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HOW GOD SPELLS FIRE…

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Time moved so quickly in our last class that I wanted to make certain that you received the full message regarding the essential elements of GOD’s Fire…. I hope this helps you review the presentation thoroughly.

GOD BLESS…

The Message Begins with The aleph

The Hebrew aleph is the First letter in the Hebrew Alphabet and the first letter in the Name of GOD, Elohim.

אלהים

The aleph is composed of 2 Hebrew letters; 1 vav and 2 yods. The Hebrew Letter vav is at the center. It is drawn in a slant representing the division between the upper waters and the lower waters… the upper firmament and the lower firmament.

The letter yod rests on either side. On the right, the yod emerges from the stem of the vav and reaches up toward the Heavens. On the left, the yod emerges from the stem of the vav and reaches down into the earth.

On every level, the aleph points to a picture of our relationship with GOD.

The letter vav is the 6th letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. It represents the nail that connects. In Ancient Paleo Hebrew, the vav took its shape from the tent peg, i.e., the hook that held down the sides of the tent. Across time, in man’s desire to make writing more efficient, the vav was formed from the framework of the image of its left side.

The first appearance of the vav in the torah can be found in Genesis 1:1, where the vav connects with the aleph-tav, Yeshua (Rev 1:8, 22:13, etc).

Being that the vav is the 6th letter of the alphabet, it is associated with man/mankind by virtue of the parallels and connections that the vav has with man in scripture; man creation on the sixth day, man works for six days, man as the finished work of GOD on the sixth day, etc.

The number six and the letter vav are connected to the works of man. The most dominant meaning that they contain are of their connection and relationship with GOD. Whether it is for good or for evil. With this point in mind, the vav, i.e. man, either connects to the image of GOD or the image of the beast (the flesh). There’s a choice to be made.

When you look at the aleph, I want you to see the image of the yod, the humblest of all the letters which represents mankind, the vav, in their responsibility to pull down the Heavens… to pull the Anointing down into the earth realm.

The Letter shin

…is the 21st letter in the Hebrew Alphabet. It represents the menorah, fire and transformation.

The letter shin connects us back to the shabbat, the light, and the All Consuming Fire of GOD.

GOD’s language places the letters aleph and shin together to spell, aysh meaning FIRE!

The LORD is an All Consuming Fire!

“And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire (aysh): and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.” Exodus 19:18

“And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire (aysh) out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” Exodus 3:2

 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire (aysh), to give them light; to go by day and night: Exodus 13:21

 “…And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire (aysh), let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.” 1 Kings 18:24

He is the GOD that answers by Fire!

There are a total of 17 times that man is called “ah-dahm” (Strong’s # 121) before we see a shift in terminology.

Ah-dahm is a bit more neutral in terms and would be better understood in scripture had the translators chosen to apply the meaning of, “human or human being.” (I will followup to leave a link down below for a discussion on this matter.)

Nevertheless…

Once ah-dahm takes a wife, GOD elevates him in the Word to the level of an “eesh”, His Highest Creation!

Ah-dahm’s transformation to an “eesh”, does not take place until he takes a wife, an eesh-shah. There are precisely a total of 17 occurrences of the word ah-dahm before his new name, eesh ever appears.

This is an important point to reflect on for a moment…

The number 17 is comprised of the numbers 10 and 7.

10 represents Atonement and 7 represents the shabbat rest, spiritual perfection, wholeness and completion, the Feast Days.

In scripture, the number 17 is connected to victory.

GOD, Our All Consuming Fire, takes a yod, the smallest letter in the Hebrew Alephbet, the symbol of humility, and He places it in the midst His Image and Likeness as Fire… and ah-dahm becomes an eesh.

Following in the context, we see that the one whom GOD calls a man, must possess the character trait of humility in order to stand before the Fire of GOD.

The letter yod represents humility, humbleness, yieldedness. When man/mankind, who is created in the image and likeness of GOD (as an eesh), humbles himself before GOD, He is crowned the “eesh”.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

How then does GOD create an eesh-shah?

The letter hei represents Torah, Revelation, the Breath of GOD, Grace and the Presence of GOD. The number five in Hebrew also represents being filled with the Spirit of GOD.

Look again at verse 23 in Genesis 2. The scripture says, “…because she was taken out of man.” When the letter hei appears at the end of a word, it often expresses the understanding in translation as, “What comes out of…”

Example: When the letter hei is placed at the end of the word ah-dahm, a new word is created, ah-dahm-mah.

ah-dah-mah does not only mean earth, ground or dirt. It carries an expanded meaning of, “What comes out of the ground.”

