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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Oola Ooliba and the Elders; Sexual Rituals in the Temple; Split Soul; Pornographic Art; Ezekiel 23

Enemy infiltration is a perspective that we have not taken the time to think through. Satanas is not building his own temples for his followers just down the street from our churches and synagogues. Although there are a few people attempting to get attention by their public display of satanic worship. But really Satanas is in the church, just as Satanas was in Israel. Why bother making your own temple when there is a temple dedicated to Yahweh Elohim that you can take over. While we might think that we are the targets of satanism in the church it is really our children who are targets by this infiltration of evil. It is an ultimate mockery to infiltrate and overtake the temple that David worked so hard to pave the way for. The idea was to have a permanent place to worship Yahweh, but it seems that because humans are easily fooled the temple was allowed to have every religion represented and practiced in it. When we look at the prophecy that Ezekiel gave to the elders of Israel we have to pay close attention to the literal things that Yahweh said. Yahweh is not talking to them figuratively, he is literally explaining the sins of their prostitution. Not only did they adopt the gods from other nations, they brought those practices into the temple. Hezekiah and Josiah tried to clean up Israel and the temple but many citizens did not support them. Now in captivity, the elders want to find out about their situation. Ezekiel speaks to them from Yahweh and clearly shows how they broke their own nation.

The Elders of Israel came to Ezekiel in the seventh year of captivity in the fifth month and the tenth day, asking to hear from Yahweh. Now that they were in captivity and the temple had been destroyed they thought this would be a good time to inquire as to their situation.


Ezekiel 20:1 G2532 And G1096 it came to pass G1722 in G3588 the G2094 [2year G3588   G1442 1seventh], G1722 in G3588 the G3991 fifth G3376 month, G1181 tenth G3588 of the G3376 month, G2064 there came G435 men G1537 from G3588 the G4245 elders G3588 of the G3624 house G* of Israel G1905 to ask of G3588 the G2962 lord . G2532 And G2523 they sat G4253 before G4383 my face. G1473  

  2 G2532 And G1096 [3came G3056 1 the word G2962 2 of the lord] G4314 to G1473 me, G3004 saying,


Ezekiel gives these elders a three chapter answer from Yahweh, probably over the course of a few days. We see something similar in 2 Ezra. Yahweh tells them the story of two sisters. 


Ezekiel LXX2012(i)23: 1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother: 3 and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity. 


The word whoring, ἐκπορνεύω means prostituted, ἐκ means “from out of” and πορνεύω means “sexual sin" or “prostitute”. In Israel’s infancy there were two nations who both prostituted themselves in Egypt. Isaiah speaks of a later time when Judah was making alliances with Egypt, Isaiah 30. But Yahweh is referring to their time in Egypt when they went in as free people. 


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Their breasts fell as if they became old and they διεπαρθενεύθησαν transformed or disguised themselves. The English translations say “lost her virginity” but the text actually says transformed. Meaning she changed herself with her prostitution to look like the Egyptians. Satanas was able to influence the nation of Israel when she was in Egypt to behave like the Egyptians. Satanas didn’t have to distort the Egyptians, they were not a nation whose Elohim is Yahweh. Egypt simply acted like any primal nation without any knowledge of Yahweh. 


We should keep in mind that before going into Egypt as free people, Reuben had slept with his stepmom Bilhah. Juda slept with prostitutes and accidentally his own daughter in law, impregnating her. Jacob’s sons sold Joseph as a slave. Later when they went to look for Joseph they looked for him at the wall where the prostitutes hung out because they thought he was effeminate, or in other words a male prostitute. Once in Egypt the sons of Jacob were free people but they worshipped Egypts idols and their ways. This is why in their later years they became slave labor. As they were coming out of Egypt the men were enticed to sleep with the Moabite women who batted their eyelashes at them on the road. Once they came out of Egypt into their own land the men of Benjamin wanted to gang rape a Levite. They eventually settled for the Levites wife. They raped her all night long and threw her on the front porch of a kind man who the Levite was staying with, where she died. The sons of Jacob were not always the nicest people and they seemed to have a lot of bad habits. 


Ezekiel 23:4 And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they were mine, and bore sons and daughters: and [as for] their names, Samaria was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba. 


The two daughters are Oola and Ooliba. They had many children. Oola is Samaria or the northern kingdom and Ooliba is Jerusalem the southern kingdom. At the time that the temple was built they were both one kingdom. The kingdom had split in two about 400 years earlier. Oola in Hebrew means “her own tent” and was a name referring to the ten tribes. In Hebrew Ooliba means “tent of the high place” and referred to Judah.


If you wanted to destroy Jacob’s children where would you do it from? Inside the kingdom or outside the kingdom? Satanas chose inside the kingdom and once the kingdom split it was easier to distort both the north and the south. 


Ezekiel 23:5 And Oola went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors, 6 clothed with purple, princes and captains; [they were] young men and choice, all horseman riding on horses. 


To dote here is the word epitithēmi meaning “on lay down” or “upon lay down”. Oola on laid down upon her lovers the Assyrians coming near to her who are clothed in dark purple, leading magistrates, young men, chosen ones. All the mounted horsemen upon horses. Oola slept with all the important people. She transformed in Egypt and now she is sleeping with the people in Assyria. 


As Peter tells us, Yahweh knows how to deliver the righteous out of trials. There were many nations that did not follow Yahweh, such as Sodom, Gomorrah, Adma, and Zeboim. The cities of the plains were not heirs of Jacob, and their sins crossed a line. As we can plainly see there are certain rules that Satanas has to abide by, and in some way, these cities broke some universal rules that we don’t quite understand. The majority of people were corrupted. When the angels came to Lot’s house Lot was allowed to go out to his other daughters homes to tell them to leave the city. Lot had five daughters. One of Lot’s daughters had been killed for helping a man the city officials were attempting to kill. The other two daughters and their families wanted to stay in Sodom. Lot left with his wife and two younger daughters. Lot lost his two older daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. No wonder “Mrs. Lot” looked back, her children were killed. How corrupted can a nation become before it crosses a line? We obviously don’t want to find that out, but we want to understand that the majority sway a nation. Therefore righteousness, godliness, and holiness, should be our majority, not sin. 


Ezekiel 23:7 And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all [their] devices. 


She prostituted herself to the chosen sons of the Assyrians as well as laid down with them, and, in all reminders and memories, she’s corrupted. Her fornication was always on her mind. The word devices means “thoughts”. This was all she thought about. 


Ezekiel 23:8 And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her. 


She prostituted herself with Egypt and absolutely did not leave it behind or forsake it as they slept with her in her youth and transformed and poured their harlotry on her. We are not talking about mixed marriages, meaning Jacob’s sons marrying Egyptian women, we are talking about idolatry and sexual sins. Somehow people thought open sexual perversions, in temples, before the gods, was a way to get the gods to listen to them. The Egyptian priests had quite a racket going on in Egypt. They also made people pay for indulgences to let their loved ones out of hades. We can see how this influence eventually entered the temple. 


Ezekiel 23:9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.


Yahweh gave her to the ones he prostituted herself with. If we think back to the times of Elijah and Elisha, the northern kingdom was warned about what she was doing but the people did not repent. This is literal and figurative prostitution. She mixed herself with the other nations in sexual rituals and when in captivity in Assyria she mixed again. This is why the southern kingdom called the Samarians “dogs”. Because of the mixed heirs they bore from their ritualistic sexual practices. They didn’t have abortion clinics on every corner but they did abort babies. Once born they sacrificed their babies in other ways. Oola destroyed her own offspring. Oola did the same ritualistic practices of the other nations. The southern kingdom was not any better.


