Exo 25:8 “And they shall make Me a Set-apart Place, and I shall dwell in their midst.
Exo 25:9 “According to all that I show you – the pattern of the Dwelling Place and the pattern of all its furnishings – make it exactly so.
In the Book of Hebrews we are told that the tabernacle, and all its services, were “patterns of things in the heavens”.
Heb 9:23 It was necessary, then, that the pattern of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings than these.
Heb 9:24 For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf,
Heb 8:5
who serve a pattern and shadow of the heavenly, as Mosheh was warned when he was about to make the Tent. For He said, “See that you make all according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
The physical associated with the earthly sanctuary were “figures of the true” (Hebrews 9:24) — the “shadow of heavenly ” (Hebrews 8:5)
Heb 10:1 For the Torah, having a shadow of the good matters to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter offerings which they offer continually year by year.
The written Torah came years later giving a description of the elements to be used in detail pertaining to the cleansing of the ones called to approach the tabernacle of witness with sacrifices which could not take away sins after the testing.
Heb 10:3 But in those offerings is a reminder of sins year by year.
Heb 10:4 For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
When we see the Garden of Adan/Eden we see a similar pattern as in the Torah except that there was no ark, no altar of incense, no shew bread, no lampstand , no veil in it, for the Tree of life stood as the emblem of eternal life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil as a testing program. Post the testing program we have scripture recording Yahuah Aluahym walking in the garden.
Gen 3:8 And they heard the sound of יהוה Elohim as a man/mat H4962 walking/halak H1980 about in the garden in the ruach/ H7307 רוּחַ in the day/ha yom, and Aḏam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of יהוה Elohim among the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:8 וישמעו את קול יהוה אלהים מתהלך בגן—לרוח היום ויתחבא האדם ואשתו מפני יהוה אלהים בתוך עץ הגן
They didn't translate 'mat' in the word 'mat halak' as it didn't make sense to them of Yahuah Aluahym walking as a man in the garden of Adan because most of the Messianics see Yahuah Aluahym can't be a man. But this imagery cannot be ignored. It was not that Yahuah was a man but they heard the sound of Yahuah Aluahym as a man walking about in the garden in the Ruach in the day. They translated 'ruach hayom' as 'cool of the day'.
Below is a small picture I drew to discuss on the pattern of the Garden of Eden before the written Torah came:
Eden stood as a type of the Heavenly Yerushalayim with the river flowing from the throne of the Lamb as stated in Rev 22:1
Rev 22:1 And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of Elohim and of the Lamb.
ובתוך רחוב העיר ואל־שפת הנחל מזה ומזה עץ חיים עשה פרי שתים עשרה כי מדי חדש בחדשו יתן את־פריו ועלה העץ לתרופת הגוים׃ Rev 22:2
2. ub’thok/And in the midst of the rachob/street ha/the `iyr/watcher w’el/and in-saphath/between hanachal/the river mizeh/post umizeh/and post `ets/tree chayiym/of life `oseh/wrought pariy/fruits shateym`esareh/ twelve ki/of midey/sufficiently chodesh/renewed b’chadasho/in the renewal yiten/ yielding ‘eth/alaph tau-paryo/fruits wa/and`aleh/leaves ha/of`ets/tree li/for th’ruphath/the healing ha/of goyim/gentiles
Rev 22;2 And in the midst of the street the watcher and in between the river post and post tree of life wrought fruits twelve of sufficiently renewed in the renewal yielding alaph tau fruits and leaves of tree for the healing of gentiles.
The translations we have show 2 tree of lifes...this is the translation from ISR 1998
Rev 22:2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
But when you have a look at the picture I drew above the post to post is where two cherubims and the swords were placed to guard the way to the ONE TREE OF LIFE. The leaves of the tree (singular) were for the healing of the guym/gentiles/lost sheep of the house of Yasharal. I was under the impression that there were two trees of life as per what Rev 22:2 says at face value in our translations until I saw word to word in Hebrew translation and saw just one tree of life. The garden of Eden stood as a type/shadow of the Heavenly Yerushalayim.
The river flowing in Eden also typifying the rivers of living water flowing from the belly of the one who believes in Yahusha ha Mashiyach.
John 7:37 Now on the last day, the great day of the Feast, Yahusha stood
and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said,
‘From his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.’”
Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And he who hears, let him say, “Come!” And he who thirsts, come! And he who desires it, take the water of life without paying!
The river of living water comes from Mashiyach who is the heavenly man who came in the pattern of the earthy to translate us into the heavenly/spiritual man in him, ONE NEW MAN.
The entire earthly tabernacle stood as a shadow of the heavenly and Adam in the veil of his flesh concealed the heavenly pattern as he was a type of the one who was to come
Rom 5:14 But death reigned from Aḏam until Mosheh, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Aḏam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
You may read my study in 3 parts on 'The Covering Cherub' in my facebook notes for details on this.
Eden/Adan shows 'Witness of the Judge' and Eden/Adan also means 'desire/pleasure' H5727. The picture is of Yahuah created Eden on this earth and saw that it was good as it fit perfectly as a type/shadow of his salvation plan for mankind.
In the rough picture I drew there was a river flowing from Eden which split into four heads and was a type of the living water going out as the basarah/gospel. The way to the tree of life had two posts where Yahuah placed two cherubs and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life and drew out Adam and Chauah from Eden into the ground/adamah Adam was taken from.
Gen 3:23 And therefore Yahuah Elohim sent him out from the garden of Eden,
to till/abad H5647 the ground from there which he was taken.
The word 'abad' is the same word for 'servant' and Yahuah placed Adam in Eden to till it shows that the sonship was not yet given and would only be given through Mashiyach.
Gen 2:15 And יהוה Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Ěḏen to till /abad H5647 it and to guard it.
Luk 3:38 of Enosh, of Shĕth, of Aḏam, of Elohim.
Gen 5:1 This is the book of the genealogy of Aḏam. In the day that Elohim created man, He made him in the likeness of Elohim.
