Unless you hate your wife, you cannot be a disciple of Yeshua!

Unless…you hate your wife…you cannot be a disciple of Yeshua. (Luke 14:25ff) I did not say this, beloved, Yeshua did. Now to the brother, who has a believing wife, she is your sister. Yohan, the apostolos says, “He (or she) that loveth not his brother (or his sister) abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother (or sister) is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” And in another place he speaks, “If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother (or his sister), he is a liar.” So, oh Christian person, you must hate your wife and love your wife at the same time, how can this be. I speak like a fool, that you might have understanding of the Spirit.

Let me start this exposition by looking at the word hate in original languages of the Bible. The Greek word, translated hate, is the word, miseo. This Greek word is used 42 times in the New Testament, 41 times translated hate, and 1 time translated hateful. The translation of the word across the entire New Testament is very consistent. Miseo is also used in the LXX.  The Greek word miseo is a verb or action word meaning to hate. The noun for hate in the Greek is misos. Misos is not used in the New Testament or in the LXX. This is significant because as far as the Bible is concerned in the Greek language the word for hate is always an action. It is not a passive word. In the Greek hate always implies action.

In the Hebrew the Greek word miseo translated is sana (pronounced sawnaw). The Greek language translated the the original primary Hebrew test. There are a few passages in Chaldean. From the Strong’s Concordance the Hebrew word to hate is 8130. There are actually four Hebrew words 8130, 8131, 8132 & 8133 spelled with the same letters but with different meanings or parts of speech depending on the context. 8130, sana, is to hate (the verb). 8131, senay, is hate (the noun). 8132, shana, is to alter or to change (the verb). 8133, shena,  is alter or change (the noun). Thus in the Hebrew language the Hebrew word translated hate also has the meaning of change. In the Hebrew it is assumed the natural state of a person in a most basic state is one of human love. The love of parents towards the children, children toward the parents, and children toward each other. This is a most basic thought of language. Hate is a change from this natural state of love. Read Genesis chapter 4. Though the language does not come right out and say, that Cain hated Abel, there was a change of the natural state which in this case was hate. Read 1 John 3:9-15 and see the change of Genesis 4 interpreted as hate in the sense of killing. If God grants you grace you will see the spiritual understanding I speak of as far as hate and change.

Now I will declare Luke 14:26 with understanding of the Spirit: “If any come to me and the natural state toward father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes and his own life is not changed, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever does not bear his cross (the one true gospel), and come after Me, cannot be my disciple.” There is another change of the state of person in the days of his or her flesh other than the change to hate that kills. This other change is the change that comes when God makes choice and grants a person grace to accept the one true gospel. The change is from the natural state of human love to the love of God. The love of God is the highest of all loves and earthly love is made subservient to the love of God in the grace of God. Apart from the grace of God human loves rules. Human love is most contrary to the eternal purpose of God in the Mashiach. For the Mashiach, Yeshua, died for all people, not just us and are family and those dear to us.

Then one might ask, but how do I hate my wife? How do I act in this change of state caused by grace toward my wife? There might be other questions concerning this understanding of the Spirit. Why even speak of these things at all it might be said? There is no relevance to the life we live? I will simply give you the words of the my brother who is judged to me to be my brother by the one true gospel, the apostolos, Paul:

“But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth that all, they that have wives be as though they had none, and they that weep as though they wept not, and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not, and they that buy as though they possessed not, and they that use this world, as not abusing it. For the form of this world passes away (I see a new heaven and new earth without the sea). BUT I DESIRE YOU TO BE WITHOUT CARE.” (1 Cor 7) Human love will leave you with care and distracted from the grace given to the chosen ones. Remember the prophesy, He that endureth to the end shall be saved. Also they who endureth to the end shall be saved. Remember, Lot’s wife!

I mark this writing by the declaration of the one true gospel: the Mashiach, Yeshua of Nazareth, died for our sins according to the Old Testament, He was buried and He rose again the third day according to the Old Testament. (Luke 24, 1 Cor 15:1-6)

Word study: brethren

“My brethren, there is no favoring of an individual in the faith of our Lord, Yeshua, the Mashiach of glory.” - James 2:1

The Greek word for “brethren” is “αδελφος” pronounced “adelphos”.  ”Adelphos” consists of two Greek words “a” and “delphus”. “a” has a meaning with a sense of joining or connecting. “Delphus” translates “womb”. Thus, adelphos literally means “joined to the womb” or “near to the womb”. “Adelphos” tranlated is “brother”, and ”adephae” is sister, both of which mean joined to one womb, the womb of their mother, a brother and a sister.

