TORAH
PORTIONS
hmwrt
T'RUMAH
(Heave Offering)
Exodus 25:1-27:19
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CHAPTER
25
Exodus
25:1-40
Exo 25:1
And hwhy
spoke to Moses, to say,
2 Speak to the Sons of Israel, and they shall take for Me a
Heave
Offering (Raise Offering): from ta
every man
which impels (volunteers, wills) himself his
heart, you shall take ta-My Heave
Offering (Raise Offering). 3 And
this is the Heave Offering (Raise Offering) which you shall
take from with them;
gold, and the silver, and copper, 4
and blue, and purple, and crimson
(red)
worm [(worm of crimson (red))],
and linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), and kid goats, 5 and
skins of
rams
with red, and skins of clean animals, (kosher animals, antelopes,
dugongs, ?badgers?), and shittim (acacia) trees (wood) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], 6 oil for the light,
spices for the Oil of
Anointing, and for the Incense of Sweetnesses (Aromas), 7 stones of
onyx,
and
stones of settings (fillings) for the Ephod and for the Breast Pocket.
8 And they
shall do (make)
for Me a Sanctuary; and
I will tabernacle in their midst. 9 According to [(as)] all which
I am
showing
(revealing) you
ta
the Building Pattern of the
Tabernacle and ta
the Building Pattern of all
of his Vessels, and so you shall do (make).
10 And they shall do (make)
an Ark
of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood]: two and the half cubits
shall be his
length, and a
cubit and the half shall be his width, and a cubit and the half shall
be
his height. 11 And
you shall overlay (sheet over) him of pure gold, you
shall overlay (sheet over) him from housingward (inside)
and from outside, and you shall do (make) upon
him a Crown (Chaplet, Wreath) of gold all
around.
12 And you shall mold (cast, molten, pour out) for him four Rings of
gold,
and you shall give upon (over) his four corners (tapped corners,
two-fold areas); and two Rings
shall be
upon (over) his one
rib (side), and two Rings
shall be upon (over) his second
rib (side). 13 And you shall
do (make) Poles of trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], and you shall overlay (sheet over) them of gold. 14 And
you
shall enter ta-the Poles in
the Rings
upon (over)
the ribs (sides) of ta-the Ark, to
carry (bear, lift up) the Ark on
them. 15 The Poles, they shall be in the Rings of
the Ark: they shall
not be
removed [(not depart)] from him. 16 And you shall give to
the Ark ta
the
Testimony
(Witness) which I shall
give to you.
17 And you shall
do (make) a Mercy
Seat (an Atoning Seat)
of pure gold: two and
the half cubits
[(two cubits
and the half)] shall be
her
length, and a cubit and
the half shall be her width. 18 And you
shall do (make) two Cherubims of gold, you shall do (make) them of
beaten work
(hammered work)
from the two ends (edges) of the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat).
19 And do
(make) one Cherub from
this
end (edge),
and one Cherub from this end (edge):
you shall do (make) ta-the Cherubims
upon his two ends (edges) from the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat)
[(from the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat)
upon his two ends (edges))]. 20 And
the Cherubims, they shall be
spreading (spreading out) their wings by from above, protecting
(screening, hedging,
defending) among their Wings over (upon) the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat),
and their faces shall be a man
to
his
brother; the faces of the Cherubims, they shall be to the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat).
21 And you shall give ta-the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat)
upon (over) the Ark from by above (upon); and
you
shall give ta-the
Testimony
(Witness) to the Ark which I shall
give to you. 22 And I will
appoint to you there, and I will speak at you from upon (over) the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat),
from between the two Cherubims which are upon (over) the Ark of the
Testimony
(Witness),
ta
all which I
shall
command you to the Sons
of Israel.
23 You shall do (make) a Table of trees (wood) shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood]: two cubits
shall be his length, and a cubit
shall be his width, and a
cubit
and the half shall be his height. 24 And you shall overlay (sheet over) him of
pure gold, and you shall do (make) for him a Crown (Chaplet, Wreath) of
gold
all around.
25 And you shall do (make) for him a enclosement (shut in form,
stronghold) of
a hand
width (a hand span) all around,
and
you shall do (make) a Crown (Chaplet, Wreath) of gold to his enclosement (shut in form, stronghold) all around. 26
And you shall do (make) for him four Rings of
gold, and you shall give ta-the Rings
upon (over) the
four mouths
(corners) which are for his four feet.
27 By associating (being along
with,
societizing, huddling together)
the enclosements (shut in forms, stronghold), the Rings, they
shall be for
housings for the Poles to carry (bear, lift up) ta-the Table.
28 And you shall do (make) ta-the Poles of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood],
and you shall overlay (sheet over) them of gold, and ta-the Table
shall be carried (borne, lifted up) on
them.
29 And you
shall do (make) his Plates (Rented
Plates, Cut Out Plates, Dishes), and his Spoons (Palmed
Spoons), and his
Cups
(Dense Cups),
and his Basins (Bowls of
Innocence), which
shall be poured
(libated) on them: you
shall do (make) them of pure gold. 30 And you shall give upon
the Table of the Bread of Faces to My Face continually.
31 And you shall do (make) a
Menorah
of pure gold: the
Menorah,
she shall be done (made) of beaten work (hammered work): her Base
(Shaft,
Trunk,
Thigh,
Loin, ?Testacle?), and her
Branches,
her Goblets (Calyxes, Cups), her Knobs (?Wreaths?),
and her Flowers (Blooms, Blossoms, Buds), they shall be from her.
32 And six
Branches
shall go out (come out) from her sides; three Branches of the Menorah
from her
one side [(the one side from her)], and three Branches of the Menorah
from
her second
side [(the second side from her)]: 33 Three Goblets (Calyxes, Cups) from
Almond-Like Shapes, a Knob (?Wreath?), and a Flower shall
from
her one Branch (the one Branch of her); and three Goblets (Calyxes, Bowls) from Almond-Like Shapes, a Knob (?Wreath?), and a Flower (Bloom,
Blossom, Bud) shall be in her one Branch [(the one Branch of her)]: so for the six
Branches
that are going out (coming out)
from the
Menorah.
34 And on the Menorah
shall be four Almond-Like Shapes, her Knobs (?Wreaths?),
and her Flowers (Blooms, Blossoms, Buds). 35 And shall be
a Knob (?Wreath?) under two Branches from her,
and a Knob (?Wreath?) under two Branches from
her,
and a Knob (?Wreath?) under two Branches from her,
to the
six Branches
that are going out (coming out) from the Menorah.
36 Their Knobs (?Wreaths?) and
their Branches from her, they shall be all of her one
of beaten work (hammered work)
of
pure gold.
37 And you shall do (make) ta-her seven Lamps:
and they
shall ascend (set up) ta-her Lamps,
and shall make
light upon over her face. 38 And her Tongs (Tweezers) and her Firepans
(Coal Removal Pans, Snuff Dishes)
shall be of
pure gold. 39 Shall do (make) her ta
all of these Vessels of a
talent of pure gold, 40 and see and the doing (making) on
their Building
Patterns
which you are seeing on the mountain.
(NOTE: Not all verses will have
comments)
Verses one
through nine
THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
TABERNACLE
1
And hwhy
spoke to Moses, to say,
2 Speak to the Sons of Israel, and they shall take for Me a
Heave
Offering (Raise Offering): from ta
every man
which impels (volunteers, wills) himself his
heart, you shall take ta-My Heave
Offering (Raise Offering). 3 And
this is the Heave Offering (Raise Offering) which you shall
take from with them;
gold, and the silver, and copper, 4
and blue, and purple, and crimson
(red)
worm [(worm of crimson (red))],
and linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), and kid goats, 5 and
skins of
rams
with red, and skins of clean animals, (kosher animals, antelopes,
dugongs, ?badgers?), and shittim (acacia) trees (wood) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], 6 oil for the light,
spices for the Oil of
Anointing, and for the Incense of Sweetnesses (Aromas), 7 stones of
onyx,
and
stones of settings (fillings) for the Ephod and for the Breast Pocket.
8 And they
shall do (make)
for Me a Sanctuary; and
I will tabernacle in their midst. 9 According to [(as)] all which
I am
showing
(revealing) you
ta
the Building Pattern of the
Tabernacle and ta
the Building Pattern of all
of his Vessels, and so you shall do (make).
Looking
at the word HEAVE
OFFERING (RAISE OFFERING)
The
Hebrew word for Heave
Offering (Raise Offering) is "t'roo-mah"- Tav, Resh, Vav, Mem, Heh
(hmwrt).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 8641, and its definition
(The
second form used in Deu_12:11); from H7311; a present (as offered up),
especially in sacrifice or as tribute: - gift, heave offering
([shoulder]), oblation, offered (-ing).
from 7311 "room" (mwr), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to be high actively to rise or raise (in various
applications, literally or figuratively): - bring up, exalt (self),
extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set
up on, too) high (-er, one), hold up, levy, lift (-er) up, (be) lofty,
(X a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote
(-ion), proud, set up, tall (-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
This is an act to "lift" the Name of hwhy
through this
offering to make the Tabernacle for Him to dwell with the Israelites.
Each of these items required to make the Tabernacle have symbolic
meanings:
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
Silver:
Redemption
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
Blue:
Heaven
Purple:
Royalty
Red:
Blood,
Atonement, Sacrifice
Crimson worm:
Blood,
Atonement, Sacrifice
Fine
linen: Righteousness (source:
maranathalife.com)
Goat's Hair:
Prophecy
(source:
maranathalife.com) [also could be
purity]
Ram's Skins:
Sacrificial
(source:
maranathalife.com)
Skins of Clean Animals, (Kosher
Animals, Antelopes, Dugongs, ?Badgers?):
Sacrificial
(source:
maranathalife.com)
Shittim
Wood: Humanity, also
could be
Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing- to be explained later
Oil:
Spirit
Spices/Incense:
Worship
(source:
maranathalife.com)/Prayers of the Saints
Onyx
Stone/Stones: Purity
Fifty:
The
Jubilee Year/hwhy's Fifty Year Cycle
Also, it says in verse two of this week's Torah portion passage that
the men are to give generously to their
hearts desire. This is an act of giving to hwhy.
As the
Christian song is commonly sang, "freely you have received, freely
give".
Focusing on the shittim wood mentioned in verse five of this week's
Torah portion passage
Looking
at the word SHITTIM (ACACIA)
The
Hebrew word for shittim (acacia) is
"shee-teem"- Shin, Tet, Yod, Mem Sophit (Myjs).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7848, and its definition
Feminine
of a derivative (the second form being only in the plural, meaning the
sticks of wood) from the same as H7850; the acacia (from its scourging
thorns): - shittah, shittim. See also H1029.
from 7850 "shoh-teyt" (jjs),
and its
definition
Active
participle of an otherwise unused root meaning (properly to pierce; but
only as a denominative from H7752) to flog; a goad: - scourge.
from 7752 "shote" (jws),
and its
definiton
From
H7751; a lash (literally or figuratively): - scourge, whip.
from 7751 "shoot" (jws), and its
definition
A primitive root;
properly to push
forth; (but used only figuratively) to lash, that is, (the sea with
oars) to row; by implication to travel: - go (about, through, to and
fro), mariner, rower, run to and fro.
Shittim is an act of "scourging" and "whipping" and "lashing".
This is what Wikipedia says regarding the Shittim Tree:
Shittah tree (Hebrew: שטה) or the plural "shittim" was used in the Tanakh to refer to trees
belonging to the genus Vachellia and the genus Faidherbia. Faidherbia albida, Vachellia seyal, Vachellia tortilis, and Vachellia
gerrardii can be found growing
wild in the Sinai desert and the Jordan valley.
In the Exodus, the ancient Israelites were commanded to
use shittah
wood to make
various parts of the Tabernacle and of the Ark of the Covenant. This was most
likely the Acacia seyal.
"The wild acacia
(Vachellia
nilotica),
under the name of sunt, everywhere
represents the seneh, or senna, of the burning bush. A slightly
different form of the tree, equally common under the name of seyal, is the ancient shittah, or, as more usually
expressed in the plural form, the shittim, of which the
Tabernacle was made."
This is an image of a Shittim (Acacia) Tree in Engedi taken many years
ago
This is a picture example of what Shittim (Acacia) wood looks like
Indirectly related, though
the Hebrew word shittim is not in this scripture, shittim wood is
symbolic and is relevent to this passage, which is noted in the book of
the prophet
Isaiah
Isaiah 53:4 Surely
he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of Elohim, and afflicted. 5 But he was
wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed.
This
was a
prophecy regarding Yeshua, the Messiah, who was "scourged" and
"whipped" and "lashed" for us and our sins, so that we can have an
eternal relationship with our Heavenly Father by the sacrifice Yeshua
paid for us. Thank You, Yeshua. Also it could have been the very tree
species that the Roman soldiers used the branches to make a crown for
Yeshua.
By the way, how did they get the shittim wood in a wilderness? The only
possibility could be that that shittim wood existed in the wilderness
during their day.
Looking at the following words:
SANCTUARY
The Hebrew word for Sanctuary
is "Meek-dahsh"- Mem,
Kuph, Dalet, Shin (sdqm). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4720, and its definition
From
H6942; a consecrated thing or place, especially a palace, sanctuary
(whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum: - chapel, hallowed part,
holy place, sanctuary.
from 6942 "kah-dash" (sdq), and its definition
A
primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean
(ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate,
defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim,
purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.
TABERNACLE
The Hebrew word for Tabernacle
is "Meesh-kahn"- Mem, Shin, Kaph, Mem Sophit (Nksm). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4908, and its definition
From
H7931; a residence (including a shepherd’s hut, the lair of
animals,
figuratively the grave; also the Temple); specifically the Tabernacle
(properly its wooden walls): - dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation,
tabernacle, tent.
from 7931 "shah-khan" (Nks), and its definition
A
primitive root (apparently akin (by transmutation) to H7901 through the
idea of lodging; compare H5531 and H7925); to reside or permanently
stay (literally or figuratively): - abide, continue, (cause to, make
to) dwell (-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to)
remain, rest, set (up).
Monte Judah of Lion and Lamb
Ministries, Bill Cloud of Shoreshim Ministries and
other Messianic/Hebraic Roots teachers noted that we are Yeshua's
Tabernacle,
or Temple, which is noted by the apostle Paul in his letter to the
assembly in Corinth
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not
that your body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit
which
is in you, which ye have of hwhy, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify hwhy in your body, and in your
spirit, which are hwhy's.
Verses
ten through sixteen
THE
ARK OF THE TESTIMONY (WITNESS)
10 And they shall do (make)
an Ark
of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood]: two and the half cubits
shall be his
length, and a
cubit and the half shall be his width, and a cubit and the half shall
be
his height. 11 And
you shall overlay (sheet over) him of pure gold, you
shall overlay (sheet over) him from housingward (inside)
and from outside, and you shall do (make) upon
him a Crown (Chaplet, Wreath) of gold all
around. 12 And you shall mold (cast, molten, pour out) for him four Rings of
gold,
and you shall give upon (over) his four corners (tapped corners,
two-fold areas); and two Rings
shall be
upon (over) his one
rib (side), and two Rings
shall be upon (over) his second
rib (side). 13 And you shall
do (make) Poles of trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], and you shall overlay (sheet over) them of gold. 14 And
you
shall enter ta-the Poles in
the Rings
upon (over)
the ribs (sides) of ta-the Ark, to
carry (bear, lift up) the Ark on
them. 15 The Poles, they shall be in the Rings of
the Ark: they shall
not be
removed [(not depart)] from him. 16 And you shall give to
the Ark ta
the
Testimony
(Witness) which I shall
give to you.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE ARK OF THE TESTIMONY
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
Shittim Wood: Humanity,
Scourging, Piercing, Lashing
GENDER:
Ark: FEMALE
Crown: MALE
Rings: FEMALE
Poles: MALE
According to Wikipedia, a Biblical cubit was eigteen inches. The Ark in U.S.
measurements is 3 feet 9 inches long and 2 feet 3 inches wide and high.
This was also called the Ark of the Covenant with the two cherubims on
both sides, which is noted by the prophet Samuel in his book
1 Samuel 4:4 And the People
sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence ta
the Ark of the Covenant
of hwhy of Armies (Hosts), which
dwelleth between the
Cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there
with the Ark of the Covenant of The Elohim.
