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Sermons Series 3:1C, 19 September 2007
Sukkot 2005
A New Mishkan for a Renewed People
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I welcome you in Yah'shua's Name to the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, known as Sukkot in Hebrew. I have to tell you straight off that I am relieved the festival is here for the last three days have been galling indeed. The children are throroughly excited, as they always are this year, and enthusiastically helped build the three sukkot or huts that we have in our home and meeting place yesterday. Our only regret is that loved ones who were called here by Yahweh were either not able to come or chose not to celebrate according to the commandment.
This is also the first time we celebrate Sukkot as Mishpachah Gan Lev-Tsiyon so it is very new to us because as of this day we have been reborn and re-covered as a people. Not coincidentally this time marks the beginning of the original construction of Yahweh's sukkah or tabernacle which is known as the mishkan, the first portable sanctuary erected in the Sinai desert (Ex.25:8-9). Tradition tells us that Moses ascended Mount Sinai for the second time and was away for 40 days and 40 nights during whih he received the second set of stone tablets bearing the Ten Commandments. He descended from the presence of Yahweh carrying these tablets on Yom Kippur to signify Yahweh's forgiveness of His people for their earlier sin of the golden calf and as a symbol of the lasting covenant between Him and Israel (Ex.24:12-18; 34:1-2,27-28). He also brought with Him the instructions for building the Tabernacle or mishkan. The material for it was collected in the days before Sukkot and work was begun on it (Ex.35; 36:1-7).
Why did Yahweh order the construction of the mishkan? It was, quite simply, so that He could dwell among His people Israel (Ex.25:8) for the purpose of establishing a relationship between Himself and His covenant people. Today the temple is not a physical mishkan or a temple of stone but our very physical bodies. You and I are supposed to be living temples for the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) to live in so that we may have face-to-face communion with the Father above. But as we saw last week, this communion is not just a personal thing - it is a communal one also, beginning with each individual and expanding to each family, clan, tribe and finally the whole Nation of Messianic Israel. Therefore Sukkot, in its New Covenant setting, is all about coverings - layers of coverings so that the holy nation becomes a mighty fortress against the powers and principalities of the world. The mission of Mishpachah Gan Lev-Tsiyon is to quite simply build that spiritual fortress in preparation for the evil times that have already started.
I want you to imagine a vast tent and that this tent is the Messiah Himself. In the perfectly restored system of Messianic Israel He covers the whole nation. But what does that nation consist of? Firstly, He covers the Prince of Israel, the tribal leader of Ephraim-Joseph. The Prince of Israel covers each of the remaining 11 tribal heads, who cover their clan heads who cover the heads of each family, who in their turn cover their wives and children. Additionally, Yah'shua is the personal covering for each of these heads! This mighty system of multiple tents is like a thick giant shield over the whole nation when it lives in purity and obedience to Torah in heart-love of Yahweh, and so long as it remains pure and obedient, the enemy cannot touch it spiritually.
The sukkah you are sitting under today is rich in spiritual symbolism. It symbolises man's need to trust in Yahweh for water, shelter and food which was provided miraculously for the children of Israel in their 40 year wandering through the desert. For us it symbolises these things also, but also far more, for we are in need not just of material supply for our daily needs but also spiritual. The natural or carnal man is, as everyone knows, lawless, unredeemed and demonic in nature. In his thinking, emotional, and sexual life, the natural man is not at all unlike the hurricane Katrina which recently hit and destroyed New Orleans, the voodoo centre of the United States. The natural, unredeemed man is like a hurricane within that leaves mental and emotional devastation in its path. And as we know from the effects of such natural disasters in the outer world, the cost of repair is horrendously big and the time needed long.
The sukkah you are sitting under is therefore a reminder to you that your mind needs to be constantly and totally filled with the Word of Yahweh, His Torah. When you are sitting in a solid shelter and there is a raging storm outside, all is at peace in that shelter. You can relax and be about other things while the storm passes you by. But if you are not sitting under a solid shelter - if your mind is a raging civil war of unredeemed thoughts from the carnal soul, fighting against the redeemed thoughts of Yahweh's Torah, then you cannot relax - you do not know whether or when the roof of your shelter witll be ripped off or the whole shelter blown away, subjecting you to the merciless impact of the storm outside. You may well survive the storm but you will not be able to relax for one minute so long as there is war within.
