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Sermons Series 3:19, 7 January 2006
Sacred Relationships
Taking Yahweh's Word to Heart
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I welcome you in the Name of Yah'shua our Messiah as we today consider what I call 'the deeps' of the Gospel and try to understand what set-apart or holy relationships are between those who are in Messiah. Paul says that "the Ruach searches all things, even the deep things of Yahweh" (1 Cor.2:10, NIV) and reminds the Shamashim or Deacons that "they must keep hold of the deep truths (or mystery) of the faith with a clear conscience" (1 Tim.3:9, NIV). On numerous occasions now, those coming for deliverance have been taken into the deep parts of the Lake of Love in the Garden of Yahweh to have their hearts awakened and renewed. Indeed, this going into the depths has been an essential part of their redemption and healing because every soul needs to fathom and know not only the depths of his own soul but the depths of the love of our Heavenly Father.
We live in a world where superficiality has replaced depth in relationships. People meet one another as surfers on the waves of the sea, and once the wave of initial excitement and carnal stimulation has died down, they move onto the next person they can 'surf'. It is ironic, I think, that the term 'surfing' has been coined to describe how people look around the Internet. In cyberspace people move around from one web site to another and from one contact to another. Anyone who has spent time talking to people in online chat-rooms knows how superficial those relationships usually are. This is not, however, what Yahweh intended. He expects, and encourages us towards, daily deeper relationships between His sons and daughters. He doesn't just want us to surf on the surface of people's characters where spectacular shows can be put on to entertain and grip the attention and admiration of others, but to go into the very depths of the soul and open doors to real, meaningful and everlasting relationships. The majority of Christians know Yahweh only through the written word, forgetting that alone this is only lifeless letters, and end up worshipping the Bible instead of the Living One who wrote it. In their desperation to find constancy and permanence some have even gone so far as declare that one or other translation is infallible and without knowing it end up in idolatrous worship of outer things instead of the spirit and heart of El Elyon. Paul said:
"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable His judgements, and His paths beyond tracing out! 'Who has known the mind of Yahweh? Or who has been His counsellor? Who has ever given to Elohim, that Elohim should repay him?' For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen" (Rom.11:33-36, NIV).
As everybody who has gone to the bottom of the lake knows from experience, to go there and remain there costs. Because in order to know the depths you have to give up the surface superficiality. You cannot be on the surface of the sea and be on the bottom at the same time. And when you are at the bottom - in the depths of His love, not only does all the play-acting and pretence have to stop, but once you have tasted a life on the depths you no longer want all the play-acting and pretence. And yet this is this great fear of the deep things of the soul, which is not wholly unmerited but which we do need to take a closer look at.
One of the reasons we fear the depths of the soul is because in them are to be found not only good things but bad things which we have hidden away and not resolved. When a soul refuses to repent, he buries these sin issues into the depths of his subconscious and irrationally hopes that they will just go away. Indeed, this is the only thing a soul can do who does not have Yah'shua because there is no way to remove sin without Him. Every soul who does not know or acknowledge Him, but even those who do but who still hide and run away from Him, bury their problems and, against all hope, pray they will just disappear. And of course we know they don't. They manifest in our dreams to haunt and terrify us, and they surface in daily life when we least want them because something in the outside world triggers a memory connected with the creation or sustenance of these sin-issues. And so very typically what happens is that we invest more and more effort in suppressing them in the vain belief that the deeper we bury these memories, the less likely they are likely to manifest or surface again by virtue of the fact that they are 'deep'. The problem with this theory which doesn't work, is that the good and the best things are to be found in the deep too, and in order to access these good things we must, of necessity, meet the bad things too. So the soul finds itself in a Catch 22 situation - it wants love, it wants passion, it wants intensity, but to reach them it must meet the very things it has tried to suppress and run away from. And so what the soul does is try to find a solution that does not involve confronting sin-issues or simply forgets about the deep things and instead remains on the surface in imaginary 'safety'.