The Greek word ”delphus” is not used in the Old Testament (LXX) or New Testament Greek. Thus, to see its use other sources our needed. The following is found at the link http://www.rimed.org/medhealthri/2011-05/2011-05-147.pdf:

On the southern slopes of Mount Parnassus, in central Greece, stands an ancient shrine dedicated to the spirit of Apollo and the Oracle of Delphi. It was widely believed to represent the center of the earth; and within its sanctuary was the omphalus, a sacred stone representing the navel of the world. The shrine was initially dedicated to Gaia, mother goddess of all mankind; and the Greek word, delphus, signified the womb or uterus of all of humanity. (Uterus, a Latin term, descended from a Greek word, udrios, meaning belly.) Apollo, in his many voyages, was believed to be carried over the seas by a fish without scales, now called the dolphin (and derived from the Greek, delphus). (My comment: The origin of the word delphus for what we call today “the dolphin”  seems to be “a fish with a womb” in relationship to the large body of creatures called fish. This would be an reasonable description of this mammal before there was the categorization of life as we have today.) The oldest sons of the kings of France, and hence the heirs-apparent to the French throne, each inherited a heraldic banner adorned with two dolphins. Their title, in time, came to be “Le Daulphin,” and in more modern times, the Dauphin. (Perhaps because the sons were directly from the womb of the their mother and seed of the father.) Delphic, as an adjective, has also come to mean anything pertaining to the oracle of Delphi, and in general, any prophetic announcement. The uterine anomaly (defect) characterized by a double cavity is called “didelphic” meaning two uteruses. Didelphis defines the genus of marsupials with bilocular uteri, a genus which includes the opposum. The delphus  root has assumed a broader meaning in the non-medical literature. Those nurtured within the same uterus—either simultaneously or sequentially—are said to be brotherly souls. And if those motivated by the non-violent, Quaker philosophy of William Penn (1644– 1718) wished to form a city of brotherly love, it was inevitable that they would name it, Philadelphia from the Greek, philos, meaning loving or interested in, as in words such as philosophy, philanthropy, philharmonic, anglophile or philology, and delphia or adelphia (womb or brother)… The botanical vocabulary is enriched by a number of words derived from the Greek word, delphus, including the delphinium plant commonly called the larkspur; and adelphous, meaning a plant with many stamens. The adjective, adelphous, may also mean brotherly or fraternal.

As a brother and a sister according to the flesh is from the same womb or joined by being of the same womb, in like manner, those who are born from above, are from the same womb, the same source of life, the Spirit of God, all born from above by the will of God as it is written in the New Testament, the writing of the apostolos, Yohan:

 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3)

We are begotten from above, joined to God in the Mashiach, have come from the same source of life, and are brethren, brothers and sisters in the Mashiach. And the world hates us, because it hated Yeshua. Because of this we “are kindly, affectionate one to another with brethrenly love, in honor preferring one another”, because we come from God. He chose us, we did not choose Him.

If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have kindly affection one to another with brethrenly love, in honor preferring one another, and the blood of Yeshua the Mashiach, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin.

If we do not consider one another in this manner, we walk in darkness.

We are brethren in the Mashiach. He is the Son of God raised from the dead. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua ha Mashiach who has blessed us with all blessings of the Spirit in the Mashiach. As the Father and the Son are one, we, the assembly of the living God, are one with them by the one true gospel and grace and His Spirit. There is one Faith, one Spirit, one dipping (one baptism), one God and Father of us all.

I mark this writing by the one true gospel: the Mashiach, Yeshua of Nazareth, died for our sins according to the Old Testament, He was buried and He rose again the third day according the Tanach. (Luke 24, 1 Cor 15:1-6)

Word Study: Poor

All understanding comes by the word of God (the Tanach) declared by the one true gospel. The one true gospel is the Mashiach, Yeshua, died for our sins according to the Tanach, He was buried and He rose again the third day according to the Tanach. (The Tanach and the Old Testament are one and the same.)

In the New Testament the Greek word translated most often ”poor” is Strongs# 4434, ptochos. Its root means “to crouch” which when applied to the poor, speaks of either the physical or mental state,  as of “crouching”, as in a state of weakness.

There are several Hebrew words  translated “poor” in the Old Testament. Two are Strong’s# 1800, pronounced”dal” (46 total times, 43: poor, 2: needy, 2: weaker, 1: lean ) & 1803, “dallah” (8 total times, 1: poorest sort, 1: pining sickness, 1: hair). The meaning of both words is derived from a root word with a sense of letting down, dangling, slack, feeble, or oppressed. Because of this meaning and depending on the context, for example in Song of Solomon 7:5 “dallah” is translated “hair” or “the hanging down of the head”, or “hair”). As with the Greek the meaning of the Hebrew words as it relates to the poor pertains to the physical appearance or mental state, handing down. Another Hebrew word translated poor is Strong’s# 6041, “aniy” pronounced “aw-nee” (80 total times, 58: poor, 15: Afflicted, 1: lowly, 1: man, 1:variant). This word, 6030/6031 being like words, that have a puddle of meaning “to eye, look down depress, oppress, force, chasten, hurt, ravish, submit, and weaken.” Thus the poor are those who are looked down. When the rich look down from their lofty positions, do they not often oppress, or force, or chasten, or hurt, or cause to submit or weaken the poor? For if the rich (in spirit) were not to looked down with content, the poor would no longer be oppressed, but “the poor you will have with you always”. Poor in this sense can be the lowly ones, the afflicted, the meek, the humble. Was not the Mashiach “the Lowly One”, “the Afflicted One”, “the Meek One”, and “the Humble One”. Did He not fulfill these spiritual words in His death for our sins, His burial and His resurrection the third day as all the Tanach prophesied? Of course! 

