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Why Study the Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet?
(ver 1.1) There could be many skeptics in the church body of believers that resist new revealed concepts found hidden in the Bible. These lessons are NOT intended or designed to introduce new doctrines or beliefs. However, they do contain several basic revelations that many may have not yet seen before while reading and studying God’s Holy Text. This lesson series is only intended to take what the scriptures actually say and teach us about our Messiah, Lord and the Savior of humanity named Jesus and show us how God reveals Him in an ancient Hebrew pictographic alphabet.
This concept of the ancient Hebrew Text has become an incredibly expanding study subject on the internet and in churches. There are many Christians that have received partial revelations about this subject and have started teaching it also. There are multiple pastor teachers on “Youtube” that have had many of the fundamentals revealed to them and they are teaching it to their churches and to those that want to watch it on the internet. Praise the LORD! It is true, that not everyone has seen the exact same things, but we trust God to continue to work in us and through us all, to come to the increasing fullest knowledge of Jesus Christ. Amen.
There are numerous reasons to learn these lessons about the ancient Hebrew Language. One of the first reasons is simply to understand the selected graphical designs of each letter, and how each of them tell us a story of Jesus individually. After learning the basics of each letter we should desire to learn how letters are joined together to create a greater revelation found in each Hebrew root word meaning. Finally, for advanced students it is then beneficial to see how each larger Hebrew word is built upon the foundations of the alphabet letters and the root words that are laid together to build a greater message of hidden meanings.
Do you remember the old saying that a picture tells us a story of at least a thousand words? We are going to explore today just some of the reasons God reveals this is an important subject to learn. Let us get started on this first subject of why we should study this ancient alphabet with Reason 1.
Reason 1: Jesus Personally Claimed to be the Alphabet.
Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
You have hopefully seen this claim stated before in previous lessons. Jesus in the Book of Revelation twice declares to be the Alpha and the Omega, written as the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet. However, the writer of this book was John who was a Jew, Jesus the speaker was also a Jew, and they both most likely were speaking in Hebrew to write the book of Revelation. We know for sure that Jesus spoke Hebrew, because when Jesus appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus, it is written in Acts 26:14 that Jesus was speaking to Saul in Hebrew.
Now we must also understand that in the Hebrew text of the Old Covenant, there is a word that occurs very often and it is mostly completely ignored by translators. This word H853 is created by God using two Hebrew letters. These two letters correspond to the Alpha and the Omega, being the first and the last letters and in Hebrew they are called the “Alef” and the “Tav”. That just cannot be a coincidence or accidental occurrence.
Yes, there are modern day scholars that study the Hebrew language and believe these two letters, while not being translated only are there to place emphasis on primary subject verbs. But please do the studies for yourself. Analyze each word if you have the time and its placement and usages. Notice how it sometimes appears to be random when it occurs, and then notice there are many, many verses that do not contain this untranslated word Alef + Tav. Then notice that there are other verses that can contain this word more than once. Finally, pay attention that almost every verse that this word occurs could apply to Jesus in some direct, or hidden form, whether it be in name, title, typology, symbolism, etc. So, the fact still remains that this word H853 occurs more than 5000 times in the text, and Jesus makes it an emphasized point to say these letters represent me, and this cannot be ignored.
Therefore, if Jesus is claiming to be the first and last letters of the alphabet, it is at the least strongly implied that He is also all of the letters in between these two also. This only makes logical sense, because He is called the literal “Word of God” revealed to us in Revelation 19:13. If Jesus was called the “Word of God” in this verse, this just further confirms that He is the entire alphabet that creates the Words of God also. Doesn’t this make sense? It takes all the letters in the alphabet to write the Word of God. Therefore, Jesus by being called the “Word of God” and claiming to be the first and last letters personally, we can make the easy revelation to see Him as every letter.
Reason 2: Jesus Personally Knew and Referenced the Jewish Alphabet
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.
There is a very interesting confirmation for Jesus’ ability to speak Hebrew in this recorded verse from Matthew. Matthew consistently wrote to help Jewish people to find and see their Messiah. In the Genealogy of chapter 1, it is only given to us originating from the fathers Isaac, Israel, and their father called Abraham all proving Jesus to be the promised Seed of Abraham. Now notice what Matthew wrote by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in chapter 5 verse 18. Here in this verse Jesus is speaking of the Old Covenant writings and says very to the point not one jot or tittle will pass away from these writings.
There is some debate about what exactly a tittle represents. Some believe these are only the vowel markings of the word that are very minor in size. This could be a reference to the text marks found in Hebrew during the time of Jesus. But it is the word “Jot” that must capture our primary focus. In this verse the “Jot” is a transliteration of the Greek letter “iota”. Wow, this is another single alphabet letter.
But the “Iota” letter is a transliteration of the original Hebrew alphabet letter “Yod”. Wow again. Now place a few more puzzle pieces together to see what is being communicated. Jesus just picked the most used letter in the entire Hebrew Old Testament writings and said none of these are going to pass away from God’s written word. But wait, what does a “Yod” picture represent? If you have studied this, we know it is the representation of “a hand extended from an outstretched arm”. This picture connects us to the “hand of God”, the “hand of man”, or the “hand of angels like Lucifer”. The “Yod” further represents the concepts of “power and authority” within kingdom realms. These kingdoms include the Kingdom of God, human kingdoms, and the kingdom of darkness.
The Yod is also the letter that begins the name of Jesus in the Hebrew language. The letter “Yod” is the same letter that begins the name of “Jehovah” (LORD) in the Hebrew language. This letter “Yod” also begins other essential words like Israel and Jerusalem. Are there any light bulbs being illuminated in your mind yet? Why did Jesus pick this letter to place such an emphasis upon it saying none of these will pass away from God’s Word? The simple answer is because God places the emphasis upon this letter in His written Word.
Could it also be Jesus was connecting Himself to this letter and again saying this one is me also? Remember what God wrote in Hebrews 1:8. In this verse God is speaking to His Son Jesus and says, “But unto the son, he says thy throne oh God, is forever.” Can you see the direct connection of the throne of Jesus Christ being forever, and not one Jot (Yod) will pass away? I personally believe that it is just another clue to connect us with the ancient Hebrew language.
Reason 3: God’s Intelligently Designed Alphabet
The next reason that becomes self-revealing from the study of this ancient Hebrew alphabet, is that these letter pictures could not have occurred by accident, or by human creation alone without God the Creator of our universe’s personal involvement. There are just too many signposts found in each letter that point us to only one person in the scriptures, and He is called the only begotten Son of God and is named Jesus Christ in English.
God is an amazing God and has a beyond amazing intelligence and level of understanding. The layers of intentionally designed information found in the Bible is like an onion. There is a never-ending supply of hidden treasures to find in the Bible. Jesus talks about this in a short parable:
Mat 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
As you can read the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When anyone comes to the realization that Jesus is talking about His Word and knowing Him by His Word, they will change from never reading their Bibles to spending all of their spare time digging in it, seeking to find and learn new hidden treasures. Why would a man sell everything to buy a field that he had just found a very valuable treasure? The only logical common-sense answer is that he expects to find more treasure in the same field. This is a perfect description of the Bible. The Bibles is the ultimate field containing infinite hidden treasures.
If you are a computer geek or engineer, then you might understand that all intelligently designed, organized and presented data and information, does not occur randomly, without intensive intelligence involvement of a creator. This realization brings us to the amazing conclusion that this book could have only occurred without God being personally involved. The known facts prove this by asking and answering the question, how could one book written over 1500 years of time, by over 40 different individual authors, and each one of their unique writings contain the harmonious union of a single story about the One True God? This could not occur without contradictions or errors, unless there was an external God author that inspired every letter and word! If you would like to debate that the Bible does not have errors, that probably proves your ignorance of what the words mean. It could also say you may be ignoring how the organization of the words were designed, and how even each letter was purposefully organized and chosen to create each word.
When assumed conflicts are encountered, they normally come from a human that does not know how intelligent God is and therefore could never relate on the level with His extreme intelligence. In the book of Isaiah 55;8, informs us that His thoughts and ways are so much higher than our natural human ways. This is exactly why when we become a saved Christian through believing in Jesus, then we are given His personal Holy Spirit to live on the inside of us to help teach us what He hid in this Word for us to find. This is an amazing intelligently designed encryption system. Unless we are spiritually born again, we are totally unable to comprehend some of the simple Bible statements. It is very much like a 2-year-old trying to debate a chess master on the subject of how to play the game to win.
Reason 4: God’s Word Conceals Him
Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
This is an amazing clue to finding Jesus. Before we look for Him, we must know that He is hidden for us to find. We learn this from this verse and others like it. To understand what is being spoken of here, we must analyze the words “thing” and “matter” which is the same Hebrew word H1697 (dabar).
This Hebrew word H1697 is spelled “Dalet” + “Beyt” + “Resh”. If you have studied these individual letters, you already know the “Dalet” is the door of the house, The “Beyt” is the “House” and the “Resh” is the Head, ruler, or Prince of the House. Placing these pictures together in a sentence we get “The door of the House is the “Prince or Head”. As you should know by now this is a prophecy of Jesus as being the Only way into the Father’s house. Jesus stated this very plainly in John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes unto the Father except by me”.
Wow, that is an amazing revelation alone. Jesus is claiming to all of God’s creation that there will be some that do not or more clearly can never enter the Kingdom of God. This is too complex to go into in great depth. But the bottom line is that Jesus is revealing Satan and his angels will be excluded forever from the Kingdom of God because of their rebellion and sin.
However, there are others that will never enter the Kingdom of God. God reveals these others that will never be able to enter into His kingdom in Revelation 21:8. In this verse the LORD says, “the fearful”, “unbelieving”, the “abominable”, “murders”, “whoremongers”, “sorcerers”, “idolaters”, and ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake of burning fire another name for HELL! Remember these are words written down by John from the mouth of Jesus. What we are finding is that not everyone will be saved and if they do not enter into the door when they can on the earth, that door will soon shut when they die a physical death. But let us get back to our subject of “dabar”
Ok, what is God speaking of in the Hebrew “dabar” translated as “thing” and “matter”? I believe this verse should have been translated more literally and said “It is the glory of God to conceal the “Word”, and the honor of kings to search out the “Word”. This Hebrew word H1697 is translated as “Word” more times than any other and this is the literal definition. That information should be causing lights to shine in your heart right now.
Who is the Word of God? Remember, we saw this answer mentioned earlier. God revealed the answer to us in Revelation 19:13, but also, He shows us more of this mystery in John 1:1. “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. We can find out in John 1:1 that the Word of God is God and God is His Word spoken and written simultaneously. Then we learn in John 1:14, “that the Word (God) became flesh and dwelt among us”. This flesh Word manifestation of God was Jesus! Therefore, the Word is God, God sending His Word into the World manifested in human flesh form, and God walked around us in person through Jesus who was born in Bethlehem.
Do you see better what Psalm 25:2 is saying now? God is the “dabar” Word, the “dabar” Word was with God and was God and He the dabar “Word” who became flesh to reveal Himself to humans in a touchable human form. Therefore, it was “The glory of God to conceal Jesus (the Word), and it is the glory of kings (Christians) to search Him out and find Him in the Word everywhere from Genesis to Revelation.
Reason 5: God’s Word Proclaims Him
We are about to discover a few more hidden jewels within the Word of the Living God. God’s Word has a fundamental design to reveal Him, and His nature, His Character, and His Ways to those that desire to know Him personally. But to those that do not desire to know Him, He has built into His Book a spiritual encryption language to block the carnal human mind and thoughts from knowing or understanding it. Therefore, if you are struggling to see what the Bible actually says about the God who is called Love, Light and Truth, it could be you need to pray and ask Him to help open your eyes to see what He has to say today to you personally. These are innumerable valuable hidden truth treasures placed in His Word for us to discover with our faithful and diligent Bible study. Let us confirm our reasons to study this subject with this next verse:
Psa 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
This verse is written down about the coming Messiah. God clearly states that there are three very important terms about studying the ancient Hebrew language. These three words are “volume” (H4039), “book” (H5612), and “written” (H3789). We will dig deeper into each word to find God’s treasures.
H4039 translated as “volume” refers to the concept of ancient scrolls made of leather or papyrus sheets that are rolled up after having letters written upon them. But these exist in blank form first awaiting someone’s thoughts to be recorded and preserved. This concept is a parallel to the human heart and mind. When first born onto the earth, each of us is a blank slate awaiting to be imprinted upon. We can see this concept and God’s intention of His Word to fill it, by reading God instruction to us saying, “for us to write His Words and Commandments upon the table of our heart”, in Proverbs 7:3.
The Hebrew word H5612 translated as “book” is very similar to the word translated as “volume” for it also refers to the scroll of a skin or papyrus rolled up, but this word more directly attached the meaning of this document containing a record of handwritten words with letters and also implied or direct numbers. This is a representation of a book that has was previously written upon using an alphabet building words.
Finally, the Hebrew word H3789 translated as “written” moves us to the process and act of writing implying with the usage of a “hand” (Yod) to accomplish this book of records in the volume of the book. This is actually representation of the human level of participation to take words and store them into our heart. But this verse in Psalm 40 while revealing spiritual application for us, is primarily focused upon Jesus as a prophecy.
It is most interesting to know that this verse is further quoted in the book of Hebrews. This is an amazing blessing from the LORD, because it gives us a word for word direct transition from Hebrew to Greek. In other words, it removes any guess work for knowing what Greek word corresponds to which Hebrew word. Let us look at the same words written in the book of Hebrews next:
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
The Greek word G2777 was translated as “volume” and it corresponds directly by quotation to the Hebrew word H4039. This word in Greek dictionaries is very similar to the Hebrew meaning “a scroll”. But this word also reveals that it means “a little head” as in the top of a round stick that the scroll is rolled up upon.
The Greek word G975 translated as “book” is the Greek word “biblion”. The Greek word G975 is a diminutive of G976 “biblios”. Hopefully you are seeing these are the words that give us our English word “Bible”. And our Bible is the book of writings penned by man from the inspired breath and finger of God.
As you can see, we are getting to some more of the good stuff now. The next Greek word is G1125. This word in an English transliterated word form is “grapho” and as we should know, it is translated mostly as “written”, and this again is implying with the work of a “hand”. In fact, in Biblical terms, we should understand this is the cooperating hands of man, being guided by the powerful hands of God. Both of these references connect us back to the statement of Jesus about the “Yod” (hand) letter never passing away.
According to the Mounce Greek dictionary this word “grapho” means “to engrave, as in to write, according to the ancient method of writing on plates of metal, waxes, tables or tables can also be known as tablets. There are many of these recovered writing surfaces that have been restored to prove and show us the ancient Hebrew Texts. I believe that is an interesting fact of history.
In the Thayer dictionary this word G1125 is further expanded to refer to the handwritings containing alphabet “letters”. As we should all know it is this concept that is the basis for all ancient and modern written words. Every word can only be created by people with intelligence through the proper education and selection of each of the letters made to form the words. Each individual created word can further be expanded to the concept of being organized by the person to convey in writing their thoughts, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and ideas and many other types of word thoughts. But God designed words to mean so much more than this basic idea of communication of ideas and imaginations.
Hopefully you see where God is taking us. The Greek word “grapho” defined by Thayer means “to write, but it contains the direct reference to the form of the individual letters”. The clear emphasis given to us by this definition is that the shapes of letter matters. This is where many ignore the forms of the individual letters as being unimportant. But many of them have been transformed from the original and ancient writing style to the modern letters we see today.
Just a few examples of this are, the ancient Hebrew “Alef” ox pictogram looks like the English letter “A”. The ancient Hebrew “Mem” wave picture design looks very similar to the English letter “M”. The ancient Hebrew letter “Tav” cross picture is very similar to the English letter “T”. However, other letters were not so blessed and have been distorted to remove much of the ancient pictographic message from it.
However, let us learn from the Greek word “grapho”. From this word we can derive English words like “graph”, and “graphics” or it can be used as a “suffix” as in “biography” to tell one’s life story. All of these deal with ideas that are written by hand on either a piece of paper or in computer terms of digitally remembered designs of the same handwritten or drawn information.
Now let us go deeper into modern tech applications. Every website will hire one or more “graphic designers”. What are these people responsible for? They represent the design of the content of that website. This would include picture and photographic designs that are associated with textual content, including the font style, sizes and colors, etc. All of these come from the Bible. God is the ultimate “Divine Graphic Designer” of the Bible. Every picture image came from the mind of God and not a human. Each word style and order of the letters in the messages came directly from the mind of God the Creator of the heaven and the earth.
There is a significant challenge in modern culture, to try to understand the original designs and writings. The alphabets of most languages have transitioned and in modern terminology the font styles can vary so widely that every letter has been perverted to a nature of its own human reasoning. This is where God’s original manuscripts can reveal the same types of challenges, but the general shapes of the letters are still true to original intent and they still convey the basic envisioned picture meaning. It is only when we ignore these ancient original forms and only look at the modern modified variations that we could easily miss about what God hid for us to find, by Him designing Himself into each letter picture. Let us remember what Jesus said again in John:
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Jesus is speaking to Hebrew leaders who could read and write in their native language. Speaking directly to these religious leaders, Jesus makes a claim that blows their minds. With this statement Jesus is making the claim that He is Messiah. But this statement is so much more than our simplistic human thinking of His declaration of truth.
Jesus is implying a much deeper truth than to just read from plainly stated verses written about Messiah. All these Jewish leaders knew the Messiah would be a Son of Abraham (Mat 1:1). All these leaders knew Messiah would be a Son of David (Mat 22:42) to rule David’s throne forever. All these leaders understood that He would be born in Bethlehem (Mat 2:6). These types of verses were so plainly understood by most scholars. Therefore, Jesus could not be talking just about these. No, these leaders knew all these verses and did not recognize the God in the flesh man named Jesus that stood before them that fulfilled them completely.
Therefore, Jesus is definitely speaking of deeper hidden truths. What Jesus was speaking of had to be a type of search that contained things that could be easily hidden from them in plain sight. This “search” would require more than just reading and implies a deeper need of “pursuit” behind words to find Him. I personally believe that what Jesus is referring to as Him being hidden, can apply to many layers of methods of deep study. Some of these could be methods that we have not yet fully found or understood, but all of these are placed there in plain sight using simple alphabet letters. In other words, there are no hidden coded messages that required us to do some unencrypting of the text to find Him. Let us go over some new examples of how Jesus was potentially hidden in Hebrew Words containing ancient Hebrew pictogram letters, next.
JESUS the GIFT of GOD
Knowing this about Jesus possibly being in the Alphabet and the Words built from this Alphabet, we begin by realizing one way for God to hide Himself, was for Him to create an alphabet of 22 letter pictures where every letter tells a part of the story of who He truly was and what He came to do. We find this message in the story of the alphabet letters pictures and in the placement of these letters to create words for greater God thoughts and God ideas. For example, we know God Almighty is the first letter of the Alphabet called the “Alef” representing the picture strong Ox servant, who is self-driven to move towards the final letter picture called the “Tav” representing His death on a wooden cross.
Along this journey and pathway of planned design, God moves through each letter to bring us new knowledge of His plan and the benefits that we will obtain by following after Him with our whole heart. For example, look at the Hebrew word H5414 a root word meaning “to give”. This root word is comprised of three letters with one letter being the same letter that is the beginning as well as ending letters of the word. Uh oh? Do you remember what we read in reason number 1 about Jesus claiming to be the first and the last? Who gave us a gift and what is this gift that is being given?
Remember that Jesus directly claims to be the “gift of God” in John 4:10 to a woman at a well. In this statement Jesus said, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you Give me a drink…”. We will not teach this story, but pay attention to the fact that Jesus is calling Himself this gift and remember in John 3:16 we find “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have eternal life”. Jesus was offering this woman at the well a drink from His Spirit coming from His mouth and these words could have imparted to her eternal life if she believed. We have just learned that Jesus is the Gift that was given by the Father to the world so that we might be saved.
Now what are the two letters that make up the Hebrew word H5414, translated as gift? The first and last letters are the letter “Nun”. Uh oh, again. Do you recall what this letter means? This letter primarily means “a seed” but has implied applications to be the spoken “Words” of God also. We know this because the “Sower” (Jesus) sowed the Word of God in Mark 4. Therefore, the Word of God is being stated plainly to be “seed”, the letter “Nun”.
We also know that the Word of God is likened to bread in Matthew 4:4 where Jesus quotes to the devil “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God”. Do you see the progression God has just taken us through? You do understand that wheat is a type of grass that is cultivated to obtain its seed to make bread? You do know that bread is a very basic staple for maintaining natural human life? Therefore, God just said His words of “seed” are the same type of life source for the human spirit of man.
There are other applications to this “Nun” representing Jesus by knowing Jesus is called the “Seed of Abraham” as well as the “Seed of David” in the New Testament. Jesus further makes the direct claim to being a “seed” that came to the earth to die and fall into the ground in John 12:24. Jesus said unless He does this He would abide alone, but if He accomplished this goal, He would bring forth much fruit for God.
Now the middle letter of the word sandwich is the pivotal letter called the “Tav”. Surprise, Surprise! This letter as you should recall is the picture of the “cross”. Remember the cross is a torture instrument for death. Placing these three letters together “The Seed must die on a Cross (be buried) and will arise again (the third day) a new Seed of Life”. We get the attention to detail of the third day by just paying attention to the number of letters in the word being three (NTN). There are no accidents in the design of scriptures, but there are a lot of misunderstood and yet to be discovered things the Lord will reveal to us if we choose to “search” for Him. He is still hiding in plain sight in this word “to give” (H5414, nathan).
JESUS the STONE the BUILDERS REJECTED
Another awesome hidden Jesus is found in the Word translated as “stone”. The Hebrew root word H68 that is mainly translated as “stone” is also comprised of just three letters. Again, this is not a coincidence either. Three, is the number of divine completeness. There are three divine manifestations in the Godhead, revealed as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. But what are these three letters?
First let us look up why the word “stone” represents Jesus. We know from reading Mark 12:10 that Jesus speaking to the Jewish people and leaders is claiming to be the “stone”. In this verse He quotes a Hebrew verse found in Psalm 118:22. In this verse we find the Hebrew word H68 translated as “Stone”. But this is a verse of prophecy about Jesus the coming Messiah that “the builders” and the “keepers” of the Old Covenant were supposed to accept in joy, but rather rejected because they did not know Him.
This Hebrew word “H68” is spelled “Alef” + “Beyt” + “Nun”. This is an amazing Hebrew word containing great layers of revelation in just three letters. In simplistic letter for letter interpretation, we see the Alef as the Strong Servant, the Beyt as the House of the Father and the Nun as the Seed that comes from the Father’s house. Therefore, placing these meanings into a sentence, we get “God will come forth from His House in heaven to bring forth a Seed to the earth to die”, as we learned before in the word Nathan meaning “to give” a gift. This new word “ABN” contains the basic prophetical message of Jesus being born as a Son sent from the Father’s house in heaven and the reason for His appearance was to be a “Seed”. Is this amazing or what? Can we begin to agree upon the intelligent design of not only individual letters, but also of the creation of root words as prophecies?
But wait, there is more. The first two letters “Alef” + “Beyt” spell the word “Abba” the word for Father. The last two letter “Beyt” + “Nun” spell “Ben” the Hebrew word for “Son”. Is this an accident? The Father becomes the Son? This is exactly what happened in scripture. We learn in John 1:1, In the Beginning (the first Letter Alef” representing God) was the Word (the second two letters the Son Beyt + Nun, aka known as the Word of God, Rev 19:13), the Word was with God, and the Word was GOD!
Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
We do not have the time to teach the entire revelation in this shortened version but understand the middle letter of these three letters translated as “stone” in the Hebrew word H68, is the “beyt” representing a “house” and a “family” transition from the “Father” to the “Son”. The Son of God has become the Heir of God’s House by His death on a cross. By being raised from the dead Jesus becomes the firstborn Son of God from the dead (Rev 1:5).
Then notice what God revealed to us in Hebrews 3:6. Jesus has implemented (BUILT) a new house of God and He calls us (the Church saved believers in Him) to be the building blocks that will be joined together with Him (1 Pet 2:5). Remember Jesus is the “Chief” (Head) corner stone and all of us that are saved in Him, are living stones to be built with Him as His Body.
Do you see how this is all fitting together containing a hidden puzzle from three letter design of the word stone? Jesus is plainly hidden in the Hebrew Word H68 “ABN’? Psalm 118:22 clearly included this word to relate us to Jesus. But within this word is Jesus’ story and God’s plan found in three letters. That is just too amazing to be an accidental chance occurrence. These organizations of specific letters to tell a story and make a prophecy are too great for us not to be excited about what God has hidden for us to find.
CONCLUSION
Thank you for taking the time to read and study the Bible on this website. If these kinds of hidden pearls of treasure do not excite you enough to sell all you have to obtain more of them, then you may not be one of His disciples. Remember again what Jesus taught us in Matthew:
Mat 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Mat 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
God’s Words and gaining the knowledge of them is more valuable that seeking to gain all of the silver and gold in the world. These words of knowledge and truth will save you, heal you, deliver you and transform you. They renew our mind from the dark filth of this present evil world to move us into the light of the knowledge of the true and living God that came and died to save all of us. Praise the LORD for His immense wealth of all knowledge and wisdom.
Be blessed in the LORD as you continue to learn things that you have never seen before. There is a never-ending supply contained within just the words and the alphabet letters that create them, and these were created and written in His Bible by the Hand of God. If you enjoy these lessons, like and share them with your friends and family. God’s Word will go forth to all the ends of the world, and then the End will Come! Jesus is Coming very Soon! Are you Ready?
If you would like to begin to learn more about this incredible ancient Hebrew alphabet, please go to the beginning of the series “Introduction“.
The Torah Hidden Jesus
(Ver 1.0) This will be a mini lesson on a prophecy of Jesus written in the Hebrew word translated as “LAW”. The Hebrew word is H8451, and it is spelled “Tav” + “Vav” + “Resh” + “Hey”. We have covered most of these letters in other lessons or soon will be published, the LORD be willing. We will only be concerned with the Ancient Hebrew pictographic language representations of each of these alphabet letters. This language was the original manuscripts written by Moses at the times of Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian captivity. It is unknown who originally created and wrote this language’s letters first, but Joseph could be a great possibility due to his contributing role as 2nd in command of the nation of Egypt. Nevertheless, if Joseph was the first author, he only did it with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Because, it becomes more obvious that it was divinely inspired by an in-depth study of each letter and how they were designed, the prophetical messages they contain, their letter organization and order, their connections, their arrangement in word designs, etc.
Let us go over the alphabet letters found in the word “Torah”. The first letter “Tav” as you hopefully recall is the last letter of the alphabet. Remember Jesus revealed in Revelation 1 to be this letter directly saying “I am the Alpha and the Omega”. But this was written in the Greek language for Gentile readers. Jesus would have been most likely speaking these words to John who was a Jew, by speaking to him in the Hebrew language and would have said “I am the Alef and the Tav”, “the beginning and end”, and the “first and the last”. Therefore, we know like most prophecies we are re-discovering Jesus again.
The letter Tav pictographic symbol is that of a “cross” representing a marked destination for God and humanity. This would be the instrument where God in the highest vertical dimension would come down to the earth to die within the human horizontal dimensions of space and time. The Cross design has a center point of intersection. This center cross point represents the crossroads of God’s design for a human decision point. By God coming from the Holy spiritual heavenly realm to be joined with us in the natural sinful world, He could offer us all an exit door out of this lost hopeless darkness, and from our coming eternity in hell. Therefore, the first letter is another confirmation that the word Torah translated as “Law”, is a pointer to Jesus.
The second letter of the word “Torah” is the letter “Vav”. This letter’s pictographic representation is that of a “Nail”. Uh oh! That means this is another “connector” to Jesus. Please understand what nails do. Nails are designed to join together disjointed wooden boards. After they are nailed together they are essentially a single entity. Does that sound like what happens during salvation? According to the Bible it is exactly what happens. Remember what 1 Corinthians 1:16 says, “He that is joined to the LORD is one spirit”. That verse describes the “Vav” application in Christianity precisely.
Also remember that we have learned this in the name Jehovah which was “Yod” + “Hey” + “Vav” + “Hey”. Perhaps you remember the name Jehovah in English terms means “Behold the hand, Behold the nail”. We can clearly see this primary name of God is a prophecy of His hands being nailed to a cross! This definitely happened when Jesus was nailed to the cross (Tav).
The third letter of the alphabet is the letter “Resh”. This letter’s pictographic representation is that of a man’s head and it has the meaning of “a prince”, “a chief”, “the head”. This is a man that is above the authors under him in a position of highest authority. It is like the apex of a mountain. The peak of the mountain is the highest point, and the rest of the mountain is under it. Perhaps you recall in Isaiah 9:6 that Jesus is named to be the “Prince of Peace”. This too confirms this word Resh in the Torah is about Jesus.
The final Hebrew letter of the word “Torah” is the “Hey”. As we have learned before, this letter means “Behold”, “LooK”, “See”, here is found something that will take your breath away in amazement. We know that this letter “Hey” occurred twice in the name Jehovah. So, we are getting some amazing pointers to God and His Son Jesus in this revelation of the word Torah. All these letters have direct connections to our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. But what about the prophecy hidden in this word?
Perhaps you already have seen it! Placing the individual letter meanings found in the Hebrew word Torah into joined sequence, we arrive at meaning “A cross nailed head man, behold!”. But let us read it backwards from right to left to get a better understanding of what we have seen. Remember in the English language and most Gentile nations west of Jerusalem all read words and letters moving from left to the right, the opposite of Hebrew. By reading the letters in reverse, this would change the letter meanings to say, “Behold the Prince Nailed to a Cross”. The reverse reading of the Hebrew alphabet, sure makes it very plain what the hidden message of the Torah word written as Law is. It also appears to say to us that this will be largely a Gentile church that it will apply to like in the book of Ruth as the bride to the kinsman redeemer named Boaz.
Conclusion
Joh 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
This is a truly significant revelation. When we view what Jesus said about the Law, we can clearly find that He confirmed this hidden message about Him. Notice what Jesus said in John 5:46. Who was Moses? Everyone knows he wrote the Law. It was the Law, that Moses was given directly from God. Moses wrote the spoken words of God on scrolls and these have been handed down from generation to generation until today. Moses being raised in Pharoah’s household would have been trained in the art of writing. Moses would have been an expert in at least two languages, if not more.
According to Hebrews 11:24-25 Moses selected to identify with his birth parents and the nation of Israel, rather than to enjoy the temporary sinful riches and pleasures of Egypt. This strongly indicates that Moses knew who He was in the language of his natural family. Perhaps you will recall that it was his natural mother that was his nursemaid for Pharoah’s daughter. This time together with his mother had to have a bonding experience that lasted for years. Now remember this verse:
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Jesus again speaking of the writings of the Law, told the Jewish leaders that if they searched their scriptures they would find Him. But like most promises it was conditional. They had to desire and want to find Him. They had to search beyond and deeper that the words that they had read all of their lives. Remember that Jesus said in Matthew 7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened”. This statement implies work that must be done, effort that must be extended, and patience to uncover Him.
God has hidden Himself in the Bible using a masterful most highly intelligent design. But He made it possible for anyone to Him if they would seek Him with their whole heart (spirit). Let us examine a few other requirements that must be met to find the real hidden Jesus:
Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Notice the prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit. God instructs us that if we want to “know” Christ, we need to ask Him for the Spirit of wisdom and Revelation in order to know Him. This is why a lot of people even saved Christians are unable to read the Torah or the rest of the Bible to become interested in it. They are unable to see anything because they do not ask to see Him. Remember James wrote in chapter 4 and verse 2; “you have not because you ask not”. Please stop and pray before you read any more. Ask the LORD God to show you Jesus Christ in every verse of the Bible. Ask Him to show you something new you have never seen before about Jesus even in the verses that you think you know. This will begin your journey to finding Him everywhere. But now go to the second phase He called “Seek”:
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Uh oh! This could be another reason why not many find Jesus in the Bible. Does anyone want to spend hours searching? If not, that is your next major challenge. Setting time away to diligently seek Him must be a priority. However, how many hours it requires to find, should not matter, as much as your desire to seek. Notice that we just read that we also must do our search for Jesus by faith. This means we believe we are going to find Him, and expect it to happen as we hear, read and speak the Bible out loud. This is another major challenge to finding the savior. Let us analyze an example of knocking next:
Act 12:13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
Act 12:14 And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
Act 12:15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
Act 12:16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
Look at this story of Peter who was just released from being held in captivity by an angel. Peter must have been led by the Holy Spirit to go to this house where he knew the mother of John Mark lived. Why did Peter pick this house? We are not clearly told this reason. But we do know in the previous verse that Peter wasn’t even sure that this was really happening to him. So, this is your first clue to knowing where to knock. Trust God to show you where you need to go. The bible instructs us all to “walk by faith, and not by sight”. Don’t be mysteriously expecting for an audible voice to tell you where to read. Nor should you read while your doubting that God heard your prayer and He will lead you. But rather just expect by faith that He heard and that He is doing what He said in His Word, and it will happen. Just go and open your Bible and ask the Lord to reveal to you Jesus. Then start reading by faith.
Peter may not have known that many of his believing friends were in the house praying for him to be saved. And he probably thought it stranger when they did not answer the first time that he knocked. Nevertheless, he went and began knocking on the door to find someone who expected to be his friend and not his enemy indicating there was faith present. Verse 16 informs us that just because no one immediately answered that it did not frustrate Peter and He did not give up. But rather he continued patiently knocking to find a friend that he wanted to find. This is the qualities of patients as well as persistence. Both are important qualities in searching for Jesus in the Bible. There may be many times He is not found immediately. But you will find that the more you learn about Him in the Bible, the easier it will become to find Him. He is literally everywhere.
Ask, Seek and Knock. Pray every time you read the Bible. Ask God for eyes to see new insights into fresh things that you have never seen before. Trust God to lead you, guide you, direct you, show you where to walk, then begin to move through the Word to seek and to find Him. When you get to a verse that stands out as something special to you, that could be your clue that you’re standing in front of the right door. Now comes the real work of knocking patiently at the words written and selected by God in the verse. Why did God choose each word in the verse? Why were they organized in their selected order? Why are they spelled the way that they are? How does God define each word? And on and on our study should continue.
Thank you for taking your valuable time to study the Holy Scriptures with us. May God richly continue to lead you and bless you into finding all of Him, that you are willing to search for. God loves you, we love you and will continue to pray for you as the Spirit leads us to do. Leave a comment, question or a prayer request if you desire. Share the lessons with your friends and family. Be blessed and strong in the Lord and the power of His might! Amen.
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 18 – Peh – The Mouth and Word of God
(Ver 1.1) This lesson is “Part 18” of the Bible study series revealing the Lord Jesus Christ, that was hidden by the Spirit of God in His intelligent design of the original Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. The original ancient Hebrew texts dates back to the times of Joseph in Egypt and these styles of writings continue even with Moses who delivered the children of Israel from Egypt. This language writing style was an alphabet comprised of letter pictures. Archeologists have found tablets with this alphabet dated nearly 2000 BC. These lessons are not designed to confirm the pictographic validity. You can find this verification at several other websites. This series only attempts to introduce the spiritual concepts of intelligent design and how they could not have all been created by humans. Especially the designs of 22 specific pictures that all point us to God’s personal appearance in His Son of human flesh, the True Living “God / Man” named Jesus Christ.
Perhaps you are unaware that Jesus was hidden in the Old Testament. Jesus plainly reveals this fact to us at least two times. One of the first times was in John 5:39, Jesus said; “Search the scriptures for in them you believe you have eternal life, but these are they that testify of me”. Jesus was speaking to Jewish people that could read and write in Hebrew. Jesus said in your writings of your Torah scriptures I can be found if you search for me. That was a radical claim. Jesus could be hidden in many different ways by God, and He literally is. But could it be that Jesus can be found in each letter of their alphabet, after all that is what the words in their scriptures are built upon. Jesus gives us a much more direct clue in Revelation 1:8 where He claims to directly be the first and last letters of the alphabet. In Greek these names were written as the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Hebrew language these names are the “Alef” and the “Tav”.
Wow! This is really an amazing concept to the plan of salvation for every human being. God spoke words and these spiritual words became flesh (John 1:14) and this spoken spiritual seed from the Peh mouth of God manifested as a perfect physical seed, that was joined with a woman’s physical egg to create a male child’s body. This male child would then grow up containing the Creator God’s Spirit that dwelt within Him. And this God / Man could physically walk among us without anyone falling dead from His holiness or glory manifestation on the earth. It also amazingly demonstrates to us how God who created a first Adam, could become Himself a Last Adam, while also being the Son of the first Adam. Uh oh? Just when we thought we were done with controversy we find the Spirit of God Himself had the seed within Himself to create one like Him, made in His image and likeness, and His name is called the Word of God (Rev 19:13). This spoken Word of God was God, and still is His Seed today for creating a brand-new creation (Jn 12:24).
What we have discovered in the Hebrew language is the word “AT” (H853) contain the two letters the Alef and the Tav that Jesus claims to be in the book of Revelation. These are the two names that Jesus has claimed personally to be called by, and this cannot be a coincidence. Certainly, God knows who He is and how to teach us to find Him in His Word. Remember the word “Revelation” in the Greek means the uncovering of something that has been hidden. This Hebrew word is the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet and they occur over 7000 times in the text. This word has been vastly ignored by translators. Many modern scholars believe it only has a grammatical signification to the joined verb. Others have explained it by other explanations of human reasonings. But a growing number of Christians are beginning to see how this word represents a expressive pointer to Jesus. In studying this word, it only makes logical sense, to be applied to the claim of Jesus that these letters are signposts of the Messiah (Alef and Tav) / Christ (Alpha and Omega).
This untranslated Hebrew word H853 when inserted in the middle with the letter Vav, becomes an enormous confirmation for God becoming a man to die as a sign for humanity. This is a small review to some readers, but with new information. The first letter Alef represents God, the Last letter represent a picture of a cross, and the middle letter is a Vav a picture of a nail. Placing these together we can clearly see how these three letters in this order of occurrence, have the meaning of “God nailed to a cross”. This Hebrew word is the word H226, and it is transliterated as “oth”. The first time it occurs is found in Genesis 1:14. In this verse it is translated as “signs”. And this word has the meaning of “an appearing” as in to be lifted up as a signal for all to see. That is a very amazing confirmation revealing that these Hebrew letters do contain signs and messages pointing us to Jesus and His life and death on a cross.
Now for the more interesting confirmation. This Hebrew word “oth” (H226) can also be used today as the word “letter”. “Letter” as in the handwritten “symbol” that is utilized as a building block in creating words. Each “letter” (oth) is an individual symbol of the total 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet (AlefBet). That is just amazing when you accept it as God’s superior ability to show us, how every letter of the Hebrew alphabet is a confirming “sign” (H226) post for the coming of the LORD in the flesh of Jesus Christ. This cannot be a coincidence either. Remember Day 4 of creation is the establishment of the Sun to rule the day, and the moon to rule the night. The Sun is a representation of Jesus called the Sun of Righteousness in Malachi 4:2. Then recall 4 days = 4000 years using God’s definition of a day in 2 Peter 3:8. Now remember when Jesus came into the world! Jesus was born 4000 years (4 days) after the first Adam. Can you see the masterful intelligent design found in the Bible that point us to the “Oth” sign of Jesus Christ’s coming? It is exact, it is precise, and it is amazing!
In this lesson we are primarily focusing upon the letter “Peh” and how it represents an open “mouth”. and very specifically the mouth of God Almighty. But you might like to go to the beginning of the entire series to start with the introduction “Part 1”, and this may be beneficial to you to gain the basic foundation necessary to understand the rest of the entire series. Thank you for your interest in the ancient Hebrew alphabet. Ask the LORD to open your eyes to help you see if what is being taught here is from Him or not. Then analyze each letter and word given to see if it is actually what is found in the Word of God.
Remember that this lesson is about just one of the 22 letters in total that points us to the LORD (Jehovah) Jesus (Yeshua) Christ (Messiah). But this letter Peh is another of the main letters found in the inner circle of all letters. This makes it one of the letters of utmost vital importance to learn and know. While every letter is important and reveals a new characteristic of Jesus, God places an infinite value upon His spoken Word. This means this letter representing the mouth of God and His spoken words must not be taken lightly.
We could literally write many volumes of books upon this single letter of the alphabet and its pictogram representing Jesus Christ. For example, we can find in Genesis where the first recorded person speaking any words was the creator “God” (Elohim). By the law of first mention, these spoken words place the primary emphasis of good spoken words (Peh) upon Him. Later in this lesson we will discover that it was Jesus the incarnate Word of God that died for our sins making Him the directly connected creator God appearing in the flesh. One of the last recorded statements spoken in the book of Revelation was Jesus saying “Surely, I come quickly”. Therefore, the first recorded spoken words of God, found in the first chapter of the first book, was written down by Moses who was God’s chosen anointed prophetic writer. Then the last recorded spoken words of God that were written in the last book of the Bible and the last chapter, they were written by John also by one of God’s prophetic chosen anointed writers, and both are about spoken Words that proceeded from the “Peh” mouth of God. Could this be a random coincidence? You should never think anything in the Bible is a coincidence or chance. If this is interesting, please continue to learn this and other concepts about the letter commonly spelled as either “PEH” or “PEY”.
Here is a list of the subjects that will be covered in this lesson. It is a long lesson, so it might be good for some to break the lesson up into one section at a time:
1. Introduction to the PEH – The Mouth
2. God’s First Mention of a “Peh” Mouth is a Pointer Type to Jesus
3. The Word of God Came from the Mouth of God
4. The “Peh” Mouth of God Created the Natural World
5. God Brings Forth Jesus from the Words of His PEH Mouth
6. God’s Heavenly (Peh) Mouth Authority Continued in His Son’s (Peh) Mouth Spoken Words on the Earth
7. Understanding PEH Mouth Applications for Christian Believers Today
8. CONCLUSION
1. Introduction to the PEH – The Mouth
This is another amazing essential Hebrew alphabet letter relating to our creator God named Jehovah, that chose to become the man named Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the 17th letter of the alphabet, and it has a gematria value of 80. There are approximately 4805, “Peh” letters written in the Hebrew Torah. There are two different basic sounds that can be made from this letter. These are very similar to the English letter “P” sounds. The first is like a “soft” “pay” sound, and the second is a harder “ph” like in the English word “phone” sounding like an “F”. Let us look at one key word that contains the letter Peh as the “F” sound before we continue.
The very first Hebrew alphabet letter “Alef”, when spelled as a Hebrew word, begins with the first letter “alef”, that is then joined with the middle letter “lamed”, and is ended with the final letter “peh”, sounded with the “F” sound. These letters give us a spelled word containing the basic meaning of; “God’s authority in His mouth”. We know this because the alef is the first letter of the alphabet and it is a picture of a “strong ox”, representing one symbol of the power creator God Almighty. The second letter is the “Lamed”, a picture of the shepherd’s staff, which is his symbol of authority over the sheep and is one weapon for their protections against their enemies that would attempt to take them. The first two letters alef + lamed, also spell the shortened name of God, “El” (H410) and is pronounced “ale”. El is primarily translated as the name “God”. Remember it is “Elohiym” (God H430) that created in Genesis 1. God did this by releasing His power and authority from the words of His mouth (Peh) to create our present world.
The final letter of the word “Alef” is our study subject today and we are learning that it is the symbol of God’s speaking mouth, or God’s created man’s speaking mouth. What we are about to discover is, that this symbol of the letter “Peh” as an open mouth that represents the words that come out of the mouth. We have already learned in this series, how the “alef” and the “lamed”, are individual pictures and signs pointing us to Christ. Now let us examine the “Peh” and see how God’s words, power, and authority were also connected to reveal the life of Jesus.
This ancient Hebrew letter “PEH” is drawn as the image of an open human mouth. It has the similar shape to the Hebrew letter “Ayin” that is an image of a human “eye”. Perhaps you can look at the picture of the face above and see how the shape of the eyes and the mouth are amazingly similar shapes. Also pay attention that God designed both with doors that can be fully closed or fully opened and with various degrees of openness in between. The major difference is the shape of the “Ayin” is filled with an inner circular figure indicating the pupil of the eye that allows sight. Therefore, both letters are objects on the created face of a human, but one is the human door for speech communication, and eating or drinking food consumption, and the other is two doors that God created for sight and vision to gain knowledge with. Eyes were made to facilitate human sensual learning to gain visual knowledge of God and His created world (Rom 1:20). The mouth “Peh” was also created by God for sensual learning from tasting our food and drink, with our tongue, and this is also a way of coming to know God (Ps 34:8). We will soon find out that the Lamed is also a picture of a tongue.
Let us remember that the “Ayin” is the picture and image of an eye, and it is the letter directly before the “Peh”. God most of the time connects two joining letters to have hidden messages. Wow this is important to see that God placed the “Ayin” eyes immediately before the Peh mouth. What we can learn from this concept, is that God places emphasis upon the eye to gather knowledge and understanding, before the mouth should be opened and engaged to show if we are educated in the subject or we are just speaking words without knowledge. We see this concept in Job 38:4 when God asks Job; “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding?” But before verse 4 was God saying to Job in verse 2; “Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge.” Do you see how God is emphasizing a principle that people should not speak many words unless they first understand what is appropriate to say?
Like most other Hebrew letters, the Letter “Peh” has an equivalent Hebrew word. For the Peh this word is H6310 and is spelled out as “Peh + Hey”. This word H6310 is translated as “mouth” at least 330 times in the KJV Bible and it occurs in the O.T. at least 492 times. The dominate meaning of the Hebrew letter “Peh” must represent the open speaking mouth as opposed to a closed silent mouth. We can see this easily in almost every verse that this word H6310 is selected by God. The open mouth is confirmed in the Hebrew word H6310 to be a speaking mouth, by it also being translated as “commandment”, “word”, “saying”, “sound”, “speech”, and a variety of other words that direct us to sound exiting from the mouth. Some of these other translated words are “command”, “word”, “speech”, “spoken”, “sound”, and etc. Therefore, one additional direct meaning of this Hebrew letter “Peh”, is someone speaking vocal sounds to produce order, and likewise giving commands. All of these meanings begin to point us to Jesus directly.
Another popular word from H6310, is to translate it as “edge” in the King James Bible. Scholars appear to teach this reasoning is because the outlined area of the mouth is a line representing the “lips” and this is the outer edge or rim of the mouth hole of the face. It is very interesting that Jesus speaking to a woman at a well in Samaria asked her for a drink (Jn 4:7), but then Jesus said if you knew who you were speaking with, you would ask me for a drink and I would give unto you living water. We studied this subject in the letter “Mem” lesson. Jesus was claiming to have a “well” of water which is the symbol of the “Peh” and from this well He could speak words that could quench this woman’s spiritual thirst. Jesus further said in John 4:14 that the water (words) that He gave to us, would cause a spring to rise up from inside of us as a well that could cause others to live. This is a very important theme of today’s Peh lesson.
Everyone can see the picture of the mouth and see two edges, called the upper lip and the lower lip, and these lips swing open or are closed according to the human’s usage of their mouth for entrance or exit like a door. Therefore, the human mouth represents an opening in the human body also called the temple of God in 1 Corinthians 2:19. The mouth is used as a two-way door for either entrance (consumption, or inhalation) or exit (speaking, or exhalation). But the complexities of this single God created human component is significantly more massive.
The exact same concept found in the letter Peh representing the human mouth as a physical two-way body door, was first encountered in God’s design of the Hebrew letters of “Beyt”, and the “Dalet” pictograms. If you recall the Dalet represented the door to a tent or tabernacle (Beyt). Then remember that the Hebrew letter Beyt was the picture of the tent or tabernacle. It is amazing to see the parallels that are being presented between these letters. Remember in the New Covenant saved people are called the “temple” or “tabernacle” (Beyt) of the human spirit as well as the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:3, 1 Cor 3:16). Our human body was designed by God to be the residence for His Spirit to help us overcome the world and the devil (1 John 4:4). Our body was designed by God with doors (Dalet) and one of the most essential one was the human “mouth”. This is confirmed in the Word of God:
Psa 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Look at this verse in Psalm 141:3 and see the connection between the human mouth (Peh) being the same spiritual pattern as the natural tabernacle (Beyt) door (Dalet). Look how this verse offers a prayer to God for Him to place a guard over our mouth (Peh). Then notice the naming of the mouth to be synonymous to a tent door (Dalet). Then remember the tent door was the entrance to the first temporary tent dwelling place of God built by Moses. Therefore, both letters represent a temporary door designed for the temple of God. Both are marked pictures of outlined shapes, that are pictures of an opening hole in a tabernacle. Now see how both of these are two temples of the same Spirit of God. The “dalet” door of the tabernacle of Moses was where the Spirit of God resided behind a veiled door in the Old Covenant, and the “Peh” represents a human mouth door, where the Spirit of God is designed to live within in the New Covenant. This is an amazing prophecy, and fulfilment found in two Hebrew alphabet letters representing parallel door types.
What are some of the other components that are associated with or used by God as a synonym for the mouth? Think about your mouth, what does it have in it? How does it work? What is it used for? Let us list a few of the basic components:
- Jaw = The hinge (Vav) that opens and closes the mouth door (Dalet) of the body house (Beyt)
- Lips = The outer rim or edges of the mouth well, used to open and deposit into, or release out whatever has been deposited within it, or to be closed representing to remain silent and hold your peace
- Teeth = The part of the mouth that has the power to bite and chew (Shin)
- Tongue = The taste organ and a major part of the speech sounding component (Lamed)
- Cheek = The soft outer skin layer that encloses the interior of the mouth like a wall (Chet)
- Mouth = The two-way gate (Dalet) of the body that permits entrance or exit (Peh)
- Spoken Words = The release of spirit power and authority (Zayin, Lamed, Mem, Nun, Peh)
- Language = That which comes from the mouth (Peh)
- Head = Location of the mouth is in the head (Resh)
- Swallow = What goes into the stomach and is devoured (figuratively destroyed) (Shin)
- Taste = The ability to discern between good and bad flavors (Tongue=Lamed)
- Voice/Sound = The ability to call aloud and speak (Lamed, Mem, Nun)
- Lies come from the mouth (Peh)
- Truth comes from the mouth (Peh)
This is just a partial list of components with some of the Hebrew letters that are used by God to describe their connections with the mouth. You may have not studied all of these letters yet, but we will see them as we continue to learn how they fit with Jesus and the Peh. This lesson will not be able to cover every component and function of the mouth but will give a great introduction to the subjects.
It is most interesting to see the human tongue looks like the shape of the ancient Hebrew letter Lamed. In fact, if we place this letter on top of the human mouth letter Peh, it will look like someone was sticking their tongue out of their mouth. We did not cover this part of the letter “Lamed” in that lesson. But the Lamed must be associated with the human tongue, because this is a major part of the human mouth, that people use to pray to God and to exercise their authority on the earth.
We can look up a Hebrew word H6419 and find that it is spelled “Peh” + “Lamed” + “Lamed”. This Hebrew word is translated as “pray” predominately. It is very interesting to find how God put together letter pictures to define larger thoughts and word concepts. For example, notice in Proverbs 18:21 where God says, “death and life are in the power of the tongue”. Then notice the word translated as “pray” that means to speak to God to learn how we have the “mouth’s authority that is found in his tongue” in the spelling of the Hebrew word. We are clearly beginning to find the power of spoken words that come out of God’s mouth and the created human’s mouth made in the image of God, in this letter “Peh”.
Another letter “Peh” connection we can find is to the “Shin”. The Shin is a letter picture of the two front teeth. The open mouth releases the ability for the teeth to bite something and by applying pressure it can be cut or divided into smaller portions to eat. For an animal this is how they can catch and kill their prey. Remember Peter wrote about “our adversary that goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). Satan is being compared to an animal with a mouth that can kill. Most animals have a mouth with teeth that can clamp down upon their victims and with great pressure from their jaw and their teeth can cause death and destruction. We can clearly see that Satan has a mouth (Peh) that represents the antithesis of the Peh mouth of God and Jesus. Therefore, within natural creation we can learn the mouth has the power to bless or curse or give life or produce death. All of these concepts are essential to know from one mouth body opening.
Also notice that there are three other ancient Hebrew letters that are directly connected with the letter Peh. We can see the picture of the “Alef” as a ox head. The head of an ox is the place of their mouth (Peh), teeth (Shin), tongue (Lamed), and the eyes (Ayin). The picture of the “Resh” is the head of a prince, and someone of authority. The Resh again represents a man of authority like Jesus, that has eyes (Aiyn) to see, a mouth to speak (Peh), and the tongue (Lamed) to exercise their authority (Lamed). Finally, the Hey is a picture of a man with arms raised exclaiming awe or amazement as breathing out in surprise with an open mouth. This letter is certainly directly connected with the “Peh” mouth, where the breath is released to expression of this seen (Ayin) wonder. Do you see how these letters are fitting together like puzzle pieces to describe the LORD and our Savior Jesus Christ?
2. God’s First Mention of a “Peh” Mouth is a Pointer Type to Jesus
This will be a brief introduction to God’s first reference of a mouth in His Word. Hopefully, everyone understands the concept of “typology” and “types”. Think of a “type” within “typology” as being a prototype, example, model, image, or a pattern of something that is a pointer to a far greater coming reality. It is also very similar to a shadow where there is one object or person that casts their shadow upon a wall and someone who knows the object or person can look at the shadow outline and can recognize them without too much difficulty. In fact, the more you know about them, the easier they are to recognize. This is the exact concept of the first Adam to Jesus. The more we know who Jesus is, the more we find Him in the written outlined pattern of Adam.
Within the Bible if we really know Jesus Christ intimately and personally, we can find type after type of patterns of Him. He is practically everywhere in the Bible, but He is just not always found in obvious plainly stated terms. We find this concept spelled out plainly in Romans 5:14. In this verse Paul writes the first Adam is a “figure” of Him that was to come (Jesus). This Greek word G5179 is defined as “a sample type or model”.
Yet we cannot clearly find when reading about the first Adam in Genesis 1 through 4 where Jesus is easily recognizable as a pattern of this first man. But Romans does continue to help us significantly when we see God’s commentary in Romans 5:18 that because of Adam’s sin everyone on the planet sinned and died, that Jesus could be a man like Adam but in reverse. We can now see that the Last Adam named Jesus Christ, could come and die for all humans to give many that receive Him, a pathway out of their original death penalty end. Do you see how types can be more complicated than a quick surface reading of the words? In this example, God shows there are antithesis types as well as parallel types.
God reveals to us the concept exists very plainly in this verse of Romans 5:14. But guess what, He does not tell you what all the types are in His Word using an alphabetized list. God wanted us to know that they do exist so that we will begin to be diligent enough to search for Christ types in His word in hidden form. Remember Jesus told us very plainly in John 5:39 that He was hidden in their laws and prophets, implying He was everywhere to be found if they looked very hard.
So, what we are going to do here in this section is to find a potential type of Jesus in some human words that are utilized to describe things that are not even human, to see if they could be pointing us to Jesus. If we allow the Holy Spirit to help us, He will certainly show us new things that we have never seen before or even considered. For example, the first usage of the letter “Peh” in the Old Testament is found in God’s mention of a word translated as “face”. This word is H6440, and it is spelled “Peh” + “Nun” + “Hey” and this word for face can be sounded as “Pawneh”. Remember the Peh is a mouth, the Nun is a “seed” and the Hey is “look or behold”. Placing these letter meanings together we can see how this word can mean “behold a mouth of seeds” and that is very interesting, since this information parallels the Parable of the Sower in Mark 4. But this word for face can also be found in the plural form “Peh” + “Nun” + “Yod” + “Mem” with a sound like “paw-neem”. Hopefully that is not too much technical information.
What we can learn is God in this next verse gives us an indirect mention of the “Peh” by showing us this letter begins the word H6440 that is mostly translated as “face”. That is interesting since that is the location of the Peh mouth and this word begins with the “Peh”. God is teaching us that the mouth is of primary importance of features upon the face. Therefore, look at the verse and let us learn:
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
We can clearly see that God is speaking of the condition of planet earth as being in a state of chaos He called “without form and void”. God defines this state of chaos as a covering over of the earth fully by “deep water” (Mem). Remember Mem represents a potential state of great waves and chaos. Hopefully everyone has already studied the letter “Mem” lessons about blood and water. But what we notice here is that the surface of the earth covered with water is called a “face” and that is a parallel to what the human face is also. Like the water that covers what is not seen beneath it, our human face is that surface of the external part of the body that can be seen but acts as an enclosure to cover the inside of the unseen body.
Now consider what we have just learn from Genesis 1:2. The earth is covered with waters and God calls this surface the “face” of the earth. Please recall waters are a representative image of the Mem letter picture. We have already learned how the mouth represents the originating location for “words” (water) and God has just connected this to the “face”, a word that begins with the mouth (Peh). God has just placed extraordinary emphasis in the second verse of the Bible to three concepts.
- Face
- Mouth
- Spoken Words (water)
What we are seeing in Genesis 1:2 is that God describes the surface of our planet as its “face” and it has been destroyed with a massive flooding of water. Could this be a representation of someone’s spoken words? Uh oh! Perhaps this is a clue? We find in Isaiah 59:19, where God describes an enemy that comes in like a flood. This appears to be a reference to Satan. We can confirm this by reading Revelation 12:15, where God describes the serpent (Satan) spewing water out of his mouth as a flood of water, to sweep away the woman’s remnant on the earth. Guess what? All of these references are about a mouth (Peh), emitting waters (Mem=words), to destroy, and etc. What we are seeing is an implied pattern of Genesis 1:2 that is being repeated and even defined in other parts of the Bible.
In Genesis 1:2, the world at that time appears to have been destroyed by an enemy that learned to speak words to obliterate God’s creation. Perhaps you disagree with that, but this is what the Bible says. In Jeremiah 4:23-27 there is more of God’s commentary upon the state of the world in Genesis 1:2. However, in Isaiah 45:18 God is much more direct saying “I did not create the earth formless”. This is the same exact word used in Genesis 1:2 to describe the worlds condition. Therefore, God in verse 1 declares He created the heavens and the earth to be inhabitable, and in verse 2 His original state of perfection had been destroyed, and God says plainly “I did not make it that way”.
We are slightly off our main topic. So, let us continue to see what else God reveals about a face with a mouth. We can begin to see in this next verse that a hole in the face of the earth is called a mouth:
Gen 4:10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Gen 4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
This is the very first mention of the word “Peh” translated as “mouth”. This is also the very first mention of the shedding of human blood (Mem). In this verse we find how the earth a description of a face, can open up her mouth to receive (swallow) things up, the same as the God created mouth (Peh) of a human face.
It is also interesting to find in this verse of Genesis the word “blood”. Blood is the Hebrew word “Dalet” + Mem” that we learned about in the “Mem” lesson. This is the last part of the name “Adam”. When blood is prefixed with the “Alef” strong ox character representing God, we learn the name Adam means “God’s Blood”. Therefore, we find the first mention of a type of God’s blood being shed through the life of Abel, who is another type of Jesus the coming Messiah and savior of the world.
Also notice in this verse the word hand. This is the word spelling of the Hebrew letter “Yod”, spelled “Yod” + “Dalet”. If you recall in the “Yod” lesson, this letter represents a hand and is the first letter of the key name of God “Jehovah”. The “Yod” represents “power”, and it took “Cain’s” ungodly power to kill his brother Abel. It should be obvious that the type of the man “Cain” is a representation of Satan, the murderer from the beginning (John 8:44).
Now in Genesis 4:10-11 we find where the earth has opened her mouth to receive the blood of Abel, and this blood of Abel from within the ground was crying out to God speaking words still after Abel’s death. This is very powerful typology, and it is repeated by God when Jesus was hung on a cross by his natural family brothers. God says in Hebrews 12:24 that the blood of Jesus speaks better things than the blood of Abel. Notice that both bloods of God have ability to speak but the blood of the sinless Last Adam is far superior to the blood of the son of the first Adam.
This introduction to Christ in Genesis is very profound and could get very deep into types and shadows based upon how far we want to go in what God chose to write about in this first murder. For example, remember that Jesus called Abel righteous, in Matthew 23:35. Then recall that it is very clear that Abel died because of the jealous hand (Yod) of his brother. Both Abel and Jesus were killed by their natural brothers. Now we should be able to see it is very easy to see how these facts of Abel fit the pattern found in righteous Jesus on a cross. Both bloods are said to cry to heaven from the ground. The blood of Jesus was poured out directly while hanging on the cross when the Roman soldier pierced His heart with a spear. But it was only the blood of Jesus that was able to pay the penalty for all of human sin so that we could be saved. Thank you, Jesus.
3. The Word of God Came from the Mouth of God
2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
We must know that the major theme of the entire Bible, is that only this book contains the directly Spoken Words of God. This verse in 2 Timothy proclaims the fact of ultimate truth that “All Scripture” is God breathed. This is what the Greek word G2315 that is translated as “God’s inspiration” or “inspiration of God”. This literally means every written word recorded by a human author came from the “breath” of God. But we are about to discover that God is a Spirit in the next section about the God’s Word from His mouth involvement in creation.
What we will be learning for some and confirming for others is that God’s Words come from His mouth. Then we are also going to see how God’s breath is His Spirit. God is simply using symbolical terms of our human existence to relate to His unseen spiritual way of life. Let us look at this verse in Ezekiel that is interesting to our study:
Eze 37:9 Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ‘ ” (NASB)
Notice this is God speaking to the prophet Ezekiel to instruct Him to speak (prophesy) to a bunch of dead dry bones. This word translated as “breath” is the Hebrew word H7307 ruach. The first time this word is found is Genesis 1:2 where God said “the Spirit of God” moved upon the face of the waters. Therefore, we can see how this word represents a combination of both spiritual qualities and natural qualities simultaneously. From a human perspective, any human breathing natural air has natural life causing us to know their human spirit lives inside of their body. But anyone not breathing natural air brings the realization that their spirit has departed from their body (James 2:26). We have just learned the breath and spirit have direct connections to the ”Peh” mouth of God and man.
Gen 8:15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
What we need to first understand in this lesson of the “Peh” is that our God speaks, and therefore has a mouth and also is a Spirit (John 4:24). There are literally too many verses declaring God’s Words came from the mouth of God to go over them all. If you struggle with this concept that God speaks to us through His mouth and His Spirit even today, then please go and search the Bible to confirm for yourself this is a spiritual reality. We are just unable to teach everything in one lesson that could be taught on this subject. Let us move to God’s mouth as a major part of creating our world next.
4. The “Peh” Mouth of God Created the Natural World
It is essential to learn how our current natural world and our surrounding universe was created by our Designer and Creator God. The modern-day discovery and teaching that the universe began with a big bang, is an amazing confirmation for our Creator God and His spoken Word that came from His mouth (Peh). But our created world did not occur through random selection or evolution from a massive chaotic explosive disorder to become organized into anything of order. No matter how many times you blow up auto parts, they will never assemble themselves into a working automobile by chance. Everything in our universe is in a state of decay. This means every ordered newly created item when left alone is devolving into a mass of eventual dust. Only the Bible correctly explains how the created world contains system after system of ordered design. This order came by Words that were spoken from the Peh mouth of God.
This might seem like a funny subject to include in a lesson about the Hebrew letter “Peh” but this letter has more to do with creation than you may know right now. What we are about to discover from the Word of God is that the world around us was created by God’s spoken words that came from His spiritual mouth (Peh). Without God speaking, nothing would be or could be seen in a natural realm. In fact, there would be no natural realm with dimensions of space and time.
Therefore, without a firm foundation of truth on this subject linking the “Peh” mouth of God to the existence of creation, people are easily swayed into believing the theoretical lies placed into their minds by Satan and people used and influenced without any fear of God. What we are about to see is what some have never learned, and others have seen in part. So, this section will be an introduction to this subject for some, and a further confirmation to others. Let us take a look at a good verse to begin with on a study of the subject “Peh”:
Psa 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psa 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
God declares in His word exactly how the heavens and the earth were created. Ten times in Genesis chapter 1 the word says “And God said”, and then we find the statement “and God saw”. From this basic concept we can logically conclude it was the Words spoken from God’s mouth that created the physically seen objects in our universe. This verse in Psalm 33:6 is just a more direct confirmation of the Genesis 1 revealed creation principles caused by words that came from God’s Peh mouth.
We can clearly see that it was by the “Word” of the LORD, that the heavens were made. Then God declares it was with the breath of His mouth that it came to be. The Hebrew word translated as “mouth” is our key letter “Peh” spelled out. Therefore, we are on target within our study subject. But now God further confirms the concept about the mouth that we are learning about. This subject is the mouth connection to the location of breath and/or spirit of God or man. In fact, without the human ability to breathe (representing to have life) the human mouth is unable to speak. If you remember in Genesis 2:7, God formed the man’s human body from the dust of the ground. But then it says God breathe the breath of life into the body to cause Him to be alive. This fact refutes the theory of evolution. How could a bunch of cells gather themselves together to form lung organs of the more complex respiratory system to breathe air to produce our life, and this single system must work together with at least 10 other independently designed systems in harmony.
But pay attention to the fact that it was only after “breath” was given by God to the human body, that it could speak. This is very profound information based upon many other scriptures. For example, Jesus said in Luke 6:45 that it is from the abundance of what is in a man’s heart that his mouth speaks. Wow, this teaches us that all words whether good or bad come out of the human spirit and mind. We also know from reading James 2:26 that the body without the spirit is dead. This confirms to us that the human body must have a spirit in order to be alive and to speak. Has anyone ever seen a corpse at a funeral speaking? Obviously not, proving the point. This is another confirmation that shows us when God breathed His Spirit into Adam, the man became a speaking spirit made in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26).
Therefore, no words would come forth from the mouth of God without breath and no creation would have occurred in Genesis 1. What we have just learned is that God chose to create our world by His design of speaking words from His mouth (Peh). But the concept of God having “breath” in His mouth might puzzle some since He is a Spirit according to John 4:24 and He certainly existed prior to the creation of the atmosphere and air to breathe.
The Hebrew word H7307 that is translated as “breath”, has different applicable definitions based upon contextual usage. For example, this word can apply to the “wing”, “breath”, “wind”, “spirit”. Some of these are physical manifestations and some are unseen spiritual applications. In fact, most of the times this word was translated in the Bible, the word is made “spirit”. Wow, that is valuable information. Notice the first time in the Bible it is found it is in Genesis 1:2 where it says the “Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters”. What we have just found is the concept of God’s Spirit is His breath. But no creation took place until God spoke. All spoken words even from the natural realm originate from the spirit realm. Let’s quickly verify this with scriptures.
Job 26:4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
This is an amazing verse of foundational truth. God wrote us that when we hear words spoken in the natural realm, there is someone’s spirit that it came from. This should concern us. Have you ever noticed someone can be so kind speaking with sweet words, and then suddenly they turn into someone else in a rage spewing forth evil? Have you ever noticed how the spirit of the words being spoken are suddenly and instantly transformed from good to bad? This could be a book all by itself, but we are learning an introduction that words are spirit based, and we know from reading John 10:10 that there are only two spiritual kingdoms with one being ruled by the devil that results in words that produce death, theft, and destruction and the other the Kingdom of Jesus Christ that produce words to give us life and that life in more abundance. Let us look at another verse to help further confirm this concept:
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
We have just seen from the mouth of Jesus the recorded claim that His spoken words were “Spirit” originated. But it actually says much more than this. Not only do the words that came out of His mouth come from His Spirit, but they also carry forth the same Spirit bringing life into the ears of the listeners if they choose to accept them. We are getting into a lot of deep spiritual material that may not be easily accepted by carnal minded or natural dominated people. Let us quickly look at this subject of God’s mouth words being His Spirit expressed. Look at these words found in John:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
These verses have massively confused a lot of people. But they are very plain in what they say, if you want to see it. Verse 1 begins with the statement “In the beginning”, the exact beginning phrase of Genesis 1:1. Therefore, we know this is part of God’s commentary on His creation methods and operations. Now notice the next phrase, “was the Word”. Uh oh! Now God is connecting us to His mouth speaking His words to cause creation. But God is revealing something amazing. In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. God is confirming to us what Jesus just said in John 6:63. Remember, Jesus said His Words were Spirit. Then we saw in John 4:24 that God is a Spirit.
By God’s created mathematical laws, we can say “In the beginning was the Spirit of God (Words), His Words were with His Spirit, and the Words were God’s Spirit proceeding out from His mouth”. Our God, His Spirit and His Word were all One God supernatural being according to verse 2 of John 1. This is further confirmed by God in 1 John 5;
1Jn 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
God confirms in this verse of 1 John 5, that the Father (God), the Word (Son of God), and the Holy Spirit of God are all the exact same God who is One God. We can see this again in Deuteronomy 6:4 where God again says there is only One God and One Lord. But there are still many people especially in Judaism that claims it is impossible for God to have a Son. It is incredibly sad that people do not understand the scriptures or the power of God to see nothing is impossible with God.
Getting back to John 1, and verse 3 we have another amazing confirmation of creation. This verse says all things were made by Him. Who is Him? This is the same 3 in 1 God we just saw. God the Father, God the Word (Son), and God the Spirit. This is getting even deeper. What we are discovering is that God the Spirit, spoke the Word of God from His Spirit mouth and these Spirit Words became all of the natural substances we see all around us. Wow, praying and believing that you understood that last statement. This causes us to view another verse with a new light:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
If God just said in John 1 and Psalm 33 that everything, that God created came from His Spoken Words proceeding from His Spirit and we now can understand that Jesus said these Words were God’s Spirit being moved forward to create the seen natural realm. Therefore, everything we can see around us, is God’s Words in a designed physical composition and manifestation. Many scientists have logically called this unseen component of the most rudimentary micro cosmos, the God Particle. This seen God made expression realm includes our natural planets, the air we breathe, the sun we revolve around every year, the water we drink, and even our physical bodies were made from the created dust of the ground which we can see clearly came from the Peh mouth Words of God Spirit.
This information appears to help us see what Acts 17:28 is claiming. Everything was made By God, For God and With God and we now know “it all Is God”. Therefore, we must be moving within in Him in the created natural realm, and we also know that He is ALL AROUND us in the spiritual realm also. Look at these words written about God being everywhere:
Psa 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Psa 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
Psa 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Psa 139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Notice how verse 7 begins saying “where can I go from your spirit”. Now apply what we have learned, and it could say “Where can I go from your Breath”? Or, it could say “Where could I go from your mouth (Peh) Word Spoken?”
We should all know that God is “omnipresent”, meaning He is everywhere at every time. But this appears to be saying to us something new. David the writer of this Psalm contrasts the heavens being the spiritual dimension and throne of God location, to our naturally created realms of even the seas. God has inspired David to come to the conclusion, that there is no place he can go to, where God is NOT! He in these verses made this assertion about the seen universe, the liquid creation, the gaseous parts of creation and the physical elements of creation. David is implying strongly God is found in all of these created particles and elements. This appears to confirm God’s creations were made with His Words spoken from His mouth (Peh) are the basic creating substance of every molecule of our universe.
