Preface
The following exposition delves into the profound spiritual and typological significance of Nebuchadnezzar's dream as recorded in Daniel 4:19–25, with a particular focus on its interpretation through a Hebraic lens. The passage, centered on Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of a great tree, its destruction, and the stump bound with iron and bronze, is not merely a historical account of a Babylonian king's humbling but a layered prophetic narrative. It foreshadows the rise and fall of spiritual Babylon, termed "Mystery Babylon," and its ultimate judgment.
This study explores the dream’s imagery, such as the tree, the Watcher, and the "seven times," alongside key Hebrew (Abary) and Chaldean terms like shah (hour/gaze), shaba (seven/oaths), and iddan (time). These terms reveal a deeper spiritual meaning, connecting the physical events to eschatological themes found in the Book of Revelation and other prophetic scriptures. The interpretation also draws parallels to the minchah (grain offering), the tamyid (continual offering), and the role of Yahusha as the ultimate fulfillment of these sacrificial patterns. By examining the text through its linguistic roots and typological implications, this analysis seeks to uncover the hidden spiritual truths embedded within the narrative, emphasizing Yahuah’s sovereignty, the consequences of human rebellion, and the redemptive work of Yahusha.
Dan 4:19 Then Dani’ěl, whose name was Bělteshatstsar, was stunned for one/chad 𐤇𐤃 H2298 hour/shah H8160 𐤔𐤏𐤄 , and his thoughts alarmed him. The sovereign responded and said, “Bělteshatstsar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.” Bělteshatstsar answered and said, “My master, the dream is to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your enemies!
Dan 4:20 “The tree you saw, which became great and strong, whose height reached to the heavens and was visible to all the earth,
Dan 4:21 whose leaves were lovely and its fruit plenty, and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and on whose branches the birds of the heavens sat –
Dan 4:22 it is you, O sovereign, for you have become great and strong. And your greatness has grown, and has reached to the heavens and your rulership to the end of the earth.
Dan 4:23 “And as the sovereign saw a Watcher/iyr 𐤏𐤉𐤓 H5894 , even a set-apart one, coming down from the heavens, and he said, ‘Hew down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of the heavens, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven/shaba 𐤔𐤁𐤏𐤉 H7655 times/iddan 𐤏𐤃𐤍 H5708 pass over him’ –
Dan 4:24 this is the interpretation, O sovereign, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my master the sovereign:
Dan 4:25 “That you are going to be driven away from men, and your dwelling be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like oxen, and you be wetted with the dew of the heavens, and seven times pass over you, till you know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and that He gives it to whomever He wishes.
Dan 4:24 this is the interpretation, O sovereign, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my master the sovereign:
Dan 4:25 “That you are going to be driven away from men, and your dwelling be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like oxen, and you be wetted with the dew of the heavens, and seven times pass over you, till you know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and that He gives it to whomever He wishes.
One: chad 𐤇𐤃 H2298 (Chaldee); corresponding to Abary chad 𐤇𐤃 H2297; as cardinal one; as article single; as ordinal first; adverbially at once: - a, first, one, together.
From achad 𐤀𐤇𐤃 H259: A numeral from H258; properly united, that is, one; or (as an ordinal) first: - a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any (-thing), apiece, a certain [dai-] ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together.
Hour: shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8160 (Chaldee); from a root corresponding to Abary 𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8159; A primitive root; to gaze at or about (properly for help); by implication to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered: - depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.; properly a look, that is, a moment: - hour.
Watcher: Chaldee word H5894- iyr 𐤏𐤉𐤓 -Corresponding Abary word is ;ur 𐤏𐤅𐤓 H5782' A primitive root (rather identical with H5783 through the idea of opening the eyes); to wake (literally or figuratively): - (a-) wake (-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Seven: shibah H7655 𐤔𐤁𐤏𐤄 (Chaldee); corresponding to Abary shaba 𐤔𐤁𐤏 H7651: - seven (times).
shaba: Abary 𐤔𐤁𐤏 H7650 A primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651; to seven oneself, that is, swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times): - adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full [by mistake for H7646], take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.
Times: iddan 𐤏𐤃𐤍 H5732 (Chaldee); from a root corresponding to that of ad 𐤏𐤃 H5708; a set time; technically a year: - time.
ad 𐤏𐤃 H5708: From an unused root meaning to set a period (compare H5710 and H5749); the menstrual flux (as periodical); by implication (in plural) soiling: - filthy.
Nebuchadnezzar's dream & it's interpretation:
Nebuchadnezzar the king, in the days of his flourishing sees a dream and calls for all his magicians, astrologers etc. and asks them to interpret his dream for him and none of them could except Daniel. In his dream is hidden the spirit in the letter. While Daniel explained to him his dream which was physically fulfilled, a closer look at some of the words and a spiritual comparison will show us what is hidden within.
The Dream:
Dan 4:10 “Now the visions of my head on my bed were these: I looked, and saw a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height great.
Dan 4:11 “The tree became great and strong, and its height reached to the heavens, and it was visible to the ends of all the earth.
Dan 4:12 “Its leaves were lovely, and its fruit plenty, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
Dan 4:13 “In the visions of my head on my bed, I looked and saw a Watcher, even a set-apart one, coming down from the heavens.
Dan 4:14 “He cried aloud and said this, ‘Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.
Dan 4:15 But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of the heavens, and let his portion/chalaq 𐤇𐤋𐤒 H2508 be with the living/𐤇𐤉𐤅𐤀 H2423 on the grass of the earth.
Dan 4:16 Let his heart be changed from man’s, let him be given the heart of a beast, and seven times pass over him.
Dan 4:17 This judicial sentence/𐤐𐤕𐤂𐤌 H6600 is by the decree/gezarah 𐤂𐤆𐤓𐤄 H1510 of the watchers/iyrim 𐤏𐤉𐤓𐤉𐤌 H5894, and a prayer/shilah 𐤔𐤀𐤋𐤀 H7595 by the decree/mamar 𐤌𐤀𐤌𐤓 H3983 of the set-apart ones, so that the living know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and gives it to whomever He wishes, and sets over it the lowest of men.’
Nebuchadnezzar saw a great & strong tree in his dream under whose shade the beasts found rest in its shade & the birds dwelt in its branches & a Watcher, a set-apart one came down from heaven & told to cut down the tree, its branches, strip off its leaves, scatter its fruit, let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches. But to leave a stump of the tree in the earth with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the earth & let it be wet with the dew of heaven until seven times pass over it,
It's interpretation:
As per Daniel's interpretation in his dream, the king of Babylon was told that he would have a portion with the living of the field and the kingdom will be taken away from him but the stump of the roots of his kingdom will be left in the earth with a band of iron and brass and will be wet with the dew of heaven until seven times pass over him. The king was made to be like a beast as per the interpretation given him by Daniel and then was restored back to power after the fulfillment of the number of days but this is not the end of it, through this vision Elohim paints a spiritual picture and we can see what the beastly kingdom of Babylon represents in its typology for Mystery Babylon.
