Who was Tsofnat Paneach
פַּעְנֵחַ צָפְנַת
and how is this person linked to Messiah?
It has been said that there are no secrets or mysteries in the Bible and yet Jesus/Yeshua Himself declared as recorded in
Mark 4:11. And he said unto them, unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God:
In Matthew 13:11: To you, who have, it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven – The deep things which flesh and blood cannot reveal, pertaining to the inward, present kingdom of heaven.
Luke 8:10; And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Mark 4:11). And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
The contrast between the disciples and others, as it is written here, is that in the case of the disciples, the mysteries of the kingdom are given to be known. In that of the others, the mysteries are given, but only in parables, therefore so as to remain veiled/unknown.
This passage goes on to tell us that if we know the Parable of the Sower, we will know all parables (Mark 4:13).
(Understanding comes through the unfolding/revealing, that is, of your inward powers of perception, not merely by means of the exposition.)
We are told plainly in Yeshua’s interpretation of the Parable of the Sower that the seed is the Word of God (Luke 8:11), and this seed is sown in our hearts (Mark 4:15).
Therefore, a major key to unlocking all mysteries is…. the Word of God being deposited in the rich fertile soil of our hearts.
We should think of the Scriptures as being like a self-decoder to the mysteries and secrets of His Kingdom; containing within itself, all the answers to the questions we may have.
In Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.”
Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His covenant.
But holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 1Tim. 3:9.
A search will confirm there are some 371 instances of secret and 43 verses about mystery.
Mystery = ta’alumah (תעלומה)
1Cor. 2:6-8 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
In Col. 1:26-27 that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
and we still speak mysteries today!
1Cor. 14:2 For one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.
The word “mystery” appears twenty eight times in the New Testament, but is not found in the Old Testament. The Greek word “musterion,” translated “mystery” did not mean something that is obscure or incomprehensible; rather it meant a truth given and revealed only to a select few that was unknown until it was revealed.
The word ‘mystery’ appears 22 times in the King James Version (KJV). It appears 26 times in the NIV so the count varies slightly depending on which translation you use.
The apostle Paul used the word mystery 21 times in his Epistles. In each case, the mystery involved a wonderful declaration of spiritual truth, revealed by God through divine inspiration.
that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Zaphnath-Paaneah
Hebrew פַּעְנֵחַ צָפְנַת
Ṣāfnaṯ Paʿnēaḫ
Tsophnath Pa`neach
Pronounced: tsof·nath’ pah·nā’·akh
was the Egyptian name given by Pharaoh to Joseph -Yahuwseph, in Genesis 41:45
Meaning:
Decipherer or Revealer of Secrets.
gelah or gela: to reveal
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Original Word: גְּלָה
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: gelah or gela
Phonetic Spelling: (ghel-aw’)
Definition: to reveal
Daniel 2:47
HEB: וּמָרֵ֥א מַלְכִ֖ין וְגָלֵ֣ה רָזִ֑ין דִּ֣י
NAS: of kings and a revealer of mysteries,
KJV: of kings, and a revealer of secrets,
Targum Onkelos (1st century AD) gives the meaning of the name as:
“the man to whom mysteries are revealed”;
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan,
“one who reveals mysteries”;
Josephus (Antiquities ii.6.1, c. AD 94),
“a finder of mysteries”.
The Jewish interpretation is received in early Protestant translations: the Geneva Bible (1599):
“The expounder of secrets”,
while the Authorised Version of 1611 has in the margin: “Which in the Coptic signifies,
‘A revealer of secrets’,
or
‘The man to whom secrets are revealed.’
Others say that it is an Egyptian name (Ibn Ezra; Radak, Sherashim).
In Egyptian, Tzaphnath is:
tza-pa-neth meaning, ‘the Neth speaks’ or ‘the god speaks.’
Paaneach is pa-anakh, meaning ‘the life,’ where anach or ankh is the symbol of life. Hence the name can be translated as, ‘Lord of life,’ ‘Neth speaks life,’ or ‘The God speaks and [this man] lives.’
Scripture reveals a secret that he was no regular Joe!
Yôsēp̄ יוסף יהוסף
The name can be translated from Hebrew יוסף יהוה Yosef YHWH
as signifying
“Yahweh/Jehovah shall increase/add”
יהוסף
Increaser – May He Add.
From the verb יסף (yasap), to add, increase, or repeat.
Joseph was Jacob’s eleventh son and Rachel’s first son, and known in the Jewish Bible as Yoseph ben-Yaakov.