Remember that ten times we find the term “God said” in Genesis 1. What we are seeing in the Bible is the ultimate involvement of the “Peh” mouth of God in all of creation. Without the mouth of God speaking the commands to create our world, we would not be here. Notice that God did not speak random words. Every word had a purpose for a direct intentional result. God spoke specifically chosen words and each word was manifested into physical forms that we can hear, see, taste, touch, and smell. This confirms our world had the most intelligent designer and these are displayed in everything that was created. Simply because we now know that every chosen and spoken Word of God created specifically selected objects, there is No chance of evolution to be possible. No modern science lab can prove that disorder and random chaos can be changed upon its own power to a useful order of meaningful purpose for life.
Some may be wondering what this has to do with Jesus being hidden in the ancient Hebrew alphabet, but we are about to see in the next verse of Ephesians 3:9 something that helps us see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to find that it has everything to do with Jesus the Messiah. Let us look at a New Testament verse that reveals Jesus in creation:
Eph 3:9 and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;
Here is another one of God’s commentaries about His creation. He specifically reveals and further confirms that He created our natural world through Jesus Christ. Wow, remember what this means! We are soon going to further discover that God answers this question, by revealing to us that one of Jesus Christ’s name is the “Word of God” in Revelation 19:13. Uh oh! We can now begin to see the direct connection to who God is, who the Word of His mouth was and we now should be confident that this physical man Jesus was God, and it was God’s Words being spoken from His mouth (Peh). Let’s continue to learn how God reveals Jesus came to be in the earth, next.
5. God Brings Forth Jesus from the Words of His PEH Mouth
We were just introduced to one of the most important truths of Jesus Christ. The Bible very clearly says God made the world through Jesus, His Spoken Word in verses like Ephesians 3:9. This statement in conjunction with the verse of Psalm 33:6 where God has said that He created our world by the breath of His Pey Mouth, brings us to realize some essential characteristics of our triune God. For example, when God spoke, His words by His Spirit produced what was spoken and most of the time the spoken Words of His Peh mouth produced “life”. Then we saw in John 1:1 that the Word of God was God and was with Him in the beginning of creation. Finally, we confirmed in John 1:3 that it was God’s Spoken words that created everything that has been made, that was made. Now we need to focus our attention upon John 1:14. Because this one will reveal not only who Jesus was, but how He manifested to be born on the earth:
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
This is one of the most essential verses of the Bible to understanding who Jesus was. We can see that Jesus was a baby that came into the world being born in Bethlehem like every other human (Mat 2:6). But only this child and Son, grew, to become God’s human man that would be able to die for all humans to save us (Acts 16:31). We must know the “Word” that became flesh, is defined by God, to be God in verse 1. In this verse God says, “the Word was God”. Now in verse 14, we find the amazing thing that many people do not believe. The Word of God (who was God) was made human flesh and was born a child in Bethlehem through the virgin Mary (Luke 2:4-7). How is this possible? It is more possible than you might know or understand, and it was all accomplished by God, speaking Words from His Peh mouth!
Remember in Genesis 2:7 that God says He formed the body of the human man from the dust of the ground. Now we have been learning where the dirt of the ground came from, right? We should know it came from the mouth of God. We know in Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. This is the parallel verse of John 1:1. Apply what we have learned from John 1:3. We should know that it was the spoken Word of God that made everything. Since we know from scripture that the basic earth materials, like minerals, gases, liquids and all other elements were created by God’s designed spoken words, we know this creative Spirit power substance was what was used by God to also make all of the livable cells, tissues, bones, organs, muscles, and systems of the human body. Therefore, it would be a very “minor” nothing for God to speak another word or even two letters, to create a sperm cell to impregnate a virgin woman named Mary. In fact, creating a single sperm would be almost trivial to what He had done before in creating our ordered universe. Hopefully, we are all in agreement with what God said in the Bible.
Psa 24:1 The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
No one wants to begin any new controversy within the body of Christ. If you can see what the Spirit is saying to us, that is great, but if not, no fights or worries please. None of the revealed “how” God did things, should cause any of us to doubt the fact that He has done them. What God appears to be saying in Psalm 24:1, is that since He created everything with His spoken words, and His spoken words came from His Spirit mouth (Peh) to manifest and create our world, then everything belongs to Him, since it was made by Him, for Him, and can only ALL Be Him (Rom 1:20). It is certain that we can all see the potential theological debate that this prospective new information could produce. But it does agree with a lot more of the rest of the Bible than you might know right now. For example, why was it necessary for God to have a physical Son, to experience natural and spiritual death? Why does Jesus implement a brand-new creation in His blood of a completely New Covenant? If you have read the rest of these lessons in the series, you should be seeing a pattern.
What we find from deep Bible study, is that there was a major problem with the old creation. This problem was named Lucifer. We find out in Ezekiel 28 that Lucifer was created perfect and beyond beautiful. We find here also that he chose to sin, after being lifted up in pride to revolt against his creator God. In this rebellion we find he took 1/3 of the angels with him (Rev 12:4). We can read very clearly in Ezekiel 28:15 that Lucifer was a created being. Uh oh! Wow! How does God create anything? God speaks His Words from His Spirit mouth and creation happens. Does this mean that the body of the created spirit being named Lucifer is clothed with the Spoken Word of God as Adam was? It does appear to be that way based upon a fuller study. Knowing this, we can more clearly see why a completely new heaven and a new earth is selected to be made at the end of this creation in Revelation 21-22. But that is enough of that controversy for now.
Let us continue to discover God’s connection of our study of the letter “Peh” to the amazing birth of Jesus. We are about to discover that this letter “Peh” symbolically describes the origin of Jesus, and it would be used by God to cause the birth of Jesus Christ on the earth at an exact time desired! The Hebrew word H6310 that is the spelled word of the letter “Peh” is made up of just two letters. This letter is spelled “Peh” + “Hey”. We now know that the letter Pey is a mouth and perhaps you recall that the letter “Hey” represents a man being amazed and surprised saying; “Behold”, “Look” or “See”. Combining these together we get the Peh Word, and Letter meaning “Behold the Mouth” or “Mouth Behold”. But it can also say’ “Behold the Word” spoken. Amazingly this describes Jesus exactly. In fact, this single letter reveals a prophecy of God’s surprise Word manifestation to the earth. We are seeing how God brought the most significant sign and wonder to humanity when He came in the form of a man. Wow, are we amazed? If not, you do not understand much about God’s love for you!
When Jesus was born a child in Bethlehem there was sent to Him in the manger, shepherds to “behold” or “see” Him. This is the letter “Hey” experience announced by angels. After they “beheld” him they went and told others about what they had seen (Luke 2:15-18). Since we are finding that Jesus was the Word of God that was made flesh, this Hebrew letter and word are clearly pointers for us, to not only see the birth of Jesus, but for us to behold the entire life of Jesus on the earth. Anyone and everyone alive in that day and hour could have come to “Behold” Him and many did. There were many of the nation of Israel that were expecting their Messiah to show up and there were many that actually saw Him before He died.
Why were people expecting Jesus the Messiah to appear? This is because of another connection to our subject of the “Peh” to the birth of Jesus Christ, is to know that God first wrote about Him in the Hebrew language, in literally hundreds of verses found in the Old Testament before He ever appeared physically as a child in Bethlehem. These writings provided people a source for having faith in God’s Word to be fulfilled and it was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Let us continue by reading a New Covenant verse to help us understand the validity of the Old Covenant words:
2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
The Greek word G2315 in this verse is translated as “inspiration of God”. But this Greek word is a compound word comprised of two others. The first word is G2316 (theos) which is translated as “God”. The second Greek word G4154 (pneo) is a word meaning “to breathe hard”. In this combined word we see the concept of “God’s breath” as coming from his mouth (Peh) to speak words. We understand this because the verse is about the written words of God in the Bible. God has just declared all of these words that were written for us to study and learn about Him, came from His personal mouth and were written down by His anointed prophets. We have just confirmed from the Bible that the written words were first spoken words from the mouth of God.
Knowing this let us look at the Hebrew word H5012 which is often translated as “prophesy”. To prophesy was the job of the anointed prophets that were given God’s breathed words to be spoken and written to all humans. This Hebrew word H5012 is spelled “Nun” + “Beyt” + “Alef”. We have studied all of these letters in this series. We should now know the “Nun” represent “seed” that produces fruit, “Beyt” represents the Father’s house, and “Alef” represents God Almighty the strong servant. Placing these meanings together we can arrive at God’s description of what a prophecy is. We can view H5012 using the ancient Hebrew definitions as “Seed sent from the House of God” into the world, to produce God’s fruit. Wow, that is amazing information concerning Jesus.
What we are learning is that before God manifested in a natural human form on the earth, He planted the seeds through His human prophets, to cause Him to come forth in the assigned season (Gal 4:4). Now let us go further and deeper into seeing how the mouth of God and His spoken words were further released to accomplish all of these Old Covenant written “Seed” prophecies. Remember in the Greek language the English word “seed” comes from the Greek word “sperma” where the word “sperm” comes from. We were just speaking about how it was a very simple process for God to speak a word and for it to become one cell inside of the woman Mary for it to be joined with her egg to produce a male child.
But we must also know that Jesus when teaching the people in the flesh, taught a parable of a man that sowed “seed”. Most Word learned and Spirit led Bible teachers believe Jesus was speaking of himself as being this sower in a third-person form of communication. Many call this the “Parable of the Sower”, but it should be more correctly labeled as the “Parable of the Word of God Seed sown by the Sower”. This is because it was the Word of God Seed that is one of the major focused subjects. Then remember the Greek word “Seed” is still “sperma”. What we learn from this parable is that God’s words are “seeds” that bring forth life and this is exactly what happened in Genesis creation. Do not forget the name of the book of Genesis is the Greek word G1078 and it is transliterated as “Genesis” but has the meaning “beginning”. When reading the book of Genesis, we find two of the central introductory (beginning) subjects are “words” and “seeds”.
This concept of the Word of God in Creation further confirms that the body of Mary came forth from the body of the first created man Adam as one of his future seeds. God made one man, brought forth a woman from his side, and the two of them caused all other humans to be produced from then, including one egg cell in the body of Mary which was half of the two cells necessary to cause the body of the Lord Jesus Christ to be formed and grow. This is very amazing, please do not rush through this. Let us review the facts.
The Word of God created ALL physical matter (Gen 1:1, John 1:1-3, Ps 33:6). The physical matter was the Word of God at its root element (Jn 1:3). The Word of God is the Seed of God’s spoken Spirit (Lk 8:11). God’s spoken Words are God (Jn 1:1). God took the Word created dirt from the ground and formed the body of Adam (Gen 2:14). Through Adam’s body would come the body of the first mother of all humans named Eve (Gen 2:22-23). If we observe the genealogy of Jesus written by inspiration of God in Luke 3, we see there were 76 generations listed from beginning with God the Father and His son, the first Adam, all the way to Mary, that birthed her firstborn son Jesus, the Last Adam.
Mary and Jesus came 4000 years later after Adam (Luke 3 Genealogy). This law of reproduction comes from the established law of Genesis 1:11 and Genesis 8:22. In these verses God declares “the seed is always in itself” to produce the next generation and seed continuance will not end as long as the earth remains. This simply meant from one piece of God created human fruit named Adam, He made one man as a self-contained living entity. This isolated man was capable of producing everyone that would come after him. Remember the woman, Adam’s wife was taken from His body by God (Gen 2:21) after being placed in the garden to keep it. Therefore, the woman that would be mother of all living came from the original body of Adam.
It is from the union of the male sperm to the female egg, that God brought the initial joining of two to become one flesh (Gen 2:24, Gen 4:1). This was the foundational law of the male seed being sown into a woman to create a child and this is exactly the pattern that God used when bringing Jesus into the world through a chosen woman. From the first Adam to Jesus the last Adam, each passing new generation would pass their seed to create the next. However, God interrupted the natural human male contribution in the process of creating the next generation, to become the Father of His only begotten Son Jesus. Remember the Greek word G3439 translated as “only begotten” literally means the “only born” son. This word is the combination of two other Greek root words G3441 (mono) and G1096 (ginomai). Perhaps you can see that we get several other English words from these two root words. The first prefix being “mono” meaning one. Monotone means a single sound. Monorail means a train running on a single (one) track. “Monogamy” means one marriage.
The second Greek word G1096 is a word we can see means to “cause to be”, and this is a reference to a father’s act of sowing his seed into a woman to cause a child to become. As you know this is referring to the God created reproductive process meaning a birth will soon occur. Since Jesus is called the “first-born” from the dead in Colossians 1:18 and the “first-born” of many brethren in Romans 8:29, we can see these titles conflict with the “only born” title of John 3:16. Therefore, “only born” must be referring to the natural birth of Jesus, and the “first born” title can only be referring to His spiritual re-birth from the dead. It should be obvious that God is proclaiming that His Son Jesus born in Bethlehem through the virgin Mary was His only natural born Son that He would ever produce on the earth. But His Son Jesus born of the Spirit from the dead, is His first man that now has preeminence above all other spiritual beings (Col 1:18). This is very important to know, but it will not be expanded in more depth today!
This description was God performing His planned design of creation by first creating the natural seed reproduction of living human births and then His new creation of spiritual rebirths that are occurring by the spreading of His spoken Word Seeds (1 Pet 1:23). This God created process would be the way He would produce (cause to be) Jesus, and it had occurred over and over again, to create every human including Jesus in the natural. Therefore, it was the power of God (His Word Heb 1:3) that creates and protects this process for it to continually to occur (Jer 1:12). This means if God could do all of this set up of a process at the beginning, the speaking of another word later to create another seed (Nun) to impregnate a woman named Mary would be no big deal.
Never forget that it was the Spirit of God that dwelt in a tabernacle under the Mosaic Law within the Old Covenant. In this system God could be on the earth in the presence of sinful humans but could only be approached by one High Priest that had to follow a lot of laws and commandments to cover his sins, before he could offer sacrifices for the nation of Israel to cover their sins. If anything was missed or ignored, God’s awesome Holiness would cause the sinner that entered to instantly drop dead in His presence.
But God, in His infinite wisdom brought forth a new tabernacle system in the form of a human body. He already had this system planned out even before Adam was ever created (Jn 17:24, 1 Pet 1:20, Rev 13:18). Now in Jesus He could walk among people being completely sinless and Holy inside of Himself, with His Holy Spirit being able to speak with people directly and personally. Wow again! It was the new sinless blood of Jesus that offered instant forgiveness of human sins to be able to touch them and to heal them while in human flesh (Mat 9:5). Praise the LORD!
What we have just been introduced to is a key factor for the legal appearance of God in the flesh on the earth. It legally came about because of all the verses that were written about Jesus in the Old Testament, were recorded there to cause Him to manifest. Wow, I don’t know if you understand this or not, but it is a spiritual law of God. God said before anything appears in the natural realm of existence it must be first spoken in the spiritual realm to cause it to manifest. We can verify this law by reading Genesis 1. Look at every word spoken by God in this chapter. Then notice the Spirit of God was present upon the earth, yet nothing was changed until God spoke from heaven to cause His desired change on the earth. In Genesis 1:2 we see darkness covered the face of the deep. But in verse 3 God said, “Let there be Light” and then there was light. This proves the concept concretely and it occurs multiple other times in this chapter. In each example, God saw a problem, and spoke the answer and then the power of God was manifested to cause the desired change. It is a spiritual LAW!
There are controversies about every subject in the Bible that we can find, and this section of God’s truth will probably have its share of haters. Some make the claim that God is only a Spirit, and does not have any of the same human characteristics of facial features like mouth, eyes, ears, nose, etc. But the Bible clearly says that God has all of these features in a spiritual form. We know from reading Genesis 1:26 that God said: “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness”. The Hebrew word H1823 translated as “likeness” is defined as to “resemble”, to be a “model” of, and to possess a “similitude” of. The definition of the word “similitude” escapes many, but this word can mean “to have the same qualities of appearance”. This simply teaches us that the Spirit of God in the heavenly realm was the pattern for the first created human being in the natural earth realm. This does not make us God, but we were made to be like Him and this amazed the angels.
After the first Adam sinned and broke God’s single commandment, God had planned another Adam to make an exit door (Dalet) from the penalty of sin and separation from God. Jesus being the second and last Adam fulfilled the requirement to live sinless and to die for us to pay for all human sin (Rom 6:10, Heb 10:26). Therefore, humans, have eyes, ears, nose, mouth and a tongue, that are very similar to God’s Holy Spirit. The fact that the Last Adam Jesus was God in the flesh, proves the first Adam was also a model of the spiritual pattern of God (Rom 5:14). Here are just a few verses that confirm God had facial features and qualities first before created humans:
- Breath = Gen 2:7, 2 Sam 22:16
- Ears = Num 14:28, Ps 5:1, Ps 17:1
- Eyes = Gen 6:8, Deu 11:12
- Face = Gen 19:13, Psa 34:16
- Mouth = Num 12:8, Deu 8:3
- Nose = Gen 8:21, Lev 26:31
- Voice = Gen 3:8, Exo 15:26
We just learned that God had facial features, especially a mouth that speaks, and this Hebrew word mouth is H6310, that is our study letter “Peh” spelled out. Therefore, all the words that have ever been spoken by God in the past, or present, or in the future, will originate from His “Peh” (mouth). This confirms God’s great purpose and emphasis for selecting this letter’s original design to show us Him and His Son Jesus. Let us observe a statement in the Bible that was quoted by Jesus in the temptation of Satan (Mat 4:4).
Deu 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Why was this important to know that God has a mouth, and He speaks words? This is because, if we can know God’s Word, we can get to know who God is. God reveals Himself in His Words spoken and written to us. If we can see what He said correctly, then we can learn more easily that we can trust His goodness and then we can place our confident faith in His awesome Words of Promise.
We must notice that in Deuteronomy 8:3 that God’s spoken words produce “Life” in humans. This is amazingly important. Pay attention that God contrasts natural bread for physical life to be like His spoken words for spiritual life. Wow! This is important and why Satan does not want you to know anything about what is in the Bible. But do not forget that it was the Word of God that created the natural plants and trees that we eat from. Therefore, God’s manifested spoken words are being eaten physically for us to live in the natural realm in the form of wheat that is used to make our natural bread. It is just logical to understand the same is true in the spirit realm. Now realize that in John 6:51, Jesus personally claimed to be the literal “bread sent down from heaven”. Wow again! Jesus is plainly declaring to be both God and the Word of God in this single statement!
In fact, since we are finding out in this section how Jesus came into the world, we just learned a foundational verse in Deuteronomy 8:3. We are about to confirm that God becoming a human on the planet earth, was accomplished by God’s spoken words to produce one natural living sperm cell. Let us read this account very carefully:
Luk 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
Luk 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
Luk 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Luk 1:29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
Luk 1:30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
Luk 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luk 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Luk 1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Luk 1:34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Luk 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Luk 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
Luk 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Luk 1:38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
This is a powerful message concerning the spoken authority (Lamed) of God’s mouth (Peh) that would produce a “seed” (Nun) that will change the entire human world forever. In verses 26 and 27, we find God sending an angel with His spoken “words” in his mouth to speak to them to a physical human woman named Mary, who was a descendant of David. This is amazing to see that God first spoke the words in heaven (the spiritual realm), and these were carried to the natural realm to be respoken by an angel messenger, and they still had the same exact power when spoken to manifest in the virgin woman Mary.
In these verses we find some statements that appear impossible. For example, we find in verse 37 that Gabriel says, “with God’s spoken word, there is nothing impossible”. The angel then informs her that she has been specially chosen by God to bare His Son named Jesus. Remember the name Jesus is the O.T. name Joshua and this name means “Jehovah Saves”. Then we have learned in earlier lessons that Jehovah in the ancient Hebrew pictogram means “Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail”. All of this hidden information is declaring Jesus to be GOD!
Then the angel messenger from Jehovah, says this child will sit on David’s throne forever. So, we have two fathers being combined into one child. The first Father is God in Heaven, and He would cause His Holy Spirit to conceive this child in Mary. The second father is David, who is a distant grandfather of the woman Mary. Therefore, God chose one natural woman to donate her egg in her womb, and God the Spirit through His spoken word would produce the “Seed” that would manifest to create a new child that was 100% human and 100% God. This had never happened like this in human history. This took Satan by total surprise.
Did you pay attention to the mouth of God speaking words? Did you notice these spoken words became flesh as a “seed” (sperm) to impregnate Mary? This is what the Bible said to us in John 1:14, “The word was made flesh and tabernacled among us”. We know the “Word” was God’s Spirit by reading John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. With God’s word the entire universe was created. Therefore, it was nothing to God speak a word to become a single sperm cell. Is there anything too hard for God?
If we study modern scientific discoveries, we will find that it has been confirmed with photographic evidence that when a sperm cell enters into the egg of the female that there is a “spark” of light that is observable. Clearly this is an amazing sign of vast intelligent design of the creator God. Remember God is Light according to 1 John 1:5. Therefore, the conception of a child is a God event displaying His significant involvement. This is exactly why Satan wants every child to be killed after conception. But this “spark” of light is also prophetic and confirms God can and does have a personal involvement in the creation of every child. This is a clear sign of His ability to produce and create a sperm cell to cause His Son Jesus to become a child also.
God chose to demonstrate to us another important concept. Why didn’t the command to impregnate Mary just be spoken from heaven and it just automatically happen without a messenger angel being sent to Mary? Perhaps this will be a new concept for some. But it is essential for us to know that God requires willing participation, trust and faith (Heb 11:6) from humans to participate with Him in His plan for their life. If Mary would have rejected the offer, she would not have been the mother. This is because God does not force people to be saved or to do anything. Humans have a freewill choice to participate with God and this pleases God when they do so in “faith” not fully understanding how it will be possible to happen.
We find very clearly in Luke 1:38, where Mary confirmed her faith with her spoken words by saying “Be it unto me according to your words”. Again, this was the messenger of God speaking for God that brought her the message of good news. By making this statement, she has just offered herself to God’s will and work and the Holy Spirit came upon her as it was spoken, and this interaction caused Jesus Christ to be born on our planet. Praise the LORD!
We can more clearly now understand why Jesus called Himself the “Bread sent from Heaven” in John. We can confirm Jesus to be the manifested spoken Word of God, that was sent to the earth and used to impregnate a woman named Mary if she chose to believe God. Now let us move to the ministry of Jesus on the earth to see how the Word of God in His “Peh” mouth caused His heavenly Father’s will in Heaven to be performed on the earth.
6. God’s Heavenly (Peh) Mouth Authority Continued in His Son’s (Peh) Mouth Spoken Words on the Earth
Now we are going to learn more about Jesus in the flesh and how He used His spoken words from His mouth to implement the will of God on the earth that is always done in Heaven. We just learned how God manifested as a man named Jesus after being conceived in the womb of Mary. This process was performed by spoken “Words” of God that were sent to her. This natural birth of God physically present on the earth, brought forth the Kingdom of Heaven directly onto our physical planet. Uh oh? What does this mean? Remember this verse containing the spoken words of Jesus:
Luk 10:9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
In this context Jesus is sending out His disciples to go before Him to preach, heal and proclaim the Kingdom of God has come near to them. This is a very profound statement of truth. Jesus is making the direct claim that God’s Kingdom in heaven is now present with humans on the earth, and these men were His chosen ambassador representatives to help these people to know the truth. It is essential to remember God chose to manifest His Holy presence in the form of a human man. We also know from how Jesus taught His disciples how to pray that God’s will is always done in Heaven, but we must pray and ask for His will to be done on the earth like it is done in heaven (Luke 11:2). This strongly implies that the will of God is not always happening on the earth and that bothers a lot of people mostly Christians who believe His sovereign will is always accomplished.
Therefore, knowing now that Jesus’s body held God’s Spirit ruling in heaven to manifest in the natural realm, we can more easily begin to understand that while Jesus was physically present and alive in the flesh, the Kingdom of God from heaven was physically present on the earth to do God’s will. Perhaps you did not realize who ruled the earth and whose kingdom was over all of the kingdoms of the earth. Hopefully, you understand this is Satan that ruled the earth and still does to all those that are walking in rebellions to God’s offered gift of salvation (Eph 2:8). Do you remember what Jesus said? In Matthew 12:26 and Luke 11;18, Jesus said very clearly that Satan has a kingdom, and we must believe Jesus does not lie. Even in Paul’s letters to the church after the resurrection of Christ from the dead, we are told in Colossians 1:12-13 that those of us in the church as saved believers have been brought out from the kingdom of darkness and are translated into the Kingdom of the Light of God’s dear Son. This simply means that Satan has a kingdom of darkness and continues to rule over all that are in the darkness.
This knowledge would also mean that Jesus was God’s representative upon the earth while He was physically present, and whatever His Father in Heaven said for Him to do, He would do it. Let us confirm this concept in the scripture:
Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Jesus is claiming to us, that He of His own self could do nothing. This simply says as a human man, without my Spiritual Father, I am harmless, and powerless. But with Him, and by following what He says for me to do, the devils better watch out because I represent God, and the humans should pay attention because I can forgive you and heal you to demonstrate God’s personal character and nature, and this will glorify my Father in heaven. Please just notice Jesus is now claiming that His Father’s will in heaven is now being given to humans on the earth in a very personal and individual demonstration of God. We can begin to see this again in this verse:
Mar 2:9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
As you can see in the context of this verse, the religious men of that day are thinking that Jesus is guilty of blasphemy because Jesus as a human has just forgiven another man’s sins. What the religious men did not understand, is who Jesus really was. It appears that not only did the manifestation of God in the flesh take Satan by surprise, it took the religious men under God’s law by even greater surprise. Notice what Jesus said next to them:
Mar 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
Mar 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Pay very close attention to see that Jesus did not claim to be the Son of God in this statement and that is part of the confusion to them religious men. They knew he was the son of Adam exactly like they were. But understanding how he can be the Son of God simultaneously is where they missed it for knowing and recognizing their Messiah Savior. However, Jesus makes it very plain that even as a 100% descendant of Adam, He still has the 100% divine “authority” to forgive sin. After all, remember He is the “Lamb of God” that had the redeeming, cleansing, and forgiving Blood of God flowing in His veins (Acts 20:28).
The Greek word “G1849” which is translated as “power” should have been made to say “authority”. This shows us that Jesus as a human was given God’s authority because He was God in the flesh. However, remember God in the flesh (Jesus) also was able to delegate His God given authority to other men that followed after Him. Wow, that includes us all. How then did Jesus exercise this authority to heal the paralytic man? Did you pay attention that Jesus spoke to the man and commanded him to take up his bed and go to your house? Jesus did not pray for the man, but He only spoke a command and it was made so when the man acted upon His words from His Peh Mouth.
God is still demonstrating His power and His authority by speaking words to repair His initial Genesis 1 creation, He called “Very Good”. God created the world with His Words, and His spoken words can still repair, restore and make it complete after what sin and Satan has done to pervert it. Praise the LORD!
There are too many references in the scriptures proving Jesus had heavens authority on the earth, for us to go through them all. Here is another to help you see it:
Mat 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
As we can clearly see, the people of Israel when they had heard of Jesus, brought many people that were possessed with unclean spirits and were physically sick or diseased. Notice that Jesus must have had heavenly authority working in His ministry on the earth because He simply spoke words from His Peh mouth, and they were delivered. Wow!
There is a potential controversy taught in some churches. Some claim that Jesus did all of these great wonders to prove His deity. Others claim that He performed the miracles because He was God in His full deity omnipotent power. But neither of these are firm doctrines when balanced with other foundational scriptural knowledge. For example, in Philippians 2:7-8, God declares that Jesus laid aside His deity to become a human and live as we live on the earth. It appears that one main reason that He did this to teach us an example of how we should live. But if this is true, then how is Jesus the man able to do such great miracles? We learn this from Acts 10:38.
Act 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
This is a very revealing verse of scriptural truth. This verse confirms to us that Jesus was operating in the earth as a human man, and not in His divine power. Why would it be necessary for a human with the divine omnipotent power of God, need to be anointed by the Holy Ghost to have “power” to do miracles? The word translated as power in this verse is NOT authority, but rather it is “supernatural ability to do miraculous things”. What you should be learning is that Jesus was God in the flesh, but He was anointed by the Holy Spirit when He was baptized by John in the Jordan (Mat 3:13). This heaven-sent anointing began His 42-month ministry on the earth.
What we are learning is that there is a direct connection of the letter “Peh” pictured as an open mouth to the displayed concept of authority. We have learned in other lessons, that the “Lamed” letter was a picture of a shepherd’s staff. But it is very good to notice how this letter picture was slanted on the page upside down to normal usage by the shepherd walking. Normally the shepherd’s staff has the curve up and the point down when walking. But this letter has the point up and the hook down to the left as if the shepherd is grabbing something with the hook. Uh oh! That could be a shepherd exercising his authority over one sheep.
But notice what else the Lamed picture can represent. This Lamed letter picture can represent the precise form of a human tongue that is sticking out of an open mouth. Therefore, we have two letters that are connected by design to represent authority. This should make a lot of sense to most people. A person that rules a nation, exercises their authority by speaking commands, orders and directives that must be followed. These commands are given in the language of the nation, coming forth in ordered words. These spoken words from the leader all come from the “Peh” mouth, utilizing the “Lamed” tongue of authority and then things are changed in the nation.
If we are a true Christian, we are in the Kingdom of God, called Light and Day (1 Th 5:5). Jesus Christ is the Lord and King of this Kingdom (Rev 19:16). Jesus when walking the earth in the flesh as man, exercised this power and authority on our planet using His mouth and tongue. We can easily find more examples of this in the Gospels.
Luk 4:31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luk 4:32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.
God’s word declares there was something that made Jesus significantly unique. There was never seen any human exactly as He was. No one in the days that Jesus walked the planet had ever seen anyone like Him. The Greek word translated as “word” in verse 32 is G3056 “logos”. This word’s definition means “something spoken” and can be extended to something that was also written down after it was spoken, like the Bible. God spoke the words to men, and men wrote the words (logos) for others to read. Therefore, we have another direct connection to the mouth letter “Peh” being connected to the mouth of Jesus Christ.
As we can read, the people that heard Jesus teach on sabbath days in Capernaum, were exceedingly amazed because Jesus’ spoken words from His mouth were unlike any teacher that they had ever heard before. They could recognize that the Words coming from the mouth of Jesus were with authority, like no one else. The Greek word G1849 “exousia” was translated as “power” in verse 32, but it is usually more accurately to be sociated with “authority”. “Authority” is not usually directly associated to be the same as the word “power”. The true word translated as “power” is normally found in the Greek word G1411 “dunamis”. This Greek word “dunamis” actually means “miracle working power” as we have seen before. We get the word dynamite from this word. Let us look at a verse that occurs after verse 32, that describes how these two words are actually applied to be different:
Luk 4:36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
Luk 4:37 And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.
God directly uses “dunamis” as “power” and “exousia” as “authority in verse 36 speaking of the exact same people still amazed at what Jesus had just done by speaking mouth words of authority. Notice in between verse 32, and verse 36 Jesus had just cast out a demon from a man. In this act of power and authority, Jesus had a conversation with the unclean spirit first. This spirit inside of the man was questioning Jesus’ authority to do this to him. But Jesus knowing His authority did not answer the spirit and simply said “Shut up and come out” and the spirit obeyed proving God’s right to be walking our planet.
Notice that even the demons within the satanic kingdom of darkness, were questioning God’s right to be physically present on the earth in the flesh, and to cast them out of humans. It is very clear that they believed the earth was in their rightful realm of authority and not God’s. But God knew more than they did, and because God became a human, He had legal access to the planet and could exercise His full authority as the Kingdom of Heaven’s representative to humans. Let us quickly look at just one more example of the Lamed type of authority that found in the Peh mouth of Jesus:
Mat 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Here in Matthew, Jesus is being questioned this time by the religious leaders of Israel. It is most likely that it was the same spirits that were being cast out of humans that had now influenced the leaders of Israel to continue their questioning. If you don’t believe or know that demons can give people thoughts and feelings, then you might be deceived or just unlearned of the truth. These religious men asked Jesus two questions. First, “by what authority do you do these things?” Then second, “Who gave you this authority”. Jesus countered their questions with saying answer my question and I will answer your questions. This was the wisdom of God, because they refused to answer His question.
These were just some of the basic scriptural evidences, that prove Jesus had Kingdom authority from God, and that God backed this given authority through the Holy Spirit that had anointed Him to provide the “miracle working power” to heal the sick and cast out devils. What we have just observed are absolute truths that teach us that God manifested on the earth to bring powerful heavenly authority to do His works to save humans. We should be able to see how this “Peh” ancient Hebrew letter a picture of an open speaking mouth, was being fulfilled in the mouth of Jesus repeatedly. It is very difficult to separate anything God has done to create or save us, from His Words spoken from His mouth (Peh). The importance of the spoken Words from the mouth of God are infinitely more valuable than anything else you can seek for.
7. Understanding PEH Mouth Applications for Christian Believers Today
This lesson series has been attempting to not only include direct references for every ancient Hebrew letter’s application to point us to Jesus Christ, but to also show us how these letter picture concepts contained in every letter, apply to us being a Christian right now. Hopefully, everyone is learning how both applications are relevant. This idea is derived from us knowing today who we are in Him and who He is in us (Rom 8:10). Because we are His saved church, we are also His physical body of Christ/Messiah on the earth (Rom 12:5). He is called the head, and we are called His body (Col 1:18). Just because He is not here physically, does not mean He is not here spiritually. We better know that He is living on the inside of us through His Holy Spirit (1 Cor 1:30). Therefore, whatever He accomplished physically on the earth before to bless others, can still be done spiritually through His Body of believers by placing our faith in Him and even greater things (Jn 14:12).
This teaches us that what applies, identifies, and defines Him, applies, identifies and defines His body as well (1 Jn 4:17). Once we begin to see who we are in Christ, who God is in Us, and what God has given to us being one with Him (1 Cor 6:17), we will be amazed to know that God expects us to act the same as what Jesus did on the earth (Jn 14:12). This is the Genesis 8;22 seed law and principle of how multiplied growth works. Because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, God’s one single man / God seed, God has produced much fruit of the earth through His Grace. The Seed of Jesus was designed by God to become spiritually multiplied by many, many millions of us working with His Spirit in simultaneous union to grow greater numbers of members in His body for His glory (Jn 12:24).
Instead of God living in one Old Covenant tent tabernacle, or in the one anointed human body of the God / man temple named Jesus (John 2:19), God in the New Covenant has implemented a new living and growing temple strategy (2 Cor 6:16). This is one that God has created using Jesus as the “Chief Corner Stone” (Eph 5:20) to align us into a unified corporate temple building, made without human hands or physical involvement of works (Acts 7:48). This temple is one, where we are each a designed component made by God to be living stones being built together into a new creation house of God (1 Pet 2:5). Satan does not want us to know this, so we may encounter trials and test if we try to share God’s truth.
We must know how the mouth (Peh) spoken words are intricately designed into God’s Old and New Covenants. Just as God created the current first Adam world system with the words of His mouth, we become a New Creation in Christ the Last Adam by speaking the words “Jesus is my Lord” in our mouths (Peh) combined with the belief that He was raised from the dead in our hearts, this is revealed clearly in this verse:
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
It is plainly stated in Romans 10:9 how a human is saved out of this evil world through their mouth, working together with their faith. But is that the only application of the Peh mouth that is taking place for a Christian? No, it is not! The initial salvation is not the only mouth action that God requires in our Christian life. There are at minimum four main applications of the human Peh mouth in becoming and living the Christian life. These are:
- Receiving salvation.
- Spreading the Gospel Seed/Word of God to others so that they can receive salvation.
- Confessing with our mouths in Agreement with God’s Peh Mouth Words.
- Ruling and Reigning to Overcome the Devil and his world.
We will not attempt to cover these in-depth today, but this section will introduce the subjects. We have already seen the salvation part of joining Christ’s new creation body believers, so we will quickly look at the process of spiritually growing the body of Christ and our mouth involvement:
1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
In this verse Paul was attributing his part of the process of salvation as planting seeds. We know from the Parable of the Sower in Mark 4 the seeds were the Word of God. Therefore, to get someone saved there needs to be heard the spoken Words of God that can enter into the heart of an unsaved human. Paul further says the process continues growth to produce fruit, by watering and attributes this work of also preaching God’s Word to Apollos. Let us look at some other verses about the mouth involvement in spreading the Gospel:
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Paul gives us the overview of the salvation process designed by God in these verses of Romans 10. As you can read, there are at least 5 basic steps to be saved from the effects of our natural father the first Adam, and his passing of sin and eternal separation from God to every human (Rom 5:12):
- Someone must call on the Lord (using the words of their human mouth) to be saved.
- But first they must believe (God’s Mouth Words)
- And before they believe a human must preach the Word of God with their mouth
- But before they can preach they must be sent by God’s mouth
- But all of this was only possible because the preacher went through this exact multi-step process before speaking the Word of God to the potential new believer.
Wow, that is really a lot of Peh mouth and word dominated involvement in salvation, and this is the exact concept defined in Genesis 1 creation where the seed is always in the fruit to produce the next new generation. We became Christ believers by believing God’s Words, spoken through a preacher’s words and us confessing words unto salvation. We then take these same Words of God to further spread the Seed for other to believe, because we heard the voice of God tell us to go into all the world and preach it to them (Mk 16:15). God is truly amazing!
But wait there is more mouth participation in being a real Christian. Confessing with our mouth right words and believing with our hearts to be saved is only the beginning of the process of working out our personal salvation (Php 2:2). Look at this verse:
Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Do you understand what God has written in this verse through the apostle Paul? What God is saying is that exactly how we received Christ by believing in our heart and confessing with our mouth (Peh), that is how He designed us to live in Him. This teaches the mouth of a Christian is continually to be active in our everyday Christian walk. Uh oh! Is that happening when we get angry, sad, hurt, or when something unexpected happens to us? This “mouth” application is another vast subject of Christian living, it is too much to teach completely in one section of one lesson. It should probably be an entire series in itself. For this concluding section we will only focus upon a small part of the subject.
Heb 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
It is important to know Jesus is in heaven as our personal High Priest eternal representative before God. Jesus acts as the mediator of a better covenant (Heb 8:6) that allows us personal access to the Holy God (Heb 4:16). But notice what Jesus is the High Priest of, God wrote Jesus works with our “profession”. However, this is the same word found in Romans 10 that is translated as our “confession”. This Greek word is G3671 and it literally is defined as “to SAY the SAME words”. Wow, this is obviously important. In Psalm 27:6 David wrote “Therefore in His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices of joy and sing praises unto the LORD”. Do you see how this applies to New Covenant believers today?
God is using Old Testament patterns to reveal New Covenant spiritual realities. Notice today we are the tabernacle of God’s Holy Spirit living on the inside of us (1 Cor 3:16). Remember also that we are called a royal priesthood in 1 Peter 2:9 and this makes us eligible to bring offerings to the LORD. Then notice what types of offerings are being brought before God? These offerings are spiritual word of mouth sacrifices being made in Psalm 27:6. There is a sacrifice of joy coming from out of our mouth giving thanks that we are saved and not going to hell. This is combined with an offering of our praises unto the LORD because He is so good and merciful to save us. That is one type of confession or profession from Hebrews 3:1, but there are others.
For example, we learned profession meant “to say the same thing”. This simply teaches us that whatever God says to us, we are to put these words in our mouth and confess them back to Him and possibly to share with others as the LORD leads and directs us. Do you see the working of Words from God’s mouth how they will continue in the church age and forever in eternity? There is so much more that could be taught on this confession subject, but we must move to the final words of our mouth about our authority in Christ.
Rom 5:17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
It is interesting what trust that God places in His creation to do the right thing with His help, instead of what the first Adam did to us by listening the words of Satan in Genesis 3. Notice that Romans 5:17 is about these two Adams, the first and the Last Jesus Christ. Because the first Adam made all to die, now the Last Adam makes a way for any that believe in Him to live. But not just to live and go to heaven with God, instead God says we can rule over our enemy Satan right here on the earth while in our mortal flesh.
This verse literally confirms what Peter said that we are a royal priesthood. In this verse of Romans God uses the word G936 literally means “to rule as a king”. This is further confirmed to us in 1 Timothy 6:15 and Revelation 17:14 where the LORD Jesus Christ is named to be “The King of kings, and the LORD of lords”. The believers in Christ are these lords and kings that Jesus rules over.
Therefore, how do kings’ rule? They are people that can give a command of words and they are carried out. This gets us back to our mouth connection as being a Jesus Christ believer. Thank the LORD God for His great works and praise Him for all that He has given to us that works through our Peh mouths.
8. CONCLUSION
We have been studying about words and the mouth that produces them, and the “Peh” letter is a picture of these two elements. Our study of the Peh alphabet letter is extremely essential to understanding who God is and who God made us to be. While this is the 17th letter of the alphabet and appears to be minor because of its position in the order of the alphabet, it turns out that without this letter there would be no creation, and no people on this planet. This letter’s gematria value is 80. That is interesting because 8 has the Biblical meaning of a new beginning, a new creation, a new order, or even a covenant incision and the number 10 when used as a multiplier has given the multiplied number the increased value of completeness or perfection. This would teach us that God’s ultimate perfection of His new creation will come through His mouth. It is also interesting that after 7000 years (=7 days), God begins a new creation and a new world order absent of sin, sickness, death and evil. This would make this new heaven and new earth that is coming, happen on the 8th day (=8000 years) within God’s timetable of a new first day of His week of work for His bride.
For this concluding subject we must embrace that the Kingdom of God was a Word system of government, power, and authority in heaven before the beginning of creation. Then we must understand that the physical universe was created from the spiritual kingdom of God’s spoken Words. And it was all these spoken Words from God’s mouth, that are currently holding our world in place (Heb 1:3). Then we must understand that God declares He does not change (Mal 3:6). Finally, we must connect these truths to the fact that the first created man Adam was made in the “image” and “likeness” of God to rule the earth (Gen 1:26) and he failed to exercise his authority to keep Satan out of our world (Gen 3:17). Therefore, God solved this sin separation problem by becoming Himself, the Last Adam, to live an example for how humans needed to successfully rule the planet.
We should know that God still reigns today in heaven by speaking righteous words of judgments (1 Pet 2:23). We are taught very clearly in Hebrews 4:12 that the Word of God is sharper than any double-edged sword. A double-edged sword is a symbol of the mouth (Rev 1:16), but more specifically it is the symbol for the words that come out of the mouth to either build-up or destroy others. This simply means everyone that becomes a Christian has a mouth that has the authoritative power (Luk 10:19) to stop the devil from stealing, killing or destroying us (Jn 10:10) because of what Jesus has accomplished for us and given to us (Lk 10:19, Mat 28:18-19).
But God’s mouth and spoken words will always be sharper, meaning more powerful than whatever words that any other spirit-being could say against Him to try to overcome Him. Therefore, it is best for us to always “hold-fast” to saying only what God says about us and others (Heb 10:23). In Hebrews 10:23 we have learned that this word translated as “profession” is the Greek word G3671. Remember that this Greek word literally means “to say the same thing”. Not to say the same things that the devil and the world says, but rather to ONLY say what God says to us and about us.
Today what we are observing in our world, is a battle of words for the control of human minds. We can see a great example of a beginning of God’s war of words in Isaiah 14:12-17. In this exchange we find where Lucifer has spoken words about what he will do to exalt his throne, and God counters these words with other spoken words about what will happen to Lucifer to cause his downfall. This is so amazing to see and learn what was happening in the spirit realm between God and the anointed ruling angel Lucifer.
It should be obvious that Lucifer had learned from God how to speak words that create and work to accomplish a desired result, by watching what God had done to create the universe (Job 38:4-7). In Lucifer’s pride and beauty, he lifted himself up to create his own kingdom rule independent of God. This spiritual angelic being Lucifer, must not have fully understood who he was dealing with. It has taken many, many years for God to implement His surprise plan of a New Covenant and a New Creation in His Son Jesus Christ, but this will bring about a new heaven and a new earth, wherein only righteousness lives (2 Pet 3:13). This teaches us the unrighteous ruler of the darkness of this world will never be present in the new heaven or the new earth (Rev 20:7, 21:27).
We have been learning that the Kingdom of God is a spiritual Word and Mouth system. We can find so much evidence that this is true. We have also been learning that God’s creation of our universe, and man on the earth, was also a word-based system. We have seen a lot of evidence of this so far in this lesson that it was. Next, we have been answering the question to see if our New Covenant system in Jesus that we are living in right now, is also based upon God’s system of spoken words in our Peh mouth? We are seeing that this answer, like the other systems are also yes! Remember God reveals in Ecclesiastes 1:9 that says the thing that has been, is that which shall be again, there is nothing new under the sun.
The spoken Words of God from His mouth, are the highest and most important words to learn. The spoken words from the mouth of Jesus are equal to the words of His Father in heaven, since He only spoke what He heard His Father say. But the entire Bible was created by God to teach us about Him, and His character and nature and He is personally revealed to all humans in His personal appearance of the LORD Jesus Christ.
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Intro Alef Beyt-1 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Ayin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav – Alef-Beyt Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2022 – WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM

(Ver 1.0) This is the season for celebration. Many people enjoy times with their family in giving and receiving gifts. This seasonal time has been abused. This seasonal time of remembrance has become only commercialized to some. To others it has become a pagan holiday to be avoided. But to many others it is still a time of peace, love, joy and thankfulness for the True and living God’s arrival onto the planet earth in a manifested physical human form.
This blows the minds of a lot of people. How could the awesome, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent Creator become a part of His creation? Why would He do this? Behold this child that was born in a manger in Bethlehem, He is the Savior of the entire world. Come let us find and see Emmanuel, which is interpreted: “God with us” (Mat 1:23). If this is not enough cause to rejoice, then you do not understand very much about who He was, and what God has done by being born a baby human. He has made a way for humans out of this dark evil world by us choosing to join with Him in unity. This plan brought us His brand-new creation! But how does one become “born-again” to be a new creation ( 2 Cor 5:17)? The answer is found in a question that Jesus asked to His disciples:
Mat 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
Jesus asks his 12 close followers, the most significant question a human could answer. Jesus certainly had no doubts and knew exactly who He was. But how many people around Him knew who the Son of Man was? The disciples’ answers Jesus question with what they had heard people say about Him:
Mat 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
Some say You are John the Baptist, some Elijah, some Jeremiah, and some just one of the prophets. None of the answers was correct. People obviously did not have a clue who this man was, that was walking with them. Do you know that what other people think, believe or know about Jesus will never help you personally? Even today some people still say, that He was just a prophet. Others think less of Him than that. So, Jesus makes the question more personal:
Mat 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
This is the most important question you can answer today to save you from an eternity in hell. If you can answer this question correctly, you will be saved from a state of endless separation from the God who created you. Take notice how Peter one of the disciples answered correctly:
Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Wow! This was Peter’s winning “all in” response with no hesitations or doubts attached to it. This statement held such great confidence. Notice that Jesus did not deny the answer. People today have the same opportunity to give Jesus the correct answer. By anyone today confessing this reality of truth, causes us to make a personal confident affirmation that Jesus was God born in a manger in Bethlehem. It further affirms the belief that Jesus was a man that lived 33 ½ years on the earth in the flesh. Jesus was a man who was hung on a cross. Jesus was a man that died and was buried in a tomb for 3 days and nights. But it also means He was raised from the dead being the first born within a new creation. Then by acknowledging to Jesus that He is the Christ/Messiah, the Son of the Living God, we confirm to Him and everyone else that He is risen and alive forever more. Praise the Lord!
Therefore, during this time of out celebration of the birth of the Lamb of God in a manger, let us remember how blessed we are to know Him personally and to fellowship with Him daily. Romans 10:9-10 proclaims that if anyone will believe in their heart that Jesus was raised from the dead, and then confess with our mouth that Jesus is MY LORD, they will be saved! This is the number 1 priority for this website, to get people saved and then to bless them with the knowledge of the true Living God, so that they will never depart from this faith in Jesus Christ.
God bless you if you prayed this prayer for the first time. Please leave a comment acknowledging your decision to follow Christ. Jesus said very clearly, that if you acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge you before my Father in Heaven (Mat 10:32). It is absolutely essential for you to go and tell someone, and it does not have to be this website. You can go to your friend, a neighbor, a loved one, a family member. Just please tell someone, I made Jesus my LORD and Savior, and then open your Bible and begin to fellowship with Him. Ask Him to speak to you from His written Word to show you what He has given to you as a free gift.
Thank you to all readers and subscribers that pray for us on Agapegeek.com. We are blessed immensely to have the pleasure to spend time with those of like precious faith (1 Peter 1:1). God bless you all and “be a blessing” to someone today and have a very Merry Christmas! Please never forget the Greatest Gift that you can ever receive is from our Father in heaven, His name was Jesus Christ and He is LORD!
Please Vote for Righteousness in 2022
Today is one of the most critical elections in the entire world. The current U.S. election is a vital place for all Christians to wake up, unite, and stand up against the spiritual enemy Satan and what he is trying to implement in a one world godless takeover agenda. According to many scriptures the church is prophesied to leave this world before the tribulation as the victorious overcoming bride of Christ.
Therefore, expect massive victories today to continue to manifest in great numbers. But this will only fully come to pass with all of us hearing the voice of the LORD, believing Him, and obeying to participate in doing your God given responsibility to vote. We walk by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We overcome the world by our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have had Christians in the past that criticized us for speaking of world political strategies of Satan. Some have even unsubscribed because they were blinded by the enemy to not care about our children’s future ability to worship God and share the Gospel to others freely. Any passive lack of participation is the same as a vote for Satan’s agenda and your defeat.
Notice the Biblical examples given to us by the Lord God. Pay attention that the children of Israel were given the promised land in the book of Exodus, but the nation of Israel still had to participate to fight and take it from their giant enemies that were living in it. Today, the church is no different than them. But today our giants are the spirits of darkness. God gave this nation Israel in the Old Covenant as a pattern for victory or defeat based upon whether we choose to believe God and win or live in a fear of the fight to automatically lose.
Become a strong and courageous voter today, like the example of Joshua and Caleb. Be on the “faith in God” side of this spiritual battle, and not on the side of defeat like the other 10 spies of Israel that died in the wilderness. Utilize the God given authority that Jesus has given to us all, and vote in faith, believing it will be counted accurately and fairly without any obstacles, obstructions or cheating. Bind the spirits of darkness that are working in those that are doing evil. We will overcome this enemy by the blood of the Lamb. Greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world! Thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph.
Thank you and God bless you all very much. Join with God in the Gideon 300 group of victorious warriors that win. To God be all of the Glory for the great things that He is doing in the world in these last of the last days before His return. God loves you and we love you all. Be blessed and be a blessing to everyone. Amen!
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 14 – The Mem Part 2 – The Water

(Ver 1.0) This lesson is “Part 2” of “Part 14” of the Bible study series revealing the Lord Jesus Christ, that had been hidden by the Spirit of God in His design of the original Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. In this lesson we are focusing upon the letter “Mem” and how it represents “water”. If you have not read the first introduction to this mini-series within the larger series, please go to “MEM Part 1” first. Also, you are able to go to the entire series introduction “Part 1 INTRO” to get the basic foundational information for the entire series.
We have learned the two primary meanings of the ancient Hebrew pictogram of the “Mem” are 1) Water and 2) Blood. We focused upon the subject of blood in the first lesson because the “blood” of Jesus is an incredibly essential subject in the entire Bible for our human salvation. We should have learned that Jesus was the Last Adam. We further learned the named Adam means “God’s Blood”. Based upon this information we should be able to understand that the first Adam rebelled against God and destined all of humanity to separation from God in an eternal hell. But Praise the LORD God who became the “Last Adam” and it was His sinless Mem “Blood” that met His own righteous justice to be able to pay for all of our sins as a free gift.
In the introduction we learned the individual letter “Mem” study is a picture of 3 significant waves of a sea. Therefore, God was focusing this letter primarily upon the subject of moving “Water”. This Mem water symbolism will be the focus of this lesson. We are about to discover the incredible significance of this subject of “water” from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. For example, the world was destroyed twice by water. The first in Genesis 1:2, and the second is found in Genesis 6. Our present world will culminate with its destruction in fire, the antithesis of water. But the new heaven and the new earth will contain a “river” of pure as crystal water that flows from the throne of God in Revelation 22:1, that water provides us life.
The references to “water” in the Bible, is so much greater than these. The various forms of the word “water” is found over 700 times. The words “sea” or “seas” occurs over 400 times. Also do not forget some seas and bodies of water have specific names that are mentioned. The words “river” or “rivers” occurs over 250 times. The words “well” or “wells” occur over 50 times. The words “brook” or “brooks” occurs over 50 times. The word “lake” occurs at least 10 times. But there are many other words that are associated with the concept of water that also occur in the Bible. For example: a “flood”, to “drink”, to “wash”, to “draw” from a well, to “fill” a cup, the “depth” of the body of water, the movement of the water called “waves”, and on and on we could go. To cover this subject fully would take writing many volumes of books, derived from countless numbers of hours from a study with the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Today we will be learning only a limited number of subjects of the total amount of God’s important information about Jesus Christ found in the letter “Mem”. In fact, in this second “Mem” lesson about the subject of “water, we will only be covering the following seven titled subjects:
- Jesus in the letter Mem Number 40
- Jesus’ First Miracle Turning Water to Blood
- God’s Spoken Words are the MEM Waters for Spiritual Life
- Washed with the (Mem) Water of the Word of God
- The Spiritual Cleansing Power of Jesus Water and Blood from Sin
- Natural Water Waves Created and Connected with God’s Spirit Voice Sound Waves
- A God’s Real-Life NOW Application of the MEM – Calming Life’s Storms
- The Mem Water Conclusion
Let us get started with learning this incredible picture of God’s “Mem” letter as being His representation of Jesus Christ.
1. Jesus in the letter Mem Number 40
Remember the ancient Hebrew letter “Mem”, is the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and has the gematria number value of “40”. The number 40 has the basic symbolic meaning for the time of testing, trials and temptations. We find this number as a pattern for these, repeatedly in the Bible. We should know that Noah’s time of testing continued through a time of 40 days of rain that destroyed the rest of the world. We should also know Moses met with God on Mount Sinai for 40 days. Then the children of Israel ate manna for 40 years in the wilderness. There are other examples of forty, but we cannot cover everything today.
It is very essential to observe how the earthly ministry of Jesus begins after a 40-day preparation time of testing. And then we must also notice how the earthly ministry of physical Jesus ends with another 40-day period of speaking a flow of words to the church to help direct them into their arising future. Let us briefly go through both of these confirmation to Jesus being the “Mem” fulfillment of ancient prophecy found in the number 40.
Luk 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Luk 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
We must first understand the direct water connection to the “Mem” with these verses. Before this 40-day trial and temptation of Jesus occurred, He was physically “baptized” into the waters of the Jordan River by John. This meant the physical body of Jesus was “fully” emersed within God’s created substance of “water” (H2O) a definite picture of the letter “Mem”. This is truly amazing and definitely not a coincidence. Jesus appears to know and understand exactly what He is doing all the time while interacting with water. He purposely chooses to be fully covered by the “water” before He even begins His ministry. Jesus actually said He was doing this to “fulfill all righteousness” (Mat 3:15).
It is very, very important to note what John said about Jesus before he baptized Him in the Jordan river:
Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Here is your first clue that the “Mem” physical water matter represents a symbolic substance of far greater spiritual application to Jesus. We can see this by how John compares his physical water baptism of Jesus, to a different kind of future spiritual baptism that is assigned to a coming role of Jesus. We know from studying other verses that John is speaking of a “baptism” that Jesus could only perform after He had ascended back into heaven.
We do not see this coming Jesus baptism taking place until the first time it is mentioned in Acts 2. We are about to find out that this “baptism” of the Holy Spirit would also occur after a 40-day series of events. What do you believe the Holy Spirit is trying to say to us? There appears to be direct connections to the letter “Mem” and the fulfilment of multiple types of “water”. We can see how Jesus began His ministry after being baptized in physical water. But the prophet John claimed Jesus would be baptizing people with the “Holy Ghost” and “Fire” and this clearly began in Acts 2. Notice how all of this information is being communicated by “Words” that were spoken first, and then written down for anyone to read and speak.
It is very interesting to note that the 40-day temptation of Jesus occurs directly after His Baptism into Mem physical water that flowing in the Jordan river. Let us stop and analyze what this means. The name Jordan is the Hebrew word H3383 and is defined by Strong as a “descender”. This is a major revelation. It describes God’s position of His ultimate highest supremacy has been reduced to become a part of His fallen creation in the first Adam. Think about it! The eternal Creator, and the self-existent God became a created mortal human that could experience death. He did this for several reasons, but one of the primary reasons was to save His creation from permanently being separated from Him.
The picture of Baptism in water is a windowed view into God’s plan and process of salvation. The descent into the water represents His death and burial. The time spent under the water represents His 3 days in the tomb and His time in hell to pay for all of our sins. The rising of the body of Jesus out of the water, represents His coming “resurrection” from the dead, into a newly created realm of fresh eternal life. All of this occurred using the pictogram ancient Hebrew letter “Mem” type of physical water.
Remember what happened to the children of Israel after they were saved out of Egypt? The Pharoah regretted letting them go, even after all of the problems that God had caused them through 10 plagues and especially the deaths of the first-born of every man and beasts that was not protected by the blood (Mem) of lambs. So, Pharaoh got his army together and went after them. Here is where it gets interesting. The children of Israel were camped next to the “Red Sea”. Uh oh! This is another “Mem” water supply. This water was at first imagined to be their death not allowing them to escape. But God suddenly divided the “Red Sea” and dried up the ground and the children of Israel went through to the other side.
Then came Pharaoh after them into the “Red Sea”. But God collapsed the walled and divided (Mem) waters and these their greatest hinderance became their amazing permanent deliverance from Egypt. Because the Red Sea flooded the Egyptians suddenly, God caused all of the pursuing Egyptians to drown (Heb 11:29). Wow, this is an amazing picture of what God did for us all in the New Covenant. Notice the name of the Sea is “Red”, which is the color of “blood”. Could that be a picture of the blood of Jesus that we learned about in “Part 1”? Of course, it is! Going through the “Red Sea” is a pictured type of “Baptism”. Please notice what Paul wrote by the inspiration of the Spirit:
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
The works of God’s plan of salvation was a complete surprise to Satan. The devil thought by crucifying Jesus on a cross, he had just gained a great victory over God. But God by raising Jesus from the dead, implemented Satan’s defeat and greatly modified the presence of the Spirit of God in every human that would believe.
Paul writes about this by saying the Spirit of God “baptized us (believers in Jesus) into (His) 1 body”, making us all one with Christ. Clearly this greater Spirit baptism, was a type of what happened to the Lord Jesus in the river Jordan and the children of Israel in the Red Sea. The entire body of Jesus went under the water. But now in the New Covenant we can read every Christian has become a “member” of the Body of Christ, which is still a growing spiritual entity today.
Do you see what is happening here? Notice the “water” concepts being given to us in just this verse. There is a two-fold work of the Spirit of God. Every saved Christian has been placed “inside” the Spirit of Christ as His growing temple and body. But simultaneously we drank this same water (Spirit) to have Him become alive inside of us. That is one of the most important concepts that is needed to be understood after you are saved. It changes our identity from being a dead human, to a new living house of Christ. Hopefully we will go deeper into this subject as we continue to learn.
It is also noteworthy that when Jesus was baptized and came up out of the water, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him from heaven in the bodily shape of a dove, and the Heavenly Father said in an audible voice “This is my beloved Son, whom I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22). But what happened to Jesus next after being immersed in water, is a very stark contrast. All of these actions that occurred to Jesus also occurred to us as His spiritual body.
After being fully emersed into the water of the Jordan, the Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Guess what a “wilderness” is? A wilderness can be defined as an uninhabitable dry desert area. Notice that we are studying about “water” the Mem letter and Jesus went from 1) a full immersion in a water river, 2) then receiving the Holy Spirit, 3) the fully audible spoken voice of Father God, 4) to being led into a dry place where no water is easily found. Apparently, this dry area of “no water” made Jesus more accessible for the tests, trials, and physical and spiritual temptations of the enemy. It is also interesting to see how what Jesus went through was a fulfillment of what the children of Israel also experienced. These occurred when Israel was being led through the Red Sea (baptism, water and blood), and then going into a dry waterless wilderness of testing and trials for 40 years, before they began to possess their promised land. Where they failed, Jesus came to succeed for us all. At least three times the people of Israel required God’s miraculous provision of water to survive in the wilderness.
These are all important concepts that were just mentioned. We are being introduced to a new set of “Mem” representations. The Mem water letter is a symbolic picture of 1) Physical Baptism, 2) Spiritual Baptism into the Body of Christ, 3) Receiving (drinking) the Holy Spirit, and 4) hearing God’s spoken words.
We in this section are being introduced to the fact that “Mem” represents the Words of God. The more Words of God that we are surrounded with, the safer we are from the attack of the devil. Let us take notice of something that Jesus taught about humans that are inhabited by demons:
Luk 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Luk 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Luk 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Why would demons want to go to a dry place like a wilderness where Jesus was led to go? This is because the devil and his demonic forces know the power of God’s spoken words to cast them out (Mat 8:16). In this example, of Jesus, He says a human can be loosed from a devil temporarily but they will attempt to come back inside the same human mind and body. Uh oh! Jesus is implying this human was made clean by the “Mem” water but was not filled with the Spirit and the Word to keep their enemy out. This is an introduction to “Mem” realities of water to represent both the Spirit of God as well as the Word of God.
What is interesting is that Jesus when tempted by the devil, each time He would quote the Word of God by saying “It is written…”. This clearly teaches us how Jesus overcame the enemy’s temptations because Jesus had been filled with the Spirit and Word of the Mem water of God. Every time the devil brought a new plan of deception to Jesus, Jesus just spoke the Word of God. Even when Satan quotes a verse to Jesus, which was a new trick, Jesus countered with “It is also written”. So, in the temptation of Jesus, we are observing a battle of opposing Mem “words” of water. This concept will be a theme of the rest of this lesson revealing the spiritual application of physical “water” to be a representation picture of spiritual words.
We have just been going through the baptism “descent” of Jesus into the created realm of death. But let us shift to the time just before Jesus ascended to go back into heaven which is pictured by the coming out of the waters in physical baptism. What we are about to discover is another pattern of “Mem” gematria number 40. What we will read, is the fact that Jesus after being raised from the dead, interacted with His followers for exactly 40 days. During this 40-day time, Jesus would test His disciple to help teach and guide them into learning about faith, but we will not be able to get into this in great depth. Let us read the record of Luke the writer of the book of Acts:
Act 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Act 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
We can all clearly see these three verses are about Jesus. We can further observe that Jesus appeared to His followers to 1) give commandments to the chosen church, 2) to show Himself, and 3) to provide infallible proofs by being “seen” of them for forty days. Finally, the last part of verse 3 says all of this was accomplished by Him “speaking” of things that pertained to the Kingdom of God. Here we again see the pattern of salvation that occurs from “Words of God” being spoken (sowed), and “Words” believed (consumed) and confessed in agreement.
Think about what the Bible says about what Jesus did after being raised from the dead. He appears at the tomb to get his body. He encounters women and tells them to go and tell his disciples that He was alive. That is the first test of faith to see if they will believe what He had told them. Jesus also appears to the disciples later, with Thomas not being present. This is another example of a test. Thomas failed this test and receives a rebuke. These are just a couple of examples of tests that Jesus gave to His disciples and there were others. Jesus performed this by speaking words to people and then these that saw Him telling others so that they could also believe in Him. Clearly this was a training mission to show them how to spread the Gospel. When Jesus spoke to Thomas, He said; “Blessed are those that have not seen and yet believe”. That is where we are today. Do you believe?
Ok, we have only been quickly introduced to the concept of “Words” being Mem water. But we will see this more and more as we study this subject today. Just please pay attention to the fact that for exactly 40 days the number value of the “Mem” letter, Jesus went to over 500 people in the nation of Israel, to appear and teach them about His works that were accomplished on the cross (1 Cor 15:6). In doing this Jesus fulfilled two very significant examples of the number 40 and the picture of water interactions. We are now going to shift into a new fulfillment of Jesus and the letter Mem.
2. Jesus’ First Miracle Turning Water to Blood
We have learned the connection that the “Mem” pictogram is a representative of both “water” and “blood” in the Part 1 introduction. It just so happens that the first miracle of Jesus has something to do with both of these natural symbols.
Joh 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
Joh 2:6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Joh 2:7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
Joh 2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
Joh 2:9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
Joh 2:10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
We are studying an ancient Hebrew letter called the “Mem” that is a picture representation of water and blood. It is amazing that we see both of these appear in the very first recorded miracle of Jesus. The first thing we need to realize is that this takes place at a “wedding” that Jesus was in attendance. This wedding was no doubt one of Jesus’ siblings either a brother or sister. We can easily deduce this because of the role of Jesus’ mother as a person that was able to order the servants and tell them what they should do to listen to obey her son Jesus. It is practically impossible to ignore how Mary had such authority to do this at anyone else’s house other than her own family.
Now notice there are exactly 6 earthen empty waterpots that are present at this wedding location. The number 6 is a representation for the number of a “man”. Man was created by God at the end of day six on the last work day of creation (Genesis 1). These 6 pots we are told are used for Jewish ceremonial cleansing. Therefore, these water pots normally contained water for people to make themselves clean. Please, remember that we have learned this is a significant quality about water in previous parts on this water letter subject.
Jesus orders the servants to fill the 6 empty pots with “water” (Mem). We can potentially see that the fact that these pots were empty, meant they previously contained wine that was already consumed during the wedding feast. Therefore, the need to be refilled implies this is why Jesus commanded them to be “filled” with Mem water. But everyone knows water was not what they needed to continue the feast, or was it? We should understand that Jesus who created everything, including grapes knew how wine was made and He knew it must originate from “water” being fed into the roots of vines to flow into the finished fruit of grapes. Jesus appears to be starting with the water, and expecting the rest of the process to occur supernaturally.
After filling the pots, they are ordered to draw and take out from them and go and serve it to the master of the feast. These servants were operating by faith in what they were being told to do. So, they bare the cup to the master, and he took a drink and was shocked. He called for the bridegroom and gave him a high praise saying “Most serve the good wine at the beginning, and then when everyone is drunk, they bring out the cheap wine”. That was a paraphrase, but it conveys the meaning precisely. What the servants and the disciples of Jesus had just witnessed was a supernatural miracle with amazing symbolic representations fulfillment to our letter “Mem” prophetical picture.
We know that the “Mem” is first thought to be a picture of only water. But we have learned that it also represents the internal unseen flowing blood movement in the body of a human, being pumped by the heart repeatedly to every body part for the functioning operation of life. We also learned that “blood” is predominately made up of “water” and this water is internalized by consumption. This human water to blood transition is what Jesus just demonstrated with His first miracle. But many will say, this miracle was just a story about turning water into “wine”. That is why we need to learn more about what God says about grapes:
Gen 49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
There is more than one verse in the Old Testament, that describe the juice of grapes to be its blood. It should be obvious from squeezing a red grape that it produces red juice that looks very similar to “blood”. What we need to realize is that the “blood” of grapes called Juice is produced from fruits produced upon the branches of vines. In order for the branching to produce juicy fruit, the vine’s roots must take in the “water” (Mem) from the soil and send it up to every branch. This is God’s natural process and it was being accelerated by Jesus performing a parallel spiritual process.
Perhaps you do not understand what is being said yet. Remember Jesus claims to be the “Vine” in John 15:1-5. In this example, Jesus claimed humans were the attached branches that must produce fruit in order to remain connected to the vine (Jesus). Do you see how this will match with the “baptism” concept into one body of Christ? The fruit and its production of juices with good taste are implied to be the Words that Jesus was giving to humans. Now take this knowledge and apply it to Jesus’ first miracle illustration of what happened in turning water into wine:
- Jesus the Vine is called upon to provide wine for the marriage feast
- Jesus instructs humans to fill 6 pots with water
- The empty pots represent the unsaved human body
- The water represents the Word and Spirit of God
- When filled the servants were commanded to take out water by faith
- Then by faith they shared it with the Master of the feast by faith
- Taking water out of what is deposited on the inside, is a picture of sharing the Gospel with others by faith
- The master receiving the water finds out the word of God is very good
- He become saved and gives witness and praise to the bridegroom a picture of Jesus our LORD of His good gifts to serve the best last.
So, we have found a direct application of water being changed to the blood of grapes to be an analogy to be like the process of salvation. It is interesting that this prophecy in Genesis 49:11 is about Jesus, but it is being spoken by Jacob to his son Judah in whom Christ would come. It is amazing how Jesus’ first miracle was turning water into wine a mentioned type of blood in the Bible. It should be becoming clearer to many readers that Jesus did nothing by accident. He taught us repeatedly that He only did what His Father told Him to do, and only said what His Father told Him to say. This makes everything that He did on the earth something designed to teach us about Him, His nature, His purpose, His works, His identity, and His Father.
3. God’s Spoken Words are the MEM Waters for Spiritual Life
Let us begin this section by reviewing real events that occurred in the Old Testament. We briefly mentioned these earlier in the lesson. The children of Israel during their time in the wilderness were thirsty, and searched everywhere for essential drinkable water. This was a reoccurring problem while they wandered in the desert. Moses in Exodus 15:23 came upon a place called “Marah” (bitterness) that only had “bitter” poisonous water. This caused a great problem for Moses, because the people murmured against him. The people of Israel chose to place all of the blame for the test of having no water on his shoulders alone. There was obviously no trust placed in God who brought them out of the land of Egypt! How soon they forgot their God that was so good to them, killing all of their enemies drowning them in the “Red Sea” that we saw earlier. Was God someone that would save them, and then leave them to die in a dry land? Many believed this lie of Satan, and turned against God.
God was clearly more than capable of solving their little lack of pure “water” (Mem) problem. It was God that created this substance. He totally understood the chemical make-up and its purpose for life. Notice the connections being made here in this story to the people of Israel speaking negative words of complaints and them standing before a pool of “bitter” waters called “Marah”. Do you see God’s connection? God told Moses to get “wood” from a certain tree and cast it into the bitter waters. Moses obeyed and the “mayim” bitter waters became sweet drinkable water for life. I believe the “tree” was a pattern for the work of Jesus to be hung on a wooden “cross” that would result in the Spirit of God coming on the inside of every saved human. This is only one of the illustrations found in the Old Covenant deliverance. Let us look at another.
When we move to Exodus 17:6, we find Moses faced with another crisis of no drinkable water to be found for the people of Israel. The people again speak negative faithless words before Moses and God. They complained and grumbled loudly to Moses, saying “Is God with us or not?”. This was not the right words to speak before God who heard everything they said. God instructs Moses to stand before a rock and strike it with his staff. Ok, stop right there. In the previous example God had Moses throw “wood” into the pool of bitter water to make it sweet, and now here we see God again using “wood” as a symbol of authority to bring “water” (Mayim) out of an apparently dry rock by striking it.
Not a lot of readers may understand what is happening here with Mem water and wooden sticks yet, but it will become clearer. Let us look at the third example found in Numbers 20:8. In this chapter we again see the people of Israel without water. God again tells Moses to hold his wooden staff in his hand, and then gather the people before the rock. But we saw that God had changed the instructions for Moses to not strike the rock this time, but rather to just “Speak to the Rock” commanding it to bring forth water with “words” that came from out of his mouth. However, Moses disobeyed God and spoke curses upon the people and hit the rock twice. This was clearly an unbelieving act of faithlessness for Moses and he was not permitted to enter the promise land because of this failure to follow God’s instructions completely.