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Ezekiel 23:10 They uncovered her shame: they took her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword: and she became a byword among women: and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters. 


She uncovered apokaluptō her own disgrace. They received her sons and daughters with daggers to kill them. Oola became a cry for women and manufactured vengeance and punishment in her. 


Ezekiel 23:11 And her sister Ooliba saw [it], and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister. 


Ooliba destroyed herself laying upon, above Oola, and prostituted herself more than Oola. The word fondness translated here is the word epithesis, meaning “laying on” as in laying on of hands. This was not a passive posture but an aggressive posture. She actively pursued these practices. She saw what her sister did and pursued her lovers as if she could do it better. Ooliba had a temple dedicated to Yahweh in her midst. 


Where was the temple located? In the south with Ooliba. What was gong on in the temple? Over 400 years of corruption, including male and female prostitution, worshipping stars, constellations, angels, cherubim, and sacrifices to Moloch, etc. This is why earlier Ezekiel saw the corruption in the temple and the angels that came to mark the people who mourned for the temple, and the Holy Spirit was taken up by the cherubim and ophanim. Yahweh will be pointing this out soon. 


Just to note here, the practice of temple prostitution continued into the first century. Remember the women taken in adultery from John 8. Jesus was teaching in the temple courts. Jesus was not allowed in the inner courts as he was not a priest. While he was teaching the Pharisees threw a woman at his feet. Where was she? In the temple compound. She wasn’t in town somewhere, and they did not drag her for miles to the outer temple courts. She was a prostitute in the temple. Jesus literally said that whoever had not sinned with her, cast the first stone. The translators left the word “her” out in modern translations but we find it in older translations. How did Jesus know they had all sinned with her? This is why she didn’t have any accusers because according to the law both the men and women adulterers were to both be stoned. 


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Ezekiel 23:12 She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbors, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; [they were] all choice young men. 13 And I saw that they were defiled, [that] the two [had] one way. 


The two sisters had one way or they both did the same things. For a nation stemming from Jacob, one of the most devoted men to Yahweh Elohim, they were as far from Yahweh as they could possibly be. They were entrusted to teach nations about Yahweh and instead they indulged themselves. Both sisters did the same things. 


Ezekiel 23:14 And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil, 15 having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed [attire] upon their heads; all had a princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their native land. 


Ooliba increased her porneia. She increased by pornography. The word that is used for man here is anēr meaning “human”, as compared to “manfaced” which denotes men apart from other sons of God. They painted images of the Chaldeans on walls of homes with pencils. So we see their art now became pornographic. They were drawing images of the Babylonian Chaldeans. 


It is quite embarrassing for most citizens of North America to walk into tourist shops in other countries. Usually there is a display of idols for sale that the people once worshipped in that region. Some have very large members. When we see these idols we cannot understand what people were thinking when they made them so many years ago. Well, they were fantasizing over the way they imagined a god of fertility would look like. They seemed to be big sellers as people changed the faces of the mini fertility gods to suit their tastes. It is obvious that among the idols in the temple there were idols with large members for people to worship and perform sexual rites.  


It is important to remember Babylon’s history. Babylon was not a dominant nation during Israel’s history. Babylon was only a prosperous and dominant nation at the time of Nimrod. But during the times of Israel, Babylon went in and out of captivity itself. Usually it was the Assyrians that ruled Babylon, but Babylon was allowed to rise up to overtake Judah as it was a close nation.  


Ezekiel 23:16 And she doted upon them as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans. 17 And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them. 18 And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister. 


She prostituted herself with the Chaldeans with her eyes. That means she used the images of them to arouse herself. She sent for the Chaldeans and they came into her marriage bed. She defiled herself and separated her soul from Yahweh. It is interesting that Yahweh says the defilement caused her soul to revolt. This is a soul tie, the sin caused her soul to attach itself to the Chaldeans and depart from herself. This can split someone’s personality. Not everyone in the southern kingdom was following after the Chaldeans so there was also a split among the people. Her soul was separated, which tells us that as a nation their souls should have been united. Then Yahweh’s soul connection was separated from Ooliba as it was from Oola. To be clear, this defilement separates one’s own soul from itself, splitting it. It also separates that one’s soul from other people, and it separates that one’s soul from Yahweh. 


Ezekiel 23:19 And you did multiply your fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of your youth, wherein you did commit whoredom in Egypt, 20 and you did dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their members [as] the members of horses.


Oola laid down upon the Chaldeans whose bodies were like donkeys. This tells us that their body was strong. They weren’t soft fat people, they were strong and hard. And their genitals were like horse genitals, meaning their genitals were very large. This is what they drew pictures of. Men in garments with large genitals to which they fantasized over and prostituted themselves with when they called on them. Maybe the Israelite men were not as graciously endowed. They did this in Egypt as well, but there is something else here. 


In this entire section we are not talking about women who prostituted with men, but men who prostituted with men. Ezekiel is prophesying to the elders, who were all men. The word αιδοία is actually translated vulva, which is a “female opening” in Greek. The Hebrew changes this word to translate as seminal fluid, probably to suggest something slightly different. Their flesh were like donkeys, their genitals and openings were like horses. The men salivated over the artistic works of images of the Chaldeans, and they slept with the Chaldeans who were hung like horses. 


Once again we have to point out we are speaking of adulterous sexual ritual practices in the temple, not monogamous relationships. He is not condemning monogamous marriages of people from other nations. He is speaking nationally that the temple is defiled by these booths of the prostitutes. What we don’t really understand, because the Bible is written more historically, is the practices that were going on in the temple. These practices were not made known to the common laity. Yahweh is not speaking of eunuchs either. He is speaking of sexual ritual worship in His house.  


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There is a reason that Yahweh is being so descriptive here. He is making a point that doing this separates one’s soul from the rest of the body and from Him. So while Yahweh is saying that they figuratively prostituted themselves with Assyria and Babylon, they also literally prostituted themselves with Assyria and Babylon. They lusted after them and separated themselves from Yahweh. 


The tent of a human is their body, the tent of the Lord is the tabernacle. Yahweh’s breath left the human tent Oola. Yahweh’s breath left the temple, Ooliba. Both the soul’s of Oola and Ooliba were separated causing Yahweh’s breath to leave both individual tents and the temple. Oola and Ooliba were drawn by the lust of the flesh away from Yahweh until they stiffened their necks against Yahweh, enjoying their lusts and performing sexual rituals. They were not victims, they simply chose to lose the breath of Yahweh Elohim.


Today it seems that we have a culture bent on the sexual indoctrination of children. Why? There are probably more than two reasons here but one is to prepare willing participants for the future. The other is to justify adult perversity that already exists. Now the perverted adults can be the leaders in this movement. Yahweh doesn’t want his children indoctrinated but we have allowed Satanas into our churches. We have allowed Satanas into our schools. Infiltration. 


Jesus is very clear in Matthew 18, he states that if someone causes one child to turn away from Jesus, that evil person is destined for eternal death. Jesus will go after that one child, but the perpetrator will end up in the fires of Gehenna. 


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We may not have understood that there were booths for prostitution in the temple, male prostitution, as well as female prostitution. Why? Where did they learn this? Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.


