Living Letters Aleph

The Finding Emet radio program aims to help listeners understand and live the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. It is hosted by Daniel Rentalman of Emet Ministries. The program offers audio lessons, teaching articles, and a free online Bible search program on their website. One of their teaching series is called Hebrew, the Living Letters, which explores the Hebrew alephbet and its symbolic connection to the Old and New Testaments. They discuss the recent discovery of a 3-foot-tall stone tablet with Hebrew writing that speaks of a Messiah who will die and resurrect after three days. This finding supports the belief in Yeshua as the Messiah and shows the importance of understanding Hebrew for a deeper understanding of faith. The series will cover the history and significance of Hebrew, as well as the meanings of specific Hebrew letters and words. The restoration of the Hebrew language is seen as crucial to the restoration of the nation of Israel. 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All right, well, we're going to get started, and this is the first of a series of teachings in a series called Hebrew, the Living Letters, in-depth teaching series on the alephbet, the Hebrew alephbet. All the letters of the blessed Hebrew language, we're going to go through and discuss them and talk about them, see what they mean. We're going to see that every letter in the alephbet is actually symbolic of a book of the Older Testament, the Tanakh, and the Brit Hadashah of the Newer Testament. There are 22 letters in the alephbet, there are 22 books, and, excuse me, there are 22 chapters in the book of Revelation, and every single letter follows along with the book of Revelation. Now, many people don't know this, but the Tanakh, or the Older Testament, used to be 22 books, and it wasn't until recently that they came out and made it, you know, first and second Chronicles, and first and second Kings. Now we have more than that, but it used to be just 22 books, and they also go along with the letters of the alephbet. So it's amazing language, and we're going to talk about that and what all that means for us. I want to begin this teaching called Hebrew, the Living Letters, with some interesting information that's just come out. July, actually it happened 10 years ago, but it hit the news July 2008. A Jerusalem tablet, it's 3 foot tall, it's got 87 lines on it, and it was found, and it came to these archaeologists and they began looking at it, and the New York Times ran an article on it that's written in ink, in Hebrew, on a stone. They're calling it the Dead Sea Scroll on Stone. It's an amazing tablet. There are parts that you can't read, there are parts that are broken off, but it's believed to actually have been in a wall. It is, it has gone testing, it is authentic, it's got 87 lines written in Hebrew, and it's believed to go back decades before our Messiah, Yahshua's birth. Now it's causing quite a stir worldwide, archaeology and Bible scholars, because it speaks about a Messiah that will die, and then resurrect to life after three days. And this was written decades before Yahshua was born. Now it was found near the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side, and it's a very rare finding, because they've found scrolls, but they've never found a stone with ink on it. The owner of a stone named David Chetelson, he's an Israeli-Swiss collector, said, I didn't know much about it, but when I gave it to a man that specializes in Hebrew writing a few years ago, he was overwhelmed. Now much of the text that is on here is a vision of the apocalypse, as transmitted from the angel, the archangel, Gabriel. In fact, it's also being called Gabriel's Revelation or Gabriel's Stone, speaking about things that are going to happen in the end of days. Now, in this New York Times article that came out on July the 6th, 2008, it says that there's this long analysis of the stone that's been going on for over two years. And in lines 19 through 21, it says this. In three days, you will know that evil will be defeated by justice. There are other lines that speak of blood and slaughters, pathways to justice. Line 80 says this, v'shalashet yamin, which means in three days, but then it fades. The next word is probably, it says, live, which would say in three days, you shall live. Now, what this is, of course, is more proof and more proof to the Jewish people in Israel showing Yeshua as Messiah, proving he's going to rise from the dead. And this is another sign so that the Jewish people can see the suffering servant. In fact, that's one part of this that's really upset people, because the tablet speaks of a Messiah coming not to save people's souls, but to restore Israel. Which goes along with our message, because don't we believe and understand that Yeshua not only came to save our souls, but to do what? Restore Israel. He came for us individually and he came for the nation corporately. David Boyarin, a professor of Talmudic culture at the University of California at Berkeley, said this, some Christians will find this stone shocking. It is a challenge to the uniqueness of their theology, while many others will be comforted by the idea of a Messiah resurrecting from the dead is part of traditional Judaism. That's a professor at Berkeley saying that. That is powerful to see what is happening