'IRON AND BRASS' is symbolic of STRENGTH. Here are a few examples from Elohim's word:
De 33:24 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. 25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
De 8:9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Job 40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Ps 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Jer 6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
The decree was the decree of the watchers (corresponding Abary words taken against the Chaldee Abary):
Dan 4:17 This judicial sentence/𐤐𐤕𐤂𐤌 H6599 is by the decree/gezarah 𐤂𐤆𐤓𐤄 H1510 of the watchers/ur 𐤏𐤅𐤓 H5782, and a prayer/shaal 𐤔𐤀𐤋 H7592 by the decree/mamar 𐤌𐤀𐤌𐤓 H3982 of the set-apart ones, so that the living/chayah 𐤇𐤉𐤄 H2417 know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and gives it to whomever He wishes, and sets over it the lowest of men.’
pathgam 𐤐𐤕𐤂𐤌 H6599 - Of Persian origin; a (judicial) sentence: - decree, sentence.
Decree : gezarah 𐤂𐤆𐤓𐤄 H1510 (Chaldee); From 𐤂𐤆𐤓 H1505 (as H1504); a decree: - decree. 'gazar' also means an axe.
A primitive root; to cut down or off; (figuratively) to destroy, divide, exclude or decide: - cut down (off), decree, divide, snatch.
Watcher: Chaldee word H5894- iyr 𐤏𐤉𐤓 -Corresponding Abary word is ;ur 𐤏𐤅𐤓 H5782' A primitive root (rather identical with H5783 through the idea of opening the eyes); to wake (literally or figuratively): - (a-) wake (-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
decree/mamar 𐤌𐤀𐤌𐤓 H3982 From amar 𐤀𐤌𐤓 H559; something (authoritatively) said, that is, an edict: - commandment, decree.
Living: chayah 𐤇𐤉𐤄 H2417 plural form of the singular chay 𐤇𐤉. Daniel 4:15 also says let his portion/chalaq 𐤇𐤋𐤒 H2505 be with the living /chayah 𐤇𐤉𐤄 H2417 of the grass of the earth. Chalaq in Abary means 'divide'.
The living creature is seen throughout the book of Revelation translated as 'beast'
The judicial sentence (Persian word pathgam 𐤐𐤕𐤂𐤌) shows the decree is irreversible and the axe had to be put to the tree by the awakened ones (watchers 𐤏𐤅𐤓) as it was a prayer (shaal 𐤔𐤀𐤋) by the edict (mamar 𐤌𐤀𐤌𐤓) of the set-apart ones. The picture seen here is that the Watcher of the watchers executes the prayer made by the set-apart ones in fulfilling their prayer. For it was not yet the time for this kingdom to destroy those dwelling on the face of the earth. There was still a time left. The seven times passing over the stump of the tree shows the 'seven oaths' (shaba 𐤔𐤁𐤏 also means oaths) had a set witness time (ad 𐤏𐤃-also means witness or a woman's mensuration flux).
Daniel says he was astonished for 'one (𐤇𐤃) hour (𐤔𐤏𐤄)'.
chad (𐤇𐤃) is a cardinal one in a count & the Abary word 'shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8159'; is a primitive root; to gaze at or about (properly for help); by implication to inspect,
Gen 4:3 And it came to be, in the end/qats 𐤒𐤑 H7093 of season/yom 𐤉𐤅𐤌 H3117, that Qayin brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to יהוה.
Gen 4:4 And Heḇel also brought of the first-born of his flock and of their fat. And יהוה looked/'shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8159' to Heḇel and his grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503,
Gen 4:5 but He did not look/'shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8159' to Qayin and his grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503. And Qayin was very wroth, and his face fell.
The word translated as 'hour' is also the same word used for 'gaze/look/have regard/respect'. Hebel's minchah offering caught the gaze of Yahuah while Qayin's didn't. The offering was a voluntary offering at the end of a season, probably pointing to the end of a agricultural season.
Lev 6:15 Then he shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour/salat H5560 of the grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503, with its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503, and he shall make it as incense on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its memorial offering/azakartah H234 to יהוה.
Lev 6:16 ‘Then Aharon and his sons eat the rest of it. It is eaten with unleavened bread, in the set-apart place. They eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:17 ‘It is not baked with leaven. I have given it to them as their portion of My offerings made by fire, it is most set-apart, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Lev 6:18 ‘All the males among the children of Aharon eat it – a law forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire to יהוה. All that touches them is to be set-apart.’ ”
This 'minchah offering' is LIKENED to the poorest mans sin/guilt offering but is not the sin or guilt offering. The one who couldn't afford a lamb/ram/goat etc. had an option of offering a pair of two turtle doves/two young pigeons (still a blood sacrifice) but even if they couldn't offer a pair of two turtle doves/two young pigeons could still offer an offering made by fine flour. Let's see what the Torah portion says:
Lev 5:11 ‘But if he is unable to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour as a sin offering. He puts no oil on it, nor does he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
Lev 5:12 ‘And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his hand filled with it as a remembrance portion, and burn it on the altar according to the offerings made by fire to יהוה. It is a sin offering.
Lev 5:13 ‘And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has sinned in any of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And it shall be the priest’s, like a grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503.’ ”
The difference between the sin offering of ephah of fine flour and minchah offering was that in the ephah of fine flour offering which was a sin offering no oil or frankincense could be added (Lev 5:11) and in the 'minchah offering' oil and frankincense were to be added.
Lev 2:1 ‘And when anyone brings a grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 to יהוה, his offering is to be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it,
Lev 2:2 and he shall bring it to the sons of Aharon, the priests, and he shall take from it his hand filled with fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial offering on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.
Leviticus 2 gives a detailed description of what was to be included in the 'minchah offering'
Lev 2:1 ‘And when anyone brings a grain offering to יהוה, his offering is to be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it,
Minchah offering ingredients: It should have oil and frankincense (Lev 2:1, Lev 2:15), no leaven and honey in it (Lev 2:11), should be first-fruits (Lev 2:12), not to be burned on the altar of incense (Lev 2:12) for the minchah offering was to be offered on the altar of burnt offering (Exo 40:29), add salt to it (Lev 2:13), if it's first-fruits then green heads of grain roasted on fire, crushed heads of new grain (Lev 2:14).
