Urim and Thummim

Ex28:30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Aleph Tau Urim and the Aleph Tau Thummim, and they shall be over Aharon’s heart when he goes in before Yahuah; and Aharon shall carry the judgment of the sons of Yisrael over his heart before Yahuah continually.

 Urim: Alaph Uau Resh Yod Mem

Aur: flame Strong’s 217

Yam:

Oorayim/Urim comes from the root word ‘Uwr’ which means ‘fire’ or ‘flame’ or ‘light’

Isa 24:15 Therefore glorify Yahuah, in the fires (Urim), even the name of Yahuah, the AL of Yisrael, in the coastlands of the sea

Isa31:9 His stronghold shall pass away because of panic, and his princes shall be terrified at the standard, declares Yahuah, whose flame (Uwr) is to Him in Zion and whose furnace is to Him in Yerushalam.

Isa44:16 he burns half of it in the fire (esh) ; he eats flesh on half of it as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the flame (uwr)

Isa 50:11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire (esh), and are surrounded by sparks; walk in the light (uwr) of your fire (esh) and in the sparks you are burning. This you shall have from My hand: you shall lie down in torment.

Eze5:2 a third part you shall burn in the fire (uwr) at the center of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take a third part and strike it with the sword all around the city, and a third part you shall scatter to the wind; and I shall unsheathe a sword behind them.

There is another root word ‘owr’ which relates to the word ‘uwr’ and means ‘lights’

Gen1:15 and let them be for lights (ma owr) in the expanse of the heavens to give light (owr) on the earth; and it was so.

And this word ‘owr’ is used in relation to the light which is given for one to walk to see clearly.

Urim is also translated as east

Isa24:15 Therefore glorify Yahuah, in the east (Urim), even the name of Yahuah, the Al of Yasharal, in the coastlands of the sea.

The east points to Yahusha because , when he was born there was a sign of the star in the east.

AHLB defines Aur as the illumination from the sun, moon, stars, fire, candle. An intense light or radiance.

Yam means sea or day or spring.

The Aurim/Urim is the illumination on the waters. Just as the sun rises in the east and it’s rays sparkle on the water and reflect it’s radiance, similarly the face of Yahusha radiates the glory of Aluahym in fullness.

2Cor4:6 For Aluahym, who said, Light shall shine out of darkness, is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of Aluahym in the face of the Mashiyach.

Thummim: Thu Mem Yod Mem

Thum: Strong’s 8537 means whole, integrity, innocent, simplicity.

Thummim: Thu Mem Yod Mem

Thum: Strong’s 8537 means whole, integrity, innocent, simplicity.

Gen 20:5 Did he not say to me, She is my sister? And she, even, she said to me, He is my brother. In the integrity (tham) of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this.

2Sam15:11 Then two hundred men went with Absalom from Yerushalam, that were called and went in their simplicity (thumam), and they did not know anything.

1 Ki22:34 And a man drew his bow in his innocence (thumo) and struck the king of Yisrael between the joints and the coat of mail. So he said to his charioteer, Turn your hand, and take me out of the fight; for I am wounded.

Job4:6 Is not your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness (thom) of your ways?

Gen25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a man acquainted with hunting, a man of the field, but Yaaqob was a simple (thum) man, living in tents.

Job1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was perfect (thum) and upright, and one that feared Aluahym and turned aside from evil.

Yam: Yam means sea or day or spring.

The Thummim is the simplicity/integrity/perfection/wholeness of Mashiyach in the seas. Often nations are called as seas. Here the seas are those who have received the fullness/wholeness of Mashiyach in them. We are complete in him. Immersed in him.

Col 2:10 and in Him you have been made complete, which is the head of all principality and authority;

John 1:16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.

Being in the Mashiyach we are blameless, without defect, without disease or deformity. We are complete in him. This is the picture of Thummim.

Ex28:30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the alaph thu Urim and the alaph thu Thummim, and they shall be over Aharon’s heart when he goes in before Yahuah; and Aharon shall carry the judgment of the sons of Yasharal over his heart before Yahuah continually.

