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"SO NOW ...HOPE ... ABIDE"

3/8/2013

Hebrews 12:12-13
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

Here’s to those who battle sickness; to those who find themselves losing faith in the midst of financial or domestic battlegrounds. You out there who’s hands droop in discouragement and whose knees weaken under the weight of the heavy load Hashem seems to have unmercifully allowed to be placed upon your weak shoulders (Hebrews 12:12): has this world gotten you down?

A lady I recently met and who had a full life of serving the cause of the people of God recently realized that she is approaching the last years of her life. After being a very active social creature, she is now handicapped and stuck in the small room of an adult care facility. Feeling sick, lonely, and abandoned even by friends, she confessed to me that two days before she contemplated suicide. She then asked me, “Is it worth it? Is it worth it to wait it out, or should I just end it now?” Another lady friend of mine faced with a cancer resurgence cried in my arms the other day, “Why? Why doesn’t Hashem heal me?” On the other side, my wife presently cares for her sick ninety-nine year-old Swedish aunt who does not believe in God or in any sort of thing such as the after-life. As she realizes that she may not reach the meaningful landmark of one hundred years old, she faces her fate with uncanny pragmatism barely falling short of comforting the doctors who care for her. What is the difference? Why does this lady who does not even believe in God seem to have more peace in the face of sickness and probable death than the ones who do?

Hope; hope is the difference. Those who believe have learned to have hope, but as wise King Solomon said, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick …" (Prov. 13:12). Deferred hope may make the hear sick, but is a cynical life without the life and light of hope better? I don’t think so.

The very design of the tabernacle teaches us about the present and tangible hope that Hashem fulfills all his promises; that if he doesn't do it now in the Olam Hazeh זהה עולם (this age) he will do it in the Olam Habah הבא עולם (the Age to Come, the Messianic Age). The great divine plan for the destiny of the world is imbedded in the geography of the Tabernacle. Through it the Holy Spirit teaches us that as long as the protos (the first part of the tabernacle which represents this present age) pursues its unfinished course, the Deuteros (the second part which represents the World to Come where the full atonement of the Master our heavenly High Priest rules, the place where promises are all fulfilled) cannot come (Heb. 9:8-9). Our patriarchs understood that as they all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar (Heb. 11:13).

As we look into this beautiful shadow picture in the design of the Tabernacle, may we look for the World to Come with the hope and assurance from he who fulfills all hopes, and into the second part of the King Solomon’s proverb, “… but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life" (Prov. 13:12).

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IS THERE A GUEST IN THE TENT?

10/1/2012

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Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

There is a tradition of hospitality for the Feast of Tabernacles. The idea is to entertain a distinguished guest each night of the Festival. These guests include in order: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses Aaron, King David and Messiah. Of course, the patriarchs do not actually physically come in the sukkah, but their presence is invited through reading, talking and learning about them.

Hospitality was a fundamental virtue to workings of M.E. society in the days of the patriarch Abraham. When a guest was in your house, he was under your wings and protection. If an enemy came to hurt him, you were to use all your resources to protect your visitor; no matter what the cost, your company could find total sanctuary in your house.. A very good example of that is found in the story of Lot even offering his daughters to the sodomites in order to protect his angelic guests.

In traditional writings, Abraham is the gold standard for hospitality. To be invited to the table and tent of Abraham was a great honor. He would treat you to the best of his flock, as if you were a high dignitary. Tradition describes that the patriarch would send his servant Eliezer to the highways and byways (and we are talking great distances in the desert) to compel people to honor him by finding restoration and rest in his tent. Again, in M.E. tradition, guests didn’t just stay for a cup of coffee and cookies to quickly be on their way. They got their feet washed, maybe stayed several days at the host’s expense while they, their host and their animals were tended to. Aside from Melchizedek, Abraham seemed to have been one of the rare persons acquainted with the God who made Heaven and earth. This act of hospitality from Abraham was his outreach program in the midst of an idolatrous world. He would invite people and treat them like God would. Abraham wanted to show people God’s favor!

