***Yovel*** 4th issue / February 2018

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IN THIS ISSUE: HEBREW TREASURES IN THE BIBLE

Photo: Markus Nurmesniemi ********** ***Yovel*** 4th issue / February 2018

”Then have the trumpet sounded horn like a shofar, or in passive were commanded to blow them- everywhere on the tenth day of voice ”yuval”, is led or was led, selves on the shofar (Lev. 25:9), the seventh month; on the Day like in Isaiah 53: ”he was led like until The Sovereign Lord himself of Atonement sound the trumpet a lamb to the slaughter… for the blows it, this time the shofar cal- throughout your land. Consecra- transgression of my people he was led Yovel (Zech. 9:14). te the fiftieth year and proclaim punished.” Then He will announce freedom, liberty throughout the land to all Like a lamb which has a desire to liberation, a jubilee to all nations, its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee follow its shepherd humbly, to be to all of those who will hear His for you; each of you is to return to led, ”yuval”. voice. your family property and to your The three names of the shofar are Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus Christ, own clan.” like a road signs on our salvation started his ministry in the syna- (Lev. 25:9-10) path: Keren, which is the name in- gogue declaring with the words In Hebrew the fiftieth year is cal- cluding the personal calling, rose of Isaiah 61:1-2 proclaiming good led Yovel, a celebration year, jubi- up in smoke with the sacrificed news to the poor, freedom for the lee. It is the year of the blowing of ram instead of Isaac (Gen. 22:13). captives, release from darkness the ram´s horn. Thus Yovel got its On Mount Sinai the Israelites for the prisoners and proclaiming name from the shofar announcing heard the sound of that horn, Sho- the year of the Lord’s favor. the beginning of the year. far, for the first time when it called Proclaiming the jubilee, which is The sound of the Yovel declares the people to make the change, a The Messiah himself. the beginning of a new era, the turn a round, teshuva. In Him is the heritage restored, the era of God´s favour towards Israel. The nation learned the sound of one we lost in the garden of Eden. In Hebrew the word yovel can be the shofar when The Lord himself In Him is the essence of Yovel. read in two ways. Either ”yovel”, blew the horn (Ex. 19:16). (http://torah-art.net) which means a ram or a ram´s From that point on the Israelites Markus Nurmesniemi

Editorial: It´s all Greek to me... Or is it? ...... p.2 Markus Nurmesniemi : In The Beginning Was The Word - Et: Alef and Tav ...... p.3-5 William F. Dankenbring: The Dead Sea Scrolls And The ”Works of the Law” ...... p.6-7 Keijo Lindeman: Noah´s Ark and the Coming of the Messiah ...... p.8-10 Dr John Garr: The Hebrew Revival- Resurrecting Israel´s Language ...... p.11-14 David Bivin: Hebrew Idioms In The Gospels ...... p.15 Paul Sumner: Hosia Na - Hosanna ...... p.16 Dr Carl Coke: Sacred Assemblies And Set Times ...... p.17 Roger Finch: The Entrances of the Tabernacle - The Way, the Truth and the Life ...... p.18-22 Prophetic Perspectives: Jerusalem - an Intoxicating Cup of Poison for the Nations ...... p.23-26 ********** 2 Editorial It´s all Greek to me... Or is it? **********

Recently the question of the original language hed in Judea in Hebrew. It has been kept until the New Testament was written in has been this day in the library in Caesarea. The Naza- brought under discussion. There are substan- renes of Beroa ( in the beginning the followers tial grounds for questioning the Greek origin of Yeshua were called Nazarenes) told me of the texts. Scholars of old Greek have won- they used it among them.” (Nehemia Gordon: dered the sometimes very uncharacteristic Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, Keith Johnson: grammatical structures, which many scholars Open Door -series) consider having been translated from another There are further evidence also in the Gospel language. One of those scholars, the late Fin- of John (see John 1:38, John 1:41, John 1:42). nish Professor of oriental languages, Aapeli Saarisalo, maintained that the New Testament Many scholars have suggested that the Gos- texts were originally written in Hebrew, from pels were originally written in Aramaic. The- which they were later translated into Greek. re is evidence to back up this point of view, The structures, untypical of the Greek langu- too. It is known that Aramaic texts existed age, prove that they are word-for-word trans- before the Greek version, which is quite logi- lations, which, translated back to the Hebrew cal as Aramaic was kind of a ´Yiddish´ of its language, come out as fluent Hebrew. (Keijo time, with many divergent varieties or dia- Lindeman: The Apostolic Church and The De- lects. Aramaic is a semitic language, related ception of The Antichrist). to Hebrew, Syriac and Phoenician, the lingua franca, if you wish, from 600 to 200 B.C. Af- This is no wonder: all the writers of the New ter the return of the Babylonian exile Aramaic Testament, possibly Luke excluded, were was commonly spoken in Israel. The Gospels Jews who spoke Hebrew and used Hebrew and the Epistles, except those by Paul, were and Aramaic while ministering and writing. written by people who spoke Aramaic in their In the beginning the majority of the early everyday life. Hebrew was spoken primarily church were Aramaic and Hebrew speaking by rabbis and scholars. Jews. The Greek language was, however, the lingua franca of that time, but knowing the The Aramaic Church in Israel does not use, Jewish religious and cultural history it seems however, Writings written in today´s Aramaic, far fetched even to think that the Scriptures and it is probable that the first translations Martin Luther acknowledged the Hebrew could have first been written in Greek. Taking from the Hebrew texts were made into the roots of the New Testament. In his Tischre- into account the fact that the New Testament Aramaic language. But the reverse order is den, ´Tabletalk´ (first published in 1566), Lut- was not canonized until the fourth century, equally probable; the first translations may her states, after reading the Greek version: it seems logical that the Scriptures were also have been made from Aramaic to Hebrew. ”The New Testament is full of Hebrew pat- translated into Greek about the same time. The most famous Aramaic source, the Peshit- terns of speech and Hebrew expressions. It is ta, was translated from the Greek Septuagint. therefore right to say that the Hebrews drink Significant findings and research support the It contains additions that do not appear in the from the source itself, the Greeks drink from a fact that the Gospel of Matthew was origi- earlier texts. river that runs from the source, and the Latins nally written in Hebrew. Papias, a disciple of from a pond downriver.” John, said this very clearly in the first century, In conclusion we can say that there are pretty and so did also many early church historians. solid grounds to believe that the whole Bible We can fully understand the Bible´s multilevel In the fourth century Eusebius, the bishop was originally written in Hebrew (Tanach, or message and depths only through the origi- of Caesarea, wrote and said he had seen a the Old Testament contains also Writings in nal language of the Bible, Hebrew culture and Hebrew manuscript of the Gospel of Matt- Aramaic). But as the oldest New Testament history, and the context of the Writings. hew in Philippi of Caesarea. Jerome, one of manuscripts we have so far are in Greek lan- However, blessed be the Lord that the main the most famous fathers of the early church, guage (except for the Gospel of Matthew) we message of the Bible, the message of salva- translated Tanach, the Old Testament, from will have to settle for that for the time being. tion, has remained unchanged through cen- Hebrew into Latin. The Catholic Church used There is, however, reason to believe that turies. that version, called Vulgate, over one thou- Church Fathers who canonized the New Tes- Have a blessed readings! sand years. tament chose the Greek language as the lan- In 392, Jerome wrote that ”Matthew wrote a guage of the Writings in order to make the Markus Nurmesniemi Gospel of the Messiah, and it was first publis- separation from the Jews complete. Editor ********** 3 In The Beginning Was The Word Et - Alef and Tav **********

,which form the word or words. It comprises the whole ), to be, YHWH, or the Tetragram (את) Written by: and tav Markus Nurmesniemi ”et”. It is not a word you will find spectrum of letters or the alpha- being all the tenses (past, present translated in any Bible version. It bet from the first to the last letter and future) at the same time (I The Bible gets straight to the is a Hebrew word used as a sign (in many languages the alphabet was, I am, I will be). Let us read heart of the matter in its first sen- to point to a direct, definite ob- is referred to as ´the ABC´, the Revelation 1:8 again in this con- tence: ject. In this verse ”et” points to Hebrew equivalent being ´alef text: .(´bet´, hence ´alphabet השמים) ”the words ” the heavens ”In the beginning God created hashamajim) and ”the earth” ”I am the Alpha (Hebrew: Alef) ”,(ha´arets). What makes this A And O = Alef And Tav and the Omega (Hebrew: Tav הארץ) ”.the heavens and the earth interesting is that the word ”et” says the Lord God, who was, who -ot), To a believer in Yeshua this con- is, and who is to come, the Al) ואת Everything is said in those few comes from the word words. The first sentence of the which means ”a sign”. text becomes highly interesting mighty” (Rev. 1:8, NIV) Bible contains all information when we recall the name the and revelation of our God´s sove- All in all, the evidence shows that Messiah used of himself as he re- This very first sentence of the reignty and status, Lordship and this tiny word ”et” has its own vealed himself to John on the isle Lord must have had a powerful might as Creator. All this can be specific meaning. It appears in of Patmos. impact on John, who, as a Hebrew seen in all versions of the Bible in the first sentence of the Bible be- disciple, grew up listening the To- the world. cause it is supposed to draw the ”I am the Alpha and the Omega,” rah and the mysterious word ”et” reader´s attention. It is meant to says the Lord God, ”who is, and in its first sentence. Who knows if But: what do these many ver- stand out from the text, because who was, and who is to come, the it was only on the isle of Patmos, sions miss? Or is everything said it has something to say. Almighty” (Revelation 1:8,NIV). inspired by the Lord´s words, in them? that John got hold of the entire God Authority Behind ”Alpha” and ”Omega” are, of revelation of the Scriptures in all If we read that sentence in The Word course, the first and the last let- its vastness. Hebrew, a more profound pic- ter of the Greek alphabet. People ture appears before our eyes. In According to the Rabbis the word with knowledge in the Bible and Yeshua told John he was the the message given in its original ”et” is found in the first sentence history understand that Yeshua Word of God, the One who was language huge depths are hidden because it stands as testimony spoke to his Hebrew disciple in from the beginning. John shares throughout the Bible, and this of the fact that God´s word cre- the disciple´s mother tongue, i.e. us this revelation in his gospel: first sentence alone opens us a ated the heavens and the earth. in Hebrew. It should be obvious world that takes away the breath According to this interpretation that a Jewish Rabbi speaks to his ”In the beginning was the Word, and almost makes one dizzy with God spoke the world into physi- fellow countryman and another and the Word was with God, and its magnitude and vastness. One cal existence in Hebrew, which Jew in their mutual mother ton- the Word was God. He was with could spend all hours of the day makes the Hebrew language a gue. God in the beginning. Through and life studying the Word and sacred and divine language. him all things were made; wit- still not be able but to scratch the The Bible text was first translated hout him nothing was made that surface. There is one interpretation that into Greek, and the Greek Alpha has been made” (John 1:1-3, says: ”It is known… that the and Omega have been passed on NIV). Let us now try to scratch the Hebrew alphabet was created into other versions, the English as surface of the first sentence of first, and after that the Holy One well. Yeshua was the sign, the ”et”, the the Bible. We´ll start from the created all worlds using these let- Alef and the Tav, that the Creator Hebrew context: ters. This is the hidden meaning ”I am the first and I am the last” gives in his Word to his people of the first sentence of the Torah: can be found in other places in and for his people right at the be- the Scriptures; e.g. Isaiah 44:6 ginning. He is the lighthouse who ת In the beginning God created et ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ i.e. God´s first creative act was and Exodus 3:14 reveal to us the- shows the way, the way to Father , א Bereshit bara Elohim et) ְבֵראִׁ֖שית .se wonderful revelations about God and Creator Almighty ( א ) hashamajim v´et ha-arets). ”In to create the letters from alef Or Torah, p.35). the name of our Lord. Take for) ( ת ) the beginning created God the to tav heavens and the earth” (the word instance Exodus 3:14, where Tips Given By God Are To Be order is made to correspond the Thus God´s word(s) existed before YHWH reveals his name for the Found In The Scriptures original Hebrew). the founding of the universe. And first time: ”I AM WHO I AM”. following this train of thought Some scholars believe that the The sign God gave of his Son rep- name YHWH, which God gave, is consistent and can be found ,(את) ”In the middle of the sentence you alef and tav, the ”et -throughout the Scriptures. The היה ) see printed in bold the letters alef resent in its entirety God´s word comes from the verb hayah 4 re is a sign in Exodus chapter 12: reconciling us to God. created by him and for him. He God through Jesus Christ” (1 Pe- revelation of the lamb and of its is before all things, and in him all ter 2:5, NIV). saving blood on the door posts of Each Hebrew letter has a rich things hold together. And he is the Israelites: meaning of its own. When God the head of the body, the church; The word ”bereshit” includes the forms words of them in his Holy he is the beginning and the first- letters bet, resh, alef, shin, yud, ”The blood will be a sign for you Scriptures, we can certainly ex- born from among the dead, so tav. When you take the first two on the houses where you are; pect the Bible to be a huge tre- that in everything he might have and the last two letters, leaving when I see the blood, I will pass asure chest the bottom of which the supremacy” (Colossians 1:15- away the two in the middle, you over you. No destructive pla- man can never reach. In this es- 18, NIV). get the word ”brit”, covenant. gue will touch you when I strike say, by the grace of God, we have The two letters left behind form Egypt” (Exodus 12:13, NIV). but slightly scratched the surface The Tabernacle And The Temple the word ”esh”, fire. of the first sentence of the Bible, Are Models Of God´s House Normally the word ”sign” in the or more accurately, only the sur- Since the covenant which God cut ,(face of the combination alef - tav. Yeshua is the head, ”rosh”, the with Abraham (Genesis 15:17 ואת text above would be written (ot), but in this text it is written first in everything from the begin- fire is present in almost all cove- ,et). It is God Builds A House ning, and the very beginning of nants the Almighty ever made) את ,with alef and tav only meant to be a real sign, pointing To His Own everything. We will find more evi- for instance at Mount Sinai when to something with significance. dence in John 1:1-3 or Revelation the Torah was given (Exodus But let us return once again to 3:14, which reads: 19:16-18). As believers in Yeshua we see in the beginning, ”in the beginning Furthermore, Deuteronomy 4:24 this God´s teaching about the created” (bereshit =in the begin- ”And unto the angel of the church tells us that our God is a consu- blood that saves, and which is an ning, bara= created). of Laodiceans write: ´These things ming fire. The Apostle Paul decla- early shadow of Yeshua´s future saith the Amen, the faithful and res that we should give ourselves redeeming deed through his own The word ”bereshit”, and conse- true witness, the beginning of as living sacrifices, symbolically blood. The word of God is similar quently the whole Bible, starts the creation of God´” (King James speaking as if it were our flesh, in significance with the blood of with the letter ”bet”, which can version). our fleshly nature, we should give the blameless lamb. be seen to represent the word Here Yeshua says he is that ”re- to be burnt in that divine fire. ”ben” = son, made from the let- shit”, beginning. ”Look, the Lamb of God, who ters bet and nun. Most versions Another interesting issue to dis- takes away the sin of the world” of the Bible in the world (i.e. their Yeshua is also the head of the fa- cuss is the concept of the slaying (John 1:29,NIV). Books of Revelation) end with the mily, and of the home, the house of the Lamb of God. Revelation beit” in Hebrew). Original- 13:8 tells us that the Lamb had” בית) word ”Amen”, the last letter of Let us go back to the first senten- which is ”nun”. Thus we can say ly Eden was that sacred place, been slain from the creation of ce of the Bible. In Hebrew, bet- as well that the Son is the first home, where he and his bride the world. If we continue analy- ween the words ”the heavens” and the last. were supposed to live together in zing the first word of the Bible, and ”the earth”, there is the let- harmony, and form a divine fami- ”bereshit”, and divide the word created) is formed ly that brings forth disciples and in two, the first three letters form , ברא) ”and the word ”et” ”Bara ( ו ) ”ter ”vav The ”vav” binds together of three letters: bet, resh and followers in generations to come. the word ”bara” (create), and the .( את ) ”heavens and earth” grammati- alef. Bet represents ”ben=son” last three form the word ”shiyt” cally, but also spiritually. This let- (as above), resh represents the Later on God gave instructions for (to name, to appoint, to ordain). ter ”vav” is the sixth letter of the word ”ruach”, spirit. Alef repre- a tabernacle to be built in the de- Hebrew alphabet, and the num- sents the word ”av”, father. sert, where his glory could dwell A Home Must Stand ber six in the Scriptures refers to among his own. On The Rock Of Christ -in the begin , בֵראִׁ֖שית ) ”man or mankind. ”Bereshit ning) is made of two words: the The tabernacle was followed In its first word the Bible tells us When alef and tav and vav come first letter ”bet” is a preposition by a temple, which in turn was that God had pre-appointed man together, we could interpret it as corresponding the English ”in”, followed by the collective Bride ”a house”, a dwelling place whe- ”The Word became flesh and ta- and ”reshit” is the word ”begin- formed by born-again believers. re people could live before God bernacled among us.” This is the ning”. The root word for reshit is Eventually, according to the Book and God among them. This was meaning ”head, or of Revelation, we will be waiting the purpose and essence of the ,(ראש) ”message, the sign of what was ”rosh to come, which can be later read chief”. Keeping in mind our Mes- for the fulfilment of everything creation, and that is why YHWH written by John in his Gospel: sianic perspective we remember in the coming of the New Jerusa- appointed this definite place. that the Messiah is the head of lem. Yeshua is and has been the ”The Word became flesh and the Bride, let us therefore study head, rosh, in everything. According to the Talmudic defini- made his dwelling among us.We the word from this starting point. tion the word ”shiyt” also means have seen his glory. The glory We the Bride, however, are ex- ”foundation”. According to the of the One and Only, who came ”He is the image of the invisible pected to do our part in building Talmud, a natural formation is from the Father, full of grace and God, the firstborn over all crea- that house, the house of God: to be seen on Mount Moriah at truth”(John 1:14,NIV). tion. For by him all things were the exact place where the altar of created: things in heaven and on ”You also, like living stones, are sacrifice of the first temple was Yeshua is our true mediator, man earth, visible and invisible, whet- being built into a spiritual house built. The blood of the animal and God at the same time, -ma her thrones or powers or rulers to be a holy priesthood, offering offerings ran down to the valley king atonement for our sins and or authorities; all things were spiritual sacrifices acceptable to of Kidron along that natural for- 5 mation. Although this is found where I am” (John 14:2-3,NIV). what kind of discoveries may the- of a house who brings out of his in Talmud, we can discern there re be in store for us, if we keep storeroom new treasures as Messiah symbolism. It´s A Blessing To Study praying that the Jewish rabbis well as old´” (Matthew 13:52, The house must have a solid The Word with their fellow countrymen NIV). foundation, and naturally that find their Messiah in the Scrip- foundational rock is the Christ. He In the first word of the Bible, and tures. They master the language sees to it that the house is safe to in the first sentence, everything and the Tanach, but when they live in. is included. Different versions in- (teachers of the law) find Yeshua deed miss a lot of the information as their Messiah, that revelation Sources: ”In my Father´s house are many God has given. And as I have said will send its blessing also to the - Bible rooms; if it were not so, I would before, we have only scratched nations. - Bill Cloud, “In the Beginning” have told you: I am going there the surface of a couple of words. (Shoreshim teachings) to prepare a place for you. And if ”He said to them: ´Therefore eve- - Bill Cloud, Hebrew Treasures: Et I go and prepare a place for you, God expects us to discover the ry teacher of the law who has (Shoreshim teachings) I will come back and take you to contents of his treasure chest in been instructed about the king- - Mark Biltz, “Hidden Treasures be with me that you also may be prayer and in the Holy Spirit. And dom of heaven is like the owner From Our Hebrew Roots” **********

