In Psalm 139:17
we read of our Fathers’ thoughts towards us
and in Jeremiah 29:11 we read
For I know the plans I have for you
The word plans translated from the Hebrew is
הַמַּחֲשָׁבֹ֗ת
the thoughts
ham-ma-ḥă-šā-ḇōṯ,
“For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
These are His thoughts for our futures
מחשבות
Thoughts
מַחֲשָׁבָה
Strong’s Hebrew: 4284. מַחֲשָׁבָה (machashabah or …
Transliteration:
machashabah or machashebeth
Phonetic Spelling:
(makh-ash-aw-baw’) {makh-ash-eh’-beth};
Definition: thought, device
from chashab
Definition:
thought, device a contrivance,
i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention,
plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice) —
cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed),
imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
More Hebrew words for thought.
noun מַחֲשָׁבָה.
thinking, mind, think, idea, conception.
noun חֲשִׁיבָה. thinking, consideration.
noun רַעְיוֹן.
The Hebrew words used here –
chashab and machashebeth –
also have a common origin.
The word chashab means “to think, reckon, compute”.
This is thinking on a higher plane, at a more intense level than the more casual form of thinking would be; and the word machashebeth is the result of that kind of “thinking”
– plans, plots, strategies, inventions, and so on.
It could either be a mental result (a complex strategy or plot or scheme of some kind), or it could be a physical result (something more down-to-earth and practical – an invention of some sort, something more intricate and complex than the usual run of manufactured objects).
The Modern Hebrew word מחשב (mahh’shev) means “computer.”
It is derived from the Ancient Hebrew root חשב
(Hh-Sh-B , Strong’s #2803)
meaning “to think.” One method of forming a Hebrew noun out of a root is by adding the letter מ ( M ) to the front of a root and this noun would then mean “what” does the action of that root.
Since the passage here is set in the context of war, we could easily understand this “devise devices” phrase as a reference to the intricate computer-guided weaponry that mankind has invented in recent times.
The “computer”, is probably the most ingenious “device” that man has ever invented. So the ancient word machashebeth probably could be applied to any of a whole array of modern inventions – computers, weapons, TVs, cameras, and there’s no end of things it could stand for.
However most importantly;
What does the scripture show of His thoughts to us:
God’s thoughts towards us
מחשבותיו של אלוהים כלפינו
He cares for us before we were even born
“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!” Psalm 139:16-17.
KJV: works [which] thou hast done,
and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward:
they cannot be reckoned up in order
and for our future
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience. Darby Bible Translation. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope. Jeremiah 29:11
This verse is often quoted as encouragement.
Here in Jeremiah God strengthened His people through His prophet by explaining that even though they had been taken into 70 years of Babylonian captivity, after discipline the time for their release would come.
They had failed to keep the 70 Sabbath year rests for the land over 490 years that God had commanded in Leviticus 25: 2 -5. Once the 70 lost years of rest for the land had been completed, God would again bless and restore.
The years of rest were known as Shmitas.
Brief summary of what a Shmita is:
The Shemitah (sometimes spelled Shemittah or Shmita) is the seventh year in a seven-year cycle described in the Old Testament.
The word Shemitah is pronounced “shem ē’ tah”, which literally means remission or to release or to let go.
The first reference to Shmita is in the Book of Exodus (Exodus 23:10-11):. For six years you are to sow your land and to gather in its produce, but in the seventh, you are to let it go [tishm’tenah] and to let it be [u’nitashta], that the needy of your people may eat, and what remains, the wildlife of the field shall eat.
Sabbatical Year: in the Jewish cycle of time, Shmita, is the “year of release,” The sabbath year in Hebrew: שמיטה , literally “release”, also called the sabbatical year or shǝvi’it ( שביעית , literally “seventh”), is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Bet HaMikdash in the Land of Israel and is observed in contemporary Judaism. During shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting, is forbidden by halakha (Jewish law).
The Shemitah is this final year of the 7 year cycle and is set aside for debt forgiveness as well as refraining from direct cultivation of the land prescribed for Israel in the Old Testament. The debt forgiveness would break cycles of perpetual debt. The rest for the land would not only be good for the soil but dictated that the volunteer crops that sprang up should be harvested by the poor for their use.
Leviticus 25:1-7
On the last day of the Sabbath year, lenders were required to forgive or “release” (the meaning of “Shemitah”) borrowers from the obligation of repaying their debts. (Deuteronomy 15:1-11) so over time, the last day of the Sabbath year and the year itself came to be known as the “Shemitah”
(pronounced sh’mi’-tah).
The seven years are counted in the cycle of fifty 7 x 7years = 49 and culminating in the following years as the Jubilee.
Hebrew: יובל yōḇel; and are known by tradition as the year following the destruction of the second Holy Temple was the first year of a seven-year Sabbatical cycle. In the Jewish calendar, counting from Creation, this was the year 3829, 68–69 CE on the secular calendar.
New Moon and the Shemitah:
The Shemitah starts at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Tishrei (Rosh Hashanah) of the seventh year in the cycle. The first day of the Jewish month is based on the new moon.