Gen 5:2 Male and female He created them, and He blessed them, and called their name ‘Aḏam’ in the day they were created.
Many translations put Adam son of Elohim whereas there is no word son there. It's not that Adam wouldn't be put into sonship for he did receive forgiveness and was in relationship with Aluahym through sacrifice till his death as its evident he taught his sons Cain and Abel about the manchah offering and Cain was a tiller of the ground as his father Adam was. For details you may visit my study on 'The Manchah offering' in my facebook notes. The likeness of Aluahym that Adam was made was in Mashiyach as he/Adam was the figure of him/Yahusha who was to come (Rom 5:14).
The most important aspect of Eden was the tree of knowledge of good and evil for it stood as a testing program for Adam and Chauah just as the elements in the written Torah which came later were testing elements pointing to Mashiyach.
Gal 3:23 But before belief came, we were being guarded under Torah, having been shut up for the belief being about to be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Therefore the Torah became our trainer unto Messiah, in order to be declared right by belief.
By being deceived into thinking they will be as Aluahym, they ate from the tree not realizing the need for Mashiyach.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said to the woman, “You shall certainly not die.
Gen 3:5 “For Elohim knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.”
They were lifted up in their own eyes desiring to be like Aluahym just as Yasharal hundreds of years later were lifted up in pride in their testing program which Yahuah gave them of the various elements in the written Torah which pointed to Mashiyach but they held on to the carnal things in elevating themselves in the sonship of Abraham.
Rom 9:3 For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,
Rom 9:4 who are Yisra’ĕlites, whose is the adoption, and the esteem, and the covenants, and the giving of the Torah, and the worship, and the promises,
Rom 9:5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Messiah according to the flesh, who is over all, Elohim-blessed forever. Amĕn.
The elements in the Torah e.g. ark of the covenant, tablets of stone with the Torah written, Aharon's rod that budded, altars, sacrifices, veil, various washings, shewbread, lampstands etc were all elements pointing to Mashiyach and were the testing program of Yasharal after the flesh by which many fell for when Mashiyach came they refused to accept him, except for a few as we say Yahuah's remnant transitioned from the flesh to the Ruach. These elements which came hundreds of years later were just like the tree of knowledge of good and evil which would make one wise in knowing good and evil.
Gen 3:22 And יהוה Elohim said, “See, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
Gen 3:23 so יהוה Elohim sent him out of the garden of Ěḏen to till the ground from which he was taken,
Gen 3:24 and He drove the man out. And He placed keruḇim at the east of the garden of Ěḏen, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
The 'US' is not a plural Aluahym as Trinity doctrine teaches but has to be understood prophetic of Mashiyach who would come in the likeness of flesh and take our sin upon himself and condemn sin in his flesh. Yahuah Aluahym reveals his counsel within himself prophetically as ''US'' to show he and Mashiyach are ONE because it was he who would manifest in the flesh to accomplish salvation for his people. Hence he speaks of the future in present tense saying
“See, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil''
Rom 4:17 as it has been written, “I have made you a father of many nations” – in the presence of Him whom he believed,
even Elohim, who gives life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing,
Rom 8:3 For the Torah being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim,
having His own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
If you notice carefully Aluahym says that man is become 'ONE OF US' which means carnal man will only understand 'ONE' aspect of the basarah/gospel and thus carnal man falls short of understanding the mystery of Mashiyach and the fulfillment in him. That's why we so many still occupied in rehearsing and not understanding the renewal in Mashiyach.
The testing program when realized made Adam and Chauah that they were naked and nakedness is not tub and hence they sewed fig leaves to cover their nakedness.
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, yet they were not ashamed.
Gen 3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made loin coverings for themselves.
The realization of the shame of nakedness came only when they faced the testing program and got attracted to it by shatan twisting it to them in fleshly appeasement.
Isa 3:16 And יהוה says, “Because the daughters of Tsiyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,
Isa 3:17 therefore יהוה shall smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Tsiyon, and יהוה expose their nakedness.”
Rev 3:17 “Because you say, ‘Rich I am, and I am made rich, and need none at all,’ and do not know that you are wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
Rev 16:15 “See, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who is staying awake and guarding his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”
By Torah is the knowledge of sin as the written Torah with all the elements of the sacrificial system and the tabernacle of witness, the muaedim/appointed times, Shabbats etc were types/shadows of the one to come i.e. Mashiyach in whom everything is renewed. We observe them in the renewal. These weak and poor elementary matters which stood in shadows were like the tree of knowledge of good and evil, a testing program which still today many fail as they do not understand the renewal in Mashiyach, just like the aut/owth H226 'sign' pointing to the 'alaph tau' H853 who is Mashiyach. The Galatian assembly was in the same problem of going back to the fleshly weak and poor elementary matters having begun in the Ruach and Shaul had to rebuke them for this.
Gal 4:9 But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters,to which you wish to be enslaved again?
Gal 4:10 You observe days and months and seasons and years.
Gal 4:11 I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.
Gal 4:1 And I say, for as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of all,
Gal 4:2 but is under guardians and trustees till the time prearranged by the Father.
Gal 4:3 So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.
Gal 4:2 fits perfectly for Adam as well as we saw Adam was a tiller/abad i.e. a servant of the ground/adamah and though a heir as a child (in belief in Yahuah) he was no different from a slave though he is master of all (which he displayed in the garden when he named all the animals and birds) but was under the guardian and trustee i.e. the tree of knowledge of good and evil (the testing program) till the time prearranged by the Father. The time prearranged by the Father was when he would meet Mashiyach to cover his nakedness when his eyes would be opened to see that he was alive once without the Torah but when the command came sin revived and he died.
Rom 7:9 And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died.
Gal 3:1 O senseless Galatians! Who has put you under a spell, not to obey the truth – before whose eyes יהושע Messiah was clearly portrayed among you as impaled?
