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Sermons Series 3:9, 29 October 2005
The Garden of Yahweh
The 'Beauty and the Beast' Syndrome
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Brethren and sisters, I welcome you once more to this sabbath assembly in the Name of our Saviour Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ) and to the ninth in my series of addresses on the Garden of Yahweh. With revelation pouring down as a torrent these days I am having to select topics and themes as I am led by the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit) to minister to the particular needs of this Mishpachah or family as I seek to get my own House fully in order. The inspiration for today's sermon comes partly from one of my daughters, partly from my wife, and partly from what Yahweh gave me two weeks ago.
You will, I hope, recall an incident I shared with you in the garden when Satan tried to appeal to the sympathy of another daughter by appearing before her as an old woman in rags in need of pity and charity. Yahweh built woman to be tender-hearted and loving in a way different from the man. He gave her a spontaneous motherly heart which opens to the cry of distress of a child or of a needy soul. She seeks to reach out to nurture and protect, to make warm, comfortable and safe. However, in a wicked world such as this, this makes the female gender particulary vulnerable. She easily falls victim to the wiles of carnal man who, when demonised, seeks only to entice and rape her in one form or another.
There is in the world almost total confusion as to what male-female rôles should be. People do not know what it is to be a true man or woman in Yahweh. Present them with a story like Isaac and Rebekah which in many ways is Yahweh's ideal form of match-making, and you will get a mixture of delight and revulsion. We delight at the perfect match, for all want that, but when we see Yahweh's method - an arranged marriage according to patriarchal ways - the carnal part of us is revolted. Instead the carnal man wants romance, wooing and all the trappings including expensive bouquets of flowers, impulsive gestures, and high drama. The woman wants to be overwhelmed - to be conquered - and the man wants to go out on the hunt and capture his prize. And it is amazing just how eagerly Christendom has taken this kind of behaviour on board, particularly in the Western world, and then wonders why marriage has become such a disaster zone. The statistics you know well - more than half of marriages fail even in the churches and in our secular socialistic 'paradise' of Sweden, nearly two-thirds of all marriages fail.
I am going to cut right to the bone today and show you how western notions of 'romance' are satanic to the very core and I am going to use as my illustration the well-known Disney cartoon film and box office-buster, Beauty and the Beast. Why, I ask myself, was that film such a success? And what part of us is so attracted by it? I will be perfectly honest - part of me liked it when I first saw it. And children are enchanted by it, particularly small girls who leave even more reinforced by what I call the 'Cinderella Syndrome'. I will come straight to the point by telling you the spiritual meaning of the symbols in this popular film: the Beast is a portrayal of Satan and the carnal man as the initially selfish but finally redeemable prince, Belle represents both mankind in general but in particular young women, and the affable but rather silly father of Belle, our Heavenly Father. The whole film is a 'good-cop, bad-cop' one, with the bad-cop - the brutish, egocentric and vain Gastone - so obviously repulsive to all but the most macho male - that our minds are eventually conditioned to look with pity and love at the 'good-cop', the Beast-Prince, and to see him as the victim of an unfortunate impulse of selfishness which can nevertheless be turned by a beautiful virgin. What this film is telling us is that the love of man - and in particular of woman - can redeem a selfish heart and transform it into a shining prince-hero in a make-believe world of ballroom glitter.
The choice that Belle is offered is typically a satanic one and the web of romance we see enacted is classic 'Stockholm Syndrome' material. To remind those of you who may have forgotten what this syndrome is, it describes a situation where a victim of abuse and terror comes, by small increments, to actually see the bad guy as a good guy out of grattitude for tidbits of charity and kindness during captivity. In a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, hostages of a long siege ended up loving, defending and even, in one case, marrying their violent and abusive criminal kidnappers. Victims of satanism even end up 'loving' their torturers through a twisted sense of loyalty.
