Living Letters Nun

The Finding Emet radio program focuses on understanding and living the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The program features teachings by Brother Daniel Rentalman of Emet Ministries. There are audio lessons and teaching articles available on the Emet Ministries website, along with a free online Bible search program and prayer request submission. The program discusses the Hebrew letters in-depth, with the current teaching focusing on the letter Nun. The teaching highlights the uniqueness of the Kingdom of Heaven and its principles, such as the servant being the greatest and the first being last. The letter Nun represents humility, forgiveness, and inheritance in the Kingdom. Hello, and welcome to the Finding Emet radio program. Emet is the Hebrew word for truth. This program will help you understand and live the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The Finding Emet radio program features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rentalman of Emet Ministries. Prepare your heart to receive the Emet, the truth of the scriptures. More audio lessons and teaching articles are available at the www.emetministries.com website. Please visit our site to find all things spiritual, including a free online Bible search program, or submit your prayer requests. That's www.emetministries.com, or www.findemet.com. CD copies of this teaching are available for free by submitting a request at the website. Let's welcome our teacher, Daniel Rentalman, as he helps us find the Emet. Welcome again to our teachings on the Hebrew letters. This is Hebrew, the living letters. It's our in-depth teaching series on the Aleph Bet, different letters, as Yahweh communicates to us through His Word. As we continue the series, we're at the letter Nun. Everybody say Nun. Real loud, say Nun. Nun. All right. The Nun, spelled N-U-N, not Nun, but Nun, and this is one of the letters. Of course, we've looked at the letters so far. These teachings are available at www.findemet.com. We've talked about the Aleph, the Bet, and the Gemel. That's the first, second, and third letters. We've discussed the Dalet, the Hay, and the Vav. The Dalet is the number four. Hay is the fifth letter, and the Vav, of course, the number six. Picture of man, of course, on the sixth day of creation, who was made, but mankind. The seventh letter is the Zayin. Looks like a weapon. Reminds us of Shabbat being our weapon. The eighth letter, the Chet, and then the ninth letter, the Tet. The tenth letter of the Hebrew Aleph, Bet, is what? The Yod, or the Yud. The eleventh letter is the number 20, the Kavod, the glory of Yahweh. The next letter is the Lamed, which is the number 30, and then we recently discussed, it's available at the Emet Ministries website, the Mim, which is the word for water, and we went in-depth into Revelation 13 and the number 40. This all leads us to the very next Hebrew letter, the Nun. And as we begin to look at this, I want you all to think about Pablo Picasso for a moment. If you do an internet search on him, his actual name is Pablo Picasso. He has about 12, yes, he has 12 words in his name. Twelve, no, no, in his name. It's Pablo, Jose, you know, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Nader, Picasso. It's like 13 different names, because it is absolutely amazing that this guy, his parents would do this to him. But anyway, one of the most famous artists in all of the world is Pablo Picasso. This is, you have a middle name? Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Palawan, Dipomenico Maria de los Remedios, Soprano de los Santamisa, Trinidad Marte, Patricio, Clito Ruiz, y Picasso. But he couldn't just pick one, that is his true name that he was born with. Well Pablo Picasso has one of the most well-recognized painting and designs or so, the way that he likes to paint, his style. You can see one of his paintings and say, that's a Picasso. As I was preparing the teaching, my seven-year-old Judah looked at this and he said, oh daddy, that's Picasso. I'm like, how do you know who this is? He said, oh, that's Picasso. He was able to take a three-dimensional picture, a real-life person, and turn it into a two-dimensional painting. In fact, one of his paintings recently sold for $92 million. It's the painting of his mistress, Dora Maar, with her cat. Now if you see this picture, it ain't real pretty. I mean, you know what I'm saying? It's $92 million. I encourage you to go Google this. Dora Maar with her cat, it recently sold for this. Now Picasso was able to do this. He was able to take these beautiful pictures of real life, a person, turn it into a two-dimensional masterpiece of what's called cubism. The bust of a woman with a hat he did in 1939 recently sold for $50 million. It's crazy. I mean, you would think your four-year-old could paint like Picasso. Now the Picasso style was revolutionary. When it came out, people were just like, this is strange, this is weird. They'd never seen anything quite like it. It was different than imperialism, different than realism, different than all these isms that are out there in the art world when Picasso started painting. Well, I bring this up to say that the kingdom of heaven, in Hebrew, the malchut ha-shamayim, is very different. It's another reality. Just like Picasso kind of sees in a different reality, my wife says I live in a different reality sometimes. But just as Picasso saw in another reality and was able to paint that, I want to paint you a picture for a few minutes about the kingdom of heaven because it's a different reality than what we're used to. In the kingdom of heaven, things are backwards. Things are different than they are in the world today. In the kingdom of heaven, we see that the servant is the greatest. Did you hear me? The servant, the one who cleans the synagogue, is the greatest in the synagogue, not the rabbi. The servant is the greatest. We see that the first are what? Last. And the last are? First. Shepherds. Don't say shepherds. They become kings. So who was it announced that Yeshua was being born? It was the shepherds in the field. They received this message. There was not a call that went out to Nancy Grace. Hi y'all, this is Nancy Grace and I'm covering right now. We're at Nesuchah and the Savior is being born and I just don't believe it. It was not Nancy Grace that got that call. It was the shepherds in the field and the shepherds and we know what happened with David. David became king, a shepherd boy. Greatness