here with this stone and how it's beginning to go out. Now, you could say, well, who is this archangel speaking of? Because it never says Yeshua. It doesn't really say Messiah. Guess what it says? In line 81, it says, Sar Hasarim, which means Sar is Prince Hasarim of the princes. Now, the book of Daniel. Speaks of Gabriel, the angel and a prince of princes, which is believed to be, of course, Yeshua. The person who has translated the stone said this. The Messiah's mission is that he was to be put to death by the Romans. The stone says that he is to suffer for his blood will be a sign of the redemption to come. This is a sign of the son of Joseph, Ben Yosef. This is a conscious view of Yeshua ahead of himself. This gives the Last Supper an absolutely different meaning. To shed blood is not necessarily just for the sins of the people, but to bring redemption to all of Israel. Now, we know that Yeshua came first as Ben Yosef to give his life, but he's coming back as what? Ben David, as king, as ruler. The problem is they thought he was coming first as Ben David. But this shows us that there was a group out there and maybe even a message from the angel Gabriel that said he's coming first as Ben Yosef. Now, that's an amazing story. You can Google it. You can find out more about it. But what's amazing about this is the stone was not in English. The stone was not in Latin. It was not in Greek. It was in what language? It was in Hebrew. And by understanding the Hebrew language and understanding the Hebrew culture, they were able to read this stone and have a better understanding of Yeshua from his time. So what does that teach us? It shows us again that the more we know Hebrew, the more we know of Hebrew, the better our faith is going to be, the more accurate our faith is going to be. Amen. So this series that we're beginning today is not a comprehensive, oh, you're going to be able to speak Hebrew when we're done. But this is going to help you understand the letters and know them a little better. Again, this is called Hebrew, the living letter, living letters. This teaching is going to cover the history of Hebrew today. We're just going to talk about its history, its importance, how Hebrew is being restored. We're going to talk about the first letter. What's the first letter of the Aleph Bet? The Aleph. OK, we're going to talk about the meaning of the word Echad. We're going to see how Yahweh blesses us through the Hebrew and how the Aleph actually declares Yahweh's name. Now, our discussion is important because the restoration of the Hebrew language is pivotal to the restoration of the nation of Israel. And if we believe we are Israel, Yeshua said, I've come to seek and save of all sheep of the house of Israel. Isn't that right? So if you're born again, guess what that means? You're one of the sheep of the house of Israel. He said, I came only for them. So what is the language of Israel? It is Hebrew. We're going to go and actually see this. And to have a correct biblical understanding, we've got to have an idea of what the Hebrew language is and how it translates to us. Now, why Hebrew? Why study Hebrew? Why take the time to do this? Well, first of all, it's considered to be the Kadosh Lashon, the set-apart tongue, the holy tongue. And we know that there are 22 letters in the Hebrew Aleph Bet. By the way, it's where we get our word alphabet from. Alphabet. First two letters of Greek. Alphabet. But for us, it's the what? Aleph Bet. First two letters of the Hebrew Aleph Bet is Aleph and Bet. Now, we know that Yahweh used the Hebrew language to reveal himself to all the creation. And that all languages are founded in Hebrew. I mean, remember when he said, let there be light, he didn't really say that. He spoke those words in Hebrew and the entire universe was created with the sound of his voice. Now, we know when you use the name of Yahweh, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh. We know the importance of that. We know that it's important to use the name of Yahweh. While pronunciation, there are those that say Yahuwah, those that say Yahweh, some that say Yahveh. While the pronunciation is not important, what is important is that we recognize the name, Amen. We may have some differences there. So, we use the name because we understand that we've got to use it and call upon him by his own terms. We call upon his name as he's commanded. It tells us in the book of Joven, anyone who calls upon the name of Yahweh will be saved. In the book of Exodus, when Moshe comes to the burning bush, he says, well, whose name do I go in? Yahweh said, thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, Yahweh, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, has sent me to you. This is my name forever. This is my memorial name to all generations. He gave us his name to be used. He gave us his name to call upon. And we understand that, Amen. We have that firm understanding. Zechariah 13, 9, it says, and I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refined silver, test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name and I will answer. I will say, they are my people, and they will say, Yahweh is my Elohim. When we call upon his name, he answers us. He says, that's my child calling upon my name. So it's very important that we know and we use the name of Yahweh. We also know that the original