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Sermons Series 3:59, 7 October 2006
Sukkot 2006
The Feast of Ingathering
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Shabbat Shalom and welcome in the Name of our Master Yah'shua the Messiah as we gather here today to celebrate Sukkot, also known as Tabernacles or Booths because, much to every child's delight, we spend a week living in booths, huts or tents as our ancestors did in the Sinai wilderness in their long wandering to the Promised Land. By living in primitive structures we not only identify with ancient Israel but also remind ourselves that life was meant to be simple. Did you know that Torah teaches that each family should have its own plot of land, dwelling place and at least one tree, and that the modern idea of the apartment block where everyone is huddled together in a pile of matchbox-like structures violates the spiritual living pattern ordained by Yahweh for man? That alone should give you some idea of what Millennial living conditions will be like. Gone will your typical cities be whose inspiration was the antichrist Nimrod. In its place, a patchworks of miniature 'kingdoms' where each father-husband is his own king with his own patch of land, house and possessions over which he is the steward which his wife his queen and his children apprentices. A great patchwork quilt of family plots with Yah'shua as the King of kings over all of them. Yes, at Sukkot we look forward with eagerness to the Millennial world that is to come and it is well that we spend some of our time during this week discussing how it will be and what it is we should aspire to while we yet remain in this world.
Yahweh said to Moses:
"Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. Be joyful at your Feast -- you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites, the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. For seven days celebrate the Feast to Yahweh your Elohim at the place Yahweh will choose. For Yahweh your Elohim will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete" (Deut.16:13-15, NIV).
This is Israel's annual harvest festival, also known as Chag haAsif or the Festival of Ingathering, the final gathering of the fruits of the field and of the vine before the winter. It is a time of joy, a time of celebration. It is a time to feast, sing, dance, relax and enjoy the good things that Yahweh has given us. And although there are only two or three Sabbaths during the entire festival, depending when the festival begins on the calendar, and we can work as normal on the non-Sabbath days, this is nevertheless a time for unwinding, taking it easy and having a good time in Yahweh's way as much as we can. In our homes and out in our gardens or yards are tents or huts to remind us that this festival is very different from all the others.
It is the last of seven annual festivals and the last of three main ones in which all adult males are required to stand before Yahweh at the appointed place, as we read in the Torah:
"Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to Me. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag haMatzah); for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed. Celebrate the Feast of Harvest (Shavu'ot) with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering (Chag haAsif / Sukkot) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. Three times a year all the men are to appear before Yahweh-Elohim" (Ex.23:14-17, NIV).
Anciently, when Israel was a theocracy, all the men were to appear before Yahweh in Jerusalem. If not everyone could come because of distance, then it was usual to send a representative whether of the family or clan. It is for this reason that we now have our Annual General Conferences during Sukkot where we can combine both celebration as well as take the opportunity to discuss the affairs of the Kingdom, arrive at collective decisions where these are needed for such things as evangelism and assembly planting, discuss and decide whether we want to canonise new or older revelations for inclusion in the Olive Branch, set apart new pastors and other leaders, and so on. As we grow bigger, so different centres will appointed around the world where members of one geographical region can assemble together. Hopefully before long these centres will be proto-firstborn communities where such facilities will be available. They will not be giant conferences. There has to be a balance so that there is wise management of resources and time. What we do not want is anything resembling the modern 'mega-churches' which lack intimacy. Above all, this is a Mishpachah - a family. And Sukkot is one of three family gatherings or reunions, and the main one. It is our task at the very dawn of this new anointing to set the precedent as well as set the example. This then is also the First Annual General Conference of Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon though the 22nd of this entire Movement.
In the days when the Torah was given by Yahweh through Moses, Israel was an agricultural nation in the making, as most nations were at that time, so Sukkot has a strong agricultural element. This is the time when we express gratitude for Yahweh's bounteous providence and can be satisfied with the fruits of our hard labour. Few of us here are farmers - though hopefully there will be more over the years - so we don't have so much to present, except perhaps the fruits of our orchards if we have any. However, the fruit of the field is not only what Yahweh is interested in. Today, in the New Covenant, Yahweh is looking additionally and primarily for other fruits in us, and these are the fruits of our hearts, the fruits which are our deeds, and the fruits of our witness in the world which is the harvest of evangelism. Today He is primarily looking at the inner gardens which are your hearts. He wants to know whether He as our Master and Adon is truly sitting on the throne of our hearts. He wants to see if husbands are truly presiding over their households in righteousness and whether or not they have been fruitful and are nourishing their wives and children adequately. He wants to see if your inner garden has been well tended according to the stewardship which He gave our father Adam at the beginning over the original Gan Eden or the Garden of Eden. He wants to look at the hearts of wives and children to see that the husbands and fathers have seeded, planted, watered and generally nourished them, which is their responsibility as heads. He wants to look at the hearts of wives and children so see that they have been obedient, loyal and faithful to their husbands and fathers. Indeed, He is looking around to see if your gardens - your hearts - have produced fruits enough for a feast for our Cosmic Bridegroom, Yah'shua the Messiah.