Come to think of it, as we invite Abraham to our sukkah for this first day of tabernacles, we also have all been invited to his table. The tent of Abraham represents God’s favor and an invitation to come to the Messiah, his descendant. Abraham was God’s representative and prophet, and through him, all the families of the earth are blessed (Genesis 28:14). The whole world is blessed as they come to the table of Abraham to have a foretaste of the World to Come. That is why in the synagogues of Paul’s day, those of the gentiles who joined themselves to the God Israel were called ‘those of the family of Abraham’ (Acts 13:26).

May those that meet us on our daily path, may those who get to know us as the Children and representatives of the Almighty Creator of Heaven and earth also find in us, and through us, the bounty, beauty, and restoration Messiah would give them. May all those who come in touch with us get a foretaste, however small, of the World to Come, of what God has prepared for them. Like with Abraham, may this be our witness, our sharing of His favor and Light in this sad and dark world.

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THE HARVEST BETWEEN THE RAINS

8/9/2012

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James 5:7-8
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of Adonai. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of Adonai is at hand.

Egypt received its water from below, from the regular flooding of the Nile leaving fertilizing sediments behind. Anyone could grow a crop in Egypt; it was almost guarantied (Deuteronomy 11:10). The Children of Israel were now going to a place where their increase and their success will require for them to be on good terms with 'Heaven' (Deuteronomy 11:11-14).

I live in Western Oregon, a place that receives its fair share (and more) of rain from September to May, sometimes even June. I drink water from my own well tapping an underground spring of melted snows. Water is never an issue here but in the Middle East downpours and water rights are at the heart of economics, politics, and even religion. It used to even be the sources of wars. Grain, wine, and oil speak of abundance and form the imagery of Messiah and the Messianic age. In the Promised Land this abundance will be dependent on obedience, and the 'early' and 'late' rain from 'above'. As well as being a natural reality, it is a reminder of where our attention should be!

These two seasonal downpours have particular names in Hebrew: 'yoreh', and 'malkosh'; they could respectively be translated as 'Spring', and 'Autumn' rain. They refer to the rains that come in the Spring around the season of Passover, and the Fall after the Feast of tabernacles.

Messiah manifested Himself to the world at the time of the 'Yoreh', the Spring festivals rains around the time of Passover. It is significant that the word 'Yoreh' originates from the verbal root 'to teach, to instruct', and therefore is connected to the word 'Torah': 'Instruction'.

The prophets often poetically play on those words alluding between rain, teaching, and Torah which come down from Heaven, as well as the Messiah (Deuteronomy 32:2;Joel 2:23; Hoseah 6:3; 10:12).

After the Spring rains, comes the long hot summer of Messiah's absence, a time of harvesting wheat and barley, ending with the fruit harvest in the Fall and the Feast of Tabernacles also called 'Ingathering', because this is when the harvest is gathered into barns. As reliable servants, may we be faithful with the harvest of souls He has entrusted with at His first manifestation (Matthew 28:18-20), that when He returns in the Fall, He may receive His own with interest.

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THE TABERNACLE OF THE SABBATH IN EVERYDAY LIFE!

3/14/2012

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Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Before starting the construction of the Tabernacle, the Children of Israel were commanded to observe the ceasing from creative activity on the Sabbath day. “Oh but, how can we observe the Sabbath? There is no Synagogue, no Temple, no building to go to in order to have a service! We certainly can’t have Sabbath without a building to get together and have a service on Saturday morning (I am being sarcastic)!”

Faith based on worship at a certain place on a certain day is common to most religious systems. Whereas for community sake it is good and even needed to have regular meetings and fellowships, I wonder if that was God’s core original idea. After all, the synagogue service was only a post-exilic organizational attempt to expose people to the Word. of Torah, that they may know how to live godly lives and not be sent back to exile. With such a system though, in the end religion gets removed from home’s daily life and revolves around what we do on that day in that place. Our teenagers then see who we are at home and who we are at the place of worship and feel that we are hypocrites, and maybe we are. What was then God’s core idea?

