The cycle of life, both physical and spiritual, continues and as we remember the reason for this Appointed Time /Moed/מוֹעֵד/Festival.
As well as rejoicing in the fulfillment of prophecy recorded in Acts by the outpouring of His Spirit of Holiness; let us take the time to examine our lives and see if our lives truly are a grain of wheat.
Brief summary of the Spring Moedim.
In Leviticus 23, there are two different Hebrew words that translate feast. The first word is Mo-ahd, and is often translated appointed time. Mo-ahd means to set an appointment, as in a set time or season, for a specific assembly or festival. The plural form of mo-ahd is moedim. This particular word for feast refers to the weekly Sabbaths and all the Levitical Holy Days.
Mo-ahd also has a root meaning:
to repeat, and can mean
a signal as appointed beforehand.
There are things that are to be repeated each time the preset appointed time has come. For example: When there is an anniversary, the signals or signs that this date has come is to have a celebration, usually repeated every year. It is the same with the Father’s Appointed Times. The feasts are signals and signs to help us know what is on the heart of the Lord. There’s a large difference in how believers observe the Spring moedim (Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost). These holidays have been fulfilled in the life of Yeshua/Jesus.
In dying on the cross, Yeshua fulfilled the first two festivals. Passover deals with redemption through the death of a lamb.Unleavened Bread is about removing leaven/sin.
The death of the Lamb of God /Passover,
paid the price for our indebtedness and gave us
freedom from sin (Unleavened Bread).
Yeshua’s resurrection from the grave fulfilled the festival/moed of First Fruits. This holiday deals with offering YHVH the first of the produce.
1 Corinthians 15:20“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep
Finally, Pentecost /Shavuot was fulfilled in Acts 2 upon the receiving of the Holy Spirit.
Shavuot/Pentecost deals with the seal of covenant relationship with God as the people received the Law on Mt. Sinai. Yeshua gave us the promise of His Ruach haKodesh/ Spirit of Holiness.
Ephesians 1:13 says, In him you also… were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. His Holy Spirit living inside of us is the fulfillment of Shavuot.
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. John 12:24-26
His statement conveys a powerful and enduring message about life, death, resurrection and transformation. Yeshua/Jesus was speaking in response to the request of a group of Greek seekers, however the time for meeting people and talk had come to an end.
Messiah uses the metaphor of a grain of wheat to illustrate a deeper spiritual truth, because one of the key realities of the Kingdom of the Heavens is that
life springs forth from death.
Yeshua/Jesus was telling those with ears to hear, that the hour had come for Him to be glorified, and that meant He was to die….
…like a kernel of wheat.
He compared His death to
a grain of wheat that falls into the earth and dies,
but produces much fruit.
He uses this metaphor to explain the need
to lose one’s life for His sake and the gospel’s.
John 12:24-26
If a grain of wheat….
Are we a generation of the undead?
Because if a grain of wheat falls to the ground and
does not die
it abides alone.
We are nourished daily by His Word, we eat and we drink in the comforting presence of His Holy Spirit/Ruach haKodesh.
We grow, flourish, and seek to please our Lord and Master. We humble ourselves before our maker, bowing in worship, praise and thanksgiving.
We have been delivered from death forever through the atoning blood sacrifice of the Son, and yet the life we live is lost as long as we remain alive to our old ways and to our self-serving lifestyle.
Has the grain of wheat reached its goal and final destiny?
After standing among the ripened stalk, once it is cut down and bound for the threshing floor, will it attain its full potential if it falls to the ground unnoticed, just laying there, and doing nothing?
Like the grain of wheat, we too have a destiny in Messiah, and it is certain that we will die one way or another; and we cannot go on to fulfill the purpose of our life in Messiah/Christ unless we die to self…. but if we, as that seed, do die, we will bear much fruit.
2 Corinthians 4:10-11 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake so that His life may also be revealed in our mortal body.