Likewise, eesh-shah has the extended meaning and understanding of, ‘What comes out of ah-dahm’.

Hebrew is such a meticulous language that not only do the letters convey images, concepts and ideas, etc., into the words they are used to create, the meanings of the words and letters are defined by the Torah itself! One reflects the other.

GOD’s WORD is One.

Now let’s look at MAN and WOMAN, eesh and eesh-shah, side by side!

As you have seen, when man and woman are operating in their place and position in GOD, one carries the yod and the other carries the hei…

The grand design as seen in the letters of their names, eesh and eesh-shah, is that together… they carry the Name of GOD between them.

Now… What if the woman, the eesh-shah does not want to operate in her GOD Given capacity of the hei?

What if the man, the eesh does not want to operate in his anointing of the yod?

Her fire would gravitate to its destructive qualities and devour his ability to operate in the anointing without, coming against her fire turned against him; backlash, retaliation, resentment, trials, or test, etc soon follow.

Or if her mate, became unsuitable for the same reasons and her ability to operate in the anointing was compromised by the destructive fire that would emanate from his rejection and rebellion against his duties and responsibilities in the anointing?

You just have fire consuming fire and destroying everything in its path.

Both are consumed by their own destructive properties of the fire!

EXODUS 20: 18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

Moses understood that GOD is a consuming Fire, as it is said: “For the LORD thy GOD is a Devouring Fire” (Deut 4:24) that it would have been normal for him to have been consumed by the fire.

But Moses knew something else... he understood the prophetic meaning of GOD’s commandment that the fire should be kept burning on the altar continually (Lev 6:13-14). He recognized that GOD was not only speaking of literal and material wood being kept on the fire, but it meant him, as a Man of GOD to never let the Fire of GOD die out in his spirit.

Moses was able to draw near to GOD, when all the others were afraid, because Moses ascended for GOD’s Glory, not for his own.

None of self was in him. All he wanted was the yod – to bring GOD’s Glory down into the Earth.

“Is not My Word like fire, says the LORD” Jeremiah 23:29.

“This tells us that just as fire does not ignite in a lone stick of wood but in a pile of kindling, so too matters of Torah are not retained and understood by a lone scholar who studies by himself, but by a group of Sages.” The Significance of Fire in Judaism by Jessica Zemble

Eesh and eesh-shah received the law that was given them from the midst of the Fire of GOD.

You are fashioned from the Fire of GOD. When GOD named you man, and when he named you woman, He fashioned the very Words from His Fire!

No one can call you Man or Woman without knowingly or unknowingly calling to you, the very substance of which you are embued… The Fire of GOD. What I mean by that is this…. even your enemies are calling you the vessel of the Fire of GOD. So, it really doesn’t matter what your enemies say about you! To speak ill of you, they have to address you as the image and likeness of GOD. Their words can not breakthrough the barrier of fire, His Fire, set round about you!

This is another reason that we should have pity on our enemies and bless those that curse us and pray for those that despitefully use us… They are seriously playing with Fire! Rather than be angry, we should be concerned for their souls! Amen?

In the final analysis, Man and Woman, husband and wife are called to walk together in humility, honor, and power in the Presence of GOD.

Keep the Fire of GOD burning on the altar of your heart, continually…

Never Let The Fire Go Out. Amen.

ALEPH-TAV, MY HEBREW HERITAGE, TOREAH BIBLE CODE

TORAH BIBLE CODE: INTRO

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a.k.a. Equidistant Letter Sequence

Rabbi Michael Ber Weismandl discovered a previously unidentified pattern in the Torah. He identified that the word torah is spelled out at 49 letter intervals.

There are quite a few people who argue that this is a coincidence. Which means this ‘coincidence’ occurs 5 times, once within each book.

In the Book of Genesis and Exodus, we find the word torah at 49 letter intervals revealed in the text of Chapters 1 in each book, from left to right. In the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy, the word torah is revealed at 49 letter intervals embedded in the text in Chapters 1 of each book, from right to left. (See diagrams below).

The 1st two Books of the Torah point left to right toward the Book of Leviticus.

The last two Books of the Torah point back toward the center. Which is again, toward the Book of Leviticus.

Some of you may have been shown this before. Some of you may be seeing this for the first time. Either way, since we are studying the Torah, I want you to be aware of it in order to make up your own minds as to what you see and decide the significance of the observation. Is this coincidence or a message bearing divine providence?