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates (Deuteronomy 6:6-9).The core idea was that regardless of our other fellowship activities, our religious lifestyle is a home-based worship system, where God is involved in every aspect of our lives from the time we wake till the time we sleep.

The Jewish Friday night custom of sanctifying (separating/distinguishing) the Sabbath day is a microcosm of the Tabernacle, of the Tabernacle who represents God’s presence with His people. The two candles on the table remind us of the Menorah; the Challah loaf on the table speaks of the Bread of Presence; the wine of the daily libation; the festive meal of the Sabbath double-offering portion; and the prayers of the altar of incense. It is home-base service officiated by the father and the mother in the presence of their children and extended families. The Saturday fellowship is good but it is an extra. I would paraphrase Yeshua and say that ‘it is Friday night which sanctifies Saturday service’, not the opposite. To go to Saturday service and not sanctify the Sabbath at home on Friday night with your family misses the whole purpose. It’s a family thing. On Friday night it is customary for the husband to give an ode to his wife using Proverbs 31; the wife does the same to her husband and they both bless the children.

God doesn’t just want to fellowship with us in a building somewhere when we are on our best behavior, He wants to be invited to live at the very core of our lives, to hear how we talk to each other at the table, witness how we interact and treat each other during the commonest of household functions. How else can we get His correction input if we always play ‘games’ in front of Him (which He is actually not fooled by anyways)?

As we live our lives, may we allow Him to be present with all our thoughts, may His Word be in our mouth when we sit in our house, and when we walk by the way, and when we lie down, and when we rise. May we bind them as a sign on our hand, and may they be as frontlets between our eyes. May they be written on the doorposts of our house and on our gates, … and on our hearts!

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THE HOPE OF ALL HOPES!

3/13/2012

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Hebrews 12:12-13
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

Here’s to those who battle sickness; to those who find themselves losing faith in the midst of financial or domestic battlegrounds. You out there who’s hands droop in discouragement and whose knees weaken under the weight of the heavy load the Master in His great wisdom and mercy has allowed to be placed upon your weak shoulders (Hebrews 12:12): has this world gotten you down?

A lady I recently met and who had a full life of serving the cause of the people of God recently realized that she is approaching the last years of her life. After having been a very active social creature, she is now handicapped and stuck in the small room of an adult care facility. Feeling sick, lonely, and abandoned even by friends, she confessed to me that two days before she contemplated suicide. She then asked me, “Is it worth it? Is it worth it to wait it out, or should I just end it now?” Another lady friend of mine faced with a cancer resurgence cried in my arms the other day, “Why? Why doesn’t He heal me?” On the other side, my wife presently cares for her sick ninety-nine year-old Swedish aunt who does not believe in God or in any sort of thing such as heaven. As she realizes that she may not reach the meaningful landmark of one hundred years old, she faces her fate with uncanny pragmatism, barely falling short of comforting the doctors who care for her. What is the difference? Why does this lady who does not even believe in God seem to have more peace in the face of sickness and probable death than the ones who do?

Hope; hope is the difference. Those who believe have learned to have hope, but as wise King Solomon said, Hope deferred makes the heart sick … (Proverbs 13:12). Deferred hope may make the hear sick, but is a cynical life without the life and light of hope better? I don’t think so.

The very design of the tabernacle teaches us about the present and tangible hope that God fulfills all His promises, if not now, in the World to Come. Through it the Holy Spirit teaches us that as long as the ‘protos’ (the first part of the tabernacle which represents this world) pursues its unfinished course, the ‘Deuteros” (the second part which represents the World to Come where the full atonement of the Master our heavenly High Priest rules, the place where promises are all fulfilled) cannot come (Hebrews 9:8-9). Our patriarchs understood that as they all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar (Hebrews 11:13).