As disciples of Messiah we must be
more than fallen grain
because He teaches us that…
He who loves his life will lose it and he who hates his life in this world to life age enduring will keep it.
If all we have become is mature, great looking, immaculate stalks of wheat, we have failed to fulfill our final destiny and goal in Messiah. Growing and maturing in Him is not the ultimate goal, it is and always has been a process, a means to an end. Our end then is to die to ourselves so that we may live for Messiah.
By yielding to His process in us, as we, the old us, decays in the ground like the seed, being tended to by the Master Farmer, our life will bear much fruit. Only in this death will we live and that happens when we give ourselves away to serving others, in turn producing a new crop of grain that will soon be ripe for the harvest.
Messiah teaches us that if anyone serves Him,
let him follow me and where I am there also my servant will be.
John 12:26
Yeshua/Jesus was the first to die and He was also the first to bear fruit, us, we are the fruit; and that includes every one who trusts in Him from that resurrection day until He returns. As we serve Him, let’s accept the invitation to follow and be with Him, including being buried with Him in His death and as much as we are raised from the dead in His life. Let’s no longer be the undead following Him, those who are still abiding alone and yet failing to live, by not pouring into others the resurrection life that was given for us.
Let us serve the master, not so that our Heavenly Father will honor us, but instead let’s fall to the ground and die, so that we will finally be the generation that bears much fruit.
We must allow him to make us useful so that we will be
more than a fallen grain of wheat
and let Him show us how to follow Him into death of self that we may finally live the life we have been raised with Him to live.
For new readers there are many posts on Shavuot which can be accessed from homepage.
Chag same’ach.
(pronounced: KHAHG sah-MAY-ach)
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
In reading the scriptures there are many names we may not be familiar with, one of those is
Jesurun or Ysehurun/ ישׁהרנ.
Who exactly is Jeshurun ישׁרונ ?
The name is only referenced four times in the TaNaKH/Old Testament and most scholars agree that it’s a term of endearment that our Heavenly Father uses for Yisrael/Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:15; 33:5; 33:26 and Isaiah 44:2.
Deuteronomy 32:15: “But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Thou are waxen fat and thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness, then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.”
Isaiah 44:1 But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen. 2 This is what the LORD who made you And formed you from the womb, who will help you says, ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant; And Jeshurun (Israel, the upright one) whom I have chosen.
In Deuteronomy 33:5, it is used to describe the ideal kingship of God over Israel: “So the LORD became King in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people gathered, together with the tribes of Israel.”
Translations from Aramaic: Lamsa Bible Thus says the LORD that made you and formed you from the womb and helped you: Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Israel, whom I have chosen.
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Thus says LORD JEHOVAH who made you, and he formed you in the womb, and he helped you: “Do not be afraid, my Servant, Yaqob, and Israel, whom I have chosen
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Jeshurun means: straight or upright.
3484 [e] wî·šu·rūn וִישֻׁר֖וּן and you Jeshurun
3484 Yeshurun: Yeshurun
Original Word:יְשֻׁרוּן Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Yshuruwn Pronunciation:yeh-shoo-ROON Phonetic Spelling:yesh-oo-roon’ Definition:Yeshurun Meaning:Jeshurun
There is no direct Greek equivalent for Jeshurun in the Strong’s Concordance, as it is a specific Hebrew proper noun used uniquely in the context of the Old Testament. However, the concept of Israel as YHVH’s chosen and beloved people is echoed in various Greek terms related to the ecclesia and the people of YHVH in the Brit Chadashah/New Testament.
The term Jeshurun appears in the Hebrew Bible as a symbolic name for Israel, emphasizing the nation’s ideal character as upright and righteous before YHVH and it is used in a few key passages to highlight Israel’s special relationship with Him. Jeshurun is a poetic and affectionate name for the nation of Israel/Yisrael.