The divine pattern for romance (if I can even call it that) and marriage is (as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago and in other sermons) patriarchal. The world is not a place full of women to be randomly conquereed by the most handsome, t charming, and imposing man, not even if he wears the label 'Christian'. If you look at all the romantic fairy tales like Cinderella, Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, and others, you find a common occultic theme running through them: the woman is in danger of being stolen by an evil man - or is never allowed to meet her love - and a handsome prince rescues her by magic, she falls in love out of gratitude and admiration, and they marry and live happily ever after, the wealthy rulers of some kingdom somewhere. What makes this concoction so devilish is that it contains a measure of truth in it, even a few patriarchal principles, but in every one God is either on the sidelines or left out altogether. Instead the charming prince is the Messiah type or, in a reversal of rôles as in Beauty and the Beast, it is the beautiful young woman who saves.
I want, if I can today, to convey two totally diametrically opposite 'spirits' to you, the one represented by the paradisaical Garden of Yahweh, and the other by the Jungle of the World. The world, which is carnal, sensual and devilish, has various sets of 'rules', depending on the depth of your depravity or blindness to truth, much as satanism has so-called 'white magic' represented by Wicca and 'black magic' represented by the devil-worshippers. Satan plays both cards and he does so expertly. Recently one of my adopted daughters, who had come out of satanism, was abducted by satanists in England and brutally raped and tortured by them. This happened twice. In both instances she actually let them into her home and offered no resistance at first. She felt helpless and was cowered by fear and a false belief that she had no choice. On the second occasion she finally resisted, much to their surprise and shock, and forced them to change tactics. On the third occasion she was visited by a satanist who came as a benevolent, kind and understanding saviour, who flattered her and changed the method of deception. Instead of threatening and brutalising her, he expressed sympathy, said that he too would love to have followed Yah'shua (Jesus) but 'knew' that this was impossible because he was born to be a child of Satan as was she, and that there was absolutely nothing either of them could do about it. So the best thing to do, he said, was make the best out of an inescapable situation and let him 'love' her. She fell for it and didn't see through the lies until I brought her to Yah'shua (Jesus) in the Garden and she saw how he had hypnotised ('regressed') her by using a trigger word that had been implanted into her by brainwashing techniques empoyed against her when she had been in the coven.
The Scriptures warn us that Satan appears as an angel of light but we are also warned that he is the father of lies and that there is not a particle of truth in him (Jn.8:44). They tell us that he knows how to play the 'good-cop, bad-cop' routine and how he understands and exploits the 'Stockholm Syndrome' to get sympathy. And that is precisely what he does in the cartoon film, Beauty and the Beast. Here the woman is portrayed as the redeemer-, saviour- or christ-figure, but she can only do that by usurping her father's place, the true Redeemer and Protector. Instead, what happens, is that she willingly lets herself become a whore by allowing this carnal beast to seduce her because she believes in the lie that she can change him into something better, thus breaking the curse of the witch that had condemned the prince to take on the visage of a brutal animal. But somewhow the carnal man is caught up by the idolatrous romance of a human being a saviour and ignores the real implications of the sorcery. Man himself - in this case Belle - establishes the moral limits and becomes her own Law or Torah, dismissing Yahweh's Torah as represented by her bumbling old father. And that is more or less how satanists portray Yahweh - as an old, enfeebled, nice-ish sort of fellow who really gets in the way of true happiness because of his silly rules but who can be given a little pat on the head at the end if he just steps aside and admires and worships his daughter who has done such wondrous things in the name of beauty.
