Living Letters Yod

The Finding Emet radio program is a teaching ministry that helps people understand the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. It focuses on the Hebrew letters and their meanings, particularly the 10th letter, the Yod. The Yod is the smallest letter and is used the most in the Hebrew alphabet. It is a symbol of Yahweh's name and has significant biblical and spiritual significance. The number 10 is considered holy and has important meanings in the Scriptures. The Yod is also depicted as a hand and is used in the Torah scroll as a pointer. It is important to understand the true Hebrew pronunciations and meanings of biblical names, as the English language has created modern interpretations. 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. Hello and welcome again to our teaching series on the living letters of the Hebrew aleph bed. We are continuing our series as we go through Psalm 119, as we go through each of the 22 Hebrew letters. And we're discussing these letters, what they mean to us as believers in Messiah, Yeshua, how they are numbers, how they are signs, how they are pictures. They're all about Yeshua. They tell us about the power of creation because His word is magnificently written. All of these teachings are available to download or listen at the Emet Ministries website. That's www.emetministries.com or www.findemet.com. Totally free. They are there. And so we've already gone through many of these letters, discussed what they stand for, what they mean, the aleph, the bed, the gemel, the dalet, the hay, the yod, the zion, the chet, the tent. And that brings us to the 10th Hebrew letter. The 10th Hebrew letter that has just powerful meanings. You're going to get so much out of this teaching today. It's just going to blow your mind, the power that is in Yahweh's word. And this is the letter of the yod. In fact, it is the most used Hebrew letter in the Torah, in the Scriptures. It is the yod. It is the letter of Yahweh's name. So today, during this teaching, we will be using the sacred name of Yahweh. And that is the name of the Creator, often hidden behind the English terms Lord or God in your English Bibles. We know that His name is Yahweh. That's why it's capitalized in your Bible. The translators are telling you it's Yahweh's name. We will also be using the name Yahshua or Yahoshua, which is the name of the Messiah, the Savior, the name given to Him by angels. They didn't speak English back then. They didn't say His name was Jesus. They said you shall call Him Yahshua because He shall save His people from their sins. Yahshua is the salvation of Yahweh. That is who the Messiah, the Savior is, the salvation of Yahweh. And both of these names, Yahweh and Yahshua, begin with our letter of discussion today, what we're going to talk about for the next hour or so, and that is the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the yod or the yud. You'll hear it said both ways. Some say yud, some say yod. It's yud or yod is how it's spelled in the English. It is the smallest of the Hebrew letters. It is the only letter that is suspended in the air. What that means is it does not touch the line. You have an imaginary written line that everything is written upon when you write. Well, this letter doesn't touch the line. This letter is suspended in the air. You picture in your mind a comma, like you would write the fat dog, comma, sat on the floor. Well, this comma is not below the letter. It is the letter, and it's suspended in the air above, and that's what the yod looks like. It is significant, and let me tell you something. If you know any Hebrew, then you know about the yod. You know about this letter. You know that it's used. If you know any Hebrew letters, even if you know just some English, you know about this letter because it is in Yahweh's name. It is in Yahshua's name. It is in the name Yisrael. It's not Israel, folks. It's Yisrael. It's important to note that. That's the way it should be pronounced. The Hebrew word Jericho is Yericho. How about Jerusalem? We call the city there in Israel Jerusalem, but in Hebrew it is truly Yerushalayim. You see, we read in our English Bibles, and we read these J letters. We read these J words like Jerusalem or Jericho or Jedidiah, and we read that, and we think, oh, that was Jedidiah's name. We think that's a good biblical name. Jonah was his name. Oh, Jonah. That was his name. Well, in all reality, that wasn't his name. The city is not called Jerusalem. It's Yerushalayim. It's Yonah. It's Jedidiah. It's Jericho. It's Yirmeyahu and not Jeremiah, and a little bit of history, a little bit of research reveals that the J letter, the letter J, is a modern invention of the English language. In fact, just 400 years ago, there was not a J in the English alphabet. Now, that surprises a lot of people. Many people say, what are you talking about? There wasn't a J. Well, many years ago, there was not this J letter, and everything had the Y sound there. But as an invention of the modern English and the translators and the people that came up with language and as the language developed, found a need, created this letter, created this sound, and even went farther from the truth of the scriptures, from the true Hebrew alphabet and from the true sound of the biblical names. So understand this, that the J is a modern invention. It isn't biblical. There's not a J sound in the Hebrew alphabet, but it is there in the English, and we got to deal with it. We need to know what it is, and the city is not Jerusalem. The city is Yerushalayim. His name was not John. His name was Yochanan. Now, you can hear the sound, and you can hear the Y sound, Yochanan, which is beginning with the Yod. It's the smallest letter, and it is a mystery. You know, it's a mystery how the least shall be the greatest. Isn't that what Messiah, Yeshua said? Didn't He say that the greatest shall be the least, and the first shall be the last, and the last shall be the first? Well, we can see this, because if the Yod is the smallest letter, if it is the least letter, then that means that it's going to be the greatest letter, that it is the greatest letter. And it's amazing. It is the smallest letter, and it's used the most in the Hebrew alphabet. It is the first letter in the Almighty's name, and it is the number 10. The number 10. Now, 10 is important. 