Shalom Chaverim,
Sorry this “mid-week” midrash is a day late, but as I
began to sit down to write a simple, short teaching…the Ruach opened up
so much I will have to put it together as a video… but I wanted to share just a
small part of it with you today.
In
Parshat Chukat – on the red heifer, we studied Judges 11, the strange story of
Yiphtach –meaning “he opens” and that was the prophetic foreshadowing of
Yeshua, the Lord Himself as the One who opens …and no one shuts…
H3316 יִפְתָּח yiphtâch Jephthah or Jiphtah = “he opens”
פְתָּח/p'tach is the root word - opens
To the Church in Philadelphia
Rev 3:7 And
to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, He who
is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no
one shuts; and shuts and no one opens, says these things:
Hebrew New Covenant
ואל־מלאך קהל פילדלפיא כתב כה אמר הקדוש האמתי אשר בידו מפתח דוד הפתח ואין סגר וסגר ואין פתח׃
To be sure, the key of
David is about authority in its Peshat form or simple understanding. But there is a Sod level I want to show
you. Let’s look at David in the Hebrew…
Reading from right to left, we have dalet – vav – dalet
The name of the Fourth Letter comes from delet, the Hebrew word for a door, specifically the swinging leaf
of a door. It contrasts with petach which
denotes the opening of the
doorway, the entrance itself.
Literal Meanings:
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 Door |
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Symbolic Meanings:
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Numeric Values:
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4 (Ordinal Value)
4 (Standard Gematria)
The name of the Sixth Letter, vav denotes a nail or hook, as suggested by
its shape. It appears thirteen times in Exodus where it describes the hooks holding each
curtain to its pillar in the Tabernacle. Its name exemplifies its role in
Hebrew grammar. When prefixed to a word, this Letter represents the conjunctive,
the Hebrew form of and, also, so, but and so forth. Vav “hooks”
the words and links them together in a sentence.
 Gen 1:1בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ ׃
The placement of the Vav suggests
two of its essential connective powers: By joining heaven and earth it implies the connection
between spiritual and earthly matters. Since it occurs as the 22nd letter in the Torah
attached to the sixth word, את Aleph/Tav – first and last letters, it alludes to the creative
connection between all of the letters. Vav is therefore the connecting force
of the God, the divine "hook" that binds together heaven and earth.
· John 1:1 In the beginning
was the Word (את). The Word (את)
was with God, and the Word (את) was God. In Genesis 1:1, the Letter Vav combines with Aleph Tav �
the Sign of the Lord of History, the One Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus, the
Living Word � to connect heaven and earth in the most literal
sense! (All puns intended). This means that the consummation of all history
revealed in the Final Book is prophesied in the pattern of Hebrew letters in
the first verse of the First Book! Glory to God in the highest! There is no
limit to His Wisdom.
R
ev 1:8 “I
am the Aleph and Tav,”
says Adonai Elohim, “Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty!”
Rev_1:11 Saying,
I am Aleph and Tav,, the first and
the last:
So remember the 22nd letter in Torah, Gen 1:1??? As if
this wasn’t awesome enough, look….
Is 22:22 I will set the key of the house of David
upon His shoulder – what He opens, no one can shut; what He shuts, no one can
open. 22:23
I will fasten Him as a peg in a firm place, and He will be a throne of honor to
His Father’s house.
FYI- 22 is the
number that denotes “light, revelation knowledge” here is a link to a wonderful
teaching that will truly bless you….
http://www.lisaleland.com/llcopy/Number_22_knowledge-2_012410.htm
Now that we
understand the awesome significance of the letters Dalet and Vav in the name of
David, let’s look at another aspect of this prophetic pattern.
Now notice the number pattern – 4 – 6 – 4.
What if we plug that in to years?
Let’s say we start with 2007, since the message to the church of
Philadelphia begins with Rev 3:7 the open door. For consistency, we will begin
each period in the fall of the year coinciding with the New Hebrew year on Yom
Teruah, Feast of Trumpets.
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Hook, Nail