The trouble is that modern man doesn't think things through and just follows the first 'nice' emotion that comes his way. The same adopted daughter of mine was deceived in another way earlier when this demoness (Hecate) gave her the sweetest most peaceful and sublime feelings that made her want to kill herself and escape all the woes of this life - a feeling not dissimilar to the 'Nirvana' experience of Buddhism which is the total negation of life, reality, and love of people resulting in the final and total absorption into the Buddhist 'god', in fact, Satan. It is the total surrender to a supposedly inevitable, yet illusionary, 'karma'. It, like the Stockholm syndrome, is female demonic spirit which seeks to persuade women to be irresistably attractive as the helpless victim. The male demonic, on the other hand, portrays the man as the conqueror who finds his satisfaction in overwhelming such helpless victims. But Satan, never content with one level of mischief, adds others on top, making two antagonistic forces within one person, so that there is confusion. Part of us is revolted at such a concept - part of the woman is rightly disgusted at the thought of becoming a helpless victim, so Satan seduces this side of her and encorages her to become a warrior like the carnal man (controlled by the demoness Athena) and to instead reverse satanic rôles and go and conquer the man. This is an even deeper perversion because it turns the woman into a man. And, of course, Satan does the same with the men and tries to emasculate them. These two mutually contradictory satanic devices are then set up within the soul in a state of perpetual civil war, each side or aspect revolted by, and hating, the other, neither realising they are two sides of the same satanic coin.
What, then, is Yahweh's way? Firstly, it is the realisation and confession that in our own selves and strength we cannot redeem ourselves or others, let alone find our soul-mates by carnal means. Today's 'means' have proven to be a disaster as we see in the divorce statistics, and as you also know, the failure rate in common-law marriage or 'partnership' relationships the failure is even worse: between 80 and 90%.
As I have taught over the years, and as has been revealed to a number of people by Yahweh directly in the Garden, we do not need to go out 'hunting' as macho males, nor do we need to become princess-type victims dreaming of being conquered by carnal love. True love is not romance or courtship and it is a dangerous and spiritually suicidal notion to believe so. True love is knowing where you came from and to whom you belong.
For the man this means two things: firstly, knowing who your Heavenly Father is and submitting to Him in all things by obeying His Torah and yielding to His love. Secondly, he must know who his earthly father and spiritual authority is, so that he can be taught, nurtured and formed by him in holiness, imitating him in all his godly ways. And when our earthly fathers fail us, as they almost invariably do these days, then he must seek out a spiritual father in Yahweh to whom he is to be submitted. In this way he fulfils the conditions in becoming a Messianic Israelite. It is the responsibility of this man's spiritual father to guide him to his eternal companion just as Abraham arranged for the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah.
For the woman, this means three things: the first two are the same as the man's but there is a third - she must discover whom she belongs to in the eternal sense. Because her earthly father is only ever a temporary spiritual head, she must find out who the man is she came out of in the pre-existance and return to him under the covering of her earthly father.
None of this involves any seducing or romancing. Seduction and romance are only permitted after marriage has taken place! The husband is supposed to seduce the wife, and the wife the husband, on their marriage night and forever thereafter. It is then - and only then - that she is permitted to fully yield herself in everything and be conquered because such is LAWFUL and HOLY - it is fully in Yahweh.
Satan wants us to go around seducing and romancing in a lawless way with those he sets up who are almost certainly demonised and contaminated precisely because they are Torahless. One of my daughters wrote an incisive article about this recently (Using Common Sense to Remain Single Until Marriage). The goal of Satan is to get you demonised by persuading you that lawless romancing and seduction are 'good' and 'necessary' things, that marriage will not take place unless you pursue it yourself. By this means he gets you to compartmentalise your romantic and religious life, idolatrously putting them in two mutually exclusive spheres. And if the truth be known, passion soon then becomes the demonic god of the soul, invariably putting Yahweh and His Torah into second place and pushing Him out altogether when the 'romantic' is seen to be in direct opposition to His will and laws.