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********** 6 The Dead Sea Scrolls And The ”Works of the Law” **********

monly translated in the New Tes- first century! Let’s take a look at tament as “works of the law.” This this mysterious document MMT, expression is found in Romans and see what it is all about. 3:20,28, and Galatians 2:16, 3:2,5, and 10. The Dead Sea Scroll MMT

Interestingly, when the British The MMT scroll records the re- Bible Society translated the New mains of nearly two dozen legal Testament into modern Hebrew issues. Perhaps another dozen in 1976, when the text of the issues perished. The scroll calls MMT Dead Sea Scroll was known attention to the subject of boun- only to a few scholars, they trans- daries between what was to be Photo: William F. Dankenbring (1941-2017), Pastor for Triumph lated the Greek ergon nomou considered pure and impure. Prophetic Ministries, shared for decades in his lifetime deep and -in (works of the law) as ma-ase ha- The phrase rohorat haquodesh, sightful teaching and knowledge from the Bible. Torah. “purity of the holy,” sums up the contents of the scroll and its pur- Link Between Paul And Dead Sea pose. Eddie Chumney presenting W.F. This phrase was originally trans- Findings Dankenbring´s article: lated “Some of the Precepts of Says Abegg, this means, “Do not the Torah,” by Dead Sea Scholars Says Martin Abegg, author of an allow the holy to be profaned by One of the greatest hindrances to (John) Strugnell and (Elisha) Qim- article entitled “Paul, ‘Works of what is impure.” The issues, says people in traditional Christianity ron. However, the word miqsat the Law’ and MMT,” in the No- Abegg, were: “The issues include to embracing their Hebraic roots does not just mean “some.” The vember-December 1994 Biblical bringing Gentile corn into the is a lack of understanding and same word is used in Genesis Archaeological Review, “In short, Temple, the presentation of Gen- misinterpretation of the book of 47:2 where Joseph presents five ma-ase ha-torah is equivalent to tile offerings, and the cooking of Galatians. One of the greatest of his brothers before Pharaoh – what we know in English from sacrificial meat in unfit (impure) stumbling blocks to understan- where the word could be transla- Paul’s letters as ‘works of the law.’ vessels. Other rulings concern ding the book of Galatians is con- ted as most important, select, or This Dead Sea scroll and Paul use cleansing of lepers, admitting the fusion over the meaning of the choice brothers. the very same phrase. The con- blind and the deaf into the Temp- term ”works of the law”. Traditio- nection is emphasized by the fact le; and permitting intermarriage nal Christianity usually interprets More importantly, however, is that this phrase appears nowhe- with Ammonite and Moabite this to mean ”following Torah”. the rest of the phrase – ma-ase re in rabbinic literature of the converts, long forbidden to enter ha-Torah. first and second centuries A.D. – the congregation of Israel (Deute- However, the article below comes Strugnell and Qimron translated only in Paul and in MMT. ronomy 23:3). from an analysis of discoveries this as “precepts of Torah.” Ho- found in the dead sea scrolls wever, the most common GREEK “The works of the law that the Other issues involve the trans- which clearly reveals that the ph- word for ma-ase is ergon – which Qumran text refers to are ob- mission of impurity by a flow of rase ”works of the law” refers to in the New Testament is usually viously typified by the 20 or so water (musaq), the intermixture the ORAL law (Talmud) and vario- translated “works.” The Hebrew religious precepts (halakkah) of wool and linen (sha-atnez) and us MAN-MADE rulings regarding word Torah is usually translated detailed in the body of the text. perhaps the climax of the discus- how we should follow the Torah as nomos, which in the New Tes- For the first time we can really sion: the intermarriage of priests which are NOT in the WRITTEN tament is generally translated understand what Paul is writing with the common people. TORAH. As the article points out, “law.” Thus the expression ma- about. Here is a document detai- these MAN-MADE rules of code ase ha-Torah then simply means ling works of the law” (p.53, BAR, “Most of the rulings espoused and conduct can also be present “works of the law.” This would be 11-12/94 issue). by the author of MMT are based in TODAY’S churches. a very excellent translation. directly upon Biblical law (for Finally, then we can put to rest example, the prohibition against Written by: The Septuagint version of the Old the question, just what are the plowing with unlike animals in William F Dankenbring: Testament leaves no doubt – it “works of the law” that Paul wro- Deuternomy 22:10). translated the Hebrew expressi- te about! Finally, an argument A few others are interpreta- The title of an obscure Dead Sea on ma-ase ha-Torah by the Greek which has raged for centuries, tions or amplifications of Mosaic Scroll is MMT, which stands for ergon nomou. and still rages today, can be sett- prescriptions (for example, bans Miqsat Ma’ase Ha-Torah. This Greek expression is com- led by clear evidence from the on Gentile 7 offerings and dogs in the Temple). Writes Abegg: hath made us free, and be not law” themselves create their own The list clearly reflects a conser- “Looking at Galatians and Ro- entangled again with the yoke of “oral law,” although they do not vative reaction against a relaxa- mans in the light of MMT, it bondage” call it that. tion of Torah precepts” (ibid., seems clear that Paul, using the (Gal.5:1). p.53-54). same terminology, is rebutting Historically, even the Sadducees, the theology of documents such Against The Cult who rejected the “oral law” pre- Notice! These “rulings” or “works as MMT. I do not mean to sug- served by the Pharisees, found of the law” included “INTERPRE- gest that Paul knew of MMT or Writes Martin Abegg in Biblical it necessary to create their own TATIONS OR AMPLIFICATIONS OF of the zealous members of the Archaeology Review: “oral tradition,” in order to exer- MOSAIC PRESCRIPTIONS.” Qumran community, but simply “Some scholars have suggested cise their own authority over the that Paul was reacting to the kind that Paul misunderstood the Je- church members! However, any The Qumran sect spurned the of theology espoused by MMT, wish teaching of his day or, at the “tradition” or “church custom” “rabbinic extensions called Tal- perhaps even by some Christian very least, that he created a straw which contradicts the Word of mud, which effectively built a fen- converts who were committed to man to bolster his own teaching God – Torah, or divine Revelation ce around the Torah, successive the kind of thinking reflecting in regarding faith versus law. In the of the Scriptures – must itself be layers of which have become co- MMT.” past, this view was supported by rejected and avoided. dified in the rabbinic works of the the fact that the phrase ‘works of Mishnah and the two Talmuds.” Clearly, even in Paul’s day, the Je- the law’ nowhere appears in the The bottom line, therefore, is wish scribes and Pharisee s and foundational 17 books of rabbinic that Christ Himself has the last Notice again! The “RABBINIC various groups, and even suppo- Judaism. MMT, however, provi- word – He is the Prophet like EXTENSIONS” reflected in the sed Christian “converts,” were des the ‘smoking gun’ for which unto Moses, who has FINAL AUT- Talmud – that corpus of Jewish building “fences” around the students have been searching for HORITY to interpret the Mosaic religious and rabbinic literature law of God, and making it into generations, not from the pages Law -- and provide a true and full accumulated over the centuries, a burden – a “yoke of bondage” of rabbinic literature, but from interpretation of the Law (see known as the Babylonian and Je- (Gal.5:1). Paul warned of ”false the sectarian teachings of Qum- Matthew 5-7). He came to “fill rusalem Talmuds – was spurned brethren SECRETLY BROUGHT ran. full” the Law, and make it comp- by the writers of the MMT Dead IN”, who entered the church “BY lete (Matt.5:17-19) – to MAGNIFY Sea Scroll. They developed their STEALTH to spy out our liberty MMT demonstrates that Paul was it (Isaiah 42:21).. own interpretations, expans ions, which we have in Christ Jesus, not jousting with windmills, but and halakkah. that they might bring us into was indeed squared off in a dra- To really understand God’s Law, BONDAGE” matic duel – not with mainstream therefore, and its application to But both systems came under the (Gal.2:4). He warned the Gala- Judaism but with a sectarian Christians, and the New - Cove over-all description of “works of tians that we are not justified be- theology – that ultimately defin- nant, we need to search the Sc- the law” – both included vario- fore God by such “works of law” ed Christianity. riptures, and the words of Christ. us rabbinic-style interpretations, (Gal.2:16). We need to avoid all the “works amplifications, and extensions If I have understood rightly, the of the law,” or man-made religio- of the Law 16 of Moses as it was Paul was clearly very upset, dis- importance of MMT for New Tes- us taboos and constraints, which applied to Jewish life during the turbed, about the reports he had tament research is nothing short men have added from time to first century. received concerning such minis- of revolutionary” (ibid., p.55). time, for one reason or another, ters and teachers. He wrote, “O to the Scriptures, leading into a Paul Against Every Man Made foolish Galatians, who hath - be Clearly, in Romans and Galatians yoke of heavy-handed authorita- ”Works of the Law” witched you, that ye should not Paul taught against all types of rian bondage and spiritual slave- obey the truth, before whose “legalism” and legalistic, autho- ry. The expression miqsat ma-ase ha- eyes Jesus Christ hath been evi- ritarian “additions” to the Law of The “works of the law” that Christ torah – “pertinent works of the dently set forth, crucified among God! and Paul condemned were the law” – nowhere appears in rab- you?” (Gal.3:1). This principle doesn’t just refer human additions to God’s Law binic literature. However, clearly He asked them, “This only would I to Jewish or Rabbinical “addi- which made it a system of bonda- the Qumranites, like the apostle learn of you, Received ye the Spi- tions.” On the other hand, we ge and misery.. Neither of them Paul, were against the rabbinic rit by the works of law, or by the also need to be careful not to were condemning the keeping of “works of the law,” though from hearing of faith? Are ye so foo- come under the “bondage” to the God’s commandments or refer- a different point of view. lish? having begun in the Spirit, “oral law” or “decrees” of vario- ring to obedience to God’s Law are ye now made perfect by the us Christian-professing churches, as ”works of the law” -- not at all! They were against them because flesh?” (Gal.3:2-3). who create their own rules, re- they were espousing their own gulations, prescriptions, and dog- Let’s thank God for this precious version of the “works of the law.” Paul urged the Galatians not to mas – traditions of “men” which truth and revelation -- and for the Paul, very clearly, condemns in become entangled in the “works Jesus clearly rejected – which beauty of His Torah Law and Re- no uncertain terms ALL these of the law” – the deeds and de- violate the written Word and velation! human-devised “works of the cisions and rulings of rabbinic Ju- Law of God. (Published with the permission of law” in the books of Romans and daism or its offshoots. He wrote, It is interesting that those -chur Mr. Dankenbring´s widow) Galatians! “Stand fast therefore in the LI- ches which seem to object the BERTY wherewith Christ strongest against the Jewish “oral http://triumphpro.info ********** 8 Noah´s Ark And the Coming of the Messiah **********