Original Word:יָשַׁר Part of Speech:Verb Transliteration: yashar Pronunciation:yah-SHAR Phonetic Spelling:yaw-shar’ Definition: To be straight, right, upright, pleasing Meaning: to be straight, even, to be, right, pleasant, prosperous
The name Jeshurun underscores the ideal of Israel as a people chosen by YHVH to live in righteousness and faithfulness; it has the idea of one mindedness with Him. It serves as a reminder of the nation’s calling to embody uprightness and to maintain a covenant relationship with YHVH and is used when He wants to express His affection for Israel/Yisrael.
As we often find when we study the scriptures, there are many interpretations as to what or who the writer is referring to in the word Jeshurun. Some commentators say it is simply a poetic reference to Israel, however the Rabbis teach that the word Jeshurun is a reference to the noblest and best among us; because the word itself comes from the root word yashar which means to be upright or righteous. I Peter 2:5 talks of the priesthood of all believers and we should read it with the understanding that this isn’t just a reference to those in leadership positions, it is a reference to all of us; true believers as His disciples fit the description or definition of a Jeshurun.
The word is spelled with the letters: Yod, Shin and Resh which suggest being filled with the fire of the Fathers Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit, and representing an individual whom the Father has chosen, with special favor to do something in particular for Him. It could be that many readers have had that feeling; that our Heavenly Father has given special favor on their lives and placed on them a call from His Holy Spirit to carry out some specific work? In that case, He has called you Jeshurun.
Jeshurun is also used in a context of rebuke, where Israel/Yisrael, having grown prosperous, is warned against forsaking YHVH: “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, thick, and sleek—he abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.”
Deuteronomy 32:15 starts off with the name Jeshurun and says that this beloved of God had: waxed fat and kicked.
What is our Heavenly Father talking about…
waxing fat and kicking?
Israel, Jeshurun became fat and disrespectful both physically and spiritually. He is saying to them: You have become fat, overfed, stuffed, gorged! They abandoned the One who made them and prospered them and treated the rock of their salvation shamefully. 16 They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. 17 They sacrificed to demons that are not God, to gods they never heard of.
Do we treat our Heavenly Father as some instant wish answering genie, demanding all our dreams to come true?
He is our Heavenly Father, One with Whom we have a love relationship and not a ‘give me what I want now’ relationship.
We all know how parents will pay special attention to a newborn baby giving it everything it wants, however as the child grows older, much of that attention ceases as they must learn to find their own way. This is often the case with new believers and as we grow older in our relationship, the attention which we first received may not seem to be the same. Our Father wants us to look beyond ourselves and see the needs out there in a world that is lost and in darkness. Sadly we become so used to constant attention, that, like those who grew fat and start kicking, when we are not getting an immediate answer to our prayers. Many times we become too attached to the blessings of our Heavenly Father rather than to Him.
Anyone who has any farming experience will know that a well-fed animal, whether a cow/horse/pig/chicken etc., will grow insolent, rebellious and demanding and could well end up kicking or biting their owner if they’re not careful. The animal becomes spoiled and demanding, which is a meaning behind this verse. We too can grow fat and lazy with our Father’s blessings and then when He removes one, we begin to cry, complain and kick. This results in self serving behavior, which is contrary to everything our Savior taught and the results are like that of the well fed livestock. Sadly these traits are some of the dangers of spiritual apathy, our Heavenly Father is simply pointing to our selfishness and we too could end up like Jeshurun, self-absorbed and proud.
In truth each one of us is given special favor from the Father and He has endowed all of us with something special, so we have no need to boast or feel smug. We all serve a unique role in the body of Messiah and no one is more important or special than anyone else.
In taking a closer look at the Hebrew letters in the word for Jeshurun, there is what is called ‘the shadow of the letters’, like an opposite view point or a negative meaning of the Yod, Shin and Resh. This could indicate that we can become unstable and not securely grounded in Him when we allow worldly carnal passions to take us over and influence our decisions and lifestyle. There’s a danger to receiving the Fathers natural blessings in that, we become too attached to them. Would we be able to say what Job did? “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21.