comes from a fall. Now, you consider somebody falling in an Olympic race. It's not a good thing. They're going to lose. However, if a runner falls forward, dives into home plate in baseball, that's usually a good thing. If they want to do that. The idea here is that from that fall came greatness. From a fall can actually come greatness. Now, in the world, we are told work hard and be successful. If you work hard, you know, pay your bills, you'll be a good person, you'll do this, you'll do that. But the kingdom principle is that when we fall, we actually come out ahead. This is the kingdom principle. That when we fall, we cannot fall backwards. I got to go there. Nowhere in the scriptures do we see people getting the Holy Ghost, you know what I'm saying, and falling backwards like they do in the churches today. Watch it on TV and you see people, they fall back, right? They get prayed for, they go in the line. I was in a service one time and the prophet lined them up like it was about 20 of us. We were lined up. I was part of it. I thought we were going to do the grapevine dance. I was really excited, okay? Well, he lined us up and he went to the first one and he prayed for them and he pushed them down and like dominoes, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But it all came down. I'm glad I wasn't at the end. That's all I got to say. But he did. But when you read in the scriptures, what does it say? It says they fell forward on their face and worshipped even when Yeshua came to them. It talks about when they fell forward and they worshipped. Remember Joshua? And he gets a visit from the angel and it says he fell forward in his face. Now look, that sand in Israel, that's pretty nasty. But he did it. He fell forward. So from a kingdom, we can actually come out ahead because if you fall backwards, you're going backwards. If you fall forward, you're going forward. Let me explain this. Humility takes a part, plays a part when you ask forgiveness. Melanie, let's say you're offended at me. Let's say that for some reason I have offended you, okay? And Melanie, you're just, you're mad at me. And you do, as Matthew 14 says, or Matthew 18 says, you come to me and say, Daniel, you offended me. You didn't brush your teeth this morning and your breath stinks. You need a Tic Tac. Okay? Your mouth must be taking karate because it's kicking. That's right. Thank you. So you come to me and say, Daniel, you've offended me. Your breath is rancid. You're peeling the wallpaper. It's so bad. And so I, because I'm that sinner, I've done this thing. I then say, go away. No, I don't because that wouldn't be nice. I'll say, forgive me. I humble myself and I say, I'm sorry. I have a case of Listerine in the car. This is a chronic problem. I will go take care of it. Forgiveness cannot be forced upon somebody, can it? I mean, you can forgive someone and they don't know it. But for that person, they have to accept it. They have to receive it. For example, it tells us in the book of Ephesians, you are saved by grace through faith. See, we're not saved just by grace. Because if we were saved by grace, then everybody in the universe would be saved, born again. We're saved by what Yahweh did, by grace, but through faith and believing in the grace. That's how we're born again. So forgiveness from Melanie, you come to me, I've offended you, and I say, I'm sorry. I humble myself and I'm forgiven. You forgive me. So there's no forgiveness without humility. But from forgiveness comes great blessings. So I believe that we all have to keep this in mind. Because the letter we're going to talk about today is the letter, the noon. And it's the letter of humility, of forgiveness, and of inheritance. Inheritance. Make sure my father-in-law hears that word. Inheritance. He is having fun spending my inheritance. He told me that he only wants to live long enough so he can be a burden upon his children. That's what he said. So the noon, though, is the letter of humility, forgiveness, and inheritance. It's the letter of the kingdom. So when you look at the noon, think about forgiveness. Think about sincerity, accountability, vulnerability, teshuvah. Because we need forgiveness. We need forgiveness from each other and from Yahweh. Now 1 John 1, verse 9 shows us that it's okay. Turn to your neighbor and say, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay for us to keep short accounts of sin to come before Yahweh with. Where it says in 1 John 1, verse 9 that, what does it say? If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. That means that we do need to come to Yahweh and confess. Now, when we were born again, were we or were we not forgiven of all of our sins past, present, and future? Yes, we were. But it's important that we come before him with a short list daily if we need to. My wife says every other minute. Daily for me. Whatever it takes. All right? Every day and say, Yahweh, I'm sorry. You know, I really messed this up. Humble yourself before him. Yeshua said in Matthew chapter 6, forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. So it's okay that we keep these short lists or so together. So we need to have this forgiveness and understand that forgiveness needs to become a focus on our life. Because if we don't forgive, we're just going to be built up full of anger and resentment and hatred and stress. And do you know what that does to your body? Do you know what stress does to your body? Stress, it puts your body, it makes you just all uptight and just, oh, I'm stressed out. And there's no ease. But when you're relaxed, things go easy. That's where the word disease comes from, dis-ease. When you don't have any ease, when you're stressed out, that's, you know, I read recently that 95% of all illnesses, 90% of all illnesses can be traced back to stress. We get stressful, we get worried, we get anxious, then our mind gets on those feelings, and then depression comes in, and then we start thinking bad thoughts, and then we start having bad feelings and bad emotions, and then bad things start to happen. And we get out of the bed the next day, we stomp our toe, and it goes downhill from there. Yet Yahweh says we are forgiven of our sins. Don't worry about anything. Don't be anxious for anything. And you go forward, so forgiveness has got to be there. Now, the noon has two forms. There's the regular noon, and then there's what's called the noon sofit. You see, there are five Hebrew letters that have sofit forms, that when they