Joseph was thirty years old when he appeared before King Pharaoh. When Pharaoh told him that he had heard of Joseph’s great gift as an interpreter of dreams.
The king answered Daniel and said, “Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery.”
Dan 2:48 Then the king [fn] promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief [fn] prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.
Joseph modestly replied that his wisdom was not of his own making but of God’s.
Then Pharaoh related his dreams to Joseph, and Joseph knew at once that God had revealed their meaning to him.
41:45: Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Tzaphnath Paaneach. He gave him Asenath, daughter of Poti Phera, the priest of On, as a wife. Joseph thus went out to oversee Egypt.
Vayikra Far’oh shem-Yosef Tsofnat Paneach vayiten-lo et-Osnat bat-Poti Fera kohen On le’ishah vayetse Yosef al-erets Mitsrayim.
Returning to Messiah we read in Matt. 13:11- 12. And He replied to them, To you it has been given to know the secrets and mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Because the secrets does not mean the same as what we understand as mysteries in the English language sense; it means something like this, in paraphrase: what we can know of the kingdom of heaven, only by divine revelation, has been given for us to know, but it has not been given to them.
12 For whoever has [spiritual knowledge], to him will more be given and he will be furnished richly so that he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Amplified: He said to them, To you it has been given to [come progressively to] know (to recognize and understand more strongly and clearly) the mysteries and secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that, [though] looking, they may not see; and hearing, they may not comprehend. you might say it was a kind of punishment for their blindness as He made obscure to them things which He made clear to others.
Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Mark 4:11. And he said unto them His disciples; unto you it is given to know
the mystery of the kingdom of God;
or the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
the secrets of the Gospel dispensation,
the mysterious doctrines of grace;
Mark 4:11. ὑμῖν, to you has been given,
so as to be a permanent possession,
the mystery of the Kingdom of God.
They have been initiated into the secret, so that for them it is a secret no longer, not by explanation of the parable (Weiss), but independently.
Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God:
or the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, the secrets of the Gospel dispensation, the mysterious doctrines of grace; but unto
them that are without;
“to strangers”,
as the Syriac and Arabic versions render it, who were not the disciples of Messiah, nor admitted to any intimacy with Him; who came only to amuse themselves with the sight of His person and miracles:
all [these] things are done in parables;
are wrapped up in dark sayings, and figurative expressions, the sound of which they heard, and might well have been pleased with the similes made use of in the stories and parables, but they did not understand the spiritual meaning contained within them.
Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. neither any thing hid, that shall not be made known, and come abroad;
for what had been whispered to them, in the most secret and silent manner, was to come abroad not only in Judea, but in all the world, and to be published upon the house tops;
With the emphasis on what has not been known – this means that all mysteries will be revealed.
Apocalypsed!
In Hebrew
אַפּוֹקָלִיפּסָה
apocalypse.
The word apocalypse comes from the Greek word apokalupsis.
Greek: apokalupsis – from 2 root words apo means away or to remove
Kalupsis means a veil or covering.
The removing of the veil speaks of revealing.
These are the things pertaining to the second coming – and there are many variations and explanations referring to the opening of the vision concerning the end of the present age. Believers, as His bride, are to live in that Way every day as in the time of the true bride – face to face – unveiled – there is to be nothing between or separating and nothing covered – nothing hidden before Him.
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It also refers to disobedience and sinful behavior that will be exposed on judgment day and in context with
Luke 8:17 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Ps 78:2. I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old–
things hidden
חִ֝יד֗וֹת (ḥî·ḏō·wṯ)
Noun – feminine plural
Strong’s Hebrew 2420:
1) riddle, difficult question, parable, enigmatic saying or question, perplexing saying or question
1a) riddle (dark obscure utterance)
1b) riddle, enigma (to be guessed)
1c) perplexing questions (difficult)
1d) double dealing (with ‘havin’)
Strong’s Hebrew: 4565.
מִסְתָּר (mistar) — a secret place …
מִּסְתָּֽר – secret – mistar
Strong’s Hebrew: 7328.
רָז – raz – a secret
The mystery preserved for us after all this time is that Messiah would in loving obedient devotion to His Heavenly Father, willingly go to His death on the cross. The servant Messiah would by doing so fulfill the Father’s plan of salvation for all those under the curse of sin.
