined enough to not slumber, but obviously however self disciplined he, is he is going to have to sleep some time; the body cannot function properly without the sleep that God designed our bodies to need. Here we are assured that our Heavenly Father does not slumber and neither does He sleep.
The Hebrew word yashan – sleep, is spelled
Yod – Shin – Nun
The letters of the word many give us some insight, teaching us more than what we think of when we think of sleep; and it helps us to understand what the people in David’s day thought when they heard that God does notyashan or sleep.
The first letter to
ישן
yeshan – sleep
is the
Yod which teaches us:
to be careful not to be so focused on future events that we miss what is happening in the present. When it is written, the letter Yod is hanging in the air and has no connection to the ground. The fact that God never sleeps means, he has His attention focused on the now moment. Whatever we are going through in that very moment He is there focused and fully aware of it.
In yashan
The second letter is the Shin. The Shin represents: The fiery passion of God, His deep love for us is always available, He is never too tired or sick to give us His attention. He is ready to share His passion with us whenever we are ready, making Himself available to us any moment, not when He just feels like it, and we have to wait for Him to wake up.
Nun is the last letter which reveals that our Heavenly Father will never be distracted nor will he let his attention be diverted because he needs to sleep. He is attentive to us all day and all night.
From this we can take great comfort when He says that He will stand guard over us and never sleep it means that He will watch and protection is for every moment in our lives until we see Him face to face. He is watching over us right now, no matter what we are going through. Because He does not sleep means, His watches carefully over us and makes his passions available to us at any time, and He is never too tired to pour out His love on us. Finally we must accept the fact that He does notsleep means, that there is nothing to divert His attention away from us.
By declaring that He is watching over us and never slumbers or sleeps, He is telling us that there are no holes or gaps in His protective covering. There is no better place of security than to put ourselves under His care.
Every reader, be comforted and encouraged, whatever is going on in the world around us….Remember…
Yea- ap – how much more
is He with us /Emanuel, through every test and fiery trial because,
as the word keepth / shamar / means to be a body guard 24/7 One who always has our back and because he never slumbers /num nor sleeps/yashan. Do not fear and do not be afraid for the tests and trials.. He has overcome the world. John 16:33
but
Better
Yet…
..YEA
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
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 very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
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.
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent,
with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east.
There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the Lord.
Genesis 12:8
Where we live geographically is one thing,
where we live spiritually is a whole other aspect of our lives.
Beth El = House of God
Ai = the world.
Where we settle is directed by the Lord..
And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation. Acts 17:6
CSB translation says: and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live. He built an altar and called on the Name of the Lord. A place of worship. In the centre between the House of God/Bethel and Ai /the world.
We are in this world but not of it…
Where have you pitched your tent ?
A tent give the impression of not being permanent, of someone in transit. Itinerant or always on the move like the bedouin nomads. However, a tent is a place of protection from the elements and to rest. Today most people have a permanent address, a location that they always return to, a home. We are in this world but not of it because the world and its systems belong to the adversary and he is the god of this world.
Worship is giving to our Heavenly Father the best, the same best that He has given us. We need to be careful and mindful of what we do with the best that we have. Whenever we receive a blessing from our Heavenly Father, we are to offer it back to Him as a love gift. Allow Him to direct us what He would have us do with what He has placed in our life and hands.
Take time to be in His presence. Turn off distractions and focus our minds before Him, thinking deeply on His provision and love for us; and offer all blessings back to Him in a deliberate act of worship, instead of greedily grasping it to ourselves. Because if we selfishly hoard it, it will become just like the manna did inEx 16:20. It will spoil and turn into spiritual dry rot, just as when it was gathered in excess and hoarded against Gods instructions. He supplies daily and will direct us when to keep, and when to share and release our blessings. We are channels, conduits through which blessings and provision can flow freely.
Matthew 10:8 freely you have received, freely give.
God will never allow us to keep a spiritual blessing entirely for ourselves. It must be returned to Him so that He can make it a blessing to others. We are all one body and not disconnected. When one part hurts the whole body hurts and vice versa.
Here inGen. 12:8, Bethel is Hebrew for ‘the house of God’ – it is the symbol of fellowship and communion with Him, and where we should desire to spend time – at Gods house.