name of the Savior is not Jesus. We understand that, OK? We know that he never heard that word. When he walked this earth, he never heard that word. But it's basically a new invention of man that if you get a King James Version 1611, you won't even find the word Jesus in it. A true 1611 King James has Iesus in it. There's no J's in it. It's just I's. But later they formed it, it changed from Iesus to Jesus. But we know that his name is Yahshua, Yod-Heh-Vod-Shin-Ayin, spelled in the Hebrew. And we know that it's important, isn't it? It's important that we study his name from a Hebraic perspective. We understand Yahshua from a Hebraic perspective. Otherwise, we all create a God in our own mind. To the whites, he's got blonde hair, blue eyes. To the blacks, he's got dreadlocks, right? To the Mexicans, he's got a sombrero. You know, you know, we create him in our own mind, and therefore we have a misunderstanding of him. The Savior was named a Hebrew name. These angels came to him, and guess what language the angels speak? Hebrew. Think about it. They come to all these these people in the scriptures and they're speaking to them. They understand it. Comes to this couple, Joseph and Mary. No, Miriam and Yosef. And they say, if you're not, you know, you're going to have a child. You're going to be you're going to have a child. You're going to name him Yahshua. He will save his people from their sins. He was speaking Hebrew. That's the language of the angels. So this Jewish couple received a message in Hebrew that they were going to name their son a Hebrew name. So if we recognize and acknowledge the importance of Hebrew. We see that it's valid for the name of the creator, how much more so for the rest of the letters and words in the Bible. Doesn't that make sense? If it's important to use his name in Hebrew, how much more is it important to read the rest of the scriptures in the original language to gain understanding from that? Because the Hebrew language is full of meaning and power. Our translations we have. Our works of man, let's just make that clear. At best, it's watered down. At worst, the translation is totally lost. Even the best translation out there. It's still watered down from the Hebrew. Give an example in the King James Version, there are seven different Hebrew words that King Jimmy translated as black. There are 12 words that King Jimmy translated as beauty, 22 words for branch, 66 words for break. 66 different words in the Hebrew that the translator said, oh, that means break. What if it means fracture? What if it means bend? What if it means totally demolish? They just said, oh, it's break. Oh, it's black. These are just small examples, 14 different words for dark, eight different words for axe, A-X-E. Now, I'm not a farmer or a guy that uses axes, but I'm sure there's people who use them would know a difference, right? You've got a certain type of axe to chop wood with. You've got a certain type of axe to kill people with. You've got a certain type of axe for fires, right? And here they use the same word. That's just an example of how bad our translations are. Now, we know that today Yahweh is restoring the Hebrew language. And why is this important? Well, number one, the nation of Israel being founded when? Nineteen when? 1948. Having the language of Hebrew, but then having an understanding of the scriptures like we've never had before. And it's prophesied to happen during these end of days. So let's read Zephaniah chapter three, verses eight through nine. It says, Therefore, wait for me, declares Yahweh. Zephaniah three, eight through nine. For the day when I rise up as a witness, indeed, my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them my indignation. Sounds like tribulation, doesn't it? All my burning anger for all the earth will be devoured by the fire of my zeal. That's what's coming. For I will give to the people a clean language, a purified lips, a clean tongue, a kadosh lashon. That all of them may call upon the name of Yahweh to serve him shoulder to shoulder with unity. You know, we come together and some of us speak English. Some of us speak Southern. That's a language, by the way, Southern. Some of us speak Spanish. Some of us may speak other. You're from Michigan. You speak Northern. Northern, right? OK, you're from Missouri, Missouri. All right. Hallelujah. You've been sanctified. You're Southern. But when we come together in the Hebrew language, we come together with one consent. There's unity there and we can serve Yahweh shoulder to shoulder. Well, when we read this verse in context, it speaks about this. It's showing us that it's at the end of days. Indeed, we will be speaking Hebrew in the Messianic kingdom. So we might as well get used to it now. Amen. If we're going to be speaking it, then we might as well get used to it now. We will know and speak that. Now, the Messianic kingdom is a picture of perfection. It's a picture of the Garden of Eden, where in the Garden of Eden, Yahweh and Adam walk with each other in the cool of the day. We speak the language that our parents spoke. If you're raised in a family that, you know, that speaks French, then you're going to speak French. It just makes sense. Well, Adam, you could say, was raised by Yahweh. Yahweh spoke Hebrew to him and Adam learned the Ivrit language, the Hebrew language, from Yahweh. Well, guess what