Let me finish this entry with quotes from the writing of the apostolos and spiritual words:

“Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is pleasant, and my burden is light.” - Mat 11:28ff . The translation of the Greek word to ”pleasant” instead of easy, comes from a place in the Tanach where the Hebrew word translated in the LXX Greek (Strong’s 5543) has the sense of meaning as “pleasant”. It could also be “very good” as it is translated in Jer 24:2. In Spirit, could we not say “my yoke is very good?” Yes!

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are presecuted for rigtheousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice and be exceeding glad. For great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” – Mat 5

Word Study: Pride/Proud

In the KJV New Testament the word “pride” is found 3 times (Mark 7:22,1 Tim 3:6,1 John 2:16). “Proud” is found 6 times (Luke 1:51,Rom 1:30,1 Tim 6:4,2 Tim 3:2,James 4:6,1 Pet 5:5). Of these occurences 6 times “pride/proud” is translated from the Greek by the word huperethanos or huperethania (Strong’s 5244/5243). This word literally means “to show above (as others)” or implying “pride/proud”. In 1 Tim 3:6 & 1 Tim 6:4 the Greek word translated “pride/proud” is “tuphoo” (tu-pho-oe)(Strong’s 5187).  “Tuphoo” is derived from the word “tupho” (Strong’s 5188), meaning “to make a smoke”. The word is used in Mat 12:20 in the phrase “smoking flax”. Thus, tuphoo literal means “to envelope in smoke” as it is a strengthened form of the word “tupho”. Both of these two words are derived from Strong’s 5185 and 5186 meaning ”blind” and “to make blind” respectively. Thus the sense of “tuphoo” is ”the blindness that comes when one is enveloped in smoke”. There is one other Greek word translated ”pride/proud” and that is “alazoneia” (Strong’s 212). This is found in 1 John 2:16. This Greek word is used in one other place, James 4:16, and is translated “boastings”. The root word of this Greek word seems to have the meaning of vanity or empty, thus is speaks of the “emptiness” and in this case the “emptiness of boasting”. A more consistent translation of the word in 1 John 2:16 would be “boastings”. Out of pride does come boasting and the words are closely related. The two Greek words which are translated “pride/proud” in their puddle of meaning indicate “blindness” and the sense of “above others”. Thus in the Greek language, pride is the “thinking of oneself above others”  or a “blindness”. Pride is contrary to love of the Mashiach, for God loves all men without partiality and in the grace of God the chosen ones see and are not blind: we have the mind of the Mashiach. In the LXX the Greek words 5243 & 5244 are found 47 times.

In Old Testament Hebrew, the word pride/proud is translated from a number of different words. The meaning of the words vary, but the puddle of meaning is “lifted up”, or “wide”, “roomy”, “broad” or “enlarged”, and thus “proud”. Also the meaning can be ”strut as a lion”, or  ”to seethe” or “to boil”. The sense of “lifted up” is most often the meaning of the Hebrew word translated “pride/proud” and the second most often meaning is  ”to seethe” or “to boil”. Both the Greek and the Hebrew have a common word translated “pride/proud” with a sense of “lifted up” or “exalted”. With the Hebrew word with the meaning of boiling or seething, it is that which cannot be contained. This is pride’s effect on the flesh as in “boiling” or “seething”. Pride exalts the man in the flesh. Pride in the sense of raising up, is contrary to the spirit. In the flesh when we are set up in an elevated place, we see far distances. In the spirit when we are elevated in the flesh in pride we are blind in spirit. “The carnal mind is enmity with the things of God.”

It is written as prophecy, “God resists the proud one, but gives grace to the humble one“. Yeshua the Mashiach was condemned in the flesh, and justified in the Spirit. “He who knew no sin, became sin, by the letter of the law, that we might be made the righteousness of God in the Mashiach.” For this was the mind which was in the Mashiach, Yeshua, “Who being in the form of God, thought is not something to be grasped to be equal with God” in the days of His flesh.

