SHECHAQIM eyqh# from the primitive root shaw-khak' qh# translated DUST / CLOUD. The plural masculine always adds ey to a word to denote such. It is interesting that it equates to:
the y authority of e Messiah.
SHECHAQIM / CLOUDS
shaw-khak
.....................q ......................... h ............................... #
...............CROWN.............. CHUPPA............ LOVE / PUNISHMENT
Ginsburgh:
* Shechakim ("the Millstones") --our experience of God calling us by name and giving us a mission to perform on earth.
Isaiah 45
1 Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus [possess thou the furnace]
..whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him
..and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors,
..so that the gates will not be shut:
2 I will go before you and make the crooked places straight;
..I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places,
..that you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name,
..Am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My elect,
..I have even called you by your name;
..I have named you, though you have not known Me.
And what is the mission? 'Possess thou the furnace'. Remember Daniel?
In VILON we were shown 'a curtain' that must be 'rent' to access 'the other side'. Once 'rent / torn' the 'curtain' becomes as 'sheets of light'. For those of us in the northern climes, it would be much like a breaking sky revealing its aurora borealis - sheets of rainbow (covenant) light. The written Word is such - sheets of light. The 'curtain', rent, gives access - revealing a 'door'/ a way in. In Revelation 4 John saw a DOOR opened in heaven and he heard a voice saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this." The CURTAIN qd revealed the d DOOR and the throne, the q CROWN.
On a personal level our hearts must be 'torn / circumcised' becoming as 'sheets of covenant light' (the Word). As that happens we are called by name to 'come up here' and see things that will take place 'after this'. In this process, as did Daniel, we experience a fiery furnace, (the cross). Our family life / relationships oft become the 'fiery furnace'. As the nails are driven in we often 'jump off the cross' choosing to 'save our flesh, feasting rather than fasting, addictions over discipleship, divorce rather then reconciliation, lust over holy behavior. seeking to 'take the pressure off' and numb the pain. But like any pain pill, the effects are short lived, a band-aid on the symptom and the cancer still present. Jesus came with a 'baptism of fire' - - the way of the furnace / the cross, - the way, the truth and the life' - the knife of circumcision able to expunge the cancer. It is here that we pass through the DOOR CHRIST, through the FIRMAMENT - RAQIYA - the MIND SEPARATED to the AUTHORITY of the LAMB, the 'separation of the waters / wisdom'. From what looks like sure death, God brings forth life, and life abundantly.
And now SCHECHAQIM [dust / clouds]:
Daniel 7:13
"I was watching in the NIGHT visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man,
coming with the CLOUDS ענן OF HEAVEN שמין (Aramaic)
Mark 13:26
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the CLOUDS
with great power and glory.
Hebrews 12
..1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
....let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let
....us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
..2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
....that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has
....sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
AH, very comforting so far, but read on:
..3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself,
....lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
..4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
..5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons :
...."My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
....Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
..6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives."
..7 IF you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons;
....for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
..8 But iF you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers,
....then you are illegitimate and not sons.
..9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect.
....Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them,
...but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful;
...nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
...to those who have been trained (duscuoked) by it.
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he comes with CLOUDS; and every eye shall see him, and they also
which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so, Amen.
On a personal level our hearts must be 'torn / circumcised' becoming as 'sheets of covenant light' (the Word). As that happens we are called by name to 'come up here' and see things that will take place 'after this'. In this process, as did Daniel, we experience a fiery furnace, (the cross). Our family life / relationships oft become the 'fiery furnace'. As the nails are driven in we often 'jump off the cross' choosing to 'save our flesh, feasting rather than fasting, addictions over discipleship, divorce rather then reconciliation, lust over holy behavior. seeking to 'take the pressure off' and numb the pain. But like any pain pill, the effects are short lived, a band-aid on the symptom and the cancer still present. Jesus came with a 'baptism of fire' - - the way of the furnace / the cross, - the way, the truth and the life' - the knife of circumcision able to expunge the cancer. It is here that we pass through the DOOR CHRIST, through the FIRMAMENT - RAQIYA - the MIND SEPARATED to the AUTHORITY of the LAMB, the 'separation of the waters / wisdom'. From what looks like sure death, God brings forth life, and life abundantly.
And now SCHECHAQIM [dust / clouds]:
Daniel 7:13
"I was watching in the NIGHT visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man,
coming with the CLOUDS ענן OF HEAVEN שמין (Aramaic)
Mark 13:26
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the CLOUDS
with great power and glory.
Hebrews 12
..1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
....let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let
....us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
..2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy
....that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has
....sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
AH, very comforting so far, but read on:
..3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself,
....lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
..4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
..5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons :
...."My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
....Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
..6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives."