The four rings on the four corners is symbolized for the four corners
of the earth.
The Ark is symbolized by the Man, Yeshua, being covered with His
Eternalness, symbolized by the gold.
In verse sixteen of this week's Torah portion passage, it is related to
our word of our testimonies in our walk and relationship with Yeshua,
which is noted by the apostle John, in the book of Revelation
Revelation 12:10 And I
heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the Kingdom of our Elohim, and the power of his Messiah:
for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before
our Elohim day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the Blood of
the Lamb, and
by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives
unto the death.
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
Looking at the word ARK
The Hebrew word for Ark
is "Ah-rohn"- Aleph,
Resh, Vav, Nun Sophit and Aleph, Resh, Nun Sohpit (Nwra, Nra). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 727, and its definition
From H717
(in the sense of gathering); a box: - ark, chest, coffin.
from 717 "ah-rah" (hra), and its definition
A
primitive root; to pluck: - gather, pluck.
This is the Ark where YHWH "plucks us out from the world and plucks out
our sins, and Yeshua does that for us as believers by plucking out our
sins, and because our hearts are His fleshly ark, He reigns and dwells
in our hearts.
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
Verses
seventeen through
twenty-one
THE
MERCY SEAT
17 And you shall
do (make) a Mercy
Seat (an Atoning Seat)
of pure gold: two and
the half cubits
[(two cubits
and the half)] shall be
her
length, and a cubit and
the half shall be her width. 18 And you
shall do (make) two Cherubims of gold, you shall do (make) them of
beaten work
(hammered work)
from the two ends (edges) of the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat).
19 And do
(make) one Cherub from
this
end (edge),
and one Cherub from this end (edge):
you shall do (make) ta-the Cherubims
upon his two ends (edges) from the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat)
[(from the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat)
upon his two ends (edges))]. 20 And
the Cherubims, they shall be
spreading (spreading out) their wings by from above, protecting
(screening, hedging,
defending) among their Wings over (upon) the Mercy Seat (Atoning Seat),
and their faces shall be a man
to
his
brother; the faces of the Cherubims, they shall be to the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat).
21 And you shall give ta-the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat)
upon (over) the Ark from by above (upon); and
you
shall give ta-the
Testimony
(Witness) to the Ark which I shall
give to you.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS FOR THE MERCY
SEAT
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
Cherubim:
The
Two Houses of Israel
GENDER:
Mercy Seat: FEMALE
Cherubims: MALE
The Mercy Seat
in U.S. measurements is 3 feet 9 inches long and 2 feet 3 inches wide.
Because hwhy's
Mercy Seat is
pure gold, it symbolizes that His Mercy is "eternal", and King David
witnesses to that in the book of the Psalms, many times. But this is
one of the chapters which King David noted it more than once
Psalms 118:1
O give thanks
unto hwhy; for He is Good: because
His Mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 118:2 Let
Israel
now say, that
His Mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
118:3 Let the
house of Aaron now say, that His Mercy
endureth for ever.
Psalms
118:4 Let them now
that fear hwhy say, that His Mercy
endureth for ever.
Psalms
118:29 O give
thanks unto hwhy; for He is Good: for
His Mercy
endureth for ever.
Mercy was also
noted in various passages in the
Brith Khadashah (the New Covenant)
Matthew 5:7 Blessed
are the
merciful: for they shall obtain Mercy.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the
Elohim and Father of our Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah, which
according
to His Abundant Mercy hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope
by the resurrection of Yeshua, the Messiah, from the dead,
Jude 1:21 Keep
yourselves
in the Love of hwhy, looking
for the Mercy of our Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah, unto Eternal Life.
Verse twenty in the Hebrew text of this week's Torah portion passage
reveals that the two cherubs are "brothers",
which is the Hebrew "akh"- Aleph, Khet (xa),
and they are to "face" each other, and to not bow down. It doesn't say
whether they are to bend down or to stand up, neither does it say how
tall the cherubim are to supposed to be. It is probable that it is the
latter but not at least five feet tall. Otherwise, if they bend down,
they would be taking up more space on the cover of the Mercy Seat.
It is my humble but strong opinion, the two cherubim brothers are
representations of Two
Houses of Israel, consisting the Ten Northern Tribes and the Two
Southern Tribes.
Based on Mark Biltz of El
Shaddai Ministries notion that in verse
twenty of this week's Torah portion passage the Hebrew word for each is
"eesh" (sya) which also
means "man". One can also translate this part of the verse as "a man
towards his brother". You will see this type of issue occur later on in
this week's Torah portion.
Also, in verse twenty of this week's Torah portion passage, it says
that the cherubs' wings are to spread above
and cover the Mercy Seat. That means their wings are to be big enough
to cover roughly the ark's 2 1/2 cubits of her length and 1 1/2 cubits
of her width, not little wings going straight across or standing up or
one wing down and one wing across. These wings covering over the Mercy
Seat symbolizes that hwhy's Mercy
"covers" us and our sins.
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
Verse twenty two
22 And I will
appoint to you there, and I will speak at you from upon (over) the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat),
from between the two Cherubims which are upon (over) the Ark of the
Testimony
(Witness),
ta
all which I
shall
command you to the Sons
of Israel.
There
is no
mention to how hwhy
will
reveal
Himself between the two cherubim. In
a physical
means, I don't think that hwhy
is going to be
sitting down on the cover of the Ark with His legs over the side. One
possiblity could be that He stands up between the two cherubim. That
it why the cherubim's wings are up and over, so that hwhy
would be able
to stand up. But another possibility, which is a more likely one, is
that His Presence exists between the two cherubim.
Though not perfect, this is an example image of the Ark of the
Covenant with the Mercy Seat. According to Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries, the
Poles are to be located on the sides of the Ark, behind the backs of
the cherubims going in an East-West
direction. It doesn't show it here.
This image shows the Poles in the direction according to Mark Biltz
If one thinks of
it, the Poles are not
located on the length side of the Ark, parallel to the cherubim facing
each other (facing in a north-south direction based on
the Tabernacle's location), in which the Entrance is facing east, but
they are on the width end, located behind the back of the cherubim
along an east-west
direction. hwhy's Presence is
on the Ark of the Covenant facing east, and the Ark is
located in the Tabernacle facing length ways in the north-south
direction, so that hwhy's Presence
would "face" the eastern direction toward the Tent's Entrance in order
to see
Moses and the High Priest as they approach Him when they enter into the
Tent. When the Levites carry
the Poles as they journey in the wilderness, especially during battles,
it is natural for the Poles to be located in a front to back position.
If the Poles were located in the length's direction, showing
the width of the Ark facing forward and backward, based on its
position, hwhy would be facing
"sideways", and not seeing what is ahead of the Camp. Whereas the
Poles, positioned on the width of the Ark would naturally
make hwhy see ahead of
the Camp, "facing forward". Otherwise, hwhy would not know
what is going on ahead of the Camp if He was looking sideways, if the
Ark's width side was facing ahead, and hwhy would be asking
Moses, "What's going on ahead of us? I can't see, because I'm facing
sideways on this Ark". This argument
proves that Mark Biltz's premise is correct. Thank you Mark.
Verses
twenty three through
twenty eight
THE
TABLE OF THE BREAD OF FACES
23 You shall do (make) a Table of trees (wood) shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood]: two cubits
shall be his length, and a cubit
shall be his width, and a
cubit
and the half shall be his height. 24 And you shall overlay (sheet over) him of
pure gold, and you shall do (make) for him a Crown (Chaplet, Wreath) of
gold
all around.
25 And you shall do (make) for him a enclosement (shut in form,
stronghold) of
a hand
width (a hand span) all around,
and
you shall do (make) a Crown (Chaplet, Wreath) of gold to his enclosement (shut in form, stronghold) all around. 26
And you shall do (make) for him four Rings of
gold, and you shall give ta-the Rings
upon (over) the
four mouths (corners) which are for his four feet.
27 By associating (being along
with,
societizing, huddling together)
the enclosements (shut in forms, stronghold), the Rings, they
shall be for
housings for the Poles to carry (bear, lift up) ta-the Table.
28 And you shall do (make) ta-the Poles of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood],
and you shall overlay (sheet over) them of gold, and ta-the Table
shall be carried (borne, lifted up) on
them.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE TABLE OF
THE BREAD OF FACES
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
Shittim Wood: Humanity,
Scourging, Piercing, Lashing
Four Rings:
Four
Corners of the World
Two
Poles: The Cross
GENDER:
Table of the Bread of Faces: MALE
Crown: MALE
Rings: FEMALE
Poles: MALE
The Bread of
Faces in U.S. measurements is 3 feet long, 1 1/2 wide and 2 feet 3
inches high.
The Table is to have a Crown, or a wreath
border, meaning the crowns, or wreaths, and they are representations of
the dual
crownship of Yeshua being King of the Heavens and the Earth.
Historically, in relation to the Bread of the Faces, King David, though
by right was not to partake of the Bread
of the Faces, was given the bread by the Priests, which is noted in the
book of
the prophet Samuel
1 Samuel 21:1 Then
came
David to Nob to Ahimelech, the Priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the
meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man
with thee? 2 And David said unto Ahimelech, the Priest, The
king
hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know
any thing of ta-the business
whereabout I
send thee, and what I have
commanded thee: and I have appointed ta-the young
men to such and
such a
place. 3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? Give me five
loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. 4 And the
Priest answered ta-David, and
said, There is no
common bread under mine
hand, but there is Hallowed Bread; if the young men have kept
themselves at least from women. 5 And David answered ta-the Priest,
and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these
three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are
Holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were
sanctified this day in the vessel. 6 So the Priest gave him
Hallowed Bread: for there was
no bread there but the Bread of Faces,
that was taken from before hwhy, to put hot
bread in the day
when it was taken away.
Indirectly related, Yeshua used this scripture of David to support His
premise, which is noted in the Gospel of Matthew
Matthew 12:1
At that time
Yeshua went on the Shabbath day through the grain; and His disciples
were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of grain, and to eat.
2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto Him, Behold,
Thy
disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Shabbath day. 3
But He said unto them, Have
ye not
read what David did, when he was an
hungred, and they that were with him;
4 How
he
entered into the House of hwhy,
and did eat
the Bread of Faces, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for
them which were
with him, but only for the Priests?
5 Or have ye not read
in the
Torah, how that on the Shabbath days the Priests in the Temple profane
the Shabbath, and are blameless? 6 But I say unto you, That in this
place is One greater than the Temple. 7 But if ye had known what this
meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have
condemned the guiltless.
Yeshua defended David partaking of the Bread of Faces and used the
account as a means to defend His Purpose of His Acts of mercy against
the Pharisees.
This Table is the place to eat and drink. That is why it is called the
Table of the Bread of Faces. The information regarding the
bread
is noted in the Torah portion of Emor, in the book of
Leviticus
Leviticus 24:5 And you shall take flour, and
you
shall bake of her two ten (twoteen, twelve) cakes, two tenths shall be
of the one
cake.
6 And you shall set them of two rows,
six
of the row upon the Pure Table to the Face of hwhy.
7 And you shall give (put)
pure frankincense upon the row, and she shall be for the Bread for a
Memorial (Remebrance) of a Fire Offering to hwhy. 8 shall arrange him on the
day of the
Shabbath, on the day of the Shabbath, to the Face of hwhy
continually from ta
the Sons
of Israel: shall be a Covenant of Ages. 9 And she shall
belong to (shall be for) Aaron and to (for) his sons; and they shall
eat him in the Sacred (Holy)
Place: for he is a Sacred of Sacreds (Holy of Holies) to him from the
Fire Offerings
of hwhy: shall be a Statute
of Ages.
The twelve faces of bread are symbols of the twelve tribes of Israel,
and the fact that they are placed in two rows, six in each row, reveal
an account where the twelve tribes are to go up Mount Ebal and Mount
Gerazim, in Shechem, today Nablus, six of each of the tribes on each of
the mountain, which is noted in the Torah portion of Ki Thavo, in the
book of
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy
27:11 And Moses commanded ta-the People
in that day, to
say,
12 These, they shall stand to bless ta-the People
upon Mount
Gerizim
in your going over ta-the Jordan;
Simeon, and
Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: 13 and these, they shall
stand
upon the despisement (curse) on Mount Ebal; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and
Zebulun,
Dan, and Naphtali.
Verse twenty six of this week's Torah portion passage states that the
four rings are to be placed at the
feet of the Table, meaning around the bottom of the Table's legs. When
the Table is raised, the whole Table is exposed high in the air.
The Table of Bread of Faces also compares to Yeshua in the evening of
Passover, before He was crucified, at the Passover Supper in the upper
room, drinking and eating at the table (the Table of the Bread of
Faces)
with His twelve disciples (the Twelve Bread of Faces) before
Judas betrayed Him. The fact that it was located in the "upper room" is
symbolic that it is at a high location, just like the Table was lifted
high up, because the Poles that lift it up are located at the feet of
the table, which makes the table located at a higher position.
I have
yet to see anyone provide an accurate enough image of this Table of the
Bread of Faces.
The two Poles could be symbolic of the two sides of the cross
that Yeshua carried
and was crucified.
In verse twenty seven of this week's Torah portion passage, it shows
that the rings are feminine,
because in the Hebrew text, the word phrase "they shall be" in this
verse, is "tee-h'yeyn"- Tav, Heh, Yod, Yod, Nun Sophit (Nyyht). The "Yod-Nun"
ending in the Hebrew text, with the "Tav" as the prefix, is in the
feminine plural- relating to the rings. Thus, the rings are feminine.
In the Hebrew culture, only the woman who is betrothed would receive
"rings".
Though not the best, this is a rough image of the Table of the Bread of
Faces
Based on the scripture the Bread is to be set on "rows" meaning "side
by side" and not "stacked".
This is an image example of the Bread set in two rows
Question: Is the Table of the Bread of Faces to contain "legs", or is
it like a covered type table with just feet? There is no mention of the
table having legs, but it doesn't say that it is solid on the sides
either. Is it possible that it is a "solid style" table. We think in
general of a table based on general western thought, though it exists
worldwide as a plane table having "legs", but as I said, it doesn't say
that here. So when it says that they shall put rings on the four
corners of the four "feet", it might be giving us the hint that the
rings could be located near the feet and that the table is to be lifted
up by the poles from near the feet than from near the table plane.
Verses twenty nine
and thirty
THE DINNERWARE
29 And you
shall do (make) his Plates (Rented
Plates, Cut Out Plates, Dishes), and his Spoons (Palmed
Spoons), and his
Cups
(Dense Cups),
and his Basins (Bowls of
Innocence), which
shall be poured
(libated) on them: you
shall do (make) them of pure gold. 30 And you shall give upon
the Table of the Bread of Faces to My Face continually.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE
DINNERWARE
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
GENDER:
Plates (Rented Plates, Cut Out Plates, Dishes): MALE
Spoons (Palmed Spoons): FEMALE
Cups (Dense Cups): MALE
Basins (Bowls of Innocence): MALE
The fact that it
contains Cups for drinking and Bowls and Plates for eating, signifies
that Yeshua eats and drinks. This also means that we in
Yeshua are to partake in this dinner, and this dinner is the symbol of
Yeshua's Body (the Bread) and His Blood (the Wine). Yeshua made note of
His Body and Blood to the People that
He is the Flesh to be eaten and the Blood to be drinking, "the Dinner",
which is
noted
in the Gospel of John
John 6:53
Then Yeshua said
unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the Flesh of
the Son of Man, and drink His Blood, ye have no Life in you.
54 Whoso eateth My Flesh, and drinketh My Blood, hath Eternal
Life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For My Flesh
is Meat indeed, and My Blood is Drink indeed. 56 He that eateth My
Flesh,
and drinketh My Bood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him. 57 As the
Living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth
Me, even he shall live by Me. 58 This is that Bread which came
down from the heavens: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead:
he
that eateth of this Bread shall live for ever.
In verse twenty nine of this week's Torah portion passage, the vessels
are feminine, for the phrase "on
them", in the Hebrew text, it is "bah-heyn"- Bet, Heh, Nun Sophit (Nhb). It is the
feminine of "bah-heym" (Mhb).