10 is a number of biblical significance. All of the numbers have meaning for us, and again, these aren't just letters. They're meanings, and these are messages from Abba Yahweh, from beyond. And we know that the Bible says that the 10th is holy unto Yahweh. It is kadosh to Yahweh. That's what number 10 is. It is set apart. It is kadosh. And do you know what that means? That means that the 10th letter is set apart. That means that the Yod is set apart. It is a special letter, and it is a letter that we need to take special watch and care over and understand its significance. 10 is a special number. We know that there were 10 plagues that brought judgment against Mitsrayim, or Egypt, as the Hebrew Israelites are being brought out of Egypt, being brought out of bondage. That 10 judgments and 10 plagues came against this evil nation. We know that there were 10 words spoken, or 10 commandments given Mount Sinai by Yahweh, and these 10 commandments were given as guidelines and rules for living. We know that there were 10 tests of Abraham, if you read in the Genesis account about 10 tests of Abraham. If you read about the rebellions in the wilderness as Israel turned against Moshe and rebelled against Yahweh, there were 10 of those. In the Scriptures, 10 times did fire come down from heaven. 10 times did Yeshua say, I am in the book of Yochanan, in the book of John. There are 10 generations from Adam to Noach, or Noah, and there are 10 generations from Noah to Abraham. It's a number of wholeness. It's a number of divine completeness. It's a number of judgment. So I want you to get that today. I want you to understand that 10 is a number of a cycle. There were not 6 plagues. There were not 7 plagues. There were not 8 commandments. There were not 3 tests of Abraham, 10, 10, 10. The number is important to see and understand, and the number is the yod. You see, in Hebrew, there was not a separate numbering system that used the letters for the numbers. Now, we also know that in Daniel, and in the Scriptures, in Revelation, as we begin to look at the end of days, as we begin to see what's occurring in the end of days, that there were 10 kingdoms spoken of in the Scriptures, and there was a 10-horned beast in Daniel's vision that also appears in the book of Revelation, in Revelation chapter 12, in Revelation chapter 13, in Revelation chapter 17. You can go back and study these yourself, as in Daniel chapter 2, verse 41 tells us, and I saw feet and toes, part of the potter's clay and part of iron. The kingdom shall be divided, there shall be in it the strength of the iron, forasmuch as I saw the iron mixed with miry clay. How many toes? 10 toes upon this beast, upon this creature. Now, the yod, as we said, was a picture of a comma. It looks like that, like a comma that you would have, or an apostrophe that you would have in the English. Well, in Hebrew, it was written originally as a picture of a hand. In the Paleo-Hebrew, in the ancient Hebrew, it was actually written as a picture of a hand, and in fact, the Hebrew word for hand is very similar. It is yod, yod, that's the Hebrew word for hand, or two hands would be yadayim, yadayim. And indeed, in the synagogues, when the Torah scroll is taken out in red, there is a pointer. Some of you might have seen this. It's basically a wooden staff or so, a little stick with a finger on the end. It's got a hand with a finger pointing, and that's what the reader of the Torah scroll uses to monitor where they are while they're reading, to make sure they're reading the right place. They're not supposed to touch it with their fingers. They touch it with this pointer, and guess what? This pointer is called a yod. It's called a yod, and this word is really amazing. It is a mystery for us. The yod, the yad, is a mystery. In Psalm 119, verses 73 through 80, we can read about the yod. We can read about the hand of Yahweh. Let's read this. It's Psalm 119, 73 through 80, and it says, thy hands, that would be thy yadayim, have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments, thy mitzvot. They that fear thee will be glad when they see me, because I have hoped in thy word. I know, O Yahweh, that thy judgments are right, and that thou unfaithfulness hast afflicted me. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to my word and to thy servant. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live, for thy Torah is my delight. Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause, but I will meditate on your precepts. Let those who fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I may not be ashamed. That is out of Tehillim, out of the book of Psalms, chapter 119, verses 73 through 80. And notice here that it says, thy hands have fashioned me. It's about me understanding, so it's personal, it's about me, and then it talks about thy tender mercies that come unto me, for the Torah is our delight, and with those that fear thee turn unto me. So it's personal, individually, and then it's talking about how it says you formed me, and then it says you called me. So notice those words that are there, and they're different in the Hebrew, they're different in the English. First of all, I was formed, and then I was called. Friend, understand this today, you were formed as an individual. Yahweh knew you in the womb. You were formed as an individual, and yet you've been called as a nation. You have been called as a peculiar people, a holy nation, a set-apart person. This is something to consider. So take for just a moment right now, and consider that we know a good deal, we know a lot about personal salvation. Depending on your religious background, I'm sure that you know what the churches teach about personal salvation. Oh, just accept Jesus then, your life will be better. Say this prayer, repeat after me, the sinner's prayer. You know about the Baptist faith and message. You may know about personal salvation. How does a person get born again, or saved, or delivered? But what about national salvation? What about national identity? You see, the church has taken the message of personal salvation and forgotten the message of national salvation, of national identity. And that is something that we must study, we must understand, and we must come to a revelation of national salvation, national identity, for this is the essence of the yod, of the yad, of the hand, of Yahweh, Yeshua. You see, to love your neighbor is to love Yahweh. Think about that for a minute. How do you love Yahweh? You have to love your neighbor. How do you give to Yahweh? I don't just throw money in the air and say, OK, Yahweh, you keep whatever you keep. I'm going to take all this money, I'm going to throw it in the air, and whatever you want, you keep, and I'll take whatever falls on the ground. That doesn't work. I've tried it. It doesn't work. How do you serve Yahweh? You serve your neighbor. You see, yad, the yod, it means to extend the hand. That's what love means, to extend the hand. The yod is a picture of that hand. Isn't that what the book of Yochanan, the book of John, chapter 3, verse 16 says? For Yahweh so loved the world that he gave an only son. And what did he do? He extended his hands in love and gave himself. You see, that's a Hebrew idiom, as you read in the Bible, and you read about the right hand of Yahweh, the arm of Yahweh, the hand of Yahweh. The Hebrew word for close friend is yadid, Y-E-D-I-D, yadid. If someone is your close friend, that's your yadid, that's not just your BFF, your best friend forever. That is a yadid. And that's important to note and understand because the word yadid actually means, it literally means hand in hand. Did you hear that? Don't forget that. Hand in hand. And what did Yeshua say? There's a friend that sticks closer than a brother. Who is hand in hand with you? It is Yahweh. Experiencing Yahweh is extending our hand to our brothers and to our sisters. This is the mystery of the congregation. This is the mystery of the Yad, of the Yod. And this is kind of foreign to us. I mean, yes, we know how to do church. We know how to show up at 11 a.m. sharp and leave at 12 noon dull. We know how to do church. We know how to, you know, go in and the worship hour, yes. The congregation, fellowshipping, closeness, getting out of our comfort zones and getting to really know each other, we don't do that very well. This is the Yod. This is the Yod. Did you know that Jewish people in the synagogues will not pray unless there is a minion together? A minion is a group of ten men, ten, ten men that gather together in unity to pray and they will not pray as a group. They will not pray out loud unless there are ten men unified together. That's congregation. That's unity. That's depending on one another. However, we know what did Yahshua say. He said, wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst. That's all it takes, friend, is two or three. We don't have to wait for a minion, but we can learn the principle of a minion, of coming together, of worshiping together, of saying, I'm extending that hand. I will stand with you. My brother, my sister, we will pray together and we will be led by the Ruach HaKodesh. Now, think about the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit for a moment. The Ruach HaKodesh is not some disembodied spirit floating around. Get that picture out of your mind. You know, we get that when we hear the Holy Ghost. You know, the Holy Ghost. You heard that before. The preacher. I call that a hiccup preacher. They hiccup whenever they say something, you know, like, and I tell you, oh, you gotta believe in the Holy Ghost stuff. It's like they're hiccuping whenever they talk. Well, friend, we don't need to get this goose, the Holy Ghost goose bumps and think about the Holy Ghost. It's not some disembodied ghost floating around. Where is the Ruach HaKodesh? Where is the Holy Spirit? It's in us. It abides in us, in us. We look at someone, we say, oh, that's just a person. We don't see Yahweh in them. Yeshua said, he who does the will of my Father is my family. So if you've done kindly to someone in the house of Israel, in the Beit Israel, that's a believer in Yeshua, then you've done kindly to Yahweh, to serve Yahweh, to love Yahweh, to give to Yahweh is to serve your neighbor, to love your spouse, to love your friends, to love those who persecute you. We need to grasp that. We've said it before, but we need to get it. You're never going to find the perfect congregation. You're never going to find the right congregation. Some people complain it's too large, it's too small, the preacher's too loud, he's too quiet. Nobody's arrived yet. And let me tell you this, when you gather to worship with other people, when you fellowship, and this is why it's so important, it is a torture chamber for the flesh. When you worship together with other people, it is a torture chamber for