2 Kings 23:7 G2532 And G2507 he demolished G3588 the G3624 house G3588 of the G2504.2 male prostitutes G3588 of the ones G1722 in G3588 the G3624 house G2962 of the lord G1722 in G3739 which G3588 the G1135 women G5306.1 wove G1563 apparel there G4749   G3588 for the G251.1 sacred grove.


2 Kings 23:7 (ISV)  He also demolished the temples of the cultic male prostitutes that had been operating in the LORD's Temple, where the women had been doing weaving for the Asherah.


Josiah tried to eliminate all of the evil that had found its way into the temple but eventually the evil all came back. Keep a linear timeline in perspective here. After Solomon died the kingdom split and several types of idolatry, adultery, and evil sacrifice, started in the temple and lasted for about 400 years; until Ezekiel sees the defilement and the destruction of the temple. This is the end of this era, as now the southern kingdom will go into captivity and all of Israel will eventually be under Assyrian rule, then Greek rule, then Roman rule. Yahweh is speaking to the elders in this very graphic way to shake them from their stupor. The majority sways a nation. The righteous were marked and spared by angels. Although Yahweh overlooked this, he is bringing it up to point out that he overlooked it in the past but they should not have been doing this in the temple of Yahweh Elohim.


It is also interesting to note that Yahweh keeps bringing up Egypt and Israels sins with Egypt. When Jacob and his sons went into Egypt Joseph was the second in command, a ruler of the land. Joseph had married the high priest’s daughter and had sons. Jacob’s sons mingled and merged with the Egyptians. Yahweh is not upset by mixed marriages. Yahweh doesn’t care if someone marries outside of their tribe or nation. Ruth was a moabite lady in Jesus’ own lineage. What Yahweh is upset with is the distorted spiritual and sexual practices of the other nations. Why would anyone have built booths for male and female prostitutes in the temple? What kind of sexual rituals did they add to temple service? Later when their seventy year captivity was over, Ezra separated the people who were from Babylon who married into Israel’s families. Why? Because he was rededicating the temple. He didn’t want ritual sexual practices to creep into the temple again from the culture of Babylon. 


 Ezekiel 23:21 And you did look upon the iniquity of your youth, [the things] which you wrought in Egypt in your lodgings, where were the breasts of your youth. 22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon you round about, 23 the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all princes and renowned, riding on horses. 24 And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and [the enemy] shall set a watch against you round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgments. 25 And I will bring upon you my jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and shall cast down your remnant with the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your remnant fire shall devour. 

26 And they shall strip you of your raiment, and take [away] your ornaments. 


They will have their noses and ears cut off so that everyone knows they are Ooliba’s children. They will have their sons and daughters murdered. They will have their clothes taken and their valuables taken. The word here sometimes translated items is skeous meaning “vessel, implement, or equipment”. These are not decorative things like jewelry, but utility items, like chamber pots, cooking pots, and water jugs. This means they would have to go out in the community for their daily needs without their noses and ears, and everyone would see them. It would be constant humiliation. 


Ezekiel 23:27 So I will turn back your ungodliness from you, and your fornication from the land of Egypt: and you shall not lift up your eyes upon them, and shall no more remember Egypt. 28 Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I [will] deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, from whom your soul is alienated. 29 And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all [the fruits] of your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare: and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed: and your ungodliness and your fornication 30 brought this upon you, in that you went a-whoring after the nations, and did defile yourself with their devices. 31 You did walk in the way of your sister; and I will put her cup into your hands. 32 Thus says the Lord; Drink your sister's cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness. 33 And you shall be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of your sister Samaria, 34 drink you it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken [it], says the Lord. 35 Therefore thus says the Lord; Because you has forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore receive you [the reward] of your ungodliness and your fornication. 


This doesn’t seem very encouraging to the elders who are enquiring of Yahweh. All they know is they will be made very low for their fornication. They forgot about Yahweh. 


The new moon celebrations were in regards to fertility. Women ovulated during the full moon. By the time of the new moon women knew if they were expecting or not. If they were menstruating they were not pregnant. This also applied to their animals, their sheep, goats, and cows. The festival was to celebrate life, not the moon. It was not to celebrate anything other than pregnancy. We can see how distorted these festivals became, and how offensive they became to Yahweh when they turned them into orgies in the temple. 


One of the regular festivals of Sodom and the five cities of the plains took place four times per year. The people got together, took some type of herb, and then went off into the fields with each others spouses. In other words they were wife swapping while on drugs. This practice was perfectly normal for these people who were not sons of Yahweh, but Yahweh’s children were not to commit adultery. Yet if they committed adultery in the temple, they thought it was acceptable. Once one generation decides to do this every succeeding generation did this, and no one knew where the rituals came from. 


Ezekiel 23:36 And the Lord said to me, Son of man, will you not judge Oola and Ooliba? and declare to them their iniquities? 37 For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to me.


They committed adultery in their devices or thoughts. To commit adultery against Yahweh means they sought after someone else. Who? Satanas, the god of this world, aka the prince of this world. They passed their children through the fire. What kind of ridiculous practice is this? Not one that Yahweh instituted. By this time of the 70 year captivity, Satanas had so intertwined demonic practices with Yahweh’s worship services, the people probably didn’t know which rituals were wrong. Even today in Jewish hospitals, they pass the new born baby over a candle flame. Seriously. 


Lev 18:21  And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.


The Israelites were told from the start of the their nation not to pass their children through the fires to Moloch, yet as we see in linear time, they kept right on doing it. 


2Ki 16:3  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.


2Ki 17:17  And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


Now at the end of their era, they are still passing their children through the fire. The infiltration was so engrained that the people simply just followed the traditions and practices that their fathers established, even though these were not Yahweh’s practices. This next verse is a harsh slap from Yahweh.  


Eze 20:31  For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.


This is when the elders came to enquire of Yahweh Elohim. Where was all this happening, offering gifts, passing their children through the fire, and idolatry? In the temple. They were doing this for over 400 years. Now they wanted to hear the future from Yahweh, but they also wanted to behave like they were worshipping Satanas. They were supposed to teach the other nations about Yahweh Elohim but instead Satanas taught them some different ways. Where does Satanas rule from? Not his own temple, but from the very heart of Yahweh’s temple.


Ezekiel 23:38 So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my sabbaths. 39 And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of my house; 


They corrupted Yahweh’s sanctuary. Who wanted to honor Yahweh with a temple? David. Who built the temple? Solomon. Who resided in the temple? The Spirit of the Living God, the Holy Spirit. And now this generation, four hundred years later, demands to hear from Yahweh as if he is a Genie in a bottle. Their souls are so far removed from Yahweh they do not even treat the Creator of the heavens and earth with respect. 


Ezekiel 23:40 and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately you did wash yourself, and did paint your eyes and adorn yourself with ornaments, 41 and sat on a prepared bed, and before it [there was] a table set out, and [as for] mine incense and mine oil, they rejoiced in them, 42 and they raised a sound of music, and [that] with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads; 43 Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring [after] the manner of a harlot? 


The Israelite men in Jerusalem got all dolled up for the foreigners. The foreigners went in to both the northern and southern kingdom as if going into a prostitute. Just imagine how easy it was for Satanas to mislead Israel, all he had to do was tempt them with some pornography on buildings and they couldn’t stop thinking about it. Then all Satanas had to do was make sure they enjoyed themselves with their lovers and the temple was lost for thousands of years. Isn’t it a shame that we have to battle the same antiquated tricks and schemes of Satanas because we never learned from this prophecy?