appear at the end of a word, they have a different drawing. And the noon is, it looks like a vav with a leg going to the left. It's on the dreidel, by the way, if you've played with the dreidel, dreidel, dreidel. If you've made one out of clay, you know that there's the noon and the gimel, the hei and the shin on the dreidel. Well, the noon looks like, you know, it's bent at the top, it's straight, and it's bent at the bottom. Now, the noon sofit looks like a long vav. In fact, if you're writing a noon sofit, it's a long, straight, like an I. It's just a straight mark, like a line going straight down. Now, the two forms of the noon show us that there are two sides of forgiveness, and they're linked directly, they're connected, and they are one. Because we have to have forgiveness from each other and show forgiveness to each other, and that's how we receive forgiveness from Yahweh. So if someone's offended you, you need to get over it, and you need to forgive them. Not for them, but for you. Otherwise, that stress and that dis-ease and that anxiety and worry and fear and anger is built up inside of you. And then, once you forgive them for you, I guarantee you're going to have an opportunity to forgive them for them. Yahweh will bring that by. Now, what did it say to Yeshua? How many times do we forgive someone? Seven? And what did He say? Seventy times seven. So we need to have the... Jewish tradition teaches three stages of forgiveness, real quick. The first one is intention to forgive. Acknowledge yourself, the pain you cause, the intention. The second stage is letting go. Letting go, that's where we all stop. We might have the intention to forgive, but we don't truly do it because of the stage of letting go. Here's what letting go means. This is tough. You ready? It says, I no longer need the past to be any different than it was. Whew, that's tough. You've been hurt by somebody? Talked about? Lied about? Cheated? Mistreated? What if you could say to that person, you know what? I no longer need the past to be any better. You said it earlier, brother. You said, you know what? I've been through a hard divorce. My wife meant it for evil. Yahweh brought it about for good. And I'm grateful that it occurred. I'm grateful I'm at where I'm at because I would have been stuck in church sanity at this point, in error. And so you know what? I no longer need the past to be any different. I don't need to go back to the way it was. I don't want to go back to the way it was. Sure, I'd like it to be better, but I don't have to go back to the way it was. So the first one is intention to forgive. Don't put the blame on others. The second one is letting go. And thirdly is atonement. This is something that Christianity doesn't speak a lot about. But atonement and forgiveness means righting the wrong, bringing about a blessing to that person. So forgiveness points us to the noon. Our forgiveness from Yahweh is directly connected to our forgiveness with each other. 1 John 1.9, again. So the noon has these two designs. Now the first design of the noon is the regular noon. And it's bent. And we're told that it's bent to show us being humble. That you bend your head and you bend your knee and you're bowing before like a king. You're bent down, and that's what the noon would look like. It's a bent letter of submission. And yet the noon so feet is a straight letter. It's a picture of a faithful servant. Follow me? So as we fall, as we bend, we become straight in Yahweh's eyes. What does it say in the book of James? What does it say, Maggie? It says, humble yourself in the sight of Yahweh, and he will do what? Lift you up. That's the noon. Humble yourself, bend down like the noon in the sight of Yahweh, and he will make you straight. He will lift you up. This is real interesting that Rashi, the rabbi Rashi said this. One who is bent will stand before Yahweh. One who is bent like the noon will stand before Yahweh. That's what Rashi said. Now the noon is spelled noon vav noon. And it's got these two forms. If you look at the spelling of the word noon, it's noon vav noon. So it begins with the bent form and ends with the straight form. That's a picture of what we go through with forgiveness. When we come before Yahweh, we bend before Yahweh, and we say, Yahweh, forgive me, I have sinned. We are born again, and he gives us his righteousness. The righteous man falls seven times. As we fall down, as we humble ourselves, Yahweh forgives us. We can seek forgiveness from others. I mean, think about it. Think about it for a moment. I'd just like to ask you, Nicholas, Judah, think about for a moment, one time that you've been forgiven of something in the past. You've done something wrong. Something bad happened. You mistreated someone. You talked about them. You said something you shouldn't have. And then think about how you went to someone and said, forgive me. You have an emotion that came about at that point. That feeling that came upon you at that point. Or maybe when you were born again, and you remember the things that you've done in the past. And Yahweh straightened it out. That's what forgiveness is, is straightening things out. Just like the nude is bent and then is straight. It's a fresh start. How many need a fresh start? I like a fresh start. It's a clean slate. That's what forgiveness is. And it's an open opportunity. Now, let's talk for a moment and focus for a few minutes about the Israelites in the wilderness. Now, while they're in Egypt for 400 years, we read about this time that they're in bondage and they're in slavery. And they're coming out of bondage. They're coming out during that journey. And what do they do? They're full of sin. They're full of Egypt. They start complaining. They don't like the diet. They don't like the conditions. It's too hot. It's too cold. Is that like somebody you know? That complains a lot? Fussing. You know, I've got this problem. I've got that problem. They went about the leadership. He's lost his mind. We're not doing this. We're not doing that. No way, Jose. How about this? No way, Moshe. They were saying whatever. And what happened to them because of their grumbling and their complaining? They did not enter into the promised land. Because of their spirit and their negativity, it affected them. You know, this week I was thinking about the phrase to have a friend, you have to be a friend. Have you heard that before? What that means is you get back what you put out. You reap what you sow. Well, they had