Let’s take a closer look…

GENESIS CHAPTER 1

Beginning with the very first word in verse one, ‘bereshit‘ (which means, “In the Beginning“) and the last letter of the word we have our first letter in the word torah… the letter tav (highlighted in yellow on the diagram below). 49 letters later, is the vav. Next the reish, followed by the letter hei. All 49 letters apart.

EXODUS CHAPTER 1

Again, beginning with the last letter (tav) in the word shemot, meaning ‘names‘. Counting forward 49 letters in sequence you reach the vav. Continuing in the sequence this is followed by the reish and the hei (highlighted in blue).

The letters of the word torah are presented in order from left to right, in the same direction that we read in the West, as in the English language. In this respect the words are facing toward the Book of Leviticus, the center of the Books of Torah.

LEVITICUS CHAPTER 1

In the Book of Leviticus, the equidistant sequence changes to every 7 letters beginning with the 1st yod in the verse in thee word vye-yeekkra meaning “And He called.” After counting every 7th letter, the sequence reveals the Name of GOD, YHVH. The letters appear in the code from right to left, as the language is written in the East.

We have decoded the word torah, found in the Books of Genesis and Exodus. Torah points toward YHVH in the Book of Leviticus.

Pronunciation key: vye in vye-yeek-kra, rhymes with bye.

NUMBERS CHAPTER 1

In the Book of Exodus we return to the 49 letter sequence. This time the word torah appears in the order that words are written in the East, from right to left. From our perspective in the West, the letters appear to be in reverse order. The letters are facing toward the West, toward the Book of Leviticus.

The letters of the word torah are facing toward YHVH in the center of the Torah.

DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 1

One final time, we have the word torah appearing after every 49th letter in the reverse direction, from the direction of the East to the West. The first letter, thee tav found in the word n’tah’ti, translated “I have set.”

The vav, representing the holam vav in the word torah is located in the word uu-vah-neh-gehv translated, “In the South.“

The letter reish is found in the word b’har translated “In this Mountain.“

And the last letter, the hei is the word the, which in this verse is connected to the word torah; reading ha-to-rah, “the torah.” The hei which precedes the word torah is pronounced “ha.”

I’m hearing another message, in addition to the fact that the word torah is found embedded in the first chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, every 49th letter, facing toward the West and the Center of the Torah itself.

“I have set in this mountain the torah.”

Coincidence or a message of divine providence?

Is GOD signing His Message with His Name in the Center of the Book, with East and West facing toward His Name and His Word?

Everything points to GOD. Even His own Word on the pages of scripture conveys divine connection. Amen.

For Carl,

MY HEBREW HERITAGE, Praying the Psalms, THE PROPHETIC INTERCESSOR

YOUR PRAYER LIFE IS THE SECRET TO YOUR STRENGTH.

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Dear Tiff,

I hope this answers your questions about Moses…

At the burning bush…

Moses kept seeing something burning in the mountain and Yes, God was testing him to see if he would “turn aside to see.”

At the battle with Amalek…

His hands were not literally “heavy” per se. Not heavy the way we think of in the natural.

Scripture actually says in the original Hebrew that “His hands were filled with faith.” Which made them appear heavy in the natural.

Exodus 17:

11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Behind the word steady is the Hebrew word for faith, emunah. Emunah means to be certain of GOD, which makes us steadfast, immoveable and unshakeable. Emunah has its roots in the word, Amen, which we declare in confidence that our prayers will be answered because GOD hears us and He is Faithfulness Himself.

Moses hands were not just steady… that’s the watered-down Bible story version of what was going on. His hands were faith unstoppable!

“O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness (emunah) round about thee?” Ps 89:8 KJV

His Hands Were Faith…

Long story: but the short version I want you to get from God’s Word is this…. faith is in our hands. Faith exudes from our hands… Faith is evident by virtue of what actions we perform in the world. Faith is not something that you say. Faith is something that you do.

Faith is a verb. Faith can’t be just in your conversation. Faith must be in demonstration. (Faith is a noun in English, our language. Faith is a verb in Hebrew, God’s Language.)

Faith is Action.

How awesome would it have been if we had understood this from our childhood? I have not found to date, any version of the Bible that actually informs us that “his hands were filled with faith” or that “his hands were faith.” Don’t you think that would have made a difference to how we would have understood and applied the Word of Truth? Don’t you believe that we would have connected to a deeper truth, a deeper spiritual understanding from the beginning?

Back to your question….

Moses was holding up the faith for everyone—-all the children of Israel— they did not have their own faith. They had faith in his faith. But their faith was not of the same substance and the same quality of what Moses had.