the flesh. That is why it is so important that we gather together as much as we can. In fact, in Luke chapter 9, verse 23, Luke 9, 23, Yahoshua said, and he said unto them, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake daily, and follow me. Not weekly, not monthly, daily, daily, daily fellowship with other believers, with the Scriptures. The yod will help us learn this. The yod will help us this. There's more than just a little letter. There's more than just our little world out there and our little problems. You see, there are Israelites, just like you, believers, just like you, scattered all over the world. And we need to grasp this idea of national salvation. And this is what the yod wants to teach us. As our families are restored, as congregations are restored, as people begin to seek the Hebrew root of Jesse, then we know that the nation itself is restored. We know that in the book of Acts, they come to Yahshua and they say, when, when are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel? That's in Acts chapter 1, verse 6. This is the mystery of His coming. He says, Yahshua says, you shall receive power when the Ruach HaKodesh comes upon you. You see, power is what Yahweh has promised us. And yet we walk around down in the press and all in the, you know, in the dumps, or we walk around with this attitude that, oh, we got it all right, everybody else is wrong. And Yahweh said He's giving us power to reach out to people to restore Israel. It is no coincidence that the word mystery, the word mystery is used 27 times in the Bible and it's found in 22 verses. The word mystery is found 27 times in the Bible in 22 different verses. Do you know why that's important? Because there are 22 different Hebrew letters and those letters take up 27 different Hebrew forms. This shows us that the Hebrew letters, the alephbet, is a mystery. There's something to look for. There's something to look at. There's a mystery with each of these letters that we're going to talk about today in this teaching, the mystery of the yod, of the yod. Did you know that the book of Revelation has 22 chapters? You know, don't take my word for it. Go count them up. There's 22 chapters in the book of Gileadah, the Apocalypse, the book of Revelation, 22 chapters and each of these chapters, each of these chapters specifically deal with and speak of the different Hebrew letters, alephbet, giladalah, it is in order. Yahweh's word is powerfully amazing. The 10th chapter deals with the yod. Pick up your Bible, read in Revelation chapter 10 and you'll notice if you go to any Bible commentaries on the book of Revelation, you'll see that Revelation 10 is called the hand chapter. What's the Hebrew word for hand? Yod. It's the 10th Hebrew letter, but yod. So what does Revelation 10 speak to us about? What's so important about Revelation 10? Well, let's see. As we read in this chapter, in verse 1 it says, I saw another mighty angel come down from Shemayim, from heaven, clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was upon his head. His face was as it were the sun, his feet as pillars of fire, verse 2, and he had in his yod, in his hand, a little book open, and he set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot upon the earth. And it goes on to say that this angel lifts his hand towards the Shemayim, he lifts his yod towards the heaven, and the mystery is revealed. The mystery, what mystery? You know, there's nothing better than to sit and watch a movie or read a book and at the very end figure out who's on it, you know, to figure out who's the bad guy and who's the good guy. Well, here in Revelation 10, we can see the seventh trumpet is finished, the mystery is revealed in Revelation chapter 10. You know, we have tons of mysteries, we have tons of mysteries. Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? Never think about that. Was Jonah in a big fish or a whale? Were men really from Mars? Were women really from Venus? What mystery is finished? This is a mystery that we should know about, and it's not a mystery that no one knows. It's something that is unknown until the end. It's something that can be known. The problem is, many of us have no desire to know the mystery because we think we've got it all figured out. Yes, yes, we do. You do, and I do, and we need to come to grips with that, that we don't. We don't have it all figured out, and we don't know it all, and we need to allow the raw Kakodesh, the Holy Spirit, to reveal His Word to us. I mean, can we reason together for just a minute? Pride is a huge problem for many Bible believers. We think we know it all, and therefore, we've lost the mystery, we've lost the wonder of the Scriptures. And this is something that many of us do know, but yet we should still be concerned about. You know, the world, the Jews, the Christians, everybody walks around with, oh, we've got it all figured out. The mystery, and most of us have discovered it, but we haven't really grasped its importance. For in the mystery to unlocking the events of the end times, the mystery is the yod. The mystery is this tenth letter. It is the smallest of the letters, and yet the rabbis tell us that the yod contains all of the power in the entire universe. That the yod is the smallest of letters, but it is the most powerful letter. It is the most significant letter. You see, it says that every letter in the Hebrew alphabet is made of other letters, and that these Hebrew letters are all made of the yod. Now, that's important because just as you look at a TV screen and you see a picture that when you see a Hebrew letter, you look at that TV screen, you see a picture. But really, it's a bunch of small dots on that screen. It's not the picture. It's a bunch of