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B’re’shiyt ~ 6 Guardian Angel - July 18, 2015 - 2 Av 5775
Torah
Parashah - Mattot/Massei ~ Tribes/Stages
B’midbar 30:1-36:13 RSTNE p 131
6th
teaching on male and female - Skip Moen’s work “Guardian Angel”
we can understand brain physiology and know that we have
the ability to control our thoughts and clean up our memories/things we hang on
to and the perspective we have of them...
we can
look at this as overcoming...
on
private level - i can overcome my thoughts that are negative about my self.
on a
bigger level - we can choose to not get in worry and fear about what is
happening in the world.. and TRUST YHWH...
I am
not saying - “don’t know what is going on” and be just happy.
I am saying
- know what is going on and be concerned about what we can control... and know
that YHWH is the ONLY living God...
and
choose FAITH and not fear.
this is
overcoming.
amein
**
Torah
Parashah
Mattot/Massei
~ Tribes/Stages
B’midbar 30:1-36:13 RSTNE p 131
EMET
Ministries:
Miriam’s
spouse Joseph (Yosef in Hebrew) physically had nothing to do with the
conception of Y’shua.
His
sperm was not used and therefore his blood was not passed to Y’shua.
Does this prove that the Savior had divine
blood that had not been tainted by Adam’s sin? That makes perfectly good
sense.
Well,
what about Mary? Did Y’shua get His humanity from her? Did He look
like her? Wasn’t it Mary’s egg that was fertilized with a special
seed? No.
If that
was the case, then Mary’s sinful nature would have passed down to Y’shua.
The truth is that Miriam acted merely as a
surrogate mother of Y’shua.
A surrogate mother is a woman who agrees to
bear a child for a couple who are childless, usually due to wife being infertile
or unable to carry a baby.
The
child grows inside the surrogate mother but has no biological relationship with
the mother. This is exactly what we see with Y’shua and his earthly
mother.
YHWH bypassed human sperm and human egg to
implant a heavenly body within Miriam. In doing so, Y’shua’s flesh and
blood was not tainted with the original sin of Adam.
Y’shua’s
flesh and blood - his temporary tent - was totally divine from
YHWH. Y’shua said, “if you have seen me then you have seen the Father.”
Y’shua
did NOT say, “if you have seen me then you have seen the virgin Mary.”
We’ve been told by our Pastors, Sunday school teachers, and church leaders that
“Jesus” was 100% man and 100% god.
What if that isn’t true? What if Y’shua was
more than just a man with a special anointing?
Y’shua
was not born a sinful sinner.
He was not born with the physical traits of
Mary. He was not born with “normal” human flesh.
He was not born 100% man and
100% YHWH.
Instead, the scriptures clearly teach in
Colossians 2:9 that in Y’shua “dwelt the fullness of YHWH in bodily
form.”
Y’shua
came to earth in the flesh but it wasn’t earthly flesh. It couldn’t have
been earthly flesh because normal flesh had been polluted with sin.
The
Messianic prophecies in Isaiah call Y’shua the “wonderful, counselor,
everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Y’shua was the exact image of Abba
YHWH in an earth suit.
Y’shua’s
flesh, blood, and bones were all from YHWH in Heaven. “There is a natural
body and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, “The first man
Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving
spirit.
The
first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Master YHWH from heaven.
As was
the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly
Man, so also are those who are heavenly. And as we have borne the image
of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man,” 1
Corinthians 15:44-49.
Philippians
2 says that He “took on the form of a human.”
Hebrews 2 says that Y’shua appeared “like” his
brothers but NOT in the nature of “angels or men.”
Y’shua came to earth with a perfect body just
like Adam in Genesis.
This truth totally rejects
the Greek myth of a man-god coming to earth to rescue humanity.
Let’s
review the birth of the Messiah to learn more!
Luke 1:34,35.