The only true marriage is the one that is in imitation of the allegorical marriage between the Messiah and the Messianic Bride, or the Church. Everything else is counterfeit and inspired by the evil one to one degree or another. There is never a time in a true husband-wife relationship, or before during betrothal, that Yahweh ceases to be our first love and all-inclusive desire. The lie of Beauty of the Beast is that Yahweh can be marginalised whilst beauty and the self-sufficiency of the human heart do their 'redeeming' work. It is presenting an alternative saviour, appealing to a world which knows little about Yahweh anymore and which is desperately groping in the dark for any kind of love because it is so emotionally starved for light and truth. Satan, ever perverse, mixes light with darkness, using the light as bait to get us into his darkness. He wants the more intelligent of us to believe that Satan made a mistake and really deserves our sympathy, that Yahweh is the cruel one for not forgiving him as He does mankind when he repents. But of course Satan never tells you the whole story. He never tells you that it was no 'little mistake' that he made in ignorance or immaturity, but an act of totally conscious and wilfull rebellion as an Archangel based in a full knowledge of what he was doing. And he does not, of course, tell you all the evil he has done, and is continuing to do, without the slightest degree of remorse or sorrow for all the pain and misery he has caused mankind, and that he has never - and will never - repent for all he has done or seek forgiveness from those he has wronged. I repeat, he will never do that! Instead he wants you to see him as a beast to be pitied and who can be redeemed by enough men and women loving him and giving him a 'second chance'.
That beast is in the carnal nature of man. It is in the seducer who puts on every charm he can so that he can get his woman, ravish her, and then dump her, and seek for another victim. The smooth talk is just that - the slippey tongue of the viper. If he can, Satan will simply plunder and ravish, but if he meets resistance, he will smooth-talk and lie until the godly defences are neutralised. And without exception, he will always lie. The lie of the Beast is that he was willing to die for Belle's sake when in fact all he felt was self-pity which is portrayed as love-to-the-death.
There is only one Elohim-honouring way for a man and woman to romance one another, and it must take place in the holy environment of the Garden of Yahweh. They must first be brothers and sisters in Yah'shua (Jesus), loving each other with non-sexual apagé love. They must become best friends, devoted to their Master, belonging to Him and to their fathers, until both their Heavenly Father and their earthly fathers say: 'The time has come'. Then - and only then - when eternal covenants have been exchanged and they are built upon a true foundation of godly love, holiness and purity, can they come together romantically and sexually. But not before. They don't even have to meet one another, as we see in the story of Isaac and Rebekah. And when they first set eyes on one another, the scripture says, they loved one another. Inevitably - Rebakah was Isaac's bosom companion - they were being re-united - they knew one another in their spirits, and that is where true love begins and ends.
I have, in my garden, a couple who are intended for one another - they are dedicated and will one day be betrothed and then become fully man and wife in matrimony. They are under full patriarchal authority. Yah'shua (Jesus) has revealed to me and to them that she belongs to him and came from him. They are cultivating the eternal bonds of brother and sister in Messiah, putting the Kingdom first in their lives, and serving as young witnesses and missionaries. They are building their foundation on the Rock of Messiah which is immovable. I counsel them regularly and am guiding them toward the day ordained by Yahweh when they may take one another and enjoy one another as full husband and wife. They are in the Garden all day and every day and there they commune with Yah'shua (Jesus) and with me, imitating my ways and nurturing their own gardens in the ways of holiness. His garden is taking on my form and her garden my wife's who is her spiritual mother. And there are other singles in my garden too, daily exploring it and partaking of its fruits preparing for the day when they will be married too. They live in trust knowing that Yah'shua (Jesus) will tell them 'who' and 'when' when they are ready. He has told a couple of other daughters whom they will marry and told them to wait until they are healed of various problems and can be presented as virgin brides. He knows the times and the seasons.
The devil is intent on tempting you away from the divine pattern. Don't listen to Him. He accuses Yahweh of being a spoil-sport and a kill-joy. It's a lie, and a filthy big lie at that. He said something similar in the original Garden of Eden to Eve, accusing Yahweh of wanting to keep her ignorant and bound. Yahweh wants you all to have the very best and He will give to you generously. Trust Him, obey Him, obey your fathers and mothers in Torah, and be blessed. Amen.
