(Ver 1.1) Today is Part 11 in the amazing study of the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. This is an incredible subject containing infinite amounts of hidden information contained within the pictures of each letter of the ancient Hebrew pictographic Alphabet. We can easily find with study how each of these letters point us to the God that loved us so much that He chose to become one of us to save us from ourselves and our enemy. Many of us after studying this information have confirmed that each letter of the alphabet is a living “sign” post that reveals and points us to Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

These lessons were paused for a short time. But it seemed good to the Holy Spirit for these lessons to continue in the series for those that want to learn it. We believe that there are many today that want a deeper relationship with our creator God. The truth is always the truth, and Jesus told us that us coming to know the truth would set us free (Jn 8:32). We are trusting God to bring the right people in that will receive from these informative lessons. Thank you, Jesus.

This is a friendly Christian warning at the beginning, that this is a highly spiritual lesson series containing potentially offensive materials that are not well received by carnal immature Christians or the religiously indoctrinated person that is closed minded and unwilling to see and learn anything that is outside of their tiny boxes of traditional denominational teachings and backgrounds.

Therefore, please do not become angry or insulted if there are scriptures references given in this study that you disagree with as applying to or not applying to our study subject. No one here is going to argue with you, debate you, or fight you over any truth given. If you disagree, you are welcome to disagree in love, and choose to believe whatever you like. But please know that this lesson is covered with love and a lot of Bible verses that should not be ignored. As always if you have any significant knowledge that would be a blessing to others, or if you see any mistakes or typographical errors, any positive and constructive comments are always welcome.

Today’s lesson will focus primarily upon the ancient Hebrew letter “Yod”, also pronounced by some as “Yud” or “Yawd”. You may recall that we have seen this letter in previous study lessons about “Jehovah”, spelled “Yod” + “Hey” + “Vav” + “Hey”. Hopefully you learned the pictures of these 4 letters represent one of the most significant names of God (Jehovah), and they declare a prophetic message saying, “Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail”. This name is clearly a prophecy of Jesus after being nailed to a cross.

The “Yod” is the 10^th letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, and it is by far one of the most significant letters of the entire Alphabet for many reasons, but we will focus upon three of them for now. One reason for this is that it is this letter that occurs the most frequently in the entire God designed Hebrew text of Genesis to Malachi. Another key reason, is that many of the important names of God begin with this letter, JEHOVAH, JAH, YESHUA, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, etc.

Another major reason why this letter is so significant is what the picture of it represents. The ancient Hebrew letter “Yod” is a picture of an extended arm with a hand reaching out doing work with their implied power. Thus, this letter “Yod” picture matches the revealed description of God very well.

2Ch 32:17  He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. 

Proud and arrogant men and women today still stand in defiance of the powerful Yod “hand” of God as this king was doing. He was opposing God’s people who were being led by Hezekiah. This king thought much too much of himself, by believing that his hand was more powerful than the Hand of God that created him. If you read the subsequent context, you will find that this defiant king was put down and brought to nothing by the hand of one angel, sent from God. This is just an example of what we will be learning about today.

As you should be aware in today’s world, we should be standing in faith to believe God’s Yod Hand is at work to help us overcome our enemies led by Satan attempts at a surprise plan for a premature takeover of the world through his anti-Christ agenda. If you have been awake and aware it is self-evident concerning the events of the bold in your face pride based forceful silencing and takeover of everyone that knows the truth. This is why this lesson is more relevant than you may understand.

If we are ready, we will get into more of this letter in our study using the following outline of topics:

1. Introduction to the letter Yod
2. Yod = Number 10
3. Essential Yod Words and Basic Concepts
4. Hand of God = Power of God
5. Yod Hand of God in Creation
6. The Mouth of God Activates the Hand of God
7. Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

As previously stated, this is one of the most significant letters of the entire alphabet. It has vast amounts of meanings, and applications to describe and reveal God to us and how He chose to manifest in human form in His Son named Jesus. This letter, as you can see from the picture of it, resembles an outstretched arm extending the hand as when someone is working, throwing, taking hold of something and other like uses.

We are learning now about the ancient Hebrew letter “Yod” and the primary meanings and applications to knowing God. As you can see from the picture of the letter above, the very literal meaning of this letter pictograph is the extended open “hand”.  A hand is designed for grabbing, taking, gathering, picking, working, and holding things. Therefore, this letter represents creative works, planting and harvesting agricultural labor, actions performed to fulfill plans, tasks accomplished to achieve goals, and any primarily good job performed when used in relation to God who is “Good”. Therefore, the letter “Yod” can figuratively represent God’s power and strength on display or in movement to affect others, in the positive God nature to bless, save, deliver, and to heal.

The letter “Yod” is the most prolific letter found in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. This single letter is used by God over 31,500 times, more than any other letter. This appears to show God’s emphasis and importance of the letter. Jesus while walking the face of our planet confirms this letter’s importance by saying the following:

Mat 5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

This is a strange verse until you research it and study what the words mean. We need to realize two things immediately, that 1) Jesus is the one doing the speaking and 2) that He is speaking of the Hebrew written Law. We find out quickly that we are in the need of a translator because we know that Jesus was born a Jew in Israel, and He was inspired by the Holy Spirit what to say everywhere He went. This makes His words, God’s words. But Jesus was most likely speaking in the Hebrew tongue to these people (Mat 15:24).

But the writer of the Gospel of Matthew is being inspired by the Holy Ghost to write the original Hebrew spoken words in the Greek language. Any inspired words in the original written languages makes them the Word of the Living God.

But finally, today we are reading another translation into the English language. So, we are potentially losing a lot of important information because of the Hebrew to Greek which is then being moved into the English language. Every modern translation that has been written has the potential for being heavily influenced by their human biases and their lack of full understanding of the languages and words, not to mention the potential for knowing little about the original author God. No doubt Mathew was inspired correctly which Greek words to write, but the English translators are doubtful to be fully inspired by the Holy Spirit because of the numerous errors that are presented in the translation.

We can look at a concordance and find that the English translated word “Jot” is written in the Greek New Testament text as the Greek “alphabet” letter “Iota”. Yes, God uses the Greek alphabet letters to teach us things, in the same way as He has done in the Hebrew alphabet letter designs. We have already seen this fact when God writes about Jesus saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega”, which are the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet and we know this applies to the Hebrew alphabet letters “Alef” and “Tav”. We just must become smart enough to make the language transitions correctly.

Then guess why it was written in Greek text as Iota and where it came from? The Greek letter Iota has been transliterated from the original Jesus spoken Hebrew letter “Yod”. It is also interesting that the letter iota is the 9^th letter of the Greek alphabet, but in the Greek system of numeral meanings, iota has the value of “10”.  

