Bringing Forth Treasures Old and New – Part 2

Continued from part one at:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/bringing-forth-treasures-old-new/

We were looking at the actIONs of the apostles and the attributes noted in the scriptures which identified them as: little christs/christians/disciples/apostles.

These are words that should also describe us, and be evident in our lives for the world to see as we follow Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.

obedience

grace

power

boldness

and

glory.

Resuming at

Grace which

we understand as His favor.

Strong’s Hebrew: 2580. חֵן (chen) — favor, grace

Phonetic Spelling: (khane) חֵן

favor, gracious, pleasant, precious, well-favored From chanan; graciousness, i.e. Subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty) — favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-)favoured. 

In Hebrew, chet or chen,

also the place of His presence.

click links for much more on grace

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/back-to-the-future-past-part-2-plus-who-was-eating-bread-on-day-6/

Chet/Chen is represented by the fence and describes a protected garden (Eden), private place, an inner room or a sanctuary…

Recall the pictograph depicting grace as a place, the place of our hiding and the womb where we are conceived and develop before birth. We are in His grace now also and in ‘a womb’ waiting to be reborn into a new resurrected glorified body; then we know we shall be like Him.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:19

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. 1John 3:2

And we will become aware of a new desire in our hearts placed there by our Fathers’ Spirit.

A new direction maybe?

New instructions?

New Fire for His Word?

and the Lord He gives the increase.

Hearing about Him is insufficient.

Reading about Him is not enough.

Thinking we know is not fullness.

We have to be doers,

this is ACTions of the sent ones.

Not readers, talkers and thinkers, but doers of His word.

Just reading will not benefit, especially speed reading! We have to take it in, like real food, chew it and digest it for it to give any benefit of its’ nutrients into our bodies; both physical and spiritual.

We are told to Consider Our Ways in Haggai 1:5-7 

Not Make Excuses.

The people were saying, and giving reasons not to act.

The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt ” (Haggai 1:2).

We Must Get Our Priorities in Order.

The people said that it was not time to rebuild the temple

(Haggai 1:2). …

Remember Our Dependence Upon God. …

Obey the Word of God… Not what people are saying!

5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts;Consider your ways.

Acts 5:36 and 2:39

The CALL is by His spirit and we have the choice to accept or refuse it.

By doing nothing we have refused and usually go on to live a life just like our peers saying to ourselves, ‘this is Gods’ plan for me’…is it because its an easier more comfortable and familiar way?? Four decades ago our Heavenly Fathers’ call came to this life and the message He gave for this servant to share has not changed… Repent… Turn around …come out from the world be saved, delivered, healed, filled with His spirit and make disciples; teaching them to do the same.

Strong’s Hebrew: 7121. קָרָא (qara) — to call, proclaim, read

Imagine, if we, all of our generation had done this, just think how many would be in the Kingdom today…but we always think it’s someone else’s job… we just want to live a nice, comfortable life….BUT… It’s not too late, we have today to share freely what we freely received.

The mission field of a ready harvest is right where you are…

We are not man appointed (vs. 38, 39) and if it’s not by His Spirit, it will fail.

The anointing of His spirit of holiness

by His grace brings the power

manifest through boldness

to witness and to DO

what God has called us to do in His Word.

Obedience in the name of Yeshua/Jesus and by His power we work the works of Him who sent us Yeshua/Jesus.

And by His power to destroy the works of the devil… this is what the power is for and why He came. 

1 John 3:8 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Acts 4:13 Holy BOLDNESS it was obvious they’d been with Yeshua/Jesus…. do people see that in us?

5:29 Obey God rather than man OBEDIENCE

29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

Then Peter . . . answered.

1 that God must be obeyed rather than earthly rulers;

2 God raised up Jesus whom they hanged on the cross;

3 exalted him to his right hand;

4 to be a Prince and Savior, to grant Israel the opportunity to repent, and to obtain forgiveness;

5 that they were witnesses of these facts, and so was the Holy Spirit.

To Hear and Obey

are the essence of the

shema

with which they were all familiar.

6:6,7 Brought INCREASE and BLESSING 6 whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them. 7 Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

6:10 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. 8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen 10And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

the POWER of His Spirit of Holiness is IRRESISTIBLE brings anointing /POWER

 

BOLDNESS attracts GLORY/anointing.

Prov. 28:1+12

The Boldness of the Righteous. 

1 The ungodly man flees when no one pursues: but the righteous is confident as a lion

The righteous are bold as lions.

וְ֝צַדִּיקִ֗ים but the righteous wə·ṣad·dî·qîm

כִּכְפִ֥יר as a lion kiḵ·p̄îr

יִבְטָֽח are bold yiḇ·ṭāḥ.

Proverbs 28:1 doesn’t have in mind that kind of boldness when it says the righteous have it and the wicked don’t. The boldness here is the boldness required for a just/righteous cause. What is it about the wicked that makes them so often flee (in the presence of justice) when no one is pursuing?

Could it be that..

When the righteous 
צַ֭דִּיקִים (ṣad·dî·qîm)

triumph, 
בַּעֲלֹ֣ץ (ba·‘ă·lōṣ)

there is great 
רַבָּ֣ה (rab·bāh)

glory, 
תִפְאָ֑רֶת (ṯip̄·’ā·reṯ)

https://biblehub.com/strongs/proverbs/28-12.htm

Because of the anointing

Strong’s Hebrew: 4886. מָשַׁח (mashach) — to smear, anoint

מְשִׁיחָה. More Hebrew words for anointing. noun מְשִׁיחָה. unction, band, cord, strand, thread

The high priest’s anointment is otherwise designated by the verb kadesh ( qaddesh; “to sanctify”). Indeed, the anointment “sanctifies” the high priest by removing him from the realm of the profane and empowering him to operate in the realm of the sacred, i.e., to handle the holy items.

Thus the Hebrew word mâshach that means to rub with oil also, by implication, means to consecrate. Mâshîyach (a derivative) is translated into the English adjective ‘anointed’ and thus means a consecrated person or thing.

Anointing stands for greatness (Sifre, Num. 117; Yer. Bik. ii. 64 d ): consequently, “Touch not mine anointed” signifies “my great ones.” All the vessels of the tabernacle, also, were consecrated with the sacred oil for all time to come (Num. R. xii.). 

Strong’s Greek: 5545. χρῖσμα (chrisma) — an anointing, unction

From chrio; an unguent or smearing, i.e. (figuratively) the special endowment (“chrism”) of the Holy Spirit — anointing, unction.

The sick were healed, miracles were wrought, demons cast out…

Boldness with great power and grace and obedience

they were told to leave serving tables and give themselves to prayer.

We too must put the Word first place!

Josh 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Acts 6:4 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

Our Heavenly Father has a due time and season.

Be ready to do, or to stop doing, that which He is telling you.

Be open to change, to move on and serve in a deeper way.

Be a doer of His Word – not a hearer only…

ACTS of the apostles and disciples they ACTED.

 מעשי השליחים

The Apostles were Hebrews.

Born and raised Jewish/Hebrew 

so they were taught the language of their families. When Messiah appeared to Paul on the Damascus road, he said that Yeshua/Jesus spoke to him in Hebrew.

Acts 21, it is written about Paul, “He spoke to them in the Hebrew language.” And on his way to Damascus, Paul says, Jesus spoke to him in Hebrew: “I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’”

His Holy Spirit is a gift.

Acts 2:38 39 it’s a promise

Ps 75:6 obedience,

faithfulness and

steadfastness

bring promotion

Streadfastnesss

Strong’s Hebrew: 530. אֱמוּנָה, (emunah)

— firmness איתנות איתנה

faithful set office, stability, steady,

What Does The Word ‘Steadfast’ Mean In Hebrew?

aman-

to be firm, faithful, true, to trust; have belief; to believe.

This word indicates that a subject is lasting or enduring. Also, it signifies being firm or trustworthy.

 I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house!! Is.22:23-25

peg – vav – hook.

HA SH’KHINAH {SHEKINAH}

is Hebrew for

GOD’S ABIDING, DIVINE PRESENCE.

Additionally, ABBA YAH means FATHER YAH.

Holy Spirit of Promise

Ruach HaKodesh ka’sher dibber

(ROO-akh hak-KOH-desh ka-a-SHER deeb-BEIR)

Holy Spirit Of Promise (Eph. 1:13).

spirit of Holiness –

Hebrew: רוח הקודש ‎,

Ruach HaKodesh

 

Dedication 

הַקדָשָׁה

sanctification

inscription, beatification, consecration,

Strong’s Hebrew: 2598. חֲנֻכָּה (chanukkah) — dedication …

chanukkah: dedication, consecration.

Patience – סבלנות

Patience has another word in Hebrew which is also biblical:

E•rech Ru•ach (literally, ‘long breath’).

 

It appears once in the Bible as an important gift of the spirit:

“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit”.

persistence

 התמדה

also

Strong’s Hebrew: 8280. שָׂרָה (saw – rah) — to persist, exert …

to persist, exert oneself, persevere.

Original Word: שָׂרָה. 

 

These are rewarded by the Lord

We need this same anointing now and its as available to us today as it was 2000+ years ago.

WHY?

It’s to work the works of Yeshua/Jesus and by so doing, destroy the works of the devil; which is why He came.