Author: Lev-Tsiyon
Glossary of MLT Hebraic, Greek and English Terms For other terms and full details please see the Micropedia
A
Adon(ai) = Master, a pagan fertility god, Adonis; used by many Messianics but not MLT
(a)eon(ian) = 7 dispensation- or age-long time periods, not forever (see le-olam-va-ed)
Alef-Tav = Alpha-Omega, A-Z, first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet = Yah'shua
Amen = truly, let it be so, written Amein by some Messianics
Apocrypha = Hebraic Scriptures not a part of the Protestant canon (e.g. Baruch)
Anti-Messiah = Hebraic term for the end-time Antichrist or anyone opposed to the Messiah
antinomian = lawless Christian who disregards all or part of Torah/commandments
Ashkenazi Jew = East European Jew descended from the Turkic-Japhethite Khazars
Assembly = church, congregation, ekklesia, community, fellowship, koinonia, gathering
Azazel = the Yom Kippur scapegoat
B
Baal, Ba'al = any other master than Yahweh, usually demonic in MLT terminology
Bachor(im) = firstborn son(s)
Bar/Bat Mitzvah = Son/Daughter of Commandment, covenant to obey Torah at age 12
being = soul, the whole person (spirit and body), e.g. "my whole being"
Beit, bet, beth = house, e.g. Beit Yisrael (House of Israel), Beth Lechem (House of Bread)
Beit haMikdash = Yahweh's Temple in Yerushalayim
B'rit Chadashah = the New Covenant; B'rit Chadashah Scriptures = New Testament
B'rit Milah = circumcision - abolished in the B'rit Chadashah, replaced by Mikvah
C
canon = authoritative Scripture (Heb. qaneh, Gk. kanôn = measuring instrument)
Catechumen = a serious, covenanted investigator seeking Mikvah or Baptism in MLT
Chag haMatzah = Feast of Unleavened Bread, second of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Chavurat Bekorot = MLT's Priesthood Order, Holy Order and Assembly of the Firstborn
Cohen = priest; Cohen Gadol = High Priest (also spelled Kohen)
Council of Yah's elohim = the heavenly Assembly of the Firstborn or Chavurat Bekorot
D
demon = fallen malek or angel in rebellion against Yahweh (Heb. shad; see Êl-Shaddai)
derech = the Way, Path or Road - Yah'shua and the Gospel are the Way
Drash = moral or homiletic interpretation of Scripture - see PaRDeS
E
Echad = One, Union of two or more in one (as opposed to Yachid) - see Elohim
Echad Godhead Doctrine = Father Yahweh, Son Yah'shua and Sevenfold Ruach (Mother)
Êl, Eloah, Elah = God the Father, Yahweh
Êl-Elyon = Most High God, Yahweh
Êl-Shaddai = Master/Lord over all shads or demons
Elohim = God, the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit), lit. 'Mighty One(s)', 'Ruler(s)'
elohim = Israelite judges, rulers, angels or gods (false deities, idols, demons)
emunah = faith, actively trusting, clinging or adhering to (especially Yahweh or Yah'shua)
emet = truth, Yah'shua is the Emet
Ephraimite = descendant of the patriarch Ephraim and head of Messsianic Israel
F
Feasts of Yahweh = the 7 annual Moedim (Pesach, Chag haMatzah, Yom haBikkurim, Shavu'ot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot)
G
Gan-Eden = Garden of Eden, Paradise and state of the purified heart in Messiah
goy(im) = nation(s), Israelites or gentiles not born in or converted to the Covenant
H
hallelu-Yah = praise Yah(weh)!