We become too attached to the physical blessings that reflect the prosperity of the world and being successful, e.g. high wages, a house, a car etc., rather than to our Heavenly Father Himself. Perhaps that beautiful house, car etc., was given to us for a special purpose beyond ourselves.
Even though we allow ourselves to become fat, and then kick and scream when we are forced out of our comfort zone, our Heavenly Father still calls us Jeshurun. Despite all our self-centered, selfish demands, we are still His children and He loves us.
InIsaiah 44:2, Jeshurun is used in a comforting promise of YHVH’s care: “This is the word of the LORD your Maker, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.”
He is patient with us and eventually we stop kicking and screaming and begin to appreciate the One that we have forsaken; and to once again deeply respect Him by repenting of our rebelliousness and appreciating all that He has done for us as the Rock of our salvation.
It’s time to be about our Father’s business and not building our own little kingdoms and then having a breakdown when something interrupts our comfortable lifestyle.
As a last thought,Deuteronomy 33:26 praises YHVH’s unique relationship with Yisrael/Israel:
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
As His Jeshurun we are looking to the heavens for that same
rider of the clouds, our help, our refuge and strength.
Let’s not be those Jeshurun who have grown fat and kicked against the Father like a spoiled child, but be the Jeshurun who are straight, right, upright, and pleasing to our Messiah as we continue looking unto Him the author and finisher of our faith because every day our full redemption draws closer.
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
Job 1:9-10: “Then Satan answered the Lord and said: Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast thou made a hedge about him, and about his house and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blest the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land.”
Another reference to the hedge is found in the
Psalms 139:5-6
You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. KJV
You have encircled me behind and in front, And placed Your hand upon me. NASB
You have enclosed me behind and before, And [You have]
Placed Your hand upon me. Amp.
These references profoundly illustrate our Heavenly Fathers deep love and care for us. The imagery evokes feelings of safety, security, and intimate connection with Him.
In the
Berean Standard Bible Version it reads: You hem me in behind and before;
You have laid Your hand upon me.
David write that his confidence is that God “hems him in.”
This idea comes from the Hebrew word tsuwr,
which is often used of
a military siege or fortification.
It has reference commonly to the siege of a city, or to the pressing on of troops in war; and then it comes to mean: to besiege, hem in, closely surround, so that there is no way of escape.
(Qal) to form, fashion, delineate. tsuwr, tsoor; a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile): — adversary, assault, beset, besiege
Another use of the word is noted in Strong’s Hebrew: 6697. צוּר (tsur) — Rock, Cliff, Boulder
From the story of Job we are told that there was a fence, a wall of protection all around him. This was not a physical hedge but one of far greater effectiveness. This hedge was in the spiritual realm because the Lord God had encompassed him about with His love as with a shield, a hedge which could not be broken down by men or demonic attacks. He surrounded him with His almighty power, that no one and nothing could hurt him; He guarded him by His providence and caused his angels to encamp about him; He Himself was a wall of fire around him; the Targum interprets it like this: so thick was the hedge, so strong the fence, that Satan could not find the least gap to get in …
Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him?
This verse suggests divine protection and favor. In ancient Near Eastern culture, ahedgesymbolizedsecurity and safeguarding from harm.The imagery of a hedge indicates our Heavenly Father’s complete protection over Job, in the same way as a shepherd protects his flock. This is mirrored inPsalm 91:4,where Adonai is described as a refuge and fortress. For believers, it emphasizes the belief in our Father’s sovereignty and His ability to shield those who are faithful and their household from evil.
We have a mental picture of what a hedge is probably something like the image below.
In the Hebrew verse in Job, the Hebrew form of the word used here for hedge is sakath, which seems unusual, however there are two possible root words which mean almost the same thing. One is sakak where we get the word Succoth and the other is savak; however if we follow this further in the translation in Hebrew, it’s the word sukah which comes from the same root as sukkah, the Moed/Appointed Time of the Feast of Sukkot/Booths/Tabernacles.