YOBEL a year of emancipation and restoration provided by ancient Hebrew law to be kept every 50 years by the emancipation of Hebrew slaves, restoration of alienated lands to their former owners, and omission of all cultivation of the land.
So What are Our Fathers Machashabeth?
His thoughts are as numerous as the sand on the seashore that’s multiplied trillions!!!
Beyond counting.
So many grains of sand on so many shores around the earth; and they are all like precious jewels as shown in the previous picture.
I know the thoughts…
your down sitting and uprising and
you perceive my thoughts before they are in my mouth
Psalm 139:4
Our Heavenly Fathers Thoughts towards us are revealed in this Psalm:
the opposites
of sitting
and
rising
represent all actions
the opposites of
going out in the morning
and
lying down at night
represent the whole days activities.
There is not a word in my tongue He knows all my words before they are uttered as he knows all my thoughts while they are yet unformed.
Somewhere, at times along the way, we seem to have put to the side, or forgotten, that our Father is the all knowing, all seeing, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, always existed God; above all gods, King of all kings, and Lord of all lords.
He is more than able to know all our thoughts!
He is the same yesterday today and forever. He inhabits the ages outside of time He has seen the end from the beginning and has already prepared tomorrow he has gone before us and made the WAY.
Beset behind and before – God knows all the past and future.
This is why we have no need to fear or to be anxious,
He holds the future
and that future is
HOPE itself.
The hope that undergirds our faith.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope. Jeremiah 29:11.
The Tikvah – the anchor of our faith to believe –
in this, is where we focus our patient trust.
For more on the anchor click link below
https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-secret-of-the-ogehn-of-tiqvah/
Laid thine hand upon me this is
the body language
of blessing.
Job 15:11; Ps 139:77; Rom 8:28,
Then according to Isaiah His thoughts are not like our thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 King James Version (KJV) 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord . 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Job 21:27
HEB: הֵ֣ן יָ֭דַעְתִּי מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם וּ֝מְזִמּ֗וֹת עָלַ֥י
NAS: I know your thoughts, And the plans
KJV: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices
Psalm 33:11
HEB: לְעוֹלָ֣ם תַּעֲמֹ֑ד מַחְשְׁב֥וֹת לִ֝בּ֗וֹ לְדֹ֣ר
KJV: for ever, the thoughts of his heart
His Plan for His People is revealed in His Word written and the manifestation of His Living Word Yeshua/Jesus.
There are the type of thoughts that make sense of the world around us, that may invoke logic and planning, that revive memories and bring them to our conscious minds.
These are מַחְשָׁבוֹת
the plural form of the word
מַחְשָׁבָה
listen and repeat – a thought – that itself comes from the root
ח.שׁ.ב (kh.sh.b)
meaning think or calculate.
As previously mentioned the word chashab means “to think, reckon, compute”. This is thinking on a higher plane, at a more intense level than the more casual form of thinking would be. And the word machashebeth is the result of that kind of “thinking” – plans, plots, strategies, inventions, and so on.
Abstract thought is the expression of concepts and ideas in ways that can not be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or heard. Hebrew never uses abstract thought as English does, however examples of Abstract thought can be found in
Psalms 103:8; “The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger, abounding in love”.
Hebrew uses concrete and not abstract thoughts, but notably, here we have such abstract concepts as: compassionate, gracious, anger, and love in a Hebrew passage.
See link below for more on mindsets
https://www.minimannamoments.com/ancient-pictographic-hebrew-language/
An important aspect of ancient Hebrew that should be kept in mind: With its rather limited vocabulary (normal for languages in their early stages of development), a Hebrew word could encompass many different shades of meaning, which in English could be translated by several different words. For this reason translators often experience difficulty in trying to pinpoint the best word to use for an ancient Hebrew word. In these cases, to eliminate some of the guesswork, it helps to look at the context and other clues that will aid in finding a more or less accurate translation of the word or phrase in question.
Machashabeth
in conventional Hebrew means
thoughts or plans, but it especially implies
intricately woven plans that infer purpose and meditation.
Although these thoughts and plans of God relayed by Jeremiah are good, Machashabeth can also be used of evil plans.
In Genesis 6:5
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
the word thoughts used here is the word מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ת
Machashabeth and shows evil intent.
Repeating the statement from above that Machashabeth in conventional Hebrew especially implies intricately woven plans that infer purpose and meditation. With this in mind is there anything in the ancient pictograms that make up the word מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ת Machashabeth that may give us insight about our Fathers’s intricately woven plans for His children?
Machashabeth is spelled
Mem Chet Sheen Beyt Tav.
מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ת
What were our Heavenly Fathers intentions?
Do the pictures in any way point to Yeshua/Jesus?
Remembering that we are grafted into Israel and His Thoughts and Plans include each of us as part of His family.
The Yiddish word Mishpocheh is Literally translates to family.
Often means extended family, and then some.
Also spelled
Mishpocah:
noun Yiddish;
an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage.