In Aharon’s breastplate there was in the breastplate near the heart a small pouch where these two stones were kept in named Urim and Thummim. Urim and Thummim reflect the radiance/glory of Yahusha and his integrity and innocence and he is the one who carries the judgment of Yasharal upon himself by hiding Yasharal in his heart before Aluahym. We are hidden in his innocence and radiance. The Thurah and the Prophets show us his radiance and his innocence. Urim and Thummim show the Thurah and the Prophets through which we receive the knowledge of who Mashiyach is and what he has done for us.

So this word Thummim speaks of integrity/simplicity/innocence/uprightness within the heart just as the Urim speaks of the light/flame/fire 

As we read in Exo 28:30 that the high priest had to bear the breastplate of judgment in which were embedded 12 stones and each stone stood for a tribe of Yasharal.

Ex 28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before Yahuah continually.

Ex 28:17 You shall fill settings of stones in it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald

Ex 28:18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and a diamond;

Ex 28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst;

Ex 28:20 and the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree.

Ex 28:21 The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Yasrael: twelve, according to their names; they shall be like the engravings of a seal, each according to his name for the twelve tribes.

The breastplate was nine inches square and folded double with four rows of three precious stones, attached at the corners with gold rings and blue cords. Each of the twelve precious stones represented one of the tribes of Yasharal; thus, every time the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies, he would have the children of Yasharal on his heart. The Urim and Thummim were kept in a pocket behind the breastplate closest to his heart and not visible to the eye.

We saw that the Urim speaks of the light /fire and the Thummim speaks of the perfection/uprightness in the heart. The Urim and Thummin speak of the Law (Thurah) and the prophets.

Our high priest is Yahusha who has died for us and risen from the dead. He has ascended into heaven to appear in the presence of Aluahym for us.

Heb 9:24 For the Mashiyach did not enter a holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of the Aluahym for us;

 As a high priest he held the breast plate of judgment on which our names were embedded as the 12 stones for the 12 tribes of Yisharal which were on the high priest garments with the Urim (Law) and the Prophets (Thummim) in his heart. Hence Yahusha is our LIVING TURAH. Now that we Gentiles have believed on Yahusha as our Savior we are part of the Yisharal of Alahim and our roots are Hebraic being embedded as those stones on the heart of Yahusha.

The counterfeit High priest: Adam/carnal priesthood

Eze28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre/Tsur and say to him, Thus says Adonay Yahuah, You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Eze28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of Aluahym; Every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, the topaz and the diamond; the beryl, the onyx and the jasper; the sapphire, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes, was in you. On the day that you were created they were prepared.

Compare to the high priest’s breastplate from Exodus 28:17-20, the third row is missing on the carnal figurative high priestly gospel/besorah. His breast plate has only 9 gems. The language is paradox and reader shouldn’t misunderstand that Adam was once perfect. They were never perfect.

Ex 28:17 the first row ruby, topaz and emerald

Ex 28:18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and a diamond;

Ex 28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethy

Ex 28:20 fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper

Yahusha spoke of him that he was as murderer from the beginning. The language used is in Ezekiel 28 passages is paradox becuase his merchandise was of deceit and the pattern of Mashiyach was sealed up in Adam’s flesh, hence the carnal priesthood ‘sealed up the sum’ (stopped the pattern of Aluahym) and there was a need of change of priesthood.

Heb 7:11 Truly, then, if perfection were through the Lĕwitical priesthood – for under it the people were given the Torah – why was there still need for another priest to arise according to the order of Malkitseḏeq, and not be called according to the order of Aharon?

Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law

We see these 9 stones mentioned in the day he was created is a paradox and show that his breastplate falls short of the true High priest Yahusha who is the heavenly pattern i.e. the tokniyth (Hebrew word for pattern) and the usage of the words in Ezekiel 28:12 ‘thou sealest up the sum (tokniyth)’ show that as long as the carnal priesthood stood there was hidden the need for the eternal priesthood of Mashiyach

(****paradox is a figure of speech which a statement or proposition despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems logically unacceptable or self-contradictory ***)

Rev9:7 And the appearance of the locusts was like unto horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Rev9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Rev9:9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle

In the imagery of Rev 9 the locusts from the bottomless pit had faces of men but hair as women which show the prevailing Greek-Roman culture over the Hebraic and they also had breastplates of iron. The picture is of the Woman/nashayam trying to rule the assembly by not coming under the covering of the husband Yahusha. The breastplate is counterfeit worn by them.