Lev 6:16 ‘Then Aharon and his sons eat the rest of it. It is eaten with unleavened bread, in the set-apart place. They eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 6:17 ‘It is not baked with leaven. I have given it to them as their portion of My offerings made by fire, it is most set-apart, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Lev 6:18 ‘All the males among the children of Aharon eat it – a law forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire to יהוה. All that touches them is to be set-apart.’ ”
This 'minchah offering' is LIKENED to the poorest mans sin/guilt offering but is not the sin or guilt offering. The one who couldn't afford a lamb/ram/goat etc. had an option of offering a pair of two turtle doves/two young pigeons (still a blood sacrifice) but even if they couldn't offer a pair of two turtle doves/two young pigeons could still offer an offering made by fine flour. Let's see what the Torah portion says:
Lev 5:11 ‘But if he is unable to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour as a sin offering. He puts no oil on it, nor does he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
Lev 5:12 ‘And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his hand filled with it as a remembrance portion, and burn it on the altar according to the offerings made by fire to יהוה. It is a sin offering.
Lev 5:13 ‘And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has sinned in any of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And it shall be the priest’s, like a grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503.’ ”
Lev 2:1 ‘And when anyone brings a grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 to יהוה, his offering is to be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it,
Lev 2:2 and he shall bring it to the sons of Aharon, the priests, and he shall take from it his hand filled with fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a memorial offering on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.
Exo 29:38 “And this is what you prepare on the altar: two lambs, a year old, daily/yom yom 𐤉𐤌𐤉𐤌 H3117, continually/tamyid 𐤕𐤌𐤉𐤃 H8548.
Exo 29:39 “Prepare the one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb you prepare between the evenings,
Exo 29:40 and one-tenth of an ĕphah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering, with the one lamb.
Exo 29:41 “And prepare the other lamb between the evenings. And with it prepare the grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to יהוה –
The minchah offering was always had to be offered along with the burnt offering.
Exo 40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 , as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Qayin's minchah missed the mark, it was missing what Hebel's minchah had and hence Elohim is testifying of Hebel's gift ( minchah-Heb 11:4). Though the Torah came written later with the description of the ingredients & the do's and don'ts of the minchah offering, it like any other dabar came from the word of mouth from the father to the son before the Torah came written. Hence, we see Yahuah telling Qayin Gen 4:7.......And if you do not use aright, sin is lying at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must rule it.
The traditionalists teach a half truth stating Qayin should have offered only a lamb to do it correctly. Traditionalists never teach about the minchah offering. The proof is within the text itself when we understand the Abary words used correctly. If Qayin would have used all the ingredients as taught to him, his minchah would have been also accepted but it missed mark and sin is missing the mark.
Exo 29:39 “Prepare the one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb you prepare between the evenings,
Exo 29:40 and one-tenth of an ĕphah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering, with the one lamb.
Exo 29:41 “And prepare the other lamb between the evenings. And with it prepare the grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to יהוה –
The minchah offering was always had to be offered along with the burnt offering.
Exo 40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 , as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Qayin's minchah missed the mark, it was missing what Hebel's minchah had and hence Elohim is testifying of Hebel's gift ( minchah-Heb 11:4). Though the Torah came written later with the description of the ingredients & the do's and don'ts of the minchah offering, it like any other dabar came from the word of mouth from the father to the son before the Torah came written. Hence, we see Yahuah telling Qayin Gen 4:7.......And if you do not use aright, sin is lying at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must rule it.
The traditionalists teach a half truth stating Qayin should have offered only a lamb to do it correctly. Traditionalists never teach about the minchah offering. The proof is within the text itself when we understand the Abary words used correctly. If Qayin would have used all the ingredients as taught to him, his minchah would have been also accepted but it missed mark and sin is missing the mark.
Lev 2:1 ‘And when anyone brings a grain offering to יהוה, his offering is to be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it,
Minchah offering ingredients: It should have oil and frankincense (Lev 2:1, Lev 2:15), no leaven and honey in it (Lev 2:11), should be first-fruits (Lev 2:12), not to be burned on the altar of incense (Lev 2:12) for the minchah offering was to be offered on the altar of burnt offering (Exo 40:29), add salt to it (Lev 2:13), if it's first-fruits then green heads of grain roasted on fire, crushed heads of new grain (Lev 2:14).
Exo 40:29 And he put the slaughter-place of ascending offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Appointment, and offered upon it the ascending offering and the grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
Based on Exo 40:29 & Gen 4:3 we understand that Qayin went first in offering his minchah offering as a voluntary yearly produce of his labor and offered it some missing ingredients of the minchah offering , hence his offering didn't catch the eye of Yahuah but Hebel's caught the eye of Yahuah. The text of Gen 4 doesn't state the ingredients used when he offered the minchah offering. Hence, we cannot assume which one of these he missed. Not following instructions given doesn't catch the eye of Yahuah and is immediately caught by ha shatan. Jude mentions wicked men having gone in the way of Qayin. While one may look at Qayin as a murderer which is true but the way of Qayin is missing the mark as he had no regard to the Torah of Yahuah taught to him by his father Adam, or else he would have done the right thing.
Jud 1:11 Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bil‛am for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qoraḥ.
Tamyid 𐤕𐤌𐤉𐤃 H8548: Continual or Daily
Num 28:3 “And you shall say to them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you bring to יהוה: two male lambs a year old, perfect ones, daily, a continual/tamyid 𐤕𐤌𐤉𐤃 H8548 ascending offering.
Num 28:4 The one lamb you prepare in the morning, and the other lamb you prepare between the evenings,
Num 28:5 with one-tenth of an ěphah of fine flour as a grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil,
Num 28:6 a continual ascending offering which was offered at Mount Sinai for a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to יהוה,
Numbers 28:2-6 as Exodus 29:38-41 clearly outlines that the minchah is an offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and frankincense (sweet fragrance only comes through frankincense), symbolizing a need for a tamyid daily before and after a sin offering was made. It was not a sin offering. Remember in a sin offering no oil and frankincense was to be added (Lev 5:11). It always went along with the lambs. Gen 4 text doesn't show Qayin offered a lamb with his minchah offering but we should also understand that what Qayin and Hebel offered was not a daily offering but a year end produce.
The Tamyid offerings — with their accompanying lamb, minchah (grain) and nesekh (drink) — started & bookended the daily Temple service. No other offerings were to be offered before and after the tamyid offering.
When Moses was given the Torah, he was told to make the pattern exactly in the way it was shown to him.
Exo 25:40 “So see, and do according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.
If Yahuah has to gaze upon something, it has to be in the way He has instructed. Weren't Nadab and Abihu killed for offering incense offering using strange fire (Lev 10:1-2) i.e. the fire of the incense offering on its altar had to be sourced from the burnt offering altar. What Yahuah will not gaze at is 'sin lying at the door' i.e. ha shatan occupying it.
Hence, the chad (𐤇𐤃) hour (𐤔𐤏𐤄) Daniel was astonished was when he futuristically saw how carnal man would disobey Yahuah's instructions and would result in Mystery Babylon making its way into the ephah.
The woman in the ephah:
Zec 5:5 And the messenger who was speaking with me came out and said to me, “Lift up your eyes now, and see what this is that is going forth.”