Yahweh spoke to his sons? Hebrew. Yahweh spoke Hebrew to Adam and Adam spoke Hebrew to those. There was only one tongue. Imagine that for a minute. For a minute, everyone speaking the same language, perfect Hebrew. Now, after the flood, we know that the word tells us in Bereshit, Genesis 11, 1, we know that after the flood, the world continued with one language. I mean, because think of it, there were Shem, Ham and Japheth. How many people were on the flood? Eight on the ark. There were eight people on the ark. They all came off knowing and learning the Hebrew language. Now, we know that later, a guy named Nimrod led a rebellion to build a tower at where? Babel or Babylon, the Tower of Babel. We also know that Ham and Japheth were a part of this building of this tower. Yet the word tells us that Shem, one of the sons of Noach. Made his dwelling. In the east, Genesis 10, 30, says it was not where the Tower of Babel was being built, it was eastward. He stayed away there. The Shemite stayed in the high country, much as Abraham did later, and were not around the Tower of Babel. What does that mean? They continued with the pure tongue, with the Kadosh Lashon. And here's what's interesting. The word Shem, the name Shem, means name. You've heard the phrase Baruch Hashem Yahweh, bless Baruch Hashem, the name Yahweh. Shem means name. Shem used Hebrew and it guarded the name of Yahweh. Well, what happened to those building the Tower of Babel? What were they trying to build a name to? Themselves. They were trying to make a name to themselves. Now, we also see here great unity, great power they had with one language. Now, the Shemites became the Semites. See the wordplay there? People would say someone is Semitic or anti-Semitic. It actually means Shemitic, from Shem. Shem lived 99 years along with his great-grandfather, Methuselah. Now, why is that important? Watch me here. This is really neat. Methuselah shared 243-year lifespan with Noah and a 600-year lifespan with Adam. Noah died only two years before the birth of Abraham. Shem lived until Abraham was 150 years old and died in the year 2016. Shem was 150 years old and Isaac was 50. So, what does it show us? It shows us that quite possibly Adam and Methuselah had some conversations together. In Hebrew. In Hebrew. And Methuselah and Noah probably had some conversations together. But after the flood, Noah died only a couple years before Abraham. But his son Shem was alive 150 years of Abraham's life. They probably had conversations together. So, look at it this way. Yahweh discipled Adam. Adam discipled Methuselah. Methuselah discipled Shem and Noah. Noah discipled Shem. Shem possibly discipled Abraham and Isaac. How would you like to learn Hebrew from him? You know what I'm saying? Or at least have a biblical understanding of the times. And it's going to return there. We know that the language was scattered at the Tower of Babel. Now, in Genesis 10-21, it states that Shem is the father of the children of Eber. E-B-E-R in English. But in Hebrew, it's Evri, Hebrew. Genesis 14 calls Abraham and Eber, or in Hebrew, or in Evrim. What does that show us? That Shem spoke Hebrew, Abraham spoke Hebrew. And guess what the language of the children of Abraham is? Hebrew, Evrit. The Hebrew word for Hebrew is Evrit. We are Hebrews. We are Evrim. Man, a little bit of a history there. This is interesting because at the end of days, guess what's going to happen? What happened at the beginning? A leader from Babylon is going to come and fight against Israel. Those who speak Evrit, those who speak Hebrew. There's nothing new under the sun. Yahweh declares the end from the beginning. So as we return to this language, and as we learn it, it's a prophecy fulfilled. And it's through Evrit, or Hebrew, we can get to the original meaning of the scriptures. We can apply it. We can learn the words of Yeshua and understand them. So there are a lot of people out there that say Yeshua spoke Aramaic. I don't know if Yeshua spoke Aramaic or French, but I know he spoke Hebrew. Do you know why? Because it says in Luke chapter 4, verse 16, that he went into the temple in the synagogue on Shabbat, as was his custom, and he stood and read from the Torah scroll. Makes pretty good sense to me. Guess what the Torah scroll is written in? Hebrew! Doesn't it say that he was found as a child teaching the teachers at the temple? Guess what language they speak at the temple? Hebrew! So you can say he spoke Aramaic, but I know he spoke Hebrew. Which, by the way, Aramaic's just a dialect, a certain area of Hebrew. It'd be like saying you speak, you know, Southern, but you speak English, Southern English. So you say, y'all, instead of you all. And you eat grits instead of oatmeal. How about that? So we know that this is the truth. Now what's interesting here is that the Bible says that Now what's interesting here is the Bible tells us in Mishele 18.21 that the power of life and death is in the tongue. But what if we were to say that the power of life and death are in the Hebrew tongue? Because we know that the book of Proverbs was written in what language? Hebrew. So it was speaking of the Hebrew tongue. That death and life are in the power of the Hebrew tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. But there is power in the Hebrew language. Now we see in the book of Tehillim, Psalm 119 is the longest