What Exactly Was Written On A Stauros In Three Languages And Why?

April 16, 2022

The word stauros is the Greek word for cross.

Strong’s Greek: 4716. σταυρός –

stauros

an upright stake.

In regular use a

stauros/σταυρός is a beam.

The word for a cross is διασταύρωση which is the equivalent of σταυρός that means thru beam or perhaps a cross beam; a stake or post (as set upright), i.e. (specially), a pole or cross (as an instrument of capital punishment); figuratively, exposure to death.

Definition of Greek cross : a cross having an upright and a transverse shaft equal in length and intersecting at their middles.

The Hebrew word for

a cross is

צלב tselev

this word does not appear in the Tenakh/Old Testament, however it’s used in Modern Hebrew translations of the Brit Chadashah/New Testament for the

cross of the crucifixion.

A tselev/cross is often used as a mark,

as we say

in X marks the spot.

There are 2 words meaning mark in Biblical Hebrew.

1 is the Hebrew word

אות

ot,

Strong’s #226

and the 2nd is the word

תו

tav,

Strong’s #8420.

The 2nd word is also the name of the

last letter in the Hebrew alphabet,

which is the

ת tav.

In Ancient Hebrew writing, the letter tav is written as,

a picture of a mark.

It is interesting to note that both the Hebrew words meaning mark have the letter tav as part of their construction.

Secondly, what was written on

the sign was known as a

titilum, or title,

and was used to

describe the crime of the accused.

So we then understand it was not unusual to place a sign over the one being crucified.

However we know Messiah Yeshua/Jesus was without sin and died an innocent death so what was written?

Wasn’t it just His name?

What does the scripture say?

The gospel of Luke lists three charges that the religious leaders accused Yeshua/Jesus of before Pilate. Luke 23:2.

The trial before the religious court of the Jews, which took place in the dead of night, was illegal and every requirement of the Mosaic Law was broken by the High Priest and his co-conspirators. Before the dawn, these evil men found Yeshua/Jesus guilty and marched Him to the governor’s residence with three political accusations against Him.

First, He was charged with perverting the people and stirring up strife. They accused Him of being a revolutionary agitator inciting the people to riot, but nothing was further from the truth. He was meek and lowly and came to save His people from their sin. Yeshua/Jesus came to give them:

rest from their labor,

spiritual nourishment for their soul,

forgiveness of sin,

and life everlasting.

He came to re-establish the nation of Israel’s

covenant with God,

so they would return/teshuvah,

to being His chosen people/am segulah,

who would tell the world of God’s goodness and grace.

(Matthew 14:22; 16:20; Mark 1:45; 6:42; John 6:15).

The Jewish leaders actually hoped that the Messiah would bring about an uprising against the Romans and free them from pagan rule, but they had misinterpreted the scriptures and therefore did not recognize Yeshua/Jesus as the Messiah..

WHY?

because He came to

free them from sin,

and not the Romans.

(Luke 4:19)

In truth, they were guilty

of the charge that they accused Him of.

Second, He was accused of being an anarchist who was turning the people against the Roman constitution,The Jewish authorities also accused him of incitement to oppose the government by withholding taxes from Rome. The Jewish leaders had attempted to trick Him by asking whether or not it was lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar.

Yeshua/Jesus realizing their evil intent said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites? Show Me the tax money.” So they brought Him a denarius. And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to Him, “Caesar’s. And His wise answer exposed their trickery, when He said to them “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Matt. 22:18–22.

and finally

they accused Him of challenging Caesar because He claimed He was a king!

Yeshua/Jesus had never made such a claim directly. In fact, it was the religious leaders themselves that hoped that the Messiah would come to set up a temporal kingdom to overthrow the Romans freeing them from their tyrannical control and establish His earthly rule.

The final accusation was perhaps the most shocking. Yeshua/Jesus, the anointed Messiah of God was their rightful King. He had been sent from the Father to set up His kingdom of Righteousness – not a worldly kingdom but the kingdom of heaven, but FIRST His people had to repent of their sin and believe on the Messiah Yeshua/Jesus for the forgiveness of sin.

We read in this verse,

“and they began to accuse Him, saying, ‘We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying He Himself is Christ, a King.'”

Later stating, we have no king but Caesar.

12 But when the chief priests and the elders brought charges against him, he did not answer. 13 Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the charges they are bringing against you?”

Matthew 27:12-14

When Pilate directly asked Yeshua/Jesus if He was a king, Messiah responded that His kingdom is not of this world. John 18:33-38.

To all these accusations, Pilate found no fault in Yeshua/Jesus.

The religious leaders wanted to get rid of Yeshua/Jesus because they were fearful and jealous of His ever increasing popularity with the people.

Their misgivings were further inflated, especially after Lazarus was resurrected form the dead.

They had admitted to one another that…

the world is gone after him. John 12:19.

After this they made a decision and set out to destroy Him by any means; even if it meant that they would bear false witness against Him. In so doing, they were moved by the devil himself, who is a liar and the father of lies. Luke 8:44.

Mark 15:61 records the conversation between the cohen hagadol/high priest and Yeshua/Jesus; who asked Him…

Are you the Mashaich Ben HaM’vorakh?

Yeshua replies, I AM /Anochi.

In reply to this direct question, He does not hesitate and precisely identifies Himself with the ONE Who spoke to Moshe/Moses at the burning bush. Ex.3:14. Here He not only affirms that He is the Messiah, the son of God/YHVH, but indicates that He is to be identified with Adonai Himself.

In Judaism the tearing of ones clothes is a sign of grief and shock. As we read on, the High Priest/Cohen haGadols’ reaction seals the situation that they were seeking and they condemn Him to death for their perception of Him blaspheming.

The indictments against Yeshua/Jesus

in Luke 23:2

were false and illegitimate.

Indict – meaning: to charge with a crime.

It comes from the Latin indicere, meaning:

to make known formally

or

to proclaim,

which in turn comes from

in plus dicere,

meaning:

to say to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial.

to charge with an offense or crime; accuse of wrongdoing; castigate; criticize.

The three false accusations made against Messiah escalated further when they cried,

“We have no king but Caesar.”

“Let His blood be on us and on our children.”

“Crucify Him!”

Matthew 27:37-38 tells us that they had a tablet (σανίς)

put over the cross containing a statement of the crime

(τὴν αἰτίαν αὐτοῦ)

for which the offender was being executed,

And set over His head, His accusation —

That is, a superscription, containing the substance of his pretended crime, written in capital letters, and in these remarkable words,

THIS IS JESUS/YESHUA, (John adds, OF NAZARETH,)

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

The other gospels do not express the title so fully.

This was what He was accused of and charged with.

This was His crime and this is what they killed Him for.

Murdered Him for He was innocent.

They crucified Him without cause.

He was sinless and died

for you,

for me,

for everyone who

will accept His sacrificial death on their behalf!

The charge against Him was..

He said He was King of theJews.

This is recorded in

John 19:21-22, “Therefore the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘

The King of the Jews,’

but, that ‘He said, “I am the King of the Jews.”

‘Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written….”

Yohanan/John 19:19

reads as follows:

“Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the Cross.

And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Pontius Pilate wrote the words

JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS

on a sign in Hebrew, Latin and Greek,

and placed it on the cross above the head of Messiah.

The Bible says it was written in three languages.

Why in 3 languages?

because

Latin was the native tongue of the Romans,

Hebrew was for the Jews,

and for anyone else,

Greek, was the common everyday language of the time.