Ezekiel 23:44 And they went in to her, as [men] go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity. 45 And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood: for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. 


The foreigners they slept with will bring judgment on Israel, both the north and the south. 


Ezekiel 23:46 Thus says the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them. 47 And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses. 48 And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness. 49 And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the guilt of your devices: and you shall know that I am the Lord.


The women will be instructed. Apparently the women were taught incorrectly. The men will be repaid with their guilty thoughts. Imagine the dark cloud over these elders for the rest of their lives. This captivity will last for seventy years and it will clean the land. It is not what the elders wanted to hear. 


We have a few churches out there that are allowing productions to prepare children for lives of ritual sexual abuse. This is not the focus of our existence but Satanas would like us to be so focused and self centered so that just like Oola and Ooliba we cannot think of anything else. Satanas would like our nation’s  societal art and creativity to reflect sexual gratification as if this is all we ever live for. We give people drugs for sexual stimulation that causes their minds to obsess on the “high” that they will get. Once children are taught to allow adults to use them for sexual gratification, those children will recruit other children. Their souls will separate from themselves, as a splitting of their own personality, their souls will separate from their families, and their souls will separate from Yahweh. What can Satanas do with a generation of young people who’s souls are split? The public schools are an easy target because of “diversity”. However we do not have to allow our children to be their pawns. We do not have to allow our churches and schools to become their training grounds. We Christians should be the majority and we should be the ones to defeat Satanas in our nations. If we learn anything from Yahweh’s story of the two sisters, we should learn that the temple was not the high holy place that people want us to think it was, because the people turned away from Yahweh and severed their soul from Him. We however can do the opposite, we are not of this world. 



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https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/11/joel-3-end-of-nephilim-one-blood.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-called-dark-thoughts-sexual.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/04/lewdness-righteous-are-free-breaking-up.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2015/11/sex-cults-sacred-groves-ephods-teraphim.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/08/unjust-judgments-not-destroying-just.html


Sunday, December 27, 2020

I Am; Yahweh’s Name Revealed; Abraham; Moses; The Temple Prostitute of John 8

We have memorialized Jesus’ birth in December and we celebrate it in many countries as a national holiday. Who is Jesus? We know his birth as a human happened in Bethlehem, but where was he before he came to earth? The apostle John helps our understanding by recording a very long sabbath morning in the temple courts near the treasury. Jesus was teaching when the scribes and Pharisees tried to trick him in front of many disciples, but Jesus knew what they had been doing. Because of their evil behavior Jesus revealed who he was and we will see that they could not understand what he was saying. It seems similar to Isaiah prophesying the birth of the Messiah to an evil king. Why waste time letting an evil king know that the Messiah would come? Similarly, Jesus tells evil religious leaders and stiff-necked Jews who he is. The crowd of disciples see the escalation of events in the courts between the Pharisees, the Jews, and Jesus, and yet they continued to follow Him. Since the first century we have seen alterations to text, and misunderstandings of Jesus’ name. We will want to remind ourselves of Jesus’ name in the old testament, the Alpha and Omega/Aleph Tav, the intentional alteration of Adonai, and the title Elohim. Let’s explore.

Jesus and the disciples leave the mount of olives early. We are not told this until chapter 9, but it is the sabbath, and it was dawn. 


John 8:1 G* And Jesus G1161   G4198 went G1519 to G3588 the G3735 mount G3588   G1636 of olives. 

  2 G3722 And at dawn G1161   G3825 again G3854 he came G1519 into G3588 the G2413 temple, G2532 and G3956 all G3588 the G2992 people G2064 came G4314 to G1473 him; G2532 and G2523 having sat G1321 he taught G1473 them. 


What time is it? Dawn. Where is Jesus? In the temple courts. What was Jesus doing? Teaching. Jesus is sitting down and it is around dawn. We can see that the people Jesus was teaching were not the only ones around. The scribes and Pharisees were also there with a woman. 


John 8:3 G71 [7led G1161 1And G3588 2the G1122 3scribes G2532 4and G3588 5the G* 6Pharisees] G4314 to G1473 him G1135 a woman G1722   G3430 [2adultery G2638 1having been overtaken in]. G2532 And G2476 having stood G1473 her G1722 in G3319 the midst, 


“But the scribes and Pharisees brought towards him woman in seize upon adultery and make her stand in the middle.” 


Just to point it out, the scribes and Pharisees were not in town and just happened to find a woman with a man who was not her husband. The scribes and Pharisees were not concerned with legal matters. If we go back to our understanding of the temple and the booths for the male and female prostitutes we understand what is happening. The scribes and Pharisees took a temple prostitute from the enclosed booths and brought her to Jesus. Why? Jesus is sitting in the temple courts at dawn, teaching. Most people were not in the temple courts at dawn. Yet Jesus had disciples, not just the twelve, but “all the people”, “all the people came to him”. There was a lot for the Pharisees to be jealous over. Jesus was only allowed in the outer courts, he was not allowed free access to the inner courts and chambers in the temple. Yet the people wanted to hear from him, they followed him. 


The woman was brought to the group that Jesus was teaching and was made to stand in the middle of all the disciples. Did she have clothes on? Maybe not if she was in the act of adultery. Now why didn’t they take the man with them? Where did he go? Why wasn’t this a problem for him?


John 8:4 G3004 they say G1473 to him, G1320 Teacher, G3778 this woman G2147 we found G1888 in the very act G3431 committing adultery. 


“ Say him “Teacher this find on self commit adultery.”


It is interesting that they knew where to look. The Pharisees and scribes knew where to look because they all knew where the booths of the prostitutes were. They visited the temple prostitutes too. 


John 8: 5 G1722 And in G1161   G3588   G3551 our law, G1473   G* Moses G1781 gave charge G3588   G5108 for such G3036 to be stoned; G1473 you G3767 then, G5100 what G3004 do you say? 

 

We should ask ourselves why they care what Jesus would say. They weren’t interested in following Jesus. The problem for them was that Jesus was an Essene, and he was smart. He was also intimidating because he was holy and did many miracles. Many people were interested in listening to Jesus, but not the scribes and Pharisees. Additionally, Jesus knew the law better than they did, and soon he will tell them that he was the law giver. 


Exo 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery.


Lev 20:10  And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.


Deu 5:18  Neither shalt thou commit adultery.


Deu 22:22  If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Deu 22:23  If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Deu 22:24  Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.


Now let’s look at this. Adultery is something they shouldn’t do, neither the woman or the man. But notice how they get around the law. The law says that if the woman is married, or if she is betrothed to a man, then they should both be stoned. However, if the woman is a temple prostitute, then she is probably not married. In fact she could be a widow who did not have any way to take care of herself. Technically, both participants were to be stoned, but the scribes and the Pharisees justified male and female prostitutes as not being married, so neither would have to be stoned. But in this case they want to play games, because they typically didn’t stone temple prostitutes. The prostitutes had been in the temple since the kingdom split. 


2 Kings 23:7 G2532 And G2507 he demolished G3588 the G3624 house G3588 of the G2504.2 male prostitutes G3588 of the ones G1722 in G3588 the G3624 house G2962 of the lord G1722 in G3739 which G3588 the G1135 women G5306.1 wove G1563 apparel there G4749   G3588 for the G251.1 sacred grove. 


Why were there male prostitutes in the house of the Lord? This had gone on for over 400 years, then the temple was demolished and Judah went into captivity. But defilement is never very far from the temple. When the religious split occurred after the Maccabean era, the people who stayed in temple service were not holy or concerned with defilement. They were concerned with religious rituals. The former temple prostitutes were a ritual service, just as worshipping the stars, the moon, and the constellations. 