The English letter “I” is also the 9^th letter of the alphabet. The letter “J” is the 10th letter, and this was chosen as the name of Jesus in more modern transliteration forms. But the letter “J” did not even exist until around 1600 AD. Before this addition the name Jesus was written like the Greek transliterated name “Iesous”. Therefore, the letters “I”, “Iota” and “Yod” are all language sounding equivalents.

Wow, all this knowledge changes everything we see in Matthew 5:18! Jesus just said that heaven and earth would pass away, but not one letter “Iota” (Greek) which is the equivalent to the letter “Yod” (Hebrew) would be removed from God’s written Torah (Law). Please also consider that at the times of Jesus, the Hebrew letter “Yod”, had been modified from a picture of a hand and an arm to be written as one of the smallest letters of the entire alphabet as י. This Hebrew letter look more like an English symbol called an “apostrophe” than anything else.

Nevertheless, the fact that in Greek the name of Jesus begins with an Iota further establishes this letter to the “Yod” and His Father’s primary name “Jehovah” begins with this same letter.  and this letter represents the “hand of God”, and “His Power”, and we can see how this applies to the validity of what Jesus just said. We can confirm the none of these “Yods” (Hand of God) will ever disappear from existence, because God will never cease to be God. Therefore, the “Yod” like the rest of the letters will never change, be removed, be erased, or cease to exist.

It is very important to know that each alphabet letter in the Hebrew language has multiple layers of essential knowledge built into it. Remember each letter was an original pictographic drawing and each picture contains the basis for the other layers of meanings. The picture is like the foundation of a house. The old adage, that a picture tells a thousand words can be literally true in the ancient Hebrew letter picture. But this is just the initial foundation to something much larger and more complex.

Each letter is at least two numbers, 1) the order of sequence and 2) an assigned gematria value. As we have seen many times the number values have very specific meanings only found when we choose to search for them in the scriptures. For example, in today’s letter the value of 10 is very specific and there are many verses where God selected the number 10 to apply to new meanings that we will learn about later.

Each letter is also a “word”. Therefore, the spelling of the equivalent word of each letter and its arrangement and joined meanings of the combined formed word letters provides us with several new layers of application and meaning. Then there are the multiple layers of usage and context selections by the designer of the text and word arrangements for a specific order, that causes the never-ending abundance of information that can be hidden around one letter of the alphabet. This is called intelligent design by a very intelligent designer.

The Hebrew word equivalent of this letter Yod, is the word H3027 spelled as “Yod” + “Dalet”. This Hebrew word is used in the Bible over 1500 times and is translated over 1000 times as “hand” and over 270 times in the plural form as “hands”. Therefore, the primary and basic meaning of the word is the same as what is found in the individual letter picture representation. These two meanings agree and are used to confirm the definition of “hand” as being the truth (Mat 18:16). Remember the Bible says in the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses let every word of Truth be established.

Let us quickly analyze the spelling of the word H3027 sounded as “yawd”. This word begins with the letter “yod” meaning “hand” and ends with the letter “dalet” meaning a “door”. But here is where we need to see the applied application for a door to understand the more complete meaning.

A “door” allows movement out of the walls that keeps out what is outside or keeps enclosed what is on the inside. Therefore, the combined meaning of these two letters represents the “moving hand” or the “hand that moves”. Thus, this applies a figurative symbolic meaning to the word as someone that moves their hands for the positive actions to “throw”, “work”, “correct”, “plant”, “make”, “create”, “invent”, “save”, “heal”, etc.

But like other letters, it also has multiple evil associations depending upon the character, morals, attitudes, values, intentions, etc. of the person that is moving the hand (Yod). There is almost always a positive versus negative antithesis to every letter and word in the Bible. The Bible is an amazingly binary book of choices, meaning there are always left versus right, good versus evil, right versus wrong, friend versus enemy, truth versus lie, etc.

This brings us to understand that it is just not God that has a hand (Yod) as we were introduced to in the opening statement. We will confirm in this lesson that Jesus as a human man had two kinds of hands, one set being natural and the other being spiritual with both working together in operation simultaneously for God’s purpose and plan. That means humans were all created with “hands”, referring to the two literal attached parts of the arms as well as power and ability to work with them for either good or for evil. As Christians today, we all have the capability to access and utilize our spiritual hands for “good”, through exercising our Christ given delegated authority (Mat 28:18-19) to bring order back into the world.

But we must also know that there are other heavenly beings that were created with hands that contain power to work, serve, or even to do evil. God’s creative class of angelic beings were made to have hands that were pure and holy in the beginning (Eze 28:15). But after sin was found in Lucifer when he rebelled against God’s hand, he took with him 1/3 of the created angels (Rev 12:4). After angelic rebellion, God had hands that were against Him, and they only wanted to do evil to exalt themselves into power (Isa 14:12-13). Clearly this was a great angelic mistake and underestimation of God’s hand, but they must have believed that it was possible at first.

Therefore, we have three major categories of beings with hands in scriptures:

1. God our Creator (Exo 13:3)
2. Created Angels (Job 1:27)
3. Created humans made in the image and likeness of God (Gen 3:22)

Then we must understand, that within two of these three kinds of hands we have the potential for further division:

1. Good Hands – Hands working for or with Good (Eph 4:28).
2. Evil Hands – Hands working for Evil against God (Deu 31:29).

What we are learning is that there are many created beings that resided both in heaven and on the earth that had hands meaning ability to do work, exert power and perform and carry out purposes of design either for “good” or for “evil”. This means God designed us all with “hands” to carry out and perform internal choices or external instructions. God was the original model of this feature.

The phrase “hand of God” occurs 16 times in the KJV Bible. The phrase “hand of the LORD” occurs in 38 verses. The phrase “Lord’s hand” occurs 5 times. Therefore, that is more than enough references to understand that God has defined Himself to possess a quality or feature called “hands” in the spirit realm. This will be one of the main focused subjects today, but we will also try to cover the effects of other created hands that can do either good or evil.

YOD = Number 10

The letter Yod is the 10^th letter of the alphabet and is also assigned the numerical value of 10 in gematria. The number ten as you may recall is the number that represents ordinal perfection and/or completeness. There are numerous occurrences of this number within scriptures that are extraordinary to know. For example:

1. There were 10 recorded creation of God statements in Genesis 1. Each statement was God revealing a place where, “God said” something and that which was spoken was then manifested and God calls these types of things the works of His hands (Isa 45:12).
2. God creates Adam forming his body with His hands from the dirt of the ground and places on him 2 hands, one left and one right and having 10 total fingers (Gen 2, Ps 119:73).
3. There were 10 generations from Adam to Noah when God’s flood judgment came upon the earth (Gen 5).
4. Abraham pays tithes (10%) to Melchizedek in Genesis14:18-20.
5. God agreed to not destroy Sodom if 10 righteous were found. (Gen 18:32)
6. God Judges Egypt after 400 years of Israel’s bondage and uses 10 plagues in Egypt to free them (Gen 15:14, Exo 6:5-6).
7. First Passover in Egypt was the 10^th plague, and it began when the lamb was selected on the 10^th day of the first month. (Exo 12:2)
8. God gives Moses 10 commandments carved on two stone tablets by His finger on Mt. Sinai. (Exo 31:18, Deut 4:13). This is a repeat of the two hands of man containing 10 fingers pattern.
9. Israel in the wilderness tempted God 10 times and were judged and did not enter the promised land. (Num 14:22)
10. Boaz takes 10 men to witness and judge the purchase of Elimelech’s possessions and the taking of Ruth to be his wife (Ruth 4:2).
11. Job rebukes his friends for vexing his soul and breaking him into pieces ten times, with their words (Job 19:1-2)
12. Daniel and the 3 Israelites were tested for 10 days to see if God’s diet would be better than the King’s diet and were justified. (Dan 1:15).
13. Daniel and the 3 Israelites, when tested by the King, were found 10 times wiser and more understanding than all his magicians. (Dan 1:20)

These are just a few occurrences of the number 10 that are significant. There are certain patterns given to us in these few occurrences that need our attention. For example, we can see parallels between the ten fingers on 2 hands concept of man in creation, to be like the 10 commandments written on 2 tablets of stone by the finger of God. Therefore, we can see how the Law given to Moses represents God’s extension of His hands to bring order back onto earth. It was this concept of God’s order that was given to Adam when He was told to dress and keep the garden (Gen 2:15), meaning God intended Adam to use his created hands with 10 fingers, to work it, guard it, protect it, etc. We can arrive at several implied conclusions from this information next.

The number 10 appears to be further confirmed to represent power and authority. It is through God’s Laws written with His hands, that were designed to bring back order to man’s dominion with His 10 written commandments in stone. But the created world’s power and authority was originally transferred from God’s Hands to His created man Adam’s hands (Gen 1:26). This delegated authority that God gave Adam, assigned him the responsibility to maintain the created order of God’s creation pattern of being and remaining in a state of being only “Good”.

It also was intended to remove or prevent any chaotic influences and consequences from entering or occurring on the earth if wise choices were continuing to be implemented. But Adam chose to take with his “hand” (Yod, = power and authority) to eat from the tree that God had commanded him not to take from or he would die (Gen 3:11). If Adam would have chosen correctly, he could have kept sin from entering into the world, that was before man’s sin “only” found in heaven in Lucifer’s rebellion (Eze 28:15).

Notice we are discovering 3 “hands” of power and authority that are working in this previous description of creation. We have the Yod Hand of God’s power and authority working from within heaven, that created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1). We have the delegated power and authority (Yod = hands) of man that was supposed to be utilized to not allow Satan’s entrance into the newly created world (Gen 1:26, Gen 2:15). Then we have the hands of Lucifer that rebelled before Adam was created, and because of Adam’s bad choices he causes all humans to come into agreement together with Satan against God (Isa 28:15, Eph 2:19).

We find the number 10 multiple times, having the meaning of power and authority and we should also notice in this list the patterns of 10 for bringing God judgments. For example, the sins of the earth were tolerated by God for 10 generations between Adam and Noah. With Noah’s generation, God sees the filling-up of the chaotic corruption cup of sin in the world.

This concept appears to teach us that God sets limits of evil and in Noah’s day it had reached an overflowing level of His limit (Genesis 6). God’s end point came when the “sons of God” began to work to “take” (yod hand action) the daughters of Adam, and they begin to produce a corrupted line of perverted giants within human creation (Gen 6:4).

It appears that this act of Satan was done to destroy God’s creation by corrupting the blood line and DNA of originally created Adam. Satan implements this plan by assigning some of his subservient rebellious angels the task to have sexual relations with human women. But we can see that these evils brought further judgements that have taken place to remove these evil angels from earth, being revealed to us in verses like Jude 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:4. These are just further examples of God’s judgments even upon the angelic class of creation, when lines are crossed.

What we are observing is the fact that it took 10 generations before God said, “enough is enough” and this caused His judgment from heaven to fall upon man upon the earth (Gen 6). This will be a repeated pattern. For example, we know that natural Israel was held in bondage as slaves for 400 years. It is noteworthy to remember the number 400 is the value of the letter “Tav” which represent the “Cross” judgment of Christ, the lamb of God slain for mankind.

But these 400 years of bondage brough about another of God’s judgments upon the nation of Egypt for all the evil that was done to Israel (Gen 15:13-14). Please remember this concept of “bondage” because it will reoccur soon. We will see this prophetic pattern being repeated when Jesus comes into the world after 4,000 years of human bondage to release us all from Satan’s captivity. This event of the “cross” was also God’s judgment upon His only begotten Son after He took all our sins upon His body (1 Pet 2:23).

But God brought upon Egypt exactly 10 plagues by His hand (Yod) for judgment. But it was the 10^th plague that was the ultimate great judgment of “death” upon rebellious humans to kill their “firstborn” (Num 33:4). Families without the blood of a lamb placed upon wooden doorposts of their house experienced the death of their “firstborn”.

Finally, we can see another key example of God’s judgment upon humans in Israel in the wilderness. God says in Numbers 14:22 “that these people have murmured against me 10 times and have not listened to my voice”. Therefore, God’s judgement fell upon them, and all of Isreael 20 years and older died while remaining in the wilderness for 40 years (Num 14:28-29), except for Joshua and Caleb who were of a different spirit and made the right faithful choices.

What we are finding is a concept that many parents do to their children. When their children are ignoring them, they begin to count to ten, and if the children do not obey them, then there should be disciplined consequences. Since God is the ultimate Father (Heb 12:9), who is extremely loving, merciful, patient and kind, we still find that He must utilize limits and boundaries to eventually bring about human judgments through His hand.

We are discovering this power of God is revealed in His “hand” (Yod) and how it has been connected to the number 10. The fact that we have 10 fingers is significant because there was a race of giants created by angels that had 12 fingers (2 Sam 21:20). Then when we see the 10 commandments being written by the finger of God into two tablets of stone, this implies there were 5 laws in each stone.

This was just a rapid introduction and overview of some of the applications of the Yod value of the number 10, and it is not possible to cover everything that it represents in a single lesson, much less one section. But please remember what God says in Proverbs 22:15. In this verse God says, “foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but a rod of correction, shall drive it far from him”. Then remember it takes a Yod hand of judgment to hold this rod of correction.

Essential YOD Words and Basic Concepts

There are several essential words that begin with the letter “Yod”. Let us only focus upon a few of these key words to learn some of God’s important usages of this key letter of the alphabet and how it applies to Jesus.

