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Sermons Series 3:24, 28 January 2006
The Vision Clear
Our Path Revealed
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On the morning of 2 January this year, exactly a month ago, Yahweh showed me three intense visions that confirm the course that He has mapped out for this Mishpachah that form the basis of what I want to talk to you about today.
The two days before, on the secular New Year shift and the high satanic season of Janus, some amazing things happened that we are unlikely to quickly forget. Firstly, some spectacular deliverances in which Satan was roundly defeated and great glory was given to our Father in Heaven, Yahweh-Elohim. In the United States a satanic coven was defeated and destroyed, one of their members executed by Yahweh Himself, one blinded in terror at seeing the presence of Yahweh in the place of ministry, and the rest fled like panicking rabbits pursed by a predator when they tried to seize and kill one of my adopted daughters.
The following day there was a powerful endowment of love in our ministry chat-room as a large group of people in the Garden bathed in the pure waters of the Ruach haQodesh. It was a tremendous family celebration even though some could not see what was going on. And yet, in spite of all these things, there are still many of our people who are bewildered, frustrated and confused because they cannot somehow connect to what is happening amongst us. So what actually is happening? How are we to interpret these events in the wider picture of our mission, and particularly in our individual circumstances whether we are living at Headquarters in Sweden or far across the globe in remote places?
From our inception I have always taught - and we have always practised - the principle that there have always been two distinct and separate though connected orders in the Kingdom of Elohim. And as I taught in our evening meetings during Hanukkah these are represented, respectively, as the two main rooms of the Temple of Yahweh - the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was located and where Yahweh Himself dwells, and the Holy Place in which the seven-armed Menorahs were located, where Yah'shua our Messiah dwells. Connecting the Holy Place was a small vestibule which connected to the court outside.
Yahweh's Kingdom has always been partitioned between two orders which are Echad or one yet distinct and separate. From our earliest days we have called the Holy of Holies the 'Holy Order', 'Church/Assembly of the Firstborn' or 'Inner Church', and the Holy Place we have called the 'Church of Christ', the 'Assembly of Messiah', the 'Outer Church' and by its various official names such as the 'New Covenant Church of God' or 'B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh'. It has mystified people why two orders are indeed even needed since such an arrangement is almost entirely absent from Christendom from whom it was lost in the earliest times of the New Covenant dispensation. It has been imitated by corrupt dark orders which have rejected the Messiah altogether. People have wrongly assumed that the 'inner order' was some secret place where totally different and sinister doctrines were practised such as obtains in occultic orders like the Freemasons which has its inner initiates who worship Satan and its outer masses who believe they are worshipping the god of their own religions. Today I want to dispel some of the myths and lend clarity to what we are and what we are doing. I want to do this by means of a symbolic illustration shown me by Yahweh a month ago.
The first vision was a personal one in which Yahweh was showing me the changes in my own family, including myself. Things never stand still here, as you know, which baffled those who once knew us and went away and then return to find us completely changed. I will not relate that vision as it does not concern my theme today other than to say that I was mourning the death of an aspect of the flesh in me which I did not want to lose.
Now as you may know we become intensely attached to fleshy, carnal things sometimes and we can tenaciously hold on to them as though they were our very life. They represent the false thinking patterns and emotions that have sustained us, so we suppose, which Yahweh challenges and resists because they stand in the way of the free operation of His Ruach. Every single one of us, high and low, goes through this battle, and every single one of us feeds the carnal nature by sending presents to the flesh in the same way that a terrified Jacob, who though his family and wealth would all be suddenly wrested from him, sent presents to his brother Esau to appease his wrath for his abuse of him a decade or two earlier when he cheated him of his birthright. The fact is, we have all cheated ourselves and others using the deceptive Jacob nature. Yahweh, however, cannot tolerate it, and it took away at the end of an all-night wrestle with an angel of Yahweh. Jacob suffered a dislocated hip before his carnal Jacob-nature was crucified and the new overcoming man renamed Israel emerged. That struggle is very painful, frustrating, distressing and exhausting but every man and woman is called to it before they are worthy to be called Israel like our forefather. This theme I have preached incessantly on over the years because it is so critically important to our salvation and deliverance.
Many years ago this struggle was illustrated to me by Yahweh in a dream. In the dream a small boy was carrying an old man, my carnal Esau-nature, on his back. The boy, like Jacob, had mistakenly struck up a deal with the flesh, agreeing to carry it only as far as Bethlehem, the birth place of the Messiah, just as Jacob carried his as far as Peniel. In the dream the boy and the old man eventually came to Bethlehem and the boy put down the old man whom he had carried with great difficulty for so long. The old man wept and begged that he should be carried longer but the boy refused. It was the end of the line for the Jacob-nature - he just could take it any more.
Not until recently did I understand what this dream actually meant though I have commented on it before. The little boy is the Jacob-nature, and the old man is the carnal Esau-nature. Yah'shua teaches that we are to crucify the flesh by giving it to Him because it is an enemy of Yahweh and a great barrier to the spiritual life. In the dream I released the fleshy Esau nature at Bethlehem-Peniel, which symbolised coming to Yah'shua fully. Here my symbolic load of sin was released and I became free.