Word Study: heart

Let me first start with the Strong’s Concordance entry:

Strong’s Number

3820,3821                 ל ב               leb/lev                   heart

3823, 3824,3825    ל ב ב            lebab/levav            heart 

3833                                                 lvayim                   lion

It very well could be, the Hebrew word for lion is from two words, 3820 (leb or lev) meaning “heart” and 366 (ayom) meaning “fright”. Thus, the word for lion in the Hebrew means “heart-fright”, a very fitting word. There is a similarity in the sounds of the English word “lion” of today and biblical Hebrew. The Latin and Greek word for lion is “leon”, so the word has not change much from old time.

Lev or leb literally means “enclosed”. With this meaning the word when used in the context of a person, to mean “heart”. When the Hebrew word is translated to Greek and English is can be understanding, courage, or mind: the enclosed intermost part of a human being. One can be said to be tender-hearted or hard-hearted. One can have  a rebellious or obedient heart. You can be single-hearted or double-hearted. The heart of the sea is the depth of the sea. Enclosed by the deep, not able to be reached. The Hebrew word can be used in the context of baking and it is translated cake, as enclosed in crust. There is the heart of God and there is the heart of man. There is the secrets of the heart of man which secrets cannot be kept from God. There is the heart of God, as Paul writes, As it is written, “Eye has not sen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him.” But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him? Even so, the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” The Spirit of God is the Heart of God! The very life of God! And it was the Mashiach was offered by the Spirit. In the person of the Son of God, Yeshua the Mashiach, God offered His life to the creature at the hand of the creature as He had ordained before the foundations of the world, so by grace His love would be known and righteousness fulfilled by the love of God, and not the letter of the Law. For the Law and the Prophets prophesied until Yohan! “How much more shall the blood of the Mashiach, who offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. And for this cause He is the mediator of the new agreement, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressors under the first agreement, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal life: life that does not cease or is not interupted by sheol. To be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord”, death does not have its sting! Truly partakers of eternal life in the midst of enduring grace and faith. It is the gift of God!

The Hebrew word for heart is found about 582 times in the Tanach. In the KJV English heart is used about 679 times. In the English the word is used to translate other words that deal with the “enclosed part” of man or the such.

Let God be your teacher as the Spirit of the Father who moved holy men to write the Tanach, breathes upon these writings for you to see Yeshua the Mashiach in them all.

Word Study: Grace

All understanding comes from the Tanach as it prophesies of the Mashiach’s death for all people’s sins, His burial and His resurrection the third day. All the Tanach in its entirety, every verse, every passage prophesies of  the Mashiach. Yeshua of Nazareth is the Mashiach, the Anointed One of God, the fulfillment of all the Tanach. The Tanach is the Hebrew word for what is called the Old Testament. It is also called the scriptures, the writings or the writings of the prophets. The Old Testament or as it is called in Hebrew, the Tanach, is a part of what is called the “Bible”. The Bible consists of what is called by the nations (Gentiles), the Old and New Testaments. In the Old is the prophecies concerning the Mashiach, Yeshua of Nazareth, and in the New is the understanding of the Old. The Old as it prophesies of the Mashiach is only seen as solely prohecies of Yeshua the Mashiach, if God gives grace to accept the one true gospel. The New is judged by the one true gospel. The New is not accepted as the prophecies of the Old, but judged by the one true gospel. God is the teacher of all, and no man is the teacher, though there is the gift of a teacher for the assembly. Judge Paul and the apostolos to be your brethren in the Mashiach by the gospel. Judge all things written by the apostolos in the New by the one true gospel. If you indeed walk in the true grace of God, you will judge all the apostolos your brothers as I have. 

The Greek word translated ”grace” is “Χαρις”, pronounced “kar-ees” (Strongs 5485). Notice the similarity with the Strongs entries 5463, 5479, 5483, 5484, 5486 & 5487. All these words have similiar roots. 5463 is the verb meaning ”to rejoice”. 5479 is the noun which means “rejoicing” or “cheerfulness”. 5486 and 5487 are Greek words that are recognized in the English language today, charisma and charity respectively. The Hebrew word which is translated from the Greek word, Χαρις (LXX), in the Tanach is ”khane”. (Strongs 2580). Now this “khane” and “khawnawn” (2603) are similiar. “Khawnawn” means “to bend or stoop” and “khane” is the noun form which is translated ”favor or grace”. And so we have the thought of “favor or grace” in the Hebrew language with the sense of bowing down: a person of means bowing down to one who has not the means. The giving to those with no means, that which they are unable to obtain for themselves. To one who has not, they are unable to give that which they do not possess. The Hebrew word for grace is intimately tied with one who gives the favor having the means, and the one who receives the favor being unable to obtain it for himself or having not the means. In this way grace is “a favor given”. Not just a gift, for a gift can be given to someone who does not need it, but grace is a gift for someone who has not the means to obtain it. It is no favor to provide a person with something they already have, and thus, this is excluded from the thought of the Hebrew word. Now to translate the Hebrew word for grace into the Greek, the Greek word which was chosen that most closely translates this word is the word for “rejoicing” or “cheerfulness”. The Greek word speaks of the response to grace or a favor, but not the grace itself. Would we not rejoice if One of means granted us a gift beyond our means? How perfectly grace is understood in spiritual thoughts, as the God of the universe giving His life on a cross, a life taken by the creature He created. The creature taking the life of God in the flesh and God alone has purpose this. This is the essence of the purpose of God. For God predetermined His death for our sins in the days of His flesh, and also His burial and His resurrection the third day. For it is fortold over and over in many different passages in many different ways in the Tanach. And through this act of God, the giving of His life, He gives favor or grace to the creature who is in need and has no way to obtain it. This is grace according to His will. Perhaps a good man might die for one, but God in the Mashiach reconciled Himself to all people when we were all enemies and sinners. “In Adam all died, in the Mashiach all are made alive, each person in God’s own order.” Each person as God has ordained. There is only the will of God.