Looking at the following words:
PLATE (RENTED PLATE, CUT OUT
PLATE, DISH)
The Hebrew word for Plate
(Rented Plate, Cut Out Plate, Dish)
is "k'ah-rah"- Kuph,
Ayin, Resh, Heh (hreq). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7086, and its definition
Probably
from H7167; a bowl (as cut out hollow): - charger, dish.
from 7167 "kah-rah" (erq), and its definition
A
primitive root; to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the
eyes, as if enlarging them): - cut out, rend, X surely, tear.
SPOON (PALMED SPOON)
The Hebrew word for Spoon
(Palmed Spoon)
is "kaph"- Kaph, Peh
Sophit (Pk). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 3709, and its definition
From
H3721; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the
sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt,
the leaves of a palm tree); figuratively power: - branch, + foot, hand
([-ful], -dle, [-led]), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
from 3721 "kah-phaph" (Ppk), and its definition
A
primitive root; to curve: - bow down (self).
CUP (DENSE CUP)
The Hebrew word for Cup (Jug, Cover, Dense Cup) is "kahs-vah"- Kuph, Shin, Vav,
Heh (hwsq). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7184, and its definition
From an
unused root meaning to be round; a jug (from its shape): - cover, cup.
BASIN (BOWL OF INNOCENCE)
The Hebrew word for Basin
(Bowl of Innocence)
is "m'ahk-keeth"- Mem,
Nun, Kuph, Yod, Tav (tyqnm). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4518, and its definition
From
H5352; a sacrificial basin (for holding blood): - bowl.
from 5352 "nah-kah" (hqn), and its definition
A
primitive root; to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by
implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, that is, extirpated: -
acquit X at all, X altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear
(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold)
innocent, X by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, X utterly, X
wholly.
Given these definitions, these are the implications to them:
Plates (Rented Plates, Cut Out
Plates, Dishes): Tear/Rend
Spoons (Palmed Spoons): Bow
Cups (Dense Cups): Covered
Basins (Bowls of Innocence): Innocence
These four items' implications tells us the story of Yeshua, the
Messiah who was an innocent man whose Flesh was torn or rent and was
covered with His Blood and was bowed at the cross, atoning for our sins.
!!!!!hwhy Kl dbk
!!!!!hywllh
Not a great image, but it gives on an idea what the Dinnerware could
have looked like
Verses
thirty-one through thirty
six
THE
MENORAH
31 And you shall do (make) a
Menorah
of pure gold: the
Menorah,
she shall be done (made) of beaten work (hammered work): her Base
(Shaft,
Trunk,
Thigh,
Loin, ?Testacle?), and her
Branches,
her Goblets (Calyxes, Cups), her Knobs (?Wreaths?),
and her Flowers (Blooms, Blossoms, Buds), they shall be from her.
32 And six
Branches
shall go out (come out) from her sides; three Branches of the Menorah
from her
one side [(the one side from her)], and three Branches of the Menorah
from
her second
side [(the second side from her)]: 33 Three Goblets (Calyxes, Cups) from
Almond-Like Shapes, a Knob (?Wreath?), and a Flower shall
from
her one Branch (the one Branch of her); and three Goblets (Calyxes, Bowls) from Almond-Like Shapes, a Knob (?Wreath?), and a Flower (Bloom,
Blossom, Bud) shall be in her one Branch [(the one Branch of her)]: so for the six
Branches
that are going out (coming out)
from the
Menorah.
34 And on the Menorah
shall be four Almond-Like Shapes, her Knobs (?Wreaths?),
and her Flowers (Blooms, Blossoms, Buds). 35 And shall be
a Knob (?Wreath?) under two Branches from her,
and a Knob (?Wreath?) under two Branches from
her,
and a Knob (?Wreath?) under two Branches from her,
to the
six Branches
that are going out (coming out) from the Menorah.
36 Their Knobs (?Wreaths?) and
their Branches from her, they shall be all of her one
of beaten work (hammered work)
of
pure gold.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE MENORAH
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
GENDER:
Menorah: FEMALE
Shaft, Bowls, Knob, Flower, Branch: FEMALE(?)
Notice that it
does not give an idea how high the Menorah is.
In the Hebrew text, the language of this text shows that the Menorah is
female- "her". One can see in verse thirty-one of this week's Torah
portion passage of all of the times where
the
feminine is used, as well as the rest of this passage
31 And you shall do (make) a
Menorah of pure gold: the
Menorah,
she
shall be made of beaten work (hammered work): her Base (Shaft, Trunk,
Thigh,
Loin, Testacle?), and her
Branches,
her Bowls (Calyx, Goblet), her Knobs (?Wreaths?),
and her Flowers (Blooms, Buds), they
shall be from her.
Looking
at the following words:
BASE, (SHAFT, TRUNK, THIGH,
LOIN, TESTACLE?)
The
Hebrew word for Base (Shaft, Trunk, Thigh, Loin, Testacle?) is
"yah-reykh"- Yod, Resh, Khaph Sophit (Kry). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 3409, asn its definition
From
an
unused root meaning to be soft; the thigh (from its fleshy softness);
by euphemism the generative parts; figuratively a shank, flank, side:
- X body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.
Yareykh means "shaft". It also could be
like the trunk of a tree. Also, this the same Hebrew word in relation
to "the thighs" or "the loins" or even "the testacles", as exampled in
Abraham having his senior servant,
Eliezer, to put his hand under his "testacles"- yareykh in Hebrew,
where we get the modern English word "rack". We can say that the
translation, testicles, can be applied to the Tabernacle.
BRANCH
The
Hebrew word for branch is
"kah-neh"- Quph, Nun, Heh (hnq).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7070, and its definition
From
H7069; a reed (as erect); by resemblance a rod (especially for
measuring), shaft, tube, stem, the radius (of the arm), beam (of a
steelyard): - balance, bone, branch, calamus, cane, reed, X spearman,
stalk.
from 7069 "kah-nah" (hnq), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to erect, that is, create; by extension to procure,
especially by purchase (causatively sell); by implication to own: -
attain, buy (-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy,
possess (-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
Kanah means "branch".
BOWLS (CALYX, GOBLET)
The
Hebrew word for Bowls (Calyx, Goblet) is
"g'vee-ah"- Gimel, Bet, Yod, Ayin (eybg). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 1375, and its definition
From
an
unused root (meaning to be convex); a goblet; by analogy the calyx of a
flower: - house, cup, pot.
G'vee-ah means "cup", but it can also mean "bowl".
KNOB (?WREATH?)
The
Hebrew word for knob (?wreath?) is
"kaph-tohr"- Kaph, Peh, Tav, Resh (rtpk). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 3730, and its definition
Probably
from an unused root meaning to encircle; a chaplet; but used only in an
architectonic sense, that is, the capital of a column, or a wreath like
button or disk on the candelabrum: - knop, (upper) lintel.
Kaphtor means "knob". This would be the center of the
almond blossom.
FLOWER (BLOOM, BUD)
The
Hebrew word for flower (Bloom, Bud) is
"peh-rakh"- Peh, Resh, Khet (xrp).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 6525, and its definition
From
H6524; calyx (natural or artificial); generally bloom: - blossom, bud,
flower.
from 6524 "pah-rakh" (xrp), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to break forth as a bud, that is, bloom; generally to
spread; specifically to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively to
flourish: - X abroad, X abundantly, blossom, break forth
(out),
bud, flourish, make fly, grow, spread, spring (up).
Perakh means "flower". This is the almond
blossom.
This
Menorah is
to be one solid gold piece. There is no wood or other
elements included with the Menorah. This means that the Menorah is a
kingdom and an eternal piece. It is also commonly accepted that the
Menorah is a representation of
the Ruakh HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit).
Valerie
Moody of her own website, vmoody.com,
noted the realization that the
seven branches could contain a symbolic meaning, which is the seven
Biblical Appointed Times:
1.
Passover
2.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread
3.
The First Counting of The
Omer a.k.a. First Fruits.
4.
Shavuoth/Pentecost/First Fruits II
5.
Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashannah to
the Jews)
6.
Yom Kippur
7.
Sukkoth
As all seven Biblical Appointed Times work together in
unity, so do the seven
branches are unified on one piece.
This is an image of the Menorah with the biblical Appointed Times on each of
the seven branches
In verse thirty two of this week's Torah portion passage, it reads that
there are three branches on one side and three
branches on the other side. The three branches on one side and the
three
branches on the other side represent the three Biblical Spring Appointed Times in
symmetry to
the three Biblical Fall Appointed Times as the image
shows above, with Shavuoth
in the center.
Indirectly related, hwhy
used the
almonds and the almond blossoms to reveal the
tribe that would be in charge of the Tabernacle, which is noted in the
Torah portion of Korakh, in the book of Numbers
Numbers 17:1 And hwhy
spoke to Moses, to say,
2 Speak to the Sons of Israel, and shall take a staff (rod,
branch) from
them, a staff (rod, branch) for the house of the father,
from ta
all of their
rulers by the house of their fathers, two ten (twoteen, twelve) staves (rods, branches):
you shall write a man of ta-his name upon
his staff (rod, branch). 3 And you shall write
ta
the name of Aaron upon
the staff (rod, branch) of Levi:
for one staff (rod, branch) is for the head of the house
of their fathers. 4 And you
shall rest (deposit) them in the Tent of Appointment to the face of the
Testimony
(Witness),
which I will appoint to you
there. 5 And it shall
be, the man which I
shall choose among him, his staff (rod, branch) shall blossom (bloom, bud,
break forth): and I shall
allay (pacify)
from
upon (over) Me ta-the
murmurings (grudgings, complaints) of the Sons of
Israel, which they, they were
with murmuring (grudging, complaining) upon you. 6
And Moses spoke to the Sons of Israel,
and
all of their rulers, they
gave to him a staff (rod, branch) for one ruler, a staff (rod, branch) for one
ruler, for the house of their fathers, two ten (twoteen, twelve) staves (rods, branches):
and the staff (rod, branch)
of
Aaron was in the midst of the staves (rods, branches). 7 And Moses rested
(deposited) ta-the staves (rods, branches) to
the Face of hwhy in the Tent
of the
Testimony
(Witness). 8 And was from the morrow, and Moses came to the
Tent of the Testimony
(Witness); and behold, the staff (rod, branch) of Aaron
for the house of Levi blossomed (bloomed, budded,
broke forth), and had came out blossoms
(blooms, buds, calyxes), and flourished a
flower, and had ripened (yielded) almonds.
The reason the Israelites murmured against Moses, because they still
wanted be
part of hwhy's Original Plan
which was for all the men to be Priests.
But their rebellion with the golden calf nullified it, and hwhy
had to
go to plan B, and make only the tribe of Levi to be Priests, and
specifically Aaron and his lineage are to only light the Lamps.
hwhy
used this act to
end the matter once and for all.
Verses thirty seven
through forty
THE
SEVEN LAMPS
37 And you shall do (make) ta-her seven Lamps:
and they
shall ascend (set up) ta-her Lamps,
and shall make
light upon over her face. 38 And her Tongs (Tweezers) and her Firepans
(Coal Removal Pans, Snuff Dishes)
shall be of
pure gold. 39 Shall do (make) her ta
all of these Vessels of a
talent of pure gold, 40 and see and the doing (making) on
their Building
Patterns
which you are seeing on the mountain.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE SEVEN
LAMPS
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
GENDER:
Lamps: FEMALE
Tongs (Tweezers): MALE(?)
Firepans (Coal Removal Pans, Snuff
Dishes): MALE(?)
Notice that it does not give an idea how big the Lamps are.
The seven Lamps represent the seven spirits of hwhy's
seven
Biblical High Holy Days of the Biblical Year. These seven Lamps are to
be kept lit continually, which is noted in the Torah portion of Emor,
in the book of Leviticus
Leviticus 24:1 And hwhy
spoke to Moses, to say,
2 Command ta-the Sons of
Israel that they
shall take to you pure
olive oil beaten for the light, for the ascending of a lamp
continually.
3 from outside by the Veil of the Testimony (Witness), in the Tent of
Appointment, Aaron shall arrange him from mixing period (evening) until
breaking period (morning) to the Face of hwhy
continually: shall be a Statute of Ages for your generations. 4 upon
the Pure
Menorah shall
arrange ta-the Lamps to
the Face of hwhy continually.
King David supported this premise that the Word is a lamp and a light,
which is noted in the book of
the Psalms
Psalms 119:105 Thy Word is a
lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
There are those that say the Torah was done away with. Not so. They are
written in our hearts, which the prophet Jeremiah noted in his book
Jeremiah 31:31 Behold,
the days come, saith hwhy, that I
will make a New Covenant with ta-the House of
Israel, and with
ta-the House of
Judah:
32 Not according to the Covenant that I made with ta-their
fathers in the day that
I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which ta-My Covenant
they brake,
although I was an Husband unto them, saith hwhy:
33 But this shall be
the Covenant that I will make with ta-the House of
Israel; After
those days, saith hwhy, I
will put ta-My
Torah in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts;
and will be
their Elohim, and they shall be My People.
As
the Torah is
forever, the Lamps are to be lit forever, meaning the seven lamps- the
seven Biblical High Holy Days- are to be kept "forever".
Indirectly related, Yeshua was revealed as the Light, which is in the
Gospel of John
John 1:4 In Him was Life; and
the Life was the Light of men.
Also in the Brith Khadashah (the New Covenant) Yeshua says that we are
the "light of the
world", which is noted in the Gospel of Matthew
Matthew 5:14 Ye are the
light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but
on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.
Looking
at the following words:
TONGS (TWEEZERS)
The
Hebrew word for Tongs (Tweezers) is
"mahl-kakh"- Mem, Lamed, Kuph, Khet (xqlm). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4457, and its definition
From
H3947; (only in dual) tweezers: - snuffers, tongs.
from 3947 "lah-kakh" (xql), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of applications): -
accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many,
mingle, place, receive (-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away,
-ing, up), use, win.
FIREPANS (COAL REMOVAL PANS,
SNUFF DISHES)
The
Hebrew word for Firepans (Coal Removal Pans, Snuff Dishes) is
"makh-tah"- Mem, Khet, Tav, Heh (htxm).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4289, and its definition
The same
as H4288 in the sense of removal; a pan for live coals: - censer,
firepan, snuffdish
from 4288 "m'keet-tah" (htxm), and its
definition
From
H2846; properly a dissolution; concretely a ruin, or (abstractly)
consternation: - destruction, dismaying, ruin, terror.
from 2846
"kha-thah" (htxm), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to lay hold of; especially to pick up fire: - heap,
take (away).
These are the the implication from these items:
Tongs (Tweezers): taken
Firepans (Coal Removal Pans, Snuff
Dishes): ruin, dissolution
This implies that one was to be taken to be dissoluted. This was the
instance in which the Pharisees took Yeshua to the Roman authorities to
have Him dissoluted of saving the people from the Pharisaic doctrines.
But we know that it failed, and it has been flourishing for these past
2,000 years.
!!!!!hwhy Kl dbk
!!!!!hywllh
This is an image of a Menorah with the Lamps which is located in
Jerusalem
CHAPTER
26
Exodus
26:1-37
Exo 26:1 You
shall do (make) ta-the
Tabernacle of Ten Curtains
(Hangings) of twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), and
blue, and purple, and crimson (red) worm [(worm of crimson (red))]: of
Cherubims of weaving (a weaver,
fabricating, a fabricator, embroidering, an embroiderer, devising, a
deviser, interpenetrating, an interpenetrater),
you
shall do (make) them. 2 The length of the one
Curtain
(Hanging) shall be eight and
twenty on the
cubit,
and the breadth of the one shall
be four on the cubit: one
measure
shall be for (to) all of the Curtains (Hangings). 3 The five Curtains (Hangings), they
shall
be
joined a woman to her sister; and the five Curtains (Hangings)
shall be
joined a woman to her sister. 4 And
you shall do (make) Loops of
blue upon (over)
the lip (edge) of the one
Curtain (Hanging) from the end (edge) on the
joining
(juncture, joining
point);
and
so you shall do (make) on the lip (lip side) of the furthest (last) Curtain
(Hanging) on
the second joining (juncture, joining
point). 5 You shall do (make) fifty
Loops
on the one
Curtain (Hanging),
and the fifty Loops you
shall do (make) in the edge (furthest) of
the Curtain (Hanging)
that is on the joining (juncture, joining
point)
of the second;
admitting (receiving) the Loops a
woman
to her sister. 6 And you shall do (make) fifty Buckles (Taches) of
gold,
and you shall join ta-the Curtains (Hangings) a woman
to her sister on the Buckles (Taches): and the
Tabernacle shall be one.