Written by: the end of the age (Matt. 24:3). coming. We will also discuss the the earth had become, for all the Keijo Lindeman Yeshua answered his disciples significance of Noah´s ark as an people on earth had corrupted by giving a prophetic speech in example for the Church age and their ways”(Genesis 6:1-12,NIV). ”As the days of Noah were, so will which He mentioned many signs the Messiah´s coming. We will be the coming of the Son of Man. of His coming and of the end of look at the events related to the In Noah´s days the sons of God, For as in those days which were the current age. Yeshua´s teach- flood and Noah´s ark in the light or the fallen angels, came to live before the flood they were- ea ing about the signs of His coming of the etymology of the Hebrew among mankind and married ting and drinking, marrying and are in Matthew chapters 24 and language and the message of the their daughters, and ”hybrid giving in marriage until the day 25, Mark 13 and Luke chapters 21 root words. beings”, giants, were born of uni- that Noah entered into the ark, and 17, and in other parts of the on between daughters of men and they didn´t know until the New Testament. The world´s moral situation in and fallen angels. The Hebrew flood came, and took them all Noah´s days Bible uses the word Nephilim for away, so will be the coming of the Among these signs of the co- giants. The root word is ”naphal” Son of Man. Then two men will ming of the Messiah are religio- ”When men began to increase in which means ”to fall” (concretely be in the field: one will be taken us deception, false prophets and number on the earth and daugh- and spiritually). and one will be left; two women messiahs, persecution of belie- ters were born to them, the sons grinding at the mill, one will be vers, falling away; believers´ love of God saw that the daughters One interpretation proposes that taken and one will be left. Watch grows cold as lawlessness increa- of men were beautiful, and they the word ”nephilim” refers to the therefore, for you don´t know ses, confusion, riots, news of war, married any of them they chose. fact that they were descendants in what hour your Lord comes” nation against nation, and finally Then the LORD said, ´My Spirit of Lucifer´s fallen angels that fell (Matthew.24:37-42,NIV). kingdom against kingdom in a will not contend with man for (or were thrown out) from the world war. There are birth pains ever, for he is mortal; his days will heavens, and daughters of men. ”… who disobeyed long ago when in the creation anticipating the be a hundred and twenty years.´ Evidently by getting into sexual God waited patiently in the days coming of the Messiah: famine, The Nephilim were on the earth relations with human beings, the- of Noah while the ark was being big earthquakes, storms and hur- in those days – and also after- se fallen angels crossed the line built. In it only a few people, ricanes, heat and draught on the wards – when the sons of God set by God and they were taken eight in all, were saved through other hand and intense cold and went to the daughters of men to the Abyss (tehom in Hebrew) water”(1Peter 3:20,NIV) heavy rains and hailstorms on the and had children by them. They to be kept there waiting for the other. were the heroes of old, men of judgment of the great Day in the ” First of all, you must understand renown. The LORD saw how gre- End time, when they would be let that in the last days scoffers will The days of Noah and the ark of at man´s wickedness on the earth loose to tormente the world for a come, scoffing and following Noah also relate to the End times, had become, and that every in- short time (Jude 6-7; 2 Peter 2:4). their own evil desires. They will and they speak their exemplary clination of the thoughts of his say, ´Where is this ´coming´ he language of the world´s situati- heart was only evil all the time. (There are Bible scholars who do promised? Ever since our fathers on as the coming of the Messiah The LORD was grieved that he not agree with the interpretation died, everything goes on as it draws near. There will be those had made man on the earth, and that the sons of God, i.e. fallen has since the beginning of crea- who mock and jeer, those who his heart was filled with pain. So angels, could have had sexual re- tion.´ But they deliberately forget won´t take any heed of the war- the LORD said, ´I will wipe man- lations with people´s daughters. that long ago by God´s word the ning the jugdment of the flood kind, whom I have created, from In their opinion the sons of God heavens existed and the earth has given to mankind. They jeer the face of the earth – men and are possibly famous people from was formed out of water and at the coming of the Messiah and animals, and creatures that move the line of Seth.) by water. By these waters also consider it a myth in the midst along the ground and birds of the the world of that time was delu- of a corrupted world. Everything air – for I am grieved that I have It is obvious that those fallen an- ged and destroyed. By the same will culminate in the judgments made them.´ But Noah found gels had their share in corrupting word the present heavens and of the Lord´s Day that will take favour in the eyes of the LORD. the mankind in Noah´s days. Tho- earth are reserved for fire, being the world by surprise, like the This is the account of Noah. Noah se were the days magic, astrology, kept for the day of judgment and flood the ancient world (Isaiah was a righteous man, blameless and satanism came about. Peop- destruction of ungodly men” (2 13:9-13; Revelation 9:13-21). among the people of his time, le lived normal lives eating, drin- Peter 3:3-7,NIV). and he walked with God. Noah king, getting married, and giving In this article we will discuss in had three sons: Shem, Ham and in marriage, but at the same time Some 2000 years ago the discip- which way the world of Noah´s Japheth. Now the earth was cor- corruption, evil, violence, and les asked their Master about the time was an example for the End rupt in God´s sight and was full of robbings were ordinary. Man- sign of his coming and the sign of time world close to the Messiah´s violence. God saw how corrupt kind was corrupted, even every 9 thought of their heart was evil all of three letters: tav, vet, and hey. length, 50 cubits in breadth and and it shall be for food for thee, the time. Close to the Messiah´s The first letter ”tav” had the form 30 cubits in height (Genesis 6:15- and for them. Thus did Noah; ac- coming the situation of the world of a cross in ancient Hebrew, a fo- 16, KJ)). Hebrew letters have nu- cording to all that God comman- will be like it was in Noah´s days reshadow of the cross at Calvary. merical value. The letter ”shin” ded him, so did he. And the LORD abbr from El Shadday, the Al- said unto Noah, Come thou and) ש .before the judgment of the flood The second letter, vet/bet is a mighty or the Alsufficient) -sym all thy house into the ark; for thee An interesting point is the menti- symbol of a house or a temple, bolizes the Almighty Father God. have I seen righteous before me on of violence that filled the who- foreshadowing the New Cove- The letter ”shin” appears in the in this generation. Of every clean le earth in Noah´s days. Violence nant Church, the temple of the ”Mezuzah” in all doorposts in Is- beast thou shalt take to thee by is filling the earth right now in the Holy Spirit that was born as a raeli houses. The numerical value sevens, the male and his female: form of radical Islam terrorism result of the atoning work of the of shin is 300. and of beasts that are not clean and suicide bombs, and in local Cross and the pouring out of the by two, male and his female. Of or wider wars (Matt. 24:3_13). In Holy Spirit. That is why Yeshua was anointed fowl also of the air by sevens, the Hebrew Scriptures ” violen- with ”the Father´s anointing”, the male and the female; to ce” is chamas, which happens to The last letter hey, symbolizes the nard worth of 300 denarii for His keep seed alive upon the face of be the name of a radical Palestini- Lord, and His coming at the end burial, and that is why Gideon all the earth.For yet seven days, an organization in Gaza. of the Church age. We can pic- overcame the Midianites with and I will cause it to rain upon the ture the ark as a foreshadow of 300 men (John 12:1-8; Judges 7). earth forty days and forty nights; This organization has been extre- the atonement on the Cross and and every living substance that mely active, with another radical the age of the Holy Spirit and the The number 50 is related to I have made will I destroy from organization called Jichad (holy Church, which will come to an the Messiah´s redemption. (2 off the face of the earth. And war), in making suicide and other end at the Lord´s coming. Sam.24:18-25; Araunah is a fo- Noah did according unto all that terrorist attacks against Israel and reshadow of the Calvary). It is the the LORD commanded him. And the Jews. That, too, is a sign, for According to the original Hebrew Messiah´s five wounds multiplied Noah was six hundred years old prophecies often come true first text the ark was coated with pitch by 10 commandments (=50) that when the flood of waters was on Israeli soil, then elsewhere. or tar (petroleum?), ”gofer” in he fulfilled for us. Number 50 re- upon the earth. And Noah went Hebrew, which was evidently in lates also to Yovel, Year fo Jubilee. in, and his sons, and his wife, and Examples for Noah´s ark the soil even then. Nowadays In this year freedom was declared his sons´ wives with him, into the we make oil from it, which ma- to every one, and every one could ark, because of the waters of the ” And God said unto Noah, ´ The kes most of the modern world go return to their own property (Le- flood”(Genesis 6:19-7:7, KJ). end of all flesh is come before round. The word ”gopher” in the viticus 25). me; for the earth is filled with Old Testament Hebrew text also Noah´s family, that is Noah, his violence because of them; and means redemption price, com- The height of the ark was 30 sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, behold, I will destroy them with pensation. The word ”gopher” cubits. In the Old Covenant the and their wives, altogether eight the earth. Make thee an ark of also gives Yom Kippur, the Day of price of a slave was 30 pieces people, entered the ark and were gopher wood; rooms shalt thou Atonement, Sabbath of the Sab- of silver, the price the Messiah saved from the judgment of the make in the ark, and shall pitch baths, which is celebrated in the was betrayed for. (Exodus 21:32; flood while all other people peri- it within and without with pitch. autumn, the tenth of the seventh Matt. 26:14-16). The ark had shed. The representatives of the And this is the fashion which thou month of the biblical calendar. three internal divisions, storeys, animal creation also entered the shalt make it of: The lenght of the (Leviticus 23:26-32) in the image of Father, Son and ark so that they could go on living ark shall be 300 cubits , the brea- the Holy Spirit. after the flood. dth of it 50 cubits, and the height That is the time for fasting and of it 30 cubits. A window shalt repentance for the Israelis. At the Interestingly enough, the pro- Of unclean animals one pair of thou make to the ark, and in a cu- time of Jerusalem Temple it was portion between the length and each was taken, male and female; bit shalt thou finish it above; and the national day for the atoning the width of the ark is six to one, of clean animals seven pairs were the door of the ark shalt thou set of sins with relevant sacrifices which has been found perfect for taken into the ark. Clean animals in the side thereof; with lower, (Lev.16). seafaring. outnumbered the unclean so second, and third stories shalt Yom Kippur had its NewTesta- that, among other things, Noah thou make it. And behold, I, even mental fulfillment in Yeshua the Noah´s family and the animal could sacrifice them as burnt of- I, do bring a flood of waters upon Messiah´s death on the Cross as creation were saved in the ark ferings to the Lord after the flood the earth, to destroy all flesh, He made atonement for the sin (Genesis 8:18-22). wherein is the breath of life, from of the world. Hebrews nine tells ”And of every linving thing of under heaven; and every thing us about this atoning sacrifice of all flesh, two of every sort shalt As clean and unclean animals are that is in the earth shall die. But the Messiah. The ark was to be thou bring into the ark, to keep mentioned in this connection, in with thee will I establish my co- coated with ”gopher”, which is a them alive with thee; they shall Noah´s times, it means that there venant; and thou shalt come into symbolical act of ”pitching” the be male and female. Of fowls af- was already knowledge of clean the ark, thou, and thy sons, and ark with redemption, atonement ter their kind, and of cattle after animals that God had intended as thy wife, and thy sons´ wives with for sin accomplished by Yeshua their kind, of every creeping thing food for people, and of unclean thee´”(Genesis 6:13-18, KJ). the Messiah on the Cross, with of the earth after his kind, two of animals not to be eaten by peop- the Messiah´s atoning blood. every sort shall come unto thee, le. Noah´s ark is in itself a very inte- to keep them alive. And take thou Later on, in the times of Moses, resting example. In Hebrew the The dimensions of the ark are unto thee of all food that is eaten, God gave in His Torah a list of tevah). It is made symbolic as well: 300 cubits in and thou shalt gather it to thee; clean animals meant for food and) הבת word ark is 10 unclean animals not meant for be safe in ”salvation´s ark”, pro- 2:5). place, stand up and lift up your food (Leviticus 11). Before the tected by the Almighty. heads, because your redempti- flood people ate ”green plants”, Water was to salvation to Noah´s on is drawing near”(Luke 21:25- but after the flood God allowed Nothing will happen to those godfearing family inside the ark, 28,NIV). people to eat flesh, but forbid who belong to God without His but at the same time, water people to eat blood and flesh knowlegde or consent. Just as drowned the ungodly outside the The days of Noah and of Lot are with blood in it (Genesis 9:1-4; the Lord gave a new beginning ark. The same applies to baptism. a picture of the coming of Yeshua Acts 15:19-21). to mankind through Noah and Whoever believes and is bapti- the Messiah and the taking up of his family, the Lord will raise a zed, to them the water of baptism the believers, or the resurrection. There has been much talk and new mankind from the remnant is unto salvation, because their When the world, in its corruption, wondering, especially among saved from God´s Day of wrath, faith has made them enter ”the reaches a similar stage of moral evolutionists, how on earth all as the Messiah´s Kingdom of ark of salvation”. But those who and spiritual decay and violence the world´s birds and creatures Peace is established on the earth have themselves baptized wit- as in Noah´s days, we will know of the dry land could find place (Isa.13:6-13; 24:1-6;2:1-4; 66:15- hout faith and think of baptism as that the Lord´s coming is near. in the ark. But let us bear in mind 24; Zach. 14:16-19; Rev.20). some kind of a magic ritual, will that the ark was very spacious. It be drowned like those outside The degeneration of Lot´s days has also been proposed that only Noah´s ark and the flood - the ark in the days of Noah (Mark and the sins of Sodom announ- representatives from all species foreshadows of salvation 16:15-16; Matt. 3:7-12). ce the approach of the Lord´s entered the ark. and baptism coming, the time when the The days of Noah foreshadowing Church will be rescued from un- From canine creatures one pair, ”...who disobeyed long ago when the Messiah´s coming der nuclear war and burning felines one pair etc. After the God waited patiently in the days sulphur, like Lot was rescued from flood different types and -varia of Noah while the ark was being ”Just as it was in the days of Sodom´s fire and burning sulphur tions now found on the earth built. In it only a few people, eight Noah, so also will it be in the days (Genesis 19). have developped from these in all, were saved through water, of the Son of Man. People were representatives. This theory is and this water symbolizes bap- eating, drinking, marrying and Those who have their faith in God backed up by the Hebrew text tism that now saves you also - not being given in marriage up to the and believe in Yeshua the Mes- that says ”le´minehu” = accor- removal of dirt from the body but day Noah entered the ark. Then siah do not need to be afraid, for ding to its kind. The Hebrew word the pledge of a good conscience the flood came and destroyed when these things start to hap- ”min” means species, quality and toward God. It saves you by the them all. It was the same in the pen, we can lift our heads and gender. According to this theory resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 days of Lot. People were eating be encouraged, for the Messiah´s there would have been ample Peter 3:20-21,NIV). and drinking, buying and selling, coming and believers´ redemp- space for all representatives of planting and building. But the day tion is near. If, through faith in each species. When the Israelites walked Lot left Sodom, fire and sulphur Yeshua, we are already ”in the ark through the Sea of Reeds (Red rained down from heaven and of salvation”, we are safe when These exemplary events of the Sea) in the days of Moses, they destroyed them all. It will be the judgments fall on the world. time of Noah show us how the were baptized unto Moses in just like this on the day the Son righteous, godfearing Noah and the cloud and in the sea (1Cor. of Man is revealed”(Luke 17:26- If we are not in the ark of salvati- his family, eight persons altoget- 10:1-2). It is a foreshadow of the 30,NIV). on, we need to believe in Yeshua her, were kept safe in the ark of baptism of the New Covenanat in and receive foregiveness of sins the Almighty while God´s judg- Holy Spirit and water. Noah´s ark ”There will be signs in the sun, and salvation and invite Yeshua ment hit the ungodly mankind and the flood are also foresha- moon and stars. On the earth, the Messiah to be our Saviour and drowned the violent and cor- dows of the baptism of New Co- nations will be in anguish and and the Lord of our lives. rupt world (1 Peter 3:20-21). venant believers. perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint Only then can we feel secure as As the Messiah´s coming draws God was long-suffering in the from terror; apprehensive of we wait for His coming and the near similar things will happen. days of Noah, and Noah, preach- what is coming on the world, taking up of believers to the Lord When God judges the world on er of righteousness, went on buil- for the heavenly bodies will be to live with Him for eternity. the Lord´s Day, with judgment of ding the ark and preaching the shaken. At that time they will fire for instance, those who fear coming judgment, but people did see the Son of Man coming in a God and put their trust in the not believe him, and so the flood cloud with power and great glory. Messiah´s atoning sacrifice will took them by surprise (2 Peter When these things begin to take http://israel-apu.fi 11 The Hebrew Revival Resurrecting Israel´s Language **********