We need to have a faith of our own.

The prayers of Moses, and his show of faith (by raising up his hands) embued power, inspired the people. Moses’ faith moved them to a place of strength and power that they did not have on their own. They had forgotten who they were. They still had the mindset of a conquered people. They had come out of captivity but they still had a captivity mindset.

They saw HIS faith…. and they believed they could win. Moses was a pillar of God, holding up the faith of the people. Moses, Aaron and Hur.

Not very many people draw faith from God. They actually draw it from certain other people. Perhaps you know what I mean. Do you know people who have faith in your faith in GOD, but don’t really have a relationship with GOD of their own?

God is humble enough to understand that. He depends on it. I hope there are people that you know that are simply Holy instruments, vessels of faith and we need them. We depend on them. They are like the letter vav in Hebrew. They connect us to the faith of GOD. We need them.

Their faith inspires us and others. Their faith helps us overcome.

God needs these people to help His people overcome their enemies… those who actually are the enemies of God. Those that want to bend Gods will to their own.

This whole battle is actually about Him. It’s about, if we will serve Him, who will serve Him, when we will serve Him, how long, how convenient it is to serve Him, etc.

This battle is about whose hands are really filled with faith. A great many people have faith in Church, in Worship, in prayer, in conversation, in your dilemma… but not in their own crisis.

Do You Have Faith in the Crisis?

Most believers, too many, have faith until the crisis comes.
Then fear approaches and either takes over, paralyzes the person causing them to freeze, (not know what to do and so they do nothing). They freeze in place with doubt, second guessing, they curl up in bed and weep, depressed, they just let days… time pass by. The miracle they hope for is the world to end, just swallow them up whole. They want the problem to go away or to just go back in time… they just want it to stop. Whatever “it” is.

They stop thinking. Stop being ah-dahm, mankind, His crowning achievement.

Fear of the future, the unknown, of self, or the enemy, kills Gods people first. BEFORE the death blow ever comes from the enemy.

The Crisis will Confirm the Level of Faith That You Have…

We can take ourselves out with our own fears before we ever meet Goliath on the battlefield. If we’re not careful, we will fall on our own sword for fear of the situation.

I believe that spiritual death comes when you’re out of ideas.

David was the only man left who was free of fear. That’s why he could say, “Who is this uncircumcised Phillistine!”

His hands were filled with faith. Literally and spiritually. No one had to have faith for him. He had his own.

Moses, David, all the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, were filled with the Word of God and nothing could come between them and His Word.

They understood faith had to be demonstrated, in a crisis when it counts the most, and they did just that.

Their demonstrations of faith helped the people and the nations that weren’t quite there yet but wanted to be.

In the final analysis, the crisis reveals just what king of faith you really have or if you have any at all. What kind of faith are you operating with?

Jesus Saw Their Faith…

Matthew 9:2, “And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.”

Mark 2:5, “When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.”

Luke 5:20, “And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.”

There has to be demonstration of faith.

I see us passing by like the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of old, of now. I see some of us coming to the level of Moses and David in our faith.

I pray that all God’s people’s hands are filled with faith, of the substance and the quality of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs.

May your hands be filled with faith and your dedicated prayer life become your lifestyle, not your refuge in times of trouble, but your refuge everyday. Let GOD be the refuge everyday. I pray for your strength to go out to battle when Goliath comes. Whenever he shows up. I decree and declare that your fear(s) shall always activate you and never paralyze you. I pray that you remember who you are, everyday… the crowning achievement of Gods creative miracle and you have power above all the power of the enemy. I see the next evolution of 5 smooth stones in God’s people. I see your enemy’s falling by the power of prayer that resides within you.

That’s what I see as you pass by. I see giant slayers coming forth through the power of prayer.

You will be slaying giants even as you’re passing by or walking away!

Amen.

Prayer of David composed when Saul sent messengers to wait at the house in order to destroy him and his purpose in the earth.

PSALM 59 

Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloods.

3 For, lo, they lie in wait (seek to ambush) for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.

4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: reveal yourself, arouse yourself to help me, and behold.

5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful (compassionate) to any wicked transgressors (those that deal treacherously). Selah.

6 They return at evening: they make a murmur (hamah) like a dog, and go round about (surround) the city.

7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips (language, speech): for who, say they, doth hear?

8 But thou, O Lord (YHVH), shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen (nations) in derision (laugh).

9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence (stronghold, retreat).

10 The God of my mercy shall (come out front to meet) me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies (treacherous watchers).

11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips (speech) let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

Amen.