I enjoy these readings very much, especially your insights from Hebrew. Your revelations of God as an intimate and loving presence are both curious and delightful. Curious, because the King James was my first Bible, and yet I’ve always known God as an intimate and tender-hearted presence: just but merciful. Delightful, because you validate my first memory verse, “God is love,” and my first Sunday School song, “Jesus Loves Me, This I Know.”
You inspired a thought on “uncircumcised lips.” Circumcision being a sign of Abraham’s belonging to God, Moses’s statement resonates as a speech impediment as well as a spiritually unworthy voice for God. I suppose both can be true. Regardless, language is metaphorical, and that makes the Word an unfathomable mine for beginning to know our beautiful Adonai, whose ways are not our ways.
31:38 -- "Because of their shortness of breath." It brings up once again the shades of meaning associated with the Hebrew word "ruach." As it is the English translation seems quite awkward; one might say it can't be right.
Owen Barfield (British lawyer, friend of Tolkien, member of Inklings) wrote a book "Poetic Diction" in which he advanced the idea that certain words of great antiquity, such as Hebrew "ruach" and Greek "pneuma," although they can now be translated in slightly different ways (breath, wind, spirit) actually had an original undifferentiated meaning, something closer to breath/wind/spirit all rolled together.
What the word seems to represent here recalls Genesis, where the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters: the Spirit of God: as in the active, living, creative force of God -- the essence of God, one might say. It also recalls something someone else said, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!" Looking briefly at other translation attempts I see "discouragement" and "anguish of spirit" used. I don't think that quite captures the shade of meaning here. Shortness seems to be used not as a mere measure of length, but more generally as in the idea of inadequacy. I would understand this as trying to convey the idea of their lack of attunement with the will/breath/wind/spirit of God. The physical exhaustion is entirely secondary.
We also recall "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God."
Thank you for reading this to us and sharing the Hebrew version. It’s very enlightening, and I believe is how our heavenly Father wants to interact with us … in a warm manner. An old testament scripture says that He will whisper in our ear and tell us when to go left and when to go right which I have always believed, and have seen the results when embracing those urgings or releasing them
I’m looking forward to hearing what the Hebrew language says about the parting of the Red Sea. I was taught that it was step-by-step and not one grand parting.
I think step-by-step is how it feels for our challenges and would have been incredibly awe inspiring and require amazing faith one step at a time.
Many blessings to you and your wonderful husband for all that you both do. Wishing you great prosperity in your soul and materially as you are held in the palm of our precious and loving God.
Understanding that LOVE is energetic and not just emotion is the way to keep the military from controlling me. It is my belief that the military knows this. The military is who "they" are in the language I was given. THEY is a pornoun. It is my understanding that is why all the fuss about pronouns. It is a means of control....using we, they, us, in the language I was given, keeps me from staying in the present I AM. If humans can understand and learn how to stay in the present, and not the past, nor worry about the future, "they" cannot control. Does anyone else know this on this thread? More will know soon.
....I know God's word...it is in me...in my heart and mind. There is no power in a book that teaches me about God. God is the power of all the universe. To suppose that the power of God is in a book
would keep me tethered to the book, not God. Church and the bible are the means of learning more about God...but the love and goodness that God gives me goes way beyond a book...or an organized religion. God created the human to involve into higher knowledge...of God. That knowledge, for me, comes from being One with God. When my mind and heart connect with God, no man has control over me. No institution or government. I become "aware" of God in a deeper more personal relationship. It is so for many, but not all. It may not bee for you. What I have learned from this closeness is that I was taught that Love is emotion. That teaching, along with other instructions, was one of control. I now know that Love is not only emotion, but Love is energy. I can work with that, and God can work thru me...in LOVE. It is so powerful...the energetic influence of LOVE.
All throughout B’reishit/Genesis, יהוה appears. There are even quotes of people using the name of God (for example, B’reishit 16:5 where Sarai says to Avram, “…Let יהוה judge between you and me.”)
The (English) translation I mostly read now is called The Scriptures, a translation by the Institute for Scripture Research. They translate Shemoth/Exodus 6:3 as a question: “… And by My Name, יהוה, was I not known to them?”
This makes a lot more sense to me. The Scriptures translation actually keeps the Hebrew spelling of יהוה so it is easy to pick it out all through B’reishit/Genesis. It seems clear that God HAD revealed Himself to Avram by his name, which they used in conversation.
יהוה doesn’t appear in B’reishit/Genesis 1, but starting in chapter 2, it begins to appear regularly.