Gal 3:2 This only I wish to learn from you: Did you receive the Ruach by works of Torah, or by the hearing of belief?
Gal 3:3 Are you so senseless? Having begun in the Ruach, do you now end in the flesh?
Rom 3:20 Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.
Yahuah placed cherubims and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life after he expelled Adam and Chauah out from the garden of Eden but dwelt east of Eden. When Cain was unable to make the sweet savor of the 'manchah offering' Yahuah told him sin lies at the door.
Gen 4:7 “If you do well, is there not acceptance? And if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should master it.”
But when Cain slew his brother Abel he was expelled with a mark (further from Eden to the land of Nod) 'owth/aut' H226 as a wanderer being cut off from the covenant of Yahuah.
Gen 4:16 So Qayin went out from the presence of יהוה and dwelt in the land of Noḏ/H5113 on the east of Ěḏen.
H5513 Nod is from H5112 & H5110 which means 'exile/wandering, remove/vagabond'
Many people see the word wandering/vagabond to mean Cain became a beggar. That's not true. Beggars don't build cities.
Gen 4:17 And Qayin knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Ḥanoḵ. And he/Cain built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Ḥanoḵ.
The term 'vagabond/wanderer' has to be understood as 'walking in the flesh with the owth/sign H226' but never able to come to the knowledge of truth. The mark was spiritual and has to be spiritually discerned.
Jud 1:11 Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bilʽam for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qoraḥ.
Yahudah/Jude in is letter called those in the way of Cain/Qayin as wandering stars
Jud 1:13 wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.
The wandering stars are those always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Adam is represented as earthy man and hence when he was driven out from Eden he was driven to till/abad the ground/adamah from where he was taken. The picture of the earthy/fleshly is trampling the outer court while Cain/Qayin is a picture of cast out of the pattern of Yahuah into the land of Nod.
Rev 11:1 And a reed like a measuring rod was given to me, and the messenger stood, saying, “Rise and measure the Dwelling Place of Elohim, and the altar, and those worshipping in it.
Rev 11:2 “But cast out the court which is outside the Dwelling Place, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the gentiles/guym, and they shall trample the set-apart city under foot for forty-two months.
The Outer court is where fleshly Yasharal is as Adam and Chauah was, those overcoming the flesh are the ones who through the veil of the flesh of Mashiyach through the sprinkling of his blood by a new and living way enter the Most Set-apart place
Heb 10:19 So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Most Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע,
Heb 10:20 by a renewed/chadash and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
What is interesting to see is that in the Book of Revelation Yahuchanan/John is transported by the Ruach into witnessing the heavenly pattern the judgments and wrath poured out on those who don't obey the heavenly pattern. Remember the word 'Ad' in Eden/Adan means 'itness and 'dan' in Eden/Adan means 'judge' He witnessed the judge Aluahym pouring his wrath on disobedience to the heavenly pattern who is Yahusha ha Mashiyach while those in the renewal in Mashiyach were in the bliss around the throne.
Rev 4:2 And immediately I came to be in the Ruach and saw a throne set in the heaven, and One sat on the throne.
Rev 4:5
And out of the throne came lightnings, and thunders, and voices. And seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of Elohim.
While there, he saw a throne with Aluahym seated on it. Around the throne were 24 elders and four living creatures. Before the throne was a seven branched lampstand and a sea of glass. The heavenly beings gave glory and honor to Aluahym who sat on the throne (Revelation 4:2–11). Inside this heavenly temple — the inner temple — Yahuchanan/John also saw individuals worshiping Aluahym who no longer needed the sun for light
Rev 7:15 “Because of this they are before the throne of Elohim, and serve Him day and night in His Dwelling Place. And He who sits on the throne shall spread His Tent over them.
Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it, for the esteem of Elohim lightened it, and the Lamb is its lamp.
In the inner temple he witnessed the true “ark of the testament” and there came to be lightnings, and voices, and thunders and an earthquake and great hail. He sees a picture of the elements of the written Torah and the judgments associated with them.
Rev 11:19 And the Dwelling Place of Elohim was opened in the heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His Dwelling Place. And there came to be lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Outside the Holy of Holies and just to the East of it was the Qodesh Place. In it Yahuchanan/John saw a golden altar with incense and a censer associated with it which are the prayers of the set-apart ones. The same messenger took the censer and filled it from the fire of the altar and threw it to the earth and there were noises, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake. Again we see picture of the judge judging.
Rev 8:3 And another messenger came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer, and much incense was given to him, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the set-apart ones upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rev 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the set-apart ones, went up before Elohim from the hand of the messenger.
Rev 8:5 And the messenger took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Located in front of this incense altar, outside the Qodesh Place, was the bronze altar on which the sacrifices were offered and underneath this altar were souls crying out for vengeance for they were slain for the Word of Aluahym.
Rev 6:9 And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the beings of those having been slain for the Word of Elohim and for the witness which they held,
Rev 6:10 and they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Master, set-apart and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Rev 6:11 And there was given to each one a white robe, and they were told that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brothers, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
Please note these are imageries showing a spiritual picture of the tabernacle of witness and its elements which the written Torah came with with a testing program. All those occupied with the carnal/fleshly elements and wandering and not being able to come to the renewal in Mashiyach will have to face the wrath of Yahuah by these very same elements they hold on to. That is the picture here.
The Yahudite was in a transition from the flesh to the Ruach and we see this transition in the book of Acts. You may read my study 'The Acts of the Apostles- A book of transitions' which explains and shows this transition.
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The book of Hebrews was written to show the completion of this transition from flesh to the renewal in Mashiyach where the writer in Hebrews explains the elements of the Tabernacle of witness and of the written Torah and its fulfillment in Mashiyach. Now that the transition is complete and yet many calling on the name of Yahuah are occupying themselves in the weak and poor elements returning back to the flesh they will have to face the wrath and that's exactly what we see in the book of Revelation when Yahuchanan was caught up in the Ruach on Yahuah's day and sees the elements of the pattern and the judgments poured from it.