Ai is a symbol of the world, Abraham pitched his tent between the two. He had access to be able to witness to the world, but not live there, nor be a part of it, or become influenced by all that it offers. Lot pitched his tent towards sodom and we all know that did not end well!
Remember Lots wife
Luke 17:23
She became so connected to the world that
she looked back longingly
to what she was leaving behind.
The lasting value of our service and ministry to the public in the world is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private time of fellowship and oneness with Him. When we rush in and out of worship its is not pleasing to Him. Think how we feel when someone we are talking to takes a phone call, or is not paying attention to us. It is not only rude and disrespectful, but they are not listening to us and seems like they don’t care and are not interested at all.
There is always plenty of time to worship God we just simply choose to spend our time on things we prefer to do. Think nothing of watching tv or sports for an hour, or on social media etc etc. We spiritually need to have daily quiet time with our Heavenly Father. Jesus/Yeshua asked His Disciples in
Matthew 26:40
Could you not pray with me 1 hour?
All relationships must have communication for decisions to be made and loving trust to be established, ottherwise, they break down and one doesn’t know what the other is doing and they end up going separate ways. This is why we must pitch our tents towards the Lord, where we will always have quiet time with Him, however noisy our times in the world may be.
There aren’t 3 levels to our spiritual lives: worship – waiting and work. Yet some of us jump from worship – to waiting – to work, when our Fathers Way is that the 3 should combine as one. Jesus/Yeshua’s life showed them blended perfectly in harmony. Follow Me, He said. It’s a discipline that MUST be developed, and it doesn’t happen in a day.
His ‘Follow Me’ command, came twice to them. Once in John 13:36/Matt. 4:19and 3 years later in 21:19. Here the first time, Peter followed without hesitation. The call of Messiah had an irresistible pull on him and Peter didn’t need the Fathers’ Holy Spirit to help him go. Years later he denied Him and Peter’s heart broke; however, he received Holy Spirit and when Messiah said again, in John 21:9Follow Me; there was no one but Jesus/Yeshua in front of him. The first Follow Me, was an external following and there was no mystery about it, but inJohn 21;18Messiah is asking for an internal sacrifice and yielding.
This call for an internal sacrifice and yielding is to us also.
In26:69-75 tells us that Peter denied Jesus/yeshua with curses and oaths between the 2 follow me‘s.
At this point he came to the end of himself and all his self sufficiency.
There was no part of him that he would ever rely on again. In this broken state, he was finally ready to receive all that the resurrected Messiah had for him.
Have we come to the end of ourselves yet?
Have we come to the realization that we cannot make it without HIm?
in John 20:22 He breathed on themand this was prior to the outpouring at Shavuot/Pentecost. No matter what changes our Heavenly Father has made in us, we are never to rely on them; we are to build only on one person, the Messiah Jesus/Yeshua and on His Spirit of Holiness which He gives. All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them and bring them to pass. However, when we come to the end of ourselves not just mentally but in every way, we are able to receive His Holy Spirit.
This is the picture of being completely filled, invaded, wholly permeated, and then there is only One who directs the course of our lives. Our Lord and Savior dwelling within, tabernacled in us. We have become His dwelling place and are seemlessly connected and blended with Messiah.
We have become the tent of meeting,
we are the place of tabernacling;
so wherever we are, the bethel – house of Gods presence is where we are.
Where we have pitched out tent is not a location between two places any longer, because He is in us, and we are in Him we are not of this world.
How long will we halt between two opinions and choices?
Come out from among them and be ye separate…
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you. 2 Cor. 6:17
Where have you pitched your tent?
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
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 very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
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.
Gal. 2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.
Genesis 4:40 only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.
The ‘throne of God’ is His presence.
Once His presence was confined
to the mishkan in the wilderness;
and then transferred to the Temple within the Holy of Holies.
The Temple had a large courtyard where everyone was allowed; here they came to bring, or purchase the birds or animals for the sacrifice required for their sins. The altar of sacrifice was open to, and available for sinners to atone for their sins. The presence, or shekinah of the Lord was not manifested there.