All we have to do is ask and receive

because we are to work while it is still day

for the night is coming

and very soon

when no man can work.

John 9:4

Grace

Boldness

Obedience

Power

Glory

Yeshua/Jesus told them in His own words when the promise of the power was given in v8;

to receive the power

to be witnesses

unto Him

not

for Him

but of Him about Him.

Gk. dunamis – authority

We can read in the following verses:

The call is by His spirit v. 39 43

signs and wonders done 3:7

vs 42 43 means 100% commitment

47 praising God

3:12 not by our own power or holiness

4:7 by what power

4:12 bold declaration by Peter vs. 13 & 29 & 19 

Acts 4:13: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and”
Acts 4:29: “unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,”
Acts 4:31: “the word of God with boldness.

v. 5:29 obey God not man

boldness with actions

v.v31 spoke the word of God with boldness

v.v33 great power they gave witness of the resurrection

and great grace was upon them

v. 5:12 power also manifests in unity of one accord

v. 15 Peters’ ‘shadow’/anointing.

The door of grace is closing, the end of the opportunity for salvation is coming close and then it’s over.

Choose today… will we be counted in that number?

6:8 Stephen was one of His Disciples,

he was full of faith and power;

he did great wonders and miracles

and loved not his life unto physical death.

Most significantly…Jesus/Yeshua stood up for him as he transitioned.

Deliverance brings Joy.

8:8 6-8

In the cities where they ministered. 9:27 and 29

 

Boldness in v.34 Aeneas had palsy and was raised up.

40 Tabitha was raised from dead.

10:38 anointed with His Holy Spirit POWER there were

healings,

deliverances

and salvations.

Their obedience and His grace brought power from their boldness, giving glory to the Father in Jesus/Yeshuas Name.

Boldness, Power, Grace, Glory, Obedience,

they are essential

ingredients for a walk/halak bearing much fruit.

The GRACE of His Spirit of Holiness infused them with the BOLDNESS to preach in POWER and demonstration bringing GLORY to the father by their OBEDIENCE.

The BOLDNESS came through the GLORY

and the POWER of His spirit of GRACE,

anointing them

to be OBEDIENT to their CALLing.

10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.

Let’s shake ourselves out of complacency;

let’s deliver ourselves from the spirit of entitlement which gives us ‘self time’ we think we deserve.

Procrastination will kill the anointing of the spirit of God in us.

They were all

changed

unto

obedient, bold, witnesses,

full of grace, power and truth

bringing glory to the Father...

we can be too…simply accept His call and

receive ALL that He has for you…

These words may assist you..

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua. I truly desire to be obedient to your call on my life, so I lay down my life right now and dedicate the remaining time you grant me on this earth to work in and for your Kingdom. I desire to work the works of Jesus/Yeshua and be a witness unto Him and humbly ask for You to equip me, in order to fulfill that which You have for me to do. Forgive me for procrastinating and putting off what I know has been in my heart. Strengthen me to make the step of faith that I need to take to be right in the center of Your will for me. Thank you for doing abundantly above all I can ask or even think and showing me the direction to take so I too can be changed. Thank you for the grace to be obedient so that the boldness and power of Your Spirit can bring glory to your Name through my life.

May His true Shalom/Peace

rest upon each one in Jesus/Yeshuas’ Name.

‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa Mish-pa-KHa

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily..

NOT SURE if you are part of His Family?

YOU CAN BE..

Say the following and mean it from your heart…

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 came in the flesh and 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 in my spirit 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. Amen.

 

Receive His Nechamah!

In order to gain the precious insight in His Nechama, we have to journey back to the beginning;

Beresheet, בְּרֵאשִׁית

where Genesis 5 will reveal some

pearls of great price

and connect us to today,

and to each one of His children.

(Nechama also spelled Nechamah).

Click link below for more on Edenhttps://www.minimannamoments.com/back-to-the-future-past/

When Jesus/Yeshua referred to the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings; (Tanakh), 

it was to remind us of the prophetic declarations being fulfilled from the scriptures.

The reason we need to dig out the treasures of His Nechama is because of the days in which we are living.

Why specifically?

Because His Nechama is what we will need more and more as this age comes to its prophetic and timely conclusion.

So what is nechama/ nechamah

(sometimes written with a letter h at the end of the word).

Nechama is the Hebrew word for comfort,

but what does it have to do with the Genesis 5 and Noah?

The days that will signify Messiah’s imminent return are coined in the phrase: as in the days of Noah.

In Jesus/Yeshuas own words, He was answering questions that His disciples asked regarding the things that would happen in the future; and of what signs they should take notice.

 “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-revealing-a-conclusion/

The entire passage from Matthew 24:15-31 is the specific answer to the disciples of the sign of His coming and of the end of the age. Also found in Mark 13 and Luke 21.

There are many of those signs happening and as Jesus answered: 

“Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

With the climactic sign being the second coming and the glory that attends it, and will fulfill the prophecy of Acts 1:11 that Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach, will return as He went up into heaven.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-revealing-a-conclusion/

We are 2000+ years on from His statement. Many subsequent generations have wondered if these words would be fulfilled in their lifetime with unsettling world events and world wars taking place etc etc.. However there are certain markers that are mentioned in scripture that have since happened, which had not occurred in previous millennia.

The most obvious and significant was for Israel in 1948 and again When Israel gained East Jerusalem in 1967.

Jesus indicated that this generation (the one that sees all these events occurring together/simultaneously,) will not pass until all these things are fulfilled.

Matt. 24:34; Luke 21:32

These are without doubt, uncertain times, in that suddenly there can be serious weather related events which take the form of catastrophic storms, of one type or another. Also nations rising against nation in conflict, pestilences, plagues of different things, insects and virus outbreaks…. However all these things must come to pass and by His words of caution and warning, we are to take COMFORT that He knows about all these events and is in ultimate control of all of the outcomes.

So many times He says to us

FEAR NOT..

DO NOT BE AFRAID..

WHY??

because He said for I have overcome the world and we can rely on His covenant promises of Genesis 9:15

Be not afraid when news breaks of things that may certainly have serious repercussions around the globe.

Because Matthew 24:25

Behold, I have told you beforehand – That is, I have forewarned you.

This is encouraging so we will know and,

He has told us before they happen.

Stand firm in faith and don’t be moved by what we hear or see but hold fast to the truth we know and trust.

Let faith rise in our hearts and keep scripture on our lips and know beyond any doubt that the loving arms are underneath us and we are safe in that secret place of the most high.

And remember He has our 6!

We have His promises which are always yes and amen and here are some of those promises for us to meditate upon …

Spiritual preparation is the most important preparation we can do

and have

and rely on.

Knowing the Father

through Jesus/Yeshua,

and being filled with His Holy Spirit;

and by keeping ourselves filled with His Word,

faith comes,

and His love is spread abroad in our hearts.

Romans 5:5. 5:5 Hope shameth us not – That is, gives us the highest glorying. We glory in this our hope, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts – The divine conviction of God’s love to us, and that love to God which is both the earnest and the beginning of heaven.

 

This is the love that casts out ALL fear. 1John 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 

Hebrews 2:14-16 (NASB) 14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD: my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

Always remember [L Do not let depart from your mouth] what is written in the Book of the ·Teachings [Law]. ·Study [Meditate on] it day and night to be ·sure [careful; diligent] to obey everything that is written there. If you do this, you will be ·wise [prudent; successful] and ·successful [prosperous].

His promise to us is:

I will not leave you comfortless John 14:18

Just as He brought COMFORT to the repentant thief on the cross beside Him with the promise…. return to EDEN!

 

So He is the source of

nechamah – comfort.

He promised: I will send the comforter-

who is Gods’ Holy Spirit, Ruach HaKodesh.

This is how Jesus/Yeshua can say that He is with us, even to the end of the age.

This confirms that COMFORT and us being comforted is very important to Him.

We live in days of uncertainty and there are those with needs that are both physical and spiritual in nature. Our Father knows what we need is to be comforted.

We know who has our back/6 and now we know from where our

nechamah – comfort comes.

Not from people, or food, or drink.

not from any other source, 

John 4:32

I have food and drink you know not of…

but we do know now because we have it too.

 

Comfort in Hebrew is

נֶחָמָה

ne•cha•ma/nechamah

and it can also mean consolation.

Strong’s Hebrew: 5165. נֶחָמַת (nechamah) — comfort

The word ne•cha•mah is very unique.

Comprising the letters: Nun Chet Mem Hey.

If we break its letters down, there are two overlapping words: 

no•ach (comfortable and resting) and

cham or cha•ma (warm).

Ne•cha•mah is an offer of rest and easement to a troubled, suffering soul.

Comfort is gained through warmth and restful conditions.

Who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

As a noun, ne•cha•mah appears only in the New Testament:

‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;’

2 Corinthians 1:3

There are many other verb references of comfort and consolation in both the Old and New Testaments.

Two of the Books of the Old Testament are about ne•cha•ma – The Book of Nehemiah which means: ‘God is my comfort,’ and the Book of the prophet Nachum whose name means comfort and consolation.

Capernaum (or Kapernaum), an ancient settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. The Hebrew name of the site: Kfar Nahum, which means the Village of Nahum.