Heylel = proper name of Satan or haSatan = the Adversary, the devil
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Hochmah = Wisdom, title of the 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
I
IDL = International Date Line, false man-made time division in Pacific Ocean
IDL Zone = Area between the true Divine Date Line (Lake Van/Eden) and the false one
Israeli = citizen of the modern Edomite-Khazar Republic of Israel (not Biblical Israel)
Israelite = citizen of biblical state of Israel or a modern follower of the Messiah
J
Jew = post-biblical term describing descendants of Edomite and Khazar converts to Judaism
Johannine = pertaining to the Apostle Yochanan (e.g. Gospel of John)
Josephite = descendant of the patriarch Joseph, the head of Messianic Israel
Judahite = a person in direct descent from the patriarch Judah, forefather of the Messiah
Judaism = a Talmudic-based religion rejecting Yah'shua the Messiah
Judean = a citizen of the Kingdom or Province of Judah until the 2nd Century diaspora
K
Kadosh la Yahweh = set-apart or dedicated to Yahweh, 'Holiness to the Lord', MLT motto
Karaites = Jews (from 700 AD) who reject the Talmud and accept only the Tanakh
kashrut = keeping kosher, food laws of Yahweh and correspinding lifestyle
Ketuvim = Writings or Hagiographa of the Tanakh
Khazar = a Turkic convert to Judaism ~700 AD forming the Ashkenazi Jewish community
kosher = clean foods authorised by Yahweh for human consumption
L
Lashon Hara = evil-speaking, gossip or slander
legalism = false route to salvation through works (self-salvation)
le-olam-va-ed = dispensation- or age-long, aeonian, not eternal, forever or for eternity
Lev = heart, as in Lev-Tsiyon = heart of Zion
Lev-Tsiyon = Heart of the Fortress [of Yahweh], Hebrew name of MLT's founder
M
Master = Lord, Sir, Adon(ai) - (one in authority, a ruler - a king, husband, prophet, judge)
Malak(im) = Angel(s), heavenly supernatural messenger(s)
manna = wafers of honey, bread from heaven (lit. 'what is this?')
matzah = unleavened bread, see Chag haMatzah
Menorah = 7-armed candlearbra = the 7 annual Moedim and 7-fold Ruach haQodesh
Messiah = Christ; Anti-Messiah = Antichrist
Messianic Community = Body of Christ, sum total of all true believers; all true fellowships
Messianic Israel = all who worship Yahweh, trust in Yah'shua, obey Torah and overcome
Messianic Jew = Messianic convert from Judaism still clinging to Talmudic traditions
Midrash = aggadic interpretation of scripture viâ Drash, a scriptural discussion
Mikvah = baptism by immersion of convert into Yah'shua or of wife into husband
Mishpachah = family: nuclear, congregational, tribal or the whole of Messianic Israel
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon = family of the heart of the fortress [of Yahweh]
Mishpat = right-ruling or judgement
mitzvah/mitzvot = commandment(s)
moed(im) = appointment(s) of Yahweh, 7 Annual Feasts, Sabbath and Rosh Chodesh
N
Nefilim, Nephilim = giant offspring of materialised demons and human women
Nevi'im = prophetic writings of the Old Testament or Tanakh
New Birth = spiritual conversion in the Ruach haRishon, being 'born again' with new heart
Nidah = a woman's menstruation period during which no intercourse is permitted
O
Olive Branch = collection of revelations, prophecies and visions published by MLT
P
Paraclete = Comforter, Advocate (NEB), Counsellor, Ruach haQodesh (Gk. paraklêtos)
PaRDeS = method of textual interpretation (homiletics) - see P'shat, Remez, Drash, Sod
Patriarch = a father who is head of his family, clan or tribe (lit. 'father-ruler')
Pentateuch = first five books of the Tanakh (Genesis-Deuteronomy), also called Torah
peribolaion = headcovering worn by daughters/wives in submission to fathers/husbands
Pesach = Passover, first of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Peshitta = an Aramaic version of the Bible
Prototrinitarianism = early, simplified MLT formulation of the Echad Godhead Doctrine
Prush(im) = Pharisee(s)
Pseudepigrapha = Non-canonical Hebrew writings additional to the Apocrypha
P'shat = literal, contextual, philological, exoteric, outer meaning of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Q
Qadosh Qadoshim = Holy of Holies, most sacred set-apart room of the Beit haMikdash
Qodesh, Kodesh = set-apart, holy (see Ruach haQodesh)
R
Rabbi = Teacher, term used by Messianic Jews and some Messianic Israelites = Pastor
Refuge, the 12 Cities of = divinely protected MLT fortresses during the 7-year Tribulation
Remez = hint or allegorical level of Hebraic understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Rosh Chodesh = monthly New Moon appointment of Yahweh
ruach = spirit of a person (lit.'breath')