A couple of days ago I was looking at pictures of devastated New Orleans. I am sure you have seen pictures of towns and cities devastated by natural catastrophes and have been appalled. Yahweh offers protection, spiritual and physical, to those who covenant their lives back to Him 100% and trust Him in recognition that He is the legal owner of our souls. I use the word 'back' deliberately because we don't own ourselves and never have, even if we may believe in that delusion from time to time. Repentance is recognising this truth. The soul that does not return itself to its rightful owner is giving Satan possession, pure and simple.
The Bible is full of stories of individuals and the nations of Judah and Israel forgetting who their true Owner was. You will find in Scripture examples of people who 'gave' themselves, as they supposed, to Yahweh to varying degrees. We read of the rich young ruler who appeared to be the model of piety - Torah-obedient, faithful, a pillar in society. But Yah'shua (Jesus) saw into the core of his soul and challenged the carnal part, which had not yet yielded sovereignty, and told this man to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor. He balked and walked away from salvation. He chose not to go the whole way and rejected his Messiah. Let's read that story together to remind us what is required of us if we truly want this sukkah covering inside:
"As Yah'shua (Jesus) started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Yah'shua (Jesus) answered. "No one is good-except Elohim (God) alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'" "Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy." Yah'shua (Jesus) looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth. Yah'shua (Jesus) looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of Elohim (God)!" The disciples were amazed at his words. But Yah'shua (Jesus) said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of Elohim (God)! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?" Yah'shua (Jesus) looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with Elohim (God); all things are possible with Elohim (God)." Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!" "I tell you the truth," Yah'shua (Jesus) replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields-and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first"" (Mark 10:17-31, NIV).
I assume the reason most of you have gathered today to celebrate Sukkot is because you want Yah'shua (Jesus) to be the covering in your life against the storms and vicissitudes of life. If you want that, you want what is good and right because Yah'shua (Jesus) wants to cover you like a mother hen covering her chicks with her wings:
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh" (Matt.23:37-39, NIV).
Jerusalem is a picture or illustration of the Messianic Community that does not give her life to Yah'shua (Jesus) 100%. When that happens, there are endless cycles of good days and bad days, peace and war, plenty and destruction as people yoyo back and forth between obedience and rebellion. The history of Jerusalem is the history of mankind and of us as individuals. It is the story of the soul which will only obey so far, will only trust so much, will only covenant part. And the story for is never a happy one. It is the story of the "low road", the tough path for those who only ever learn by chastisement.
I have told you the story before of the East African Christian farmer who was committed wholly to his faith, was a regular tithe-payer and who believed in the promises of Scripture. His country was hit by locust swarms which totally devastated the land, erradicating the crops and everything green. After this natural holocaust the local inhabitants were amazed to see that of all the farmland around, only this believer's little plot of cereal was left totally untouched by the insect marauders. In a wasteland of totally denuded vegetation, this little man's field, with untouched crops, shone out like an oasis. That man, brethren and sisters, had covering, because he was a faithfully committed disciple. He had yielded his life wholly to his Maker and knew in whom he was trusting.
Yahweh's sukkah over us is His protection for us against the evil one (Mt.6:13; Ps.91). He is offering it to everyone who wants it. But there is a price, and that price is everything you've got - your whole life and everything and everyone in it. In the wilderness of Sinai the people of Israel were covered by a supernatural cloud which was Yahweh's presence and so long as it was there, their enemies were not able to prevail over them. That same cloud is promised in these latter times, for Israel gathered in the wilderness in the 12 cities of refuge as described in the fourth chapter of Isiah which we studied recently (Isa.4:5-6).
Now this cloud is important to understand. To live under the covering of Yahweh and in His supernatural environment which in this community of Mishpachah Gan Lev-Tsiyon we call the Garden of Yahweh, means that we have to be immersed or baptised into that cloud. Paul explains:
"For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, Elohim (God) was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert" (1 Cor.10:1-5, NIV, adapted).
Now this scripture has baffled so many commentators because they do not understand the principle of patriarchy and patriarchal covering. The experiences these fathers of ours from ancient times had are still the same today, as Paul was telling the Corinthians. The rock of those Old Covenants Israelites was Christ just as it is today. They ate the same spiritual food as we do. And they were immersed or baptised into the one who led them. Now what this does not mean is just a ritial immersion or baptism (the sea) into Moses - it means they came under his covering and entered his spiritual garden because he was the one given by Yahweh for them to imitate. When we are commanded to honour our parents it is within the context of Torah - those commandments was not given to heathen but to Israelites. How can the soul be spiritually immersed to salvation into an unsaved father or mother? How would such a soul be patterned? How could such a soul eat the same food and drink the same water as those baptised into a father of Israel? And as we read earlier, Yah'shua (Jesus) blessed those who had spiritually forsaken their unbelieving parents, those who would not follow them in the Way. All of us, like Abraham, have to leave the paganism of Ur of the Chaldees and spiritually move to the Holy Land, the Garden of Yahweh. There has to be a complete separation, no matter how painful, or there is no covering. Why do you suppose Yahweh didn't redeem Israel while she was a slave in Egypt? Because freedom is both inner and outer - it concerns the whole man, and Yahweh can't to place His sukkah over you for both your body and spirit.