Translators use the root word sakakwhich is spelled Samek, Kaph, Kaph and means a covering of protection and is also a word used for weaving or intermingling. Our Heavenly Father had so intermingled and woven His protection around and into Job, that the enemy could not touch Him without touching Adonai Himself! This meant by threatening Job, it would be the same as threatening YHVH. The scripture in John 14:20 where Messiah says: On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.. is the exact same picture, providing we are keeping His commandments and walking along the narrow way. All promises are conditional and not optional, whether we like it or not the promises are always prefaced with IF…its our choice to comply obey or not.
In a previous post we looked at the moed/feast of Sukkot Tabernacles/booths and the sukkah itself. Link below:
Phonetic Spelling: (sook-kaw’) Definition: a barb, spear
This Hebrew word sukah has other usages. It means protection and covering, but a protection and covering by intermingling and weaving throughout. It is also a word used for intercourse. There is another possible root word, sakah, which comes from the root word savak. This means the same, as far as weaving and intermingling, but this means more like a weaving and intermingling of love.
The enemy knew that he couldn’t touch Job because our Heavenly Father had so intermingled Himself in Job with His love that He couldn’t separate that love from him. However the devil also knew that Job could choose to willingly detach himself from the Father. So one way the devil could try to disentangle this sakah from Job was to attack everything that was important on this earth, which was his family, possessions and reputation. He hoped that Job would willingly /detach from our Heavenly Father’s savak or love and reject His love; however the devil’s plan didn’t work because the love of the Father meant more to Job than anything else on this earth and he held fast to that love.
The only other way was to get Job to un-mingle Himself, by willingly removing the Succoth, and that way was to get him to sin, and to separate his focus away from Adonai so the Father would not be able to keep Himself mingled or woven into Job. By getting Job to focus on things other than his Heavenly Father, such as worldly and carnal problems Job would break the intimate fellowship with Him and this weaving and intermingling that Adonai had with Job would be totally unraveled.
From the text we read that the enemy tried and it didn’t work because Job kept offering sacrifices, kept doing teshuvah, turning back to the Father and continually committing everything back into His hands. Every time the enemy attacked him, Job kept hitting the mark, the devil couldn’t get Job to sin or miss the mark. Sin in Hebrew:חַטָּאָהchaṭṭâʼâh, khat-taw-aw’; or חַטָּאת chaṭṭâʼth; from H2398. Chatah which means: unintentional mistakes or sins. The Hebrew word most often translated as sin in our English Bibles is the word chata’ah (חֲטָאָה), which means “missing the mark,” as an archer might miss his target when shooting an arrow.
The verb שׂוּךְ (sukh) is used in the context of enclosing or shutting in, often implying protection or confinement.
The Hebrew verb שׂוּךְ (sukh) is a primitive root that conveys the idea of entwining or shutting in. This term is used in the Hebrew Bible to describe actions that involve enclosing or surrounding, often with the connotation of protection or confinement. The imagery associated with שׂוּךְ can be likened to the act of weaving or interlacing, creating a barrier or enclosure.
In the Berean Standard Bible, the usage of שׂוּךְ is seen in contexts where yhvh’s protective nature is highlighted, as well as in situations where individuals or groups are enclosed or restricted. The term emphasizes the dual nature of being shut in—both as a means of safeguarding and as a form of limitation.
The concept of being “shut in” by God can be seen as a metaphor for divine protection, where the faithful are surrounded by God’s care and kept safe from harm. On the other hand, it can also imply a form of divine judgment or discipline, where individuals are confined or restricted as a consequence of their actions.
The mention of Job’s household highlights the importance of family and community in ancient times. In the patriarchal society of the Old Testament, a man’s household included not only his immediate family but also servants and extended kin. This reflects the biblical principle that the Father’s blessings often extend beyond the individual to their family and community, as seen in Genesis 12:3 with His promise to Abraham and all that he owns?