Ruach Elohim = Spirit of God (the Spirit of the collective Godhead or Elohim)
Ruach haChamashee = 5th Ruach presides over Yom Teruah and Yom Chamashee
Ruach haQodesh = the Sevenfold Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost (lit. 'Set-Apart Breath')
Ruach haRevee = 4th Ruach presides over Shavu'ot, Yom Revee and Bar Mitzvah
Ruach haRishon = 1st Ruach presides over Pesach, Yom Rishon and the New Birth
Ruach haShanee = 2nd Ruach presides over Chag haMatzah and Yom Shanee
Ruach haSheshi = 6th Ruach presides over Yom Kippur and Yom Sheshi
Ruach haShleshi = 3rd Ruach presides over Yom haBikkurim, Yom Shleshi and Mikvah
S
Sabbath = Yom Shabbat (Friday to Saturday sunset, add 1 day in IDL Zone)
Satan = rebel archangel Heylel, father of lies, devil, chief demon (lit.'Adversary')
Sephardic Jew = West European Jew of mixed blood containing many Judahites
Septuagint = Greek translation of the Tanakh, LXX
Shegal haShabbat = 7th Ruach (Sabbath Queen) presides over Sukkot and Yom Shabbat
Shekinah = Divine Presence and Glory of Yahweh-Elohim
Set-apart = holy, sanctified, consecrated, dedicated, separated (to and by Yahweh)
Shabbat-Shabbaton = High Sabbath (e.g. Yom Kippur)
Shalom = heavenly peace, standard Hebraic greeting invoking Yahweh's peace
Shamash(im) = servant(s), deacon(s), attendant(s)
Shavu'ot = Pentecost or Weeks, fourth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Sheol = grave or pit, euphamism for Hades or hell - also see Tartarus
shofar = ram's horn, blown during Yahweh's Moedim
simcha = joy, keynote of Sukkot
Sod = mystical, anagogic, inner or esoteric understanding of Scripture - see PaRDeS
Sukkot = Tabernacles or Booths, seventh of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Synagogue = Greek word used by Jews and Messianics (but not MLT) for a meeting house
T
talmid(a) = male/female disciple or student
Talmud = scriptures, teachings and commentaries belonging to non-Messianic Judaism
Tanakh = acronym for Old Testament Scriptures - Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim
Tartarus = place of imprisonment under the earth for rebellious angels and Nephilim
teshuvah = repentance, remorse and contrition leading back to Torah obedience
Torah = Yahweh's teachings or Law; New Covenant Torah includes Yah'shua's teachings
Tribulation, the Great = the final 7 years of the present aeon when Anti-Messiah rules
Trinity = Catholic Godhead formula - see Echad Godhead Doctrine and Prototrinitarianism
Tsiyon = Zion, a fortress, a name of Jerusalem and a prominent hill
Tzitzit/Tizitziyot = tassel(s) worn by men in remembrance of Torah
U
Universalism = salvation of all at the cosmic Yovel, with different rewards and punishments
Y
Yachid = one, single person or item, as opposed to Echad (many in one, unity)
Yah'shua the Messiah = Jesus Christ (the Son)
Yahudah = Judah - see Judahite
Yahweh, Yah, YHWH = the true Name of our Heavenly Father, also carried by Yah'shua
Yahweh-Elohim = LORD God (the Father, Yahweh as Head of the Godhead or Elohim)
Yahweh haQatan = the sent Yahweh = Yah(weh)'shua, Malak of Yahweh's Presence
Yam Suf = Sea of Reeds, the true Israelite Exodus water crossing, not the Red Sea
Yarden = Jordan River (lit. 'meanderer')
Yerushalayim = Jerusalem
Yisrael = Israel (lit. 'ruling with Êl') = true believers under the New Covenant
Yom Chamashee = 5th day of the week (Thursday, Friday in IDL Zone)
Yom Din, Yom haDin = (the) Day of Judgement
Yom haBikkurim = Feast of Firstfruits, third of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Revee = 4th day of the week (Wednesday, Thursday in IDL Zone)
Yom Rishon = 1st day of the week (Sunday, Monday in IDL Zone)
Yom Kippur = Day of Atonement, sixth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yom Shabbat = 7th day of the week and Sabbath Rest (Saturday, Sunday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shanee = 2nd day of the week (Monday, Tuesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Sheshi = 6th day of the week (Friday, Saturday in IDL Zone)
Yom Shleshi = 3rd day of the week (Tuesday, Wednesday in IDL Zone)
Yom Teruah = Day of Trumpets, fifth of the annual feasts of Yahweh
Yosef = Joseph - see Josephite
Yovel = Jubilee or Year of Jubilee
Z
Zaqen(im) = elder(s) of an assembly or congregation, or senior members of a community
Zoë Life = Greek term for spiritual life in the Messiah
Commonly Used MLT Abbreviations
For additional abbreviations and explanations, please see the Micropedia
A
Amp.V(er). = Amplified Version of the Bible
Aram. = Aramaic
AV = Authorised Version of the Bible - see KJV
B
BCAY = B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh - see NCCG
BoA = Books of Abraham (e.g. 1Abr., 2Abr., etc.)