7 And you shall do (make) Curtains
(Hangings) of kid goats for a Tent over
(upon)
the
Tabernacle: tenth ten (thenthteen, eleven) Curtains (Hangings)
you shall do (make)
them.
8 The length of the one
Curtain (Hanging)
shall be thirty on the cubit,
and
the width of the one Curtain
(Hanging) shall be four on the cubit: one
measure
for the tenth ten (tenthteen, eleven) Curtains (Hangings). 9 And you
shall join ta-the five Curtains (Hanging)
by
apart,
and ta-the six Curtains (Hangings)
by
apartness,
and you shall couple (double) ta-the sixth Curtain (Hanging)
to
the front (opposite) of the face of the Tent. 10 And you
shall do (make) fifty Loops
upon (over)
the lip (edge) of the one
Curtain (Hanging)
that is furthest (last) on
the
joining
(juncture, joining
point), and the fifty Loops
upon the lip
(lip edge) of
the Curtain
(Hanging)
that joins the second.
11 And you shall do (make) fifty Buckles
(Taches) of copper,
and you shall enter ta-the Buckles (Taches) in the
Loops,
and
you shall join ta-the Tent,
and shall be
one. 12 And the excess (extension) of the overplus (odd number)
among the Curtains (Hangings)
of the
Tent, the half Curtain (Hanging)
of the overplus (odd number), she shall extend over
(upon) at the back of
the Tabernacle. 13 And the cubit
from this, and the cubit
from
this on the overplus
(odd
number) in
the length of the Curtains (Hangings)
of the Tent, shall
be extended over (upon) at the sides of the Tabernacle from this and
from this to
cover (conceal) him.
14 And you shall do (make) a Cover (Concealment) for
the Tent of
skins of rams with reds
and a Cover (Concealment) from above the skins of clean animals, (kosher
animals, antelopes, dugongs, ?badgers?).
15 And you
shall do (make) the Boards for the
Tabernacle of trees (wood) of shittim
(acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood] standing up. 16 Ten cubits
shall be the length of the Board,
and a cubit
and the half of the cubit
shall be the width of the one Board. 17
Two Pins
(Hands) shall be for the one board equidistant a woman
to her sister: so you shall do (make) for
all of the Boards of the Tabernacle.
18 And you shall do (make) the Boards for the
Tabernacle,
twenty Boards for the negev (south) mouth (end)
rightward (southward).
19 And
you shall do (make) forty Sockets of silver
under the
twenty Boards; two Sockets shall be under the one Board for two of
his Pins (Hands), and
two Sockets shall be under the one Board for two of
his Pins (Hands).
20 And for the second
rib (side) of the Tabernacle for the hidden
(north) mouth
(end) shall
be
twenty Boards: 21 And their forty Sockets shall be of
silver; two Sockets shall be under
the one Board, and two Sockets shall be under the one Board.
22 And for the thighs (rear thighs, rear
sides, sides,
?testicles?) of the Tabernacle
seaward
(westward), you shall
do (make) six Boards.
23 And two Boards you shall do (make) for the Corners
(Angles) of the Tabernacle in the two thighs (rear thighs, rear
sides, sides, ?testicles?). 24 And
they shall
be completed
(twinned) from below (beneath), and they
shall be completed (twinned) united (together) upon (over) his Head
(Chapiter)
to the one
Ring:
so
shall be for both of them; they shall be for the two Corners (Angles).
25 And they shall be eight Boards, and their Sockets shall be
of silver, six ten (sixteen) Sockets; two Sockets shall be under the
one Board,
and
two Sockets shall be
under the one Board.
26 And you shall do (make) Bars of trees (wood) of
shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood]; five
for the Boards of the one rib (side) of the Tabernacle, 27 and the five
bars for the Boards of the second rib (side) of the Tabernacle, and the
five Bars for the Boards of the rib (side) of the Tabernacle, for the two thighs (rear
thighs, rear sides, sides, ?testicles?)
seaward (westward).
28 And the Bar shall be at the middle
in through (the
midst of, center of) the Boards bolting through (running through) from
the edge (furthest, end) to the edge (furthest, end).
29 And you shall
overlay (sheet over) ta-the Boards
of gold, and
you shall do (make)
ta-their Rings
of gold
housingward (inside) for ta-the Bars:
and you shall
overlay (sheet over) the Bars of gold. 30 And you
will raise ta-the
Tabernacle according to His Ordinance which you were shown on the
Mountain.
31 And you will do (make) a Veil of
blue, and purple,
and crimson (red) worm [(worm of crimson (red))] and twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), from weaving (a weaver,
fabricating, a fabricator, embroidering, an embroiderer, devising, a
deviser, interpenetrating, an interpenetrater): shall do (make) her of Cherubims: 32 And you
shall give her upon the four
Pillars
of trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood] overlaying (sheeting over) of gold: their Nails (Hooks)
shall be of gold
upon the
four Sockets of silver. 33 And you shall give ta-the Veil
under the Buckles (Taches),
and you shall bring there from housingward (inside) to the Veil of ta
the Ark of
the Testimony
(Witness):
and the Veil
shall separate (divide) for you
between the Sacred (Holy) Place and between
the Sacred (Holy) of Sacreds (Holies) [(Sacred of Sacreds, Holy of
Holies)].
34 And you shall give ta-the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat)
upon (over) the Ark
of the Testimony
(Witness) in the Sacred (Holy) of Sacreds (Holies) [(Sacred of Sacreds, Holy of
Holies)]. 35
And you shall set (put) ta-the Table
from outside of (by?) the
Veil,
and ta-the Menorah
opposite the
Table, upon (over) the rib (side) of the Tabernacle rightward
(southward): and
you
shall give the Table upon (over) the hidden (north) rib (side).
36 And you shall do (make) a Screen Cover (Screen
Curtain) for the Entrance
of the Tent of blue,
and purple, and crimson (red) worm [(worm of crimson (red))], and twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen),
of a work of a needler (fabricator,
texturer, cunning
work). 37 And you will do (make) for the Screen Cover (Screen Curtain)
five
Pillars of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], and you shall overlay (sheet over) them of gold, and their Nails (Hooks) shall
be of
gold: and you will mold (cast, molten, pour out) five Sockets of copper
for them.
(NOTE: Not all verses will have
comments)
Verses one through
six
THE
TEN CURTAINS (THE FIRST CURTAIN)
1 You
shall do (make) ta-the
Tabernacle of Ten Curtains
(Hangings) of twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), and
blue, and purple, and crimson (red) worm [(worm of crimson (red))]: of
Cherubims of weaving (a weaver,
fabricating, a fabricator, embroidering, an embroiderer, devising, a
deviser, interpenetrating, an interpenetrater),
you
shall do (make) them. 2 The length of the one
Curtain
(Hanging) shall be eight and
twenty on the
cubit,
and the breadth of the one shall
be four on the cubit: one
measure
shall be for (to) all of the Curtains (Hangings). 3 The five Curtains (Hangings), they
shall
be
joined a woman to her sister; and the five Curtains (Hangings)
shall be
joined a woman to her sister. 4 And
you shall do (make) Loops of
blue upon (over)
the lip (edge) of the one
Curtain (Hanging) from the end (edge) on the
joining
(juncture, joining
point);
and
so you shall do (make) on the lip (lip side) of the furthest (last) Curtain
(Hanging) on
the second joining (juncture, joining
point). 5 You shall do (make) fifty
Loops
on the one
Curtain (Hanging),
and the fifty Loops you
shall do (make) in the edge (furthest) of
the Curtain (Hanging)
that is on the joining (juncture, joining
point)
of the second;
admitting (receiving) the Loops a
woman
to her sister. 6 And you shall do (make) fifty Buckles (Taches) of
gold,
and you shall join ta-the Curtains (Hangings) a woman
to her sister on the Buckles (Taches): and the
Tabernacle shall be one.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE TEN
CURTAINS
Fine linen:
Righteousness
(source:
maranathalife.com)
Gold: Eternity
Blue: Heaven
Purple:
Royalty
Crimson
Worm (Scarlet): Blood
Cherubim:
Heavenly
Host and Heavenly Existence
Fifty:
The
Jubilee Year/hwhy's Fifty Year Cycle
GENDER:
Curtains: FEMALE
Loops: FEMALE
Buckles: MALE
Each of the Ten
Curtains, in U.S.
measurements is 42 feet long and 6 feet wide.
These
united ten
joined curtains was the first item mentioned to be
made for the Tent of Appointment. This indicates that each of the ten
curtains are representations of each of the Ten Words (Commandments).
The First Five Words (Commandments) are the vertical relationship
with hwhy,
and the Second Five Words (Commandments) are the horizontal
relationship with mankind.
The Ten
Words (Commandments) is to be the first set of Commandments applied in
our lives in our relationship with hwhy,
our Heavenly
Father, in the Messiah, by the Ruakh HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit, as
compared to the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Also, these ten curtains are feminine, because they represent the Ten
Words (Commandments) and apply to our soul which I have noted in past
Torah portions is feminine.
The fifth curtain is symbolized to the Fifth Word (Commandment) which
was the end of one of the united five junctures to the sixth curtain,
which symbolizes the Sixth Word (Commandment). These Two Words
(Commandments) are the connecting factors from the horizontal
relationship of mankind to the
vertical relationship with hwhy. In my Torah
portion commentary of Yithro, I noted that these Two Words
(Commandments) are known as the Bridge Words (Commandments).
Looking at the following words:
FURTHER
The Hebrew word for further
is "kee-tson"- Kuph, Yod, Tsade, Vav, Nun Sophit (Nwuyq). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7020, and its definition
From
H6972; terminal: - out- (utter-) most.
from 6972 "koots" (Uwq), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to clip off; used only as denominative from H7019; to
spend the harvest season: - summer.
from 7019 "kah-yeets" (Uyq), and its definition
From
H6972; harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or
the (dry) season: - summer (fruit, house).
This word "furthest" is based on the root word meaning "summer", as in
the furthest point of the sun in the sky throughout the
year. But it also means "harvest", meaning, in relation to the Ten
Words (Commandments) that the last of the First Five Words
(Commandments) in one's
relationship to hwhy in which the
Fifth Word (Commandment) regarding the father and mother are the
"furthest" in connection to the Last Five Words (Commandments)
through one's righteous relationship with mankind in its connection to
the Sixth Word (Commandment) by "harvesting" each other together,
because it is the parents who will harvest the children's fruits by the
children's actions toward mankind, but the children also harvest their
parents' training and upbringing, which is based in king Solomon's book
of Proverbs
Proverbs 22:6 Train
(Discipline) to a young boy upon the mouth of his direction (way): also
when he grows old, will not turn away from her.
Also, as believers and followers in Yeshua, we were far away from Him
until He came to reestablish the Heavens-Earth connection with Him, so
that we can be close to Him.
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
EDGE
The Hebrew word for edge is
"kah-tsah"- Kuph, Tsade, Heh (huq). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7097, and its definition
The
second form is negative only; from H7096; an extremity (used in a great
variety of applications and idioms; compare H7093): -
X after, border, brim, brink, edge, end, [in-] finite, frontier,
outmost coast, quarter, shore, (out-) side, X some, ut (-ter-) most
(part).
from 7096 "kah-tsah" (huq), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to cut off; (figuratively) to destroy; (partially) to
scrape off: - cut off, cut short, scrape (off).
from 7093 "koots" (Uq), and its
definition
Contracted
from H7112; an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix)
after: - + after, (utmost) border, end, [in-] finite, X process.
from 7112 "kah-tsats" (Uuq), and its defintion
A
primitive root; to chop off (literally or figuratively): - cut
(asunder, in pieces, in sunder, off), X utmost.
In my opinion, these two translated words are related to each other,
becuase they are similar in the Hebrew spelling.
This last translated word's definition above, explains the circumstance
of the Ten
Words (Commandments) that the "edge" of the First Five Words
(commandments) are at the "edge" of their vertical point, and the edge
of the Last Five Words (Commandments) are at the "edge" of their
horizontal point. By the way,
these two Hebrew words are where we get our modern English word "cut",
as in "cutting off", or cutting to end something.
It shows
that they are to be "joined" with gold buckles. The symbol for gold is
"eternal", The buckles connect the two sets of the five words
(commandments) and makes them "eternal". This is the similar way in our
relationship with our Heavenly Father. As it is written by the apostle
Paul to the assembly in Rome
Romans 3:23 For all have
sinned, and come short of the Glory of hwhy;
Without hwhy, our Heavenly
Father, we just have the Last Five Words (Commandments) and the Fourth
Word (Commandment) in honoring our father and mother. But there is no
relationship with hwhy, and thus we
don't have an "eternal
relationship", and are missing some of the Ten Words (Commandments),
and are
not
complete. We can't
relate to the First Five Words (Commandments) without something, or
"Someone" who is "Eternal", and that is where Yeshua "the Eternal One"
comes to be the symbolic "Eternal Golden Buckle" to "connect"
the Last Five Words (Commandments) to
the First Five Words (Commandments) where we can have a "relationship"
with hwhy, our Heavenly
Father, through Yeshua the Messiah, via the Ruakh HaKodesh (the Holy
Spirit) and thus makes the completion of
the Ten Words (Commandments).
As noted above, the color blue is symbolic
of heaven. When the fifty loops of blue are attached to each of the
curtains, it symbolizes that heaven is connected to each of the Ten
Words (Commandments) to connect between the heavens and the earth,
which is based in the Torah portion of B'reyshith, in the book of
Genesis
Genesis 1:1 In
the
beginning, Elohim
created ta
the Heavens and ta-the Earth.
Thus the blue loops provide "the Heavens-Earth" connection.
Notice also in this week's Torah portion passage that
it says in
verse three "her sister piece". It is in the Hebrew text "ah-khah-thah"
(htxa), in which the
Heh with the dot in it empahsizes the female suffix "her", and "akhath"
literaly means "sister". That means each of the sister pieces of the
ten
curtains tells us that each of the symbolic Ten Words (Commandments)
are "sisters",
because
each Word (Commandment) is "female" and
relate to our souls which are also feminine. Our souls need to
submit to hwhy
through these
Ten Words (Commandments). Notice that
this week's Torah portion
passage also states that hwhy
says in verse
three that they are to attach five curtains to the other five curtains.
As I noted earlier, The First Five Words (Commandments) are the
Vertical Words (Commandments) referring to hwhy, which are
"the vertical
sisters", and the Last Five Words (Commandments) are the Horizontal
Words (Commandments)
referring to mankind, which are "the horizontal sisters".
Yeshua summarized them to two commandments, which I will reveal, which
is noted in the Gospel of Matthew
Matthew 22:36 Master,
which is the Great Commandment in the Torah? 37 Yeshua said unto him,
Thou shalt love hwhy, thy Elohim,
with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind [The First Five Words (Commandments)].
38 This is the First and Great Commandment. 39 And the Second
is
like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself [The Second Five Words (Commandments)].
40 On these Two Commandments hang all of the Torah and the
Prophets.
The Ten Words (Commandments) are part of the Torah, and the Torah
is feminine.
In verse three of this week's Torah portion passage, in the Hebrew text
phrase, as in Exodus 25:27,
"they shall be" is "tee-h'yeyn" (Nyyht), Thus, the
"sister" curtains are
feminine.
This
also
reveals that the connected curtains are placed from front to
back. It also symbolizes that The Ten Words (Commandments) are
connected one to
another, and they work together for one purpose. As Frank Sinatra sang
the words "You can't have one without the other". Also Billy Graham
stated in one of his crusades "If you break one commandment, you break
all of
them". If one curtain is disconnected then the whole curtain is
disconnected.
The
fact that it
contains cherubim tell us this is a heavenly existence. It doesn't say
how many cherubims there were on the curtains, whether one cherubims
per curtain, two cherubims, three
cherubims, or more. It is just a guess, most of the images I have seen
show two, probably based on the two cherubims on the Ark of the
Covenant.
Looking
at the word CURTAIN (HANGING)
The
Hebrew word
for curtain (hanging) is "y'ree-ah"- Yod, Resh, Yod, Ayin, Heh (heyry).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 3407, and its definition
From
H3415; a hanging (as tremulous): - curtain.
from 3415 "yah-rah" (ery), and its
definition
A
primitive root; properly to be broken up (with any violent action),
that is, (figuratively) to fear: - be grievous [only Isa_15:4; the rest
belong to H7489].