negativity. They had bad attitudes. They had complaining and guess what? And fussing. All of this occurred and they were never able to enter into the promised land. But there was one who had a different spirit. There was actually two, Caleb and Joshua. Now, Joshua is the son of who? Son of none. And technically, son of noon in Hebrew. The son of noon. So, who went into the promised land? Was it the people that came out of Egypt that had these negative attitudes and spirits? No. Who was it? The next generation. Their children. Remember I said that the noon is the letter of forgiveness and humility and inheritance, father-in-law. Inheritance. He said he's going to leave me his house. The Adams family house. I'm not sure if that's a blessing or a curse. It's not a gift. So, the second generation inherited it. So, let's look at a few verses about this that occurred. Let's turn to the book of Exodus or in Hebrew, Shemot. Exodus 23, 30. Exodus 23, verse 30. Speaking about what's occurred and what's happening with this group coming out of Israel. Israel. Shemot 23, 30. Now, let's go a little bit to verse 27. Verse 27. I will send my terror ahead of you and throw you into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites out of your way. But I will not drive them out in a single year. Because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. Little by little, I will drive them out before you until you have increased enough to take possession of the land. Little by little, I will drive them out. That is Yahweh's plan. Little by little. He doesn't just, oop, plop, there's five billion dollars in your bank account. I wish he did sometimes. I wouldn't want to pay the taxes on it, but I'd like to have a little extra. And that's what it's about. It's little by little. Be faithful in the little things. Be faithful in the little to medium things. Be faithful in the medium things. Be faithful in the medium to large. Be faithful in the large and be faithful in the extra large. And then some of you in the triple extra large, right? So when it comes down to faithfulness, little by little, that's how Yahweh does it. He's not going to give you a billion dollars if you've not been faithful with 50. He's not going to give you whatever until it's little by little they were giving them this inheritance for the children. Now look at Exodus 32 verse 13. Talking about the moon and what they're inheriting. Exodus 32 verse 13. Let's look at verse 11. We'll start there. Read it in context. Verse 11. Exodus 32 verse 11. But Moshe sought the favor of Yahweh his Elohim. O Yahweh, he said, why should your anger burn against your people whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say it was with evil intent that he brought them out? To kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth. Turn from your fierce anger. Relent and do not bring disaster on your people. Look at verse 13. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to whom you swore by your own self. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land I promised them. And it will be their inheritance forever. You see, the land was promised to who? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Did Abraham see it? Did Abraham walk in it? He saw it only in his mind's eye. He saw the promise, it says in Hebrews, of that city. His builder is Yahweh. It was promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but it wasn't experienced until this generation. Look at Exodus 34.9. Exodus 34, Shemot 34, verse 8. Moshe bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. O Yahweh, if I have found favor in your eyes, he said, then let Yahweh go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin and take us as your inheritance. Circle it, underline it, highlight it, memorize it. It says, O Yahweh, find favor and then take us as your inheritance. Notice the part of his prayer of Moshe. He says, we are stiff-necked, forgive us of our wickedness, forgive us of our sins. He's humbling himself. He's realizing what they've done. Now, take us as your inheritance. The first part, it was little by little. Then it was reminding us that it was promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And then here, the prayer by Moshe, recognizing the fall, saying, let us be your inheritance. Now, did they receive it that day? No. But is Yahweh slow to keep his promises? No. Numbers 34.7. Let's look at Numbers 34.7. The book of Numbers in Hebrew by Midbar. Chapter 34. Verse 17. Numbers 34, verse 17. Verse 16, Yahweh said to Moshe, these are the names of the men who are to assign the land for you as an inheritance. Eleazar, the priest, Yehoshua, son of Nun, or Nun. And appoint one leader from each tribe to help assign the land. These are their names. Caleb, and Shmuel, and Elidad, and Bukai, and Haniel, and Chemuel, and Elphasan, and Potiel, and Ahuhud, and Pentahel. These are the men, verse 29, Yahweh commanded to assign the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan. Did you hear about that first generation coming out of Egypt? No. This was the new generation, the Joshua generation, coming forward, and they were to assign the land as an inheritance. And it begins with Eleazar, the priest, the Cohen, and then who? Joshua, son of Nun. So Joshua's here to receive an inheritance that could have been his friend's and his brother's, but because of their complaining spirit, because of their pride, they were not able to receive it. Now, look at the next page, Deuteronomy chapter 1, verse 38, Devarim 1, verse 38. Look at verse 37. Even Moshe was not allowed to enter into the promised land. Did you get that? Moshe. Moshe. I mean, if anybody, you just think off of just his merit, what all he'd done so great. He got to see the burning bush. He went up. He got the tablets. He dealt with those people. He ate the manna. He went through all this, but he was not able to enter in. Why is that? Look at verse 37. Because of you, Yahweh became angry with me also and said, you shall not enter in either. And it goes on to say what happened here. But your assistant, verse 38, Joshua, son of Nun, will enter the land. Encourage him because he will lead Israel to inherit the land. And the little ones that you have said would be taken captive, your children, who did not get no good from bad, they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it. They were not allowed to enter into the promised land. Yahweh wanted them to be there, but they stopped his blessings from coming into their life because of their negativity, their complaining, their grumbling, their arguing, their fussing, their cussing. All of this happened. Who's going to lead them in the land? Who is it? Yahoshua. Who is it? Joshua. Yahoshua is. All right. Now look at Deuteronomy 31, verse 7. Devarim 31, 7. This all has to go along with the Nun. Devarim 31, 7. I'm going to go back up to verse 6. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them. For Yahweh your Elohim goes with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Verse 7. Then Moshe summoned Yahoshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, Be strong and courageous for you must go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their forefathers to give them and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. For Yahweh himself goes before you. He will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged. Now notice here that they did not take the land. It was not military battles where they just took the land. They were really strong. No, they were few in number. What does it say? Yahweh gave them the land. Deuteronomy 31, 7. The inheritance was given to them to be divided as their inheritance. They didn't just take it. It was given as an inheritance. Now look at Deuteronomy 32, 8. Devarim 32, 8. Look at verse 7. One of my favorite verses in the whole Bible. Devarim 32, 7. Remember the days of old. Consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you. Your elders, they will explain it to you. Deuteronomy 32, 8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For Yahweh's portion is his people. Yaakov is allotted inheritance. When the sons of man, when the world, the sons of Adam, were given their land, when all mankind was given their inheritance, what was mankind first given? Eden. Correct? Access to Yahweh. They could walk with Yahweh in the cool of the day. But what occurred? The fall happened. And so because of that, they were kicked out of the land. But this inheritance, this promise of going back to the land, where do most people believe the Garden of Eden is located? In Israel. Or possibly directly above Israel. I've heard some even say in a parallel universe where Israel is. Well, we know it's in that land. It is special land. It's not just any land. It's their inheritance. Yahweh divided up the world and he said, you know what? This land is for these people. This land is your land. This land is my land. From California to New York Island. That's what he said. Not quite those words. But he divided it to those people and he said, this land is your inheritance. But look at what Yahweh's inheritance was. Yahweh's portion is his people. Deuteronomy 32.9. Israel inherited the land because of the promise of Yahweh and the fall of the nations. Israel inherited because of the promise of Yahweh and the falls of the nations. Do you understand that? The Hivites, the Jebusites, the Parasites, the Termites, they all had to fall. They all had to go out. Do you see what I'm saying? And so Israel could inherit the nations. Now, here's what I want to bring together. The word here used for inherit is the word nakal. It is spelled noon, chet, lamed. It's a very important noon word. Nakal. Over and over and over again. In every verse we just read, nakal is used. Exodus 23.30, 32.13, 34.9, Numbers 34.17, Deuteronomy 1.38, 31.7, 32.8. All of those verses use the word nakal. Inheritance. When you look at the noon, you see the bent shape, you see the fall. Noon, chet, lamed. It's a verb. And it means to acquire, to take possession, to inherit, to help. Think of an inheritance. Someone dies. Heaven forbid someone passes. They leave behind their money. They leave behind their house. They leave behind their jewelry. They leave behind all these things for the next generation. That fall or that death has to happen for the next generation to be blessed. The word for fall in Hebrew is used many times in the Scriptures. It's noon, fe, yod, lamed. Which is nephil. Have you ever heard of the nephilim? That is the Hebrew word used in Genesis chapter 5 and Genesis chapter 6 when it says that the sons of Yahweh came in, mixed the seed, and there were giants in the lands. That word for giant is the word nephilim. It means fallen one. Not humbled, but fallen one. When an inheritance passes, there's a death. The body goes into the ground. That's a humbling. Notice the connection of the ground. To inherit something, there's got to be going down to that death. So let's talk about a couple falls real quick. Adam fell, and we all inherited sin, the sinful nature. Agree? We know that it says in the book of Romans that one man's sin infected the entire human race. The first Adam did this. The second Adam brought redemption. What about Abraham? When Abraham died, as he was passing, that blessing was passed from Abraham to Isaac. Then it was passed from Isaac to Jacob. From Jacob to all Israel. The blessing, the inheritance. So what did we inherit from Adam? Sin. What did we inherit from Abraham? Blessing, the land. And yet, Israel. What about Israel? When you read in the Scriptures about the nation of Israel, they fell. Get this. The world inherited curses. This is something you're going to have to think about and chew on. That because the nation of Israel failed to be a light to the world, because they failed in their Torah obedience, those curses came upon the land. It laid unused. It was just sand for hundreds of years. And the curses came upon the world. Look at Leviticus 26. Now here's what's amazing. The Torah, hear me now, the Torah became a curse so that we could inherit life. Leviticus 26 speaks about the rewards for obedience. It says, observe my Shabbat, reverence my sanctuary. If you obey my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, your threshing floor will be there. You'll have everything you need if you obey. But the Torah can be a curse if you disobey. Don't be mistaken. Look at Leviticus 26, verse 14. But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, if you reject my decrees, if you abhor my laws and fail to carry out the commands and so violate my covenant, I will do this to you. I will bring upon you sudden terror. What is it? Sudden terror. Sounds like terrorism. Wasting diseases, fever that will destroy your sight, drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Look at verse 21. If you remain hostile towards me and refuse to listen, refuse to humble yourself, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over