psalm, the longest book, longest chapter in the entire Bible. And Psalm 119 is an amazing chapter. If you'll turn with me there to Tehillim Psalm 119. And in every translation that I've seen, except for the King James or the New King James, the translators have omitted a very important aspect to this chapter. You see, when we read it in English, we miss a lot, don't we? I mean, there's like 14 different words for acts. We miss a lot. When we read in English, we miss a lot. When we read in English, we miss a lot. Well, here is a great example of that. Because Psalm 119 is Hebrew poetry. Hebrew poetry. Because Psalm 119 is an acrostic poem written by King Gawid or King David about the Hebrew alphabet and about the Torah of Yahweh. Anyone that says that Torah keeping is legalism, ask them to read Psalm 119. That's not how David felt. Psalm 119 is an acrostic poem. Every 7, 8, or 9 verses follow the alphabet. It's similar to you writing a poem using a bunch of words that start with A, then a bunch of words that start with B, then a bunch of words that start with C, and then a bunch of words that start with D. That's what this psalm is. The first 8 verses are about the aleph. And all start with the aleph. The first Hebrew letter. Now, again, this is hidden behind the English, but revealed in the Hebrew. So, who's ready for some meat of the word, meat of the alephbet? As we look here to see, the first letter in the alephbet is the letter aleph. Aleph. Everybody say aleph. Say it louder. Aleph. This is also the number 1. Aleph. And it was originally written as a picture of an ox. So, the aleph is the number 1. It's also the number 1,000. Keep that in mind. Now, gematria is Hebrew numerology that assigns each letter a number. But in Hebrew, for a long time, it was not necessary to have a separate numbering system. Because a word could tell you its gender. A word could tell you its power. A word could tell you its number. So, here is the power of creation. The power of Yahweh. The power of redemption. This is Yahweh's letter. And it's symbolic of the book of Bereshit, Genesis, and the book of Matthew. In the book of Matthew, where Genesis tells us about the creation of the world, Matthew, of course, tells us about the birth of Yahshua. And we begin to see that with Matthew chapter 1. Talking about Mashiach ben David beginning with Abraham. We know that it says in John chapter 1, In the beginning was the Word, was the Aleph. And the Word was with Yahweh, and the Word was Yahweh. And we understand that that's speaking of Yahshua, don't we? But what about the Hebrew word? In the beginning was the Hebrew words, the Hebrew Alephbet. Because we know that John chapter 1, verse 14 says, The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. What Word became flesh? The Torah became flesh. Amen? What is the Torah written in? Hebrew. So, we can actually say that Yahshua is the living Torah, the living Alephbet. And in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with Yahweh, the Word was Yahweh. Now, in the Gan Edan, in the Garden of Eden, all things were one. All things were in unity. Echad. And the Aleph shows us this. Everything was of one source and unified. There was no genetically modified foods. There was no sin. Everything was one with and for Yahweh. Now, we're told that Yahweh created the world with divine sparks. That He instilled in the world a part of Himself in the fact that He said, Let there be light, and there was light. And He spoke, and the waters parted, and these things occurred. That Yahweh gave each person potential to be like Him. Not that we become gods, but that we reflect His nature to the world. Yahweh says in Isaiah 46.10 that He declares the end from the what? Beginning. So, at the kingdom, the Messianic kingdom, and when we are in Hashemayim, New Jerusalem, it will be like the Garden of Eden. We will return to how it once was. So, a key word for us to learn, a key Aleph word is Echad. Everybody say Echad. Echad. Echad. And it means to be unified. It means to be one. It means to be unique. From one source. In Hebrew, it's Aleph, Chet, Dalet. It means to unite, to join together, to become one. Now, this word means to be one in totality, in purpose. It's the message of the most famous prayers in the Bible. First of all was Shema. Deuteronomy 6.4. Hero Israel, Yahweh is our Elohim. Yahweh is Echad. Yahweh is one. That's why most Jewish believers would not accept Jesus because of the Trinity idea. Yahweh is one. And it's also the theme of the most powerful and popular prayer of Yeshua. Not the Lord's prayer, but the Messiah's prayer. John 17. Where he prayed in Okanan 17.21 that they may all be Echad. May they all be one. As you, Father, are one with me and I am one with you. May they be one with us. That the world may believe that you have sent me. The world believes in Yeshua when we are one with each other and one with Yahweh. When we are Echad. That's the goal of our faith. Our main is to be unified with him. It's the reason Messiah came. It's to unify the world with Yeshua. Which brings us to another Hebrew word. Let's talk about Elohim. Starts with an aleph. Lamed. Hay. Yod. Mem. Sofit. And when you have an em at the end of a word, many times it's a plural ending. Now the word Elohim is usually translated as God in your Bible. So when you see God in your King James Version, it's usually