1. H3029 – YDH = Give Praise, Give Thanks, (Gen 29:35)
2. H3045 – YDAh = Know by Seeing, experiencing, covenant terminology (Gen 4:1)
3. H3050 – YAH = Jah, short form of Jehovah name of God (Ps 68:4, 18)
4. H3054 – YDH = Jew, one from the tribe of Judah, comes from the name Jehudah (H3063).
5. H3063 – Judah aka Jehudah the fourth son of Leah and Jacob, a key father in the lineage of King David and his Son King Jesus (1 King 9:5, Jer 33:17)
6. H3068 – Jehovah – LORD, Name of God spelled Yod Hey Vav Hey
7. H3070 – Jehovah Jireh – The LORD Sees (Gen 22:14)
8. H3091 – Yehoshua – Joshua = Jehovah is salvation (Hebrew name of Jesus) (Exo 17:9)
9. H3124 – Yonah – Jonah = Dove (Jonah 1:1)
10. H3130 – Yoseph = Joseph = Jehovah has added, 1^st Son of Jacob and Rachel (Gen 30:24)
11. H3290 – Yaaqob = Jacob = Heel Holder or Catcher, 2^nd son of Isaac (Gen 25:26)
12. H3327 – Yitschaq = Isaac = He laughs, Son of Abraham and Sarah (Gen 17:19)
13. H3371 – Jehovah Nissi – The LORD my banner (Victory) (Gen 17:15)
14. H3117 – YWM – the name God calls the 12-hour time of Light = Day (Gen 1:5)
15. H3220 – YM – the name God gives to water = Sea (Gen 1:10)
16. H3308 – YPY – Beauty (Ps 50:2)
17. H3313 – Yaw-fah – YPAh – Shine Forth Light (Deu 33:2)
18. H3373 – Yaw-ray – Fear of God (Gen 22:12)
19. H3389 – Yerushalaim = Jerusalem “The teaching of peace” (Jos 10:1)
20. H3478 – Yisrael – Israel = He will rule as God (Gen 32:28)

Here are a few things we can learn from our short list of words beginning with the key letter “Yod”. God emphasizes this letter by beginning these words and names by choosing the letter Yod (His Hand) to be first. This fact of being first appears to indicate an emphasis upon them being “hand” selected names and words. In other words, God chose them specifically for a specific job or purpose. Many of God’s essential covenant names beginning with the Yod are very revealing to teach us about His caring and loving personal “Works of His Hands”.

We have learned before in other lessons, that the name of God “Jehovah” (LORD) is spelled Yod + Hey + Vav + Hey, and these letters mean “Behold the hand, Behold the nail” a clear prophecy for Jesus who was God and LORD, to be hung on a cross. Many of the names of God are related or describing His habitation as in “Jerusalem” begin with this letter Yod. It is also very interesting that God is called the God of Peace (Rom 16:20) and He lives in a city named Jerusalem meaning “founded on peace”.

We can remember that Jehovah God appears to Abraham and promises Him a “Seed” that will be as the stars of heaven (Gen 15:5). God promised this seed to come from Abram and Sarai. But they were very old and did not know how this could happen since Sarai had been barren from a young age. But we know nothing is impossible with God (Lk 1:37). God said it would happen and it did happen after God changed their names to Abraham and Sarah.

What happens when God changes their names is amazing. God took the two “Hey” letters from His name Jehovah and places one in Sarai’s name to become Sarah, and the other in Abram’s name to become “Abraham”. The name Sarah now meant “princes” and the named “Abraham” now meant “Father of many nations”. These two letters shifted from God’s names into Sarai and Abram, left the letters “Yod” and “Vav” in Jehovah. As we know these two remaining letters, represent the “hand” (Yod), and the “nail” (Vav). So, we can see who was receiving the nail in the hand was God, and who was supposed to “behold” Him being nailed through His hands, was the children (seed) of Abraham and Sarah. This is exactly what happens approximately 2000 years later with God personally appearing on the earth to be crucified.

Abraham and Sarah were 100 and 90 years old, respectively, when this promised lineage of Abraham’s “seed” began to be fulfilled. God instructed Abraham to call this first promised “seed” and son “Isaac”. Again, we can see the “work” of God to hand-select a man and his name (Gen 17:19). God says my covenant will come through him. The name “Isaac” begins with the letter “Yod”, and this cannot be a coincidence because we can see the works of God’s hand in it clearly.

Abraham goes and takes a wife for his son Isaac from his brethren. But this only occurred after God told Abraham to sacrifice his son. Within Biblical typology this story of Isaac represents a shadowed pattern of the coming work of God to sacrifice His Son Jesus on a cross and after being raised from the dead to take a wife for His Son called the church.

It was then Isaac that had two sons, like his God chosen father named Abraham. Remember God chose “Isaac” over the first-born son “Ishmael” because Isaac came through the correctly chosen older woman Sarah. Isaac had a son named “Esau” which was his first-born and then came out his twin brother named Jacob. Jacob is a very strange name meaning “heal catcher”, but he has the chosen hand of God letter “Yod beginning his name. So, we have a pattern developing where God hand-selected two younger brothers to create His covenant family, the founding fathers of “Israel” are named Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Exo 2:24).

But then do you remember the name that God gave to Jacob by an angel from heaven? Wasn’t this name “Israel”, and we know that it obviously came by the Spirit of God’s heavenly instructions (Gen 35:10). What happens when a wife marries a man? She usually takes His name. Many now believe this is the reason for this name change of Jacob. This appears to be the reason why God says over and over in the Bible, “the people that are called by my name” (2 Chr 7:14, Dan 9:19). Thus, Israel is the name of a “hand-selected” natural nation of people (Jer 31:32), but it is also the name of their covenant making God (Deu 28:10).

Many of the key men that were selected for use by God, begin with this letter “Yod” and this displays God’s “hand” of influence, guidance, assistance, and direction upon them. There are several other names that we did not cover, because of the length of this lesson, but please feel free to do some homework to study these on your own and share your findings with others in a comment. Let us look at a new name of God that is often overlooked next.

There are also many root words that have the “Yod” as the middle letter and this too is very significant. For example, another key name of God is found in Exodus 3:14 as the words “I AM”. which God responded to Moses when he asked Him, “Who do I say sent me?”. God speaking to Moses said, “Tell them I AM that I AM sent you”. Wow, this is an amazing word.

This word H1961 occurs over 3500 times in the Old Testament Hebrew. Here are just a few of the ways it was popularly translated; “be”, “came”, “come”, “been”, “become”, “became”, and “was”, to name a few. It is a powerful word that has been selected for creation in the term “Light Be, and Light was”. Both the words “Be and Was” is the Hebrew word H1961.

As you can see the Hebrew word H1961 is translated into many words but the name of God “I AM” is also this same Hebrew word and this name is of ultimate importance. Remember Jesus responded to the Jews when they spoke to Him by saying, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (Jn 8:58). Jesus was obviously admitting He was the God that spoke to Moses and existed a long time before Abraham. This highly offended the Jews and they wanted to kill Him for making claims like this.