Written by: when it was universally the ver- stood in Jesus’ day as well, for and Burn All Jewish Books, Peter John Garr nacular of the Hebrew peoples. the titulus crucis at his crucifixi- Wortsman, ed. and tr. (Mahwah, As Peter Wortsman has said, “It on was written in Hebrew, Latin, NJ: Paulist Press, 2000), p. 3. Because of the extent and the was with Hebrew words that the and Greek (Luke 23:38). Some Originally published as Johann- duration of the dispersion of the Judeo-Christian God quite literal- scholars have argued that the sen Reuchlin, Doctor Johannsen Jews following the destruction ly called the world into being. . . term Hebrais meant Aramaic, Reuchlins Augenspiegel (Tü- of Jerusalem first by the Babylo- . The Hebrew language as such is not Hebrew; however, in his bingen, Germany: Thomas An- nians in 587 BC, then by the Ro- a bridge, a lasting link between Antiquities of the Jews, Flavius shelm, 1511). mans in AD 70 and again in AD God and man.”(6) Josephus made a clear distincti- 132, the sacred tongue that the on between the two languages Preparation for Restoration prophets, kings, and sages of Is- Tragically, some of this sense of and their Greek titles when he rael had used became essential- continuing relationship between pointed out that he would ap- This is why it was so important for ly a dead language.(1) Indeed, God and the Jewish people in dai- peal to the “Hebrew Scriptures” a revival of interest in Hebrew to the language that God used to ly life was lost when the language by referring to 2 Kings 18:26: appear in Europe to set the stage communicate with this Chosen of Scripture was replaced by the “When Rabshakeh had made for the restoration of Israel. People(2) gradually faded almost babel (confusion) of the polyglot this speech in the Hebrew ton- After benign neglect—and even into oblivion, preserved only for world. gue (~Ebrai?sti—Hebraisti) . . . outright contempt—for at least ceremonial purposes in rituals Elikim . . . desired him to speak eleven centuries, such an inter- and prayers in the synagogues.(3) Translations, no matter how ob- in the Syrian tongue (suristi.— est erupted spontaneously across Certainly by the time of Hadrian, jective and well-conceived, still syristi or Aramaic).” Flavius- Jo the European religious academic Hebrew had come to be used do not capture the full essence sephus, Antiquities of the Jews, landscape at the turn of the six- only in written form and was no and import of the original words 10, 1, 2. Since Josephus wrote af- teenth century. longer spoken as the common of Scripture in its original lan- ter the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, vernacular of the Jewish people. guage. So many of the very im- it is clear that Hebrew was still At that time, Christian scholar Jo- portant aspects of biblical faith a language that was commonly hann Reuchlin and others began Language is a powerful aspect are difficult to express or under- spoken in Israel. For a detailed to insist that it was vital “to delve of human thought patterns and, stand when wrenched from their discussion of the use of Hebrew into a linguistic domain that [has] hence, human beliefs. David Blu- Hebrew matrix. Indeed, many of in the first century, see Doug long been considered at best ob- menthal says, “Each language the Hebrew words of Scripture Hamp, Discovering the Language solete,”(7) just like the Jewish has an elegance of its own and a are virtually untranslatable in ot- of Jesus: Hebrew or Aramaic? people themselves. Reuchlin and power of expression which is pe- her languages, and the Hebrew (Santa Ana, CA: Calvary Chapel his colleagues became enthusi- culiar to it, and these constitute idiom is distinct from those of all Publishing, 2005), pp. 23–38. astic students of Jewish sacred the identity and character of the other languages. 3 Sara E. Karesh and MItchell literature because they saw in it people who speak it.”(4) M. Hurvitz, eds., Encyclopedia “the spiritual foundation of Chris- 1 The term dead language means of Judaism (New York: Infobase tianity.”(8) Christian scholars of In truth, it is language that “gives that a language is no longer used Publishing, 2006), p. 52. Karesh that time came to understand to all beings their own form, it for everyday conversation. and Hurvitz suggest that Hebrew that “just as the Jews themsel- makes them creatures in them- 2 In Acts 24:16, Paul declares that became a dead language after ves were reviled as . . . an alien selves with their own characteris- when Jesus appeared to him on the destruction of the temple in body that had long since outlived tics and peculiarities. the Damascus Road, the Master AD 70. its usefulness, so too was their addressed him in “the Hebrew 4 David R. Blumenthal, God at language and literary heritage . . As soon as a community on a tongue” (~Ebrai?,j diale,ktw— the Center: Meditations on Je- . held in ill repute,”(9) and they particular piece of land speak a Hebrais dialékto). Though most wish Spirituality (Northvale, NJ: determined to do something particular language, it constitu- scholars insist that Hebrew be- Jason Aronson, 1994), p. 134. about it. tes a people apart, and the land came a dead language after the 5 Eliezer ben-Yehuda, quoted where that people has settled is Babylonian captivity, which was in Alain Dieckhoff, The Inventi- The growing interest in the the state of that people.”(5) The replaced in the vernacular by on of a Nation: Zionist Thought Hebrew language among the do- Hebrew language, therefore, has Aramaic, it is clear that Hebrew and the Making of Modern Israel minant Christian culture of that always been a central element in was still being spoken after the (New York: Columbia University day, even if it represented a small Jewish self-identity. Hebrew even time of Jesus, for Paul speaks of Press, 2003), p. 121. minority of Christians, reintrodu- goes beyond Jewish self-identity. addressing his audience in”the 6 Peter Wortsman in Johann ced the church to the importance It is the Holy Tongue. Indeed, Hebrew tongue” (Acts 21:40; Reuchlin, Recommendation of both the culture and the langu- it was the holy language even 22:2). It was certainly under- Whether to Confiscate, Destroy, age of the Jewish people. Indeed, 12 the scholars who led this effort at Europe (New York: New York history should not rely on the lan- tary History (Madison, WI: The restoration were styled Christian University Press, 1994), pp. 161– guages of the Diaspora but rather University of Wisconsin Press, Hebraists, and they described 164. resurrect the ancient Jewish na- 2011), p. 168. their teaching as “veritas Hebrai- 12 Kaplan and Penslar, eds., 168. tional tongue, Hebrew.”(19) 18 La Guardia, p. 83. ca” (“Hebrew truth”). 13 Raymond Lillevik, Apostates, 19 Kaplan and Penslar, p. 168. Hybrids, or True Jews?: Jewish Even before Herzl came to pro- 20 Karesh and Hurvitz, p. 52. Restoration and Hebrew Christians and Jewish Identity minence, therefore, another ad- 21 Alexander Murinson, Turkey’s (Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & vocate of what came to be kno- Entente with Israel and Azerbai- As time progressed, calls began Co., 2014), p. 241. wn as Zionism had an entirely jan: State Identity and Security to arise in the Jewish communi- 14 Isaac Satanov, noted in Na- different—and, as it turned out, in the Middle East and Caucasus ty for the restoration of ancient hum M. Waldman, The Recent right—view that would have a (New York: Routledge, 2010), p. Hebrew. During late eighteenth Study of Hebrew: A Survey of the powerful impact upon the emer- 33. and early nineteenth centuries, Literature with Selected Bibliog- gence of the restored nation and 22 Lawrence Jeffrey Epstein, A Maskilim(10), members of the raphy (Winona Lake, IN: Eisen- its people. Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes Jewish enlightenment or Has- brauns, Inc., 1989), p. 218. (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, kalah, had begun this process in This man, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Inc., 1989), p. 35. earnest.(11) “Much like the hu- Through the efforts of restoratio- was a passionate advocate for the 23 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, quoted in manists of the Renaissance era, nists and the Maskilim, the atten- restoration of the Jewish nation La Guardia, p. 81. who wanted to rescue Latin from tion of the Jews was increasingly before there was a Zionist move- the clutches of the Roman church turned toward a redefinition of ment. As a matter of fact, it was in Himself a polyglot, Ben-Yehuda and reclaim its original literary Jewish identity. “Jewish commu- 1877 that this Lithuanian Jewish came to understand that langu- and scientific qualities, Maskilim nities experienced a new need linguist, “came to believe that the age was one of the most impor- wanted to return to the beauty for Jewish identification, somet- Jewish people could also revive tant core identities of any nation and grace of ancient Hebrew and hing Jewish nationalism was able the Jewish nation on its ancient or people. rediscover its more secular (lite- to provide.” (15) national soil.”(20) rary, intellectual) qualities.”(12) The one thing that distinguished As it turned out, this “new Jewish Even while he was still a stu- Ben-Yehuda from his fellow Zio- They also wanted “to turn writ- nationalism focused on two is- dent at the Sorbonne in Paris, nists, therefore, was his under- ten Hebrew into a secular langu- sues: the restoration of a Jewish as a Francophile, he came to standing that the restored nation age,” even though the very idea language (whether Yiddish or understand the decisive role of Israel needed a restored langu- “provoked traditionalists.”(13) Hebrew) and some sort of politi- that French literature had in the age and that language could only Among the leaders of the Maski- cal autonomy.”(16) arousal of French nationalism. be the language of the Jewish an- lim who advocated restoring the When the idea of Jews from (21) In 1880, he reached a con- cestors, Hebrew. He came to be- Hebrew language for Jewish dis- around the world immigrating clusion that stunned even him: “I lieve that a conjunctive symbiosis course, Isaac Satanov expressed a into Israel suddenly became a have decided that a national re- existed between Zionism and the view that would prove prescient reality, the question arose as to vival of the Jewish people could Hebrew language. when he argued that “the poli- what would be the language of only be successfully accomplis- Ben-Yehuda’s agenda was simple: tical restoration of the people the newly emerging people and hed if it were accompanied by a “The Hebrew language can live to Zion would enrich the langu- nation? “The question of langu- revival of the Jews’ ancient langu- only if we revive the nation and age.”(14) age was one of the most critical age, Hebrew.”(22) return it to the fatherland.”(24) Without a doubt, God was setting cultural issues that the early Zio- He also understood that the long- the stage for an important resto- nists faced.”(17) After he immigrated to Palestine term success of the nation would ration that would accompany the in 1881 and saw the social and depend to a large degree upon coming resurrection of the Jewish Would it be Yiddish, the blend of political realities there, Ben-Ye- its adoption of a common langu- nation. He was preparing the Hebrew and German that was po- huda at first dismissed the claim age—in this case, the language minds and hearts of people for pular in Western Europe? Would that Jews did not count as a na- common to ancient ancestors of the restoration of the language it be Ladino, a combination of tion because they lacked a com- all Jews, Hebrew. with which the prophets, kings, Hebrew and Spanish? Or would mon spoken language, citing the and sages of Israel had commu- the restored Israel be a polyglot example of multilingual Switzer- After he moved to Israel in 1881, nicated. nation like Switzerland? Theodor land, but he later changed views. Ben-Yehuda decided to begin res- Herzl, the founder of Zionism, “Just as the Jews cannot real- toring Hebrew in the right place, 7 Wortsman, p. 4, author’s opted for the latter solution.(18) ly become a living nation other in the Jewish home, and he chose emphasis. than through their returning to his own home for his experiment. 8 Wortsman, p. 3. Such an approach to language in their ancestral land, so too, they He and his wife decided that they 9 Wortsman, p. 3. the restored state of Israel, howe- are not able to become a living would speak Hebrew exclusively 10 Maskilim is the plural of mas- ver, would surely have resulted in nation other than through their in their home. kil, which means “scholar” or a Balkanization of Israeli society. returning to their ancestral lan- As a result, their son, Ben-Zion, “enlightened man.” It was first guage.”(23) “became the first all-Hebrew used in fourteenth-century Ita- Language Restoration speaking child in modern Jewish ly by Isaac Israeli ben Joseph to 15 Lillevik, p. 241. history.”(25) By implementing his describe his colleagues. “A small number of intellectuals 16 Lillevik, p. 241. personal vision in his own fami- 11 Eli Lederhendler, Jewish and activists believed that a- re 17 Eran Kaplan and Derek J. ly, Ben-Yehuda created the first Responses to Modernity: New volutionary movement that aims Penslar, eds., The Origins of Is- Hebrew-speaking family in over Voices in America and Eastern to upend the course of Jewish rael, 1882–1948: A Documen- 1500 years.(26) 13

At the same time, he proved that (New Haven, CT: Yale University of a different sort(33). He was the state of Israel in 1948, Mena- a total revival or resurrection of Press, 2013), p. 206. not an ecstatic voice bubbling hem Ribalow made this argument the Hebrew language was both 25 The Ben-Yehudas abandoned up with spiritual truth; however, about how essential the Hebrew possible and practical. While he the European Ashkenazi pronun- he was a prophet of restoration, language has been to the resto- had made his own grand expe- ciation of Hebrew in favor of one driven by a passion to make the red nation of Israel: “Only through riment in the context of his own influences from Sephardic - pro language of his ancestors the lan- communication, through some family, Ben-Yehuda believed that nunciation and spoken Arabic. guage of his nation and people. communion with the Hebrew lan- the full restoration of Hebrew as Karesh and Hervitz, p. 52. He even spoke of his mission in guage, will [our children] behold the Israeli language would unfold 26 Jack Fellman, The Revival of life in highly spiritualized terms: the full revelation of Judaism and in a process: “The Hebrew langu- Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Ye- become initiated into the mystery age will go for the synagogue to huda and the Modern Hebrew “During this time, suddenly—it that preserved the Jewish people the house of study, and from the Language (The Netherlands: was as if the heavens opened and since the beginning of its history house of study to the school, and Mouton & Co., 1973), p. 37. a light shone forth—a pure and to this day of the renewal of Je- from the school it will come into 27 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Ha-Zevi gleaming ray flashed before my wish sovereignty.”(38) the home, and . . . become a li- 31 (1886/87), p. 146. eyes, and a mighty inner voice ving language.”(27) 28 Kaplan and Penslar, p. 168. called in my ears. Israel’s Rebirth Today, Hebrew is the living langu- 29 David Horovitz, ed., Shalom, on the Soil of the Fathers!”(34) age of Israel, spoken by 6 million “Zionists were faced with more Friend: The Life and Legacy of Israelis, and studied by much of practical considerations—to turn Yitzhak Rabin (New York: Wil- Cecil Roth encapsulated Ben- world Jewry. “Hebrew is the mor- Hebrew into a living, everyday liam Morrow, 1996), p. 281. Yehuda’s mission well: “Before tar holding together Israel’s dis- language.”(28) 30 The antipathy that the ultra- Ben-Yehuda, Jews could speak parate ethnic traditions.”(39) Orthodox had for Ben-Yehuda Hebrew, after him, they did.”(35) Ben-Yehuda’s task was daunting continued long after his- dea As David Blumenthal notes, “the in more ways than one. His un- th. Even when a memorial was A Living Language for natural place for Hebrew is the dertaking was profoundly stress- erected at the Ben-Yehuda home a Living People land of Israel. The proper locus of ful not only because of the incre- near Mea Shearim, radicals on the holy tongue is the holy land. dible amount of work that he had two different occasions used po- Another of the great miracles There, the language and environ- do to in order to transform the wer tools to destroy the plaque connected with the restoration of ment resonate together. There, 8,000-word vocabulary of biblical marking the home for its histori- Israel as a people, a nation, and a the echoes of the one rebound Hebrew into a modern language cal significance. Ben-Yehuda and land was the resurrection of the naturally from the landscape of but also because he was con- his work of restoring the Hebrew dead language of an “as good as the other.”(40) Surely, Hebrew fronted with significant opposi- language to the Israeli people, dead” people. Hebrew became a “is this language which unites all tion from the ultra-Orthodox and therefore, continues to be cont- living language for a rejuvenated, the children of Israel from the other traditionalists of the Jewish roversial in Israel nearly a hun- revived, reinvigorated people. four corners of the globe . . . it is society of Palestine who objected dred years after his death. What happened with the Jews the language of our forefathers, to his “profaning” of the sacred 31 Kaplan and Penslar, eds., 168. happened with their language, the language of our prophets, the language of Scripture by promo- and it was something that had language of our sages.”(41) ting it for everyday use. With Ben-Yehuda’s work, Hebrew never taken place in all of human became the unifying language of history. 32 For an excellent personal ac- In fact, Ben-Yehuda “was excom- the Jewish people and the uni- count of the life of Eliezer Ben- municated by the ultra-Orthodox fying language of the nation of Is- “No nation has ever lost its langu- Yehuda written his grandson, who rejected the use of the holy rael. Regardless as to what langu- age (which is a country’s national Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, see tongue for day-to-day discour- age and nation the Jewish people identity), only to have it restored Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Fulfillment se”(29) and he and his family left when they made ailyah to the and revived after 2000 years. It of Prophecy: The Life Story of were targeted for verbal—and Promised Land, when they arri- has happened to NO other nati- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (Charleston, sometimes physical—abuse.(30) ved in Israel, they found a polygot on.”(36) SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2009). people speaking one universal 33 Kenneth Katzner, The Langu- Ultimately, however, by the- se language, Hebrew. In 1930, Shalom Spiegel spoke of ages of the World (New York: cond decade of the twentieth the degree of importance that Taylor & Francis Group, 2002); century, the intellectuals of the Ben-Yehuda became a scientific restored Hebrew would have Robert St. John, Tongue of the Zionist movement were joined lexicographer who, despite his for the emerging Jewish nation: Prophets: The Fascinating Biog- “by the broader Jewish popula- ongoing battle with tuberculosis, “The revival of Hebrew and its raphy of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, tion in Palestine by the second labored tirelessly with sixteen- transformation into a colloquial the Father of Modern Hebrew decade of the twentieth century hour days to complete the work tongue with all the defects and (Beverly Hills, CA: Wilshire Book in their schools, public institu- that he knew he had been cal- virtues of a living language . . . Co., 1972). tion, and their homes embrace led to do on behalf of his peop- and such progress in vocabulary 34 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, quoted in Hebrew as their national langu- le. His works culminated in his as would have filled any civilized Anton La Guardia, War Without age.”(31) seventeen-volume Complete Dic- people with pride—these things End: Israelis, Palestinians, and tionary of Ancient and Modern have proven beyond a doubt the the Struggle for a Promised (New 24 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, quoted Hebrew. physiological genuineness of our York: Macmillan, 2003 ), p. 80. in William M. Schniedewind, A rejuvenation as a people.”(37) 35 Cecil Roth, “Was Hebrew Ever Social History of Hebrew: Its Ori- In reality, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was a Dead Language,” in Personali- gins Through the Rabbinic Period a prophet(32), though a prophet Shortly after the restoration of ties and Events in Jewish History 14

(Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publi- be included in that scenario, God in their land never to be remo- pes.”(46) cation Society of America, 1953), says to Israel: “In that day it will ved again, he would also restore pp. 136–142. be said to Jerusalem: Do not be “a pure language,” hr”Wrb. hp’f’ Preparing the Way Linguistically 36 Alan Turner, Is God Finished afraid, O Zion. . . . The LORD your (sapah b’rurah). This “pure langu- with Israel? (Maitland, FL: Xu- God is in your midst, a victorious age” is doubtless to be the oppo- For at least four hundred years lon Press, 2008), p. 66, Turner’s warrior. He will exult over you site of the confusion of Babel, the across Europe and for nearly a emphasis. with joy, he will be quite in his tongues for the communication hundred years through Jewish 37 Shalom Spiegel, Hebrew Re- love, he will rejoice over you with of idolatry. It is the pure language communities, the way was being born (New York: Meridian Books, shouts of joy. . . . At that time I of divine discourse, the one ful- prepared for the restoration of 1930), pp. 19–20. will bring you in, even at the time ly revealed to humankind when the Jewish people, as a people, to 38 Menahem Ribalow, Jewish when I gather you together, in- God thundered the Ten Words their land and for the restoration Education 22 (Summer, 1951), deed, I will give you renown and from Sinai and all the nations of their long-lost nation. Suppor- p. 69. praise among all the peoples of heard his voice. ting this restoration would also 39 La Guardia, p. 84. the earth, when I restore your be the resurrection of the dead 40 Blumenthal, p., 134. fortunes before your eyes, says It may well ultimately be a still- language of Hebrew and its even- 41 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and Eisig the LORD.”(43) unrevealed new way of commu- tual restoration as the vernacular Silberschlag, Eliezer Ben-Yehu- nicating with the Divine; however, of the people of Israel and the dah: A Symposium in Oxford Charles Forster interpolates without a doubt, the foundation nation of Israel. Surely the God (Oxford, UK: Oxford Centre for Zephaniah’s prophecy: “As, at the for its fulfillment has been es- of Israel foresaw the need for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, beginning of your existence as a tablished in biblical Hebrew. The unifying his chosen people with a 1981), p. 41. nation, I gave you ‘a pure langu- implications of Hebrew for- pre common language, and what bet- age’ from Mount Sinai; so, at the facing the ultimate work of God ter language could he help resto- Cosmic, Spiritual Dimensions? end, I will restore you ‘a pure lan- cannot be minimized. re than the one he gave them in guage’ a vehicle of thought and The restoration of Hebrew to the the beginning of their corporate Could it be that the restorati- expression meet to celebrate my Hebrew peoples, therefore, is just existence, Hebrew? on of the Hebrew language to praise, and in which to call upon as important as the restoration the Hebrew people, the Jews, in my name.” of the land of Israel to the Jews, 42 Zephaniah 3:9. their own nation and land is even for “the language of the people 43 Zephaniah 3:16–17, 20. the fulfillment of the words of For this reason, Forster says, in its land is the language of re- 44 Charles Forster, The One prophecy? The God of Israel dec- “the Hebrew of the Pentateuch, velation. It is the language of the Primeval Language Traced Ex- lared through the prophet Zepha- thenceforward to become the foreparents and the prophets— perimentally through Ancient niah, “For then I will restore to language of the whole Hebrew Hebrew.”(45) Inscriptions (London, England: the peoples a pure language that people, may be regarded as a Richard Bentley, 1852), p. 78. they all may call on the name of pure language or idom revealed Judah Magnes said it well, “In 45 Blumenthal, p. 136. the LORD, to serve him with one from heaven, less simple, becau- every Jewish cultural revival the 46 Judah L. Magnes, quoted in accord.”(42) se more regularly constructed Hebrew language has played an W. Gunther Plaut, The Growth than any of the primeval tongues; important part, and today when of Reform Judaism (New York: The timing of this prophetic word in order that no tongue polluted the Jewish nation is again -wit World Union for Progressive Ju- certainly points to the eschato- by heathen profligacy or idolatry ness to the marvel of its own daism, 1965), p. 320. logical denouement of all things might profane, by becoming their renaissance, when, like an old © Restore! All rights reserved. when at the end of the age, God receptacle, the lively oracles of tree in springtime, it is shooting This material may not be repro- prepares the world for the Mes- God.”(44) forth new cultural blossom, the duced in any form without the sianic dominion: “My decision is Hebrew language is again ful- express written permission of the to gather nations, to assemble In Zephaniah’s prophecy, God filling its mission as the natural editor. kingdoms, to pour out on them declared simply that when he vehicle through which young Ju- my indignation.” Whatever may would finally restore his people dah expresses his fears and ho- www.hebraiccommunity.org 15 Hebrew Idioms in the Gospels Detecting Hebraisms **********

Written by: for each Hebrew expression. If count of the first meeting of Isaac would be no need to check that David Bivin he merely translates them word and his bride-to-be Rebekah, your mug is nearby. Your know- for word, he will not end up with Isaac “lifted up his eyes and saw” ledge of German language and Introduction English but Hebrew in English the approaching Rebekah, and culture would tell you that he dress. she “lifted up her eyes and saw” meant 'mind your own business'. There are many expressions in Isaac (Genesis 24:63-64). the Greek texts of the synoptic Literal Translation In the same way, scholars who are Gospels that seem to derive from Note that the Hebrew expressi- familiar with Greek and Hebrew Hebrew idioms. These are phra- Because Biblical texts generally on uses two verbs, whereas in are able to recognise Hebrew ses that mean something diffe- have been translated very literal- English one simply would say 'He idioms in the Greek texts of the rent from the literal meaning of ly, many idioms have found their looked' or 'He saw'. This doubling synoptic Gospels. the words they use. Every langu- way into the English versions of of the verb seems superfluous to age has its own idioms, many of the Bible that most of us know. English-speakers, but it is part of The many Hebraisms such as 'lift which seem strange when trans- The words are there, but their the beauty of the Hebrew langu- up the eyes and see' are part of lated literally out of their native meaning has often been left -be age. the evidence which leads scho- setting. hind. lars of the Jerusalem School of There is no evidence of this ex- Synoptic Research to conclude Think of such common English These literal translations of the pression being used in the nor- that the story of Jesus as found idioms as 'hit the ceiling', 'kill Scriptures might prove useful for mative Greek of Jesus' day, yet in the synoptic Gospels is based time', 'eat one's heart out', 'lose scholars of ancient languages; it is found in the Greek texts of upon a Hebrew document one's head', 'be in hot water', however, they tend to confuse the synoptic Gospels. When Luke 'throw in the towel', or 'kick the or mislead the general reader. I 16:23 is translated word-for- If the Greek of the synoptic Gos- bucket'. A non-English-speaker am reminded about a little boy word into English, the result is a pels was originally translated who heard these idioms transla- who thought that God had to do Hebrew idiom other examples of from Hebrew or perhaps Ara- ted literally into his own language everything with his left hand, be- which are found in Hebrew lite- maic, an English translator's task would probably find them amu- cause he had always been taught rature of the period (e.g. Ta'anit is first to put the Greek back into sing. that Jesus was sitting on the right 4:8). Hebrew, understand the Hebrew hand of God. idiom, and then translate the However, if he did not suspect Detecting Hebraisms Hebrew - not the Greek - to Eng- that they were literal translations Most English translations of the lish. If the translator does not re- of English idioms and took them Hebrew Scriptures are full of Overly literal translating seems to cognise Hebraisms for what they at face value, the information Hebrew idioms. In Genesis 6:8, have produced Hebraisms such are, his translation is likely to cre- he received would be very mis- for instance, we read that "Noah as 'lift up the eyes and see' in ate confusion. leading. found grace in the eyes of the the Greek texts of the Gospels. Lord". This does not mean that If one is fluent in both Greek and It is important to realize that the- The Hebrew language has hun- Noah looked into God's eyes and Hebrew, many Hebraisms be- re may be Hebrew idioms preser- dreds of idioms. For example: found in them the quality of gra- come readily apparent. They are ved in translations of the Gospels. be’arba enayim, literally 'with ce. Rather it means simply that detected in the same way that we Just being aware of this can help four eyes', means face to face God was fond of Noah. would immediately notice alien us read English versions of the without the presence of a third elements in the speech of a non- Gospels with more understan- person, as in, 'The two men met Elevated Vision native English speaker. ding. with four eyes'. Lo dubim v’lo ya’ar is literally '[There are] neit- English translations of the Gos- If you have ever heard someone (Reprinted from Jerusalem her bears nor forest', but means pels also preserve Hebrew speaking English who was thin- Perspective, September/Octo- that something is completely fal- idioms, such as "lift up the eyes king in another language, you ber, 1989, with permission, and se. And ta’man et yado batsa la- and see", which appears in Luke probably have heard several non- published in Tishrei Vol 1 No 1, hat, 'buried his hand in the dish', 16:23 in a parable about a miserly English expressions. And if you Ways of Thinking, Autumn 1992. means that someone idles away rich man and a poor man named also happened to be familiar with The Journal Tishrei was launched his time. Lazarus. This same expression, the speaker's native language, in 1992 to highlight the need for nasa et haenayim vera ah, had you probably could identify the the Church to return to its Jewish A translator faced with putting been current in Hebrew since bib- language in which the speaker roots) these idioms into another langu- lical times, and appears thirty five was thinking. For instance, if a age such as English must be ca- times in the Hebrew Scriptures. native German speaker told you www.jerusalemperspective.com reful to find an equivalent idiom For instance, in the dramatic ac- to 'mind your own beer', there www.tishrei.org 16 Hoshia Na - Hosanna ”Do Save, We Beseech You!” **********

Written by: Hosanna! Blessed is...the King of rative) form of the verb yasha: Paul Sumner Israel. (John 12:12, 13) to deliver, rescue, or save. The Here are the full texts of the four words na and ana from Ps 118:26 “Hosanna” greetings. (Punctuati- Some words in Scripture are so They also shout the welcoming are emotional utterances - mea on is only my opinion.) familiar, we seldom ask what they verse from Psalm 118:26: “Bles- ning “O please, (I/we) beseech, mean in the original languages. sed is he who comes in the name beg you to...” Hosanna to the Son of David! “Hallelujah” and “Amen” come to of the Lord.” (Matt 21:9; Mark Blessed is he who comes in the mind. “Hosanna” is another. It’s 11:9; John 12:13) Messiah’s name “Yeshua” comes name of the Lord! Hosanna in the how the crowds greeted Yeshua from the same root yasha, coup- highest places! (Matt 21:9) (Jesus) when he approached Je- Linguists say Hosanna is a Greek led with the name of God: “the rusalem to celebrate his last Pas- adaptation of the Aramaic - phra LORD [Adonai, YHVH] saves.” Hosanna to the Son of David! sover. se Hosha Na. (Greek has no “sh” (Matt 21:15) sound.) Aramaic is likely what the Remember the angel’s words to In the gospels, hosanna is burs- local Jews spoke when welco- Joseph: “She will bear a son, and Hosanna! Blessed is he who ting with messianic associations. ming Yeshua. Hosha na is then an you shall call his name Yeshua, for comes in the name of the Lord! We know this because of the echo of the Hebrew of previous it is he who will save his people Blessed is the coming kingdom of Bible texts surrounding it. Accor- verse 25 in Ps 118. from their sins” (Matt 1:21; see our father David! Hosanna in the ding to Scripture, the Messiah also Acts 4:12). highest places! (Mark 11:9-10) will be a king, as a future son of Ana Adonai Hoshia Na — O LORD, King David [2 Sam 7:12-16; Isa do save, we beseech You! So what we hear in Jerusalem Hosanna! Blessed is he who 9:7; 11:1,10]. Thus, we hear the are communal pleas to this son comes in the name of the Lord, crowds exclaim: Here’s the language chain: Ho- of David, that he would fulfill the even the King of Israel! (John shia Na (Heb) > Hosha Na (Ara) > prophetic text of Psalm 118 and 12:13) Hosanna to the Son of David. Hosanna (Grk) be their saving king. The hope- (Matthew 21:9, 15) filled Jews shouted to Yeshua: Hosanna!...Blessed is the coming The Hoshia Na –Yeshua Link “Save us, O Son of David, we be- kingdom of our father David. seech you. Blessed are you – you (Mark 11:9, 10) Hoshia is the command (impe- who comes in the LORD’s name.” www.hebrew-streams.org 17 Sacred Assemblies And Set Times **********

Written by: se Hebrew words are "Sacred God's idea was to redeem belie- Karl Coke Assemblies" and "Appointed ving mankind from the founda- Moses spoke of Yeshua in Deu- Seasons." tion of the earth (Eph. 1:4; Rev. teronomy 18:15-18. Jesus spoke I am a guide in Israel. One day, Even clearer English would be 13:8). Messiah revealed His plan of Moses writing about Him. In while teaching on the Feasts of "Rehearsals" and "Set Times." to Moses at the burning bush. John 5:39, Jesus said to the Jews, the LORD at David's tomb on Mt. Moses wrote God's plan in the "Search the scriptures; for in Zion, the LORD revealed that the Why did Moses call the LORD's blueprint form we call the Torah. them ye think ye have eternal life: Menorah is a perfect visual aid feasts "rehearsals?" A rehearsal Yeshua is the fulfillment of God's and they are they which testify for teaching on this subject. I was is not the real event. However, plan and Moses' blueprint. In (moedim - set times) of me. Then standing beside the Aaron Ko- to properly "rehearse" any event, Yeshua, we can all now see God's in John 5:46 Jesus affirmed that desh. It was covered with a cloth one must have complete know- plan of salvation as outlined by Moses was writing about Him by upon which the Menorah was ledge of its "purpose." Details of Moses. saying, "For had ye believed Mo- embroidered. the event must be fully known in ses, ye would have believed me: order to properly "rehearse" it. Moses knew Messiah would: 1) for he wrote of me." I saw three branches on the left, A "rehearsal" cannot take place die (Pesach); 2) be buried sinless one in the middle and three on without full knowledge of what (Hag haMatzos); 3) resurrect (Bik- Moses' writings are all about God the right. Immediately, I saw Pe- is being "rehearsed." Moses had korim); 4) return to Jerusalem as as Messiah redeeming believing sach, Hag haMatzos and Bikkorim such "first-hand" knowledge. the Holy Spirit (Shavuot); 5) an- mankind. Moses revealed Mes- in the Spring, Shavuot in the Sum- nounce His return with a trumpet siah in the Tabernacle, the sacri- mer, and Hag Shofarim (Rosh haS- Hebrews 11:24-28 says of Moses (Hag Shofarim); 6) judge the living ficial system, His encounters with hana), Yom Kippor and Succoth in that by faith he: 1) refused to be and the dead (Yom Kippor); and, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the the Fall. prince of Egypt choosing to suffer 7) return to live on earth with His Feasts of the LORD, the Exodus, the affliction of his fellow Jews; 2) people (Succoth). How did Moses the Manna in the wilderness and Moses told Pharaoh in Exodus 5:1 esteemed the reproach of Mes- know these facts? Moses knew other such items. Moses wrote that HaShem's reason for the Is- siah greater riches than the tre- Messiah face to face (Ex. 33:11 & every word about Messiah wit- raelis to leave Egypt was "... that asures of Egypt; 3) forsook Egypt Deut. 34:10). hout ever once writing an error, they may hold a feast unto me in and endured because he had an exaggeration or an ambiguity. the wilderness." "seen" Messiah; and 4) observed Moses knew God's complete plan The Torah is filled with informati- Significant to this request is that Pesach and the shedding of blood of redemption–not just a portion. on about the Gospel. This is pre- no feast had ever been held by which allowed God's firstborn to Moses knew it so well that he cisely where the Jewish scholar, the Israelis nor had Moses yet be Israel's propitiation. called the major Messianic acts Paul, got all his information about written the Torah! These two "set times." His knowledge of Yeshua (I Cor. 15:1-4). Read Mo- facts make the definitions of the This can only mean that Moses God's plan was so precise that he ses. Find Yeshua! LORD's feasts (that Moses later met Messiah "face to face" and was able to write down the exact wrote as Leviticus 23:1-2) impe- God's Messiah revealed to him months, days and hours that © Restore! All rights reserved. rative to be understood. all that He would do to redeem Yeshua would carry out God's This material may not be repro- His people–Israel as the firstfruits redemptive plan. The overlay of duced in any form without the Moses defines the feasts of the and all believers in the end. Mo- the Gospel's account of Yeshua's express written permission of the LORD as ydi[}/mw] vdq, yao re q; ses knew God's plan of salvation redemptive acts with the feasts editor. m] i ("Miq-rah-ey Qodesh w'Mo- and wrote its blueprint known to of the LORD are breathtakingly a-di). The us as the Torah. accurate. Not one significant de- best English translations of the- tail is missing. www.karlcoke.com 18 The Entrances of the Tabernacle The Way, the Truth and the Life **********