Psa 103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
What was God doing in these three examples of water and wood? Believe it or not, God was teaching us and Moses some very powerful ways of the Almighty. We can clearly see in Psalms 103:7, how God revealed to Moses His ways, while only showing his acts to the children of Israel. There is a vast difference between seeing God’s miraculous acts of deliverance and knowing why God did them the way that He decided to perform them, and how they apply to us. What we are about to see is everything had a meaning, a purpose and a lesson for the called out and saved church of God.
These were three cases where water was made available by God’s grace and mercy to a lot of bickering and faithless people. Let us analyze what we should learn from these three “Mem” water examples. The first example, of bitter waters was a typological picture of Christ coming into the world that was full of bitter poisonous and deceitful words given by the devil’s intent to destroy all humans. Christ was the man that would be nailed to a tree to shed His blood, and He was the only source of a pure truthful word water supply. God revealed His truth through Christ’s pure spoken words. God did this to satisfy all humans that were spiritually thirsty to know Him and His truth. God did this to counter the poisonous words of the Pharisees and Sadducees who were spreading the untrue words of their father the devil.
Ok, the next instance of striking the rock to bring God’s people access to pure waters directly from God occurred when Jesus was beaten to be hung on a cross. Jesus endured such great humiliation and torture for our sake. He was beaten with a whip 39 times, ripping the flesh from His body. A crown of painful thorns was placed upon His head. He was slapped and hit with human hands across His face. His beard was even pulled out. How does this brutalization of Jesus match our second water out of the rock example? We get our first clue by reading in 1 Corinthians:
1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Here in these verses God is revealing how Christ fits into what was happening with the natural nation of Israel. Can you see the comparisons being made by the Holy Spirit? We can clearly see in verses 1 and 2, that there is a direct connection with Israel passing through the Red Sea as it being a type of our spiritual baptism that we receive from Christ. Remember baptism is an entrance into, a covering completely, and a resurrection back to life using Mem water. But verse 4 is where we want to focus. God is plainly informing us that the Rock that Moses struck was another symbolic type for Jesus Christ.
Therefore, God is revealing the fact that Christ was only coming to the earth to be crucified one time. He would only suffer the pain and humiliation once. Being beaten the first time was for out salvation and healing. But Jesus being beaten and crucified twice, would put Him to shame unnecessarily and would be vain. Please read over these verses carefully and notice any words that could relate to the letter “Mem” meanings and applications:
Heb 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Heb 6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Heb 6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Heb 6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
Heb 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Heb 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
These are some very amazing and complex spiritual statements being taught to mature Christians. God begins by saying, let us move up from the basic foundational teachings of Christ and let us grow spiritually mature to be able to receive and understand God’s deeper spiritual truths. Notice that the number 1 foundational doctrine refers us to the subject of “baptism”. This connects us directly to our letter “Mem” bible study. God is informing us very clearly that there are fundamental things that need to be understood about the purpose of water and being baptized.
Let us begin our passage study to focus on verse 4. God begins a warning for people that are saved in this verse. This verse begins by warning every Christian of an impossibility. What this means, is what is about to be described is something that is not possible to recover from if chosen. God confirms that this verse is about Christians by saying, “those that were once enlightened”. We know from reading 2 Peter 1:19, Hebrews 10:32, and Ephesians 1:18, that being “enlightened” is what happens when an unsaved person receives Christ into their hearts. Next is where God gets into the subject of the Mem. God describes these people as, “having tasted of the heavenly gift”.
We will focus upon the word “tasted” first. This Greek word G1089 literally means to put some type of food or liquid into your mouth to experience the good or bad flavor. We can logically conclude, that if the substance placed in the mouth does not taste good, it is spit out of the mouth. Or if it is found tasty and desirable, it is swallowed and consumed to become an internal part of that person physically. Remember the water into wine example earlier. The master tasted the end time wine and found it to be the best he had yet tasted. This is an amazing prophecy of how the knowledge of God and His word will become greater, better, tastier, and more desirable in these last days.
Job 34:3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
We learn the natural concepts of tasting applies to us spiritually. This parallel concept is explained to us in the book of Job above. When someone hears the Gospel message of Jesus, and receives the Word of God as good, it enters into their heart (spirit) and Christ comes into them to begin a planting and growing of new life on the inside of them. Therefore, this phrase is also speaking of people that received Jesus and did not reject His new life offered free gift.
Next, at the end of Hebrews 6:4 God ends with describing this person as being a “partaker” of the Holy Ghost. The Greek word G3353 that was translated as “partaker” can also be defined as “participant”, “partner”, or a “sharer”. All of these words relate to a human that invited Christ into their heart to be LORD and Savior, and have become “one Spirit” with Him (1 Cor 6:17). Therefore, God is describing very clearly this person has intimately experienced the “Holy Spirit”. There is no way this is not describing a “true” Christ follower.
God in verse 5, reaffirms this is a Christian by stating again, that this person has “tasted the good word of God”. This is a new detail to what exactly is being tasted. Wow, now we are getting directly into the subject of the “Mem” sweet and pure waters. God’s word to a dry human that has never experienced Him, is desperately in need of God’s word to live. When someone tastes the Word of God for the first time, it is very much like a human that is stranded in the desert without water. The intense heat of the desert will kill them soon, if they do not find the physical water to live. As we continue this Bible lesson, we will repeatedly see again and again, how the Word of God is His pure Mem water for spiritual eternal life.
Ok, verse 6 is describing a person that has accepted Jesus but has now turned back into the desert to be tricked into leaving Christ to return to the ways of darkness. It is inconceivable why anyone would want to do this, but the devil is a master at deception. He will do everything possible to get someone to reject Christ, and God must allow this freewill choice to take place. God is not going to force anyone to be saved the first time, or to remain saved until the end.
Notice the ending of the warning! By accepting Jesus Christ as our personal LORD, if we decide to reject Him and turn away from Him, and then attempt to return again, we are putting Him into open shame. God says this person is trying to crucify Christ again. We should know that Christ died once for all, and it is now impossible for Him to die again, because He has a resurrected body, incapable of experiencing death one more time.
Pay attention to the fact that in verse 7, God again speaks about the subject of Mem water. Is this an accident? Obviously not. In this verse God says, “as the earth drinks in the rain from heaven”. This is clearly figurative terminology speaking about spiritual realities. People were designed by God to drink His Word send down from heaven to produce any saving harvestable “fruit”. God is describing a process of the continual drinking a plant or in the spiritual realm a person, to continue its life.
Next in verse 8, God contrasts the saved Christian that continually drinks the Word of God, with the one that ignores taking the time to value the Word enough to spend time to receive it daily. This person is stated to become a dry type of plant that only produces thorns and briers. God very clearly says, this plant will be rejected at harvest time.
Finally, God ends the warning in verse 9, with an encouragement of faith filled words, that this rejection will not happen to anyone that is reading this warning. Are we all receiving this warning? If you believe you can never be deceived to turn away from Christ, then you are on a path of potential destruction. Being aware of your enemy and his tactics will greatly help you to avoid the tricks and the traps of his plans. It is strongly suggested that you go and read down to verse 12. God continues the encouragement to be diligent to continue in the faith until the end.
Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
It is absolutely essential to begin to understand that a “pure and clean natural water supply” is a symbol of spiritual spoken words from the mouth of God, and these waters are able to save and preserve any human life, that will receive them in this mortal life. This supply of water words will continue throughout eternity also. God has a never-ending supply of knowledge that we can continue to learn from.
In the spiritual realm, God views spiritual “pure” water to be pure words. We can very clearly see where pure water comes from, by reading the above verse in Revelation 22:1. In this verse we see that God’s throne is where the Lamb (Jesus) is also seated right now. But this verse is describing the existence of God’s kingdom in eternity after the end of this present world. We know this because words written in preceding verses in chapter 21, God describes the creation of a new heaven and new earth that never existed before. Therefore, chapter 22 is in the coming new heaven and new earth. In chapter 22 we can still see where pure waters containing God’s spoken words, are still flowing from God’s eternal throne. This teaches us clearly that there is still a lot that God would want to say to us throughout eternity.
Perhaps you have heard stories told of man’s attempts to search for a fountain of youthful life. Whether true or not, they point us to a human’s desire of a life without death. It must be our Creator that has placed this desire in the hearts of mankind. We can clearly see that humans are held in bondage by Satan by our fear of this coming “death” (Hebrews 2:15). The fear of the unknown after death is certainly only eliminated by knowing God’s Words of Truth.
God desires us to know Him so that we can live eternally with Him. He has placed His word everywhere, trying to get everyone to search for Him and His words of life. We can read in Proverbs 4:20-22, to confirm God’s Words being “life” to all that find them. We also can read in Deuteronomy 8:3, where God says “man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, does man live”. Wow, we are further confirming that the pure waters in Revelation 22 are the words of life being spoken from God’s throne.
But what other characteristics describe these pure Mem water words of life? We can read in Psalm 12:6 and Proverbs 30:5 that God’s words are “pure” words. We can read in John 17:17 from the mouth of Jesus, that “God’s words are truth”. We also know from reading Numbers 23:19 that God is not a man that He should lie. And in Hebrew 6:18 we further confirm that it is absolutely impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we have established a firm foundation that God’s words are pure waters and this is because He cannot ever lie to us.
These concepts of pure waters introduce us to an antithesis truth. We can conclude that since there are pure waters of words of truth producing life coming from God, there must also be other types of watering words that are not from God, and potentially harmful, hurtful and even deadly. For example, the vast amounts of “ocean” water is “salt” based and will kill a person that drinks it. Moses in the book of Exodus 15:23 came upon a place called “Marah” (bitterness) that only had “bitter” poisonous water. Therefore, we immediately learn there are two types of water representing two types of spoken words. The pure water gives us natural life and this can only be God’s Words. The tainted poisonous types of waters, must represents the enemy Satan’s spoken words that produce spiritual death.
Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Notice a list of some of the poisonous water types that God lists in Revelation 21:8 above. Fearful words are poison intended to kill us. Unbelieving words are designed to lead you away from believing God’s truths. Fowl tasting words will kill us. Listening to the words of the murderer Satan will kill us. Words of deception that draw us to witchcraft, or idolatry will kill us. But the one that needs to be emphasized is lying words of deception will lead more people to hell than any others. It is essential to notice the ending of this verse. God is clearly warning every human that there is a second spiritual death, that is by far worse than the first natural death. God describes this death to be eternal existence in a lake of fire. That is just another way to describe “hell”.
We are learning of two realities of possible drinkable waters to give to others or to partake of for ourselves. For example, God’s Words will produce life everlasting and are good and pure drinkable words. We are also seeing how there are enemy of God words spoken by humans and/or demons controlling humans that will poison us to die two deaths. Being a liar will get us into hell. Believing the lies of the devil will also get us into hell. Either way we all have a lot of choices to make every day. We must choose between heaven or hell, life or death, good or evil, in what we are listening to, and what we are sharing with others. Deuteronomy 30:19 declares God has set the choice before us that we have the right to select our ending of life or death, and He strongly recommends that we choose the pure water life words. People everywhere are still ignoring the coming end of their life, when it will be too late to make this choice.
It is amazing how God’s created qualities and characteristics of “water” types, parallel the power of spiritually spoken words. We learn this conceptual fact from reading Romans 1:20, where God declares, “the hidden things of God are clearly seen, being revealed in things that were made, even His eternal power and godhead”. That is an amazing statement to memorize. This teaches us we can learn a vast amount of spiritual information by analyzing naturally created substances and objects, and “water” is one of the most dominant elements on our planet. Let us continue with knowing “pure water” is a representation of God’s words, by reading some words spoken by Jesus in John:
John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
We can clearly see from this single verse and by reading the context, that Jesus was sitting at a natural well of water all alone, when a woman walks up and finds Him. Jesus immediately asks the woman for a drink of water from the well. This gets her attention instantly, since she was a Samaritan and she thought Jesus was a Jew apparently from how He was dressed. She immediately questions Jesus about why He was speaking to her, because Jews did not normally do this with Samaritans. In fact, at the end of this story, even the disciples when they came to find Jesus were shocked at Him talking with a Samaritan. We will skip down to verse 10 next to discover the words of response from God in the flesh (Jn 1:14):
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
John 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Notice these very radical and exciting words spoken by Jesus the Messiah/Christ. The primary subject is about “Mem” water. But there are two kinds of water that are in parallel being spoken of. The first is natural water that was in the well. Jesus asked a Samaritan woman for a drink of natural water. This got her attention. Then Jesus shifts the conversation to a spiritual drinking water reality. Jesus told this woman, if you knew who you were speaking with, you would have asked me for a drink. Wow! This caused the woman to become even more curious, since Jesus had just asked her for a drink of natural water from the well, and He clearly had no physical water to give to her. Can we agree, there are two kinds of water in this conversation?
Did you observe how even the woman notices that there was a problem with their conversation? She said to Jesus, that He had nothing to draw from the well with. But Jesus changes the subject back to spiritual water to say “whoever drinks this (natural) water will thirst again”. “But the water that I offer will cause them to never thirst”. Jesus said very clearly that the water He offered was “living water”. Jesus in verse 14 declares something even more shocking by saying to her, “the water (mem) that I shall give to people, shall be in them a well of water springing up into everlasting life”. Jesus speaks like this again in John 7:
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
These verses sound very familiar, don’t they? Jesus again speaks of internal spiritual waters hidden inside the body of a human. Jesus used the hidden unseen “belly” as an internal symbolic reference to the unseen human spirit. Jesus again is discussing “Living Water”. But in this context Jesus introduces another new perspective to what “water” is in the spiritual mind of God. God is revealing that to those that will believe on Jesus to be the Son of God, He will give them the Holy Spirit. And His Spirit living inside of us, will cause rivers to flow out of our belly (spirit). These descriptions are of “Words” that will be spoken out from the unseen spiritual heart of a human.
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
We are learning about a spiritual connection that is astounding. Did you notice what Jesus just revealed? He just claimed, that His spoken words were both “Spirit” and “Life”. Isn’t this what Jesus was telling the woman at the well when He asked her for a drink? Remember that Jesus told her that He would give her a drink of “Living Water” that she could choose to drink, and would cause her to never thirst again? Wow! We are finding amazing parallels to natural water and God’s spiritual living water that He says are His spoken words. Do you see the connection to our verse in Revelation 22:1, where there was a continual flow of pure waters coming from the throne of God in eternity? Do you see how we can partake of this flow now in the natural realm by drinking His waters of life? What have we learned so far?
- Pure natural water is a symbol of God’s spoken Word.
- God’s spoken Words are from His Spirit and carries the power to join/plant His Word in the heart (spirit) of humans.
- We can and must partake of this water now, in order to receive it later in eternity.
- Receiving and drinking God’s pure water will produce life eternal in us now.
- Not receiving and partaking of this pure water now in this natural life, means we are dead spiritually.
If we analyze the concept of God’s created natural spoken words, we will discover that a human’s voice is a flow of sound waves that are produced by the vocal cords within humans. These sound waves travel and are moving through the atmosphere at over 700 miles per hour. These moving waves can travel from a speaker to a hearer/listener and be received into the ear to communicate a message. This is exactly what Jesus was doing with the woman at the well, and it was these two acts of Jesus speaking and the woman listening that He called giving her a drink.
These sound waves, are very similar to God’s created water waves found in the letter “Mem” pictogram. We will continually see repeated patterns in the natural and spiritual realms. Both move in waves as long as there is a power or force causing them to occur. For water, this movement can be caused by the “wind”, which is the similar concept for human breath that exhales to produce sound waves. But God gives us some more information in this verse about our words:
Luk 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Everywhere Jesus speaks of the human “heart”, He is referring to our spirit. All humans have a spirit inside our body. Jesus is revealing our heart is a container for our spoken words, just as our belly is a container for drinking natural “water”. This is why Jesus said in John 7:38, “Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water”. Jesus was speaking of a human that had been filled with His Spirit and His Words and they were being released from their mouths by speaking them to others, to produce a new life in them. Here in Luke 6, Jesus is contrasting two types of fillers that can be contained in a human heart (spirit). These two spiritual realities are the 1) words of evil from the darkness (no light, no Word of God knowledge), versus 2) the forever good Holy Spirit of God that gives us His pure words of Light.
Can we all agree that the picture of the “Mem” as moving water represents Christ speaking God’s words for Eternal Life? These words were initial planting of seeds, spiritual enlightenment (Light), and His “living water” that were combined together in the spirits of every human that would listen and keep them as a most valuable treasure.
4. Washed with the (Mem) Water of the Word of God
Drinking natural water for physical life is absolutely a requirement. Without it we die physically. But the same concept is paralleled by God’s design within the spiritual realm. Consuming the Word of God for obtaining Eternal Life is just one of the primary benefits of God’s Spiritual Drink of Pure Water (Mem). There is only one spiritual water fountain of eternal life and it flows out of the spoken Word of God. But we all should know that “pure water” is also essential for cleansing a human body, clothing, dishes, pots, pans, floors, walls, and etc. If anyone attempts to wash their clothes in a muddy creek the clothing will never become clean. This same concept is true in the spiritual realm. But God’s pure Word has the built-in benefit for cleansing of the human soul and mind.
John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
As you can clearly read in this verse, Jesus is speaking to His disciples and informs them of the power of His spoken words to make them “clean”. Remember this was spoken before they could be saved, because Jesus had not yet risen from the dead. And obviously, Jesus is not speaking of a natural external cleaning that is taking place either. This means Jesus was again speaking metaphorically about spiritual truths. Jesus’ spoken words were never filled with lies, deceit or deception. This means His words were from God and were completely pure. This made them the ultimate cleaning and purification agent to change every human that would focus to hear them. It should be very clear from this statement that Jesus is declaring His words to be cleansing waters, to remove the unclean words from their human “minds” that were previously spoken to them while growing-up in the lost world.
By Jesus speaking directly with His disciples for over three years, they gained a lot of knowledge from the mouth of God. This means they were being 1) enlightened, 2) seeds were being planted, and 3) water was causing it all to begin to grow that we learned previously. But simultaneously God’s Words were doing something else also. You see, when we grow up in the world as a child, we are being heavily influenced by the words spoken from people that are being ruled by the “god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4). It is the devil that is able to work in everyone living in his kingdom of darkness. Our minds need to be renewed or refreshed (cleansed), and our ways of thinking need to be transformed. The only way this is possible is by us constantly drinking in the Pure Water of the Word of God.
God’s pure water words (Mem) have the power to cleanse our minds from the dirt and filth of this world. Let us look at another verse to confirm this work of His Word:
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
In this context of these scriptures, we find God speaking to husbands and wives. But hidden in this discussion is the fact that God reveals a mystery that Jesus is the husband and the church is His bride. Jesus is described to be sanctifying and cleansing His bride with His spoken words. The Greek word G4487 is translated as “word” in verse 26, and it is the word “rhema”. This Greek word primarily means the spoken words of God. But do not forget these words have been written down in the Bible so that we can learn to speak them to give them a voice.
Notice that what was happening to the disciples of Jesus before they were saved, still continues with the entire church after our salvation and infilling of the Holy Spirit. Every human still has a defiled mind, filled with Satan’s lies, deceptions, distractions, useless information, and things that are designed to fight against us knowing God fully. This is why everyone saved in the church is told to do this:
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
It is interesting to know that when we are born again, we receive a brand-new spirit that never existed before. This newly created spirit is completely pure and clean. But the other two parts of the human triune composition are not made newly fresh. In fact, they are the exact same. The human flesh just needs to be imagined to be dead being crucified and this will place it into subjection of the new man inside. But the soul of man consisting of the 1) mind, 2) will, and 3) emotions must be renovated by the Word of God to be made clean and fully saved (James 1:21).
Like physical water consumed into the human stomach and is processed to renew life, and to become a part of the human body, God’s spiritual water of His Word does this in the unseen mind. Now just apply the natural water concepts to the spiritual water parallels of God’s words. God created a system of cleansing and eliminating impure, unclean words deposited in our minds, using the infinitely more powerful spoken Words of God. We could call this Heavenly or Spiritual mind washing. There are probably many people, that have heard the term being “brained washed”. A lot of people think this is automatically and evil and bad thing, and it can be that, in certain examples. But washing our minds with the “Pure Water of God’s Words” we are getting only His truth.
These God truths are doing things in us that no other words can produce in our minds. When we consume God’s Words we are being “transformed”, this Greek word G3339, represents a “metamorphosis” type of process for changing caterpillars into butterflies. That is amazing what we are learning about God’s Words of Power and what they are capable of doing if we choose to drink them in. As long as Satan can convince you to only be drinking his words, and ignoring the words of God, you are an easy prey to be consumed by him (1 Peter 5:8).
The Mem concepts of water being used as a cleansing agent, is very powerful and necessary. Only people that drink-in the Word of God daily will become less likely to be deceived. The more Words of God we drink, the more words of “Life” we make a part of us. This knowledge is what greatly helps us to recognize the tricks, traps, lies and deception of the devil.
Every human mind on the earth is in desperate need of cleansing from the impurities of the devil. The corruption of the world has been joined into every part of our culture. No one can watch a movie, a television show, an internet video, or even the news and not have their minds corrupted by some demonic lies to influence and guide them into the darkness and away from the light of God’s Truth. The deception in every public school system and higher education colleges and universities are greatly affecting the minds of almost all children in varying degrees of perverseness.
The only way to eliminate this word and image filth that is being poured out to be consumed by people today, is to immerse yourself under the flow of God’s words. Think of God’s spoken words as being like a faucet that when turned on is pouring out pure cleansing waters. Think of the human mind as being a cup of dirty water. Since we cannot literally pour out our memories and thoughts to start with a new mind, we must approach the cleansing of the unclean mind differently. These unclean words in our minds, can only be washed out by pouring more clean words into our minds than we are receiving of the unclean. By focusing upon the clean words of God, our old ways of thinking will be replaced by the new ways of God word.
Try this experiment at home. Take a cup filled with muddy waters. This is clearly not anything that a normal human would want to drink. But how do you make it drinkable without pouring it all out, cleaning the cup, and starting over with only clean water. The solution is to set the cup under a full flow of pure water. Notice what happens to the cup of muddy water? The muddy waters are running out of the overflow of the combined clean and muddy water. But eventually the water is practically pure, because of the continual flow of good and no more additional dirty. The water in the cup has gone from undrinkable filth to good and purer water to consume. This should help everyone know how to clean up their mind with the Word of God. How much time do you spend drinking the words of God versus drinking the dirt of your enemy? Let us now move to a new subject.
5. The Spiritual Cleansing Power of Jesus Water and Blood from Sin
We could write books and books of information on the concepts hidden in one letter Mem. This section will be only a quick overview of this topic due to the potential overwhelming length of this Bible lesson. We are about to enter into topics that we have seen before on the surface to find there is so much more that God speaks about it in His Word. We will briefly review an event that happened to a “leper” man in the book of Mark, chapter 1:
Mar 1:40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Mar 1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
As we can see there was a leper man that came to Jesus believing that He could help him, if it was His will to do so. This is where many humans are today in their faith. They all know God is powerful enough to do anything for them to help them in their situation, but “Will He?”. This leper found out very quickly that God is always very compassionate and He is willing to save anyone. This man was saved from a slow and painful death. It was a physical death sentence, found in the process of leprosy. It was completely a hopeless situation. But not with God!
The natural symbolism of physical “leprosy”, is a representation of spiritual sin. The external death and decay of the human being a leper was even more demeaning, because the law forced the man to walk about screaming “unclean”. This was done to warn others to not come near him, and also die. Leprosy was a highly contagious disease and almost always resulted in “death”. This makes this story even more amazing. By Jesus reaching out and touching this man’s body, this man knew Jesus was either crazy and had a death wish, or He was answering His question that it was His will to heal Him. Most believe it was the answering and removing the man’s doubts to receive his healing.
But notice how this man worded his request. He knew that he was unclean (dirty, sinful) and he said Jesus you can make me clean! Wow, in doing this he is calling Jesus the Pure Water of Life that cleans all sin, and disease. That is a pretty amazing connection to Jesus being the ultimate fulfillment of the Mem letter prophecy. What we are learning is very profound. There is a direct connection between physical leprosy and spiritual sin. Leprosy would cause natural death and spiritual sin causes spiritual death.
Both are curable with two realities of words which represents water as we have learned earlier. Jesus answered the leper’s question with the words “I will”, and then further spoke more spiritual water saying “Be clean” and the man was made clean. Do you remember the paralyzed man that was let down from the roof into the room where Jesus was preaching? This story occurs in Matthew 9:1-8. In this real event Jesus connects the forgiveness of sins to be no different than the healing of paralysis.
Jesus looked at the paralyzed man and said “Your sins be forgiven”. The religious men in the house, thought in their “minds”, “This man blasphemes. No man can forgive sin, only God”. It is very unfortunate that they knew not this man Jesus was God in the flesh. Jesus perceiving their thoughts said to them “Which is easier? To say your sins be forgiven or to say rise and walk”. With these words God was making a connection that human sin was the source cause for this man’s paralysis. But Jesus then said, “That you might know the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sin, Rise take up your bed and walk”. The man was healed when he believed and obeyed what Jesus had said to him.
We have quickly learned a basic concept of becoming clean from both sin and sickness is found in the process of receiving the Word of God (Mem water). God’s word received by faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus will causing anyone that will receive it and confess Him as Lord to be saved. The Greek word translated as “saved” is “sozo”. This word is all encompassing, being spiritual, and physical salvation. We are not able to fully teach this concept today, but we will end this section by reminding everyone that Jesus is named the Word of God in Revelation 19:13. We also know in John 1:1 “the Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. Then in John 1:14 we receive the revelation that “The Word became flesh and tabernacled with humans”. Relate this information to the reality we are learning the God’s Words are His Waters of Life and Cleansing and we are beginning to learn new things that are incredibly applicable to our lives being saved, made new, and our minds cleansed and transformed.
Let us move to a new subject about the works of Jesus found in the Gospels next.
6. Water Waves Created with God’s Voice Sound Waves
We have already been introduced to this concept of natural Mem water and its waves, being a representation of spoken words that proceed from the mouth of God. We are further beginning to see that these spoken words are also capable of saving us from spiritual death. We additionally saw in the Gospels that Jesus spoke words to cast out devils and to heal people. We have also seen where these Words have the power to cleanse our minds from worldly influencing spiritual words being contributed by Satan through people. Now we are going to further explore and confirm that God’s naturally created waters, are a pattern of God’s spoken words, in more depth. What we can see from the picture of the Mem waves of water, is a strong resemblance to them being like sound waves. Let us allow God to reveal this concept to you from His Word.
We are going to confirm these parallel concepts more directly with scriptures. It is always essential for every word of truth to be established from the mouth of two or three witnesses in the Word of God.
Rev 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Rev 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Here are three verses describing the Lord Jesus in the Book of Revelation. In verse 13 we are told that someone was standing in the middle of the seven churches and He is like the Son of Man/Adam. This can only be Jesus the head of the church body. We are not going to go through every description, but rather we are going to focus upon the last statement in verse 15. In this statement, Jesus is described to have a voice as the sound of many waters. Wow, what is this describing? Let us first just focus upon the obvious fact:
- The sounds of the words from the mouth of God, are being compared directly to the sounds of many waters.
As you can tell, we are studying about the concept of the ancient Hebrew letter pictogram as it represents natural waters like a large sea. Now think about the basics of natural water waves and what voice sound waves are. The similarities of these two created realities are amazingly similar patterns of the same exact reality. In fact, the view of the Mem pictogram could very easily represent the picture of “sound waves”. Here is a picture of sound waves that will be included next:

Do you see any similarities between waves of water and sound? It should be obvious! But God further confirms this in His Word also. God never ceases to amaze us with all of the intelligent hidden information found in His Word. Read again Revelation 1:15. This verse ended with “His voice as the sound of many waters”. Then look at the Greek words for voice and sound. You will notice this is the same exact word G5456 “phone”. This is the word we get our “telephone” or “smart phone” from. What do these devices do? They take your voice and your voice sound waves, and transports them into radio frequency waves that move your voice to a receiver phone that can answer. Once connected, the two people are able to have a conversation like they were standing next to each other. All of this is a an amazing parallel to the movement of water waves.
God has established a remarkable direct connection of sound waves and water waves, using one Greek word “phone”. From the mouth of God comes sound waves and this voice sound is directly connected to be like water waves that make sounds. If you look up the Greek word “phone” you will find this word is translated as mostly “voice”, or “voices” 131 times. But it is also translated as “sound” and even “noise” in other verses. By God selecting to use the same word is a fact that water waves make sounds the same as voice waves. We are discovering how these two realities were specially designed to teach us a lot of hidden truths that we have potentially never seen before. Here is another connection where we can see this confirmation:
Mat 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
This verse occurs after Jesus was baptized in the Jordan river by John. Jesus had just come up out of the “water”, and the Spirit of God had just descended upon Jesus as a dove, and then God speaks. Here this verse says “a “voice” (Greek phone) was heard from heaven saying “This is my beloved Son”. Wow, talk about a long-distance phone call, this was one of the longest in human history. But the concept came forth and reveals that even the Spirit of God the Father in Heaven can produce natural sound waves that can be heard by natural humans.
Num 14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
God confirms to us that while He sits in heaven, He is able to hear everything that we speak on the earth. These children of Israel were murmuring against God at least 10 times. God judged righteously and said these people will not enter into my promised land. What we are learning is about a vastly profound heavenly connection. God’s spoken sound waves can come to us from heaven, and we are able to hear Him in our natural ear. And His ears are more than capable of hearing everything we say even when we think nothing of it. Sound waves appear to be a cross-over way of communicating between two realms of existence, being natural and spiritual.
Most will be able to see this connection to our letter Mem water pictogram. The concept of moving waters is duplicated in the movement of sound. Especially in direct relationship to God sending His Word to humans on the earth. But the title of this section was about God speaking words and His voice sound waves becoming creation. This occurs over and over in the Bible. We first see this in Genesis 1. 10 times in these verses it is written “And God said”. Then God lists what He said, and the manifestation of those words suddenly appeared in the natural realm. God begins with speaking “Light Be”, and then “Light Was”. This is the basic concept of how creation took place by God’s design and purpose.
What we learn from this is God spoke sound waves with His voice and these sound waves became what we can physically see, taste, touch, smell and hear around us. We will eventually discover that everything that was created came into physical existence this way. Every object that you can see is moving. Every object that you can see has a frequency and a vibration of movement. This can describe sound waves almost precisely. Sound waves have frequencies and movement and these God created frequencies are still in existence in His creations. We can further confirm creation was made from the Word of God by understanding the fact that God’s Word is powerful:
Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Hopefully we can understand in this verse and by reading Genesis 1, that God created physical realities with His spoken Word, and this Word contained His power. Then we notice this word of His power is still holding everything together. This teaches us that sound waves are at the rudimentary level of all of creation.
Therefore, we have just learned that the elements of every created natural substance have a measure of the power of God’s word in them, and it is this power that is still holding them together (Heb 1:3). Humans have learned in the last 100 years to release this hidden power by splitting these atoms. These nuclear devices have become the world’s most destructive forces. But it confirms what the Bible teaches us is precisely correct.
God’s word is so amazing, and if this does not excite us to want to learn more about Him, then we are probably spiritually dead. Let us move to a new topic of Mem next.
7. A God’s Real-Life NOW Application of the MEM – Calming Life’s Storms
The essential fundamental spiritual concept of the letter Mem water picture, is “spoken words”. There are a number of applications that are found in this letter, that can be used for real-life situations. We have been primarily focused upon the concept of “Good” God Mem Waters for life and cleansing. These pure waters represent the Words of God! But there are very negative types of waters and waves that need to be addressed further. This is because all Christians have a spiritual enemy named Satan. He is an adversary that had illegally taken over the “god” role of this planet, until Jesus came into the world to take back this authority. Once taken away from Satan, Jesus delegated His Kingdom authority to everyone in the church (Mat 28:18-19).
We will begin this section of applying the Mem, with another confirmation review that water is a type of spoken word.
Pro 18:4 The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
Did you notice what God reveals about human spoken words again? This was exactly what we saw in the Revelation 1 description of Jesus’ spoken words. The word translated as “waters” in this verse is our “mayim” Hebrew word representing the spelling of the “Mem” letter in word form. God directly connects spoken words to represent a likeness of physical “deep waters”. The physical deep waters produce waves, and spoken words produce sound waves. The parallels are incredible. There are several other verses in the Bible like this one, but for the sake of time we will only use limited verses in this section to confirm a human’s words are like water to God. However, we have seen other confirmations when we studied the spoken words of Jesus earlier to be like living waters.
Now notice another type of water that we were also introduced to earlier:
Psa 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
The Hebrew word translated as “mire” is literally describing “muddy” waters. That description of waters is NOT positive for human consumption to produce life. In fact, it appears to show these waters are designed to be used for death. Uh oh! Confirm this by observing the writer follows by saying, “deep” waters are about to cover me. Remember the Hebrew word “waters” is our spelled “Mem” letter Mayim. We can read in this verse the writer is being overcome by two kinds of waters called muddy, and deep. But these are not natural waters. In order to understand verse 2, we need to first understand what verse 1 said:
Psa 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
David the writer of this Psalm is crying out to God for salvation from the deep and dirty waters mentioned in verse 2. But the area of attack is not directed at his body, or his physical lungs trying to drown him dead. No, this attack is spiritual in nature. We know this by God’s word mentioning waters are flowing to “come” unto David’s soul. The soul of man is comprised of their “mind”, “will” and “emotions”. This layer of humans is connected with the spirit. Therefore, we are learning this attack is of a spiritual nature.
Please notice the Hebrew word H935 translated as “come” in verse 1. This word is defined as, “to enter in to fill a void”. Now notice the waters in these verses are coming to fill an empty void. What exactly is the symbolic empty void that is attempting to be filled with symbolic dirty waters? We learned this area is found in the human soul. Then, remember the birth of every human from the first Adam? Every human enters the world with a mind that is an empty vessel at birth. A newborn child, has no knowledge, or ability to ever try to take care of themselves. God created mothers with the loving and caring gift for feeding and caring for their child with milk. The mother has a built-in feeding system containing the ability to nourish their new child. These loving mothers are the reason why any of us exist today. God designed every new human mind with a need to be filled with truth, and not garbage like we see being described in this Psalm. Good fathers and mothers perform this task of filling their children’s’ minds.
Therefore, in Psalm 69:1 we can see where someone is attempting to overwhelm David’s mind with waters (words) that he needs God to save him from. What does the modern massive news media attempt to do with their words today? They are attempting to flood our minds, with agenda motivated false words that produce “fears”. These resulting negative emotions then allow other powers to control your actions and words if you agree with what they have spoken. This is describing exactly what David is experiencing.
This type of warfare taking place in the life of David, is utilizing the spiritual weapon of symbolic water. This is a spiritual battle using the Mem type of “words”. David is crying out to the LORD because He is able to save him from these deep polluted waters that are desiring to kill him. What do deep polluted waters represent in the spiritual realm? These deep polluted waters represent massive numbers of untrue, unclean and impure spoken words mixed with a little pure truth. These types of waters are representations of any words originating from the devil.
Only God’s Words are completely pure without any possibility of filth. Therefore, unclean words represent words of distraction, deceit, untruths, deception, confusion, misdirection, or any other negative words that did not come from the Creator God! Also, not only do the words matter, but the motivation that caused them to erupt externally is a major contributor. If evil words come forth, it could be because of greed, hatred, revenge, or hurt. The number of contributing factors producing unclean words, are too large to mention them all. Just know for sure that any words spoken by God is because of His good plans and love motivations to help us.
The concept of “deep” waters, is a representation of massive amounts of “words” sent upon you to overwhelm you and to either carry you away from knowing God’s pure watering words, or to overflow you to get you to give up on God. Therefore, we are seeing how even God’s words can be diluted or polluted to kill us by overwhelming us to not hear correctly from Him (Mk 7:13). Let us look at an example of how Jesus dealt with situations like this in the Gospels.
There are multiple accounts of Jesus working with water that are significant. One of the major accounts was when He was sleeping in one of the big fishing boats when a large storm had risen against them to threaten their crossing of the sea. Read these verses very carefully:
Mark 4:35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
Mark 4:36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
Mark 4:37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
Mark 4:38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Mark 4:39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Mar 4:40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
Mark 4:41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
This is a very informative real account of one “water” event in the physical life of Jesus living on the earth in mortal flesh. First, notice in this story that Jesus was never in fear! He knew that He was only scheduled to die on a cross (Tav). Therefore, nothing could happen to Him before that timed event. Jesus was in complete “faith” enough to go to sleep and rest. This is very similar to when “Peter” was placed into prison in the book of Acts. He was going to be killed by the Roman soldiers the next morning, and he too was fast asleep, not worried about it in the least. Peter must have learned this action of faith from Jesus in this boat full of water.
Notice that the disciples were in a panic. Several of them were professional fishermen, and had no doubt been through sudden night storms before. They completely believed this one storm was so bad that they were all about to die. Then they woke Jesus up and asked Him a dumb question. “Jesus, don’t you care?”. Of course, Jesus cared. The disciples could have asked a much better faith question, but letting fear dominate them they were about to get rebuked after Jesus dealt with their problem.
Nevertheless, Jesus arose and first “rebuked” the wind. Wow, let us stop right there and analyze this. The Greek word G2006 translated as “rebuke” can also be defined as someone giving a command to “forbid” something from starting, or continuing. This was a confirmation to us all, that Jesus possessed great authority even before He died on a cross. It is also our first indication that there was something that needed to be stopped that was coming against them to kill them. Wow! Jesus countered this plan of destruction with His spoken words that represent waters flowing from His mouth.
We can see how Jesus used His authority implemented with sound waves to cause the calm, by His choosing to speak to an unseen force of moving air, forbidding it to continue as the cause of the chaos. It is obvious that Jesus knew it was the wind that was the root cause of the problem. Ok, we just made another direct connection to the definition of the “Mem”. The “Mem” picture of a raging sea also contains the meaning of a state of “chaos”. This is the negative of the great potential of good usages for “water”. “Chaos” is the opposite of “Peace” which Jesus is calling for. Wow, this is really good. Let us look at a different account of Jesus rebuking something to cause a different kind of peace:
Mark 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
Notice in this context that Jesus is speaking sound waves again to an unclean spirit, that was inside of a human man. This demon was speaking to Jesus questioning His authority. But Jesus ignores the devil’s words and rebuked him by saying, “Hold your peace”. That was just a nicer way of saying “SHUT UP”. Wow, again! Notice the implied meanings here in this example, to when Jesus was seen rebuking the storm. The first priority is for us to notice that both situations were examples of Jesus rebuking the source cause of a chaos situation, in order to cause “peace” (calm, silence). But one was a silencing of a devil in a man, and one was the calming of a “wind”. Were these different things or are they actually the same termination of speaking spirits that were both causing the identical patterns of “chaos”?
The Greek word translated as “wind” can also mean a “breath of air”. Anyone speaking words from their mouth is exhaling air. It is interesting to understand that the demon possessed man was using the man’s own vocal cords and lungs to produce the words that were spoken to Jesus. Do you see the parallels to the storm? Therefore, the cause of the storm winds could be from the mouth of God, an angel, a human, or the devil. These are the only speaking spirituals beings that were created by God. But we know this storm wind was not being caused by God, the Father of Jesus. If the storm winds were caused by God, then this would have been Jesus the Son of God working against His own Father God, and that is impossible since Jesus said He could do nothing of himself, and only did what He saw His Father do (Jn 5:19).
Therefore, this breath of storm wind had to come from another spiritual source. Some may try to say this was just a bad natural weather event, but the reaction of the professional fishermen, seem to indicate this was nothing like a storm that they had ever seen. Please go back and read the story of Job in chapter 1 to help us confirm what is being taught here. God told Satan in chapter 1, that Job was in his power. The term “power” is the Hebrew letter “Yod” meaning hand. This simply meant Job was under Satan’s authority to do what he desired. However, God placed limitations upon the level of destructions.
However, in verse 19 of chapter 1 of the book of Job, we find where a very strong wind came from the wilderness to kill Job’s children that were in a house. This Hebrew word H7307 translated as “wind” can also mean a “breath”. Therefore, this powerful wind also had to be caused by Satan, since it was not God that was causing it in heaven. God is in the process of defending Job and speaking well of him, and it was only Satan that was present to accuse Job. What we are learning are the parallels to what happened to Job, and what was happening to Jesus, who was also spoken well of by God in heaven, are both from the same causing source.
We need to believe that both storms were caused by Satan. We know from John 10:10 that whatever happens that causes “death”, “loss”, or “destruction” is from the thief, a name for Satan. And Jesus said in the same verse that He only came to give us life. Therefore, rebuking the wind to preserve “life” came from God in the flesh, and He accomplished this by rebuking the devil’s attempt to kill them all and end the life of Messiah, and His disciples.
Then notice the second thing that happened. Jesus looked at the waves of the sea (Mem) and told them to “Be Still and to be filled with Peace”. That is interesting application for our study. It sounds like when David was seeking God to still the waters that were trying to overwhelm and fill his soul. Do you see the parallels? Everything that happens to Jesus in the Gospels is designed by God to teach us something that we need to apply to our lives in some way (1 Cor 11:1, Eph 5:1).
This sea calming, is Jesus sending a message with His command (Mem spoken word sound waves) to cause the wind to stop and the waves to be eliminated. Pay attention that the second demon silencing example, was Jesus doing the exact same things that He had done to the natural water waves. Jesus spoke in this situation to silence the demon spirit’s (breath, wind) voice producing sound waves, and that silencing would bring peace to the soul of the tormented human. But the parallels to Jesus telling the unclean spirit to “Hold its peace” are remarkable.
Let us also remember that it was the Word of God that created this “sea” body of water. This would indicate to us if God’s words could create it, He could still speak to change it, or even calm it instantly.
Now finally notice the problem that Jesus focused upon after calming the storm. Jesus turned to the disciples and said, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith”. This was a clear divine disappointment and rebuke for their lack of action to do what He had just done. Jesus was claiming that they could have had faith instead of fear and they could have spoken to rebuke the situation and it would have obeyed them.
Do you recall that Jesus had given to His disciples the authority to cast out devils and to heal the sick, the same that He did? We can read about this authority being given to the 12 in Luke 9, and 70 others were given the same authority in Luke 10. Therefore, by the disciples seeing how Jesus operated in authority and them casting out demons personally, they had to have been introduced to knowing what to do.
It does not matter who’s mouth the rebuke of God’s word comes from, because the Word of God has the same power behind it, if the speaker has faith. Don’t believe me? This is what Jesus said in John 14:12. Also Jesus said this to His disciples after He spoke and cursed a fig tree, and it died:
Mat 21:21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Jesus just taught His disciples that what He was doing by speaking with authority to a gale, waves, trees, they could also do the same. Why is this important to our subject of an ancient Hebrew letter picture of waves? This is because “waves” of water can be symbolic of evil words of the enemy of God, that produce “chaos”, “disorder”, “confusion” in the human life. The only answer to these attacks is for humans to counter these attempts to destroy them with words of authority that cause the source of opposition to become silent which allows the “peace” of God to again rule in our lives.
Ok, we need to see what we have learned so far, and make sure we understand it. The overwhelming storm waves were initiated by Satan, to cause the death of Jesus and His disciples. Jesus had already said “Let us go to the other side”. By declaring His faith to make it to the other side safely, He could rest in His spoken words. He then went to sleep expecting to arrive at any moment and He was unconcerned about any storm while resting peacefully, despite the coming overwhelming circumstances.
However, any waves are never present without cause, intentional, or otherwise. Someone, or something had to cause the waves. In this case of the sea storm, there were intensely strong winds that were causing the massive waves. We can still see the direct parallels to our verses of David in Psalm 69. Jesus’ solution in the Mark 4 sea example is to rebuke the “winds” first. Jesus was wise enough to know that dealing with the root cause is always the primary answer. Again, we see the solution in this case is for someone to speak words with their voice to produce sound waves that would cancel and still the wind causing the waves of the sea. We saw this happen again when Jesus rebuked the demon and told him to hold his peace.
These are amazingly confirmed in the Bible. The Hebrew word H1826 is the word “damam”. It is spelled “Dalet” + “Mem” + “Mem”. This is not a coincidence. This word and it’s spelling is a confirmation of what we have just learned in this section on how to bring about silence. We will start our confirmation with the ancient Hebrew “Dalet” letter first:
Psa 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
If we read in this verse, we will be able to confirm that our human mouth is a “door”. Perhaps you recall that the “Dalet” is a picture of a tent door. Our human bodies are the temporary tent tabernacle of the Holy Spirit and our mouth is the door to our internal spirit location. I have heard of more than one testimony of people that when they died physically, their spirit exited their mouth and stood up above their lifeless body to watch the doctor’s operation taking place. When they were brought back into their bodies, they came back inside by sliding inside of their mouth to fill it like a hand, slides into a glove.
That is very important to understand. We have the freewill choice to determine what we allow to enter this mouth door of our body to be consumed internally. But we also have the freewill choice to allow or stop what goes out of our mouth in spoken words with God’s help. We just read about one example of this in Psalm 141:3, when a man asks the Lord to help him guard his mouth. Never forget that when your voice is released, it can never be taken back. Jesus literally said in Matthew 12:26, that we will give an account for every idle word that we speak in the day of judgment. This literally means your naturally spoken words are able to be recalled by God in the spiritual realm later.
But this is where it gets exceedingly more interesting. Remember our Hebrew word for silence is a mouth door (Dalet) with two Mem waves of water. This appears to be saying that one mouth is speaking spoken words against another set of words that were already spoken from a different source. This indicates these words being spoken by this door mouth are being directed at words that were already spoken by an unknown or unnamed speaker. Wow, how many are paying attention? This word that has a mouth that is releasing words in expressed sound waves directed at another set of sound waves is translated as “silence”. This word can also mean to bring calm peace. Do you see how this word is a picture of what we just saw in the silencing of the storm and the demon’s voice?
The parallels are amazing! Do you understand the concept of noise cancelling headphones? They were designed by a man that discovered, if you reverse the sound waves being produced, that they will cancel out the sound waves that are being heard by the human without the headphones. This is very profound because this is exactly what Jesus was doing in both examples. Jesus in both cases of noise and disturbance being produced, spoke peace to it. In every case example the reality of a flat line realm of silence was the resulting end.
What have we learned? We have learned if the world is bringing you a storm to kill, steal or destroy you, you better open your mouth and speak to it, saying the opposite. For example, if you get a doctor’s report (voice) containing the words “You have cancer and only have a few months to live”, it is time to put the Word of God in your mouth every moment of every day saying “I will live and not die, and declare the works of the Lord” (Ps 118:17). If you are feeling extremely sick, ill or having no strength to get out of bed”, it is a good time to quote God’s word back at your situation. Say “No, you don’t in my body”, God has said “Let the weak say I’m strong”. I speak and say “I am strong in the LORD and in the power of His might”.
Your spoken words of God, can change your situation from death to life, from defeat to victory, and from chaos to peace. Praise the LORD! We will end this section with this message of how Jesus defeated the devil during His temptation. We learned at the beginning of this lesson that Jesus was tempted by the devil for 40 days in the wilderness. Forty is the gematria value of the “Mem”. This occurred directly after He was baptized in Mem waters of the Jordan. So, we are continuing to travel the path of waters and words.
The temptation of Jesus was Satan coming to Him with words. Notice the temptation of Jesus was a three-wave attack. We can see with each wave of temptation Jesus’ response was to quote God’s Word saying “It is written”. So Jesus canceled the wave of Satan with the wave of God’s words. Wow, this occurred three times and the devil gave up, went away, and the devil’s plan of attack bringing temptation to sin ended. Wow! This sounds really important based upon what we have been learning.
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.
God changed this analogy in this verse about words. It is still words, and waters, but now it is also a sword. This is the Hebrew letter “Zayin”. The letter “Zayin” is primarily a steel farming instrument, but it is also representative of any “steel” instrument like a sword. For example, a sword is a “Zayin” wartime battle instrument to defeat an enemy. But a “Zayin” plow is a peacetime seed sowing instrument. Both of these represent “words” of God. We must conclude that we should speak God’s words in both times of our lives, war or peace. But when we put the sword of God’s word in out mouth, this means we are in a spiritual battle or war. This war is not with physical weapons or fleshly enemies, but it is fought against spiritual enemies with spoken “words”. We fight this good fight with God’s armor and one piece of this ensemble, is the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God!
8. The Mem Water – CONCLUSION
Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Jesus speaking to the woman at the well said, “Whosoever drinks of the water that I give, will never thirst again”. Wow, what an amazing promise! Of course, Jesus is speaking spiritually and not naturally. The water that was being offered to everyone, is His spoken and written words! These words are powerful enough to do things most Christians have not yet imagined. The answer to every problem of life, is only found in the Word of God.
We have learned at least two functions for the use of pure water. One primary use is for internal consumption to produce and maintain life. The second is for external usage, created to cleanse. The first becomes a part of our internal spiritual life, and the second is used by God to cause a display of purity to others. There are also 3 realms where water of the word is evident. The first is the spirit of every human. By accepting the Word of God into our heart and confessing Jesus as Lord, we are born-again spiritually. This makes our spirit a new creation and one with the Spirit of God. Therefore, every real saved Christian, is completely pure in their spirit.
But there is a second internal realm called the soul, that is still filled with very unclean waters of worldly teachings and doctrines of devils. These are impure words that have been corrupted by Satan as a way of keeping humans from knowing God’s Words of life. This realm of the soul must be cleansed daily and continually with the pure water of the Word of God to renew our minds. Everyday living life in the world, we are hearing and seeing things that are trying to drive us away from God. This is the main reason why we need to continue drinking in God’s Word. But there are engrained things that we have experienced in our lives from our past that must also be cleaned away. The Word of God does this for us in our minds, and memories if we will allow Him to work.
The third realm of human existence is the external view of each human. This is the parts of life, where people see what we say, what we do and how we act. This realm of existence can only be changed by the first cleansing of the two internal realms in the order of mention, spirit first and soul second. The Word of God is the living pure water that can and will work to make us like Christ, if we will cooperate with God and receive Him.
Are you thirsty for more pure watering words of the knowledge of God and His Son Jesus Christ? God gives this amazing offer to anyone and if you have never drunk from this water, then you do not know what you are missing:
Isaiah 55:1 “Listen! Whoever is thirsty, come to the water! Whoever has no money can come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk. You don’t have to pay; it’s free! (GW)
We are learning in this lesson, that pure water was created by God to teach us of our total dependence upon drinking in His Word, to obtain eternal spiritual life. God provides us in this verse an incredible offer. God begins the invitation with seeking for those that are “thirsty” to know Him. Are you thirsty every day to know Him better than you did yesterday? God continues the invitation by directing us to come to His Mem waters to satisfy our thirsts. He says we can come and eat, and drink with Him and it will cost us nothing. God is offering you eternal life for free.
When we are not physically asleep in the natural realm, we can all be thirsty frequently. So it is, in the spiritual unseen realm also. But the majority of the unsaved world are ignoring this thirst as normal, primarily because they are asleep spiritually (Eph 5:14). When someone realizes this, and awaken from their spiritual sleep, they are driven by their spirit to thirst for a cool refreshing drink of water from the Word of God. But even saved Christians can become dry or hardened in their heart so that God’s word is unable to water the “seed” (Nun) of salvation that He has attempted to save them with (Mat 13:21). This is because these humans have become dull of knowing their own spiritual unseen part of them, and they are easily torn away from their beliefs in Jesus because of their trials, tests and persecutions that the enemy can bring. Without drinking the fresh pure watering Word of God continually, we are dominated with a past dry desert wilderness sensation, and do not understand what we are fully missing, that God desires to give us.
Notice God is offering us His food, water, milk, and wine, in Isaiah 55. All of these are symbolic types of the Word of God. God said in 1 Peter 2:2 to desire the “pure water” of God’s Word as newborn children desire milk. God’s spiritual food is a type of physical bread, like the daily manna that He sent Israel in the wilderness. Natural bread is made by combining grains that are ground into flour and mixing this with water. Then Jesus said in Matthew 4:4 that man cannot live upon bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. In Acts 2:13 on the day of Pentecost, the disciples were acting strangely and speaking in new tongues, and the people outside accused them of being full of new wine. In these verses most can easily see the connections of speaking words from God to the symbolic substances of water, bread, milk and wine. We will only review one other verse to confirm:
Amo 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Here is a problem that is coming upon the world. There will be a time when God sends a famine upon the earth. But as you can see this is not a lack of bread and water, but rather a coming time when the Word of God will not be available to be heard. This is because the church will be caught up away from this world directly before the tribulation begins. What we can certainly confirm that bread, and water represent figuratively the Word of God. We will end this lesson with a verse describing the beginning of God’s amazing future new pure world that we saw earlier:
Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
As we can see in the last chapter of the Bible, God has a plan to continue to supply His saved people with His pure waters (Words) of life. These words of God will continually flow out of His mouth and will produce a river that will satisfy our thirst to know more about Him and His ways. This is an amazing thought to consider. God has so much knowledge, understanding and wisdom that it won’t matter how long we will stand before Him to hear His words, there will not end the amount that He has to give us. Wow!
Hopefully this lesson was a great blessing to you and helped you to see and know God better. God’s Word is the most amazing book that I have ever encountered. I have noticed that there appears to be a never-ending supply of information, knowledge and application to us, just in this one limited big book, that we call the Holy Bible. This book as only around 750,000 to 800,000 words depending upon the translations. It has only around 31,000 verses. It has around 1000 chapters. It was divided into only 66 books written by around 40 different authors over the course of around 1500 years of human time. Yet with this large limited book is found an infinite number of truths and words of wisdoms written to help us learn about who Jesus is and who we are in Him.
Then notice what God says in John 21:25. God says in this verse, “that there are many other things that Jesus did, that if written the world could not contain the books”. That is the confirmation to show us how limited we are in knowing much about Him and what He is able to share with us throughout eternity. This simply means when we enter into His presence we will never be bored or thirsty.
God bless you immensely with the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of Him that loves us and gave His life for us. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for leaving your comments. Thank you for sharing these lessons with your friends and family to help us spread the good news of the LORD Jesus Christ. Amen.
Intro Alef Beyt-1 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Ayin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav – Alef-Beyt Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 14 – The Mem Part 1 – the Blood
(Ver 1.0) This lesson is “Part 14” in the Bible study series revealing the Lord Jesus Christ, that had been hidden by the Spirit of God in His very intelligent design of the original Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. This is also “Part 1” of the individual letter “Mem” study. There is absolutely too much essential information to be placed in only 1 lesson. We are about to find that the letter “Mem” is a picture of moving liquid. It primarily represents two types of liquids. The first is “water”, and the second is “blood”. There are also several other figurative meanings found in the picture of the “Mem”. We will mainly focus on the subject of “blood” in this first lesson, but there are times when both will be mentioned.
This alphabet lesson on the “Mem” is another truly amazing subject uncovering extraordinary, veiled information in one letter of the Hebrew alphabet. This single letter has a massive amount of spiritual information pointing us prophetically to Jesus. The “Mem” is one of the most essential letters to understand of the entire 22. If you have not read this series from the beginning, it is recommended that you go and do so with the “Part 1 Introduction” first. There is just too much information that has been given in each lesson that will not be fully repeated in the others. But this lesson will stand alone for those that desire to see only the application of this one alphabet letter “Mem”.
Please also understand that these are “advanced spiritual Bible lessons” from the word of God and are potentially offensive to the unsaved, immature carnal, or newly born Christian. Therefore, before you read these lessons, please pray and ask the LORD should I even be reading this? Then analyze what should be my response if I do not agree with what is being taught about Jesus? Please accept a suggestion. No matter what your reaction, please walk in love, and please do not leave an unsolicited evil accusation about anyone or anything you don’t agree with. God is Love! And you only prove you don’t really know Him, by speaking evil of His children (Mat 12:34).
Today we will be learning only a limited number of subjects of the total amount of God’s important information about Jesus Christ found in the letter “Mem”. In fact, in this first “Mem” lesson, we will only cover the introduction to the letter “Mem” and the subject of it representing “Blood”. There are literally many volumes of books that could be written on each letter and how it applies to the work of God in Christ Jesus. Here is a quick list of the contents of today’s sections:
- Introduction to the Ancient Hebrew Mem
- Jesus’ BLOOD is One of the Foundational “Mem” Symbols
- Jesus To Die the Death, Another Prophecy Fulfilled on the Cross
- Jesus God’s LAST ADAM – The Blood of God Sacrifice
- God’s (Alef) + “Blood” (Mem) + “Cross” (Tav) = TRUTH
- Jesus the First and Last – Mem Water and Blood Prophecy Fulfillment
- The Mem Part 1 Blood Conclusion
Let us get started with learning this incredible picture of God’s “Mem” letter as being a representation of the Blood of Jesus Christ.
1. Introduction to the Ancient Hebrew Mem
The ancient Hebrew letter “Mem”, is the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and has the gematria number value of “40”. The letter “Mem” can be spelled as a Hebrew root word with these three letters: “Mem” + “Yod” + “Mem”. The Hebrew root word H4325 (mayim) are these three letters, and this word is defined to be “water”. This Hebrew word H4325 is translated into “water”, or “waters”, over 500 times in the Old Testament. Therefore, the primary meaning of the letter “Mem” is “water”. This should be obvious by simply observing the pictogram of the letter “Mem”. Everyone should be able to see how this picture is of three waves. This wave concept has a far-reaching application to many designs within God’s creation. For example, here is a short list of waves that we encounter today all around us:
- Tidal Waves of the Ocean
- Tsunami Waves of an Earthquake
- Storm Waves of a Hurricane or Typhon
- Light Waves radiating from the Sun and Stars
- Sound Waves of a Concert
- Voice Sound Waves of a Preacher
- Microwaves heating our foods quickly
- Radio and Television Waves Broadcast from Towers
- Cell phone waves allowing talk, text and internet world communication
These are just a sampling of God created waves that are practically identical with the exception of substance, frequency and magnitude of the wave being generated and measured. The opposite of a wave is silence, calm, peace and this is important to know. We will only be focused upon the water wave movement concept in this introduction, and how this type of moving liquid represents blood and life.
There are many different types of “waters” in the world. As you can see by the picture of the letter, this type of water has the meaning of moving liquid by God’s designed picture of 3 waves. It is also noteworthy to see that the picture contains the implication of “continuance” or “continual movement” as the waves could never end, if the writer desired to continue to draw more and more waves. Also notice that this letter “Mem” picture looks a lot like the English letter “M”. But the English letter does not have the design of “continuance” as both ends of the letter are abruptly terminated with a straight line and not a diagonal line of the “Mem”. On the other hand, the English letter “W” does more closely resemble the design of the “Mem”, but with a pointing upward termination point.’
Let us get back to the concepts of waves and water briefly. Water is always a collective body contained within boundaries of limitations, The larger the body of water, the greater potential for more massive waves. The greatest waves on earth are the most powerful and potentially destructive. These normally occur in the earth’s oceans and could only occur naturally by a massive earthquake or an asteroid collision. We can clearly read about an asteroid hitting an ocean on the earth and killing many in Revelation 8:8-9.
In recent times we have already observed the activation of an enormous Tsunami wave on December 26, 2004, when an earthquake of over 9.1 magnitude caused a massive wave in the Indian Ocean, that killed over 225,000 people. Therefore, waves and their sizes, and their causes are very important to understanding this subject of the “Mem” designed picture more completely. For examples, all waves have causes and are a potentially powerful force that can be directed for good or for evil purposes. This is the classic scenario of “cause” and “effect”. If you observe a wave, we must stop and know there was somethings that caused it. Then we must begin to understand its purpose or intention for releasing this power. The concept of moving waves is definitely a picture of power being released and the larger the waves, the greater the power that caused them.
Just keep this in mind, for later when we directly study the next subject of “water” in a subsequent lesson. But it is important to interpret every verse in the Bible by God’s dividing line verse of good versus evil. In John 10:10, Jesus said the “thief” only came to steal, kill and destroy, but I have come, to give you life and that life in full abundance”. Therefore, if anything like a wave came to kill, it was from Satan, and all other waves that we can experience to gain pleasure those were from God as good.
Now let us observe some other concepts and details concerning water, because this is what the letter “Mem” primarily represents. The “Mayim” Hebrew word is plural, but it can be translated as being either “singular” or “plural”. Sometimes the contextual usage is only speaking of one body of “water”, and other times multiple bodies of “waters”. Liquid “water” is an interesting concept. One large glass of “water” could have the same amount of total liquid volume as two smaller cups of water divided. So, the word “mayim” or the letter “Mem” are not very specific to the amount or volume of the liquid that is being referred to. In other words, a body of water, could be a giant ocean, a major sea, a river, a lake, a stream, a pond, or a puddle, etc. They are all containers that describe limiting features of the content called “water” and “waves” can occur in each by the application of power and energy.
Let us now go much “deeper” into exploring God’s created elements and characteristics of natural water. The chemical make-up of water is “H2O”. This represents two parts hydrogen, plus one part oxygen. That is the concept of “1+2=3”. But these 3 are clearly 1 water molecule. Obviously, it takes three parts (plural) to make the singular one water molecule. Water can also be found on the earth in 3 forms, 1) vapor (air), 2) water (liquid) and 3) ice (solid). There are also three areas or realms of water on our planet. There is a lot of water particles in the atmosphere. These water particles produce varying degrees of humidity, fall like rain, and produce dew. Then there are the bodies of water on the surface of the planet. The amount of water on the surface is massive, but without it you would not be alive on this planet. The final area of water is under the earth’s surface. According to some scientists today, they estimate that there is as much water under the surface of dry ground as there is in all of the oceans. This is why even in the desert a well can be dug, to reach life sustaining waters. Did you notice all of the groups of three we just found in the basics of water? I wonder if this is why God placed three waves in the design of this letter?
This information teaches us that letter “Mem” represents an essential life source, and Jesus claims to be this source of life in these two verses:
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Hopefully, we can all begin to see how just these two verses apply to the concepts of Jesus representing “living waters” that was designed by God to produce human spiritual life. If you study this more fully you will soon find how essential “water” is to the existence of humans on this planet. Now apply that truth, to Jesus being this “water” symbol that came to give us spiritual life to enjoy here on earth, as well as to live eternally alive with Him.
There are a number of simultaneous applications of the picture letter “Mem” as water. One of the first things that is noticeable about the picture diagram, is that it is not a representation of a “flat line” body of calm water. Whenever water is especially calm it is observed to be motionless. Other words that could apply, are “idle”, “stationary”, “still”, “peaceful”, “passive”, and etc. The concept of a “flatline” is found in many other realms of created entities that are wave like in nature.
For example, the term “flat line” is very important in the medical field. Whenever a patient’s heart stops, their life monitor “flat lines” and this sets off an alarm for immediate attention. This is our first observation of how flowing blood is a representation of the “Mem”. It is when the blood in the body stops moving that death has occurred normally. This information appears to teach us, that flowing waters represent “life” if directed appropriately for this usage. The opposite of this would generally teach us that, no movement or waves could be applied to mean “death”. But was have already learned that “waves” or “floods” of waters to an extreme are also designed to produce death and chaos.
Most should already know that God is good and that He is the highest positive application of the symbol of the Mem “water” picture for “good” and “life”. The other negative side of the application is Satan, who is called God’s adversary (Zec 3:2). The name Satan actually means an opponent or adversary and he is the root cause of all “evil”. Therefore, good waters are from God, and evil waters are from “Satan”, and we do not yet know everything that this picture is used by God to teach us. All we know so far, is that water (Mem) can be a source for great good to produce life, and then it can also be moved to the opposite extreme, to steal, kill or destroy people (Jn 10:10). We can begin to learn this concept simply by observing the picture of waves. Please keep this in mind as we continue to learn. Here is the quick recap of what we have learned so far about the “Mem” pictogram meaning:
- The Mem is a picture of Flowing or Moving Water representing “Life” until taken to extremes
- The movement of Mem water waves has the “power” to move or change things
- Water is a plural word with an unknown quantity of total H2O molecules and all of these can be labeled or named as one collective body
- There is always something or someone releasing energy to cause the movement of the water that produced the waves
- Water can be used for either “good” and life or for “evil” to cause death
Now let us reaffirm the good nature of water. Our planet without the created waters upon the three areas of existence, the 1) surface, the 2) atmosphere, and the 3) under the surface, would be a lifeless planet like Mars. Water is one of the three major created components that make life available to our existence. These 3 components are called 1) water (Mem), 2) light (Qof) and 3) seed (Nun). Perhaps you may recall that all three of these essential components for continued human life are represented by ancient Hebrew alphabet pictograms. The water is our current subject of the “Mem”. The light is found in the subject of the letter “Qof”. And the “seed” is found in the letter “Nun” that immediately follows this letter Mem. It is interesting for us to see how God made the Mem (water), and the Nun (seed), so directly linked in the alphabet, because we will soon learn that they both are powerful natural representations of the same spiritual subject.
The next meaning of the letter “Mem” also relates to the subject of water. It should be known upfront that the human body composition is comprised of up to 50% to 65% “water”. This internal water content is absolutely essential for a healthy human life. Now for the real connection of water to our body. The “blood” in the human body can be up to 80% water. Therefore, blood and water are both representations for the letter “Mem”. This is further confirmed because our “blood” is not laying still, but is rather being pumped with every heart beat to circulate our “blood” over and over and over throughout our body. It is very easy to see how moving and flowing “blood” in the body is a picture of “life” and is a “good” God created designed representation for the moving liquid found in the letter “Mem”. Therefore, the moving liquid picture of the “Mem” represents “blood” and “life” in many verses.
We should know that taking water into our body for our healthy life is accomplished by “drinking” it with our mouth. Remember the letter “Peh” is a picture of an “open mouth”. It is amazing how all of the letters are tied together by God’s intellectual design. The water goes into our mouth, and is swallowed into our stomach and is used by the body in a large capacity of life’s functions. The human body can only generally survive without consuming water for 3 days. This is another interesting pattern of the number 3. The process of water is a cyclically repeated pattern necessary for continuing life on this physical planet. Therefore, we have the concept of moving natural water going externally from the body to internally inside the body for a good and healthy life
But what other good purposes does water possess externally? One of God’s key usages externally is for cleaning. Water has an inherit quality to have a dissolving nature to it. If we stir in sugar into a cup of water, the sugar substance is dissolved and the water becomes sweet tasting with no visible or observable indicators of this sweetness. But this quality design feature can also do the same with “dirt”. Whether we need to clean our clothes, our house, our car, our body or whatever, flowing and moving water is an essential created material for this usage. God knew this when He created it and He will apply this meaning to our study also.
Finally, it is noteworthy in our introduction to remember God writes of the blood of Jesus in 1 John 1:7. In this verse the Holy Spirit made a point to say it is the blood of Jesus that cleans us from all “sin”. We are beginning to notice that water and blood are used by God in parallel patterns. The water is used by us to clean our bodies and clothes and the blood of Jesus was used by Him to clean us to make us able to be with Him eternally. We have added to our list that the “Mem” represents the subjects of:
- The essential force for internal Life and Health
- And external cleansing agent from filth
- The cleansing blood of Jesus to remove human filth of sin
Ok, that was enough for a quick introduction to the “Mem” water and blood letter. We have seen how the letter can be either used for good or evil, but when applied to God who is always good, it is an essential element for cleansing us from all sinful unrighteousness externally and for giving us new life as a new creation internally in our human spirit. We will now turn our attention to the letter “Mem” and its application to represent “blood”.
2. Jesus’ BLOOD is One of the Foundational “Mem” Symbols
For all humans, one of the most essential hidden messages of prophecy found in the ancient Hebrew “Mem” pictogram, is the representation of flowing, living blood. Because the picture is of a moving liquid, it is very logical to associate this concept with the constant “movement and flow of blood”. As a saved Christian we should already understand how this living blood picture fits with the essential work of Christ in our human salvation. For example, without consuming the blood of Jesus, no human could ever be saved. Notice what Jesus said to us in John:
Joh 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
These are difficult words to accept for many. It is important to understand that Jesus is not teaching cannibalism in this statement. This is a figurative representation for a far superior spiritual reality. Nevertheless, Jesus used the natural substance of Mem “blood” to help guide us for the need of His sacrifice on a cross (Tav) and without this substance no human would have any eternal life.
If you are not a Christian, you may not believe this yet. Those that received salvation could only do so, because of the willing sacrifice of divine blood of one God/Man named Jesus Christ. In a human male of about 180 pounds, he could have had at least 1.2 to 1.5 gallons of blood. It was this Mem image of flowing blood, that purchased out redemption out of a human sin debt, that could only be paid for by God Himself. This is why this symbolic meaning of the picture is by far one of the most significant meanings that is needed to be understood.
What we need to understand, is that there was a problem with every human born from the first created man named Adam. Because he rebelled, and sinned willingly, we all rebelled and sinned at that very instant having the death sentence passed upon every generation. We must understand that before sin entered into the world, Adam’s blood was created sinless and he was able to live forever. But after sin, his corrupted sinful blood was passed down to us all. Acts 17:26 informs us that God created all nations on the earth from “one blood (Mem)”. Because of Adam’s sin, the entire bloodline of every human descendant became corrupted (1 Cor 15:50). We see this principle again in 1 Corinthians 15:22 where God says, “For as in Adam, all die”. It was Adam’s DNA in his seed (Nun) that produced the next line of blood-stained generation of humans, and this continued even to today.
This is why we all needed a savior, even if you think you never did anything bad enough to be sent to hell for. Because God knew all of this, this is the reason why, Jesus brought into the world a “New Sinless Divine Blood”, that was not defiled or corrupted by the first Adam’s sin. We learn this fact from reading in 1 Peter 1:18-19. In these verses God says, “We were not redeemed with corruptible things, … But with the precious blood of Messiah/Christ”.
In this section, we are only focused upon the “primary” importance of the “Mem” representing the “blood” of Jesus Christ. In doing this, we must go back to Exodus 12 and establish God’s pattern of the coming Messiah by observing Him found in the blood of a lamb. Exodus 12:1 begins by saying “And the Lord spoke unto Moses”. The Hebrew word H559 that was translated as “spoke” is spelled “Alef” + “Mem” + “Lamed”. Please recall the “Alef” is a picture of an ox representing “God as a strong servant”. Then recall, the “Mem” is a picture of “water” and/or “blood”. Finally recall the “Lamed”, is a picture of a shepherd’s staff representing his “authority”.
Placing the meanings of these three letters together it says, “God’s (Alef) water/blood/words (Mem) of Authority (Lamed)”. Since God was doing the speaking to Moses with this word, we can certainly see the application of that description to what was taking place. We have only been introduced briefly to the fact that the “Mem” represents physical water and blood. But we will soon learn that this natural “water” symbol, can also represent spiritual spoken words of authority. We will get to this fact soon. Keep these in mind, because all of these meanings have an application to Jesus.
Now notice the named “Moses” also begins with the letter “Mem”. Most know the story of Moses. Moses was born during a time where all male babies were commanded to be thrown into the Nile River (Mem) to be drown (Exo 1:22). This river was a very large flowing “Mem” water supply of Egypt. Therefore, Satan was trying to use God’s created supply of water (Mem) designed for life, as an instrument of death. Do not forget later when Moses is sent to deliver Israel from Egypt that the first plague sent was God turning this water supply from water into blood (Exo 17:7). That is a major pattern of confirmation for the symbol of “Mem” representing both water and blood.