Click link for more:https://www.minimannamoments.com/tag/capernaum/

Ne•cha•ma/h is the focus of the prophets Nahum and Isaiah who wrote in chapter 40:1-2 ‘na•cha•moo, na•cha•mu ami.’ Which means: be comforted, be comforted, my people.

Comfort my people, comfort them, says your God. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her fighting is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.’

Isaiah 40:1-2

עַמִּ֑י נַחֲמ֥וּ נַחֲמ֥וּ

Na•cha•mu na•cha•mu ami yo•mar Elo•hey•chem. Dab•ru al-lev Yeru•sha•láyim ve•kir•oo e•lé•ha ki mal•ah tze•va•áh ki nir•tza avo•na.

He is also our Shepherd..

A shepherd knows when His sheep need comfort, assurance and kind words.

The Bible is God’s written Word and offers us just what we need.

The items that make the news headlines are often less than comforting and we would do well to listen less to the talking heads and rather absorb encouragement from the source of all comfort. 2Cor. 1:3.

Here are some reminders that we have a savior who is cognizant of all our weaknesses and all the human emotions that accompany every aspect of our earthly existence.

Jesus/Yeshua, is our sympathetic High Priest/Kohen HaGadol, who had to be made like his brothers in every way(Hebrews 2:17) and who shared in [our] humanity” (Hebrews 2:14), He is intimately acquainted with the devastating effects of our human feelings/emotions. He is also able to come to our aid to help and give hope/tikvah that can lift us out of the deepest pit.

King James Bible
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

The God of All Comfort
2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God andFather of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.…

Berean Study Bible
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.

The fact that He is the God of all comfort, teaches us that, all comfort ultimately comes from Him. He is our source of peace/shalom and happiness and blessing.

Let’s ask Him to bring His Nechamah to our lifes/chaim and situations.  

God is the source of all good comfort.

Let Him comfort you.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 

Paul refers to Him as the God of all comfort.

To comfort means: to soothe someone who is in distress or who is sorrowing. This is done by easing their misery or grief and bringing them consolation and rest.

Ou Father certainly does this. 2 Corinthians 1:3, 4.

The comfortnechamah, of the Lord is a combination of

Mercy and Grace…

and is also referred to in Ex.33:13-14

We have also seen in previous posts:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/back-to-the-future-past-part-2-plus-who-was-eating-bread-on-day-6/

that Grace

is a place…

Chet/Chen is represented by the fence and describes a protected garden (Eden), private place, an inner room or a sanctuary…

This is a place/makem of comfort/nechamah!

It’s like a womb/racham – hidden away and safe where shalom/peace is complete in the Mem/waters of life/Chaim..

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/.  

and so is Racham! 

Remember everything is connected!

And what about the connection to Noah?…. And the times we are living in?

Noah was named by his father Lamech and his name comes from the Hebrew verb

nu’ach (נוּחַ), meaning to rest.

Lamech said, “This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.”

(Gen. 5:29).

NOAH – COMFORT

Comfort, נַחֲמ֥וּ (na·ḥă·mū) Verb –

Piel – Imperative – masculine plural

Strong’s Hebrew 5162: 1) to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted. 

Strong’s Hebrew: 5162. נָחַם (nacham)  comfort

Another Hebrew word that seems to be connected to the name and gives the concepts of consolation and rest is: to rest – לָנוּחַ

(The first letter lamed here, means the word: TO.)

Strong’s Hebrew: 5117. נ֫וּחַ (nuach) — to rest

לָנוּחַ   lanuach

There are several kinds of rest referred to in the Book of Hebrews. The first rest mentioned is the rest the first generation of Israelites failed to enter, namely entrance into the Promised Land and rest from its enemies (Hebrews 3:11). Then there was the rest to which the psalmist referred in Psalm 95 that was available in his time (today).

  1. nuach

nuach: to rest

Original Word: נוּחַ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: nuach
Phonetic Spelling: (noo’-akh)
Definition: to rest

  1. nuach or noach

nuach or noach: rested, 

Original Word: נוּחַ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: nuach or noach
Phonetic Spelling: (noo’-akh)
Definition: rested,

  1. Noach

Noach: “rest,” patriarch who survived the flood

Original Word: נֹחַ
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Noach
Phonetic Spelling: (no’-akh)
Definition: “rest”, patriarch who survived the flood

Noah. The same as nuwach; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood — Noah. nuach or noach ►. Strong’s Concordance. nuach or noach: rested,.
Original Word: נוּחַ Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

 

Noah prepared for 100 years (a generation?); then entered his ark/box of Grace, with his family, providing salvation for them from the judgment of God that came upon the earth.

They were kept safe in the place of grace/ark/covenant and then began a new life in an earth cleansed from sin. Fulfilling his fathers words This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.


It is a picture of Jesus/Yeshua who is our ark of grace and when we enter into Him we receive salvation from the judgment of God that will come again on the earth according to the scriptures.

 

We enter in to the comfort and the place of rest and peace He is our Sar Shalom. The renewed covenant that He has made with those who receive Him fulfilling His fathers words through the angel in Matthew 1:21

She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from [a]failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God]. Amplified Bible.

and

John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Isaiah also spoke of the rest as well as the comfort.

Isaiah 28:12 
HEB: אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם זֹ֤את הַמְּנוּחָה֙ הָנִ֣יחוּ לֶֽעָיֵ֔ף
NAS: to them, Here is rest, give rest
KJV: To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest 

 

This comfort is not simply a feeling or an emotion of the soul and a means to feeling better….

It’s place of total covering/immersion/enveloped/hidden/nestled under wings in that secret place returning us to the genesis and its eden, the state and place of original grace in the beginning. And it is the promise contained in Noahs’ name, which precious promises we have obtained now, through and under Jesus/Yeshuas’ blood. Where His provision is completed and all our waste places are comforted in His presence/ throne of grace; and where His tender mercies are new every morning.

WOW! What a Father we have!

What an unequalled God we serve, worship and adore!  

We have a God of comfort/ and peace/shalom to help us in our time of need, Who is Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh, Who is also called the comforter and is living inside born-again believers.

..see previous posts and the connection to Eden.

Don’t hold back any longer, let’s simply give God all that is in our hearts, because nothing in this world can compare with that which He imparts reciprocally to us; so that in turn, we can comfort others.

When those whom God places in our lives are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has shown and imparted to us.

Jesus/Yeshua is our ark of salvation and as in the days of Noah/Comfort we must enter into Him into comfort, into salvation, into His place of nechamah. As righteousness judges sin, we must not procrastinate any longer, for just as in the days of Noah, the day came when God shut the door – the dalet – and there was no longer a WAY into the place of Grace the ark of covenant and its’ nechmahah. 

Jesus/Yeshua, is the door, the dalet, and one day the door will close and He will knock no longer.

Opportunity to enter into noah/rest – nahamah – comfort of salvation will not be available.

The times of the gentiles/heathens will be fulfilled, completed.

Share this understanding of comfort with all you can and let not that day come upon you as a thief/unawares.

 

In connection with the description of God as the God of all comfort, is the statement that He is the Father of Mercies.

Mercy is the outward manifestation of compassion for others in their affliction. Mercy had its origin with God, calling Him its’ Father. All acts of pity and compassion proceed from Him.

And mercy is Racham –

mercies/Rachamim is the plural.

click below for more revealed secrets of the scriptures: https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

Scriptures for The God of comfort. 

Isaiah 51:3The LORD will comfort Israel again and have pity on her ruins.Her desert will blossom like Eden, her barren wilderness like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found there. Songs of thanksgiving will fill the air.

Psalm 23:4 Even when I walk through the darkest valley,I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.

2 Corinthians 1:5 For the more we suffer for Christ,the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ.

Isaiah 40:1Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.

Romans 15:4-5 For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope. Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,

Isaiah 51:12 “I, yes I, am the one who comforts you. So why are you afraid of mere humans, who wither like the grass and disappear? Yet you have forgotten the LORD, your Creator, the one who stretched out the sky like a canopy and laid the foundations of the earth. Will you remain in constant dread of human oppressors? Will you continue to fear the anger of your enemies? Where is their fury and anger now? It is gone!

Yeshua/Jesus weeps over our sorrows.

John 11:33-36 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

Psalm 56:8 You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

 click link below for more:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/keeping-it-all-bottled-up-part-1/

Praying for comfort.

Psalm 119:76-77 Now let your unfailing love comfort me, just as you promised me, your servant. Surround me with your tender mercies so I may live, for your instructions are my delight.

Psalm 119:81-82 My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word. My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, “When will you comfort me?”

Isaiah 58:9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

God comforts us in our trials so we can comfort others.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort.He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.

2 Corinthians 1:6-7 Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation!For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Listen to these songs and let the ruach of comfort-nechamah, minister to our hearts as we worship Him and long for His return to catch us, His Bride, away!

 

Can you hear His footsteps?…He’s Coming… Hallelujah!

EVEN SO….

Be comforted Mishpachah/Family!

Final thought on the concepts behind the pictographs for

nechama/nechamah:

Nun: sprout, new life, seed, fish, continue, increase.

Chet: His dwelling place – HaMishkan, Ark, He is the guardian of the passageway, the process of entry, wall, protect, fence, divide, separation.

Mem: water that washes clean and chaos as in storms.