Notice that it is similar to this Hebrew word:
from 3384
"yah-rah" (hry, ary), and its
definition
A
primitive root; properly to flow as water (that is, to rain);
transitively to lay or throw (especially an arrow, that is, to shoot);
figuratively to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach: -
(+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot,
teach (-er, -ing), through.
This latter Hebrew root word is the same root word that the Hebrew
words "Torah" (hrwt) and "Moreh" (hrwm) comes from.
One could possibly say that indirectly the Torah was applied to the
Tabernacle.
The Torah also based on the translation "breaks in" for us is a means
to "break us" into obeying it, like a baseball player breaking in a new
glove to soften it with a creamy oil substance and bending it around to
make it fit comfortably in our hands, and to function and adjust it to
get a better grip.
Looking
at the word CUBIT
The
Hebrew word
for cubit is "ah-mah"- Aleph, Mem, Heh (hma).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 520, and its definition
Prolonged
from H517; properly a mother (that is, unit) of measure, or the forearm
(below the elbow), that is, a cubit; also a door base (as a bond of the
entrance): - cubit, + hundred [by exchange for H3967], measure, post.
from 517 "ahm" (ma), and its
definition
A
primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense
(both literally and figuratively); (like H1): - dam, mother, X parting.
Any
measurement is of "the mother". So listen to your mama.
Indirectly related this Hebrew root word can be compared to Yeshua as
the Mother Hen, which is noted in the Gospel of Matthew
Matthew 23:37 O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would
not!
In this week's Torah portion passage,
the word for each is
"ee-shah"- Aleph, Shin, Heh (hsa)
which is the
feminine form of "eesh"-
Aleph, Yod, Shin (sya).
Mark Biltz of El Shaddai
Ministries noted that this Hebrew word can also be translated as
"woman". Hence the phrase can be translated, "a woman to her sister".
Thank you Mark.
Regarding the
blue loops, blue is symbolic of the heavens. What about the amount of
loops
per side- fifty? What is its symbolic meaning? We know that fifty is
the amount of years to the Jubilee year. One could say that the fifty
loops is a type of hwhy's Fifty Year Jubilee
Cycle. It is also known that Jubilee is
an act of restoration, which is noted in the Torah portion of B'har, in
the book of Leviticus
Leviticus 25:10 And you
shall sanctify the
year,
ta
the fiftieth
year, and you
shall call out (proclaim)
liberty in the land to all of her dwellers: she, she
shall be a Jubilee for yourselves;
and you
shall return a man to
his seizing (holding, property), and you shall return a man to his
family. 11
The
Jubilee, she shall be the fiftieth year
[(the
fiftieth year,
she shall be)], a year she shall be to
yourselves:
You shall not seed (sow),
and you
shall not
reap (harvest) ta-her aftergrowth, and you
shall not clip off ta-her unkept
vines (undressed vines, set apart
vines). 12
For she is the Jubilee; she shall be Sacred (Holy) to yourselves:
you shall eat ta-her produce
from the field.
13 In the year
of
this
Jubilee, you shall return a man to his seizing
(holding, property).
These activities in the Tabernacle could be
an act of a "Jubilaic restoration" between hwhy
and the
Israelites as well as the restoration between the heavens and the earth
through hwhy,
the
representative of Heaven on Earth.
This could be a possible pattern example of what the ten curtains would
have
looked like
Verses
seven through thirteen
THE
SECOND CURTAIN
7 And you shall do (make) Curtains
(Hangings) of kid goats for a Tent over
(upon)
the
Tabernacle: tenth ten (thenthteen, eleven) Curtains (Hangings)
you shall do (make)
them.
8 The length of the one
Curtain (Hanging)
shall be thirty on the cubit,
and
the width of the one Curtain
(Hanging) shall be four on the cubit: one
measure
for the tenth ten (tenthteen, eleven) Curtains (Hangings). 9 And you
shall join ta-the five Curtains (Hanging)
by
apart,
and ta-the six Curtains (Hangings)
by
apartness,
and you shall couple (double) ta-the sixth Curtain (Hanging)
to
the front (opposite) of the face of the Tent. 10 And you
shall do (make) fifty Loops
upon (over)
the lip (edge) of the one
Curtain (Hanging)
that is furthest (last) on
the
joining
(juncture, joining
point), and the fifty Loops
upon the lip
(lip edge) of
the Curtain
(Hanging)
that joins the second.
11 And you shall do (make) fifty Buckles
(Taches) of copper,
and you shall enter ta-the Buckles (Taches) in the
Loops,
and
you shall join ta-the Tent,
and shall be
one. 12 And the excess (extension) of the overplus (odd number)
among the Curtains (Hangings)
of the
Tent, the half Curtain (Hanging)
of the overplus (odd number), she shall extend over
(upon) at the back of
the Tabernacle. 13 And the cubit
from this, and the cubit
from
this on the overplus
(odd
number) in
the length of the Curtains (Hangings)
of the Tent, shall
be extended over (upon) at the sides of the Tabernacle from this and
from this to
cover (conceal) him.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE SECOND
CURTAIN
Goat's Hair:
Prophecy
(source:
maranathalife.com) [also could be purity]
Blue: Heaven
Fifty:
The
Jubilee Year
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
Fifty:
The
Jubilee Year/hwhy's Fifty Year Cycle
GENDER:
Curtains: FEMALE
Loops: FEMALE
Buckles: MALE
Each of the
Eleven Curtains in U.S.
measurements is 45 feet long and 6 feet wide.
A theory to why there were eleven curtains was that Levi was
the
one tribe that was doing the Priestly Duties for the Tabernacle, and
the rest were the twelve tribes (Manasseh and Ephraim were of the one
tribe of Joseph), hence the "thirteen tribes". The overlapping curtain
would symbolicly be "the Levitical curtain".
Notice in this week's Torah portion passage that it did not specify any
color of the goats hair. It is
possible that the goats' skins could be of any color or shape. This is
most likely based on the
account of Jacob taking the spotted, speckled and variegated goats,
which is noted in the Torah portion of Vay-Yeytsey, in the book of
Genesis
Genesis 30:28 And he said, Specify your
wages upon
me, and I will
give her.
29 And said to him, You, you know ta that I have served you, and ta that your livestock has been
with
me. 30 For little which had to you was to my face and has
increased (spread out) for a multitude; and hwhy has blessed you to my feet:
and now when shall I do, also I, for my house? 31 And said, What
shall I give to you? And
Jacob said, You shall
not give to me anything: If you will do for me this word; I will
return, I will tend, and I will keep (guard) your flock: 32 I will go
over
among all of your flock the day (today) of the removing from there
every spotted and variegated lamb, and every
brown (black) lamb among the sheep, and variegated and spotted among
the
kid goats: and these shall be my wages. 33 And shall eye her on
me
my
righteousness in the day to come [(in the latter day)] when you come
upon my
wages to
your face of all that are
not spotted and variegated among the kid goats,
and brown (black) among the sheep, he shall be stolen with me.
These various kinds of goats are symbolic of the various kinds of
peoples in the earth as the phrase of a Christian song says "Red and
yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight".
Also notice they used fifty loops, which is also symbolized for the
fiftieth
year of the Jubilee.
Looking
at the word BUCKLE (TACHE)
The
Hebrew word
for buckle (tache) is "keh-rehs"- Kuph, Resh, Sameck (orq).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7165, and its definition
From
H7164; a knob or belaying pin (from its swelling form): - tache.
from 7164 "kah-rahs" (orq), and its
definition
A
primitive root; properly to protrude; used only as denominative from
H7165 (for alliteration with H7167), to hunch, that is, be humpbacked:
- stoop.
Buckles (Taches)
are
another word for hooks.
Copper is a symbol of judgment and
suffering, because hwhy
is the Judge,
and Yeshua manifested Himself later to be "the Suffering Servant". The
fifty loops of judgment attaching the fifty heavenly loops. So
symbolically these combination makes the phrase that hwhy
is the Jubilaic
Heavenly Judge of The Ten Words (Commandments). Also, copper symbolizes
man, which would represent Yeshua, "the Man".
In verse thirteen of this week's Torah portion passage, it states that
both ends are to droop over the edge
for one cubit, which is eighteen inches. That is in Biblical
measurement the length from the forearm, which is from the elbow to the
end of
the middle finger of the hand. In general, it will cover beyond the
roof. In a way, it is like saying that hwhy
has "both arms"
over both ends of the Tabernacle.
Looking
at the word FRONT (OPPOSITE)
The
Hebrew word
for front (opposite) is "mohl"- Mem, Vav Lamed (lwm).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4136, and its definition
From
H4135; properly abrupt, that is, a precipice; by implication the front;
used only adverbially (with prepositional prefix) opposite: - (over)
against, before, [fore-] front, from, [God-] ward, toward, with.
from 4135 "mool" (lwm), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to cut short, that is, curtail (specifically the
prepuce, that is, to circumcise); by implication to blunt; figuratively
to destroy: - circumcise (-ing, selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy,
X must needs.
Notice that it also translates as "circumcise". This is when it says
"to the front (opposite)", it's an act of circumcising one's self to
the approaching of the second curtain.
This is a rough image example of the Curtain of the Goat's Hair
(Note: This
image is a real various goat skins multiplied over)
Verse
fourteen
THE
THIRD AND FOURTH
CURTAINS (COVERINGS)
14 And you shall do (make) a Cover (Concealment) for
the Tent of
skins of rams with reds
and a Cover (Concealment) from above the skins of clean animals, (kosher
animals, antelopes, dugongs, ?badgers?).
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE THIRD
AND FOURTH
CURTAINS/COVERINGS
Rams Skins: Sacrificial (source:
maranathalife.com)
Kosher Animal Skins:
Sacrificial
(source:
maranathalife.com)
Red:
Blood
GENDER: FEMALE(?)
There is no measurement mentioned for these coverings.
According to a blog on scripturestudies.spruz.com,
it noted that the
rams and its blood were used as part of the ceremony to consecrate the
Priests for their Priesthood, which is noted in the Torah portion of
Tsav, in the book
of Leviticus
Leviticus 8:22 And brought near ta-the second
ram, the Ram of Consecration Offering (Fulfilling Offering): and Aaron
and his sons, they suported
(laid) ta-their hands
upon the head of
the ram 23 and was slaughtered; and Moses took from his blood, and gave
upon the tip of right ear of Aaron, and upon the thumb of his right
hand, and upon the thumb (big toe) of his right foot. 24 And brought
near ta-the sons of Aaron, and Moses
gave the blood upon the tip of their right ear,
The rams' skins dyed red is symbolic of Yeshua
who was sacrificed, and His Blood completely covered His Body.
The translations in the English Bibles commonly translated these type
of skins as "Badger's skins", but other
interpretations say blue skins, taxus skins (not
Texas) or dugong skins, goat skins, seal skins, and leather, as well as
antelope skins. One thing that I will say is in my humble but strong
opinion that it is not from the badger or the antelope. The badger is
not a kosher animal, and though the antelope is a kosher animal, it is
not an animal to be brought to the Tabernacle/Temple to be sacrificed,
which is based in the Torah portion of R'ey, in the book of Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 12:15 Only in all of your gates you shall sacrifice in
all of the pleasure (lust, desire) of
your soul, and you shall eat flesh according to [(as)]
the Blessing of hwhy, your Elohim,
which was given
to you: the unclean and the clean shall eat him, as of the
gazelle (roebuck), and
as of the hart (stage, deer).
This would include the antelope which is also clean and unclean. It is
clean and kosher, because it splits the hoof and chews the cud. But it
is unclean and not kosher, because it is not a domesticated animal to
be sacrificed at the Tabernacle/Temple.
Looking
at the word CLEAN ANIMALS (KOSHER ANIMALS, ANTELOPES, DUGONGS,
?BADGERS?)
The
Hebrew word for clean animals, (kosher animals, antelopes, dugongs,
?badgers?) is "tah-khash"- Tet, Khet, Shin (sxt). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 8476, and its definition
Probably
of foreign derivation; a (clean) animal with fur, probably a species of
antelope: - badger.
In the Paleo-Hebrew the picture for each letter: Tav is a
cross, Khet is a ladder, and Shin is teeth. The outer skins were
symbolically this
"The Cross that Is the Stairway
to the teeth- or the grasping (of Heaven)"
There is no clear
understanding
to how this Hebrew word translates, but there is a Hebrew word that
could be connected to this one:
from 2814 "khah-shah"- Khet, Shin,
Heh (hsx), and its definition
A
primitive root; to hush or keep quiet: - hold peace, keep silence, be
silent, (be) still.
Yeshua was tried and crucified while mostly "holding His Peace"
throughout most of His last day of physical life.
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
It was part of the Tent to the
Tablernacle where all the inside major hardware is located, and now as
it has just been revealed to me, knowing
the fact that Yeshua is symbolic of these Tabernacle items, the
fourth curtain would have to be a kosher skin and also would have to be
a skin
from a domesticated animal, like the skins from the goats, rams, and
lambs, but possibly not an antelope. Based in the Torah, an antelope is
kosher,
but it is not a domesticated animal that can be sacrificed at the
Tabernacle/Temple to atone for someone meaning that it is not kosher
for sacrifice. However, these are "skins", which means that they
maintain the skin part of the animal which would make them naturally
waterproof.
This is an image example of rams skins dyed red
(Note: This image is a real ram skin multiplied over)
This is an image
example of antelope skins, which is most likely not the skins used as
commented
earlier.
(Note: This image is a real African Blasbok skin multiplied over)
Verses
fifteen through seventeen
THE
BOARDS AND PINS
15 And you
shall do (make) the Boards for the
Tabernacle of trees (wood) of shittim
(acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood] standing up. 16 Ten cubits
shall be the length of the Board,
and a cubit
and the half of the cubit
shall be the width of the one Board. 17
Two Pins
(Hands) shall be for the one board equidistant a woman
to her sister: so you shall do (make) for
all of the Boards of the Tabernacle.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE BOARDS
AND PINS
Shittim
Wood: Humanity, also
could be
Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing
Silver:
Redemption
GENDER:
Boards: MALE
Pins: FEMALE
Each of the
Boards, in U.S.
measurements is 15 feet long and 2 feet 3 inches wide.
Shittim wood is also known as acacia wood. The following text is from www.gotquestions.org
regarding acacia trees
"From
a
practical
standpoint, acacia trees would have been the one of the only types of
trees growing in the wilderness regions traveled by Israel. In
addition, acacia wood is dense and extremely strong, making it a great
option for any type of wooden construction".
It is strong and durable wood. That is why hwhy
used it for the Tabernacle, because it is able to endure holding up the
four heavy skins that are going
over them while they are standing up.
Looking
at the word BOARD
In
verse fifteen, the Hebrew
word for
board is "keh-resh"- Kuph, Resh, Shin (srq). It is from
Strong's Concordance
number 7175, and its definition
From
an unused root meaning to split off; a slab or plank; by implication a
deck of a ship: - bench, board.
This is where we get our modern English "crash" or it could
be
"crush".
In verse seventeen in the
Hebrew text of this week's Torah portion passage, the word for each is
"ee-shah"- Aleph, Shin, Heh (hsa)
which is the
feminine form of "eesh"-
Aleph, Yod, Shin (sya). Mark Biltz revealed that this
Hebrew word can also be translated as "woman". Hence the phrase can be
translated, "a woman to her sister". Thank you Mark.
Looking
at the word PIN (HAND)
The Hebrew
word for pin (hand) is "yahd"- Yod, Dalet (dy). It is from
Strong's Concordance
number 3027, and its definition
A
primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means,
direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as
noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally
and figuratively, both proximate and remote: - (+ be)
able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X
bounty, + broad, [broken-] handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, +
creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X
from, hand [-staves, -y work], X he, himself, X in, labour, + large,
ledge, [left-] handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order,
ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side,
sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee,
X by them, X them-selves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, +
thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, [way-] side, where, +
wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X your-selves.
This is the common Hebrew word
for "hand". Since two pins were used
to hold the board, it was
like "two hands" for each board, meaning the boards are feminine, and
as I noted in previous Torah portions, the hand is feminine. We can say
that the hand was applied to the Tabernacle.
Looking
at the word DISTANT
The
Hebrew word for distant is
"shah-lahv"- Shin, Lamed,
Bet (bls). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7947, and its definition
A
primitive root; to space off; intensively (evenly) to make equidistant:
- equally distant, set in order.