The enemy will often attack us at the closest and most precious things to us in this physical, natural earthly realm; he tries to make us voluntarily detach ourselves from this hedge or sakah. We like Job, can also cling to the savak, the love of our Heavenly Father that has intermingled itself in us, because we are in Him and He is in us. That is where the enemy has an advantage over us, because in our natural minds we have a hard time fully comprehending the depth of our Heavenly Father’s love for us.
It is critical that we must make every effort to understand the depths of His love, so when the enemy tries to attack us at our weakest moments we can say “Though He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.”
Job could say this because he really knew and understood the depths of that love. When we are walking in close relationship with our Heavenly Father, there is a hedge of protection around us, He places a protective hedge around His faithful servants, indicating His care and sovereignty over their lives. Satan’s challenge about Job’s faithfulness reminds us of the spiritual battles we as believers face, where our faith is tested. We are to remember that even when our Father allows trials, His ultimate control and purpose remain intact, encouraging trust in His plans. Job’s account encourages believers to maintain integrity and faithfulness regardless of their circumstances.
He seeks to protect all our lives. There is many a hedge that we have hardly ever noticed, and certainly have never valued correctly. Our Heavenly Father has given some of us a hedge in the example and guidance through godly parents and teachers; as well as wholesome companionships. Hedges can also be in the form of the discipline we have at home, in places of education, work and in all of life. Many farmers plant thorns in their hedges and field boundaries to help keep the flocks and herds from leaving the protected areas, and we must not be surprised if Adonai does the same in the hedges He places around us.
A hedge not only shelters, it often keeps us from wandering off in the wrong direction and into danger. Sometimes we don’t like hedges; we want to see what is on the other side and wander where we want to go. Our Father’s way of hedging us in, is not always by sending us blessings which we love to receive, but it is sometimes by sending us sorrow in the form of tests and trials. These things keep us in our place, guarding us from going astray. We have a part to play in maintaining a hedge without holes, where the enemy might gain access; however our loving Heavenly Father is always watching over us to nudge us back to where we should be.
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
Exodus 19:5: Now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my commandments, Then, you will be a peculiar treasure unto me above all the people, for all the earth is mine.”
The Hebrew word for treasure
is segullah
Strongs #5459 segullah:
Possession, treasure, special possession
Original Word:סְגֻלָּה Transliteration:cgullah Pronunciation:seh-goo-LAH Phonetic Spelling: seg-ool-law’ Definition:Possession, treasure, special possession Meaning: wealth derived from an unused root meaning to shut up, implying a special treasure or possession.
Greek #4047 (περιποίησις, peripoiesis): Refers to obtaining or preserving, often used in the New Testament to describe believers as God’s possession (e.g., 1 Peter 2:9).
As the term segullah is used in the Hebrew Bible to denote a treasured possession or a special, valued property; it often refers to the unique relationship between our Heavenly Father and His chosen people, Israel/Yisrael, highlighting their distinct place as His cherished possession among all nations.
In ancient Near Eastern cultures, a king’s segullah, would be his personal treasure, distinct from the wealth of the kingdom. This concept is applied in the Bible to describe Yisrael/Israel’s special status as His chosen people. The idea of being a segullah, emphasizes the covenant relationship between Yhvh and Israel, where Yisrael/Israel is set apart for a unique purpose and destiny.
Yhvh’s valued property, peculiar treasure, which ׳י has chosen (בחר) and taken to himself; always of people of Yisrael/Israel, first. Exodus 19:5 (E; ᵐ5 Greek: λαὸς περιούσιος = Titus 2:14;1 Peter 2:9 λαὸς εἰς περιποίησιν = περιποίησις Ephesians 1:14 compare ׳עַם ס Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy 26:18; later ׳ס alone, Malachi 3:17; Psalm 135:4.
