HEBREW

In this teaching, Daniel Rendleman discusses the importance of understanding the Hebrew language in order to have a deeper understanding of the Bible and biblical faith. He emphasizes that the Hebrew language is not just a means of communication, but a living language with significant meaning. Rendleman encourages listeners to recognize that they already know some Hebrew words, such as Yeshua, Yahweh, and Shalom. He also compares the restoration of the Hebrew language to the restoration of all things as prophesied in the scriptures. Rendleman asserts that the Hebrew language gives believers the upper hand in spiritual battles and contributes to their victory over the enemy. Hello, this is Daniel Rendleman with EmetMinistries.com and welcome to our teaching today entitled in Hebrew, The Living Language. I want to welcome you and just express to you how excited I am to be sharing with you this wonderful teaching where we're going to be talking about not a dry subject, not something that is going to be real boring, but something that should be real exciting for us today, possibly one of the most life-changing teachings or instructions that you're ever going to listen to as we're going to see that everything flows from the Hebrew language. This is a study that's going to clear up many misunderstandings that you may have about the Bible or about biblical faith or about how to pray or about what certain scripture verses mean. It's going to help you renew your mind, have a Hebraic understanding to the scriptures, help you understand how to apply certain Bible verses to your lives, and it should lead us to greater understanding with developed learning in the future. So this CD is more of a primer, it's more of a beginning, a starting place for you as you have your faith and as you're learning about the Bible, and it's going to help you have a greater open door to greater spirituality as today as we talk for just a little while and we focus on the Hebrew. Now it's vitally important that a Bible believer begins to understand or study the Hebrew language. Now this might sound boring because you say, well Daniel I don't live in Israel where they speak Hebrew, I don't live in biblical times, I don't wear those robes and garments and things, I don't live there, that just doesn't sound like something exciting for me. Well hopefully today your mind will be changed a little bit because we're going to see that the Hebrew language is not just a language, it is a living language. It's not just a way to communicate, it is actually living letters. Right now there exists a huge veil, a huge cloth between us and the scriptures. There's a huge veil and this veil that exists is the Hebrew language. It's not understanding the Hebrew language. It's been said that to study the Bible in any other language other than Hebrew is like kissing a beautiful woman with a veil over her face. Think about that. Now you gentlemen understand immediately what I'm talking about and you ladies should think about that. What if you were to kiss this beautiful handsome man but have a piece of cloth, this huge piece of burlap over his face? When you go to kiss him, sure you would know he was there, but there would be no intimacy. There would be no true understanding of who that person was. When we begin to remove that veil, when we begin to look to the scriptures, to the original language and culture to which the Bible was written, we can have a greater understanding of the scriptures. And to begin, I guess I'd like to say is that there are two realizations that we need to have going right into this teaching today, Hebrew, the living language. And that first realization is you already know a lot of Hebrew. You already know a lot of Hebrew. Now you might say, Daniel, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a Christian. I go to church all the time. I don't study Hebrew. I've never been to seminary. I've never been to Israel. Or you might say, well, no I don't. I've been in a Nazarene, that's right, or Messianic movement for a couple of years or a couple of months and I don't know that many Hebrew words and it kind of scares me. It's kind of boring or it's so different. Well, I understand already that you already know a lot of Hebrew. Here's a couple of Hebrew words and here's what I'd like you to do. Take a minute, pause the CD, grab a pen and paper and write down as many Hebrew words as you can within two minutes. Go ahead, I'll give you a second to pause the CD to write down as many Hebrew words as you can. Okay, now that you've done that little exercise, look over your list. And maybe you're driving down the road and weren't able to pause the CD there. Think about some of the words that you already know in the Hebrew. Most people are familiar with the term Yeshua. Yeshua. You say, yeah, I've heard that word before. That is the Hebrew name of the Savior given to Him in Luke chapter 2 when the angels said, you shall call His name, not Jesus. They didn't speak English way back then. They said, you shall call His name, Yeshua, for He shall save His people from their sins. And you may be familiar from this because you've heard it in a praising worship song. Maybe you've heard it from the pulpit. Maybe you've heard it on the Passion of the Christ movie that was put out recently. Yeshua. So you already know a Hebrew word. Maybe you've heard the term