Hey: look, behold or pay attention to reveal to make known. Breath or sigh as in awe!

Put together it could be said of Nechamah/Comfort:

A separation will be followed by entry through the guardian of the WAY into the protection from the chaos of the storm/deluge, look in awe to the process of entry into new life which will continue.

Noah comfort and rest.

The rest we enter into will be fulfilled in the Millenial reign of Yeshua Messiah as we enter His Rest – His Shalom – the Sabbath rest of the 7th day 1000 years. The time of shalom/peace and comfort.

So the best part of the days of Noah is his comfort/ nechamah and the forthcoming new beginning, new start,

Behold I make all thing new! Isaiah 43:18; Rev 21:5.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Rev. 21:1

As we are returning to Eden too –

that’s why Messiah said:

today you will be with me in paradise. Luke 23:43.

For today is the day of salvation!

Get into the ark/Jesus/Yeshua, because He is not only the Word, He IS our ARK, we must get into Him for our salvation.

Shalom, shalom, mishpachah!

You are loved and appreciated and prayed for daily.

Fear not, simply rest in Him and be comforted!

Stay alert, prepared and be ready!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read the posts and for all your kind and encouraging comments. Please continue to share with others, like and subscribe for notifications of new postings.  It all helps to freely spread the Gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth and reaches others with the blessing of His Truths that always point us to Our Heavenly Father, Through Jesus/Yeshua by the power of His Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh.

Share His comfort to those going through times of testing and trouble…be an encourager of hearts! 

As always, a very warm welcome to each and every subscriber/follower/visitor, both old and new; and remember that the post is best viewed on the Homepage site in full color!

Please don’t leave this page without the knowing in your heart you are totally His.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

Its all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART 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. Amen.

 

 

 

 

Back To The Future Past? Part 2 ..plus.. Who Was Eating Bread On Day 6?

Continuing from part 1 … now a look at the original definition of the English word

Grace.

Elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion or action.

Mercy; clemency; pardon

While these definitions do apply to the Hebrew word חן chen, (hhen), they do not completely convey the full emotion and spectrum of the Hebrew word. This is the problem with translating Hebrew into English. The English vocabulary is limited in how it can express the full meaning of a given Hebrew word.

Grace as unmerited favor.

This was also manifest in Eden.

What does the English word grace means outside of theological reference?

The dictionary provides two basic definitions for grace, first:

Elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion or action.

Secondly: Mercy, clemency; pardon.

Because the Hebrew language is vastly different from English, we need to examine the Hebrew meaning of this word to see if one or both English definitions are appropriate definitions for the Hebrew word translated as grace.

Remembering they lived/existed in a state of continual grace before they fell from grace.

And that carries the meaning:

God produces life in us and then puts a fence or wall of protection around that life so that it may not be destroyed or removed.

This is in fact what He did at creation.

The Hebrew word has to do with freely giving without condition or obligation. 

The act of giving grace reveals 2 things, first: a need (like Adam suddenly found he had!). Those in receipt of grace are usually unable to provide the need themselves; so it’s received from another freely, one who can provide and meet the need.

Secondly, it reveals generosity on the part of the one giving, whether out of the individuals abundance or out of what little they have. The supreme act of grace and giving that God extended to humanity can be seen in the acrostics:

which helps us to remember what the definition is, no doubt there are many more than 3.

Now let’s look at Grace with the pictographs again to refresh our memory.

Remember the shape of the letter for Noon or Nun/Nuun, changes over time that is why sometimes it looks different in the illustrations and Hebrew letter  ן
is the Noon sofeet
/sofit which is how you write the letter for N, Noon at the end of a word; as shown here in Grace/Chen; and why so many pictures are included so we don’t get too confused.

There are 22 letters in the Hebrew Aleph-bet. 5 have a sofeet/sofit form (used when the letter appears at the end of a word).

Noon – a seed of life and later a fish = activity and life, continue or air.

Chet – private place of refuge, fenced and protected sanctuary. To separate from outside or protect life – beauty or loveliness. (again sounds like Eden – paradise.)

Eden had to be chet because outside of the garden God planted was not a place of chet/chen or where chen was available. (Not yet anyway!)

Chet as connected to the Mishkan – His Kingdom, qodesh/holy/set apart, according to His Pattern, and His instruction.

The Pattern of the Mishkan is our straight path our narrow WAY/Derek. Our refuge is in Him, walking through the Dalet/Door of Blue Purple and Red.

Chet = 8 carries the meaning eternity, new creation, new birth, new beginning.

Nun/noon = 50 signifies Holy Spirit Pentecost Deliverance followed by rest and Jubilee. (again this sounds a lot like our future as well as the believers life right now.)

The revelation embedded in the value of these numbers is:

8 = the new birth that God graciously initiates in every believer.

50 = delivers us from the bondage of sin and by God’s Holy Spirit produces eternal life.

Again a verse so over read that we miss its deep significance.

Eph 2:8-9 for by CHEN are we saved …..it is the gift of God.

Grace given freely without conditions or obligation by the giver. Gods grace is extended freely to fallen sinful man. Giving back what he lost in Eden.

Grace/Chen is

first seen in Genesis 6:8

(Have to add in the pictographs for Genesis here as they are too good to leave out!)

Bet /Beyt: house tent family son of God – tent house

Reysh/Resh: a person the prince the head the highest – Head

Aleph: strong leader, first, God the Father –Ox

Sheen/Shin: to consume, to destroy, to press against – Teeth

Yood/Yud: work, a deed, to make – Hand

Tav: to seal, to covenant, a sign, crossed sticks –Cross.

The meaning of the very first word,

In The Beginning,

also the title of the first Book,

contains within it the whole of Hisstory and prophetically declares the plan of redemption!

The Son of God destroys (the works of the devil) by (His) hand (nailed to) a cross (by) covenant.

Or the son of God pressed by his own hand to a cross! Wow!

Now to Genesis 6:8

But Noah found grace.

חַנ

Noach/Nuach pronounced No’ahch found Chen

(noo’-akh) nuach or noach means: rested

Or nowach {no’-akh}; from נוּחַ  nuwach (noo’-akh);

quiet — rest(-ed, -ing place)

Here also have to include the progression and possible meanings in the names of the following men in the Genesis 5 genealogy, as their meanings appear to declare the Truth.

(May aid in reading long lists of names elsewhere that apparently seemed to serve little purpose…not so!)

(Noah seems to be spelled both ways but for this post we’ll look at the נחַ Chet and noon/nun spelling.)

Chet is pictured as an inner room to separate a fence a sanctuary like a garden that is protected and away from any harm; (like EDEN!)

Nun/Noon is pictured as a fish which means life and activity.

Again the Meaning:

God produces life in us and then puts a fence or wall of protection around that life so that it may not be destroyed or removed.

Same 2 letters make up his name which means RESTING,

or, in the paleo,

the heir separated from the outside..

as he was in the ark/box, he was given the ability to fence/save/enclose in his seed!

Eden

equal to

rest

equal to a

place of Grace.

REST – SHAKAT

Shin/sheen – quph/qof – tet

Sheen = teeth, destroy

quph qof = sun on horizon, back of head.

tet = fence, inner Eden = a place of shalom.** 

(**for full definition see previous post)

Rest in the Lord. Psalm 37:7

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: KJV

 (dō·wm) דּ֤וֹם

Strong’s Hebrew 1826: 1)

to be silent, be still, wait,

Ex 31:15 Strongs 7677 of rest

שַׁבָּת֛וֹן
šab-bā-ṯō-wn

Strongs 7965; Shalom: completeness, soundness, welfare, peace

Original Word: שָׁלוֹם

נוּחַ

noo’-akh

   5118 nuach or noach: rested,

Or nowach {no’-akh}; from nuwach; quiet — rest(-ed, -ing place).

5117 nuach: to rest

Original Word: נוּחַ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: nuach
Phonetic Spelling: (noo’-akh)
Definition: to rest

Pre Hebrew, (ivri-crossing over), Israelites and was in action form with Noah; so with the later definition of a camp it’s not just any camp; it is talking about Gods’ camp. The tents themselves formed a protective wall for those within. (The image comes to mind of circling the wagons, or soldiers standing with backs to each other, gives the same image of protecting that which is within.)

Beauty in the camp = a place of refuge was also for those not of the seed = leviticus 19:33,34, grace. If a stranger came to the camp, they saw its beauty and came to be saved. It was a place of refuge for them. When they did come in, they kept the rules of the house (of God) exactly the same as a seed had to. Egypt was a place of refuge for the Hebrews initially (Goshen).

Deut. 26:13

So a working definition of grace could be said to be brought into a protected place.

Unmerited favor is more of a Greek conceptual image, meaning something we don’t necessarily deserve.

Channah used in relation to those who would camp near the Tabernacle/Gods presence Num. 1:52; the ones seeking refuge.

Camping near to those we find beautiful.

This is not a new thing

God provides instruction for those He favors and we are protected through Yeshua/Jesus, so if we want to camp near God for His protection, and have Him consider us beautiful enough to protect; then we must receive His Grace, and that through Messiah.

Grace also has a space/time element to it, where we are to enter in to the place of protection however, it has an expiration date!