Table of Shewbread: Dishes/qarah H7086
Exo 25:23 “And you shall make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exo 25:24 “And you shall overlay it with clean gold, and shall make a moulding of gold all around,
Exo 25:25 and shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and shall make a gold moulding for the rim all around.
Exo 25:26 “And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.
Exo 25:27 “The rings are close to the rim, as holders for the poles to lift the table.
Exo 25:28 “And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be lifted with them.
Exo 25:29 “And you shall make its dishes/qahrahH7086, and its ladles, and its jars, and its bowls for pouring. Make them of clean gold.
Exo 25:30 “And you shall put the showbread on the table before Me, continually.
Rev15:7 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden dishes/qahrah H7086 full of the wrath of the Elohim, who lives forever and ever.
Ex 24:8 So Mosheh took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said,
Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yahuah has made/karath H3772 with you
in accordance with all these words.
There is a verb 'rayath' which denotes a 'covenant' as this word is in 'barayath' which means 'covenant', 'karayathuth' which means 'divorce' showing a breaking of the covenant of marriage,' 'acharayath' which means 'last state' showing a 'state' of being at the end of a deed,'gapharayath' which means 'brimstone' in which 'gaphar' means 'sulphur' and also means 'gopher tree' a tree/wood used for building, the rayath at the end shows a covenant, being broken which is why the built house is being burnt (just as Sodom and Amorah was).
This word 'karath' H3772 has the root verb 'rath' which is without the yod in it as in 'rayath' which denotes a covenant. 'Rath' is a verb in 'Ephrath/Ephratah' where 'Aphar/Ephar' means 'ash' H665 & H666 and with the 'rath' on the end it means 'heap' and hence 'Ephrath/Ephratah' means 'ash-heap' or 'furitfulness' H672. The 'rath' denotes 'fullness'
'Rath' is also root word in 'Ruth' H7327 which means 'friend', hence the 'rath' in 'karath' shows the palm/kaph making the 'friendship' as we shake hands as a sign of 'friendship' or making a 'deal/deed'.
The 'Rash' who is the 'head' is making a 'Tau'/Covenant. Hence when Masha took the blood and sprinkled on the people and said "“See, the blood of the covenant which יהוה has 'karath' with you concerning all these Words.” He prophetically was saying Yahuah is making friendship in fulness according to all these Words/ha dabarayam. Shaul in Hebrews says the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sins and hence the friendship in fullness prophetically shows in Mashiyach the covenant being sealed by his blood. The Torah is spiritual and hence the ha dabarayam/these words according to which the covenant is being made in a friendship fullness.
Ratah means to pity/be lenient/be mild towards someone. The above is from the 'Hebrew dictionary'. This word 'ratah' shows Yahuah's covenant shows pity towards his children. The word 'karath' also means 'to hew/cut out' just as he shows a cutting out two pieces of the sacrifice and passing through it a torch of fire to show the Ruach in the sacrifice i.e. ruach in the letter
Gen 15:9 And He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Gen 15:10 And he took all these to Him and cut them/bathar H1335 in the middle, and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds.
Gen 15:11 And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Aḇram drove them away.
Gen 15:12 And it came to be, when the sun was going down, and
a deep sleep fell upon Aḇram, that see, a frightening great darkness fell upon him.
Gen 15:13 And He said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Gen 15:14 “But the nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and afterward let them come out with great possessions.
Gen 15:15 “Now as for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are to be buried at a good old age.
Gen 15:16 “Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Gen 15:17 And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that see, a smoking oven and a burning torch passing between those pieces.
Gen 15:18 On the same day יהוה made a
covenant/karath H3772 with Aḇram, saying, “I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates,
Gen 15:19 with the Qĕynite, and the Qenizzite, and the Qaḏmonite,
Gen 15:20 and the Ḥittite, and the Perizzite, and the Repha’im,
Gen 15:21 and the Amorite, and the Kenaʽanite, and the Girgashite, and the Yeḇusite.”
While the word 'karath' is not used in Gen 15:10 'cut them in the middle' and the word 'bathar' is used instead, but this practice of cutting in two pieces was picked up by his descendants and mentioned by YermeYahu in YermeYahu 34:18-19. It's interesting to see the word 'abar' which means 'cross over' translated as 'transgressing' in the first part of the verse and 'passed' in the second part of the verse of YermeYahu 34:18.
Jer 34:18 ‘And I shall give the men
who are crossing over/abar H5674 My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant which they made before Me,
when they cut/karath H3772 the calf in two and crossed over/abar H5674 between the parts/bathar H1335 of it:
Jer 34:19 the heads of Yehuḏah, and the heads of Yerushalayim, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf.
It's not that the word 'karath' H3772 is not used in the Gen 15 passages. When looking at Gen 15:18, the word 'karath' H3772 is mentioned and is translated as 'made' instead of 'cut out/hewed out' as it should be. What's interesting to see is in Gen 15 Yahuah himself passed through the parts of the two pieces while in YermeYahu we see him saying the people have not established the words of the covenant when they cut/karath the calf in two and crossed over between the parts of it. Hence we see a deep spiritual meaning in the crossing over between the two pieces which the children of Yasharal picked up in a fleshly manner.
Gen 15:17 And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that see, a smoking oven and a burning torch passing between those pieces.
Gen 15:18
On the same day יהוה cut out/karath H3772 a covenant/barayat H1285 with Aḇram, saying, “I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates,
When Yahuah asked Abraham to bring him a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon and Abraham brought all these and cut them in the middle except for the birds, a deep sleep fell on Abraham and a frightening darkness fell upon him to show him what was going to befall his seed. And you know who is counted as he seed as scripture says seed and not many seeds.
Gal 3:16 But the promises were spoken to Aḇraham, and to his Seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Messiah.
So the frightening darkness and deep sleep on Abraham shows the horrors of death that Mashiyach counted as in his seed would go through.