..7 IF you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons;
....for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
..8 But iF you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers,
....then you are illegitimate and not sons.
..9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect.
....Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them,
...but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful;
...nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
...to those who have been trained (duscuoked) by it.
Revelation 1:7
Behold, he comes with CLOUDS; and every eye shall see him, and they also
which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so, Amen.
Take a moment now to check the 'atmosphere' around you. Is it the peace of Christ amidst the fiery trials? Is it obedience to His Word? Or a false peace - (the flesh is (temporarily) gratified)? [Romans 14:17] The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
SHECHAQIM / CLOUDS
shaw-khak-eem
.......e ........................y...................................q ........................... h ..................... #
..MESSIAH........AUTHORITY........IMITATING HOLINESS........LIFE........[CHASTENING] FIRE
God does not interfere with our free will to 'choose Him'. It is not our words that choose Him, but our actions in obedience to His Word. It is in the 'chastening fiery trials of life that we 'choose Him', that we are 'seen' imitating the obedience of Christ.
Selah! Man is dust and to dust he returns.
[Matthew 13] The world is as a field that is planted with seeds 'sons of the kingdom, the field to be harvested. The harvesters / reapers flail the crop in threshing, and the threshing in turn produces a 'DUST CLOUD'.
[Matthew 13] The world is as a field that is planted with seeds 'sons of the kingdom, the field to be harvested. The harvesters / reapers flail the crop in threshing, and the threshing in turn produces a 'DUST CLOUD'.
[Galatians 3:16] Jesus, the Seed, was planted in the field of the world, flailed, threshed, harvested as the firstfruit of the crop. THAT crop yet has fruit - sons - to be harvested - flailed / scourged / chastened (beat). * A time of trouble is yet to come for Israel / Babylon, but a time of trouble is ever present for disciples as they endure the cross of Christ.
Christ was chastised for our iniquities and God chastens (threshes) every son he receives [Hebrews 12], returning him to DUST, that we all meet him 'in the CLOUD.'
MILLSTONES
reh'-keb
reh'-keb
...........................b ................................................. k ................................... r
.................RELATIONSHIP............... POWER to SUPPRESS evil.............. MIND
a team, chariot, chariotry, mill-stone, riders
- chariotry, chariots
- chariot (single)
- upper millstone (as riding on lower millstone)
- riders, troop (of riders), horsemen, pair of horsemen, men riding, ass-riders, camel-riders
[Jeremiah 12:5] If the footmen weary you [walking the gospel now], how will you contend with horses [chariot riders] in the floodplain of the Jordan [descent into death]? When 'heaven and earth' meet, the millstones will grind.
MILLSTONE: each of two circular stones used for grinding grain. Figurative a heavy and inescapable responsibility, burden, encumbrance, dead weight, obligation, CROSS TO BEAR; duty, liability, misfortune.
Matthew 10:38
And he who does not take his CROSS and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
MILLSTONE also ray-kheh' / ray-keem meaning to 'pulverize': as seeds pulverized into flour.
MILLSTONES
ray-kheh' / ray-keem
ray-kheh' / ray-keem
...............................h ............................................ x .......................................... r
..................BEHOLD the LAMB........................... LIFE...................................... MIND
.............................SEED
Deuteronomy 4:6
No man shall take the LOWER or UPPER MILLSTONE in pledge,
for he takes one's life in pledge.
MILLSTONES are a picture of 'heaven and earth' coming together, as grinding the grain' to dust (flour) for making 'manna' for making BREAD:
MANNA
mawn'
what is it?'
mawn'
what is it?'
.................................................a ....................................................... m
..................................KINGDOM HEIRS..............................WATER of the WORD
......................................................................................................WISDOM
BREAD
lekh'-em'
lekh'-em'
...............................e ............................................ x ........................................ l
........................MESSIAH......................................LIFE.....................................HEART
...............WATER of the WORD
Christ, the BREAD of life - 'take and eat, for this is my body'. BREAD - exl - the heart life of Christ. - It is said to be our experience of God calling us by name and giving us a mission to perform on earth. The root word of BREAD - lacham - means 'to do warfare'.
Elijah [God is Jehovah] was taken up in a 'fiery chariot'. Elisha [God is salvation] was promised a 'double portion of the spirit' that was on Elijah - if he saw Elijah when he departed. He then took the mantle and again 'smote the Jordan [descent into death] river' and crossed over.
The apostles saw Christ when He was taken up. The apostles, true disciples of their Master, Christ, as Elisha, took His mantle, and 'crossed over' as He did, meeting His same fate. Do we pray for 'shechaqim', the 'dust cloud' from the threshing? The 'double portion' of the Spirit - in truth?
Selah!
Shalom!
* in a future post we will explore 'shechaqim' in relation to Israel / Babylon.
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