Miriam
was told, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High
will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be
called the Son of YHWH,” The feminine aspect of YHWH, the Holy Spirit,
hovered upon her and the power of the Father overshadowed her. In Genesis
it says, “male and female, He created them both.”
Through
a divine implant, YHWH brought forth the body of Y’shua.
Y’shua
wasn’t the son of mankind, Adam, Mary, or Yosef but the very son of YHWH.
Mary was a willing servant who raised Y’shua as a child. She was not
sinless and she did not contribute to Y’shua’s earthly body.
***
6th
teaching on male and female from -
Guardian Angel by Skip Moen
REVIEW
- hand out:
B’re’shiyt
1:26-27
Tselem - “image”
- is a masculine noun
transferred authority and order over what
destroys.
To be created in YHWH’s image is to reflect
divine action.
Demut - “likeness” -
is a feminine noun.
“Being human is ACTING according to YHWH’s path
to life.
It means
standing against chaos.
.. It also means knowing what is permitted and
what is not and acting accordingly.
-To be human is to ACT LIKE YHWH
ACTS... to reflect His choices... It is not to BE YHWH... but to reflect Him.
“Male”
in Hebrew = zakar.
“to be sharp pointed”
“To remember who YHWH is and what He said and
to act accordingly”
Man =“Ish” = to show oneself to be strong and
to fix in mind (remember)
Female
in Hebrew = neqevah.
“to pierce”
“To single out” and “appoint as a leader”
“A prepared setting for precious stones” =
“boundary setter”
Ishshah = woman
B’re’shiyt 2:5 “Avad” -
(translated as “till”) - “to cultivate” is suggested by the context..BUT...AVAD
means = “to work” or “to serve”. Our
work (what we are called to do) is service and worship and restores us
at the same time!
EDEN = is both
masculine and feminine.
-
“Actually connects - “delight and fecundity.”
(Fecundity
= abundant production / fruitful)
“Eden is about to give birth to wonder and
awe...”
B’re’shiyt
2:16-17
We learned about “freely eat” or -
better translated =“eat - eat”
In Hebrew = “achol
tochel” which is really “achol achol” - which is DELIGHT with NO lack - compelte
and utter satisfaction.
We also learned about “surely die” or
- better translated =“die-die”
In Hebrew = “mot
tomut” - which is compete insufficiency and lack. Empty.
Then we learned in B’re’shiyt 2:18 - “Helper” = Ezer Kinegdo
“Ezer” = “helper”
“kinegdo” = “as in
front of him”
“It is not Adam’s
productive energy that needs assistance.
It is his faithfulness to YHWH’s instruction.
He needs a protector,
encourager, and spiritual director.
He needs someone
assigned to keep him on the straight and narrow.
He needs one who
comes alongside for the express purpose of guiding his obedience.”
Her role is the role
of priest and spiritual guide for Adam!”
~~~~~
(NEW)
Over
the years i have heard that every culture/society/ civilization has similar
stories - you know - of flood and of creation.
But the
only ancient -creation of woman- story
... is Hebrew.
Moen
says that the Hebrew text actually gives PRIORITY to the creation of woman. = 6
times more text - than that of man!
“The
origin of woman is the capstone of all YHWH’s work, signaling that the entire
plan is now complete. It is the most
important even in the whole story, positioned last to signify its emphatic
climax.”
“From a
Hebrew perspective, Chavah, not Adam, is the concluding masterpiece.”
~
We’ve
talked about the word pictures or pictographs of ancient Hebrew...
...and
some of us have Frank Seekins’ book of
this.
These
pictures are helpful in understanding the Torah - and the meaning of each word.
Let’s
look at some word pictures of ancient Hebrew
Moen
says...
Before
B’re’shiyt 2:23, the only word for “man” is the translation of the word which is = “Adam”.
“Adam
is the name of the first person created...
It is
also the word that signifies all Mankind,
- male and female.”