In fact, in Exodus 17:7, the word translated as “waters” is the word H4325, which is the word form of the letter “Mem” that begins and ends with the letter “Mem”. Then notice the Hebrew word translated into the word “blood” is H1818, and it ends with the letter “Mem”. We are about to discover how all of this is being designed and connected together by God as prophetical patterns of the coming Jesus. Let us get back to the story of Moses being saved by God from Satan’s River of death.
Most recall, that all male babies were commanded to be killed in the river. But Moses was saved by him being hidden for 3 months, and then being placed in an empty container translated as an “ark”. By Moses being placed above the waters of death, it was this “ark” that saved him. This Hebrew word H8392 translated as “ark” is spelled “Tav” + “Beyt” + “Hey”. The “Tav” we should know by now is the last letter of the alphabet a picture of a “Cross”. The “Beyt” is a picture of the “Tent House” and the “Family” inside the house. Finally, the “Hey” is a picture of a man with hands raised, meaning “Look”, “Behold”, and “See”. Therefore, we can see how an “ark” of salvation is a prophetical picture for Christians beholding the revelation (Hey) of the cross (Tav) that is creating a new family of God to enter into (Beyt).
It was Moses floating above this water that saved him, when he was drawn out by a daughter of Pharoah’s house. Moses’ name actually means to be “drawn” from water. Remember, that it was this daughter’s father that ordered the Hebrew babies to be killed. Therefore, the enemy also became the deliverer for Moses, without fully knowing it. God is amazing, isn’t He? It should amaze us how God can use what was intended for evil to be used for deliverance. This is how the life of Moses was saved by God’s selection usage of water. We have also just confirmed the concept about water being of two opposing usages for good and life, or evil and death. That is an important factor or type, to not forget. It will reappear as we study this subject.
So far, we have just covered multiple applications found in Exodus about blood and water and we find them all as references to the letter “Mem”. Now let us move faster, or we will never get finished. Reading down the chapter 12 of Exodus, we find where Moses was told that every house (Beyt) must take a “lamb”. This Lamb must be without blemishes. It was to be taken into the house (Beyt) for 4 days, and then it was to be sacrificed on the 14th day of the month, when the moon was “full”. On that evening, the lamb was to be slain and its blood (Mem) was to be collected and placed on every post of the door of the house (a prophetical type of Tav). Let us stop there an learn more fully the word translated as “blood” that we were briefly introduced to earlier.
This Hebrew word H1818 has the sound of “dawm”, and it is spelled with two letters, the “Dalet” and the “Mem”. Did you notice these two Hebrew letters that are translated as “blood” are a picture of the first Passover? So, we have the major part of the story of Passover told to us in two letters that are translated as “blood”. That is not a coincidence. The “Dalet” is the picture of the Father’s house door posts where blood will be applied for his family to enter into to have every life saved. The “Mem” is obviously the picture of “blood” that is applied to the doorposts (Tav). This application to God’s heavenly house (Beyt) and eternal life, found in two letters translated as “blood” for Christ’s work on a cross to save us is amazing. What we are about to read in this chapter is a picture of God’s spiritual house. We will not get into this part of the lesson in depth today.
But for natural Israel, this act of obedience to place the lamb’s blood on the doorposts, is exactly what saved the children of Israel from the death angel coming to take the firstborn of each family house. That was the good news for the people. But the reversed bad news was for the “lamb”. The “lamb” that was slain on the first “Passover” had to die and its blood had to be placed upon wooden posts in order for no one inside the “door” to die.
This was called a substitutionary work for human salvation. Instead of the human in the house dying, the lamb died in their place. It was the outward display of a lamb’s blood that prevented the death angel from taking anyone’s life hidden in the house (Beyt). All of this found in Exodus 12, should be a clear picture of Christ’s death on a cross for all humans. It was because of His death that no other human has to die spiritually. You can read more about this in other lessons on this site. But we will observe a few of the obvious verses to confirm this:
- John the Baptist calls Jesus the “Lamb of God” in John 1:36.
- Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 5:7, that Jesus was the “Passover” sacrifice for Christians.
- In John 10:9, Jesus said “I am the door, if any man enter in, he shall be saved”.
- In 1 Peter 1:19 God says we were saved by the “precious blood of Christ, without blemish and without spot.
That was just a small sampling of verses written to the church about Jesus our Passover and His saving blood (Mem) sacrifice on a cross. There are many other references concerning the blood (Mem) of Jesus that obtained our human salvation. His blood did more than you have seen or know. But yet it is possible to learn more, by simply studying “Blood” verses in the New Testament about this subject. Hopefully, you can see how this picture of a “Passover Lamb” was fulfilled in the life and blood (Mem) of Jesus. Let us move to another part of the “Mem” blood subject.
3. Jesus to Die the Death, Another Mem Prophecy Fulfilled on the Cross
This was amazing when it was discovered recently during Bible study time with the LORD. The Hebrew word that is translated as “to die” (H4191) is spelled with 3 letters. The first letter is our study subject “Mem”. This “Mem” letter is joined with the middle letter “Vav”, and finally, the word ends with a “Tav”. Do you recall what these pictures represented? The letter “Mem” is our study letter representing moving water and blood symbolically. The letter “Vav” is the picture of a “Nail”. The letter “Tav” is the picture of a “cross”. This spelling contains the clear hidden prophecy of Jesus’ bloody death by Him being nailed to a cross. As you can see this is described by God in picture story telling form found in just 3 alphabet ancient letter designs. God knew this would happen when Moses wrote the Torah, and placed His death again, in hidden alphabet letter meanings for the word translated as “to die”. It was hidden right in front of us for many years. Let us look at the first verse in the Bible, this word is selected for us by God:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Wow, if you only knew the hidden facts in this verse. As we can read this verse is God describing to the first created man Adam, that there was one tree of the knowledge of good and evil that he must not eat from. In this verse one hidden mystery that is profound occurs at the end of the statement. The words are “thou shalt surely die”, and these two words are really just the same word. They are the same word H4191 written twice. There are several potential explanations for why God wrote it this way. Some teach that when a word is doubled there is a major emphasis and this is probably a reason why the word “surely” was placed in the translation.
But I believe it is best to allow the Bible to interpret the Bible. For this reason, we can find Jesus speaking in Revelation 2:11 saying to the Churches, “He that overcomes, will not be hurt of the second death”. This literally means there are two types of death. The first is natural death, and the second is spiritual death. Most humans are only concerned about the natural death of their bodies, because they do not understand that they are a spirit, that will live forever.
Knowing the fact that there are two types of death, that are destined for some humans that do not ever repent to receive salvation to overcome the devil, helps us to understand why God placed 2 words “to die” in a row in Genesis 2:17. In one appropriate translation it could say, “in dying, you will die”. But it also appears that because the first Adam willfully disobeyed God, all of mankind was destined to die twice. Uh oh! That is the reason why this word is spelled the way it was. Jesus Christ chose “to die” twice in our place by placing His blood upon a wooden cross, to die physically, and simultaneously He died spiritually when He was separated from His Father in heaven, by spending 3 days and 3 nights in hell (Mat 12:40).
We can clearly see how Jesus completely fulfilled this prophecy of Genesis 2:17 for payment of all human sin by becoming our substitute. This is why God could say in 1 Corinthians 15:22, “For as in Adam, all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive”. Because Jesus shed His “Mem” blood hanging nailed (Vav) to a cross (Tav), God’s justice payment was satisfied, and no other human needed to go to hell. To be “born” twice, will insure only one physical death and for some saved humans in the end of the age, a “no death” exit. This message was hidden in the “Mem” + “Vav” + “Tav” Hebrew word translated as “to die”. Hallelujah, and all praise be to the merciful LORD.
4. Jesus God’s LAST ADAM – God’s Mem Blood Sacrifice
We are about to get into some more amazing hidden prophetical statements that were concealed in the Old Testament about who Jesus was. If you have read other Bible lessons in this series you should already know that Jesus is called the “Last Adam” in 1 Corinthians 15:45. In this verse Jesus is compared directly with the “first Adam” introduced to us in Genesis 1, 2, 3 & 4. Reading in Romans 5:14 God reveals a secret that the first Adam as a patterned type for the Last Adam. In all these verses, God says the first Adam was created as a living “soul” pattern, for the “Last Adam” named Jesus who would be made by God to be a “quickening Spirit”. That is an amazing statement of comparison. What we are focused upon is the fact that both men are called “Adam” by God. This name has a lot of major implications attached to it.
We are primarily concerned about the letters found in the Hebrew name “ADAM”. We are about to discover something very amazing hidden in this name. First, we must know that the last letter in the name is the study subject “Mem” representing both blood and water. The Bible word “Adam” is the Hebrew word “H121”. It is not a translation of the Hebrew word, but rather it is a transliterated pronunciation of the Hebrew letters “ADM” (Alef+Dalet+Mem), pronounced as “Aw-dawm”. The first letter of the name Adam is “Alef”, the strong ox representing God. The second letter of the name is the “Dalet”, representing the “door” of the tent tabernacle or the movement in or out through the opening where a son is born. The last letter is the “Mem”, representing our substances of water and/or blood indicating life.
Now let us remember what we have just learned about the word H1818 that is translated as blood. Please recall this word is pronounced “dawm”. It was spelled as Dalet + Mem and just so happens to be the last two letters in the name Adam. These two letters are symbolic of the human heart as a “door” (Dalet) that allows movement of the blood (Mem) throughout the body. Most humans are aware of the physical heart muscle that pumps the human blood into all the rest of our body. This physical muscle is named the “heart”. It operates by contracting and expanding automatically, in the conjunction with the opening and closing of valves as if the opening and closing of doors (Dalet). The physical heart figuratively represents your spiritual house, and the valves represent the doors of the heart house. It is the Mem “blood” that was placed inside of us by God to pass in and out of our beating heart. The normal human heart beats over 100,000 times a day in order to keep us physically alive. Most humans take this action completely for granted.
What we are about to find is that this physical “heart” organ represents an unseen spiritual state. The human spirit is also called by the same named “heart” in the Bible. It is this spiritual location that Jesus wants to enter into to fellowship with us all. For example, notice this verse in Revelation:
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Let us stop and analyze an invitation that Jesus gave to every human on the earth. We will begin by first noticing the reference in the words of Jesus to a “door” (Dalet) that he is standing before knocking. Jesus is definitely the God servant Ox figure of the Alef. Therefore, we have the Alef standing before the Dalet. These are the first two letters of the name Adam.
You see we learned in the “Dalet” lesson that Jesus is our door for salvation, and by us choosing to enter into this door, we can be saved. But Jesus is not the only door that is necessary to be opened in order for us to become fully saved. Every human has a spiritual door provided for God access, that must also be opened by the human spirit in order to be necessary for their salvation to occur.
By a human opening their heart’s door, they are allowing the Spirit of Christ to come inside to give them eternal life by Him being their LORD. Both doors (Jesus and human) must be entered into by both covenanting partners and these acts produce a union of becoming one Spirit (1 Cor 6:17) in two realms of existence. Jesus wants you to invite Him into your heart, and He will enter your newly created spirit (2 Cor 5:17), to bring you into the presence of the Father in heaven. This is the LAW of marriage found in Genesis 2:24 for the first Adam that is re-applied by God spiritually in the Last Adam (Jesus). But this covenant of marriage is between Christ and His bride the church body (Eph 5:31-32).
Now that you know that, we need to get back to our Hebrew letters found in the name “Adam”. We just discovered the Dalet + Mem means moving “Blood” as if alive. Now let us add the first letter “Alef” and place it before the root word “blood”. Remember, that the first letter “Alef” has the most basic meaning of being a representation of “God”, who is the ultimate “beginning” and strong servant. The last part of Adam is “Dalet” + “Mem” (H1818) meaning “blood”. Combine these and we get “God’s blood” or “the blood of God”. Wow! That is pretty amazing information. God has hidden the fact that found in the very first human man, was His very own “blood”. That is pretty remarkable and we can confirm this by reading and studying more in Genesis:
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
OK, we can read that the body of the man was formed from the dust of the earth. But it had no life until God breathed into Adam His breath (Spirit). God is a Spirit (Jn 4:24). Therefore, God does not breathe created “air” (oxygen). What then did God place in the body of Adam to cause him to become a breathing human? What is God saying to us here? Notice that this action giving life is called the “breath of life”. That is pretty amazing based upon what God says in Leviticus:
Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Did you notice what God reveals about the life (H5315) of a human body that causes it to be alive? God clearly reveals that it is “blood” that causes physical “life”. God had to place His “blood” in the body of the created man to cause Adam’s physical life to come alive. But that is not all of the truth necessary to know everything that happened to the first Adam when God “breathed” into his nostrils.
Jas 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Can you begin to see the direct connections being made by the LORD? God says in James, that a human body without their spirit is dead. Then in Leviticus God declares the life of a human body is in their blood. What did God just say? God just said, that if there is no human spirit or blood in their physical body, there is no physical or spiritual life present. This was the case for the body of Adam in Genesis 2. It was not until Adam received the breath of God that life came inside the body. Where then did Adam’s blood and spirit come from? Both of these could have only come from God.
There looks as if there is a new revelation appearing, about the fact that when God breathed (His Spirit) into the nostrils of the lifeless body of the first Adam, that He placed His personal life, inside Adam to give Adam a sinless blood and him a sinless living spirit simultaneously. Uh oh? This information could probably be causing a lot of religious minded people to potentially close their minds. But it is what the Bible says. Adam when created was in a form of a being that could have lived forever, if they had not eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It was only after sin, that death entered into the world.
What we are learning is that the first created Adam, was created more like the Last Adam Jesus than we might have realized. But because God knew the end from the beginning, God also knew that the first Adam was going to sin and fail. And this fact is why God placed the “Last Adam” inside of the first Adam as a “seed” (Nun). By pre-planting the physical “seed” (Nun) of the “Last Adam” in the physical body of the first Adam pre-sin, God already had the solution for post-sin from the very beginning (Alef). God reveals this by calling Jesus the “Son of Man”. The Hebrew word H121 transliterated as Adam is the exact same word (H120) that was translated as “man”.
These Bible truths may or may not be a new revelation for you, that Jesus our Savior was designed by God into the foundation of the world from the very beginning. God implemented this strategy of making Jesus the pre-planned “slain Lamb of God” from the foundation of our world (Rev 13:8). We can understand that because God knew the end from the beginning (Isa 46:10), He already planned a solution implementation to pay the penalty of human sin and rebellion even before it became a reality need. We are learning that Jesus was not just a thought in the mind of God during creation but was rather a part of God’s designed solution implementation. God’s nature is to provide the solution before the problem is ever known. Nothing surprises Him in the least.
God provided a future body of the Last Adam Jesus the savior of the whole world, by placing His physical body seed “IN” the body of the first Adam when he was created. This is the truth, or otherwise Jesus could not ever be called by the title “Son of Adam/Man (H120)”. But there is a lot more challenging new information to combine with this one. For example, Jesus the Last Adam, is also called the “Son of God” as well as being the “Son of Adam”. That is a new mystery that needs further revelation. How can Jesus the Last Adam, also be a Son of Adam as well as the Son of God? And what else does all of this information about two Adam’s imply?
We need to discover another major new Bible concept, that God says the “first Adam” was also a “son of God”. That may be more challenging than anything that you have ever learned in the Bible. But we are about to discover why this is so important in relationship to our “Blood” Mem letter study.
Please remember in Luke 3:38 that the first Adam was called “the son of God”. I know the word “son” is not in the Greek text, but it is implied strongly by the reference of every pair of men being a father and son relationship that pass their “seed” bloodline to the next generation. Are you going to try to tell us that everyone pair is a father and his son, except the last pair, God and Adam? That would not logically make any sense. Patterns are prophecies of truth in the Bible. Remember this information was already confirmed by knowing that the three letters of the name of Adam meant “God’s blood”. Now notice what God says in this verse:
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
God has declared that all people from every nation on the earth, originally came from the blood of God that He placed in the body of the first Adam in Genesis 1-2. There are no races of people, no matter what the tone of the skin color or the physical characteristics. Every human has the same original parents named Adam and Eve and their blood could have only come from God. The fact that all humans came from one woman named Eve, is scientifically proven by observing human DNA origins going backwards from woman to woman until the single common woman that is called our mitochondrial-Eve by Wikipedia. Go read about it for yourself. This information was first published nearly 30 years ago.
What we are learning is very profound. We can begin to see the value that God places upon every human and why it was necessary for Him to come to the earth in person to redeem us. This is why God says in Hebrews 10:14 that it is not possible for the blood of created animals like bulls or goats to take away (human) sin. Why would this be? If man had been given the same kind of blood as animals, it would surely be possible for their innocent blood to pay the price for human sin. Or if God gave His blood to the animals like He did to Adam, that would make us all of the same type. But because humans were the only one that was given God’s blood, God required the same or greater payment to save us. Hebrews 10:14 is just one more confirmation. But let us look at other references in the first chapter of Genesis to further confirm God’s blood was placed inside of Adam:
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The Hebrew word translated as “Likeness” in Genesis 1:26 is very important to our subject of the first Adam being God’s son, and having God’s blood. This Hebrew word “H1823” translated as likeness is made with combining 4 Hebrew letters. These letters are the “Dalet”, “Mem”, “Vav” and “Tav”. Wow, now let us place these meanings of each of these letters together to see that they say “Blood” (Dalet+Mem), “Nailed” (Vav) to a “Cross” (Tav). This was obviously God’s original plan for Jesus.
But another definition for this Hebrew word translated as “likeness”, has this meaning in the Ancient Hebrew Lexicon as; “A son from the blood of his father resembles his father”. What we have just reaffirmed is the fact that the first Adam was a son of the creator heavenly Father. This is what amazed the angels that observed God’s creation of the first man Adam (Job 38:7). God places His own Spirit life and blood inside of the body of His created man, and this made him different than any other creation up to this point. The angels in heaven could look at the created first Adam and see a direct family relationship to creator God. It is very much like people can look at my son, and see my characteristics in his looks, actions, characteristics, etc.
Jesus the second man, and last Adam, also possessed the singles pure blood (Mem) of God. It was the fact that Jesus lived His life without sin, that gave Him the right to pay the price of all of us human sinners that were born in the first Adam’s family blood line. Believe it or not this is the truth. God even tells us of this in the Hebrew word prophecy found in the letters of the word translated as “Truth”.
5. God’s (Alef) + “Blood” (Mem) + “Cross” (Tav) = TRUTH
One Hebrew word translated as “truth” is H571. This is an amazing word to our Bible study. This word is spelled with three letters. The first letter is the “Alef” representing Jesus the strong Ox servant. The second letter is our study letter “Mem” representing “blood”. The last letter is “Tav”, representing “the covenant mark of the cross”. Placing these three letters together God gives us the prophecy of “God/Jesus blood on the cross is ultimate truth”. Remember what Jesus said to us in John 8:32? In this verse of very profound revelation, Jesus said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free”. Wow, do you see God’s connections to knowing who Jesus was, and whose Spirit and blood was found in His body, by His selection of the spelling of this Hebrew word translated as “TRUTH”?
Jesus just mentioned the word for “Truth” twice in this single statement in John 8:32. Within the context you can clearly see that Jesus is speaking to Jewish people. There is no doubt in my mind or heart, that He was speaking in Hebrew the word “Truth”. Remember that Jesus very plainly claimed to be the “Alef” and the “Tav”, four times in the book of Revelation. This word “Truth” is indirectly connected to that claim because of the beginning and ending letter of the Hebrew word. This would tend to teach us that Jesus also understood what the “Mem” in between represented as being His “blood”.
We have just learned something very significant about two Adam’s. Both of these men originally contained the sinless blood of Almighty God. The first Adam rebelled against God, and this did not faze Him, because He had already planned another Adam to save us all. Because God Himself became this second and last Adam, God could insure and guarantee our salvation personally. We also see why it was necessary for Him to come because of His original man being designated to be so valuable by God placing His own blood inside of his body.
It is the “Mem” spotless blood of Jesus that is the primary emphasis to our study of this ancient Hebrew alphabet letter. Without this blood sacrifice on a cross, we would all be lost and going to hell with Satan. That is the “TRUTH” (Alef+Mem+Tav). Hopefully, you are learning and seeing some new amazing things that were hidden in the spelling of words with God’s “Blood” in them. We will only go through one final section in this lesson, ending with a description of how the water and the blood symbols of the “Mem” were found in the life of Jesus from beginning birth to the ending death.
6. Jesus’ the First and Last – Mem Water and Blood Prophecy Fulfillment
Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
We are beginning to wrap up this Mem blood study, by connecting the beginning and the ending of the physical life of Messiah Jesus. Never forget the basis of this entire series originates from the fact that Jesus directly claimed 4 times in the book of Revelation to be the Alef and the Tav, the beginning and the ending. From this information, Jesus implied He was also every other letter of the alphabet that fell between the first and the last. This certainly included the “Mem” water and blood letter.
What we are about to see, is how the life’s beginning and the ending death of Jesus were clearly connected and woven together by God’s designed plan using both of the major Mem symbols of water and blood. We are about to discover how both the beginning of the Jesus’ life and His ending physical death involved His human interaction with natural water and blood. Wow! This is impossible to be a coincidence. This knowledge simply confirms the infinite foreknowledge of God to incorporate every Hebrew letter into the life and ministry of Jesus. It clearly demonstrates God’s extreme intelligent design of every detail including the alphabet letter choices.
What we are about to discover is that the “entrance” of Jesus into the world involved the interaction of both Mem “water and blood”. Then we can notice the exact same two interacting components in the death of Jesus. Let us begin first with the birth of Jesus first using the above prophecy found in Isaiah 7:14.
Why was it necessary for the Messiah to be conceived within, and born from a “virgin” woman? God very specifically prophesies this plan hundreds of years before it was fulfilled in the virgin woman named “Mary”. Think about it? Any woman could get pregnant. Even Sarah at the age of 90, who was well passed the time of having a child normally, suddenly and miraculously had a God promised child. Sarah was a type of the mother of Jesus. Yet she does not come close to matching the profile of the virgin Mary, other than both being miraculous conceptions. It appears this birth of Christ was going to be even more miraculous than that birth of Isaac. In Isaiah 7:14, God reveals this birth will be for a “sign” (H226).
This Hebrew word H226 translated as “sign” is spelled “Alef” + “Vav” + “Tav”. The combination of these three letters reveals the meaning, “God nailed to a cross”. This word can also literally mean the “mark of a covenant agreement” between two parties. We all know Jesus claimed to be the “Alef” (beginning) and the “Tav” (End) four times in the book of Revelation. The joining nail in between these two letters represents a bonding connection. Placing this information together we can get another image of the “beginning” of Jesus being joined with His “end”, and amazingly this occurred in the Gospels very plainly. Let us examine why God selected a virgin woman first as the beginning for Christ’s physical birth.
1Jn 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
1Jn 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
1Jn 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
These are amazingly parallel verses found in the New Covenant about our subject letter “Mem”. Notice the mention of “Truth” at the end of the verses related to the Spirit of God. Then notice that four times in these three verses, “water” is mentioned directly. Four times in these three verses, “blood” is directly mentioned. Therefore, there is no doubt that we are directly over the target letter “Mem” subject.
Remember in the introduction we were talking about three components H2O that were designed by God to describe one element called “water”. This pattern is found again here, being repeated amazingly in great detail. Let us begin by noticing verse 5 is describing the birth of Jesus. This is strongly implied by God’s usage of the Greek word G2064 that was translated in verse 5 as “came”. To come is a term indicating that a person has been in a previous place and has now manifested in the current location, representing physical earth.
This simply means that Jesus came down from heaven, being sent by His Father who was still there, and it was accomplished by the Holy Spirit overshadowing a woman named Mary. It is very important to note upfront that the child Jesus spent 9 months inside this woman before He “came” into the world. Then you better not forget how this time was spent? These 9 months were God as a developing child surrounded by “Mem” water. That is your first clue that God is about to reveal something more intense is coming.
We can learn all about this reading in Luke chapter 1. God the Father sent an angel to Mary to inform her that she is being favored by God. She is told that she would have a child. She asked the angel how this would be possible, since she had not “known” a man. This simply meant that she was a virgin. That was a great question. The angel then informs her that the Spirit of God would come upon her to cause this child to manifest. Again, we find the entire trinity in the conception of Jesus. The Father in heaven, sent the angel with the “Word” message, the Holy Spirit would come upon Mary, and the Son of God would manifest. That is all another amazing three in one interaction of God.
Ok, that brings us back to what is a virgin and how is this connected with 1 John 5:6? Notice in this verse of 1 John, God reveals Jesus was born with both blood and water being mixed together. How is this possible during child birth? Normally it is not possible. There is never any blood present during normal childbirth. But Mary was a virgin. This meant her hymen was still present in her birth canal. This little piece of skin was designed by God to produce blood flow when torn. Normally this occurs the first time the woman has sexual relations with her husband, but Mary had never experienced this until after Jesus was born (Mat 1:25).
Can we see what God is revealing here? Normal childbirth labor occurs with breaking of the membrane to release the flow of water in the womb. It was this Mem “water” that Jesus the Son of God grew in, until He could be born. When Mary’s water broke, the normal gush of moving fluid exited and was followed by the head of the baby Jesus. During the exit from the womb, Jesus had to have broken the hymen and that would also cause Him to pass through the blood of His mother. Do we understand that the sole created purpose of the hymen in a female, is to bond in covenant with her husband? That sounds a lot like the description of the Hebrew word “H226” that was translated as a “sign”. Do you believe this was a beginning sign for something major that was happening in one of the first works of God in Christ’s birth? Take a look at another verse of significant revelation concerning the birth of Messiah:
Gal 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
As we can see, God sent His Son Jesus, by Him being “made” inside of a Hebrew virgin woman named Mary. Jesus spent the normal duration of 9-months to fulfill the birthing time. But please notice the major emphasis for why He was born of this woman Mary. According to God, Jesus was born of Mary because she was under the Law of Moses, and this fact made her child Jesus to also fall under the same LAW! Uh oh? Let us say this again. Because Mary His mother was under the Law of Moses, Jesus her firstborn son, also was placed under the full Law of Moses. Why was this necessary?
Some ask the question, isn’t it His law already? Didn’t God speak this law to His servant Moses directly? We are not able to teach this revelation as fully as is needed today. God had a problem in heaven after Lucifer sinned and rebelled causing 1/3 of the angels to fall with him. Did you know there were no laws in heaven when Lucifer rebelled against God? Did you also know that in Romans 4:15 God says where there is no law, there is no transgression? This is one of the main reasons why God created Adam on the earth.
God brought about a nation from Abraham that He could introduce His “LAW” through. It was this fact of being under His LAW, that Jesus, who was God in the flesh, manifested. By God placing Himself under the Law of Moses in the flesh, He placed all of His creation under the same LAW and this included Lucifer and every other angelic being, good or evil. Notice what God reveals to us in this verse about the LAW:
Rom 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
God’s Law of Moses only applied to those natural people that were born under His law. This appears to imply that it did not apply to God, nor any other angelic being, nor any other nation that was not in the Old Covenant. This is very amazing implied information being given to us. God appears to be revealing to His saved church, one significant reason for Him being born on the earth, was to place Himself under His own law. What was the reason for this act? According to what we just read; it was to “silence” the mouth of everyone in the world. Who is the god of this world that needed to be silenced? 2 Corinthians 4:4 says Satan is the god of this world that blinds the minds of every unbeliever. Uh oh, we are learning some great new information.
Using this information and other verses in the New Testament we will find that because Jesus could live the LAW as a sinless man, He could pay the price to allow for human salvation, while simultaneously legally rejecting salvation for Satan. Jesus seems to have accomplished this condemnation by His death on the cross:
Joh 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Notice what Jesus reveals about Himself and His soon coming crucifixion on the cross. This soon coming event of His Tav cross death, according to Jesus appears to be one of the final nails in the coffin on Satan. This is very enlightening information being given to us by God Himself. This is also a very eye-opening new way to look at the verse 1 Corinthians 2:8 for some. In this verse God reveals “If Satan would have known the reason for the life of Jesus, He would have never crucified the LORD of glory!”. Are you beginning to see why? Jesus living in the flesh under the Law of Moses, and never breaking the LAW, could have lived forever in His sinless state or existence. He would have never been able to die. If there would have never been a death, there would have been no burial. If there would have been no burial, there would have been no resurrection from the “dead” of anyone. But because Jesus was the “Firstborn” from the dead, He gained preeminence over Satan for eternity separating God from the realm of darkness totally and completely. This could all occur because God came into the world born of a woman under the law through His water and blood interaction.
We will not go through all of the other verses of 1 John 5 in this lesson today. It would take literally books of new information to reveal everything God is saying to us about the spirit, blood and water connections in the life of Jesus. What we should conclude is Jesus was intentionally born into the world passing through both “water” and “blood”, which are the two major meanings of the “Mem” pictogram. But now let us move to the end of the life of Jesus to see how these same two substances are again mentioned and joined together at His ending death. Please notice, that none of this is a coincidence.
It just so happens that one of the last recorded events that befell the natural body of the LORD Jesus, occurred while the body was still hanging on the cross. During this event there occurred the mixing of both Mem “blood” and “water”, that fell upon the ground. And this sounds like the birth of Jesus exactly.
Joh 19:33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
Joh 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Joh 19:35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Joh 19:36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
Joh 19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
This is really amazing how God accomplished this work. God by His infinite foreknowledge knew everything that would take place on crucifixion day including the exact time that it would occur. We are only going to focus upon verse 34 for our Mem study lesson. Soldiers were coming to every man crucified, to break their legs to speed up their deaths since it was getting close to 6 PM that began the new day Sabbath evening. Jews demanded that these 3 men, not be left on the cross to defile their Sabbath. Isn’t it interesting how the number 3 has appeared again. When the soldiers came to Jesus, they were surprised that he was already dead.
But for good measure to ensure His death, one soldier took a spear and with its sharp point pierced the body into the heart of the Lamb of God. Instantly after the spear was extracted from the body of Jesus, both blood and water flowed out upon the ground. Wow, that is both of the major symbols of the Ancient Hebrew Mem letter picture. This just cannot be a coincidence; it is definitely another major sign of the intelligent design of an all-knowing God.
Notice the connection in this passage again to 1 John 5:8. The Spirit of Jesus leaves His physical body, and the body is dead. Then the spear is placed into the physical body and the “water” and “blood” is poured out on the ground. What did John say in 1 John 5:8? These three agree in one, the spirit, the blood and the water. Did not all of these just leave the body of Messiah? What were the three witnesses saying in agreement?
- Without the “Spirit” the body is dead,
- Without the “blood” the body is dead,
- Without “water” the body is dead.
What we have just seen in this section, was the beginning birth process and entrance of Jesus involved by a passing through Mary’s natural bodily “water” and “blood” fluids. But before this natural birth of Jesus occurred, she heard the Word of God and believed it to receive it. Then the Holy Spirit comes upon Mary passing even to her spirit through her bodily fluids of both “water” and “blood”, in order to cause her to be physically impregnated in her womb. When this happened the Word of God became “Flesh” (Jn 1:14), and this grew a new manifestation of God as an unborn child called the Son of God, Jesus. God’s Spirit now lived inside of a natural woman in a sack of “water”, surrounded by her “blood” being fed by an attached umbilical cord.
Now consider this additional factor of Mem “water” and “blood” in this birth process. The union of Mary’s physical egg with God’s Word/Seed caused a baby to begin to develop. In as few as 5 weeks this God/Man baby had the basic structure of a heart that caused the flow of “blood” through the continuing to grow body’s circulatory system. Wow, this is amazing. Now we have a self-contained body unit inside of His mother’s self-contained body unit. Mary’s body being a daughter of Adam, Abraham, Judah and David had sin’s corruption within it. What allowed God in the flesh to be inside this sinful woman and her not to drop dead in God’s presence inside?
The answer is found in the previous stated fact that declares Jesus’ body to be a self-contained independent temple of God. The growing baby inside Mary’s womb, as we learned previously had the incorruptible blood of God, that was sinless and spotless. It was just one drop of this powerful blood that was immediately able to pay the full sin debt of all humans in the entire time of man’s history on the earth. It was also this blood that had allowed God in the flesh to touch the sinful woman Mary’s body, and her not fall dead instantly. In the mind of God, the Lamb of God growing inside Mary’s body had already been slain when Adam sinned. This is why Jesus could walk up to sinful humans and say to them in advance before His natural death, “your sins are forgiven”. He knew what was going to happen in just a short time.
That was a lot of uses by God, of Mem “blood” and “water” interactions. We will see even more examples of this in the next lesson that will focus upon the subject of “water” predominantly, the Lord be willing. But all of these cooperating works in agreement of God’s Spirit, Water, and Blood is what gave Him the legal right to be physically born as a human baby into the world (Jn 10:1).
Now combine the beginning entrance of Jesus into the world, with the legal witness of His exit out of the world. As we learned previously God’s usage of “blood” and “water” and His Spirit were witnesses to both situations. Did you know “blood” is a witness? We read in Genesis 4 where the blood of Able cried to God from the ground. This established the fact that “blood” speaks even after death as a witness to his murder. Did you know also, that the Blood of Jesus also speaks? In Hebrews 12:24, we find where God says “The blood of Jesus speaks better things than the blood of Able”. Now we have just learned some amazing truths.
We have also established a fact that both the birth and the death of Jesus were witnessed by three realities of the same substances. The first was the Spirit of God. The second was the “blood” of God, and the third was the word of God. I know you thought that was supposed to say the “water” of God. But in the next lesson, we will confirm this Mem “water” represents God’s spoken Words. We can already begin to see this reading in John 1:1 where God says, “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God”.
Now combine John 1:1 with Genesis 1:1-3. “In beginning God (Elohim + Alef-Tav) created the heaven and the earth, and the Spirit of the Lord brooded over the waters, And God said, “let there be light”.
There appears to be an even greater usage of God of His water and blood hanging on a cross than we might have ever seen before. Remember that it is the blood that was poured out of the vessel of the body of Jesus that establishes the New Covenant creation of God. This is why Jesus could cry with a loud voice hanging on the cross “It is Finished”, speaking of God’s old creation containing Lucifer. The ending last natural work of Christ on a cross was for Him to supply an offering of His blood and water for the full one-time payment and cleansing of all human sin. That is amazing! Thank you, Jesus! It was the witness of these three elements, Spirit, Blood, and Water (Words), that gave God the legal right to raise Christ back from the dead, after the first Adam’s human sin penalty was fully paid for in three days.
7. MEM – BLOOD CONCLUSION
It was God’s powerful, wonderful and amazing Mem “Blood” that purchased us out of an eternity of spiritual death separation abiding in hell. It was God’s blood that caused every human sin to be able to be cleansed and removed from God’s judgment. We have been focusing upon the Mem “Blood” substance representing the blood of Jesus, our LORD and Savior. We have explored several Hebrew words that contain the “Mem” blood letter. We learned about Jesus coming to the earth “to die” two deaths that were revealed to happen in Genesis 2, if Adam sinned. God had pre-planned the solution to this problem by already establishing a pathway of blood for the Last Adam to be born as a baby child in Bethlehem.
We further studied the fact that the name “Adam” means “God’s Blood”. We further studied the Hebrew word translated as “Likeness” confirmed Adam had the blood of God in His body. This teaches us how valuable created man was to God from the very beginning. The first man Adam was made slightly lower than God Himself and certainly above the angelic class of beings. But He fell below them becoming in need of a great sacrifice to save us.
We also learned the Hebrew word translated as “TRUTH” is Jesus the Alef and the Tav joined with the “Mem” blood connector. We will always be eternally grateful to what God did to become a human to bring about a clean blood supply from heaven to pay the price of all of our sins. Thank you, Jesus! This was only “Part 1” of the Mem study subject. The LORD willing, we will learn the Mem “water” application to Jesus in “Part 2”. We appreciate your time in studying the Bible with us. Satan literally hates these lessons because they are blessing so many people.
Intro Alef Beyt-1 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Avin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav Alef-Beyt Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 21 – The Resh
(Ver 1.1)This lesson is “Part 21” in the Bible study series revealing the Lord Jesus Christ, that had been hidden by the Spirit of God in His design of the original Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. This lesson is another truly amazing subject uncovering extraordinary, veiled information in one letter of the Hebrew alphabet called the “Resh”. If you have not read this series from the beginning, it is recommended that you go and do so with “Part 1” first. There is just too much information that has been given in each lesson that cannot be fully repeated in the others. But this lesson will stand alone for those that desire to see only the application of this one alphabet letter.
Please also understand that these are “advanced spiritual lessons” from the word of God and are potentially offensive to the unsaved, immature carnal, or newly born Christian. In the last published lesson, an immature commenter left some hateful remarks because of their potentially wrong or differing beliefs. Can we please understand how childish of behavior that is? Why would anyone say ungodly things to anyone, especially a Bible teacher telling others about Jesus? A real Christian would never do this.
Therefore, before you read these lessons, please pray and ask the LORD should I even be reading this? Then analyze what should be my response if I do not agree with what is being taught about Jesus? Please accept a suggestion. Walk in love and please do not leave an unsolicited evil accusation about anyone or anything you don’t agree with. God is Love! And you only prove you don’t really know Him, by speaking evil of His children (Mat 12:34).
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Today we will be learning only a limited amount of God’s important information about the letter “Resh”. There are literally volumes of books that could be written on each letter and how it applies to the work of God in Christ Jesus. Here is a quick list of the contents of this lesson’s sections:
- Introduction – The Ancient Hebrew Resh
- God Exalts Jesus Higher than ALL
- Jesus the Resh Prophecy Fulfillment
- Jesus God’s New Covenant Prince
- Jesus God’s New Covenant High Priest
- Jesus God’s Head King and Head Priest
- Jesus God’s New Covenant HEAD (Resh) of the Body
- Personal Application of God’s Resh to Rule
- The Resh Conclusion
Let us get started with learning this incredible picture of God’s Resh letter being representation of Jesus Christ.
1. Introduction – The Ancient Hebrew Resh
The ancient Hebrew letter “Resh”, is the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and has the gematria number value of “200”. The letter “Resh” can be spelled as a Hebrew root word with these three letters; “Resh” + “Alef” + “Shin”. The Hebrew root word H7218 are these three letters, and it means “to shake the head”. This Hebrew word is closely sounded as “Roshe”. A “head” is a very clear representation of what the ancient Hebrew letter “Resh” represents literally being translated this way as “head” or “heads” over 300 times. This meaning has direct application to the LORD Jesus in many verses and we will learn this soon. Head is the literal definition of the letter (Resh) and the word “Roshe”, but there are also additional figurative applications for what a “head” represents. Let us explore some of the other times this word is translated into the application of something beside a man’s physical head.
For example, the Hebrew word H7218 was translated as
- “Head” – 264 times,
- “Chief” – 97 times,
- “Top(s)” – 75 times,
- “Beginning(s)” – 14 times,
- “Captain(s)” – 10 times,
- “Sum” – 9 times,
- “Companies” – 8 times,
- “First” – 6 times,
- “Company” – 5 times,
- “Principal” – 5 times,
- “High” – 3 times,
- “End” – 2 times,
- “Rulers” – 2 times,
These are not all of the words that H7218 was translated into, but it is enough to teach the basics. For example, we can clearly see a pattern of rulership authority of government, political, military, or religious leadership. We can also see a well-defined meaning and application of someone or something that is above or begins the rest of the focused subject.
Let us look and learn about a few of these word selections and usages by the LORD in His word. For example, let us look at this verse with the word H7218 translated as “beginnings”:
Num 28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
When the word H7218 is translated as “beginnings”, it can be applied to mean the “first” of a series of similar other items in a numbered or accumulated sequence. It is very much a description of a mathematical “set”. All members in the set are of like kind, with “first” of importance being determined by “order” of reference or preference. In this verse of Numbers 28:11, God uses the word “Roshe” (head) to represent the “beginning” (head) day of a month. In literal Hebrew terms, it was understood that this first day of the month could be called “the head day of the month”. Or the first day of a new year could be called the “head day of the year”. Or the first month of the year could be called the “head month of a new year”. So, the first month of a new year could be viewed as the head of the other 11 months, that would follow in sequence. This too is an amazing concept, for us not to forget and it will apply to Jesus. Now let us shift our focus to another application that is also similar to a head representing a new beginning within a different application:
Gen 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
The first time the word H7218 (Roshe) is used by God is found in Genesis 2:10 . In this verse God describes a river that flowed from the garden of God called Eden. This river was divided into the “heads” of four other rivers. This description is an amazing hidden concept that figuratively teaches us that a “head”, means a fresh start or beginning of something new with each branch being a new name. God gives us the names of these four new rivers that originate from one, in the verses that follow in chapter 2, as Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates. Notice how these four new rivers did not exist until they came from one greater river life source. All of this is highly symbolic spiritual information that cannot be fully covered today. But we will do a quick overview of some of the basic concepts being taught by God.
It is good to understand that this description of 1 originating river in Genesis 2, applies to represent 1 father. This father at its source is the head of a family, and he is called “abba” (Alef+Bet) in Hebrew. Remember the “Alef” is a picture of the “Head” of an ox representing a strong servant and ultimately God Himself. He is the source of the spiritual “seed” (Word) for creating new life in all of his newly born children (Heb 12:9).
Remember that a newly born physical or spiritual “son” in the father’s house (Beyt) is the Hebrew word “Ben” (Ben+Nun). The word ben means “the father’s house (Beyt) continues in his seed” (Nun). Now notice another new connection to our story of the Resh. The Hebrew root word for “river” (H5104) is “NR” and is spelled “Nun” + “Resh”. Do you see how the ending letter of Abba, “Beyt”, begins the word for the “son” of the father? Then do you see how the ending letter of the “son”, the “Nun” begins the Hebrew root word for “River”. Then notice the ending letter for the river, is the Resh, which we are discovering is a potential new “Head” of a son. Therefore, we have transitioned from one head (Alef Ox head) to another human head (Resh) by the passing of a “seed” (Nun). This is how practically every major part of creation was designed to operate by God.
We are beginning to learn that a father river is a type of a natural or spiritual father that branches with “seed” to create a new generation in his son. The son is also a river of “seed” that is capable of producing another generation or branch of the originating father’s family. In spiritual terms we are speaking of God as the ultimate father of spirits (Heb 12:9). Then we can see how God the Father sent a flow like a river of His word (Seed=Nun) to create His Son (Resh) Jesus Christ (Lk 1:38). Then it was this Son of God walking on the earth that speaks the waters of life out of His mouth to begin (Resh) a new creation of believers (John 4:10). This is all spiritual application that is being manifested in the natural. We have the Abba God (Mk 14:46) being spoken to by His Son Jesus. We can find that the source of Jesus’ strength was from his Father (Jn 8:32), like the main river that is described in Genesis 2.
To help confirm these concepts, let us examine the root word letters for “river” to see how they relate to a father and son. These letter as we recall are the Nun + Resh. The Nun as we know is a picture of a “seed”. This certainly relates to a “son” who is the seed of their father. The “Resh” represents a head of a man, which can mean first, beginning, top, leader, prince, and etc. One relative meaning of these two letters can reveal to us, “a New Seed Beginning”, which could also say “a new Seed Ruler”. Just as one natural father passes his seed to create (begin) a new son, so a father river flows to create any number of new “branch” rivers (sons). As long as the children rivers remain attached to father the feeding river, they will never run dry and die. This is exactly what the first Adam did incorrectly by disconnecting from God, who was his primary life source. This separation came from Adam committing rebellion to sin against God. But this is precisely what God repaired in the Last Adam, named Jesus, who chose to remain connected to His Father (Jn 5:30). We have just confirmed that a “Resh” represents a new “beginning”. That is very important to remember. Let us further confirm what we have learned about fathers and sons with a new verse containing our subject:
Exo 6:14 These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
Notice in this verse, God uses the word H7218 (Roshe) in a similar way as we have just learned about the heads of 4 rivers. Here in Exodus 6:14 the word H2718 is used to describe the “Roshe” (head) of a family house (Beyt). Here we find a father named Rueben who is the firstborn son of Jacob, and he is also being called a father who progenerates four sons of his own.
We will briefly explore the Hebrew word “BR” pronounced as “bar”. This Hebrew word is made of the “Beyt” + “Resh”. The “Beyt” means a family house and the “Resh” is our “Head” study letter. Placing these two letters together we arrive at the meaning “a house of heads”. This Hebrew word is applied to 3 or 4 different meanings. The first is that of “Grain”. A planted field of wheat or corn seed, produces multiple stalks of corn or wheat with each head containing more seed to produce, more of the same kind. These are the Hebrew words H1250 (corn or wheat) and H1251 (field).
Now the other word we need to focus upon is H1248. This word is translated as “son”. So, a “house (Bety) of heads (Resh)” can also mean a father that produces many sons. This obviously applies to Jacob who had 12 sons that we can study in Genesis and in our Exodus verse about 4 heads from the house of Rueben.
Can you see the repeated patterns of Genesis 2:10? One father river named Rueben just branched off and begat and began, 4 new branch river sons (heads) named “Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. We have just confirmed how patterns are repeated in God’s word and the concepts of one can be applied to the other. All of these concepts can and do apply to God’s unseen spiritual truths also. Let us move to another application of what a “Resh” represents as a “head”.
When H7218 is translated as the word “top or tops”, it is frequently joined with the word H2022 translated as “mountain” or “mountains”. For example, in Genesis 8:5 Noah is first able to see the “Roshe” (head) of the mountains as the flood waters begin to subside. So, we can see how this word applies to the tip, apex, peak or crowning top of a mountain or even potentially any other object. This concept teaches a “head” represents the “crowning” highest point of a much larger body under it. So, we have a physical description again, that can be applied to a spiritual application. For example, please read these verses about a mountain and what they represent:
Rev 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Rev 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
If we could, we could spend days talking about this chapter of Revelation. However, we just want to stop and focus upon our subject of a Resh (head). Notice in verse 9 it begins with the words “here is the mind that has wisdom”. Most people should understand that these next words about to be given are applied to be a spiritual application. Then notice our “resh” subject is the main topic since God is describing someone with “seven heads”. This sounds very similar to our river subject in Genesis 2 with 4 heads.
Now notice the connection of “heads” with mountains. This is not an accident or a chance occurrence. Finally, notice how this information transitions, into rulers in the next verse. God defines these heads of mountains to be “kings”. What we have learned is how God again uses natural patterns to describe far greater spiritual truths. So, we have found another direct set of connections of the heads (top leaders) of mountains to represent kings and kingdoms. All of this is a very important concept to remember in relationship to Jesus, who He is and what God is doing through Him.
Deu 1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
When the word H7218 is translated as “rulers”, God is speaking of men that would “lead” another group of followers in the way that they should go. For example, in this verse of Deuteronomy 1:13, God selected the word “Roshe” (head) to apply to wise men selected to be the top, first or head person to “lead” each tribe of Israel. Do you see the pattern of mountain tops again? This is clearly a position of honor, power and authority, thus God requiring these to be wise. This is an official position and could represent a king, a prince, a chief, or captain as well as other roles. This too is an important concept that should be remembered when applying this concept of “head” to Jesus.
Eze 38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
At times the word H7218 is translated as “chief”, and it also applies to a person or spiritual being in higher authority over others. For example, in Ezekiel 38:2 we find God applies this word “Roshe” to represent the “chief” (head) prince that is ruling a physical place location called “Meshech and Tubal”. We can see how a “head” prince can figuratively be the title of the top or highest royal ruler, with others implied to be under his authority. We have been confirming with numerous examples of how a “Resh” head represents a leader with authority. These are remarkable descriptions of Jesus, please do not forget it. But let us transition into another application for the letter “Resh” that also directly relates to Jesus:
2Ch 24:11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
2Ki 25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
In 2 Kings 25:18 and 2 Chronicles 24:11 God uses the word H7218 “Roshe” (head) to describe the high, or chief priest. This title clearly made this single man someone that was the leader of the rest of the priests, as well as being “the” representative of the entire nation to go before God with blood sacrifice offerings every year. Most of you should already understand how this matches precisely to point us to Jesus. But we will talk in more detail about this very soon.
Most can view the ancient Hebrew pictogram of the “Resh” and see the clear image of a man’s head turned to the side. This profile image is normally facing in the direction of west on a normal map. Remember the Hebrew language is read from right to left or from sunrise east to sunset west on the directions of a map. This would cause the right side of the page to be the east side of the writings or could be called the beginning or first letter and word of what is to come. Therefore, the right side could represent what was read in the past, and the left side can represent what is coming in the future. It is interesting that this man’s head is looking to the future and not focused upon his past.
Another very profound characteristic of this picture is found on the top of the man’s head in the letter “Resh” picture. As you can easily observe, there is an appearance of a cap, or a crown. This is a key identifying characteristic of a practicing Jewish male. It is also a sign that this man is potential royalty like a prince or king. That is amazing since we should know that Jesus was all of these. Jesus was a real practicing Jew, a Prince, and a King. We will see this more soon.
We have learned from the Hebrew word H7218 that is transliterated as “Roshe”, and consists of the same letters that make up the “Resh” letter (Resh+Alef+Shin). This word taught us that the “Head” represents the top of the body. It also has a vast amount of implied information that is associated with it. For example, here is a list of some of the key items of a head:
- The “first” part of the human to exit the womb at birth.
- The control center for neurological impulse reception and response.
- A body with no head is dead and vice versa.
- The head can turn in limited terms independently from the body.
- The head is implied to be leader or center of control of the rest of the body.
- The head is implied to be the part of the body that is making decisions and leading the rest of the body under authority.
- The head is the primary source of knowledge. All 5 physical senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) functioning in the head, with the rest of the body only experiences a touch feeling domination.
That was a very quick introduction to the basic concepts revealed by God in the Bible about the letter “Resh”. It must be understood that this word is used both literally and figuratively to represent one of the following:
- A head,
- A Leader,
- A Prince
- A Chief,
- The Top
- The Highest
- The First
- The New Beginning
We will find Jesus being called these in enough verses to confirm to us, that Jesus has been chosen by God to fulfill the prophecies found in the letter “Resh”. Yes, these concepts can and do also apply to other spiritual, physical and natural beings, and items found in creation and this is important to know because that was one of God’s major purposes in Christ, was to fix those beings and things in creation that chose to rebel against Him. Let us get started in our more detailed study of Jesus in the Resh.
2. God Exalts Jesus Higher than ALL
1Ch 29:11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Notice this verse written about the LORD in the Old Testament. It clearly implies that there are multiple dimensions of created authorities that God must rule over. The Hebrew word H4984 that is translated as “exalted” comes from a root word defined as “to lift up” above others. This implies so very much in the Bible and requires us to ask who are all of these others that God must be lifted up to be higher over?
In the list of translated words that we found in the beginning introduction, we should have noticed that many of the terms are synonymous relationships for the same concept. For example, “head”, “highest”, “top”, “chief”, “principal”, “ruler”, “captain”, etc. all describe someone that has been promoted above others. These terms concern the subject of leadership “authority”. Authority is a powerful subject in the Bible. This letter “Resh” represents a symbol of a man in “authority”.
The Hebrew word H2022 is one word that is translated as “mountain”. A mountain can be defined to be the “head” of the earth’s terrain. H022 is spelled “Hey” + “Resh” meaning behold the head. So, we have a direct association with a mountain being a head symbol of authority. You can find this symbol being used by God in Revelation 17:9. It is very interesting that even Christ was crucified on a hill named “Golgotha”, which has the meaning the “skull”. This makes Christ’s death to be associated with the head (Mat 27:33). But let us focus on the associated concept of “authority” first.
Perhaps you recall the “centurion” that comes to Jesus asking for Him to heal his servant in Matthew 8:6? This man gave us all a lesson about authority. He told Jesus, “You don’t have to come to my house, just speak the word only, and my servant will be healed”. Jesus marveled at this man’s faith and said, “I have not seen such great faith, not even in Israel”. The centurion explained to Jesus “I am a man under authority, and I have soldiers under me, I say to this one go, and he goes”. If you were ever in the military, then you understand ranking authority and the order of command.
In the position of order, being the top leader or chief of an organization gives this person “highest” priority of rights to make the key important decisions for everyone working for them. But they also hold the responsibility of success or failure of their decisions. But one way a leader’s decisions are not successful and it is not their fault is when those under their authority are rebellious. This was God’s problem with Lucifer in heaven. Lucifer was one of the created angelic class of beings that was in a “chief” role of authority. We can see in Revelation 12:4, that Lucifer caused 1/3 of God’s angelic beings to be swept away by his craftiness. This implies that they were all under his authority. That is very significant.
Being the “top” of a kingdom, organization, group, or whatever, means this person may be the beginning of that entity, or they could also have inherited their position from a former leader. For the Kingdom of God, both of these are true with Jesus Christ. God the Father spoke words and created everything good that we can see around us. But Lucifer and his sin of pride and rebellion, was the first to corrupt the perfect creation of God. This was a very significant problem. Therefore, God created a world containing a new man made in the image of God without any sin or evil being present (Gen 1:26-31). Believe it or not, this was a new kingdom on the earth. This human kingdom only had one law, and it was God’s intent for them not to eat of one tree, but Adam rebelled. Therefore, the sin consequence of “death” entered into the world to be passed upon everyone born into the world.
It was the created man named Adam that was made to be the “first”, the “top”, the “chief”, and the “head in the likeness of a “resh” prince, over God’s freshly re-created world system. When we study Psalm 8:4-5 we will find God’s description of Adam’s placed order of authority. We will learn in these verses that there are no created beings higher than Adam in authority in the order of rank other than “Elohim” God. God was the only one that was not put under Adam’s authority. But notice this designation of authority included every angelic being, including Lucifer, the serpent. We can clearly see how by creating a “man” God has a plan to eliminate “Satan’s” power and authority.
Remember that the “first” (Resh) Adam is a direct pattern of the “Last (Resh) Adam” named Jesus (1 Cor 15:45). Many do not yet understand that our current world system is only an interim step from the first world system that was made by God previously (2 Pet 3:6). This first physical world system perished and was destroyed by a global flood found in Genesis 1:2. God provides a description of this destruction without any man being created in Jeremiah 4:23. But we know this destructive chaos state was not how God originally created the first world system by reading Isaiah 45:18. In this verse God declares He creates nothing without form in a state of chaos, and says the earth was made in the beginning to be habitable. But that is a different Bible study.
Therefore, we have concluded the current world is not the original world system corrupted by Lucifer who is also a Resh ruler of that old government. But our current world given to Adam’s Resh rule is also not the final world system outcome, because God is creating a brand-new Resh rule system in Christ (1 Cor 5:17). This new world will be fully implemented with the creation of a new heaven and earth coming in about 1000 years (Rev 21:1).
We do not have the time to fully teach this reality of truth today, about the previously created world system. But the introduction to the subject can be found in the lesson series “The World that Was” on this website. What is important to understand, is that if Satan can get people to discount or dismiss the first world system that was completely destroyed, it is much easier to get them to ignore the coming new world system reality that is taking place already in Jesus Christ. This is what Peter taught us in 2 Peter 3:4. In this verse speaks of people who say “Where is the promise of His coming?”, and “all things have continued the same since the very beginning of creation”. In other words, nothing has changed and this is exactly what the devil wants you to believe. Satan is still proclaiming today, “Nothing has changed since I ruled originally, and nothing will ever change”. But this is a lie.
But we are all living physically now in God’s second created world system of Government with Adam as the original “Resh” prince of the world. We should all know, that this “first” man Adam joined forces with Lucifer to rebel against God (1 Tim 2:14). This willful rebellion caused the old heavenly problem of sin to enter into the new world order of authority. This agreement (covenant) with death entered into by Adam (Isa 28:18), also gave Satan the number one top ranking position (Resh, head) over God’s newly created world system (2 Cor 4:4), as well as in heaven (Exe 28:14). Uh oh, can you sense a lot of readers shutting their minds off after reading all of this potential new information found in the Bible? Just please be patient and learn some potentially new things that may have never been seen by some in the Bible.
By committing sin, Adam sold out humanity for nothing (Isa 52:3), for us to bow to a new line of authority of evil that was never found present before. Before Adam sinned, they knew only created “good”, and the Creator God, who is always good. It was sin that introduced “evil” and the ruler of this dark evil named Satan into the present world. Many don’t believe that, but that is what 1 Corinthians 4:4 teaches us. Satan is called the “god” of this world system. We should also know that it is people in this world that live in darkness that are still under his control (Jn 12:46, Eph 2:2). Let us talk next briefly about covenants and how they factor into authority and rule:
It is very interesting to see that the Hebrew word “Yada” (H3045) that is translated as “know” in Genesis 3:22 designates a covenant relationship between two physical or spiritual beings. We can understand the covenant association of the word H3045 (Yada) by reading Genesis 4:1. In this verse God says “Adam ‘knew’ (H3045) his wife and she bare a son”. This term to “know” or “knew” is clearly associated with two individuals that are in an intimate “covenant” relationship being “one flesh” (Gen 2:24 first Adam) or “one Spirit” (1 Cor 6:17 Last Adam).
The root word of “Yada” is “Dah”. These two letters are the “Dalet” and the “Ayin”. The “Dalet” is the picture of a tent door”. The “Ayin” is a picture of the human eye. Placing these two meanings together we learn this word means the human or the spiritual “eye door”, or the “door of the eye”. We can see how the eye is one key opening in the human body to gain the knowledge of God. You are using your eye door to learn about Jesus hidden in the ancient Hebrew language, and if you have a text reader you can also hear the words being spoken with your ears. Either way the “knowledge” of God is entering into your spirit and this knowing and believing, opens your ability to receive the Spirit of God to be saved.
Joh 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might KNOW thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
As you can see in these spoken words of Jesus, anyone “knowing” God and Jesus they are saved to receive life everlasting. It is your continuing experiential knowledge of the true God and His Son that He sent, that guarantees your salvation. But let us continue with our “Resh” study of two Adams and see how the covenant concept applies within this subject.
In Genesis 3:22 God makes the statement that the “first” Adam has become like God Himself, “knowing” (H3045) both good and evil. This is amazingly important information. By this statement, God claims that He was in covenant relationship with the good and the evil (rebellious) created angelic beings. But now the created “first” Adam on the earth who only “knew” (H3045) the good/God, was also in the exact same situation as was previously only found in heaven a place of previous perfection. This is a good time to remind you of the Bible fact that Satan is also called a “prince” (Resh) ruler. Therefore, we have at least three “Resh” figures, being connected. These are 1) Lucifer/Satan, 2). the first Adam, and the ultimate ruler 3) the Last Adam, Jesus.
This is one of the main reasons why God became a human made like the image of sinful flesh. He did this to condemn “ALL” sin in His own body (Romans 8:3). Through the physical death of Jesus on a cross 2000 years ago, and His spiritual death of being in hell for 3 days, he has made ALL sinners condemned by the work of God on a cross.
Joh 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
Joh 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
As we can read, Jesus’ death on a cross was a judgment upon the “prince” of this world. We know the term “If I be lifted up from the earth” is referring to Jesus hanging on a cross in the realm of the earth’s atmosphere. We know this because in John 3:14 Jesus compares his coming crucifixion to be the fulfillment of the Old Testament event of Moses lifting up a serpent on a pole. Moses did this to physically heal the snake bitten people of Israel that were dying a death of poisoning (Num 21:8). God’s work through Moses was a symbolic representation for what God would do in Christ for the world. This amazing work would save all that believe in Christ, from Satan’s (the serpent’s) poisonous lies, that were sending us to an eternal death apart from God.
Jesus is informing us that by Him being crucified is guaranteeing Satan’s ending destination in hell. He did this by being made “sin” (2 Cor 5:21). Also note that “sin” is a synonymous term for Satan (1 Jn 3:8). When Christ defeated sin for all mankind, He defeated Satan’s authority over us (Col 1:13).
We can call the location of Christ’s crucifixion in the physical atmospheric realm to be the first heaven. It is the first heaven of human existence where Satan the Resh prince of the kingdom of darkness rules (Col 1:13). Hopefully you understand that just as there are three created worlds, there are also 3 heavens mentioned in the Bible. The first being the earth’s atmosphere (Eph 2:2). The second heaven being the physical universe containing galaxies, stars, planets, etc. (Gen 15:5). The third heaven being the spiritual heaven location of the throne of God (2 Cor 12:2).
When God is said to have condemned “sin” with his death of Christ in Romans 8:3, this judgment included Lucifer and all of his rebellious angels as we read in John 12:31. This is probably more new information that you have never heard before. But not knowing of something does not cause the information to be true or false. This is why we are reading Bible verses and learning truth. The Spirit of Truth that wrote the Book is on the inside of you to either help you see it or to deny it is the truth. Trust God, not man!
We must ask questions when we read scriptures. God is not afraid of your questions. He is the author and knows exactly what He wrote and what He meant when He said it. Start by asking God about His need for coming to the earth personally to be born a baby under His own law (Gal 4:4). Then ask why did this personal appearance of Himself in human form need to die? We just saw a major part of this answer in Romans 8:3 with his work of condemning all sin in one body. Now ask God another great question. If Lucifer aka Satan had been sinning since the beginning (Jn 8:44), then why was Satan and all of the rebellious angels not cast into hell immediately? What kept God from judging the perfect Lucifer instantly? The answer to that question is beginning to be opened to us in Romans 2:27. In this verse God declares where there are no laws there are no sins.
Are you now beginning to see why God created a new world with a new first Adam that had only one law? Then 2400 years later after sin entered into the world, God introduces to the world through the natural nation of Israel, a huge book of many complex laws. All of this was designed to trap Satan under these laws to condemn him, and simultaneously teach all humans that we had to have a savior to free us from the penalty of sin, which is death. Both of these were accomplished in Jesus who is the Last Adam. Jesus in comparison also introduced to us in the New Covenant, only one new commandment called “LOVE” (Jn 13:34). The parallels to the first Adam are amazing.
This brings us to so many new questions for God to answer. But we will stop there. What we all need to see, is that the ultimate answer to every question, is revealed in the works of God in Jesus Christ. God solved every problem that He had with Lucifer, and humans had with sin and Satan as their “god”. All of this was accomplished by Jesus becoming a new “Head”, a new “Leader”, a new “Prince”, a new “King”, a new “Chief”, all in a new “Creation”. These are the “Resh” letter concepts.
We have just gone through a quick introduction to a very deep subject that most have never seen or understood. We were introduced to three Kingdom systems of government that were implemented within three created world systems. The first world system was destroyed on the earth, but continued in heaven. The second world system with the first “Adam” ruler was created as a separate system with one “law” transition into many laws after sin entered into the world system. The created being Lucifer became the “god” of the first Adam’s world. This is why God brought Jesus under this world system, to die and save humans from their eternal death. But in doing this Jesus was also exalted above every name that has ever been named. This had to include “Lucifer”. God confirmed this in Phillipians 2:9:
Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
In exalting the risen from the dead Jesus, God initiated a brand-new creation that had never existed before apart from Christ. This divine action of the “Most High” God excluded all previously created beings, again including Lucifer. We can see this confirmed in this verse:
Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Here we have the reference of Jesus being lifted up far above, every prince (Resh), power (authority), kingdom as well as every name. Then this verse ends with the powerful statement about this has also been extended into the “world” that will be coming. Hopefully, this is all being received as a marvelous work of God.
Now in this present evil world, everyone that enters into Christ has become a part of the transitional new creation rulership of God’s Kingdom on the earth (2 Cor 5:17, Rom 5:17), still waiting for the coming fulness of the final new creation apart from all evil. God’s new creation is growing mightily today, and will be moved completely into the coming new world. The current world system will be suddenly terminated and will never be seen again by those that were saved out of it. At the ending of the current world, the heaven and the earth will be destroyed and a new creation with Christ’s rulership will continue eternally. Lucifer and all evil, will be eternally locked up and eternally separated from all good. Thank you, Jesus! Let us now continue to see other applications to the Resh being the fulfillment of the LORD Jesus.
3. Jesus the Resh Prophecy Fulfillment
Let us continue to get into some more of these amazing “Resh” concepts that we have been learning about. It is essential to see every Hebrew alphabet letter as a prophecy of the coming Messiah. God designed it this way. Jesus acknowledged this by saying in John 5:39, “Search your scriptures for in them you believe you have eternal life, and these are they that testify of me!” Did you notice what Jesus just said? Jesus has just claimed to be hidden in every scripture, and this cannot be completely true, unless He is also hidden in every alphabet letter that create the words of the scriptures. For example, we already know Jesus claimed to be two alphabet letters directly by saying I am the Alpha (Aleph) and the Omega (Tav). By making this direct claim, Jesus has just implied I am the rest of the letters in between also.
Therefore, we must be able to find the coming Messiah LORD Jesus, in every alphabet letter. And God will be revealing His work in Jesus, for His New Covenant through a letter with a picture of a man’s head that represents a prince. In our Resh Letter we are learning of the prophecy of Jesus as a “Resh” (Head) of God’s Kingdom. We will also discover that these prophetical concepts of the “Resh” letter, have been fulfilled in Jesus precisely. Let us go through a few more of these verses in the New Testament:
Heb 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Heb 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
The underlined words are the ones that we will focus upon in these two verses. We can clearly begin by noting these words are a description of Jesus. Next, pay attention that Jesus is described as “crowned” with glory and honor. That is clearly a promotion that is taking place above others. In this verse we can also see the ones that Jesus is being promoted over, are called “angels”. Wow, that sounds like the class of beings ruled over by Lucifer who was the anointed cherub that covered them (Eze 28:14). The word “cover” appears to be another term for someone that is over others, and in this case, it appears to be angels.
Notice in this verse 9, that Jesus was “made” a little lower than angels, in order for him to “taste” death for every human under the power of death that Satan (Lucifer) possessed (Heb 2:14). This manifestation of the eternal Creator God on the earth to die, appears to be an implied temporary demotion. Remember angels do not ever die (Lk 20:36). Pay close attention to the revelations being given about what happened after the death of Jesus on a Cross. We find that the risen from the dead Christ was “crowned” as a clear “Resh” head symbol of rulership. This crowning appears to be a very clear promotion, based upon the context of Him being made lower than the angels in verse 9. This appears to be God “exalting” His Son Jesus to be far above all angels, including Lucifer.
It is primarily verse 10, that caused us to come to this passage. We can see at least one word definition that is connected with the Resh. In the translation of this verse Jesus is called the “Captain” of our salvation. This Greek word is G747 and it is defined by Strong, as “a chief leader”. The majority of the time it was translated as “prince” and we will get to this application soon. But we have confirmed that Jesus is called a “chief” and a “leader” of the people that are being saved. These people represent New Covenant members of the church.
1Co 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
This verse is very deep and we will only focus upon the first statement. This verse says God has put all things under the feet of Jesus, with one stated exception. To be placed under someone’s feet is a term of being raised up into a place of high authority and power for the person whose feet are above whoever it is that is being stood upon. But it is also a symbolic statement of “victory” over a defeated enemy. In this case this is Jesus who is exalted to a place of superiority gaining the victory over Satan.
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,
Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
We can again confirm how Jesus was raised up to be exalted into a superior place of authority. This great working of the power of God is amazing, because it took place exactly when the devil thought he had won the victory. Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of God and is now seated waiting for the appointed time to come to get His church bride.
If you look up the Greek word for “all” (G3986) it is defined as the “whole” of the defined set of the subject being discussed. In other words, there are no individuals or subsets of the set that have been excluded. In this case of verse context, God is referring to every part of the first and second created worlds and all of the authorities that were given power within them. These verses have directly mentioned the existence of a “current” world power system, as well as a “future” world power system. This only leaves the one world that existed before our world that is not directly being mentioned here.
Therefore, Jesus was raised up over EVERY authority and power that God created from the very beginning of Genesis 1:1. This teaches us that Jesus was raised up to be the “head” over, an almost complete list of the living or dead. This “ALL” would exclude God the one who spoke and created the world we live in. God is not an enemy of God and Jesus is God! Therefore, the only enemy of God that He is still awaiting the complete victory over, is death (1 Cor 15:26). Finally, notice that the name of Jesus was also placed in authority over every other name in creation. How was this accomplished?
Act 26:23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Ok, this is a verse of radical truth. Because Jesus died in the current world system under the law of death, He could become the “first”, or the “beginning” of all the dead, to be raised from this current created “sin and death” world system (Rom 8:2). Being the “first” makes Him the “beginning”, and “Head” (Resh) of God’s new creation world system (2 Cor 5:17). As the “beginning” of God’s “new” creation, Jesus simultaneously became the “end” of the previous system on the “Tav” cross. With the death on the ending letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Jesus has just begun to repeat with the first letter of the alphabet. This was what Jesus was claiming in Revelation 1:8.
This is a great time to review the spelling of the Hebrew first letter “Aleph”. This letter is spelled as a word with the letters “Alef” + “Lamed” + “Peh”. The “Alef” is an “ox” representing God and His power and strength. The “Lamed” is an implied shepherd holding a shepherd’s staff indicating the implied presence of sheep under his authority, thus this letter is describing a “Resh” type of leader individual with authority. The final letter is the “Peh” and this represents the picture of the human open mouth pointing us to the meaning of speaking words. Wow, now put all of these together in a sentence for God’s pointer representation of the prophetical letter “Alef”. These three letters would say, “God’s strong shepherd with authority ruling with words”. If that does not describe Jesus in His present and future capacity, I do not know what does. You can see that this is how Jesus is going to rule with a sword of words coming out of His mouth (Heb 4:12, Rev 19:15) at the end of the book of Revelation. Let us get back to Jesus as the “firstborn from the dead”.
Yes, every human under the first Adam has died since sin entered into the world. But not one of them has ever been raised from the spiritually dead until Jesus. Every righteous human that died in the past before Jesus, went to a cavity under the earth called Abraham’s bosom (Luke 16:22). But with Jesus’ physical and spiritual death, He was resurrected from the dead to be the “first” born-again from the dead (Rev 1:5). If we read Colossians 1:18 we find Jesus called the “Firstborn from the dead” as well as the beginning. Both of these concepts reveal the fulfillment of Jesus as the “Resh” head of a New Creation.
This is an essential concept for all Christians to understand. It was our God that chose to end the old creation to begin a new creation and the new is growing and becoming exceedingly great in Christ. By entering into Christ, the head of the “new” creation, God has removed the penalty of the law of sin and death that was previously given to the first Resh Adam. This was spiritually removed only for those that have been saved “in” the Last Resh Adam (Jesus) (Romans 8:2). The physical death penalty will be completely removed after the fulfillment of the time period allotted and reserved for the current world death system to operate which is coming sooner than you think. We could talk about all of this a lot more, but let us move to a new synonym, revealing Jesus our New Covenant Prince (Resh) next:
4. Jesus God’s New Covenant Prince
Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
We will begin with a favorite Christmas card verse in Isaiah. We will only focus upon three key facts in this verse. We must initially realize this verse is a prophecy of the coming Messiah/Christ who is Jesus. We will notice how we are seeing the prophecy of a coming “Son”. This is the “Ben” (Son = Beyt + Nun) of the “Abba” (Father = Alef + Beyt). Next notice the reference “the government will be upon his shoulders”. Where is the “head” located? Uh oh! Yes, it is found on the shoulders. What is a government to God? It is always a “Kingdom”. Remember that when Jesus began to minister, He preached, “the Kingdom of God is at hand” (Mat 4:17). We can clearly see how Jesus came to bring God’s heavenly kingdom to the earth as one of God’s designed intentions. This further implies that Jesus is God’s coming new beginning “Head” King.