It was probably a very large sign, if not three of them,

which could be easily read from the busy road.

Yeshua/Jesus/ישוע

was the featured criminal

and was sentenced to death under Roman law for

sedition against the Roman state,

and under Jewish law for

the sin of blasphemy.

In Hebrew, the sign read as follows:

“Yahuwshuwa Ha’Nazarei W’Melech Ha’Yahuwdiym”

In many places around the world on certain depictions of the crucifix, both sculpted and pictorial, especially as related to the Catholic religion, a stylized plaque or parchment with the letters

INRI

can be seen painted on the sign attached to Jesus/Yeshua’s cross; either just above or below the figure and in some cases, these letters may be carved into the cross. This is an example of the Vatican highlighting Latin instead of the Hebrew language.   In the Gospel of John 19:19-20, the inscription is explained:

INRI is an acronym /abbreviation for the Latin:

Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum.

In English: Jesus the Nazarene/Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, which was posted on the cross by order of the Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate.

The letters SPQR sometimes seen stand for:

Senatus Populus Que Romanus –

(The Roman Senate and People),

designating the civil authority that presided over the scene.

Latin uses the letter “I”

instead of the English “J”,

and “V” instead of “U”

e.g., Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum.

The English translation is then

“Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”

Pilate was reticent to crucify Yeshua/Jesus without some strong justification especially after his wifes’ dream. The one he used was the standing Roman treaty with the Jews which allowed them self-government. When they complained that Yeshua/Jesus was interfering with that self-rule by holding Himself to possess authority that He lacked, Pilate challenged him to deny that he was called “King of Jews.” He did not deny the accusation.

  Some believe that the justification for His crucifixion was that He claimed an illegitimate title. However John 19:21-22 states that Pilate rejected the charge that Yeshua/Jesus was crucified because He falsely claimed to be king and instead stated that the reason He was crucified was because, He was the King of the Jews.

It seems that Pilate was personally convinced that He was the Jewish Messiah. This appears to be further corroborated by the Eastern Orthodox Feast of Saint Pontius Pilate on June 25 since early church histories state that after converting to Christianity, Pilate himself was martyred by double crucifixion.

However John specifies that the inscription was also in Hebrew.

Hebrew: יֵשׁוּעַ הַנָּצְרִי מֶלֶךְ הַיְּהוּדִים –

Common to each of these is the specific declaration:

מֶלֶךְ הַיְּהוּדִים , the King of the Jews.

The name יֵשׁוּעַ Yeshua means The Lord’s Salvation,

or Cry Out to the Lord for Help.

It is the short version of Yehoshua (Joshua),

which means The Lord Saves (or turns) Us.

In comparison, prior to being transliterated FROM the Hebrew Bible, the name Ἰησοῦς (Iesous) did not exist in Greek. Through multiple translations and changes in pronunciation, a tradition of saying Jesus has obscured His name, Yeshua. It has shifted His perceived message and identity from Hebrew to Greek.

John 12:23-32 is a reference to the

Sfirat HaOmer – Firstfruits

and the prophetic fulfillment of this appointed time of the Lord. The traditional observance of these days points us to the resurrection of Messiah. It’s a harvest festival and barley sheaves are waved before the Lord. The grain that had come from the earth was now lifted up high for all to see. Yeshua/Jesus Himself referred to His resurrection when He said.

The time has come for the son of man to be glorified and I tell you that unless a grain of wheat that falls to the ground dies, it stays just a grain but if it dies it produces a big harvest. When I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all men unto Me.

This parable was told to his Jewish disciples/talmidim as they had come to celebrate Passover/Pesach just before Sfirat HaOmer Firstfruits. John 12:1,20. We in the western Christianity calendar dates of festivals, miss the significance of the whole week, as it holds so much more in revealing Messiahs completed work as His Father had planned.

The resurrection of Messiah from the dead

is perfectly symbolized in

the wave offering of the first fruits

which the Christianity of the west does not even mention.

Because of the set appointed days from the time of Moses it was

imperative for Him to die exactly on Pesach/Passover

in order to fulfill the prophecies.

So too

He must rise from the dead

on Sfirat HaOmer – Firstfruits..

1Cor. 15:20 20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

The firstfruits were the first of the season’s crops given by faithful Jewish people to God. Paul’s use of the term here means that Yeshua/Jesus was the first of the crop of “the dead” to be resurrected. His was the pattern for what is in all believers’ future.

1 Cor. 15:51; 1 John 3:2.

In 1 Corinthians 15:20-34 he confirms that Yeshua/Jesus did indeed rise from the dead, and became the firstfruits of them that slept. This means He is the first to rise from the dead, Him being the firstfruits shows he is a representative of the future ‘harvest’. Paul is making a connection to Leviticus 23:9-14 which is the third and final part of the spring feast of the Pesach/Passover, which is the offering of the firstfruits of the barley harvest/ Sfirat HaOmer.

Yeshua/Jesus fulfilled the Passover/Pesach by

shedding His blood on the tree,

and the

feast of unleavened bread

by

giving His flesh for the world;

being buried, and He rose from the dead

on the waving of the sheaf of the firstfruits ,

fulfilling it by being

the firstfruits of the resurrection.

It is understood that the first fruits are from the barley harvest which is also going to produce the same kind of barley as the firstfruits did, indicating that our resurrection will be exactly like His resurrection!

The Wave Offering:

The Israelites offered wave offerings

as a sign of peace and service to God.

For more https://www.minimannamoments.com/first-fruits/

Was there one more ת tav in the צלב tselev ?

One to ponder, let the reader decide… We know Yeshua/Jesus was crucified on a very important day in the Jewish calendar, Pesach/Passover. This means that Yerushalayim/Jerusalem, where He died, would have been filled with Jews who had come to celebrate Passover/Pesach as one of the 3 festivals they were obligated to attend annually. The following is interesting to note:

When a Jewish family arrived in Yerushalayim/Jerusalem for the Pesach/Passover, they would either purchase or bring with them a special bronze name tag. This name tag would have the family name written on it. They would tie a rope or thread to the tag and hang it around the neck of a lamb they were going to sacrifice. Each father desired that God would know their family was observing the Pesach/Passover, and that the lamb that bore the family name was being sacrificed for them.

All of the events of the week of the Pesach/Passover feast deal deeply in types and foreshadows that point directly to Yeshua/Jesus as being the Passover Lamb for the world.

Was Pilate used to put the Fathers title name on His lamb for the entire world to see?

Did Pilate’s inscription, became the Father’s name tag? The Jews had been bringing Pesach/Passover lambs to the Temple with their bronze name tags and by this, were saying,

‘YHVH see our name. This lamb is for our family.’

Did our Heavenly Father hang His Son on the highest hill in Yerusalayim/Jerusalem where He also put His Name, to tell all of humanity… ??? inferring something similar to saying…

…Look here, My name, this is My Lamb and it’s Pesach/Passover, you are taking your lambs to the Temple; and when the blood is flowing in the Temple from the Pesach/Passover lambs of the people, My Son’s sinless Blood will be flowing for the redemption of mankind, so that you can once again have access and fellowship with Me.

Yeshua ha Notzri Melech ha Yehoodim

One thing we do know for certain the cross is

EMPTY

And so is the

TOMB

And we serve a resurrected savior

Who is alive forevermore

He is our High Priest

and

He left behind Him the crown of thorns

because

He IS not only

(what Pilate wrote on the stauros/tselev title,)

King of the Jews…

He IS

King of All Kings…

As He hung on Calvary’s

stauros/tselev

Cross,

shedding His blood

for every one of His bitter accusers

and for each of us,

He was heard to pray,

Hallelujah!