As we look into this beautiful shadow picture in the design of the Tabernacle, may we look for the World to Come with the hope and assurance from He who fulfills all hopes, to the second part of the King Solomon’s proverb, “… but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12)”.

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THE HOUSE OF PRAYER

2/22/2012

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Luke 2:49
I must be about my Father's business?

The U.S. has become the icon of Western civilization, and as a teacher in the U.S., I notice that its people have become very casual. I was raised in France, and in my school days, I would have never dreamed of calling my teachers or any other adult in any other way than Mr. or Mrs. so and so (last name). I would have gotten slapped for calling my parents or any relative in any other way than ‘Papa’, ‘Maman’, or by their title as a relative.

I am of the belief that our style of rapport in human relationship reveals the way we are with God. We serve God the way we serve humankind made in the image of God. You cannot say that you have a good relationship with God while you have trouble living and working with others, or that your behavior is so obnoxious that others have a hard time getting along with you. You cannot tell me that you hear the Voice of God when you have difficulty hearing those around you whom God has placed to advise you. You cannot tell me that you have respect for God and His will when you are not reverent of His Word and of the people around you whom He has called ‘kedoshim’, or ‘saints’.

Because of a society that has rejected the ideas of protocol and respect of individuals placed in position of authority, it seems we also want to have a very casual and familiar attitude with God, but do we have that option? During the time of His manifestation on earth (2 Timothy 1:9-10), the Master compared Himself with the Temple. An understanding therefore of Temple and Tabernacle protocol as we have it in the Book of Exodus helps us understand what kind of relationship we are to have with Him.

God was not content to merely peer down at us from Heaven. He desired to engage in a relationship with us, but because of His status of holiness and ours of non-holiness, there are protocols to be respected and accommodations to be organized for the relatyionship to work, The Tabernacle/Temple system became this protocol and accommodation, and the Master compared Himself to it (John 2:21). That should tell us that our relationship with the Master is anything but casual. Look at what happened when people of a much greater spiritual caliber than you and I like the prophet Daniel, and John, the disciple, encountered the Master (Daniel 7:13-28; Revelations 1:10-17).

After Yeshua’s death and resurrection, the disciples basically became a Temple sect, hanging out there all the time (Acts 2:46; 3:1-3; 5:42). They were in what the Master coined as the ‘House of Prayer’ (Matthew 21:13), doing His ‘Father’s business’ (Luke 2:49). Their base of operation was Solomon’s porch (Acts 3:11;5:12).

While creation is described in one chapter in the Book of Genesis, the description of and measurement of the Tabernacle takes a large chunk of the book of Exodus. May we learn from the study of the Temple; there is a blessing in it.

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THE TABERNACLE AMONG US

2/21/2012

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2 Corinthians 6:16
For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

In ancient Israel when a man desired a woman in marriage, he would close the deal with her father around a covenantal glass of wine. This way of ‘closing a deal’ has travelled far and wide. In France, when people agree together towards a certain action, they serve everybody involved a glass of wine that each person with the other’s at the top before drinking.

The future husband then would go and ‘prepare a place’ for him and his bride (John 14:3). He would usually do so as an addition to the house of his own father, where he lived. He may engage the help of friends and experts, especially if he were not necessarily gifted in carpentry skills. This is exactly what is happening in the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Exodus. God who betrothed Israel is now engaging ‘friends’ to build a tabernacle that as He says, “I may dwell in their midst” (Exodus 25:8). The Hebrew of that text is very interesting. It says, :oosh’chenti betocham”, which carries the more literal translation of, ‘that I may dwell within them’.

God doesn’t want to live in a little ‘box’ somewhere in a building where we come and pay Him a friendly visit once or twice a week. As any husband would, He wants to live within the close intimacy of our hearts. There are two words in Hebrew for knowing someone., ‘Makir’, and yode’ah’. ‘Makir’ is a word that relates to a casual acquaintance, but ‘yoda’ah’ is the word used in ‘And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived (Genesis 4:1).

