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Sermons Series 3:30, 18 March 2006
Preserving the Sacred Tie
Introduction to the Marriage Repair Manual
Main Themes:
Minor Themes:
Both my biological father and my adoptive spiritual father were, and are, great motor mechanics. My biological father was superb at car maintenance and knew how to keep a car in good running order. My adoptive spiritual father, on the other hand, knows how to build. In his younger days he built two tractors single handed. Both the one who builds and the one who repairs have vital jobs but they are not the same.
The same is true of marriage which I want to talk about today: making a marriage and repairing one are two totally different jobs and each requires a different 'manual' and set of experiences to accomplish. Most of my writings have centred on how to build a solid marriage in Yah'shua from the day a child is born and preparing him for his future rôle as a spouse. The parents fashion the children as King David hewed the stones for the Temple at Jerusalem and then those children can enter marriage as Solomon took the stones of his father and essembled the House of Yahweh.
Today we have two types of marriage to work with. The first, which is the task of this Mishpachah and the Holy Order, is to raise children in all the ways of Yahweh and prepare them fit for marriage as David and Solomon proceeded to ready and build the Temple. To do that you need to start from the womb and work your way up to adulthood and its consummation, marriage. Sometimes you can find young single people who are willing to sacrifice all for the Kingdom and subject themselves to an intense deliverance programme to bring them to the place they should have been had their parents raised them correctly, but they are few and far between and are a specialist work of the Mishpachah. Those who come in by this door are being prepared themselves to raise up the second generation who will have known nothing but the set-apart pattern from the day they were conceived.
But in the local assemblies we have an altogether different task. We have, by and large, totally dysfunctional marriages where Yahweh's sacred rôles have been completely reversed. In this Jezebelised society we literally have to rebuild marriages completely, and often painfully. And one of the hardest tasks for pastors and spiritual parents is to preside over this process for which they get little thanks and a great deal of abuse. Today's sermon will, I hope, provide our ministers - as well as those seeking to get their marriages right before Yahweh - with some tools to get into the repair business in Yahweh's most sacred human estate. My task today is to outline the basics of the Marriage Repair Manual.
Because of the nature of this restorative work, Yahweh has usually given us the worst cases imaginable and said: Get to it! Repair this mess and I will give you instructions along the way so that you can help others later too. So today I am going to talk about a case study which in so many ways is typical of our destroyed society - a married couple who have got everything back-to-front and are stuck in a cycle of frustration and pain in their relationship. Every attempt at making things work seems to have failed and the relationship has descended into petty recrimination and blame-shifting coupled by a deep yearing to get it right and make it work.
To begin my illustration I want to share a dream with you which Yahweh gave me nearly a month ago on 19 January. In it Yahweh symbolises the relationship between a husband and a wife depicted as a prisoner and a prison warder, respectively. The prison is fenced off and walled in, like most prisons, and at one end of it is this enormously tall tower - so high that every single movement of every single prisoner can be seen all the time. There is simply nowhere to hide. The prisoner is a small, thin and undernourished boy about 13. He is very meek and mild most of the time but occasionally is given to outbursts of temper when he feels trapped and cornered. The prison warder is located high up in the tower scrutinising every single move of the prisoner down to the last twitch, grunt and facial expression. Occasionally she takes the prisoner aside and demands that he fills in long, complex and searching questionnaires detailing his every thought and action. Most of the time he is happy to do this but sometimes he feels he cannot breathe and just wants to run. He's in prison, accused and condemned of a crime he doesn't even understand. In fact, he's not guilty at all, but the warden treats him like a terrible criminal and over time he has come to believe it himself and to behave as one condemned.