Dan 9:26 “And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off/karath H3772 and have naught. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the set-apart place. And the end of it is with a flood. And wastes are decreed, and fighting until the end.
The word 'karath' is used both in positive and negative way. Those in the flesh not transitioning into the Ruach will eventually be 'cut off'
Jer 31:32
not like the covenant I cut out/karath H3772 with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה.
Jer 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, declares יהוה:
I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
The smoking oven and the flaming torch that went through the two pieces of the animals was a surety of the covenant in a hewn out/karath first in the hewn out stones on which the Torah came written pointing to the cutting out of the stony heart and giving a heart of flesh on which the Torah is written showing the Torah is spiritual.
Ex 32:15 Then Mosheh turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony
in his hand,
tablets which were written on both sides; they were written on one side and on the other.
Ex 32:16
They, the tablets, were Elohim’s work,
and the writing was Elohim’s writing that He engraved on the tablets.
The tablets were hewn out of the stone were Aluahym's work and were written on both sides, they were written on one side and on the other just as a scroll is written in the front and the on the back by the finger of Aluahym.
Rev 5:1 I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written faceward and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.
Yahuchanan sees a scroll in the hand of the one seated on the throne and it too was written faceward and on the back and it was sealed up with seven seals. The sealing is to show the Ruach hidden in the letter. No one in heaven or on earth was able to open the seals and look into the scroll except for the Lamb.
Rev 5:3 And no one in heaven nor on the earth nor under the earth was able to open the scroll nor to look into it.
Rev 5:6 And I saw, and behold, in the midst the throne and of the four living creatures,
and in the midst of the elders stood
a Lamb as if it had been slaughtered/tabuach, having seven horns and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of the Elohim, sent out into all the earth.
The root word 'bach' shows a picture of making parts of the sacrifice as in a meal. As you can see in the word 'zabach/slaughter or altar on which the sacrifice is cut'. Also the word 'abach' H19 which means 'point of a sword'. What does a sword do? It cuts into two, it pierces to make two parts. The picture Yahuchanan saw was of the Lamb as one who was slaughtered in the flesh
Each of the above words in the figure shows 'bach' as 'parts' in a division. We need to see them in a spiritual understanding.
1) The first word above is 'bachan' where the 'nun/seed' is in parts/bach and translated as 'Examine'. This shows a beautiful picture of the 'seed' Mashiyach and we the 'seeds' in and through him. The word can be broken down to 'bach' which means 'parts' and 'chan' which means camp. It shows a division of two camps...fleshly and spiritual. One needs eyes to see and EXAMINE (bachan).
2) Second word is 'bachar' where 'bach' means 'parts' and rash is the head, picture of many heads but only few are chosen from them, hence the word is translated as 'choose/youth'. The word can be broken down as 'bach' which means 'parts' and 'char' which means 'burn'. The picture is of the parts/bach which went through the fire/char of the test and what is the outcome of it.
3) Third word is 'zabach' where 'zayin' means cut out and 'bach' means parts. Hence the word translated is 'sacrifice' which shows a cut out. The word can be broken down to 'yellow' as in the color of the ripened grain and the parts/bach. This again shows a picture of the separation of the wheat and tares in which the tares looked like the wheat yellow.
4) The fourth word above is 'tabach' where 'tet' is the container which contains the 'parts/bach' of the fleshly pieces. This is the word Yahuchanan uses when he saw the Lamb slaughtered/tabach or tabuach. The word can be broken down to 'tub' means 'good' and 'bach/buach' 'parts'. The picture is of the good fleshly pieces are separated into the container as in for the priests to eat while the other half is burnt off.
Gen 43:16 When Yoseph saw Benyamin with them, he said to the stewart over his house,
Bring the men into the house, and
slay/tabach H2873 animal/tabach H2874 and make ready;
for the men are to dine with me at noon
In Gen 43:16 they translated one of the word 'tabach' as animal because 'slaughter slaughter' for the Masoretes who did vowel pointing wouldn't have made sense. But a closer look at the word 'tebach H2874' (with vowel pointing) means 'butcher'. Now let's read the verse with one of the 'tabach' as 'tebach' which means 'butcher'.
Gen 43:16 When Yoseph saw Benyamin with them, he said to the stewart over his house, Bring the men into the house,
and slay/tabach H2873 butcher/tebach H2874 and make ready; for the men are to dine with me at noon.
Yahuchanan saw the slaying and butchered Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes. The seven eyes were the seven Ruach of Aluahym.
Prov 9:1 Wisdom has built her house,
she has hewn out her seven pillars;
Prov 9:2 2. tabachah/
Slaughtered tabachah/
butchered masakah/
has mixed yeynah/
her wine ‘aph/
also `ar’kah/
has set shul’chanah/
her table (as in meal table).
As we saw in our previous study 'The language of creation', Wisdom is personified as a woman who was brought forth from the man Yahusha ha Mashiyach through whose 'throat, palate, tongue, teeth and lips' ( 5 elements) the whole creation was brought forth from the '22 letters which had the breath of Aluahym/wisdom' and hence creation external to him is in feminine to the man Yahusha ha Mashiyach by/through whom the worlds were made.
Heb 1:2 has in these last days spoken to us by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all,
through whom also He made the ages
Col 1:16 Because
by Him/Yahusha were created all that are in the heavens and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or rulerships or principalities or authorities – all have been created through Him and for Him.
The seven pillars/amud hewn out are the 'seven assemblies' who are called to eat/feast from the table on which the lamb is slaughtered and butchered, a picture of Yahusha being slain for his people. In Proverbs 9:2 again we see the words 'tabach tabach' together.
Eze 21:9 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says ADON (YHUH).
Say,
A sword/charab, a sword/charab sharpened and also polished!
Eze 21:10 So as to
slaughter/tabach H2873;
butcher/tabach H2874 it is sharpened; so that it may be there as a flash,
it is polished.