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם‎,

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week,

chag sameach – happy holiday

chag Pesach sameach –

have a happy Passover

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily. Please don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation Remember…

you are one of His Am Segulah – Treasured People,

and you Have Passover Faith

Pesach Emunah

Let the deep inner knowing that you are sealed to the day of redemption by the Blood of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua bring you His shalom right now!

Not sure ..you can be…

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord, Your Passover Lamb

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.

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.

Pesach Emunah For His Am Segulah? Part 2

April 9, 2022

In the last post we looked at the questions..

Do We Have Passover Faith?

Pesach Emunah

and

Are you one of His Am Segulah

His Treasured People?

We saw that we are His

Am Segulah

but what of the

Pesach Emunah?

Pesach or Passover

is all about Sacrifice

and here we will continue to look at the sacrifices required by our Heavenly Father prior to Him sending Messiah Jesus/Yeshua to become the perfect sacrificial substitute for us; which is what we remember at this season of Pesach/Passover..

and we are looking at how it is connected to Messiah in

the directions given to Moses recorded in Leviticus

in the Old Testament/Covenant.

The five offerings were:

1 Burnt.

2 Grain.

3 Peace. 4 Sin. 5.Trespass/guilt.

1, 2, and 3 were voluntary offerings

4 and 5 were obligatory offerings.

Previously we looked at the

Burnt Offering

and the Minchah

or Grain Offering.

Next is the

3 Shelamim – Peace offering.

Leviticus 3; 7.11–34

The third offering is the shelem, or Peace Offering.

zevah shelamim or Peace Offering.

זֶבַח הַשְּׁלָמִים zevah hashelamiym

The term

korban shelamim (קורבן שלמים)

is also used.

Note the word shelem

שֶׁלֶם

close to shalom,

שלום

meaning peace,

with which we are familiar.

Shelmim is the plural

recall the posts looking at the meaning of the added

IM ending to Hebrew words.

Strong’s Hebrew: 8002. שֶׁ֫לֶם (shelem) — a sacrifice for …

shelem: a sacrifice for alliance or friendship, peace offering.

Strong’s Hebrew: 8000. שְׁלַם (shelem) — to be complete

shelem: to be complete .

Phonetic Spelling: (sheh’-lem

Strong’s Hebrew: 5071 נדבה (ndabah) – freewill offering …

freewill, voluntary, offeringStrong’s Definitions ndabah, ned-aw-baw’;

Strong’s Hebrew: 4503. מִנְחָה (minchah) — a gift, tribute …

gift, oblation, meat offering, present, sacrifice. From an unused root meaning to apportion.

The shelmim, first discussed in Leviticus 3, included:

Thanksgiving Offerings. Lev 7:12,

Freewill Offerings. 7:16,

and

Wave Offerings. 7:30.

The offering could be cattle 3:1, sheep 3:7, or a goat 3:12.

It could be male or female, but must be without defect.

If it was a Thanksgiving Offering,

it could also include a variety of breads 7:12.

The purpose of the Peace Offering was to consecrate a meal between two or more parties before YHVH/God and share that meal together in fellowship of peace and a commitment to each others’ future prosperity. The portions unsuitable for eating were given to God, 7:19-27. Depending on the type of Peace Offering, the breast may have been given to the High Priest, 7:31 and the right thigh may be given to the priest officiating the meal, 7:32. The rest of the meal was to be eaten within one day by the fellowship of parties, 7:16, and the leftovers were to be burnt after two days, 7:17.

This was a free will offering eaten by the one bringing it and given as a way of expressing thanks to God on joyous occasions. Semikhah is performed though instead of viduy; and praise to the Lord is offered.

The Peace offering signified fellowship with God and reconciliation. In this sacrifice both the one bringing the offering and the priest ate of the freewill/voluntary offering.

Peace Offering – Leviticus 3:1-17; 7:11-34

It was a sweet aroma to YHVH/God.

It provided a communal meal with meat for the priests and those giving the offering.

Three types:

thanksgiving,

vow offering and

voluntary (free will) offering.

The meaning for us:

We are to thank Our Heavenly Father – blessing Him for all His provision in our lives, spiritually and physically.

The fulfillment in Messiah Yeshua:

He is our peace/shalom offering.

We can be reconciled to God/YHVH/Our Heavenly Father

only through Him.

Yehoveh Shalom.

He is our Shelamim

He is our

sar shalom our prince of peace

He said My Peace/shalom I give to you.

John 14:27

Shalom alechheim!

4 chatat/chattath – sin offering.

The fourth offering was called:

chattath, literally: sin or sin offering….

Purification (Sin) Offering.

Though often called the sin offering,

a better translation is purification offering.

This offering is sometimes seen as an

offering of atonement for unintentional sin; Lev. 4:2-3, 4:20.

In the same way it is sometimes viewed as guilt offering,

removing the consequences for lack of perfection

Lev. 4:13-14, 4:22-23.

As an atonement offering, it contained elements of a

Burnt Offering 4:25, yet at the same time had elements of a

Peace Offering 4:26.

Conversely, some of the sins for which one needed

atonement were not moral sins

but rather matters of ritual impurity 5:1-5.

The primary purpose of this offering is not to atone for sins but rather to: purify oneself for re-entering the presence of God. The elements of a Purification Offering could be any of the elements of the previous three types of offerings, though unlike the Peace Offering, the meal was not to be shared by the one offering the sacrifice.

Note that there is no exact sacrifice for deliberate intentional and willful sins against the Lord…

but instead, the punishment was by early death.

Sin Offering

chatat/chattath

– Leviticus 4:1-35; 6:24-30.

This offering was not considered a sweet aroma to YHVH/God. Only the fat and blood were offered on the altar; when the

sin offering/chatat/chattath

is for the whole congregation, the rest was

burned outside the camp.

The meaning for us:

All have sinned,

the penalty of sin is death

and sin requires the shedding of blood

Hebrews 1:3-4; Galatians 2:20; Romans 5:8-9.

The fulfillment in Messiah Yeshua:

Messiah Yeshua/Jesus is our sin offering.

We are sinful, and

He was willing to pay our death penalty for us.

He was crucified outside the city.

5 Asham – guilt offering

Unlike the English word guilt,

this does not refer to a matter of one’s conscience

but rather to something one owes on account of a sin.

Other names of this offering are the:

Trespass Offering or the Reparation Offering.

this was a required offering as part of the reparations for certain improper acts;

e.g. keeping another’s property by swearing falsely.

In each case the wrongdoer was required to restore the property plus an additional 20% to its rightful owner before he could offer the sacrifice and receive forgiveness.

Leviticus 5:14–6:7; 7:1-7

The

Trespass Offering

is similar to the sin offering, but dealing with specific sins, especially where restitution was possible.

The meaning for us:

We must repent each time we sin.

The rules of restitution teach us to do our best

to repair the damage caused by our sins.

To put things right.

The fulfillment in

Messiah Yeshua/Jesus:

Who died so that every sin can be

forgiven and covered!

Hallelujah!

Note that the sin offerings, chatat and asham,

were obligatory for atonement to be made.