the word Elohim. In Genesis 126, the King James Version says, and God said, Let us make man in our own image after us. In Hebrew it says, and Elohim said, let us make man in our own image. Not three persons, not three distinct personalities. But the same person. One personality. Abba Yahweh, Ein Sof. Another good aleph word. His son Yeshua, the Word. And His power, the Ruach HaKodesh, the Spirit. That's what Echad is all about. His oneness. But we try to separate it. I don't know why that is. The church tries to separate Yeshua. But it's all about being one with Him. So Echad. Yeshua said in Yochanan 14, if you had known Me, you would have known the Father. Believe Me, I am in the Father. The Father is in Me. He wasn't separating. He was saying, I am a manifestation of Echad. Of binding together with the Father Yahweh. Now here's what's great about that. Yeshua said that Him being Echad with Yahweh is not the only type of Echad there is. He said that we can be Echad with Him. Do you follow me? That's the reason why He came. Was to unite us. But what separated us? Sin. And that is His desire is that we be one together. We put aside the cares and the problems and the personal convictions and we come together as one. To restore creation to Himself. Now we see this even in how the aleph is pronounced. The aleph is a silent letter. It takes upon the sound of the letters beside it or the vowel point. Do you know what that means? The aleph is Echad with the word that it is in. Just like we are to be Echad with one another. This is the power of Echad. This is the power of the aleph. And sometimes to be unified with someone, don't we have to be silent? To be unified with someone, don't we have to be silent? Oy vey. Am I just preaching to the choir? Or is that you too? Think about it. It says the two shall become one flesh in Genesis chapter 1. No, I'm wrong. It says the two shall become one flesh in the book of Bereshit chapter 2. It says they shall become Echad Besar. One flesh. Sometimes husband and wife, somebody's got to be quiet for that to happen. Amen? Amen, Bill? Amen. All right. He was able to say amen because his wife said so. So that's important. That's important that we see that. That's the aleph. So next time you see this aleph, you remember Echad. To be one. To be silent. It adapts itself to its surrounding. It becomes one with its other letters. Now here's a spiritual principle. When you say what did you learn today from this teaching, it's this. In the spiritual realm, closeness is determined by similarity. Closeness is determined by similarity. The more we are like Yahweh, the closer we can come to him. Doesn't that make sense? Sin separates us from Yahweh, so we come near by the blood of Yeshua. What happened to Moshe? He had to take his shoes off. Then what happened to Moshe? His face shined with the glory of Yahweh. Think about Avihu. Those that came in that offered strange fire. What happened to them? Were they like him? No. They were too close to him to be dissimilar, therefore they died. The book of James says come near to Yahweh, he will come near to you. Submit to Yahweh. Resist the adversary and he will flee. We are being transformed into his image. That's what it's all about. Being echad. Being transformed from glory to glory. Yeshua said again, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. So let me ask you, what's stopping us from being like? Yahweh. Guess what? It's the alif. It's doing both. The alif, if you were to look at the word alif backwards, it spells the word felah, which means wonder. Felah, wonder. The wonder of the alif is how it reflects our struggle. By the way, a little side note here. The first people who created the cellular phone were scientists from Motorola in Israel. They were Jewish scientists and they called it the felah phone. The wonder phone. But they called it the wonder phone. They couldn't believe it. This is the power of this alif. There's this struggle to be one with Yeshua. Many times we're not like him, are we? Our thoughts are not his thoughts. Our ways are not his ways. There's always conflict. And we know in John chapter 10, verse 10, Hasatan's coming against us, seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. Therefore, we're not like him. The word alif can also be translated elif, which means ox. And in the Paleo, in the Sinaitic Hebrew, it was a picture of the ox. Oxen are the most basic land animals. Now, the alif wasn't a bird that could fly or a fish that could swim. An ox is an animal that works the ground. Isn't that all it does? Just works the ground. Works the ground. Well, our fleshly nature, our sinful nature, you could even call it our animalistic instinct, you call it our animal soul, our nefesh, pulls us down towards the earth to work the ground. Now, what is working the ground? One of the curses after sin. Our mentality, our desires, our work even, pulls us down. This animal inside of us, you could say. Away from Yahweh. Our mind must be renewed and our souls must be changed to be made in his image. So, we have the stamp of this alif in us. But we need the divine alif, Yahshua, to save us. Amen? Now, the design of the alif gives us this picture. It actually shows us the plan of salvation. Now, the word tells us in Matthew chapter 10, verse 28, correct me if I'm wrong, Yahshua said, What type of animal takes on a