Or shall we rejoice? You are despising the rod of My Son,
every tree?
Eze 21:11 And
he/my Son has given it to be polished, to be taken by the hand.
it is sharpened, the sword and it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
Eze 21:12 Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the officials of Yisrael.
They are thrown to the sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh.
Eze21:13 Because there is a test; and what if even the rod which despises shall not be?
declares Adonay Yahuah.
Now I understand why Yahusha asked his disciples to take a sword and they took two. This is a beautiful picture of the fulfillment of what Ezekiel prophesied of the two swords/charab charab in Ezekiel 21:9 which his disciples unknowingly fulfilled.
Luk 22:35 And He said to them, “When I sent you without purse and bag and sandals, did you lack any?” And they said, “None at all.”
Luk 22:36 And He said to them, “But now, let him who has a purse take it, likewise also a bag. And let him who has no sword sell his garment and buy one.
Luk 22:37 “For I say to you that what has been written has yet to be accomplished in Me, ‘And He was reckoned with lawless ones.’ For that which refers to Me has an end too.”
Luk 22:38
And they said, “Master, look, here are two swords.” But He said to them, “That is enough!”
This is also a picture of the flaming two edged sword Yahuah placed in Eden to guard the way to the tree of life. Yahusha is guarded by the two edged sword. The Son of the Most high who was the Lamb slaughtered as seen by Yahuchanan through whom wisdom hewed out the
seven pillars-shabah amud/seven assemblies (body of Mashiyach) and built her house. She set the wine and the meal on the table for his people.
1Tim 3:15 but if I tary long, so that you shall know how you ought to behave yourself
in the house of the Elohim,
which is the assembly of the living Elohim, the pillar/amud and ground of the truth.
Yahusha is Dabar Yahuah manifested in the flesh out of whose mouth a two edged sword goes forth to save and to destroy, and he is the one who was slaughtered and butchered yet not a bone of his was broken.
Luk 2:34 And Shimʽon blessed them, and said to Miryam His mother,
“See, this One is set for a fall and rising of many in Yisra’ĕl, and for a sign spoken against –
Luk 2:35 and a sword shall pierce through your/Yahusha's own being also – so as to reveal the thoughts of many hearts.”
The sword piercing was prophesied of Yahusha and not Miryam/Mary because if you change the person to Mary's heart being pierced you make her a goddess because how can thoughts of many hearts be revealed by her being piercing?
Luke 2:35. u/
And b/
in naph’she’k/
your soul tach’tor/
piercing chareb/
sword l/
to ’ma`an/
that ‘asher/
which -tigaleynah/
revelation mach’sh’both/
thoughts of l’bab/
heart rabbiym/
be many .
Yahusha says in Rev 2:23 that assemblies shall know that it is he who is the one who searches the kidneys and hearts.
Rev 2:23 “And I shall slay her children with death.
And all the assemblies shall know that I am the One searching the kidneys and hearts. And I shall give to each one of you according to your works.
the words Shimon spoke was about the child Yahusha and not his parents
Luke 2:33 And His father and mother were amazed at the words which were being said about Him/Yahusha.
Rev 1:14 And His head and hair were white as white wool, as snow, and
His eyes as a flame of fire,
Rev 1:16 And in His right hand He held seven stars, and
out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was as the sun shining in its strength.
The imagery of the eyes (two) as a flame of fire and the sharp two-edged sword out of his mouth shows the confirmation of the 'smoking oven' and the 'burning torch' which went between the two parts. A division showing the cut out covenant/karath which is spiritual and a renewed one in Mashiyach while those in the flesh will be cut off. The same word 'karath' also means 'cut off'. See how this is tied up with the 'smiting of our Shepherd Mashiyach' which results in a separation of spiritual from the fleshly.
Zec 13:7 “O sword, awake against My Shepherd, against the Man who is My Companion,” declares יהוה of hosts. “Smite the Shepherd, and let the sheep be scattered. But I shall turn My hand upon the little ones.
Zec 13:8 And it shall be throughout all the soil,” declares יהוה,
“that two thirds therein are cut off /karath H3772 and die, and one third is left therein.
Zec 13:9 “And I shall bring the third into fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name1, and I shall answer them. I shall say, ‘This is My people,’ while they say, ‘יהוה is my Elohim.’
The Lamb is the only one with seven eyes i.e. the Ruach to look into and reveal and opens the seven seals which were on the written Torah to reveal the blessing and the judgments written in it and its elements. The scroll was written faceward and behind just as the tablets of stone which Masha brought which were written by the finger of Aluahym on both sides.
Exo 24:8 And Mosheh took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “See, the blood of the covenant which יהוה has cut out/karath H3772 with you concerning all these Words.”
Hence Exo 24:8 shows the fulfillment of the promise of the cut out in Mashiyach.
Gal 4:4 But when the completion of the time came, Elohim sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under Torah,
Gal 4:5 to redeem those who were under Torah, in order to receive the adoption as sons.
Gal 4:6 And because you are sons, Elohim has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
Gal 4:7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of Elohim through Messiah.
If you are in Mashiyach then you are in the cut out/karath to eat the best parts in the basket/tabach
Heb 13:10 We have an altar/zabach from which those serving the Tent have no authority to eat.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Set-apart Place by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
Heb 13:12 And so יהושע also suffered outside the gate, to set apart the people with His own blood.
Heb 13:13 Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
Heb 13:14 For we have no lasting city here, but we seek the one coming.
Gen 15:18 On the same day יהוה cut out/karath H3772 a covenant with Aḇram, saying,
“I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates,
Gen 15:19 with the Qĕynite, and the Qenizzite, and the Qaḏmonite,
Gen 15:20 and the Ḥittite, and the Perizzite, and the Repha’im,
Gen 15:21 and the Amorite, and the Kenaʽanite, and the Girgashite, and the Yeḇusite.”
Heb 11:9 By belief,
he/Abraham sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥaq and Yaʽaqoḇ, the heirs with him of the same promise,
Heb 11:10 for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim.