They had to be offered by the anointed High Priest who would sprinkle the blood of the sacrifice seven times inside the Mishkan on the Golden altar opposite the curtain before the Holy of Holies. That fat was burned on the altar but unlike the other offerings, the rest of the animal its’ hide flesh and its’ body parts would be taken outside the camp to be burned with fire. Hebrews 13:12

A Jewish commentary states that the meat of the korbanot never spoiled even if it took days before it was burned upon the altar; and in spite of the presence of blood all over the Mishkan no flies swarmed the area because of its special holiness.

After the Messiah Yeshua had come as the

high priest/ha kohen ha gadol

of the re-new-ed covenant;

the sacrificial system was abandoned following the destruction of the 2nd temple in the year 70 A.D.

Even so, the instructions in the book of Leviticus continue to this day to exert influence on Jewish life, since nearly half of 613 Commandments are found in it and much of their Talmud is based on it.

The sacrificial system of the Old Testament was a means of

GRACE

by which the relationship

between YHVH/God and humanity

begins to be restored.

Ultimately, the sacrificial system was inadequate, and

none could repay the debt of life that was owed

until

Jesus Christ/Messiah Yeshua

defeated death once and for all.

Heb. 10:10.

Today, we live in the light of His perfect sacrifice for us

while also offering our own lives

as a

living and

holy sacrifice.

Romans 12:1; 1 Pet. 2:5.

New Testament/Covenant

brit chadashah.

The references in the brit chadashah

New Testament/Covenant,

concern the superiority of the sacrifice

of the Messiah/mashiach as

the once for all sacrifice for sins.

Instead of daily sacrifices and offerings, the Messiah came to fulfill the will of His and our Father God/YHVH, by becoming obedient to all that the Levitical Law required. He did this by offering Himself as the ultimate sacrificial victim truly without spot or blemish.

When He said

you have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings.

These are offerings according to the Torah then He added

behold I have come to do your will.

He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.

And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering

of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:8

Moreover just as the blood of the sin offering was brought into the holy place by the anointed priest

so Jesus/yeshua presented his own blood in the holy place made without hands and then suffered outside the camp.

Hebrews 13:10 – 15

One of the roles of our Mashiach/ Messiah is that of the

High Priests, who offered

true atonement for our sins

by offering his own blood in the

holy of holies made without hands

In Hebrews 3:1 -2.

The importance of a blood sacrifice

Leviticus 17:11

Ki nefeshha-basar badam hi va ani netativ lakhem al-hamizbe’ach le khaper al-nafshotekhem ki-hadam hu banefesh ye’khaper.

The Lord requires a

blood sacrifice for

the issue of

sin.

Leviticus 17:11 agrees with the teaching in the

New Testament/brit chadashah.

in Hebrews 9 :22

Without the shedding of blood

there is NO remission

there is NO atonement without blood;

the substitutionary shedding of blood –

the life for life principle

is essential

to the true at one ment with the Lord God.

Jesus/Yeshua offered His own body up

to be the perfect sacrifice for sins.

By His shed blood we have complete atonement before Adonai/YHVH/Our Heavenly Father.

The Levitical system of the animals sacrifices including the elaborate Yom Kippur ritual, was meant to

foreshadow the truth

and abiding sacrifice of Yeshua/Jesus

as the means of reconciliation with the Father.

The old covenant /the brit yeshanah provides a shadow of the substance revealed in the new covenant/brit chadashah.

If the old covenant had been sufficient to provide a permanent solution to the problem of our sin; then there would never have been a need for a new covenant to supersede it.

Hebrews 8:7.

Unlike the old covenant sacrifices which merely covered sins – under the new covenant, the sins are taken entirely away.

Hebrews 7:27 9:12 9:25–28

There is no more need for continual sacrifices since Yeshua/Jesus provided the once and for all sacrifice for all of our sins.

Hebrews 9:11-14; 9:24–28; 10:11–20.

Jesus/Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, is

the propitiation/expiation/answer for our sins.

The Greek word used in

Romans 3:25; 1John 2:2; 1John 4:10.

hilasterion

is the same word used in the Greek translation

of the Old Testament for the Mercy seat.

or

kapporet/cover of the arc of the covenant in the Holy of Holies

which was sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice on Yom Kippur.

Hebrews 9:24

We need to be sure we have personally made

semikhah by

laying hands on Yeshua/Jesus

as our sacrifice for sins.

Have we made confession/viduy?

All have the need for deliverance from bondage through Him, which takes us back to the Israelites deliverance from Egyptian bondage.

This is the

faith/emunah

we need for

our personal

PassOver/Pesach,

to be His

treasured people/am segulah.

Without the full understanding of what has been done for us how can we appreciate the sacrifice?

This lack of understanding cripples the believer today from fully submitting to a risen savior, and also robs us of the fullness of the amazing miracle of the chaim/lifes that’s been made freely available to us.

Yes FREE to us

BUT

it cost Jesus/Yeshua EVERYTHING!

The priesthood that stood between worshiper and God has ceased. Hebrews 7:23–24, The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.

This is the foundation for our faith in Him –

This is the gospel… the good news.

Yeshua/Jesus knew that He was destined to fulfill all that the Jewish prophets said about Him. He had eaten the Passover Pesach meal every year and this year He said in

Luke 22:15, I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.

As He was nearing His death,

He commented to His twelve

disciples/talmidim /tahl-me-DEEM,

Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again. Luke 18:31-33.

This prophecy in

Isaiah 53 does speak specifically of the Messiah Jesus/Yeshua: His death and resurrection are graphically portrayed in this prophecy where the meaning of His death, as a substitutionary atonement, is given. It was written over 700 years before Messiah was born, but the prophet accurately details His suffering and death by crucifixion as the Suffering Servant of the Lord.

He acknowledged this Himself at His last Passover Seder with His talmidim. Luke 22:37.

The sacrifice of Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach had fulfilled ALL the requirements of the Law for the sin offerings that were made at the Temple.
He also explained that, as the Law required, Yeshua/Jesus died outside the gates of the city: We have an altar from which those who are serving the present earthly tabernacle do not have authority to eat; for pertaining to those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest for a sin offering, the bodies of all these are burned outside the camp. For this reason, Jesus, in order that He might sanctify the people by His own blood, also suffered OUTSIDE THE GATE. Heb. 13:10-12.

The fact that Messiah Jesus/Yeshua

died outside the gates of the city of Jerusalem

verifies that

His body was a sin offering.

The Law of God specifically commanded that

all sin offerings were to be burned

outside the camp.

Lev. 4:1-2, 11-12, 21; 16:27.

After the blood of the sacrificial animals was sprinkled on the altar, the bodies of the sin offerings were taken across the Kidron Valley to a place high on the Mount of Olives east of the city of Jerusalem, where there was a special altar called the

Miphkad Altar.

This altar was located near Golgotha, where Messiah was crucified.

The Miphkad Altar and the sin offerings

which were sacrificed on it was really

a cardinal part of the Temple complex

that existed in the time of Messiah.

This altar was not one with a ramp leading up to a square elevated area, but it is described in the Mishnah as a pit in which the animals could be burnt to ashes (Parah 4:2).

The Miphkad Altar was located outside the walls of the Temple (as Ezekiel 43:21 states), but [the bridge across the Kidron Valley and] the roadway leading up to the altar (and including the altar itself) were part of the ritualistic furniture associated with the Temple services….

Messiah/Christ was crucified near the Miphkad Altar!

The location of this altar on the Mount of Olives

offered a direct view

of the entire Temple area.

On the Day of Atonement, those who stood at the site of this special altar could observe the high priest as he was standing near the veil of the Temple, ready to enter the Holy Place. That day they would have seen the veil tear from top to bottom and felt the earth quake!!