Just to give you a recap Ezekiel 28: 13 says “You were in Eden, the garden of Aluahym…”

We know what happened in the garden of Eden? The woman Eve was deceived by the serpent who stopped the pattern of Aluahym to mankind in the flesh of Adam by making him exalt himself as Alahym for he tempted them that on the day they eat of the tree they will be like Alahym. Yahusha restores the pattern as he is the Living Turah in whose heart is the Urim and the Thummim and on his breastplate all the names of those who are part of the Yasharal of Aluahym. It’s called the breastplate of judgment because he endured the judgment for all his elect. With three stones falling short in the breastplate of the carnal priesthood (paradox language), it shows his besorah (gospel) falling short of the atonement for those who are trading his merchandise. The number 3 speaks of the will of Yahuah. There are many who are calling themselves Yahudi but are a kenneseth/synagogue of Shatan and are totally sold out to the carnal letter.

Re 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Yahudi, and are not, but are the kenesseth (synagogue) of Satan.

Coming back to the Urim and the Thummim:

Moshe (Moses) when he blessed the tribes of Yisharal, this is the blessing he gave the Levi who were the priests. He said “Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one (referring to the Messiah) whom those didst prove at Massah and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah”

De 33:8 ¶ And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy man, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

Ex 17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Yahuah, saying, Is Yahuah among us, or not?

The Urim and Thummim is indeed with Yahusha the holy one of Yisharal, he is our living Turah.

The Urim and the Thummim became the inquiring mediums to know the will of Yahuah until David. Post David there is no mention of this method of inquiring from Yahuah.

1Sam23:9 Now David knew that Shaul was plotting evil against him; so he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring near the ephod (the ephod was the garment of the high priest on which was the breastplate with the Urim and the Thummim).

Num27:21 And he (Joshua) shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahuah. At his command they shall go out and at his command they shall come in, both he and the sons of Yisrael with him, even all the congregation.

1Sa 28:6 And when Saul enquired of Yahuah, Yahuah answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Ezr 2:63 And the Tirshatha (title of governor given by Persia and this was bestowed on Nehemiah) said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

Ne 8:9 ¶ And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto Yahuah your Alahim; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Ezra and Nehemiah were appointed at a time to restore Yisharal back from captivity. They helped in building the wall of Yerushalam. It's a spiritual picture when the desolations of Rome will end and all elect of Yahusha will enter into his rest.

Hos 3:4 For the sons of Yisharal shall remain for many days with no king or no prince, with no sacrifice and no sacred pillar and no ephod or no household image (the word ‘theraphim’ is also used for idols of other gods so we must see the context and the context is harlotry)

Hos3:5 Afterward the sons of Yisharal shall return and seek Yahuah their AL and David their king (referring to Yahusha the son of David); and they shall come trembling to Yahuah and to His goodness in the last days

The prophecy of Hoshea is an eye opener, the sons of Yisharal shall remain many days with no king, no prince, no sacrifice, no sacred pillar (referring to temple), no ephod and no family image which shows a suspended period of a Tribulation until which they would be in harlotry and it will take them time to come out from the Greek-Roman culture and then Yisharal shall return and seek Yahuah (king), and seek Yahusha (the prince) and to his goodness (his salvation, his temple, his Urim and the Thummim, a distinguished image of the Yad family)

The call is to return back to our Living Turah Yahusha in whose heart is the Urim and Thummim and he writes the Urim and Thummim on the hearts of his elect which is the emission of light from the fire (Hebrew word: ‘eshdoth’  which means ‘Royal law of fire’) and the uprightness of the heart (the righteousness of Alahim imputed to us)

Mt 5:17 ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Finally we see the Urim begins with the Aleph and the Thummim begins with the Tau. Put together the Aleph Tau is the mark of Yahusha on his people.