Next was the Inner Court or Holy Place, where the priests could go but not the general public. Here stood the table of showbread containing the bread of the presence, the menorah and the altar of incense. Here when they were cleansed and prepared, the priests were one step closer to the Holy of Holies, where the presence of the Lord resided in the Ark of the Covenant. Only the High Priest could go into the Holy of Holies and he had to be as pure and sinless as possible. Sacrifice had to be made for him and on behalf of the people. He wore special white clothes, no shoes. The only thing he took with Him was the blood of the sacrifice for those sins to be sprinkled on the ark itself; on the mercy seat /the kapporet. This blood paid the price for sin as an atonement by ‘covering’ them..
The container of His glory /presence/ indwelling, was covered in sacrificial blood. After Messiah Jesus died, He became our sacrifice for our sin; His blood paid the price for our sin by not only covering but removing them forever. Gods glory/ shekinah /His Spirit, was no longer confined in the Holy of Holies where only one man could go once a year. The temple curtain separating the place where the ark resided was torn, and the way to the Father was opened for all to come; without a priest performing the sacrifice for us, because Messiah Jesus/Yeshua has done that. He is our High Priest and we can go to His Father through Him. Now His Spirit of Holiness is in the earth and when we accept Jesus/Yeshua as Savior and Messiah, His Spirit /presence/ shekinah, comes to abide/ dwell/ stay/ live and manifest in and through us. We have become not the courtyard in the ‘temple’ where sin is allowed, but the equal of the naos (Greek), the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctuary, the Holy place where His presence can come. A Holy God cannot come where there is sin and it may be why there is so little manifestation of His Holy Spirit in individuals lives today?
Because we are the representation of the Ark of His Covenant, the container of His glory, we have a duty, a calling, an accountability to the Father for the way we control our bodies under His authority. Gal 2:21
This is our part.
We would not put poison into something holy, or abuse that container would we?
Our part is having the power working in us. We must have the power in order for God to work. The cleaner we are, the more the power of His Holy Spirit can flow through us to others.
Paul said he didn’t set aside the grace of God and make it ineffective. God’s grace is absolute and limitless, and the work of salvation through Jesus/Yeshua is complete- finished forever. Salvation is as eternal as Gods’ throne, however we must put to work, or use what God has placed within us.
To work out our own salvation.
Phil. 2:12 means that we are responsible for using what He has given us. We are responsible for using what He has imparted to us. It also means that we must exhibit, show in our own bodies, the life of the Lord Jesus; not mysteriously or secretly but openly and boldly. We are to discipline our bodies. 1 Cor. 9:27 and bring them into subjection. Every disciple/believer in Jesus/Yeshua can have their bodies under absolute control for the Lord. Our Father has given us the responsibility to rule over all of the temple including the naos/sanctuary, place where His spirit resides. We are the ark today, carriers of His glory, we are the Holy of Holies. 1 Cor 6:19
If we are, then this includes our thoughts and desires; we are responsible for these and we must never give way to improper ones. However, most of us are much more severe in our criticism of others than we are of ourselves. We make excuses for things in ourselves and in our own life while condemning things in the life of others, simply because we are not naturally inclined to do them.
In Rom. 12:1 Paul implored his listeners, and that includes us, to present your bodies a living sacrifice! What we must decide is whether or not we will agree with our Heavenly Father, Lord and King that our bodies will indeed be His sanctuary, His holy of holies, His naos, His ark on the earth. Once we agree with all the rules, regulations and requirements of His commandments; and with the directives for being His disciple, His child, concerning our physical bodies. They are summed up for us in this revealed truth: our body is the Sanctuary – not just the Temple of His Holy Spirit.
This is our part.
We are covered in the blood of Messiah, who died for us; we have become the ark of His covenant, sprinkled with the sacrificial blood of His merciful forgiveness. We are no longer sinners in the sense that now we are saved by His grace. Redeemed and sanctified, set apart to good works, no longer ruled by the flesh life.
A life lived in, and ruled by the flesh is no different to the way of the world.
The life we now live by the Son of God is ruled by His Sprit within us. We should show forth this Holy life in our physical bodies, because we are His representatives on earth and it should be one where the life of Christ shines through us representing all the promises of a redeemed life. Gal. 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The lifeI nowlive in the body, I live by faith in the Sonof God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
This is HIs part and our part together.