One more thought, in the New Testament the Greek word “charis” is used about 155 times. In the Septuigent, the Greek translation of the Tanach, charis is used about 90 times. In the Tanach in the Hebrew the word, “khane”, is used about 66 times. Now in the Torah (the first five books of the Tanach) when “khane” is used, it primarily speaks of the people being given favor (for example by the Egyptians), and yet it is implied that it is God who gives the favor through them. The writing does not come right out and say it is God. As example, in Gen 6:8, “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Yehovah” It is not Noah that found grace, but grace that found Noah. For in the proceeding verse it says, “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his hearts was only evil all the day long.” This verse says every and all hearts were evil, but in verse 8, Noah found grace. This is the true grace of God. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and grace found Noah. Grace is a free gift, undeserved, not sought after, for it could not be sought after. It was unobtainable and unimagineable. For prior to the grace finding Noah, the thoughts of all men’s hearts were continually wicked always. Is it not so in the Mashiach? Yes!

Now in the 613 laws and ordinances “khane” is only used once. In Deut 24 it speaks of a wife no longer having favor in the eyes of her husband. And this passage Yeshua, the Creator of the heaven and the earth, was intimately familiar with, for in Mat 19 it is written, Why did Moshah then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away. He saith unto them, “Moshah because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.” In the one true grace of God and the Spirit of holiness there is the heart of God which is not hard toward any man, woman or child, for He loves all people in every generation without partiality and equally, and puts away no person. Look at the end of the Lord, that He is very pitiful and of tender mercies. He divorces His love from no man. And so in the grace of God if you can accept it, there is grace that  no child of grace would put away another person for any cause. How can this be so, Lord? With man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible!

Shabath, (shah-bahth), שבת

All understanding comes from the Tanach in light of the Mashiach’s death for our sins, His burial and His resurrection the third day. Yeshua of Nazareth is the Mashiach.

Shabath is the noun form of the verb, shavath. Shavath speaking of God means to stop or cease. And so, to say ”God shavath” as in Genesis 2, is to say God stopped or ceased.  The majority of the time shavath used in the Tanach (Old Testament) simply means “stop”. So in all its use depending on the context shavath means to stop or rest . Gen 2:3, “He had rested from all His work.” God ceased from his work of creation. Is 14:4, “How has the oppressor ceased.” How has the oppressor stopped (from his oppressing).” Lam 5:15, “The joy of our heart is ceased.” The joy of our heart has stopped.  Ez 16:41, “I will cause thee to cease.” “I will cause thee to stop.” Ps 46:9, “He makes wars to cease.” “He makes wars to stop.”

The first time in the Tanach, shabath is used in Exodus 16:23. “And it came to pass on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man, and all the elders of the congregation came and told Moshah. And he said unto them, This is what the Lord has said, Shabathown (Strongs 7677), a holy shabath to Yehovah is tomorrow. Today bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil, and that which remains over, lay it up for you to be kept until the morning. (verse 12: “in the morning you shall be filled with bread.” Manna was collected every morning except the Shabath.) And they laid it up until the morning, as Moshah asked, and it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it. And Moshah said, Eat this today. For today is a shabath to the Yehovah. Today you shall not find it (the manna) in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the shabath, in it there shall not be none. And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day to gather, and they found none. And Yehovah said unto Moshah, How long do you refuse to keep my laws? See, Yehovah has given you the shabath. Therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide ye every man in his place on the seventh day. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

Gen 2:1 ff, “Thus the heavens and all the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished His work which he had made, and he shavath  on the seventh day from all the work which He had done.”

Ex 20:8 ff, “Remember the shabath of Yehovah Elohiym. In it you shall not do any work, thou nor thy son, or thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days Yehovah made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and set down the seventh day. Wherefore Yehovah blessed the shabath day and sanctified it.”