Just as in the days of Noah, there was a time for them to enter the ark of grace all but Noah and his family chose not to. And once the door closed their space time opportunity also closed, and there was not way back from their decision. The time to enter in is when the beauty of grace is still in operation making the narrow WAY available for whosoever will.

Chet, vav, nun = a pardon – when one enters a place of grace, it’s because we are being pardoned of an offense against the Lord or His children. If you don’t conform you will not be able to stay just as in Eden.

(they were put outside the camp).

It also has to do with the remnant of 8 with Noah in the ark/box, they received grace.

The door or the physical representation.

Open the door for the family to come indraw all men unto me –

into grace;

into the camp. Matt 24:37.

The place of grace is available for all today, just as prior to the flood; we enter the place of grace, (which at this time is with the family of believers who are the faithful remnant,) through the Word of God, the narrow gate or door. (Dalet, 4th Hebrew letter, that also represents the tribe of Judah and Messiah.) He said I am the …. Door and also He is the Word made flesh.

Those who don’t come in through the Gate/Door is a thief and a robber.

No one can come to the Father without coming into the camp into grace into Jesus/Yeshua and grace comes through and by Jesus/Yeshua.

So far we have seen that Eden was a protected place,

a camp of safety within the chen/grace

of God’s presence where

shalom-peace

and

nuwach-rest

were in a

compassionate

racham-womb

of

life-chaim

noon with no ra!

……..

So Who Was Eating Bread On Day Six and WHY? What’s the connection?

The Hebrew word for man is Adam

And he was created on the sixth day so the day of man was day six.

1 Corinthians 15:21,22

Luke 22:19, 39 – 46

Genesis 3:19

Jesus/Yeshua was also called the Son of Man.

Luke tells us the grace of God was on Jesus/Yeshua as a child, now we see that was not simple unmerited favor but this

Grace-chen also means

to fence, or protect life.

chet-fence

noon-life action.

Here an interesting correlation is that

Garden – gan – גָּן

Strong’s Hebrew: 1588. גָּן (gan)
an enclosure, garden

gimmel/gimel-noon/nun

gimmel – camel, lift up

nun/noon – life, seed

means:

To lift up life,

let it grow and flourish!!

And are there any other links to this connection?

If we examine the last days of Jesus/Yeshua, we can see that day six was the day that the crucifixion took place.

We need to remember the Hebrew Day begins at dusk on what is the evening of the same day to everyone else.

It was not a Jewish invention but God’s design from the beginning. Genesis the evening and the morning was the first day. The evening and the morning, evening always comes first, for God, darkness always gives way to the light.

The sixth day began at sundown, Sunset on our Thursday night before the crucifixion.

On the day Adam fell from grace, chen, he was basically told, you shall eat bread until you return to the ground. (Have to grow it provide for yourself.)

Adam was destined to work for his food/ bread in order to live and would do so until he died.

This was part of the curse from their disobedient behavior and resulting sin. It brought forth death, so in the curse, bread is linked to death!

All the more reason for Jesus/Yeshua to say.. I am the bread of life.

The sixth day began at sundown with the start of the Last Supper which was not a coincidence, it was an Appointed Time of the Lord – since Moses day.

This (Passover/Pesach – Last Supper)

had to take place on the day of Adam,

in fulfillment of God’s prophetic Plan which centers around His Annual cyclical Appointed Times.

It was the feast of bread, and more particularly the feast of unleavened bread. Leaven represented sin in the Bible.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/sonset-sunrise-sunset-sonrise-apocalypse-of-the-tamid/

This bread had no sin in it.

Remembering the first Adam was told you shall eat bread  – his bread was a result of sin.

Jesus/Yeshua was without sin.

And again said

I am the bread of life.

Sin has death.

Without sin there is only LIFE.

Jesus/Yeshua was also called the Last Adam. So as this sixth night began,

the start of the Hebrew day,

Messiah ate bread right in the face of death. Knowing He was about to die, due to sins out-working and its requirement.

The wages of sin is death.

When He lifted up the bread at the Last Supper Meal, He was doing it to join it to His death as in the curse of Adam when the bread was joined to death.

Jesus/Yeshua died on the day of creation because it was necessary in order to become a new creation and become the first born from the dead.

Furthermore He said

I am the bread of life

not the bread of death!

This is My body, broken for you take eat and remember.

He had said: I am the bread of heaven who ever eats of Me will not die. This is the curse destroyed… He broke the curse with His broken body… He said it is broken for you.

The passover zeroah

זְרוֹעַ (zeroah)

the pesach sacrifice.

The mystery emblem was always present until He was revealed.

גָּלָה gâlâh, gaw-law’

We examined this in a previous post.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/tag/zeroah/

In the original language there was a secret hidden in the translation; within the question, to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

MI HE’EMIN LISHMU’ATEINU UZERO’A HASHEM AL-MI NIGLATAH?

It is in the word revealed.

In Hebrews this word is NIGLATAH.

It means to be taken captive, what it is saying is,

the Arm of the Lord will be taken captive.

The zeroah will be niglatah!

However here is a deeper connection.

It also means to be put to shame, disGRACEd grace removed (the safety fence, the womb of protection within the place of His presence.)

Which allowed Jesus/Yeshua to become niglatahtaken prisoner, put to shame, disGRACEd

Only by being DISgraceD could the process be completed!

Later after the meal, He went in Gan Shemanim

Gethsemane (Matt. 26:36–46).

Gethsemane is derived from two Hebrew words:

גת – gat/gath, which means “a place for pressing oil (or wine)” and  שָׁמְנָא- shemen/shemanim, from the root שמן (smn) which means “oils.”

Strong’s Hebrew: 1588. גָּן (gan) — an enclosure, garden

Here in another Gan/Garden

the Garden of Gethsemane,

the Son of Man

the Last Adam,

Toiled – in Prayer

Sweated – drops of blood.

Ground – where they fell

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19

Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.Genesis 3:17

Weep = da-ma

– דָּמַע – (daw-mah’)

water coming out of the door of the eye

or

blood of the eye….

Strong’s Hebrew: 1830. דָּמַע (dama) — to weep

Sweated – drops of blood.

Dalet, mem = blood

Ayin = eye

Blood – dam – the door of water

Dalet – door (path )

Mem – water (liquid)

In Adam the dam is the path/door of water; here as a life giverthe first blood

and Jesus/Yeshua as the Last Adam

gave the dam-blood

as a

pathdoor of life (eternal)

restoring the

First Adams – loss of life

incurred by the

fall from grace

and ending up in ra.

Jesus/Yeshua pathWAY takes us

away from ra and to

the place of peace

as

the Sar Shalom,

He is the prophetic fulfillment that:

someone will come and destroy the one who is causing all the chaos and confusion!

Because Shalompeace, only comes:

 when the authority connected with chaos and confusion is destroyed.

Gives another insight to the water and blood from His side

and the fact that Eve

came out of

the First Adam’s

SIDE

whom God 

BUILT

 Eve was created by God by taking her from the rib of Adam, to be Adam’s companion. Genesis 2:18–24

Young’s Literal Translation Genesis 2:22
And Jehovah God
buildeth
up the rib which He hath taken out of the man into a woman, and bringeth her in unto the man;

וַיִּבֶן֩ way·yi·en
Strong’s Hebrew 1129
וַיִּבֶן֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֧ים
from man, built/fashioned/made he a woman,

to be His Bride.

His SIDE was pierced and out of HIS SIDE flowed Water and Blood!

No coincidence!

Was this revelation some of what He was trying to communicate to Nicodemus??? 

The Last Adam shed His blood

for the bride 

kalah  כַּלָה   (kal-law’)

also spelled challa/challah

Strong’s Hebrew: 3618. כַּלָּה (kallah) 

From kalal; a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son’s wife — bride, daughter-in-law, spouse.

kaf/kaph, lamed, hey.

kaf/kaph = open palm, wing, cover

lamed = to protect, yoke

hey, H or Ah= look behold

meaning: all complete, covered, projected, joined/yoked, as if perfect; (which is what Messiah wants for us, His bride kalah  כַּלָה.) 

The Last Adam shed His blood

for the BRIDE 

to be cleansed

to enter in

through the door (dalet I am the door)

of water

the pathWAY back to Eden

to the Garden of Grace and Shalom.

Adam or A-dam means first blood 

BLOOD =

DALET-door

MEM-water

(he was the first of mankind) 

Alef: ox strong first

Blood: dalet mem

Man – mankind – being human: this word literally means red man from the concept of blood/dam; therefore red/adam.

Adam is also related to earth or ground

a da mah

out of which he was taken.

The ancient form of this word is:

yud/yod – alef, dalet, mem

arm, ox, door, water.

(Right to left in Hebrew)

To help avoid confusion:

All three were part of Adam’s curse which started in a garden.

Eden, where it all began and at the conclusion of the earthly life of the Son of Man,

He was also in a garden on the night of (Adams day) day six.

What happened to Adam on day six?

Because of the fall from Grace, he was removed from that place, the garden of God to a place outside that garden.

Outside of the place of grace,

he was no longer within and under grace… he was outside of the protected enclosure and instead was in the place of the curse which eventually resulted in his death.

God drove out the man

he was forcibly removed.

So too, Messiah, the Son of Man/ Last Adam was forcibly removed from the garden and taken to a place where the curse of Adam –death – would fall on him.