Yahweh. Yahweh. This is, of course, the Hebrew name of the Creator, the Almighty, as found in Exodus chapter 3 and Exodus chapter 30 with the burning bush. And we see that Moses was given this name as a memorial for all generations. And it's hidden in many scriptures, in many Bibles. If you go and read the preface of your Bible, you'll realize that every time you see a capitalized L-O-R-D or a capitalized G-O-D, that the translators are letting you know we're using that sacred name, that wonderful name of Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh in Hebrew, Yahweh. That's why there's a difference in your Bible. While sometimes it's lowercase G-O-D and sometimes it's uppercase G-O-D. So Yahweh is His name and that's the name that we'll be using throughout our teaching today. Maybe you've heard the term Shalom. Shalom. Of course, everybody remembers when Jimmy Carter went over to the Middle East and he made news by saying, Shalom, y'all. You know, here's a southern phrase and a Hebrew phrase put together. Shalom, y'all. A lot of people understand that's the greeting for hello and goodbye. It's also the meaning of peace or wholeness in the scriptures. So you already know a couple words here. What about the phrase Elohim? Many people are familiar with that. It's often translated as God in the scriptures in lowercase. Elohim. It means mighty one. What about, here's my favorite Hebrew word of all, I think, Oy Vey. Oy Vey, which means oh my goodness or oh no or this is not good. I must, that's just one of my favorite Hebrew words there. Oy Vey. So you know several Hebrew words already. Now you might know thousands or you might know ten, but you already know a few. So that's the first realization I'd like for you to have today. The second realization that I'd like for you to have is that we are in a war. In 1941, when the United States entered World War II, a special group of people were chosen to help with the battle against Nazi evil. The Japanese and Germans, they were experts at hacking into Allied communications. So this special group of people were commissioned to use and to come up with a code to stop the enemies from deciphering United States messages. This group of people was the Navajo Indians. And they used the unwritten Navajo language to transmit messages. These Indian officers were called the Navajo Code Talkers and their efforts were instrumental in stopping the enemy from deciphering enemy battle plans and messages about the time and the place of the next attack. The Code Talkers' contributions to the war effort were nothing short of monumental. You see the Japanese and Germans were very easily finding out what the Americans and the Allies were doing. And so through the Navajo Code Talkers, the enemy was confused. The enemy could not figure out what they were doing and so victory was brought. One Marine Corps signal officer summed it up, he said this after the war, he said, were it not for the Navajo Code Talkers, the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima and other places. You see the Navajo language, the Navajo language gave the Allies the upper hand and eventually the victory over the enemy. In a similar fashion, we find that the Hebrew language gives us the upper hand and eventually spiritual victory over the enemy. Friend, we are in a war and the Hebrew language is going to give us that upper hand, it's going to give us the tools that we need to be successful in our battle against the enemy. So this is a war because today the restoration of the Hebrew language and the restoration of all things is taking place as prophesied in the scriptures. In Acts chapter 3, which is one of my favorite chapters, it says and the scriptures tell us that Yeshua was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which Yahweh has spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets since the world began. It tells us that Yeshua is in heaven waiting on the restoration of all things, which Yahweh has spoken by His mouth and by His holy prophets from the beginning of time, that the Father in today's day is restoring the true faith. The Father is restoring all things, it says, and He's doing that through Yeshua and He's doing that through that restoration through the Hebrew language and He is restoring the Hebrew language. You see, the restoration of all things, the restoration of the nation of Israel includes the restoration of the Hebrew language. In the book of Zephaniah, chapter 3, verses 8 and 9, we see it specifically laid out for us. It says, for then, excuse me, it says, therefore wait for me, says Yahweh, until the day I rise up for the plunder. My determination is to gather the nations, to my assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, all my fierce anger, all the earth shall be devoured with my fire of my jealousy. Sounds like the end times, right? Verse 9, for then I will restore to the people a pure language that they all may call on the name of Yahweh to serve Him with one accord. That's what the Father is doing today, is that as He is gathering the nations together, as He is gathering Israel together, that He is restoring to us, to the people, a pure language, a Lashon Kodesh in Hebrew, that they may all call upon the name of Yahweh, so we'll be using the Hebrew language to call upon Him, to serve Him with one language, to serve Him with one accord. This clearly shows