How can we access the deep things of love and avoid confronting the dark things of the deep? The answer to that question is that you can't but Satan comes along and lies to you and tells you that you can. He offers you a demonic solution without telling you it is demonic or that it comes with a terrible price. Moreover, he dresses it up so well that you come to believe that it is godly. He can, for example, tell you that 'negative' things are best 'forgotten', that we should not 'rake up the past' or 'rattle the skeletons in our cupboard'. These things, He says, just cause pain and who, he convincingly argues, wants pain? What he does not tell you, of course, is that his solutions not only don't actually give you that deep love that every soul craves and needs but that they actually give you more pain. And one of his favourites which I have seen time and time again is this: 'Stay away from people - they keep changing, aren't reliable, and just bring you pain. Get rid of people, hide away from people, and become a monk or a nun, if not in an actual monastic order, then at least in private seclusion'.
Now one of the first things you learn in the Garden is that Yahweh created people to be together with other people in varying levels of intimate relationship, not because it is impossible to have a deep relationship with Yahweh without people but because Yahweh has made us to live and grow with people as part of that which makes us fully human. We can't ever know Yahweh as He fully is because His ways are unknowable, His mind unsearchable, and His heart beyond our ken. Were we purely spiritual creatures then we would need nothing more than Him and He could have millions of private, personal relationships with people who never interfaced or connected. However, He did not create us that way, and for a reason - because He knew that in such an exclusive relationship WE WOULD NEVER GROW but remain eternally infants. That was, after all, our condition before we were born into this world. And there was a reason why we had to come down here in physical bodies. He created us to have a deep need for co-dependency. However, Satan knew that this co-dependency would make mankind mentally, emotionally and physically vulnerable if at any time he removed himself from Yahweh's hedge of moral and ethical protection, which is why Satan has devoted himself to encouraging mankind to lawlessness.
Everybody who has been to the Garden knows, because Yah'shua has told them and because they have experienced it, that this co-dependency is taught by and learned through proper spiritual parenting. We learn to love and be loved by coming into the garden and the protection of parents who love, and who love because they have themselves been loved. Everybody has to be a child of an earthly parent who can safely enable them to bathe in the waters of divine love without fear of abuse or molestation by those who have abandoned Yahweh's Law or Torah and who have admitted demons because of their lawlessness. This principle is divinely imprinted in the Godhead itself which consists of a Heavenly Father, a sevenfold Heavenly Mother, and a Son. This Son, who is Divine and Elohim, is Himself a Father of all those who come to Him for redemption. This Son is called Yah'shua, the Only Begotten of the Father, who owes allegiance to only one Father and Head, Yahweh. We, in our turn, are to owe allegiance to only one earthly father or head who is owned and patterned by the Heavenly Son, who is in the image of the Heavenly Father. And though every soul, male or female, young or old, is given a Garden when they come to Messiah Yah'shua for salvation, each and every one of these souls soon discovers that that is not enough if they, firstly, want to grow and mature, and secondly, be given a cover of protection against demons. They need to live in their father's or husband's Garden. And those who defy this need, by trying to 'do it alone', soon discover the terrible price they must pay, even as a child without a home must pay dearly in terms of dysfunctional character development living out on the streets. You know about street children - you have either seen them or read about them - they are without love and affection, and become the victims of all manner of wicked men. Indeed I was reading the other day of a Pakistani mass murderer who made it sport to hunt and capture the orphan street children of Karachi, rape them, torture them, kill them and ... yes, it has to be said ... cannibalise them. Such provide a ready made source for Satanist rituals in countries where such children are common.
Now we all know from common sense that such street children need the safety of homes and loving parents to love, teach, discipline and guide them. We all know this. And yet it never seems to occur people, least of all Christians who ought to know better, that spiritually we have no less a need. People either are unaware, or don't want to know, that the physical age of a soul does not necessarily match the emotional or heart age inside. We live in a world full to capacity of emotional dwarfs who have metaphorically been imprisoned in their swaddling clothes because there was no one to either love them or love them in holiness. For the first time in our history in the West, ever since the Hippie Revolution of the 1960s destroyed family foundations and cut families away from Christian practices and principles, however imperfect and Torahless, we have a generation of spiritual orphans where there are almost no spiritual fathers and mothers. It is not enough to come to Yah'shua and expect Him to do that job, not because He is incapable of it, but because the Father has decreed that earthly fathers and mothers shall do it. And His Word cannot return to Him void. That is why Satan has devoted considerable energy to destroying the family, and especially the Christian family, because he knows that without this parenting we don't stand a chance.
