Yahuah vs Baal:
Baal H1167 בַּעַל means lord, master or husband
Karmel means fruitful field/full green ears of of corn
Lev 2:14 And if you offer an oblation of your firstfruits unto Yahuah, you shall offer for the oblation of your firstfruits green ears of grain dried by the fire, את even grain beaten out of full ears/karmel H3759
In the firstfruits festival the Yasharalites were commanded not to eat the bread nor parched grain nor green ears/karmel of the new harvest until they had offered from the new harvest to Yahuah
Lev 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears/karmel H3759, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your Elohiym: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Yahusha is the firstfruits over all creation and also firstfruits from the dead. The minchah offering and the firstfruits offerings all pointed to Him
EliYahu's altar on Mount Karmel:
1Ki 18:30 And Eliyahu said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of Yahuah that was broken down.
1Ki 18:31 And Eliyahu took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Ya`aqov, unto whom the Word of Yahuah came, saying, Yashar’el shall be your name:
1Ki 18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahuah: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
1Ki 18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the ascending smoke sacrifice, and on the wood.
1Ki 18:34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
1Ki 18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
1Ki 18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Eliyahu the prophet came near, and said, Yahuah Elohai of Avraham, Yitschaq, and of Yashar’el, let it be known this day that you are Elohiym in Yashar’el, and that I am your servant, and that I have done את all these things at your word.
1Ki 18:37 Hear me, O Yahuah, hear me, that this people may know that you are Yahuah Elohiym, and that you have turned their heart back again.
1Ki 18:38 Then the fire of Yahuah fell, and consumed the ascending smoke sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
1Ki 18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Yahuah, he is Elohiym; Yahuah, he is Elohiym.
EliYahu built the altar with 12 stones representing the 12 tribes of Yasharal as Yahuah had told Yaaqob
"...unto whom the Word of Yahuah came, saying, Yashar’el shall be your name" 1Kings 18:31
The 12 tribes referred to are the Covenanted Yasharal
EliYahu made a trench around the altar. The Abary word translated as trench is talah תְּעָלָה H8585 which has the root word alah עָלָה H5927 which means to ascend, intransitively (be high)
The tau ת before the word along with alah עָלָה shows a covenant of the deep rising out of Sheol towards resurrection and it's Mashiyach who rose from the dead.
While the pieces of the bullock were placed on the wood where wood stands in typology as the stake/cross and the bullock פר stands in typology for Mashiyach's death as par פר is rooted in aparath אֶפְרָת which means ash heap or fruitfulness and is rooted in Aparyam/Ephraim who received the firstfruits berekah being the younger brother. Scriptures portray Aparyam/Ephraim representing the 10 lost tribes of the house of Yasharal in many places
Aparyam אֶפְרַיִם
Fruitful: אפרת (aparath) H672 and פרה ( parah ) H6509
The water was poured over the blood shed bullock (to portray this is he who is to come by water and blood) again a confirmation that it's Yahusha who would come by water and blood
1Kings 18:32 states he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
The shanayam שנים or shathayam שתים seah סְאָה where shanayam or shathayam means repeat/dual/two fold and seah סאה means measures
The two fold measures were as of a seed /zerah זרע H2233 which shows Mashiyach and we in Him as the firstfruits
The water was poured three times
1Ki 18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the ascending smoke sacrifice, and on the wood.
1Ki 18:34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
1Ki 18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the ascending smoke sacrifice, and on the wood.
1Ki 18:34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
1Ki 18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
The three times shows that Mashiyach Yahusha was in the heart of the earth denoted by the word talah תעלה H8585 ( Remember we saw the word alah עלה rooted which means to ascend or rise up) translated as trench from where He rose up and we rise up in Him being partakers of the first resurrection
1Ki 18:38 Then the fire of Yahuah fell, and consumed the ascending smoke sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Fire represents judgement, cleansing, testing, consummation
The fire falling on the sacrifice, the wood, the twelve stones by which the altar was made of ( representing 12 tribes), the dust and water in the trench shows the judgement, fiery trial and consummation which Yahusha alone will endure and we being in Him would be cleansed and sanctified by the fiery trial while the whole world outside of Yahusha ha Mashiyach would be destroyed by the fire and they represent the dust from where carnal man was made of
The fire to fall:
2Pe 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of Elohiym the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
2Pe 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of wicked men.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with Yahuah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 Yahuah is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of Yahuah will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all purity of conversation and holiness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of Elohiym, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for a renewed heavens and a renewed earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
Scriptures teach that the earth stands on pillars and in the water and outside the waters
Job 9:6 Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.