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance lists it as:
jewel, peculiar treasure, proper good, special
Feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to shut up; wealth (as closely shut up) — jewel, peculiar (treasure), proper good, special.
Englishman’s Concordance
sə·ḡul·lāh — 6 Occurrences
Exodus 19:5 HEB: וִהְיִ֨יתֶם לִ֤י סְגֻלָּה֙ מִכָּל־ הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים NAS: My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among KJV: my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: INT: my covenant become possession all the peoples
Malachi 3:17 HEB: אֲנִ֖י עֹשֶׂ֣ה סְגֻלָּ֑ה וְחָמַלְתִּ֣י עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם NAS: that I prepare [My] own possession, and I will spare KJV: when I make up my jewels; and I will spare INT: I prepare possession will spare and
Malachi 3:17 “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Psalm 135:4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
Titus 2:14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
It is because we are a
peculiar treasure
to Him, that our Heavenly Father hears our prayers. It is always to the Jew first- Tribes of Israel and Judah, and then to the Greek/heathen/other gentile nations/ goyim; who are grafted into Yisrael/Israel by the grace of Yahweh through the sacrificial death of Messiah Yeshua haMaschiach.
Exodus 19:5: Now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my commandments, Then, you will be a peculiar treasure unto me above all the people, for all the earth is mine.”
From this verse it is clear that all we have to do is obey His voice and keep His commandments and we become His peculiar treasure. The idea of becoming Yahweh’s treasure should bring us great joy and security, however that word peculiar does sound a little strange and out of the normal descriptions with what Adonai declares to be good.
Usually when we think of treasure, we think of an old pirate’s chest filled with gold coins and fabulous diamonds and precious stones.
Even though being a peculiar treasure sounds good, what does that mean in terms of relationship? A closer look at exactly what a peculiar treasure really is, will help us to understand why our Heavenly Father is so interested in our prayers.
The first thing we need to realize is that the word
peculiar is not in the Biblical text!
This is where studying to show ourselves approved unto the Lord gives us greater insight into some of the words used by the translators. In this instance it was added and became ‘a paraphrase’, by those choosing to translate the words of the scripture for the KJV. They say the Hebrew word
segullah/segal
means a peculiar treasure.
The more correct translation of the Hebrew word in that verse is a treasured possession, and most of the modern translations will render it as such.
That Hebrew word for peculiar treasure –
segullah/segal,
really has the idea of
being a possession.
It is used for something that is highly prized, so from this we can understand that we will be a special possession to our Heavenly Father.
The Hebrew letters (no vowels), for segal are:
samek – gimmel – lamed
The letter S or samek in the word indicates that: this possession is one that is carefully protected and sheltered.
The letter G or gimmel indicates that this is a prized, beloved possession, and
the final letter L or Lamed shows that this is: a possession that He keeps developing and improving or upgrading.
As His peculiar treasure, we are under His protection,
we are beloved and prized and
He keeps developing/maturing us and improving/upgrading us.
As we have studied in previous posts, every Hebrew letter has a numerical value and the numerical value for segal is 93.
Another Hebrew word with a value of 93 is the word for inheritance or heirloom. It has the letters:
Original Word: נַחֲלָה Transliteration: nachalah Pronunciation: nah-khah-LAH Phonetic Spelling: nakh-al-aw’ Definition: Inheritance, possession, heritage, property Meaning: something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion. From nachal (in its usual sense); properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion — heritage, to inherit, inheritance, possession
It is not unusual for us to look at our reflection in the mirror and think that what we see doesn’t look like a very valuable treasure; and in truth we, in our physical bodies, are nothing but dust, formed from the soil, the dirt of the earth. Many individuals are not wealthy or rich in terms of the worlds standards; they are just part of the common everyday people, unknown, uneducated with no recognized accomplishments. However, if anyone obeys the voice of Adonai and His commandments, to Him they are a treasured possesion/heirloom.