Written by: venty-five feet everywhere; with They were also the same size 100 Moshe was about to erect the Roger Finch the height seven-and-a-half feet. square cubits. The gate was 20 x 5 Tent, God warned him, “See to The tapestries and screen are to cubits, the entrance and the veil it that you make everything ac- Exodus 40:1-11; 1 ADONAI said to be of finely woven linen, and the were 10 x 10 cubits. cording to the pattern you were Moshe, 2 On the first day of the sockets are to be of bronze.19 All shown on the mountain.” first month, you are to set up the the equipment needed for every (In Hebrew, the significance of tabernacle, the tent of meeting. 3 kind of service in the tabernacle, numbers is also interesting to The curtains of the Tabernacle Put in it the ark for the testimony, as well as the tent pegs for the note; The number one hundred and conceal the ark with the cur- tabernacle and for the courtyard, indicates fullness especially The curtains each speak of tain. 4 Bring in the table, and ar- are to be of bronze.) when it comes to age. A hundred Yeshua Ha-Mashiach and give range its display. Bring in the me- denotes not only what is full; but many insights into his character norah, and light its lamps. 5 Set - The entrance to the holy pla- also, the principle of return or in- and nature. the gold altar for incense in front ce (Exodus 36:37-38; 37 For the crease. of the ark for the testimony, and entrance to the tent he made a "Luke 8:8 8 And other seed fell 1) The linen, speaks of his hu- set up the screen at the entrance screen of blue, purple and scar- into the good soil; and when manity, a man amongst men yet to the tabernacle. 6 Place the al- let yarn and finely woven linen, it came up, it produced fruit a with a special task just as the ent- tar for burnt offerings in front of in colours, the work of a weaver; hundredfold." While saying the- rances had a special task. the entrance to the tabernacle, 38 with its five posts and their se things, He would call out, "He the tent of meeting. 7 Set the ba- hooks. He overlaid their capitals who has ears to hear, let him 2) The colour white of his purity, sin between the tent of meeting and their attached rings for han- hear."" (also see Matthew 13:8; He was the one without sin wit- and the altar, and put water in it. ging with gold, while their five and Mark 4:20). hout stain or blemish (1 Peter 8 Set up the courtyard all the way sockets were of bronze.) The number 10 has the meaning 1:19 on the contrary, it was the around, and hang up the screen of completion and order.) costly bloody sacrificial death of for the entrance to the courty- - The curtain or veil to the holy the Messiah, as of a lamb without ard. 9 Take the anointing oil, and of holies (Exodus. 26:31-33; 31 You may be asking yourself why defect or spot.). anoint the tabernacle and eve- "You are to make a curtain of I should be interested in this I rything in it, consecrate it with blue, purple and scarlet yarn and hope as we continue you will rea- 3) The colour blue of his heavenly all its furnishings; then it will be finely woven linen. Make it with lize that there is much that we origin, He came from heaven alt- holy. 10 Anoint the altar for burnt k’ruvim worked in, that have can gain from understanding the hough born of a woman. offerings with all its utensils, con- been crafted by a skilled artisan. symbolism and significance of all (Philippians 2: 5-9 5 Let your at- secrate the altar; then the altar 32 Hang it with gold hooks on that is spoken of here. titude toward one another be will be especially holy. 11 Anoint four acacia-wood posts overlaid Remember that God said to Mo- governed by your being in uni- the basin and its base, and con- with gold and standing in four sil- ses “be sure to make everything on with the Messiah Yeshua: 6 secrate it. ver sockets. 33 Hang the curtain according to all that I have shown Though he was in the form of below the fasteners. Then bring you on the mountain (Exodus God, he did not regard equality the ark for the testimony inside 25:9)”. with God something to be pos- The Entrances of the Tabernacle the curtain; the curtain will be This should tell us God had a pur- sessed by force. 7 On the contra- the divider for you between the pose and a message “all scriptu- ry, he emptied himself, in that he There were three entrances, and Holy Place and the Especially re is God breathed and given for took the form of a slave by beco- they are: Holy Place.) instruction and teaching (2 Ti- ming like human beings are. And - The gate to the outer court mothy 3:16)”. when he appeared as a human (Exodus. 27:16-19; 16 For the Each of these was made of the being, 8 he humbled himself still gateway of the courtyard there same material a fine white wo- Scripture tells us that these more by becoming obedient even is to be a screen thirty feet long ven linen with Blue, Purple and things were also written for us. to death - death on a stake as a made of blue, purple and scarlet Scarlet threads running through 1 Corinthians 10:11 These things criminal! 9 Therefore God raised yarn and finely woven linen. It the material (Exodus.38:18 The happened to them as prefigura- him to the highest place and should be in colours, the work of screen for the gateway to the tively historical events, and they gave him the name above every a weaver. It is to be on four posts courtyard was the work of a wea- were written down as a warning name;. in four sockets. 17 All the posts ver in colours, of blue, purple and to us who are living in the acharit- all the way around the courtyard scarlet yarn and finely woven li- hayamim (Last days). 1 Peter 1:20 God knew him befo- are to be banded with silver and nen. Its length was thirty feet and re the founding of the universe, to stand in sockets of bronze. 18 its height seven-and-a-half feet Hebrews 8:5 But what they are but revealed him in the acharit- The length of the courtyard is to all the way along, like the tapest- serving is only a copy and shadow hayamim (last days) for your sa- be 150 feet and the width se- ries of the courtyard.). of the heavenly original; for when kes.) 19

4) The colour purple of his appearance did not attract us.). kingship, Yeshua Ha-Mashiach is king of a kingdom not of this - It was overlaid with bronze (Sin world (John 18: 33-39; 33 So and judgment) Note: Bronze in sc- Pilate went back into the head- ripture has a connection with sin quarters, called Yeshua and said and with forgiveness. When the to him, “Are you the king of the Israelites complained and spoke Jews?” 34 Yeshua answered, “Are against God and against Moses, you asking this on your own, or God sent snakes into the camp have other people told you about which bit the people. When they me?” 35 Pilate replied, “Am I a sought forgiveness, Moses was Jew? Your own nation and head told to make a bronze serpent cohanim have handed you over and put it on a pole. The person to me; what have you done?” looking up in faith to the snake on Picture: The Tabernacle in the wilderness. 36 Yeshua answered, “My the pole would live. kingship does not derive its aut- hority from this world’s order of enableing all Israel to enter the rifice' and therefore 'altar' specifi- "Moshe made a bronze snake and things. If it did, my men would court. Entrance to the court was cally means 'a place where sacrifi- put it on the pole; if a snake had have fought to keep me from made by lifting the bottom of the ce is made'. bitten someone, then, when he being arrested by the Judeans. curtain. looked toward the bronze snake, But my kingship does not come Its Size he stayed alive." Numbers 21:9 from here.” 37 “So then,” Pilate 1) There was only one access into said to him, “You are a king, after the tabernacle and there is only - It was foursquare having four In the new covenant scriptures, all.” Yeshua answered, “You say I one way into the presence of God equal sides (has the meaning of we see the link between this and am a king. The reason I have been and that is through Yeshua Ha- unlimited) faith in the Lord Yeshua Christ, born, the reason I have come into Mashiach who said: the world, is to bear witness to - It was 5 cubits square (5 is the "John 3:14-15 14 Just as Moshe the truth. Every one who belongs 2) This entrance “the Gate” was number of grace) which repre- lifted up the serpent in -the de to the truth listens to me.” 38 Pi- wider than any of the others. The sents man’s inability because he sert, so must the Son of Man be late asked him, “What is truth?” width of the entrance shows that needs God’s breath of life without lifted up; 15 so that everyone God makes grace available to all, which we cannot live (Acts 17:28 who trusts in him may have eter- Having said this, Pilate went to whosoever will enter in. 28 'for in him we live and move nal life." outside again to the Judeans and exist.' Indeed, as some of the and told them, “I don’t find any 3) To enter one had to bend poets among you have said, 'We The metal bronze is also as- case against him. 39 However, down to go under the curtain. are actually his children.') sociated with armour and the you have a custom that at Pas- This bowing to enter shows a trusting in human strength. For sover I set one prisoner free. Do right attitude of heart, for when - It was 3 cubits high the num- example, Goliath wore a helmet you want me to set free for you we come to Yeshua Ha-Mashiach ber 3 (Gods provision, fully and and armour of bronze, yet was the ‘king of the Jews’?”). When we come humbly in need of a sa- completely) defeated by David, who trusting Yeshua said that his kingdom viour. The man who will not bow in God, slew Goliath with a sto- was not of this world, he did not his knee and his heart to Yeshua Its Nature ne. mean that his kingdom was not Ha-Mashiach cannot enter in. on earth. The kingdom is where - It was made of acacia wood (in- "1 Samuel 17:4-6 4 There came ever the King is obeyed, where- Between the entrance to the destructible) Note: Symbolism: out a champion from the camp of ver he sits on the throne of men's court and the entrance to the Indestructible the P’lishtim named Golyat, from hearts. holy place we find; Gat, who was two meters ninety- Acacia trees and acacia wood seven centimetres tall. 5 He had 5) The colour scarlet represen- As I explain for some all of this has taken on meaning beyond a a bronze helmet on his head, and tative of his suffering and death, may feel that all the detail is this common wood used in construc- he wore a bronze armour plate Peter captures the thought here not just too much. I have disco- tion. The acacia wood used as weighing 54,5 kilograms. 6 He in saying "it was not with .... silver vered that it is often in the detail the foundation of the Taberna- had bronze armour protecting his and gold you were redeemed..... that we see how great and how cle symbolizes the humanity of legs and a bronze javelin between but with the precious blood of wonderful is our God. Yeshua while the gold overlay his shoulders." Yeshua Ha-Mashiach" (1 Peter As in many great paintings it of the boards and poles symbo- 1:17-23). is the detail that makes us say lizes Yeshua‘s deity. Isaiah desc- The use of bronze in the construc- ”wow isn’t that wonderful”. In His ribed Yeshua as “a root out of tion of the Tabernacle taught The Entrance to the Court Is word God is often painting a pic- dry ground” similar to the acacia a lesson about the human ten- Called the Gate of the Court ture for us. tree growing out of arid desert dency to sin and the need for re- soil (Isaiah 53:2 For before him demption, through sacrifice, that It was the only way into the court The altar of sacrifice. he grew up like a young plant, is the death of human nature. and was also known to the Israe- like a root out of dry ground. He Yeshua overcame human natu- lites as “WAY". It was wider than In Hebrew the word for altar is was not well-formed or especially re and sin, submitting Himself in each of the other entrances and based on a verb meaning 'to sac- handsome; we saw him, but his perfect service to His Father's will 20

"Hebrews 10:3-5 3 No, it is qui- it was made from mirrors given lism of gold in scripture? for genuineness by fire. The pur- te the contrary - in these sacri- by the women: When we come pose of these trials is so that your fices is a reminder of sins, year to the Word of God, the Bible, it 1. Wisdom and knowledge trust’s genuineness, which is far after year. 4 For it is impossible is to us a mirror for our soul that more valuable than perishable that the blood of bulls and goats will cleanse us if we are willing to A good name is worth more than gold, will be judged worthy of should take away sins. 5 This is apply its purifying water to our fine gold and seeking the wisdom praise, glory and honour at the why, on coming into the world, lives. and knowledge of God is of far revealing of Yeshua the Messiah." he says, “It has not been your will Ephesians 5:26 26 to make her more value than riches of gold "Revelation 3:18 My advice to to have an animal sacrifice and holy, cleansing her by the wa- or silver. The only way to gain a you is to buy from me gold refin- a meal offering; rather, you have shing with water through the 'good name' in the sight of God is ed by fire (tried and tested faith), prepared for me a body." word, by learning His Word and having so that you may be rich; and whi- 2 Corinthians 3:18 So all of us, the wisdom to put it into practice. te clothing, so that you may be - It was of the earth (But not man- with faces unveiled, see as in a "Proverbs 22:1 Rather than dressed and not have to be asha- made the design came from God) mirror the glory of the Lord; and wealth, choose a good reputati- med of your nakedness;" Exodus 25:40 See that you make we are being changed into his on, esteem over silver and gold. them according to the design very image, from one degree of "Proverbs 8:10 Receive my Between the entrance to the Holy being shown you on the moun- glory to the next, by ADONAI the instruction, rather than silver; place and the Holy of Holies we tain. Spirit. knowledge, rather than the finest find; gold." The Menorah The Laver (Basin) For Washing The Entrance to the Tabernacle "Proverbs 16:16 How much bet- or the Holy Place Is Called the ter than gold it is to gain wisdom! Jewish Tradition The laver was placed between Door of the Tabernacle Yes, rather than money, choose the curtain of the Holy Place and to gain understanding." Still today the Jews use pure oli- the altar. It was hung on 5 pillars made ve oil (shemen zayit) to light the of acacia wood, which stood in Gold also refers to those who im- menorah because it is the finest (1) It came after the altar (sacri- bronze sockets, this shows that part the wisdom and knowledge quality to be found. The word fice first) this entrance is part of the court. of God to others who are willing shemen is an acronym for: The altar always came first for the Yet the tops of the pillars were to learn shemen - oil priest. Salvation and then servi- plated in gold, showing that the Proverbs 25:12 12 Like a gold ear- mizayit- from olives ce. God was approached by way curtain was a part of the holy ring, like a fine gold necklace is a nivhar - chosen of the blood of sacrifice and the place. This was truly a cross over wise reprover to a receptive ear. The first Hebrew consonant of water of cleansing. point and only priests were able each word spells shemen. to enter through the door into 2. Faith (2) It came before the door (wash the tabernacle. It was the high priest alone who before entering) The nation of Israel which should trimmed and dressed the lamp. The door separated the earthly have learned the spiritual lessons He alone was responsible for the Within the door of the Holy Pla- from the heavenly. The wood be- of the Tabernacle and Law of Mo- light shining. ce were vessels that represented comes gold and the bronze beca- ses failed to do so, they lacked All day and all night, whether God Himself. No priest would me silver. The Israelites knew this faith thus Jeremiah writes in La- anyone was present or not, the- dare to enter with any trace of door as "TRUTH". mentations: se seven lamps constantly lit up uncleanness. "Be holy as I am "Lamentations 4:1-2 1 How the the glory of the Holy Place and holy" was commanded to the 1) Through His offer Yeshua Ha- gold has lost its lustre! How the especially on the table of the priests. Mashiach made all sinners priests fine gold has changed! How the showbread as a reminder that and gave access to the spiritual stones of the sanctuary lie scatte- Gods Presence is always with His (3) It came after leaving the Holy reality not experienced by the red at every street corner! 2 The people. Place (wash before going out) world, yet they can only enter precious sons of Tziyon, as precio- through him. us as fine gold—to think they are The Menorah stands for light, In the outer court, everything now worth no more than clay jars wisdom, and Divine inspiration. was bronze. Inside the Holy Place 2) This is the place of revelation made by a potter!!" In this period of darkness (the everything was gold. As the priest where the truth of God, the truth time in which we live), we should came out of God’s Presence and of the universe comes to man. What Do We See In the Construc- remember that we need the light back into service he washed at Not based on Human understan- tion of the Tabernacle? of the world to be in us. the laver. ding or the finite minds of those who were created but on the om- In the Tabernacle construction The Menorah is a seven-bran- Its size (Immeasurable) niscience of God. we see that even though the va- ched candelabrum beaten out of rious items were made of wood, a solid piece of gold that served No measurements or instructions 3) Priest ministers in the Holy Pla- they were overlaid with gold as one of the sacred vessels in the are given as to the shape and ce. Their purpose is to serve and which is incorruptible. This -sym Holy Temple. It stood in the sout- size of the laver. The only thing worship. bolises corruptible human nature hern part of the Temple and was mentioned is that it had a stand overlaid with the gold of a pure lit every day by the High Priest. (Ex 31:9), which made it easier When you enter the Holy place, and refined faith, thus making the Only pure, fresh olive oil of the to wash, and it was made of so- gold becomes the metal of choi- true believer acceptable to God. highest quality was suitable to lid bronze, no wood at all. Also, ce. What are some of the symbo- "1Peter 1:7 ..Even gold is tested light the Menorah. 21