Abraham understood the promise of the cut out/karath covenant spiritually when Yahuah told him " I have given the land to your seed....'' as the writer of Hebrews says Abraham sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger with Yitshaq and Yaaqob, the heirs with him of the same promise for he was looking for the city having foundations whose builder and maker is Aluahym i.e. Heavenly Yerushalayim.
Isa 8:14 “And He shall be for a set-apart place, but a stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling to both the houses of Yisra’ĕl, as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim.
Isa 8:15 “And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken and snared and taken.”
Isa 8:16
Bind up the witness,
seal the Torah among my taught ones.
Isa 8:17
And I shall wait on יהוה, who hides His face from the house of Yaʽaqoḇ. And I shall look for Him.
Isa 8:18 Look, I and the children whom יהוה has given me – for signs and wonders in Yisra’ĕl from יהוה of hosts, who dwells in Mount Tsiyon.
Rom 9:30 What shall we say then? That guym/nations (as in 12 tribes in dispersion) not following after righteousness, have obtained righteousness, even the righteousness of belief,
Rom 9:31 but Yisra’ĕl following after the Torah of righteousness, has not arrived at the Torah of righteousness.
Rom 9:32 Why? Because it was not of belief, but as by works of Torah. For they stumbled at the Stone of stumbling.
Rom 9:33 As it has been written, “See, I lay in Tsiyon a Stone of stumbling and a Rock that makes for falling, and everyone who is believing on Him shall not be put to shame.”
The seven seals on Torah which was sealed and is opened by Mashiyach alone revealing the Torah of Ruach of life with its blessings hidden, and the Torah of sin and death with its curses and judgments. The seven seals made way for the seven trumpets which made way for the seven dishes of wrath. Trumpets were used to be blown on the beginning of months, when sacrifices were offered, On Rosh Hashanah (festival of Trumpets), blowing to gather the assembly on high Shabbat convocations, wars etc. Again an element of Torah which many today are blowing on beginning of months, feast days, in assemblies etc showing their occupation with the fleshly element. I have heard some calling on the name Yahuah on facebook even say that they blow and their blowing dispels the demons/darkness associated in the environment.
Finally understanding the separation of Ruach from the flesh in the light of what we learnt, let's look at Yahual's/Joel's prophecy:
Joel 2:28 It shall be after this that I shall pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
Joel 2:29 Even on the male servants and on female servants I shall pour out My Ruach/Spirit
Joel 2:30 I shall display
wonders/mupath H4159 in the heavens and on the earth,
blood/dam H1818, fire/ash H784 and pillar/thamarah H8490 of smoke/ashan H6227.
Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood
before the great and awesome day of Yahuah comes.
Joel 2:32 And it shall be, that all who shall call on the name of Yahuah shall be delivered;
for on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalam there shall be those who escape, as Yahuah has said,
even among the survivors whom Yahuah calls.
There are few words I want the reader to look at closely in Joel 2:30 wonders, blood, fire and pillar of smoke. Below is the Paleo Hebrew word picture of the word 'mupath' which shows the 'piercing, death and separation of the piece '
Mupath: miracle/sign/wonder
Mupath has the root words 'path' which means perforate/hole/piece and 'muth' which means 'death'
Yahuah says he will show 'mupath/wonders' in the heavens/hashamayam and on earth/arets...immediately the carnal mind would look to the literal heavens for the wonder/sign/miracle just as when Yahusha told the Yahudites that the reign of the hashamayam/heavens doesn't come by observation for it is in the midst of you.
Luk 17:20 And having been asked by the Pharisees when the reign of Elohim would come, He answered them and said, “The reign of Elohim does not come with intent watching,
Luk 17:21 nor shall they say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’
For look, the reign of Elohim is in your midst!”
Luk 17:22 And He said to the taught ones, “Days shall come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of Aḏam, but you shall not see it.
Luk 17:23 “And they shall say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them, nor follow.
Hence the 'mupath/wonder' of blood, fire, pillar of smoke is related to the 'karath/cut out' covenant that Yahuah makes through the sacrifice.
Gen 15:17 And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that see, a
smoking/ashan H6227 oven/tannur H8574 and a burning/ash H784 torch/lapad H3940 passing/abar between those pieces.
If you notice Joel's prophecy says 'tamara ashan' translated as 'column/pillar of smoke' and Masha/Moses in Genesis 15:17 records 'tannur ashan' translated as 'oven of smoke', also Joel's prophecy only records 'fire/ash' and Masha records 'burning/ash torch/lapad or lapyad'. Let's look at these words closely:
'Tamarah': from 'Tamar' which means 'upright' just like a 'palm tree H8560 ' (the same word 'tamar' means 'palm tree'
'Tannur': fire pot, furnace, oven
When we read Yahual's prophecy where he uses the words dam/blood, ash/fire & 'tamarah ashan' translated as 'column/pillar of smoke' we spiritually see a picture of the sacrifice on the altar from where the blood flows and the sacrifice is offered as a burnt offering and from the burnt offering the smoke ascends to the heavens/hashamayam as a pillar/colum upright and we who are made whole from the bitterness of sin ascend/malah through the sacrifice. Yahual/Joel is showing the accomplishment of the covenant while Masha is showing the initiation and cutting out/karuth of the covenant. Hence 'Tannur ashan' shows us the 'smoke from the covenant light/lamp' passing through the pieces along with the fiery/ash torch/lapad to consume it.
Lapad/Lapyad:
Hebrew Root words ; 'Lad' means 'bear as in child' and we get the English word 'lad' for a small boy from here. 'Pad/padah' means ransom/redeem/deliver and 'yad' is the hand. The picture is of the child being ransomed by the hand from the fire just as Yitshaq was saved from the fire and a ram caught by its horns was caught in the bushes and Abraham named the place 'Yahuah yarah' which means ' Yahuah will be seen'. 'Lapyad' shows 'The fiery ransom'.