Then we must understand the last statement title of Christ in this verse. Jesus is called the “Prince of Peace”. We can see in this description how Jesus is associated with being a ruler within a kingdom called Peace. We also know from Romans 15:33 that God is called the God of Peace. Therefore, Jesus is God and God’s kingdom of peace will be ruled by Jesus.
Next, it makes logical sense for us to ask what is Peace? The Hebrew word H7965 is translated as “Peace” and it is the very common Hebrew word “Shalom”. Shalom (peace) has broadly inclusive application of more than just “Peace” in western terms. This term can apply to being externally “safe”, “well”, “happy”, “healthy”, “prosperous” as well as being blessed with experiencing internal spiritual “peace”. Remember when Jesus was about to die and ascend back into heaven, He said “My peace I leave you” (John 14:27). This indicates that those that have joined God’s new kingdom of “Peace” in Christ have what Jesus obtained and given to us right now.
Now the Hebrew word H8269 that was translated as “Prince” in Isaiah 9:6, is additionally translated predominantly as “prince” or “princes” (plural) approximately 209 other times. In other verses it is translated as; “captains” or “captain”, “chief”, “rulers” or “ruler”, etc. It is clearly a word that is defined to represent a person who is in the high role or responsibility of kingdom/government rule and authority. Let us analyze the letters that make up this word.
The Hebrew word translated as prince H8264 is spelled as “Samekh + Resh”. We can immediately see this word contains our study alphabet letter. The ancient Hebrew “Samekh” letter can be viewed as the picture of a “hand holding a staff”. Do you remember what we saw in the “Alef” beginning letter previously? There appears to be a God connection happening to this word. This letter implies a man that is walking in his authority, and consequently turning to move in a potential new direction. Remember, every human choice is a potential new direction of travel. We learned in the “Lamed” lesson that the staff represents the authority in the man’s hand that is holding it. If he is a shepherd leader, or a prince, then he is carrying this responsibility in order to protect, lead, move or travel calling for those sheep that will choose to follow him.
Thus, when we combine this letter “Samekh” with the “Resh” representing a man’s head, we can see how the basic meaning of the word combination is “to turn the head”. This turning of the head would only include those “sheep’ like people that were under the authority of the prince. But this prince ruler could choose to lead the people under him, in a new direction, for either good or evil depending upon his heart. This concept implies that there was a change from the previous self-willed direction as well as their past desires. This is amazingly describing salvation, with our Chief Shepherd (Jesus), calling to His sheep (the church) to abandon following Satan in darkness, to now follow after Him in the Light. This is us following a new leader, going in a new direction for a new way of life.
What we are learning is the man in authority of a kingdom has the ability to turn the heads of those that are “submissive” under his rule. We can see how Christians have been translated out of the kingdom of darkness and Satan’s authority in Colossians 1:13. We are studying the subject of “Christ” as “Prince”, but we find Satan called this repeatedly in the New Testament also, but it is a different kingdom. A division has taken place in heaven, and all authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to Jesus. In doing this, God created the beginning (Resh) of a brand-new creation, initiating a New Covenant, for a new spiritual nation of people, with a new commandment, with a new King, and a new High Priest. Praise the LORD!
Act 3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Act 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
As we can clearly see Jesus is called the “Prince of Life” in this verse. This was after Jesus was raised from the dead. Therefore, we have the fulfillment of the Isaiah “Resh” prince prophecy already having been fulfilled. But the title of this prince is designating Christ’s work to be associated with Him bringing dead humans a “life” departing out from their previous death realm that they were under in Satan’s control. Notice, verse 14 begins with the people selecting a “murderer” over the Prince of Life. This “murderer” is a spiritual reference to Satan’s kingdom who is called the “murderer from the beginning” by Christ in John 8:44. We clearly have two prince ruler choices for human who rule over two different kingdoms. If you are not in the “Light” of life you are in the “darkness” of death by default.
Act 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Here we find another message of Jesus being called a “Prince” and a “Savior” working together in two accomplished roles, through His one death on a cross. This is truly amazing how God can accomplish or reveal many things through a single word or work. This was only a quick review of Christ being called by the direct title of a “Prince”. This title confirms Him to be a fulfillment of the “Resh” letter prophecy as a desired good spiritual ruler. Let us move to a new role of Jesus that we learned was associated with the concepts of “High” and “Chief”.
5. Jesus the New Covenant High Priest
We have just observed Jesus being called a prince. But now we will learn how Jesus will also be called by a new title related to being the “Head” (Resh). Many Christians should already know that after Jesus died upon the cross, He was buried for three days, and then arose from the dead, He became a new type of mediating High Priest of God’s New Covenant. The first act of Priesthood was for Him to present His blood in the heavenly temple (Heb 9:12). You might remember that after Jesus arose from the dead, He was at the tomb to be united with His resurrected body and He told Mary not to touch Him, because he had not yet ascended to the Father (John 20:17). This ascending heavenly offering of His personal blood brought about eternal payment for sin with one sacrifice on the cross.
In being exalted to this High (Resh) Priest position in Heaven, He is now our God/Human covenant representative before God’s throne. Because God became a human, He could faithfully fulfill the righteous role of sinlessness, when the rest of the first Adam’s human descendants could not. Jesus the Last (Resh) Adam was physically born to die, to become the first (Resh) born-again spiritual New Covenant High (Resh) Priest. It was the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross that was taken into heaven and placed upon the heavenly greater mercy seat, that brought an end to the hostility of sin against all of mankind (Eph 2:16). Jesus was not only the unblemished sacrifice Lamb of God (Jn 1:36), but He also arose from the dead to be made the new heavenly “High Priest”.
You may or may not realize that there was an older heavenly high priest that Jesus traded with to become this role? We do not have the time to teach this fully, but we should already have the idea, that this being was Lucifer. One of the key reasons we know this is from reading Ezekiel 28:13, where Lucifer was described wearing a covering of every precious stone. God lists 9 precious stones in this implied “breastplate” gold covering. This is very profound because it is directly related to the Old Covenant “High Priest” breastplate described in the Law in Exodus 28:17-20. There are 9 stones of precise ordering and selection, with each stone being identical. The major difference between these two gold covering breastplates (heavenly and earthly), is that Lucifer is missing the 3rd row of stones. God appears to be giving the human high priestly order a one-row advantage, over Lucifer with these three additional stones.
Ezekiel 28:14 appears to describe the heavenly priest Lucifer’s duties, speaking of him being upon the holy mountain of God, walking up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. In these verses God describes this created being to be the anointed cherub. Lucifer is also described to be a living musical instrument, indicating that he was the leader of heavenly praise and worship in the beginning (Eze 28:13). This created “cherub” as a covering is another major clue to who or what Lucifer was created to be.
For example, God in Exodus 25:13 informs Moses to build the ark of their covenant and make two anointed cherubs as a “covering” over the “mercy seat” placement of God. This too represents some very deep parallels to Ezekiel 28, because Lucifer is called the “covering” cherub. Therefore, we have many connectors being made to a previous world system where God’s covering and priestly duties revealed in the Old Covenant, were implied to be performed by a heavenly being named “Lucifer” in the beginning of creation. But enough about the enemy that was defeated by the cross. Let us now turn our attention off of Lucifer and the Old Covenant and see what God is doing in Jesus in the New Covenant. Here are a few verses that reveal Jesus to be the new covenant “High” (head) Priest:
Heb 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Heb 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Heb 5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
Heb 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Heb 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
All of these verses in Hebrews speak of very deep spiritual parallels to what the Old Covenant high priests did as repeated patterns for what was coming in Christ’s (Messiah) one time sacrifice. The Old Covenant was designed by God to show the futility of sin for man. Without Christ, animal blood sacrifices should still be taking place today in Jerusalem. We can learn many things from these verses and their surrounding contextual verses, but that is not our study today. The main point is Jesus is called the “High” Priest of the New and better Covenant (Heb 8:6, Heb 12:24). Remember that He only offered Himself once for all of time and for every human within this duration of human history beginning with the first Adam in Genesis 1, and continuing to the end found in Revelation 22.
Let us quickly analyze the word translated as “high priest” in the N.T. The Greek word “G749” that is translated as “high priest” consists of two other Greek root words. These two words are “G2409” meaning “priest”, and “G746”. It is G746 that we need to focus upon. This was translated as “high” in the English language, but it is actually defined and translated as many of the same things as our “Resh” and “Roshe” (Head) letter and word. For example, here is a list of the main words that were translated from this Greek word G746:
- Beginning(s), 40 times
- Principalities or Principality, 8 times
- First, 4 times
- Began, 1 time
- Magistrates, 1 time
- Power, 1 time
- Rule, 1 time
The parallels to the Resh “head” as a leader of others is profound. It is extremely important to see how this word is also used to describe a “prince”. In the Old Covenant there were no men with the dual roles of being both a King and a priest. But it is clearly stated in Hebrews 5:5 that Jesus was created by God to be a High Priest after the order (type) of Melchesedic. It was Mechesedic that Abraham met with and he was both a king and a priest. Let us move into this concept next:
6. Jesus God’s Head King and Head Priest
We will begin this section with the Old Testament prophecy of Jesus’ dual Head roles being both a king and a priest simultaneously. This is also very important to know about what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. We will look at a verse in Psalm 110:
Psa 110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
This is a very strong statement about an oath the LORD (JEHOVAH) made about the coming Messiah/Christ. This man Melchizedek was a very special and unique one-time occurrence in the Old Testament. Melchizedek had no mention of parents or origin and no mention of death or ending reign, rule or his termination of priesthood. He is only mentioned in Genesis 14:18, after Abram took back everything that his enemies had stolen from him. In returning home with the spoils, Abram encounters Melchizedek, the King of Salem. We find that in this meeting Abram paid tithes of the spoils to this one King and Priest.
Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Heb 7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
Heb 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
Heb 7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
Heb 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Heb 7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
These are amazing verses of comparison being spoken by the Holy Spirit. We have three high priests being compared together in one passage of verses. The first, is the one man named Melchisidec who was the king and priest of Salem that Abram met before the law of Moses came 430 years later. Then we have the Law given to Moses concerning the Levitical and Aaronic high priest lineage of men that served but were separated from their high priestly duties by their natural deaths. Finally, the greatest transition came with Jesus Christ who was testified to be a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.
There are a number of important facts of truths in these seven verses. We are told Jesus came from the tribe of Judah in whom we know no priest came from because of the Law. We are also told that because Jesus came from the tribe of Judah, there was manifest the need for a change of Law. We know this new law was from Jesus giving us the new commandment of “Love” (John 13:34). The major fact revealed is that Jesus is also a simultaneous “High” Priest and King made in the likeness of “Melchisedec”. Let us end this section by looking at the prophesied fulfilled coming of this final reality in Revelation 19:
Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Please read the context to verify this is speaking of the LORD Jesus. The contextual verses can be describing none other than the LORD Jesus riding a white horse, coming from heaven with His saints following Him to take out all of the rebellious kings of the earth. It is most interesting that Jesus is called to be the “KING” of kings. This realization makes Jesus the “Head” King of the rest. Now place this information with what we can read in 1 Peter to observe the connections being made to the identity of the kings and priests that Jesus is KING and LORD of:
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Peter writing under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, says “we” (the church) are a royal priesthood. Uh oh! That is what Jesus is written to be. But Jesus is given the designation of the “Resh” to be the “Head”, of the rest of us that have been made like Him. We are about to learn how this was accomplished by God calling us the body of Christ. Wow, that is our next subject concerning the prophesied coming “Head” (Resh) in Christ.
7. Jesus God’s New Covenant HEAD (Resh) of the Body
God has implemented some very amazing spiritual things in the LORD Jesus concerning the New Covenant and the church. These new things in the spirit realm are patterns of previous things in the natural realm. In Ecclesiastes 1:9 God reveals to us that there is never anything actually completely “new” in the world. In this verse God reveals the concepts of designs being repeated so that new things were actually patterns from previous things that already happened. That is very deep, but this is how God chose to operate to help us understand what He is doing more clearly in Jesus:
Eph 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
These two verses are a part of one of the most amazing inspired prayers recorded in the Bible. The power that this prayer releases is beyond what many can imagine. It begins in verse 17 with the request “Give to us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him”. It would be worth your time to pray this prayer for yourself for at least 3 months, 3 times a day. The Bible will become a different book to you and you will see things that you have never seen before.
Notice in these two verses, God in writing about Jesus declares Him to be the “Head”. That is the symbol of the “Resh” that we are studying. Therefore, we are on target to learn something some may have not yet found. The Lord says Jesus is the “Head” over all things pertaining to the church. But this is not the complete revelation of the mystery. A head could be a figurative representation of a leader or ruler, but God in the next verse describes a literal connection of another type. Notice in verse 23, the church is called His “body”.
This is amazing, when you see it. The literal picture of the “Resh” has a missing body. It is not like the “Hey” alphabet letter that is a picture of the entire head, and body. Think of the created human body. It is comprised of a massive number of cells that are joined together to form one body. Each individual “cell” has its own specific job and function within the body to support the others. There are even specific cells that are designed by God to seek out, find, and destroy unwelcome invaders.
But the head of the body is the control center. Without the head, the body is dead. This was our exact condition when we were lost unsaved people. But by receiving Christ, we became a part of God’s new creation in Christ. This made us a single new member of the growing body of Christ. You do know your physical body is capable of growth and addition of new cells? This is the pattern of God’s body of Christ in the Spiritual realm.
It would be good if you could go and read 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 where God expands this topic about Christ’s body being made up of “many” separate members. But for the sake of time, we will end this section with two more verses that are important to our “Resh” study:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Verse 17 says Jesus was God who existed before any creation took place. It continues by stating that through Jesus (the Word of God) created these things, everything that was made is still being held together by Him. Yes, we incorporated other verses into that interpretation but they are found in the Word of God, and if this is new to you, it could be a challenge to accept at first. God’s word is so amazing in what He reveals to us, that people can struggle to accept it.
Verse 18 is our key verse connection to the “Resh”. Remember the “Resh” means a “head” which implies the “first” or “beginning” of something. Jesus is declared to be the “Head” of the body. Here we are also told again “the body” is defined to be the “church”. Then notice the next statements. Jesus is called the “beginning”. This is another perfect match to our original Hebrew letter and word “Resh” and “Roshe”. It is also a match for the Greek word G746 that was translated as “head” predominantly and “beginning” 40 times. In fact, this word “beginning” in this verse is this Greek word G746 other times translated as “head”.
Now for the ending popularly ignored statement of the verse. Jesus is again called the “Firstborn” from the dead. Wow, how many people preach Jesus was “born twice”? We know this statement cannot be referring to the Mary physical birth in Bethlehem. It could not mean that, because in that birth He was called the “Only Begotten” Son of God. If there is ONLY one, there is conflict with Him being called the “FIRST” that implies there are others to follow. No, in Romans 8:29 God confirms this second birth is Christ becoming the “FIRST” of many other brethren. This too is referring to the church. We will end with one of the final statements of Jesus written in the New Testament:
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
In this last chapter of the book of Revelation Jesus again confirms our reason for studying the ancient Hebrew alphabet. He directly claims to be the first and the last letters of the alphabet. He then claims the titles of the “beginning” (Head), and the end. He further expands the connections with the titles of the “first” and the “last”. In all of these statements we are seeing that how things were before “sin” and “rebellion” entered into creation, will be how it ends with a new creation in Christ. We are continually learning a new concept, that sin, sickness, poverty, evil, and all of the works of the devil will be purged and cleansed from existence.
How many times in this short section containing references to less than 8 verses, do you find references to “head”, “first”, “beginning” which are all direct references to the fulfillment of the ancient Hebrew letter “Resh”? God is just confirming what has been right in front of our eyes for hundreds and hundreds of years. Praise the LORD!
8. Personal Application of God’s Resh to Rule!
How do we apply our lesson of Christ as the “Head” to our personal lives now? This is a good question for everything we learn in the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God and is amazingly relative and applicable to our lives even in these very last days. Or more importantly, especially because we are in these last days before He returns.
The answer is found in several verses that we learned were about Christ our “Head”. Because we are informed that we are His body physically on the earth today, we can walk in, live in, and experience everything that He has given to us as a free gift. Think about how our head (Christ Jesus) is today seated in heaven. Is He worried about anything? If you answered no, then why are we worried?
Is Jesus wondering how He is going to make it through today? If you answered no, then why are we? Is Jesus sick today in heaven with cancer, tuberculosis, diabetes, corona, flu, or anything else? If you answered no, then how can that be in His body? Are you, His body? We learned that you are, if you have made Christ your LORD and Savior. There are immense benefits given to the body of Christ. Please read this verse and see what God says to you in it:
1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Here now God says we can be perfect (mature) in our love walk. This seems to be the determining factor for the rest of what is to follow next. In other words, there is a condition to the next promise. We will jump to the ending promise where God says “because as He is (now in heaven), so are we in this world (NOW). Uh oh! That is a challenging promise. I don’t know of anyone that is “perfect” in love completely 100% of the time, and this might be the reason why so many are experiencing un-Christ like experiences.
Another reason why people are being overcome by the devil, instead of them overcoming him, is probably their ignorance for who they are in Christ. If we do not know who we are in Christ, as His body, and what He has done for us and given to us, we will be unable to act by faith to achieve the complete victory. Yes, there are many saved Christians that are not experiencing the fullness of their salvation. Remember we read about this in Ephesians 1:23? In this verse we are told the Head of Christ’s “fullness” is the one that desires to fill all in all. That is a strange statement to some, but it is claiming that not everyone that is in the church has the maximum (fullest) capacity of Christ’s manifestation that is possible to exist in them.
How do we get more of God’s fulness to operate and manifest within us? In 2 Peter 1:2 the LORD gives us a clue of one factor. God reveals “Grace and Peace are multiplied to us, through the knowledge of God”. Therefore, we need to know God more to get more grace. How do we get to know Him? We read and study the Bible. It is primarily this banned book in schools, that will cause someone to become “full” of God and His Grace. Once the knowledge of God comes, we all have the opportunity to reign in life here and now as a “king”. We read this in Romans 5:17:
Rom 5:17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Notice the contrast of two Adam (Resh) rulers in this verse. The first Adam allowed Sin, Satan and death to enter to rule in this world. But the second and Last Adam’s defeat of Satan, causes a completely different ruler to reign, that is you and I as the body of Christ.
God says in this verse that saved Christians that have possessed the “abundance of His Grace” (Spirit and Word knowledge), and the gift of righteousness, will reign in life (NOW) as a king by what Christ has done for us and given to us. That is literally awesome. These verses inform us that if we read, study and learn the word of God we will find more grace, and if we obtain this knowledge, we will learn that our enemy has already been defeated and it is only our ignorance of who God made us as Christ’s body that allows Satan to dominate us. If you knew how much authority you had in Christ right now, it might shock you why you have let the devil do what he has done to you.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Jesus is the KING of kings and if we are saved, and found in His body, we are the “kings” that Jesus is the KING of. But notice in 1 Corinthians 2:16 we find a reference to a mind. But not just anyone’s mind, this is the mind of Christ our Lord and Savior. A mind is usually associated with the human’s internal brain found in the Head. This Mind of Christ is being connected directly to individual people named as “we”. This “we” people are the readers of the letters written to the church. Therefore, we have just connected the “body” of Christ with the “Head” (Roshe) mind of Christ. In this verse God reveals that the physical body of Christ on the earth, should believe and be operating as if we were under the power and control of our Head’s (Resh) named Christ.
Christians are NOT supposed to be the one in control of our lives now! We are supposed to allow our Christ Head to be our LORD, and we are supposed to “hear” Him, and “obey” Him. That makes sense, right? The big toe of the right foot does not tell the little finger of the left hand what to do. If the big toe hurts it can send a message to the “Head” and pray for assistance, but it is the “Head” that will react how He desires. Jesus will always be the “Head” member of His body. He will choose your role in His body. He will gift you with the spiritual anointings to perform your role. If we try to make these choices we will fail and will not be able to produce the “fruit” that He desired for our lives. Let us end this section of application with a new subject:
Exo 15:26 … for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
We are only going to focus upon the last statement in this verse. Here God reveals Himself with His Covenant name “JEHOVAH RAPHA”. The Hebrew word translated as “healeth” is H7495, RAPHA. This word is three Hebrew letters “RPA”, and it originates from a root word “RP” or spelled “Resh” + “Peh”. The first letter of the root, is our Hebrew key study letter a man’s head (Resh), and the second letter is a “Peh” that is a picture of a man’s mouth that is open as if speaking words. Wow! Why would God connect these two letter pictures together in a word that was translated as “heals”?
Do you know what this 2-letter root word means? It literally means “heal”, but it is applied to be with taking “medicine”. This is making sense, because most humans take their medicines orally with their mouth, and these are the pictures in the letters of this word. Therefore, God is revealing that a man’s head that is in need of healing is connected with his open mouth. A lot of people may not have a clue where God is going next with this application of His selected word and letters found in “Rapha”. So, we need to go to a new verse in Psalms to help us better understand what God is revealing:
Psa 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Notice what this verse says. God is sending “words” to “heal” (Rapha) someone. The Hebrew word translated as “healed” in this verse is the exact same one attached with God’s name “JEHOVAH” in Exodus as “RAPHA”, H7495. How does anyone send words to someone? Remember, we are not speaking of modern smart phone “text” messages in the days of Moses. If you are God in heaven, you speak them to your prophets and they write them down on scrolls for us all to read. According to what we can read in the Bible, that is exactly what God did to help us to receive healing.
In other words, God spoke words from heaven to become spiritual “prescription medicine” for us on the earth. He sent them to His people on the earth through mediator human prophets that heard from God, and wrote them down to be read in every generation. These written words were designed to be read in the temple out loud by the priest as a prescription to heal human bodies. But this only works, if God’s people would learn how to take (receive), this kind of spiritual medication. God required His people to hear and to believe the words and this began the healing process. We can see this happening in the Gospels with how Jesus administered healing in many of the examples that were written.
Let us analyze the spelling of the entire word H7495 (RAPHA), to become clearer on what God is teaching us. The root word “RP” is added with the ending first letter of the alphabet “Alef”. This results in “Resh” + “Peh” + “Alef” and is sounded as “Rapha”. Now this is more amazing than you might understand at first. Remember we learned earlier about two “heads”? Remember that one head was the “OX” (Alef)? Do you remember that the “Alef” represents the strong powerful servant image of God’s Christ? Do you remember the other head in the word was the “Resh” representing a man’s head? What did God put in between these two letters representing “Heads”? We have learned that it is a mouth (Peh) that speaks words. Wow, hopefully you are beginning to see something amazing happening.
Both, God represented by the strong OX (Alef) and created man represented by the “head” (Resh), have mouths that “speak” words. This implies such a vast amount of spiritual information. God has just implied that a man to be healed and brought back to life from death must speak the same words as if they were one mouth. Do you remember what Jesus said in Matthew 4:4? Jesus said “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God”. Do you see the connections being made here? They are astounding!
How do you take medicine? Most normal medicine comes in a liquid or a pill form, and one needs to put it in their mouth and swallow it. How does the doctor give you the medicine? They usually speak what you should take and even write it down on a prescription and you take it to get filled at the pharmacy. This is called a “prescribed” medicine. What does the word “prescribe” mean? It has two major meanings. Notice one root word of “prescribed” is “scribe”. That is a term of someone that wrote some words down on a page. We are now fully connected to the Bible text. The root word “pre” means before as in a “prefix” or beginning of another word.
The first definition of “prescribe” means to speak to set down a rule, law or direction. We must realize that this is how Moses received the “Law” of the Old Covenant that was written in ancient Hebrew. God spoke the words, and they became God’s Law on the earth. Wow, that is our first definition. Now the other is concerning how medicine is given out. The doctor “orders the use of a medicine” through the process of speaking or writing a “prescript(ion)” and in doing so they have just “prescribed” an ordered treatment. Do you see how these two are being intimately connected by God’s design?
But God is not talking about literal and physical medicine. Did you notice that Jesus compared eating physical bread for physical life, to be like eating God’s words for spiritual food and life? Guess what this means? This means we are supposed to put God’s words in our mouth to speak them out loud. And this is a picture of humans saying what God says in full agreement, as if we were connected with the same mouth. Do you see how this fits the pictures of the three letters found in “Rapha”? God is promising us that if we say His sent words, that this will heal us. But remember that just like taking natural medicine in the earth’s physical realm may not be immediate positive results, so too it can be in the spiritual realm of receiving.
We should all know that it is the “head” where the mouth is located. Isn’t Jesus the “head” (Resh) of His body called the church? Isn’t there only one mouth on this complete head-to-toe body? Now are you seeing the connections being made to the word “Rapha”? We have a one-man body (church) connected below the one head “Resh” (Jesus) with us all being called “Christ” (2 Cor 6:15). God is presenting us a new concept of unity with Christ. God intends us to be speaking the same words as He speaks. When we speak what God has said about us, we are in agreement with Him as if we were one common mouth. But when we speak what the devil places in our minds, we become a one mouth in agreement with evil.
God has spoken, “See, I have set before you this day, life and good, or death and evil” (Duet 30:15). Therefore, the choice to live or die is in our own hands, but actually our own mouths (Prov 18:21). If you look at the verse directly before this one, we will find a verse that is quoted in Romans 10. This verse says “The word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart”. This should be familiar to many. Today, God is instructing us how to live and to be healed is by us keeping only His words, in our mouth. This is one of the key applications of the Resh letter for the Christian church today.
9. Resh – CONCLUSION
We have been going through a brief study of the ancient Hebrew letter “Resh”. We have learned that this ancient pictogram was an image of a man’s head facing to the left. The direction of left represents someone who is looking forward to the future and not reflecting, remembering or focusing upon the past. Remember the Hebrew language is understood by reading right to left. What is on the right, is what was read in the past. Therefore, what the eyes are focused upon at the present is the now, and what is on the left is the coming future. Obviously, this is opposite in the English language.
That sounds a lot like our God and His Son Jesus. We should know from reading Psalm 103:12, God has removed all of our sins as far as the east (right) is from the west (left). As you know by now, Hebrew reads from east to west on a flat page. Therefore, this man is looking in the same direction as the verse and does not remember what was in the past “east” direction.
As with every other letter that we have studied so far, we can see the picture was designed by the Holy Spirit to be a prophecy about Jesus, the coming Messiah and savior of the world. We have seen how the picture was an image representing a “man”, a “head”, a “leader”, a “chief” or “high” priest, a “prince” (ruler), a “beginning”, the “first”, the “top” of a mountain and others that could not be covered today. All of these relate to the “works” of Christ/Messiah. Hopefully, you can see these for yourself. If not please take the time to dig deep for the hidden treasures of God. Verify everything taught here. Believe nothing that is stated unless you see it for yourself. There are research centers available online that can verify the pictogram images that were found on ancient tablets. These date back to the times of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt. The “AHRC” (Ancient Hebrew Research Center) is one good source of learning material. Please go and study there also.
We have clearly seen in the New Testament that Jesus was called a “Prince” and a “King” in many verses. We can also clearly find Jesus called a “Son of Man” in many verses. We also can find many verses describing Jesus as our “High Priest”. We also discovered Jesus to be directly called the “Head” of the “body of Christ” (the Church). This is more than enough evidence to confirm Jesus was the letter “Resh”.
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Intro Alef Beyt-1 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Avin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav Alef-Beyt Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 13 – The Lamed
(Ver 1.1) This lesson is “Part 13” in the Bible study series revealing the Lord Jesus Christ, that was being hidden by the Spirit of God in His design of the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. This is a truly amazing subject of immense revelation. If you have not read this series from the beginning, it is highly recommended that you go and do so with “Part 1” first. There is just too much information that has been given in each lesson that cannot be fully repeated in the others. Please also understand that “advanced spiritual lessons” from the word of God are potentially offensive to the unsaved, immature carnal, or newly born Christian. If you do not feel you are a spiritually growing and mature believer in Christ, please judge yourself and consider if it is your desire not to be hurt no matter what is said. No lesson published here is given to cause any person to stumble away from the LORD. Thank you in advance for your participation in desiring to know more about Jesus today, than you did yesterday.
Today we will be learning only a limited amount of God’s important information about the letter “Lamed”. There are literally volumes of books that could be written on each letter and how it applies to the work of God in Christ Jesus. Here is a quick list of the contents of this lesson’s sections:
- Introduction – The Lamed Shepherd Staff
- Jesus Found in the Lamed Letter Order of 12
- Jesus Found in the Lamed Gematria Value 30
- Important Bible Concepts of the Lamed Staff, Rod or Scepter
- GOD’S Name Connection with the LAMED
- Prophetical Patterns Found in Old Testament Shepherds
- Abel the Natural Type for One of Christ’s Main Purposes
- Moses Natural Deliverer of Israel from Egypt,
Jesus Spiritual Deliverer of Church from World - David the Pattern of Christ’s Shepherd’s Authority
- Jesus Our New Covenant Shepherd
- Jesus – His Shepherd’s Authority
- Personal Application of God’s Lamed Authority!
- The Conclusion
Let us get started with learning this incredible picture of God’s Lamed Authority in Christ Jesus.
1. Introduction – The Ancient Hebrew Lamed Pictogram
The ancient Hebrew letter “Lamed”, is the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and has the gematria number value of “30”. We will be talking about these numbers more later. But it is very interesting that we can “first” find Jesus, learning and speaking with the Rabbis in the temple was at the age of 12. The Lamed letter has the sound that is similar, but slightly different to the English letter “L” depending upon the placement in the word. The letter “Lamed” is spelled as a root word with these three letters; “Lamed” + “Mem” + “Dalet”. The Hebrew root word H3925 that is made from these three letters, means to “goad”, and thus to teach or help the one being goaded to learn. This word is sounded as “Lamad” and it is mostly translated a form of “teach” or “learn” in the Old Testament. This is a very clear representation of what the ancient Hebrew letter “Lamed” represents.
Most can view the ancient Hebrew pictogram of the “Lamed” and see the clear image of a wooden “staff”. This was a very common possession of many people in that time in history. The nomadic traveler that walked from place to place, would carry a staff as an aid for their journey of travel. We can see this in the life of Jesus in Mark 6:8. In this verse Jesus tells the 12 disciples to go cast out devils using the authority that He had given to them and for them to only take their “staff” with them. This staff was clearly a “sign” of their delegated authority, as well as being an aid for their travels.
The basic picture of a “staff” is also a very significant object found in the hand of shepherds in the Bible. This makes this letter Lamed a direct connection to a shepherd that watches over his sheep. This wooden object was constantly carried by a shepherd to help him guide, manage and protect his flock. The shepherd’s staff was generally used for the tasks of “goading”, “guiding”, “protecting”, “correcting”, “comforting”, “controlling”, “teaching”, etc. The shepherd’s “staff” also clearly carried the meaning of “authority”. This symbolism of authority and shepherds will grow increasingly as we connect this object as describing the LORD Jesus Christ.
The clearest symbolic meaning of a Lamed staff is “authority” over sheep. We can understand this by the connection of the shepherd having “sheep” under his authority, that need to be managed. Remember we learned the root word Lamad was spelled Lamed, Mem, Dalet, and it meant to “goad. This is certainly one usage of a staff to help train the animal to move to safety, water or food, or whatever was required to help them learn. A goad is a term, that denotes staff usage and application. The shepherd would need to train his flock by calling to them and potentially by goading them for their benefit. When the holder of the staff pokes or prods an animal with the pointed end of their staff, they usually did so to encourage them to move forward to something good, or away from something harmful. From this we learn, that the goading by a good shepherd was based upon “love” of the sheep. Therefore, the Lamed does represent a teacher of words.
If we analyze the letters of the word “Lamad” H3925 we learn the “Lamed” means “shepherd’s authority”, the “Mem” means “moving strong waters”, and the “Dalet” means “a door of entrance into the house”. Placing these together we arrive at “Shepherd with authority, speaking words to move His sheep into His house”. How did we arrive at that conclusion? We know that moving waters is defined by Jesus to be His spoken words in John 7:37-38. In verse 37 Jesus said, “If any man thirst let him come to me, and drink”. Then in verse 38 Jesus said, “He that believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”. Finally, in verse 39, the writer reveals this was spoken of the Holy Spirit that those that receive that believed upon Him. This may not yet make sense to why this is words, until we find out how Jesus defined His words in the previous chapter. Jesus said in John 6:63 that His words were Spirit and Life. So, we have confirmed the connections of words to water. We can further confirm this with John 15:3 where Jesus said, “Now are you clean through the word that I have spoken to you”. This is clearly connecting spoken words to the cleaning power of water.
Now for the last letter “Dalet”. We learned in the “Dalet” lesson that this letter represents the picture of a “door”. We further learned that Jesus directly said that He was the “door” of the sheep in John 10:7. Hopefully, you can see the message connection to Jesus in all of these letters. In John 10:7, Jesus is implied to be the target location of entrance into ultimate safety for all sheep to go into. This would imply the Lamed staff of authority was being held by Jesus to help His sheep move towards the door. With the realization that water is words we now can see how authority is implemented in love with words. Therefore, we have “The Shepherd moves with His Words, the sheep into the Door of salvation”.
Let us confirm this with information from the New Covenant. It is very interesting that Jesus when appearing to Saul on the road to Damascus, said to him; “it is hard for you to kick against the prick”. This occurs in Acts 9:5, and the word “prick” (G2759) is defined as someone who is “goading” another. In this statement of Jesus, He is claiming to be the one that is using His Shepherd staff of authority to strongly encourage Saul to change his direction of travel. Jesus uses a stubborn animal analogy that means “those that are resisting His word of training are only kicking against Him personally and He is suggesting very strongly this is useless since Saul is the animal being trained and He is Chief Shepherd”. The order of intelligence, authority, and power was on Christ’s side, and not Saul’s.
This is one of your first confirmations for Jesus being the Shepherd that is goading Saul with His Lamed “staff” of authority (Words) to change Saul’s direction. That is very amazing to relate to our study of Jesus the ultimate shepherd in authority. Let us continue with some other foundational concepts and connections to Jesus next by looking at the Lamed number values.
2. Jesus Found in the Lamed Letter Order of 12
Most Biblical scholars and diligent students of the Bible, recognize the awesome significance of the number 12. Therefore, we will begin this section of the lesson with a story of Jesus growing up after birth. It is interesting that Joseph and Mary took the child Jesus to the temple 8 days after His birth to be circumcised according to the Law of Moses (Luke 2:27, Lev 12:2-6). We also know from Luke 2:42 that it was the custom of Joseph and Mary to go back to the Jerusalem temple every year specifically to celebrate Passover. But it is not until Jesus was 12 years old that God mentions Him being personally in the temple by name. But something happened on this trip with Jesus at the age of 12 that was significant to God for Him to write about it. Could it be because of Jesus’ Lamed 12th letter connection? It appears that it could be based upon what we are about to learn.
Because God writes specifically about the age of 12 Passover trip of Jesus, we must understand that something had to have changed for God to mention only this one trip. There are no other mentions, that I know of where Jesus is again related to be in the temple, until after He turns 30. Wow, this is very significant since both of these numbers are associated with the letter “Lamed”. Because of these facts, we can connect Jesus directly to the number 12 by God writing about Him specifically to be at the temple in Jerusalem at the age of 12.
As we should know Jesus was present at Jerusalem for Passover like he had been for the past 11 years of His life. What was significant about this trip that made it different than the previous ones? We need to know that at the passing of the age of 12, and entering into the 13th year of life, the Jewish people traditionally considered the young male child to have moved into manhood. In other words, at this age a child has become accountable to the Law of Moses. This is actually very significant. Jesus was stated in Galatians 4:4 to have been born of a woman under the Law. We already know Jesus was circumcised on the 8th day of His natural life, so His parents followed the law very specifically. We also learned that this family’s custom was to present themselves according to the Law every year at Passover. We are observing the Law being followed very faithfully in the first 12 years of the life of Jesus.
But this trip things became radically different than all of the previous years. Jesus made the conscious choice to stay in the temple in Jerusalem when His parents Joseph and Mary left to go back home (Lk 2:43). It is interesting that they never worried about their eldest son for a long time after when they could not find him with any of the people that were traveling with them. It actually took 3 days for them to find Jesus again (Lk 2:46). Finally, Joseph and Mary found Jesus sitting in the temple in Jerusalem and Mary was not very happy.
Finding Jesus at the age of 12 in the Temple, brought the response to His mother, “Didn’t you know that I must be about my Father’s business” (Luke 2:49). This answer to his mother Mary, appears to be a significant meaning to what was happening. Mary must have needed to be reminded who His Father was. With this passage of 12 years of His life, He had to understand that He was now responsible to be fully accountable to what was written about Him in the Law. No doubt Jesus had seen and heard things read about Him in the Law while at the temple for 12 years. The others at the temple were completely amazed at the things Jesus knew and understood in Law.
Jesus appears to be embracing the Father’s authority given to Him by staying to focus upon the Law. Yet it is clear that He still submitted to His mother’s and Joseph’s authority to continue in their house to mature until the age of 30 (Lk 2:51). It was age 30 when we find Jesus being baptized by John to begin His earthly ministry with His full authority power.
The number 12 is a dominate number from Genesis to Revelation. Here is a quick list of some of the most significant mentions of the number 12:
- There are 12 months in every year (Est 3:7)
- There are 12 hours in every day (Jn 11:9)
- There are 12 hours in every night
- Ishmael the first son of Abram and Hagar had 12 sons (Gen 25:16)
- Jacob had 12 sons (Gen 35:22)
- The 12 sons of Jacob become the 12 Tribes of natural Israel (1 Kings 19:31)
- Jesus had 12 apostles (Mat 12:10)
- Jesus healed a woman that had an issue of blood for 12 years (Mark 5:25)
- Jesus raises a daughter of 12 years old from the dead (Luke 8:42)
- One of the 12 disciples named Judas betrayed Jesus (Mat 26:14)
- Jesus going to the cross said He could call 12 legions of angels to save Him (Mat 26:53)
- Jesus fed 5000+ and had 12 baskets of fragments left over (Mat 14:20)
- The New Jerusalem has 12 foundations containing the names of the 12 apostles, 12 precious stones found in the walls, 12 gates made from 12 pearls guarded by 12 angels each containing a name of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel, and the size of the city is 12,000 furlongs high, wide and long. All of this is called the Lamb’s wife (Rev 21).
We can certainly see how the number 12 has great significance and application to being a pointer to the works of Jesus. Therefore, let us now briefly look at the number 12 and gematria number 30 of the Lamed to connect us with Jesus.
3. Jesus in the Lamed Gematria Value of 30
It is also most interesting that we are told by the Holy Ghost through Luke in chapter 3 and verse 29, that Jesus began His mortal life’s ministry at the physical age of 30 (Lk 3:23). When this occurred His spiritual Father in Heaven baptized Him with the Holy Spirit, being sent down from heaven in the form of a dove (John 1:32). It is fascinating that the name of the prophet “Jonah” means a “dove”. Jesus connects Himself to this prophet by saying “As Jonah was 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of whale, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”. During the baptism of Jesus, He goes under the water and the dove comes upon Him, and then Jesus begins His ministry preaching the Kingdom of God is near, repent. And in Jonah, the prophet is spit up out of the mouth of the whale, and he obeys God and goes to Nineveh to deliver the message from God for them to repent. Pretty amazing parallels.
Therefore, we have both number values of the letter “Lamed”, 12 and 30 being connected to Jesus directly. These even connect Jesus to His Heavenly Father. Th mortal ministry of Jesus only lasted for 3 ½ years but made more of an impact that anyone else in human history to the world. Therefore, we can see the number 30 definitely applies to Jesus.
It is also very amazing that Jesus was sold to be crucified for exactly 30 pieces of silver. We can read this very clearly in Matthew 26:15. In this verse we can see how Judas made a covenant with the leaders of natural Israel to betray the Christ. Remember Jesus calls the betrayer the “devil” in John 6:70. This was prophesied to occur in Psalm 41:9. In this verse God says “My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me”. This appears to teach us something very deep that we are unable to get into any detail today. Just do not forget these verses.
But also remember that it was this betrayal by the one named “Judah” who was filled with the devil, that brought about the availability of the New Covenant for all humans. These were two covenants, two choices and two eternal consequences. Apply what 1 Corinthians 2:8 says to us about Jesus being betrayed and crucified. In this verse God says “Satan would not have crucified the LORD of glory had he known” what was going to happen to himself. That is also a very deep subject that cannot be taught any further.
In Genesis 41:44 we can read that Joseph was 30 years old when he stood before Pharoah. Joseph was a prophetical type of the Messiah Jesus. Then according to 2 Samuel 5:4, David was 30 years old when he became the king of Israel. We should also be able to understand how David was a prophetical type of the coming seed of David called the Messiah, Jesus. Finally, the Jewish priesthood normally never began their works in their priestly office in the temple until the age of 30. All of these types point us to the work of Jesus, especially with Jesus being called the King of Kings in Revelation, and our “High Priest” of the New Covenant in Hebrews.
There are other cases for Christ as the type of the number 30, but we are trying to keep this lesson shorter.
4. Important New Bible Concept of a Staff Made from a Branch
Before we go further with learning about a “staff” being a representation of Jesus, we need to better understand how God uses the object and symbol in the Old Testament Hebrew writings. Two of these Hebrew words used by the LORD God that have the meaning of a “rod” or a “staff” are H7626. and H4294. These Hebrew words have the following meanings in Bible Lexicons, like Strong, BDB, and others:
- A Branch
- Staff
- Scepter
- Spear, Dart
- Writing Instrument, Pen(cil)
- Measuring Rod
- Tribe (figuratively)
These applications of the Hebrew concept of a branch are tremendous. We will begin by remembering that Jesus is called the “Branch” in Isaiah 11:1. And in Jeremiah 23:5 Jesus is called the righteous “Branch”. Therefore, we have two references to Jesus as being related to a “wooden” branch that can be made into many other objects, like a rod, a staff, etc. Never forget the number of uses for pieces of wood from a “tree”, they are practically endless. But also remember the essential fact that Jesus Christ was crucified on wooden posts made from a “tree” (Gal 3:13). God has just connected Jesus to being a figurative “branch” of a tree. Please remember this potentially new concept.
When we study more in-depth the Hebrew word H7626, it is not only used by God to describe a wooden “staff”, but also the descendants of a family. For example, in Genesis 49:28, God lists the names of the 12 sons of Jacob and calls them the 12 “tribes” of Israel. In Genesis 49:10 we find the same word being translated as “scepter” applying to only the royal line of Judah for which Jesus would come. The Hebrew word translated as “tribes” and “scepter” are the exact same word. God binds these two realities into one common word. What we are observing is the confirmation of Romans 1:20, where He reveals the invisible (spiritual) things of God are clearly understood by the natural things that He created, even His eternal Godhead powers.
It is also important to know these descendants that are called “tribes”, are also called “heirs”. An “heir” is simply a family descendant that inherits the family’s possession upon death of the parent(s). Remember Jesus is called the “Heir” of God in Hebrews 1:2. This truth could be a great stumbling block for some. Why would God the Creator, need to make His “Son” named Jesus, His pre-imminent heir? There are clues in the Bible everywhere to answer this question. The bottom-line answer is Lucifer. I apologize that this cannot be expanded any further today in this lesson due to the length of the subject. But, also remember that all saved Christians are called “joint-heirs” of God (Romans 8:17) by us entering into Christ (the Dalet Door).
We have just learned God’s connection of a natural tree branch to be the same as a branch of the family lineage, that God calls a “tribe”. God chose one human “branch” of the first Adam’s family tree. This chosen branch was named Abraham, and God used Him to bring forth His chosen Son. From this man Abraham, came Isaac, and from the Isaac branch, God chose the branch Jacob. From Jacob God selected one family tribe/branch called Judah. There were many branches of the First Adam tree but God only chose the Abraham branch family, to bring forth the Christ. From Christ came a New Creation (Gal 6:15) with the combined family of God from heaven and earth being joined in one united God/man named Jesus.
Romans chapter 11 has God writing about several new concepts of branches being cut off or being grafted into a tree (family). What God is doing is using natural concepts of trees and branches to teach us about far greater hidden spiritual works that He was doing in His Spiritual family in Jesus Christ. Jesus repeated this process of cutting off branches when He described himself to be like a figurative vine and people being the figurative branches (Jn 15:5). All branches that did not produce fruit were cut off and thrown into the fire (hell). These are things that were happening in Jesus Christ to create a brand-new Kingdom of God.
But God’s New Creation in Christ (2 Cor 5:17) only occurred after Jesus was raised from the dead, to pay the sin penalty for everyone that would receive Him as LORD and produce fruit. Being raised from the dead first, Jesus became the “First born” from all the dead (Col 1:18) and thus a New Beginning for a new creation. This made the risen Lord Jesus the primary heir of God’s previous kingdom with all authority being passed to in heaven and on earth (Mat 28:18). God did this because Jesus was from both dimensions of reality. We are also saved like Him being born again, to become joint-heirs (Rom 8:17) with Him. Remember Jesus was the firstborn of many brethren (Rom 8:29), and those that were born-again were made these many brothers and sisters of Christ. Let us now shift our attention to another new concept hidden in the name of God, which contains the letter “Lamed”.
5. GOD’S Name Connections with the LAMED
We are first introduced to one primary name of God in Genesis 1:1. This verse says “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”. This name of “God” is the Strong’s Hebrew number H430. It can be transliterated into the English language as “Elohym”. The second letter of this primary name of God is the “Lamed”. What we immediately see is this name is being called our Creator. This name H430 of God also occurs approximately 2600 times in the entire Old Testament.
We should also take notice this Hebrew name H430 is plural by the ending letter “mem”. H430 comes from the singular word “H433” that is transliterated as “Eloahh”. This word means, a “god” singular. This information confirms that God in His chosen revealed form is a “triune” plural being. Another way to possibly say this is, God reveals Himself to be a “complex unity” of three manifestations or divine nature roles, called, “God the Father”, “God the Son”, and “God the Holy Spirit”. This is similar to the human concept that calls one man, a father, a son, and a husband. These are just three roles of one man that has multiple relationship types.
Now we need to realize that the word/name “Elohym” is often shortened to “El” (H410). This name H410 “El” is recorded in the Bible approximately 242 times directly in the text as a name for God. Twelve times this word was translated as other words than “God”, like “mighty”, “power”, “great”, “might”, “strength” and others. What we are learning is very profound to our study of Jesus being the God of all “Power” and “Authority”.
The Hebrew shortened name of God “El” comes from two Hebrew letters. The word begins with the “Alef” which represents God as a strong “OX” head of power and strength. We learned this represents the “servant” Jesus in the “Alef” lesson. This letter is connected by God to our study subject “Lamed”. We can begin to see that the “Lamed” staff picture represents a symbol of “authority” and “leadership”. Placing these pictures together we arrive at the meaning “Strong Power with Leadership Authority”. That is very interesting because it does describe who God is exactly. We can confirm that even the alphabet letters being placed together by God, tell us the truth.
Now here is another interesting concept found in the Bible. There are well over 100 names of people and places listed in the Bible that have the shortened name of God “El” (H410) imbedded within them. Some of these are very profoundly related to the LORD Jesus Christ. For example, in Isaiah 7:14 where God prophesies about Messiah being named “Immanuel”. This is one of the most direct confirmations in the Bible, revealing Jesus was God. This name literally means “God with Us”, and it is repeated in the Greek language as “Emmanuel” in Matthew 1:23.
Another interesting name containing “El” is H1008 that is transliterated as “Bethel”. This Hebrew word means “House of God”. It comes by combining a new Hebrew word H1008 meaning “house”, with our H410 the short name of God. Remember, we learned in the “Beyt” letter lesson that this letter also means “house”. We can see the intelligent design of the construction of the Hebrew language. There is the basic building of words by God combining 2 or more root words together to form a new combined word meaning. Then there is the most fundamental building of root words by combining two or more letters together. Adding these letters together to form the root words, are built upon each letter having individual meanings that are being connected to form new combined word definitions. These are such interesting signs of intelligent design of the Hebrew language. This word “Bethel” simply means “the House with God’s Power and Authority”.
We could write book after book about Jesus being found in names with the “El” God name found in them. We will end this section with the name “Israel”. This Hebrew word H3478, is derived from two other Hebrew root words like the “Bethel” word was. The first word is H8280, and this word means “to have power as a prince”. Isn’t that interesting because Jesus is called the “Prince of Peace” in Isaiah 9:6. This word H8280 is again combined with the H410 “el” short name of God. From this combination we get the fuller meaning, “He will rule as a prince of God”. This is a confirmation of Jesus’ claim in Matthew 28:18 where He said to have received from God all delegated authority within heaven and on the earth. Some may try to reject this meaning, but it is further confirmed by the Holy Spirit’s writings through Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:27. In this verse it is written “He has put all things under His feet (Jesus)”.
We have just quickly explored the God (Alef) connection to the divine authority (Lamed), that is being given to the Son of God (Jesus) through one name of God “El”. These facts of truth, should cause you to think and ask a lot of questions. For example, why was it necessary for the Supreme Almighty Father God, to delegate all of His heavenly authority to Jesus the Son of God? This question will need to be answered in a series of lessons all by itself. Let us continue with a short review of Old Testament prophecy patterns of shepherds that point us to Jesus next.
6. Prophetical Patterns Found in Old Testament Shepherds
Hopefully you already know some things about Bible patterns, types and shadows. These are just more of God’s designed tools using natural information that reveals His supernatural intelligent design hidden in His written Word. God uses real historical patterns of real people in real situations, and in real places to disclose greater hidden divine spiritual truth. This is where He uses historical hidden outlined information, like a sewing pattern to create a future dress, shirt, or pair of pants. Most of these were designed by God to teach us about far greater spiritual truths revealing His work to bring about His Son Jesus.
What we will discover by searching in the Old Testament, is that there are repeated types found containing natural shepherds with their “staff”, that represent prophetical patterns for the coming Messiah. Some of them should be very obvious and others have not been seen to be a pattern of Jesus because of their implied implications applying to the spiritual realms. We will only go through a quick overview of a select few patterns, for the sake of time. Let us get started with Abel.
7. Abel a Natural Type of One of Christ’s Main Purposes
If we go and read the Old Testament, starting at Genesis 4:2, we find the second named son of Adam and Eve to be a son named “Abel”. In this real historical account, there are two brothers. The elder son or we could also say the “firstborn” son of the first Adam was named “Cain”. This son “Cain’s” name is spelled “Qof”, “Yod”, “Nun” in Hebrew. These are the pictures of “the rising sun” (Qof), “the working hand” (Yod), and the “seed continues” (Nun). This is an interesting name. These letters have the implied meaning of “God’s (who is light) early work of His hand, to create a son (seed)”. This appears to be a hidden reference to Lucifer.
If we go and read Isaiah 14:12, we will discover the created being named Lucifer, is called the “son of the morning”. The Hebrew word H7837 is defined as “dawn” and thus the translation of “morning” meaning the rising of the sun. We know from God’s word that He claims to be “Light” in 1 John 1:5. So if Light (God) is rising in Isaiah 14:12 the implication is given that Lucifer was one of God’s earliest or even a “first” of all of His creation. It also is plainly stated that this created angelic being is called a “son” by the Hebrew H1121. This is the word “ben” formed with a “beyt” house joined with a “nun” seed to mean a son. We already learned in the “Beyt” lesson that this name is used to describe the LORD Jesus as the Son of Man and the Son of God.
Some are probably raising their eyebrows at this information. But it is confirmed in the book of Job, when the angels appear before God in heaven where they are clearly called by the title of the “sons of God” (Job 1:6). The same Hebrew word H1121 (ben) is used by God to describe Lucifer’s and the angelic descriptions as “a son” in both verses of Job and Isaiah. Job states directly the son title of angels is a direct reference to be of “Elohim”, and Isaiah makes Lucifer’s connection to God the Light by indirect symbolic reference. If you struggle with this, don’t let it keep you from continuing to read and see what else we can learn about who Cain could represent.
We have not yet fully covered the letter “Qof”, but this letter contains the meaning of the “gathering” of light at sunrise just as the Hebrew word H7837 means dawn of light. It represents a time of movement from darkness to light. Combining this letter “Qof” with the other two “Yod” and “Nun”, we can also get the meaning the “the early gathering hand of seed”. It is interesting that this is exactly what Cain brought as an offering to the LORD. Genesis 4:2 tells us Cain was a “seed” planter and in verse 3 we are informed Cain brought some of his planted “seed” produced “fruit” as an offering to the LORD. This type of work would involve “metal” tools for sowing the seed, as well as for harvesting the “seed” (Nun).
Another key point is Cain’s offerings of his “fruit” produced from “seed” was rejected by God (Gen 4:5). From this information we can again begin to see how Cain, appears to symbolically represent a pattern of Satan, another spiritual being whose “fruit” (labors) from his “seed” (words) have been rejected by God (Gen 3:15). We can more clearly conclude this by us knowing this man Cain, was the first natural murderer. This natural title for Cain corresponds with Satan being called the ultimate “murderer” by the LORD Jesus. In John 8:44, Jesus calls the “devil” a “murderer” from the beginning. This should be obvious that Jesus is giving us a pointer for us to go back and look at the book of “Beginnings” (Genesis) to find the first “murder”. We will find that we are studying about it right now in Genesis 4.
Abel’s is the name of the “younger” or “second” named son of Adam and Eve. Uh oh! Remember Jesus is called the second man in 1 Corinthians 15:47. If Cain the older son is a type of Satan the murderer from the beginning, then Abel does fit the pattern to be Jesus, since Jesus was not murdered by Satan until almost 4000 years after the death of the pattern type named Abel (1 Cor 2:8). This is still a good fit for Satan being Cain, because we are learning that Satan was created long before even the first man Adam was created. Jesus, the Last Adam (1 Cor 15:45) and Son of Adam (Lk 6:5), was born much later. Remember patterns are only outlines, and all of the details will be filled in by God with more revelations from other verses in the future.
The younger son’s name Abel, is spelled in Hebrew; “Hey”, “Beyt”, “Lamed”. This name’s meaning becomes much more obvious to us by combining the ancient Hebrew picture language definitions of each letter. Abel’s name could be thought of as saying “Behold (Hey) the Son’s House (Beyt) of the Shepherd’s Authority (Lamed). Please just look up each ancient Hebrew letter’s meanings and you will find this combined application. It is amazing that this name Abel ends with our Bible study letter “Lamed”, meaning authority. It is also amazing the “Beyt” appears as the middle letter the picture of a father’s house where his son and heir is born. Finally, the letter Hey means what is being connected is a revelation to behold and to be amazed with. This is certainly an outlined picture of Jesus, because Jesus was significantly questioned about where He got His authority in the Gospels (Mat 21:23).
We can get a further confirmation about Abel being a type for Jesus by the description of both men’s blood being spilled onto the ground. This is just another parallel between these two individuals. God says to Cain, “the blood of your brother cries to me from the ground” (Gen 4;10). We know the blood of Jesus certainly flowed onto the ground while hanging on a cross (Tav) (Jn 19:34). Then in Hebrews 12:24, God writes of Jesus “the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than the blood of Abel”. There is no doubt the shepherd Abel was a type of Jesus the “Good Shepherd”. It should become more obvious by how God connected Abel’s blood to Jesus’ blood with both speaking.
It would be great if we could go and study every letter, word, and verse of Genesis 4 to find Jesus in more specifics, but that is not possible in this introduction and overview of the “Lamed”. We should be able to see how one shepherd named Abel is a picture of the great Shepherd named Jesus Christ. Finally, please just realize that we can read in 1 Corinthians 2:8, that Satan would not have crucified the LORD of Glory, if he had known what was going to happen to him, and us in the world. This is truly an amazing application discovering how these will fit with Cain and Abel types found in Genesis 4. We will continue next with the overview and application of Moses as a type of Jesus.
8. Moses Natural Deliverer of Israel from Egypt,
Jesus Spiritual Deliverer of Church from World
The description of Moses being a prophetical pattern of the LORD Jesus is amazingly clear when found and seen in scripture. Moses himself prophesies to natural Israel in Deuteronomy 18:15, that God will raise up a Prophet from among the brothers of Israel, and Him should they hear. This is clearly the coming Jesus Messiah. Then in Hebrews 3:5-6, God compares the servant Moses’ faithfulness over his house, to Jesus the Son of God’s greater service over His own house. These are examples of Moses being type for Christ, and there are so many direct comparisons found in the Bible, that they cannot all be listed in this lesson. We will only touch on a very few.
For example, in Exodus 3:1, Moses is stated to be a servant (Alef) that keeps his father-in-law’s flock. The term flock implies Moses to be a shepherd of sheep. Remember who Moses was. Moses lived in the house of the ruling family of Egypt, before he left to become a shepherd of a “flock” in a wilderness. Moses moved from a life of wealth and luxury to a life of hard work and poverty. This sounds very similar as a type and pattern for the supreme ruling God the ruler in Heaven, coming to the earth as a man to become a “Good Shepherd” of His people. In 2 Corinthians 8:9, we find Jesus being called “a former rich man, but for our sakes He became poor that through His poverty, we might also become rich”. We can further see that this was God’s intent for the people that Moses delivered also. These people were taken out of the slave poverty of Egypt to be given a land flowing with milk and honey (Exo 3:8).
In this verse of Exodus 3:1, we are told that Moses “led” his flock. It just so happens that after the Hebrew word translated as “led” (H5090) there appears the hidden “Alef+Tav” untranslated word H853, which are the two letters that Jesus claimed to be in the book of Revelation. This is just another direct connection that God is prophesying about Jesus in this verse. This information clearly teaches us that Moses was a rich ruler that became a poor shepherd, and he was a pattern of the coming Alpha and Omega Lord Jesus. The parallels to Jesus should be becoming very clear already. Now we need to connect our study subject the “Lamed” staff to Moses as a pattern for Christ.
Then in Exodus 4:2 God asks Moses, “what do you have in your hand”? The Hebrew word H3027 translated as hand, means “power”. Therefore, we discover another connection to Jesus who was anointed with the “power of God” (Acts 10:38). Moses replies; “A rod”. We already learned the Hebrew word H4294, translated as “rod” is defined by Strong to be a “branch” indicating it comes from the “wood” from a tree. But we can notice this word is also translated as “staff” as it probably should be in the context of “tending a flock”. This symbol of a staff and Moses designates that in the eyes of God, Moses had authority. Not just over sheep, but also in more powerful ways that Moses did not yet understand. This power and authority status of the type Moses is a continuation of prophecy that is only fulfilled in the coming Christ/Messiah. We will be learning more about how this is true as we continue to learn. We are now going to go through the example of David as a type of Christ.
9. David the Pattern of Christ’s Coming Shepherd’s Authority
It is definitely important to know that David was a key shepherd prophetic picture of Christ. This story of David and Goliath found in 1 Samuel 17, has many amazing parallels. This real story is a battle between two opposing kingdoms, or nations who are enemies. The Philistines have gathered and arrayed themselves against God’s covenant people of Israel. The Philistines are clearly a figure of the kingdom of darkness in the world ruled by Satan. The natural nation of Israel is plainly a pictured type of the New Covenant church. Goliath the giant is called the “champion” of the evil nation without a covenant to God, and this can only represent Satan/Lucifer. The young boy named David was just a simple shepherd that only watched over his father’s sheep as his primary role in life. This image represents the humble servant of God called Jesus Christ who came into the world to help gather His father’s lost sheep back into His Father’s sheepfold (Mat 15:24). Remember Jesus is called God the Father’s Holy Child in Acts 4:30.
This battle takes place between two mountains, representing the two spiritual kingdoms: darkness and light. The area between them is called “Elah”, and this was a valley of potential death. David writes of this location in Psalm 23:4 when He says, “Lo though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil”. This name “Elah” can be interpreted to mean a “mighty oak”. It is interesting that this is a tree that produces very strong wood. But notice one major root of this name “Elah”, is the name of God’ El” that we looked at earlier. Remember this root is spelled “Alef”, “Lamed”, and means “Strong Authority” or the “God with Authority”. This is because the “Alef” alone represents a picture of “God” who is strong and the “Lamed” alone represents a picture of the “authority” of a shepherd.
The Hebrew word transliterated as “Elah”, combines the name of God El with the letter “Hey”. The letter “Hey” represents an instruction for us to “behold”, “look”, “see” what is being connected and revealed. For example, we learned in previous lessons that the name of Jehovah translated as “LORD”, is spelled “Yod”, “Hey”, “Vav”, “Hey”. These combined letter meanings proclaim, “The hand, behold; the nail, behold”. This was a clear hidden prophecy of who Jesus was, and how he would die on a cross.
This name “Elah” also has the meaning of a “covenant oath” as well as the curses that take place when the oath if violated or broken. Can we think about what this is saying? It would appear that God places a story of two nations in His Word, that takes place in a valley of God’s strong oath of covenant. But there was only one young boy named David that remembered God’s covenant. The rest of the nation of Israel was cowering in fear of this giant (1 Sam 17:13). This is sounding more like our Christ, when facing Satan and the cross, than many can see at first. Now let us look at some other interesting information concerning the Lamed connections being made by God.
In 1 Samuel 17:7, Goliath had in his hand a great “spear”. In this verse, the shaft of this spear is called a “staff” in the KJV. It is described to be as great as a “beam”. All of these are symbols of someone who has great power and authority. Clearly this is significant to our discussion of the “Lamed”. God appears to be telling us that Satan has the same kind of ability in the spiritual realm of darkness. We can confirm this in the verse of Colossians 1:13, where we read Jesus has “delivered” us from Satan’s (Lamed) authority (G1849) ruling in the kingdom of darkness. Can we see the parallels being made? David delivered Israel from the authority of the Philistines and Goliath their champion, and Jesus has delivered us from the authority of Satan ruler of the darkness. Thank you, Jesus!
Notice how the battle takes place and see the application into our current times. When David was running to fight Goliath, the giant cursed David saying in 1 Samuel 17:43, “Am I a dog that you come at me with a stave (shepherd’s staff)”. This Hebrew word H4731 means a “stick” and Goliath’s words are a prideful demeaning reference to a weapon called a “staff” held in the hand of the young shepherd “David”. Goliath clearly underestimated David’s power and ability that was backed by God. This was the same for Satan who vastly underestimated God’s plan of deliverance through Jesus Christ.
Here again we see a young boy that tended sheep for his father, who is fighting a huge giant with far greater weapons of war and trained skills. This Goliath is clearly a type of Satan, that has grown in power and size from the earlier little serpent symbol found in Genesis 3:1 where he only defeated one man named Adam and his wife named Eve. It is also very important to see that this same devil has grown into a much larger “great red dragon” in the book of Revelation. This should inform and warn you that his tricks of deception have potentially significantly increased. However, to the Christian, we have still been removed from his authority over us, if we give him no place of entrance into our life.
If you read the entire story of David and Goliath, you will continue to find that David is very courageous and fearless of this great giant. The only weapons that he is running with to fight this giant is the tools of a common poor shepherd. David places 5 stones in his shepherd’s bag (1 Sam 17:40) and five is a number for God’s grace. With God’s grace, David takes his staff of authority, and his sling, which projects the stone. This sling can be associated to be a symbol of the human mouth that speaks (the mouth representing a word projectile spiritual weapon system, against our spiritual enemy Satan). Notice, we can confirm this from David’s actions, while facing the giant. Count how many times David “speaks” confidently (projecting and releasing faith words) and says exactly what he is about to do, and then does it by God’s participation of grace. David remembered that this enemy giant had no covenant with his God, and he did.
Please go and read this chapter and we will notice, before the physical battle begins, there is a different war of wills and words fought. Goliath curses David with his symbolic spear of authority and power, using the power of his gods (the devil). We can see where Goliath’s trust and confidence was in his god, who was not named JEHOVAH LORD (1 Sam 17:43). Goliath then proclaims his will of intent to feed the flesh of David to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field. We can clearly see a spiritual battle that is taking place between two kingdoms and two gods. One is Satan the god of this world, and the other is JEHOVAH, the creator of heaven and earth.
Remember we are learning of God’s Old Testament “shepherds” with “staffs” that are types and pointers to Jesus. One common prophetic thread between Abel, Moses, and David, is they all have brothers that are a problem to them. For example, David’s eldest brother is mentioned in 1 Samuel 17:28. In this verse David has to endure verbal abuse by his elder brother. It is very clear that David was not looked upon as a rightful member of their family. Then we can read in Exodus 32, about Moses’ brother Aaron, that gives in to the children of Israel to make them a false god in the image of a golden calf. This sin caused the wrath of God to fall on many.
All of this is in parallel with the very interesting fact that these correspond with Abel’s abuse and natural death committed by his older brother Cain. Now how are all of these types connected with Jesus? When we see Jesus walking the earth in the flesh, his physical brothers also reject him, abuse Him, and kill Him by nailing Him to a wooden cross by Satan’s leading. Wow, these are pretty amazing parallels between all of these shepherds.
There are many other types and shadows found in these stories of shepherds and others. But we will need to conclude this section for now. Hopefully you can see the comparisons from Abel, Moses, and David to Christ. It is essential that our Christ/Messiah is called the “Son of David” in Matthew 1:1. It is highly recommended that you go and read the 23rd Psalm of David about shepherds now. This Psalm will come to life when seen through the eyes of Jesus and His work to lead us into the path of righteousness, so that we can dwell in His house and family, forever and ever.
10. Jesus the New Covenant Lamed
and Shepherd of the Sheep
Remember the Lamed is a picture of a shepherd’s hook and a staff of authority. Interestingly, the letter picture is of a staff that is pointing down, as if held by someone that is in heaven holding the staff while reaching out to the people of the earth, trying to gather them. That cannot be a coincidence, it is more likely to be a “God Incidence” of prophecy. This picture looks very similar to the English uppercase letter “J”, depending upon the font style.
The essential connections that are implied with God’s selection of this symbol are great and should be obvious, if we know the Bible. We have learned a lot of them today. Let us analyze some of the Bible implied truths about a “staff”. The “staff” of authority is a useless item without a “shepherd’s” hand to hold it. The main reason for the “shepherd” to have and hold his “staff” in his hand, is for him to guide and protect His sheep. Therefore, without “sheep” the authority symbol of the “staff” is only useful for personal travel. This concept reminds us an old saying “He who leads, without anyone following, only takes a walk”. There is a lot of wisdom in that message.
This section is about Jesus claiming to be the “Good Shepherd” (John 10:14). Jesus by making this faith declaration is claiming to have sheep that will follow Him. Further, by Him making this claim Jesus has just implied that He has come down from heaven to the earth to gather some of His potentially lost “sheep”. In order for Him to accomplish this He had to have been given authority to do so, and this is the symbol of a “Staff” (Lamed). We are all making these connections, right? Let us look at a couple of verses that apply to find His “lost sheep” first:
Jer 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
This verse in Jeremiah is a very obvious definition of who “lost sheep” are in God’s dictionary. This verse plainly says “God’s people” in the Old Covenant have become “lost sheep” and their shepherds have caused them to go astray. That is very profound information. God clearly defines “sheep” to be a symbol of people. Then God informs us there are others in the world that were called to be “shepherds” with authority. It should be obvious by further implied references that a figurative “shepherd” in the natural world is someone that should lead, guide, and feed God’s people into the path of knowing God.
Jesus, we find in Matthew 9:36 had great compassion upon the people, because He saw them as sheep without a shepherd (G4166). This clearly teaches us that God saw the need for good “shepherds” as a requirement for His people. We can see this concept again repeated in the New Covenant. We will find that God has established “shepherds” in the church. This Greek word G4166 is most often translated as “shepherd” but it is also translated as a “pastor” in Ephesian 4:11. In this verse God writes that He has established some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some “pastors” and some teachers. That is very interesting information to remember. Let us now focus upon our first verse about Jesus claiming to be a “Shepherd”:
Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
This verse is very applicable to our subject and contains a vast amount of implied information. This verse begins with Jesus saying He was “sent”. This simply implies He came from somewhere else, and we know from other verses that He came from Heaven (Jn 6:38). Then Jesus narrows His reasons for His personal appearance to focus only on finding the “lost sheep” from the house of Israel. This clearly says the people of natural Israel were lost people that were apart from God and needed to return to Him. There are multiple parallels found in this statement, to the information we read about in the Old Testament shepherd types and shadows. Even though they were focused upon helping natural sheep, we can relate these to what Jesus was doing with spiritual lost sheep.
Now let us focus upon some other direct claims of Jesus that were spoken from His mouth to confirm His fulfillment of the prophecy of the ancient picture of the “Lamed”. This should not be a lot of new information for most serious Bible students. We will turn to the book of John and chapter 10 to read some selected verses:
Joh 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Joh 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Joh 10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
Joh 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
Joh 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Reading from verse 1, we find Jesus claiming to be speaking in a “sheepfold”. His claim is that He has entered into the sheepfold by going through the legal doorway. His appearance is contrasted with someone else called a “thief” that entered illegally. We must understand Jesus is speaking of the “world” as the symbolic sheepfold. This is the realm of the earth’s atmosphere, where humans breathe air. Jesus says His entrance into the world was lawful and this was because He was born of a natural woman like every other human since Adam and Eve. Jesus’ entrance into the world is being compared with someone that was not created here or born here legally. This can only be the devil.
Notice the concept given about a shepherd’s voice being known by his sheep. This is essential to understand. A shepherd is not a “cattle wrangler” forcing or driving his animals to go where he desires. Every sheep has their own freewill choice to follow. Because the good “shepherd” is so caring and loving to his flock, they will willingly learn his voice and follow him happily to the next green pasture to feed.
In these verses we can see Jesus, speaking and comparing His purpose for coming into the world’s sheepfold. This is being compared with someone called the “thief” that is being implied to be significantly evil and harmful to God’s sheep (people). This thief is not someone that a true sheep will want to follow, and they are usually tricked or forced to go where they would not really want to go. This “thief” we must know is Satan, and Jesus speaks more directly about His role as a shepherd versus this thief in verse 10:
Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Joh 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
We can see this more clearly in John 10:10 where the thief, who is Satan, only came into the world to steal, kill and destroy. But Jesus says His purpose was to give His sheep “life abundantly” and this will be achieved by His personal death. This is the basics of the Gospel being proclaimed. Let us move down to verse 14 next:
Joh 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
Joh 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Joh 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
As you can further see, Jesus is now directly claiming to be the “Good Shepherd” of the sheep. As we saw in Jeremiah earlier, He came to show people the truth and the right way to the Father. Notice the intimate and personal relationship between Jesus and His sheep. The term “know” represents personal close fellowship. Jesus said I “know” my sheep and they will also “know” me. This represents “covenant” relationship, as between a husband and his wife. Let us move down to verse 26 next:
Joh 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
We can clearly read that it is “believing” in Jesus that causes anyone to become a following known sheep of Jesus. Jesus again in these verses, says all of my sheep can hear His voice and recognize Him as their Good Shepherd. These verses and the others that we did not cover prove Jesus to be a “Shepherd” that had authority to gather all of His believing people to save them. Therefore, let us go analyze the subject of Jesus’ authority to learn more about how this relates to the Lamed.