The Seven Lamps per, or communion, to remember of the Menorah this important truth. And today, as in the day of Moses’ taberna- The seven lamps of the Menorah cle, God still desires to have fel- also allude to knowledge, with lowship and sit down for a feast six of the branches representing with His people. human wisdom, guided by the center branch of Divine light. The Revelation 3:20 20 Here, I'm stan- Menorah’s design and the ideas ding at the door, knocking. If so- it communicates endure as an meone hears my voice and opens inspiration for universal enligh- the door, I will come in to him and tenment. eat with him, and he will eat with me. Since God dictated the creation of the Menorah from 100 per- Picture: The entrance to the Holy of Holies. The Golden Altar of Incense cent pure gold, we should strive for “solid gold” with regard to - The sweet incense was to be our motives and behavior. In ot- cause its literal meaning is 'bread Eating together often is an act of kept burning at all times. her words, our shining character of the face', i.e. bread set out be- fellowship. God was willing for traits on the inside should reflect fore the face or presence of God. man to enter into His presence to - It was before the veil, and the the holy actions we take on the fellowship with Him, and this invi- throne of God (Yeshua for us) outside, and vice versa. In this • Fine Flour (representing from tation was always open. way, the Menorah teaches us to the earth) The golden altar of incense tells bring out every soul’s inner Divi- • Baked (representing agony and Yeshua exemplified this when He us of the ministry of Yeshua as ne light so that we shine internal- suffering) ate with tax collectors, prostitu- our intercessor whose prayers ly and externally. • Unleavened (representing tes and the sinners of Jewish so- never stop ascending to God on nothing artificial) ciety. But this was more than just our behalf. Yeshua said to Peter, The Menorah’s structure also • Two-tenths (two deals of ten) a gesture of friendship on earth. "I have prayed for you." inspires us to embrace holiness. • Sprinkled with pure frankincen- Yeshua came to call sinners to The Menorah begins with a cent- se (symbolic of priesthood) Him, make them right with God, The four horns speak of the ral stem that branches outwards, so that they could enjoy everlas- Messiah’s ministry extending to just as our demeanor, behavior, The table of showbread was a ting fellowship with God. the four corners of the earth. He personality, and especially good small table made of acacia wood will always pray for His own no deeds should branch out and in- and overlaid with pure gold. It John 6:35 35 Yeshua answered, matter where they are. He can fluence others to illuminate the measured 91.5 cm by 46 cm and "I am the bread which is life! intercede on our behalf because world around us. was 69 cm high. It stood on the Whoever comes to me will never of the atoning work on the cross right side of the Holy Place across go hungry, and whoever trusts in of Calvary. “John 8:12 Yeshua spoke to them from the lampstand and held 12 me will never be thirsty. … John The incense was fuelled by the again: “I am the light of the world; loaves of bread, representing the 6:49-50 9 Your fathers ate the fire from the altar. It is not just whoever follows me will never 12 tribes of Israel. man in the desert; they died. 50 anyone praying for us but the walk in darkness but will have the But the bread that comes down King Himself as represented by light which gives life.”" The priests baked the bread with from heaven is such that a person the crown of gold. He knows our fine flour and it remained on the may eat it and not die. weaknesses and our failings and “Matthew 5:14-16 14 “You are table before the Lord for a week; He is praying for us always. light for the world. A town built every Sabbath day the priests God so desires our fellowship on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 would remove it and eat it in the that He was willing to come to The Entrance to the Holy of Ho- Likewise, when people light a Holy Place, then put fresh bread earth from heaven as our “bread lies Is Called the Veil of lamp, they don’t cover it with a on the table. Only priests could of life” to give eternal life to all the Tabernacle bowl but put it on a lampstand, eat the bread, and it could only those who would partake in it. At so that it shines for everyone in be eaten in the Holy Place, becau- Yeshua’ last Passover meal with It was made of the same materi- the house. 16 In the same way, let se it was holy. His disciples, Yeshua described als as the other but was embroi- your light shine before people, so Himself as bread again: dered with cherubim as were the that they may see the good things “Showbread” also was called walls, as explained earlier, but it you do and praise your Father in “bread of the presence” because Matthew 26:26 26 While they is popularly believed there were heaven." it was to be always in the Lord’s were eating, Yeshua took a piece two cherubim with their wings presence. The table and the of matzah, made the b'rakhah, touching. The veil was hung on The Table of Showbread bread were a picture of God’s broke it, gave it to the talmidim four pillars of acacia wood that or Bread of Presence willingness to fellowship and and said, "Take! Eat! This is my were gold plated and stood communion (literally speaking, body!" upright in silver sockets. The veil The historian Josephus indicates sharing something in common) divided the tabernacle into two, that the bread was unleavened. with man. It was like an invitation Yeshua’ broken body is our only the holy place at the front 20 x10 This bread is sometimes referred to share a meal, an extension of access to fellowship with God. To- cubits and the holy of Holies that to as being the 'showbread' be- friendship. day, we celebrate the Lord’s Sup- became a room 10 cubits long x 22

10 cubits wide x 10 cubits high. ry of God 27:51 At that moment the parok- can we know the way “he answe- Only the high priest was able to het in the Temple was ripped in red "I am the WAY, the TRUTH go beyond the veil and then only It therefore shut man out from two from top to bottom; and the- and the LIFE. No one comes to once a year on the Day of Atone- the life of God and the reality of re was an earthquake, with rocks the father except through me." ment. eternal life itself. Just as the che- splitting apart., (John 14:5-6). The veil which means "to hide or rubim guarded the way to the conceal" hid from view the Ark of tree of life (Gen.3:24), so the che- Hebrews 10:19-20; 19 So, brot- Yeshua was explaining that he the Covenant and the mercy seat. rubim guarded the way to the life hers, we have confidence to use was the three entrances into of God. the way into the Holiest Place God's presence. That access to It also acted as a barrier It is no surprise to learn that the opened by the blood of Yeshua. God the Father is found only in Israelites knew the veil by the 20 He inaugurated it for us as a Yeshua Ha-Mashiach the Son. a) The veil was a barrier that shut name “LIFE". new and living way through the man out from God's presence; it parokhet, by means of his flesh.), allowed no approach to God. 1) The cherubim of the veil pro- It was torn from top to Bottom, tecting the means to life (Gen from above to below showing Roger Finch is an English born b) The veil formed a barrier that 3:24), all approach to God for that this opening of the way to missionary pastor with Israel in barred mans approach to the only the righteous could enter. God came from God. his heart, living in Finland, rese- mercy seat 2) The veil torn from top to bot- arching and teaching the roots of c) It concealed from man the glo- tom at the crucifixion (Matthew 3 When Yeshua was asked "how our faith. **********