Even the bullock and the goat which were sacrificed on the day of Atonement (Leviticus 16) had to be killed near the Altar of Burnt Offering within the Temple and then their carcasses were required to be taken out the eastern gate to the Miphkad Altar at the Mount of Olives and there they were burnt to ashes (Leviticus 4).
The ashes of all the animals that were burned on the altar at the Temple were taken to the same place where the sin offerings were burned (Miphkad Altar) and were mingled with the ashes of the sin offerings and poured out at the base of the Altar, Leviticus 4:12, 21; 6:11 where the ashes could descend through a conduit system into the Valley of Kidron below.

As the supreme sin offering of God the Father, the body of Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach, was offered up when He was crucified on the Mount of Olives, near the altar where the bodies of all sin offerings from the Temple were offered up to God.

Thus, Paul wrote: But He, after offering one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time, He is waiting until His enemies are placed as a footstool for His feet. For by one offering He has obtained eternal perfection for those who are sanctified. Heb. 10:12-14.

As the

Lamb of God,

Yeshua HaMashiach/Jesus Christ

was sacrificed on the Pesach/Passover day,

Nisan 14/April 5, 30 AD.

The 14^th Nisan is the night when the children ask,

Why is this night different

from all other nights?

The apostle Paul affirms that His death fulfilled the sacrifice of the Passover lamb:

For Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. I Cor. 5:7. according to the Old Testament requirements of the law.

The noun

πασχα pascha

means:

Passover,

the feast that celebrates the Exodus of Israel out of Egypt, and which in the Christian era became associated with the resurrection of the Messiah/Christ, and is now celebrated and more commonly known by the name Easter – which is the name of the pagan fertility goddess ishtar and has nothing to do with Jesus/Yeshua.

Although the noun

πασχα – pascha looks like it comes from the verb

πασχω – pascho, meaning: to experience things, technically,

the noun πασχα – pascha is a transliteration of the Hebrew noun פסח – pasah, meaning Passover,

but where in Greek/English, the verb connections seem obvious, a passing over, the Hebrew noun comes from a very distinct word:

The Hebrew verb פסח pasah means:

to have a shortage,

and that shortage may lead to:

an impaired mobility,

an intense desire,

or a debilitating indecisiveness.

The derived adjective

פסח piseah

is the common word for:

lame or cripple,

which means that every time

Yeshua/Jesus heals a lame person in the gospels,

there a bit of

פֶסַח /Passover/Pesach happening!!! wow!

The common Hebrew verb that means:

to be blind

is based on a verb that means:

to have too much;

namely skin where it shouldn’t be, in this case over the eyes.

Here we better understand the proverbial link between

the lame and the blind

because it generally describes:

everybody burdened by

not having enough of something – the lame,

and

everybody burdened by

having too much of something – the blind.

Here we must acknowledge that all humans are

born lame and most die blind!!

The verb פסח – pasah, is associated with:

being child-like and immature,

whereas the words that describe blindness are associated with: being too mature and cold of heart.

Pesach emunah – Passover faith….

have we got Passover faith?

Have we got the faith that the death angel will

Passover us too?

If we do it is because of

the Blood of the Passover Lamb

that we have applied to our lives

by faith.

A list of post titles with Passover/Pesach information is also at the top left on mmm homepage. Links below:

PALM SUNDAY – Nisan – The Appointed Time Of The Lamb

13 For Supper and Only 4 Cups?

Midweek Mannabite – Secrets Of The Seder Plate

Afikomen – Mysterious and Hidden

What Is This Avodah You Have?

Not Passing Over

First Fruits

SONset – sunrise – sunset– SONrise – Apocalypse of the Tamid.

The Pesach Dalet in Time; a Man Between 2 Realms; Yonah and The Watches of the Night.

Unleavened Bread of Matzot Week

Revealing The Overcoming Resheet of Bikkurim

A Lot Can Happen In A Week

Even More Can Happen In And Around The Same Week

The Mystery of ‘In His Deaths’…

WHAT DID JOHN SEE THAT WE MISSED?

NAIL I AM

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם‎,

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week, you are greatly loved and prayed for daily. Please don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation that

you are one of His Am Segulah – Treasured People,

that you Have Passover Faith

Pesach Emunah

and the deep inner knowing that you are sealed to the day of redemption by the Blood of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

Not sure ..you can be…

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord, Your Passover Lamb

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.

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.

Pesach Emunah For His Am Segulah?

April 3, 2022

This post begins with some questions

Do We Have Passover Faith?

Pesach Emunah

Pesach פֶסַח peh’-sakh

Strongs#6453 Passover

The Hebrew word for faith is Emunah

אמונה

and

Are you one of His Am Segulah – Treasured People?

עַם סְגֻלָּה

In the Torah, (first 5 books of the Old Testament), the people of Israel are called:

am segulah = a treasured people/nation.

סְגֻלָּה

Segulah pronounced suh-goo-luh.

Segulah has several meanings in Hebrew including treasure,

the same as in

Ecclesiastes 2:8, “and treasures of kings”

costly vessels and precious stones which kings store up.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be for him am segulah

Deut. 14:1-2 and Deut. 26:18.

HEB: לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם סְגֻלָּ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּר־

NAS: you to be His people, a treasured possession

Am = people or folk

Strong’s Hebrew: 5971. עָם (am) — folk

Strong’s Hebrew: 5972. עַם (am) — people

The children of Israel were also called

Am nivchar/nibchar = a chosen people.

Strong’s Hebrew: 4005. מִבְחָר (mibchar) — choicest, best

… out וטוב ᵐ5 Co); עַם מִבְחָרָיו Daniel 11:15 = his choice troops. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance choicest, chosen From bachar

Strong’s Hebrew: 972. בְּחִיר (bachir) — chosen

And a Holy nation = GOY KADOSH

Strong’s Hebrew: 6918. קָדוֹשׁ (qadosh) — sacred, holy

And

a MAMLECHET KOHANIM =

a kingdom of priests, royal priests.

Ex 19:6.7.

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine. ”And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of the One having called you out of darkness into His marvelous light, Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.…

1Peter 2:9,10

We are grafted into spiritual Israel as one, when we accept the Jewish Mashiach/Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.

This means we are no longer a gentile because as we saw last post…

https://www.minimannamoments.com/where-is-madaba-what-was-found-there-and-why-is-it-important/

Hebrew/ivri, means:

cross over just as Abraham did.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/grafted-in-to-the-olive-tree/

So Yes we are one of His Am Segulah – Treasured People

עַם סְגֻלָּה

But

do we have Passover Faith?

Pesach Emunah?

So where is the

genesis/b’resheet/בְּרֵאשִׁית

beginnings

of

Pesach/Passover/פֶסַח?

What has Passover got to do with the book of Exodus?

It is because the very first Passover/Pesach is recorded in that book.

Exodus/She•mot/שֵׁמוֹת..

Passover/Pesach

is primarily the remembering of the children of Israel’s

exodus/deliverance/crossing over

out of Egypt

and the subsequent giving of Torah, (first 5 books of the Old Testament); and confirming of the covenant relationship made with YHVH, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel.

He gave Moses the directions of how to approach Himself and the 10 sayings/commandments, which were to give directional boundaries in establishing a new way of life; with new leadership and a new society.