Your average Christian today, who has not known spiritual parents, joins churches where the Elders and Pastors themselves are spiritual children. These Elders and Pastors often know what the Bible says about these things and they teach them well enough. But it is not enough to teach what the Bible says about parenting when you have never been parented yourself. What then happens is that such men and women give the impression that they are parents because they know how to present this mentally, but ask them to deal with deep heart issues and they are mostly as helpless as those coming to them for counsel themselves. There are plenty who have the form of spiritual wisdom but are without spiritual substance and they are revealed by the way they live their lives - their quarrelling, emotional storms, and general immature behaviour. Which is why so many of these spiritual leaders present a front in public but are very different at home. Do I blame them? Of course not. They too are orphans crying out to be fostered in love. They too are victims, the victims of the generation that spiritually abandoned them.
Communism eventually failed because it did not survive beyond three generations. Stalin's great complaint was against the grandmothers who would undo everything that his communist teachers taught at school. When the Soviet children went home, grandmother would nurture them, tell them Bible stories, show them Christian love and affection. Communism collapsed before the grandmother generation - the babushkas - died out. But we in the West face the imminent danger of this last Christian generation dying out with no Christian one to replace it. A child is now raised by parents and grandparents who are totally Luciferised by new Age, occult, liberal socialistic thinking which sees the family as an anachronism from the past and Christianity as oppressive and abusive by definition. It is the orphans who are the most vulnerable and now we are entering into that period of time where almost everyone is a spiritual orphan. And it is for this reason that Yahweh must intervene and send Yah'shua back soon because without parental covering the whole human race is exposed and without protection from evil.
For a soul to grow it must both hear with its head and receive in its heart. Yah'shua said to the Apostle John: "Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near" (Rev.1:3, NIV). You can read something in a book and it can impress your mind but you can't take something to heart - where it can grow and mature - unless it is received from a person with whom you have a spiritual connection. And as I have taught you so often, sons and daughters must heart-receive from their parents, and wives from their husbands. Without that intimate contact there is no proper heart-planting.
Yah'shua illustrated this in the Parable of the Sower which you all know (Mt.13). For the seed of the Gospel to grow and flourish there must be properly prepared soil. You will remember that the chief enemies of this growth were the birds of the air, the hard ground of a well trampled path, the rocky ground, and thorns. All of these can destroy our salvation. Let me remind you of what Yah'shua said:
"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown" (Matt.13:18-23, NIV).
Hearing, then, is not enough. First we have to understand, and then we have to do. Now where does one understand what one hears? Listen what Isaiah the prophet said which Luke quoted in Acts:
"Go to this people and say, 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving." For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them'" (Acts 28:26-27, NIV).
Brethren and sisters, you can't just intellectually process Scripture. Your bio-computer, known as the brain, is not enough. You have to understand with your hearts and to understand with your hearts you must go into the depths, and to go into the depths you must confront your pains, fears and other spiritual issues, because these act as thorns to continually choke up the growing seed.
Now I have taught some clients the same principles a hundred times not because they didn't understand these lifesaving principles the first time, not because they did not enter their hearts, but the sins of unbelief, fear, and other sins simple choked them to death. That is why we have to face reality. It is why you absolutely cannot hide or postpone spiritual issues, because as long as you so, you are leaving spies and saboteurs in your soul to destroy the Gospel seed from within. As soon as a little trouble or persecution comes, the soul flees because it is unprotected and unequipped, like a little child running from a robber. How can a little child confront and overpower a robber? And what did Yah'shua teach about this? As the prophet Obadiah warned:
"All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not detect it" (Obad 7, NIV).