And so that which began as no Law, the shabath of the Lord, the ceasing or resting of the Lord, became a Law. But if a law could have been given to produce righteousness, one would have surely been given and the Mashiach would not have needs to have died. Now the shabath was the seventh day under the law, and practiced by Yudah and Yisrael as they were under law. And the Mashiach died the ninth hour, and his body could not be left unburied over the shabath. And so he was quickly buried in a rich man grave by the twelfth hour, the beginning of the seventh day, shabath. And Yeshua tasted death for all men. And Yeshua said near the end of the sixth day the thief this day would be in paradise with Him. And His body laid in the rich man’s grave from the end of the sixth day through the entirety of the seventh day. And the first day of the week when it was yet dark, God raised Him from the dead, clothed Him with a glorified body, raised Him from the dead, to fulfill the scriptures. And so He died the ninth hour of the sixth day and His body was laid in a sepulchre before the start of the shabath. And His body laid in the grave, the time of shabath, the day of the rest of our God. And because death could not contain him at the start of the first day, God raised Him in a glorified body, the third day, the first day of the week.

And so the law says the shabath is the seventh day of the week, and to remember it. But Yeshua was raised the first day, no longer under law. Just as the children of grace are not under law. But the law is not abolished, but it is kept lawfully, by the remembering of the prophecies. The Law and prophets prophesy until Yohan, sayeth Yeshua. And so the Law is kept but we are no longer bound to the Law, but to the Mashiach who is raised from the dead. We are married to another. But by the Spirit of the Father, the author of the Law, we remember the Mashiach in the scriptures and do not forsake the law.

The saints of the most high God, they fellowship daily lest their hearts be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, not forsaking the assemblying of themselves together as the manner of some, but exhorting one another the more as  the day of judgment approaching. And so they assemble all the days, and the first day, for this was the day of the resurrection of Yeshua. But one day is not above another for all days are the Lord’s, and we celebrate the resurrection of the Lord all days!

Scoffers in the last days

“This second letter, beloved, I now write unto you, in which by a reminder I arouse your pure minds to remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the command of us, the “apostolos” (the ones who hold the one true gospel and standfast apart by grace: this is the gift of God to the assembly) of the Lord and Savior. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days (the days before judgment in the generation of judgment) SCOFFERS walking after their own lusts (desires, coveteousnesses), and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation. For this is hidden from them by their willing it so (and why were they willing? Because God chooses all before they did any evil or good.), that the heavens were of old, and the earth by water and through water, being held together by the word of God for which (the world) was flooded with water, perished. And the heavens and the earth which are now kept in store by the same word (of God), and being kept for fire to a day of judgment and perdition (ruin) of ungodly men. Beloved, let  not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some men count slowness, but is longsuffering toward us, not purposing any of us (the saints of the most high God) to perish, but that all of us (the saints) should come to repentance.” (2 Peter)

The word SCOFFER in the Greek is εμπαικτης, in the Strong’s #1703, spelled in English empaiktes, pronounced “empah-eek-tace”, meaning “mock” or “jeer”. The verb form of the word is εμπαιξω in the Strong’s #1702, pronounced “empah-eedzo”, spelled in English empaizo meaning “to mock” or “to jeer”. 1702 is derived from two Greek words, εν meaning “in” and 3815, παιξω, spelled in English paizo, pronounced “paheed-zo” meaning “to play”. Paizo comes from the Greek word, παις, in the Strong’s # 3816, spelled in English pais, pronounced “pa-hees”, meaning boy. Thus, the Greek word “to play” is derived from the Greek word for “boy”. That is, in Greek “to play” literally means “to be a boy”. How fitting. 

Now for a boy, or for that matter for any child, male or female, ”to play” is fitting and proper. This is the acceptable behavior of a child. But if you take this acceptable behavior of a child and apply it to an adult, this is an entirely different matter. When an adult or one who is older and should act as one older, plays like a boy, it is not acceptable behavior, and I mean in the Lord. In fact this behavior “mocks” and “jeers” the mature and the spiritual ones. This is what it means, “scoffers in the last days”. They act as children playing as if there are no cares in the world and very judgment of God is about to fall upon the face of the earth. These are the scoffers in the last days, saying “Where is the promise of His coming?”

Sin

All spiritual understanding comes from knowing the Mashiach. And to know the Mashiach comes by the grace of God which causes a person to accept the one true gospel. And the one true gospel is the Mashiach, Yeshua of “Nazareth” died for our sins according to the Old Testament (Tanach), He was buried and He rose the third day according to the Tanach (Old Testament). In the true grace of God there is no controversy in these words I speak, only rejoicing and fellowship if we walk in the light as He is in the light. I and those with me, we rejoice.