I was born again in 1977 but I did not finally become quit of the old man of sin until last year when Yahweh started showing me the damaged parts of myself and began healing them - parts that I had denied and suppressed all my life. They were revealed me in the Garden of Yahweh when I was taken to some hidden alters, and since that time wonderful things have happened in my life. But it took nearly 30 years for me to complete that journey - a long, painful and arduous journey that has not always been too pleasant even though Yahweh has used me in the interim as He uses all of us working out our salvation, no matter where on the Way we find ourselves. Perhaps some of you are still on this painful journey. The little boy in the dream, I since learned, was called Charles, which happens to be my middle name, who, along with some other parts, has been carrying my grief and pain all these years. Only a few months ago was he set free and allowed to grow from a 7 year old to a 14 year old in a very short space of time. What I mean by this, as many of you know, is that we often get fragmented in our hearts by painful life circumstances that retard us emotionally. These parts or alters stagnate and are unable to grow until they receive the ministry and care they need, represented in that dream by Bethlehem, the advent place of the Christ-child. In Yah'shua the Charles part of me has flourished, been healed, and grown. Yes, the core person which is me was born again in 1977 and has been growing ever since, but part of me got left behind, tied to the carnal nature by some self-vow based on a lie which proved to be my detriment. That has now gone as I experience tremendous heart growth and happiness.
This phenomenon is so common that I hazard to guess that everybody has it. I have certainly never met anyone who didn't have it Everyone has struggling children within who got neglected and left behind tied to various forms of pain, rejection and lovelessness. We call these alters, alternate personalities or sub-personalities who become detached from our core selves and are often buried away in some dark recess of our unconscious - parts that are crying out for help who manifest in strange and often unwelcomed ways such as destructive or violent urges. We find ourselves saying and doing things we hate which baffle and confuse us and our loved ones which we often blame on the demonic when in fact the problem is a part of ourselves which has become separated. A great deal of our ministry involves working with these alters which may either be co-conscious or entirely separated and leading different lives as in SRA victims.
In the second vision, after I had mourned the death of my carnal nature for a short while, I was shown a huge building in some city. It was very extensive and with perhaps three storeys and a vary large car park capable of holding hundreds if not thousands of vehicles. It was a grey building made of concrete though not displeasing to the eye and was evidently designed to blend into the drabness of city life. Above the front entrance was a large square sign, also made of cement, and on it, in large capital letters, 'CHRIST'. This was, I knew, where the world and the Kingdom met, the interface between the two, where lost souls come seeking for the Messiah to be delivered and saved. As I drew closer into the sign I was taken straight into it and into a third vision. I found myself looking at a dense forest and hidden in the middle of it was a small white, shining building like a Temple, and at once I knew what it was. It was our Holy Order, the Chavurah Bekorot or Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon. At once I understood, with even greater clarity, that this was literally the powerhouse of the outer church or NCCG, because it was here that the apostles and other leaders were endowed with the Ruach and filled with the love that comes from the deepest parts of the Lake in the Garden.
Now the Holy Order has never been displayed or paraded and never will. It is hidden, just as Yahweh our Father in Heaven is hidden. However, the Light of Yahweh is not hidden - ever - it shines brightly in those who, like the Cohen Gadol or High Priest of the Old Covenant entering the Holy of Holies once a year at Yom Kippur to make atonement for himself and Israel, are called into it. Today we are all called into the Royal Priesthood and anyone may enter into the Holy of Holies who has purified himself, as it is written in scripture. The Holy Order is a Priesthood Order for men and women who have consecrated themselves 100% to Yahweh, have forsaken the world completely, and desire the fullness of His love, no matter what the cost, because their desire is to be apostles and ministers of this grace. They do not parade themselves but are content to be lights - the fathers and mothers of Israel. It's buried deep into a forest where few come or even want to come because of their Esau-attachments to the world. None can come here who are not willing to lay down the Esau-nature and who are not willing to wrestle and overcome so that their deceptive Jacob-nature can be transformed into an Israel one.
Many have come to this work expecting us to act and behave like the other churches in Christendom. They seek for signs and evidences that we are like them and often go away when they cannot find them. We do not, however, pattern ourselves after them, but after the Temple of Yahweh and the Mystical Marriage of the Messiah. The inner community of Yahweh's people will always be remote and small, because there are very few true fathers and mothers, whilst the outer community will always be large and have the appearance of being like the churches of the world. We are not liked for this, usually misunderstood, occasionally persecuted and often classified as a 'cult', 'sect' or some other derogatory term. That is the way it has always been - indeed the first New Testament Christians were so labelled (Ac.24:5,14; 28:22) - and we are not ashamed. Those still clinging on to the Esau-nature intensely dislike this label and want to be liked by the world but this is not an option for us - the Esau-nature wants to be popular, liked, admired and - if the truth be known - worshipped and adored, and so hates so much as a hint that people around them think of him as 'abnormal' or 'odd'. Those who cling on to this will by the by be disappointed - for we care not what the world thinks, our heart seeking only to be pleasing to our Master Yah'shua.