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https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-laity-what-jesus-hates-hierarchy.html


The Pharisees and scribes were testing Jesus so that they could find some way to charge him. They didn’t want him teaching in the temple, and they didn’t like his holiness. But they didn’t know that Jesus knew what they were up to.


John 8:6 G3778 But this G1161   G3004 they said G3985 testing G1473 him, G2443 that G2192 they should have G2724 a charge G2596 against G1473 him. G3588   G1161 But G* Jesus G2736 [2low G2955 1bowing], G3588   G1147 with his finger G1125 he wrote G1519 on G3588 the G1093 ground. 


Jesus didn’t have access to the inner courts, but Jesus knew what was going on. Now picture what is happening. The scribes and Pharisees see the devotion of a crowd of people to Jesus’s teachings. What can the scribes and Pharisees do to embarrass Jesus and make his disciples decide not to follow him? The first thing they thought of was to grab this woman who had been living in the temple servicing all the men. 


John 8:7 G5613 And as G1161   G1961 they continued G2065 asking G1473 him, G352 having raised the head G2036 he said G4314 to G1473 them, G3588 The one G361 sinless G1473 of you G4413 [3first G3588 2the G3037 4stone G1909 5at G1473 6her G906 1let him cast]! 


“But so that persist in interrogating he lift up his head to speak towards them ‘the one who has not sinned her, throw the first stone on her.”


Jesus is sitting talking to a crowd of his disciples. The scribes and Pharisees grab this woman and push her into the middle of the crowd. They persist in asking Jesus about stoning her. If Jesus said ‘yes stone her’, the crowd would have questioned his mercy and compassion, which seems to be what the scribes and Pharisees were hoping for. If Jesus had said ‘no, don’t stone her’ then they would have accused him of violating the law. There is another option. All he had to say is ‘whoever had not sinned with her throw the first stone’.  How embarrassing for them. Jesus knew what was taking place in the temple’s inner courts without ever going into the inner courts. She could have easily pointed at each of those scribes and Pharisees. Remember, they are standing in the middle of the disciples. 


In our time, we say that there are no degrees of sin. We say that all sins are equally bad. However, under the law there were degrees of sin. Some sins required stoning, like gluttony and adultery. Some sins required an offering in the temple. The scribes and Pharisees wanted to see Jesus condemn a woman to death, but he brought light to their sin instead. 


John 8:8 G2532 And G3825 again G2736 [2low G2955 1bowing] G1125 he wrote G1519 on G3588 the G1093 ground. 


Jesus is still sitting. After speaking to the scribes and Pharisees, Jesus looks down at the ground again. This is a technique that makes angry emotional people uncomfortable. Instead of giving a quick answer and getting into an emotional confrontation, Jesus does the opposite, keeping control over the scribes and the Pharisees by simply not reacting to their hostility and accusations. Not reacting to others is a great thing for us to learn as well. 


John 8:9 G3588 And they G1161   G191 having heard, G2532 and G5259 by G3588 their G4893 consciences G1651 being reproved, G1831 went forth G1520 one G2596 by G1520 one, G756 beginning G575 from G3588 the G4245 older; G2532 and G2641 was left behind G3441 alone G3588   G* Jesus, G2532 and G3588 the G1135 woman G1722 [2in G3319 3the middle G1510.6 1being]. 


“But the comprehend by hearing and under the self-consciousness put to shame, go out one downward one commence away from the presbyter, and downward leave alone the and woman being in middle.”


Jesus didn’t jump up and fire back at them that they too had sinned with her, instead he asked for the ones who hadn’t sinned with her to cast the first stone. Since all had sinned and no one could throw a stone, they recognized they had been played and were shamed in their hearts. The scribes and Pharisees were outwitted, and yet there the woman still stood in the midst of the disciples. 


John 8:10 G352 [3having raised the head G1161 1And G3588   G* 2Jesus], G2532 and G3367 [2no one G2300 1seeing] G4133 except G3588 the G1135 woman, G2036 said G1473 to her, G1135 Woman, G4226 where G1510.2.6 are they, G1565 those G3588   G2725 your accusers, G1473   G3762 did no one G1473 condemn you? G2632   


Now Jesus simply asks the woman where her accusers were. No one was left who could judge her. 


John 8:11 G3588   G1161 And G2036 she said, G3762 No one, G2962 O Lord. G2036 [3said G1161 1And G1473 4to her G3588   G* 2Jesus], G3761 Nor G1473 I G1473 condemn you; G2632   G4198 go G2532 and G575 from G3588   G3568 now G3371 [2no more G264 1sin]! 


Jesus shows his mercy and compassion for this woman and for all people in difficult positions. I’m sure she did not grow up wishing to become a temple prostitute. Jesus continues to teach the disciples and explains that he is the light of the world. Yet the Pharisees are still hanging around. 


The Pharisees accuse Jesus of bearing record of himself. Jesus tells them that the Father sent him. They ask about his Father and Jesus says that they don’t know his father. Jesus is teaching near where the treasury boxes are, the place they collected people’s tithes. Therefore there are also people coming and going, listening in on this conversation with the disciples, scribes, and Pharisees. Jesus tells them that he is not “of” this world and that they will die in their sins if they do not believe that he is “I Am”.


John 8:24 G2036 I said G3767 then G1473 to you G3754 that, G599 You shall die G1722 in G3588   G266 your sins; G1473   G1437 for if G1063   G3361 you should not believe G4100   G3754 that G1473 I G1510.2.1 am, G599 you shall die G1722 in G3588   G266 your sins. G1473   


Jesus then tells them that when they raise him up then they will know “I Am”. 


John 8:28 G2036 [2said G3767 3then G1473 4to them G3588   G* 1Jesus], G3752 Whenever G5312 you should raise up high G3588 the G5207 son G3588   G444 of man, G5119 then G1097 you shall know G3754 that G1473 I G1510.2.1 am; G2532 and G575 from G1683 myself G4160 I do G3762 nothing, G235 but G2531 as G1321 [2taught G1473 3me G3588   G3962 1my father], G1473   G3778 these things G2980 I speak. 


Jesus says that they will come to know him. They will know that he is “I Am”. Jesus has said this a few times but so far they don’t get what he is saying. 


John 8:29 G2532 And G3588 the one G3992 having sent G1473 me, G3326 [2with G1473 3me G1510.2.3 1is]. G3756 [5not G863 3left G1473 4me G3441 6alone G3588 1The G3962 2father], G3754 for G1473 I G3588 [2the things G701 3pleasing G1473 4to him G4160 1do] G3842 at all times. 

  30 G3778 These things G1473 of his G2980 having spoken, G4183 many G4100 believed G1519 in G1473 him. 


Many believed in what he was saying, many believed into him. They heard him, he had been teaching at dawn in the courts near the treasury. There was a small scene with the scribes and Pharisees who were jealous of Jesus, and now Jesus is telling them who he is. Jesus tells his disciples that they will know the truth and the truth will make them free. The Pharisees took issue with this, saying that they were from Abraham and that they were not in bondage. But Jesus said that whoever commits sin is a servant of sin. Jesus just pointed out that they were sinning with the temple prostitute. They rationalized that she was not married, so they thought they were free from sin, when in actuality they were not.  