Gal.3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.

And He was taken to Golgotha the place of the skull and taken to His death.

All this began on the night of Adam, the six day, the day of man; so that the children of Adam could be redeemed from the curse and saved from toil of their lives by the Last Adam.

He became the

DOOR

of

The WAY BACK

into the presence of God (Eden)

back into the blessing

leaving the curse behind.

Back into the place of his presence

under His grace chen,

enclosure

place of presence

of

Mercy seat

where the blood of His sacrifice

has paid the price for sin.

The law of sin and death is conquered and we are again under Grace as it was in the Beginning Genesis/Eden.

This extends our understanding of no longer being under the penalty of the law..

it is referring to the law of sin and death

(for the soul that sins it shall die)

the penalty has been paid.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.

And we are under GRACE;

this is the age/time of grace,

and we have been restored to that

place of grace

from which mankind fell.

The sixth day violation,

which began in a garden called Eden and ended in a curse;

has been reversed on the sixth day

in a garden called Gethsemane and ended in a blessing!

Mankind, (Adamkind), is now restored to that state of grace

in which we began.

Chen/Grace is the spiritual enclosure

He has provided for us

where we will remain until

the day He returns

and eventually creates a new heaven and a new.

This is redemption in action.

Come to me all who are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Matt. 11:28

Rest – navah – comes from the life that is secure

Noon: life

Vav: hook nail secure

Hey: what comes from

Meaning:

What comes from secure life!

Also

The Rest of God – the shevat/shabath to Cease, desist, rest

שָׁבַת

shaw-bath’

(Recall Hebrew letters v and b are interchangeable.)

The 7th day recorded in Genesis was the day God rested from all the work He had done.

(The word rest, means something different to us, it’s like taking a break and putting our feet up before continuing activities.)

The word in Hebrew translated as rested is SHEVAT or shabath and it is a primary root meaning to cease.

7673a Strongs

Original Word: שָׁבַת
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: shabath
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-bath’)
Brought to an end (1), cease (21), ceased (7), ceases (3), did away (2), disappear (1), do away (1), eliminate (3), gone (1), hear…more (1), lacking (1), left you without (1), made an end (1), make an end (1), no* (1), observe (1), observe the rest (1), put a stop (3), put an end (3), puts an end (1), remove (2), removed (1), rest (3), rested (3), silence (1), stop (2), stopped (1).

שָׁבַת

Shin/sheen, bet/vet, tav.

To cease, stop completely.

He had finished His work it was complete.

So on the seventh day He ceased, SHEVAT because of this event this rest, this SHEVAT, comes the word Shabbat and from this we get our word Sabbath.

So the Sabbath is the Sabbath because God ceased/ SHEVAT. He rested and all its’ blessings come from the act of the SHEVAT of God. However because of the fall from grace, the peace, the shalom of the Sabbath rest and all the blessings connected with that rest/ SHEVAT were gone from the creation and from our lives.

So a new Sabbath was needed. However only God can bring the Sabbath and a Sabbath can only come when God ceases/ SHEVAT.(When He rests)

So for Him to bring a new Sabbath He would have to cease, and the timing of it would have to be linked to the 7th day…….

On a Friday afternoon 1,000’s of years later, on the end of the 6th day, the Day of Man,

this time it was not the week of creation but the week of redemption

and as it was in Genesis/beresheet the 6th day was the day of completion of all God’s creative work.

So also the work of the cross was completed and on the cross came SHEVAT of GodHe ceased and He said

it is finished.

It is complete, He ceased from His work and from His life. As it was in Genesis, God ceased/SHEVAT and then came the Sabbath

now there is a new Sabbath and a new Shalom,

not of this world but greater than this world and there for all who will enter in..

How do we enter in?

By ceasing, by SHEVAT,

by ceasing to strive and struggle, by ceasing from laboring, ceasing from our self, our own works… we are to enter His rest, His Shabbat and by doing so, we will experience His Shalom in the place of His Grace.

 

What we have seen in the paleo pictographs is that Grace and Eden and Shalom have much in common with each other

and with the redemption-salvation

that is gained through Grace.

It, the grace,

is to give us access

BACK into Eden

the place/state of grace

(including the paleo meanings would be something like this:)

Restored back into the future of an enclosed garden of God, where His presence is manifested and there is no sin only shalom and rest.

The mercy seat is there, typified both in the Eden layout and in the wilderness camp, tabernacle/mishkan and later in the temple floor plan.

The cherubim guarding

the way to the tree of life

were both at Edens entrance and on the veil/curtain separating the Ark of God’s presence as He manifested upon the Mercy seat/Kapporet.

In an enclosed womb like shape where eternal life was accessed by the High Priest.

Remember: The tabernacle (mishkan mish-kawn’ מִשְׁכָּן), first mentioned in the Torah in Exodus 25, was the portable sanctuary that the Israelites carried with them in the wilderness.

Mishkan comes from the Hebrew root meaning “to dwell”; the tabernacle was considered to be the earthly dwelling place of God.

The portion of the tabernacle and the Temple building in front of the Holy of Holies which contained the inner altar, the table for the showbread, and the menorah.

They lived in a state of continual grace and shalom.

He had produced life in them and then put a fence or wall of protection around that life so that it may not be destroyed or removed.

This way back has been opened by our High Priest,

the curtain rent,

the cherubim parted and

access to the throne/presence of God

on the kapporet

is available once again

as the mercy seat

is covered in Messiahs blood

and we are redeemed.

His trial in the garden, fulfilled all the criteria for Gods plan of the ages.

This is the grace that has saved us

the same grace that they lived in in Genesis, is the grace we are to live in now..

as He said to Paul, it is sufficient..

it’s chen/grace

the place where

God provides protection and provision for life a camp a graceful place of healing strength salvation and rescue!

It’s the Shalom

(remember the definition of shalom)

HIS shalom, the same that was in the grace, the placeeden, the place,

the garden of God, that He gave to us,

Eden, to see the judge of life;

and we must do that to be saved;

a judge is the door to life.

Judge offers justice and redemption. Eden is a place, where you open the door and enter the pathway that leads to life.

It also includes Mercy; clemency; pardon mercy, the womb…racham

is The house that surrounds life.

In the Garden of Olives He crushed the head of the serpent and the tree of everlasting life was once again made available through Jesus/Yeshua.

The Garden of Eden was meant to be a place of continual life.

Chaim both physical and spiritual…

(recall IM as plural – lives.)

First Adam – Last Adam

each in a garden one

began in one and ended in one .

It was outside the camp.. but Jesus/Yeshua is the DOOR the WAY into GRACE restored. Eden restored where we enter His REST 

 which is now secured as that Shalom – peace, which only comes when the authority connected with chaos and confusion is destroyed, which is has been by the Sar Shalom, the Prince of Peace.

Eden restored, regained, by eating of Him who is NOT forbidden fruit

and we enter into HIS rest.

We enter into a racham/womb of Shalom where nothing is missing or broken and no good thing is withheld.

Yes it seems Eden is the place of grace/rest and shalom and both Adams are there, in the garden of God, waiting for us to join them in His presence passing by the cherubim and right up to the tree of life, and it seems we are indeed

going back to the future past...

Full circle….

Eat of ME and LIVE forever!

It was the Son of Man –

the Last Adam

who was eating bread

on the 6th day.

In a WAY, He is not only the Last Adam but He is also Eden the DOOR/Dalet to eternal Life.

Hakarat Hatov, recognizing and appreciating the good, is the foundation of Hebrew thinking and a lifestyle in understanding how we are to walk ‘the way’ of Messiah Jesus. We are believers in and followers of Jesus/Yashua Messiach ‘ha-De-rekh’ (‘the Way’) the Messianic Messiah.

Righteousness is showing forth the goodness of Elohim by acts of loving kindness. Showing mutual respect, trust and love. Expressing truth, love, faith, praise and harmony. Most important are Faith, love, trust and humility and praising Him for that which we witness today declaring always that His glory illuminates the entire world.

Grace was the physical expression of, and provision for, humanity.

His love is unconditional and came down from the heavens

the grace stooping towards us

the stronger coming to the help of the weaker who stands in need of help either by reason of their circumstances or natural weakness.

Being lost and fallen from grace definitely qualifies us!

Our love that goes up is our worship;

love that extends outward is affection but the love that bends and stoops down..that is GRACE.

Shalom ‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’.

משפחה 

Mish-pa-KHa

Please Do Not leave this page without the surety in your heart that you are in the place of grace, as the days draw ever closer to the end of the age of that GRACE..

NOT CERTAIN?

YOU CAN BE..

Make sure Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

Its all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are greatly loved and very precious in His sight.

He longs to give you the Shalom He paid the ultimate price for..

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. Amen.

Back To The Future Past??

Days of our future,

our past and

our present – 

is this another case of the end from the beginning?

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-end-from-the-beginning-signs-of-the-times/

Grace – Chen

– extends from the Genesis/Beresit/beresheet/ בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית  

to

Revelation/Galah/גֶּלֶה

Apocalypse (Greek).

Ephesians 2:7… in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his Grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Greek: ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσι τοῖς ἐπερχομένοις, in the ages to come:

Properly, the ages which are coming on – the ages both of time and of eternity, looked upon in one great continuity.