Your typical marriage today is not at all unlike this scenario. The couple are nominally equal according to the expectations of the secular society and secularised churches but in reality the wife is in command most of the time. The Biblical pattern is not adhered to. When the wife is 'on top' in the dominant position, the husband is bowed, submissive and craving for love as a little boy craves love from his mother. This is an unnatural position for both to be in and after a while he starts getting chlostrophobic and just wants to yell or run and she in her turn comes to despise him for being such a weakling not to stand up to her. When the tensions reach a pitch and he can't stand it any longer and goes onto the offensive, she is both delighted and enraged - one part is delighted because he is assuming his rightful positioning as her head, for which she was made, and to which she wishes to naturally yield, and the other part is enraged because the flesh is having its power base threatened on which it has come to depend like a narcotic. Once the wife finally submits (if he has stood his ground and not fled), the husband then has two choices: one choice will move the relationship forwards into new growth and the other will set it back to where it was and cause it to sink into ever greater darkness and spiritual bondage.
The man, as I said, has two choices: he can either be a real man and assume his responsibility as a ruler or he can stay the little boy and react like the little boy. The man, having regained the high ground to which Yahweh has called him, can either show grace and love or return to being the little boy by punishing the rebellious wife and dancing a victory celebration on top of her, calling her 'rebel', 'witch', 'demon' or whatever, and demanding that the rôles be reversed and she becomes his slave instead ... to make things even. Needless to say this is not Yahweh's way.
Now you all know in your heads that this second way doesn't work. The second path of revenge and a dictatorial impulse leads to the opposite kind of slavery - the macho male version instead, as opposed to the feministic Jezebel one. The trouble is, people often do this without realising it because they are blind to the reality of their own spiritual imprisonment. The Jezebels and the little boys are both prisoners of a demonic web of deception.
For those of you who know your ancient history, when Rome was young it fought a series of wars with a neighbouring tribe called the Samnites who had rebelled against them. When the latter were defeated, the Romans had one of two choices: to be magnaminious or take revenge. Very unwisely they decided to humiliate the Samnites by making their army go through a degrading ritual and the result was deep resentment and more rebellion and bloody warfare later. Learning from this lesson, one or two later Roman Emperors pardoned those they had conquered and won friends and allies instead of enemies bent on revenge.
The husband in a family headship position is called to act like Yah'shua in his dealings with his wife. If his wife has been Jezebelic and in rebellion, he has two choices: to punish or forgive. However, in reality he has a much wider responsibility because to forgive a Jezebel and let her take back the ground he took earlier is to defeat the whole purpose of authority. Once the ground has been taken - the ground of headship - it must be held on to at all costs. That ground is non-negociable. Once the Jezebel has surrendered it and ceased becoming a Jezebel but a Sarah she must not attempt to retake it and he must under no circumstances surrender it back to her. A true man in Yah'shua forgives and stays firm in the truth. He does not yield it even if the demonic programming in his heart may want to in order to get her approval and affection which he usually misinterprets as love. His experience is to return to little boy-mode, and to assume that bowing his head to her, forgiving her, and letting her mother him again, is true love. It isn't. It's dysfunctional. The need is for mothering from a true mother -- a wife cannot be a husband's mother, or a husband be a wife's father unless one or the other is spiritually mature and can perform that function for a while. Marriage was not supposed to be an extention of parenting.
Now to some important principles. The husband is like a General who must steer his family-army through life. He can, of course, ask his junior officers for counsel but he can't cede the decision-making processes to them. He has to take charge and act whether they like it or not, whether they love him or not. His position as head can never be a function of his wife's approval or rejection. It must stand completely independent. As a General takes his orders from the King or President, so the husband must take his orders from Yahweh and it is none of the business of the junior officers to demand access to the deliberations of the two.
When a husband's perceived need for approval or love interferes with the truth-process, then the husband has handed the leadership position to his wife and failed his divine commission to lead. Yahweh does not form and implement His laws based on our approval or not. Similarly, how a wife reacts to the leadership directions of her husband is immaterial because these are two separate spheres. When a husband is leading and ministering the Truth in his family he is acting as the family's Priest under the High Priest, Yah'shua, and as Yah'shua's allegorical bride. When he surrenders that rôle to his wife, then she assumes a satanic positioning as a goddess and she becomes his High Priestess and Messiah. This is both insufferable and deadly. The result is that both spiritually die.