I don’t speak Hebrew, although I can read it and pick out words here and there that I know, so I’d be interested to hear you thoughts on this.
As far as the “New Testament,” there are no “testaments” in the Bible anywhere. It is a mistranslation. For the text of the Hebrew writers who were associates of Yeshua, I HIGHLY recommend the translation by a friend of mine named Daniel Gruber called the Messianic Writings. You will not regret getting a copy of it, Naomi.
I am just finishing the writings of Paul Anthony Wallis....it's a whole new perspective on the Torah! I still go to shul and I still say my prayers, but I like to think of the "Creator of all in the Cosmos" rather than the old 'yod-hey-vav-hay' figure, that I am suddenly seeing in a very different light....Wallis describes the Genesis scenario as a world that has just been through a major cataclysm (tohu v'vohu) (Younger Dryas?) and the "RUACH" is the 'wind-producing machine' that separates the fresh water from salt, and terraforms the land...what he writes makes a ton of common sense to me. The KAVOD is a spaceship (the "glory" of G-d)... Not that I don't love the stories in our Bible (I do!) but wow, Wallis opens a much more coherent story. If you are not afraid to dig deeper into the stories we've been told.....Wallis makes sense. But the true stories make more sense from his take on the scenes. I think everyone by now ought to realize there were nuclear weapons and Sodom and Gomorrah were not the only very early civilizations leveled by them.....Ezekiel's story! Enoch's story! wow.
I grew up with the teachings of the bible, and Jesus. As I grew older and wiser,
I dropped the bible, but kept Jesus in my heart. My heart is now connected to my mind. God in in both. Why are you teaching from the bible, when it was only to learn about Jesus...not replace Him? the bible and church are a means to learn more about God. Yet you would have me learn from the bible...and not listen to my heart, where God resides? As I have God in my heart, that is where I receive my directions....that and intuition. For if the heart and the mind are connected, God is with me always.
I enjoy these readings very much, especially your insights from Hebrew. Your revelations of God as an intimate and loving presence are both curious and delightful. Curious, because the King James was my first Bible, and yet I’ve always known God as an intimate and tender-hearted presence: just but merciful. Delightful, because you validate my first memory verse, “God is love,” and my first Sunday School song, “Jesus Loves Me, This I Know.”
You inspired a thought on “uncircumcised lips.” Circumcision being a sign of Abraham’s belonging to God, Moses’s statement resonates as a speech impediment as well as a spiritually unworthy voice for God. I suppose both can be true. Regardless, language is metaphorical, and that makes the Word an unfathomable mine for beginning to know our beautiful Adonai, whose ways are not our ways.
Blessings to you, and thank you.
You keep saying the Catholic Bible. Is there a difference between that and the NIV that I have? or the King James that many Protestants use?
31:38 -- "Because of their shortness of breath." It brings up once again the shades of meaning associated with the Hebrew word "ruach." As it is the English translation seems quite awkward; one might say it can't be right.
Owen Barfield (British lawyer, friend of Tolkien, member of Inklings) wrote a book "Poetic Diction" in which he advanced the idea that certain words of great antiquity, such as Hebrew "ruach" and Greek "pneuma," although they can now be translated in slightly different ways (breath, wind, spirit) actually had an original undifferentiated meaning, something closer to breath/wind/spirit all rolled together.
What the word seems to represent here recalls Genesis, where the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters: the Spirit of God: as in the active, living, creative force of God -- the essence of God, one might say. It also recalls something someone else said, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!" Looking briefly at other translation attempts I see "discouragement" and "anguish of spirit" used. I don't think that quite captures the shade of meaning here. Shortness seems to be used not as a mere measure of length, but more generally as in the idea of inadequacy. I would understand this as trying to convey the idea of their lack of attunement with the will/breath/wind/spirit of God. The physical exhaustion is entirely secondary.
We also recall "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God."
Thank you for reading this to us and sharing the Hebrew version. It’s very enlightening, and I believe is how our heavenly Father wants to interact with us … in a warm manner. An old testament scripture says that He will whisper in our ear and tell us when to go left and when to go right which I have always believed, and have seen the results when embracing those urgings or releasing them
I’m looking forward to hearing what the Hebrew language says about the parting of the Red Sea. I was taught that it was step-by-step and not one grand parting.
I think step-by-step is how it feels for our challenges and would have been incredibly awe inspiring and require amazing faith one step at a time.
