Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Revelation, Biblical Feasts and ................... Hebrew thought - - - Revelation 2

Green: God/Jesus    Yellow:  People     Orange:  Unbelief / sin     Blue:  Hebrew





                                         Ancient BEYT          BEYT / HOUSE         Ancient  BEYT

             


BEYT means HOUSE in the sense of  TO DWELL in FAMILY RELATIONSHIP

The father gives His NAME to his Son.  His son marries and establishes His HOUSE in His Father's NAME, also in HIS NAME.  A man's house is said to be HIS WIFE.    As a man enters his 'house' (wife) to produce family offspring, so too a man enters his 'house' to greet his family.  And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us [John 1:14]


Isaiah 56:7
Mark 11:17
 For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

The most common word for prayer in Hebrew is 'tefillah', the letters which express
T:   salvation  F:  mouth L:  heart   H:  thoughts, words, actions


                                    BEHOLD Lamb     HEART           MOUTH            CROSS
                                             HEI               LAMED             FEH                   TAV
                                    THOUGHTS         COMMIT           SPEAK           SALVATION
                              WORDS, ACTIONS

JESUS only spoke what He heard from the FATHER. 

Hebrews 4:12 
For the Word of God is living and powerful,
sharper than any two-edge sword [distomos machaira]
distomos:  having a double mouth, as a river


'The PRAYER / TEFILAH'
Romans 10:9-10
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus 
and believe in your heart 
that God has raised Him from the dead, 
you will be saved. 
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, 
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation


Revelation 2 -its identity with -
Hebrew Letter / Number: BEYT
Feast:  UNLEAVENED BREAD - 
the relationship of 'sincerity and truth'

While there are elements throughout all of Revelation that reflect each of the seven feasts - the 'seven churches' of Revelation 2, in the context of BEYT - 'relationship' - appear to be that of 'Unleavened Bread'.


Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses.
For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day
until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.





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Christ our Passover

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Therefore purge out the old leaven,
that you may be a new lump,
since you truly are unleavened.
For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven,
nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


                                                      
Shutterstock:  SantaMaria

Revelation 2 reveals four churches as

  1. loveless
  2. persecuted
  3. compromising or
  4. corrupt 


  1  The  ALEF  church – must return to their FIRST love. 

         The first  (alef) church was Ephesus (permitted:   from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go.’) - the loveless church.  The word apostle means ‘he that is sent (yoked with the message)’.  Ephesus originally worshipped the goddess ‘Diana’ whose name means ‘complete light: flow restrained.

Ephesus:
2:2  And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not,
        and have found them liars;
2:3  and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored
        for My name’s sake and have not become weary.
2:4  Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.



2  The true BEYT church –  relationship in truth – 
unleavened bread  = unwavering heart life. 

The second (beyt) church is Smyrna, the persecuted church.
Smyna means ‘myrrh’ from its root to be made bitter (to suffer).

2:10  Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer.
          Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison,
          that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days.
          Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
 



3  The  GIMEL church  is ordained to be   -  FIRSTFRUITS (the third feast) 

The third (gimel) church is  Pergamos:  height or elevation (tower), the ‘compromising church’.
The people were of ‘one mind’ to build the ‘tower of Babel (Babylon).  Babylon known as ‘harlot’.

2:13  I know your works, and where you dwell,
           where Satan’s throne is.
           And you hold fast to My name,
           
and did not deny My faith even in the days
           in which Antipas was My faithful martyr,
           who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.  
2: 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there
           those who hold the doctrine of Balaam [not or the people / nation],
           who taught Balak [devastor; to lay waste]
           to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel,
           to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

2:17  To him who overcomes I will ... Give him a white stone,
           and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.





4  The mature  DALET church –  walks in the ‘power of the spirit’ [Shavuot / Pentecost] not according to the flesh

The fourth (dalet) church is Thyatira ( thoo-at'-i-rah:   odor of affliction) - the corrupt church situated between Pergamos (the compromising church) and Sardis (the dead church)

2:18  These things says the Son of God,
2:19   I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience;
           and as for your works, the last are more than the first.
2:20  Nevertheless I have a few things against you,
           because you allow that woman Jezebel ([to be] chaste), 

           who calls herself a prophetess,
           to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality
           and eat things sacrificed to idols.
2:21  And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, 

           and she did not repent.
2:22  Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed

          and those who commit adultery with her
          into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.
2:23  I will kill her children with death

2:26  And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end,
          to him I will give power over the nations



John 4:23-24
But the hour is coming, and now is,
when the TRUE WORSHIPERS will worship the Father
in spirit and truth;
for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
God is Spirit,
and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.”


Revelation 2
FEAST of UNLEAVENED BREAD  - MATZAH - -
commanded to celebrate this feast for ‘7 days’.
We are in the sixth day / millenia.

Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven,
nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

BEYT = ITS ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH




A house of prayer – or a – den of thieves?  (John 10:1 –
Those who do not go thru the door (Jesus) are considered as a ‘thief or robber’.)












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