John 8: 37 G1492 I know G3754 that G4690 [2seed G* 3of Abraham G1510.2.5 1you are]; G235 but G2212 you seek G1473 to kill me, G615   G3754 for G3588   G3056 [2word G3588   G1699 1my] G3756 does not G5562 have space G1722 in G1473 you. 

  38 G1473 I G3739 [2what G3708 3I have seen G3844 4by G3588   G3962 5my father G1473   G2980 1speak]; G2532 and G1473 you G3767 then G3739 what G3708 you have seen G3844 by G3588   G3962 your father G1473   G4160 you do. 


Jesus says that the Pharisees are the seed of Abraham, but that they are not “of” Abraham. We know that the Pharisees were the people who rejected the Holy Spirit at the time of the Maccabean split. Jesus being an Essene/Nazarene and having been schooled under the Essenes was “of” a different order than the Pharisees. Jesus is “of” the order of Melchizedek, Shem, the Zedek/Zadok priests. But truly that is only an earthly perspective. Jesus was of an even higher order as he is the Creator, The Elohim. They kept missing what he was saying because the devil had grafted himself into them. That is what the devil was created to do, sport, prick, goad. The Pharisees, scribes, and Jews looked at Jesus as a man, not as Messiah. Even though all the miracles that Jesus was doing in Israel were pointing to his deity, they couldn’t see it due to the grafting in of the devil into their lives. 


The Pharisees loved the power, money, and fine clothes that came with the job. They had the run of the city. We know that they were prideful and elevated themselves over the laity. Jesus points out that the works they do are not “of” Abraham. Killing Jesus would not be “of” Abraham. The Pharisees accuse Jesus of being born of harlotry. They did not believe Mary conceived as a virgin, even though Mary was among the virgins living and serving in the temple. They thought the scripture had been broken and the prophecies were not going to come to pass. That was a mistake. 


John 8:42 G2036 [2said G1473 3to them G3588   G* 1Jesus], G1487 If G3588   G2316 God G3962 [2father G1473 1was your], G1510.7.3   G25 you would have loved G302   G1473 me; G1473 for I G1063   G1537 [2from G3588   G2316 3God G1831 1came forth], G2532 and G2240 I come; G3761 for neither G1063   G575 from G1683 myself G2064 have I come, G235 but G1565 that one G1473 sent me. G649   


Here Jesus says that if the Elohim was their Father then they would love Him. He says that they do not understand his speech or his logos because they are of their father the devil. 


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John 8:44 G1473 You G1537 [2of G3588 3the G3962 4father G3588 5of the G1228 6devil G1510.2.5 1are], G2532 and G3588 the G1939 desires G3588   G3962 of your father G1473   G2309 you want G4160 to do. G1565 That one G443 [2a man-killer G1510.7.3 1was] G575 from G746 the beginning, G2532 and G1722 [3in G3588 4the G225 5truth G3756 1has not G2476 2stood], G3754 for G3756 [2is not G1510.2.3   G225 1truth] G1722 in G1473 him. G3752 Whenever G2980 he should speak G3588 the G5579 lie, G1537 from out of G3588   G2398 his own G2980 he speaks; G3754 for G5583 he is a liar, G1510.2.3   G2532 and G3588 the G3962 father G1473 of it. 


The Pharisees are of their father the devil who was a man killer from the beginning. The devil speaks no truth and is the father of lies, and this is who the Pharisees are “of”, not Abraham. They allowed themselves to be grafted with the devil. The Jews tell Jesus that he is a Samaritan and he has a demon. Jesus wasn’t a Samaritan, but he was from north of Samaria. The Samaritans were considered dogs and half breeds, but we know Jesus’ genealogy. We also know that demons were scared of Jesus. They begged Jesus not to send them to the abyss. It is interesting that the demons testify that Jesus is the Son of God, the Holy One of God, and the Son of the Most High, Matthew 8:29, Mark 1:24, Mark 5:7, Luke 4:34, Luke 8:28.


Jesus reiterates that if someone believes in Jesus’ logos, they would not see death. However the Jews then said that Abraham and the prophets died. Jesus tells them that they claim the Elohim is their Elohim, but they do not know the Elohim. Jesus then says something that really sets them off. 


John 8:56 G* Abraham, G3588   G3962 your father G1473   G21 exulted G2443 that G1492 he should behold G3588   G2250 [2day G3588   G1699 1my], G2532 and G1492 he saw G2532 and G5463 rejoiced. 


“Abraham your father rejoiced exceedingly in order that know my day and know and happy.”


Jesus just told the Pharisees and Jews that Abraham knew about Jesus’ day and rejoiced and was happy about it. The way Jesus is explaining it makes the Pharisees and Jews wonder how Abraham could have known about Jesus. How could Abraham rejoice and be happy over Jesus? 


John8:57 G2036 Then said G3767   G3588 the G* Jews G4314 to G1473 him, G4004 [3fifty G2094 4years G3768 2not yet G2192 1You have], G2532 and G* [2Abraham G3708 1you have seen]? 


“Then say the Jews towards him ‘Be not yet fifty years, and seen Abranam?’” 


The Jews could not process this information. How could Jesus know that Abraham was happy about Jesus? This would mean that the one that Abraham walked and talked with as a friend, which was Yahweh, was Jesus. 


Genesis 18:1 G3708 [3appeared G1161 1And G1473 4to him G3588   G2316 2God] G4314 before G3588 the G1409.2 oak G3588   G* in Mamre, G2521 at his sitting G1473   G1909 near G3588 the G2374 door G3588   G4633 of his tent G1473   G3314 at midday. 

  2 G308 And lifting up G1161   G3588   G3788 his eyes G1473   G1492 he saw; G2532 and G2400 behold, G5140 three G435 men G2476 had set G1883 upon G1473 him. G2532 And G1492 seeing, G4370 he ran up G1519 to G4877 meet with G1473 them G575 from G3588 the G2374 door G3588   G4633 of his tent. G1473   G2532 And G4352 he did obeisance G1909 upon G3588 the G1093 ground. 


Abraham sees the Elohim and invites the three anēr in. Anēr means “male” as compared to “manfaced”. Manfaced, anthrōpos, means “human as compared to angels”. The three were male beings, they were not anthrōpos. Abraham feeds them and then one of the Elohim speaks specifically to him,


Genesis 18:13 G2532 And G2036 the Lord said G2962   G4314 to G* Abraham, G5100 Why G3754 is it that G1070 Sarah laughed G*   G1722 in G1438 herself, G3004 saying, G686 Indeed is it G1065   G230 truly G5088 I will bear, G1473 and I G1161   G1095 have grown old? 

  14 G3361 Is G101 [2impossible G3844 3to G2962 4 the Lord G4487 1 the saying]? G1519 At G3588   G2540 this time G3778   G1519 to G5610 the hour G390 I will return G4314 to G1473 you, G2532 and G1510.8.3 there will be G3588   G* to Sarah G5207 a son. 


Yahweh tells Abraham that he and Sarah will have a son. Because Sarah laughed, Yahweh says; ‘Is the saying impossible in the presence of Yahweh?’. Yahweh then says that he will return. Yahweh continues. 


Genesis 18:17 G3588 And the G1161   G2962 Lord G2036 said, G3766.2 No way G2928 shall I hide G575 from G* Abraham G3588   G3816 my servant G1473   G3739 what G1473 I G4160 do. 