that the study of the Hebrew language is an inevitable result of a person who seeks to know and to find the will of the Almighty during the end times, during the end of days. It clearly shows that the return of the Hebrew language, the language that Adam taught, is so important to the Father during these end days. We know in the scriptures that the end is found in the beginning, and so to study about the end times, to study about the return of our Messiah, we go back to the beginning, we go back to Genesis. I'm going to show you in just a few minutes how it is proven that the Hebrew language was the language of creation, the language of Adam, the language of Abraham, of Noah, and the language of our Messiah, Yeshua. However, it's the Hebrew language that is usually ignored. You know, we rush, when we're kind of studying our Hebrew roots, we kind of rush into other areas. You know, we rush to wear those little funny hats, the kippahs. We rush to get our tallits. We are eager to do the Jewish jitterbug or the Hebraic dances. You know, we buy a shofar and we practice, practice, practice until our lips hurt or until we can blow a perfect pitch. You know, we rush to do the holy days or this or that, yet many times we shun the Hebrew language. Now, many of us use and are familiar with the name of Yeshua or of Yahweh. These two Hebrew phrases are just the start. They're not the end of our Hebrew talking. They're just the beginning. And, friend, I guess what I'd like to say is, if we believe it's valid to use the name Yeshua or Yahweh, then how much more so is it valid to use Hebrew in our everyday talk, in our study of the scriptures, in everything that we learn? In a world of HTML codes and plasma TVs and cell phones, you know, we've got to ask ourselves, why should we learn? Why should we hang on to this ancient tongue? Sometimes we reason it's too difficult or too weird, you know, saying things like Baruch atah Yahweh Eloheinu melech ha'olam. You know, I'm too old to learn something like that. You know, everybody knows you can't teach an old dog new tricks, much less adults the second language, right? Well, besides, why should we learn a language that's only spoken in this little small piece of land in the Middle East or at synagogues or Hebraic worship services when we can learn other things? You know, many times we reject the Hebrew language because it's totally foreign. And it is, friend. It's read from right to left, from back to front. It is very different than English, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. We're going to find out that it's only different to us because of the scattered... because we live like the scattered builders of Babel. You know, we all speak different languages. There are believers out there that speak Chinese, that speak French, that speak Italian, that speak English. And we're all speaking different languages. We're all studying the Bible in those different languages. But what we're going to see is that in these last days, the Father, the Shepherd, is calling His sheep back to hear His voice and is calling them in the Hebrew tongue. So we need to repent. We need to repent that we have stayed away from the Hebrew language and we have not been open to study and to learn it. Because the Hebrew language is much more than just a language. It's the power of creation. It's a living tongue. And it's the very person of Yeshua. And the Hebrew language reveals the plan for man that the Almighty has. I'd like to tell you a story just to show you the importance of the Hebrew language. This man, he goes to Israel for the first time. And of course he's struggling with the language as you and I would. He visits one of the local synagogues. He sits up in the front row. And so as not to make a fool of himself, he decides to pick someone out of the crowd to imitate. He's going to follow this person whatever they do. And it's a guy sitting next to him in the front pew. So when the man stands up to pray, the tourist stands up too. When the man sits down, the tourist sits down too. So later in the service, the man next to him stands up again. So the visitor stands up too. Suddenly a hush falls over the entire congregation. A few people gasp. The tourist looks around and sees no one else is standing. So of course he sits down. After the service ends, the visitor greets the rabbi at the door. The rabbi says, you know, I take it you don't speak Hebrew very well. The tourist says, no, I don't. Is it that obvious? I didn't say anything. The rabbi responds, well, yes. He said, I announced that the Gershon family had a newborn baby boy and I asked the proud father to please stand up. You can see the tourist stood up as the father did also. That just shows us how important it is to know Hebrew because it does provide, when we don't understand the Hebrew language, there's a lot lost in translation. We all know that there's a language barrier there when we're speaking with someone who speaks another language. Perhaps you had this happen when you went into a Mexican or a Chinese restaurant and you wanted to order something that you couldn't even describe, you couldn't even say. You wanted to get Mugu Gapan or Shufu this or Poyo that and you had a hard time talking with the waiter or waitress who spoke a different language. There is a language barrier there. Hebrew, though, when we go to read and study the