1Sa 2:8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are Yahuah’s, and he has set the world upon them.
Psa 75:2 When I shall receive the assembly I will judge uprightly.
Psa 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah!
While many see this as metaphorical, when we see Kepha saying that the earth stands out of the water and in the water is only possible with the earth having pillars.
Scriptures are also silent on number of pillars the earth stands on but the pieces of the puzzle as seen in the altar made from 12 stones as a base shows the earth stands on 12 pillars representing the 12 tribes of Yasharal by which the earth is elevated above the waters.
We also see the clue from New Yerushalayim which is the renewed purified earth having 12 pillars as foundations for its wall, 12 gates and furthermore it says the length, breadth and height were of the same measure of 12,000 furlongs/stadion where number 12 again stands for 12 tribes and number 1000 their complete number
Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Rev 21:16 And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand stadion. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal
Coming back to Kepha, he says that the earth was destroyed by water and the heavens and the earth which are now are reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of wicked men.
The same thing we saw with the altar made by EliYahu where he first poured water over it and then the fire fell from Yahuah out of heaven on the sacrifice, the wood, the 12 stones, the dust and licked up all the water in the trench.
Yahusha Himself taught that everyone shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Mrk 9:49 For everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
The earth stands in the depths of the oceans and seas which is water having salt. When the fire of Yahuah falls it will consume the wicked people who are like sacrifice without the covenant of salt while the waters on which the earth stands is salted and consumed by the fire.
Mrk 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Lev 2:13 And every offering of your oblation shall you season with salt; neither shall you suffer the salt of the covenant of your Elohiym to be lacking from your oblation: with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Lev 2:14 And if you offer an oblation of your firstfruits unto Yahuah, you shall offer for the oblation of your firstfruits green ears of grain dried by the fire, את even grain beaten out of full ears/כַּרְמֶל karmel
The Torah portion clearly teaches that the firstfruits offering should not lack the seasoning of salt and the offering of firstfruits was of green ears/karmel.
It's only in Yahusha that the kind of firstfruits ie. We have the seasoning of the salt and salt is a cleanser
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures
We are kind of firstfruits of His creatures
It's now in Mashiyach to be salted and purified by the cleansing fire as those outside of Yahusha ha Mashiyach would be saltless and consumed by the fire of Yahuah's wrath when the elements of the heavens and earth will melt with the fervent heat.
Kepha ties all this to one day with Yahuah is as thousand years and thousand years as one day.
The Genesis account shows Yahuah created the earth and the heavens in 6 days and He rested on the 7th day where each day represents a thousand years of creation which He designed to be found in Him. But all will not find Him. Man was created on the 6th day to journey into His rest through a purification by fire process into His rest ie. The 7th day which is the 7,000th year.
People outside the covenant fall short of this rest and never come out of the trench to rise up (talah/ תלעה).
Psa 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psa 90:5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Psa 90:6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.
Psa 90:7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
Psa 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
Psa 90:9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Moses as a mediator between Yasharal and Yahuah pleads the cause of Yasharal before Yahuah and likens their state as of the wicked that perish in the wrath of Yahuah.
Psa 90:13 Return, O יהוה! How long? And be sorry for Your servants.
The typology has the fate of all Baal/master, lord or husband who did not make Yahuah their Master, Husband and Adon and has those whose hearts turned back to Yahuah and their salvation in Yahusha who alone endured the wrath of Elohim by making us firstfruits in Him.
Finally Shaul the emissary pleads that as offer our bodies as a living sacrifice to the Adon which is our reasonable service
Rom 12:1 I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Elohiym, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto Elohiym, which is your reasonable service.
Speaking of the tongue Yaaqob the emissary says the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity which defiles the entire body
Jas 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
Jas 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of Gey Hinnom.
In the parable of the rich man and Alazar, the rich man requests Abraham to send Alazar to dip his finger in water to cool his tongue.
Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Avraham, have mercy on me, and send El`azar, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
The mouth has to render by confession the Adon Yahusha our Yahuah in repentance and is termed as the 'bull/par פר H6499 of our lips'
Hos 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to El־Yahuah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the bull of our lips.
This is only possible when the body is surrendered to Mashiyach Yahusha as a living sacrifice as the elements of it is cleansed by the cleansing fire. For the wicked it's not so, for their tongue confesses Baal /master,lord or husband other than the true Adon and husband Yahusha our Yahuah.