This is where we get our modern English word "slab", as a "slab
of wood".
Verses eighteen
through twenty two
18 And you shall do (make) the Boards for the
Tabernacle,
twenty Boards for the negev (south) mouth (end) rightward (southward).
19 And
you shall do (make) forty Sockets of silver
under the
twenty Boards; two Sockets shall be under the one Board for two of
his Pins (Hands), and
two Sockets shall be under the one Board for two of his Pins (Hands).
20 And for the second rib (side) of the Tabernacle for the hidden
(north) mouth (end) shall
be
twenty Boards: 21 And their forty Sockets shall be of
silver; two Sockets shall be under
the one Board, and two Sockets shall be under the one Board.
22 And for the rear sides (thighs, sides, ?testicles?) of the
Tabernacle
seaward
(westward), you shall
make six Boards.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE SOCKETS
Sockets: Foundation = Yeshua
Silver:
Redemption
GENDER: MALE
The two sockets are symbolic of the
Two Houses of Israel. It is the female end of the connectors. They are
located on the floor. It is stronger than gold, and it is the only
other metal that has a positive means of purity.
Looking
at the word SOCKETS
The
Hebrew word for sockets is
"eh-dehn"- Aleph, Dalet, Nun Sophit (Nda).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 134, and its definition
From
the
same as H113 (in the sense of strength); a basis (of a building, a
column, etc.): - foundation, socket.
from 113 "ah-dohn" (Nda), and its
definition
From
an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, that is, controller (human
or divine): - lord, master, owner. Compare also names beginning with
“Adoni-”.
The socket is based on the definition, "lord". In other words, it
symbolically reveals
us as believers that our "Lord", who is "Yeshua", is the Foundation
that supports, or "rules", the structure of our lives, and our Lord was
applied to the Tabernacle.
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
As
I noted
above, the
Hebrew word for tenons is the "yahd"- Yod, Dalet (dy).
It is the
English word, "hand". So when it says two tenons, they are
two hands. These are the ones attached to the boards.
Looking
at the word MOUTH (SIDE)
The
Hebrew word for mouth (side) is
"pey-ah"- Peh, Aleph, Heh (hap).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 6285, and its definition
Feminine
of H6311; properly mouth in a figurative sense, that is, direction,
region, extremity: - corner, end, quarter, side.
from 6311 "poh" (hp, ap, wp), and its
definition
Probably
from a primitive inseparable particle פּ p (the second form; of
demonstrative force) and H1931; this place (French, icil), that is,
here or hence: - here, hither, the one (other, this, that) side.
This is the same Hebrew word for the translation, "mouth". The mouth is
applied to this Tabernacle.
Looking
at the word RIB (SIDE)
The
Hebrew word for rib (side) is
"tsah-lah" and "tsey-lah"- Tsade, Lamed, Ayin, Heh; Tsade, Lamed, Ayin (helu, elu).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 6763, and its definition
From
H6760; a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a
door, that is, leaf); hence a side, literally (of a person) or
figuratively (of an object or the sky, that is, quarter);
arcitecturally a timber (especially floor or ceiling) or plank (single
or collectively, that is, a flooring): - beem, board, chamber, corner,
leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).
from 6760 "tsah-lah" (elu), and its
definition
A
primitive root; probably to curve; used only as denominative from
H6763, to limp (as if one sided): - halt.
This Hebrew word is also translated "rib". The rib is applied to this
Tabernacle/Temple.
This is an image example of the tenons and the sockets
The north and south sides are to have twenty boards each, and the west
is to have six boards each. The wood is symbolic of humanity.
Looking
at the word REAR SIDES (THIGHS, SIDES, ?TESTACLES?)
The
Hebrew word for rear sides (thighs, sides, ?testicles?) is
"y'rey-khah"- Yod, Resh, Kaph, Heh (hkry).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 3411, and its definition
Feminine
of H3409; properly the flank; but used only figuratively, the rear or
recess: - border, coast, part, quarter, side.
from 3409 "yah-reykh" (Kry), and its
definition
From
an unused root meaning to be soft; the thigh (from its fleshy
softness); by euphemism the generative parts; figuratively a shank,
flank, side: - X body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.
This Hebrew root word could also translate as "testacles". One can say
that the testicles were applied to the Tabernacle.
This is an example image of the boards, tenons and sockets put
together, compared in size to an average human being
This is a sketch showing the top view of what the bars possibly
look like assembled
Verses
twenty three through twenty five
THE
CORNER BOARDS
23 And two Boards you
shall do (make) for the Corners
(Angles) of the Tabernacle in the two thighs (rear thighs, rear
sides, sides, ?testicles?). 24 And
they shall
be completed
(twinned) from below (beneath), and they
shall be completed (twinned) united (together) upon (over) his Head
(Chapiter)
to the one
Ring:
so
shall be for both of them; they shall be for the two Corners (Angles).
25 And they shall be eight Boards, and their Sockets shall be
of silver, six ten (sixteen) Sockets; two Sockets shall be under the
one Board,
and
two Sockets shall be
under the one Board.
Shittim
Wood: Humanity, also
could be
Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing
Sockets: Foundation = Yeshua
Silver:
Redemption
GENDER:
Boards: MALE
Pins: FEMALE
Sockets: MALE
SYMBOLISM TO YESHUA: Stripped/Scraped
Looking
at the word BELOW (BENEATH)
Looking
at verse twenty four of this week's Torah portion passage,
the Hebrew word for beneath is "maht-tah"- Mem,
Tet, Heh (hjm).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4295, and its definition
From
H5786 with directive enclitic appended; downward, below or beneath;
often adverbially with or without prefixes: - beneath, down (-ward),
less, very low, under (-neath).
But looking at Strong's
Concordance number 5786, the word
is "ah-var", meaning "to
blind", or "put out". This
is
confusing and does not make sense.
Looking at Strong's number 4294, "maht-tah" (hjm), and its
definition
From
H5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively a tribe; also a rod,
whether for chastising (figuratively correction), ruling (a sceptre),
throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively a support of
life, for example bread): - rod, staff, tribe.
from 5186 "naht-tah" (hjn), and its
definiton
A
primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away
(including moral deflection); used in a great variety of applications:
- + afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing),
carry aside,
decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let
down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put
away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn
(aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
It would make sense that the corner boards were used as an extended
support to strengthen the corners. The eight boards would give each of
the four corners, two
boards each, extra strength to hold the corner better, and it would
give better support for the Tabernacle Wall. These boards are to be
located "inside" the wall, which will be explained in the next
Tabernacle items. Notice that this Hebrew word also translates as "rod"
and "staff". We can say that the rod or the staff was applied to
this Tabernacle. We can also say that this implies to Yeshua's staff
symbolically as the "cross".
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
These four corner boards
symbolizes the four corners of the earth. One source of the four
corners
of the earth, which is noted by the prophet Ezekiel in his book
Ezekiel 7:2 Also,
thou
son of man, thus saith Adonai hwhy unto the
land of Israel; An
end, the
end is come upon the four corners of the land.
Another source is in the Brith Khadashah (the New Covenant), which is
noted by the apostle John in the book of Revelation
Revelations 7:1
And after
these things I
saw four
angels standing on the four corners of the earth,
holding the
four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth,
nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
This is a skeletal sketch example of the corner boards' location for
one corner
This is a sketch of the top of what the Corner Boards possibly look
like assembled
The
Hebrew word
"mattah" is also the
same word for "staff". This is not the same Hebrew word for below
(beneath) as the common Hebrew word for this translation "tah-khath" (txt). That means
there are four staffs, one for each
corner of the Tabernacle. These "staffs" are symbolic in which hwhy
bears a staff
for each of the four corners of the world, and it could also include
the four corners of the land of Israel. This is again what the prophet
Ezekiel prophesied
of Israel, which is noted in his book
Ezekiel 7:2 Also,
thou
son of man, thus saith Adonai hwhy unto the
land of Israel; An
end, the
end is come upon the four corners of the land.
Though the prophet Ezekiel did not say it, but like the four corner
beams that
supported the wall beams of the Tabernacle, hwhy
was removing
"His Staff" supporting the four corners of the land of Israel, leaving
the borders of the land unsupported, vulnerable and unprotected.
Verses
twenty six through thirty
THE
BARS
23 And two Boards you shall do (make) for the Corners
(Angles) of the Tabernacle in the two thighs (rear thighs, rear
sides, sides, ?testicles?). 24 And
they shall
be completed
(twinned) from below (beneath), and they
shall be completed (twinned) united (together) upon (over) his Head
(Chapiter)
to the one
Ring:
so
shall be for both of them; they shall be for the two Corners (Angles).
25 And they shall be eight Boards, and their Sockets shall be
of silver, six ten (sixteen) Sockets; two Sockets shall be under the
one Board,
and
two Sockets shall be
under the one Board.
26 And you shall do (make) Bars of trees (wood) of
shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood]; five
for the Boards of the one rib (side) of the Tabernacle, 27 and the five
bars for the Boards of the second rib (side) of the Tabernacle, and the
five Bars for the Boards of the rib (side) of the Tabernacle, for the two thighs (rear
thighs, rear sides, sides, ?testicles?)
seaward (westward).
28 And the Bar shall be at the middle
in through (the
midst of, center of) the Boards bolting through (running through) from
the edge (furthest, end) to the edge (furthest, end).
29 And you shall
overlay (sheet over) ta-the Boards
of gold, and
you shall do (make)
ta-their Rings
of gold
housingward (inside) for ta-the Bars:
and you shall
overlay (sheet over) the Bars of gold. 30 And you
will raise ta-the
Tabernacle according to His Ordinance which you were shown on the
Mountain.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE BARS
Shittim
Wood: Haminity, also
could be
Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
GENDER:
Bars: MALE
Rings: FEMALE
Notice that there are five bars and not seven, or three, or ten. This
would
be symbolized with the five books of the Torah of Moses.
Notice in verse twenty eight of this week's Torah portion passage that
it says the middle bar is "in the midst" of the boards, which means
that this middle bar, the third bar, goes "through" each of the boards.
This middle bar's purpose is to hold the boards in place while it is
erected. This would be symbolic of the third book of the Torah of
Leviticus 11:42 in which at this point, the word "belly" is the "belly"
and the "center" of the Torah".
Looking
at the word BAR
The
Hebrew word for bar is
"b'ree-akh"- Bet, Resh, Yod, khet (xyrb).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 1280, and its definition
From
H1272; a bolt: - bar, fugitive.
from 1272 "bah-akh" (Kry), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to bolt, that is, figuratively to flee suddenly: -
chase (away); drive away, fain, flee (away), put to flight, make haste,
reach, run away, shoot.
This Hebrew word can also be translated as "fugitive". One can imply
that the "Fugitive" is "Yeshua".
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
Based in the Hebrew grammar, the gender for the first side is male, and
the gender for the second side is female. This could imply a
"male-female" connection, implying the counterparts to each other, like
Adam and Khavah (Eve).
This is a sketch of an example of the formation of the five bars
showing the third bar going through the boards
These bars will go along with the flatness of the wall, whereas if the
four sets of corner boards were located outside of the main wall
instead of inside, it would hinder the ability for the other four bars
that
are exposed to finish their abiblities to completely hold the other
boards in place. Either way, the bars were located inside, so that they
would not disctract the structure of the outside view of the Tabernacle.
This is a sketch, not perfect, of an example of the connection of the
outer will with the center bar going through with the corner board
inside the outer board
The boards are overlaid with gold and are to have rings of gold to hold
the bars in place. Does the overlay mean to create a gold shell to slip
over the wooden boards, or place gold on the wood and attach the gold
rings to the wooden board covered in gold? I don't have an answer to
that at this time.
This is a sketch
of the top view of what the bars look like assembled on the outside
Verses
thirty-one through thirty
three
THE
VEIL
31 And you will do (make) a Veil of
blue, and purple,
and crimson (red) worm [(worm of crimson (red))] and twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), from weaving (a weaver,
fabricating, a fabricator, embroidering, an embroiderer, devising, a
deviser, interpenetrating, an interpenetrater): shall do (make) her of Cherubims: 32 And you
shall give her upon the four
Pillars
of trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood] overlaying (sheeting over) of gold: their Nails (Hooks)
shall be of gold
upon the
four Sockets of silver. 33 And you shall give ta-the Veil
under the Buckles (Taches),
and you shall bring there from housingward (inside) to the Veil of ta
the Ark of
the Testimony
(Witness):
and the Veil
shall separate (divide) for you
between the Sacred (Holy) Place and between
the Sacred (Holy) of Sacreds (Holies) [(Sacred of Sacreds, Holy of
Holies)].
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE VEIL
Blue:
Heaven
Purple:
Royalty
Fine
linen: Righteousness (source:
maranathalife.com)
Crimson
Worm (Scarlet): Blood, Atonement,
Sacrifice
Cherubim:
Heavenly
Host and Heavenly Existence
Shittim Wood: Humanity,
also could be Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
Silver:
Redemption
GENDER:
Veil: FEMALE
Cherubims: MALE
Nails (Hooks): MALE(?)
Sockets: MALE
These are the same colors and cherubims that were used for the Ten
Curtains that are attached together. This is like the Ten Words
(Commandments)
in one veil, because when the Ten Words (Commandments) are written in
stone,
they will be placed the Ark in the Holy of Holies behind this curtain.
Also, the fact that the Veil is hanging on gold hooks and silver
sockets
reveals the symbolic kingdom's eternalness andredemption applied to
this Veil could be compared to the Gate to the Holy of Holies. Like the
Ten Curtains, it doesn't specify how many Cherubims were woven in these
curtains. It could be as few as one per curtain and as many as roughly
a hundred or so.
Why are there four pillars? Why not five? What is the symbol of four?
According to http://maranathalife.com,
the number four represents the
four corners of the earth. I also think that is more probable that the
four
pillars could represent the four heads of the angels containing the
heads of the lion, the ox, the man, and the eagle, which is noted in
the
book of the prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel 1:5 Also
out of
the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this
was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one
had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet
were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a
calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished copper.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. 9 Their wings
were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went
every one straight forward. 10 As
for the
likeness of their faces,
they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right
side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four
also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and
their
wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to
another, and two covered their bodies.
These heads represent symbols for the Four Gospels of Yeshua:
MATTHEW:
The Lion
MARK:
The Ox
LUKE:
The Man
JOHN:
The Eagle
This is a
chart of the symbol of the four gospels
These four pillars, "the symbolic Four "Gospels" lead to the Holy of
Holies, Who is
"Yeshua".
!!!!!hwhy Kl dbk
This is an
artist's sketch of of the Veil without the Cherubims
This is the same
artist's sketch of of the Veil with one Cherubim per curtain
Verses thirty four and thirty
five
THE
INSTALLATION OF THE
FURNITURE IN THE TABERNACLE
34 And you shall give ta-the Mercy
Seat (Atoning Seat)
upon (over) the Ark
of the Testimony
(Witness) in the Sacred (Holy) of Sacreds (Holies) [(Sacred of Sacreds, Holy of
Holies)]. 35
And you shall set (put) ta-the Table
from outside of (by?) the
Veil,
and ta-the Menorah
opposite the
Table, upon (over) the rib (side) of the Tabernacle rightward
(southward): and
you
shall give the Table upon (over) the hidden (north) rib (side).
Why is the Menorah on the south side in verse thirty five of this
week's Torah portion passage? The right
side according the context of the Hebrew scriptures is based on the
location of the Entrance of the Tabernacle, which is located at the
east side.
If one faces the east side, the south side would be located at
their "right
hand".
Looking
at the word RIGHTWARD
The
Hebrew word for rightward is "tey-mahn"- Tav, Yod, Mem, Nun
Sophit (Nmyt).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 8486, and its definition
Denominative
from H3225; the south (as being on the right hand of a person facing
the east): - south (side, -ward, wind).
from 3225 "yah-mehn" (Nymy),
and its
defintion
From
H3231; the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object
(as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south: - +
left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
from 3231
"yah-mahn" (Nmy), and its
definition
A
primitive root; to be (physically) right (that is, firm); but used only
as denominative from H3225 and transitively, to be right handed or take
the right hand side: - go (turn) to (on, use) the right hand.