All this is recorded in the Torah, and all the requirements that the Lord God gave them to cover their sins was incorporated within the sacrificial system. God instituted these requirements until the prophetic fulfillment by Yeshua/Jesus, His Mashiach would come. Messiah was to fulfill the law, Matt. 5:17-19; meaning:

He would confirm and complete the prophetic and typological parts of the law and the prophets. Yeshua/ Jesus came to preserve every jot and tittle of it

unchanged, until the end of the age.

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me. . . . If you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.” (John 5:39, 46)

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:27)

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel called the children of Israel, His Am Segulah – His treasured people. This was because they were chosen to be in covenant with Him/married to Him; and be a witness unto Him to the rest of the nations.

The season we are in is that of the Passover/Pesach.

What is the origin of Passover/Pesach celebration and

what does it entail and

how is it important to our halakah/walk and chaim/life?

The following is what He asked His

am segulah

to do

It is written for us in the book of Leviticus,

also known as

the book of sacrifices

and sometimes called:

Torat Kohanim = the law of the priests;

because it deals largely with the various offerings brought to the Lord for sacrificial purposes in the Tabernacle/tent of meeting.

Vayikra/Leviticus begins where the book of Exodus ended, with God/YHVH, calling to Moses from the Tabernacle/tent of meeting, regarding the laws of the various animals and meal offerings that may be offered as sacrifices. Lev. 1:1

Why is this important?

Because…

The sacrificial system of the Old Testament was a means of

GRACE

by which the relationship between YHVH/God and humanity

begins to be restored.

Here we must pause a moment

and take a closer look at the Hebrew word for

GRACE

because

By grace/chen we are saved through faith/emunah

The Hebrew word translated as grace is חן

(hhen, Strong’s #2580) and is a two-letter parent root.

More Hebrew words for grace:

noun חֶסֶד. kindness, charity, favor, graciousness, favour.

noun חֵן. favor, charm, beauty, prettiness, loveliness

Chen, the Hebrew word for grace is given in its Semitic root

which is just two letters Cheth and Nun.

chet (pictured by a fence, meaning private, or to separate from outside) and

noon (pictured by a seed of life or later a fish meaning activity, life, continue or heir.

The word itself means beauty or loveliness

and literally in the paleo hebrew means:

to separate from the outside or protect life.

God produces life in us and then

puts a fence or wall of protection around that life

so that it may not be destroyed or removed.

The English word grace, as we understand it, we accept to mean

unmerited favor, is a loose definition and is fairly abstract.

This Hebrew word chen is linguistically related

and part of the root cha-nan.

channun meaning: to be inclined toward or favor

and cha-nah meaning: to incline, or to make camp.

Another way of understanding this is that:

we favor or make camp with someone or those who are acceptable to us, and to find favor (grace) in someone’s eyes is also to find them beautiful.

It is interesting to note how chanah is used in regard to those who would camp near to the Tabernacle/Mishkan.

The sons of Israel shall camp /chanah, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, according to their armies. Numbers 1:52

Strong’s Hebrew: 2580. חֵן (chen) — favor, grace

“Let us then approach the throne of grace/chen with confidence, so that we may receive mercy/racham and find grace/chen to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).

we enter in by Grace/Chen.

Ultimately, the sacrificial system was inadequate, which is why Yeshua/Jesus came to earth. However, the 5 main Old Testament sacrifices are really worth knowing, as it helps us understand all that Messiah fulfilled.

The main meaning is that:

animal and bird sacrifices are no longer required;

and much of it was fulfilled at Passover/Pesach.

The Old Testament can be said to revolve around a system of sacrificial offerings performed by priests during rituals to atone for the sins of humanity, especially of Israel. These offerings of innocent blood covered the sins of the people and are recorded through most of the Old Testament. Genesis 3:20 may allude to the first sacrifice, where the LORD God offered garments of skin to Adam and Eve to express devotion and commitment to His priests (humanity) serving in His temple (the Heavens and the Earth), an act that may foreshadow the Burnt Offering more fully described in Leviticus.

The historical account we are given in Genesis and Exodus records both Gods heavenly/celestial actions, as well as Him choosing Israel as His own treasured people/am segulah. The God/YHVH and King of the Universe, Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and made a covenant with them at Mount Sinai and His presence came to live among them in the ark. This was located within the holy of holies at the center of the Mishkan/The Tabernacle, which was constructed as the focal point, the center of the covenant made at Mt. Sinai.

Now, God/YHVH was in the midst of His people and the book of vayikra/leviticus, reveals how He instructed for them to approach Him, a Holy God/YHVH, and how to be in relationship with Him.

The key for that time was the sacrificial system.

There were sacrifices made before the Mishkan and for example, the following individuals called, righteous ones – tzaddikim; were said to have offered animal sacrifices long before the Tabernacle/Mishkan was consecrated for Israel/Yisrael.

Abel, Adam’s first son, offered the best of his sheep upon the same altar to the Lord. Gen. 4:2-4

Noah after Noah left the Ark he offered sacrifices of the clean animals to the Lord in thanks for having survived the global flood. He knew the difference between clean and unclean animals. Gen. 7.

Abraham build at least four altars and offered animal sacrifices upon them. Gen. 12:7,8 13: 4 13:1; 22:9.

Isaac also built an altar and offered sacrifices.

Gen. 26:25.

Jacob built two altars and offered sacrifices.

Gen. 33:20, 46:1

Moses built several altars before he was given revelation of the Mishkan at Mount Sinai. These included the sacrifices made after the battle with Amalek. Exodus 17:5 As well as the sacrifices made at the foot of Mt Sinai after receiving the book of the covenant. Exodus 24:4 –6

How is it important to us?

What is the purpose of studying the sacrifices made in theTabernacle/Mishkan in the wilderness?

Isn’t this irrelevant to us today?

If we, non-Jewish Believers, have not studied the TeNaKH/Old Testament/Covenant, we will not be able fully understand the New Covenant/Brit Hadashah.

Why?

Because it is all about Our Heavenly Fathers’ plan to provide a Messiah Jesus/Yeshua Who will restore the broken relationship with Himself.

There are many terms used in the

Brit Hadashah/New Covenant/Testament

such as:

the Lamb

Atonement

Unleaven

Leaven

Blood sacrifice etc.

They will not have any meaning if we have not understood the Tabernacle/Mishkan and its purpose.

The book of Hebrews cannot be fully appreciated without the understanding of the tabernacle/Mishkan plan and true worship. Although the Mishkan is the past, it is most certainly a shadow/pattern/type of Mashiach/Messiah and the blueprint of YHVH/HaShem’s redemptive Covenant plan for Israel/Yisrael and whosoever will….

Sin,

sacrifice

and

confession and repentance

is the

korban principle.

Korban (Hebrew: “sacrifice” קרבן)

(plural: Korbanot קרבנות),

in Judaism, is the term for a variety of sacrificial offerings described and commanded in the Torah.

Such sacrifices were offered in a variety of settings by the ancient Israelites, and later by the Jewish priesthood, the Kohanim, at the Temple in Jerusalem.

A Korban was usually an animal sacrifice, such as a sheep or a bull that underwent shechita (Jewish ritual slaughter), and was often cooked and eaten by the one bringing the offering.

When a person sins against the Lord,

he or she deserves to die!!

The soul that sins it shall die. Ezek. 18:20

As we were ALL born in sin

and ALL have fallen short of the glory of God;

we have NO hope without a savior/redeemer.

Satan, the adversary and accuser, would come before God/YHVH to make a case for the persons soul…

BUT God/YHVH/YaHoVeH

allows the death of a sacrificial victim

to take the place of the Sinner.