Now you will notice that the protecting cloud turned into something else at night time. It was no longer a cloud but a pillar of fire. Fire provides light and warmth. The fire of Yahweh provides direction and love, revelation and comfort. When the storm is raging outside and all is dark, inside that sukkah, the Garden of Yahweh, is all we need - everything - provided we have taken care to ensure we are fully covered by covenant and by sacrifice.
Now this cloud is, in fact, far more than I have said. It also represents the tzaddikim or 'righteous ones', the true believers who are described as a cloud (Rev.1:7-8). Therefore Paul could say:
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Yah'shua (Jesus), the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim (God). Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart" (Heb.12:1-3, NIV).
Now this is a mystery for those who do not believe - they do not understand the mutual support and covering that fellow believers give one another. Isaiah said: "Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?" (Isa.60:8, NIV). You will remember how when Yah'shua (Jesus) ascended into heaven after His resureection that He was hidden behind a cloud (Ac.1:9-12). Who or what are that cloud? The redeeemed in Messiah. He is hidden from the unredeemed therefore you have to be a part of the redeemed to see and understand. That is one reason we are commanded to be baptised by immersion in water, as a token of our complete submission in, leaving the old life fully behind, before witnesses - the cloud of redeemed souls - who are called to keep us accountable and watch over us. We are to be baptised in the Name of Yahweh the Father, Yah'shua the Son, and the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) (Mt.28:19-20) and be build upon the Rock of Messiah. And we must also be baptised into our earthly father, as Israel was into Moses, by covenant and by sacrifice, so that we can be covered by him also, just as wives are baptised into their husbands inwardly and by a ritial mikvah or immersion (baptism). Notice the prominence of the fathers in Scripture - they are not emphasised accidentally, because we cannot do without them, as we discussed last Sabbath. They are our sukkah too and we eat the same spiritual food and drink the same spiritual water as they did.
Finally, this sukkah is also a chuppah, a wedding tent. The sukkah you are seated under is a symbol of the covering for the Bride of the Messiah. But you can't become that bride until you are under wedding covenants, just as a woman gives herself wholly and fully to her husband and owns no part of herself. That image of earthly marriage is a picture of the spiritual one and denotes complete and total consecration or set-apartness. Its's all or nothing, brethren and sisters, when you come to Christ, and if you only give part of yourself, you will remain in civil war until you have given all of yourself or walked away fully into darkness.
People do not, as a rule, like it when I tell them these things. Not a few have called me a 'fanatic' because of them. However, I am not teaching blindness but total vision. I do not believe in blind faith but in revelation and freedom in Messiah. And the cloud of our covering means full revelation for those who are under it. They are not in ignorance and do not need to just take the word of their spiritual fathers - they know for themselves. Therefore it is not something that needs to be controlled for all control is Yahweh's. And if we think we have control in any way, we are deluding ourselves. None of us have.
The clouds in the wilderness are called "clouds of glory" and this particular aspect of the wilderness experience is a picture of the Millennium (Athid Lavo) to come. The sukkah was built to teach us to understand the thousand-year Millennial reign ... what it's going to be like. It is a place of peace and harmony like the original Gan Eden or Garden of Eden and we read of passages where former predatory animals come to live in peace with their former prey (Isa.11:6; 65:22). The carnal predatory nature is subdued and at peace. And that, brethren and sisters, can be your state today if you want it. The price: total committment; the reward: peace and blessings in abundance.
I will have more to tell you next Sabbath and at the end of this important festival on Hosha'na Rabba. This is, above all, a time of celebration for those who have entered the covenant of Israel through baptism and who are being truly immersed in the spiritual cloud and dwell in the Garden of Yahweh. May your hearts therefore be filled with simchah or joy as we celebrate the new beginning Yahweh has given us. With King David I say to you all:
"For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you"" (Ps.122:8, NIV).
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
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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