The understanding is: “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” and “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with such a cloud of witnesses (the witnesses listed in the previous chapter), let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Yeshua the author and finisher of the faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

The Greek word for sin in the two passages quoted is αμαρτια (hamartia, noun, Strong’s # 266, ham-ar-tee-ah). It is found about 170 times in the NT in its singular or plural form translated sin(s), with one exception, offense, in 2 Cor 11:7. This Greek word is also found many times in the LXX. I could provide you a list of the verses if you need them.  The first time the word is used in the LXX  is Gen 15:16. The Hebrew word behind the Greek word for sin in this verse is  עון (avon, Strong’s# 5771,noun, pronounced aw-vone). In the Strong’s it is said to mean and be translated: evil, perversity,fault, iniquity,mischief, punishment, sin. “Avon” is derived from the Hebrew word עוה (avah, Strong’s 5753) It is a verb and means “to make crooked or bend down”. So we have a verb, avah, which means to make crooked or bend, in some sense when it is made a noun, is translated sin or iniquity.

Let me first start with the sense of avah, the verb (action word) meaning to bend. ”Avah” is used two times in the Tanach where it is translated “bowed down”: Ps 38:6, “I am troubled and bowed down” and Is 21:3, “I am bowed down at the hearing”. The prophecies are concerning the Mashiach who is bowed down before the Father, His king. And so the sense of a man “avah”, is bending down in submission to the king. A slave submitting to His master. But there are two ways to submit or bow down to a master. One can submit or be submitted, but either way in the end, there will be submission. When “avah” is seen as sin, it is in the sense of being submitted to a master by the master, and when “avah” is seen as righteous it is seen in the sense of submitting to the master. As an example, the Mashiach, Yeshua, submitting to the Father full of grace and truth. Now let me point out one more prophecy in the Ez 21:24-27, “Therefore, thus saith Adonay, Yehovah, because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that all your doings your sins do appear. Because that you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand. And you profane wicked ruler of Yisrael, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end. Thus saith Adonay, Yehovah, remove the turban, and take off the crown. This shall not be the same. Exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will bow it down, I will bow it down, I will bow it down and it shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is, and I will give it to him.”   The KJV translates “avah” overturn, but it literally means to “bow down” as I have written the passage. God will bow down Yisrael as well as the Ammonites (vs20) by the king of Babylon (vs 19,21) to Himself. By the king of Babylon God will cause the ruler to submit to Himself. Because of the sins of Yerushalem God will cause Yudah to submit to Him by judgment. It is in the scriptures of the prophets “avah” come forth to give us the sense of sin. Sin is about submission, and submission to God whether He grants grace to submit or He causes submission by judgment. Again whether by the grace of God people are able to submit to God or by His mercy He will cause “the many” to submit to Him in judgment, so that in the end, “every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Yeshua is Adonay to the glory of God the Father”. God will cause “the many” to submit, so that in the end all may see the end of the Adonay (Lord), that He is very pitiful and of tender mercies.

In closing to see clearly (only if there be grace) that Yeshua’s understanding in the days of His flesh was the thought of sin with submission. “Then said Yeshua to those of Yudah which believed on Him, if you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. And they answered Him, We be Avraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man. How sayest thou, you shall be free? Yeshua answered them, Verily, verily I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant remains not in the house forever, but the Son abideth for ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. I know that you are Avraham’s seed, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak that what I have seen with my Father, and you do that which you have seen with your father. They answered and said unto Him, Avraham is our father. Yeshua said unto them, If you were Avraham’s children, you would do the works of Avraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God. This did not Avraham. You do the deeds of your father…(vs 59) Then took they up stones to cast at Him. But Yeshua hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.” A person is either a slave of sin, which he is borne in, or a slave of righteousness which is the second birth.

Mary and Isaiah chapter 7

The one true gospel is the Mashiach, Yeshua of “Nazareth”, died for our sins according to the Old Testament, He was buried and He rose again the third day according to the Old Testament. All the understanding of God comes from the one true gospel as God gives grace.   

In Isaiah chapter 7 the Hebrew word translated “virgin” is “almah”. “Almah” (Strong’s 5959) is found 7 times in the Old Testament. (Gen 24:43,Ex 2:8,Ps 68:25,Prov 30:19, Song Of Sol 1:3 & 6:8, Is 7:14). The passages are about women with no mention of their own children, perhaps not married at the time the passage was written, and  I do not know for sure in every passage whether they ever  knew a man. In Genesis 24 Rebekah was without child and in verse 16 states, “no man knew her”. In Exodus concerning the pharaoh’s daughter maid, it does not state that “no man knew her” and does not mention whether she ever had a child or not. She looked for a nurse maid so she probably never had a child.

The root word for “almah”, is “elem”(Strong’s 5958) which translated is “to keep out of sight” or in the context of almah, a “women kept out of sight”.  An unmarried girl is concealed or protected by her father until she is married. Or the body of a woman is kept out of sight of a man until she is married. Her face could be covered because of the custom of the day, but this I do not know for sure. I confess that Yeshua the Mashiach has come in the flesh, so I am not saying the things I am, to deny the Mashiach. What I am concerned with is the original intent of the prophecy in Isaiah 7. For sure it speaks of a woman conceiving a child purposed by God. The immediate fulfillment of the prophesy is toward Isaiah and his wife, the prophetess, and the child she would conceive (Is 8:3) It does not state in this passage that Isaiah did not know his wife prior to this child. It does not state whether they had other children. It does not state these things. It leaves it a secret, as the mystery of the Mashiach. There are other places in the writings of the prophets that speak of that which is not written, and things not written prophesying of the Mashiach. Melchizadek is an example. 