scriptures, there's an even larger barrier there. How much more so? I mean, think about it. You know the difficulty there is sometimes when you speak with someone who speaks another language or you're trying to help them out. What about when we're trying to understand the Bible, the most important book that's ever been written from the Creator, His words for us? If we have a problem just ordering sweet and sour chicken, how much more of a problem do we have in understanding the words of Paul or the words of Yeshua or the words of Moses? We need to understand that Hebrew is not just some random strokes of ink on paper and it cannot be compared to English or Chinese. The Hebrew language is so much more. It's different than any other in the world. And I say that because, let's just work through the scriptures and see why I can say such a thing. Number one, this is the language of creation. This is the language that the Almighty used to speak the world into an existence. Hebrew is not just the language of man, but the Lashon Kodesh, the Holy Tongue. It's the tongue of angels and the tongue of Yahweh. Let's first realize that the study of Hebrew, the study of the Hebrew language, is a study of our Messiah, Yeshua. The Bible says that Yeshua is the Word made flesh in John chapter 1. That would be the Word of Elohim. What's the Word of Yahweh? Well, we see that the Word is the Hebrew language written and spoken first in Hebrew. As we study today, we see that it's different than any other word. That Adam named all the animals Hebrew names. He didn't call them English names. He called them Hebrew names. He didn't say, oh, that's a dog, and that's a cat, that's an elephant, that's kind of weird, that's a hippopotamus. No, Adam actually used the language that the Father gave him. And when we say, that's a giraffe, we're actually putting that cloak over the name of that animal again. Adam named it the essence of what it is. And that's what Hebrew does. Hebrew describes the existence and the essence of what the world is. As in Hebrew, words are more than just words. Names are more than just names. It's a description of what something is. Moses, for example, that's an English version of his Hebrew name. In Hebrew, his name is Moshe, Moshe. And in Hebrew, his name means to be pulled out. You can go and read in the scriptures, and you can see when Moses was born, that he was pulled out of the water, remember? And she said, I will name him Moses, because he was pulled out. Moshe, I will name him Moshe, because he was pulled out. And we also see this as a prophetic name, as it was Moshe that was used to pull Israel out of Egypt. Every Hebrew word has deep, deep meanings. For example, we see a dog, and we say, oh, that's a dog. But in Hebrew, dog is telez. Telez in Hebrew is a compound word. It starts with the letter kuf, and then it's the letter, and then it's the word lev. Kuf and then lev. And the word lev in Hebrew means heart. Heart. And so in Hebrew, telez actually means from the heart. From the heart. And so we all know that what? A dog, a telez, is a man's best friend. He's interested in ministering to the heart of man. Think about that. A dog is interested in helping man, to be man's helper, to be man's best friend. And so there's something to be said for taking a Hebrew word and breaking it down. The Jews have been doing this for thousands of years. The rabbis have been doing this for thousands of years, where they take a Hebrew word, and they'll break it down to root words. They'll break it down to individual letters of meaning to really understand the essence of the word, because every Hebrew letter is a picture. Much like the hieroglyphics in Egypt, where the strokes on the papyrus or up on the wall were word symbols. Hebrew also is full of word symbols and pictures. The letter vav, for example, looks like a nail. It's a picture of a nail or a hook. The letter sheen is a picture of a tooth or a molar. The word sheen, it means to grind, and it means to consume something. In Hebrew, the letter ayin is actually the word for eyes in the Hebrew language, and it actually looks like an eye. It's incredible how deep this goes. Think about it. The alif. The alif is a Hebrew letter, and it means ox in Hebrew. We're going to see this a little bit later as we talk about the alif. Let's begin at the very beginning. In Genesis chapter 1, Yahweh said, Let there be light. No, He really didn't. He said, Let there be light in Hebrew. So He spoke Hebrew. He spoke the world into creation by speaking Hebrew. Then in Genesis chapter 2, verses 19 through 20, we see Adam speaking Hebrew to name all of the creatures. Right? So follow along. In Genesis chapter 11, we see that the whole earth is one tongue. The whole earth is one tongue. It says in Genesis chapter 11, Now the whole earth had one language. That would be the Hebrew language and one speech. And so they were unified by this. Chapter 11, verse 2, And it came to pass as they journeyed from east. So they were coming from the east. They were coming from Eden. They were coming from Israel, speaking the Hebrew language. They found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Verse 3, Then they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They had bricks for stone, for they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, a tower whose top is in the city, is in