  18 G* [3to Abraham G1161 1But G1096 2coming to pass], G1510.8.3 he will be G1519 made into G1484 [4nation G3173 1a great G2532 2and G4183 3populous], G2532 and G1757 [6shall be blessed G1722 7by G1473 8him G3956 1all G3588 2the G1484 3nations G3588 4of the G1093 5earth]. 

  19 G1492 For I had known G1063   G3754 that G4929 he will order G3588   G5207 his sons, G1473   G2532 and G3588   G3624 his house G1473   G3326 after G1473 him; G2532 and G5442 they will guard G3588 the G3598 ways G2962 of the lord, G3588   G4160 to do G1343 righteousness G2532 and G2920 judgment; G3704 that G302   G1863 the Lord may bring G2962   G1909 upon G* Abraham G3956 all G3745 as much as G2980 he said G4314 to G1473 him. 


Yahweh calls Abraham his servant. Yahweh and Abraham know each other. This is a communicative relationship, they speak to one another. 


John 8:20 G2036 [3said G1161 1And G2962 2 the Lord], G2906 The cry G* of Sodom G2532 and G* Gomorrah G4129 has multiplied G4314 towards G1473 me, G2532 and G3588   G266 their sins G1473   G3173 are great, G4970 exceedingly. 

  21 G2597 Going down G3767 then, G3708 I will see G1487 if G2596 it is according to G3588   G2906 their cry, G1473   G3588 the cry G2064 coming G4314 to G1473 me G4931 that they exhaust; G1490 and if not, G2443 that G1097 I may know. 

  22 G2532 And G654 turning back G1564 from there, G3588 the G435 men G2064 came G1519 unto G* Sodom. G* And Abraham G1161   G2089 was still G1510.7.3   G2476 standing G1726 before G2962 the Lord . 


Abraham negotiates with Yahweh over Sodom. While the angels go down to Sodom, Abraham is trying to stop Sodom’s destruction because his nephew Lot and Lots’ family live there. Abraham’s negotiations end at ten people. Lot had several children, some married with children, one had been murdered, and two of his youngest were virgins. Now we can understand Lot’s wife turning to look at the destruction. What was Abraham negotiating for? Abraham was negotiating for the righteous not to be punished with the unrighteous. Paul explains the same thing, that the righteous are saved from wrath, Romans 5:9, I Thessalonians 1:10, I Thessalonians 5:9. The righteous are saved, delivered, and not appointed to wrath.   


Now imagine the Pharisees looking at Jesus, listening to this, and trying to believe that he was the one who sent the flood that killed the heirs of the Nephilim. That this Jesus was the one who sent fire and brimstone on the heirs of the Nephilim in Sodom. The Pharisees and the Jews knew this story. They knew it well. Jesus had just declared who he is and they did not like it. They could not see who he was. Jesus continues. 


John 8:58 G2036 [2said G1473 3to them G3588   G* 1Jesus], G281 Amen, G281 amen, G3004 I say G1473 to you, G4250 Before G* Abraham G1096 existed G1473 I G1510.2.1 am. 


“Jesus said them ‘Of a truth, truly I say, before Abraham was born I Am.’”


Jesus just said he existed before Abraham. That is one thing, but he identified himself again by saying that he is the I Am. Notice how Yahweh announced himself to Abram. 


Genesis 17:1 G1096 [3was G1161 1And G* 2Abram G2094 5years old G1768 4ninety-nine], G2532 and G3708 the Lord appeared G2962   G3588   G* to Abram, G2532 and G2036 he said G1473 to him, G1473 I G1510.2.1 am G3588   G2316 your God, G1473   G2100 you are well-pleasing G1799 before G1473 me -- G2532 then G1096 be G273 blameless! 


Yahweh appears to Abram and says I Am your Elohim. If we remember the story of Abraham, then we know that he knew of Yahweh as a child, having lived with Noah and Shem after Nimrod wanted to kill him. Abraham was not obeying random voices from the sky, he knew about Yahweh and had learned about Yahweh from Noah and Shem/Melchizedek. Being visited by Yahweh was not a new thing to Abraham. Now imagine Jesus standing among a bunch of Jews and Pharisees who do not like him and have been watching him since dawn trying to trap him. Jesus says that he is before Abraham and that Abraham knew him. Heads were exploding. But Jesus didn’t stop at Abraham. 


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2011/06/abraham-lives-with-noah-and-shem.html


Jesus adds in another person revered by the Jews and the Pharisees, Moses. Jesus says that he is the one who spoke to Moses. Jesus called himself the I AM. Again I’m sure peoples’ brains were short circuiting. Remember, the people who wanted to kill Jesus claimed ancestral heritage back to Abraham and they claimed to revere and uphold the laws that Moses gave. Jesus is saying that he is the one who gave the laws. What did the Elohim say to Moses? 


Exodus 3:14 G2532 And G2036 God said G3588   G2316   G4314 to G* Moses, G1473 I G1510.2.1 am G3588 the one G1510.6 being. G2532 And G2036 he said, G3779 Thus G2046 you shall say G3588 to the G5207 sons G* of Israel, G3588 The one G1510.6 being G649 has sent G1473 me G4314 to G1473 you. 


1510 LSJ Gloss:εἰμί I have

Dodson:εἰμί I am, exist.

TBESG:εἰμί to be

G:V

εἰμί

Thayer:

1) to be, to exist, to happen, to be present


εἰμί 

eimi i-mee' First person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist (used only when emphatic) KJV Usage: am, have been, X it is I, was. See also G1488, G1498, G1511, G1526, G2258, G2071, G2070, G2075, G2076, G2277, G2468, G5600.


I exist is past, I am is present, I be is future. Jesus is all three of these tenses. But seeing Jesus walking around Jerusalem healing people and correcting the Pharisees and scribes made the Jews and Pharisees angry instead of curious as to who he is. Jesus is the one who was, who is, and who is to come, Revelation 1:8. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Jesus told John again who he is when he came to John on Patmos. We are fortunate to have hindsight, but they were disrespecting the Messiah, the Alpha and Omega. 


“There is more to this idea of Yahweh as being or existing. Other spiritual beings were created, so they had a starting point. Other spiritual beings are not mighty almighty, and they do not know all the details of our time frame as Jesus said in regards to the new heavens and new earth, that not even the angels know the time of that event. This is important to understand. The devil has no idea about time. While he can be inter-dimensional, he is limited. The devil is not all knowing, all existing, or all powerful. He is simply just a hack. He would like to be like Yahweh but he will never be close. Further, demons are bound to earth, they are not inter-dimensional, and they are locked into the same constraints of time and space as we are. If we go back to our studies regarding the word Elohim, we see why this is important.


In an effort to be respectful and honor the personal name of Yahweh, the Jews came up with the idea of not using His name at all, thereby avoiding any blasphemous words. Instead they favored using Adonai or Elohim which both mean ruler or master. In today’s vernacular it would be like calling someone king or president. The problem is that those words were not meant to be the personal name of Yahweh but that is how they are used. Other beings are called elohim or adonai, not just Yahweh. This is what has led to much confusion as well as heresy. People feel safe misrepresenting Yahweh claiming he is saying and doing things contrary to his written word because in reality they are simply saying “the ruler said” or “the master is doing”. Who is the ruler or master? Is it Yahweh, the devil, angels or men? So what started out as reverence became twisted into a confusing mess. People unwilling to use Yahweh’s name the same way the patriarchs did are able to hide behind lies and falsehoods.”

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/12/omni-god-his-name-is-yahweh-mighty.html


We want to be aware that Adoni is not an original scriptural name. This was an intentional alteration. We should also understand that Jesus’ name is found in the old testament in prophecy. When people suggest that Jesus is not mentioned they are mistaken. 


