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Sermons Series 3:12, 19 November 2005
The Garden of Yahweh
Ingrafting, Cleansing and the Heavenly Mother
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Outside the front of our house, and visible from the office where I work as well as from the kitchen and school room, are two lovely poplar trees. The children are very fond of them and love to climb them, but in order not to spoil both of them, I have only allowed them to climb the one outside my office. As a result most of the lower branches have either been broken off or been bent from all the years of climbing. Looking at that tree reminds me of a child that has lost some of its front teeth - it's waiting for new branches to grow back again.
The tree is one of the commonest and most potent symbols in the Bible, much about which I have spoken to you of over the years, and either represent a person or a principle, or both. You will recall that the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden is Yah'shua (who is "the way, the truth, and the life") and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - or Tree of Death - is Satan (who is the spirit of deceit and of death). They play a vital rôle in the Garden of Yahweh. As you know, Yah'shua is described as a vine tree in Scripture and His sons as the branches. And He Himself is called prophetically the Branch who comes, viâ David, from the tree which is Jesse, the father of David. The prophet Isaiah writes:
"A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from His roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of Yahweh (Ruach Yahweh) will rest on Him -- the Spirit of wisdom (Ruach Hochmah) and of understanding (Ruach Binah), the Spirit of counsel (Ruach 'etsah) and of power (Ruach Gevurah), the Spirit of knowledge (Ruach Da'ath) and of the fear of Yahweh (Ruach w'yir'at Yahweh) -- and He will delight in the fear of Yahweh (Ruach w'yir'at Yahweh). He will not judge by what He sees with His eyes, or decide by what He hears with His ears; but with righteousness He will judge the needy, with justice He will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth; with the breath of His lips he will slay the wicked. Righteousness will be His belt and faithfulness the sash around His waist" (Isa.11:1-5, NIV).
This great messianic prophecy of Isaiah, known and loved by so many, tells us of the righteous King who will rule over us during the Millennium. Earlier in the same book, Yahweh tells the prophet of another Branch,
"the Branch of Yahweh will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel" (Isa.4:2, NIV)
which is the messianic Bride, the redeemed who are ingrafted into the Bridegroom. What an interesting picture this is - Yah'shua is the righteous Branch of the descendants of Jesse, and we - if we are true - are to be the beautiful and glorious Branch of Messianic Israel. And yet He is also depicted as the Tree itself and we the branches - the Branch is also the Tree. The apostle John records Him saying:
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples" (John 15:1-8, NIV).
Today I want to share a mystery with you that we learned in the Garden of Yahweh two weeks ago. And what a day it was! This is the story of one of my adopted daughters called Naomi who was, until then, a victim of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) in the United States. As the story is long, I can only share part of it, and specifically that part which pertains to my theme of discussion.
When Naomi came to me in the Garden for the first time she was filthy and in rags, and had no proper name. She was a non-person. Hated, abused, tortured, demeaned and dehumanuised by her brutal parents and the coven she was raised in, she was totally without any perception of what love and self-worth were. She thought of herself as something abominable and untouchable because she was a girl - the accursed gender. All the men she had ever known were mere brutes so all men were to be feared, mistrusted and shunned. It took a long time for her to start trusting in me but all the while there was this fear, programmed into her through years of abuse, that I would in some way hurt her. At length she consented that I bring her to Yah'shua in the Garden. When He came she saw a rainbow - "This," He said to her, "is My promise for you of good times head." He held a bottle in his hand, the contents of which He did not immediately reveal, but which He had mysteriously shown her earlier. This time she could sense that this was not a good bottle, which contained much sadness. "Every time I cried," she told me, "He put the tears in the bottle." So here it was, a bottle carrying all her pain over all the years of her abuse by the satanists.