the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. But Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. You see that the whole earth had one tongue. And then the whole earth was scattered. The whole earth was scattered. Babel, and this was the city, right? The tower of Babel that they built. The word Babel in Hebrew, it's another phrase. Babel in Hebrew, and it means to mix. It means to distort. It means a multitude. When you think about Babel and Babylon, and you think about the tower of Babel, and you think about someone babbling, babbling, babbling, on and on and on, you might feel that that's what I'm beginning to do. We see here that the Almighty Yahweh scattered the people at the tower of Babel. Remember how they built the tower up and he came down and he scattered them and he scattered their languages? And so it might be easy to say, well, what happened to the Hebrew language? How do we know that what we have today is what was spoken way back then? So what I submit to you today is that the followers of Yahweh were not affected by the tower of Babel. After the flood, all of the people came from Noah, right? There was Noah and Shem, Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah that were on the ark and they came down. We read in Genesis chapter 10 verse 30 that Shem went east and he stayed east in Genesis chapter 10 verse 30. While it says that Ham and Japheth, they continued on and they went west with the rest of the world as they went to the valley of Shinar, Shem actually stayed to the east. And so from here, when the events happened at the tower of Babel, they did not affect the lineage and the family of Shem. Now this is important because we see that it is from Shem that the family of Abraham comes, okay? Now to continue this, in Genesis chapter 10 verse 21, we see that Shem is the father of Eber. Eber, or in Hebrew, Ever. Ever in Hebrew means the other side. In fact, we use the phrase Hebrew, which means to cross over. Evrim is the Hebrew word for Hebrew. So Shem had a son named Eber. Eber had a son, guess what? Named Avraham. Avraham came from Eber, came from Shem, speaking the Hebrew language. Now it says in Galatians chapter 5 that if you belong to Messiah, then you are seed of Abraham and heirs according to his promise. Friend, you are a seed of Abraham. If you belong to Messiah, if you've been born again and washed in his blood, then you are a seed of Abraham. Well guess what? You are to bear the same fruit that Abraham did. If Abraham bared this fruit, you are to bear the same fruit. You are to have the faith of Abraham, the language of Abraham. Yet the battle continues today. What is the battle against? The battle is against the pure language. It was Nimrod that led the world to rebel against Yahweh and build the tower of Babel. Nimrod wanted to conquer the world and so he wanted to make a name for himself. Remember that? He wanted to substitute a name for the Hebrew word Yahweh. He wanted it to be the name Nimrod. The sin of Nimrod was to battle against. One of the sins of Nimrod was to battle against the Hebrew language. So he rose up against Yahweh. And so Yahweh scattered their languages. He confused them. But the Shemites, the family of Shem, were not scattered. They had no new tongue. And as we see here, Shem fathered Eber who fathered Abraham who is who? Father Abraham had many sons. And yet that battle still continues today. The enemy is still fighting against the Hebrew language because he knows that if we have one language, if we have one tongue and we can worship Yahweh in one language that we can ascend into the heavens and we can approach that throne of grace in order to receive mercy and find grace and help us in our time of need. That when we come together in unity through the Hebrew tongue we have great power. So we see here in the scriptures that Hebrew was the language of creation. It was the language of Abraham and we are the seed of Abraham and so it can be our language. We also read in the scriptures that it says that Yeshua went into the synagogue and read from the scroll or he read from the Torah scroll. That means that Yeshua not only spoke Hebrew but he had to be able to read Hebrew. And we all want to be like our Messiah, our Savior, so that would mean we need to begin to learn how to read and to speak the Hebrew language. You see the Hebrew tongue is a study of our Messiah, Yeshua. When we begin to learn about the letters, we see that everything we learn about Hebrew we're not just learning a language, we're learning about our Messiah. He is the Word made flesh. It says in John chapter 1, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. What's the Word? It's the words of Yahweh, right? It would be not just the words, not just the sentences but the actual letters. What letters? What language? The Hebrew language. It says in the scriptures in Isaiah chapter 41 verse 4, Who has performed and done it? Calling the generations from the beginning. I, Yahweh, I am the first, I am the last, I am He. It says in Isaiah chapter 44 verse 6, thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer. The Yahweh of hosts, I am the first and the last. The first letter of the Hebrew language and the last letter of the Hebrew language. Not the Alpha and Omega. Those are the first and last letters of the Greek language. Yeshua didn't speak Greek. He spoke Hebrew. He says, I am the Alis, the first letter in the Hebrew language, and the Tav, the last letter in the Hebrew language. In Revelation chapter 1 verse 8, Yeshua said, I am the Alis and the Tav. The beginning and the ending says Yahweh, which is, which was, which is to come. Yeshua was quoting Isaiah chapter 41, which was originally written in Hebrew. Yeshua says, I am the Alis and the Tav. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Right? If we believe that, it means that we need to study what the word truth means. We need to study what the word way means and the word life. In Hebrew, way is Chalak. In Hebrew, truth is Emet. In Hebrew, life is Chaim. Let's talk about Emet for a few minutes. Now, Emet is the Hebrew word for truth. It's a powerful phrase. It's also the name of our ministries. Emet ministry, spelled in English, E-M-E-T. Spelled in Hebrew, Alis, Mem, Tav. Alis, Mem, Tav. Now, I just said that Alis is the first letter in the Hebrew language. And I also said that Tav is the last letter in the Hebrew language. Well, did you know that Mem is the exact middle letter of the Hebrew language? We shall know the truth, and the truth shall set us free. What is truth? It's Emet. It's the first letter, the middle letter, and the last letter. Truth is everything in the Hebrew language. It's everything in the Hebrew alphabet. The truth is the Word made flesh, Yeshua. And we shall know the Hebrew language, and the Hebrew language shall set us free. That's the power of the Lashon Kodesh. That's the power of the Hebrew tongue. In Luke chapter 4, verse 16 through 17, it says that Yeshua went into the synagogue and read the Torah scroll. He had to read and speak Hebrew. So if WWJD, if we're going to do what Yeshua did, we're going to begin to learn and to read the Hebrew language. As He is lifted up, He will draw all men unto Himself. As the Hebrew language is restored, He's beginning to draw more and more people unto Himself in the true reality that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is the Emet. Yeshua's Word, spoken at creation, was Hebrew. And this is a really powerful revelation when we see that the world came from the Hebrew language. Think about that for a few minutes. In the beginning, Yahweh said, Let there be light. Everything was created from the spoken Word of Yahweh. Now we know in the book of Colossians, it says that Yeshua is the Word. It says here in Colossians, He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation. Colossians 1.16, For by Him all things were created in heaven that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. In Him, in Yeshua, in the Word made flesh, all things consist. And that letter goes on to say in Colossians chapter 2 that He holds all things together by the word of His mouth. What word is that? It's the Hebrew word. So everything is held together. You think that you drive a car. You think that you have a coffee table at home. You think you sleep in a bed. You actually sleep on a bunch of Hebrew letters. You actually watch a bunch of Hebrew letters when you watch TV. You actually are driving a bunch of Hebrew letters being held together by the power of Messiah. Because everything came from the Hebrew. Everything came from the words of Yahweh, held together by His words. He says, I am the beginning and the end, the aleph and the tav, the first and the last. And that is the power of creation. One of the Jewish writings says that Yahweh looked into the Hebrew letters of the Torah and created the universe. He looked upon the Hebrew letters and created the world. You see, Yahweh had creation in mind. And He just said, let it be. It didn't take a trip to Lowe's for the world to be. It didn't take a bunch of mud or contractors. The origin is Yahweh. Yahweh spoke the Hebrew language into being. And He spoke the world into being through the Hebrew language. And so this isn't just a language. It's a life force. And we need to renew our minds that the letters are not just random strokes. They're not just strokes on a page, but pictures. Hebrew is actually a system of numbers. It's codes. It's messages from the other side. You know, we're all interested in aliens, wanting to know what they want to say to us. Let's try to find out what Yahweh needs to say to us through the Hebrew language. Yahweh spoke, and the letters formed creation. It's incredible how deep this goes. The Baal Shem Tov, one of the great Jewish rabbis, said that every physical thing contains the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Colossians chapter 1, again, it says, All of creation is held together by the words of His mouth. Creation is held together. You say, it's a bunch of atoms. Well, those atoms are made up of the Hebrew language. Something else that's interesting, there are 22 Hebrew letters. Right? Well, guess what? In the 22 Hebrew letters, in the male chromosomes, there are, in the male and female chromosomes, there are 22 male and female chromosomes in our DNA. Now, when you add the two additional that come from the mother, the two additional that come from the father, that makes a total of 26. So, in the human DNA, there's a total of 26 chromosomes. Why is that number important? Well, 26 is also the gematria, or the numerical value of the name Yahweh. Let's talk about gematria for a minute. We said that Hebrew is not just a language. It's also a code. It's also numbers. In English, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Right? But, in Hebrew, there's Aleth, Bet, Gimel, Galeth, Hay, Bob, Zion, Het, Tet. There is not a separate numbering system. That, in Hebrew, each letter has a numerical value. Now, this isn't witchcraft or some evil type of numerology. This is a code that the father put into the scriptures. And the name for it is called gematria in Hebrew. It's a study of the code that's in the scriptures. Now, you can take it too far and worship gematria. That's not what we need to do. But we can understand there's power in that. And there are similarities where we see that a word, for example, may have a numerical value of 26. And we compare other words that have 26. And we put all these words together, and it reveals a special code, a message, just for us today. And so the first letter of the Hebrew language is the Aleph. It's the number one. The second letter of the Hebrew language is Bet. It's the number two. And that's a picture for us that in the beginning was the Aleph. In the beginning was one, was Yahweh. Aleph is a picture of Yahweh. It says that hero Israel, Yahweh is our Elohim. Yahweh is Echad, means he is the one and the only. Right? And Echad begins with the word Aleph. That's right. And in the beginning was Yahweh. But yet Yahweh wanted to do something. He wanted to build a dwelling place for his creation. He wanted to build a place where he could come and tabernacle amongst his creation. And so what did he do? He built the creation. He added to himself. He said, I'm going to create. It was just Yahweh, but now I'm going to make more than Yahweh. One plus one equals two. Two is the letter Bet or Vet. And that is also a picture in Hebrew of a house. So what did Yahweh do? He created the world. He made a dwelling place. In fact, the scriptures begin not in the beginning. As we go and read in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, in the beginning, it says in English, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. In Hebrew it says, Barashit bara Elohim alif-tav. Barashit bara Elohim alif-tav. In the beginning, Yahweh or Elohim created bara the alif-tav. So what? The Hebrew language. And he said, let there be light. In the beginning, Yahweh created the Hebrew language. And from that, he spoke forth creation. And it is a powerful, powerful language in word pictures and things for us to learn. The plan of man. As we see that all of creation is nothing but fallen sparks of Hebrew language. Adam was created to create. Think about that. A child learns a language from his parents. Adam learned Hebrew from Yahweh. So Hebrew is the mother language from which all others should come. Adam looked upon creation. He named all the animals. He gave them Hebrew names, descriptions of who they are, describing its essence. Just like the word aria, which in Hebrew means, is a word for lion, right? Aria. But in Hebrew, it actually means army. And what do we say? That the lion is the king of the jungle? So from this, we learn that Hebrew describes the true essence and meaning of something. Unfortunately, we also see that we are as guilty as the builders of the Tower of Babel when we call something a lion when it's actually an aria. We call Yeshua, Jesus, when his name is Yeshua. When we should be using and restoring the Hebrew language. So we need to begin to change our mind a little bit about the Hebrew language. We need to begin to see that it's word pictures. It's living letters. It's a living letters. It's not a house that we live in. It's a bed. It's not a chair that we sit on. It's a kishe. It's not a table that we eat at. It's a shulkan. We don't eat bread. We eat lechem. Yeshua did not shed his blood. He shed his dom for us. So, the first step in the restoration of the Hebrew language as prophesied in the scriptures is admitting our fault that a third party language creates many problems. That there is that huge cloth between us and Yahweh and it's been created by studying and reading the scriptures in other languages. The second step is to begin learning the Hebrew language. Take little steps towards the restoration. And that's the purpose of this teaching. It's not to teach you the Hebrew language in an hour. It's not to give you a totality. But to help the believer familiarize himself with a couple of the letters. With the value of learning the scriptures in the Hebrew. And yet the question still remains. Why should we learn Hebrew? We're not going to Israel. You're not going to live there. You know. What can you really learn from Hebrew? The answer to why. Why you should learn Hebrew. Why you should begin to study the Hebrew language a little bit. Is understanding and realizing that Hebrew is not just a language. It's a living language. It's a secret encoded message from the creator. When you see that just like the Navajo Indians helped America defeat the Germans and the Nazis. By having a secret coded message that gave us victory over the Germans. That the father Yahweh has given us a secret coded message. And that's the Hebrew tongue. Hebrew is more than just vowels and grammar. And word structure. Each letter has a symbolic meaning for us today. Let's talk a little bit about a Hebrew word and look at the code that is there for us. The Hebrew language is full of codes. And one of those coded words is the word that we use during the teaching today. Yahweh. The name of the creator. Yahweh. Yod. Hay. Bav. Hay. The letter Yod. The first beginning letter of the word Yahweh. Is an interesting letter. It's like a little dash that's up in the air when it's written. It's the number 10. And this is important because we have 10 commandments. 