the Hebrew alef-beis

Joshua Adams
December 24 at 4:12pm ·



For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 2 Cor 4:6-7

This year, the Temple Institute has produced pure olive oil fit for use in the Menorah of the Temple for what it says is the first time in two thousand years.The earthenware flasks made to contain the oil were produced by an artisan from the settlement of Ofra (fawn), in the west bank. In ofra, is an organic olive grove where the olives were harvested and processed without the use of metal, and the oil stored inside them was sealed with a silicone plug which will maintain the oil’s pure status.

There is a symmetry in the Menorah, the light in the temple of God, with its central lampstand “And six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side (Ex. 25:32). Zechariah speaks of a similar Lampstand, with a bowl on top of it and two olive trees beside it. In the temple, the lamps were fueled by pure, specially prepared olive oil. The lampstand Zechariah saw in his vision was fed straight from the two trees.

Zechariah asked for an explanation of the vision:So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?" Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." So he answered and said to me: "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts. Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it! Zech.4

In Zechariah Chpter 3 the Lord spoke of the importance of purity to Zechariah. Now Zerubbabel was a leader of the first ones who came out of Babylon to build the temple of the Lord, at the time when Cyrus came in. Purity in itself is not enough to accomplish the work of the Lord. When we trust in our own resources - whether they be small or great in the eyes of man - then we don't enjoy the full supply of the Spirit. "Oh! May God send us poverty; may God send us lack of means, and take away our power of speech if it must be, and help us only to stammer, if we may only thus get the blessing. Oh! I rave to be useful to souls, and all the rest may go where it will." (Spurgeon).

Everything is by the very spirit of God that lives in the hearts of all believers,and He speak of His own but brings to us the things of Christ,even telling us of the things to come. He declares the end from the beginning. As the scripture says, until one comes to Christ, the scriptures are veiled, but when one comes to Christ, the veil is taken away.

Saints, a very dear one to me, related a dream of the other night, in which everywhere she looked was the word Tau. it was on the buildings and all the billboards, and Tau has no real meaning to her. Tau is the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alef-beis. The Jewish people believe that, as a carpenter employs tools to build a home, so G-d utilized the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, the alef-beis, to form heaven and earth. They call the alef-beis the letters of light.

Genesis 22, is the account of Abraham taking Isaac to Mount Moriah to offer as a sacrifice. Psalms 22, is a prophetic account of the crucifiction of Christ. Many have heard that YHWH,or Yahweh, Yud Hei Vav Hei literally means behold the hand, behold the nail (vav, or wav); The Name of God all rolled up in the hand and the nail. Isa.22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.(Vs,22)And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. Isa 22:23-24. Rev. 22, the last chapter. vs.7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. vs. 12-14, And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

After the first three letters, the fourth letter of the Hebrew alef-beis is Dalet. Dalet has the meaning the poor man, receives charity from the rich man, the gimel. The word dalet means “door.” The door stands in the opening of the house, the beit. Even its form is of a man bending over to touch a man. Jewish Sages teach: “If not for God’s help he [man] would not have been able to overcome it [the evil inclination].” The Talmud describes a situation where one man is carrying a heavy object and another man appears to be helping him by placing his hands under the object, when in truth the first man is carrying all the weight. The second man is referred to as “a merely apparent helper.” So are we, explains the Ba’al Shem Tov, in relation to God. Ultimately, all one’s strength comes from Above. Free choice is no more than the expression of one’s will to participate, as it were, in the Divine act. One merely places one’s hands under the weight carried exclusively by God. After two more letters, the seventh letter, is Zayin,and it signifies a woman of Valor, and she is her husbands crown.“Who is a good woman? She who does her husband’s will.” The seventh letter, She is the "Shabbat Queen", the bride of Christ. She has oil for her lamp. It is best for us to put ourselves in the right hand of God, Jesus Christ. Even the alphabet of the word speaks of the word of God, Jesus Christ who came in the flesh, the Son of God, the light of the world, and our only hope. What a glorious and a blessed hope He is. Praise You, Lord and God.

The last letter or seal of the word emet, “truth,” itself – the seal of God’s seal – is the letter tau, simple faith, the conclusion and culmination of all twenty-two forces – letters – active in Creation. Tau represents Covenant or seal. In him (Christ) you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. Saints, God is working in you to will and to do according to His good pleasure, by His Spirit, through His letters of light. Alef, the very first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is a Yod above connected by a diagonal Vav to aYod below. Vav is the connection, it is the light that came down, it is the nail.

A Hebrew perspective: In Biblical Hebrew, the letter vav possesses the function of inverting the apparent tense of a verb to its opposite from past to future or from future to past (vav hahipuch). The first appearance of this type of vav in the Torah is the letter vav” which begins the ((twenty-second word)) of the account of Creation, “And God said….” This is the first explicit saying of the ten sayings of Creation: “And G d said [the verb ‘said’ being inverted from the future to the past tense by the vav at the beginning of the word–‘And’( He declares the end from the beginning)]: ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” The phenomenon of light breaking through the darkness of the tzimtzum, creation itself, is itself the secret of time (future becoming past) which permeates space.

In the Divine service of a Jew, the power to draw from the future into the past is the secret of teshuvah (“repentance” and “returning to God”) from love. Through teshuvah from fear, one’s deliberate transgressions become like errors; the severity of one’s past transgressions becomes partially sweetened, but not completely changed. However, when a Jew returns in love, his deliberate transgressions become like actual merits, for the very consciousness of distance from God resulting from one’s transgressions becomes the motivating force to return to God with passion even greater than that of one who had never sinned.

Because of Love, God sent His only Son, His right hand, the light of the world, the only One who never sinned, to be His Lamb, Our blood sacrifice, who took the nail which joins us to Him,by the Spirit of God, Because No one can say Jesus is Lord but By the Spirit. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 2 Cor 4:6-7

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.


For those watching. Ancient phoenicia also had an alphabet with 22 letters,and its 22nd letter was also the letter Tau. Make sure your faith and your Holy Spirit is leading you into the things of Christ, the word of God made flesh. Listen to Him. Jesus Christ, the Alpha and the Omega,the beginning and the end, the one who was who is and is to come. This babe, whose birth we SHOULD celebrate, every day, Is the beginning and the end and came in the center of time. He is the lampstand before the Most Holy place, that was unveiled by His blood, and the nail, that connects. And He is the bowl at the center from whom we receive life and go from Glory to Glory, by the very Spirit of God. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

For those who incessantly send me sites to teach me the right name to call Him, I Call Him, My Heavenly Father, because He told me to, and His spirit is my witness. Abba, Father, who purchased us from among men as Children and as His Bride. I receive your condemnation and forgive you. Only by the blood and the nail and His grace is our blessed Hope sure. It was declared from the beginning.

In a recent poll, Pope Francis, leader of the world’s nearly 1.1 billion Catholics, enjoys broad support across much of the world. Francis’ strongest support comes from Europe, where a median of 84% offer a favorable rating. Prophecy is being fulfilled and soon we will be with Him.