yoke? An ox, doesn't it? He's saying, look, you bunch of olives out there, you bunch of oxen, take upon my yoke and it will be easy. The way you're doing it is wrong. The way you're doing it is going to end up in destruction. So, if we look at the alif, it's three parts. The top part of the alif is a picture of a yod. The alif is made up, every single Hebrew letter is made up of other letters. And it's a picture of the Father Yahweh, who loves us. He created man for fellowship. We are separated by our sin. The book of Isaiah tells us that. Yet, who gave his life for us? Yahshua. And if we look at the alif, it's actually made up of two yods and a vav. This is a yod here. This is a yod. This is a vav. Now, what did we learn that the vav is a picture of? A nail. The vav is also the number six, the number of man. Yahshua was the mediator that came between Abba Yahweh and us and our sinful desires, our sinful lifestyle, and paid the price for us by dying on the vavim, on the nails. That's what Yahshua did. That's what he did for each of us. And, in essence, do you know what he did? He unified the alif. So that we could be one with him. Everybody say echad. Echad. He wants us to be one with him. Philippians chapter two says that he was made in the image of a man. In the image of a vav. He came and he gave his life. Praise Yahweh for that, amen? Because we couldn't do it. Now, the formation of the alif is also the foundation of Yahweh's name. If it's yod, vav, yod, yod is the number ten. Vav is the number six. What does that add up to? Twenty-six. What does yod he vav he add up to? Twenty-six. Again, showing the stamp of Yahweh upon the alif. It's powerful. Just one little letter. There's so much meaning behind his word for us. Now, Yeshua said this. If you've seen me, you've seen who? The Father. So, again, the alif is a picture of two yods and a vav. You've got the top yod, that's a picture of Yahweh. The vav, a picture of the Son, Yeshua. And the bottom yod, a picture of the Ruach HaKodesh. A three-braided cord He shall not easily break. Isn't that what it says in Ecclesiastes? That's Yahweh, Yeshua. The rabbis tell us that the formation of the alif is the foundation of Yeshua's name. Now, what does that mean for us? As we understand the alif, as we see it, we can agree with King Dawid about its meaning. What did Dawid say about the alif? So, let's turn again to Psalm 119. Let's take a look. So, here in Psalm 119, we're going to look at verses 1 through 8. Anybody enjoying? Everybody's quiet. You must be. Sponging it up. So, here in Psalm 119. Now, in the English, it doesn't start with an A, does it? So, we need to read it in the Hebrew. So, I'm going to read Psalm 119, verses 1 through 8 in Hebrew. You read along in the English. Verse 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the direct. The way who walk in the Torah of Yahweh. Blessed are they that keep His testimonies and that seek after Him with their whole heart. Verse 3. They also do no iniquity. They have their walk in His ways. Verse 4. You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently. Verse 5. Oh, that my ways were directed to keep your judgments. Verse 6. Then shall I not be ashamed when I look into all of your words. Verse 7. I will praise you with the righteousness of heart when I shall have learned your righteous judgments. Verse 8. I will keep your commandments. Do not forsake me utterly. Now, you notice in the Hebrew, it's always an A or an O sound. Beginning with the A-less. Blessed are the undefiled in the way who keep the Torah of Yahweh. That keep His testimonies. That seek with Him. It begins with this word, blessed, which is Ashrei. Which means, in Hebrew, do you know what it really means? Joyously happy. It almost gives you the connotation of being high. You're so happy, you just got to smile from one side to the other. Like you've had plastic surgery to be smiling all the time. Blessed, happy are the undefiled in the way. Happy. I'm sad. We're supposed to be happy. Got to be happy because we know our pappy. Right? Everybody say this. I'm glad because I know my dad. I'm happy because I know my pappy. Come on. All right. That's right. Blessed are they that keep His testimonies. Happy are they in seeking with their whole heart. That's the problem. Most people aren't happy because they're not seeking Him with their whole lives. For you've commanded us to keep your precepts diligently. Oh, that my ways were directed to keep your statutes. Then I should not be ashamed when I have respect unto all your commandments. I will praise you with an uprightness of heart when I have learned your righteous judgments. I will keep your statutes. Do not forsake me utterly. That's the alif. That's the alif. The result of walking in ahad with Yahweh and walking in unity is being one with Yahweh and one with each other. That's how creation started. And that's how it's going to end. Everybody say it's going to end. So turn with me to Ephesians chapter four. Ephesia four. Ephesia arba. Hebrew word for four. Ephesians four, four through six. There is one body and one Ruach, even as you are called in one hope of your calling. One master Yahweh, one faith, one baptism, one Eloha and Abba of us all, who is above all and through all and in all of us. One Elohim. How many Elohim? One Elohim. And the word one here is used seven times. Seven