11. Messiah Jesus – The Shepherd’s Authority
One of the most key aspects of the physical ministry life of Jesus on the earth for three and half years was all of the people that took note of His authority. The fact that we can see Jesus had great authority over the kingdom of darkness, made Him unique above all others on earth.
Mat 7:29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
A good shepherd is a guide to the blind, hurt, lame and hurting sheep. Jesus operated with this role by teaching His lost sheep things that had been kept secret since the foundation of the world. Jesus taught them using mostly parables that were on their level of natural understanding. When they came to the saving position of believing in Jesus being raised from the dead, and calling Him LORD, then they would be able to understand the spiritual applications of these natural truths. If they had not believed in Him or did not want to make Him their Messiah, they were unable to understand these truths.
Mat 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Mat 21:27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Here is an example of the religious Jewish leadership demanding to know where Jesus got His authority to teach what He was teaching and to do what he was doing. Clearly, they were clueless to whom they were speaking. They had no idea that this was their God of the Torah in the flesh. Since these were men in authority, they recognized that Jesus was acting with greater authority than they even possessed. They could not go into towns and heal everyone. But Jesus did this more than once.
It is very interesting in this discourse, they asked Jesus one question and Jesus asked them one question back. Jesus said you answer me this question, I will tell you by what authority I do these things. But they refused to answer, because His question would have exposed them and answered their question simultaneously.
Mar 1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
Jesus constantly did things of such great authority, that He cast out evil spirits continually. Even when the devils questioned His authority to cast them out, Jesus only said “Shut up and come out of him” (Lk 4:35).
These were just a sampling of verses in the Gospels that declare Jesus was operating with great authority, in His teachings to His lost sheep, and in the casting out of evil spirits that possessed and oppressed the sheep. All of these verses clearly show Jesus was a guiding shepherd teacher and a protecting shepherd from the wolves that wanted to devour His lost sheep. These facts show that there was a symbolic Lamed “staff” of very great authority present in the spiritual hand of Jesus. Praise the LORD!
12. Personal Application of God’s Lamed Authority!
We need to learn how to personalize each ancient alphabet letter picture. How do we apply this ancient picture of a shepherd’s staff to us as Christians in these last days? The first application is do you know Jesus the Great Shepherd? Can you recognize His voice? Do you follow where He is leading you? If you answered no to any of these questions, it is time to turn your life over to the God who created you and knows everything about you and loves you enough to save you from an eternal existence separated from Him. There is a link at the bottom of this lesson that will help you to be introduced to Him. Please go and click on this and follow the basic instructions. Then leave a message to proclaim you accepted Him as your LORD. If you have already done this, then we need to begin to learn what God has given to us by entering into the LORD Jesus Christ. Here is one verse that will help us:
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
This verse is Jesus telling us to take a new look at how His “staff” of authority applies to us right now. In this declaration from the mouth of Jesus, came His personal authority that was given to Him by His Father. He has delegated the most awesome gifts of righteousness and authority that people could possibly imagine (Rom 5:17). Jesus says “I give unto you power”. This Greek word is G1849 (exousia) and it should be translated as “authority”. The applicable definition of this word comes from Thayer and it is defined as “the power of rule or government” and is further said to be “the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed”. Did you know Jesus gave you this ability over the devil?
But many will say: I don’t feel like this is true! Others will say: “it doesn’t work for me”. But yet God is not a man that He should lie” (Num 23:19). Therefore, it must be true regardless of if we know it or believe it, or it looks like it is working or not. Do you remember the time when a man came to Jesus asking Him to help his lunatic son? This son had a spirit like “epilepsy” that would cause the child to fall on the ground and shake. His father said it oft times made him fall into waters or fires trying to kill him (Mat 17:15).
The disciples were given “authority” to heal this boy. But the disciples tried to cast out this spirit and failed because of the deception of the enemy. Jesus looked at His disciples and was very frustrated at them, calling them “a faithless generation” (Mat 17:17). He further informed them that it was because of their unbelief that they could not cast this spirit out! What caused their unbelief in this case, when their faith was sufficient in many other cases of deliverance? The reason they failed for this child, was because the demon in the boy made it look like it was not working this time, and they gave up.
When Jesus cast out this spirit, the same thing happened that must have happened with the disciples. When Jesus commanded the devil out, the child fell on the ground and looked dead (Mk 9:26). But Jesus just ignored what the devil made it look like, and simply took the boy by the hand and lifted him up totally free (Mk 9:27). This implies that when the disciples tried to cast out the demon, the devil tore the boy the same way and he fell on the ground. The boy could have appeared dead, or he just could have continued to make the child shake and foam at the mouth, and one of these delaying tactics caused their faith to change to unbelief. Do you see the difference?
We have been given this authority regardless of how it looks on the outside world, and in our personal circumstances. God says it will work, if you will not change when it is applied in your life. The devil will try to delay you to change your mind also. He will even try to distract you away from using your spiritual authority. But where is this authority and why have many not known about this before?
We need to give God a chance to reveal a new Hebrew word translated as “heart” in the Old Testament. This word is H3820, and it is only two letters. The first letter is the “Lamed” representing “authority”, and the second letter is the “Beyt”, representing the house where a family resides within. In this application we need to see that a tent must be entered into in order to be experienced. We can all look at the outside of a mansion, but never go inside to experience it. Therefore, the concept being taught by these two letters represents a man’s “Authority is Inside”. Or it can also be expressed as “the authority of the human is inside”. Did you get what this is saying? Please don’t miss it. What God is expressing is the location of human authority is in our spirit.
When Jesus was physically present upon the earth in His mortal flesh, we saw that He had great authority, even over the demonic spirits. We have also seen how He could delegate this authority to His disciples. But this authority was spiritual and not a natural ability. It required spiritual “faith” to be effective to release God’s power. What is “faith”, or a better question would be “where is our faith”? Everyone has “faith” in something, but do we have any faith in the words of Jesus? God answered this question in many verses but Acts 8:37 is a good one. Here we are told to believe with all of our heart.
According to this Hebrew word, we discover a mystery of where Jesus obtained His authority. Remember the Hebrew word H3820 is normally translated as “heart”. This represents the center of a human being. This location is within the unseen spiritual interior of the physical body. Remember a tent is God’s symbol of the human body where the human spirit resides inside. This human body spirit container is called a tabernacle in the New Testament (2 Peter 1:14), because this is also where God’s Holy Spirit comes to live when we ask Him inside to sup with us. When God is invited into our tent, He joins with us to become one Spirit (1 Cor 6:17). Therefore, we have just learned and confirmed:
- Our Body is a Tent/Tabernacle
- The temporary tent residence of our human spirit
- The tabernacle that we invite God into,
to be joined with our spirit to be One - And God calls this place “inside” to be our heart (Lamed + Beyt)
Whose spirit did Jesus have on the inside of His physical Tabernacle body? You better answer God’s Holy Spirit, because that was the temporary temple residence of God in person. Jesus confirms this speaking in John 2:19. All of the people believed Jesus was speaking of their stone temple, but we are informed He was speaking of His mortal body, being buried for 3 days and being raised up again to eternal life. This is very amazing information.
But how does that help us? The answer is because Jesus died and was raised from the dead, He obtained all authority in heaven and on the earth (Mat 28:18). He immediately gave this fully obtained authority to everyone that believed on Him. He further sent the Holy Spirit to live inside of us, so that we would have the spiritual power and authority on the spiritual inside to release this on the outside in the physical realm. Do you see how Jesus was a pattern for us today? How He operated with power and authority is how every believer can do the same. Don’t believe this? Jesus said in John 14:12; “Whoever believes on me, the works that I do, shall you do also, and greater works will you do because I go to my Father”. Wow, when was the last time you raised anyone from the dead? Don’t feel bad, because we are all rising to a higher dimension of authority everyday by learning the truth.
Some may still say I don’t believe any of this. You may ask, why don’t I feel like I have any authority? Why doesn’t this authority seem to work over the devil in my life? Just don’t forget what we learned at the beginning of this section. The devil is going to try to make us doubt it is not working, even when it is working, to get us to fail.
Also remember what we have just learned from God’s chosen spelling of the Hebrew word “heart”. God gave us spiritual authority over our spiritual enemy only on the inside of our body, hidden within our spirit. It is NOT normally an external feeling that can be experienced with our five physical senses. God requires us to have “faith” in Him and His Word. This includes us believing in even how He chose to spell the words that have important revelation within them. Do you see the parallels in that last statement? There are hidden messages in letter definitions that were not understood for a long time. These were opened up now so that we could believe in our unseen human heart, about His spiritual works.
Another great Hebrew word that is created with the “Lamed” as the first letter is the Hebrew word H1980. This word has the root word “LK” which consists of the “Lamed” + “Kaf”. The letter “Kaf” is a picture of a man’s open hand. It is the letter that directly precedes the “Lamed” staff. Thus, they are already intimately connected by alignment, association, and usage. It requires a Kaf “hand” to hold the Lamed “staff” of authority. These two letters together have the meaning of in the hand of a man. This certainly applies to Jesus, but it also applies to Christ followers called His sheep.
The word H1980 is most often translated as a form of to “walk”. This is because a man with a staff in his hand implies that he is traveling somewhere to arrive at his destination. In Biblical times, many travelers were the only source of information from other locations of the world. Thus, this word also means to be a “messenger” with a “message”. But this word is also used as a form of “relationship” between two individuals that were “walking together” in unity.
For example, in Genesis 3:8 we find God walking in the garden of Eden to fellowship with His created man and his wife. It is implied that God and Adam did this walk together often, because Adam recognized the sound of God’s voice walking in the garden and ran and hid because of their sin. However, the second time this word is used it has a different ending result. In Genesis 5, we read of a man named Enoch. This man also walked with God, and their relationship was so very close that God took Enoch off of the planet without him seeing physical death. Wow!
Do you see how us having a staff in our hand has any application to our lives on this earth? God is saying to us, that we need to have close intimate relationship with Him personally daily, minute by minute. We must use our faith to walk with Him to get the messages that we need for our lives. A part of this must be fellowshipping with the Word of God, and the other part fellowshipping with the Spirit of God in prayer, worship and praise. But it does not stop there, because we still live in a natural world right now. We have this staff of authority in our hands to walk to others and bring them the “Good News” from the Kingdom of God. This is exactly what Jesus did personally in the flesh when He was here, and this is the example for us to follow.
Our spiritual authority has been given to us in our spirit, residing in a temporary spirit tent dwelling called our body. God accomplished this by joining our spirit with the Holy Spirit of Christ, and this was all defined by the Hebrew word “labe”, that is translated as “heart”. In or physical body, we have been given the “staff” of authority to walk with God and to bring His message to others. Christians have been given great gifts from God that contain His authority. This authority is inside the house where the Spirit of God abides forever. We have been given a powerful “staff” of authority and we are told to hold it in our hands and never to turn loose of it. Jesus transferred this staff with His commands (words); “Go into all the world”, and “in my name you will cast out devils”. God desires for us to continue finding and inviting lost people to become a part of His sheepfold.
13. CONCLUSION
We have been going through a brief study of the ancient Hebrew letter “Lamed”. We have learned that this letter is a picture of a shepherd’s staff. It represents God’s ultimate authority. We should have seen how this authority was given to the Son of God, named Jesus after His resurrection from the dead. This authority was further delegated to His body on the earth with Him being the “Head” (Resh) in heaven. We have not yet learned about the “Resh” letter, but that was your first introduction to Christ being the head of the body, called the church.
We have seen several verses that can help us to see Jesus as the ultimate “Good Shepherd” in this lesson. Every “Good Shepherd” will have a staff in His hand, and Jesus is no different. Here is just another verse relating to Christians being “sheep” and Jesus being our Shepherd:
1Pe 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
This verse in 1 Peter is an obvious reference to Jesus as the Shepherd that was being prophesied in the ancient Hebrew letter “Lamed”. This is just another confirmation that Jesus is our Shepherd that David wrote and prophesied about in Psalm 23. Remember this verse is a fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah 53:6 where the prophet wrote that we were all like sheep that went astray. We can again confirm those saved in the church body, are the sheep that have returned to their true shepherd. Let us conclude this lesson with another ending prophecy of Jesus in the book of Revelation:
Rev 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Rev 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Rev 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Here is an awesome description of Jesus coming back to the earth to rule for 1000 years with His saints. We know this is Jesus because Jesus claims to be the Faithful and True witness in Revelation 3:14. Then we can confirm Jesus is God, because these identical terms were used to describe the LORD in Jeremiah 42:5.
Notice in these verses that the coming Lord Jesus is clothed in a robe dipped into blood (v13), and is riding a white horse (v11). God further describes a sharp sword in his mouth, which is a representation of His words of authority, eminence and power. We can also clearly see the church riding behind Jesus on more white horses, with clean and white robes, representing purity and righteousness. But it is verse 15, that we need to focus upon.
In verse 15 of Revelation 19, we are told Jesus will rule the nations of the world with a “rod” of iron. Notice the transition that has occurred during this context. Instead of a wooden shepherd’s staff, this one is made of strong iron. This iron rod/staff is for a much different purpose than the wooden staff of the Shepherd Jesus, that managed docile loving sheep that follows Him willingly. No, we are seeing two different rods, and purposes for two different groups of people.
Notice the Greek word G4464 that is translated as “rod” in this passage, means a stick or baton that presents the holder to be royalty in a kingdom. This certainly fits Jesus as the King of kings”. It is normally translated to be a “rod” like we saw in Moses’ hand of authority. We again see in Revelation 17:14 that Jesus the Lamb of God is called the LORD of lords, and the King of kings. Clearly there are many references to the multiple roles of Jesus within God’s Kingdom.
What we are confirming is the fact that during this current church age of grace, Jesus offers humans a loving Shepherd. Anyone can join His flock by believing and confessing Jesus as their LORD. But when the age of Grace ends and the fulness of the gentiles come in, there is a new transitional time for judgment that will begin. This time will initiate a 7-year period called the time of Jacob’s trouble. Jacob as you know is the foundational member of the natural nation of Israel. There were 490 years prophesied about these natural people by the prophet Daniel. This is 70 weeks of years. Every week has been fulfilled, except for the last week that many call the 3 ½ year “Tribulation”, followed by the 3 ½ year “Great Tribulation”.
This final week of prophecy to the natural people of the earth will end the ability to be saved during the 6 days (6000 years) of God’s work for humanity. There will be a 7th day of “Rest” called the Millennium, that will follow the “Great Tribulation”. These verses in Revelation 19 describe the ending battle to fully subdue the devil’s kingdoms ruled over the people on the earth. This is why this battle is brought about with the stronger authority of iron. The weapon that will ultimately defeat the devil, will be the sword coming out of the mouth of Jesus. It is this picture that represents His powerful words. We will hopefully talk about these concepts when we arrive at learning the ancient Hebrew letter “Zayin”, the LORD be willing.
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Intro Alef Beyt-1 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Avin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav Alef-Beyt Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
Jesus Hidden in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet – Chart
(Ver 1.0) This will be a very short lesson that will focus upon only one picture of the complete Hebrew alphabet (Alef-Beyt). This picture was found on the internet by searching for images of the “ancient Hebrew alphabet”. It is freely available on most search engine websites. It is included here just to assist those that are becoming truly interested in studying this amazing subject. If you would like, please take it and print it to put it in your own subject study notes.
We hope and pray that everyone is learning more about the Lord Jesus than they ever knew before in this awesome Bible study subject. When we come to realize that every book, chapter, paragraph, sentence, name, place and even has a revelation of being about Jesus, we begin to understand a little bit, how AWESOME GOD IS!
Intro Alef Beyt-1 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Ayin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav Alef-Beyt Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 5 – The Dalet
(Ver 1.1) This lesson is “Part 5” in the Bible study series about the Lord Jesus Christ, being hidden by the Spirit of God in His design of the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. This is a truly amazing subject of immense importance. The Jewish people of the natural nation of Israel, have been the keepers of God’s written Hebrew Words for nearly 3500 years. Their faithfulness to keep it intact and preserve it accurately, as it was spoken to Moses and the prophets directly from the Spirit of God, is amazing. But what is most amazing to many, is how every letter of their alphabet, pointed them to their coming Messiah, and they totally missed His personal appearance, even crucifying Him on a cross (Tav). We of course are no better than they, because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23). If it were not for the grace of God, everyone would still be headed to hell in complete spiritual blindness to what God has freely done for us all and given to us in Christ Jesus.
Today’s lesson will focus upon another one of the most essential letters in the Hebrew Alphabet relating to Jesus, called the “Dalet”. The “Dalet” is the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The number 4 is very significant, and we will see this very soon. We should have already learned a lot about Jesus as letters of the Alef-Bet from reading the other lessons written in this series. If you have not read the series from the beginning, you might like to go to “Part 1” to begin with the introduction to the basic concepts.
The letter “Dalet” we are about to discover is certainly one of the major ancient Hebrew alphabet letters, that describes Jesus precisely. God created a natural pictogram for the letter “Dalet”, that contains massive amounts of hidden symbolic, literal, implied natural and spiritual truths, etc. All of these reveal Jesus to us directly or indirectly.
Today we will be learning only a limited amount of this important information. There is literally volumes of books that could be written on each letter and how it applies to the work of God in Jesus Christ. Here is a quick list of the contents of this lesson’s sections:
- Introduction – The Dalet Door
- Jesus Found in the Number 4
- The 4th Son of Jacob – Judah
- Dalet + Vav + Dalet = Jesus God’s Promise to David
- The Door Prophecy of Jesus’ Words
- Jesus Declares His Legal Entrance into the Human Realm Through a Door
- Jesus the Ark Door of Our Salvation
- Jesus Our Passover Door
- Jesus Our New Covenant Door
- The Conclusion
Let us get started with learning this incredible picture of the ONLY “Door” of access to the Father, named Jesus.
1. Introduction – the Dalet Door
The ancient Hebrew letter “Dalet” is the 4th letter of the alphabet, and also has the gematria number value of “4”. Most can view the ancient pictogram of the “Dalet” and see the basic image of a door. But we can confirm this by studying the Hebrew word H1817 that is often translated as “door”. This Hebrew word is comprised of the Dalet, joined with the “Lamed” and ending with the “Tav”. This pictogram has a powerful meaning and can be understood to say, “The Door (Dalet) of (true) Authority (Lamed) will be hung on a Cross (Tav)”. This sounds like God. But this is just one of our foundational prophecies of our Savior Jesus.
These three letters placed together spell the word “Dalet” and represent the isolated letter “Dalet” in word form. This word occurs approximately 90 times in the Old Testament and is translated as “door” or “doors” 70 times, Therefore, this Hebrew word is confirming the pictured representation precisely as being a “door”.
Here is a key to understanding correct Bible interpretation. In the Bible God calls multiple things by the same name. The subject “Door” is literally no different. There are many separate things that can be a door in the Bible. The first is always the literal natural plain representation as a physical door to a house. But we are about to discover today, that many other physical things can be called doors, including the human mouth (Peh). There are also spiritual doors, figurative doors, etc. that must be taken into account to see how they apply in our study of the Dalet.
Please notice that our “Dalet” door picture has exactly 4 basic drawn connected line components. Interesting how we just found the number 4 again. There are two side posts found in God’s door design, with one top lintel post, and one implied threshold bottom surface (Exo 12:22). Adding these together we get 4 rudimentary components of a basic door design. The drawing of the ancient Hebrew “Dalet” has all four of these 4 elements in the shape of a rectangular box, with the top “lintel” post being a greater extended length. This extension appears to imply the top extended lintel post is of a greater importance. This information should help us know that it is definitely not a coincidence that the letter “Dalet” is a basic picture of a door. Knowing this we can conclude that this letter was God’s specifically planned 4th letter of the alphabet for His own very important purpose to teach us about Jesus. It is absolutely imperative to know that nothing in the Word of God is there by random participation.
But realize that these four door elements, are really just the supporting structure for the main component called the “door”. The 4 side posts are basically just limitations for the main component called the “Door”. If Jesus is the “Door” and He was God, and He was, this would be another very prophetic imagery being given to us. Remember the 4 post design points us to the physical human realm of limitations for mankind within the 4-dimensional space and time realm. What we are suddenly learning is the “Door” picture appears to provide the representation of God our living Door, becoming a “man” and limiting Himself to the features of His created human realm. This is exactly what God says He did in Philippians 2:7. Wow, we have one of our first major contributions confirming the Dalet design defines the Word of God’s appearance upon the earth as a human, to die on a cross. Now consider this next factor and how it can be a prophetical picture of the work of God in person, in human form.
We must add the center swinging door access component to our total of 4 side posts, increasing the total number of major components to 5 connected parts. It is essential to know that the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the “Hey”. This letter occurs twice in the name of God, Jehovah. This letter has the direct meaning to say “Look”, and “Behold” as in someone who is excited and taking in an extended breath of air to shout “WOW”. I wonder if that is why the word “Wow” occurs so much in our Bible studies? I believe it is! What we are observing is when God appears in the human realm, there will be many that are amazed and excited and will shout “WOW”. But there are others born of the devil’s seed that will not react the same way. Which one are you?
It is very interesting that the number 5 is a symbol of God’s Grace in the Biblical study of God selected numbers. We should certainly be aware that if these 5 door components do represent God’s personal appearance, then it was only because of this work of divine Grace, that we were saved. Wow, another match for the confirmation of the ancient Hebrew “Dalet” design to represent Jesus’ death on a cross.
But also, do not forget that it requires “nails” to hang a door upon “hinges”, to allow the door the ability to swing open or be closed. But that type of door was normally only available in a more permanent type of house dwelling like we will read about in the Exodus Passover. For our pictured “tent” dwelling the actual door was usually very different. In a tent type of dwelling, the door was normally just a rod where a veil or curtain was hung but this was also accomplished by nails. It is this veil that we will soon see is also a picture of the coming Christ.
Every “Beyt” tent house must have a “Dalet” door. We learned in the “Beyt” lesson that God and Jesus both have a house and a family associated with them. It was the Father’s House in Heaven that begat His Son’s House. It is the “door” (Dalet) that covers the entrance or exit to the “Beyt” house dwelling, that allows legal entrance into the house and family dwelling. It is the interior area behind the door that was set apart for only the family or their special guests. This area was where they lived inside out of the exterior elements, where they slept, and were protected. Then exiting the house through the door represents the concept of going to work to bring food into the house. Therefore, the “door” represents the basic concept of “movement” from inside to outside, and vice versa.
The concepts that are implied in this “Dalet” door diagram are vast. Every tent or house has walls of separation. But a walled structure without any gate or door, means no exit or entrance to the house. Those on the inside, could not exit, and those on the outside, could not enter without a door. This lack of a door implies a total divided separation of the lives of those on either side of the separating walls (Chet). The Chet is the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet and is a picture of a wall, and we have not covered this letter. However, we still know that in the spiritual realm there are doors of access between heaven (spiritual) and earth (natural). We can read about Satan coming from walking on the earth to present himself before God in heaven in Job 1:7. It is very interesting that Satan tells God he has been going “to” and “fro” and “up” and “down” in it. This is another connection of the number 4, that reveals Satan could access the natural realm.
But we find another type of spiritual separating existence like a “wall” in the Luke 16:19-31 story that Jesus tells of two men that died. One poor man named “Lazarus” died and went to Abraham’s bosom. Another rich nameless man died and went to hell. In this real story we learn there is a great gulf between these two spiritual realms, and there was no way from within either place that someone could travel to the other place at any time for any reason. Hell is an example of a permanent spiritual wall (Chet) of separation. Please beware now while you can still learn how to not go there in this lesson. Abraham told the rich man in this story that the way to not come to the place of flames, is found in the implied letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and books written by Moses and the prophets (Luke 16:29). That is exactly why we are studying this subject of an exit door today.
Therefore, we have just learned that the presence of a “Dalet” doorway in a walled existence represents “Freedom of Movement”. Consequently, we have found another major component for what a “door” represents in the eyes of God, and we need to apply this door characteristic to how it represents Jesus. We can begin to do this by remembering what Jesus said about Himself in John 14:6. Jesus in this verse clearly claims to be a type of “door” access to His Father, by stating “No man comes to the Father except by me”. This is very clearly Jesus saying He is personally going to limit access to His Father in Heaven, and this must be one of the major reasons why He is becoming this “Dalet” door letter representation. This is the function of every door to limit access to selected individuals.
Have you ever seen pictures of the place called Buckingham Palace where the Queen of England abides within? There are outer walls, and gates on the outside of a Palace dwelling. Then there are doors with guards on the outside of the Palace house walls (Chet). This makes entrance into her realm of normal interior existence severely limited to only those who she permits to see her. And they do this by entering into her Palace door (Dalet).
This is exactly one of the major reasons why Jesus has come to the earth to die on a cross (Tav), believe it or not. We can begin to learn this is true by Jesus stating in Luke 12:51, “Think not that I came to bring peace upon the earth, I tell you no, but rather division”. This is another entire book subject of immense importance about our study subject. In this statement Jesus just claimed to have come to bring a “Chet” wall of separation. If we study to find this reason for why Jesus needed to become a wall (Chet) correctly, we will find it was because of Lucifer’s rebellion in heaven. Knowing this we must then realize the reason for Jesus becoming a Dalet “Door” was it is the “door” keeper that grants access to some, while simultaneously separating access for all others (Lucifer). We should see this in some of the examples of doors as we continue to learn.
We have just been introduced to a few of the direct or implied applications for this letter to represent the work of Christ. One major application of Jesus as the doorway of access to His Father, is found in the book of 1 Timothy. In 1 Timothy 2:5, Jesus is described to be the human/God mediator between God and we that are in Him. Because we are “IN HIM” we have access directly to God the Father. Because He (Jesus) is IN us, God the Father has direct access to us by His Spirit. Wow!
This was God becoming the “doorway” solution for the human problem of permanent separation from Him. He became one of us, so that we could become one of Him. Wow, that is describing Jesus to be a “doorway” (Dalet) between two previously permanently separated walled (Chet) realms of existence.
Let us continue to learn other applications of a “door”. A “door” can also represent an “opening” to have an opportunity that you could pass by, if you do not choose to walk through it. This too points us to Christ, because He died once for all humans to have at least one opportunity to enter into the “door” of eternal life. But this opening of opportunity passes us by after we enter into another “door” called natural death (Job 38:17, Psalm 107:18). This is why normal unsaved people w/o demons, have such a great fear of natural death. While saved people who have entered the “Door” of Christ, know where they are going if and when they die.
I recently had a friend that passed from this world. He was a Christian, so we believe he just passed from the earth physical realm into the presence of the Lord Jesus in the spiritual realm (2 Cor 5:8). It is because of our belief in Christ Jesus in this lifetime that causes the door of Jesus to be entered to be in the presence of God in heaven.
We have only been introduced to the subject of the Dalet briefly. But we will list some of the key points that must be understood to continue. A Dalet is:
- A door of entrance or exit into or out from a house and/or family
- A representation for a decision point to stay on one side of the wall or the other.
- Choosing to enter the house, is a cross (Tav) over point of freewill choice.
These were only some of the basic concepts found within God’s “Dalet” door design. Perhaps these were enough to raise your interest levels in learning more of some of the details of Christ being our only exit door. We are about to discover that Christ died on a cross to give “access” for lost humans to enter “INTO” Him as a “door”. In choosing to do this by faith we receive salvation and deliverance from the bondage of Satan. Satan held us behind a wall (Chet) of “sin” where we were bound because of our fear of the looming eternal death door that was imminent for us all being “IN” the first Adam (Heb 2:15). Who do you want to be IN? Jesus is the correct answer for life. Are you ready for some new details you probably have never seen before?
2. Jesus Found in the Number 4
There are many well educated people including, Christian teachers, Jewish Rabbis and Hebrew teachers, who view the number 4 to represent the human realm of natural existence without God. For example, there are 4 dimensions of natural existence called, height, width, length, and time. These 4 dimensions severely limit humans to forward time and 3-dimensional space. Compared to God who can be everywhere all at the same time, and even apart from time, humans have a severely limited natural existence.
Also notice that there are 4 major directions of travel found on a natural compass, called north, south, east and west (Gen 13:14). One year of our calendar time is divided into 4 separate seasons (Gen 1:14). The night watches of the city guards standing on the gated walls, were separated into 4 divisions time (Mat 4:25). On and on we could go with the number 4 being very important in the natural human realm.
When we know the “Dalet” is the fourth letter in the alphabet and it represents a door that could be Jesus, we can begin to search for patterns of the number 4 that stand out, to also point us to Jesus.
We can find that the number 4 is a very significant number in God’s Old Covenant creation, because of the significance of His usage of the number 4 as a prophetical type and pattern for His coming personal appearance on the earth. The very first time Jesus appears in the Bible as the “Alef” and the “Tav” which he claimed to represent in the book of Revelation 4 times, is found in Genesis 1:1. In this verse the Alef+Tav appears as the 4th word and is untranslated and ignored by translators. This is just the first amazing coincidence for the number 4 in the first verse. Now let us see another in days of creation also found in Genesis 1.
Four is the total number of days that passed to bring in the entrance of the LORD Jesus Christ into the world as the joining of two doors (Dalets) representing God and man. This revelation utilizes the God created prophetic pattern of Genesis chapter 1 where the 6 days of creation are a complete history of all human natural time including what is happening now. This prophecy was understood by God’s prophet writing in Isaiah 46:10, where God says “I make known the end from the beginning”. Therefore, we know we can read the creation account of the beginning and see the end laid out.
But in order to further understand the timing we must find God’s definition of one day found in either Psalm 90:4 or 2 Peter 3:8. In these verses God defines 1 day in His eyes to represent 1000 years of normal human time. It would appear God’s definitions of time are significantly different than the natural human perspective. Therefore, the 4th day within the God created six days of work, and 1 day of rest, would prophetically reveal a time period that would occur 4000 years after creation began. This 4000 year, or 4th day would fall within the total of 7000 years or 7 days for the completion or end of our natural world. It just so happens this 4-day representation is the precise amount of time from when Adam sinned, until Jesus died on a cross in our place, to save us from the required death penalty (Gen 2:17).
There are also many other patterns of 4 that are found significant and we will talk about some of them in this lesson as we go. For example, for our introduction, let us remember that Jesus waited exactly 4 days to raise “Lazarus” from the dead. This story represents another significant prophecy pattern of the number 4, revealing the timing of the spiritual work of Jesus to save mankind from their condition of spiritual death. Remember Lazarus had been buried for 4 days, with a large stone “door” (Dalet) covering his tomb. What we find in this real story are multiple symbolic types that are being revealed as greater spiritual realities in Christ.
The dead man Lazarus, represented a type of all humans since Adam in a state of spiritual death (being separated from God). The dead man Lazarus laid in the tomb until he stunk, and so was the smell of humans in God’s nostrils (Amo 4:10) after 4000 years without Christ. Remember the tomb was a separated place containing only the dead and darkness. This is clearly a type of the world where Satan was ruler of darkness (Eph 6:12). The stone (G3937) should become obvious to represent Jesus himself, because it is the only “Door” for human exit from the darkness and death realm moving into the light and life realm. This we will discover today, describes Jesus precisely in His work on the cross. Hopefully you know this story found in John 11:38-44. If not, please go and study this story again, looking for all of the examples given to Jesus our Rock and Door called the savior of mankind (1 Cor 10:4), and Lazarus as the type of the dead separated human race. We will review a little more of this story to help you recall how this relates to our lesson of a “Dalet” door.
Remember, the man Lazarus was in darkness and separated from light who is God (1 Jn 1:5). Then recall there was a closed door “stone” that would not allow access to the light (John 9:5) for those on the inside of the tomb sleeping in darkness (Eph 5:14). But Jesus will also become the door of human salvation as we will learn later by hanging on a cross (Tav).
In doing God’s work on a cross, we will find that Jesus would become a new door of exit, to grant human access back into the fullness of God’s light. Also, remember the dead man Lazarus was wrapped in grave clothes, that will be removed after exiting the tomb door, and these will be exchanged for new clothes for life. Today this symbolism is being lived out in the church who were once dead in our sins, and are now alive and told to put on Christ in Romans 13:14. So we find another pattern of Lazarus’ resurrection to be an image of the church as raised from the dead people that have a new life wearing “Christ”. This occurs when we are born-again, to receive a new spirit. When this occurs God removes our old grave clothes meaning that we have exited the darkness of our old man which was in the first Adam to now be in Christ wearing light (Rev 12:1).
In this Lazarus prophecy, there was a very clear exit of a man, from the darkness where he lay asleep (dead), and there was a very clear passage back into the light to meet with Jesus, face to face. This describes the life and death condition of all humans, originating from the first Adam that caused us all to die, until we believed in Jesus being raised from the dead, in exactly 4 days or 4000 years of total human history.
We have just seen Jesus in the flesh raising an actual dead man named Lazarus. Jesus waited exactly 4 days to arrive to bring him back from the dead. So, Lazarus, was alive like the first Adam before he sinned, and then he died and was in darkness for 4 days stinking. The stone door was opened picturing the crucifixion of Christ on a Tav cross. The dead man was raised as a type of the second birth back exiting darkness and returning into the light of life. All of this was provided by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Finally, there was an exchange of death clothes for life clothes representing being clothed in Christ. We will only go over quickly one other parable that Jesus taught to see His emphasis upon the number 4.
In Luke 13:6-9, we find “4” verses that describe a symbolic “fig” tree. In this parable, Jesus described a “certain man” as an owner of a garden. This is clearly God who planted a Garden in Genesis 2 for His created man to tend. God spoke His first commandment to His created man in Genesis 1:28, saying “Be Fruitful”. This fruit is clearly what God desired of His creation to produce for Him, because it is how God’s creation will end in Revelation 22.
Now look at the 4 verses in Luke 13. We have a land owner that comes to a gardener that is caring for a “fig” tree. This tree is approached by the owner and He is searching for fruit on this “tree” for 3 years and finds none, so he tells the gardener to cut it down. But the gardener pleads for the owner to wait one more year and allow him to fertilize and care for it to give it another chance. This is clearly a type of mercy and compassion being exhibited. But notice how long this “fig tree” is given by the owner? It only has a total of 4 years to produce fruit, and if no fruit is produced then the limit of the owner’s patience has ended.
Wow, now we can see another amazing parallel into the 4000 years or 4 days of creation of God’s patience for His creation to produce any fruit that is worthy. If you recall there is another major encounter with a fig tree that Jesus uses to teach His disciples. In Mark 11:12-14. In these verses, God the creator of heaven and the earth in the flesh comes to a “fig tree” looking for fruit to eat. But He finds none! Does this sound familiar? Remember this encounter is occurring precisely 4 days (4000 years) after Adam sinned and failed to produce any fruit. Do you remember after Adam sinned that God says Adam clothed himself with fig leaves (Genesis 3:7)? This a direct connection to what Jesus is doing in the Gospels with telling a “Fig” parable and cursing a fig tree without any fruit.
Jesus speaks to this fruitless fig tree a curse that caused it to die in less than 24 hours. This was clearly God declaring the end of one natural garden that was planted in the first Adam. This teaches us that God is implementing a New Creation spiritual Garden in Christ, the Last Adam. FYI, this new garden is guaranteed by God to produce “fruit” because of His personal attention and participation. Praise the LORD!
This was just a very limited introduction to the number 4 being directly connected to Jesus as the Dalet Door. We will soon notice that the number 4 will continually pop-up like it was designed specifically by God, which I believe it was. But let us now get into some new detail picture representations of the “Dalet” letter to help verify how these examples of the number 4 in prophecy, and in the natural can fit with what the “Dalet” represents to be in Jesus Christ.
3. The 4th Son of Jacob – Judah
This is a section that will certainly be one that many will find amazing when discovering it. Do you remember the name of “JEHOVAH“ was spelled using the Hebrew letters “Yod, Hey, Vav, Hey”? Do you remember that this name meant “Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail”, using ancient Hebrew pictogram letter representations? These letters of the primary name of God in the Old Testament points us to a man that will be nailed to a cross. This makes this name of God to be a profound revelation of the Creator God exiting heaven, to come to the earth personally in the form of a Man that can die on a cross (Tav). What is also interesting to understand, is the fact that this name of God consists of exactly 4 Hebrew letters, the same number of lines drawn in the ancient Hebrew “Dalet” pictogram. This is not a coincidence either.
Do you remember that Jesus’ name Yeshua, contains the name of “Jehovah” added to the Hebrew word for “Saved”? This is another amazing pointer to exactly what the nail prints in the hands of Jesus has done for everyone that believes in Him. But now we are going to add the “Dalet” to this mystery. What happens when we add the 4th letter Dalet as the 4th letter in the name of Jehovah? This would make the new name “Yad, Hey, Vav, Dalet, Hey”. Do you know what name this is, in the Hebrew language?
This is actually a very significant name found in the plan of God to manifest in His chosen man named Jesus Christ (Messiah). This name “Yod, Hey, Vav, Dalet, Hey” is the name of Judah. Who is Judah? He just so happens to be the 4th son of the twelve sons of Jacob. That is a lot of coincidences of the number 4 being connected together, isn’t it? We should all know and understand that Jesus is called the “Lion of the Tribe of Judah” in Revelation 5:5. We can clearly see in the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3:33 that Juda is one of the key fathers of the coming future King David and his son the ultimate eternal King of Kings called Messiah, and Jesus.
Therefore, we have some very amazing connections taking place with the “Dalet” addition to the name of Jehovah who becomes a man to die for all of humanity’s salvation. How does the meaning of Jehovah change when we add this “Dalet”? We would have “Behold the hand, behold the nailed door”. Some people try to find fault and criticize any and everything possible to discredit what is taught. Some say, we are taking the two “Hey” letters out of order and placing them first. While this is not wrong, it does not change the actual saying in any way to keep them in their proper order. In the proper order, the name Judah would be “The Hand, Behold! The nailed Door, Behold”. Can you see how this door being nailed is found in the name of Judah? Now pay attention to a prophecy of Jacob about his son named Judah:
Gen 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
This is a strange prophecy of immense application to Jesus. First notice the statement that begins by saying “a scepter” will not depart from Judah. A scepter is normally viewed as a royal staff signifying the holder’s ruling authority and power. This is clearly Jesus who is stated to rule with a “rod” of iron in Psalm 2:9 and Revelation 19:15. We also must conclude that Jesus would certainly come from a “seed” that is exiting from between the legs of Judah as stated in Genesis 49:10. Jacob’s words spoken of Judah are clearly a prophecy of Jesus that would be born of a virgin woman on God’s calendar on the 4th day of mankind’s history. On this 4th day’s entrance into the world, Jesus would become a living doorway to exit out of one kingdom of darkness that Satan rules, to enter into God’s New Covenant kingdom of light that we found in the Lazarus prophecy.
The essential take away of this section, is for us to learn and understand that God “Jehovah” in heaven needed a “door” to be placed in His name to give Him legal access back to humans on the earth after sin, and for the humans on the earth to obtain legal access back to Him. It also simultaneously teaches us that Jehovah needed an “exit” door for His adversary Satan and all of his followers. God became Jesus to become this additional “Dalet” Door inserted letter into His name to teach us and to prophecy what He was about to do in Christ. We will learn more about this as we continue to confirm these words and concepts in other verses.
4. Dalet + Vav + Dalet = Jesus God’s Promise to David
Here is another important name in the Genealogy of Jesus Christ that contains a huge prophetical picture diagram for the work of God in Christ. There are several verses that we learned in the “Beyt” lesson concerning God’s promise to King David, that his future “Seed” would build a house for the LORD. We learned in that lesson, that this “Beyt” house being built was a combined Son from two dimensions of existence. One was the natural realm where David was being promised, and the other was from the spiritual heavenly realm where God was going to send His “Seed” (Word) into the world to become joined as the simultaneous Son of Man, and the Son of God. There was a lot more scriptures in the “Beyt” lesson if you do not recall this, please go and reread it to help you see what is next.
We only want to focus upon the name of David today in this lesson. It is very interesting that the name of “David” contains two “Dalets” connected by one center “Vav”. This is not a coincidence. The letter “Vav” is a picture of a nail, in the ancient Hebrew. This letter identifies symbolically the joining of two things by implied covenant bond, because the two separated items become one together by nails. This is still the law of Marriage from Genesis 2:24, and Jesus is the nail, plus the two doors needed by God to be joined.
What God is confirming is why He selected this man named David to be the King, that would bring the Messiah into the world, and God hid this information in David’s name. Only Jesus could be the true God/Man that could enter two doors of two separated realms of families and houses (Beyt), simultaneously. Because Jesus was 100% a man, and 100% God, only He could provide God a united and joined doorway path for the two separated realms to have close contact. Without Jesus being a common joined door (Dalet), the death of humans occurred when standing unworthily in God’s Holy presence. But because Jesus died and shed His blood for us as a God/Man Door go between, we have been completely reconciled to full intimate relationship with Him being placed in Christ (2 Cor 5;17).
In other words, Jesus could grant humans safe admission into the Holy God’s presence in the spiritual heavenly realm becoming a human door of access, and He can approach God, His Father, because He was also fully and completely God. Jesus became the sinless/spotless Lamb to die for us to provide this access coming from two directions to occur. This is profoundly prophesied in the name of David. The first letter “Dalet” is one side of the problem, and the ending letter Dalet was the other side of the problem. These two doors that were separated, are being connected together because of the power of the “Vav” “Nail” in the center. Of course, the “Vav” nail also represents Jesus, but we have not taught on this letter yet. This will hopefully come later; the LORD be willing.
Just know that Jesus had a physical body tabernacle (Beyt), that granted the Spirit of God personal access into the physical realm. This was a new and living “Dalet” door for God to have access to the natural realm. Perhaps you have never seen this in the Bible, but here is an important verse to learn from about Jesus being a new “Dalet” door:
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Notice this verse begins with the description of a new and living way. This is God referring to a “doorway” that provided Him entrance into the natural realm, and humans a close and direct access for us to hear, from the Spirit of God personally or at least as close as possible in this temporary form.
If you look up the Greek word G2665 that was translated as “veil” in this verse, you will see in Strong’s that this word is referring to a curtain door that covered the entrance into the Most Holy location in the tabernacle of God. God informs us in this verse, that this veil being implemented for His new temporary Tabernacle “In Jesus”, was the flesh of Jesus that covered the Holy Spirit on the inside. Wow, this was an amazing advancement for God fellowshipping with humans on the earth from the Old Covenant process.
But it is also important to realize that this was only a temporary transitional phase of God’s plan of salvation for humans. Jesus said to the Jewish leaders in John 2:19, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up”. Then in verse 21, John clarifies that Jesus was speaking spiritually of His natural body temple, and not their physical stone building.
Please just understand that God could personally walk around sinful humans without anyone falling dead legally because He came into the world as walking and living tent with a veil covering in His flesh that protected them. We have just seen a major confirming set of verses that claim Jesus is a veiled tent Dalet type of doorway.
Then remember, that Jesus had the same Holy Spirit on the inside of His mortal body before He was about to die, as He did later in His eternally resurrected body. This teaches us that God had made a onetime doorway transition path from the natural to the eternal spiritual realm using the same veiled doorway in the flesh of Jesus. Did you get what was just said by the Holy Spirit? Can you see how this relates to the joining of two doors by usage of a “Nail” (Vav) in the name of David?
This reveals to us, that whoever, chooses in the living natural realm to enter into the joined door of Jesus, can now approach God in the Spirit realm by faith, without shame or condemnation (Romans 8:1). Wow, this is all found in the ancient Hebrew pictures of the name of “David”. Did you know that God could give such awesome direct prophecies even in the names of real humans? As an interesting side note about how Genealogy names can contain prophecies of Jesus, here is a sentence of prophecy provided by combining the meanings of the names in Genesis 5 from Adam to Noah:
“Man was appointed mortal sorrow, but the blessed God shall come down teaching His death shall bring the despairing, rest and comfort”.
We do not have time to go through all of the details of every name that makes up this prophecy. But this hidden message found in real people’s name implies God was at work in directing human affairs a lot more than many realize. Let us finish this section about the name of David prophecy.
If you go and read the book of Ezekiel, 4 times God speaks of David as His servant that will shepherd His people and reign over them “forever”. This is not speaking of the literal King David as a natural human. We all know this man named David was a sinful man who died, and was buried in a grave, and he too needs a savior. No, these verses are simply using “David” as the name of the natural “father” to associate with Jesus his son.
Study it, believe it, or reject it, whatever you want to do, but it is God hiding truth in plain sight and it is not that hard to find. Praise the LORD!
5. The Door Prophecy of Jesus’ Words
We could write another book on this single detail of the “Dalet” being Jesus the Messiah. Therefore, we willonly cover this topic as a very rapid overview of information that contains significant more specifics. We will not even include all of the verses to shorten the content and this means you need to look up the verses found in Ezekiel 47:1-12. We will however put verse 1 as a beginning:
Eze 47:1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
When we read this verse with our spiritual eyes opened, we begin to see a significant amount of symbolic spiritual information being revealed. Please notice what is being prophesied by the prophet Ezekiel is about a door, a house and this location contains an “altar” for sacrifice. This sounds a lot like what we encountered in the last section about Jesus being found in the name of “David” as a joined temple doorway of the natural and the spiritual.
We will begin by noticing the verse is about a “house” (Beyt) and a “door” (Dalet) in the house. Then we observe water (Mem) flowing out of the house’ door. What could this possibly represent so far? Natural water is a symbolic spiritual representation of spoken words. We know this by several verses, including John 15:3, and Ephesians 5:26. Both of these verses are about the Word of God that is able to make humans clean by them hearing what is spoken to them. Please take the time and read these verses to confirm that you see this for yourself.
Another key verse is Jesus speaking in John 7:38, where He says “He that believes on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”. In this verse Jesus is again emphasizing a description of New Covenant believers, being filled with His Holy Spirit, to produce “rivers” of flowing water. That description is a good direct explanation of what we read in Ezekiel 47:1. The only challenge for some, is the fact that Ezekiel is prophesying using symbolism, and Jesus is speaking in literal spiritual terms mixed with the metaphor of rivers as words, and in Ezekiel words are waters. Now we need to learn about a new application for the “Dalet” door design found in a human body temple:
Psa 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Now, how does God connect the “Dalet” to rivers of words? We just read the answer in Psalm 141:3 above. This verse is very clearly claiming the human mouth is a literal “Dalet” door that opens and closes by lip movements. We are all aware that the mouth is a two-way door of entrance and exit. We can breathe air in and exhale air out with our mouth. We can drink natural water and eat physical food with our mouth. It is also possible to vomit out of our mouths if there is an upset stomach type of condition.
Pro 23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Notice this verse is using the natural vomiting metaphor as a spiritual application to words spoken. This is not our main subject, but it is very profound. It has direct spiritual applications to all of the people that have become the “body of Christ” on the earth. But let us go over a new claim that Jesus spoke to us all, while He was physically present upon the earth. Jesus said this:
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Jesus is speaking and declares a very radical statement about spiritual realities. Jesus from what we read in Ezekiel 47:1 was the first spiritual God house upon the physical earth that was releasing waters of life to heal people. In the physical body of Jesus lived the Holy Spirit. He guided Jesus to speak everything that He said. Jesus literally claimed these words were coming out of the door of His mouth as rivers to give us all life. Let us confirm this with another statement:
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Do you see the water transfer being exposed in this statement? Jesus said if we will drink of the “water” (words) that He spoke, we would never thirst again, and this accumulation of drinking in His Words, would result in our ability to fill up our well (spirit), so that we could spring up words for “everlasting life”. Wow, this is really amazing. Here again we are witnessing the connection (a Yod, a nail) between two doors, being repeated. But in this metaphorical usage this spiritual door only has in common spiritual words that flow from Spirit to spirit.
Jesus is literally claiming to speak words that would fill a dry location, and when this location was being filled, it could continue to be filled, by them hearing His words. These spiritual words spoken would keep filling until overflowing, then these words would begin to leak out to become a wellspring of eternal life for ourselves and others. Jesus teaches this concept in Luke 6:45, when He said “A good man out of the treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good, … for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”. Wow this is so amazing.
We could go through every verse in Ezekiel, but that is too much information for this lesson. But please notice some of the key points related to our subject of the “Dalet” a door. We should know that these verses are about the family of God, that entered the “Dalet” door Jesus. We will learn this detail very soon. But we also must know that this is about good God “words” as our living water source of eternal life.
If you read down further in Ezekiel you will find a man that measures the depth of the water exiting the “door” of the house. It is amazing that he measures the water that exits the door, 4 times. Remember the “Dalet” is the number 4. Then we find these words being spoken (waters) are very clean and not polluted words of death. We know from reading James 3:11, that bitter and sweet waters (words) cannot both proceed from the same fountain door opening which is a mouth (Peh). The Peh is just another Hebrew letter not yet covered, and this word literally contains the meaning of the “mouth” and “the power of the words being spoken by its usage”. Surely you can begin to see the intelligent connections and design of God found in the entire alphabet.
Finally notice the comparisons of this prophecy to God’s grand finale in Revelation 22:1-2. These verses in Ezekiel and Revelation are direct prophecy and fulfillment viewpoints. In Revelation 22:1, God sits on the throne with the Lamb, and out of them flow “rivers” as clear as crystal. This represents ultimate purity and holiness in their spoken words. From this river flows life, that feeds the trees of life on both sides of the river. These trees are the saved people of the earth and we are told that we will produce brand new spiritual fruit by drinking in God’s pure words spoken to us, every month (Isa 61:3). What we have learned is a very profound introduction to spiritual doors, and flow of spiritual words for life. I pray this will inspire you to thirst for more, of knowing Him and His Word.
6. Jesus Declares He Legally Entered into the Human Realm
Through a Door
We will not teach this topic in depth today either, but it will be a continuation of some of the concepts that we have learned previously about “doors”. This topic will focus upon a new “Dalet” door type that is not yet fully understood by many Christians. Remember in the “David” lesson God gave us two doors being connected by one nail. We were introduced to one door representing the human natural realm, and the other door representing the heavenly spiritual God realm and Kingdom. It is Jesus that becomes the “Nail” (Vav) to connect these two realms and we will verify in this section, how Jesus entered into the earthly realm legally to do this by going through the human door of entry.
We will only cover the first legal door “Dalet” entrance in this section into the world. Let us look at some key verses on this subject:
John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Joh 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
This is a radical claim of authority that Jesus the “Last Adam”, is declaring in opposition to Satan’s illegal entrance into our world, at the time of the “first Adam” (Genesis 3). There are two direct spiritual powers being spoken of here. The first spiritual power in verse 1 is referring to the “lesser light” of Day 4 of creation, who rules the Kingdom of darkness. This is clearly Satan as he is also being called the “thief”. Later in this chapter of John 10, we are informed in verse 10, that he only came into the world to “steal, kill and destroy” from humanity. This is plainly speaking of “Satan” and his theft of the ownership and rule of the kingdoms of this world (Luke 4:5-6), that are under the authority of his darkness.
We need to understand the symbolic references that are being made by Jesus to teach us how to apply this information to the spiritual kingdom realms that are being spoken about using figurative natural expression. The first and most important reference is the “sheepfold”.
What is a spiritual “sheepfold” in the context of this discussion? We need to begin by looking up the Greek word G833 that was translated as “sheepfold”. This Greek word literally means an “open air” realm of existence. This can certainly apply to the concept of a sheepfold, where there is a large open air, green pasture, that is fenced in. This type of enclosed area would require an entrance and exit capability that provides access through a “gate” that could be opened and closed. The keyword meaning of this enclosed area is defined with the word open “air” environment. Knowing this, let us read about our enemy Satan’s realm stolen domain:
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Now we are discovering something very important to help define what a “sheepfold” was in the mind of God. In this verse of Ephesian 2:2, God speaks of Satan being the “prince of the power of the air”. This is a description of the “atmosphere” that surrounds our planet. It is this area of “air” that limits normal human realm reaches. So far no one has ever created another kingdom on “mars” or the “moon” because there is no suitable atmosphere in either. So, we can conclude the “sheepfold” of God was the planet earth that Satan had no legal access into.
In John 10:2, Jesus shifts the focus off of the illegal robber and thief Satan, that climbed into our world illegally, and is now focused upon Himself as the “Good Shepherd” (Jn 10:11) that entered into the world through the legal door. Wow, what is the legal door using spiritual definitions? How do spirits legally come into our world? To understand this we better just focus on how Jesus came, since He clearly says He entered legally by the “door”.
Ok, this is not rocket science. It is actually not complicated at all. God became a child in the womb of a woman named Mary, in order to gain legal entrance into our world. The fact that God was born of a human woman, gave Him the complete and legal right to enter our planet as a human to save us. However, we should also remember that God in Jesus completely stripped Himself of His full deity powers to become like the rest of His creation, in order to not to be accused by Satan to be illegal on the planet, like he was. We learn this plainly by reading Philippians 2:5-8.
There is a significant amount of symbolism to transfer and understand about the unseen spiritual world realm. We cannot cover this in greater detail. Just understand that the sheepfold is the planet realm of breathable air. The sheep are all humans on every part of the globe. The “thief” that climbed in illegally was Satan, the ruler of the darkness. The “good shepherd” that gained access by entering into the legal human “Dalet” entrance door was Jesus Christ. God is writing and speaking of His created world on planet earth, where He first planted a garden named Eden, and there He placed His chief created ruler named Adam to oversee the works of His hands. Adam rebelled, disobeyed and sold us to Satan, and he becomes the god of this world (Ps 8:4-6).
This was why God entered the “door” of legal access, being born of a woman into our world, to redeem us from this evil power that was sending us all to hell. By Jesus becoming the “Last Adam”, He had the legal right as our “kinsman redeemer” to buy back what was stolen from us by our sin debt. He accomplished this payment by shedding His blood, with His death upon a cross (Tav). Thank you, Jesus! We will discuss the last part of John 10 containing another “Dalet” door of exit from our world soon.
It is just very profound that Jesus comes into the world on God’s “day 4” of creation to be born a child in Bethlehem. It is more than a coincidence that God accomplishes this using a “Dalet” “door”, the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Let us now stop and go over a couple of Old Testament patterns of “Dalet” doors that represent Jesus the Christ.
7. Jesus the Ark Door of Our Salvation
We are going to review a couple of the Old Testament examples of Jesus as the door of salvation in the New Covenant, with the type of the door of the ark. As you should know God called a man named Noah to build an ark. God describes this story beginning in chapter 6 of Genesis:
Gen 6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
God begins in this verse speaking to Noah some key building strategies. There must be a window at a certain height. There also must be a “door” in the “side” of the ark that is lower than the window. The door will become obvious to be the entrance into the ark for everyone to be saved from the coming destructive flood. It will be this “flood” of water that will kill every living creature, that has not found salvation and safety inside of the ark.
Gen 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Here is God instructing Noah and his family members to enter into the “door” (Dalet) of the ark. They have been declared “righteous” in the eyes of God in their generation. Ok, let us stop and relate this to Christians quickly. Are Christians called righteous? There are many verses that reveal we have been made righteous by entering into “Christ” (Rom 3:26, Rom 5:17, 1 Cor 1:30).
Now pay attention to the word this “generation”. God is again connecting what is happening here to the coming church age. Remember what Peter wrote about the church? 1 Peter 2:9, God through Peter writes “You are a chosen generation”. Isn’t this what was happening to Noah and his family? They came into the ark, and they were saved out of the destruction of this natural world. We as Christians are entering to a spiritual door, and we will be saved out of the pathway leading to eternal damnation.
Gen 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
There are at least 130 verses in the letters written to the churches, that claim we are “IN HIM”, “IN WHOM”, or “IN CHRIST”. All of these verses reveal something we have been given as a gift from God about Christians entering into the “Door” (Dalet) of Jesus. These verses further imply that Christians have exited the world that will be judged very soon. We see a direct correlation to entering into Christ, with the entering into an ark for Noah.
Gen 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
Gen 7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Wow, so Noah, his family, and every animal entered into the ark “door” (Dalet) and God shut the door! This was the sealing of complete salvation. Before this, everyone still had the “freewill” choice that would have allowed them to not go in, or to exit before the door was shut.
These were just a few of the key verses that reveal much more than you probably understand at their first glance. There is a very significant lesson this website that describes some of the key concepts about this subject, called, “Pitch within, and Pitch without”. This lesson will not be repeated here. Therefore, please go and read about it to gain a greater understanding of what is happening here about a “Door” representing Jesus.
There were other significant parallels being given concerning the spiritual church of God to our salvation, by entering into a door of Jesus. Please recall that Jesus in Matthew 24:37 said very clearly that when He returns to the earth for His church, it will be the same as it was in the days of Noah. Jesus is making a direct comparison of these two events. We will hopefully learn more about these concepts and parallels as we continue.
8. Jesus Our Passover Door
The Old Covenant is full of types and shadows that point us to Christ being a type of “door” (Dalet). We will continue with Exodus chapter 12 and the children of Israel being “freed” from their bondage from Egypt. In this true story, there are found multiple spiritual parallels to the church and Christ. Moses was God’s chosen deliverer of Israel, is a direct type of Jesus Christ. The children of Israel are a direct natural type of saved spiritual people and nation of the New Covenant, called the church. Egypt is a type of the world’s darkness and the kingdom of evil. And Pharoah that refused to let God’s people go free, is a direct type of Satan our ruler and prince of the power of the air, our adversary.
We will not go through every verse in this chapter. There is another series found here that provides a lot more detail on this subject. There were a series of great signs performed by God through Moses to convince Pharoah to let His people go, but none of them worked, because of his pride, arrogance, and desire and hunger for power and control. This sounds exactly like the devil today.
Therefore, God brought about one last plan. This was a judgment against everyone called the “death” of the “firstborn”. This judgement would affect anyone that did not believe the words of God spoken through the chosen servant Moses. God told Moses to take a lamb into every house (Exo 12:3). How, did the lamb get into the house? Obviously, he was led through the door (Dalet). How many days did the lamb stay in the house? Curiously it was for “4” days (Exo 12:6). Is all of this just a coincidence or chance occurrence? Obviously not. This is just another confirmation of God’s superior knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet and the “Dalet” being designed as a “door” as the 4th letter of the alphabet.
Then the lamb in the house, had to be killed and its blood collected in a bowl. It was this blood that was then instructed to be placed upon the “doorposts” of the house (Exo 12:7). Wow, another coincidence? Eventually, people are going to have to see the intelligent designs being given to them, aren’t they” I sure pray they do!
God says in Exodus 12:23, that when He passes over each house that contains blood on the door, He would not allow the “destroyer” to come inside to kill any of the “firstborn” in that family. But in every house without the “blood” found present on the doorposts, the “firstborn” of man and beast were slaughtered. It is most interesting that on this day of “Passover” the “moon” was at its peak fulness. Remember “Satan” is the symbolic moon. This too is symbolic for what was coming in Christ’s work and blood to become our door of release and freedom from our captivity in the kingdom of darkness.
I would strongly recommend that you go and read and study the series of lesson on “God is Love” found here. In this you will find, God’s concepts of the hidden parallels between a “Passover” door and the doorposts, and Jesus being a hung as a “door” (Dalet) of salvation for us to enter, being nailed to a cross. Both set of wood posts had blood of a lamb, and both sets of posts had a door hanging on them, etc. By entering into the Passover door, the family was saved from death, and by entering into the body of Christ by Faith, we are also spiritually and eternally saved from hell. The parallels are amazingly eye opening.
What we should find, is this Passover door w/ blood covered posts, is a pictured type and shadow of the far greater Lamb of God sacrifice on a cross. In this sacrifice God’s firstborn natural son (Heb 1:6) died in our place, so that we do not need to. Remember that Jesus is actually called the “Only Begotten” Son of God in John 3;16. Only begotten simply means a naturally born Son of God that was born of a natural woman. It was Jesus’ primary reason for being born as a mortal man, so that He could physically die as well as spiritually die as a gift of substitution. Thank you, Jesus!
9. Jesus Our New Covenant Door
We would all love it if Jesus, would just come out in the open, and directly say “I Am the Hebrew Dalet”, like He does with the “Alef” and the “Tav” in Revelation 1:8. However, even in the Alef and the Tav we must still recognize that we are required to make the necessary language translation, from the Greek “Alpha” and “Omega”.
God would have made it so much easier for us to search, find, and see Jesus if He had chosen to write the entire Bible in one language to everyone. However, this is not His chosen method of communication. He does this for a lot of very wise reasons, and one was because He was desiring to reach the entire world to save everyone. At that time the majority of the world all spoke “Greek”, and that language would allow Him to reach so many more people. God also likes to hide Himself in His writings, to cause us to want to desire to find Him. This is what we are doing by searching for Jesus to be the “Door” of the New Covenant.
Today we have already found a lot of information about Jesus’ relationships to “Doors”. Now we are going to see how Jesus claimed to be the “Dalet” exactly, but just not as a direct corresponding alphabet letter in Greek. Today, using this “Dalet” letter, Jesus is rather observed to be calling Himself to represent the pictured symbol of a “Dalet” door pictogram design. This information again is written by God using the Greek language to record it. But it is this Greek description that matches precisely to the “Dalet” ancient Hebrew pictogram. Let us stop and read the Words of Jesus written in Red Ink, to see His direct claim. We will do this by returning to John 10. In this verse we are going to find a “New” door that was not previously mentioned:
John 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
The Greek 2374 translated as “door” literally means a portal or entrance as in opening or closing. This is truly a profound statement of spiritual truth. Jesus is not speaking literally or naturally as in the physical realm of doors. Jesus is rather speaking figuratively of a spiritual type of access to God. Wow, this is eye opening, if you accept it. Ask yourself, these two questions and see if you already know or can find the answers:
- Who are the “sheep” that Jesus the door, is giving entrance into the Kingdom of God?
- Who are the “non-sheep”, that Jesus is locking out from entering into the Kingdom of God?
If you did not know already that you were one of His sheep, it is time to get saved so that you will know Him and His voice personally. In John 10:14 Jesus claimed to be another symbol called the “Good Shepherd”. In this verse Jesus said, “I know my sheep, and My sheep know me”. From this we learn People are obviously His sheep but these people are only saved people in verse 9:
Joh 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Jesus confirms that human salvation is the key to know Him as the Door and the Good Shepherd. Then in the next verse Jesus claims the access to entering this Door to become His sheep is to believe:
Joh 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
This verse is Jesus proclaiming what Paul wrote being inspired by the Holy Ghost later. Paul said in Ephesians 2:8 “By grace are we saved, by faith”. Our participation in believing what God said is the key to becoming and remaining His “sheep.
To answer question 2, Jesus reveals two kinds of animals in His parables. Notice these next words of Jesus to better understand the soon coming of His glory:
Mat 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Mat 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Mat 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Mat 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Mat 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
There are two groups being divided. These parallel the two parties involved in John 10. Remember in this chapter there was Jesus called the “Good Shepherd” and the “Door” of the sheep. And He is at enmity with another called the “thief” and the “stranger” that entered into God’s sheepfold illegally to “steal, kill and destroy” them (John 10:10). This enemy and evil one, is of course, the devil called Satan.
Finally notice the “sheep” that are set on His right hand by the angels and they enter into the Kingdom of God. This is opposed to those are called the “goats” that are divided on His left hand that are blocked from entering into Jesus, the Door of Heaven. These are vital “door” and “gate” concepts being taught. There is only a one Door access into eternal life. Jesus became this “Door” to also be the “Doorkeeper” or “Porter” that allows access and acceptance versus blockade and denial of entrance into God’s Kingdom. Jesus Christ is the ONLY DOOR access into the Kingdom of God.
This is a good time to remember the two kingdoms that we were introduced to in the beginning of this lesson teaching the number 4 of the Dalet. On Day 4 (Dalet), the “Door” (Dalet) was born in a manager in Bethlehem. 33 ½ years later, Jesus died upon a cross (Tav). Three days later, He arose from the dead, and our “Faith” and “Confidence” in this resurrection grants us entrance into “Christ” the Dalet “Door”. Surely you can begin to see that all of this was prophesied in the letters of ancient Hebrew alphabet.
10. CONCLUSION
Rev 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
John was given a personal view of an “opening Door” in heaven. This Dalet type of Door appears to be another reference to the LORD Jesus Christ. He appears to open His mouth proclaiming loudly with a sound like that of a trumpet; saying “Come Up Here” (1 Cor 15:52). We know very clearly that this trumpet sound, is a voice and is stated to be a talking Spirit from God’s spiritual realm in heaven. This voice is clearly speaking to people on the earth that are NOT yet physically or spiritually with Him in heaven.
This calling up, is the catching away of the bride of Christ (Rev 21:9), as the door of the end of the two days of the Church age of Grace closes (1 Ths 4:16). At the time revealed in Revelation 4:1, the fulness of the Gentiles has entered into the salvation door of Christ (Rom 11:25) and we are going up to meet with Him in the air (1 Ths 4:17). This is a new door opening of an appointed opportunity to be prepared for, and it is a very soon coming happening, believe it or not. Glory to God!
We have gone through a lot of potentially new information for many about the different concepts of the types of “Dalet” doors, and how they relate to a picture of Jesus Christ. You hopefully recall some of the types of Dalet doors we have covered:
- Being born of a woman as legal entry into the physical realm.
- Being saved from the world’s wide path of hell, by entering into the “Door” of Jesus Christ.
- Taking advantage of life’s most important “doors” of opportunity are many: for example, 1) to hear the Gospel, 2) to believe and receive Jesus and get saved, 3) to study and learn the Word of God, 4) to open your mouth door to preach and teach the Gospel, 5) to be ready to get raptured, etc.
There is a lot more information in God’s Word that was not able to be covered today about “doors”. This lesson has already exceeded 10,000 words and that was above the initial desired target.
We concluded our lesson with a direct claim of Jesus being the ONLY “Door” for His sheep. It is this “Door” that directly represents our study letter Dalet and Christians are His sheep. In this chapter of John 10, we can clearly see Jesus claiming to have figurative “sheep”. We can find out in many verses that believing Christians are His sheep, but we will go back to the Messiah prophecy of Isaiah 53 to help us know this role could be anyone in the world that accepts Jesus as LORD:
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Do you see the direct connection that God makes of people to be like sheep? According to this verse all people in the world wandered away from knowing God, going into their own ways. But God had mercy upon us to lay upon Himself every sin. Wow, that is an amazing display of God’s Love. Also in John 10, Jesus claims to be the “Good Shepherd” of the sheep who gives His life for us. He is truly the best shepherd that any person would want to follow. We can connect Jesus as our Lord in the description of Him in Psalm 23. This Psalm written by David, one of our subjects today was speaking of His future Dalet Door Son directly. It is also interesting that this chapter is describing Jesus as the ancient Hebrew letter “Lamed”, that has not been covered yet. Hopefully, this letter will come, the LORD be willing.
Thank you for taking the time to read and study God’s amazing Word with us today. If you do not love God and His word, it will be too late very soon to get to know Him easily. Jesus will be returning to the earth to catch His sheep away to be with Him in heaven. During the tribulation time it will be harder to give your life to Him than you can possibly imagine. The pressure of the enemy to take His mark, will be nothing like you have ever seen. It is best to turn your life to Him ASAP, and now is the perfect time. Please go to the link below and click on how to get saved. Do it now, because you are not guaranteed a tomorrow.
God loves you very much, we love you and bless you! We will continue to pray for you and ask the same for us. Never underestimate the power of the devil to lie to you and to deceive you. You believe you are above deception; you are already deceived. Be warned! Always place your trust in Jesus, and His work that is freely given to us. Remember always 1 John 4:4 “You have overcome them, little children, because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world”. God bless you all!
Intro Alef Beyt-1, 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Ayin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 15 – The Nun
(Ver 1.2) This lesson is “Part 15” in the Bible study series about the Lord Jesus Christ, being hidden by the Spirit of God in His design of the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. There are some that question the validity of this study. This is a good and understandable attitude towards anything anyone teaches about the Bible. I praise you for having this attitude towards everything you read about God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus or His Word. Question everything. Do your own research. Study every subject lesson for yourself. Do not take anyone’s word as truth, without your personal involvement to verify, and re-verify it personally. There is a number of good sources of information on this subject on the internet. Just go to “DuckDuckGo” and type a search for the “Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Pictogram”, and many research sites should appear to get you started. There are even a lot of good charts and alphabet letter pictures on search engine “Images” sites. Please study and learn for yourself. Then don’t believe anything they say either. I have found some the Spirit of God in me, gives me peace about and others that I have rejected as being off the middle ground of balanced truth.
I have only studied this subject in recent years. When this came to my attention, I too was skeptical. Then I bought an iPad and downloaded the eSword Bible App, and this came with a good starter lexicon concerning Ancient Hebrew pictograms. The more I researched the subject, the more it came alive in my spirit. The Holy Spirit bore witness with my spirit that this was such a very amazing intelligent supernatural design. You see, if this was only human created drawings, it would not contain such deep and rich hidden meanings. But if it was God inspired, He is able to place hidden information about Jesus in every little part of the drawing. Then by Him placing specific picture letters together, He is even more wise to have the ability to tell a complete story containing prophetical applications to what He was going to do in the future. I cannot tell you how amazing this has become to me, and I pray it will for you also.
Today’s lesson will focus upon one of the most essential letters in the Hebrew Alphabet relating to Jesus, called the “Nun”. The “Nun” is the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. We should have already learned a lot about this letter, by reading from the beginning of the series, especially in the “Beyt” lesson. If you have not read the series from the beginning, you might like to go to “Part 1”.
The letter “Nun” is one of the major ancient Hebrew alphabet letters, that describes Jesus precisely. God created a natural pictogram for the letter “Nun”, that contains massive amounts of hidden symbolic, literal, implied natural and spiritual truths, All of these reveal Jesus to us directly or indirectly. One individual asked me how do we know these letters mean what is taught here? There are many reasons, but I will give you a few of the major explanations, that give us confidence:
- The Hebrew language usage of the “Nun”, defines the basic individual letter meaning using the definition of the word “Nun” (H5125, Nun + Nun = Sprout).
- The ancient Hebrew letter “Nun” pictogram, looks like a sprouting “seed”
- The ancient Hebrew letter “Nun” resembles the image of a sperm cell that was only possible to view by supernatural participation in its original design.
- Jesus makes the personal claim of being what the image of the “pictogram” letter “Nun” signifies.
- Jesus had made the personal claim to be the actual Alphabet letters like the first letter “Alef”, and the last letter “Tav”, and this implies He could be all of the letters between them also.
- Other Bible writers make the direct claim that Jesus is the pictogram representation and/or the letter’s definition.
- The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that this information is the Truth.
- After studying ancient Hebrew letters for a significant time, it should become apparent and revealed that these letters were placed there by supernatural intelligent design and not by natural human reasoning.
No one here in any Bible lesson being published, is saying believe us, we are always right. That is very foolish to believe we would make this claim to everything we teach is 100% correct. Have you ever met anyone, that is 100% correct besides God? I have not and neither have you.
If you are new to the ancient Hebrew alphabet study concepts, do your own homework, study and prove us wrong. Be an Acts 17:11 good Berean type of Bible student and verify everything, anyone teaches. Use your iPad and your “eSword” Bible App. Then select a Hebrew Strong’s number, to view the word meanings in the included ancient Hebrew lexicon. You can read about the word sources, the letter meanings, and the basic messages that the combined alphabet letters are communicating. It is an excellent beginner’s tool.