10 is a divine number. There were 10 plagues upon Egypt. We see that the Yod is also a picture of a hand. As we have 10 fingers on our hands. The Yod is a picture of a hand. So you're with me so far. Then we have Yod, Hay, Bav, Hay. We have the Hay. Hay is the number 5. It's the number of grace in the scriptures. Or loving kindness. And the letter Hay stands for to behold. Hine. It stands for Hay. Hay. Wait a minute. Hay. It stands for Hine. It stands for to behold. And it's the number 5. It's the number of loving kindness and grace. Yod. Hay. Bav. Hay. So the next letter in Yahweh's name, in the Almighty's name, is the Bav. And as we said earlier, the Bav is a picture of a nail or a hook. Interesting about the Bav is that it's also the number 6, which the number 6, of course, is the number of man. Man was created on the sixth day. We're all familiar with 666, the number of man, right, or the multitude of man. 6 is the number for Bav in Gematria. And so we see Yod. Hay. Bav. Hay. The sacred name ends with another Hay, which means to behold. So let's put it together. Yod, the hand. Hay, behold. Bav, the nail. Hay, behold. The hand. Behold the nail-scarred hand. The way of salvation is actually in the name of Yahweh. Behold the hand. The nail-scarred hand. Yahweh was telling us from the very beginning, from his very name, from the great I Am, that the way to salvation, there's no other name given in heaven where a man must be saved, is Yahweh's son, Yahshua. There are so many surprises waiting to be discovered. Each letter is important. Its placement in the alphabet is symbolic and important. Each letter is a number. Each Hebrew letter has a hidden value. Together, there are patterns that can be established. It's a gift from Yahweh. It's word pictures that tell us a story, and they guide us in our study. I encourage you to learn from a man after Yahweh's own heart, which would be King Dawid, or David. I encourage you to go and read and study Psalm 119. It's actually an acrostic about the Hebrew language, about the Torah. I encourage you to go and begin to read and study, to look at the Hebrew language, as it's important that you recognize the value and benefit and begin to familiarize yourself with the Hebrew. Don't become a scholar, but just become familiar with the language, as it will lead to greater devotion, appreciation, and love towards Yahweh. As you begin to do this, you're going to see that you're going to have greater understanding to the Scriptures. We said earlier that Hebrew is the language of Yahweh. It's the tongue of angels. It's very important that when we begin to look at a study like this, about increasing our knowledge, that we don't do this in vain. That we don't just study and study and study to become greater and smarter, but we learn to love Yahweh with his own language. It says in the book of 1 Corinthians that knowledge puffs up. It tells us that if I speak in the tongue or the language of angels, that I have not love, I am nothing but a clanging cymbal. Friends, you can learn Hebrew and you can speak it backwards to forwards. You can read it better than anyone else, but if you do not love Yahweh with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your being, then you're nothing but a clanging cymbal. You may be able to sound out Hebrew perfectly, but it sounds like nothing but a clanging cymbal to his ears. The greatest of these is love, which in Hebrew is ahava. Ahava in Hebrew is an action word and it means to love and to give oneself over to and to know someone. We are to know Yahweh and to call upon him by his Hebrew tongue and to learn the Hebrew tongue and communicate with him through that. Even Martin Luther, a vicious anti-Semite, the history tells us, recognized the importance of the Hebrew language. He said, if I were younger, I would want to learn this language because no one can really understand the scriptures without Hebrew. The Bible takes on new meaning and greater meaning when we know the scriptures in its original language. We begin this teaching talking about the war. He said that we are in war. The enemy is fighting against us. He's using everything he can to defeat us. Nehemiah, too, knew about war. As the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem after many years in captivity after war, Nehemiah made this observation. I'd like to read it to you. Nehemiah 13. In those days also I saw Hebrews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab, and their children spake half in the language of Ashdod and could not speak in the Hebrew language, but according to the language of each people. And I contended with them and cursed them and smote certain of them, plucked off their hair and made them swear by Yahweh. Nehemiah was a zealot for the Hebrew language. Are we? It is my prayer and my desire that through this teaching today that we could become zealots for the Hebrew language, that we could begin to understand and recognize the importance of learning Hebrew, of studying this language, and of calling upon Yahweh, His true name. 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