From these verses, Jewish scholars developed the notion that each Jewish home is actually a small Temple, and each individual is also a miniature Temple. The apostolic writers were familiar with that notion. We read it in the apostolic Scriptures …For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” (2 Corinthians 6:16 quoting Leviticus 26:12)). This idea is erroneously interpreted as the body of believers replacing the Temple, but its concepts were actually an endorsement of the role of the temple in our lives: the sign of the Presence of God among us. The same applies to the Tabernacle which was the mobile Temple in the desert. God had His people built the Tabernacle which later became the Temple which Yeshua claimed was a ‘house of prayer’ (John 2:16). We also know that the Master was disgusted at the lack of reverence people had for the Temple.

The same ungodly hands that killed Messiah also destroyed the Temple. We are told that one Day Messiah returns to take vengeance on a world who tried to up-throne Him. On that Day He will rebuild the Temple.

On that Day, the Light of the world will have returned. All nations will flock once a year for the feast of Tabernacle to offer their gifts at the Temple (Zechariah 14:16). May it be soon, Abba, even in our days!

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A MICROCOSM OF THE UNIVERSE.

3/3/2011

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John 1:14
And the Word … dwelt among us

What does the Tabernacle teach us? Let me now take you on a journey to the feet of Jewish sages who have pondered the question for hundreds of Years.

Many have suggested that as he built the Tabernacle, Bezalel saw it as a microcosm of the creation of the universe. Here is how it works. King David describes the first day of creation when God created the Heavens and the Earth using the following words, stretching out the heavens like a tent (Psalms 104:2). So, we find that a curtain (similar to that of a tent) was stretched out above the Tabernacle. The colors of the material used also correspond to the colors of sky and earth. On the second day of creation, God made the firmament as a separation. Similarly, in the Tabernacle there was a curtain separating one part from another. Just like on the third day of creation God gathered the waters into one area, in the Tabernacle there was also a designated place to gather water in a basin. Corresponding to the luminaries created on the fourth day, we find the menorah with its lights in the Tabernacle. On the fifth day of creation, God created the birds. Similarly, there were birds brought as offerings on the altar of the Tabernacle. And corresponding to the creation of man on the sixth day, the service in the Tabernacle was led by the High Priest. The Torah describes how the work was completed on the seventh day of creation and how that day was blessed and sanctified by God. The idea of the Tabernacle was to make a place for God to live on earth. It represents therefore the restoration of all things to the day when as He was in the Garden of Eden, Adonai would walk the earth alongside with man.

Some have also viewed the Tabernacle as a microcosm of the human body with the Ark as the heart of a person, the cherubs spreading their wings over the Ark as the lungs that spread out around the heart. The table with the showbread represented a person's stomach while the menorah and its oil lamps corresponded to a person's mind. The frankincense symbolized the sense of smell and the water basin represented the fluids in the human body. Finally, the curtains symbolized a person's skin and the beams represented the ribs. Jewish sages taught that every person is a microcosm of the entire universe just like the Tabernacle.

As farfetched as these musings may seem, we can’t help but realize that our Jewish sages were on the right track in their understanding of the Tabernacle. After all, did not Paul say that to their advantage, the Jewish people had been entrusted the oracles of God (Romans 3:1-2)? As the spirit of God came to fill the earthly Tabernacle, so it filled the earthly ‘tabernacle’ of the human body of the person of Yeshua who is the representation of the Presence of God among us, in God’s created universe.

As we study these things, may we look forward to the time when Messiah will once again walk the earth among us. May it be soon Abba, even in our days!

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THE PASSING OF THIS AGE.

3/2/2011

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Hebrews 9:10
… until the time of reformation.

More important than finding the actual Ark of the Covenant, we must understand not only what it stands for but more importantly, what it doesn’t stand for. Let us therefore continue our archeological work of removing the debris of the doctrines of man in order to rediscover the Truth of the Word of God according to its own value.