To everyone else we may not be worth much of anything but we are a precious possession to Him. The truth is that we are so precious to our Heavenly Father, that He came in the form of His own Son Who died on Calvary’s cross and shed His Blood for what we sometimes perceive as being worthless.
When the enemy is at work with his constant negative whisperings and accusations, we feel we are worthless and of no interest or of value to anyone. That maybe so in the eyes of the world, but our Heavenly Father promises that if we obey His Word and seek His voice; we will be more valuable to Him than any individual who is rated a talented superstar by the worlds standards. If any of the worlds celebrities and elites do not listen and pay attention to Adonai, they will be considered as simply another one of the billions of people that He created and loves, but who don’t listen to or obey His voice. It is truly praise-worthy that those of us who are unknown, and in our own eyes are not worth anything, but we have paid attention to, and listened and obeyed the voice of God; those who have understood ‘shema’, will get His full attention and become His prized, precious possession.
When He was asked what the greatest commandment of the Lord was, Yeshua/Jesus quoted the ve’ahavta portion of the Shema. (שְׁמַע) This is found in Deut. 6:5.
The opening line, “Hear, O Israel,” does not simply mean to let sound waves enter your ears. Here, the word shema means:
to allow the words to sink in, provide understanding, and generate a response — it’s about action.
In Hebrew, hearing and doing are the same thing!
What does it mean to listen/harken or obey the voice of Yahweh? The Hebrew word for voice is qol and means:
to express a thought either out loud or
in some manner to another person.
It seems that not many people hear a kol/voice or hear yahweh’s thoughts out loud these days?
On Mt. Sinai
He did speak out loud
Another instance was at Yeshua’s/Jesus immersion in Matthew 17:5, but in reality, how many of us actually hear the audible voice of Adonai? Since the outpouring of the Fathers Holy Spirit recorded in Acts we have His Spirit abiding within us, this is how we hear His voice. And He has given us His Word, the written Scriptures which also express His thoughts and remembering that Messiah is the Word made flesh. From all that the scriptures reveal to us we are shown that as well as His indwelling Spirit, we must also read His Word, which is to hear His very thoughts; we must read and study His Word to know His thoughts, and by doing that we will know what instructions we are to obey. The full meaning of shema.
For most parents there is nothing they wouldn’t do for their child. They will make sacrifices for their children and if those children listen/harken to their parents voices and godly instructions, they will learn to follow the right path; the narrow Way which leads to a full and successful godly life in Christ/Messiah. Many a mother goes without food herself to make sure her child, her segal, her peculiar treasure, has enough to eat.
Although not all parents provide what our Heavenly Father intended them to be and do and for many reasons; earthly parents are supposed to be His natural illustration of His love for us. When they do not reflect what our Heavenly Father intended it is sometimes hard for us to believe in and trust in the Lord Who we can’t see.
Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:29.
By faith we should try to believe the fact that He would not hesitate to sacrifice anything for us, even to giving His own Son shows how much of a treasure we are to Him.
Our Heavenly Father listens to our prayers because we are His children, His segal, His peculiar treasure.
In our modern vernacular we say peculiar when we think someone or something is weird, strange and abnormal.
Then we apply this meaning to the verses in scripture when in fact the word peculiar is not there.
This may help us when we read that word in a verse, where it says peculiar… we should remember to read it as:
special treasure, His prized, precious possession…
which we most certainly are!
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
Having counted from the Omer, 
In reading the scriptures there are many names we may not be familiar with, one of those is
From the text we read that the enemy tried and it didn’t work because Job kept offering sacrifices, kept doing teshuvah, turning back to the Father and continually committing everything back into His hands. Every time the enemy attacked him, Job kept hitting the mark, the devil couldn’t get Job to sin or miss the mark. 
Exodus 19:5: Now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my commandments, Then, you will be a 
It is because we are a
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