Zec 5:6 And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “It is an ěphah-measure that is going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance throughout the earth:
Zec 5:7 “And see, a lead cover lifted up, and this: a woman/ashah 𐤀𐤔𐤄 H802 sitting inside the ěphah-measure!”
Zec 5:8 And he said, “This is Wrongness/rashah 𐤓𐤔𐤏𐤄 H7564!” And he threw her down into the ěphah-measure, and threw the lead weight over its mouth.
Zec 5:9 And I lifted up my eyes, and looked and saw two women, coming with the wind in their wings. And they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ěphah-measure between earth and the heavens.
Zec 5:10 Then I said to the messenger who was speaking to me, “Where are they taking the ěphah-measure?”
Zec 5:11 And he said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shin‛ar. And it shall be established and set there on its own base.
rashah 𐤓𐤔𐤏𐤄 H7564 translated as wickedness/wrongness is a feminine form of rasha 𐤓𐤔𐤏 H7562 & means the same. The primitive root is rasha 𐤓𐤔𐤏 H7561 & means to be (causatively do or declare) wrong; by implication to disturb, violate: - condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked (-ly, -ness).
If we drop the resh (𐤓) from rashah 𐤓𐤔𐤏𐤄 H7564 we get 'shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄' and this shows us the woman termed as wickedness is sitting as the rosh (head) in the ephah offering. Where is the ephah being taken? Zec 5:11 And he said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shin‛ar. And it shall be established and set there on its own base. Shinar is in Babylon.
Hence, it is very important for us to understand that what is not gazed by Yahuah is taken over by ha shatan. The woman is the wife/ashah 𐤀𐤔𐤄 H802 which people say is bride who comes saying she is the bride of the rosh but is wickedness.
Isa 4:1 And in that day seven/shaba 𐤔𐤁𐤏 H7651 women/nashaym 𐤍𐤔𐤉𐤌 or ashayam 𐤀𐤔𐤄𐤉𐤌 H802 shall take hold of one man/ish 𐤀𐤉𐤔 H376, saying, “We shall eat our own food and wear our own clothes; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.”
Tamiyd opening and closing offering:
We see the spiritual significance and the fulfillment of Torah when Yahusha hung on the stake.
Yahusha was impaled at the third hour
Mar 15:25 And it was the third hour, and they impaled Him.
In Yahudite timekeeping, the day starts around 6:00 AM. Hence, third hour would mean 9:00 AM. This was the exact time the tamiyd lamb offering along with its minchah & drink offering was offered. The fire of the brazen altar was taken along with incense in his hands by the high priest or an appointed chief priest and offered on the incense altar which was before the Most Set-Apart place and this too was a tamiyd offering.
Exo 30:1 “And you shall make a slaughter-place to burn incense on, make it of acacia wood,
Exo 30:2 a cubit long and a cubit wide – it is a square – and two cubits high, its horns of the same.
Exo 30:3 “And you shall overlay its top, and its sides all around, and its horns with clean gold. And you shall make for it a moulding of gold all around.
Exo 30:4 “And make two gold rings for it, under the moulding on both its sides. Make them on its two sides, and they shall be holders for the poles to lift it with.
Exo 30:5 “And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
Exo 30:6 “And you shall put it before the veil that is before the ark of the Witness, before the lid of atonement that is over the Witness, where I am to meet with you. Exo 30:7 “And Aharon shall burn on it sweet incense, morning by morning. As he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it.
Exo 30:8 “And when Aharon lights the lamps between the evenings, he shall burn incense on it – a continual/tamiyd 𐤕𐤌𐤉𐤃 H8548 incense before יהוה throughout your generations.
Elohim brought darkness over the whole land between the 6th to the 9th hour.
The 9th hour was the last tamiyd burnt offering of the lamb along with its minchah and drink offerings. The fire of the brazen altar was taken along with incense in his hands by the high priest or an appointed chief priest and offered on the incense altar which was before the Most Set-Apart place.
Matthew 27:45 / Luke 23:44 / Mark 15:33 — "From the sixth hour to the ninth hour, darkness came over all the land."
Sixth hour was 12:00PM and Ninth hour was at 3:00PM
Elohim brought darkness over the whole land from 12:00PM to 3:00PM thus bringing the morning and the evening daily sacrifice of the lamb with its minchah offering of a sweet fragrance (shows frankincense was added but not mentioned in the Exo 29:38-41 passages) making it one in Yahusha who is the LAMB who was tamiyd. The wine as the drink offering signifies the renewed covenant in Him as renewed wine in renewed wine skins and the minchah offering as the sweet savor of the grain seed offering.
Imagine the plight of the chief priest who was offering the incense on the altar at the 9th hour when the veil of the Most Set-Apart place tore in two. When the veil was torn from top to bottom, it was the mark of a fulfillment of the tamyid/continual offerings as Yahusha fulfilled them ALL.
Tamiyd:
tam 𐤕𐤌 H8535 in Abary means complete, perfect, undefiled, plain, upright|
yad 𐤉𐤃 H3027 in Abary means hand, by, him, power, tenons, thee, coast, side| {strongs: 3027, 3028, 3197}
The perfect hand of Yahusha accomplished the daily.
The 9th hour:
Luk 1:8 And it came to be, that while he (ZecharYah) was serving as priest before Elohim in the order of his division,
Luk 1:9 according to the institute of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to burn incense when he went into the Dwelling Place of יהוה.
Luk 1:10 And the entire crowd of people was praying outside at the hour of incense.
Luk 1:11 And a messenger of יהוה appeared to him, standing on the right side of the slaughter-place of incense.
Act 3:1 And Kěpha and Yoḥanan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Act 10:3 He clearly saw in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of Elohim coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Pslams 22:1 is an extract from the prophetic words of Yahusha Ha Mashiyach uttered at the 9th hour, exactly when the incense offering was been offered.
1. (22:2 in Heb.) ‘Eli ‘Eli lamah azab’tani rachoq mishuathi dib’rey sha’agathi.Ps 22:1 My El, my El, why (lamah 𐤋𐤌𐤄) have You forsaken me ( azabtani 𐤏𐤆𐤁𐤕𐤍𐤉 H5800)? Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning.
Matthew 27:46 & Mark 15:34 are narration of the actual fulfillment with a quote from Psalms 22:1
Matthew 27:46 & Mark 15:34 are narration of the actual fulfillment with a quote from Psalms 22:1
'Shabaqtani 𐤔𐤁𐤒𐤕𐤍𐤉' is an Aramaic word and those who stood by didn't understand the Adon's utterance in Hebrew & Aramaic or else they would have understood Psalms 22:1 being fulfilled right before their eyes. Instead, they thought he is calling the prophet Alayahu (Elijah).