PAUSE HERE a Moment and reread that last statement!

The adversary and accuser,

is after our eternal soul/spirit

that is his mission –

to separate us from our Heavenly Father for ever…

BUT OUR HEAVENLY FATHER

allows the death of

an innocent sacrificial victim

to take the place of the Sinner!!

The guilty person would lean his hands upon the head of the animal and said this confession.

I deserve to die instead of this innocent animal but the Lord mercifully accepts the death of this in one in my stead.

When God sees the shed blood, or the ascending smoke of the sacrifice, He forgives the sinner based on his faith and repentance.

Thank you Father for Your provision through Messiah.

Before reading on, consider this…

the sinner had to kill the sacrificial animal

it became the victim of the sinners sin.

If we were still under the old covenant we too would have to take the life and spill the blood of the innocent sacrifices to cover our sins.

Yes we are under the re-newed covenant however…

taken to its full conclusion

our sin killed Jesus/Yeshua!

The Torah States that out of all of the various kosher animals, only 3 kinds would be acceptable for sacrifice upon His altar. They had to be free of all defects, they were:

oxen = a bull, cow or a calf

sheep = a ram, ewe or a lamb

goats = a buck, a doe or a kid.

Note that each kind of these animals is domesticated and peaceful they are not predators.

Besides these animals only two birds were allowed to be sacrificed:

turtledoves and pigeons

both of which are likewise peaceful.

In addition to these a poor person could offer

grain offerings

which were used to provide bread for the priests.

The five types of Korbanot

The Hebrew word korban

comes from the root koraw meaning:

to come close;

specifically to come close to God.

These offerings korbanot were meant to

bring someone who was far off from God, close again.

Ultimately Jesus/Yeshua has made the permanent WAY back to the Father for us; for us who were far off to come close to Him. He was the perfect sacrifice and His innocent shed Blood cries MERCY/FORGIVENESS

for us concerning our sins.

The offerings were reflected in His life and death

He paid the price for us!

Below are the five types of offerings in the Old Testament:

the Burnt Offering, Olah עֹלָ֤ה chapter 1

the Grain Offering, Minchah מִנְחָה chapter 2

the Peace Offering, Zevah haShelamiym זֶבַח הַשְּׁלָמִים chapter 3

the Purification Offering, Korban Khatta’at קרבן חטאת chapter 4

and the Tresspass/guilt Offering Asham אָשָׁם chapter 5

These should not be viewed as legalistic rites one must perform to earn our Heavenly Fathers GRACE.

The Prophet Samuel said,

to obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Sam 15:22,

and Jeremiah likewise negates Burnt Offerings for atonement and says that disobedience results in calamity. Jer. 44:23.

Rather, the sacrificial system in the Old Testament

was a means of GRACE

by which one who unintentionally sinned might make reparations for that sin without paying with his or her life, or with the life of his or her child.

The system was an outward expression of a person or community’s inward desire to restore the broken relationships between humanity and God and humanity and the world.

Can we see Messiah in all the offerings?

עלה Olah or mowlah o-law’

1 Olah, the ascending or burnt offering:

The Hebrew word for burnt offering is

עלה

olah,

from the root Ayin-Lamed-Heh,

meaning: ascension.

The first offering is literally,

an offering of ascent

commonly called

the Burnt Offering.

‘Korban Olah’ {קרבן עולה}

which literally means:

‘a sacrifice/offering that goes up’.

The purpose of the Burnt Offering was for

general atonement of sin and

expression of devotion to God.

The instructions for the Burnt Offering are given in

Lev 1:3-17. The offering could be a bull (1:3), sheep or goat (1:10), or dove or pigeon (1:14). The animal was to be burnt whole overnight (6:8-13), though its skin was given to the priest (1:6).

This was a free will sacrifice that was consumed entirely by the fire on the altar. The sacrificial victims had to be an animal or a bird that is without defect. As that animal is slaughtered the priest catches its blood in a pan and sprinkles it on the altar. That animal is then cut up salted and entirely burned.

Normally semikhah,

the leaning of the hands

SEMIKHAH (Heb. סְמִיכָה; “laying,” lit. “leaning” of the hands).

on the head of the animal, and viduy/confession of sin, accompanies this sacrifice though in case of a bird olah, semikhah is not performed.

Burnt Offering – Leviticus 1:3-17; 6:8-13

Wholly burned up on the altar.

Sweet aroma to God. Unblemished animal.

The meaning for us:

We must be completely dedicated to God.

Matthew 22:36-40; Ephesians 5:2.

The fulfillment in Messiah Yeshua:

He was spiritually perfect and willingly gave His life for us.

2 מנחה

Minchah – meal or grain offering or cereal offering.

The word minchah, means: gift or a present.

min-khaw’; from an unused root meaning to apportion.

The purpose of the Grain Offering was a voluntary expression of devotion to YHVH/God, recognizing His goodness and provision.

The instructions for the grain offerings are given in Leviticus 2. Generally it was cooked bread—baked (2:4), grilled (2:5), fried (2:7), roasted, or made into cereal (2:14)—though always seasoned (2:13), unsweetened, and unleavened (2:11). Unlike the whole Burnt Offering, only a portion of the offering was to be burnt (2:9). The remainder went to the priests for their meal (2:10).

It was bloodless.

This was a free will offering of flour prepared with

flour, olive oil and frankincense

usually brought by a person of modest means.

Any flour offering must be baked quickly to prevent the yeast in the dough from rising and so keeping it as unleavened bread. Remember yeast is a type of sin. Like the animal sacrifices, these minchah offerings must also be salted.

Grain Offering – Leviticus 2:1-16; 6:14-23.

A minchah accompanied all burnt offerings.

It was a sweet aroma to YHVH/God.

Flour, oil, frankincense and salt.

The meaning for us:

We must live by every Word of God,

be led by His Holy Spirit,

pray always and endure. Matthew 4:4.

The fulfillment in Messiah Yeshua:

is as the bread of life.

He was broken for us –

broken bread and poured out wine – His life His blood.

The manna that our Heavenly Father gave His children in the wilderness came from heaven; it kept them alive but they still died physically. Yeshua/Jesus is the bread from heaven that when we eat we will never die. He is the bread of everlasting life.

Conclusion in next post, meanwhile below are links to posts on and around Passover/Pesach week.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/palm-sunday-nisan-the-appointed-time-of-the-lamb/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/13-for-supper-and-only-4-cups/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/midweek-mannabite-secrets-of-the-seder-plate/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/afikomen-mysterious-and-hidden/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/what-is-this-avodah-you-have/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/not-passing-over-passover-week/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/first-fruits/

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

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-pesach-dalet-in-time-a-man-between-2-realms-yonah-and-the-watches-of-the-night/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/unleavened-bread-matzot-week/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/revealing-the-overcoming-resheet-of-bikkurim/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/a-lot-can-happen-in-a-week/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/even-more-can-happen-in-and-around-the-same-week/

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם‎,

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Shavua Tov,

Have a blessed week, you are greatly loved and prayed for daily.

Please don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation that

you are one of His Am Segulah – Treasured People,

and that you Have Passover Faith

Pesach Emunah

and the deep inner knowing that you are sealed to the day of redemption by the Blood of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

Not sure ..you can be…

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord, Your Passover Lamb

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.

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.

Where Is Madaba – What Was Found There And Why Is It Important?

March 27, 2022

Where is Madaba/מֵֽידְבָא֙ ?

Madaba is a town located in the country of

Jordan/Yarden

bordering Israel/Yisrael.