- “ADAM” is directly related
to the Hebrew idea of blood.”
Pictograph
of Adam = aleph yod shin
= “first door of water”.... in this
case the liquid is blood.
“The
connection between adam and adamah (earth) is the compound picture of == “What
comes out of the first door of water {blood}.”
B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 2:23
“And
Ahdahm said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall e
called Ashshhy/ Ish-sha , because she
was taken out of Ish.”
There
is Hebrew word play here that we can not see in English....
This is
the first time the word for “man” is “ish”.
= Aleph Yod Shin
The
picture of “ish” = “the strong arm that consumes.”
This is
the first time ish-sha is used. = Aleph Shin Shin Hey (I don’t know where he
gets there are two shins.??)
Hey at
the end of the aleph and shin shin means = “what comes out of the strong
consumer.”
The
text uses word play when it says.... “She shall be called woman because she was
taken out of man.”
Moen
says “Adam recognized her essential equality and unique similarity in his
choice of word.
The key
that we don’t know is that -- This is a really big deal because....in the
Hebrew text, ishshah is not a
derivative of ish!!!
What?
Ishshah
is not a derivative of ish !!!
Talk
about confusing linguistics here!
“Etymologically of the two words are unrelated.”
Moen
says...
“Therefore
the word play is deliberate and intended
to make the point that the two
are uniquely equal.”
Look at your hand out:
~~~~~~ FOOTNOTE~~~~~~~~~
Let’s
look at a bit more linguistic “stuff”
The
Hebrew consonants for ish are aleph yod
shin, but the consonants of the word for
woman are not what we would expect. They
middle yod is replace by a double shin before the hey is added. Thus “man” = a-y-sh, but “woman” is
a-sh-sh-h.
We’d
expect woman to be a-y-sh-h but this isn’t the case. why?
Eliminating the yod removes the pictograph of the strong arm. Man is the strong arm that consumes, but
woman is the strong consumer-destroyer (doubled) who comes from Man. They are identical in pictograph of strength.
They
both start with aleph, which is “leader” - but then something happens...
The HEY
portrays the created connection between man and woman (i.e. the woman comes from man).
But
what about the double shin in woman?
The letter shin has multiple meanings, as do most pictographs. Shin can mean - consume, eat or destroy. - This makes sense since what is consumed is
destroyed.
“Is it
possible that Adam’s word for woman (ishshah) is a statement of her essence -
that in offering the name “woman/ Ishshah”, Adam recognizes she is both the
strength to consume and to destroy?”
YHWH
does not give woman a proper name and in fact Adam doesn’t do it until after
the fall as far as we know.
Adam
names her Chavah (B’re’shiyt 3:20) - a
name that seems to be connected to “making alive”.
“Adam
is not NAMING this person. He is
designating the functional role this new being will play. He is pronouncing her identity, not her
label.
She is the one who is both potential consumer (complementing his role)
and destroyer (opposing his role).
Perhaps
Adam sees the risk. Perhaps he is
somehow aware that this one’s role is both cooperation and resistance. Perhaps he already sees something of the role
given to her by YHWH’s term ‘ezer kenegdo.
Adam’s
problem of being alone is resolved in a way that presents the quintessential
risk of free will. The one who would be
his protector and provider (the ezer) is also the one who can become his
greatest opponent.
She is
perfect - as the potential nourisher and sustainer AND the one who stands
against him. She is the perfect enemy.”
****
- Adam’s word for woman -
A-SH-SH-H Y = aleph-shin-shin-hey
=
double consonant - shin shin ....
Remember
double words make an emphasis ... and so do double letters.
This
double shin shows us - woman is a consumer and a destroyer... a very powerful combination.... She makes and
she takes away.
Another
way to look at it is
“She
faces two directions at the same time:
one toward the man in productive cooperation ad the other away from the
man, opposing his efforts when he
does not remember the prime directive.