We have discovered that KJ editors added the word ‘covenant’ in their text of the eighth chapter of the letter to the Jewish believers of Israel. Removing that unfortunate edition, we now read the text not as a dispensational argument, but as a revelation of the meaning of the two chambers of the Tabernacle. Following the same principle we continue onto the thirteenth verse of chapter eight which reads, In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away (Hebrews 8:13 KJV).

Taking the added word ‘covenant’ out, what is it in our text that ‘decays and waxes old’, that becomes in fact obsolete? The terms of the Toratic covenant given on Mt Horeb? How is that possible since the Torah is fixed forever in Heaven (Psalms 119:89)? The Levitical priesthood? How could that be since the eternal Torah says that theirs is a perpetual priesthood (Exodus 40:15)? Aaron’s priesthood only stopped because the Temple was destroyed thirty years after Yeshua’s resurrection, but both the prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah speak of its reinstitution when the Temple is rebuilt. For that reason, it cannot be the Temple either that has become obsolete in our text. What is it then that ‘decays and waxes old’ becoming obsolete in verse thirteen?

When we read the text without the edition and understanding that ‘first’ and ‘second’ speak of the two section of the Tabernacle, chapter 9 gives us our answer,; it says, Now even the first had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, …. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant…. These preparations … their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper (Hebrews 9:1-9) (emphasis mine). It is this present age which decays and passes away, that becomes obsolete as the Kingdom of God is slowly but surely established since the manifestation of Messiah.

This present age of the futile rule of man on the earth is coming to an end. We already hear the footsteps of Messiah on the horizon. He is coming to take His Bride and with her establish the Kingdom of His Father on earth. May it come soon, Abba, even in our days!

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TO EDIT OR NOT TO EDIT?

3/1/2011

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2 Timothy 2:15
… Rightly handling the word of truth.

Are you prepared to play archeologist? Many today want to find the Ark of the Covenant. Some claim to even have found it. But better than discovering the Holy Ark in a cave somewhere in the M. East, let’s unearth it from the debris of 2,000 years of man’s biased interpretations.

The writer of the letter to the Messianic Jews of Israel wrote, For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second (Hebrews 8:7). If you read this verse in a King James Bible, you will find the word ‘covenant’ in italics. This is a tool KJV editors used to signal readers that a word was added as an aid to the translation. In most cases this tool is needed. You will notice also that in the Old Testament of KJV Bibles, most of the time ‘is’ is also italicized. The reason is that Hebrew infers the use of the verb ‘to be’ in the present tense, therefore it has to be added in an English translation. What we have in the aforementioned verse is different because the word ‘covenant’ is not inferred at all in the context of the chapter, but was added because of the doctrinal preference and understanding of the editors. This edition creates a totally different understanding of the eighth and the ninth chapter of the letter to the Messianic Jews, resulting in an anti-Torah and anti-Old Testament theology.

Reading it without the edition, the verse reads, For if that first had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second (Hebrews 8:7). Continuing the process in chapters eight and nine, we see that the text is not about so-called covenants, but is rather an explanation of God’s idea in the two chambers of the Tabernacle, the ‘first called the ‘proto’, and the second called the ‘Deutero’.

Chapter nine explains to us that these two chambers represent not a dispensation theology but a schedule. Let’s read it now without the edition, Now even the first had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place (this was a description of the first chamber; now to the second chamber). Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant…. (Now the explanation from the text itself …) By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age) (Hebrews 9:1-9).

This text was written between 65 and 70 C.E, being therefore told that the first chamber represents this present age, it is obvious that the second chamber represents a different age in the future, something we will present in the few next devotionals; in the mean time, keep digging!

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"SO NOW ...HOPE ... ABIDE"

IS THERE A GUEST IN THE TENT?

THE HARVEST BETWEEN THE RAINS

THE TABERNACLE OF THE SABBATH IN EVERYDAY LIFE!

THE HOPE OF ALL HOPES!

THE HOUSE OF PRAYER

THE TABERNACLE AMONG US

A MICROCOSM OF THE UNIVERSE.

THE PASSING OF THIS AGE.

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