Not so very long ago we had a feast in a Garden to celebrate Yahweh's goodness. In fact, it was in the Garden of one of the people in this meeting room today. I know she will remember this because it is not easy to forget. We had just completed a long deliverance session and we were relaxing afterwards. I suggested to her: "Why don't we invite all the Malakim (angels) who have assisted us during this long spiritual war and thank them by giving them a feast?" She readily agreed, we asked Yah'shua permission, and then invited her Malakim into her Garden. There we plucked the fruits off her trees and gave them to the Malakim. Gathered were Malakim she knew well, faithful servants of Yahweh who had long protected her during difficult times. They were happy and we were happy - we were praising Yahweh and having a foretaste of Sukkot. Today, at the Festival of Tabernacles, we invite Yah'shua our King to sup with us in our hearts and in the collective Garden which is Mishpachah Lev-Tsiyon. We invite all the Malakim or angels who have helped us to join with us too. We invite all whom Yahweh will permit so that they may be blessed whether physically present or not. And above all, we look forward in anticipation to the new souls who will be gathered out of the world and into the Kingdom of His Righteousness and especially those who during this year have been saved and are coming up to the Festival for the first time.
Yahweh is very interested in the gathering of souls. He is interested more than anything else in the ingathering of people and of hearts made pure in Him through trust in Messiah and obedience to the Father's Torah. The Kingdom of Yahweh is always a missionary body. Evangelism and discipleship are the twin arms of the ministry and when any one of the two lack, the ministry stagnates and dies. And the goal of evangelism and discipleship is to bring new and old converts to Sukkot to celebrate after the often long and hard won spiritual battles of the year. Here the soldiers and their attendants enter into a holy place and bless the Most High for their deliverance, protection, and equipping, and praise Him for fruitfulness.
When Yah'shua was walking by the Sea of Galilee at the beginning of His ministry, He came across a couple of fishermen called Peter and Andrew. What He said to them is well known to you all: "Come, follow Me ... and I will make you fishers of men" (Matt.4:19, NIV). As believers and members of the commonwealth of Israel, we are all commissioned to be witnesses of the Gospel of Salvation, both individually and collectively as a people. We are to witness, not just because Yahweh wants us to, but because we are concerned about the welfare of lost souls, knowing only too well that this mortal probation is a testing ground and that all men and women must make fundamental choices while they are alive, for however long they live, that will determine their eternal future. Our business, therefore, is very serious. At some date in the future - hopefully in the not too distant future, and without doubt within the time frame of the next generation - Sukkot will mark the beginning of the thousand yearlong reign of Yah'shua on the earth as King of kings, a reign which we call the Millennium. It will be a thousand yearlong reign of shalom or peace. At the beginning of it, all the souls of the faithful and pure will be resurrected in immortal bodies that will suffer no more physical pain, sickness or death. These are the sons and daughters of the First Resurrection. Here they will live and raise families for a thousand years, repopulating the earth. Manhy whose lives were cut short by war, sickness, famine, and so on, will return at the ages at which they were cut off and be raised to adulthood. At the end of it, as you know, the demons, which were locked away in a pit at the beginning of it along with Satan, will be released once more, and Yahweh will test the works of the generations of those of the First Resurrection as He has done, and will do, in this Pentecostal one. And then, after a great and final purging of fire, the earth and her inhabitants will rest forever more. It will be during this, the seventh thousand year period of earth's history, that the Shegal haShabbat - the Sabbath Queen - or the seventh of the Ruach haQodesh's - will preside, as She indeed presides among us today for the next seven days. We have already invited Her to enter into our hearts this morning.