Teyman means "right". This is the same word that is part of Benjamin's
name "Beyn Yamin", meaning "Son of the Right". The right side I believe
is
considered "the strong side", and
the Menorah is placed on the right hand side of the Tent. The Menorah
is a
symbolism of the kingdom's eternalness of the seven Biblical High Holy
Days as
I mentioned earlier, and they are united and are not
separate Holy Days, as
in the case of the Menorah that it is in "one piece" and not of many
parts. This
shows that the Menorah, symbol of the Biblical High Holy Days, are on
the
strong or power side- "the right side".
The Table of the Bread of Faces are placed at the north side, which
would be
the left handed side facing the Entrance toward the east. I don't have
a symbolic meaning to it, but it is a lesser of the two items, meaning
the eating, or "the temporal" is not as important as "the eternal".
Ending, this is a diagram of the locations of each of the furniture
inside the
Tabernacle
Verses
thirty six and thirty
seven
THE
ENTRANCE CURTAIN
36 And you shall do (make) a Screen Cover (Screen
Curtain) for the Entrance
of the Tent of blue,
and purple, and crimson (red) worm [(worm of crimson (red))], and twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen),
of a work of a needler (fabricator,
texturer, cunning
work). 37 And you will do (make) for the Screen Cover (Screen Curtain)
five
Pillars of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], and you shall overlay (sheet over) them of gold, and their Nails (Hooks) shall
be of
gold: and you will mold (cast, molten, pour out) five Sockets of copper
for them.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE ENTRANCE
CURTAIN
Blue:
Heaven
Purple:
Royalty
Crimson
Worm (Scarlet): Blood, Atonement,
Sacrifice
Fine linen:
Righteousness
(source:
maranathalife.com)
Shittim Wood: Humanity,
also could be Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing
Gold:
Kingdom,
Eternal, Perfection
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
GENDER:
Curtain: FEMALE
Pillars: MALE
Nails (Hooks): MALE(?)
Sockets: MALE(?)
Looking
at the word SCREEN COVERING (SCREEN CURTAIN)
The
Hebrew word for screen covering (screen curtain) is
"mah-sakh"- Mem, Samek, Kaph Sophit (Kom).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 4539, and its definition
From
H5526; a cover, that is, veil: - covering, curtain, hanging.
from 5526 "sah-khakh"- Samek,
Kaph,
Kaph Sophit (Kko), and its
definition
A
primitive root; properly to entwine as a screen; by implication to
fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect: - cover, defence, defend,
hedge in, join together, set, shut up.
This is where we get our modern
English word "mask".
In other words, the Entrance was a "masked entrance" to the inside of
the Tabernacle.
The Entrance
Curtain is the same as having a veil surrounding and
covering the articles to prevent anyone from seeing the elements and
functions of the Temple.
Indirectly related, this is like Moses after he came down from the
mountain the second time, that his face glowed, which was the Glory
of hwhy
revealed, which is noted in the Torah portion of Ki Thisa, in the book
of
Exodus
Exodus 34:29 And
was, in
Moses descending (going down) from Mount Sinai, and the Two Tablets of
the
Testimony
(Witness) were
in the hand of Moses in his descending (going down) from the Mountain,
and Moses
did not know for the skin of his face was shining forth (shooting rays,
shooting horns) in his speaking with
Him.
30 And Aaron and all of the Sons of Israel saw ta-Moses,
and behold, the
skin
of
his face was shining forth (shooting rays, shooting horns); and they were afraid
with approaching to him.
31 And
Moses called to them; and Aaron and all of the Rulers among
the Congregation, they returned to him: and Moses spoke to
them.
32 And
after thus, all of the Sons of Israel, they approached: and commanded
them
ta
all which hwhy had spoken with him in Mount
Sinai. 33 And Moses finished with speaking with them, and gave a
veil upon (over) his face. 34 And Moses in coming to the Face of hwhy to speak
with Him, shall remove ta-the veil
until he came
out; and would come out, and would speak to the Sons of Israel ta
which was
commanded. 35
And the Sons of Israel, they saw ta-the face of
Moses, for the
skin of the face of Moses was shining forth (shooting rays, shooting horns): and Moses returned ta-the veil
upon (over) his face again
until he had gone [(he went)] to speak with Him.
The five pillars are symbols for the five books of the Torah. The
hanging of blue, purple, crimson worm, and white linen; the gold and
copper are symbols of Yeshua's identity- the Torah made flesh.
The copper is very important to this, because it ties to Yeshua being
"the Suffering Torah Servant". When Yeshua was crucified at the Mount
of
Olives, He was in line with the Entrance of the Tabernacle, which means
that Yeshua was facing the entrance curtain- His "symbolic curtain".
When
He was scourged and shredded beyond recognition, He was completely
covered in blood. In other words, the blood was one of the factors that
"masked" His appearance.
This is the account when Yeshua died, which is noted in the Gospel of
Matthew
Matthew 27:50
Yeshua, when He
had cried again with a Loud Voice, yielded up the spirit. 51 And,
behold,
the Veil of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the
bottom;...
The gold hooks with the copper sockets represent "the Suffering Eternal
Deity". When Yeshua died, "hanging" on the cross, the entrance
of
the mask curtain- His symbol, was rent completely to expose the inside
of the Temple. The life of the masked curtain expressed its death by
being rent from top to bottom. It is as if the Temple died with Yeshua.
That is why during Yom Kippur the scarlet thread did not turn white,
the doors stayed open, and the Stone for the Dedication of hwhy
fell on the
left hand instead of the right hand. This had occurred for forty
straight years before
the destruction of the Temple around 70 AD.
These Talmudic references came from the 3D Bible Project
website
titled "Talmudic Evidence for the Messiah at 30 C.E." by Nicholas
Federoff
We
read
in the Jerusalem Talmud:
"Forty years before the
destruction of the
Temple, the western light went out, the crimson thread remained
crimson, and the lot for the Lord always came up in the left hand. They
would close the gates of the Temple by night and get up in the morning
and find them wide open" (Jacob Neusner, The Yerushalmi, p.156-157).
[the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE]
A
similar passage in the Babylonian Talmud states:
"Our rabbis taught: During the
last forty years
before the destruction of the Temple the lot ['For the Lord'] did not
come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap become
white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekel
[Temple] would open by themselves" (Soncino version, Yoma 39b).
This provides third source proof that the Temple was
ineffective since the Entrance Veil, hanged with gold hooks and copper
sockets-
the symbol of
Yeshua hanging on the tree, the Torah in the flesh. The
reason this is so, because Yeshua became the current High Priest of His
day when Caiaphas rented his High Priest garment and nullified his
right to become High Priest. The next one in line was Yeshua, who was
of the High Priest line, through His Levitie mother, Mary, and He was
present with Caiaphas at Passover to be crucified, and took on that
High Priest role
and has been since. When Yeshua resurrected to Heaven, He was not
physically present to do the High Priest Services at the Temple. That
is why the Temple was of no effect, especially at Yom Kippur, because
Yeshua was not physically present on earth to do the High Priest
services.
Mark Biltz of El Shaddai
Ministries noted that the
Hebrew word for hooks in verse
thirty seven is "vav"- Vav, Vav (ww),
the Hebrew
word phrase for the letter "vav", the picture letter for "hook". Thank
you Mark Biltz.
Mark Biltz also noted that the cherubims were placed on top
of the Tabernacle, on the Veil to the Holy of Holies, and on the cover
of the Ark of the Covenant, were means of guarding those areas of the
Tabernacle.
This is a sketch of
an artist's sketch of the Entrance Curtain
CHAPTER
27
Exodus
27:1-19
Exo 27:1 And you shall do (make) ta-the Altar of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia)[shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], shall be
five cubits long, and five cubits wide; the Altar shall be square:
and three cubits shall be his height. 2 And you shall do (make) his Horns upon (over) his
four angles (corners): from him, they
shall be his
Horns: and you will overlay (sheet over) him of copper. 3 And you
will do (make) his Pans (Pots) for his fat
ashes, and his Shovels, and his Sprinkling
Bowls (Sacrificial Bowls),
and his Fleshhooks, and his Firepans (Coal Removal Pans, Snuffdishes):
all of his
Vessels you
will do (make) of copper. 4 And you will do (make) for him a Grill Cover (Grate
Cover), a doing (making) of a Net, of copper;
and upon the Net, you will do (make) four Rings of copper upon
(over) his four Ends (Edges).
5 And you will give her
under the rim of the Altar from by beneath (downward), and the Net, she
shall be unto
the halfway of
the Altar. 6 And you shall do (make) Poles for the Altar, Poles of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], and you will overlay (sheet over) them of copper.
7 And ta-his Poles
shall enter in
the Rings, and the Poles, they shall be upon (over) the two ribs
(sides) of
the
Altar in carrying (bearing, lifting up) him. 8 You will do (make) him of
hollow polished
Boards:
as the which was shown you on the Mountain, so they shall be done (made).
9 And you will do (make) ta
the Court of
the Tabernacle:
for the negev (south) mouth (side), rightward (southward) shall be Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) for
the Court of twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen) of a
hundred on
the cubit of length
for the one
mouth (side): 10 And his Pillars shall be twenty, and
their Sockets shall be twenty, of copper;
the Nails (Hooks) of the Pillars and their
Atachments (Clingers, Fillets, Rails) shall be of silver.
11 And so for the hidden (north) mouth
(side) in length, the Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) shall be a
hundred of length, and his Pillars shall be twenty, and their Sockets
shall be twenty of
copper; the Nails (Hooks) of the Pillars and
their Atachments (Clingers,
Fillets, Rails) shall be of
silver.
12 And the width of the Court for the sea (west) mouth (side), the Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) shall be
fifty cubits: their Pillars shall be ten, and their Sockets shall be
ten.
13 And the width of the Court on the east mouth (side),
sunrisingward, shall
be fifty cubits.
14 And the Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) for the upper arm corner
(side)
shall be the five ten
(fifteen)
cubits: their Pillars shall be three, and their Sockets shall be three.
15 And for the second upper arm corner
(side)
of the Hangings shall
be five ten (fifteen)
cubits:
their Pillars shall be three, and their Sockets shall be three.
16 And for the Gate of the Court shall be a Screen Cover (Screen
Curtain) of
twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and crimson (red)
worm [(worm of crimson (red))], and twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), the work of a needler (fabricator,
texturer, cunning
work):
their Pillars shall be four, and
their Sockets shall be four.
17 All the Pillars all around the Court shall
be attached of silver; their Nails (Hooks) shall be of silver, and
their Sockets shall be of copper. 18 The
length of the Court shall be
a
hundred
on the cubit, and the width shall be fifty on fifty, and the height
shall be five cubits, shall be twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen),
and their Sockets shall be of copper.
19 For all of the Vessels of the Tabernacle in all of his Service, and
all
of
his Pins (Pegs), and all
of the Pins (Pegs) of the Court, shall be of copper.
(NOTE: Not all verses will have
comments)
Verses
one and two
THE
COPPER ALTAR
1 And you will do (make)
ta-the Altar of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia)[shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], shall be
five cubits long, and five cubits wide; the Altar shall be square:
and three cubits shall be his height. 2 And you shall do (make) his Horns upon (over) his
four angles (corners): from him, they
shall be his
Horns: and you will overlay (sheet over) him of copper.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE COPPER
ALTAR
Shittim Wood:
Man,
also could be Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
GENDER:
Altar: MALE
Horns: FEMALE
The Copper
Altar, in U.S.
measurements is 8 1/2 feet
long, 8 1/2 feet wide and 4 1/2 feet high.
This is the
Copper Altar where all the various sacrifices will be made.
The four horns for each of the four corners mean that they are an act
of
protection to the person who brings the sacrifice. The horns are also
feminine, because in the Hebrew text, as noted in 26:3 and 25:27
of this week's Torah portion, it is
"tee-h'yeyn" (Nyyht)
meaning "they
will be" in the feminine plural. They are our spiritual corners of our
protection as believers in Yeshua, and could also represent the four
corners of the earth,
and/or the four corners of the land of Israel.
Indirectly related, when one
wears
the four tsitsits on his garments, this is a
reminder that the Commandments of hwhy
are of the Kingdom, and that the Commandments are one's own
protection.
Looking at the
scripture of the tassels, which is noted in the Torah portion of
Sh'lakh L'kha, in the
book of Numbers
Numbers 15:37 And hwhy
spoke to Moses, to say,
38 Speak to the Sons of Israel, and you shall say to
them:
and they shall make (do)
for themselves tassels (fringes) upon the corners (wings) of their
garments for their
generations, and they shall give upon the tassels (fringes) of the
corners (wings) a
thread
of blue: 39 And shall be to you for a tassel (fringe),
and you
shall
look
upon him, and you
shall
remember ta-all of the Commandments
of hwhy, and you
shall
do them; and
you shall not search after your
hearts and after your
eyes which you
go
whoring after them: 40 By that you shall remember, and you
shall do
ta-all of My Commandments, and
you
shall be Sacred Ones (Holy
Ones) to your Elohim.
41 I am hwhy, your
Elohim, whom I
brought you out from
the land of Egypt, to be to you
for Elohim: I
am hwhy, your Elohim.
In this week's Torah portion passage, a symbol for the Horns is
strength. If one sins, one's spiritual
strength is crippled and weakened. When the blood of the animal is put
on the Horns of the Altar, it is an act to restore the strength and
the spiritual unity back to the person that missed the mark to hwhy.
It also
restores the four corners of protection around that person.
Yeshua did this once and for all at the Altar in the Kingdom of Heaven,
which is noted by the apostle Paul, in the book of Hebrews
Hebrews 9:11 But
Messiah
being come an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more
perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this
building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
His
own Blood he entered in once into the Holy Place, having obtained
Eternal Redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the Blood of
Messiah, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot
to hwhy, purge your
conscience from
dead works to serve the Living Elohim? 15 And for this cause He is the
Mediator of the New Covenant, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Covenant,
they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
The Altar is
also the symbol of Yeshua, being "the Sacrificial Servant".
Verse three
THE COPPER ALTAR'S
UTENSILS
3 And you
will do (make) his Pans (Pots) for his fat
ashes, and his Shovels, and his Sprinkling
Bowls (Sacrificial Bowls),
and his Fleshhooks, and his Firepans (Coal Removal Pans, Snuffdishes):
all of his
Vessels you
will do (make) of copper.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE COPPER
ALTAR'S UTENSILS
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
GENDER:
Pans, Shovels, Sprinkling Bowls,
Fleshhooks, Firepans: FEMALE(?)
This is symbolized of Yeshua's act to use "His Utensils" to clean out
the "soot" and "ashes" of the Jewish Pharisees, Sadducees,
Scribes
and Lawyers from their "false doctrine" of man. It could also mean that
Yeshua cleanses the soot and ashes of the sin in our lives as believers.
This is a an image of the possible item patterns of the utensils for
the
Copper Altar
Verses four
through eight
THE COPPER
ALTAR GRILL
4 And you will do (make) for him a Grill Cover (Grate
Cover), a doing (making) of a Net, of copper;
and upon the Net, you will do (make) four Rings of copper upon
(over) his four Ends (Edges).
5 And you will give her
under the rim of the Altar from by beneath (downward), and the Net, she
shall be unto
the halfway of
the Altar. 6 And you shall do (make) Poles for the Altar, Poles of
trees (wood) of shittim (acacia) [shittim trees, shittim wood,
acacia trees, acacia wood], and you will overlay (sheet over) them of copper.
7 And ta-his Poles
shall enter in
the Rings, and the Poles, they shall be upon (over) the two ribs
(sides) of
the
Altar in carrying (bearing, lifting up) him. 8 You will do (make) him of
hollow polished
Boards:
as the which was shown you on the Mountain, so they shall be done (made).
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE COPPER
ALTAR GRILL
Shittim Wood:
Humanity, Man,
also could be Scourging and
Piercing and Lashing
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
GENDER:
Poles: MALE
Net: FEMALE
Rings: FEMALE
Hollow Polished Boards: MALE
Based on the measurements of the Copper Altar, it is, in U.S.
measurements, almost 8 1/2 feet
long, 8 1/2 feet wide
This is like is
criss-cross grill, like the grill on a barbecue grill to let the ashes
of the sacrifice fall through. If one can say it, this is the oldest
recording of a barbecue grill. This is symbolic of Yeshua in an act to
"filter" out the ashes of the doctrine of man via
the Jewish Pharisees,
Sadducees, Scribes and Lawyers from their "false doctrine" of man.