The Hebrew word H1961translated as “I AM””, is spelled “Hey” + “Yod” + “Hey”. It is only missing the letter “Vav” (Nail) within the name of Jehovah to having the same letters. But notice the reoccurrence of two “Hey” letters that we just saw in the letters added to Abram and Sarai’s names. Here again we find the identical letters that in this word surround the hand of God. What God appears to be saying in this word is the following:

I WAS WHAT I WAS,
I AM WHAT I AM, and
I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE

By God making this declaration with these three letters, He is claiming to be eternally existent with no beginning, and without end, amazingly all powerful and we can see this by the letter combinations and order of mention. The hand in the center represents God’s amazing power available right now in the present, and the two pairs of raised hands (Hey) on either side of God’s hand of power letter “Yod” are in amazement and wonder signifying before Him He always was in eternal past, and moving forward into eternity, He can be trusted and will always be there for us. In shortened form it says “Behold, the Hand, Behold”. The Hey letter is being emphasized to be amazed and to be standing in awe beholding the “Hand” of God at work.

Another key meaning of the “Yod” is as a suffix added to other Hebrew words. This addition makes the word “possessive”. For example, when the “Yod” is added to the end of the Hebrew word “EL” with the meaning of the shortened name of God, it becomes “My God”. This name is exactly what Jesus cried out on the cross saying “My God (ELI), My God (ELI) why has thou forsaken me”. As we are learning the usage of the letter “Yod” is very profound in the language.

Another key suffix occurs when the letters, “Yod” + “Mem” are added to masculine nouns and this addition causes them to be plural words. For example, adding “YM” to the end of, “cherub” meaning one angelic being, causes the word to become “cherubim” meaning many of these types of angels.

We could go on with this for a long time, but that was another quick introduction to some basic concepts and words that will help us as we continue to learn this awesome language and its hidden letter pictographic meanings and applications of truth.

Hand of God = Power of God

This will be a new section that describes the relationship between the Hand of God being a figurative representation of the Power of God.  This Hebrew word H3027 is translated as both “hand” and “power”. Let us begin with verses in the book of Joshua:

Jos 4:23  For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:

Jos 4:24  That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.

Notice how Joshua is describing two mighty “works” of God by comparing the opening of the Red Sea to the opening of the Jordan River.  Next notice that Joshua calls both great works, examples of the “hand of the LORD’s” power on display. The Hebrew word translated as “hand” is again H3027 our spelled-out letter Yod word.

Finally, notice that Joshua is giving us one of the reasons for this work of God’s power (Yod), was for the people of the whole earth to know that His hand is “mighty”. When people see how strong God is, they should come to a point of “fearing” Him. In other words, if God can make a great body of waters divide and stand up as walls and the surface of the bottom to be instantly dry to be walked upon, how much easier would it be for this power to take anyone of us out as He did with Pharoah and all his army.

Too many Christian people in the world today have a very extreme attitude about God’s grace and a very casual attitude about His holiness and our need for the fear of His judgments. In most extreme Grace churches, there is an absence of the fear of God with an implied belief that there is nothing anyone can ever do today, to be judged by an all knowing and all-powerful holy God. But this is not true whatsoever. Please do not forget what happened in Acts 5 with Ananias and Sapphira. Please go and read this chapter and know these two people were saved Christians that both fell dead in a church service. If you believe this cannot happen today, please become aware that it can and that it will!

Also remember what Jesus said in Matthew 7:1, “Judge not and you will not be judged”. Uh oh! Jesus just gave us “one” condition of an implied many, that judgement could still come upon us. These words confirm we can still be judged in the church age of Grace. We know this is true, because it is the covenant maker, the head of the church body, that is doing the speaking.

Paul confirms this in 1 Corinthians 11:32 writing, “For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged”. Uh oh, again! But these words are easily misunderstood. This does not mean Christians judge themselves with human moral standards or popular worldly values of the current majority opinion. No! Christians must judge themselves with God’s standards of moral character as written in the Bible. Following His laws and His commandment does not save us by our works, but it does keep us from being judged and giving Satan legal access to steal, kill and destroy us (Jn 10:10, 1 Pet 5:8).

It is very interesting how God teaches us about His works using physical featured descriptions that possibly help us to learn about how much power was used to accomplish a specific named work. We just saw one example of this work and power analogy being described as “the hand of the LORD” in Joshua in dividing the Red Sea. Hopefully, this is already a familiar subject to us all. For example, the “Yod” is a picture of the entire extended arm including hand and fingers. Each of these named components displayed represent an increasing or decreasing amount of power that can be used by God to accomplish a specific goal.

For example, someone’s little finger cannot do as much work as one of their larger and stronger fingers, like the index finger. But also, two fingers, three fingers, four fingers and all the fingers combined with the thumb can do more as increasing numbers are joined in unison. These all working together provide more strength and power and can do so much more together. This is an excellent time to understand again, that the number value of the “Yod” is 10. How many fingers does a normal human have? Yes, it is still 10. This is not a coincidence that God ordered this letter at this position in the alphabet. Everything in the written Word is intelligently designed this way.

Now think about what it would mean if God used His entire hand in some works, verses just one finger in other works. Then imagine what it means if some works of God required Him to use His entire arm to accomplish it. But then there are other verses that claim God used two hands to do some works. Other possible greater works could occur when God uses two arms and two hands. This is an amazing concept because it teaches us some enemies, tasks and objectives are greater than others, and some works are so small or minor that they do not require but a small amount of divine power to accomplish. Let us look at this concept further.

Exo 8:19  Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

In the third plague of God upon Egypt, the LORD causes lice to manifest upon man and beast. The Egyptian magicians called this work “the finger of God”. This means that they believed this plague to be only a very small and minor thing for God to do to them. But it implies about the God of Moses, if He could do this, He has a lot more power that could do an extraordinary amount of other work from His unused greater power. In other words, this was a warning message to Pharoah, that this was a little power display of God, and we have not seen the worst yet.

Exo 31:18  And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

While Moses was up on Mt. Sinai, God gives Him two tablets that were inscribed with the “10” commandments. Uh oh! There is the number 10 again. This simply means these are the “10” laws of “Jehovah” that are critical. But notice that God only needed His finger to inscribe this law upon tablets of stone. Who is our “cornerstone” that kept these laws for us? We should know it is Jesus Christ (Ps 118:22). What we are observing, is that this act of God was considered a very minor display of His power. However, it also implies again that there are greater power displays that could occur if the law was disobeyed. Let us look at another example of the finger of God in the book of Daniel:

Dan 5:5  In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Dan 5:6  Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

This is an amazing comparison to the attitude of too many modern churches. God has written an entire book of things, and this king only saw Him write one phrase and he was shaken so much that it caused him to have a bowel movement because of his fear of God.