It will not surprise you to learn, I am sure, that each of the thousand years of earth's history has been presided over by one of the seven Ruach haQodesh's. The first thousand years was presided over by the Ruach haRishon, that included Adam and the first Patriarchs. Knowing what you do about Her now, it will comes as no surprise to understand that life in the first millennium was very basic and simple. I speak here only of those who were faithful to Yahweh for as we know there was a progressive rebellion from the truth. This was what might well be called the "Rishon-Rishon" or "First of all" era. Today we are living in the sixth era or epoch of human history which is under the presidency of the Ruach haSheshi, the Ruach who presided over Yom Kippur. And it has been a particularly violent age as you know where the judgement of Yahweh is falling hard upon the nations. We are at a junction - the junction between the Sheshi age and the Shegal haShabbat age, and this is the advance guard of the Shegal haShabbat age. Here, in this small gathering, and on those who will gather to it over the coming years before the Great Tribulation and the return of Messiah, the Shegal haShabbat will be poured and teach us the ways of the Millennial era that is to come very soon. We here, and those who are to join us, are to be disciplined and taught in all the ways of our Heavenly Father so that when our Messiah returns, He will have His princes ready to govern and teach by example. And to this body will be added all the children of the First Resurrection from the generations all the way back to Adam. We will all of us, if we are true and complete our salvation, mingle with those whom we have read about in the Bible and talk about in our meetings, and have intimate fellowship with them in Yah'shua.
During this festival we also present before Yahweh the fruits of twenty years of labour. It's our 20th birthday! Twenty-two years ago Yahweh called me to the ministry which you can read about in the fourth section of the Olive Branch, and two years later I entered it. Of the original people called, I am the sole survivor. Many have come and gone, a few have stayed, and some have overcome and grown into great spiritual trees, and the fruits they have produced have collectively nourished thousands of people. Our intention is to raise more leaders of this calibre and fulfil the original commission which Yahweh gave me and which could well apply to all the men coming in at the gate of this Mishpachah.
As I think back, I have many thoughts. It is has been a long, hard uphill struggle. The cost has been high but the fruits more than worth it. Many times I have wanted to give up. At every stage there has been opposition which at the time seemed overwhelming and insurmountable, yet we prevailed - we stuck out the course with determination even when we were straining with the last drops of our physical, emotional and mental energy, and we proved that Yahweh's Word was true. This year our enemies tried to physically destroy us and when they failed, to ruin our reputation instead. Well, here we are! And we are stronger than ever, even though there were moments when we nearly wavered and wondered. Each and every soul coming to this work must expect no less. And if at times the journey seems daunting, and if at times it seems as though you'll never make it, stop yourselves and remember this day: when the devil sent his best troops against us, thousands of them, against a mere handful of people, and lost, remember that he lost, not because we were great ones, not because we were supermen or super-spiritual or super-knowledgeable, but because we trusted and surrendered. We kept our eyes on our Redeemer, Yah'shua, and He crushed them. Where, now, at the end of the Third Wave, are our enemies? Of their individual conditions I do not know other than they are not good. He has overturned their tables and set up one of His own for us in the midst of our enemies. So here we are. We have stood the ground, held the banner high, kept our spiritual armour on and taken whatever the enemy had to send against us. We are not dead. We have not perished. Neither shall we disappear into the mists of obscurity. We have prevailed in Him and we proclaim today His Victory! Are there more battles to come? Are there more enemies to overcome? Oh yes. There are. But if we are true and faithful, and do things His Way and not in the strength of the arm of the flesh, then our enemies can know what to expect. They will perish. Their memories will be short, as is always the case of careless humanity, but they will be reminded once again that Yahweh is not some, weak, old tired Deity who can just be brushed aside by the arrogance of man's darkened heart. He is King of the Universe and we proclaim that on the mountain-tops here in this our Festival of Celebration!