In Gen 15 we see the elements of sacrifice heifer, goat, ram, turtle dove and pigeon divided into two pieces by shedding of blood, except for the bird and Yahuah initiating the covenant by passing the the covenant light/lamp and smoke coming out of it and the fiery ransom.
Yahual lists blood, fire, pillar of smoke ascending upwards to the hashamayam/heaven. Now while we see the spirit/ruach in the letter, the letter itself kills as the blood of heifer, goat, ram, turtle dove and pigeon never could take away sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those offerings is a reminder of sins year by year.
Heb 10:4 For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Therefore, coming into the world, He says, “Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.
Heb 10:6 “In burnt offerings and offerings for sin You did not delight.
Heb 10:7 “Then I said, ‘See, I come – in the roll of the book it has been written concerning Me – to do Your desire, O Elohim.’ ”
Heb 10:8 Saying above, “Slaughter and meal offering, and burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor delighted in,” which are offered according to the Torah,
Heb 10:9 then He said, “See, I come to do Your desire, O Elohim.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By that desire we have been set apart through the offering of the body of יהושע Messiah once for all.
The elements of the physical pointed to the spiritual and hence those ending up in the flesh by eating lamb on Pesach, those occupied in the physical elements of Torah will have to face the wrath of Aluahym. While Yahual's/Joel's prophecy shows blood, fire, pillar of smoke, the prophecy also shows the division of the ruach sacrifice of Mashiyach in the physical sacrifices which was accomplished just as in the same way in Abraham's account in Gen 15 shows us that the covenant is cut out/karath from the physical ('tannur ashan and ash lapad').
Yahuah shows us in the dabar of the smoke of the affliction ascending of those occupied in the fleshly.
Rev 14:11 And the smoke/ashan of their affliction goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night,
those who worship the living creature/chayah and his image/tsalamah, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
The word 'tsalam' which means image also means 'shadow' as in 'shadow of the original'. The picture is of those occupied in the physical elements of Torah after the Ruach essence of it has been fully accomplished by Yahusha ha Mashiyach, their affliction arises as a smoke going up forever and ever not having the rest.
Rev 9:2 And he opened the deep well, and smoke went up out of the well,
as the smoke of a great furnace;
and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the well.
Rev 9:3
And out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth,
and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
nor any green thing, nor any tree,
but only the men who do not have the seal of the Elohim on their foreheads.
The messenger opened the 'tahum/deep baar/well' and there came smoke which obscured the sun and the air, and out of this smoke came the arbah/locusts afflicting those not sealed with the seal of Aluahym.
The arbah H697 locusts also mean ambush/lie in wait H693/H695/H696.
Rev 20:3 and he threw him/shatan into the deep/tahum, and shut him up and sealed it over him,
so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed;
after these things he must be released for a short time.
Shatan was the one lying in wait for the right opportunity to get people into the flesh, if you notice he was cast into the 'tahum' translated as 'deep' for a thousand years. The thousand years is a 'fullness of time' as numbers 10,100 & 1000 in scriptures shows 'fullness/completeness'
Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came,
the Elohim sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Torah,
Shatan first tried to kill Mashiyach when he was born, when he failed he tried to tempt him to sin, when he failed he got the Yahudites to hate him and impale him on the stake, when he realized this was the plan and purpose of Aluahym as it was prophesied he in wrath drew to the woman Yerushalayim but Yahuah in his wisdom separated the Ruach Yerushalayim from the carnal Yerushalayim. While the Ruach Yerushalayim sees the accomplishment by her Redeemer Yahusha ha Mashiyach the carnal Yerushalayim as Hagar sits with her children in the bondage of the physical elements. That is the picture we see here.
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory, for these women are two covenants:
the one from Mount Sinai which genders to slavery; she is Hagar.
Gal 4:25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Yerushalam,
for she is in slavery with her children.
Gal 4:26 But the Yerushalam above is free; she is the mother of us all.
Shaul had to write the epistle to the Galatian assembly as many of them having begun in the Ruach were going back to the flesh, this is exactly what we see even today. Many professing Yahuah are hallowing the physical elements of written Torah like lamb sacrificing on Pesach, removing literal leaven from houses during Unleavened bread and only eating physical unleavened bread, wearing tsitsits, outer robes as priests, using relics with torah portions engraved, putting up booths during Sukkot etc whereas this all has already been accomplished in fullness by our Savior.
That's why we see Yahual/Joel saying blood, fire, columns of smoke showing both the physical and the spiritual in it, and the very next verse says
Joel 2:30 I shall display wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, fire and columns of smoke.
Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood
before the great and awesome day of Yahuah comes.
The smoke ascending up causes the sun to turn into blackness and the moon into blood, Did you know that moon looks blood if there is thick smoke out of a fire in the atmosphere?
The pillar of smoke rising up is of the elect in Mashiyach as well as the affliction of the people not having the seal of Yahuah, all rising from the sacrifice....the bulls/goats/heifer sacrifice (physical) vs the one sacrifice of Mashiyach which is the upright smoke ascending into heaven as a sweet fragrance.
If you are able to see this WONDER/MUPATH of the blood, fire and pillar of smoke ascending we are at the very close of the end as Yahuah is showing us what is befalling as signs he spoke about right before our eyes 'before the great and awesome day of Yahuah'.
There are many other elements described in the book of Revelation of which we cannot go in detail. These are sufficient to show us that with the failure to endure and transit from the testing program of the written Torah to flee to Mashiyach will result in the wrath of the Almighty. Those professing Yahusha and going back to theses elements, you can't be on middle ground. Either you are with the weak and poor elements which couldn't save our fathers or either you are in the renewal in Mashiyach who alone saves us and is the fulfillment of these shadows and types, There is no middle ground. Adam is earthy and the earthy tabernacle has to make way for the spiritual and heavenly tabernacle who is Mashiyach, he is the fulfillment of the types and shadows. Shalum.