Her role is to stand apart
from the man and challenge him to act in ways that remember who he is and who
YHWH is.”
“When she
fulfills her role as YHWH designed it, she becomes the most powerful ally a man
could have.
She is
designed to both push and pull. She
pushes her mate toward responsible action and she pulls him away from
irresponsible self -determination.”
simple
- when the male is being obedient to YHWH - she is his strongest support/
ally. When he is not being obedient -
she stands opposed to him as destroyer.
This is a conflict when she
doesn’t do what she is supposed to do... the man must choose to serve YHWH or
follow after her mess.
Moen
says - “The story of the fall is vital
to understanding this dual relationship.”
... Every marriage will have to face this - somewhere along the way....
Psychological
implications to the Hebrew text are deep and powerful...
“Before
the creation of woman, the man faces a particular kind of
psychological/spiritual isolation, an isolation so disturbing that YHWH Himself
notes the need for a helper.
But the
solution is not something radically new.
The solution to this isolation is to bring
into existence as a separate identity something that was already present in the man but wasn’t
experientially recognized.
In
other words, the solution to being alone is to create a separate but connected
person so that voluntary reunion may take place.
Adam is
invited to reconnect with what was once inside him but is now manifested
externally.
He is to find himself in another.”
By
giving her the title- ish-shah - Adam acknowledges the dangerous bliss resident
in this perfectly suited partner.
This
recognition is crucial for Adam. Adam
says, “She shall be called ish-shah for she is his own identity now released
from within him, standing before him in support and confrontation.
This is
free will personified. Man can no longer
do whatever he wishes. His freedom must
be worked out within community.
This is at the heart of being manifested as
human.
~~
Rabbi
Akiva...
“If husband and wife are deserving -
Adonai’s Presence dwells in their midst.
If they are not deserving, fire devours
them.”
TheHebrew word for man = ish =
aleph-yod-shin.
Remove the yod and you have =
aleph-shin... or esh.
esh =
fire!
The Hebrew rod for woman = ish-shah =
aleph-shin-hey (he says only one shin)
Remove the hey and once again you have
esh = fire!
“From this we learn there is a
constant fire in the heart of man and woman.
When they marry, two fires are brought together that are capable of destroying whole worlds,
if not properly tended.
To quench that fire is impossible -
for it generates the life of the world.
But to leave the fire as is, is also impossible for it generates evil as
well.”
“if
they make the Divine Presence unwelcome so that it does not dwell in their
midst they are left only with two consuming fires.
~~
Biblical
text tells us Adam named her Chavah - not Eve.
and the
text tells us what Chavah means ... and this is very interesting.
It
means “the mother of all living”... If the word had an obvious Hebrew meaning,
the explanation would be redundant and unnecessary.
Therefore,
the inclusion of an explanation means that the author is connecting this word
to a meaning it would not naturally have.
word
picture of CHAVAH = “what comes from the place of work”
woman
is vehicle through which all living come into existence - all those who
work.
This is
not “work” as the toil and labor we think of.
Remember
the word AVAD is connected to SERVICE and WORSHIP.
Thus CHAVAH = literally
means = “the mother (source) of all living who worship/work”
This is her legacy.
Since
Hebrew uses the same word for work and worship, the name Chavah also means the
woman brings life to all those who worship.
The
Torah record is not some kind of worship of woman. It’s not pagan Mother Earth and it’s not the
idolization of Mary. It is simply the
biblical recognition that YHWH chose woman to be the way that everliving human
being becomes a member or the working worshipping community.
~~~
foot note~~~~
Pictographs:
zakar -
male = pictograph = weapon, open hand, and person. His nature is to provide and defend.
neqevah
= paints the picture of beholding the final life in the house.
**
summary
Brain
stuff - physiology of a thought AND what an overcomer is -
2
different levels... personal - MY
thinking .... and Isra’el’s thinking / faith based -
both
places we can pick fear... or faith.
AMEIN
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