Madaba is mentioned in the Bible:

Recorded as Medeba in the translation; spelled with the vowel e in place of a Recall no vowels in the original text it would have been m d b

מ ד ב

But we have cast them down, Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon, Then we have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.

Numbers 21:30

from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, as far as Dibon;

Joshua 13:9

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

Joshua 13:16

So they hired for themselves 32,000 chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and camped before Medeba. And the sons of Ammon gathered together from their cities and came to battle.

1 Chronicles 19:7

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

Isaiah 15:2

The

Madaba מֵידְבָ֖א

Map,

also known as the

Madaba Mosaic Map,

is part of a floor mosaic

in the early Byzantine church of Saint George

a

19th-century basilica,

in

מֵידְבָ֖א/Madaba,

Jordan

Yarden/The Descender.

This intricate floor mosaic of the Holy Land is believed to have been created in the 6th-century A.D.; being made between 542 and 570 as the floor of the church.

The mosaic was rediscovered in 1884, when the local community in Madaba, Jordan, made an incredible discovery, which has proved to be the oldest Holy Land map in the world.

It was unearthed during the construction of a new Greek Orthodox church on the site of its ancient predecessor.

This floor is the single most important piece of Byzantine Christian mosaic art in the East.

In 614, Madaba was conquered by the Sasanian Empire. During the eighth century, the ruling Muslim Umayyad Caliphate had some figural motifs removed from the mosaic. In 746, Madaba was largely destroyed by an earthquake and subsequently abandoned.

Because the mosaic map of Madaba is the oldest known geographic floor mosaic in art history, it is used significantly for confirming the position and location of biblical sites. E.g. In 1967, excavations in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem revealed the Nea Church and the Cardo Maximus in the very locations suggested by the Madaba Map.

The floor mosaic is located in the apse of the church of Saint George at Madaba.

An apse is a semicircular recess,

often covered with a hemispherical vault.

It is not oriented northward, as modern maps are, but faces east toward the altar in such a fashion that the position of places on the map coincides with the compass directions.

Originally, it measured 21 by 7 m and

contained more than two million individual tiles

The mosaic map depicts an area from

Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south,

and from the Mediterranean Sea

in the west to the Eastern Desert.

Among other features,

it depicts the Dead Sea

with two fishing boats,

a variety of bridges linking

the banks of the Yarden/Jordan,

fish swimming in the river

and receding from the Dead Sea;

Made almost unrecognizable by the insertion of random tiles/tesserae during a period of during a period of opposition to and destruction of, religious images known as Iconoclasm;

is a lion hunting a gazelle in the Moab desert, (top left of picture);

palm-ringed Jericho (at the bottom and below),

Bethlehem, and other biblical sites.

Below, place where

John the Baptist was at Yeshua/Jesus’ immersion

at the mouth of the Yarden/Jordan,

Bethabara

and the (nearly-obliterated) lion hunting a gazelle.

The map may have served to help pilgrims’ orientate themselves in the Holy Land.

All the landscape areas are labeled with explanations in Greek and depict approx. 150 towns and villages.

Ancient church buildings were positioned 180 degrees from the Temple in Yerushalayim/Jerusalem. The Holy of Holies was entered from the East with the ark of the covenant in the west.

Byzantine church buildings were entered from the west with the “altar” in the east. Because of this, the Madaba map is oriented so that those sitting in the pews can look ahead to see the map, then look beyond the map and see the pulpit or “Altar”.

The map is read from the west.

While modern maps are labeled as if one is standing on the south pole and looking north, the Madaba map is labeled from the north looking south. This means that the lettering of the map is upside down to how we would orient the map on paper. It’s like looking at a map of a country at 180 degrees/upside down.

The Madaba map is not to scale.

Yerushalayim/Jerusalem is greatly enlarged and distances are greatly distorted in comparison to what we would expect from an accurate map; because the map was for devotional purposes, not science and geography as we would like it to have been from a modern perspective.

When they built the map, one 1/2 inch cube of stone mosaic at a time, they surely never thought they were working on what would be the most important ancient map in existence!

The largest and most detailed element of the topographic depiction is Jerusalem (Greek: ΙΕΡΟΥΣΑ[ΛΉΜ]), at the centre of the map. The mosaic clearly shows a number of significant structures in the Old City of Jerusalem: the Damascus Gate, the Lions’ Gate, the Golden Gate, the Zion Gate, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the New Church of the Theotokos, the Tower of David.

This post on

Madaba

and its amazing mosaic map has an important place

in verifying the location of Yeshua/Jesus’ immersion

from our previous 2 posts.

Passing through the waters may have a much deeper meaning than we first thought on reading the Bible the

Jordan/Yarden River

has a major part in many of the prophetic scriptures.

From as far back as Abraham…

Abraham entered the Promised Land through the gateway of the Jordan River Valley when he first journeyed from Ur of the Chaldeans (Gen. 12:1–9).

The Book of Genesis refers to the

patriarch Abram as:

ha-ivri הָעִבְרִי

or

the Hebrew. Gen. 14:13.

…to those which were fulfilled in John/Yocananan and Jesus/Yeshua’s day.

Recall an earlier post concerning the meaning of the word

Hebrew – ivri

עברי

ivri means: to cross over.

pronounced: eevriy

The actual definition of the word is:

one who has crossed over, passed over or beyond

ivri or ivrim

depending on whether you’re speaking

of an individual or a group.

From the root word ivr עבר

to cross over, or pass through.

An IVRI one who crosses over into both a promised land and a life of divinely determined service. One who crosses over (ovr) boundaries and obstacles, and in particular the obstacle of meaninglessness and despair.

He was the first Hebrew (Ivrit)

or

one who crossed over.

Crossing over means going from

being a worldly Babylonian

to

becoming the Israel of Elohim.

Gal 6:16; Eph 2:1.

Abraham crossed over

from false gods to the one and only true God.

He crossed over

physically by leaving his homeland

He forsook Babylon and

crossed over

the Euphrates and

Yarden/Jordan Rivers

in his journey westward en route

to the Promised Land as he followed YHVH’s leading.

The Israelites were delivered from the Egyptians as they

crossed over

through the Red/Reed Sea, and then they

crossed over

through the Jordan River into the Promised Land.

All these acts are pictures of deliverance and salvation.

We also

crossed over

from death to life through Messiah.

Origin of the word Hebrew:

From the time of the Abraham until the time of Jesus Christ, the world knew the Israelites as עברי (Erverh)

The Israelites wrote their name in their language with the letters עברי. The letters I V R I represent עברי in English.

The name ‘Hebrew,’ is the English translation of the name pronounced Erverh from Latin. The name “Hebrew,” is the result of translating the Latin “Hebraicus,” into English.

Thus, the name, “Hebrew” is the result of a double translation of the original name עברי, (Erverh). Had the translation been from the original texts with the name, עברי, we’d never have heard the name Hebrew.

The proper pronunciation in the native language of the ancient Israelites’ designation, commonly known, as “Hebrew” in English is “IVRI” pronounced Erh-Verh. Because most modern Bibles are direct translations or carbon copies of the Latin translation, the result is all modern Bibles carry the name Hebrew. Derived from the Latin name Hebraicus. Without the Latin name “Hebraicus,” a direct translation from the original Dead Sea scrolls would read “Erverh,” instead of Hebrew.

The name “Hebrew,” is the English translation from the original ancient texts of the name עברי (IVRI) pronounced Erh-Verh. (Ever or eber.)