times. And why is that important? Because the word tells us in the book of Kepha and Peter and also in Psalms that one day is as a thousand years. And a thousand years is as one day. This section in the book of Ephesians is symbolic of how it's going to be in the millennial reign of Yeshua. That there will be 7,000 years and then there will be unity with creation. The rabbis tell us that there will be 6,000 years of man and then the millennial kingdom. But this is a picture again of unity of being echad that guess what? In the end it's going to return as it was in the beginning. We shall be one with Yahweh. We shall be one with Him and one with His word. The lion will lay down with the lamb. Let's go back to Psalm 119, we'll end there. Zechariah 119. We're told if you just open your Bible to the middle part it will always open to Psalm 119. Psalm 119. Yahweh declared the end from the what? From the beginning. So let's take a look at the end, verses 7 and 8. The promise here. I will praise you with righteousness of heart. When shall I have learned your righteous judgment? I will keep your promises, your commandments. Do not forsake me utterly. What's the promise here? The closeness of Yahweh. That He's not going to forsake us. He says I will never leave you nor forsake you. Yahweh will always be with us. But it takes us repenting. It takes us speaking His face. That's the promise. Let's look at verses 5 and 6. Because we're doing the end from the beginning. We're starting at the end of the section and going forward. 5 and 6. Oh that my ways were directed to keep your commandments. Then I shall not be ashamed when I look into all of your commandments. That's a plea. A desire to obey. Do you have that desire to obey? That's your prayer. That you agree with Him that His way is right. So we have the promise. Then we have the plea. Now let's look at the precepts. Verse 4. You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently. So first we understand Yahweh is with us. Then we have a desire to obey. And then we do it. We follow diligently. We walk in the way. We repent. We agree. And then we walk. And do you know what the blessing is for walking in His way? Yahweh declares the end from the beginning. Let's look at verses 1 through 3. Blessed, happy, joyous are the undefiled in the way who walk in the Torah of Yahweh. Blessed are those that keep His testimonies and seek after Him. They do no iniquity, for they have their walk in Him. Do you know what that is? It's perfection. The end result. So someone that tells you, oh that's legalism. You're keeping the law. I'm so sorry for you. You tell them, well you know what? Psalm 119 verse 1 says, happier those who walk in the Torah of Yahweh. I'm happy because I know my pappy. I'm glad because I know my dad. I'm happy to be keeping Torah. This is the gospel. This is the aleph. To be one with Him. Here's some key aleph words. Echad, to be one. Ahava, to have love. Amen, it means to agree. Adam, of course, is Adam. Dom is what? Blood. Etrog, aleph word. The fruit we use at Sukkot. Adonai means master. Elohim, mighty one. Ema is what? Mother. Abba is father. Aliyah, to return, to go up. Eheron, of course Aaron. Now when we look at the first two letters of the aleph bet, the first is the aleph, the second is the what? The bet, that's the second letter. You put these two words together and you get the word av. You get the word av, which is father. Like Abba or daddy. Now the Hebrew word aven, aleph, vet, nun, sofit, is the word for stone. Why is that important? Because we began this teaching learning about a stone, as recently discovered, telling us about a Messiah that was going to rise from the dead after three days. If a day is a thousand years, we're coming to the end of that 2,000 years of man, beginning that 3,000th year, guess what's coming alive? Guess what's coming alive in us? Messiah Yeshua. What is Messiah Yeshua? The living word. The Torah. The aleph bet. That stone is prophetic of the aleph bet, the living Messiah Yeshua coming alive in us. It's not just a bunch of letters. It's His power. Yeshua said, let there be light, and there was light. Yahweh said, let the light bring forth what? Planets and all of this. Everything was created with His word, and in the power of His word, He holds it all together. And now we see the prophecy becoming fulfilled. But in the last days, it tells us He's going to return unto the people of pure language, that they may call upon the name of Yahweh and serve Him with one consent, shoulder to shoulder. And as we learn what these letters mean, as we see the aleph, we can have a better understanding. So during our next teaching, we're going to talk about the bet, which is, if aleph's the number one, what's bet? The number two. Because the bet is important because it teaches us that Yahweh does not just want to be Yahweh ahad, Yahweh alone. He created the world to be a dwelling place. So during the teaching on the bet, we're going to talk about a very important principle called bracha, blessing. We're going to discuss how we've been called to bless Yahweh, we've been called to bless others, and how when we bless them, we create a bayit, a house of Yahweh's presence. Amen? www.findemet.com CD copies of this teaching are available for free by submitting a request at the website. 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