This can be further seen as translators transliterated Matthew's text into the Greek as Hebrew “Eli” & Aramaic 'shabaqtani' and translators deemed Mark's text to be transliterated completely in Aramaic with the words Elahi & 'shabaqtani'
The translators who copied over the texts nevertheless interpret it entirely into Hebrew using the original word 'azabtani' as stated in Psalms 22:1
Mark 15:34 At the ninth hour Yahusha cried out with a loud voice, “Elahi, Elahi, Lamah Shabaqtani?” which is interpreted, “My El, My El, why have You forsaken/azabtani Me?”
However, the evidence is clearer that Yahusha on the stake uttered the Hebrew and Aramaic together (as Matthew records) to show His elect what He meant by the cry. Remember, the cry was at the 9th hour, the hour of incense.
Shab 𐤔𐤁 is Turn around.
Shabaq 𐤔𐤁𐤒- Left alone.
We have the Ezra texts in Aramaic and the word 'shabaq' is translated here as 'Leave alone'. The letter of Cyrus to the governor Tattenay, Shethar-Bozenay, their officials & colleagues beyond the river are told to 'leave alone' the work of this house to the governor of the Yahudim and the elders of the Yahudim who are to build this house. Hence, positionally the governor of Medes Persia and his officials were to carry out the work but it's switched to the governor of Yahudim and their elders.
Ezra 6:6 Now therefore, Tattenay, governor of the province beyond the river, Shethar-Bozenay and your colleagues, the officials of the provinces who are beyond the river, be you far from there.
Ezra 6:7 Leave alone/shabaq 𐤔𐤁𐤒 H7662 the work on this house of the Elohim, let the governor of the Yahudim and the elders of the Yahudim build this house of the Elohim on his place.
The cry of Mashiyach has a deep breath of the Ruach.
Shabaq 𐤔𐤁𐤒 /Turned away for long or left me here for a long time.
The Aramaic Peshitta uses the same word 'shabaqtani' in Luke 10:40, the Hebrew translation uses the word 'azabtani'
Luke10:40 Martha was worn out by serving so much, so she approached Him and said, “My Adon, do You not place it on your heart, that my sister has left me alone (Aramaic: shabaqtani, Hebrew: azabtani) to serve? Please tell her to lend me some support.”
azabtani: azab 𐤏𐤆𐤁 H5800 is usually used as when one leaves family or house behind.
Matt19:29 “And any man who has left behind/azab houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for My name’s sake, he shall receive a hundred times, and shall inherit eternal life.”
Mark 10:29 And Yahusha answered and said, “Truly, I say to you that there is no one who has left behind/azab his house or his brothers or his sisters or his father or his mother or his wife or his children or his fields, for My sake and for the sake of the good news”
Ninth : 𐤕𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8672 The second form is the masculine of the first; perhaps from H8159 𐤔𐤏𐤄 through the idea of a turn to the next or full number ten; nine or (ordinal) ninth: - nine (+ -teen, + -teenth, -th).
The word 'ninth' in Abary is the word 'tishah 𐤕𐤔𐤏𐤄' and has the root word 'shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8159', the word which we saw Yahuah gazed/looked/had respect/regarded the minchah. 'Tisha 𐤕𐤔𐤏𐤄' contains the turn to the full number ten. The 'tau (𐤕) is the covenant and hence, 'tishah' has concealed in it 'a covenant gaze'
In our previous study on watches of the night we saw the night watches
1. 1st watch :evening 6PM to 9PM
2. 2nd watch: midnight watch 9PM to 12AM
3. 3rd watch: cock crowing watch 12AM to 3AM
4. 4th watch: morning watch 3AM to 6AM
The ninth hour of the night time (around 3 AM) overlaps with the "cockcrow" (rooster crowing) — the end of the 3rd watch and start of the 4th. That’s why Peter's denial is associated with that time (Mark 13:35, Mark 14:72).
Hence we see a 9 - 9 connection between the day and night which is significant as 'Elohim gazed or revered /shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄 H8159' the tamiyd fulfillment of Yahusha's sacrifice at the 9th hour of the day & Psa 90:4 shows us 1000 years = 1 day = 1 watch & we identified the watch in the night to be the cockcrowing watch which was the power of darkness as stated by Yahusha to the chief priests during his trial followed which the cock crowed after Kepha denied him three times.
'For a thousand years in Your eyes Are like a day cut short, Or like a watch/ashmarah 𐤀𐤔𐤌𐤓𐤄 H821 in the night' where the word ashmarah has the root words 'ash 𐤀𐤔' which means fire, 'shamar 𐤔𐤌𐤓' which means guard, 'marah 𐤌𐤓𐤄' which means bitter & 'ashah 𐤀𐤔𐤄' which means 'wife'. The wife is guarded from the fire and bitter water of jealousy'.
Luk 22:52 And יהושע said to those who had come against Him, the chief priests and captains of the Set-apart Place and the elders, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
Luk 22:53 “While I was with you daily in the Set-apart Place, you did not lay hands on Me. But this is your hour and the authority of darkness.”
Luke22:54 They captured Him and led Him away and brought Him to the house of the high priest;. Petros (Kepha) was following after Him at a distance.
Silence in heaven for half an hour:
Rev 8:1 And when He opened the seventh seal, there came to be silence in the heaven for about half an hour.
Rev 8:2 And I saw the seven messengers who stand before Elohim, and to them were given seven trumpets.
Rev 8:3 And another messenger came and stood at the slaughter-place, 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 slaughter-place 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 slaughter-place, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
In Revelation/Chazun 8 we see the significance of the incense hour with the seventh seal being opened. There was silence in heaven for about half an hour shows an interruption of the tamyid (physical) & replaced by the tamyid (spiritual) by Yahusha Himself. The Messenger at the slaughter-place is an imagery of Yahusha whose incense as sweet fragrance was revered/gazed upon offered along with the prayers of the set-apart ones. This is a clear indication that Yahusha is the Watcher whom Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream, whose judicial sentence (Persian word pathgam 𐤐𐤕𐤂𐤌) shows the decree is irreversible and the axe had to be put to the tree by the awakened ones (watchers 𐤏𐤅𐤓) as it was a prayer (shaal 𐤔𐤀𐤋) by the edict (mamar 𐤌𐤀𐤌𐤓- a command from the top) of the set-apart ones. The picture seen here is that the Watcher of the watchers executes the prayer made by the set-apart ones in fulfilling their prayer. When Nebuchadnezzar saw the dream it was not yet the time for this kingdom to destroy those dwelling on the face of the earth. There was still a time left. The seven times passing over the stump of the tree shows the 'seven oaths' (shaba 𐤔𐤁𐤏 also means oaths) had a set witness time (ad 𐤏𐤃-also means witness) now being fulfilled as the daily/tamyid which would continue in the temple and its carnal ordinances & shemitah would now be replaced by ha shatan setting up the Mystery Babylon the Mother of all harlots. The opening of the 7th seal shows the 7 oaths tied to a shemitah were now opened in our understanding.
Rev 8:5 And the messenger took the censer and filled it with the fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake.