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Written by: to them: The LORD will roar from to invalidate Trump´s decision. against God, and they will be jud- Keijo Lindeman on high; he will thunder from his The most fanatic radical Muslims ged (Isa. 60:13; Matt.5:34-35). holy dwelling and roar mightily (such as Hamas militants) do not Joel also prophesies that trying ”For we know in part and we against his land. He will shout even acknowledge the existence to divide the land of Israel brings prophesy in part” (1 Cor.13:9). like those who tread the grapes, of the state of Israel, and they are judgment on the nations, and the shout against all who live on the prepared to violence and war to Lord will judge every nation that ”This is the word of the LORD earth. The tumult will resound deliver Israel and Jerusalem from tries to divide the land of Israel concerning Israel. The LORD, who to the ends of the earth, for the Zionist occupiers, as they put it. and touch Jerusalem with evil in stretches out the heavens, who LORD will bring charges against The European Union also objects their minds (Joel 3:1-3 or 4:1-3). lays the foundations of the earth, the nations; he will bring judg- to US President´s decision and is and who forms the spirit of man ment on all mankind and put the prepared to support the estab- The generals of Israel and within him, declares: I am going wicked to the sword”(Jeremiah lishment of a Palestinian State on the atom war to make Jerusalem a cup that 25:15-18, 28-31,NIV). the Westbank area, with eastern sends all the surrounding peoples Jerusalem as its capital. ”On that day I will strike every reeling (Hebrew saf ra´al = a cup Jerusalem is built like a city that horse with panic and its rider of poison). Judah will be besieged is closely compacted together. Israel, on the other hand, is happy with madness”, declares the as well as Jerusalem. On that day, That is where the tribes go up, about President Trump´s decision LORD. ”I will keep a watchful eye when all the nations of the earth the tribes of the LORD, to praise and considers Jerusalem as its over the house of Judah, but I are gathered against her, I will the name of the LORD according undivided capital, whose history will blind all the horses of the make Jerusalem an immovable to the statute given to Israel. as the capital of a Jewish state is nations. Then the leaders of Ju- rock (Hebrew even ma´amasa = a There the thrones for judgment as old as 3000 years, ever since dah (Hebrew alufei Jehudah= the heavy stone, a heavy burden-sto- stand, the thrones of the house the days of King David. According princes or generals of Judah) will ne) for all the nations. All who try of David”(Psalm 122:3-5,NIV). to the Psalm 122 Jerusalem is ”a say in their hearts, `The people to move it will injure themselves” closely compacted” (undivided) of Jerusalem are strong, becau- (Zechariah 12:1-3,NIV). Finland celebrated its 100 years capital, where ”the thrones for se the LORD Almighty is their of independence on December judgment stand, the thrones of God.´ ”On that day I will make ”This is what the LORD, the God 6th 2017. On that same day US the House of David”. the leaders of Judah (Hebrew alu- of Israel, said to me: Take from President Donald Trump recog- fei Jehudah= generals of Judah) my hand this cup filled with the nized Jerusalem as the capital of Zechariah´s and Jeremiah´s like a brazier in a woodpile, like wine of my wrath and make all Israel and promised to transfer prophecies are becoming true. a flaming torch among sheaves. the nations to whom I send you US embassy from Tel Aviv to Je- Jerusalem is about to become a They will consume right and left drink it. When they drink it, they rusalem, according to his election bone of contention, an intoxica- all the surrounding peoples, but will stagger and go mad because promise. ting cup of poison, a cup filled Jerusalem will remain intact in of the sword I will send among with wine of wrath, and an im- her place. The LORD will save the them. So I took the cup of the After the decision of the US a few movable rock to the nations sur- dwellings of Judah first, so that LORD´s hand and made all the other countries, such as Guate- rounding Israel and even to all the honour of the house of David nations to whom he sent me mala, Czech and Hungary, plan to nations. and of Jerusalem´s inhabitants drink it: Jerusalem and the towns transfer their embassies to Jeru- may not be greater than that of of Judah, its kings and officials, to salem. The decision made by the The Temple Mount is a very sen- Judah. On that day the LORD will make them a ruin and an object US has caused much anger and sitive area in religious sense. All shield those who live in Jerusa- of horror and scorn and cursing, protest in the Arab union who those who try to move that Jeru- lem, so that the feeblest among as they are today… But if they demand cancellation of that de- salem rock will injure themselves them will be like David, and the refuse to take the cup from your cision. badly. There comes a time when house of David will be like God, hand and drink, tell them: This God will make the surrounding like the Angel of the LORD going is what the LORD Almighty says: President Trump´s decision has nations and eventually all nations before them. On that day I will set You must drink it! See, I am begin- been widely criticized in the Mus- drink that cup of God´s wine of out to destroy all the nations that ning to bring disaster on the city lim world. Palestinians insist on wrath. All nations have to drink attack Jerusalem”(Zechariah 12: that bears my Name, and will you having their own state with eas- that cup of God´s wine of wrath, 4-9,NIV). indeed go unpunished? You will tern Jerusalem as its capital, and even those who don´t want to. not go unpunished, for I am cal- they are furious about President This text speaks about the lea- ling down a sword upon all who Trump´s decision because accor- Jerusalem is the place of God´s ders of the tribe of Judah. The ori- live on the earth, declares the ding to them it debilitates their feet and the city of the great ginal Hebrew text uses the word LORD Almighty. Now prophesy all chances to reach their goal. The King, and when the nations rise alufei Jehudah, which in modern these words against them and say United Nations make their most to attack and divide her, they rise Hebrew has the meaning ”gene- 24 rals of Judah”, who will play a de- milar plague will strike the horses Canaan will possess the land, as be delivered from enemy occupa- cisive role in this war, consuming and mules, the camels and don- far as Zarepath; the exiles from tion and returned to Israel. Along like a brazier and a flaming torch keys, and all the animals in those Jerusalem who are in Sepha- with Samaria also the areas of the surrounding peoples who camps” (Zechariah 14:12-15,NIV). rad (Hebrew sfarad = Spain) will Esau in southern Jordan will be attack Israel. The horses of the possess the town of the Negev. connected to Israel, as Obadiah nations will be struck with panic The attacking forces will get in a Deliverers will go up on Mount prophesies. Sefardic Jews, des- and the riders with madness. The state of utter chaos and start figh- Zion to govern the mountains of cendants of so called Anusim Book of Revelation speaks about ting against each other. The atom Esau. And the kingdom will be the Jews of Spain, Portugal, Brazil flying war horses, i.e. fighter pla- weapons of the generals of Judah LORD´s”(Obadiah 19-21,NIV) and the rest of South America, nes. will destroy them. Zechariah´s and other countries, who were description refers to the use of ”He will raise a banner for the na- forced to convert, will come and ”The locusts like horses prepared neutron bombs whose explosive tions and gather the exiles of Isra- settle the ”Sepharad”, the Negev. for battle. On their heads they power doesn´t do much dama- el; he will assemble the scattered wore something like crowns of ge to buildings or infrastructure, people of Judah from the four The areas of Edom and Moab in gold, and their faces resembled but their neutron radiation kills/ quarters of the earth. Ephraim´s southern and central Jordan will human faces. Their hair was like rots all the animate. By the way, jealousy will vanish, and Judah´s be in Israel´s possession. Accor- women´s hair, and their teeth the scientist who developped the enemies will be cut off; Ephraim ding to Zechariah, Gilead, the were like lions´ teeth. They had neutron bomb was a Jew called will not be jealous of Judah nor area towards Syria and northern breastplates like breastplates of Samuel Cohen. Judah hostile toward Ephraim. Jordan from Golan, as well as iron, and the sound of their wings They will swoop down on the slo- Lebanon, will be connected to was like the thundering of many Psalm 83 also speaks about this pes of Philistia to the west; toget- Israel for the Exodus of the End horses and chariots rushing into battle and names the attacking her they will plunder the people times. The peninsula of Sinai in battle” (Revelation 9:7-9,NIV). nations: Edom, Moab and- Am to the east. They will lay hands the south will be Israeli area as mon, i.e. Jordan, the Hagrites, on Edom and Moab, and Ammo- far as the river of Egypt, probably In that war the technology of the i.e. Egypt (Hagar was Abraham´s nites will be subject to them. The even up to the Nile, as God had enemy´s planes fails, their system Egyptian concubine), Gebal and LORD will dry up the gulf of the promised Abraham. That is how goes blind and confused and the Tyre, i.e. Lebanon, Assur, i.e. Egyptian sea; with a scorching God will enlarge, as the result of pilots won´t be able to control Syria, and Irak, and Philistia, i.e. wind he will sweep his hand over the storms of war, the land of Is- the planes any more. The pilots Palestinians. Egypt and Jordan, in the Euphrates River. He will break rael for the return of the End time themselves get mad. One may spite of their peace treaty with Is- it up into seven streams so that Exodus Jews. ask if Israel has such superior rael, are in the enemy lines. Tho- men can cross over in sandals. military technology that she can se who attack Israel want to wipe There will be a highway for the Something happens that causes throw in disorder the information out the name of Israel from the remnant of his people that is left a wave of global antisemitism technology of enemy planes in a face of the earth, and take pos- from Assyria, as there was for and hatred against Israel, which way to make their system go wild, session of the dwellings of God, Israel when they came up from will compel the Jews to flee the or is it God working there His mi- i.e. Jerusalem. Egypt”(Isaiah 11:12-16,NIV) persecutions to the land of Israel, racles, or both. so that no Jew will be left among The Psalm tells us that the ene- ”I will signal for them and gat- the nations (Jeremiah 16:14-16; All will culminate in an atom war. mies of Israel will be destroyed. her them in. Surely I will redeem Zechariah 2:6-8; Ezekiel 39:28). The atom fire sent by the - gene The fire will burn the attacking them; they will be as numerous rals of Judah will consume the forces and the destruction and as before. Though I scatter them Why does the Devil want to take attacking nations surrounding shame of the attacking nations among the peoples, yet in distant Jerusalem and destroy Israel? Israel, and the devastation will will be great, and God gets the lands they will remember me. be huge. In chapter 14 Zechariah glory. They and their children will sur- The devil knows that when speaks about the use of atom vive, and they will return. I will Yeshua the Messiah returns to weapons. The land area of Israel will bring them to Gilead and Leba- Jerusalem on the Mount of Oli- enlarge as a result of the war non, and there will not be room ves the time of his judgment has ”This is the plague with which the enough for them. They will pass come. The devil is well aware that LORD will strike all the nations ”The LORD will save the dwellings through the sea of trouble: the he and his troops will be thrown that fought against Jerusalem: of Judah first, so that the honour surging sea will be subdued and to the Abyss for a thousand yea- Their flesh will rot while they of the house of David and of all the depths of the Nile will dry rs, after which he will be released are still standing on their feet, Jerusalem´s inhabitants may not up. Assyria´s pride will be brought for a short time to raise a last re- their eyes will rot in their sockets, be greater than that of Judah” down and Egypt´s scepter will volt against Jerusalem, but he will and their tongues will rot in their (Zechariah 12:7,NIV). pass away. I will strengthen them be overcome and thrown into the mouths. On that day men will be in the LORD and in his name they lake of burning sulphur with his stricken by the LORD with great ”People from the Negev will oc- will walk, declares the LORD” troops,as the Book of Revelation panic. Each man will seize the cupy the mountains of Esau, the (Zechariah 10:8-12,NIV). chapter 20 tells us (Matt.25:41). hand of another, and they will people from the foothills will The devil has no power to resist attack each other. Judah too will possess the land of the Philisti- The area occupied by Palesti- the Almighty God, but he tries to fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of nes. They will occupy the fields of nians is called Westbank, but in prevent the judgment from fal- all the surrounding nations will Ephraim and Samaria, and Benja- the Bible that area belongs to ling on him by taking Jerusalem in be collected – great quantities of min will possess Gilead. This com- Judah and Samaria. According to his control and inciting the -ene gold and silver and clothing. A si- pany of Israelite exiles who are in Zechariah the area of Judah will mies of Israel against Jerusalem 25 and Israel. The devil tries to put from the LORD´s hand double when fishermen coax and hun- In the last moments before the obstacles in order to achieve that (Hebrew kiflaim: twice as much) ters (persecutors) chase the Jews Messiah´s coming the people of there would be no people of Isra- for all her sins”(Isaiah 40:1- as to make them return to Israel, Israel will be refined in fire in -or el in Jerusalem to shout ”Blessed 2,NIV). God will first revenge them two der to make them a holy people be He who comes in the Name times their iniquities and sins. of priests in the Messiah´s Millen- of the Lord!”, in which case the There are many interpretations of Isaiah has a similar expression. ial Kingdom of Peace (Revelation Messiah couldn´t return to the Zechariah´s text. Before the time of consolation 20; Isaiah 61:4-6). The Church of Mount of Olives. The schemes of One of them explains that two for Israel and Jerusalem in the the Lord will also be purified and the devil will fail, however, becau- thirds of mankind will perish in End time, the Jewish people has refined in fire, so that it would se the God of Israel is Alknowing the End time judgments and one had twice (Hebrew kiflaim) for be holy and blameless for the and Almighty and takes care of third is left. This interpretation her sins from the Lord´s hand. Messiah´s coming and the taking His people Israel. can hardly be right because the up of the Church (Ephesians 5:25- context of the text is clearly the This has come true two times: 27). Israel will be purified through Jewish people and Israel. twice has the land of Israel and fire to be a people of priests the Temple been destroyed, twi- Israel will repent in According to another interpre- ce has the people been sent to the synagogues ”In the whole land”, declares the tation this prophecy came true exile. The first time it happened LORD, ”two-thirds will be struck in the year 70, when the Roman in two parts. ”And I will pour out on the house down and perish; yet one-third troops occupied Jerusalem and First the northern part of the di- of David and the inhabitants of will be left in it. This third I will destroyed the Temple. Two thirds vided Israel, the ten tribes or Ef- Jerusalem a spirit of grace and bring into the fire; I will refine of Jews were killed in those batt- raim, i.e. Joseph, were deported supplication. They will look on them like silver and test them like les and one third was taken capti- to Assyria in 722 BC. The sout- me, the one they have pierced gold. They will call on my name ve to be sold on the slave market hern Judah was taken to exile in and they will mourn for him as and I will answer them; I will say, in Rome. Babylon in the days of Nebuchad- one mourns for an only child, and ”They are my people”, and they Zechariah´s prophecy, however, nezzar in 586 BC, and Solomon´s grieve bitterly for him as one grie- will say, ”The LORD is our God” relates to the End times, which, Temple was destroyed. The se- ves for a firstborn son. On that (Zechariah 13:8-9,NIV). in my opinion, shows that this cond time came about in 70 AD: day the weeping in Jerusalem will interpretation has come true the Romans destroyed Jerusalem be great like the weeping of Ha- ”However, the days are coming”, only in part in 70 AD. According and the Second Temple, and sur- dad Rimmon in the plain of Me- declares the LORD, ”when men to the third interpretation two viving Jews were deported to giddo. The land will mourn, each will no longer say, ´As surely as thirds of the Jews have already Rome and sold as slaves among clan by itself, with their wives by the LORD lives, who brought the been destroyed in pogroms, per- the nations, and the land was de- themselves: the clan of the hou- Israelites up out of Egypt,´but secutions and nazi Holocaust in serted for two thousand years. se of David and their wives, the they will say, ´As surely as the Europe and in the whole world. clan of the house of Nathan and LORD lives, who brought the Is- The fourth explanation proposes Now, in the End time, it will be their wives, the clan of the house raelites up out of the land of the that two thirds of the Jews in Isra- the third time; the people of Isra- of Levi and their wives, the clan north and out of all the countries el or elsewhere in the world will el will have to undergo God´s pu- of Shimei and their wives, and where he had banished them.´ perish in the End time, and only rifying fire which cleanses them all the rest of the clans and their For I will restore them to the land one third will survive and receive from their sins and turns their wives. On that day a fountain will I gave their forefathers. ”But now Yeshua as their Messiah. hearts to receive Yeshua, their be opened to the house of David I will send for many fishermen, ” Messiah. The prophet Malachi and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, declares the LORD, ” and they will Which of these, then, is the speaks about this: to cleanse them from sin and im- catch them. After that I will send right interpretation? The original purity. On that day, I will banish for many hunters, and they will Hebrew text gives us some indi- ”See, I will send my messenger, the names of the idols from the hunt them down on every moun- cations in verse eight ”Pi shnaim who will prepare the way befo- land, and they will be remembe- tain and hill and from the crevi- ba jikartu jigvau vehashlishit jiva- re me. Then suddenly the Lord red no more, declares the LORD ces of the rocks. My eyes are on ter ba ja veheviti et hashlishit ba- you are seeking will come to his Almighty, I will remove both the all their ways; they are not hid- esh utstraftim”. ”Pi shnaim” is a temple; the messenger of the prophets and the spirit of im- den from me, nor is their sin con- mathematical term which means covenant, whom you desire, will purity from the land”(Zechariah cealed from my eyes. I will repay ”twice, two times”. This somew- come, says the Lord Almighty. 12:10-13:2,NIV) them double for their wickedness hat difficult text could be transla- But who can endure the day of and their sin, because they have ted as follows: Two times will the- his coming? Who can stand when The Spirit of grace and prayer will defiled my land with the lifeless re be in it destruction and people he appears? For he will be like be poured on the Jewish people forms of their vile images and starve and die, and the third time a refiner´s fire or a launderer´s in those days of distress. They have filled my inheritance with I give up/reject/move back/ ag- soap. He will sit as a refiner and will look upon their Messiah their detestable idols” (Jeremiah ree/forgive there, and bring the purifier of silver; he will purify Yeshua nailed to the Cross and 16:14-18,NIV). third/on the third (time) into the the Levites and refine them like they will receive Him. All Israel fire and purify. gold and silver. Then the LORD will be saved, as Paul writes to ”Comfort, comfort my people, will have men who will bring of- the Romans (Rom.11:25-29). The says your God, speak tenderly to Jeremiah sheds more light on ferings in righteousness and the first to repent will be the house Jerusalem, and proclaim to her the matter in his prophecy. He offerings of Judah and Jerusalem of David, i.e. political leaders of that her hard service has been prophesies that before the great will be acceptable to the LORD, as Israel; the house of Nathan i.e. completed, that her sin has been Exodus from the northern count- in days gone by, as in former yea- prophets; the house of Levi, i.e. paid for, that she has received ry and from other countries, rs” (Malachi 3:1-4,NIV). religious leaders, and the house 26 of Shimei, i.e. government offici- against Israel and Jerusalem. This Book of Revelation suggests this of Egypt and the punishment of als. The whole nation will join in has been happening now all the possiblity, too (Rev. 12:15-16). all the nations that do not go up the repentance with secular and time in the UN, where resolu- The river, or the forces, sent by to celebrate the Feast of Taber- religious leadership. tions are piled one after- anot the enemy to overtake the wife nacles. On that day ”Holy to the her against Israel, and where all Israel, will perish when the earth Lord” will be inscribed on the Special mention is made to ”their nations want to divide the land swallows them like it swallowed bells of the horses, and the coo- wives” several times. This means God has promised to Israel, and the rebellious Korah and his fami- king pots in the LORD ´s house synagogues which maintain the Jerusalem. ly in the days of Moses (Numbers will be like the sacred bowls in orthodox tradition of men and 16). The Mount of Olives will clo- front of the altar. Every pot in Je- women sitting separately. This is Let us consider the situation of se up and swallow the enemies. rusalem and Judah will be holy to to say that when Israel repents, the Kurds, for instance: there The holy ones in their resurrec- the LORD Almighty, and all who synagogues and worship that are about 30 million Kurds, but tion bodies will come with the come to sacrifice will take some takes place in them have an im- they are not allowed to have Messiah to fight against Israel´s of the pots and cook in them. And portant role in Israel getting sa- their own state, while resolutions enemies, to save Israel from on that day there will no longer ved through faith in Yeshua as are continually made to ensure destruction, to judge the un- be a Canaanite in the house of their Messiah. Why synagogues? the Palestinians their own state. godly world and to establish the the LORD Almighty”(Zechariah Because God will not allow the Such is the double standard of Messiah´s Millenial Kingdom on 14:8-11, 16-21,NIV). people of Israel be led astray by antisemitic nations, and it shows earth, as Jude also writes (Jude unbiblical doctrines infiltrated the latent hatred nations harbour 14-15). The end of all will be that the into Christianity by the Roman towards Israel and the God of Is- Messiah establishes a thousand Church. The Israeli people of rael. This hatred will culminate in The Messiah´s Millenial year kingdom, where the resur- priests need to be rooted in bibli- the assault of Gentile nations on Kingdom and the Temple rected holy ones will rule with cal teaching and the model of the Jerusalem and Israel. the Messiah, as it is written in Re- Early Church to be the people of ”On that day living water will flow velation chapter 20, for instance priests in the Messiah´s Kingdom. That is when the Messiah will out from Jerusalem, half to the (Luke 19:11-28). fight against the Gentiles. He rose eastern sea and half to the wes- All nations will gather against into heavens from the Mount of tern sea in summer and in winter. In Jerusalem the third temple Israel and Jerusalem Olives, and that is where He will The LORD will be king over the will be constructed, and the glo- return, according to Acts chapter whole earth. On that day there ry of the Messiah will dwell there ”A day of the LORD is coming one. The Mount of Olives will be will be one LORD, and his name (Isa.2:1-4; Ezek.40-48). The survi- when your plunder will be divi- split in two from east to west to the only name. The whole land, vors of the nations that attacked ded among you. I will gather all form a vast valley, and that may from Geba to Rimmon, south of Israel, and all nations, will come the nations to Jerusalem to fight be the moment for Islamic abo- Jerusalem, will become like the up to Jerusalem and worship the against it; the city will be captu- minations, the Dome of the Rock Arabah. But Jerusalem will be Lord Almighty and celebrate the red, the houses ransacked, and and Al Aqsa, together with Cat- raised up and remain in its pla- Feast of Tabernacles, and learn the women raped. Half of the city holic abominations, to fall down ce, from the Benjamin Gate to the Word of God, the Torah, will go into exile, but the rest of into the ravine. (They may also the site of the First Gate, to the taught by the believing people the people will not be taken from be destroyed through an eart- Corner Gate, and from the To- of priests of Israel. Mount Zion the city. Then the LORD will go hquake.) People will flee to this wer of Hananel to the royal wi- will be the highest mountain on out and fight against those na- valley for shelter. nepresses. It will be inhabited; earth, other mountains will col- tions, as he fights in the day of never again will it be destroyed. lapse, and the earth will be like battle. On that day his feet will Moshe Ben Meir, a late Messia- Jerusalem will be secure… Then plains of the Garden of Eden (Rev. stand on the Mount of Olives, nic pioneer, had an interesting the survivors from all the nations 6, 16). east of Jerusalem, and the Mount theory. The word ”you´ll flee” is that have attacked Jerusalem will of Olives will be split in two from ”nastem” in Hebrew, but as the- go up year after year to worship We are all invited to this wonder- east to west, forming a great val- re was no vocalization, the word the King, the LORD Almighty, and ful Kingdom of the Messiah and, ley, with half of the mountain mo- could be read ”nistam”, which to celebrate the Feast of Taberna- after that, to the eternal- King ving north and half moving south. means ”closes”. According to this cles. If any of the peoples of the dom of God in a new heaven and You will flee (Hebrew nastem= interpretation the people of Isra- earth do not go up to Jerusalem a new earth, the ultimate home you´ll flee) by my mountain val- el will flee (nastem) to the valley to worship the King, the LORD of those whose names are in the ley, for it will extend to Azel. You born through the split in two of Almighty, they will have no rain. Lamb´s book of life (Rev. 21-22). will flee as you fled from the eart- the Mount of Olives, the enemy If the Egyptian people do not go hquake in the days of Uzziah king will come after them, and then up and take part, they will have I urge every one to receive in of Judah. Then the LORD my God the Mount of Olives will close no rain. The LORD will bring on faith Yeshua the Messiah as their will come, and all the holy ones (nistam), and the enemy will be them the plague he inflicts on Saviour and King, and thus have with him” (Zechariah 14:1-5,NIV). destroyed just like the Egyptians the nations that do not go up to part in that final and wonderful in the Sea of Reeds, when they celebrate the Feast of Tabernac- future that awaits those who be- Finally all nations will gather were chasing the Israelites. The les. This will be the punishment long to the Lord. 27 ***Yovel*** 4th issue / February 2018

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”...that all of them may be one (echad)...” Joh. 17:21

Chief editor and layout: Markus Nurmesniemi Writers: Keijo Lindeman (Finland), Dr Clifford Denton (England), Paul Sumner (United States), Markus Nurmesniemi (Finland). Also other writers in this topic is presented. Translators: Pirjo Pulli, Markus Nurmesniemi All the photos taken by: Markus Nurmesniemi (Except the photos about the writers and pictures of Taber- nacle/indoor Temple. The photo of chief editor taken by Marianne Katajisto in Jericho, Israel.) Contact info: [email protected] (e-mail), Mänttä, Finland www.yovel-magazine.com New edition published in every three months. All rights reserved. You may distribute this journal.

Yovel-journal is a publication without any strings attached to any denominations. On our behalf, we are helping The Body of The Messiah to return to the first century practise concerning apostolical -uni ty (echad), communion, agape love and the obedience to the Word of God. Journal is not responsible of possible personal opinions in the writings of our writers. Nor the journal isn´t taking any part of disputes and quarrels. Yovel only seeks to enlighten the return to our Hebrew roots of our precious faith as clear as possible to the delight and benefition of us all, scoping the whole message of The Bible. **********