We are gathered here today to celebrate so many things, and to relate so many things that have happened since the Third Wave ended, that I hardly know where to begin. I doubt I will get through a fraction of it. There have been many miracles, many surprises, some losses and many gains. Today, in our very midst at headquarters, is the firstfruits of a ministry we began some five years ago and the result of Yahweh's bounteous grace and loving kindness. We are so full of joy to see what we have longed for, for so long, to come home to rest and to join hands with us in spreading the word to the outcasts of society whom nobody wants or cares about. I speak, of course, of the victims of the satanic covens. This was not a ministry we sought and if the truth be known it initially revolted and scared us. But without it there would have been no Third Wave, no Tabernacles Anointing. If the truth be known, we wanted an easier, cushier way, one that expected less of us and demanded little in the way of personal responsibility. And yet we would have missed so much if we had not responded to the calling. And I don't just mean the blessings of purification but also the wonderful people who are coming our to freedom whom the world, including Christendom, has marked as unredeemable. Did you know that large numbers of Yahweh's elect - the children of the Firstborn - are prisoners of these covens? They are not Yahweh's scrag-ends, the ones at the bottom of the pile of the Kingdom. They are, in fact, the beggars that Yah'shua said would be gathered in at the end time because those who thought themselves spiritually rich, but who were in fact impoverished, refused to come to the Marriage Feast of the Lamb. Oh yes, Yahweh's elect are to be found in the most unexpected places, and not at all where the fleshy disposition would look for them. Yes, their journey through the seven-stepped journey of deliverance may be long, arduous and painful, but what a spiritual harvest at the end of it! Like Yah'shua who was despised and regarded as having no esteem, these people are to be bright and shining jewels of the Kingdom. Of course, not all will respond. Some will go so far and no more, like the rest of us. Nevertheless they are the children of opportunity because Yah'shua is calling them home. And not just them, but all of you who have felt the tug of the Ruach to come here, no matter what your background or circumstances. He calls you all. Thereafter it's up to you to say 'yes' or 'no' and stay the course or go your own way.
When the Third Wave ended at the blowing of the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur a few days ago, we thought that, in a manner of speaking, it would be 'all over'. We thought that the miracles would be over, but forgot that the Third Wave was a refining fire, and that after the fire had dimmed and gone away, the resultant pure metal would have to be reworked into a new object. Yahweh began working almost immediately! The healings continued and are still continuing. All that has happened is that there has been a division or separation through purging. We have moved from the end of one dispensation to the beginning of another. We have been transported from one spiritual shore to another, from one mountain plateau to another higher one where everything is clearer and purer. The miraculous conception of the Third Wave has yet to be seen and understood in all its glory.
We should also remember that whilst there are collectively these spiritual seasons - a Teshuvah or repentance season, a Kippur or Atonement season, and so on, that individually we all continue where we are inside at all times of the year. The festivals above all join us together in anticipation of the time when we are all echad or one. They do that, seven times a year, with special anointings of each of the Ruachs, so that we can learn to walk together in the same spiritual current and experience the same spiritual things together until we are all doing it all the time. That is what will happen in the Millennium. But for now, each must work out his ow her own salvation. So whilst the Third Wave is over for us as a body, and whilst we have been individually transported to the same place as a Mishpachah, we are separately as men and women still working out our own issues. Repentance and Judgement still continue. Celebration still continues throughout the year and at any time of the year. Indeed, that is why we additionally have the weekly cycle of 7 days, each of which is presided over by one of the 7 Ruachs. We can live through the 7 festivals every week inside. It's a good discipline. If you see every Sunday as a Passover, every Monday as an Unleavened Bread devoted to removing sin, every Wednesday as a Pentecost in recommitting yourself to Torah, every Friday as a Day of Atonement in which you afflict yourself and deny yourself of those fleshy things which are hindering your spiritual growth, and so on, you will grow fast! Get accustomed to the cycle! Don't just leave it to 7 events throughout the year - live them weekly if you can. You don't need the outward forms then - just recall the spiritual lessons learned during the seven festivals. Keep a diary if you like - compare and learn. You'd be surprised what can be accomplished. Is there any evidence that this is a biblical principle? Well, take the Sabbath Day for instance - it's our weekly Sukkot! Once a week we turn away from the cares of the world and focus on Yahweh and rest in Him. Look at the seven Ruachs - it is no accident that there are seven days in the week and seven major festivals. Some things we're supposed to search out for ourselves and reap the blessings of our labour. Yes, we are also harvesting the effort we put into Scripture Study at Sukkot. It is the time for looking at the dividends of each and every spiritual investment and then presenting them to Yahweh. It is the time when He comes a long to see what we have earned or multiplied with the coins or talents He left with us while He was 'away'. At Yom Kippur He asks us to give an account. Today, at Sukkot, He rewards the faithful and gives them the talents of the faithless who did nothing with them, as He will do so in the Millennium as well.
People have been asking me where they 'are' relative to the end of the Third Wave. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea where the majority of people 'are' at this stage since I have only spoken with a few of them. I do know that some have been washed away, as Yahweh said they would, that the tables of our enemies would be overturned, that their plans to destroy us would come to nothing, and that some of our members and catechumens have been transplanted with us to the new shore. I also know that others, similarly transported, will come and join us beginning now and extending over the next few years. Whoever you are, wherever you have been, Yahweh has been working on you. Only He and you can know. So really I can't say too much at this stage. Yahweh knows His own, those who will follow Him no matter what. One thing I do know, however, is that those who were transported to the new shore will be in agreement with us and be attracted to us and want to stay with us. This is a sure sign. And those who were not will not agree with us, be repelled by us to one degree or another, and will mostly go away of their own accord. Some may still try to force themselves in even though they do not agree with us, greedy for the fruits but unwilling to make any investment of their own. Such will be turned away at the gate. We here, for our part, will simply continue labouring and invite those who are called to join with us. We have a lot of work to do this winter and pray for the strength to accomplish it.