dots that make up that picture. Well, when you see a Hebrew letter, you really see the yod. It's there. And it's found in these key words, Yahweh, Yeshua, Yehudah or Judah, Yisrael, Yerushalayim. This is the mystery, little as much when Yahweh is in it. The remnant. This is the mystery. That one person could bring redemption to the world. That one person could bring redemption to the world. Think about that. And I'm not talking about Yeshua. I'm talking about Abraham, Avraham and his seed. You see, it was from Avraham and through his faith that Yeshua came. Redemption and restoration. This is the mystery. Who is Israel? We're like the cast members who have read the script of a really great murder mystery. And with the seventh trumpet of Revelation chapter 10, it will bring the end and all of Yisrael will be saved. You see, people say, oh, well, Jesus could come back at any time. That's not true. People say, well, he's coming back in 2012. I don't know about that. You know, when we know he's coming back, the scriptures are pretty clear. It says, when Israel says, Baruch haba b'shem Yahweh, blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh. That's when we know he's coming back, when Israel is restored to its power. When we're done today, you are going to know and understand Revelation 10 better than any TV preacher you've ever heard or ever seen before. But to do this, we need to look at a couple of verses. We need to look at a couple of verses and know that there is a mystery of the kingdom of Yahweh. And we need to see and understand what exactly is this mystery. And we can start with this in the book of Mark. In the book of Mark, and in chapter 4, it tells us, And it said unto them, Yeshua said, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of Elohim. But unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables. You are to know and understand the mystery of the kingdom of Yahweh. So, friend, what is it? If you were given a quiz right now to say, write down what the mystery of the kingdom of Yahweh is, what would you answer? What would you say? Romans chapter 11, verse 25, For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, of this hidden thing, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part hath happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. That is the mystery. Romans 11, verse 25. Don't be ignorant of it. Don't be ignorant of the mystery of the kingdom. There's a partial hardening of Israel until the fullness of the Gentile comes in. Israel will be saved as the fullness of the Gentiles, as the nations are saved. You see, the word here for Gentile in the Greek is ethnos. It goes back to the Hebrew word goi. It means a nation. It means a place that Israel was scattered and spread about to live. Now how is the kingdom of Israel restored? How do people come to know that they are Israel? Romans chapter 16 clarifies that as well. Romans 16, verse 25 and 26, Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Yahoshua the Messiah, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting Elohim, made known to the nations of the obedience of the faith. How is this mystery made manifest? By the preaching of Yahshua. It is the preaching of the Messiah, Yahshua, that the mystery is made manifest. It is the preaching of Yahshua and his bloodshed to the lost tribes of Israel. You know, Yahshua wasn't a rabbi. Yahshua wasn't a Hebrew. He only spoke to the Israelites. He came only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. First Timothy 3.16, And without controversy, great is the mystery of holiness, that he was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the nations, believed on in the world, received up into majesty. As we are preaching and teaching Yahshua, the mystery is being revealed. The mystery is coming together and is being made clear. This is the mystery of the ages, ladies and gentlemen, that you need to know about. And in the book of Beresheet, in the book of Genesis, chapter 12, a lot of scripture here. In the book of Genesis, chapter 12, there's an amazing blessing and some things that occur. And in verses 1 through 3, we can read here about this. It says, Now Yahweh said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country from thy kinsmen and from thy father's house into a land I will show thee, and I will make thee a great nation. I will bless thee and make thy name great, that thou will be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you, and in thee all the families of the earth shall be blessed. See here, Yahweh promised a great nation. He promised to bless them and to give them a great name. He blessed those that blessed him, cursed those that cursed him. The power of redemption comes through this one man, Abram. Belief becomes the greatest. That Israel has been hidden in the nations, friend, this mystery is our hope. And it's not just a personal hope, it is a national hope, it is a national salvation. In the book of Colossians, there's a great verse that says, Messiah in you, the hope of glory. The knowing and understanding that that is our hope of glory, that Yahshua the Messiah lives and breathes in us, and in Him we have life, and we have meaning, and we have understanding, and yet Colossians also tells us something else that we need to consider. Colossians also says something else that we need to understand, so that's in Colossians chapter 2, verse 2, Colossians chapter 2, verse 2. It says, But their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, through the acknowledgement of the mystery of Yahweh, even the Messiah. Here it says that our hearts might be comforted and that we have the assurance of understanding that we know, we are encouraged to know this mystery. Colossians