You women must also understand something else that is important. Even if the husband does not pick up the sceptre of authority that does not mean that she 'has' to. She is not called into the leadership position ever. A lot of women fall into this trap - because their husbands fail to do their duty they assume they have to do it for them. That is fatal! That is what King Saul did though in his case he assumed that because the Prophet Samuel had not yet turned up for a meeting that he could go ahead and offer sacrifices in the priestly office. That blasphemy and presumption cost him his throne and likely his salvation too judging by the murderous spirit that followed him afterwards.
So what does a wife do when her husband refuses to lead? Firstly, she does not take the lead herself. She doesn't, as they say, 'put on the trousers'. (Indeed the spirit behind women wanting to wear pants is very often this Jezebelic demon). Instead, in a quiet meek spirit, like Sarah the wife of Abraham, she remains in subjection, calling him lord, asking what he wants her to do, so that he will either be shamed into doing his job or be encouraged by the knowledge that she will not try to lord it over him. Many a weak man has drawn encouragement from such a contrite attitude and has grown and become strong, but a weak man had never become a strong one or assumed his proper rôle when Jezebel-like the woman has assumed the reins of power. To assume that she has the right or duty is presumptuous at best and blasphemous at worst, and has destroyed the soul of many a woman who may have thought she was doing right but in fact opened a Pandora's Box of demons into her husband's home.
There is in the spiritual realm a sceptre of authority. Authority is critically important in life. In the Garden this sceptre is something tangible. During deliverance many months ago one of my adoptive daughters was holding such a sceptre and Yah'shua instructed her to give it to me as her lawful father and head. At first she was very reluctant and continued to cling onto it until Yahweh humbled her and finally persuaded her to do so when she saw that she was totally unfitted to carry and use it because that is not what she was made for. When a usurper has authority he or she is not entitled to, he usually finds is very hard to surrender, because the power that comes with authority, when it is not being wielded with wisdom in the Ruach, is very, very spiritually corrupting. We find the same today in the Messianic Movement with Judah (or a counterfeit) clutching onto the scepter which belongs to Ephraim. And they won't let go and probably won't until Yahweh humbles them and forces them to yield it to its proper owner.
One of the worse curses for any woman - be she daughter or wife - is to hold on to her father's or husband's sceptre denoting his authority over her. The longer she holds it, the greater she is cursed. Things began to go more in the right direction for my adopted daughter when she finally yielded authority to me and she submitted to headship. Thew urge to rebell is strong and must be resisted. The same is true with mothers and sons and the same crippling relationship results when either mentally, emotionally, spiritually or physically she tries to exercise authority. If you are in any doubt as to who was the authority in Yah'shua's family was after his father Joseph died, recall that on the cross He gave His mother to John to preside over and look after. Therefore I say: let the sceptre of authority go to whom it belongs or they will receive similar curses to the ones that fell on the Philistines when they seized the Ark of the Covenant. Those curses remained with them until the Ark was returned to the lawful people who were its custodians. The Ark was, in this case, a sceptre of the Nation of Israel. Nevertheless the Sceptre or Ark belonged to Yahweh - it was His Mercy Seat - and He gave it to Israel for safe-keeping. And as we know, they lost it.
So what does a Jezebelised family do to restore order? Firstly, the husband must obtain the sceptre back. Until he does, everything he does will be vain. If his wife acknowledges Yahweh as her Elohim and Yah'shua as her Saviour then she must give the sceptre of authority to her husband. It doesn't matter whether he wants it or not. It doesn't matter whether he is worthy or not because it has nothing to do with worth but birth - it's his birthright which is why he was born a man. Whether he is a success or a failure, whether he loves her or not, is entirely besides the point: if he is a tyrant or a wicked man then even then she cannot claim the sceptre. However, she can depart from him and that must be her choice and responsibility, if he is making her break the commandments. His authority does not extend to the right to make her disobey Yahweh. However, she had better be pretty sure he is breaking the commandments before she takes such a drastic step.