How can a small child know how to protect itself spiritually from sophisticated and powerful enemies like Satan and his demons? How can they? How could those street urchins from Karachi protect themselves from that mass murderer? Impossible! For one thing, those children don't even officially exist. They have no birth certificates, no personal ID cards. They have nothing. And if you, brethren and sisters, have no spiritual birth certificate - no spiritual father - what ID do you have in heaven? And please don't say: "Yahweh knows me. Yah'shua will take care of me," for these things are plain. But if Yahweh gives you a birth certificate and an identity card through a spiritual father, and you turn away from that spiritual father and say: "No thanks. All I need is Yah'shua!" what do you suppose Yah'shua will say? How will the seed grow? How with the young sapling be protected? What is there to stop spiritual molesters ravaging you? It is one thing to have become a spiritual orphan through no fault of your own, but then to reject your covering after Yahweh has gone to great trouble to give it to you, is something else. In two words, it's spiritual suicide.
Yahweh has ordained that families shall live on the mortal earth to at least three generations together. In patriarchal times there were many more generations and even greater cohesiveness. Abraham could go and take counsel from his ancestor Shem, who was the King of Salem, the King of Righteousness or Melchizedek. How wonderful to have so many generations of parents! But it is not so today. Today we live in a world of spiritual orphans and the fathers and mothers are few and far between.
Those of you have read stories about Indian wolf-men - children who were raised in the wild by wolves - perhaps you have seen the film Jungle Book - will know that to train such a person raised in the wild to become a normal human takes a long time. It is no accident that it takes at least 16 years to raise a child properly, if not longer. That is why Torah gives full authority to fathers over children and he determines when his children are ready to marry, especially the sons. Indeed Torah forbids a father to release his son for marriage until that son has provided a home for his future wife and can adequately take care of her. The betrothal is supposed to be as long as it takes for a son to get a home and an income. And yet there are many young Christian men who excuse themselves from this responsibility and expect to be supported financially. I myself was not called full-time to the ministry until I had laboured for many years, was free of debt, owned my own home, and had a basic income. Because I had no steady spiritual parents and had to tear this Mishpachah or Family out of nothing, I had to be raised a little here, and a little there, by many spiritual men and women, so Yahweh did not call me until later in life to be a proper Cohen. That is why it has taken so many years to prepare for this ministry and work.
We live in an impatient, fast-foot culture that wants everything up front without effort or time investment. And people seem to think the same spiritually. I don't know how many young spiritually presumptuous upstarts I have met claiming to be 'prophets' or 'apostles' who are yet in their spiritual infancy. Without exception they are arrogant and full of vain confidence. Many have fallen very hard and many more will yet do so. Therefore Yahweh says to them: "Remember this, fix it in mind, take it to heart, you rebels" (Isa.46:8, NIV). Please notice that it is not enough to fix something in your mind - it has to be taken to heart as well. It must penetrate the seat of your emotions and reach the bottom. Yahweh said the same to Ezekiel: "Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you" (Ezek.3:10, NIV). Don't let the enemy choke out the truth because you fled from your feelings - the seed needs nurturing in your heart before it will take root and grow.
There are, sadly, times when I must stop teaching people because I cannot use up valuable time planting the seeds of truth in their minds when they refuse to accept it or live it in their hearts. Such people must eventually go their own way. There are plenty who 'talk the talk' but fail to 'walk the walk'. It is no accident the Gospel is also called "the Way" (e.g. Ac.24:14) - you have to hear it, take it to heart, and walk it, brethren and sisters. The Gospel isn't an intellectual exercise - that's what the Pharisees made it - it's a whole way of being - mind, heart, body and spirit - all of you. Thus Yahweh would tell Moses and the children of Israel:
"Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this Torah (law). They are not just idle words for you -- they are your life" (Deut.32:46-47, NIV).
They are your life. The words of your Heavenly Father given through scripture, the words of your earthly spiritual fathers through revelation given to guide you and bring you to maturity, doing for you what you cannot do for yourself, they are your life. Therefore listen, take them to heart, and walk the way of Shalom, is my prayer in Yah'shua's Name, Amen.