Sukkot is the season of joy and those who have passed into the Tabernacles Anointing will, amongst other things, have gathered with their hearts aflame and happy. The season of repentance and redemption has gone. Today we begin a time of celebration.
I told you that Sukkot is the festival of the Shegal haShabbat, the Seventh Ruach. But it is actually more than that. It is, above all else, the festival of Echad or the Unity of One in Many. It lasts for seven days to which is added a final day called Shemini Atseret which I shall be speaking to you about next Sabbath. Why do I additionally call it the 'Festival of Echad'? I do so because this is not only the time when the Shegal haShabbat manifests Herself in a great anointing on Yahweh's faithful, in the same way that each of the Ruachs manifest themselves on their respective festivals, but it is also the season when She gathers together all the other six Ruachs too! Yes, brethren and sisters, beginning this evening, each of the seven Ruachs will come and remain until this festival is all over. Each will come, culminating in the Shegal haShabbat revealing Herself in all Her glory at Shemini Asteret, the Last Great Day!
This is a seven day-long festival, just like the seven days of the normal week, and is actually a recapitulation of all the others. Today the Shegal haShabbat has called us together to Yahweh's Seventh and last annual Festival which, as you know, also corresponds to the Marriage of the Lamb. It's Yah'shua's wedding festival, His allegorical marriage to His Bride, the Messianic Community. But the Shegal is called to do much more than preside over a spiritual wedding as I will now show you.
Tonight at sunset is the beginning of a new day. Saturday evening marks the end of the Sabbath and the beginning of the first day of the week presided over by the Ruach haRishon. This evening we shall invite Her as we do each Saturday evening but this time, when Sunday evening rolls along, she will remain and we will invite the Ruach haShanee too. At the end of Sunday and at sunset, She will remain and we will invite the Ruach haShleshi, and so on, so that when next Sabbath comes along and we gather for the Great Last Day or Shemini Atseret, all seven Ruachs will be present! Now this only happens once a year. No wonder this is a feasting time. No wonder this is the favourite time for marriages because this is the marrying season - the marriage of the Celestial Bridegroom to the redeemed Firstborn Bride, the children of the First Resurrection. This is a rehearsal of the Marriage of the Lamb which we read about in the Book of Revelation. It is heaven-on-earth time. Isn't that a wonderful thing?
Now listen carefully. Each and every one of you is on his or her spiritual journey of sanctification and purification. You are all heading for a full salvation that involves seven overcomings. I don't know where you all are individually, and I don't need to know, even if I know where some of you are. You may be at any of the seven stages that I spoke about during Yom Kippur. What's important to me and the rest of us is not where you are but the fact that you are here and moving. You may only be at stage #1. You may have received your new birth because you have made your decision for Yah'shua. You may not feel very much, you may keep falling back into old sins, and not even be aware. If that is the case, then Sunday is 'your' day. It is the Day of Rishon and you are of the House of Rishon, and you will be blessed and be able to celebrate. If this is you, stay with us, because the next few days will give you a taste of what you can expect if you persist. Let us embrace you in the Ruach. The fact that you are only in the House of Rishon does not mean you are excluded from the other days because the Ruach haRishon is remaining. This is a Festival of GRACE, like all the others. You're not going to be ranked, categorised and boxed. Neither are you going to be asked to leave. That is why your Ruach is remaining, to bid you welcome to the whole Feast! She wants you to taste the other Ruachs as well and to eagerly desire what others, who may be ahead of you, have. You are not to be excluded.
Now this to me is good news. It is telling us that whilst we are at different stages, with different rewards because of our choices, we are nevertheless still one Body with one Hope, one Master, one Baptism, and one Faith. It is the same faith that is propelling us. The fellowship of the Firstborn - the Children of the First Resurrection - have the same destiny but are at different stages. We still love you all and want you all. We want you especially not to feel left out but embraced at this special time as we lift the cup of the vine in thanksgiving to Yahweh together - as one people - determined to unitedly go forwards to our perfection in Messiah.
May you have a joyful Sukkot!
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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