As He has done many times before with others, Yah'shua instructed me to take Naomi down to the Garden lake and into the water. As we walked she asked me, "Is Yah'shua your Daddy?" "Why?", I asked. "Because He called you 'son'", she said, and I explained that yes, He was, in a way. The lake was beautiful and sparkling as it always is, filled with the waters of the love of the Ruach haQodesh. Naomi did not know what this was, of course, and was apprehensive. I explained to her that I would take her into it and all her filthiness would be washed away. "Oh no," she cried, "if I go into the lake, the garden will be full of screams and hurts!" I comforted the trembling girl and assured her that the water would absorb all the pain and wash it away, and that the garden would not be filled with all the terrible sounds and agonies of her previous life. As we stepped into the water she began to feel pain, and assumed wrongly that the water was the source of the discomfort. "Don't worry, love," I assured her, "the water will make you clean and you will be quite safe. The hurt will go quickly. Just hold on to me, it will be alright. And when the pain has gone, it will never come back again." She was afraid again: "I don't want to hurt anyone!" and I assured her no one would be. "Do you hate me?" she asked with pleading in her eyes. "No, dear, I love you, and this water will take all the pain and screams away".
We talked for a while as I reassured her that her fears were unfounded. "I will die," she insisted, and I assured her that she would not, as I told her of others she knew who had been through this and who were today alive and happy. I explained to her that the discomfort she felt was not only her fear but the demonic who would be forced to leave as a result of being immersed in the water. As we went in the water her confusion mounted and she was still afraid. "Look into my eyes," I said, "and tell me what you see." She was afraid to look at first, but finally she did and was overwhelmed. "What is it, love?" I asked. "I just want to run and hide in there!" she exclaimed as her underdstanding began to expand rapidly. Slowly she began to realise that this was 'home', though this was a concept she had never known before and had to be explained to her. "Oh I could never be good enough for home," she cried, as the years of satanic programming about her supposed worthlessness surfaced to fill her with fear again.
After a long discussion she finally descended into the water with me. "Oh I messed up the water!" she cried as the pain, dirt and demons started leaving her. "Don't worry," I replied, "the water goes back to Yah'shua and is cleansed. The lake will always stay clean." And then the changes began. First the hurt, and then feeling a bit sick as she made contact with the water, but then an amazing change inside. "My tummy feels better," she said, "but I feel embarrassed." She paused. "Oh," she said in surprise, "it's all clean now!"
And then Yah'shua gave me the bottle with all the sadness of the years. "He wants you to empty it into the lake," she said. As I emptied the contents of the bottle into the lake, Yah'shua said: "Never to be remembered any more", as all the pain was washed away. Naomi paused. "Oh", she exclaimed, "my tummy feels funny!" She paused again. "That was a laugh I felt ... I've never laughed before!" The joy welled up into me as her heart was reborn in Yah'shua. "Is this what happiness is?" she asked incredulously. "I can't believe it's for me!" she cried in the joy of her heart as she leaped out of the water onto the shore again.
And then, suddenly, her attention was diverted elsewhere as she looked at what she was wearing. "Oh look!" she cried with glee. "It's a pink dress, all fluffy and lacey! And shoes and socks!" Naomi's eyes were alight with excitement. "Look at this!" "What?" I enquired. "Oh it's beautiful, someone is here," as she looked incredulously at her own reflection in the water, not realising that it was the 'new her'. When the truth dawned on her, she cried: "It's me! Do I look like that?" We laughted together as we celebrated her new birth in Messiah, and we danced together on the grass. It was then I gave her a name - "Naomi", the Ruach told me, and she was delighted with it. "It means 'pleasant'", I said, "because you give us such pleasure". She ran to Yah'shua who hugged her. "He just hugged me and it didn't even hurt," she cried with amazement, "and I didn't get Him dirty!"
Naomi and I talked a long time after that as I explained her things like belonging, family, love and safety. During that time Yahweh showed to her, as He has to several who have come in the Garden now, about where she came from in the pre-existance, as she came to realise that she had always been connected to me spiritually. Memories of that happier time, before she was born and forced into satanism by her wicked parents, flooded her mind.
Moments later she was shown a vision of a huge tree. "The branches are alive!" she exclaimed in surprise. She asked me what it meant and I asked her to get Yah'shua to explain it to her. "Yah'shua is the soil, and the water, and the sun, and you are planted in Him, and us in you, and everything grows together, and the tree makes fruit and other people eat it."