In the prophesy of Isaiah chapter 7, the sure intent is God’s declaration of His purpose of a child born apart from the will of man before the day of judgment. This is the sign. A child born of the will of God before judgment to fulfill the prophecy. A birth apart from the will of man. This certainly is in agreement with the Mashiach. Now if the prophecy was suppose to be understood of that of a virgin, a women who never knew a man, then men could have watched all virgins very carefully, and when  one became pregnant, they would have known who the Mashiach was. This was not the understanding God was giving through the writings of the prophets. All the understanding of God in the Mashiach is about the Mashiach, and not about another man, or another woman. Who is the One who had an only begotten Son purposed by God? This speaks of God in Christ. Who is the Concealed One who was conceived and brought forth as the Son by the will of God? This speaks of God in Christ. And is it not true, that this only begotten Son is “God with us”? Is it not true that the only begotten Son is the “Word made flesh”? Yes! It is true! Amen! The Old Testament speaks of God in Christ.

Now let us go to Matthew chapter 1: 20, and the messenger speaking to Yoseph, “Fear not to take Miryam thy wife. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall call his name, Yeshua. For he shall save his people from their sins. NOW ALL THIS WAS DONE, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN OF THE LORD BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, Behold, a virgin (Greek: parthenos) shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” The child conceived, and a son brought forth, and his name called Yeshua occurred, that the writings of the prophets MIGHT be fulfilled. This is the pattern in almost every place where the Old Testament is quoted in Matthew, Mark, Luke and Yohan. (The writings called Matthew, Mark, Luke and Yohan are not the gospel, but the gospel is contained in them. Just as the other writings of the apostolos are not the writing of the prophets, but contained within them are quotations from the writings of the prophets (Old Testament). The New Testament is not to be accepted by grace and the will of God as the Old Testament is. The New Testament is judged by the one true gospel. It is in agreement with the one true gospel. This holds true to all spiritual words of understanding.) Again, the child conceived, and a son brought forth, and the name given him, Yeshua, was all done, not as the fulfillment of the Old Testament, but so the Old Testament would be fulfilled. And by the one true gospel I know I preach, the entire Old Testament prophesies of the Mashiach, Yeshua of “Nazareth”, death for our sins, His burial and His resurrection the third day. The child conceived by the Holy Spirit and not by the knowing a man and a woman, and the bringing forth of a son, and naming him Yeshua was all done that the Mashiach, Yeshua, would die for our sins, be buried and rose again the third day according to the entire Old Testament. He was borne to die. The prophecies are not fulfilled in His birth, but in His death for our sins, His burial and His resurrection the third day. The prophecy is not about Mary, but about the Mashiach, who is Yeshua of “Nazareth”.

Now some would say, that I speak words that are not necessary. Beloved, out of this prophecy and this understanding, not rightly understood, have come all manner of false doctrines, and countless have been deceived. The false doctrine and the false spirit of interpreting the scriptures of the prophets apart from the Mashiach’s death for our sin, His burial and His resurrection the third day. (This is true of all false interpretations of the prophecies of the Old Testament.) For from this false spirit came forth the false doctrine of Mary being immaculately conceived, without sin when she was born. The false doctrine of Mary having no other children. The false worship of Mary and many other saints. Praying to Mary and the saints. The false doctrine of Mary as the queen of heaven. The false doctrine of Mary’s bodily ascension into heaven. How many souls have been misled by the false prophets who spoke and affirmed of things they themselves knew nothing about.

Now may I mention Mary or rather Miryam in Hebrew. Miryam was in the upper room when the Holy Spirit was first given to the assembly of God. She was chosen a saint before she did any evil or good before the foundation of the world, just as all the saints of God are. The good that she did had no bearing on God making choice. She was not chosen after she did good. There is no mention in the New Testament of Yoseph chosen for the grace of the second birth. Some brothers and sisters of Yeshua were not chosen, though James, the brother of Yeshua was. Miriam was a sister in the Mashiach who left no writings, and this is in agreement with the understanding of Paul, “I permit not a woman to teach or usurp authority over a man.” We do not know anything else about her, but God does, and all other matters are His concern, and He has given me no other understanding concerning her. I do not know anything else. She needed to walk by grace and the Spirit just like all the saints of God. He or she that endures to the end shall be saved. Concerning the saints of the past this is God’s domain, and the saints of the present, this is God’s domain, and we all stand before our God, and He is our judge.