It is symbolic to filter out the ashes of the sin in our lives as
believers.
This is an image of a possible pattern of the Copper Altar with grill
and the poles
Verses
nine through eleven
THE
COURT OF THE TABERNACLE
9 And you will do (make) ta
the Court of
the Tabernacle:
for the negev (south) mouth (side), rightward (southward) shall be Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) for
the Court of twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen) of a
hundred on
the cubit of length
for the one
mouth (side): 10 And his Pillars shall be twenty, and
their Sockets shall be twenty, of copper;
the Nails (Hooks) of the Pillars and their
Atachments (Clingers, Fillets, Rails) shall be of silver.
11 And so for the hidden (north) mouth
(side) in length, the Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) shall be a
hundred of length, and his Pillars shall be twenty, and their Sockets
shall be twenty of
copper; the Nails (Hooks) of the Pillars and
their Atachments (Clingers,
Fillets, Rails) shall be of
silver.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE COURT OF
THE TABERNACLE
Fine
linen: Righteousness (source:
maranathalife.com)
Silver:
Redemption
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
GENDER:
Hangings: FEMALE(?)
Pillars: MALE
Nails (Hooks): FEMALE(?)
Attachments: FEMALE(?)
The north and south Court Curtains, in U.S.
measurements, is 150 feet long,
and in verse eighteen of this week's Torah portion chapter, it provides
the height for the curtain
18 The
length of the Court shall be
a
hundred
on the cubit, and the width shall be fifty on fifty, and the height
shall be five cubits, shall be twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen),
18 The
length of the Court shall be
a
hundred
on the cubit, and the width shall be fifty on fifty,...
In U.S. measurements, is 8 1/2 feet high.
These hangings were
most likely "one piece". There were twenty
pillars for each of these two sides. What it also reveals to us is that
the pillars are to be located on the outside of the Court, and the
hangings would be applied the behind the copper pillars of the Court.
Looking at the word MOUTH (SIDE)
The Hebrew word for side mouth
(side) is
"pey-ah"- Peh, Aleph, Heh (hap). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 6285, and its definition
Feminine
of H6311; properly mouth in a figurative sense, that is, direction,
region, extremity: - corner, end, quarter, side.
from 6311 "poh" (ap), and its
definition
Probably
from a primitive inseparable particle פּ p (the second form; of
demonstrative force) and H1931; this place (French, icil), that is,
here or hence: - here, hither, the one (other, this, that) side.
from 1931 "hoo" or "hee" (awh or ayh), and its definition
The
second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word,
the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when
emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially
with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that;
occasionally (instead of copula) as or are: - he, as for her, him
(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (. . . it), these,
they, this, those, which (is), who.
The
outer court
is symbolic of Yeshua's "Pure" Body.
I don't have a possible pattern available, because I am still unclear
how it looks. Some images show it having actually in appearance (say
looking at the south end) twenty-one pillars, using one of the pillars
on the west or east end as a twenty-first pillar, while some say it is
what it says. I am still looking into it. One thing I know for sure,
the pillars are of pure copper, and it does not contain any other
material.
Looking at the word ATTACHMENTS
(CLINGERS, FILLETS, RAILS)
The Hebrew word for
attachments (clingers, fillets, rails) is
"khah-shook"- Khet, Shin, Kuph (qsx). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 2838, and its definition
Passive
participle of H2836; attached, that is, a fence rail or rod connecting
the posts or pillars: - fillet.
from 2836 "khah-shahk" (qsx), and its definition
A
primitive root; to cling, that is, join (figuratively) to love, delight
in; elliptically (or by interchange for H2820) to deliver: - have a
delight, (have a) desire, fillet, long, set (in) love.
Verse twelve
12 And the width of the Court for the sea (west) mouth (side), the Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) shall be
fifty cubits: their Pillars shall be ten, and their Sockets shall be
ten.
GENDER:
Hangings: FEMALE(?)
Pillars: MALE
Nails (Hooks): FEMALE(?)
Attachments: FEMALE(?)
The length for west side of the Court Curtain, in U.S.
measurements, is 75
feet long and 8 1/2 feet high.
Verses thirteen through fifteen
13 And the width of the Court on the east mouth (side),
sunrisingward, shall
be fifty cubits.
14 And the Slings (Sling Screens,
Screens, Leaves, Valves, Hangings) for the upper arm corner
(side)
shall be the five ten
(fifteen)
cubits: their Pillars shall be three, and their Sockets shall be three.
15 And for the second upper arm corner (side)
of the Hangings shall
be five ten (fifteen)
cubits:
their Pillars shall be three, and their Sockets shall be three.
GENDER:
Hangings: FEMALE(?)
Pillars: MALE
Nails (Hooks): FEMALE(?)
Attachments: FEMALE(?)
The length for
wast side of the Court Curtain, in U.S.
measurements, is 75
feet long and 8 1/2 feet high, and the length for each the hangings, in U.S.
measurements, is 22 1/2
feet long and 8 1/2 high.
This
court side Entrance might as well be called the "Jubilee Court". The
fact that it is
fifty cubits wide, the number fifty represents the Jubilee Year, the
fiftieth year.
Looking at the following words:
SLING (SLING SCREEN, SCREEN,
LEAF, VALVE, HANGING)
The Hebrew word for Sling
(Sling Screen, Screen, Leaf, Valve, Hanging) is
"keh-lah"- Kuph, Lamed, Ayin (elq).
It is from
Strong's Concordance number 7050, and its defnition
From H7049; a
sling; also a (door) screen (as if slung across), or the valve (of the
door) itself: - hanging, leaf, sling.
from 7049 "kah-lah" (elq),
and its definition
A
primitive root; to sling; also to carve (as if a circular motion, or
into light forms): - carve, sling (out).
These hangings could
also be called curtains.
Looking at the word UPPER
ARM CORNER (SIDE)
The Hebrew word for side upper
arm corner (side) is
"kah-theyph"- Kaph, Tav, Peh Sophit (Ptk). It is from
Strong's Concordance number 3802, and its definition
From an
unused root meaning to clothe;
the shoulder (proper, that is,
upper end of the arm; as being the spot where the garments hang);
figuratively side piece or lateral projection or anything: - arm,
corner, shoulder (-piece), side, undersetter.
Notice that the Hebrew word can be translated as an upper arm. This is
the section circled
So one can say that the upper arm was applied to the Tabernacle.
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
Verses
sixteen through nineteen
THE
COURT GATE
16 And for the Gate of the Court shall be a Screen Cover (Screen
Curtain) of
twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and crimson (red)
worm [(worm of crimson (red))], and twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen), the work of a needler:
their Pillars shall be four, and
their Sockets shall be four. 17 All the Pillars
all around the Court shall
be attached of silver; their Nails (Hooks) shall be of silver, and
their Sockets shall be of copper. 18 The
length of the Court shall be
a
hundred
on the cubit, and the width shall be fifty on fifty, and the height
shall be five cubits, shall be twisted (twined, fine) linen (six stringed linen,
six bleached linen, bleached linen, white linen),
and their Sockets shall be of copper. 19 For all of the Vessels
of the Tabernacle in all of his Service, and
all
of
his Pins (Pegs), and all
of the Pins (Pegs) of the Court, shall be of copper.
THE SYMBOLIC
MEANINGS OF THE COURT
GATE
Blue:
Heaven
Purple:
Royalty
Fine
linen: Righteousness (source:
maranathalife.com)
Crimson
Worm (Scarlet): Blood, Atonement,
Sacrifice
Silver:
Redemption
Copper:
Man,
Judgment, Suffering-(source:
maranathalife.com)
GENDER:
Gate: MALE(?)
Pillars: MALE
Nails (Hooks): FEMALE(?)
Pins (Pegs): FEMALE(?)
Sockets: MALE(?)
In relation to the Court of the Tabernacle, the pillars and sockets are
made of copper.
Indirectly related, this Gate can be compared to Yeshua, the Gate,
which is noted in the Gospel of John
John 10:1 Verily, verily,
I say unto you, He that entereth not by the gate into the sheepfold,
but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But
he that entereth in by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To
him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth
his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth
forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him:
for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow,
but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.6 This
Parable spake Yeshua unto them: but they understood not what things
they were which He spake unto them. 7 Then said
Yeshua unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the Gate
of the Sheep. 8 All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers:
but the Sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the Gate:
by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out,
and find pasture. 10 The thief cometh not, but for to
steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have
Life, and that they might have It more abundantly.
These four copper pillars could also be compared to the four Gospels of
Yeshua, the Messiah, which I noted earlier regarding the four pillars
of the Entrance Curtain, which I will note again.
Why are there
four pillars? Why not five? What is the symbol of four?
According to http://maranathalife.com,
the number four represents the
four corners of the earth. I also think that is more probable that the
four
pillars could represent the four heads of the angels containing the
heads of the lion, the ox, the man, and the eagle, which is noted in
the
book of the prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel 1:5 Also
out of
the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this
was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one
had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet
were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a
calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished copper.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. 9 Their wings
were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went
every one straight forward. 10 As
for the
likeness of their faces,
they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right
side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four
also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and
their
wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to
another, and two covered their bodies.
These heads represent symbols for the Four Gospels of Yeshua:
MATTHEW:
The Lion
MARK:
The Ox
LUKE:
The Man
JOHN:
The Eagle
This is a
chart of the symbol of the four gospels
These four pillars, "the symbolic Four "Gospels" lead to the Holy of
Holies, Who is
"Yeshua".
!!!!!hwhy Kl dbk
This is an image of a rough possible pattern to what the the Court Gate
looks like
from the outside view
Mark Biltz of El Shaddai
Ministries noted from this
week's Torah portion that the Tabernacle
is comparable to the seven days of creation. These are the sources he
used to compare
them (Note: Mishkan is the Hebrew for Tabernacle).
THE FIRST
DAY
Regarding the work on the first day of creation, it says
Genesis 1:1 In
first (beginning),
Elohim
created ta
the
Heavens and ta-the Earth.
RIt can be also
applied to this verse which is noted in the book of Pslams
Psalm 104:1 Bless hwhy, O my soul. hwhy my Elohim, Thou art very great;
Thou art clothed with honour and majesty. 2 Who coverest Thyself with
light as with a garment: who stretchest
out the heavens like a curtain:
Regarding the making of the Tabernacle in this week's Torah portion, it
says
Exodus 26:7 And you shall do (make)
Curtains of kid goats for a Tent over
(upon)
the
Tabernacle:...
THE SECOND
DAY
Regarding the
work on the second day of creation, it says
Genesis 1:6 And Elohim said, Be a
firmament in the midst of the waters, and shall be divided
between
waters to waters.
Regarding the
making of the Tabernacle in this week's
Torah portion, it says
Exodus 26:33 And you shall give ta-the Veil
under the Buckles (Taches),
and you shall bring there from housingward (inside) to the Veil of ta
the Ark of
the Testimony (Witness):
and the
Veil shall separate (divide) for you
between the Sacred (Holy) Place and between
the Sacred (Holy) of Sacreds (Holies) [(Sacred of Sacreds, Holy of
Holies)].
THE THIRD
DAY
Regarding the
work on the third day of creation, it says
Genesis 1:9 And Elohim
said, Collect
the waters from under the heavens to one place,...
Regarding the
making of the Tabernacle in the Torah portion of Ki Thisa, it says
Exodus 30:18 And you shall make a Laver of
copper and his Base
shall be of
copper for washing: and you shall put (give) him between the Tent of
Appointment and between the Altar, and you shall
give water there.
THE FOURTH
DAY
Regarding the
work on the fourth day of creation, it says
Genesis 1:14 And
Elohim said, Be lights
(luminaries) in the firmament
of the
Heavens for the division between the
day and between the night, and shall be for Signs, and for
Appointed Times, and
for days, and years,
Regarding the
making of the Tabernacle in this week's
Torah portion, it says
Exodus 25:31 And you shall do (make) a
Menorah of pure gold: the
Menorah,
she shall be made of beaten work (hammered work): her Base (Shaft, Trunk,
Thigh,
Loin, Testacle?), and her
Branches,
her Bowls (Calyx, Goblet), her Knobs (?Wreaths?),
and her Flowers (Blooms, Buds), they shall be from her.
THE FIFTH
DAY
Regarding the
work on the fifth day of creation, it says
Genesis 1:20 And
Elohim said The
waters, they shall swarm swarmers of
a living soul, and fliers (birds)
shall fly over the Earth upon the
face of
the firmament of
the Heavens.
Regarding the
making of the Tabernacle in this week's
Torah portion, it says
Exodus 25:20 And the
Cherubims, they shall be
spreading apart (spreading out) their wings by above, covering
on their Wings over (upon) the Mercy Seat,
and their faces shall be a man
to
his
brother; the faces of the Cherubims, they shall be to the Mercy
Seat.
THE SIXTH
DAY
Regarding the
work on the sixth day of creation, it says
Genesis 1:27 And Elohim created ta-the Adam in
His Image,
created him in the Image of
Elohim, created them male (remembered one) and female.
Regarding the making of the Tabernacle in the Torah portion of
T'tsavveh, it says
Exodus 28:1 And you shall
bring
near to yourself ta-Aaron, your
brother, and ta-his sons
with him from the midst of
the Sons of Israel for his Priestship (Priestly Acts) for
Me; Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron.
THE SEVENTH
DAY
Regarding the
work on the seventh day of creation, it says
Genesis 2:1 And
the Heavens and
the Earth and all of their host (armies), they were finished.
2 And in the
seventh day, Elohim
finished His work that
was
made, and desisted
(rested, relaxed) on the
seventh
day from all of His work that was
made. 3 And Elohim blessed ta-the seventh
day and
sanctified him, for in him had desisted
(rested, relax) from all of
His work, which
Elohim
created for
the making.
Regarding the
making of the Tabernacle in the Torah portion of Naso, it says
Numbers 7:1 And
it was in
the day Moses had finished setting up (bearing) ta-the
Tabernacle, and anointed
him, and sanctified him, and ta-all of his Vessels, and ta-the Altar
and ta-all of his Vessels, and
anointed them, and sanctified them;
Thank you Mark.
Overall, if one looks at the items located in the Tabernacle, it is in
the shape of the cross. The Roman-Catholic church took this plan since
the Medieval times and made their cathedrals based on the plan of the
Tabernacle. Looking at the top of their buildings, how many cathedrals
are shaped in the form of a cross? A whole lot.
Monte Judah of Lion and Lamb
Ministries noted in one of this
week's Torah
portion teachings that hwhy
revealed the
Tabernacle from the inside first, then toward the outside. Isn't it the
same way that Yeshua works
in our lives as believers, by working on us from "the inside first"
then the outside
to be more like Him?
For we are part of "His Tabernacle", which is noted by the apostle Paul
in his letter to the assembly in Corinth
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know
ye not that ye are the Temple of hwhy, and that the Spirit of hwhy dwelleth in you?
He continually dwells in us as believers in Yeshua, working on us
to
be perfect in His Finished Work.
Ending this week's
Torah portion, these are the alternate
translations that pertain to the parts of the body and pertain to
Yeshua:
Shittim (Acacia) (Ex 25:5):
Thorns = Crown of thorns for
Yeshua
Shaft (Ex 25:31): Thigh or Testicles
Cubit: Mother = Yeshua as the Mother Hen
Curtain: Alternate Hebrew for Torah
Pin: Hand
Sockets: Adon (Lord) = Yeshua
Side (Ex 26:18): Mouth
Side (Ex 26:20): Rib
Side (Ex 26:22): Testacles
Side (Ex 27:14,15): Upper Arm
Below (Beneath) (Ex 26:24): Staff or Rod
Bar: Fugitive = Yeshua
Ark of the Testimony: Witness = Yeshua
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
Also, Monte Judah of Lion
and Lamb Ministries noted the following symbolic meanings of the
furniture inside the Tabernacle:
Ark of the Covenant: The Heavenly Father
Table of the Bread of Faces:
Yeshua
Menorah: The Ruakh HaKodesh (Holy Spirit)
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
Indirectly related, Monte also noted the connected to the Patriarchs:
Abraham: The Heavenly Father
Isaac: The Son, Yeshua
Jacob: The Ruakh HaKodesh (Holy Spirit)
!!!hwhy Kl dbk
That ends this
week's Torah portion commentary.
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SHABBATH
SHALOM
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