C
cp, cf = compare with
CB(Q) = Chavurat Bekorot
CEV = Contemporary English Version of the Bible
ch. = chapter
CJB = Complete Jewish Bible
CLNT = Concordant Literal New Testament
CYe = Council of Yah's elohim
E
Eng. = English
F
ff. = and onwards/forwards
fn = footnote
G
Gk. = Greek
GNB = Good News Bible - see TEV
H
Heb. = Hebrew, Hebraic
HEM = Holy Echad Marriage, eternal marriage
HO = Holy Order - see Chavurat Bekorot
HOC = Holy Order Collection of revelations - see OB
HRV = Hebraic-Roots Version of the Bible
I
ibid. = ibidem (lit. 'in the same place'), referring to a book previously cited
ICJC = Independent Church of Jesus Christ, earlier name of NCCF
ISRV = Institute for Scripture Research Version of the Bible
J
JB = Jerusalem Bible
JBP/Phillips = J.B.Phillips translation of the New Testament
JNT = Jewish New Testament
K
KJV = King James Version of the Bible - see AV
L
LB = Living Bible
lit. = literally or literature
LXX = Septuagint, Greek translation of the OT
M
MLT = Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon
Moff. = Moffatt translation of the Bible
MRC = Messianic Renewed Covenant Version of the NT
MS(S) = Manuscript(s)
N
NASB, NASV = New American Standard Bible/Version
NC&C = New Covenants & Commandments - see OB
NCCF = New Covenant Christian Fellowship, earlier name of NCCG
NCCG = New Covenant Church of God, earlier name of MLT - see BCAY
NCP = New Covenant Press, publishing arm of MLT
NCW = New Covenant Witness, MLT magazine
NEB = New English Bible
NIV = New International Version of the Bible
NKJV = New King James Version of the Bible
Nor. = Norwegian
NT = New Testament, B'rit Chadashah
NWT = New World Translation of the Bible, unreliable Jehovah's Witness version
O
OB = Olive Branch - see NC&C
op.cit. = opere citato (lit. in the work cited)
OT = Old Testament, Tanakh
P
p(p). = page(s)
pl. = plural - see s.
PWNC = Prophetic Words of the New Covenant, revelation cataloging system - see OB
Q
QED = quod erat demonstrandum (lit. which was shown to be proved)
R
RCF = Restoration Christian Fellowship, earlier name of ICJC
RhQ = Ruach haQodesh, Holy Spirit
RSTNE = Restoration Scriptures True Name Edition of the Bible
RSV = Revised Standard Version of the Bible
RV = Revised Version of the Bible
S
s. = singular - see pl.
S&G = Smith & Goodspeed Version of the Bible
T
TEV = Today's English Version of the Bible - see GNB
V
Vulg. = Biblia Vulgata, Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible
W
WEB = World English Bible
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