Reading from R to L.
Mish Pa Chah
Also Mishpachah definition is –
a Jewish family or social unit
including close and distant relatives.
Strong’s Hebrew: 4940. מִשְׁפָּחָה (mishpachah) — a clan
Machashabeth is spelled
Mem Chet Sheen Beyt Tav.
מחשבות
Mem
is the picture of
waters
and can be chaotic and destructive like
a tsunami
or gentle
like a stream bringing life in a desert.
It can mean: the Word of God that brings life
or the living waters.
Chet
is the picture of the
fence, poles and rails
and means:
to be cut off, a place of protection,
a sanctuary, or a refuge.
Sheen
is the picture of teeth
and means: to press or to destroy and is also
the one letter God uses to identify Himself,
it is His signature.
(Remember I Will Put My Name)
https://www.minimannamoments.com/i-will-put-my-name-here/
Beyt
is the picture of
the floor plan of the tent
and means:
the house, the dwelling place,
or the family.
Tav 
is the picture of
crossed sticks
and means:
a sign, to seal,
or
to covenant.
Remember Laminin and the shape of the TAV?
https://www.minimannamoments.com/hubble-cross-ing-the-great-divide/
Here the letter Sheen could indicate that: God is telling us this is His plan because now the pressing and crushing which is also depicted in the Sheen is over, and as we know from the scriptures, His intent towards His people is not evil.
(Where we began in Jeremiah 29:11).
In this instance, the Mem doesn’t show
destruction like a tsunami,
but depicts life
like
the stream bringing water into the desert.
(Isaiah 41:18)
His Machashabeth/thoughts, are to surround His people with a CHET/HEDGE of protection and bring them into His BEIT/HOUSE/TENT/DWELLING and again make them His Family/Tribe/Clan/Mishpocha.
(Sometimes spelled Mishpochah.)
This plan will be implemented by means of the
covenant
He made with them indicated by the
TAV;
as the covenant which Abram had entered into with God was still in force.
Despite her unfaithfulness, Israel would be restored because God never breaks His promises.
Recall that each of the letters has a numerical value and these numbers also hold meanings according to how they are used in the scriptures.
Mem
has the numerical value of
40
stands for
a trial or testing that results in renewal.
Chet
has the numerical value of
8
meaning
a new beginning.
Sheen
has the numerical value of
300
and indicates
the final blood sacrifice made by
the Perfect Lamb of God.
Beyt
has the numerical value of
2
and points us to
Yeshua/Jesus the Son of God.
Tav
has the numerical value of
400
and indicates
a divinely appointed period of time
that will bring about renewal through deliverance.
This uncovers
the truth
seen in the time of Jeremiah which was
a shadow and a precursor
to a
final restoration
indicated in the numerical value of each of the letters.
God’s thoughts His Machashabeth,
Our Heavenly Fathers intricately woven plan,
will result in the trials and testing of His children
and conclude in a new beginning –
new birth spiritually.
And is where we began in Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
This TRUTH revealed in the letters is:
This new beginning and renewal of life which is in reality
the restoration of broken fellowship that began in Eden:
will be accomplished through the Blood sacrifice of the
Perfect Lamb of God /Yeshua/Jesus the Son of God.
His sacrifice will come at a divinely appointed time
and will provide everlasting deliverance from sin,
giving us a hope and a future.
AND IT HAS….
The Amplified Bible Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
Here Shalom remember the definition of Shalom?
Shalom,
It means to set, to establish you in shalom. The word normally translated as peace, means health, welfare, security, justice, and tranquility, also freedom from all disaster.
A Hebrew scholar gave the best English translation of shalom: no good thing is withheld.
Jesus/Yeshua gave us in this peace in John 14:27 saying, ‘shalom aleikhem’.
Shalom comes from shalem
meaning to be complete, shalam = restore.
When there is shalom there is tranquility just as sufficient food clothing Housing. There is divine health, with no sickness. Shalom means an absence of: disorder, injustice, bribery, corruption, conflict, flat, hatred, abuse, violence, pain, suffering, immorality and all the other negative forces.
And an EXPECTED END
Jeremiah looked forward to this life altering event,
while Paul looked back on it and describing it for us
in Galatians 4:3-5.
“Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”
Here he explained our impossible position and gives us the truth of the gospel message –
God’s solution to mans sin problem.
in verse 7 He continues:
“Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”
These then, are His Machashabeth, and was what Gods plan was designed to ultimately accomplish by sending His only begotten Son: so that we too could be sons and heirs; we could be part of His family/mishpocah.
Please remember that if you have not already read the posts to the links provided, they are relevant as everything is connected and will further enhance our understanding.
Finally and most importantly according to His plan, we must all enter through the blood of His Son, the Perfect Lamb of God, Yeshua HaMashiah/Jesus Christ.
According to the Word of God…
There is no other way but to
Remember ….
You can Know Today That
You
Are Part Of
His
and His Shalom and Future Plan
can and will include you
for
Our Heavenly Fathers
מַחֲשָׁבָה /machashabah/thoughts
are continually towards us
and ….