Author: Lev-Tsiyon
Glossary of MLT Hebraic, Greek and English Terms For other terms and full details please see the Micropedia
A
Adon(ai) = Master, a pagan fertility god, Adonis; used by many Messianics but not MLT
(a)eon(ian) = 7 dispensation- or age-long time periods, not forever (see le-olam-va-ed)
Alef-Tav = Alpha-Omega, A-Z, first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet = Yah'shua
Amen = truly, let it be so, written Amein by some Messianics
Apocrypha = Hebraic Scriptures not a part of the Protestant canon (e.g. Baruch)
Anti-Messiah = Hebraic term for the end-time Antichrist or anyone opposed to the Messiah
antinomian = lawless Christian who disregards all or part of Torah/commandments
Ashkenazi Jew = East European Jew descended from the Turkic-Japhethite Khazars
Assembly = church, congregation, ekklesia, community, fellowship, koinonia, gathering
Azazel = the Yom Kippur scapegoat
B
Baal, Ba'al = any other master than Yahweh, usually demonic in MLT terminology
Bachor(im) = firstborn son(s)
Bar/Bat Mitzvah = Son/Daughter of Commandment, covenant to obey Torah at age 12
being = soul, the whole person (spirit and body), e.g. "my whole being"
Beit, bet, beth = house, e.g. Beit Yisrael (House of Israel), Beth Lechem (House of Bread)
Beit haMikdash = Yahweh's Temple in Yerushalayim
B'rit Chadashah = the New Covenant; B'rit Chadashah Scriptures = New Testament
B'rit Milah = circumcision - abolished in the B'rit Chadashah, replaced by Mikvah
C
canon = authoritative Scripture (Heb. qaneh, Gk. kanôn = measuring instrument)
Catechumen = a serious, covenanted investigator seeking Mikvah or Baptism in MLT
Chag haMatzah = Feast of Unleavened Bread, second of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Chavurat Bekorot = MLT's Priesthood Order, Holy Order and Assembly of the Firstborn
Cohen = priest; Cohen Gadol = High Priest (also spelled Kohen)
Council of Yah's elohim = the heavenly Assembly of the Firstborn or Chavurat Bekorot
D
demon = fallen malek or angel in rebellion against Yahweh (Heb. shad; see Êl-Shaddai)
derech = the Way, Path or Road - Yah'shua and the Gospel are the Way
Drash = moral or homiletic interpretation of Scripture - see PaRDeS
E
Echad = One, Union of two or more in one (as opposed to Yachid) - see Elohim
Echad Godhead Doctrine = Father Yahweh, Son Yah'shua and Sevenfold Ruach (Mother)
Êl, Eloah, Elah = God the Father, Yahweh
Êl-Elyon = Most High God, Yahweh
Êl-Shaddai = Master/Lord over all shads or demons
Elohim = God, the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit), lit. 'Mighty One(s)', 'Ruler(s)'
elohim = Israelite judges, rulers, angels or gods (false deities, idols, demons)
emunah = faith, actively trusting, clinging or adhering to (especially Yahweh or Yah'shua)
emet = truth, Yah'shua is the Emet
Ephraimite = descendant of the patriarch Ephraim and head of Messsianic Israel
F
Feasts of Yahweh = the 7 annual Moedim (Pesach, Chag haMatzah, Yom haBikkurim, Shavu'ot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot)
G
Gan-Eden = Garden of Eden, Paradise and state of the purified heart in Messiah
goy(im) = nation(s), Israelites or gentiles not born in or converted to the Covenant
H
hallelu-Yah = praise Yah(weh)!