Mystery = ta’alumah – (תעלומה)
The word Hebrew is a Hebrew word, borrowed into English from the Greek language,
that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
The Mystery of God is Jesus/Yeshua
The Mystery: The word Mystery denotes:
(1st) a religious mystery like those of Eleusis, into which men were initiated;
(2nd) a secret (as in 1 Cor. 15:51); and is applied (a) to the Gospel itself (as here and in 1 Cor. 2:7; Rom. 16:25; Eph. 1:9); and (b) to the various parts and truths of the Gospel (Matt. 13:11; Lk. 8:10; 1 Cor. 4:1);
(3rd) to a symbolic representation or emblem as in (Rev. 17:5; Rev. 17:7).
Mark 4:11. Looking at the Greek: (Ἔλεγεν, He said) With hearty good-will [with real pleasure].
— ἔξω, without) – outside of the circle of genuine discipleship. [Whereas in Mark 4:10 (They that were about Him with the twelve).
γίνεται) Fall to[are done as concerns] them as parables.
Verses 11, 12. – To know the mystery. The Greek verb γνῶναι, to know, is not found in the best manuscripts, in which the words are (ὑμῖν τὸ μυστὴριον δέδοται), unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God.
Here the explanation as to why He spoke to the mixed multitude in parables; namely, because most of them were as yet incapable of receiving the gospel: some would not believe it, others reviled and rejected it.
Therefore here He encourages His own disciples to search out the words He speaks in parables, and to humbly inquire into their full meaning; so they might become able ministers and efficient preachers of the gospel.
By this He shows that this efficiency cannot be obtained by our own strength, but must be sought from God with a humble heart.
For it is His own gift which He bestows on the disciples and denies to others, whom He leaves to the blindness of their own hearts. It is as though He said, (paraphrase):
“To you, my disciples, my apostles, since you believe in me as the Messiah, it is given for you to continually have more clear revelations from Me of the Mysteries of God and of the Heavens, by this you shall increase day by day in the knowledge and love of Him.
But from the scribes and others, because they will not believe in Me as their own Messiah, God will take away even that small knowledge which they have of the Father and of His Kingdom. He will deprive them of all the special privileges which they have had up to now.”
But these words are not limited to those who were living on the earth when Messiah was here.
He says in effect that their application is to all, in every age, who come within the reach of His gospel.
“Those who come to me with a sincere heart and a simple desire to know the truth, as you are doing, to them I will reveal the mysteries of my kingdom, and I will help them onwards in the path of holiness, (set-apartness), by which they may at length attain to the heavenly kingdom. However, those who don’t have a pure desire for truth, but rather indulge their own lusts and errors, from them that little knowledge of God and Divine things will be taken away from them by degrees, and they will become altogether blind.” (Paraphrase.)
Here the Greek expression:
(ἐκείνοις δὲ τοῖς ἔξω),
but unto them that are without.
Just as there are today, in those days there were those who were without/outside the realm of spiritual things; not caring for, not understanding and not desiring spiritual truth.
He revealeth the deep secret things he knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with Him.
He’ll share His secrets with us revealing hidden things. This lifts us out of darkness and gives us the WAY – DERECH, of understanding His TRUTH – EMET, which in turn brings LIFE- CHAIM, and freedom.
If we seek Him in His fullness and desire to know His heart, He will open Heavens Treasures and He will impart His wisdom to everyone who asks.
We His children are not ordained to be blind and lacking in comprehending His will and His ways. His will is the eternal light and the revealing. He sends His wisdom to us through His Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit. It’s sin that blinds the soul to His Truths. It was sin that brought the darkness both before Genesis 1:1 and after!
Something caused the great expanse to be in chaos without form and void! The waters were already there!
BUT His Blood of the Atonement, opens spiritual and physical eyes and makes us whole.
There are secrets and mysteries and diamonds in the rough, things that we can learn of His Providence. Not secrets like those of secret societies that are only for a select few initiates. Gods’ secrets are for whosoever will.
When outward physical circumstances seem negative to the natural eye; we need to look deeper; for this is Gods’ secret. By not looking only at the exterior but with the eye of faith, we will see the hidden deeper meaning within.
The view of the wilderness – Mishkan is a perfect example.
The inner shekinah glory is hidden and obscured to those who don’t bother to seek Him. Nothing on its exterior appearance gave any indication of the unfathomable glory contained within.
Conclusion coming in part 2…
Shalom Alecheim..
‘Mishpachah’ – ‘Family’.
משפחה
Mish-pa-KHa
as He continues to reveal His Mysteries and Secrets to us all!
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the revelation
of the mystery
that was kept secret
from Genesis/Bereshyt – the beginning
which is an apocalypse to you today.
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