I hope this encourages you to read this lesson with an open heart (spirit), and mind. Spiritual realities are easily rejected by naturally thinking people. God is a Spirit and those that worship Him, MUST worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23-24). Let us move into the Spirit, moving with the Spirit’s flow, and let us open our spiritual eyes and ears, to hear from the Spirit about what He says to us in this awesome letter “Nun”.
1. INTRODUCTION – THE NUN
The ancient Hebrew letter “Nun”, is the 14th letter of the alphabet, and has the gematria number value of “50”. Fourteen and fifty are both very significant numbers in God’s Old Covenant, because of the significance of each usage as prophetical types. Fourteen is the total number of years Jacob had to work for the bride that he loved. He was tricked by his father-in-law after their 7-year agreement, and He was then forced to work for an additional 7 years for Rachel (Gen 29:20). Jacob is a direct type of Jesus. But we will not be able to teach this concept today.
Fifty represents the year of total “freedom”, called “Jubilee” (Lev 25:10). In the 50th year, all debts were canceled, all bond slaves went freed, and all land sold to pay debts, were restored to the original family owners. Wow, that sounds a lot like Jesus’ work on the cross (Tav) already.
There are many that view the year of Jubilee as being related to the very soon coming “catching away” of the church (1 Th 4:17). I am definitely a supporter of this belief. There are many parallels between these two events that we will be unable to learn about in this lesson. But notice, in both events, land ownership is returned to the rightful family owner. We should know that the world system is currently under the control of Satan (2 Cor 4:4). This dominion of land ownership will be legally transferred back to Christ’s ownership, during Revelation 5 events, with the opening of a scroll implied to contain the title deed of the earth. Also, please understand that both events, Jubilee and rapture begin with a loud “trumpet blast”, and then people are freed (Lev 25:9, 1 Cor 15:52).
Most see the basic pictogram of the “Nun”, as the representation of a concept of a “sprouting seed”, as in an herb seed, a fruit seed, a vegetable seed, etc., which is being planted and watered to grow a “new” plant of the same kind as the “seed” contributor. It is interesting that a sprouting “seed” must have water, to produce any new life. The seed in a desert without rain, has little chance of producing any life. But when the “seed” is touched with rain in the dry desert, this place becomes a different living environment, until the rain water stops.
It is very interesting that the Hebrew letter directly before the “Nun”, is the “Mem” and this letter is a picture of “water”. God has connected these two letters together by His design in the Hebrew alphabet. These two pictures relate to almost every living thing in creation. Without the existence of three essential elements, “light”, “water”, and “seeds”, there would be no life right now on this planet.
It is most interesting that this pictured ancient “Nun” letter, significantly resembles a greatly enlarged male sperm cell which is called a “seed” in Genesis 38:9. The above photo is a picture of a magnified sperm cell. Many can see this meaning in the “Nun” representation. It is a significant reminder that when a human is conceived in the womb, that the child grows and develops in a sack of water. A water connection is a reoccurring pattern in the majority of environments where a “seed” produces a new life.
Many can also see the representation of the ancient Hebrew pictogram as an image of a “tadpole”, or hatching fish egg. This causes many to believe the letter represents “fish”. Therefore, the letter “Nun” continues the pattern of the meaning of a “seed” that is interacted with “water” to produce and sustain new life. The letter “Mem” directly preceding the “Nun” are definitely connected together by supernatural intelligent design. Let us go deeper into the concept of “seed” as a continuation of life.
A sprouting seed, represents the “continuation” of “life”. Each new generation of human life, or an animal’s life, or a tree or plant’s life, was reproduced by the spreading of “seed”, into a female of the kind, or the ground soil. There is an essential law of God about “seed” given to us in Genesis 8:22. In this verse God decrees His designed law of perpetuation for all created life. This verse says “As long as the earth remains, “seed”, time and harvest will never cease”. Wow, this law is the reason why you are here, alive, and able to read this Bible lesson right now. You were once just a seed in your “father”. But now seeing you we all can understand that your “seed”, was joined with an “egg” to grow in water, until it produced your ability to experience “life” by birth. This is exactly why Satan has been trying to kill every human on this planet before they receive this life experience. It is only a living human full of Christ, that has the ability to crush Satan’s head (Romans 16:20).
It is this representation of a microscopic reproduction cell, that proves it was supernaturally created by the Creator God, and not by a human’s simple mind who did not have a microscope to see what this cell looked like when it was first written in tablets nearly 3900 years ago. The fact that this letter “Nun” is joined with the letter “Beyt” and is transliterated as “Ben”, that God writes in the Bible as a “son”. The Beyt represents a house and a family, and the “Nun” represents a “seed” and placing them together we get “the family continues in the new son”.
In human terms, it is also interesting that it is the sperm “seed” (Nun) that will determine the gender of the produced child. It is also interesting that the father’s seed contributor donates ½ of the necessary DNA to create the child. Wow, again we see amazing truths about how Jesus came to be called the Son of God, simultaneously being called the Son of Man, and how this was accomplished by His Father God, sending His Word to a “virgin” woman named Mary. Mary received God’s “seed” (Word) into her spirit (Luke 1:38) and she conceived. Perhaps you need to be introduced now, to the concept that the Word of God is called “seed” in Luke 8:11. Therefore, the Seed of God was God’s Word, and this was made manifest as a human male (John 1:1-14). We have just been introduced to the concept of the “Nun” being a symbol of the Word of God. Please keep this in your mind as we continue.
The letter “Nun” like other letters, has a corresponding Hebrew word called “Nun”, that is used in the Old Testament. This word is H5125 and Strong and the NASEC gives the definition of this word as “be continued”, “perpetual”, and “propagate”. This primitive root word provides another word H5126, that is used for the name of the father of Joshua, who was called “Nun”. Joshua in the Old Covenant, is another major “type” of Jesus in the New Covenant.
This fact of Joshua being the son of Nun, connects Jesus to being a “Seed” from His Father God. This is a very amazing connection to our subject of Jesus, because Joshua is the exact same name of Jesus, just in two languages. Jesus is the transliterated Greek name of Joshua, and Joshua is the transliterated Hebrew name for Jesus. We are beginning to be introduced to a major clue, teaching us that the LORD Jesus Christ, was produced from the “seed” of God.
Therefore, this letter “Nun” fundamentally represents “seed”, plural or singular. If you have never studied this subject in the Bible, it is an awesome essential Bible study to learn. You should find at the very least 10 separated and distinct things that God labels as “seeds”. There is a lesson series on this website that is called “Understanding Seeds”, if you would like to learn more. What we are going to do with this concept, is to search our Bible for the word “seed’ and continue to learn.
There are two major God created laws concerning “seed”, found in “Genesis’. We already learned in Genesis 8:22, a “seed” sowing was God’s designed “propagation” method for life’s continuance. Therefore, a “seed” by God’s definition means, a “seed” must be “sown”, from a current living entity, in order to produce that life to continue to exist, in the next generation. Wow, that is really amazing, even if you do not yet understand what God is speaking of.
The first mention of “seeds” in Genesis is chapter 1 and verse 11. In this verse God gives us His Law, “the seed within itself”. God created “herbs”, “grass”, and “fruit trees”, as mature living life organisms, and He declared each of these life forms, had its own “seed” in side of itself to reproduce, remain and continue on the earth. This identical law was reapplied, in the design of the fish, bird and animal realms, as well as the human domain. This is why Genesis 8:22 said seed (Nun), time and harvest will never cease as long as the earth remains.
This was a quick overview and introduction to the letter “Nun” meanings and applications to being a representation of Jesus Christ. Let us now go into a few very essential details on this letter pointing us to Jesus.
2. Jesus Christ Our Natural “Seed” (Nun) – New Covenant Representative
In the Bible, Jesus claims that He is two types of “seed” (Nun) of the New Covenant. We will begin with the natural “seed” first. As part of this claim by Jesus, God reveals Him to be our human and divine representative that is able to keep His covenant for all mankind, if they will humble themselves, submit, and accept Him as their Lord. Let us begin our detail study of Him being a “seed” (Nun), by viewing what God says about being fully humans. We will accomplish this by searching for Jesus as a “Seed” (Nun) where He is directly connected, by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration through the New Testament writers:
- Romans 1:3, Jesus called the “Seed” of David
- Galatians 3:16, Jesus called the Promised Seed of Abraham
- 2 Timothy 2:8, Jesus confirmed to be the “Seed” of David
- Hebrews 2:16, Jesus confirmed to be the “Seed” of Abraham
These 4 references represent the major direct references of Jesus being a natural human “seed” (Nun) of men. However, from these four verses, we can clearly see how Jesus is being called a natural “Seed” (Nun), of two major Bible men. Both of these men were given direct heavenly promises about a coming “Son”, which we know from these verses, is revealed to be Jesus the Christ.
This knowledge of a human “seed”, representing Jesus, brings us to also recognize the fact that Jesus is also called a “Son” many times in the New Testament. We learned in the “Beyt” lesson that a “Son” is the Hebrew word “ben”. You should remember that this word is comprised of two letters, the “Beyt” + “Nun”. In ancient Hebrew letter meanings, this can signify “The Father’s House continues in His Seed”. Knowing this, we can clearly see how Abraham’s and David’s house will continue forever in their risen Son, named Jesus Christ. Let us continue this section of the human “Seed” being Jesus with a potential new expanded view.
Remember, Jesus is called the “Son of David” in at least 12 verses in the Gospels. At least three times in the Gospels, Jesus is called the “Son of Abraham”. What we are learning is a pattern of Jesus being the human “Seed” from two earthly houses of two fathers. But also remember that David was in, and from the house and family of Abraham. So, we are now being introduced to the concept of generations through the passing of “seed”. This occurs when one man’s name, house and family can only continue, as long as his seed remains alive to be passed down. If the father dies, and leaves no heir to his house, the family name has ended.
If you read the Luke 3 genealogy of Jesus you will find Jesus came from the natural “seed” of many fathers, being passed down many times. If Satan could have killed one of these fathers before his seed of “Christ” could be passed, this would have been a very significant situation for God. This is exactly why Satan, who did not understand which seed Christ would come from, has tried to kill all children throughout all of history. But this Luke 3 genealogy and Jesus himself, makes another shocking claim in the Gospels that few pay attention to.
One of the key mentions of Jesus as a “Son” (ben=Beyt+Nun), occurs in around 82 N.T. verses. God calls Jesus by the title of the “Son of man” in multiple Bible verses. But Jesus called Himself, the “Son of man” more times than any other name or title. He did this in every book of the Gospels. If Jesus was speaking Hebrew, which I believe He was to Jewish people, He said “I am the Son of Adam”. This is because the Hebrew word H120 that is often translated as “man”, is also the same exact word that is translated as “Adam”, the first man’s name. This would make Jesus the Christ, also a “Seed” of Adam. This is completely amazing when you learn Jesus was being called the Son of Adam, is also called the “last” Adam (1 Cor 15:45), and the “second” man (1 Cor 15:47) by God in the New Covenant. These essential facts gave Jesus the legal right to be the first Adam’s, kinsman redeemer. The kinsman redeemer is revealed by God in multiple verses, but the book of Ruth and Boaz as a type of Christ, is one of the best examples. Wow, we could write a book about that subject also. But we need to move on to another direct claim of Jesus saying He is another very special type of spiritual “Seed” (Nun).
3. Jesus Claims to be a New Spiritual Seed (Nun)
We must learn in this lesson that Jesus made direct claims to being a “seed” (Nun). Remember what a “seed” was created to be. A “seed” has the great potential to create “new life” of the same kind as the source of the seed contributor. But Jesus was a new unique man, that was a “Seed” from two families that become one in Christ. We have already seen the natural family of man contribution to Jesus. Now we will explore the spiritual God contribution.
Every “seed” produces new life of the exact same kind as stated in the law of “seed” producing after its own kind in Genesis 1:11. God establishes a law of reproductive same kind of new life, for His and our benefit. We must understand there was a need for “new life” after Adam died and let Satan become the God of this world (2 Cor 4:4). Adam sealed the fate of every human to eternal death, but God became a man to initiate a brand-new creation (2 Cor 5:17), to give us His newly created life. We are about to learn that God accomplishes this by becoming a combined physical and spiritual “Seed” Himself to die. Thank you, Jesus. Praise the Lord!
But a “seed” must be buried into the ground in order to create this new life. A seed literally was designed by God to die, and to be buried. We will discover in this next verse that Jesus makes the direct claim to being this very specific type of “seed” that will produce our new life. It is this gift of new life that will again permit humans to resemble Him, and to be remade into His designed image and likeness. But this newly created human will have something better than Adam originally had, and that was God living in Him, and not just coming to visit Him, walking in the garden. What Adam lost; Jesus the Last Adam restores to new, but it is greatly enhanced and designed not to fail. Let us read the verse, and then analyze the words being spoken:
John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn (Nun=Seed) of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Can you see that Jesus just claimed to be a “seed”? It might be a little concealed by the choice of word the translator selected. The Greek word that was translated as “corn” is G2848, and this word literally means a single “kernel” of seed. In an ear of corn, each kernel is a “seed” that is able to produce an entire new corn stalk when planted. This corn seed can also be ground into corn meal to produce bread. But a corn kernel is not the seed type that Jesus claimed to be.
What type of “seed”, did Jesus just claim to be? It is found in the translated word “wheat”. This Greek word G4621 means a grain, but it is mostly used to represent “wheat”. It is used 14 times in the N.T. and 12 times it is translated as “wheat”. It is most important, to know Jesus is speaking symbolically and figuratively when using this analogy. Jesus is only using the natural to teach us about a much greater spiritual “seed” concept.
This “seed’ type of wheat, is actually very accurate based upon other words that Jesus reveals about Himself. It is the grain heads of the wheat stalk, that makes ground-up flour that humans bake wheat-based bread with. Now relate quickly about bread being baked, and apply this to what Jesus did for us as a spiritual “seed”. Jesus would be killed, and then buried in the ground for 3 days physically as a natural “seed”. But His spirit that came down from the father, would spend these same 3 days in hell, a place that is a very hot oven to pay for our sin debt. This would appear to connect Jesus to being like bread also. It is very interesting to notice this is exactly what Jesus claims to be, that is made from the grain of wheat:
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
We get the confirmation for which type of “seed” (Nun) that Jesus is claiming to be, by reading John 6:51. Here Jesus makes another astounding claim to be the “living bread” sent down from heaven. Here Jesus is speaking to the Jewish people who knew the story of Moses and the children of Israel in the wilderness. We can clearly understand how Jesus said the manna that was sent by God from heaven to feed Israel, was a type of who Jesus was when He appears to them in the flesh. Jesus is calling Himself, a far greater spiritual bread that is alive. The “manna” that God fed them with in the wilderness only provided physical strength and temporary life, but Jesus is claiming to be a spiritual bread that will save them eternally. Remember bread is made from “crushed” grain seed (Nun), mixed with “water” (Mem). Remember water is also a type of a life-giving essential substance, and this represents the Spirit and the Word of God. We have again repeated the pattern of the combined “Mem” and “Nun” connection. Now notice this prophecy of Jesus found in Isaiah:
Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Hopefully, you understand this chapter is Messianic and concerns Christ’s death on a cross (Tav). But notice the Hebrew word H1792 that is translated as “bruised”. This word describes a “crushing” experience of a “seed” that is done to produce bread. The Hebrew word H2233 is the word we found in Genesis 8:22 that God gave us in His law of “seed”, time and harvest for producing fruit.
We have just gone full circle from New Testament claims of Jesus being the “seed” that was given to produce brand new life in dead humans, returning to the law of “seed”, time and harvest, and finally the prophecy of how God was going to perform this plan in His Son Jesus Christ. What was the plan?
Jesus actually gave us the answer in John 12:24. Jesus claimed to be a spiritual “seed” that would be crushed for our human sin penalty, His body would be bruised, and then be nailed on a cross and die. Then the physical body of Christ a “seed”, would be buried in the ground. Jesus just described this spiritual work by giving everyone a natural farming lesson of how to produce increase. One planted grain of wheat seed can produce many other seeds when matured. These produced “seeds” can continue to grow new plants. This process can produce exponential growth over the process of a short time.
How did the whole Church body of Christ, go from 1 seed Jesus Christ, to the church size it is today? This answer should be self-evident. We can read after the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, He met with His disciples and breathed on them in John 20:22. This was the first generation of church new-life beginnings. Then we see 120 people in the “upper” room on Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit falls upon them and now the church body has multiplied by 10-fold. 3000 men outside of the building suddenly heard the commotion going on, and they come to believe in Jesus after Peter preaches the Gospel to them, and now there are at least 3120 people in the church body in only a very short time. This is suddenly almost a 30-fold growth. Can you see the exponential growth taking place in the body of Christ?
This “Seed” principle of new life, is why Satan is very sorry for killing Jesus on a cross (1 Cor 2:8). It was this concealed “Seed” (Nun) plan of God that doomed Satan to hell, and it was God guarantee of a new “Seed” in Christ, that will cause a victorious church in the very soon coming end of this world.
This exponential growth of seed time and harvest, was how God designed all natural things to function. It is this natural “seed” pattern of continuance and growth that was implemented in the unseen spiritual realm to operate also. It is amazing how one man named Adam with his wife named Eve, could produce over 7 billion people currently on the planet in 6000 years. This is what is happening in the end-time church also, before He returns to harvest His wheat, separating it from Satan’s tares of the world which will be burned in hell (Mat 13:25-30).
4. Jesus the Word (Seed) of God
One of the most significant mentions of Jesus being a Spiritual Seed is found in the New Testament. But to understand this foundational concept, let us first remember what Jesus taught us in the Parable of the Sower. Hopefully, you know this parable already. It will not be covered in depth in this lesson. In this parable, Jesus teaches about sowing “seed” (Nun) into four types of ground. 3 types of seed fail to produce “fruit” and one type of ground produces 3 levels of varying measures of “fruit”. In the explanation that Jesus provides, Jesus is the implied “Sower” of the “seed” (Nun). Jesus the Sower we are told is “sowing” the specific type of seed, named as the “Word of God”. The soil ground is defined to be the heart of humans. Those that receive His “Seed” and produce “fruit” are those that are saved. We should all be able to apply this knowledge to the “Nun” concepts we have learned so far, of a “sprouting” seed to produce new life. Humans being saved is the goal of Him sending His “Nun” Seed into the world.
What we have just established is God declaring His Word to be His “Seed” unto human salvation. But this is a double reference, because Jesus is called the Word of God in several scriptures. Please begin with John 1:1 and read down to verse 14. It begins, “In the beginning, the Word=Seed was with God, and the Word=Seed was God”. We have just discovered that God’s Word was God, and we paired this truth with the parable of the Sower definition of what “Seed” is, and we have God’s Word is His Seed, and His Seed is God that saves us. Wow, I pray you understood.
Then in John 1:14, God declares to us all, that God the Word (Seed/Nun) was made “flesh” and “dwelled” among us. The Greek translated as dwelled, means to “tabernacle” with humans. This personal tabernacling was a prophetic fulfillment of the type given to us in the God patterns of the tabernacle given to Moses. This is why the “Beyt” alphabet letter in the image of a “tent” tabernacle is so significant. This “Beyt” tent was a prophetic picture of God personally dwelling in a human body on the earth to die for all sins.
But let us place the Bible facts together. God came and tabernacled (Beyt) with humans, and this was accomplished by Him (the Word Nun Seed) being sent as a “seed” (Nun) which impregnated a “virgin” woman named “Mary”. The physical Nun Seed child of God, named Jesus was produced by the spoken “Seed” of God’s Word and this was joined with Mary’s natural egg to become a male son, and a human child named Jesus. This male son, was a son from two joined dimensions of reality. The mother was a completely physical/natural woman, born from Adam’s sinful lineage to die. And the Father of Jesus was completely the spiritual God creator of heaven and earth. This made Jesus the “seed” of natural men like Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, David, etc., as well as equally the spiritual “Seed” (Nun=Word) of God the Father of Heaven.
Let us confirm Jesus is called the Word/Seed of God, in other verses quickly. It is essential to understand that in 1 John 5:7, that the trinity of God is being called to be one God, in the triune form of the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. In this verse God has revealed Himself to be the Father, the spoken Word of God representing His “Seed” (Nun), and His Holy Spirit.
In Revelation 19:13 Jesus is again called by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit as to be named “The Word of God”. This makes Jesus using the referenced definition of the “Seed” = “Word of God”, in the parable of the Sower, to be God’s Seed (Nun). Therefore, we have been given three witnesses within the New Covenant that claim Jesus is God’s spoken Word that was a “Seed” that became flesh to be born as a baby, and then to die as a man. This is very profound and significant revelation for many Christians to consider and learn.
God created His entire creation using Word/Seed (Nun). Therefore, God’s Word is the substance that created the world we live in and is also the substance that still holds it together. This is why Acts say “In Him we live and move and have our being” here on the earth. Then God does the most radically unexpected thing ever imagined by angels, devil, demons, and humans, He becomes a part of His creation by sending His Word/Seed (Nun) to become flesh to contain His Spirit. It was this combination of human and divine that saved us from our eternal demise of hell. This act was the ultimate expression of God’s Love for all humans. We should be in awe of this work, the devil certainly is, and it took him by complete surprise.
5. CONCLUSION
We are going to conclude this lesson on the sprouting “Nun” Seed of God being the LORD Jesus with a few verses of prophecy. We should all be able to see how these verses confirm the “Nun” Seed of God concepts for what we have learned today:
Isa 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
The letter “Nun” represents a generation of “New” life. The letter “Nun” is clearly revealed in this verse of Isaiah. God declares through the prophet Isaiah, “Behold, I will do a new thing”. This represents the “Seed” continuation law of new life found in Genesis. God created this law to place into effect the way of salvation for every human. Jesus was this “Way”, and He claimed He was the only way for true life in John 14:6.
The Hebrew word H6779 that is translated as “spring forth”, is another “seed” (Nun) confirming characteristic. This word literally means “to sprout” as a seed in order to grow new life. God revealed this same concept in Isaiah 42:9 and we know this is written about Jesus because He tells us in Revelation 21:5, “He is making everything new”.
Now notice in this verse of Isaiah 43:19 the repeated pattern of joining a “seed” with new waters that will flow in a previously dry wilderness. Symbolically we know both of these references are referring to God’s Word. The lack of water is a location where the Word of God was not taught. The “seed” is still the Word of God that will be spread by it being taught. Do you believe God connecting the “Mem” (water) and the “Nun” (seed) together in Christ is a coincidence, or could this just be another major example of His supreme intelligence? You should know what I think already!
The last Messianic verse we will review is also about Jesus being a new tender plant that came from a Nun Seed:
Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
A tender plant, and its roots come from a “Seed” (Nun). The Hebrew word H3126, again carries the meaning of a “sprouting seed”. Jesus in these words is being stated to be, a new growing plant, which originated from a “seed”. This aligns with the concept of the “Seed” (Nun), that Jesus claimed to be. Jesus said, unless a “grain of wheat” (Nun) die, and is buried, it abides alone.
Notice in this verse the repeated connection of the “Mem” (water) (or lack thereof), with the “Nun” (seed) again. Jesus is foretold to be born as a tender plant in a land where it is void of the true teachings of God’s Word. Jesus makes the reference to the Pharisees; your traditions make the Word of God of no effect (Mat 15:6). Jewish leaders were teaching the people only human thoughts of their traditions and not the True Word (Nun) of God. But God would send His Seed Son into this dry environment to bring them light and potential new life.
What we are observing, is the plan of God to do a brand-new creation in Jesus Christ, His Seed of New Life. These verses were written about Jesus, many years before Jesus came to the earth in the flesh to die. The ancient Hebrew alphabet was designed by God to foretell of this event, even many years before Isaiah wrote about it. Wow, what an amazing God we serve.
Peter wrote in 1 P Peter 1:23, that Christians are born again not by corruptible “Seed” ((Nun), but by the “Incorruptible Word of GOD!”. These are two types of seeds that every human must experience in order to enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5). The first seed is natural, the second seed is supernatural. Being born of only the first guarantees your eternal death, because in in the first Adam we all die. But being born-again by the “Seed” of God guarantees your eternal life (1 Cor 15:22).
There could have been a significant amount of other spiritual information, that could have been shared in this overview and introduction lesson on the Nun. However, this information provided should have been enough to get you interested into digging into the Word of God for yourself. It should have given you a hunger to know God more today, than you did yesterday. God became a man named Jesus, so that we could become one with Him as His New creation (2 Cor 5:17).
Thank you very much for reading and studying the Bible with us. We love you more than you know, and pray for you, please do the same for us. Jesus is coming back to the earth, sooner than you can imagine. If you are not ready to meet Him, it will be a very sad day for you to miss Him. If the LORD is willing, there will be more Bible lessons coming. God bless each and every one of you with the “Spirit of wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of Him”. Be blessed in Him
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Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 23 – The Tav
(Ver 1.1) This lesson is “Part 23” in the Bible study series about the Lord Jesus Christ, being hidden in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet. Today’s lesson will focus upon the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet called the “Tav”. The “Tav” is the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet. We should have already learned a lot about this letter, by reading from the beginning of the series. But if you have not read the series from the beginning, you might like to go to “Part 1” to start.
The letter “Tav” is one of the two alphabet letters, that Jesus directly claimed to be represented by personally in the Bible. We have already learned that Jesus said in Revelation 1:8, 1:11, 21:6, and 22:13, that He was the “Alpha” and the “Omega”. These are the first, and the last letters of the Greek alphabet. This was Jesus claiming to figuratively be, not only the beginning, and ending of all things, but also Him making the plain declaration that He is even literally every alphabet letter that makes up the languages that we can know Him by. Please make a note that Jesus made this claim in Revelation, 4 times. This number will become a repeated pattern in this lesson.
We must understand that the words of Jesus claiming to be one language’s first and last letters, would definitely apply Him to be found in the exact same corresponding letters, of every language. God knows every language in existence. Just because you speak a language like English, and the New Testament is written in Greek, this does not mean we all have to learn to speak Greek. This means the Greek Alpha and the Omega, could have been translated to be the A and the Z, and it would teach us the same concepts given to us by God from Greek.
Do you remember what Jesus Himself, claimed in John 12:24? In this verse of scripture, Jesus claimed the He was a “corn of wheat” seed. He then said that He would remain alone, unless He died, was buried in the ground to sprout, and then to bring forth much new fruit. Wow, this is very amazing news about His “death” on a “Tav” cross, and what happened afterwards. But please realize Jesus is speaking of Himself as being a spiritual seed, and that this planting will be of Him being raised from the dead, in order to produce His new spiritual fruit called the new creation of the church.
This knowledge should help us understand that these translation concepts, must also include the original Old Covenant Hebrew language, since Jesus was born a Jewish man. Most likely Jesus gave this alphabet representation claim to John by speaking to him in the Hebrew language. And John would have made the translation, from Hebrew to write it in the Greek language for the world to read.
We can easily reach this conclusion, because when Jesus appeared to Saul of Tarsus, being described in Acts 26:14, Jesus spoke from heaven to Saul in the Hebrew tongue. Remember Jesus was still in heaven when John received this revelation. Therefore, if Jesus spoke the Revelation verses to John in Hebrew, like He spoke to Saul in Acts, then these letters written in Greek would have been the Hebrew alphabet beginning and ending letters, called the “Alef” and the “Tav”, respectfully.
It is essential to realize that in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, the “Alef” and the “Tav” are combined to form a mostly untranslatable word. This Hebrew word is H853 in the Strong’s, and it occurs in over 5000 verses of the text. In most of these verses, we can find Jesus being secretly referred to in the words, with God using figurative types, shadows, allegory, and other forms of writings. This is exactly why Jesus looked at the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem, and said to them, “Search your scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, but these are they that testify of me” (Jn 5:39). Remember, that Jesus was speaking to people who were Jewish, and He was referring to the Old Covenant Hebrew language when describing of their testimony of His personal hidden identity.
These words of Jesus combined with His spoken words in Revelation, claiming to be two direct alphabet letters, should cause us to begin to believe, that if the beginning letter and the ending letter of an alphabet is about Jesus, then every letter in between must also have something to “testify” about Jesus being LORD. So let us get started with the specific last and ending Hebrew letter “Tav”.
INTRODUCTION – THE TAV
We have already briefly seen the “Tav” in previous lessons in the series. The letter “Tav” has been assigned a numeric value of “400”. The “Tav” Ancient Hebrew letter pictogram, is a visual image of a cross. The letter sound in the English language is like the letter “T”. Like most Hebrew letters, there is also a word of the same “Tav” sound. This Hebrew letter sound alike word is “Tav” H8420, and it means “a mark”. Therefore, the basic meaning of the letter “Tav”, is that of a “mark”.
A mark is some kind of inscription, line, or figure that emphasizes or distinguishes something or someone. Marking a date on a calendar makes that date special to someone. But a mark could be a person’s signature. Usually, people sign their name as their mark on contracts or legal agreements, but for those unable to sign, they could simply scribble their identifying “mark”.
This Hebrew word that is translated as “mark” is comprised of two Hebrew letters. The first is the “Tav”, and the second is the “Vav”. The “Tav’, as we are learning is a “cross” picture, and the “Vav” happens to be the picture of a “nail”. A “nail” will certainly leave a mark in the body of a man hanged on a cross. One of the meanings of the letter “Vav”, is that of making a “connection”. People do this by nailing two boards together. The separated boards become joined together by the “Vav” nail. Humans were separated from God before Jesus was connected to the “Tav” cross with a “Vav” nail. Do you think any of this was a coincidence? Of course, it was NOT!
This word H8420 is used in Ezekiel 9 twice, in verses 4 and 6. In this context people who are not in favor of the nation of Israel’s sin, received a mark (Tav) on their foreheads. Everyone that does not have this mark to save them, is slain. This appears to be a type of a parallel of soon coming end time events that are described in the book of Revelation.
In Revelation 13:7, people are doomed to hell by receiving the “mark” of Satan’s beast. But in Revelation 7:4 God seals 144,000 men to save them, by placing a mark in their foreheads. Then, in Revelation 22:4, the people who do not receive the mark of Satan, receive the name “mark” of the Lamb in their foreheads. We can begin to see how there are two “marks” and “names” in which all humans can choose between. The “Tav’ mark represents God’s name and family, and this certainly appears to be the wisest human selection. The other option is to receive Satan’s name as a mark (Rev 13:7), and stay in his family.
Therefore, the letter “Tav” has at the least, six specific, indirect and direct meanings assigned to it as being the “mark” of God.
- The number 400
- A “cross” mark as pictured
- Jesus as the “Last”
- The Cross, God’s “goal” or “mark” to obtain
- The “sign” or “mark” of a covenant
- The “name” and “mark” of the family house we belong
These are just a few of the major meanings found in the letter “Tav” that we will be learning about today. Let us begin with understanding more about the letter “Tav” number value 400, first.
1. TAV – 400
The “Tav” letter has a specific number value of 400 assigned to it. If there were any other number of letters in the ancient Hebrew alphabet, the number 400 would not have fallen on this last letter “Tav”. Therefore, there must be a pre-designed higher intelligence meaning, for this specific number to be associated with this specific cross letter picture.
Remember, that Jesus spoke 4 times in Revelation that He was the last letter of the alphabet, and 4 x 100 = 400, the number value of this last letter. It is interesting that the number 100 is the value of the Hebrew letter “Qof”. This letter is drawn as a picture of a rising sun. In Malachi 4:2, God writing about Jesus says “The Sun of Righteousness, will arise with healing in His wings”. Therefore, we are observing another prophecy of the number 4 being multiplied by 100 as a sign of a man that dies on a cross (Tav), and He will arise (Qof) from the dead to give us His righteousness. We can figure out that Jesus thought that this was talking about himself, since He was the one that claimed to be the letter “Tav”, 4 times. But what does the number 4 have to do with a rising “Qof” (100) sun, in association with the timing of a cross (Tav)? We are about to find other potential prophetic associations with the number 4, 40, 400, and 4000 as we continue.
The number 4, in its various forms, is actually very significant as a pattern in the recorded records of the Old Testament. We should know by reading stories in the Bible, that the number “40” is associated with a time of “testing”, “temptation”, and “judgement”. There was Noah that entered into the Ark, when it rained 40 days to destroy the world. There was Moses that met with God on mount Sinai for 40 days (Exo 24:18), and this time delay away from the people of Israel, caused them to fail a very important test (Exo 32:1). Later in Numbers 32:13, the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years to eliminate one generation that refused to possess the promise land. Everyone should also know that Jesus was tested by Satan, for exactly 40 days in the wilderness (Mk 1:13). After the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb, Jesus met several times with His new, New Covenant family on the earth for 40 days (Acts 1:3), before ascending into heaven to sit down. Finally, remember that Jesus waited 4 days before He raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:39). That will become very significant to our lesson soon.
There was exactly 400 years stated in Genesis 15:13, when God tells Abram, that his seed would be in bondage to a nation that was not of God. There, they would be treated harshly, and be as servants and slaves. But God said He would judge that nation, and his people would be delivered, and come out from them with an abundance of His blessings. This was God speaking of the natural nation of Israel that would be delivered from Egypt, through God’s chosen servant named Moses.
This Old Covenant story of deliverance, is full of types, shadows and prophetical patters of the coming New Covenant, implemented by Jesus Christ on the cross (tav). We learn this truth by reading 1 Corinthians 10:11, where God says the words written in the Old Covenant are “ensamples” for us in the New Covenant. The Greek word translated as “ensamples” is G5179, and this word means a “die” as struck, a “stamp”, or a “scar” as a mark. Especially remember the “scar” reference, because this is a very specific type of “mark” (Tav) symbol, that we will see again soon. But the main definition states that the Old Covenant was a “type” of the New.
God informs us by using this specific Greek word selection, that the Old Covenant, has applications for covenant examples, and covenant warnings for everyone in the New Covenant. These words were given for us to learn from, to not repeat their mistakes. But what does the number 400 associated with a natural nation being freed from physical bondage, have to do with the church? Could it be that it is because the church is called a spiritual nation (1 Pet 2:9) by God, and we have been freed from our spiritual bondage from Satan (Col 1:13), a hostile enemy of God?
Let us please remember, that from Abraham to Christ was approximately 2000 years, and from Adam to Abraham was also approximately 2000 years. Adding these together we have a total of 4000 years of human history from the first Adam to Jesus, who is called the “Last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45). Isn’t that interesting that we are studying the “last” letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and Jesus is also called the “last” Adam? It should be easy to see the “Tav” connections to Jesus taking place.
Then, know that no human was ever spiritually saved until after the Last Adam, Jesus died on the cross that is representative of the last letter (Tav). When Jesus was resurrected from the dead, He was raised up 4000 years after the first Adam sinned to allow Satan to rule over our world (2 Cor 4:4).
It should be becoming more obvious now, how the “Tav” being a cross, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and having the number value of 400, is a prophetic pictured image and timed prediction of the crucifixion of Jesus. God is shining a light upon the timing of Jesus’ coming death on a cross, as a pattern of the number 400.
Therefore, the number of 4000 years appears to be the essential timing for God’s detailed work of salvation. The number 4000 is simply “400” (Israel’s natural captivity period) multiplied by 10. The number 10 is the Hebrew Letter “Yod”, and this letter has the meaning of “work”. Can you begin to see the connection, to what God was doing in Jesus on the cross, was His greater work of all human spiritual salvation?
If Israel, was in physical bondage for 400 years, why can’t the number 4000 years, be a greater reality relating to humans being in spiritual bondage to Satan, the time from Adam to Jesus? 400 years of physical bondage, must be a type of the greater 4000 years of spiritual bondage. But how do we confirm this transition?
It is interesting that in the Hebrew mindset, multiplying any number by the number 10, can be viewed as “a completeness of order”. Or in other words, multiplying a number by 10, brings that number to a stated “fulness” of “completion”. Therefore, multiplying 400 x 10 = 4000, causes the number 4000 to be the fulfilment of the prophecy of the number 400 as a type. God confirmed this pattern with reading in Galatians 4:4. This verse states Christ’s appearance on earth, happened at a very specific planned and timed event within all of human history, and God called this event “the fulness of time”. This word can also be understood to be the “fulfilling of”. For example, Romans 13:10 says “love is the fulfilling of the law”. Do you see the concepts being taught by this word selection?
If we look up the Greek word G4138 that was translated as “fulness”, we learn it can be defined to be “completeness”, as in a cup that has been filled. It appears that God has reused specific patterns of events of previous time periods that happened to natural Israel, to reveal prophecy of Jesus’s work for all humanity. Please remember, that patterns are prophecy (Ecc 1:9). And, the Spirit of true prophecy is always a testimony of Jesus (Rev 19:10).
This one Old Covenant pattern describes their physical bondage to, and deliverance from Egypt. This recorded natural event and timing, appears to represent something spiritual, that happens to the New Covenant church through Jesus. Hopefully, you are already knowledgeable to what this work of Christ was.
In studying the Bible for many years, I have come to the conclusion that the 7 days of creation described in Genesis chapters 1 and 2, are an outlined prophetic view into the entire history of man upon the earth during this age. If we apply God’s time of one day representing 1000 years, as defined by 2 Peter 3:8, and divide 4000 by 1000 years, we arrive at 4 days within God’s defined scale of all human time as 7 days or 7000 years total.
Now take this number back to “Day 4 of creation” and see what God did. If we read Genesis 1:13-19, we will find God’s description of day 4 of creation. On this day God set two rulers into place. The rulers were called the greater light, that rules the day, and the lesser light, that would rule the night.
These two lights are called in other parts of the Bible, the “sun” and the “moon”. These two ruler separations, represent two “kingdoms”. The Day is the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, who we know is called the “Sun of Righteousness” in Malachi 4:2. We saw this earlier in this section with the mention of the “Qof” Hebrew letter that is the number 100.
The kingdom of “darkness” and the “night” is the dominion of the devil (Col 1:13, Eph 5:8). It is amazing that by humans choosing to enter into God’s “Kingdom of Light”, they have been freed from the spiritual kingdom of the darkness of this world (Col 1:13). There are multiple other lessons available here to confirm all of this with many scriptures. It is most interesting that this event of dividing spiritual night from spiritual day, took place 4000 years after Adam sold us into Satan’s authority, and this was prophesied exactly on Day 4 of creation.
Therefore, we can see how the “Tav” representing the number 400 has significant value and application to the work of God to die on a cross, and this occurred 4 days in God’s spiritual timeline, when Jesus died 4000 years in the timing of the human calendar. These 4000 years represented spiritual captivity to a spiritual enemy of God and man. There is much more that could be written about this, but this was the quick overview of the number 400 of the Tav, and how it relates to Jesus’ deliverance of humanity on a cross (Tav).
2. TAV – THE OBVIOUS MARK OF A CROSS

The first and most obvious meaning of the letter “Tav”, is taken from the plain, direct, and clear picture of it, as a Roman style “cross” of execution. We all need to take the Bible as “literally” as possible when reading and studying. Think about how intelligent God is compared to us. Then imagine Him not being able to “Say what He means and mean exactly what He says”. This is why I believe firmly that every pictogram of the Ancient Hebrew alphabet was designed by God, to get across a plain message meaning of the picture, to point us to the main subject of the entire Bible, named Jesus.
The first known crucifixions in human history, took place 500 years before Christ. This means this cross letter was written in Hebrew texts, 500 – 1000 years before Christ would die upon a cross. The first usage of a cross occurred during the “Persian” empire. It was used to make examples of at least 3000 people during the time of Darius, the King of Persia. But this method of execution became especially perfected during the Roman empire when Jesus was physically living in Israel.
Observing the picture of the ancient Hebrew letter, we all can plainly see that the “tav”, represents two crossed wooden poles, that are overlapped to form the exact shape of a common style of Roman execution device, called a “cross”. Today, many people wear this symbol as jewelry, with most not having a clue to its meaning, purpose or what God has accomplished for us in Christ hanging on a cross (Gal 3:13, Rev 5:9).
The death sentence on a cross was designed for ultimate pain, and a slow death. This “crossed” wooden pole device was implemented as the cruelest, and most humiliating method of a slow death. This method of death took place by “nailing” a human’s feet and hands, to two crossed wooden posts. The posts were made of the wood from trees, that were able to hold the large nails. This combination was able to secure the weight of the human, being hanged on it. With every breath the crucified human would have to force themselves upward creating ultimate pain, to allow air into the lungs and to exhale. Eventually the human would not have the strength to breathe again, and would suffocate.
We should all be able to understand that a “tav” represents crucifixion. We know from reading the Gospel eye witnesses accounts, Jesus was crucified and died. We can find that Jesus was hung upon a cross from 9 am (Mark 15:25) until 3 pm (Mark 15:34), a period of 6 hours, with half of them in sunlight and half of them in darkness (Mark 15:33). We can also read in Psalm 22:16, and Zechariah 12:10, that Jesus was prophesied to be “pierced” in His flesh. We know these prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus by reading John 19:31, and Revelation 1:7. This information clearly confirms the “Tav” as a cross, in the eyes of God, was speaking about Jesus.
This “Tav” cross death of Jesus and the release of His blood to die, is exactly what has been pictured in the ancient Hebrew alphabet letter “Tav” for approximately 3500 years when Moses first wrote the Torah. I call this God, hiding His truth in plain sight. Now let us look at the important concept of this letter being the last in the alphabet.
3. TAV THE LAST LETTER = JESUS THE LAST
The fact that the “Tav” is the last letter of the alphabet, causes it to figuratively represent “completion”, “conclusion” and “closure”. As we know from studying Revelation 22:13, Jesus directly claimed to be, “the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last”. This was a very profound statement. In this statement He used the first and the last letters of the alphabet. Therefore, all of the words of Jesus in Revelation 22:13, were in clear agreement with the “Tav” being the “Last” letter.
Obviously, being the last is the opposite of being the “first”. When two human captains are picking a team for a game from a selection of possible players, usually they pick the best player first, and the least desirable player last. Therefore, being called “last” in a normal human mindset, usually carries the connotation, that the final option being chosen, discussed or observed, is not the best choice. However, in God’s mindset, He usually saves His last option, or selection to be His greatest work.
We have already seen where Jesus is called the “Last Adam” in 1 Corinthians 15:45. So this was the first picture of Jesus as being called a final, or ending “Adam” (man), that is implied to never occur again. Clearly, we learn Jesus was God’s best selection saved for “last”, and only He could save us all.
Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Wow, could these words being spoken by Jesus, reveal something very profound that was happening in God’s work hanging on a cross? I believe it does. Keep this in your mind as we continue learning about Jesus being called the “Last”. See if you can think how God’s Last Adam could possibly become a new beginning to be called the “First”? This is going to be amazing, and I hope you can see, and receive it. We will continue, by looking at some “last” words of Jesus while hanging on the Tav cross.
This “last” Hebrew letter “Tav”, further becomes directly connected to Jesus’ recorded death while hanging on the cross (Tav) by us observing this letter was a cross, and it helped manifest the death of Jesus. But we should know that it was actually Jesus’ choice to give up His spirit willingly (John 19:30), that caused His death (James 2:26). Everyone in Israel was shocked that Jesus was already dead including the Roman soldiers when they came to Him to break His legs to force death quickly (John 19:33).
Before the willing departure of His spirit, Jesus spoke some very specific “last” spoken words. One of His “last” recorded statements, was with Jesus crying out, “It is Finished” (John 19:30). This Greek word G5055 translated as “finished’, literally means to be “completed”, “concluded”, or “fulfilled”. It is definitely true that everything that the Holy Spirit wrote would happen to Jesus was being fulfilled. We can read in Matthew 26:54-56, Mark 16:49, and John 19:36 to name three, that many scriptures were “fulfilled” in the work of Christ’s death on a cross. Therefore, the words “It is finished” may mean, “Everything spoken of me, has been completed”. But that application could not be completely accurate, because Jesus had not yet risen, not yet ascended into heaven, and not yet returned to the earth to reign 1000 years, etc. Or maybe we are not seeing clearly what God has just accomplished in the words “It is finished”.
When anyone speaks the Hebrew alphabet, beginning with the “first” Alef and continuing in alphabetic sequence, they will always arrive at the Tav “last”. The alphabet speaker could be described as being “finished” speaking when they arrive at the last letter “Tav”. Isn’t that interesting? When were the “First” recorded words of God found in the Old Covenant Hebrew text?
Do you remember how God created our world in Genesis? Creation was accomplished with God’s spoken words. 10 times in Genesis 1 it is recorded “God said”. Therefore, God created everything in our world using “spoken” words that held His power to create. God formed these words from selected specific alphabet letters. Are you beginning to see how alphabet letters that form words, could be viewed as potential creation building blocks? Could this be the reason Jesus is claiming to be the alphabet letters “Alef” and “Tav”?
Who is God’s Word? The “Word of God”, if you do not know is Jesus Christ, the second member of the trinity (1 Jn 5:7). The Bible says in John 1:1-3, that God in the beginning, through His spoken Word, created everything that was created. In John 1:14, God writes that the “Word”, who is God, became flesh as the man Jesus. Colossians 1:16 further confirms that God created everything that exists in heaven and on earth, by Jesus Christ whether they are things that are visible, or invisible realities. Now remember in Revelation 19:13 that Jesus is named the “Word of God”. Therefore, we have Jesus the Word of God who was God, being spoken by God, to create our physical world. If Jesus, is the WORD of GOD, which He clearly is, He must also be the individual alphabet letters that create the words.
God’s chosen words of creation were made from specially selected alphabet letters. The precise organization of each specific chosen letter to form the correct words, caused everything in the mind of God to manifest in our newly created world, after God spoke them. Think about this! Do you even know what this is saying, based upon us knowing John 1:1? This verse says, that in the beginning before there was anything created, there existed the Word, and this Word was with God, and this Word was God the Creator! Therefore, these spoken words that created are still God? The answer is yes, He is still the Word.
All of this information, is saying to us that the spoken words of God created everything that we can see around us in our universe. This information claims that the “God Particle” that is being searched for by modern scientists are, divine “sound waves”. These spoken words of creation, made up of alphabet building blocks, are the seed elements that are holding all of the universe together (Heb 1:3).
Wow, this is a very amazing revelation to many Christians, but it can become still even more amazing. Could Jesus who is God’s spoken living word, who created everything, and is holding all of our world together, could He say anything that could cause His creation to begin to “end”? Remember, in Matthew 24:35 and Luke 21:33 that Jesus makes the direct prophecy, that both heaven and earth will pass away. But when does this coming end, begin? Could it be at the cross?
Remember according to John 14:24, Jesus claimed whatever He spoke only came from what He heard His Father tell Him to say. We also know it was this Father God that spoke the Word (Jesus) to create the universe. What then would you think happened when the same creator God who said “Let there be Light”, would come to the earth to die, and while hanging on a cross, He says “It is finished”? What would manifest in all of our creation, through these words spoken by Jesus the creator of heaven and earth? Do the spoken words of Jesus hanging on a cross, still have the same power to cause changes for life or death to occur? The answer must be YES! Therefore, we must ask this question, what did these pre-death spoken words upon a cross (Tav) the last letter, cause to occur when He said “It is Finished”? What was being “completed”, “closed” and “concluded”? When you figure this out it will help set you free completely from the devil.
By Jesus speaking “It is Finished”, causes us to see potential new meaning for these words using His claims of being the first and the last, and the “Alef” and the “Tav”. When He died on the cross, His physical mortal life’s work was definitely “finished”. His mortal work to pay for the penalty of the first Adam’s sin, was completed with His death. But that was not everything that had to happen to save us. Maybe, you do not yet “fully” understand the power of God’s three little words “It is finished”, but they will become more amazing as you study the Bible. We will only be able to be introduced to this potential new concept in this lesson, or we would need to write an entire book to teach it more completely.
But also remember after death, that Jesus had to spend 3 days, and 3 nights in the heart of the earth (Mat 12:40), and then He had to be resurrected from the dead by the Holy Spirit (1 Pet 1:3). Believe it or not, this God designed resurrection from the dead reality, began a brand-new creation that never existed before (2 Cor 5:17). Jesus died upon the feast of “Passover” to save all humans from the old creation, and He was raised from the dead on the feast of “first fruits” to begin a brand-new creation of freedom from Satan. Satan is a type of Pharaoh holding humanity as captive slaves, and his spiritual kingdom of the dark world is a type of Egypt.
This information alone, should be turning on several light bulbs in your heart and mind. Why does God in His Word, claim that there is coming, a new heaven and a new earth? God says this will happen in Isaiah 65:17, 66:22, 2 Peter 3:13, and Revelation 21:1. Why are there exactly 4 verses in the Bible that use the words “new”, “heaven”, and “earth”, in them? In these “4” verses God clearly reveals there is coming a new heaven and new earth. We can foresee from reading Revelation 21:1 that this new heaven and new earth will come to completed “fulness” after the 7000 years of total human history. This represents the fulness of the one week of God’s Genesis 1-2 creation pattern of prophecy.
Wow, is God’s current created world going to end totally at a sudden and surprising single moment of time, or will the ending be a transition period of delay, with a possible big grand finale? If it is a delayed event, that means it is all future. But if it is a transitional phased overlap, that means it could be happening now, which it is. Therefore, when did this ending, begin to happen? What did God accomplish to guarantee the final ending outcome that He desired?
From what God has revealed to us in scriptures, there was a new creation transitional event that occurred at the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. We are learning that God initiated a new creation transition by planting a new “seed” named Jesus. This new seed Jesus, died and was planted in God’s current old creation. It was this new surprising “seed” planting, that will result in an amazing new reality, and Satan was clearly caught off-guard by this plan (1 Corinthians 2:8). It will be this new “first seed” planted that will grow, and increase to produce God’s desired “fruit” of harvest that He has waited for, for a long time (James 5:7). This new creation was initiated by God, and began to manifest at the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Perhaps you do not understand the concept that Jesus was a “seed”, so let us cover this briefly.
Many “new” creation things happened at the resurrection of Jesus. For example, at His resurrection, God initiated a New Covenant that never existed before between the risen Jesus and any believer in Him (Heb 8:18). In the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, God created a new Kingdom of Light, without any darkness in His Son Jesus (Col 1:13). Remember also that God created a new royal priesthood and a new holy nation (1 Peter 2:9) and Jesus is called the King of all kings, and Lord of all lords of these people (Revelation 19:13). In the New Covenant, Jesus gave a “New Commandment” of Love, to govern in the hearts of everyone in His new creation (John 13:34). In this new creation is being built a “New Jerusalem”, and this new Holy city has never existed before (Revelation 21:2). In the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God raised the God man Jesus, from the dead “first”, before everyone else. Jesus Christ, is now called “the Firstborn from the dead” in Colossians 1:18, and Revelation 1:5.
Why was it necessary for Jesus, the sinless Son of God to be born-again, and to be named the “first” one that this happens to? Uh oh! There appears to be a new connection revealed, that is recurring to Jesus being called the “Alef”, the first letter of the alphabet, the “beginning”, and the “first”! We have just found a new reoccurring pattern being revealed. That is about all we can cover on this subject today. But hopefully it will raise your curiosity to find more on your own.
But remember this key! The resurrection of Jesus from the dead, initiated a New Kingdom, house and family of God called “Day and Light”, and this kingdom was separated from the “night and dark” kingdom ruled by the lesser light Satan, as we saw earlier in the Genesis 1 prophecy. This new life that Jesus experienced first, simply initiated His immortal eternal work after death. All of this information implies, that there was something very significant that was wrong with God’s current creation, that needed to be fixed using a new “beginning”. The full transition of God’s new beginning in Christ, is still awaiting completion to occur. This will transpire after the full “end” of our current creation. Check out this verse that Paul wrote about this creation transition that was being eagerly awaited to come to fruition.
Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Do you see what God is saying here? The word “creature” literally means “creation”. God is saying His current creation in heaven and on the earth, are earnestly awaiting the full appearance of the “sons of God”. This is an astounding statement, since Paul himself wrote 2/3 of the New Testament, and when he wrote this book Paul said creation was still awaiting the appearance of the Sons of God. If you do not know what this means, let us take it back to the pattern of the Genesis 1 old creation. On the end of Day 6 came God’s creation of a fully mature righteous man and woman, and God gave them dominion over the entire planet. This is believed to be a pattern for what is being waited for, at the end of day 6 or 6000 years, when the church is awaited to spiritually mature enough to use their spiritual authority over their spiritual enemy Satan.
This new coming beginning, was decided by God to emerge in a new-birthed spiritual Son, who was the uniquely combined earth and heaven participant, named Jesus. Jesus the God/Man, was the “first” one to be born and risen from the dead.
Let us conclude with a discussion of one possible meaning of the “Tav” as a letter that represents the “Last” or “ending” of God’s original creation (Gen 1:1). We have learned that “to be finished”, means a termination has been initiated by the death of Jesus on a “Tav” cross. We can confirm this by reading this verse in 1 John:
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
First take notice this verse claims the devil has been sinning from the beginning of creation. Do you understand what this verse is saying? God clearly says Jesus was “manifested” as a human (implied to die), in order that the works of the devil can be “destroyed”. But this Greek word G3089, translated as “destroyed” does not mean to cause the devil to be demolished, as in obliterated or cease to exist. Hopefully you do know that you cannot kill a spirit being like Lucifer.
This new knowledge implies to us, that Satan has done a lot of evil to corrupt God’s creation in both heaven and on the earth. God personally becomes a man (Mat 1:23), so that He could use a single “Tav” cross work, to move His current creation into a transitional time for undoing all of these works of evil, and to begin a new creation that never existed before. This is confirmed in the Greek word definition. This word means to cause to be “loosened” from. Anything that needs to be loosed, implies something was previously “bound”. In our case all humans were in bondage to Satan for 4000 years, and were bound for hell. Therefore, Jesus’ resurrection started a new creation work to untie the devil’s bondages that he has placed upon those in heaven and on the earth to whom he was in covenant with.
Then after God’s work in Jesus dying on a “Tav” cross, He reveals to us a new beginning for a new spiritual way of living in a new kingdom, and these two works occurred simultaneously, but with three days of separation apart. Wow, did you notice what God just said? There was three days of tomb transition for the one-man Jesus, to move from being fully dead to becoming fully alive forever. This appears to be prophetical time that will reveal the 3,000-year time period of God’s old to new spiritual transition. After these 3,000 years, Satan will be fully and completely eliminated from the earth. This is again the concept of one day representing 1000 years as we used in the 7 days of creation.
This time will include the 2000-year (2 day) church age, which is followed by the 1,000-year (day of rest) time of the millennial reign of Christ. We are at the end of the 2,000-year church age, so the return of Christ is very imminent. Only after 3000 years from the resurrection of Christ will; 1) the devil and all evil be placed in final eternal bondage (Rev 20:10), 2) the old heaven and earth creation can be consumed with fire (2 Peter 3:7), and 3) a new heaven and a new earth can be created (Rev 21:1).
It appears from Jesus’ words that He was proclaiming “His physical work on the earth as a mortal man was to die for human sin, and to redeem mankind out of the kingdom of darkness, was completed”. This work was His most direct accomplishment, by Him fulfilling the plain picture of the “Tav”. But as we have learned, there is another meaning for it is finished, by what happens directly 3 days after His death. This act of God clearly “signifies” and “marks” a creative new beginning, that had never been available before. This resurrection work of God in Christ, sealed the coming demise of Satan, and lifted Christ followers into a new creation reality of living “in Christ”. Being made “In Christ” a new creation, we are now far apart from the evil of this world, having been fully reconciled to be with God forever. Praise the LORD!
4. TAV – GOD’S CROSS MARK TO OBTAIN
We have covered this subject in other lessons, but it is worth reviewing again, for all the new readers and subscribers that were led by the Holy Spirit to come and study the Bible here. This Hebrew letter “Tav” has an interesting application for the church today. We are told in Matthew 16:24, that Jesus said, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross (Tav) and follow me.
What was Jesus saying to us, by speaking the words for us to take up our cross (Tav)? He has basically instructed us to stop living for ourselves and for our independent purposes. In other words, He says come end your mortal life and become a born-again spiritual follower after dying to self. In order for us to take up a “Tav” cross and follow Jesus, we are required to come to the “cross” and pick it up. Let us talk about this concept in more depth.
This “cross” symbol of the “Tav” can be viewed as a turning point of opportunity for every human. We could also call it, God’s most significant “cross” road choice for a new direction, provided for all of mankind. This cross picture represents a map of two roads with a center intersection. When we arrive, and we will all arrive at this decision point, we are standing at the center of an intersection that represents the ultimate eternal decision point for eternal consequence.
Every human has been given the freedom right to choose to remain moving in the direction towards the “mark” of eternal death in hell, or we can repent and change our direction point to life eternal. We do this by choosing to believe in Jesus, and to change directions towards knowing God’s eternal life cross “mark” destination. This is God’s purpose for everyone, and He provided it, by the death of the LORD Jesus who came to bring us into His Light and Life of knowing Him.
From the death of one Man named Jesus hanging on a cross, He has provided every human the only available exit point, from continuing on the default wide highway path to hell. Jesus said the majority of the world would choose this path of destruction, but no one is forced to do so. Jesus died on a cross (Tav) to become the only exit gate/door from the chosen road Adam gave to us leading to eternal death. God in Jesus selected to become the right human choice for us, by Him freely offering anyone the gift of eternal life. We simply need to believe in Him being nailed to the posts of a wooden cross, experiencing death for us in hell, and then being raised back from the dead. This act of LOVE gave us something, unexpected, new, meaningful, powerful and profound to believe in.
One of the ultimate messages of the “Tav” (cross), was God giving to us a new cross (Tav) “mark” to travel towards. And it is by our faith in His visible marked signpost of His death, burial, and resurrection, and us calling Him our Lord, that gives us the confident “hope” of our same resurrection experience in the soon future.
By Jesus calling Himself the Alef and the Tav, being the first and the last letters of the Hebrew language, He was giving us a major clue to who He was and what He was doing for us. Please recall, that the Alef is the first letter of the alphabet, and the “Tav” is the last letter. And by joining these two letters together we get the Hebrew word H853 and this word occurs more than 6000 times in the Old Testament. I still believe that every occurrence points us to Jesus in some way.
The first letter Alef as we should know, is the “Ox” picture as a strong servant. The last letter picture as we have learned today is the “Cross” picture in ancient Hebrew, meaning a “mark” or “sign”. Placing these two together we arrive at the meaning, “driving the servant ox to the mark”. Remember, in ancient times, farmers would be placing a yoke upon their strong oxen, and then attaching them to a plow. The land owner would then place a “marker” in the distance to plow towards. This was done so that they could travel in straight lines through the soil to plant seeds, to produce fruit. Doesn’t that sound interesting?
Do you realize that these two letters (Alef+Tav), just described the work of God to save every human? You do know this, if you have studied the parables of Jesus in the Gospels. It would be worth your time to go now, and re-study them and find how many have something to do with farming and producing fruit. You will find in these natural examples, that sowing is done with God’s Word and if fruit is produced this growth causes human salvation.
What we have found, is that in these two letters (Alef+Tav) that Jesus claimed to be, were the combined overview of the entire plan of salvation and the work of God to spread His saving seed, which is the Word of God. God sent His Seed into the world and He became His Son. Jesus was God the manifested strong servant, to sow seeds into the hearts of everyone that would listen. All that listened intently and placed their determined confidence in Jesus, would be saved to enter into the New Covenant church creation.
We can further expand this topic with the fact that when we are saved, we are loosed from Satan, and newly bound and joined together with Christ like two yoked oxen that are pulling and working together to reach the end mark for our life’s calling. Jesus invited us all to “take His yoke, because it is easy” in Matthew 11:29. In this statement, Jesus is claiming that He is the “Alef” who is God, for us to be yoked with. To be “yoke” means to be in covenant with, and this is our next subject.
5. TAV – THE COVENANT MARK
The next very significant meaning of the letter “Tav”, is it also being defined as a “sign” or a “mark”. But this mark is different than the life target mark we learned in the previous section. This “sign” or “mark” was implemented by God first in the flesh. This was an external mark as a scar, that was performed when making a covenant between two individuals.
This type of covenant “mark”, occurs multiple times in the Bible, and is still done in many places around the world today. Let us describe the basic process of what God is teaching. During the making of a covenant between two humans, each of them would use a sharp instrument, like a knife to make a cut mark in their flesh, either on their hands or wrists to cause blood to flow. Both bleeding covenant partners, would then mingle their blood by touching their cut hands or wrists together, and this would cause the covenant to be bonded as long as they were both alive. This cutting of the covenant, would also result in a lasting visible personal “mark” called a scar.
An individual covenant scar could be seen on that person’s body, as a continual reminder to him that he was in a covenant with someone else. Or one covenanted human could show his covenant mark on his hand or wrist, to remind his covenant partner of their covenant commitment to both keeping the promises of the covenant. This mark could also be shown to anyone else on the earth, even an enemy to verify that they had a covenant relationship that their enemy would have to deal with, if they attacked them. If someone was smart, they would make a covenant with the strongest person they could, and this would ensure their peace and safety against all enemies. Wow!
The very first covenant making event between two humans, occurred in Genesis 2. God created one man, named him Adam. God saw that it was not good for Adam to be alone, and God put Adam to sleep and took a rib from his side. This type of surgical procedure would normally cause the flow of blood. From this rib. God made a woman, who would be Adam’s wife. This was the God created model for a male and female marriage covenant (Gen 2:24), and it is the pattern for every ongoing marriage covenant, including Christ and the church (Eph 5:32). From that day forward Adam could have shown Eve the scar in his flesh, as a sign/mark that they were both made from one body. Wow!
Do you remember when God made the covenant with Abram in Genesis 17? As part of this covenant, God required that every male, was to be circumcised. And by anyone not agreeing and submitting to this mark in their flesh, caused that man to not be a part of that covenant. This cutting of Abram’s flesh, left an external covenant scar, and it could not be undone or redone.
At least, three things resulted in performing this covenant act. First, there was the initial cutting of the flesh, and this caused pain, and bleeding. Second this made a permanent mark upon the man’s flesh as long as he was alive. Third, making this covenant, made this man unique, separate and different than all of the rest of the people on the earth, because he had a covenant with the “Most High” God, and they did not. Finally, it is important to know that God’s covenant mark was normally, never seen by other humans, since it was uniquely private and covered.
This pattern of circumcision continued throughout the history of the natural nation of Israel. But God also killed animals in the Old Covenant, and their blood was sprinkled on all of the covenant people coming out of Egypt in Exodus 24:8. Therefore, the pattern of cutting flesh, producing blood and causing it to be mingled upon those agreeing in covenant, is continuing.
But now we jump to the New Covenant in Jesus, and find that the patterns of these natural covenant marks are still taking place. But they are now being implemented by God in the unseen spirit realm, instead of the external natural human visible flesh realm:
Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
It is very clearly written in the New Testament, how the shedding of the blood of Jesus on a cross (tav), implemented a brand-new God covenant between any human (Jew or Gentile), that would receive His blood. Because Jesus shed His blood, we are not required to cut our external flesh and bleed to create a visible flesh covenant mark. But this does not mean that no flesh has any scars in it, in the New Covenant.
Here is an important fact of all God covenants ever made. No created being, has been able to keep a God covenant. The first known revealed covenant in the Bible with Lucifer the highest angelic being failed, because of his rebellion. The Adamic Covenant between God and man, failed because of his rebellion. The marriage covenant with Israel also failed because of their rebellion. Because God is Holy and His standards of perfection are so pure, God had a challenge of how to save his most loved creation man, who He had made in His image, after His likeness.
Therefore, in God’s wisdom, He solved this problem by becoming a man in His creation that could, and would keep His necessary covenant standard of perfection. Then by Grace through Faith in Jesus, God included every human that would believe in His work, the right to be identified before God in the name and the body of Jesus, who is our eternal mediator between every imperfect human and the Holy God (Heb 12:24).
It is very essential to recall, that because Jesus’ body was hung on a cross for us, the external scars in His hands and feet from the nails, and the Roman spear that punctured His side, will always be a visibly “marked” reminder to all humans that are identified to be “in” Him. This will be an eternal reminder of His great love, grace, mercy and sacrifice (Jn 20:27) that took place to save us. Every time we will see Jesus during our eternal existence, the external physical scar reminders will be sufficient proof to cause us to remember, what He did for us. We can easily recall, how our saving covenant was implemented through His flesh and blood given for us freely. But there is also another new spiritual covenant “mark” given to every saved human. This spiritual mark is unseen with natural eyes, and it is very much like the mark of Abram.
Jesus did not personally need any internal spiritual marking to take place for His saving work. But humans did. Humans will receive a new immortal body at the resurrection. But when we were saved, we received a brand-new spirit (2 Cor 5:17), and God did a spiritual covenant work inside of us, as His “signed” evidence of our salvation. Instead of an external “mark” like Abram, Christians are given an internal spiritual reminder mark for the benefit of our spiritual enemy the devil to see. This new internal “mark” takes place only in our unseen spirit:
Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Wow, do you see how God places His new covenant mark inwardly upon the unseen human spirit? Do you see how it is done by divine spiritual hands, and not natural human hands? These are amazing parallels that are patterned after the Abram covenant. Any human can be made clean by receiving the finished work of Jesus’ shed blood by faith. And the new covenant mark (tav) is made by the Spirit of God inwardly in our hearts when we believe, and confess Jesus as LORD.
6. TAV – MARK OF THE FAMILY YOU BELONG
The next significant meaning of the “Tav” alphabet letter, is that of a representation of a family “name”, or the “mark” of the family house. We are going to learn a potentially new concept for some, and for others it will be a review of some items we learned in the description of the Ancient Hebrew letter “Beyt”.
As an introduction to a Tav family mark, please allow me to write about some personal human family examples of a family mark. This human example, is patterned after the Tav God created concepts. This natural human example, will help some to understand the spiritual concept that is taking place by God’s spiritual handiwork.
My great grandfather, owned and raised some livestock, many years ago. This was a common type of human farm work 150 years ago. But there existed the possibility of losing one or more of them, because of broken fences, unexpected storms, natural disasters, or other potential unforeseen problems. These lost, loosed or stolen animals could present significant ownership problems and disputes when they were lost or found by the true owner, or other human neighbors. The loss of any owned livestock would be a significant risk for a greatly reduced personal income and wealth.
Therefore, to resolve the legal disputes, and losses of income, the owner would mark their cattle externally, with their identifying family mark. This mark would be a unique sign or symbol identifying the owning farm or ranch, and it helped to eliminate the risk of loss. Can you begin to see how this “mark” is very similar to the covenant mark we learned previously? This concept clearly represents a “mark” of identity and a relationship of ownership.
This “marking” of cattle was called “branding”. And it was done by a custom-made medal device, usually made of iron. This device could be called a branding iron. The branding iron end, containing the identifying family “mark”, would be placed into a fire of intense heat, to make it glowing red hot. The hot end of the iron containing the mark, would then be applied to the leather cow hide of the living animal. And this action would leave the lasting scar, that would identify the animal for its entire life. So, this process is almost identical to what we learned about before in the “covenant mark” discussion about Abram. This is why this concept of marking a beast for a mark of ownership, sounds a lot like the same covenant terminology and patterns. Both concepts left a visible “mark”. This human implemented process of branding, copies the pattern of a God created family covenant mark, like circumcision.
I included a picture of my great grandfather’s branding irons, above. These were handed down from generation to generation. No, they are not still being used today. But they teach us and remind us about God’s created concepts that He has done for us in our spirit by placing His mark upon our heart. Just as the children of Israel were circumcised 8 days after birth, to receive God’s “covenant mark”, so it is with the New Covenant. The number 8 represents a “new beginning” and when a child of the living God is circumcised at their new birth, God places His Holy Spirit inside of our spirit as a “seal” of the covenant that has taken place (Eph 4:30).
What we are learning, is the fact that every human belongs to someone. We are either owned by God, or owned by Satan. If we read 1 Corinthians 6:20 and 7:23 we will find God with the price of the blood of Jesus, “bought” us out of the kingdom of Satan. We can clearly see that a very significant financial transaction took place to transfer ownership from being lost to being saved. Silver and gold were not a sufficient price, for this legal purchase. It required the life blood of God Himself to make this purchase (Ps 72:14, 1 Peter 1:19).
Satan was the default owner of every human, after Adam sold himself, and all of his children, to the devil (Isa 52:3, Rom 5:19). if you have not given your life to Jesus, and made Him your LORD, intentionally and voluntarily, you are still an owned slave of Satan (Rom 6:20). Because, God worked such a great work to save us He has caused a legal transfer of ownership to be made available to every human. This concept teaches us that God gives us the freewill choice to which family we will belong. Therefore, we have not been permanently “marked” yet! As long as a human is living on this earth, they can make that choice, but any delay would cause a great risk of not entering into God’s family. Now let us explore the concept of how and when we are “marked” for ownership within one of two families, for final ownership.
Let us look this God identifying family mark by reading in one ending verse in Revelation, found in the “Last” book and the “Last” chapter:
Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
This verse in context is describing God’s people. It very clearly states that God will write upon us, “His Name”. Uh oh, sound a lot like a branding, but I do not believe it will hurt. But this concept will be Him giving us His personal ownership “mark”. This act of receiving God’s name as His family mark, is the same as when a loving wife marries her husband and takes his name to be her own. This is what Christians lovingly do with God.
In this section we have been talking about this “mark” concept because the Hebrew word H1004 translated as “house”, has its roots in two Hebrew letters. The first letter of the word, begins with the second letter of the alphabet called the “Beyt”. You should recall that the beyt, represents a tent dwelling, and has the meaning of a house, and the family that lives within the house. Therefore, this letter also signifies the location of the Father’s house, where the Son comes from.
The last letter of the word H1004 translated as “house”, is the last letter of the alphabet the “Tav”, representing a “mark”. Placing these letters together, we get the meaning, the “mark of the house”. God uses this word to teach, each house is formed and governed by the home’s founding father’s name. The strong father would be the designated family originator, like the “House of the LORD”, the “house of Jacob”, the “house of David”, and etc.
To conclude this section of the lesson about a family mark decision point of a cross, we need to remember that Satan has a family house, and is a father of many children that do evil (Jn 8:44). Satan demands humans to take the permanent “mark” of his name in Revelation 13. Everyone that does this, will be forced into hell with Satan, and an everlasting torment with him. This too will be like the concept of getting branded or tattooed. Satan will coerce people with very strong motivations to willingly take his mark. He will do this by starving people. Everyone without his mark will not be able to buy or sell normally through the government created system.
When this motivation is not enough, there will be stronger consequences for not taking his mark. If seeing your relatives starve was not enough, Satan will cause everyone not taking the mark, to have their heads cut off (Rev 20:4). All of this will be a last desperate measure for Satan to control the planet entirely. But those that have read the Bible and believe what God says will happen will never take the devil’s mark, no matter what.
Please evaluate which marked family you are in right now! Please make the wise choice to live and not die, by receiving the “mark” of the cross (Tav). Believing in Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, and calling Him your LORD, will insure a new family life.
7. CONCLUSION
Thank you for reading and studying this Bible series about the ancient Hebrew alphabet containing the hidden meanings that point us to Jesus Christ. God gave us this language with intentional intelligent design pointers. These “signs” were pathway directions to obtain eternal life. These signs were multi-dimensional. These clues existed in plain sentences, the words contained in the sentences, as well as every letter that created the words. Wow!