This is just another example, of how two men’s view of the finger of God can be different. The Pharaoh of Egypt was hard hearted and ignored the finger works of God, but the king of Babylon had a different more respectful attitude. That is an amazing example for the church today, because in Daniel chapter 4 even Nebuchadnezzar concluded that God is powerful and is the judge of people and He can bring down proud people with only a minor effort. Let us move to Jesus in the Gospels next:

Luk 11:20  But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

Notice what Jesus said to the Jewish people of that day? This is a very profound revelation. Jesus had just cast out a demon that caused a man to be “dumb”. Jesus after being accused of casting out this demon through “Beelzebub” says very clearly, He had just done this working with the “finger of God”. Wow, that is amazing information.

Too many people think their enemy the devil has such great powers over them, and they do not realize how big God is. We are no match for the devil in our own human strength, but a real Christian is never alone, and we are not without God’s power being available to help us. In fact, 1 John 4:4 says, “We have overcome them (the devil), because greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world”. If it only takes a flick of the finger of God to get the devil out and on the run, that does not take a huge amount of faith or power. Praise the LORD! Now let us move to some of the greater works of God:

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

There is given to us in this verse a new revelation of the greater works and power of God expressed with the usage of the phrase “the arm of the LORD”. This verse is written to the church because this chapter describes Jesus our LORD, and this verse is quoted in Romans 10. God is declaring to us that He does not share or make known His greatest works or power to people who DO NOT BELIEVE! Wow, this sounds important!

Remember that Isaiah 53 is the description of the “redemptive” works of God and these works required the much mightier power of the “arm of God” to accomplish. Let us look at verses in Ephesians that also describe what happened as a mighty work:

Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

We will only cover this one great and probably the most significant work of God, briefly in this lesson. There are a select few works that God describes His having required God’s greatest and mightiest displayed power. This one mentioned in Ephesians is one of the most significant things that is revealed to us. In the previous verses 17 and 18, Paul is praying that God will give to the Church at Ephesus, the spirit of wisdom and revelation to know Him (Jesus) and for their eyes of their understanding to be opened so that they might comprehend what God has done for them in Christ.

This is truly an amazing prayer and one that every Christian needs. Too many Christians do not have a clue what extent that God went through to save them from an eternal separation from Himself. When we begin to see a little of this revelation, we will want and desire to know more that was freely given to us. But we will also begin to see that it took God’s strong extended arms and hands to accomplish this for us. Here is a short list of some of the things that were accomplished in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1. Jesus saved us by giving us freely the gift of salvation through faith (2 Tim 1:9, Eph 2:8)
2. God gave to us His righteousness as a gift (Rom 5:17, Isa 54:17)
3. Jesus reconciled us to God in Christ (2 Cor 5:18)
4. God now resides on the inside of our body to help, guide, teach and cause us to overcome our enemy (Jn 14:17, Jn 16:13, Gal 3:14)
5. God delivered us from the authority of darkness (Col 1:13)
6. Placed us into the Kingdom of God in Jesus (Col 1:13)
7. Made us a part of His New Creation in Christ causing everything old to pass completely away (2 Cor 5:17)
8. He has given to us all things that pertains to life and godliness in Christ (2 Pet 1:3)
9. He has given to us His authority (Luke 10:19, Mat 28:18-19)
10. Through the works of God in Christ, we can reign in this life as God’s Kingdom representative (Rom 5:17)

This was only a short list of some of the amazing accomplishments God performed with His “Hand” and “Arm” in Christ for us and for our benefit to bless us. There are literally many other things that God did in Jesus for us that need to be learned and embraced by Christians.

So, we have seen that God says there are varying degrees of His power that can be used depending upon the situation that we are facing in life. According to Ephesians 3;20 God says, “He can do exceedingly abundantly more than we can imagine, ask or think about, but only according to the power (Hand of God) that we permit to work in us”. That was a paraphrase of the verse, but it conveys the intent of the verse’s meaning. This statement appears to say to us that we are limiting God’s ability to do things to us, for us, or with us unless we allow His power inside of us to be released. How do you do this? The answer is found in 2 Corinthians 4:13, “We, having the same spirit of faith, as it is written, I believed and therefore I have spoken, we also believe and therefore, speak”.

What are you saying today? Is it death and defeat, or is it the Words of God that gave us His victory?  Whatever you are agreeing with, is what will be accomplished in you. There is so much more to learn about human cooperation to release God’s fuller power, but this introduced the topic to you enough for you to go and study it more.

YOD the Hand of God in Creation

We will begin this section of our study with a verse found in Psalm 119. Hopefully, you already know this Psalm is an Alphabet revelation of information. Each set of 8 verses begin with the same letter in alphabetic order beginning in verses 1 through 8 with the “Alef” and ending in verses 169 through 176 with the last letter “Tav”. Eight verses each, times 22 letters in the alphabet equals 176 total verses. We will only focus upon verse 119 to begin:

Psa 119:73  JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

As you can see in this verse, it contains our key word “H3027” (Yod) translated as “hands” in this verse. God has just confirmed to us that it was the “hands” (Yod) of our God that formed the human body during creation events described by the book of Genesis. This is significant because it displays this was a greater work of Jehovah God, than His finger works we looked at in a previous section. Let us look at another verse about God’s works in creation:

Psa 102:25  Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

This verse has both an indirect reference and a direct reference to the “Hands” of God. First, know the word translated as “hands” at the end of the verse is our key study word H3027. This confirms we are on target with the alphabet letter “Yod”.

The verse begins by speaking of God “laying” the foundations of the earth. This is our first indirect reference to the working hand of God in creation. While this word “laying the foundation” does not directly state it was performed by His hands, it is implied because of our knowledge of how we would lay down something or take up something. We know logically that someone would lay something down with their extended arm and hand after first picking it up and then moving it by extending their arm to lay it down.

But that is not the only way we know this is what is happening. The Hebrew word H3245 that is translated as “laid the foundation”, is the word “Yawsad” and it begins with the letter “Yod”. This word is defined by Strong as “to set” or “to found”.  One ancient Hebrew dictionary defines this word as “to lay a foundation of a house, place, or plan”. That sounds like the work of someone that is using their hands to build something brand new. That is exactly what God’s creation was, and it involved His hands (power).

Then the verse ends with an amazing confirmation. Notice the beginning of the verse was only about one planet where man lives, but the rest of the universe is of the same types of works but on a much larger scale. God is simply saying to us these were the works of my hands and it took more power than just a finger to accomplish it. In fact, it is implied that it took both hands and 10 fingers to create our world and universe. That is a significant amount of divine power that was extended, yet it is by far less power than what was available in reserve that was not utilized. Can we agree?

But we are missing something that is hidden in this verse of Psalm 102:25. In actuality, we are missing a lot of things that have been hidden in this single verse, but we will only focus upon one that is significant to our current study subject of the hand of God in creation. The verse begins with the Hebrew word “H6440” (Paniym) that was translated as “of old”. That is a potential correct translation but only from a single viewpoint of being from God in the past.