The foundation of a true marriage - a godly marriage - rests in a wife's affirmative or negative answer to the following two questions:
1. Will you love and obey Yahweh?
2. Will you love and obey your husband in all things?
Firstly, a man should never marry a woman who is not totally and utterly committed to saying 'Yes' to these questions all the days of her life. He should ask her and get her to covenant to do this before entering covenants to be her husband. Indeed, she should make sure he can answer 'Yes' to the first question too before ever accepting a proposal of marriage. But what if this was not done because of a wrong upbringing or a false church tradition? What if one or both convert to Yah'shua after they are married and these matters are not resolved? The answer is this - they must be resolved before anything else is attempted. To not do so is to turn the marriage into Satan's territory - impotent and useless for spiritual growth and Kingdom-building.
No man of Yahweh has any right to compromise or by-pass these questions. If He does, then Yahweh is not his Head and Yah'shua is not His King. Similarly, if a woman refuses to give a truthful 'Yes' to the second question then in truth Yah'shua not her Lord but Satan is, no matter how much she may quote the Bible or says she believes in Christ, because she is denying the authorities that Yahweh has established and breaking the terms of the New Covenant. She is making herself into a heathen and destroying her family. Only when the proper authorities have been recognised can the cycle of unforgiveness and blindness be brought to an end the the real enemy be exposed and expelled.
I know so many people who are caught in this web of deception who mistake love for feelings instead of truth. Feelings will never set you free, brethren and sisters, only the truth. So you husbands, your first priority is to establish your base of authority not because you are someone wonderful necessarily but because Yahweh has appointed you to it. And what others feel about that is entirely besides the point - the issue is whether you accept that Yahweh is your authority or not, and if you reject the authority He has given to you then you reject the authority He has over your life too. You then become an apostate.
Balanced against this must be forgiveness and mercy - always. The men must remain resolute and firm until they have taken the ground and then never yield it, consecrating it to Yah'shua as soon as they have obtained it so that it is clear that this ground is only theirs in Yah'shua. It's never theirs without Him. That doesn't mean the wife can go scrutinising to see if there are any 'fruits' before she will obey because accepting authority is never fruit-linked - a foot soldier can't decide he will obey his General until he is satisfied the General is 'good'. He signed up in the army just as you signed your Ketubah's or marriage contracts and you are bound 'for better or for worse' --Yah'shua doesn't allow 'sunset' or exception clauses except in the most drastic situations. Remember that.
So, wives, what if your husband is a little boy spiritually needing a mother? What if he isn't much of a leader? What do you do? Attack him? Abandon him? Seize the sceptre? Do that, and you have sunk your own spiritual ship. Instead, submit to him in meekness and quietness, like Sarah, don't blame your own 'demons'or 'alters', or him for your lack of obedience, encourage him to sit on his own seat of authority by vaccating it and pointing him to it, and accept responsibility for your own sinful attitudes and behaviour - repent, change direction - do the right thing. And if you will not, then he has every right to send you away, as Torah teaches.
And what of the men who will not grow up? They will eventually abandon their wives and she will then be free to marry a true man of Yahweh. And what if the women will not repent? Then so long as the husband keeps the ground Yahweh has given her, she will in the end desert him or he can dismiss her and he can marry a godly woman.
Firmness in truth and love always pays and is worth the short-term discomfort to establish a happy and joyful marital future. Please be reconciled to Yahweh and Truth, return the authority to where it belongs, and honour it. Once this essential temple stone is in the place, the others will follow smooth. Without it, the temple will never be built, and the Ruach will have no habitation. May Yahweh bless you as you take thre right steps to rerurn your marriages to Him. 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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