chapter 4, verse 3 says, Pray also for us that Elohim would open the door of utterance to speak the mystery of Messiah, for which I am in bonds. We are to pray for an open door to share this mystery. My children, I have a couple, four or five kids, I guess it's five now, five children and they love to see magic tricks, you know, the little sleight of hand magic trick, make a card or a coin appear out from behind their ear, you know, like a protégé, like an apprentice, that a magician shows the trick. He says, Here, I want to show you this, and you go and wow the crowds. Yahweh has called us, he's given us this knowledge, he's showing us the power of this mystery that we could go forward and have open doors to share Yahshua, to share that the nation of Israel is being restored. First Corinthians chapter 2, verse 7 speaks of the mystery of the yod, that the smallest would be the greatest, but that one man Abraham would become the nation, the fullness of the Gentiles. First Corinthians chapter 2, verse 7. But we speak the wisdom of Yahweh in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which Yahweh ordained before the world came into being. First Corinthians chapter 4, verse 1 says, Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Messiah, the stewards of the mystery of Yahweh. We've been given this mystery. And the plot thickens with First Corinthians 15, verse 51, Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound, the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. This is the mystery. The rapture is part of the mystery. And you know what, folks? The church has got it all wrong concerning the rapture. The wrong person. They're looking for this rapture bus to come and get them. And this pre-tribulation rapture, when everybody says, oh, we've got to have, it is a mystery to many people. It is a stumbling block of the restoration of Israel. But we just read in Romans chapter 11, it says, All of Israel has been blinded in part until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. Well, Israel has been hardened and will be made soft by war. Have you ever heard the phrase of Jacob's trouble? That's what the time of great tribulation is called, Jacob's trouble. Well, let me ask you this. Who is Jacob? Jacob is son of Abraham, grandson of Abraham. Jacob is Israel. His name was changed to Israel. There's got to be more here. More people will cry out to Yahweh as Jacob's trouble is upon us. And also know this. If it's Jacob's trouble, that means it's Israel's trouble. That means Israel's got to be here. And we're not talking about Yahweh judging the Jewish people because they killed Messiah, Balogna, Baloney. That's not the case. For Jacob's trouble to take place, Jacob has got to be present in the earth. And this hardening, these wars that will occur throughout the world are going to soften Jacob to say, Baruch haba b'shem Yahweh, blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh. Don't take my word for it. Study it out. Know it for sure. In Ephesians chapter 1, Ephesians, FCI in Hebrew, chapter 1, we see this again, verses 9 and 10. Ephesians 1 tells us, having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he has purposed in himself, but in the administration of the fullness of times, he may gather together in one all things in the Messiah, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him. Notice that. It says the words until the end, the end of times, the end of days. It is a mystery. The fullness of times when everything is reached fulfillment. Now, who causes Jacob's trouble? It is Ishmael. It is these ten sons as this war occurs. You know, it's amazing that as you're reading the Scriptures, ten times the younger son is preferred before the elder son. Ten times. Abel, Shem, Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Judah, Joseph, Ephraim, Moses and David. Ten times. That's not a coincidence. That is a picture for us. That the younger son is preferred before the elder son. This is the mystery of the yod. In Hebrew, the word yadah, yod, dalet, he, means to praise. It means to know. It means to admit. It means to confess. It means to think. We need to know this mystery. We need to see this mystery. And we need to understand what Yahweh has for us here. We need to get the right thinking regarding Israel and to show ourselves approved. The mystery is that Israel is revealed. The smallest becomes the greatest. This individual salvation that we're so focused on becomes national salvation as Israel is restored. Many people out there are waiting on the imminent return of the Savior. Or they're waiting for the Antichrist to come about. Those are the wrong signs. You need to be looking for Abraham, not the Antichrist. You need to be looking for Abraham, not Barack Obama. You need to be looking for Abraham, not Yeshua. You need to be looking for Abraham, not as a person, but as his seed coming together, as his seed is being revealed, and as the nation of Israel is being restored. And I'm not just speaking about the land, I'm speaking about the people. In Revelation 10, it says, I saw an angel which I saw stood upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sweared by him that lived forever and ever, who created heaven and things therein, and the earth and things therein, and the sea and things therein. And in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of Yahweh shall be finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets. What mystery is this? It's, Abraham, I'm going to take you out of Babylon, and you've got to leave your father's house, you've got to leave your kinsmen, you've got to trust the voice of Yahweh, and I'm going to bring you out of Babylon, and you're going to cross over, and you're going to