You see, the Hebrew word H6440 (Paniym) is also translated as “face”. This word literally means from the “face” and the verse could have said “your face has laid the foundation” of the earth. This word Paniym is spelled “Peh” + “Nun” + “Yod” + “Mem”. This is a fascinating word that has the Peh = mouth added together with the Nun = Seed and ends with the “Yod” + “Mem” to make it plural so it means multiple or many “mouth seeds” laid the foundation of our universe and planet. Wow, that is exactly how our universe was created.

God spoke selective words that would create His thoughts and plans, and the natural things we can see, taste, touch, smell and feel came to be. We know this by reading Mark 4 and the parable of the Sower. In this parable God’s Words were the “seeds” that were sown into the hearts of humans to save them. Therefore, the mouth of God that could create us, is the same mouth that can save us. If you do not think this is amazingly important, we need to pray for you. 😊

What we are learning is essential. We are beginning to see that there is a hand and mouth of God connection. When the Bible says “the hand” of God has done something to create or make, God is teaching us that in the spiritual realm this is performed by “speaking” words of power. Let us keep learning more to confirm this:

Isa 45:12  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

This will be our last verse for this section. We are just not able to cover this topic in the fullest depth today. But notice we have just reaffirmed by the Word of God written by Isaiah, that God utilized his hands to stretch out the universe, create an inhabitable planet, and to make a man to live upon it. Remember that modern scientists can only estimate the vastness of our universe. It is expanding faster and faster by the moment, and it is currently estimated that when we look in one direction to the edge of our universe that it can be up to around 46 billion light years away.

But found in this verse, we can begin to confirm a new relationship being made between “the work of God’s hands” and how they are connected to “His spoken words to command”, that cause things to happen, change or come to be.  This is so important that we will continue with this again as the subject of our next section.

The Mouth of God Activates the Hand of God

This is now a brand-new subject that most Christians do not have a clue to know what we are learning today. This however will be a very powerful section of the lesson and it will help us to understand a lot about the spiritual things of God.

Have you ever read Genesis 1? This is God’s description of His creation of our present world, and how it was accomplished. Ten times it is written “and God said”. Uh oh? What is the value of the “hand” Yod alphabet letter? You’re right, it is 10. What did we just read about in the previous section about creation? We read multiple times that God created man, earth, and the universe with His “hands”. Do you see the connections again?

Genesis 1 describes God speaking commands and natural things changing. For example, the world was dark in verse 2 and God said, “Let there be light” and then “light was” in verse 3. So, we are beginning to learn and confirm creation took place by both the hands of God and the mouth of God. Either these are two completely different things, or they are the same thing only using different figurative analogies to describe the action and works of God. I believe it is the second and we will soon confirm this further. For example, look at this next verse very carefully:

Rev 1:16  And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

Judgment is one of the central themes of the book of Revelation. As you can see in this verse it came from the book of Revelation and is written about the LORD JESUS CHRIST. But more specifically this verse describes the “mouth” of God again using the symbolic terms of it being a “sharp two-edged sword”. What is this describing? Let us find the answers in Bible.

But first, notice again that this verse describes Jesus as having a sharp two-edged sword coming out of His mouth! Wow that is an amazing connecting (Vav=Nail) topic to our study subject about God’s hand. How does God or any created being, whether angelic or human wield a sword as a weapon or a tool? Uh oh? The correct answer is they “hold” the sword, “in” or “with” their “HAND” (YOD). A sword without a hand is powerless. Therefore, the power of the sword is coming from the “Hand” that is holding it.

Here we begin to see one of our first confirming connectors to the mouth of God being the same as the hand of God that is holding a sharp two-edged sword. However, what does this symbology represent? We can obtain the definition of what this symbolic sword represents by reading in Hebrews 4:

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Did you see our “hand to mouth” connection being expressed again? God says, “His spoken Words are alive and powerful (Yod), and they are sharper than any other two-edged sword”. This is very amazing information. Remember “Yod” is the representation of the extended “hand”, and it also represents “power” that the hand possesses. Now connect this back to this verse in Hebrews.

We can see the Word of God that comes out of God’s mouth (Peh) as being described as “very powerful” and being figuratively compared to an exceedingly sharp two-edged sword. We just answered the question, “How does one hold a sword in their mouth?” And we found the correct answer is still with their “HAND”. Therefore, the mouth of God with powerful Words coming out of it are potential “piercing” weapons that have great ability to overcome all other mouths with their words that attempt to fight against His Words. God makes this connection between words as powerful weapons in in many verses of the Bible. But we will only focus on a few. For example, notice Ephesians 6:

Eph 6:17  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

In this context God is telling Christians to put on His whole armor. The only key offensive weapon against our spiritual enemy (Satan) is the “Sword of the Spirit”. This is amazing. God is teaching us as His children, we better be saying what He said in His Word. In fact, this is exactly how we get saved. In Romans 10:9-10 God says, “If we confess with our mouth, the LORD Jesus, and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, we will be saved”. Therefore, it is our believing and speaking that God uses to take us out of the darkness of Satan into the Kingdom of Light.

The Greek word G3670 that is translated as “confess” in Romans 10:9, is a compound word of G3674 and G3056. The Greek word G3674 means “the same” as in identical. And then the Greek word G3056 means “words” and placing these two words together we are instructed to say the same things God says. Wow!

This is becoming an essential topic of becoming a Christian and operating later in God’s Kingdom authority as a Christian. When we say what God says, we become it. We also agree with Him, and we are not acting like His enemy. When we say what the world says being influenced by Satan, we have just become an enemy of God (Jas 4:4). Therefore, does it matter what we say? Do you see how this works when we are told how to overcome the devil now?

When we place God’s words in our mouth, we are fighting against the enemy and resisting the devil (Eph 6:12, James 4:7) by acting like Jesus during His forty days fast in the wilderness. Every time Satan came to Jesus to tempt or test Him, Jesus’ response was to say, “It is WRITTEN” (Mat 4:4) and quote the verse. This action of placing God’s Word in His mouth cut the devil every time He spoke, and Satan got tired of this pain and left Him. Let us end this section with one more verse:

Pro 18:21  Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Ok, what a strange verse, and some may wonder why it was selected by the Holy Spirit to be here in this lesson about the “hand” and the mouth connection. But this verse has much more to do with our subject than you know. For example, notice the beginning antithesis word selected by God as “death” and “life”. Weren’t these the two trees that were placed in the midst of the Garden by God? Isn’t this the choice He gave to Adam and told him not to eat from the tree that would cause him death? Uh oh!!!

Yes, it is all true. We are finding some very essential realities being taught here. Humans today still have the power to eat from two trees, the first one called the “knowledge of good, and evil”, will still kill you. The other one called the “Tree of Life” will cause you to live forever. What God is teaching us today, is this fact of basic truth, if we choose to speak what God says, we will live forever, and if we choose to speak what Satan says, we will certainly die. But let us go back and see why we selected this verse about a tongue having control of life or death is included in this section.