By finding and following God’s freely given “signs”, we could live with Him, know Him personally, and never die spiritually to be separated from Him. This is why Paul wrote this verse indicating his direction of travel was to achieve the end destination of a very specific “mark” (Tav).
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
This is an amazing verse about our study subject of the “Tav”. As you can read, the end of Paul’s calling of God in Christ Jesus, was a direct prize to obtain. Paul said this prize was a called “mark” for him to travel towards. This describes the definition of the last ancient Hebrew letter “tav” precisely, especially when joined with the first letter of the alphabet. This is because Paul also called himself a servant (purchased voluntary slave) of Jesus Christ (Rom 1:1).
The Greek word G4649 in Philippians 3:14, was translated as “mark”. This word has the base meaning of “to peer”. Peering can be defined as someone who looks “intensively”, and “searchingly” to find, or reach to obtain a destination. Therefore, this “mark” is a personal “goal” to achieve to reach in this human life before death. This is clearly speaking of humans to become Christians, and then continue on the right path looking to obtain the reward, of what Christ has given to us all on a cross.
These words are both an encouragement to continue as well as a warning not to quit. Paul wrote about this in other verses like this chapter in Corinthians:
1Co 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
In this chapter God writes through Paul, about a race contest that we are running in. God says if we continue running His race to achieve his ending mark, we will obtain an incorruptible crown of life. This should encourage everyone to continue.
Thank you again for taking your valuable time to study the Word of God. Hopefully these lessons are a blessing and will give you the strength to continue your race to obtain God’s final “mark” of victory.
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Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 3b – The Beyt – Part 2
(Ver 1.0) This is “Part 3b” of the Bible study series, revealing “Jesus Hidden in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet”. This is also “Part 2” of the very important ancient Hebrew letter “beyt” study. This series is designed to reveal the patterns of the Lord Jesus, hidden in the ancient Hebrew Alphabet pictograms. He can be found in every letter, but there are some letters that just appear to be most valuable to understanding Him. The “Beyt” is one of these letters. If you have not read the series from the beginning, it is recommended that you go and start with “Part 1”.
Today, we will continue our learning of the second letter of the ancient Hebrew alphabet called the “Beyt”. If you have read “Part 1” of the Beyt subject, you already know this letter represents a “tent” diagram where a family is planted, resides and grows. This letter also represents and identifies, all of the family members that are currently living in the house of their “father” or have come from his house. It is the “father’s name’ that marks the house. For example, notice this verse:
2 Sam 3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
Here is a great example of two houses that were at war with each other. The house of Saul was a type of evil, opposing God’s selected servant David. In this verse we learn that houses can grow weaker or stronger. Therefore, it can greatly matter, whose house you choose to belong to and to who you are choosing to be in, either God’s house or the house of the devil.
In the natural realm this was chosen for you by your father Adam. Adam chose to join his “house” with Satan in rebellion, and everyone born in the natural family of Adam is destined to die (Rom 5:12). But in the spiritual realm, Jesus came as the “Last Adam” to create a new family for every human’s choice to live (Jn 10:10). Wow, it seems like an easy choice to make, but the deceiver tricks people into making the wrong choice (Rev 12:9).
This is why we are learning about two opposing spiritual houses and families, one of God and the other of His adversary the devil (Act 26:18). In Revelation 13, the beast representing the devil’s family, demands for humans to take his “mark”. We learned a “mark”, represents a family house’s name of the father. And in Revelation 13:17, we can understand this beast’s mark is joining people with the house of Satan and an eternity in hell (Rev 19:20). If you did not know that Satan was a father, and has a family, please read what Jesus revealed in John 8:44.
But Jesus in Revelation 2:17, offers those that desire to be joined with His family, the gift of receiving His name as their choice. Two spiritual families with two spiritual names of the heads of these family members. The house and family of God, is a very desired family to want to be in. We can identify people in the Old Testament that had this desire. For example, David:
Psa 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
One of our key subjects today will concern King David, the writer of this Psalm. It is very clear that David valued the “House of the LORD”. It is very clear that David desired to be in God’s family. David also makes it clear the spiritual house (beyt) and family, that we seek after determines our family association.
David was only interested in dwelling in God’s house and family. David could read about the alternative house to dwell within, in the Old Testament. Approximately 10 times, God wrote to remind the children of Israel, of their time in the “house (beyt) of bondage” (Exo 13:3, Exo 20:2, Deut 6:12, Deut 8:14). This was God using the natural nation of Egypt who held the natural family of Israel in bondage, as a “type”, for the unsaved people of the world. In the world today, people who do not belong to Jesus, are all in captivity in the house of Satan, under spiritual bondage to sin. But Jesus came to “set all of the captives free” (Luke 4:18).
INTRODUCTION
We have already learned a significant amount of new information found in the one picture of a house tent that people in the Old Testament lived within. We have learned that this picture represents a “house” that was built by a man, in hope of being a future father. We have learned that this tent dwelling is empty at the beginning, and needs to be filled with a “new” family.
We learned there are two positive ways for any good father and husband to fill his house with his family. However, we were just introduced to one new negative method of entering an evil family. The devil uses tricks, traps, deception, and lies, to take people by force into his house of darkness. But Jesus, is always loving and good, He only offers people the positive right of choice to voluntarily join with Him in His house. We will soon learn today about God’s purpose of creating a new house and family of God by us entering into the LORD Jesus.
Unsaved natural humans can be rebirthed into God’s new spiritual family by being “born again” (John 3:3). This process occurs, by hearing the Gospel (God’s seed planted in the spirit of a human), believing in the Son of God as the risen from the dead Savior (spiritual conception), and confessing Jesus as their personal Lord (new birth activation) (Rom 10:9-10). This incredible new life experience (1 Cor 5:17) continues as we experience spiritual growth to maturity. This process is also a new marriage covenant relationship with the LORD Jesus who is the Son of God (Eph 5:31-32).
The son in the “beyt” family was essential to carry on the family name (mark), and to be given the primary part of the inheritance of his father. It is this son’s family responsibility to take the bride selected by his father. Then, these two will be joined to go out of their family houses of their fathers and mothers, to marry each other, and build their own “beyt” house and family. This was God’s stated Law of marriage found in Genesis 2:24. It is a pattern of what we will be discussing today about Jesus’ work for His Father.
Today, we are going to begin this study of Jesus in the “beyt”, with an analysis of a major promise made to one King named David. This promise was concerning a future son, that would come from a seed from his own body. This son was called a coming seed from the house of David, he is foretold to rule over his father’s “house” (beyt) of David and the kingdom of Israel forever (Luke 1:32-33). It does not appear that David was personally revealed the name of this future eternal King. But we discover in other parts of the Bible, this man is Jesus Christ the eternal risen from the dead LORD! Let us begin to learn what this has to do with a “beyt” family and house.
House (Beyt) + Seed (Nun) of David
Joined to the House (Beyt) + Seed (Nun) of God
Forms Jesus, the Son of David, the Son of God
We are now going to study a very important promise that God made to King David, about a coming son that would originate from one natural seed (nun) of David, and one spiritual seed (nun) spoken from God. These two seeds represent the continuation of two “beyt” houses and families of God. The Kingdom of God “seed” (nun) contributed in this promise will be sent from God’s greater heavenly spiritual house (beyt) to the earth.
This spiritual “seed” will be spoken by a heavenly messenger named Gabriel to a virgin woman named Mary” (Luke 1:26-27). The promised natural “seed” that will be contributed by David also happens to be the virgin woman named “Mary”. The virgin Mary was the natural seed “daughter” of King David. It will be the virgin woman Mary’s faith, that will receive the spiritual spoken “seed” of God. It will then be the power of the Holy Spirit that will overshadow her (Luke 1:35), to fulfill the promise that was made to David.
We are beginning to be introduced to an amazing concept designed by God. It occurred when one natural seed named Mary, that came from the house of David, was prophesied by a prophet of God named Samuel, as a promised spoken to David. The end of the promise, was about the implied coming of a female “seed” (nun) of the house (beyt) of David. This woman would be joined with the spoken spiritual “seed” sent from God’s heavenly house (beyt). It will be the union of these two “seeds” being joined together, that will unite the natural and the spiritual realms to form one new unique divine human “seed”, called the promised Son of David and the Son of God. This final “promised” fulfilled combined seed, would be named by His Father God, Jesus (Luke 1:31).
This is the promise that we will be studying in God’s Word and it is so amazing, that it causes a lot of people to not believe in it as being possible. But too often humans limit what God is able to do. We will only be going through a few key verses found in the Old Testament in this section, to focus on God’s single promise spoken to David. This promise was spoken by God in the Old Covenant family, and houses of Israel, Judah, and David. We will also be viewing selected verses in the New Testament to confirm what God is saying in the Old Testament. Let us get started.
We should all at least be beginning to know that the name “Israel” originally came from heaven, which is the spiritual location of the house of God. We have learned how this name change from Jacob to Israel, appears to be a marriage covenant name transfer of one of God’s hidden heavenly names. We know this from reading multiple verses in the Old Testament, where God says “the house or the people who are called by my name”, like in 2 Chronicles 7:14, Jeremiah 7:10-11, 14, 30, and Jeremiah 32:34, to list a few.
It will be this man Jacob that is renamed Israel by God that will bring forth God’s promised “seed”. God made this promise to Abraham, his grandfather. This marriage covenant is spoken of in several verses, but Jeremiah 31:32 is one of the clearest. Therefore, we should all know that God was in a marriage covenant with these people and He was their Husband and the entire nation was collectively called His wife.
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt (aka, the house of bondage); which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
But we must also know this future promise to Abraham was repeated in a promise to David concerning the same identical one seed (nun), that would be called the Son of David (Mat 1:1), and the Son of God (Mat 8:29), simultaneously. So, we are seeing the potential for two houses, the beyt of David, and the beyt of God being combined, to produce one joint Son. Let us review how this is possible according to the Bible.
Remember in the ancient Hebrew alphabet, that the “beyt” + the “nun” = a son (H1121). The “beyt” is a tent house, and the “nun” is the father’s seed that is contributed to cause his house, family, and name to continue, by the passing of his “seed” (nun) to a new generation. God combined these two letters, to give us the Hebrew word for a “son”. It is the passing of natural or spiritual “seed”, that is being sown by, in, and from the owner father’s “house” (beyt), that will produce their physical or spiritual heir. It is also interesting to know that one key Greek word translated as “seed” is “sperma”, in which we get the English word “sperm”. This information gives us one of the main concepts that was spoken of by God calling Jesus the “Seed of David” (John 7:42).
We have not covered the letter “nun” in detail. This is a future lesson in the series, God be willing. But there are at least 10 things found in the Bible, that are called by the name “seed”. The male sperm is one of them (Gen 38:9). And a born child is another reality that is called a “seed” (Gen 4:25). For our subject today, the other key “seed” that is most relevant is the Word of God (Luke 8:11). The Word of God is the most powerful and prevalent spiritual “seed” found in the Bible (1 Pet 1:23).
It is also essential to know that it is the father that determines the biological “gender” of the child. If the father contributes an “X” chromosome the child is female, and if a “Y’ chromosome, the child is male. The female mother only contributes one “X” chromosome every time to produce a child. Therefore, the mother nor the born child has a choice in this matter of gender determination, period. Consequently, it is only the human, or spiritual father’s seed contribution and the hand of God’s guidance, that can create a child as a female or a male. This will become very pertinent to our discussion of Jesus being formed as a male child, from two joined families, as we continue. Let us look at a verse that helps us to see what God is doing in Jesus:
Rom 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
So far, all of this information up until this point simply means that Jesus the born child of Mary in Bethlehem, had a natural father named David. Jesus came from David’s DNA, as God writes in Romans 1:3. In this verse God said “Jesus was MADE (G1096) from the “seed” of David”. The Greek word translated as “seed” is the Greek word G4690 “sperma”. This word proves Jesus came forth from the “sperm” of David the King. We should agree this “seed” represented Mary, a daughter of the House of David.
Then notice the Greek word translated as “made”. This word is the Greek word G1096 “ginomai”. From this Greek word we get the English words “gene’, “generation”, “genetics”, “genealogy”, and “genome”. All of these words relate to “DNA”, “RNA”, etc. being transferred. What we have just confirmed, is that Jesus had a natural father’s family and house that represents David. It had to be David’s natural sperm “seed” that would be passed down multiple generations to create a female child “seed”, named Mary. It is this female child born Mary from the house of David, that would grow to be a virgin woman capable of receiving spiritual “seed” from God’s powerful spoken word (Heb 1:3).
Mary, God’s selected female seed was born in the house (beyt) of David, and she would have an “egg” inside of her body with David’s DNA, that would cause her to “make” his natural son named Jesus. This information represents the maternal half of the family line of Jesus. It is because of the one male seed of David’s generational house, that would contribute an “X” chromosome, at the exact perfect time in human history, to cause the birth of a “female” seed of David, named “Mary”. It is Mary that will birth Jesus her firstborn son (Mat 1:25), and God’s only begotten Son (Jn 3:16).
It would be good if you could go and study the Luke 3 genealogy of Jesus. Remember a “genealogy” means the passing of “genes” from one seed (nun) to another, creating each new generation. In the Luke 3 genealogy, we will find how seed, after seed was passed from Adam, all the way to Mary, who gave birth to Jesus the Christ in Bethlehem. In this family lineage includes Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, David, and many other male seeds.
But the last “seed” is required by God to be “female”, so God could be the Father in the naturally created child making process. This requirement would allow God to fulfill His role as the male head of the house and family, as well as determine the gender of the child named Jesus, who also must be God’s male Son heir. Knowing this we can better understand the prophecy of God given to David the reigning King of Israel in the book of 2 Samuel and chapter 7. Let us begin to read and study the O.T. prophecy:
2Sa 7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
God sent a message to King David. David personally desired to build the LORD a more permanent house (beyt). This new house was intended to be a more enduring dwelling, rather than the original temporary and portable tent tabernacle. Remember God’s previous temporary house was in a tent constructed originally by God’s directions given to Moses (Exo 25:9). This is very essential for us to know, that the temporary earthly tent tabernacle of God, was a human created tent of a “pre-existing” heavenly dwelling pattern (Heb 8:5). This sounds very important, if you can see it.
Therefore, we are directly connected with two houses following one pattern. There was the original heavenly “temple” that we can believe was created by God as permanent, and this is being contrasted with a new earthly house that must obviously be a temporary “tent” structure. This is the reason that God chose the symbol of a “tent” as the design of the “beyt” alphabet letter. It should be becoming very obvious that this “old” and “ancient” design, is not the final plan of God’s dwelling.
No doubt God placed this desire for a future permanent dwelling, in David’s heart. But God did this, not to fulfill David’s desires in his natural lifetime, but rather to prophesy God’s divine plan for David’s, and God’s shared Son, named Jesus, to fulfill this desire. Notice that the last sentence just called Jesus, both the son of God and David. We found this truth in Romans 1:3, where God called Jesus His Son, made from the seed (nun) of David. This represented two fathers, and two houses, one was the spiritual God, and the other was the natural man, David. Let us examine some of the words Jesus spoke on this subject, while present physically on the earth:
Mar 12:35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?
Do you remember this question that Jesus asked the Jewish rulers in the temple? In Mark 12:35 Jesus said, “how say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?”. Then Jesus begins to quote a verse that David personally wrote about Messiah:
Mar 12:36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Jesus reminded the Jewish people, what David had written while being inspired by the Holy Ghost, “The LORD said to my LORD, sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool” (Psalm 110:1). This is an amazing verse of scripture that contained a very significant hidden mystery. This verse is quoted 5 times in the New Testament, making it very important for what God is doing in Jesus. Let us start our understanding of this statement, by observing what God says in Isaiah:
Isa 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Notice what God says through the prophet Isaiah. God is talking about His house in two locations, asking a very specific question to the humans on the earth. He begins by saying, “Heaven” is the seat of His throne. Then He says, the “earth” is the footstool for His feet. In other words, God is saying to humans, there is no way you will ever be able to fully build me a house, where I can completely fit or rest. Wow, this is very profound, but we do not have adequate time to cover it in depth. However, we are going to be introduced to God’s solution to this problem very soon. Let us continue to see what Jesus said next about this subject:
Mar 12:37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
Jesus continues speaking to the Jewish rulers, using the information found in the hidden riddle, written by David in Psalms. Jesus said in Mark 12:37, “If David calls the Christ his LORD, how then can He be his son?” This is supernatural wisdom of the Christ, demonstrating God’s superior knowledge, and their inferior lack of it.
Jesus had just tried to make them think and to answer this very profound question. Jesus was not saying that the Christ was not the son of David, but rather He was trying to get them to see that the son of David, must also be the Son of God, in order to fulfill the prophecy of David.
We have further confirmed how one man named Jesus was coming into the world from two houses, one natural of the house of David, and one spiritual from the House of God the Father from heaven. This is an amazing revelation, that teaches us that God is solving two problems in two houses (beyts), by combining them through a common one Son solution. A lot of readers will not yet understand that statement, but do not reject it because it is not understood. It will hopefully come into better light shortly.
2Sa 7:6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt (the house of bondage), even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
David is then given more information about God’s plan of salvation. We can see a confirmation that when the people of natural Israel were delivered from Egypt which we know is also called the “house of bondage” by God. We should know that God came down personally by His Holy Spirit, and lived with natural Israel, in a temporary “tent” (beyt) dwelling. We know this was when He made them His Old Covenant natural wife, and natural family. This would be a sign of God bringing Himself down from heaven, to establish His family and His name in the earth. Wow, are we not studying about a tent alphabet picture? Do you see any new connections?
Do you remember that God said His feet will be located on the earth at rest in Isaiah 66:1? But here in 2 Samuel, God says He is walking in a “tent”? Notice both scripture descriptions involve God’s “feet”. But the Isaiah reference is a God of a future seated position of rest, and the 2 Samuel reference, is a God of temporary feet movement. If you did not know, the “rest” position is the New Covenant house of God in Jesus, where Jesus is seated in heaven awaiting His enemies on the earth to be made His footstool (Heb 1:13). But the “walking” about in a “tent” (beyt), is an Old Covenant God position in a temporary transition state of mobility, indicating no rest is taking place. Wow, that is “deep”.
One thing we need to see implied in this verse of 2 Samuel 7:6, is God did have a great desire for a permanent dwelling for His Spirit, but it was not going to be a temple made of bricks and stones. Acts 17:24 confirms this by saying, “God has made the world and everything that is in it. Seeing He is Lord of heaven and earth, He will not dwell in a temple made by human hands”. That was a paraphrase, but it conveys the essence of the inspired message about two houses (beyt) in heaven and on the earth. What we are beginning to see, is that God had already provided His Holy Spirit, with a living temporary temple (tent), to dwell in, by forming the human body from the dust of the ground (Gen 2:7). Let us continue with some of our main verses of 2 Samuel 7:
2Sa 7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
2Sa 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
For the sake of time, we skipped down to verses 12 and 13. These two verses are about one man’s solitary “seed”. As we know, this man was named David, the earthly king of the natural nation of Israel. We can see in verse 12, that David will sow one seed (nun) that will come from his physical body, and it will “continue” until it produces one son (ben) that will continue David’s throne eternally.
We can clearly see in these verses, that this coming seed that will eternally rule, will only come after David is physically dead and buried. This implies a long period of time has passed before the “seed” will come forth. Between David and Jesus was approximately 1000 years, so that is a significant passage of time, before David’s promised seed would be fulfilled.
Did you notice that in these two verses of 2 Samuel, that God said twice, that “He would establish ‘his’ kingdom”? Whose Kingdom is God speaking of? Also did you notice verse 13, that God said “He will build a house (beyt) for my name (the family mark)”? Could this name be called the house of “Israel” that is on the earth and in heaven? So, we have the combination of the establishment of a kingdom that is to be joined with the building of a house (beyt) for God. This will be combined with the joining of two kingdoms, one of David and one of God. Wow, this can only be speaking of one man, that came from two “seeds”.
This is no doubt the new “Kingdom” of Jesus Christ. What we are observing is this future “seed” that will have a combined eternal kingdom found in two realms of existence. One is David’s natural throne, and the other is the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven. This may be difficult for some to accept, but Jesus confirms this after His resurrection in Matthew 28:18. In this verse Jesus said, “All power in heaven and on the earth, is given to me”. Why would Jesus speak of these two different realms of authority and power, being combined in Him? Why would it be necessary for God to hand over the power of earth to His Son Jesus? An even more amazing question, is why would God the Father of heaven, need to hand over heavenly authority to His Son Jesus also? Why was all of this necessary for God to accomplish? These are excellent questions to which to learn the answers. We will probably not be able to cover these questions in this lesson.
Now notice one of the “beyt” house key lesson concepts, mentioned in verse 13. In this verse we see God promising David that it will be his “seed” (nun), that will be building God’s house (beyt). Wow, this is a very radical promise, and it has nothing to do with a physical building made of bricks, and mortar. This is definitely pointing us to a spirit realm reality and fulfillment, which we will see very soon.
Remember in this section, we are exploring the concept of a two-letter word containing the “beyt” + “nun”. This formed Hebrew word is “ben”, and in English it is the “son”. We are learning that this promised “Son” must be Jesus, the Christ, and this Son must be the Son of God, equally as the Son of David a human. This also confirms the concept of two houses being combined into one “new” family. The key word is “new”, because this type of a production of a “son”, had never been accomplished before by God (Isa 43:19). God has planned the joining of one natural house on the earth from David, with the other a divine house in heaven from God, to create a never before seen new “heir”.
What we have arrived at in our Bible study journey, is the awesome truth that God came into the world to be “born” a human and divine Son. This child grew up into the man that God named Jesus, who is called the Son of Man (Adam), the Son of Abraham, the Son of David, and the Son of God. This made Jesus the Son of two realities named Israel, God the Creator, and Jacob the renamed originator of the natural nation of “Israel”. The name Israel literally means, “He will rule as God!” As you can see, we are being introduced to a brand-new concept that is amazing. The Spirit of God who dwelt, lived, ruled in a kingdom throne in heaven, came personally into the natural world, to begin a new spiritual family for Himself. In doing this great work He would also come to save the human house and family of Adam, that entered into a covenant with death and hell (Isa 28:15-18).
Jesus was, and still is, the only man that is capable of continuing the majestic Kingdom of His Heavenly Father’s name of “Israel” into a New Covenant house (beyt) family. Simultaneously, Jesus is the only son of David, that can fulfill the promise of reigning on his throne over natural Israel, eternally. We have just confirmed that one seed (nun) came into the world and this seed has come from Abraham, and David to fulfill promises given to them. It was this “seed” (nun) that came from the houses (beyts) of God (Israel in Heaven), Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel on earth), Judah, and David, that is fulfilled in one united Son named Jesus Christ (Israel of God that will rule forever in heaven and on earth – Galatians 5:16). We are about to learn about this new “beyt” house of the LORD Jesus, the “eternal Son (beyt + nun) of God” next.
THE NEW COVENANT HOUSE
AND FAMILY OF THE LORD JESUS
So far, we should have learned that God has selected one man named Abraham, and from his house (beyt), chose only one seed (nun) to be his begotten son named Isaac. And from Isaac’s house (beyt), God selected one seed (nun), to be his chosen son named Jacob, who God renamed to be Israel. And from Israel’s house (beyt), God selected one seed (nun) of 12 tribes, to become a son named Judah. And from Judah’s tribe, God chose one future seed (nun) to bring a son (ben) named King David, to continue to bring forth a female daughter seed (nun) named Mary. And from all of these continuing generational seeds (nun), God at the right time brought forth His promised seed (nun), and made His promised “Son” to be the Savior of the entire world (Heb 2:16), named Jesus Christ.
God’s promised “Son” (ben) of salvation, would actually be God, the Word (seed) becoming human flesh. We know this because Jesus is a name that means “Jehovah Saved”. Jesus’ name contains His Father’s name, and one of His main purposes, for becoming a Son. We have also learned that the name Jehovah means in ancient Hebrew pictogram form, “Behold the hand, Behold the nail”. This means the work of Jesus is found in the name of His Father. But there is more evidence that Jesus was the manifestation of God making Himself into human flesh to die on a cross.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God, and He created everything good that can be seen (Jn 1:1-3). Then in John 1:14 we read about “The Word (seed) of God was made “flesh” and dwelled among us”. This simply means Jesus was Jehovah the unseen God being made manifest in flesh (Heb 1:3). As you may know, all of this is really much deeper, than can be described today. But consider this fact, and see what God has said in the prophetic verse of Jeremiah that comes directly before Jeremiah 31:32, that we looked at earlier:
Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
As you can see this verse is about the subject of two “beyt” houses. This verse is about Jesus the Christ, and is not about a natural nation of people. God is foretelling to His Old Covenant natural people, in His previous family household, that there is coming a brand-new family covenant house with a brand-new family tent door entrance (Jn 10:7). This New Covenant was one that never existed before, that He will be making with the House (beyt) of Israel and the House (beyt) of Judah. These natural people certainly did not yet realize or understand what this meant. This was because they did not yet understand that the seed of the Messiah was already in them, and simultaneously in the Seed (Word) of God, when this prophecy was spoken.
Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Notice this verse is very profound. God Himself will provide a “sign”. This declares God’s personal participation in the sign being given to them. The virgin being spoken of is the coming woman named “Mary”, who was the natural “seed” of David. But God then says this virgin would conceive and become pregnant with a son. This is exactly what we are reading about in the 2 Samuel promise to David. This verse confirms again, that this divinely given sign, would be God Himself impregnating Mary, with His Word. This would be done to produce a physical child, but this Son would be named “Emmanuel”, that means “God with Us” in human form. Wow, this is really amazing how God spreads the truth out in the Bible. Let us look at the New Covenant writings to the Hebrews to help us understand what God is speaking of in Jeremiah 31:
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
As we can see Paul quotes the Jeremiah prophecy concerning two “beyt” houses, in chapter 8 of the book of Hebrews. Here in this verse, God says there was a major problem with this Old Covenant, and it was this “fault found” and other issues that cannot be taught today, that causes God to implement the New Covenant through Jesus. Notice this verse in Jeremiah is quoted in the New Testament, revealing these words are concerning, and written to, and about the church.
We now know that Jesus is the prophesied Son of God the Father, and we know that He is also the chosen Son of David. We know this New Covenant is with Jesus, because verses 1 through 7 are speaking of Him as being the High Priest of a much better covenant than the one that God the Father, had made with the natural children of Israel in the Old Covenant. Take a look at this next direct contextual verse, that will prove we are studying the same subject about a “beyt” house and family of God:
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Wow, this is one of those profound verses about our subject of the combined “beyt” house of God and David. Remember we read in 2 Samuel that David wanted to move God out of the temporary “tent” and into a more permanent house, but it was not for him to do. This promise was made to Jesus, and he has become the High Priest of the “True Tabernacle” that the LORD “pitched”. The Greek word G4633, translated as “tabernacle”, literally means a “tent”. Remember a tent house is what the “Beyt” is a picture of. That is an amazing direct connection with God’s plan for His Son, Jesus to build the house of God and the House of David into one combined new family. Let us quickly confirm Jesus is a Son that is creating a new family for God:
Heb 3:5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Can you see that these two verses are about two (beyt) houses? Verse 5 is speaking of Moses’ faithfulness to create the temporary tent house of God in the Old Covenant. But that is being compared with another house (beyt) that is much greater. This house (beyt) in verse 6 is about the “Son” (beyt+nun), named Jesus Christ. It should be very clear to you that this is called the House of Messiah, our combined Son of David, and the Son of God.
Hopefully, you can see the connection to the “prophecy” of David’s desire to build God a permanent house. God promised David that it would be “one” seed that would fulfill his desire to build a house for the LORD. We can confirm that this new house is fulfilled in Christ. But now notice how God describes this permanent temple as being the church. Pay closer attention to the fact that God places the responsibility of remaining in the new “beyt” family and house of Jesus Christ to those that have voluntarily joined His family. Let us continue to learn more details about this plan of God and how it has been implemented in the church:
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Wow, these are all amazing verses of truth. Do you see the connection of God’s Son Jesus, in the “beyt” house alphabet letter prophecy of David? These verses are directly focused upon the prophecy of Jesus the Son of David, that would come to the earth to build God a permanent dwelling (house).
Notice what we see, in verse 19 by the mention of people in the church choosing to come into the “household” of God. The Greek word G3609 translated as “household”, means “domestic”. The term “domestic” is defined as “as relating to a family”. This word is related to the term “domain”, which represents a realm of authority of the head of the house. This leads us to the word “dominion”, which represents a realm of sovereign kingdom rule. We can see how people that were called “strangers”, and “foreigners” in verse 19, are speaking of people that were abiding in another kingdom house (Satan). But they have now left that evil family rule, to be saved by entering into God’s new family Kingdom formed in His Son Jesus Christ.
Verse 20 reveals God’s radical concept that originates from His designed plan to build a permanent temple for His Spirit. Jesus came to the earth to save people from their death, to “build” them into a new house for the Holy Spirit of God to dwell in. The Greek word G2026 that is translated as “build”, comes from the Greek word G3618, meaning “to be a house builder”. Wow, this is such great accuracy in fulfilling prophecy. We can further see how Jesus in called the chief corner stone of the “building” project. This makes the glorified, and resurrected “body” of the LORD Jesus Christ, the chief building corner stone, that we were all, aligned and joined with. Each newly saved human, becomes a new living stone. Each person is only one of many others, that will be formed into a new spiritual temple of the living God. Jesus is not only the builder; He is also the primary part of the building.
Verse 21 confirms the building plan of God using His Son Jesus, to build together a brand-new Holy Temple. Notice in this verse it clearly says this house of God is “growing”. Wow, do you remember what we read about in the beginning about the house of Saul, at war with the house of David? In this verse God says the house of Saul grew weak, and the house of David grew strong. Do you see how every verse in the Bible has something to do with Jesus, yet? God has placed duplicate natural patterns from Old Testament stories that relate to future Kingdom of God spiritual fulfillments.
Finally, Ephesians 2:22 further confirms all of the people in the church, are being built together for God’s habitation of the Holy Spirit. We find this additionally confirmed in the book of 1 Peter:
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
What does it mean to be a “living stone”? This verse is God referring to humans in two realms of existence, that we have been learning about in this lesson. We learned of Jesus being born of the physical “seed” of David. In this natural human dimension of life, there exists death and this is what Jesus experienced for us. Then there is the more essential spiritual heavenly life that Jesus possessed, by Him having the Spirit of God living inside of His Body. Jesus after resurrection from the dead, was raised to be physically immortal as well as spiritually immortal. He was the first example, that we are all desiring to follow. This why He is called the “chief corner stone”.
Eternal spiritual life for a lost physical human, is only possible after the Holy Spirit comes inside of a mortal human body. Unsaved people today have a temporary basis for natural physical life, but lack the personal experience of joining with God’s spiritual “eternal life” defined in John 17:3, as “knowing God”. Spiritual death is present now in the mortal body for the lost, but it is finalized by them being separated from God, and not knowing Him, in their eventual realm of eternal existence in hell after physical death.
If you are truly saved, you have the Spirit of the living God inhabiting your physical body (1 Cor 6:19). His Spirit inside your body has been joined with your human spirit (1 Cor 6:17) to become a new creation that never existed before (2 Cor 5:17). We can clearly read we are God’s new “spiritual house” in 1 Peter 2:5 and we now can begin to understand why it was necessary for Jesus to build this new “beyt” house and family of God.
To complete this section of God’s new House of Jesus Christ, it is most interesting to learn about the Old Testament Hebrew man named “Joshua” which is the same name as “Jesus” in English. Joshua was a definite type of the coming LORD Jesus. Therefore, God’s selected name Joshua must reveal something, and it does.
Exo 33:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
In Exodus 33:11, we find God speaking of Joshua. We find Joshua being called a servant that we learned was the first “alef” ox picture letter. Then at the end of the verse we find that Joshua departed not from the tabernacle. This word means a “tent”, the beyt second alphabet letter. Finally, we find Joshua being called the son of “Nun”. Remember beyt + nun = a son. Wow, this is not a coincidence that we have been learning about all of these subjects.
This Hebrew name “Nun”, comes from the Hebrew word H5125, which just so happens to be formed with three Hebrew letters. There are “two” nun letters representing seeds, that begin and end the word. And these two “seeds” are joined together in the middle with a “vav” representing a nail. These are not amazing accidents; these are just more intelligent design confirmations.
CONCLUSION
Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Here in this verse is found our combined subject of God’s and David’s houses. David moved by the Holy Spirit declared his final “dwelling” will be in the house (beyt) of the LORD! By Him making this choice, David says the LORD’s goodness and mercy will follow him all of his mortal living days. David could foresee in the spirit, that this natural life was not his final home destiny. And that His coming “seed” would be the LORD, and He wanted to make sure that this would be his choice. If you have not made this choice yet, to join the good house (beyt) of Jesus Christ, this is the perfect time to do it. There will be a link at the bottom of this lesson to direct you how to join the best family possible.
Hopefully, this lesson was an eye-opening experience to see how one ancient Hebrew alphabet letter called the “beyt”, was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. There were literally many verses, and several other lesson subjects, that were omitted from this study. These omissions were due to the unlimited amount of information found on this subject in the Bible. If you are a curious wise Bible student, it would be recommended that you continue to dive into this subject of the old house and family of God originally in heaven, being transitioned on the earth through Moses, versus the new house and a family of God in the Son Jesus Christ.
Here is a list of questions that were not answered in this study:
- Who was in the family of God in heaven before Adam?
- Why did God create an earthly family through Adam, if He already had a permanent family in heaven?
- After Adam sinned and rebelled to join with Satan’s family and the kingdom of darkness, why did God want to save any of us?
- Why did God need a Son (ben=house+seed) from heaven to come to the earth, to be joined with a natural son (ben=house+seed) of a natural man named David?
- Why did God come to the earth personally to save us?
- How did God save us through Jesus His Son (son=house+beyt)?
- Why did God create a new Covenant, a new family, and a new house (beyt) in His Son Jesus Christ?
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Intro Alef Beyt-1 2 Gimel Dalet Hey Vav Zayin Chet Tet Yod Kaf Lamed Mem 1 2 Nun Samekh Ayin Pey Tsade Qof Resh Shin Tav Chart (Series updated as LORD directs and permits)
Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 3 – The Beyt Part 1
(Ver 1.2) This will be “Part 3” in the Bible study series, revealing the Lord Jesus hidden in the ancient Hebrew Alphabet. Today, will be “Part 1” of the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, called the “Beyt”. The current plan will be to go through each letter, as long as the LORD directs and permits. We may or may not go through every letter in the correct alphabetic order. God is appearing to direct us into the more significant alphabet letters first. That does not mean any are not important, it only means, that God appears to place significant emphasis upon selected letters, like the Alpha (Greek)/Alef (Hebrew), and the Omega (Greek) /Tav (Hebrew) as direct names and titles of Christ. We learned this in the book of Revelation. We are about to discover that the “Beyt” is another letter that God places extraordinary meanings that apply to Jesus within.
If you have not read this Bible series from the beginning, it is highly recommended that you go back to “Part 1” to start. Today’s lesson will be divided into at least two or three separate parts. There is an extraordinary amount of information, and revelation found in the Bible about today’s Hebrew alphabet letter “beyt”. Here is a list of today’s lesson subjects:
- Introduction to the Beyt
- Basic Bible Concepts of the Tent (beyt) “House” and “Family”
- Alef (Strength) + Beyt (House) = The Father
- Hey (Behold) + Beyt (House) = Love
- Tet (Surround) + Beyt (House) = Good
- Beyt (House) + Nun (Seed) = The Father’s House Continues in His Son
- The House (Beyt) Name of the LORD
- Conclusion
Finally, please be advised this entire lesson series may have potential new information, and revelation from the Bible, that you may have never seen, or heard before, or even imagined could be hidden in the Bible. It will also be a very spiritually mature lesson needing a lot of serious thought and study. This means it will take you significant time to begin to understand what the Lord desires us to see. Don’t plan to rush through it, and think you can get everything that is given.
Any new information is potentially offensive, and could result in your immediate judgment to condemn it as being false teachings. But that is exactly what God says would happen. In Acts 17:11, God gave praise to the church at Berea, because they were more noble than the church at Thessalonica. The Bereans did not automatically reject the new revelations given to Paul by God, simply because they had never heard them before. Rather, they studied daily in their Scriptures to confirm what was taught, was actually what their written Word of God said.
If by chance you disagree with any part of this lesson, or even find a typographical error, wrong Bible verse reference, or any other unintentional mistake, know everyone is human and can come short of perfection. Therefore, it would be a great blessing for you to share whatever you believe needs attention in a comment. Thank you in advance for your kind participation, in helping us to share the Word of God.
Please determine to be a Berean type of church member. Any new revelation will always be found in the Bible, if it is a true reality from God. Also, the Holy Spirit inside will always bear witness with your spirit when His written Word needs to be confirmed.
ALL new information brings to us knowledge, but new revelation from God, brings us the opportunity for the change of God that is needed in us!
1. Introduction to the Beyt
The Beyt is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It has a number value of “2”. Two is significant because of the Law of Marriage found in Genesis 2:24, where God says two separated individuals (a male and a female), will become one new (united) family. Remember the first Hebrew alphabet letter was the alef. This letter was a picture of a single ox, and it represented “strength”. Therefore, using the number of the second letter, could represent two weaker individuals, that when joined together can be stronger in unity.
Perhaps you will recall that we learned about the first letter “alef” which represented a strong “ox” having a yoke to plow the field, as preparation for harvest. We learned that this letter has very strong pointers to Jesus. Remember in Matthew 11:29, Jesus called for us to take His “yoke”, indicating He was this letter’s prophetic ox servant. By Him using the call for us to be “yoked” with Him, we are symbolically being called out of the world, to be joined with Him in united marriage as one (alef).
This being joined with the Lord to labor with Him, is one of the very significant parts of the works of Christ to save humanity. We must understand this because Romans 5:14 declares Adam, to be a figure (modeled pattern or type) for Jesus to come. That subject alone could be a book by itself. But the short take away for this number of two, becoming one, is the fact that Jesus is now joined to His wife on the earth, and because of this union, we are saved and Him joined with us, makes us much stronger, than our enemy. We will speak about this more as we continue.
Today’s letter is transliterated into English as “beyt” or “bet”, but it has other potential sounds when combined with other letters. This letter is equivalent to the Greek letter “beta”. It is interesting that the complete set of letters that are used to make up the known language, are called the “alef” + “beyt”, or “alphabet”. From an alphabet all other words are formed and originate. Remember this as we continue to learn.
This letter “beyt” in the ancient Hebrew paleo pictogram representation, appears as the image of a “House” or “Tent”. It is noted by its characteristics of being like a simple architectural diagram, of the floorplan of a modest tent dwelling. One potential meaning for this simple beyt tent diagram, is to represent a “space” that needs to be filled by entering in.
To accommodate this need, the tent diagram has an entrance door at the top of the letter, that allows the outside individual to enter into the house to rest, sleep, eat, take shelter from weather, etc. Therefore, this letter beyt can represent the meaning of coming “in” to the house. Consequently, the letter diagram can represent an internal space for peace and safety. When this letter is used as a prefix, it has the application of being “in”.
Another key representative definition of this Hebrew letter is the “family” that resides in the house. Therefore, this letter can also mean, “coming into the family”. In God given family terms, there are two primary ways of permanent access into a family’s house. The first is by “covenant” invitation (marriage) (Eph 5:31-32), and the second is by being birthed inside the tent (family) (John 3:3). This is logical, sense this interior of the tent was also where the birthed child was normally conceived.
This was the quick overview of what this beyt letter represents in Bible terms. But it is a single little picture that contains literally vast amounts of implied application. There is an old quote that says, “A picture tells a thousand words”. This is the path the LORD is leading us into. We are discovering what one little picture of a tent means to God and how it applies to the LORD Jesus Christ. Let us get started.
2. Basic Bible Concepts of the “House” and “Family”
of the Tent (Beyt)
We have already learned that the “beyt” represents a tent house where a family resides (abides), grows, and originates from. In this section of the lesson, we will be introduced to some of the God inspired concepts hidden in the letter picture of a house (beyt). Some of these have been revealed to us in the Bible after Jesus arose from the dead, but the basic foundation will be found in the Old Covenant and with the combinations of other ancient Hebrew letters joined to the “beyt”.
As part of this individual letter study of the “beyt”, we are going to go through a small number of other Hebrew words that are created by joining another important letter to the “beyt”. Some of these letters, we have potentially not yet studied. This intelligent letter joining process, may introduce a new concept to some. We are about to see that each letter being combined to make up new words of the language, are done so by a purposeful strategy. Nothing is randomly selected in the Bible. There are no accidents, or coincidences of spelling or word choices. Everything in the Bible is present because of the extreme intelligence of a far superior intellect than any human.
This is a good time for an introduction, to this new concept of the joining of letters together in the Hebrew “alphabet” by intelligent design. We just learned in the letter introduction, that the word alphabet came from the combination of alef + beyt. And from the almost infinite combinations of these alphabet letters, can come every other word that could be formed and spoken. Wow! That is an awesome concept, but it becomes even more amazing when we learn “what” these two combined letters “alef” and “beyt” are defined to mean.
It is very important in our study to know that there is a two letter Hebrew word formed from these exact same letters, in the exact same placed order of “alef” + “beyt”. The “alef” begins a Hebrew word that when it is combined with the “beyt”, is most often translated as a “father” of the house. This word represents the head family member of the entire household. This is the Strong’s Hebrew word “H1”. This word occurs in the Old Testament over 1200 times, making it a very significant subject for God in His Word.
This is an excellent time to introduce you to a God selected key individual named Abraham. The name Abraham is H85 and is a contracted word that includes the word “H1” translated as “father”. The name actually means “a father of nations or a multitude”. This is exactly what God said to Abram in Genesis 15:5. God informed Abram to look at the stars and count them, because this number represents how many children he could have. Yet at this promise, Abram was an old man, and his wife Sarai was barren.
We could spend a lot of time studying the name Abram and Abraham. Both names contain the word H1 father (the alef + beyt). But God added one letter to Abraham, called the “hey” which means “behold”. This letter changed Abram’s name from “exalted father”, to Abraham meaning “father of many nations”. This was God naming Abraham to help cause His Genesis 15:5 prophecy, to happen. This will have to be another lesson, since we are focused only on the “beyt” of God today. But the subject of Abraham will return soon in this lesson for another major reason.
Abraham appears to be one of the most significant chosen men in the Old Testament. From him comes the nation of Israel, and many other nations of the earth. The Islamic religion and people came from his relationship with a slave girl from Egypt named Hagar. But it was the promised child through Sarah, that will bring forth the promised “seed” called the Messiah/Christ. And because of Christ, Abraham becomes the spiritual father of every believer in Christ (Rom 4:16). Therefore, Abraham becomes the father of 3 of the major world religions. But being in Christ as Christian, is the only nation that saves us.
Remember the “alef” letter represents an “ox” with great strength, and we have just learned that the “beyt” represents a tent house or the family in the tent. Therefore, the meaning of these combined letters is, “the strength of the family and the house”, and this is God pointing us to Himself as being the ultimate “Father” with the ultimate house. Remember that it was God the Father, that spoke all of the creation into being. It is God the Father, that progenerated every other spiritual being either angelic or human.
Eph 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Eph 3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
These two verses give us a foundation to the rest of this Bible lesson on the “beyt”. First, verse 14 begins with naming God as “Father” to whom every human should bow to. Then in the same verse it is written that it was this Father God who is the Father of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. The fact that Jesus is called LORD, designates that Jesus is also, God the Son.
Next, in verse 15, we have the confirmation that God has a family that is in both heaven and earth simultaneously. We have just discovered some amazing facts about God in the Holy Bible. These include the following statements:
- God is a Father (Hebrew H1 Alef+Beyt),
- God has a Son named Jesus
- God has a family
- Part of God’s family is in heaven
- Part of God’s family is on the earth
Let us observe a few other implied facts of truth from these two verses. Notice, because there is no mention of the realm of hell in these verses, we can logically conclude that there are no family members of God under the earth. Yet we still find people like in Luke 16, that go to hell. This would imply these people were not a part of God’s family, and this implies the existence of another possible family that belongs to someone else. We will find by studying the Bible correctly, that this spirit being is Satan, an adversary of God (John 8:44).
Next, we can further logically conclude that because God is stated to be a Father, with a son named the LORD Jesus Christ, He is implied to have a wife that gave birth to His son. Hopefully, you already know that a wife in a relationship with God represents the people, that are in covenant with God (Jer 31:32).
In verse 15, God is plainly revealed to have a family, and based upon our knowledge of the “beyt” so far, we must conclude that He must also have a house, where His family abides. This just further confirms that God has a covenant wife, and children that define a God designed family. Could this be why the devil is attempting to redefine the God created family unit? It would seem if the devil could convince everyone to rethink the family unit being one male, one female and their children, he could get people to throw out the rest of the Bible.
Then based upon John 4:24, we know God is a Spirit, and therefore His family, wife, children, and family house must be a spiritual certainty. However, we understand that we primarily learn about these unseen spiritual realities, by observing God’s created natural patterns of houses, and families that are firmly established in the Bible (John 3:12).
That was a quick introduction to the New Testament family of God. We have seen clearly God to be a spiritual “Father”, and the head of a house and family. We can begin to observe and understand how the ancient Hebrew letter applies to God the Father. But now let us go back to the Old Testament to analyze further, this Hebrew word H1 for father.
3. Alef (Strength) + Beyt (House) = The Father
Notice the order of mention of the letters. The ox alef is the first letter of the word “father” (H1) and the “beyt” the second. The ox-alef represents the strength of a father, and he is the head of the household, which is represented by the second letter the tent-beyt. This combination order signifies that “the father, and his strength is in his house”.
Throughout the Bible, it was always the strong father in a house, that made the key family decisions. This even included the choices of who their children would marry. Is there any reason why you cannot see how this description matches your knowledge of who is “God the Father”? We can actually find this patterned example of God the Father, written in the life of Abraham, by him sending a servant (type of an ox), to get a wife for his son Isaac in Genesis 24.
Please go and read this story to help you see the patterns of word selections that God uses to describe the life of Abraham and his son Isaac. We learn in Galatians 4, that this story of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and their children were selected by God because they allegorically inform us of the hidden spiritual family of God the Father in heaven. If you don’t understand this, it is too much information to share here. There is another lesson series specifically written to describe this amazing revelation. Please go to “Understanding the Spiritual Family of God” to help you.
This story of Abraham sending his servant to obtain a wife shortly after Isaac was planned to be sacrificed by Abraham in Genesis 22, was a significant pattern for the coming work of God through His Son Jesus. Remember, that Jesus was both God’s sacrifice (Isaac), and His servant (ox), that would be sent into the world to save us. But it was also the Holy Spirit that would be sent into the world to live in the bride of Jesus, to help her get ready for the wedding. We learned about Jesus being as an ox servant in the first alphabet letter’s lesson on the “alef”. Knowing this gives us the strong indicator that God the Son, is planned to be a father of a coming house in the future, like Isaac was. It is interesting to read in Isaiah 9:6 that Jesus is prophesied to be the “Everlasting Father (H1)”.
It was God the Father, that selects the wife for His Son that He would die for, to save her. It was the blood of Jesus (God’s strong alef servant), that was used to purchase, and redeem her from another close relative’s family, like Isaac’s wife was. We need to transition into a new Hebrew word and learn about the subject of the “son”. This will be our foundational introduction to the “Son” title of Jesus. We are going to be introduced to a new ancient Hebrew letter that is combined with the “beyt”, by God’s awesome intelligent design. This new letter connects Jesus into the House of God.
4. Hey (Behold) + Beyt (House) = Love
We are going through a few words that are created by joining other letters to the “beyt” study letter. If we join the “hey” meaning “behold” with our “beyt” meaning house or family, we get “behold the house”. Or in other words we could say “look to the house”. This can also be defined as, “provide for the family”. It is interesting that children born into a family have absolutely no voice in determining who their parents are, or what house they will live in. This would include who their relatives will be, and what were their family tree origins (tribe, nation, etc.). No, this family birth decision must be considered only a gift from God.
Therefore, this Hebrew word carries the implied meaning of “gift” or “give”. This information defines the concept of “love”. The parents of the house should love the child that they were given from God. We know from reading 1 John 4:8, that “God is love”. Therefore, we must understand every human family must love each other and God, because God first loved them (1 John 4:19), and created them (Malachi 2:10). The fact that God declares that He is love, confirms that God has a house and a family that He can love. We just learned this by observing the Hebrew letters “behold” (hey), and “house” (beyt), that were combined to form the Hebrew word for “love”. It was this word H157, that gave us the meaning and definitions of the letter, to be the root of a “love gift” from God.
We are being introduced to a foundational “beyt” family concept. God has created the subject of love to be strongly tied to the subject of a beyt “house”. This would seem to imply that “love” was, and should continue to be the motivation for every God style “beyt” house and family.
This love concept would be initiated by a man loving a woman, and these two joining as a husband and a wife, to form a new family. Then love producing a family of children, with the wife becoming a mother, and the husband becoming a father (alef + beyt). These should be very simple basic concepts, but the devil is doing his best to try to destroy this foundation of true love, in a “beyt” type of God created house.
Let us now move to another basic characteristic of the God intended design for His “beyt” house.
5. Tet (Surround) + Beyt (House) = Good
We have just seen how God’s type of house and family is founded upon “Love”. This is an essential part of any “good” family. We can clearly learn from Genesis 1, that the entire world that He created for humans, contained only “good”. In fact, God called His creation at completion, “very good”. This teaches us there was “no” evil found in the work of the LORD. Adam and Eve had the manifested true nature of God the Father at the beginning.
What we learn from this is the Hebrew word H2896 that was translated as “good” is designed from the connection of two Hebrew letters. The first letter, is the “tet” and we have not yet studied this letter. But in ancient Hebrew it represents a picture of a “basket”. A basket represents a place of containment. When we place “fruit” in a “basket”, it is contained or surrounded by the basket. This is a very interesting selection of letters when placed together with the “beyt” our tent house letter that we are studying.
This Hebrew word H2896 simply means “to surround the house”. But it is the kind of father in the house as the chief authority, determines what kind of house and family someone experiences. This Hebrew word H2896 is normally translated, defined and associated in the context of being in God’s family. Therefore, God’s house is always defined to be “good”.
Psa 122:9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
There are a lot of verses, that could be used to show God’s house and family to be good, but this one was a great example. Now, it is how we define “good”, that will determine what type of “god” we see Him to be? God warns us in Isaiah 5:2, “woe to those who call evil, good, and good, evil. This teaches us we better make the correct determination of this definition.
According to the Bible, and the ancient Hebrew definitions, to surround a house with “good” means the house is surrounded with “grace”, “beauty”, “love”, “health” and “prosperity”. This is very meaningful, because these characteristics describe the LORD God and the LORD Jesus precisely. Their heart is only “good” continually towards those in their “family” and “house”. A good house, is a functional and an organized house. There should never be any strife, confusion, or chaos in a “good” type of God house.
Let us now move to the God intended product, of the true love and good God based “beyt” house next.
6. Beyt (House) + Nun (Seed) = The Father’s House
& His Name Continues in His Son (Seed)
Let us dive into another Hebrew word that is “very” significant to our God family, and house subject being about Jesus. Since we have seen in Ephesians 3:14, that God is the Father of the LORD Jesus, we need to look at the Hebrew word H1121 “ben”. Interestingly, this word begins with the letter “beyt” (the house) and is joined with the 14th letter of the alphabet the “nun”. We have not yet covered this letter, but it is a picture of a sprouting seed, and this letter represents continuance. The picture of the “nun” alphabet letter actually resembles the image of a magnified “sperm” cell, produced from a “father to be”.
The sperm cell in the Bible, is called a “seed” in Leviticus 15:16. It is the exiting of this sperm cell from the father’s body, that can cause a son to be formed. This information should help you to see what the Hebrew word “ben” (son) means. Placing these two letters (beyt + nun) together we obtain the meaning “the house continues”, and this word is translated as “son” over 4000 times. Therefore, this concept and word is extremely important to God.
It is noteworthy to see that the “beyt” is the first letter in this Hebrew word “son”. This is the opposite of the Hebrew word for the Father where the “alef” ox was the first letter in the word H1. The Father is always greater than the house he lives within. He is the builder of the house and exists before the house. Therefore, the house while important comes second, representing the father coming into his house. But this word H1121, the son comes from his father’s house as a seed (Genesis 4:25). The son is born in the house, and in the family of his father, and then exits out of the house to create his own family house and dwelling. Do you see the importance of the order of the Hebrew letters? Even the order has prophetic meaning.
This was an introduction to a couple of new concepts called generations and inheritance. The firstborn son of every family was normally given the responsibility to continue the family name to the next generation. Every father was always pleased when they had a son, because he knew that his family and his name would continue. This was Abraham’s huge problem in Genesis chapters 12 to 16.
Sarah was barren and unable to have children. Abraham had resigned to make a child of one of his servants, his heir (Gen 15:3). But God had mercy and intervened in his situation and promised him that he would have a child from his own “seed” (Gen 15:4). Did you notice how God included the Hebrew letter “nun” (the seed) in His promise to Abraham? That is not an accident either and has huge hidden truths in it. We will get to this as we continue this series, the LORD be willing.
Let us look at another witness to confirm from the mouth of the Son of God named Jesus, personally that His Father (who is love), has a family house:
Joh 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
This verse spoken by the Son of God, describes a very good house of His Father. These words confirm that Jesus was, and is the Son of God, and that His Father has a house (beyt) in heaven. We also notice that Jesus’ position on the earth, confirms that He had come out of His Father’s heavenly house as the promised “seed”. This confirms the design of the Hebrew word ben for “son” to be the “beyt” (God’s house) first, and the “seed” (son of the house) second. The word H1121, is very prophetical for the work of God, sending His Son Jesus Christ into the world.
The Greek word G3614, that is translated as “house” literally means a residence or an abode for a family. Thus, we have confirmation that God in heaven has a house (beyt). The word translated as “mansions” is a very poor translation of the Greek word G3438. This word only means “staying” as inside a residence. Both of these words imply a dwelling place for a family, and this aligns with the meaning of our Hebrew letter “beyt”.
This verse is also a covenant marriage union between a husband and his engaged wife. Thus, we are being introduced to the fact that the man Jesus, came to the earth to bring a woman as a covenant wife, back to His Father’s house in heaven.
We are observing another implied occurrence of the two becoming one. This is because the son, named Jesus is speaking to His future covenant bride, and telling her that He will be going to his Father’s house in heaven, to prepare for her a newly built house (beyt), for them both to be together in, as a new family. It is the Father’s role in heaven to determine when the time for His Son’s return to get His bride. Hopefully, this should all be familiar to you.
All of this information about God’s house and His Son are why we are now going to search and study the phrase “house of the LORD”.
7. The “House” (beyt) Name of the LORD
Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
According to the Psalmist David, to have a desire to “dwell” in the “house of the LORD” forever, should be everyone’s primary goal to obtain to. However, notice that David begins with speaking of goodness and mercy, connecting this goodness with him dwelling in the house of the Lord. This would strongly imply, that humans on the earth when David wrote this were not currently living in God’s final house location or family.
Also, the Hebrew word H3427 that was translated as “dwell”, can be defined, “to marry”. Marriage is still one of the primary ways to enter into a “beyt” type of family house. Since this chapter 23 begins with saying the LORD is my Shepherd, should help you to see this chapter is a prophetic picture of the coming LORD Jesus’ house and family. We know this by reading John 10:11 where Jesus claims to be the ultimate “Good Shepherd”. But we will see more of this later.
In the past sections we were introduced to the concepts of the house and family of God the Father, and God the Son. We learned that God has a family in heaven and on the earth and that His Son Jesus came from the heavenly house, to bring back to His Father, a wife from the earth. This concept teaches the fact that God has a “beyt”, and Jesus will have a “beyt”. It therefore, makes logical sense to search for the phrase “House of the LORD” (JEHOVAH), to learn what God reveals about His personal family in the Old Covenant.
My Bible search program “eSword”, on the personal computer found this exact term “234” times in “213” verses. I highly recommend that you go and download “eSword” for free to use in your study of the Bible. The Microsoft Windows version of the software is a free download. But the Apple version has a cost, because Apple charges a significant fee to software developers to make their software available on their platform. However, the software is so good, I have it on my iPad and highly recommend this version also.
If you did not know that you could search for an exact phrase, this is a good thing to learn. In the search window of “eSword”, there are numerous options available. In one dropdown selection box, there are 4 options of search types. These include:
- “Search for all of the words”,
- “Search for any of the words”,
- “Search for the exact phrase”, and
- “Regular Expression”.
I selected the third option for this search. But the other options are useful depending upon what you are looking to find. Each search option is basically self-explanatory, with the exception of “Regular Expression”, and that option permits a much more complex search for a specific character pattern in the Bible. This type of exploration is a very advanced type of searching, and you should learn to master the simple, before you advance to try the complex.
It is important to know that using the selection of “Search for exact phrase”, does not work in the KJV+ translation or any other translation with embedded Strong reference numbers. Always do your phrase searches in a version of a Bible with only the basic Bible translated text like KJV.
It is also noteworthy to see, that by selecting the exact phrase option in my search for “house of the lord”, in the KJV Bible, I eliminated 319 verses that would come up if I had only searched for a verse that had every word. Knowing this, reduced my labor and effort of study, and this was a great time saver. If you do not care about the word order or the specific phrase, or amount of time you spend, then it is normal to only search using option 1, “search for all the words”.
In this lesson today we will only focus upon one word found in the phrase “House of the LORD”. In this phrase is found the Hebrew word H1004. This word was translated as “house”, and it comes from the root of a two-letter word that consists of the “beyt”meaning a house, and the “tav” meaning a mark. We have learned today that the “beyt” represents a house, and the family that lives in the house. You hopefully recall that we have learned in the “Part 1” lesson, that the “tav” is the symbol of the “cross” meaning the mark. Combining these two letters together we get “The Mark of the Family”. This is designating that the head patriarch’s “name”, is the individual “mark of their entire family” tree.
It is this family mark of the father’s name, that normally distinguishes one family from another family and today there are a lot of different families, but them all originating from Adam’s family. For example, in modern terms, the “Jones” family is different than the “Smith” family, because they had a different father. Wow! This teaches us a potential new concept about a house (tent). It teaches us there is one primary owner of the tent, and he is the builder of the family, as well as the father of the house, and the house is called by His name alone.
It also confirms why Jesus called God His Father (John 20:17), and said the father of the religious leaders of Israel, was Satan (John 8:44). In knowing this we have just revisited the existence of two spiritual “houses” (beyt), and two “family heads”. The greatest Father, is God’s house and family in heaven, and now in Christians (1 John 4:4), and the other was of the devil on the earth. In these two houses (beyt), we have one evil destroying father, and one good, loving and saving Father, God. Again, it was the blood of Jesus that redeemed humans from the bondage of being in Satan’s house through the rebellion of Adam.
This was only a short introduction to the subject of the “house of the LORD”. But we have just learned about the mark of the family’s name coming out of a house to move to his son in the next generation. Since this was selected by God as the symbol of the tav that represents a “cross”, this would strongly imply the cross, has a lot to do with the plan of God and His Son. It is only by God’s design that each fruitful father, has “seed” in himself, to continue his family name into the next generation, in his son. We will talk about this concept more as we continue to learn.
8. CONCLUSION
We have been going through a lot of potentially controversial new Bible information. If you have gone through this lesson today, without being offended at anything that was taught, it is a miracle of God. We give all praise to the LORD. If you have understood everything that was taught, you are by far a very spiritually awake and mature Christian. But it is wise to reread these lessons to receive what else the Holy Spirit may desire to say to you through them. We praise the LORD for giving you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of Him. We have only seen the introduction to the subject of Jesus being represented by the tent house “beyt” letter.
We should now be coming into a relationship with some of the basic concepts found in the Ancient Hebrew “beyt” pictogram. This was a picture diagram of a very basic tent drawing with a single door. The door grants entrance, and provides exit to the family that lives within the tent house. We have discovered that Jehovah God has a house. We learned how to search for the exact phrase “house of the Lord” and we can find more than enough verses to confirm the existence of this God house truth.
Since God has a tent house, we understand God existed before the house was built. We further learned that this dwelling place was built by the Father to establish a location for His family. In God’s human design the father accomplishes this first, by bringing His bride into the house through a covenant “union”. Then the two of them can have children, to fill their house. We also learned the father of a house has a “name” and this name is the “mark” of the entire family that is produced from the seed that was “in” their father.
God had a Son as we read in Ephesians 3:14. His son is named the LORD Jesus Christ, making Him a new physical manifestation of God (1 Jn 4:9). This Son of God manifestation was our salvation. The name Jesus literally means “Jehovah Saved”. Wow, this is something to shout about!
We have also been introduced to several new Hebrew letters that have yet to be covered. Included in today’s lesson we saw the “Nun”, the “Dalet”, the “Lamed”, the “Tet”, and the “Tav”. Each of these letters have profound connections to Jesus Christ and our “beyt” letter. By combining these letters, we saw the father was the “Alef” + “Beyt”. We learned the son was the “Beyt” + “Nun”. We learned the house of the LORD had a named mark. The house of the Lord was the source of love. The house of the LORD was where goodness could be found. The common letter to all of these concepts was the “beyt”. This is causing the “beyt” to be very essential in the design of a good “God House”.
We will go through these new letters and more, the Lord be willing. But you should have seen enough to learn how connecting letters together can have great prophetic meanings.
Thank you for taking the time to study with us on Agapegeek. We are extremely blessed to have you spend your valuable time to learn what the LORD has given for us all to see.
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Jesus in the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet Part 2 – The Alef
(Ver 1.1) This will be “Part 2” in the Bible study series, revealing the Lord Jesus in the ancient Hebrew Alphabet. Today, we will begin with the first letter of the alphabet called the “Alef”. This is one of the two most obvious letters that Jesus claimed to be directly related or named by. We learned this from the 4 statements of Revelation, where Jesus said “I am the Alpha and the Omega”. We also learned from these references that these signify the beginning and the ending, since this is clearly what they are in Alphabetic terms. What we have concluded based upon this revelation, is that all of the letters must represent Jesus in some form of identity. Therefore, the reason for these lessons.
If you have not read the series from the beginning, it is recommended that you go back to “Part 1” to begin.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ALEF
The Alef is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It has a number value of “1”. The sound of the letter is transliterated into English as “alef” or “alif”. This letter in the ancient Hebrew paleo pictogram representation, is as the image of an “Ox” or “Bull’s” head. It is noted by possessing two large horns on the top of its head with its snout pointing downward to the earth’s ground. Again, this letter also signifies the meaning of “beginning”, since it begins the alphabet.
This picture representation of an ox is very profound in association with our main subject of Jesus. An ox was a “servant” type of animal. It was identified to be useful because it is a very powerful and strong animal. It was used by ancient civilizations as the main worker in the farm harvest field. This beast was used to plow the ground in order to plant and sow seed for crops. The ox also was used during the harvest of grain to break up the harvested fruits of grain heads to make required substance of use for bread making.
This was only a quick introduction, and it should be easily seen how this ox picture letter introduces us to the concepts of the work of Jesus Christ. This work was fulfilled on the earth, during His physical natural appearance in Israel, approximately 2000 years ago. We will now go through some Bible examples of this letter representation to verify this relationship to being Jesus.
JESUS THE PROMISED SERVANT OF THE LORD
Let us begin this part of the lesson, by comparing Jesus’ first coming to being a fulfillment of a servant, like the pictograph ox prophesied by the Alef, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. We will not go over every verse possible, but rather will only hit the major highlights, beginning with Old Testament prophets:
Isa 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Isa 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isa 52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Zec 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
As we can read in these 5 verses from Isaiah, and Zechariah, Jesus is clearly prophesied to be the coming “servant” of the LORD. These are certainly speaking of His first coming appearance, in His natural human mortal form. Clearly these can be compared to be like a symbolic ox pictogram. These should be very interesting to you. They should also help you to see how they were fulfilled when we confirm Jesus in the New Testament to be God’s servant:
Mat 12:17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet:
Mat 12:18 “BEHOLD, MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN; MY BELOVED IN WHOM MY SOUL is WELL-PLEASED; I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM, AND HE SHALL PROCLAIM JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES. (NASB)
Matthew writes plainly about Jesus being the fulfillment of the Old Covenant prophecies that call Jesus, God’s coming “Servant”. Matthew is literally quoting Isaiah 42:1. If we go back to Isaiah and examine the Hebrew word that God selected to describe Jesus, we will find that it is H5650. This Hebrew word was used to define a slave or bondservant. It is used by the LORD to describe this condition of slaves, approximately 800 times. Therefore, we have no doubt what God was describing Jesus to be, when He would come into the world. Let us move to another interesting account of what Jesus claimed to be when present on the earth:
Mar 10:42 Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them.
Mar 10:43 “But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant;
Mar 10:44 and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.
Mar 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (NASB)
Wow, these are amazing words spoken by God in the flesh while physically walking among us (John 1:14). Jesus makes the personal claim to be a servant to every human on the earth. He further claims He did not come into the world to be served, but to serve all of us, by giving His life as our ransom. This was God buying us out of our spiritual slavery to Satan (Rev 5:9) through His shed blood (1 Peter 1:18-19). In doing this great saving work of a servant, He is also claiming to be the “Greatest” among us ALL, which He was.
Let us now move to another set of verses about Jesus being the fulfillment of the prophesied servant of the LORD:
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
These are more amazing verses of ultimate truth. Verse 5 identifies the key subject of the next 3 verses, “Jesus Christ”. Then in verses 6 and 7, we find very radical claims, that this humble man named Jesus the Christ, was God personally appearing in the form of human flesh. This reveals an Old Covenant hidden divine mystery. These verses should raise important questions in your mind. How could this natural looking human named Jesus, be God who created us? This is where we find the answer in Luke 1:37, “For with God, nothing shall be impossible”. But, why would the eternal Spirit of God who made us, be made manifest to become like us within His physical natural creation?
Remember, Jesus looked like an unspectacular human (Isa 53:2), he walked (John 7:1), and he talked (John 18:1), like humans, but His words were observed to be spoken with noted authority (Mark 1:22). He got hungry (Mat 21:18), He ate (Luke 21:41-43), He slept (Mark 4:38), and He prayed (Mat 26:36) like any normal human. And He died (Luke 23:46), like the natural sinful humans, that were hung with Him on crosses, except His legs were not broken (John 19:32). Yet He had not sinned even once (Heb 4:15)
These are radical truths and questions to think on. But these facts demonstrate a confirming revelation, that God’s ways are not our normal human ways (Isa 55:8), and He is nothing like most humans have imagined growing up in the natural world. We think of God in so many ways that are not truthful and did not exemplify Jesus Christ’s example.
For example, God gets the blame for every major disaster that occurs in the world today. God normally gets questioned about, His existence because it appears that He does nothing to stop all of the great evil that we can see all around us. But all of these thoughts of reasoning are promoted by the devil to get us to not believe in a God as a loving Creator.
We can see very clearly in verse 7, where God took upon Himself an appearance of the form of a strong but lowly “servant”. This is a major confirming reality for Jesus calling Himself the Alef, a picture of the ox.
Notice we can see the true revealed nature of God in verse 8. This verse identifies God’s heart to be filled with immeasurable LOVE! The God who created everything around us, that has infinite knowledge, understanding and wisdom, power and ability, could come to the earth in the form of a slave servant to die for you and I? Wow, what a God we should want to serve. His example that was set before us to become a humble servant, should cause us all to humble ourselves to become like Him. Let us move to a new topic about the God man servant Jesus, learning about oxen “yoked” together.
TAKE MY YOKE
Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Notice that these words are usually written in Red Ink, because they were spoken directly from the lips of Jesus while here upon the earth. Jesus begins by asking people to come to Him in order to be relieved from the extreme burdens of this world. In order to not be “burden” with the sin and death of this world, we are told to take upon us a new concept about servant oxen. This is really a new concept to many Christians.
There are too many people in the world, that do not know they are in bondage as slave to sin and Satan. They are living their lives, having fun, living without a care in the world, not knowing they are being trapped into an eternal destiny of captivity in a lake of fire. Jesus is asking us, very plainly to leave that evil bondage to take a much better path for an easier servant life path next to Him.
Did you notice in verse 29, Jesus said to take “His” yoke? Did you know that Jesus claimed to have a personal yoke? Do you recall when we read about this was part of an ox in the introduction? The servant ox that was working in the field, would always have a yoke placed around its neck. This would be where the master would hook the plow for the strong animal(s) to pull forward to make a straight row. Jesus is identifying Himself to be this ox wearing the yoke, believe it or not!
You also might recall in the Part 1 introduction, we learned about the “Alef” and the “Tav” being Jesus’ identifiers, by His own claim. We learned this symbol occurs over 7000 times in the Old Testament. We also learned how this symbol was an ox plowing to a mark. It just so happens this mark was a cross in the ancient Hebrew Paleo alphabet. This was not an accident. We will hopefully get this letter later in the series, the Lord be willing.
Jesus is asking us in Matthew 11, to “join” with Him in doing God’s work for the coming world harvest. We do this by coming alongside Him, by being “joined” with Him in covenant marriage (Isa 54:5). This concept was established in God’s LAW in Genesis 2:24. God states in this verse: “for this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife”. The term “cleave” literally means to be joined together, like with glue.
A farming “yoke” joined a pair of animals together. In Biblical days, an older mature beast was hooked up with a younger new worker, in order to train them into service to learn how the work would be done. The more mature animal would show the younger new animal how each of the farming tasks were performed. This is exactly the normal Christian life, or at least it should be.
Jesus our mature brother, gives us His yoke and we come alongside Him, to learn what He has for us to do as a fellow laborer. Because He is God, our work is not as hard as we think, or at least it should not be. If we try to work in the flesh, we will be cumbered with a lot of stress, but if we work in the Spirit of Christ, we will find that this is where He claimed “His burden would be light, and His yoke is easy”. It is only when we do it our way, that we will struggle, stumble and can even fail.
CONCLUSION
Can you see it? This is pretty amazing and potentially new information for some. But all of this was found in the Bible. The Alef first letter of the ancient Hebrew alphabet is a picture of a bull or an ox. This animal is useful as a servant in a field. This letter represented Jesus the ultimate “Greatest Servant”, that died for all of our sins!
We are told to become a yoked servant to Jesus. This yoke provides us eternal security, as long as, we stay yoked with Him. Because God loves you so much, He will give you the “freewill” right to become detached if you choose to. This usually happens when Satan tries to place some enticing trap to distract you off of the yoked path being with, and in Jesus. This is not necessarily one “sinful” act, but it can begin that way. It would also be an opportunity to become rich or famous in the world. Whatever it is, it is your choice to who, you will join yourself to. Either direction you take, you will be joined to, or yoked with either Satan or Jesus, there are no third options available.
Thank you for reading and studying the Bible with us. We are blessed to be a blessing to everyone that will receive the Word of God. God is so very awesome, loving and kind. If you do not know Him today, it is past time to take off Satan’s yoke and for you to offer yourself as the servant of the “Most High”. Praise be to the LORD in advance, for everyone that accepts Him today. Please click on the link “Are You Saved?” to help you get started, and then leave a comment to tell Satan and his world you have renounced and left his ways, for the way of Christ.
God Bless you until next time, the LOR