Here, again, the manifestation of the riches of God’s Grace is looked upon as His special delight, and as His chosen way of manifesting His own self to His creatures. It also carries the meaning that in the ages to come this is the end of God’s permitting sin, in which men are morally dead; and of his suffering them to go on in sin, in a state of unregeneracy; and of his quickening them with Christ, and raising them up, and causing them to sit together with him:

Are we going back – yet at the same time, returning to somewhere in our future? Is there a connection between the place of our genesis and

‘Ha Makem’- ‘The Place’- המקום

the place of our future destination of

Galah,

apocalypse (revealing)?

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-revealing/

Remembering the cyclical nature of Hebraic thought and how God’s plan and annual events are cyclical, not linear, in this post we will be taking the ‘scenic route’,

with a paleo pictograph/pictogram tour of 2 gardens!

Is Eden equal to Rest –

equal to a place of Grace –

equal to a place of Shalom?

 

So get some coffee, (or equivalent) and get comfortable!…

 If this is your first time on mmm this post will not make as much sense as it will to those who have been following for some time…Ruach HaKodesh is leading us on a journey step by step – line upon line and is adding to the clarity of His precepts by opening up His Word as deep calls unto deep. Reading previous posts will help each reader to both follow and to absorb the information more easily.
The content of these posts are not refuting or replacing anything we already know, rather enhancing our understanding of what has always been there; things we did not see before because they were hidden until Father chose to reveal them to us. These are the days of the Revealing. They are not designed for fascination but for education to enhance and improve the quality of our personal relationship with Jesus our Messiah/Yeshua HaMashiach.
No one knows it all or always gets it right – so every reader is encouraged to research and check out the things covered to get answers for themselves.

It is obvious from reading the scriptures that we were not created to live in the daily conflicts of strife and struggles of this world and its systems. Our Heavenly Father created us to live in His presence, to be, to exist, to abide, to grow, to rest, in a garden called Eden.

Gan Eden עֵדֶן

is:

The proper name, of a territory.

The garden home of Adam and Eve.

עֵדֶן  –  ay’-den

Ayin – Dalet – Noon/Nun

Paleo-pictograph-pictogram:

eye

door

seed/life

Paleo meaning:

To see the judge of life.

Ayin – eye – עֵ – sees

Noon – seed/life – ן

Dalet – door /judge

den/dan – ןדֶ  

The Hebrew word for Judge is dan ןדֶ or seed and door.

The word picture tells us that:

a judge is the door to life.

(The judge offers justice and redemption).

Genesis 30:6..

then Rachel said God has vindicated, (judged) me and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son.

Therefore she named him

Danjudge/or eternal life

Dalet – door – eternal, 

 Noon – life. 

Eden: (strongs #5729) literally means: delight, enjoyment, garden of eden, paradise. Semitic root: dn ‘lush’

To see (acknowledge) the judge.

The Garden of Eden was a place of delight and enjoyment….. as long as they recognized and followed God as their judge.

(There are always conditions with the promises and blessings of God.)

(Door eye) Eternal perpetual (seed) life

The Garden of Eden was meant to be a place of continual life.

Chaim

Adam and Eve had to leave so they would not eat of the tree of life and live forever in a fallen state,

that is fallen from a state/place of grace.

Recap. of what grace is in pictographs:

Some claim that the name “Eden” derives from the Akkadian term edinu, which means ‘plain’; and if viewed on a map is clearly a possibility.

Strong’s Hebrew: 5731. עֵ֫דֶן (Eden) — the garden home of Adam and Eve.

עֵ֫דֶן

It was also the Garden of God according to

Ezek 28:13; You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx, and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, was in you.

There are also deeper Hebrew meanings of the ‘Garden of Eden’.

The Hebrew word for ‘delicate’ is ‘Me’udan’ {מעודן} – which comes from the same root and the initial Latin meaning of ‘delicate’ (‘delicatus’ in Latin) is ‘something that gives pleasure’ (compare with ‘delicious’ – food that is so tasty it gives one pleasure).

Eden N E H (pleasure).

The first residence of man, called in the Septuagint Paradise, which is a word of Persian origin, and describes an extensive tract of pleasure land, similar to an English park; and the use of it suggests a wider view of man’s first abode than it being just a small garden!

The Garden was planted by God and then He put the already formed man into the garden.

The Lord God created the Garden specifically for Adam, the first man, whom God had formed.

In Genesis 2:8-9, we read: The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.

The Letters – Otiot

Ayin, Dalet and Noon

Ayin – eye to see to know to experience to understand

Dalet – door that opens up to a pathway

Nun – seed fish life and activity

Eden is a place where you…

open the door and enter the pathway that leads to life!!!!

When man chose sin, (the pathway to confusion chaos and death – RA);

the doorway in Eden that led to glorified eternal life was removed from the earth.

(THE TREE OF LIFE – JESUS/YESHUA).

They had been tested (just as we all are) and found unworthy to enter into eternal life because of sin.

Did the promise of a glorified body leave his mind when he looked at the tree of knowledge of good and evil? What was he thinking?

God has given us another opportunity with another tree… but this was not pleasant to the eye..

(Isaiah 53:2 and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.)

nor desirable for food yet …. and He told us to eat of Him… this tree was dead and cut into a cross, instead of sweet fruit, there was only the stench of sin and death..

Eve looked up to leaves and desirable fruit.

Yeshua/Jesus looks down, from a lifeless dead tree, onto lost sinners and desires them.

He took upon Himself Adam’s sin and the sins of all the offspring until this day and going forward. 1 Cor. 1:18.

In a WAY, He is Eden/Eden’s door/Dalet, the door to eternal life/Nun(or Noon).

In Eden, the tree of life grew in the midst of the garden, however in the new Eden/new Jerusalem, (which comes down from heaven), the tree of life grows on either side of the river. 

According to Revelation, it seems to have multiplied and expanded, implying that everyone will have access to it; all will be welcome to eat their fill.

The Garden of Eden 

(Hebrew: גַּן־עֵדֶן – gan-ʿḖḏen),

also called Paradise, is the biblical garden of God described in Genesis and Ezekiel. Gen.13:10 refers to the garden of God, and the trees of the garden are mentioned in Ezekiel 31.

We are to understand the Grace of God in truth. Col. 1:16

We are joint heirs of the Grace. 1Peter 3:7; 4:10,16.

For the law was given through Moses, but Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17)

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved. Eph. 2:4-5

and the end from the beginning.

Rev. 22:21

The first garden was an enclosed place surrounded and protected but from what?

From everything outside (chet)

it’s perimeter fence.

We know because outside was not so favorable to humans. Adam found that out when expelled from its location.

Outside was not preferable or even equal; it was hostile and God’s presence and provision was not there in abundance where he had never had to ask for anything.

Now he has needs, need of everything…

Eden was a place, of complete Shalom.

(Shin alef lamed mem)

Like a womb:

beten – bet, tet, noon (or nun).

The house that surrounds life!

This is the common word for belly but scripture also uses it for the womb.

(waters of life within it)

Womb – rechem/racham

(looked at in previous post as connected to mercy/compassion);

is:

reysh tet mem

and in the pictographs is reysh= head person; tet = fence, inner chamber; mem = water.

Waters of life (Mem) or chaos are also in the word for peace-shalom. 

In the paleo it is

Sheen: teeth, destroy

Lamed: staff, authority

Vav: hook, nail, establish

Mem: water, chaos

This indicates that Shalom peace, only comes…

when the authority connected with chaos and confusion is destroyed!

Every time we say Shalom/peace, we are uttering a prophetic declaration that..

someone will come and destroy the one who is causing all the chaos and confusion…

and in reality that is the Sar Shalom the Prince of Peace.

He knew what He had come to do so when Yeshua/Jesus said:

Peace/Shalom I leave with you I you My

Peace/Shalom

I give to you not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” John 14:27.

He was, (and still is) the authority who came to destroy the one connected with chaos and confusion!

The definition of Shalom cannot be translated into English by one word, but its’ essence is contained in the following phrases:

It means to set, to establish you in shalom. The law of our covenant with Him does not give it and leave it at that, but he sees to it that you are firmly established in shalom.

Shalom, the word normally translated peace, means wholeness, completeness, nothing missing, nothing left out, health, welfare, security, justice, and tranquility, also freedom from all disaster. Having a settled quietness and composure of mind, the fullness of the word for peace which is ‘Shalom’ which could also read ‘full, total and complete wholeness for the human spirit, soul, and body.’

A Hebrew scholar gave the best English translation of shalom: no good thing is withheld.

Shalom comes from shalem meaning to be complete, so when there is shalom there is tranquility just as there is sufficient food clothing and housing. There is divine health, with no sickness.

Shalom means an absence of: disorder, injustice, bribery, corruption, conflict, flat, hatred, abuse, violence, pain, suffering, immorality and all the other negative forces. 

When shalom reigns with our Sar Shalom, in complete control, there will be no immorality, no injustice and the principles in the scriptures will be followed by all; and then the command to love your neighbor will be made complete.

The outside of eden was a place without Shalom, which eventually brought death to Adam and Eve.

It was the opposite of Shalom – it is called Ra (resh-ayin)/Rasha (evil,wicked).