Examining further the sacrificial work that was accomplished by Messiah, we need to look at the levitical sacrifice in a deeper way to see the fullness of what our Heavenly Father intends for each of us. Sometimes we just read the new testament without the foundation of the old and miss that deeper truth. The one day of the year the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies was on the day of atonement/ Yom Kippur.
When he offered the sacrifice of the bull for his own sins and then took 2 goats to the door of the temple to deal with the sins of the nation. There is no atonement for sin without a blood sacrifice. A life for a a life, Ex. 21:23; and the life is in the blood.
Hence Jesus/Yeshuas sacrificial death and blood was for our redemption. This is how He fulfilled all things of the law and it is important for us to know.
Regarding the 2 goats: there was a lottery, a casting of lots where one of the goats was chosen and was called the Lords goat, and offered as a sacrifice and its blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat in the holy of holies.
… He is to castlotsforthe two goats- one lot…the LORD and the other forthe scapegoat. He is to … sacred lots to determine which goat will be reserved as an offering .
This was a type and shadow of Yeshua HaMashiach, Messiah Jesus.
This was His work.
This goats blood was to deal with the forgiveness of sins, the atonement for sins. The other goat was set free to wander off into the wilderness as an outcast. The Jewish records show that the goat was thrown off a cliff. This was the scapegoat, a familiar phrase called in Hebrew: the Azezel, or azazel, who was to deal with the guilt we feel for our sins. Being thrown off a cliff would fit the metaphor, because guilt will lead us to destruction. In other words even when God forgives our sins we could still live with regret. That was the purpose of the azazel or scapegoat.
We see that Jesus/Yehsua not only was the Lord’s goat who was sacrificed for our sins, but He was also our scapegoat who took the burden of our sins, our feelings of guilt, remorse and shame; and sent them into the wilderness to be an outcast to never be seen again, or thrown off a cliff, to bring this guilt to an end. No wonder He cried it is finished/completed!
Our Father knows us and that we are prone to not forgive ourselves; that we often harbor deep grief and sorrow; and listen to the lies of the enemy that what we have done is too bad to be forgiven and forgotten, that we are beyond redemption. This is a trap and a lie of the enemy/ adversary, because Jesus/Yeshua has done it all. We are to take all of our wicked ways and place them on the Redeemer, Who will not only make atonement for our wickedness; but will also remove the guilt that comes with it.
Many times we forget there is the
Lords goat and the scapegoat,
and sometimes we do not completely azazel/forsake our wicked ways. Is. 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
In Strongs H5800 The word Forsake in Hebrew is
azab/ aw-zab
עָזַב
and comes from the root word azov.
Meaning: to depart, leave behind, neglect, to loosen
and one Hebrew school of thought suggests the root could be
azoll – אזול
which is the same root word that the Hebrew word azazel for the scapegoat comes from:
We may accept the sacrifice of the Lords goat, but if we spend our lives living in the guilt of our sins, we have not accepted the azazel or the work that Messiah did as a scapegoat..
This is His work and we need to realize once and for all that He also took the guilt and shame of our sins and sending them away into the wilderness or over a cliff.
Sometimes we will not accept the azazel reality of others, who truly repent and receive the truth of the Lords goat. We keep searching for the azazel, and keep hanging the past sins of that person over their head.
Sometimes we have to allow our Heavenly Father to send that scapegoat into the wilderness or over a cliff, never to return and also forgive them and ourselves.
Our part is to yield to His creative work in us, not resisting, nor trying to speed it up. We are being transformed from the inside out. Allow Him to set the pace and the timing. Our part is to decide to build a relationship with Him through prayer, worship, spending time in His presence, reading, studying His Word and being obedient to what He has asked us to do in order to become His disciple.
In John 6:28-35 His disciples/talmidim ask Yeshua/Jesus
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert 32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.33For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.” 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
We know that Messiah has done it all however, He wants us to do our part and apply His Truth and His Ways to our lives by eating/word and drinking/spirit of Him. This is working out our salvation and displaying His Work in and through us to the lost who are seeking answers, because He is the Way the Truth and the Life. His work is feeding us manna, Himself the bread from heaven, the bread of life/chaim.
Then our work is His work, our part is His part and we become the fulfillment of Messiahs prayer in John 17:20-23.20
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one- 23 I in them and you in me-so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
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 very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
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.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, 
Gal. 2:21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.
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