as your sins deserve. I will send wild animals against you. They will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted. Verse 23. If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile towards me, I myself will be hostile towards you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. And on and on it talks about this. The Torah became a curse because of their disobedience. And yet through the Torah, do we have to inherit those curses? No. Because we can be like that Joshua generation that inherits the blessings and the land. Look at verse 40. But, everybody say but. But, if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers. Do you see that? There is a need for us to confess our sins and the sins of our fathers and know that Yahweh is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Read this here. Leviticus 26 verse 40. But if they will confess their sins, humble themselves like a new and the sins of their fathers, their treachery against me which made me hostile towards them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled think of a new and they pay for their sin I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, my covenant with Abraham I will remember the land. Praise Yahweh. For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its Sabbath while it lays desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my Torah and abhorred my decrees. Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them. I will not abhor them so as to destroy them completely breaking my covenant with them. I am Yahweh their Elohim but for their sake I will remember the covenant of the ancestors who I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations for I am Yahweh. He says I will remember that. Now turn with me to Hebrews chapter 8. Hebrews, the book of Abraham, chapter 8. And let's look and see how Yeshua reversed the curse. Yeshua reversed the curse and allowed us to receive the blessings because don't you agree that we in our Torahlessness that the society today, churchianity today abhors the Torah? They don't accept Torah. And so what happens? They're walking in these curses. So turn with me to Hebrews chapter 8. And let's see what Yeshua did. Many believe his name was not necessarily Yeshua but Yahoshua similar to Joshua. Yahoshua. Hebrews 8. Let's look at verse 6. But the ministry Yeshua has received is superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one. It is founded on better promises. Were there to be nothing wrong with that of the first covenant no place would have been sought for another. But Yahweh found fault with the people and said the time is coming declares Yahweh. When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them out and led them out of Egypt because they did not remain faithful to my covenant. And I turned away from them declares Yahweh. Look at verse 10. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Yisrael. After that time declares Yahweh I will put my Torah in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their Elohim and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor or a man his brother saying no Yahweh because they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest. And I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more. Yeshua did this for us. Yeshua took the price he paid the price for those sins and look at what it says. It says they will know me from the least to the greatest. Remember we started with the kingdom of heaven and we said that in the kingdom of heaven the least become the great the last become first. And then it says I will forgive their sins. Their Torah breaking. We receive Yahweh's blessings as we replicate the noon as we humble ourselves. We receive forgiveness of our sins. In Exodus 33 11 it was Yahoshua son of Nun that succeeded Moshe and led them into the promised land. It is no coincidence that Yahoshua ben Yosef or Yahshua son of Joseph is leading us into the same promised land in this generation. In this generation. Forgiveness is what allows sinful person to approach a sinless Yahweh. And forgiveness is what is allowing the events to take place in Israel. The inheritance. In Psalm 119 we continue to read as each of 7 or 8 verses here deal with the Hebrew letters. The first 7 deal with the aleph the next deal with the bet the gimel, the dalet, the hay. The verses with the noon are very particular. Let's look at these. Psalm 119 97-104 Read it with me. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep the righteous judgments. I am afflicted very much. Quicken me, O Yahweh, according to thy word. Except I beseech thee the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh and teach me thy judgments. My soul is continually in my hand yet I do not forget thy law. The wicked have laid a snare for me yet I err not from thy precepts. Thy testimonies have I taken as an inheritance forever for they are rejoicing of my heart. I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always even until the end. This chapter begins with thy word. It is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Speaking of the Torah being that lamp and that light that verse begins with the noon and then it goes down and it says that thy testimonies of thy Torah I have taken as an heritage forever. That word in the King James for heritage Mechal, inheritance it's a heritage. It's what Yahweh's given us. He's passed down. He's given to us. Now, as a son is due the inheritance as the firstborn is due a double portion so we also have an inheritance from Yahweh. It is His word. Now the noon is the 14th letter in the number 50. Everybody say 50. 50. In paleo Hebrew the noon was written it looked like a fish swimming in water like a little tadpole swimming in water. And in Aramaic the word for fish is noon. Now in Hebrew the word for fish is dog. How about that? Dog. That's right. That's Hebrew for fish. But in Aramaic it's noon. Now it was once a picture of a fish swimming in water. Now we know that the mem was a picture of the water after the mem comes the noon. You with me April? So we see this. And through the years it's retained its original meaning. What number is the noon? 50. The noon is a picture of the Jubilee or the Yovel 50th year during which debts are forgiven slaves are set free and all the problems go away. It talks about this in Vayikra Leviticus 25. Leviticus 25. The noon is a picture of the Jubilee. Now what happens during the Jubilee year? All the sins are forgiven. All the debts are just, you know what? Connie, yeah, I know you owe me 29 cents. But it's Yovel. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Or, Don, I know you owe me $29,000. Excuse me. Don, I know I owe you $29,000. But what are you going to say? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's the Yovel. Not a chance, huh? Okay. So, let's say it was the Yovel year. It's the time to get your inheritance because during the Jubilee year the land was returned to its original owners. You follow me? You're not getting it. Okay. I'll have to connect the dots. That was the meme. But the land was returned to its original owners the 50th year. Forgiveness was given the 50th year. Debts were repaid. You know what? Don't worry about them. Love, the hurts, the pain, it was all taken away. It was all taken away during that Jubilee year. Now, the noon connects us again to the end of days. If you want to go, you can read Revelation 14. You'll see the noon in that chapter. But the Hebraic concept of the 50 year Jubilee. Now, we know what's going to occur in Matthew 24, verse 10. It says, And then many shall be offended, shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. Does it not sound like today? Everybody's offended. You can't go anywhere. You can't do anything without offending somebody. Am I joking or what? You cannot. I mean, it is amazing. No matter what you say, no matter what you do, you're going to offend somebody. You can't tell a joke without offending somebody. Certainly not me. You know, you can't say anything. You can't wear a shirt. Oh, that offends me. I got to be politically correct. Is that right? My point is, everything offends somebody. Does your Torah obedience offend people sometimes? Oh, yes, it does. Show up at church on Shabbat. That'll offend them. Or start talking to people. Start saying, Hey, wait a minute. Let's talk about this rapture thing. Well, no, I'm not going to eat those pork skins today. I know you just fried them. I know you think they smell good. I know they're crunchy. No, thank you. It offends people. Many shall be offended. And even beyond our Torah obedience, people are offended over anything and everything. I will never forget, and I've told this story before, but I'll never forget the time I was working for Burger King. And a guy came up to me. I was just, wasn't even at the store. I was at Walmart one day. And he said, I need to talk to you about your store. He said, I came to Burger King and I got a chicken whopper. Char-grilled chicken whopper. And that thing was so tough. It was like they cooked it for three hours. It was so hard. It was the worst thing. He said, it tasted bad. I couldn't chew it. And I just apologized. I said, sir, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He said, well, I want to tell you something. I've not gone back to that restaurant since then. You know, it's been bad. He said, you know, every time I think of that restaurant, I think of that sandwich and whatever. And he just said, you know what? I tried to chew it. It hurt my teeth. And it was the worst thing. And I'm like, well, sir, I'm sorry. Let me make it up to you. I'll give you another sandwich. I said, when did you get it? You know, was it last week? Was it a couple of days ago? I'll find out who was working. I'll deal with the manager. I'll find out why we weren't serving good food. He said, oh, it was about eight years ago. True story. He was that offended over a bad chicken sandwich. People get offended over anything. I've got a friend. He parks his car at the end of the parking lot. So nobody nicks his new Cadillac. Do you know people like that? Do you know anybody like that? He's even got a sensor on his key chain that goes off. If anyone gets near his car, it starts beeping at him. He doesn't want to get offended. He doesn't want that to happen. Now, let's think about relational. Don't people get offended over anything? Aren't we seeing this come alive today? All right. So people hate one another. Many shall be offended. Now, if the offenses are growing, if it's getting worse, I mean, let me ask you, Don, you're the oldest person here. 150 years ago, were people offended over everything like this? Okay, all right. People, I mean, people were kinder, weren't they? A year ago, they were nicer. Five years ago, they were nicer. It tells us in Matthew 24 that as torelessness increases in the world or lawlessness increases in the world, the love of many will grow cold. If offenses are mounting and growing, if people are getting ruder and nastier and people get upset over anything, guess what that means? We must be getting close to a jubilee. It must be time for all that to be wiped out. So when, let me ask you, could the next Yovel occur? When do you think could be the next jubilee? So let's think about this. When was the last jubilee? When was the last year of release for Israel? Now I submit to you today that that very well could have been 1967. 1967. In 1967, Jerusalem was once again made the capital of a nation. What happens during a jubilee year? What does Leviticus 25 say? That the land is given back to the original person who owns it. On a jubilee year, the inheritance of the land is returned. In 1967, Jerusalem was returned to the Jewish people signaling the end to the curses of the disobedience. And you can actually go back and do some of the math and see this playing out beautifully. Could it be that 1967 was a jubilee year? I would think so when looking at the land and what occurred here. The events surrounding the return of Jerusalem are highly prophetic. Now, Jerusalem was returned during the Six Day War. At the end of the Six Day War, the 50 year release is a pattern established by Yahweh. Jubilee release. Pattern established by Yahweh. The war that restored Jerusalem was fought for six days and then ended before the Sabbath on June the 10th, 1967. So this is what's called the Six Day War. The Six Day War occurred and then was the Shabbat. Now bring this up as a pattern for us. What happened for Christ? There was no creation. There were six days of creation and then there was Shabbat. Don't let people tell you, oh, I believe in the seven day creation. No, there were six days of creation and then He rested. People say to me, do you believe that Yahweh created the world in the literal seven days? And I say, no. He did it in six. Because on the seventh day He rested. So you had the Six Day War. You had the six days of creation and then the Sabbath day rest. Now let's bring this together. The Talmud says that the world is destined to exist 6,000 years. The first 2,000 years were of nothingness. The second 2,000 years were of Torah. The third 2,000 years would be the days of Messiah. Makes sense. 