Heylel = proper name of Satan or haSatan = the Adversary, the devil
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Hochmah = Wisdom, title of the 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
I
IDL = International Date Line, false man-made time division in Pacific Ocean
IDL Zone = Area between the true Divine Date Line (Lake Van/Eden) and the false one
Israeli = citizen of the modern Edomite-Khazar Republic of Israel (not Biblical Israel)
Israelite = citizen of biblical state of Israel or a modern follower of the Messiah
J
Jew = post-biblical term describing descendants of Edomite and Khazar converts to Judaism
Johannine = pertaining to the Apostle Yochanan (e.g. Gospel of John)
Josephite = descendant of the patriarch Joseph, the head of Messianic Israel
Judahite = a person in direct descent from the patriarch Judah, forefather of the Messiah
Judaism = a Talmudic-based religion rejecting Yah'shua the Messiah
Judean = a citizen of the Kingdom or Province of Judah until the 2nd Century diaspora
K
Kadosh la Yahweh = set-apart or dedicated to Yahweh, 'Holiness to the Lord', MLT motto
Karaites = Jews (from 700 AD) who reject the Talmud and accept only the Tanakh
kashrut = keeping kosher, food laws of Yahweh and correspinding lifestyle
Ketuvim = Writings or Hagiographa of the Tanakh
Khazar = a Turkic convert to Judaism ~700 AD forming the Ashkenazi Jewish community
kosher = clean foods authorised by Yahweh for human consumption
L
Lashon Hara = evil-speaking, gossip or slander
legalism = false route to salvation through works (self-salvation)
le-olam-va-ed = dispensation- or age-long, aeonian, not eternal, forever or for eternity
Lev = heart, as in Lev-Tsiyon = heart of Zion
Lev-Tsiyon = Heart of the Fortress [of Yahweh], Hebrew name of MLT's founder
M
Master = Lord, Sir, Adon(ai) - (one in authority, a ruler - a king, husband, prophet, judge)
Malak(im) = Angel(s), heavenly supernatural messenger(s)
manna = wafers of honey, bread from heaven (lit. 'what is this?')
matzah = unleavened bread, see Chag haMatzah
Menorah = 7-armed candlearbra = the 7 annual Moedim and 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
Messiah = Christ; Anti-Messiah = Antichrist
Messianic Community = Body of Christ, sum total of all true believers; all true fellowships
Messianic Israel = all who worship Yahweh, trust in Yah'shua, obey Torah and overcome
Messianic Jew = Messianic convert from Judaism still clinging to Talmudic traditions
Midrash = aggadic interpretation of scripture viâ Drash, a scriptural discussion
Mikvah = baptism by immersion of convert into Yah'shua or of wife into husband
Mishpachah = family: nuclear, congregational, tribal or the whole of Messianic Israel
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon = family of the heart of the fortress [of Yahweh]
Mishpat = right-ruling or judgement
mitzvah/mitzvot = commandment(s)
moed(im) = appointment(s) of Yahweh, 7 Annual Feasts, Sabbath and Rosh Chodesh
N
Nefilim, Nephilim = giant offspring of materialised demons and human women
Nevi'im = prophetic writings of the Old Testament or Tanakh
New Birth = spiritual conversion in the Ruach haRishon, being 'born again' with new heart
Nidah = a woman's menstruation period during which no intercourse is permitted
O
Olive Branch = collection of revelations, prophecies and visions published by MLT
P
Paraclete = Comforter, Advocate (NEB), Counsellor, Ruach haQodesh (Gk. paraklêtos)
PaRDeS = method of textual interpretation (homiletics) - see P'shat, Remez, Drash, Sod
Patriarch = a father who is head of his family, clan or tribe (lit. 'father-ruler')
Pentateuch = first five books of the Tanakh (Genesis-Deuteronomy), also called Torah
peribolaion = headcovering worn by daughters/wives in submission to fathers/husbands
Pesach = Passover, first of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Peshitta = an Aramaic version of the Bible
Prototrinitarianism = early, simplified MLT formulation of the Echad Godhead Doctrine
Prush(im) = Pharisee(s)