Exo 20:18 And all the people perceived the voices, the thunders, the lightning flashes, the voice of the shophar, and the mountain smoking. And the people saw it, and they trembled and stood at a distance,
Rev 8 uses the same terminology as when the Torah was given but here in Rev 8 we must understand the fulfilment of the tamiyd according to Torah was accomplished and the fire of the altar was cast to the earth (to the carnal).
Mark 14:37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Petros (Kepha), “Shimeon, are you sleeping? Are you not able to watch for one (Greek: mia G3391 Abary: achath 𐤀𐤇𐤕) hour (Greek: hora G5610 Abary: shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄)?”
The tamyid (physical) was transitioning to the spiritual in Yahusha, and during this 9th hour of the night Yahusha asks Kepha "Are you not able to watch for one hour?"
Rev 17:12 “And the ten horns which you saw are ten sovereigns who have not yet received a reign, but receive authority as sovereigns with the beast/living creature for one (Greek: mia G3391 Abary: achath 𐤀𐤇𐤕) hour (Greek: hora G5610 Abary: shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄)
mia G3391: Irregular feminine of G1520; one or first: - a (certain), + agree, first, one, X other.
hora G5610: from where we get our English word 'hour'. Apparently a primary word; an “hour” (literally or figuratively): - day, hour, instant, season, X short, [even-] tide, (high) time.
The 'one hour' shows that the rule of Mystery Babylon is with the living creature translated as 'beast' in the book of Revelation. The gaze/shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄 is now of ha shatan as he occupies the 'hour' in a continual imitation termed as 'tamyid'.
Rev 9:13 And the sixth messenger sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden slaughter-place which is before Elohim,
Rev 9:14 saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, “Release the four messengers, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.”
Rev 9:15 And the four messengers, those having been prepared for the hour (Greek: hora G5610, Abary: shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄) and day (Greek: hemera G2250 Abary: yom 𐤉𐤅𐤌) and month (Greek: mane G3376, Abary: chodesh 𐤇𐤃𐤔) and year, (Greek: eniautos G1763,Abary: shanah 𐤔𐤍𐤄) were released to kill a third of mankind.
While the Greek words lose their essence because we need to see the significance of the river Euphrates where a book written with all the evil that is to come on Babel was written by YarmeYahu and sunk in the midst of the Euphrates with a stone tied to it.
Jer 51:60 So Yirmeyahu wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Baḇel, all these words which have been written concerning Baḇel.
Jer 51:61 And Yirmeyahu said to Serayah, “When you come to Baḇel and see it, and read all these words,
Jer 51:62 then you shall say, ‘O יהוה, You have spoken concerning this place to cut it off, so that none shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, for it is a ruin forever.’
Jer 51:63 “And it shall be, when you have ended reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the midst of the Euphrates,
Jer 51:64 and shall say, ‘So does Baḇel sink and not rise from the evil that I am bringing upon her, and they shall weary themselves.’ ” Thus far are the words of Yirmeyahu.
Rev 16:12 And the sixth messenger poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order to prepare the way of the sovereigns from the east.
Rev 16:13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as frogs,
Rev 16:14 for they are spirits of demons, doing signs, which go out to the sovereigns of the entire world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of יהוה the Almighty.
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.”
Rev 16:16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Har Meḡiddo.
To understand the terminology of the Euphrates water being dried up and the way of the kings of the east being prepared has to be understood a bit looking at the history of Yahudah.
Yarmeyahu repeatedly prophesies Babylon’s coming, but again, it often refers to Babylon as coming from the north, though Babylon was east of Yahudah. Then why not the east? Babylon was located in Mesopotamia, near the Euphrates River. In ancient YasharEL facing east, was the Yarden river, the Syrian desert & then Babylon & Persia.
Babylon’s eastern position is reflected in several biblical moments. In Ezekiel 8:16, the prophet sees men facing east toward the sun—symbolizing idolatry connected with Babylonian and eastern worship.
Eze 8:16 And He brought me into the inner court of the House of יהוה. And there, at the door of the Hěḵal of יהוה, between the porch and the slaughter-place, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the Hěḵal of יהוה and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing themselves eastward to the sun.
In Genesis 11:2, people “migrated from the east” and settled in Shinar (Babylon).
If Babylon was to the east of Yerushalayim, then why is it called as coming from the north?
Jer 1:14 And יהוה said to me, “Out of the north evil is set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.
Jer 1:15 “For look, I am calling all the clans of the reigns of the north,” declares יהוה. “And they shall come and each one set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Yerushalayim, against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Yehuḏah.
Jer 6:22 Thus said יהוה, “See, a people shall come from the land of the north, and a great nation is stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth,
Though Babylon was east of Yahudah, the invasion route followed the Fertile Crescent. Armies would go northwest up the Euphrates, then swing south down through Syria into YasharEL, thus approaching from the north. So in military terms, Babylon attacked from the north, even though its homeland was east. That’s why prophets like Yarmeyahu, Ezekiel, and Zecharyah consistently refer to “the north” as the source of judgment—even when the empire is Babylonian or Assyrian? Even though Babylon is geographically east of Yahudah, armies didn’t take a straight line east-to-west across the Syrian Desert — it was harsh, dry, and lacked water or food. Instead, ancient armies (and travelers) followed the Fertile Crescent so that they would get food and water for their armies and beasts. Medes Persia also was far east and took the same path when they conquered kingdoms under the Babylonian rule. The Euphrates River is one of the two major rivers in Mesopotamia (the other being the Tigris). So if you're in ancient YasharEL, the Euphrates is to the northeast and east
Gen 15:18 On the same day יהוה made 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,
The Euphrates is a distant eastern marker in relation to Canaan. When we read Rev 16:12 we must understand the historical setting because beyond the Euphrates is the east, which matches the geographic reality: if you're crossing the Euphrates toward YasharEL, you're coming from the east.
From Herodotus's "Histories", specifically in Book I, Chapter 191. In this account, Herodotus describes how Cyrus the Great diverted the Euphrates River during the siege of Babylon in 539 BCE. By lowering the river’s level, his army was able to march through the riverbed, entering the city and ultimately capturing it. The links to read is below:
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D191
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2707/2707-h/2707-h.htm#linknoteref-191
Now we can understand the symbolism of Euphrates drying up making way for the kings of the earth. Not that physically Medes and Persia would attack Babylon and then come into YasharEL but it all ties up spiritually of what is stated in Revelation 16:12. The symbolism used is of a dramatic prophetic reversal — a tearing down of the old geographic limits. What was once a protective buffer (the Euphrates) is now dried up, clearing the way for shatan's end-time forces from the east to directly confront the Mystery Babylon system spiritually. Remember we read YarmeYahu 51:60-64 where he wrote in a book all the evil that Yahuah would bring upon Babylon and tied a stone to the book and sank it in the Euphrates. Elohim is combining the historical fact of how Medes Persia overthrew Babylon and symbolically stating what was written in the book by Yarmayahu His prophet and sunk in Euphrates was now being unleashed.
