Post by Abdicate on Dec 1, 2018 13:22:26 GMT -5
Of late, I've been hearing about the lack of need for Christians to read the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). I use Hebrew Scriptures because "old" implies done away with, which many are doing. The error is equating "old" with "law" both of which are inaccurate statements. Every time the word "law" is translated, it brings to mind the harsh schoolmaster ready to whip you into submission with a metal ruler. Actually, the word תורה (torah, meaning: covenant, established, man, grace) really means teaching. The law, or teaching wasn't created with the Ten Commandments, but long before.
Genesis 26:5
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my teachings (law).
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my teachings (law).
Remember, the only scriptures Jesus had or any of the apostles were the Hebrew scriptures. How I long for the word of God to have articulated verbatim what Jesus told the two on the road to Emmaus, Luke 24:27!
I would like to show you some of the wonders of the language of Hebrew. Hebrew is written right to left. God made the physical and spiritual realms in awesome (!) complexity. Here's a chart:
In Hebrew Covenant is (בּרית) (brit) and reveal is (ע - eye, to see) which when combined is עברית and that is the word for Hebrew or Covenant Revealed!! Wait! There’s still more. Let’s look at the paleo-Hebrew letters for the word Hebrew:
or “See in man hand mark”
Whose hand is marked that we need to see!? Jesus – the Savior! A new covenant revealed!
Father is:
אב
אב
The number five is considered the number of GRACE in scripture. The fifth letter in Hebrew is ה.
When the Father injects Grace into His title (father) you get אהב which means LOVE!
When the Father injects Grace into His title (father) you get אהב which means LOVE!
What is Love (feminine form)?
אהבה
אהבה
The center of feminine version of love is: הב which means GIVE! as an interjection. A mother gives her love unconditionally (almost to a fault) for her children.
So let’s look at the word for Adam in Hebrew: אדם
• א – is leader, or strong, or sacrifice
• ד – is door, or path
• ם – (this is the form when “m” – מ – is the last letter of a word) is water, chaos, or spirit
• א – is leader, or strong, or sacrifice
• ד – is door, or path
• ם – (this is the form when “m” – מ – is the last letter of a word) is water, chaos, or spirit
So the meaning of Adam is “man opens door to the Spirit” and it can also mean “man opens door to chaos”, which is what Adam did; he opened up to the wrong spirit! Though we have free will, it really boils down to two choices: participate in God’s will, or not. God gives us the power to succeed through obedience, but if we are disobedient then we suffer loss, not so much from punishment, but more of an absence of God’s blessings. This is why God says He’ll heal the nation when HIS people repent. If a Godly nation becomes lost, it’s HIS people who are at fault. Even in churches today, “preachers” are saying the “problem is Washington” when in reality it’s the first 15 rows of the church or the pulpit!
The word for woman here is אשה (ishah) and the word for man here is איש (ish). There are a few words for man, but this one is when man is in dignity – meaning obedient, righteous, and correct. So let’s look at the letter meaning of this word man.
• א – sacrifice, leader, first, man
• י – hand, work, deed
• ש – destroy, consume, provide
• א – sacrifice, leader, first, man
• י – hand, work, deed
• ש – destroy, consume, provide
So the meaning of man by its letters is “man’s work provides” and “man’s work consumes”. I debated with myself concerning this last definition, but I realized that is exactly what we do. We work to provide for the family, but it’s the Lord that gives the increase. We cannot create, we can only consume, but it’s the Lord that sustains us. This is why many of the mezuzahs on doors have the letter shin (ש) on them. It represents God; El Shaddai (אל שדי) translated as “God Almighty”. However, שד (shad) means breast as in that which provides required nourishment – everything a baby would need. The letter yod (י) means “my”; so the full meaning of El Shaddai is “God my breast” as in “God is all I need to be nourished and provides for me.” The individual letters שד mean consuming door. What happens when a baby is hungry, besides cry, they open their mouth – the door. Exactly what Jesus meant:
Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It is written (Deu 8:3), Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
So now let’s look at אשה (ishah) – woman – and the letter meanings:
• א – sacrifice, leader, first, man
• ש – destroy, consume, provide
• ה – reveal, window, grace
• א – sacrifice, leader, first, man
• ש – destroy, consume, provide
• ה – reveal, window, grace
So the letters for woman mean “first to provide grace”. What traditional home isn’t where the father is the authority and the enforcer and the mother is the one who dishes out “grace”! If this isn’t enough to warm the cockles of a cold heart, let’s look at what happens when a man and woman become one. As we can see that separately they reveal differing aspects of God, together they show even more. If you combine the letter of man and woman separating the common letters from the unique letters, you get the following:
איש (man) + אשה (woman) = אש (fire) + יה (God) + אש (fire)
Notice that both man and woman turn into אש “sacrifice consumed” (the meaning of fire)! When a man and woman marry both must sacrifice their passions (fire) for compromise for each other, give and take, and allow God to work in their midst otherwise they’ll become a conflagration – an extensive fire that destroys a great deal; fire + fire! There are two things I notice about this layout of fire on each side of God. One, both “fires” are identical words. Though men and women are not the same, they are certainly equal, one flesh. Eve came from Adam’s rib, not his foot or his head. To keep the balance, the difference, between man and woman requires God’s input into their individual differences as well as what they have in common. He is the pivot point.
But my favorite Hebrew word is the Name God gave to Moses, יהוה
The meaning of each letter is: open hand, LOOK!, nail, LOOK! Another dual meaning via the pictograph: Work of Grace and Grace! When words are not enough, we have the picture:
יהוה
Literally, the name of God given to Moses is this picture! This is all so intertwined; Scriptures cannot be the work of man! I've not even touched on the mathematics part of Hebrew and Greek. Each letter in Greek and Hebrew have a numerical value, A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. But that's for another time.