Many blessings to you and your wonderful husband for all that you both do. Wishing you great prosperity in your soul and materially as you are held in the palm of our precious and loving God.
Understanding that LOVE is energetic and not just emotion is the way to keep the military from controlling me. It is my belief that the military knows this. The military is who "they" are in the language I was given. THEY is a pornoun. It is my understanding that is why all the fuss about pronouns. It is a means of control....using we, they, us, in the language I was given, keeps me from staying in the present I AM. If humans can understand and learn how to stay in the present, and not the past, nor worry about the future, "they" cannot control. Does anyone else know this on this thread? More will know soon.
....I know God's word...it is in me...in my heart and mind. There is no power in a book that teaches me about God. God is the power of all the universe. To suppose that the power of God is in a book
would keep me tethered to the book, not God. Church and the bible are the means of learning more about God...but the love and goodness that God gives me goes way beyond a book...or an organized religion. God created the human to involve into higher knowledge...of God. That knowledge, for me, comes from being One with God. When my mind and heart connect with God, no man has control over me. No institution or government. I become "aware" of God in a deeper more personal relationship. It is so for many, but not all. It may not bee for you. What I have learned from this closeness is that I was taught that Love is emotion. That teaching, along with other instructions, was one of control. I now know that Love is not only emotion, but Love is energy. I can work with that, and God can work thru me...in LOVE. It is so powerful...the energetic influence of LOVE.
All throughout B’reishit/Genesis, יהוה appears. There are even quotes of people using the name of God (for example, B’reishit 16:5 where Sarai says to Avram, “…Let יהוה judge between you and me.”)
The (English) translation I mostly read now is called The Scriptures, a translation by the Institute for Scripture Research. They translate Shemoth/Exodus 6:3 as a question: “… And by My Name, יהוה, was I not known to them?”
This makes a lot more sense to me. The Scriptures translation actually keeps the Hebrew spelling of יהוה so it is easy to pick it out all through B’reishit/Genesis. It seems clear that God HAD revealed Himself to Avram by his name, which they used in conversation.
יהוה doesn’t appear in B’reishit/Genesis 1, but starting in chapter 2, it begins to appear regularly.
I don’t speak Hebrew, although I can read it and pick out words here and there that I know, so I’d be interested to hear you thoughts on this.
As far as the “New Testament,” there are no “testaments” in the Bible anywhere. It is a mistranslation. For the text of the Hebrew writers who were associates of Yeshua, I HIGHLY recommend the translation by a friend of mine named Daniel Gruber called the Messianic Writings. You will not regret getting a copy of it, Naomi.
I am just finishing the writings of Paul Anthony Wallis....it's a whole new perspective on the Torah! I still go to shul and I still say my prayers, but I like to think of the "Creator of all in the Cosmos" rather than the old 'yod-hey-vav-hay' figure, that I am suddenly seeing in a very different light....Wallis describes the Genesis scenario as a world that has just been through a major cataclysm (tohu v'vohu) (Younger Dryas?) and the "RUACH" is the 'wind-producing machine' that separates the fresh water from salt, and terraforms the land...what he writes makes a ton of common sense to me. The KAVOD is a spaceship (the "glory" of G-d)... Not that I don't love the stories in our Bible (I do!) but wow, Wallis opens a much more coherent story. If you are not afraid to dig deeper into the stories we've been told.....Wallis makes sense. But the true stories make more sense from his take on the scenes. I think everyone by now ought to realize there were nuclear weapons and Sodom and Gomorrah were not the only very early civilizations leveled by them.....Ezekiel's story! Enoch's story! wow.
Also nothing against the Bible at all, but why are we reading this right now? Is there a purpose? I guess I missed something.
Shemoth..!
It’s great that you are reading the Bible, Naomi. Hopefully you have you have given your life to Jesus.
Muslim teen convert in Idaho just a noise maker or something else?
How many more scattered across the country with the open border?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/muslim-convert-planned-ramadan-attack-on-21-idaho-churches/?
I grew up with the teachings of the bible, and Jesus. As I grew older and wiser,
I dropped the bible, but kept Jesus in my heart. My heart is now connected to my mind. God in in both. Why are you teaching from the bible, when it was only to learn about Jesus...not replace Him? the bible and church are a means to learn more about God. Yet you would have me learn from the bible...and not listen to my heart, where God resides? As I have God in my heart, that is where I receive my directions....that and intuition. For if the heart and the mind are connected, God is with me always.
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It’s A Business.
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For Them. To Kill You.
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