4,000 years before Yeshua, 2,000 years afterwards. There's a verse in the Gemara that says there'll be 6,000 years of man and 6,000 years of Messiah. 2 Peter 3, verse 8 says with Yahweh a day is like a thousand years. A thousand years are like a day. Yahweh's not slow in keeping His promises. Some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. He's given mankind, it says, a day is a thousand years. Six thousand years to repent. To be like the noon. To realize our fallen state we are like the Nephilim. We have fallen. We need the forgiveness of Yahweh. We've got these 6,000 years because a day is a thousand years because what's going to happen on that seventh day? The rest. The Messianic year. The Messianic kingdom. The six day war was six days and then there was the rest. That was six days for the Islamic nations to repent to stop what they were doing. It's a picture. It's a symbol. It's a day is like a thousand years. There's another witness that goes along with this. Yeshua said in Matthew 24 but as it was in the days of Noah so will be when the Son of Man returns. Now we've looked at this. We've discussed this recently. It's interesting that in Genesis 6, 13 Yahweh said my spirit shall not strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh yet his days shall be 120 years. How long has man given? 120 years. Now here's what's interesting. Some people think that Noah spent 120 years building the ark. Not true. I used to think that too. It's an urban legend. He did not spend 120 years building the ark. Yahweh said man's given 120 years and that's it. This is after Noah turned 500 years old. Are you with me? Because in Genesis 5, 32 Noah was already 500 years old. Do you follow me? It says in Genesis 5, 32 that Noah was 500 years old. In Genesis 6, 30 he says my spirit will not strive with man but for 120 years. Well guess what? In Genesis chapter 7 verse 6 it says Noah was 600 years old when the flood began. So it took him about 100 years to build the ark not 120. So if this is the case that's not what it means. It doesn't mean that it took him 120 years. It couldn't have taken him 120 years. He was already 500 when he was told this verse and then we see in Genesis chapter 7 verse 6 that he was 600 when the flood occurred. So if it doesn't apply to Noah who does it apply to? How about us? If the verse about 120 years does not apply to Noah who does it apply to? Yeshua said as it was in the days of Noah so it will be when the son of man returns. Could it be we put these two verses together and it applies to us? It didn't take Noah to build 120 years to build the ark. So Genesis 6, 13 is speaking to us. It's not speaking to Noah. They've got 120 years to build the ark. We know that they've got the jubilee pattern as well. What's 120 years or 120 jubilees times 50? Do we have any math scholars in the room? 6,000. Mankind Mankind is given 120 years or we could say Mankind is given 120 jubilees. Because Yahweh considers that jubilee year to be something special. Does He not? It's a time of return. It's a time to remember the Garden of Eden. Well 120 times 50 equals 6,000. 6,000 years until the next worldwide cleansing. Now we know it's not by a flood of water but here we see that there's not a contradiction. As in the days of Noah so it will be when the Son of Man returns. 6,000 years. Six days have been the Shabbat. Do you see the pattern here? Do you think we're getting closer? So if the last jubilee was in 1967 if that's when the land was returned to Jerusalem the capital was returned to Israel to the Jewish hands what is 1967 plus 50? Any guesses? Anybody with a calculator? 2017 points to what could be the return of Messiah the setting up of the messianic reign. So what is 1967 plus 50? The return of Messiah the setting up of the messianic reign. It could mean yes, that's exactly right. 1967 plus a 50 year jubilee ends in 2017. In view of these facts we've got to think about the noon. Everybody say think about the noon. What must we do now? Because remember what we just read. Remember what we just read in the book of Peter. 2 Peter 3.8 with Yahweh a day is like a thousand years. Yahweh is not slow in keeping his promise. There'll be six days and then the Shabbat. He is patient with you not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. He's given them 6,000 years to repent. So the noon was originally a picture of what when it was drawn? A fish. What did Yeshua say in the book of Matthew? In the book of Matthew chapter 2 He said come put down those nets I'm going to make you fishers of men. I'm going to make you fishers of men. We must desire inheritance and not offense. We must embrace the noon and say you know what Yahweh I'm going to share forgiveness. Everybody say share forgiveness. Share forgiveness. That's what the noon is a picture of. That we can go to someone in the love of Yahweh and through the power of Yahweh they can humble themselves like a noon they can be bent down and then it says humble yourself in the sight of Yahweh and he will lift you up they will be straight like a noon so feet. We see the picture of the noon as the fish. We are to be busy like the fish. Time is short so we need to share that forgiveness with the fallen. That doesn't mean you have to stand at a street corner and yell the end is coming the end is coming but it does mean that we are to use Yahweh given encounters to share with people hope. Not offense. You know what forgive that person next time they irritate you. Next time you have a bad chicken sandwich forgive them. Share with them hope. Remind them that the time is short. Remind them about the noon because this is the letter Yahweh wants us to get. If we are not focused on forgiveness during the end of days we will miss it. We will miss Yahweh's spirit we will miss his Ruach. We have to be focused on forgiveness to each other from Yahweh and from Yahweh to other people. Amen. CD copies of this teaching are available for free by submitting a request at the website or write to us at EMET Ministries 1310 Trent Street Newberry, SC 29108 That's EMET Ministries 1310 Trent Street Newberry, SC 29108 Thank you again for listening to Finding EMET with Daniel Rendleman. May you find the EMET and may the EMET may the truth set you free.