While Ra is commonly translated evil or wicked, evil, literally meaning out of harmony with God, the real meaning in English is not expressed in the dictionary.

The meaning of the Hebrew word Rasha:

reysh (resh)

sheen (shin) ayin

= wicked, guilty

Head = person

teeth = devouring

eye = sees

meaning:person of the devouring eye

(gives a new perspective on  why we are to refrain from coveting and evil eye!)

and

Ra:Reysh Ayin – bad, evil. 

Head = person

eye = sees

person of the eye:

a person who watches can be good or evil,

Ra is the total opposite of shalom, so it means that nothing makes sense or is right. Chaos or anarchy are often used in translation because they may best expressed the meaning of Ra. Anarchy or chaos reigned when the children of Israel strayed after false gods, when the seasons of the Lord and the appointed times were ignored.

When there is chaos in society the bullies take over, corruption and bribery are common, freedoms are restricted; immorality is the norm and there is no order and no justice in society.

The mild side of Ra could be described as the occasions in our lives when we feel that even though we can’t put our finger on it, there is just a feeling of things not being right.

The far end of Ra is when everything is wrong, as with an absolutely hopeless situation. In that case only a personal relationship with the living God can give us shalom/peace in our spirits.

It was a place where food and water were abundant, the environment was perfect, not too hot or too cold; you could say it was climate controlled. No striving was necessary. There were no enemies or threats or danger.

Eden – and – a place of rest..

also

a place of Grace/Chen

Shalom

 we enter in by

Grace

Chet Nun/Noon

Could a definition of Grace be EDEN? The original state of Grace from which we all are fallen?

The term falling from Grace is often used to describe what happened to Adam and Eve but it also includes everyone of us.

Eden/Grace was the calibre of the existence of true life as it was originally designed/ created to be.

Therefore the position is only re-attainable by Grace….which we know to be truth. Eph 2:8

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

Amazing Grace – more amazing than we knew.

A literal state/place of being.

The Chen of God.

EDEN the place of grace/favor.

strongs # 2580

חֵן (chen) — favor, grace

We saw in a previous post that we enter in by or through Grace.

Do we literally enter into a spiritual environment of grace that surrounds us like a womb?

Jesus/Yeshua, tells us we enter in through the narrow gate/door.

This is entering into spiritual Eden.

We are in a way, going back

to also

get to the future,

back to Eden;

however it is the Eden of the future, yet the original Eden was not destroyed so maybe it still exists ….. We sometimes call it heaven? Eden was heaven on earth just has Jesus/Yeshua stated in the disciples prayer – on earth as it is in heaven, as above, so below…….

So the place,

‘Ha Makem’-המקום

where we fell from the state of grace, was an enclosure, a GAN, a garden, with protective walls made for a specific purpose.

Could it be said that the state of Grace therefore is Edenic in nature?

Because the state of Grace lacks nothing – therefore it would appear to be equal to shalom, (as we understand it by its definition). With nothing missing nothing broken,etc.

This is the place/state of being, of peace that passes understanding of the mind, that the world cannot know or experience or dwell in or have within; because as seen, everything outside of Eden is RA; which is resh ayin and is the complete opposite of shalom.

God planted a garden Genesis 2:8

GAN = enclosure..

Referring to the walls or fences that surround a grove of trees in ancient lands built to keep unwanted animals out.

The definitions of the letters in CHEN in Paleo Hebrew pictographs for an enclosure, a place of safety protection, includes the Paleo Hebrew picture of a fence and a seed.

Chet noon/nun

So have we by grace/chen entered spiritually into grace, the future eden? In Messiah we have returned to the pre-fall state, (back to Eden), so we might also call it the new Jerusalem or heaven.

Genesis 3:23. They were sent out of the garden because sin could not stay where the presence of God was manifested. So they had to leave. Eden was the garden of God then and it will be also in the future.

Grace had a meaning in that there was a boundary that encompassed it; this was true not only of Eden, but also the Israelites camp in the wilderness.

No sin could be within the camp where Gods’ presence was and which is why Messiah was was crucified outside the city walls/camp.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-mystery-of-solomons-chok/

The Garden of gethsemane was also outside the city camp/walls. (for more on Gethsemane link below.)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/sonset-sunrise-sunset-sonrise-apocalypse-of-the-tamid/

And the outside of the camp designation, did this mean there was no grace there?

There is so much more to this concept e.g. when we say glibly… But we are no longer under the law we are under Grace.

And also consider the statement made by Paul that God told him that His grace was sufficient for him….

To learn the definition of God’s grace, it is wise to understand the Greek and Hebrew words behind this term. A prominent Old Testament word describing God’s grace is chesed.

This word speaks of deliverance from enemies, affliction, or adversity. It also denotes enablement, daily guidance, forgiveness, and preservation; and in the Hebrew mindset it meant being able to be part of the community enclosure.

 As we have seen the Hebrew word for grace is chen, חן

which derives from a shoresh(root), meaning favor, mercy, kindness, graciousness. In Exodus 34:6-7, one of the great attributes revealed about the LORD is that He is gracious (chanun), and in Psalm 86:15, David is no doubt reminded of this fact.

El Channuwm אֵֽל־ חַנּ֣וּן

 GRACIOUS GOD

2 Chronicles 30:9 Jonah 4:2

Strong’s Hebrew: 2587. חַנּוּן (channun)  gracious

Grace (χαρις) – We have to be on our guard against the supposition that grace is an abstract quality; it is an active personal principle, showing itself in our dealings with those by whom we are surrounded. … In the great proportion of passages in which the word grace is found in the New Testament, it signifies the unmerited operation of God in the heart of man, which is done through the agency of the Holy Spirit.

Greek for Grace (χαρις)  CHARIS literally means ‘favour’, to bend or stoop in kindness to another as a superior to an inferior. It has the idea of graciousness in manner or action.

It almost always means the power of salvation which finds expression in specific gifts and acts. 

Recall The Hebrew word translated as grace is חן (hhen, Strong’s #2580) and is a two-letter parent root. חן (hhen) comes the verbal root חנה spelled exactly the same except with the addition of the letter ה (h) at the end. The following verse provides a good e.g. of the meaning of this verb.

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. (KJV, Genesis 26:17)

Recall this verb means “to pitch a tent” or “to camp.” The noun derived from this verb is מחנה (mahhaneh, Strong’s # 4264).

When we think of a camp we think of tents scattered about in a general area, but the camps of the Ancient Hebrews were a little different as the picture below shows.

The tents were set up in a sort of circle

(a womb-like shape)

and these tents serve as a wall/fence, separating and protecting the inside of the camp from the outside.

At this point it may help to look at the pictographic Hebrew script again which was used to originally write the word חן (hhen).

The first letter is the letter hhet/chet, which was written as

and is a picture of a wall,

having the meaning of separation

as the wall separates the inside from the outside.

The second letter is the letter nun, which was written as

and is a picture of a sprouting seed having the meaning of continue as the seed continues a lineage to the next generation; (as does the seed when planted in the womb).

When these two letters are combined they mean

the wall that continues.

The tents in the picture above are a wall that continues around the camp.

A second verbal root derived from the parent root חן (hhen) is חנן (Hh.N.N, Strong’s #2603), spelled exactly the same except with the addition of the letter ן (n) at the end and Channah H2580

This verb is often translated as to be gracious or have mercy, however these are abstract terms and do not help us understand the meaning of this verb from an Hebraic perspective, which always relates words to something concrete.

One of the best tools to use to find the more concrete meaning of a word is to look at how that word is paralleled with other words in poetical passages. In the following verses the translation of the verb חנן (Hh.N.N) are underlined and the word that it is paralleled with will be in black.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. (KJV, Psalm 6:2)

Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. (KJV, Psalm 30:10)

But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. (KJV, Psalm 41:10)

Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. (KJV, Psalm 57:1)

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. (KJV, Psalm 86:16)

Through this process we find that this Hebrew verb is paralleled with such ideas as healing, help, being lifted up, finding refuge, strength and salvation (literally rescue).

From a concrete Hebraic perspective, חנן (Hh.N.N) means all of this, which we can sum up with providing protection. Where does one run to for protection? The camp, and now we see how חנה (Hh.N.H), the camp, and חנן (Hh.N.N), protection, are related. We also need to see how these words are related to the parent root חן (hhen).

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it… (KJV, Proverbs 17:8)

In this verse, the Hebrew word ‫חן (hhen) is translated as precious, something of beauty and value.

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. (KJV, Proverbs 11:16)

In this verse the grace, or beauty, of the woman is contrasted with the strength of a man.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. (KJV, Proverbs 31:30

Again, this Hebrew word is being paralleled with beauty and this beauty is something that is precious and graceful, which is exactly how the Hebrews would have seen the camp of protection, a graceful and precious place.

Now we will return to our original definition of the English word grace.

Conclusion

part 2…

coming in another garden…

Shalom and Chen..

Grace and Peace to all

Mishpachah – Family

משפחה 

Mish-pa-KH

Please Do Not leave this page without the surety in your heart that you have the Grace of Messiah in your life and heart as the days draw ever closer to the end of the age..

NOT CERTAIN?

YOU CAN BE..

Make sure Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

Its all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are greatly loved and very precious in His sight.

He longs to give you the Shalom He paid the ultimate price for..

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. Amen.