Rev 16:13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as frogs,
Rev 16:14 for they are spirits of demons, doing signs, which go out to the sovereigns of the entire world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of יהוה the Almighty.
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.”
Rev 16:16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Har Meḡiddo.
The dragon, beast and the false prophet are imageries of ha shatan's working in taking over everything that is left by Yahuah in the carnal/fleshly pattern.
Isa 14:12 “How you have fallen from the heavens, O Hělěl,c son of the morning! You have been cut down to the ground, you who laid low the nations!
Isa 14:13 “For you have said in your heart, ‘Let me go up to the heavens, let me raise my throne above the stars of Ěl, and let me sit in the mount of appointment on the sides of the north;
Psa 48:2 Beautiful on high, The joy of all the earth, Is Mount Tsiyon on the sides of the north, The city of the great Sovereign.
What comes out from their mouths? Blasphemies against the Most High and against His Tabernacle and those dwelling in it.
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.”
Rev 16:16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Har Meḡiddo.
Yahusha is giving a warning that He is coming as a thief, we have touched based this. Who is He coming as a thief? Those who are not guarding the watch. If the dragon, beast, false prophet, Euphrates drying up, kings of the east are all symbolic and typology used, then verse 16 Har Megiddo which the carnal call as battle of Armageddon is also a spiritual battle.
What happened in Har Megiddo?
The “mourning at Megiddo” mentioned in Zechariah 12:11 refers to a significant event of national mourning in YasharEL’s history, and it is generally understood as an allusion to the death of King YoshiYahu/Josiah, who was killed at Megiddo.
Zec 12:10 “And I shall pour on the house of Dawiḏ and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim a spirit of favour and prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son. And they shall be in bitterness over Him as a bitterness over the first-born.
Zec 12:11 “In that day the mourning in Yerushalayim is going to be great, like the mourning at Haḏaḏ Rimmon in the valley of Meḡiddo.
2Ch 35:20 After all this, when Yoshiyahu had prepared the House, Neḵo sovereign of Mitsrayim came up to fight against Karkemish by the Euphrates. And Yoshiyahu went out against him.
2Ch 35:21 And he sent messengers to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, sovereign of Yehuḏah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am fighting, for Elohim commanded me to make haste. Leave Elohim alone, who is with me, lest He destroy you.”
2Ch 35:22 However, Yoshiyahu would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself to fight against him, and did not listen to the words of Neḵo from the mouth of Elohim, and came to fight in the Valley of Meḡiddo.
2Ch 35:23 And the archers shot at Sovereign Yoshiyahu. And the sovereign said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded.”
2Ch 35:24 And his servants took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Yerushalayim. And he died, and was buried in one of the burial-sites of his fathers. And all Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim were mourning for Yoshiyahu
2Ch 35:25 And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Yoshiyahu in their lamentations, and made it a law in Yisra’ěl. And see, they are written in the Laments.
King YoshiYahu's/Josiah’s fall (609 BC) was Israel’s last moment of true reform before exile. His death in battle drew “great lamentation”
If YoshiYahu fell in 609BC and Yahuyaqim/Jehoachim reigned (2Chr 36:3-7) for 11 years, how was the Babylonian captivity of Daniel happen in 605BC?
1. YahuYahaz/Jehoahaz (son of YoshiYahu/Josiah) reigns 3 months before being deposed by Pharaoh Necho (2 Chr 36:1-4)
2. Jehoiakim (another son of YoshiYahu/Josiah) is installed by Pharaoh Necho and reigns 11 years (609–598 BC) — 2 Chr 36:5
3. In Jehoiakim’s 3rd or 4th year, Nebuchadnezzar comes to Jerusalem — this is where Daniel's exile fits in (Dan 1:1-2).
The Battle of Carchemish occurred in 605 BC, where Nebuchadnezzar II (then crown prince of Babylon) defeated the Egyptians and began asserting Babylonian dominance in the Levant (which included Judah).
Right after that victory, Nebuchadnezzar marched into Yahudah and besieged Yerushalayim — not yet destroying it, but taking hostages (like royal family and nobility — Daniel among them).
Coming back to YoshiYahu: There was no king before him or after him that brought so many reforms in YasharEL. These reforms are recorded primarily in 2 Kings 22–23 and 2 Chronicles 34–35.
1. Repairing the Temple: Ordered the high priest Hilkiah to use collected funds to repair the Temple in Jerusalem (2 Kings 22:3–7; 2 Chr 34:8–13).
2. During this restoration, the Book of the Law (likely Deuteronomy or an early Torah portion) was discovered. After reading the Book of the Law, Yoshiyahu tore his clothes in grief (2 Kings 22:11).
3. He sought prophetic counsel from Huldah the prophetess, who confirmed Yahudah’s coming judgment but assured Yoshiyahu would die in peace (2 Kings 22:14–20).
4. Yoshiyahu gathered all the people and renewed the covenant with Yahuah, vowing national obedience to the Law (2 Kings 23:1–3).
5. Religious Purges (Idolatry Cleansed):
a. Removed vessels made for Baal, Asherah, and the host of heaven from the Temple and burned them (2 Kings 23:4).
b. Deposed idolatrous priests (kemarim) who had been appointed by previous kings (v.5).
c. Destroyed high places where unauthorized worship occurred (v.8)
d. Broke down the houses of male cult prostitutes near the Temple (v.7)
e. Burned the Asherah pole from the Temple (v.6).
f. Defiled Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom, where children were sacrificed to Molech (v.10).
g. Removed horses and chariots dedicated to the sun (v.11)
h. Smashed altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz (v.12)
i. Destroyed Yeroboam’s altar at Bethel, fulfilling the prophecy from 1 Kings 13 (2 Kings 23:15–20)
1Ki 13:1 And see, a man of Elohim went from Yehuḏah to Běyth Ěl by the word of יהוה, while Yaroḇ‛am was standing by the slaughter-place to burn incense.
1Ki 13:2 And he cried out against the slaughter-place by the word of יהוה, and said, “O slaughter-place, slaughter-place! Thus said יהוה, ‘See, a son is to be born to the house of Dawiḏ, Yoshiyahu is his name. And on you he shall slaughter the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones be burned on you.’ ”
j. Desecrated high places throughout Samaria and slaughtered the idolatrous priests (2 Kings 23:19–20).
6. National Passover Restoration:
a. Celebrated the greatest Passover since the days of Samuel (2 Chr 35:18).
b. Unified participation from both Yahudah and remnant of YasharEL (2 Chr 35:17).
c. Every detail followed as written in the Law of Moses (2 Chr 35:12).
7. Suppression of Mediums and Spiritualists: Removed necromancers, mediums, household gods, idols, and abominations throughout Judah (2 Kings 23:24).