Brethren and sisters, in this vision and the experience in the lake, this little girl was shown the whole Plan of Salvation and the meaning of life. And though most of you listening to me today have not experienced anything as horrendous as Satanic Ritual Abuse, we are all like Naomi without Yah'shua - we are filthy and wearing rags. Yahweh showed the prophet Isaiah what we are like when we are without the redemption of Yahu'shua when he said: "All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away" (Isa.64:6, NIV). It doesn't matter how good you have tried to be, or how eveil you have been, when we try to save ourselves in our own strength, then our efforts are useless - totally useless - because we do not possess the power to deliver ourselves from sin. Naomi came to Yah'shua in the only way that anyone can come, and as Yah'shua reminded His disciples:
"I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin!" (Matt.18:3-7, NIV).
It doesn't matter how young or old you are, there is only one way to come to Yah'shua, and that is as a little child, in humility and trust. You may be afraid and unsure as little Naomi was, but Yah'shua will patiently wait for you and invite you to Him. And what He gives you is entirely free. Naomi earned nothing of what she received. It was all a free gift - the cleansing of dirt, the sorrow for joy, the filthy rags for beautiful new clothes. Every human being approaches Yahweh on the same terms or remains filthy, alone and miserable. You don't have to be a great saint to be accepted by Him, or have done wonderful works, because none of these count in becoming acceptable to Him. You can't earn your salvation.
However - and this is where the bulk of Christendom stops - it doesn't end there. Yahweh expects us to be loyal, obedient and producing fruits. How does that happen? First by being grafted in to a tree. What exactly does that mean?
Yah'shua is the tree and the mature men are the branches. The mature men in their turn, are fathers. Into these fathers are grafted their wives and children, boys and girls alike. When the boys come of age they are grafted directly into the Tree which is Yah'shua because they are able to stand alone, and this happens on the day they get married. When the girls grow up and get married, they are grafted into the trees that are their new husband. Fathers and husbands, respectively, must be planted into the soil which is Yah'shua. He, Yah'shua, provides the fathers and husbands with water and sunlight, and this the fathers and husbands process in their spiritual walk and give spiritual food to their children and wives. And the wives in their turn, when they have children, become mothers, and give nourishment processed by, and taken from, the husband to their children.
Which brings me to the next great revelation and mystery of redemption. We have seen what happens when a sinner comes to Yah'shua, how He washes away sin and gives new clothing - a spiritual covering. Noami saw that she was grafed into me, and always had been, even though I had not known her in this world more than a day when this all happened. Yah'shua showed her that she was a little branch in the trunk of the tree, which was myself, and that she would grow and bear fruit with which to nourish others who came to the Garden. We know that water baptism by complete immersion in the physical world outwardly symbolises the process I have decribed today which takes place in the heart, for all that takes place in the Garden is in the heart - in Naomi's case, in the heart of her father, me, which is where sons and daughters must be nourished and brought to Yah'shua and to salvation. But what after that? What about the fantastic claims of some of the churches that we must do strange things like 'speak in tongues' as evidence of a second rebirth? Here, in the Garden, what we argued for theologically has been shown to be true, as I relate to you what happened to Naomi after her cleansing and reclothing.
The new Naomi, after neing washed in the lake, you must remember, was not an empty shell. She was happy, laughing and full of joy. All this Yah'shua did for her befroe her baptism of fire. And yet there was something more that needed doing, the interpretation of which has divided denominations for centuries, which is what happened next.