Those who know us or who have tasted the anointing of this ministry yearn for the deeper things. But they soon realise that it costs - and not just a lot, but everything. To come to the little temple in the forest means you cannot bring any of the baggage of the world with you. You have to leave it all behind because only purity can dwell in it.
Now you may be asking where this 'temple in the forest' was in New Testament times. Well, it began in a very simple form in Jerusalem itself, the central congregation of the Messianic Community. It practised the United Order of all things in common, as the Holy Order does today, as we read in Acts. It did not, however, remain there. The corrupting influences of Rabbinical Talmudism, the controversies around which we read about in Paul's epistles, meant that the early Holy Order had to be replanted under new leadership. Where do we learn about this? In the Book of Revelation. Here were read about seven key congregations - Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Loadicea (Rev.1:11) which represent the seven arms of the Menorah, the central one being the first one, Ephesus, led by the Apostle John who was the Presiding Apostle-Patriatrch of the Messianic Community after Peter and James. This was the third unfolding of the Messianic Community and the three different apostolic heads not at all dissimilar from our threefold unfolding from Independent Church, to NCCF and thence to NCCG in which we progressively shed the false teachings and paradigms of our backgrounds just as the first believers shed their Talmudic Judaism and became true Messianic Israelites. We have been through the process - painfully at times - to where we are today, with the Assembly of the Firstborn - the Chavurat Bekorot, the Holy Order, or Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon endowed as originally promised - not in the way we had expected, but certainly endowed and very definitely on the move.
Yahweh prophesied great things would happen in 2005 and they happened. We were shown the Garden. And He has said that something even bigger is going to happen in 2006. In a fourth vision, shortly after the three I mentioned, Yahweh showed me a narrow road going up a gentle incline and bending to the left. We were on the bend but could not see what was coming. It is even now coming into view.
Having said all of this I do have to say one more important thing: that those coming up to the Temple of El Elyon do not experience the same things until they are in it. Today and last year many people are entering the lake in the Garden and experiencing the same shalom, the same love, and the same Echad. But it was not like that until they had got into the lake itself. Before then it was just theory and everyone had contradictory emotions and experiences. That is what the outer assembly or NCCG is for - to help people sort through all of these conflicting things. People come because they have caught the vision and desire it with all their hearts, but catching the vision is not the same as actually bathing in the lake of love and going into its depths. That takes faith and a willingness to let go of all that is of the Esau- and Jacob-natures. And if you are one of those persons who has striven but not yet made it, don't despair - hold onto the vision and head for the goal which is in Yah'shua our Messiah. You'll get there in the end.
Many of you - and particularly those of you who have come up to the Temple of Yahweh in the Ruach - will experience enormous changes in your life circumstances. Many will leave their homes and come up to Zion, enter or start families, and enter into Yahweh's abundance. Several are on their way to the centre-place - the central congregation of this Mishpachah - to settle down and consecrate their lives to Yahweh and the Kingdom. This secular year 2006 will, I can prophesy, witness even more startling and numerous victories than the previous one. We are all going to be changed - for the better. No one will be left untouched. People will come and go but those who are chosen by Yahweh, whom He has already called, are going to experience something very wonderful.
If you want to prosper in this work, brethren and sisters, do not come with expectations. Rarely are our expectations fulfilled because they are either way off the mark or they are far less than what Yahweh actually wants to give. When we measure our expectations by carnal things, we always end up disappointed. If we have come to get or receive, we shall fail. If we have come to give everything we shall receive everything. For as Yah'shua said: "Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it" (Luke 17:33, NIV). "The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honour the one who serves me" (John 12:25-26, NIV). "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matt.10:34-39, NIV).
Anyone who comes to be served will be disappointed but whoever comes to serve will be filled with everything he needs. And if the Esau-nature rises up in protest, rebuke it, and hand it to Yah'shua and claim the promises of Yahweh by entering into a covenant to be true and obedient. We are way past the theory of the Gospel now - the Garden with its fruits and waters is now available to be tasted. Many have tasted them and rejoiced. Many are seeing the mighty hand of Yahweh and have become emboldened in their faith because they know with all their souls that Yahweh truly is a fortress and their spiritual fathers really are a covering. Their testimonies are all about it. Their experiences can be yours if you choose the way of Israel, but not if you don't. That Way, in Messiah Yah'shua, will cost you everything you have - your pride, your dignity, your wealth, your positions of honour, the praises of men, the approval of the world, your all. If you don't want to lose these then you must either flee back to the world or, like I did in the dream, carry the old man of sin a little longer until Yahweh breaks you and takes you to the end of your self-protection, pride, stubbornness and rebellion.
The Good News is alive and well here. It is no psychic theatre as we find amongst the lawless charismatics and others, but it is the real thing. We proclaim it on the house tops for all to hear and await with eager anticipation as the children of Yahweh heed the call and come home. Come to the refreshing waters, drink, and be filled. 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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