The ZacharYah 12 prophecy likens lamentation made for YoshiYahu to identifying his Yahuah (who before Yoshiyahu was even born had named him who would destroy Yeroboam's altar & carry out all His reforms) who would be pierced (as Yahusha). ZecharYah uses it to set a standard: future mourning will be just as intense—but with the hope of divine restoration. For us it especially points ahead to repentance over the “Pierced One” (Yahusha our Elohim) and anticipates the final turning of the nations back to their King.
In comparison to Revelation 16:16, ZecharYahu 12's mourning at Megiddo sets a pattern of tragedy + repentance + deliverance, while Revelation 16’s Armageddon (in Greek)/Har Meggido (in Hebrew) is the gathering of evil for judgment. ZecharYahu sees the people of Elohim mourning and turning back to Him after they realize they have pierced their own Messiah who is Yahuah in a transitioned form. Revelation sees the enemies of Elohim gathered for battle against the revelation of who Yahusha is & the renewing of the true intent of the Covenant , influenced by Satan and his demons. It suggests two sides of the same mountain—one for those who repent and are saved, and one for those who rage and are judged.
Coming back to Revelation 9: The voice came from the four horns of the golden altar (incense altar) which was before Elohim Rev 9:13. A typology used for the actual incense altar which was:
1. Inside the Set-Part Place (not the Most Set-Apart place)
2.Placed directly before the veil that separated the Set-Apart Place from the Ark of the Covenant
3.Used twice daily for burning incense (Exodus 30:1–10)
4.Made of acacia wood overlaid with gold, with four horns on its corners (Exodus 30:3)
The four messengers bound at Euphrates : The number 4 in scripture means universal and depicts the people identifying with Yahusha scattered to the four corners of the earth were now going to be part of Mystery Babylon while the remnant will be saved and brought as the minchah offering back to Yahusha. These 4 messengers were prepared for a hour/shah, day/yom, month/chadash & year/shanah.
The Abary understanding gives a meaning which is an eye opener for discernment.
1. shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄-translated as 'hour', we saw was 'gaze upon/look/reverence
2. yom 𐤉𐤅𐤌-translated as 'day' is also figuratively a space of time defined by an associated term a age/continually/daily/season/year
3. chadash 𐤇𐤃𐤔 translated as 'month' also means 'new moon (phases of a moon in a complete cycle repetitive), H2318 rebuild, repair, renew
4. shanah 𐤔𐤍𐤄 translated as 'year' also means a year (as a revolution of time): - + whole age, X long, + old. Same word H8138 A primitive root; to fold, that is, duplicate (literally or figuratively (); by implication to transmute (transitively or intransitively): - do (speak, strike) again, alter, double, (be given to) change, disguise, (be) diverse, pervert, prefer, repeat, return, do the second time.
The four messengers bound at Euphrates fulfill the words written by YarmeYahu about Babel & they go out to deceive those identifying with Yahusha in a fleshly appeasement as in showing what they are doing is being revered (shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄) by Elohim, hence, it becomes a part of the daily (yom 𐤉𐤅𐤌), looking at cycles of the moon (chadash 𐤇𐤃𐤔 ) to determine feast days & doing it repeatedly(shanah 𐤔𐤍𐤄). This is the judgement meted out as it says in Rev 17:12...... but receive authority as sovereigns with the beast/living creature for one (Abary: achath 𐤀𐤇𐤕) hour (Abary: shah 𐤔𐤏𐤄)
While the remnant who were sealed and the 4 messengers told to hold the 4 winds/ruachoth until the servants of Elohim were sealed. And those who were sealed were 1,44,000 (12 x 12 x 1000) where number 12 is for the tribes of Elohim both from the OT and Renewed covenant x their complete number denoted by 1000.
Rev 7:1 And after this I saw four messengers standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds/ruachoth 𐤓𐤅𐤇𐤅𐤕 of the earth, that the wind/ ruach 𐤓𐤅𐤇 should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Rev 7:2 And I saw another messenger coming up from the rising of the sun, holding the seal of the living Elohim. And he cried with a loud voice to the four messengers to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,
Rev 7:3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees until we have sealed the servants of our Elohim upon their foreheads.”
Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of all the tribes of the children of Yisra’ěl:
Revelation 7 goes on to quote the 12 tribes out of which 12,000 from each tribe were sealed.
Eph 2:2 in which you walked in them in the generation of this world, according to the desire of the prince of the power of the air and it is the spirit/ruach 𐤓𐤅𐤇 now working in the sons of disobedience.
Isa 66:20 “And they shall bring all your brothers as an grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 to יהוה out of all the Gentiles on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,” declares יהוה, “as the children of Yisra’ěl bring a grain offering/minchah 𐤌𐤍𐤇𐤄 H4503 in a clean vessel into the House of יהוה.
The one hour of judgment:
Rev 18:10 standing at a distance for fear of her torture, saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city Baḇel, the mighty city, because your judgment has come in one hour!’
Rev 18:11 “And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their merchandise any more –
Rev 18:12 merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stone and pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all citron wood, and every object of ivory, and every object of most precious wood and bronze and iron and marble,
Rev 18:13 and cinnamon and incense, and fragrant oil and frankincense, and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and cattle and sheep, and horses and carriages, and bodies and lives of men.
Incremental count from our perspective but actually is the same time period measure:
i.e. hour = day = month = year. It all happens in a season.
gaze/shah the seasonal/yom offering in a renewed month/chadash of the year/shanah
Lastly, when we read the book of Chazun we see Elohim put the 12 tribes into a shemitah calculated by Yahusha the Watcher.
12 x 7 leading to Mashiyach in a transition. 12 x 7 =84 also written as 42 + 42, where 42 = 1260 days/3.5 years/time, times and dividing of time which shows Daniel's 70th week has a period of witness in its first half and period of carnal man occupying the temple as Elohim in its second half.
Hannah waited 84 years in faithful service to see Messiah. Here we see she lived with her husband for 7 years and she was a widow of 84 years old.
Luk 2:36 And there was Ḥannah, a prophetess, a daughter of Penu’ěl, of the tribe of Ashěr. She was advanced in years, and had lived with a husband seven years from her maidenhood,
Luk 2:37 and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not leave the Set-apart Place, but served Elohim with fastings and prayers night and day.
This moment is huge because Anna and Simeon were among the first witnesses to recognize Yahusha as the promised Redeemer.
1.Tribe of Asher = "happy/blessed"
2. Hannah = “grace”
3. Phanuel (her father) = “face of Elohim”
A woman named Grace, from the tribe called Happy, daughter of Face of Elohim, sees Messiah after waiting 84 years in prayer and devotion. That’s some poetic beauty seen in this picture.
Images depicting the 1260 x 2 / 42 x 2/3.5 x 2
Image 1: Daniel's 70th week covered in Consolidated view: Timelines to Yahusha, Day 1 to 7 of Creation & Daniel's 70 weeks
Image 2: One hour symbolism