If you look up the Hebrew word that is translated as “POWER” in Proverbs 18:21, guess what word you find? Hopefully the Spirit of God has already witnessed that this word is our Hebrew word H3027 that is primarily translated as “hand”. Translators may have been very confused to how to change this word into a message that English readers would best understand and chose to make it “power”. But in doing this they possibly hid the true God intended meaning of the Word. Yes, this word does apply to someone having “power”, but only in the connected based context of the “hand” that is wielding the power.

So let us see this verse in a literal translation of the words, it would say, “Death and life are in the hand of the tongue”. Now do you see that the “Sword” that comes out of a mouth, comes from the words that are produced and released by the speaking tongue? With your tongue you have the power to “kill” others with words containing lies, slander, hurt, deceits, untruths, which are all the words of Satan. But conversely, we can give someone “life” through words of God extending His Words of love, truth, encouragement, edification, blessings, etc.

This knowledge now takes us back, to help us better understand God’s words. In Genesis 1, God spoke words of good to bless humans and to plant seeds for a coming future fruit harvest. But in the book of Revelation, we see words of a sharp sword coming out of His mouth to bring judgments for those that ignored His blessing.

If you will get a hold of this truth, and not let go or let it slip out of your hand/mouth, you can change the world with God’s Word.

CONCLUSION

We have only barely touched this subject of the “Yod” hand of God and how it represents our Lord, Savior, and God, Jesus in this lesson. There could be many more volumes written on this single letter subject. We have not covered, the spoken words of Jesus in-depth that shows Him extending His spiritual hands of power to save people. We have not covered the many times that Jesus extended His physical hands and laid them on people to bless or heal them. In today’s conclusion let us end by looking at just a few scriptures about the hands of Jesus and His works:

1. Mat 4:17 – Jesus begins to preach “The Kingdom of God is at Hand”.
2. Mat 8:3 – Jesus puts forth His hand and touches a leper and makes him clean.
3. Mat 8:15 – Jesus touches Peter’s mother-in-law’s hand and her fever left her.
4. Mat 9:25 – Jesus takes a dead maiden by the hand and raises her back to life.
5. Mat 14:31 – Jesus stretches forth His hand to save Peter from sinking into the water.
6. Mat 19:13 – People bring their little children to Jesus for Him to lay His hands on them and bless them.
7. Mat 27:35 – Jesus is crucified on the cross made from a tree being hung by nails through His stretched out “hands”.
8. Mar 6:2 – People begin to marvel at the mighty works done by His hands.
9. Mar 7:32 – People ask Jesus to touch a deaf and mute man with His hands to heal him.
10. Mar 8:23 – Jesus takes a blind man out of a city and spit on his eyes and then touched them.
11. Luke 4:40 – People brought the sick to Jesus and He laid His hands upon all of them, and they were healed.
12. Luke 24:39 – Jesus appears to His disciples after crucifixion and tells them, “Behold my hands and my feet”.

What is the church’s role in being used by the “hand” of God in the last days? This is a very important part of this subject, but it also is unable to be covered fully in this lesson. Why is it so essential? It is critical to know, because of who the church is in prophecy. This was another hidden mystery in scriptures, but it is being released for us to know in these moments before the return of Christ to catch us up to be with Him.

Who is the church?  In Romans 12:5 God uses a reference of a natural human body to reveal who we are in the spiritual realm. In this verse God teaches through the revelation given to Paul, that every believer is like one cell in a greater body named Christ. The church is informed that we are all individuals but simultaneously we are combined joined members to the body of Christ. Like some cells in our body die, they are replaced with new cells. Like a newborn baby child has certain number of cells, this total cell count grows as their body increases in size. So, it is with the church.

Therefore, if we are His body on the physical earth right now, we represent His hands that are being used to save, heal, teach, and spread the Gospel. That makes us all an incredible part of His mission for the end time revival and awakening of the planet before the tribulation. So how do we see this beginning in the early church body as recorded in God’s Word?

We can find in John 20:22 the beginning of the church occurs with the disciples that were left after the resurrection. Jesus appears to them and breathes upon them and says, “Receive the Holy Ghost”. This was the beginning of the body of Christ on the earth. Then right before the ascension of Jesus, He tells them to wait in Jerusalem until they be endued with power from on high (Acts 1:8). So, the disciples gather the faithful to wait in Jerusalem and there were 120 meeting together in one accord, when the Spirit of God was poured out (Acts 2:2-4).

Immediately after being filled with the Holy Ghost, Peter preaches a message about what is being witnessed by around 3000 people outside where they were gathered. These 3000 that heard the message and believed were then added to the church that day. Do you see the rapid increase and growth in the body? This growth continued but at the same time Satan influenced people to fight against this growth, because he understood now why it was such a huge mistake to have crucified the single God/man Jesus (1 Cor 2:8). Now instead of one man with the Holy Ghost, Satan had thousands that would soon grow to millions of people filled with God’s power. What evidence does God reveal to us about the church being God’s hands upon the earth, let us find out quickly.

We can find in the book of Acts, where the Apostles and even the disciples of Jesus laid their hands upon people to cast out devils and deliver them from sicknesses, diseases, or even to give to them the gift of the Holy Spirit. Here is a short list of verses about God’s spiritual Hand working through the Church body of Christ:

1. Acts 3:7 – Peter took a lame man by the hand, and he was healed by faith in the name of Jesus.
2. Acts 4:30 – The apostles pray for boldness to preach the Gospel and for God’s hand to be continued to be stretched forth to heal.
3. Acts 5:12 – God continues to answer their prayer to perform many signs, wonders, and miracles through their hands.
4. Acts 6:6-7 – The word of God increased in the area, after the apostles laid their hands upon men that were chosen to serve.
5. Acts 8:17 – Peter and John lay their hands upon new believers in the Word of God, and they received the Holy Spirit.
6. Acts 9:12 – Jesus instructs Ananias to go and lay hands on Saul to receive his sight.
7. Act 11:21 – Informs us that the “Hand of the LORD” was with them as they ministered.
8. Acts 14:12 – More signs, and wonders done by the hands of the church.
9. Acts 19:6 – Men are filled with the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands of Paul.
10. Acts 19:11 – God works special miracles by the hands of Paul.
11. Acts 28:8 – Paul lays his hands on a sick man, and he is healed.

These are just some of the major examples of great works of God’s hands flowing through human hands on the earth. It is very clear to see that “Hands” are still a key part of the church’s life. We can read in Hebrew 6:2 about the “doctrine of the laying on of hands” as being a fundamental truth for the church. Furthermore, in Hebrews 10:31, the church is warned that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. This subject of “hands” is interwoven throughout the New Covenant, and it is an essential teaching.

It is highly recommended that you go and reread the Gospels and notice how much Jesus utilized His “Words” to heal and His “Hands” working together to heal. Both were clear applications of the letter “Yod” bring forth God’s power upon the earth.

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