be called an evri, a Hebrew, and you're going to be an overcomer, and you, Abraham, in you the world will be blessed, because you hear my voice, and you have Amunah. Because it tells us that Abraham believed the word of Yahweh, and it was accounted to him as righteousness, as the dacha, that in you, Abraham, is going to be a seed, and the blessing is going to be passed from Abraham to Yitzhak, not Yishmael, but Isaac, and then that seed is going to be passed, not to Esau, but to Jacob, and from Jacob to the twelve sons, the twelve tribes, and from those twelve tribes, and Judah, and Joseph, and Ephraim, and Manasseh, you shall populate the world, the seed, the physical seed shall be scattered, and the seed of faith, Amunah, shall be scattered, and the least, the smallest, shall become the greatest. For Yahweh said, I did not choose you because you were the greatest nation, because indeed you were small, but I chose you because Abraham believed the word of Yahweh. And with the seventh trumpet, the mystery of Elohim shall be finished. And it says in Revelation chapter ten, verse eight, the voice which I heard from heaven spoken to me again and said, Go, take the book which is opened in the hand of the angel, the yod of the angel, which stands upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel and said unto him, Give me the little sephirot, the little book, and he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up, and it shall be bitter in thy belly, and it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And as I took the little book out of the angel's yod, the angel's hand, I ate it, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey. And as soon as I ate it, my belly was bitter. And he said, Thou must prophesy again before many people, and nations, and tongues, and kings. Friend, this is not just a word for John, Yochanan, this is a word for us. But the mystery of Yahweh is finished as we take the book, we take the word of Yahweh, we take the Torah from Genesis to Gileadon from Revelation, and we eat it, we digest it. It is sweet to taste, and then it is sour. It sours in our stomach. Why is that? Because we can't keep it inside of us, we need to regurgitate it, we need to spit it back out to other people. That's exactly what Yochanan had to do. He ate it, it was sweet, oh yes. It's sweet. It's honey in the rock. But then as I eat it, as I digest it, it becomes sour in me, I can't keep it in. These words like fire, shut up in my bones. That it needs to be said, it needs to be spoken, and what does it say in Revelation 10, 11? Thou must prophesy again to the people, and the nations, and tongues, and kings, that Yahweh is bringing people across our paths that we can share Yeshua with, that we can share the truth, the emet of the Scriptures with and say, you know what, it tells us in Galatians. But if you belong to Christ, if you belong to Messiah, if you are born again, then you are a seed of Abraham and heirs according to the promise. That is the verse we need to be sharing with people, and tell them that word for seed is the word sperma in Greek. It doesn't mean spiritual seed, it means a physical seed. You are Israel, and you are heir according to the promise. What promise? The promise made to Abraham, the promise that was passed to Isaac, the promise that was passed to Jacob, the promise of blessing, the promise of multiplicity, the promise that Israel in you all nations shall be blessed. Friend, there are not 12 church denominations around the New Jerusalem, there are 12 tribes, there are 12 gates to the city, each named after one of those sons of Jacob. There is no Baptist gate, there is no Pentecostal gate, there is no Mormon gate. We have to understand and know who we are, study to show ourselves approved. Don't lose the light in this. This is the word of Yahweh, this is the power of Yahweh, this is the end times message that Yahweh is calling forth Israel out of the nations, that the greatest kingdom is being restored in our midst. And there is a way to share this with people, and there is a right way and there is a wrong way to share this with people. If you go to them and say, ah, Easter's bad, ah, Christmas is bad, ah, Valentine's Day is bad, pork is bad, this is bad, they are going to turn a deaf ear to you. Why? Because all of Israel is blind in part. And these may be good people, these may be people who are born again, who might have gone through purification, sanctification process. You know, you can clean a room, dust it, make it look really good, and you can say, wow, this room looks great, I've polished my furniture, I've got it ready, it looks good, all the dust is gone. But yet when you move back a blind, when you open a window and you allow the sun to come in, you can see dust in the air. When the sunlight comes through the window, you can see there's dust left there on the coffee table. You just dusted. It's the word of Yahweh, the light of Yahweh shining forward, revealing sin, revealing motives, revealing what is good. It is time that we as Israel begin to stop telling people all the things that they do wrong and begin to tell them the blessings of doing things right. The blessings that Yahweh has promised, the power that Yahweh has promised, and begin showing that through the gifts of the Ruach HaKodesh. It's time that we begin to bring this to their mind. Yeshua came for the lost. For the Son of Man has come to seek and save that which was lost, Luke 19.10. We know that there's scattered sheep of Israel all across the world. We must go with them with the emet, with the true word. Yeshua said in Matthew 28, all power is given to me in the heavens and in the earth. Go therefore, make taught ones, Talmudim, of all nations, doing