Pseudepigrapha = Non-canonical Hebrew writings additional to the Apocrypha
P'shat = literal, contextual, philological, exoteric, outer meaning of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Q
Qadosh Qadoshim = Holy of Holies, most sacred set-apart room of the Beit haMikdash
Qodesh, Kodesh = set-apart, holy (see Ruach haQodesh)
R
Rabbi = Teacher, term used by Messianic Jews and some Messianic Israelites = Pastor
Refuge, the 12 Cities of = divinely protected MLT fortresses during the 7-year Tribulation
Remez = hint or allegorical level of Hebraic understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Rosh Chodesh = monthly New Moon appointment of Yahweh
ruach = spirit of a person (lit.'breath')
Ruach Elohim = Spirit of God (the Spirit of the collective Godhead or Elohim)
Ruach haChamashee = 5th Ruach presides over Yom Teruah and Yom Chamashee
Ruach haQodesh = the Sevenfold Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost (lit. 'Set-Apart Breath')
Ruach haRevee = 4th Ruach presides over Shavu'ot, Yom Revee and Bar Mitzvah
Ruach haRishon = 1st Ruach presides over Pesach, Yom Rishon and the New Birth
Ruach haShanee = 2nd Ruach presides over Chag haMatzah and Yom Shanee
Ruach haSheshi = 6th Ruach presides over Yom Kippur and Yom Sheshi
Ruach haShleshi = 3rd Ruach presides over Yom haBikkurim, Yom Shleshi and Mikvah
S
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Satan = rebel archangel Heylel, father of lies, devil, chief demon (lit.'Adversary')
Sephardic Jew = West European Jew of mixed blood containing many Judahites
Septuagint = Greek translation of the Tanakh, LXX
Shegal haShabbat = 7th Ruach (Sabbath Queen) presides over Sukkot and Yom Shabbat
Shekinah = Divine Presence and Glory of Yahweh-Elohim
Set-apart = holy, sanctified, consecrated, dedicated, separated (to and by Yahweh)
Shabbat-Shabbaton = High Sabbath (e.g. Yom Kippur)
Shalom = heavenly peace, standard Hebraic greeting invoking Yahweh's peace
Shamash(im) = servant(s), deacon(s), attendant(s)
Shavu'ot = Pentecost or Weeks, fourth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Sheol = grave or pit, euphamism for Hades or hell - also see Tartarus
shofar = ram's horn, blown during Yahweh's Moedim
simcha = joy, keynote of Sukkot
Sod = mystical, anagogic, inner or esoteric understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Sukkot = Tabernacles or Booths, seventh of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Synagogue = Greek word used by Jews and Messianics (but not MLT) for a meeting house
T
talmid(a) = male/female disciple or student
Talmud = scriptures, teachings and commentaries belonging to non-Messianic Judaism
Tanakh = acronym for Old Testament Scriptures - Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim
Tartarus = place of imprisonment under the earth for rebellious angels and Nephilim
teshuvah = repentance, remorse and contrition leading back to Torah obedience
Torah = Yahweh's teachings or Law; New Covenant Torah includes Yah'shua's teachings
Tribulation, the Great = the final 7 years of the present aeon when Anti-Messiah rules
Trinity = Catholic Godhead formula - see Echad Godhead Doctrine and Prototrinitarianism
Tsiyon = Zion, a fortress, a name of Jerusalem and a prominent hill
Tzitzit/Tizitziyot = tassel(s) worn by men in remembrance of Torah
U
Universalism = salvation of all at the cosmic Yovel, with different rewards and punishments
Y
Yachid = one, single person or item, as opposed to Echad (many in one, unity)
Yah'shua the Messiah = Jesus Christ (the Son)
Yahudah = Judah - see Judahite
Yahweh, Yah, YHWH = the true Name of our Heavenly Father, also carried by Yah'shua
Yahweh-Elohim = LORD God (the Father, Yahweh as Head of the Godhead or Elohim)
Yahweh haQatan = the sent Yahweh = Yah(weh)'shua, Malak of Yahweh's Presence
Yam Suf = Sea of Reeds, the true Israelite Exodus water crossing, not the Red Sea
Yarden = Jordan River (lit. 'meanderer')
Yerushalayim = Jerusalem
Yisrael = Israel (lit. 'ruling with Êl') = true believers under the New Covenant