"Are we going to go and meet that Lady now?" Naomi asked excitedly. "Yes," I replied, as I led her away from where Yah'shua had been and into another part of the Garden. "Is She the Heavenly Mother you talked about?" as she recalled the time when I said she would not only have a Heavenly Father in Yahweh but a Heavenly Mother in the Ruach. "She has a message for you," I told her. "Wow, she is very beautiful and bright!" she exclaimed in delight as we approached the Ruach in all Her glory. "Wow, you're right, She does have a message for me!" I then went on to explain to her that She was the wife of our Heavenly Father. I explained the Godhead to her and our relationship to it as children. "Who was that Man we were with?" she asked, referring to Yah'shua, "because She says He is Her Son". I explained to her how Yah'shua was our Lord and Saviour and how He died for us so that we could be delivered from sin. The Ruach spoke to Naomi: "You are good. Being a girl is very special". This was music to Naomi's ears for all she had heard all her life was that she was a 'good for nothing' and 'bad'. "You can love and be loved," continued the Ruach, "and be safe", having been taught in word and deed by the satanists that loving was a bad and dangerous thing. The Ruach then spoke to Naomi and said she wanted to kiss her mouth. "Is that ok?" she asked me, a little unsure. "Yes," I answered, "for by this She intends to fill you with Life." "That's what She said too," said Naomi back to me. The Heavenly Mother bent down and kissed Naomi on the lips: "I will pop if I get any more life in me!" she cried. "It's warm! I can feel it going all through me! It's making all the fear go away!" She looked to me for reassurance and I nodded as this was all so new to her. "I feel as though I am floating!" said Naomi. "Everything here is alive", she continued, "No wondner, it makes sense now. You are the tree, and we are one big tree, and you don't make little trees go off on their own!" I explained to her what echad or oneness was. "I like that," she said. "Do you want to be a part of my tree?" I asked. "Oh I want to! I never want to go from here. I'm a part of you!" "And nothing will ever separate us," I added. "You hold me - I don't have to try to hold you," said Naomi, understanding the principle of patriarchy. "I get to be a girl called Naomi!" she said exultantly, "I am so happy!"
I then introduced Naomi to my wife, her earthly mother, and told her that she would be bringing her a present. She excitedly wondered what it might be until she saw it and was given it. "It's wonderful! It's a shell, and when I put it to my ear, I can hear music, and whenever I get scared or miss my mother, I can put it to my ear and hear them, and their hearts will hear me." She paused. "My tummy is so full of happy things! We waited a long time [for our reunion], didn't we?" she asked. And then she began to see other members of my family and realised they were home as well.
Brethren and sisters, the intimacy that exists between the branches and the tree cannot be overestimated. Most of the world, indoctrinated by feminism, egged on by the demonesses Lilith, Hecate, Jezebel, Astarte and Athena, believes that women should manage on their own and that we do not need Yahweh to look after us. But this is a huge lie. That dependency is life itself. Yah'shua told another of my daughters that it would be better for her to die rather than to believe that I could not protect her in every spiritual situation, because to be ungrafted - when we try to do it alone, apart from faith in Him, even when when we are scared and walking through the "valley of the shadow of death" (Ps.23:4) as we all must sometimes - literally spells death - death for men and their dependents who sever themselves from Yah'shua, and death for women who sever themselves from their fathers or husbands. This is the order that Yahweh-Elohim has established throughout Creation and we defy it at our own peril.
The good news is that we need no complicated doctrines of rights and equality in order to live. Life comes from total dependency on those who nourish us in Yahweh's Order. And to be a nourisher, whether father/husband or mother, is no little thing - it costs, and it costs a lot, as we know from the Ultimate Nourisher, Yah'shua, who died on a lonely cross to bring us the eternal life we so often take for granted. Fathers who cover, protect and nourish wives and children in Yah'shua know only too well what this cost is, so don't take them for granted either - it is no ego-trip. And finally the mothers who must also nourish their children with the nourishment they get from the husbands - they, like Mary the mother of Yah'shua, know only too well the grief of a sword pierching their hearts as children suffer for both others as well as for their own sins.
The Garden as those of you who have entered it and know it, then, did not suddenly appear out of nowhere. It was sown, tended and guarded at great cost. A good and healthy garden is made only through many tears and much suffering for only then can it carry the nourishing and redemptive waters of Yahweh's Love so necessary to keep its inhabitants spiritually and emotionally alive. Take nothing, therefore, for granted. For in time it will be your turn to do the same thing and you too will know the cost of preparing a home for divine love. 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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