mikvah upon them in my name, teaching them to guard all things which I commanded you, for I am with you always, even to the end of this world. This is the mystery. So we know about personal salvation. Yahweh says, behold, I never thought to think about you, thoughts of shalom and not evil, to give you a good hope in the end. There's coming a great harvest of souls, a great harvest into Israel, people realizing their identity. But we can't get there if we think we know it all and we're full of pride. We think we're bigger than we are. We are nothing but a yad, a yod, a hand of Yahweh. We're like that smallest letter, but yet we make up every single letter. This is a message in each of us, and we've been called to share this message, to be this message. The yod, when we see it, it should remind us of the hand of Yahweh is upon us. The spirit of the sovereign YAH is upon you because he has anointed you to preach good news. That word was not just for Messiah. It is for us today. But the lame would read. The deaf would hear. The dumb would speak. The dead would live again. Remember Psalm 119, verse 73, thy hands have made me and fashioned me, give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments. We need to remember that verse every day of our lives. We need to pray to Yahweh for binah, for understanding and knowledge, that we may learn the commandments. Why is that? Because verse 74, they that fear thee will be glad when they see me, because I have hope in thy word. We need to learn his commandments. What is his greatest commandment? It tells us that. They came to Yeshua. They said, what's the greatest commandment? And he said, ah, sh'ma Yisrael, Yahweh Eloheinu, Yahweh echad, ve'ahavka v're'chamok, to love Yahweh, your Elohim, to know that he is one, and to love your neighbor as yourself. You see, that's where the hand comes in. What does the book of James, Yaakov, tell us? It says we're nothing but hypocrites if we say, oh, hope you get better. Yeah, I hope you find you something to eat while we have a bunch of food, while we have the word of life to share with them. We are to be that light. We are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. We are to share the hand of Yahweh. That is the yad. So, what do you get from this message? You understand that the yad is the smallest letter. It is the mystery of Yahweh. And as we reach out to people, that Yahweh is restoring Israel. But he's not going to restore the nation to a bunch of people who sit in front of a computer all day, or who sit in front of a book all day, or who think they've got to get all the Torah right before they share it with someone. Or a bunch of people, he's not going to use a bunch of people who are rude or obnoxious or want to beat people with a Torah scroll. The silver trumpet was not meant to blow people in their ear and make them believe. The silver trumpet was meant to blow in praise to Yahweh and say, hear the sound of the shofar and come forward, Israel. Sound the great shofar for freedom. Raise the banner to gather our exiles and gather us together from the four corners of the earth. That should be our cry, Yahweh. But we have to put some feet to that prayer through extending our hand, through loving our neighbor, serving our neighbor, meeting physical needs. Do you know Yeshua did that? He gathered the people together and he fed them, and then he taught them. He fed them physical food. He even said, you know what? Yeshua said, you know the guy that frustrates you, persecutes you, your enemy, when he's hungry, feed him. We all have people that persecute us, bring us down, cause us pain, feed them, he says. He didn't mean give them spiritual food, he meant give them something physical food. Break down that wall, share, love, care, and then he will open the door to the mystery of Yahweh to be revealed, for you to share love. This is the greatest. Without it, we're nothing but a bunch of clanging cymbals. It's the mystery of the yod. The smallest letter, the greatest letter, is what Yahweh wants in us and through us. It's a number of wholeness, a number of divine judgment. Yedid is the Hebrew word for close friend, and to get that close friend, we have to step out of our comfort zones and love, and as we have that close friend, we are able. We are able, indeed, to restore the kingdom of Israel. Pray with me. Father, we thank you for your word, that it is everlasting, and Father, your word says you are Yahweh and you do not change, and that, Father, you called Abraham out of Babylon and you gave him a mission to hear your word, and it was accounted to him as righteousness because he listened and obeyed. May it be so for us. May we be like Abinu Abraham. May we be Yahweh to this world. We've been called to follow after you, to seek you and to know you. Father, may we truly be an example and a light. Father, not a stumbling block, and Father, may you open the eyes of those around us and may people begin to see and seek your face and to know you as you are known. May we see and understand what the Yod is, your hand in us, through us, and upon us, we pray. B'Shem Yeshua Hamashiach. Amen. Thank you again for listening to this teaching. There are more teachings available at the Emet Ministries website, www.emetministries.com. Please visit our website for teachings and articles, music and videos as we update it regularly. May Yahweh bless you and your understanding of His word. Thank you again for listening to the Finding Emet radio program. Please visit our website to learn more about the Emet, the truth of the scriptures, search the Bible, submit your prayer request, or read an article on various subjects. The website is www.findemet.com. 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