Yom Chamashee = 5th day of the week (Thursday, Friday in IDL Zone)
Yom Din, Yom haDin = (the) Day of Judgement
Yom haBikkurim = Feast of Firstfruits, third of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Revee = 4th day of the week (Wednesday, Thursday in IDL Zone)
Yom Rishon = 1st day of the week (Sunday, Monday in IDL Zone)
Yom Kippur = Day of Atonement, sixth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Shabbat = 7th day of the week and Sabbath Rest (Saturday, Sunday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shanee = 2nd day of the week (Monday, Tuesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Sheshi = 6th day of the week (Friday, Saturday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shleshi = 3rd day of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Teruah = Day of Trumpets, fifth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yosef = Joseph - see Josephite
Yovel = Jubilee or Year of Jubilee
Z
Zaqen(im) = elder(s) of an assembly or congregation, or senior members of a community
Zoë Life = Greek term for spiritual life in the Messiah
Commonly Used MLT Abbreviations
For additional abbreviations and explanations, please see the Micropedia
A
Amp.V(er). = Amplified Version of the Bible
Aram. = Aramaic
AV = Authorised Version of the Bible - see KJV
B
BCAY = B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh - see NCCG
BoA = Books of Abraham (e.g. 1Abr., 2Abr., etc.)
C
cp, cf = compare with
CB(Q) = Chavurat Bekorot
CEV = Contemporary English Version of the Bible
ch. = chapter
CJB = Complete Jewish Bible
CLNT = Concordant Literal New Testament
CYe = Council of Yah's elohim
E
Eng. = English
F
ff. = and onwards/forwards
fn = footnote
G
Gk. = Greek
GNB = Good News Bible - see TEV
H
Heb. = Hebrew, Hebraic
HEM = Holy Echad Marriage, eternal marriage
HO = Holy Order - see Chavurat Bekorot
HOC = Holy Order Collection of revelations - see OB
HRV = Hebraic-Roots Version of the Bible
I
ibid. = ibidem (lit. 'in the same place'), referring to a book previously cited
ICJC = Independent Church of Jesus Christ, earlier name of NCCF
ISRV = Institute for Scripture Research Version of the Bible
J
JB = Jerusalem Bible
JBP/Phillips = J.B.Phillips translation of the New Testament
JNT = Jewish New Testament
K
KJV = King James Version of the Bible - see AV
L
LB = Living Bible
lit. = literally or literature
LXX = Septuagint, Greek translation of the OT
M
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon
Moff. = Moffatt translation of the Bible
MRC = Messianic Renewed Covenant Version of the NT
MS(S) = Manuscript(s)
N
NASB, NASV = New American Standard Bible/Version
NC&C = New Covenants & Commandments - see OB
NCCF = New Covenant Christian Fellowship, earlier name of NCCG
NCCG = New Covenant Church of God, earlier name of MLT - see BCAY
NCP = New Covenant Press, publishing arm of MLT
NCW = New Covenant Witness, MLT magazine
NEB = New English Bible
NIV = New International Version of the Bible
NKJV = New King James Version of the Bible
Nor. = Norwegian
NT = New Testament, B'rit Chadashah
NWT = New World Translation of the Bible, unreliable Jehovah's Witness version
O
OB = Olive Branch - see NC&C
op.cit. = opere citato (lit. in the work cited)
OT = Old Testament, Tanakh
P
p(p). = page(s)
pl. = plural - see s.
PWNC = Prophetic Words of the New Covenant, revelation cataloging system - see OB
Q
QED = quod erat demonstrandum (lit. which was shown to be proved)
R
RCF = Restoration Christian Fellowship, earlier name of ICJC
RhQ = Ruach haQodesh, Holy Spirit
RSTNE = Restoration Scriptures True Name Edition of the Bible
RSV = Revised Standard Version of the Bible
RV = Revised Version of the Bible
S
s. = singular - see pl.
S&G = Smith & Goodspeed Version of the Bible
T
TEV = Today's English Version of the Bible - see GNB
V
Vulg. = Biblia Vulgata, Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible
W
WEB = World English Bible
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