Another factor that complicates things is that some names can be translated differently in various languages, and we misunderstand translated names because of variations in the usages of consonants and vowels in those other languages. For example, Yeshua is Hebrew and translated into English as Jesus. In English, translating back to Hebrew, Yeshua is Joshua. From Hebrew to Greek, Yeshua is Iesous. In Aramaic, the name Jesus is Eashoa. In Latin, Jesus is Iesvs, (remember Indiana Jones almost blew it with the “J” for Jehovah in The Last Crusade). Now, if we take the name Jesus and translate it into modern languages, we have a whole host of different variations. Which one is right? Truly, it doesn’t matter, the Angel told Mary and Joseph to call him Jesus, or in their Northern Israeli language of Aramaic, Eashoa. However in the Old Testament Jesus is called Joshua, not Joshua the son of Nun (at least this Joshua has an identifier), but Joshua the High Priest.   


This brings up a good point, why would the Father, God, name his Son Joshua, Yeshua, Jesus? God did not make things complicated, but sometimes distortions in expounding scriptures make things difficult. We have to remember Hebrew was almost a lost language in 300 BC, and there were deliberate changes to text at or about 300 AD by Jews trying to take the Christianity out of the Bible.


Hebraic speaking people from the first century through to today know that the name Joshua means Jesus in English. Therein lies the problem; if one does not believe in Jesus as Messiah, hiding any relationship between Jesus and the Messiah will be normal. If we take our previous understanding of the Aleph Tav, and combine that with the understanding of names and translations of names, we find that Zechariah, in the second year of Darius, gave us the name of the strong man on the cross, the one we were to look for. Remember, when we studied Paleo Hebrew, as Moses wrote AZ (Aleph Tav) almost 5,000 times in the Torah alone, and AZ or ‘et is used over 11,000 times in the Old Testament, which means ox and sign, or strong man, and cross. In Daniel 9, Daniel says he read Jeremiah and knew the 70 years of exile were almost up. That was in the first year of Daruis. It was the time of Daniel’s greatest vision of the Anti-Christ, the seven year tribulation, and the angel’s exact date when the Messiah was going to be hailed as King, the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. From the time of Daniel’s vision it was173,880 days. In other words, 483 years until the Messiah comes on a donkey (of a 360 day year). One year later, after Daniel’s vision, Zechariah tells us the Messiah’s name, Jesus. I bet most people have never heard that before.

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2013/12/jesus-name-in-old-testament-messiah.html


The Aleph Tav that Moses wrote throughout the Torah is translated in Greek Alpha Omega. Jesus identifies himself as the Alpha Omega, or the Aleph Tav. It is the A Z the first and the last. Therefore at the time when Jesus is identifying himself to the Jews and the Pharisees, they are seething, knowing who he is claiming himself to be. 


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2012/06/father-of-lies-jesus-i-am-witchcraft.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/05/ancient-understanding-of-law-abraham.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/12/omni-god-his-name-is-yahweh-mighty.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/08/new-jerusalem-eight-thousand-years.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-choice-aleph-and-tav-part-1-of.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/08/supernatural-visions-and-aleph-tav-who.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2013/12/jesus-name-in-old-testament-messiah.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/11/gods-among-men-unraveling-satan.html


The Greek is more accurate, as we realize that we need to eliminate all the usages of Adonai and return the words back to either Yahweh or Elohim. We then understand that Jesus is telling the Jews and Pharisees that he is the one who spoke to Moses when Moses received the law. 


Exodus 6:2 G2980 [3spoke G1161 1And G3588   G2316 2God] G4314 to G* Moses, G2532 and G2036 said G4314 to G1473 him, G1473 I am G2962 the Lord . 

  3 G2532 And G3708 I appeared G4314 to G* Abraham, G2532 and G* Isaac, G2532 and G* Jacob, G2316 [3God G1510.6 1being G1473 2their]. G2532 And G3588   G3686 my name, G1473   G2962 the Lord, G3756 was not G1213 manifested G1473 to them. 


As the children of Jacob are close to leaving Egypt, Moses is told by Yahweh that he is the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Clearly he says that his name (Yahweh) was not manifested to them. The word here that is translated as manifested, is the word dēloō, meaning to “make clear, to make visible, to make plain, or to reveal”. Yahweh did not make plain his name to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We know that it was Yahweh speaking to them, and they knew that they were speaking to an Elohim, or Yahweh Elohim, and Moses made this all plain to us when he wrote the Torah. Moses told us that it was Yahweh Elohim or Yahweh that was speaking to them. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob simply understood the Elohim spoke to them. Moses also added the identifier of the AZ or Aleph Tav, so that people would understand who was speaking. 


Jesus is telling the Pharisees, scribes, and Jews, that he was the one who gave the law to Moses, he was the one who told Moses his name, and he was the one who walked and talked with Abraham. Jesus’ point still stands, if they were “of” Abraham, they would know who he was. Instead of asking him questions in a nice way, they pick up stones to throw at him. Why do they have so many stones just lying around the temple? Do they just keep a pile of stones in the courts to kill people? They are ready to kill Jesus. John doesn’t say how he concealed himself, but somehow Jesus was cloaked. 


John 8:59 G142 Then they lifted G3767   G3037 stones G2443 that G906 they should throw G1909 at G1473 him; G* but Jesus G1161   G2928 was hidden, G2532 and G1831 he went forth G1537 from out of G3588 the G2413 temple, G1330 going G1223 through G3319 the midst G1473 of them, G2532 and G3855 passed by G3779 thus. 

John 9:1 G2532 And G3855 passing on, G1492 he beheld G444 a man G5185 blind G1537 from G1079 birth. 

  2 G2532 And G2065 [2asked G1473 3him G3588   G3101 1his disciples], G1473   G3004 saying, G4461 Rabbi, G5100 Who G264 sinned, G3778 this one G2228 or G3588   G1118 his parents, G1473   G2443 that G5185 [2blind G1080 1he was born]? 

  3 G611 Jesus answered, G3588   G*   G3777 Neither G3778 this one G264 sinned, G3777 nor G3588   G1118 his parents; G1473   G235 but G2443 that G5319 should be made manifest G3588 the G2041 works G3588   G2316 of God G1722 in G1473 him. 


Jesus cloaks himself and walks through the middle of the Pharisees, scribes, and Jews. Then goes out to heal a blind man, which is another notable miracle that the religious leaders would not accept as coming from the Messiah. Later the Masoretes erased this qualification for the Messiah from the Book of Isaiah. 


https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2014/10/recovery-of-sight-to-blind-isaiah-61.html

https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2016/07/scriptures-moses-destroyed-scripture.html


We should notice that the events at the temple courts did not deter Jesus’ disciples. They then witnessed Jesus opening blind eyes. Jesus opened at least ten blind eyes, it could be more. When Jesus revealed himself to the Pharisees, scribes, and Jews, all they wanted to do was to kill him. They had been grafted with the devil. So why reveal who he was to them? Was it because they wouldn’t believe and that would make the story spread? Would people share what Jesus said? The disciples already knew who he was, they didn’t need him to say that he was the I AM. Since Jesus’ crucifixion many people have attempted to alter text, add names, and delete text, yet those things don’t hinder the children of God. We are persuaded by understanding expectations. The unseen proof resides within our heart. We personally know the I AM because it is Christ in us, the hope of glory.