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Comments: Joel 1:15
Joel used the same wording as John used in The Revelation. This shows that
something being “at hand” or “shortly coming to pass” holds a vastly different
meaning to our Creator than it does to his human creation. One day with the Lord is as one thousand years
and one thousand years is as one day.
1: The word of YHWH that came to Joel the son of Pethuel 2: Hear this ye old men and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land Has this been in your days or even in the days of your ancestors?
Comments: Joel 1:2 James Strong’s transliteration of the Hebrew word 'āḇ, generally means “father” but not always.
The KJV
translates Strong's H1 in the following manner:
father (1,205x), chief (2x), families (2x), desire (1x), fatherless (with H369)
(1x), forefathers (with H7223) (1x), patrimony (1x), prince (1x), principal (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage: father of an individual, of God as father of his people, head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan…ancestor.
Hebrew, like virtually every other language, including English, is an androcentric (male centered) language. That means there are some masculine words that of necessity include female members of the human race. 'Āḇ is one of those words. Context decides which of the above listed usages is the correct literal translation of the Hebrew words (אֲבֹ תֵ יכֶ ם abthi·km).
Abthi·km, the word most Bibles have translated as “your fathers,” is a plural word that has several literal translations, depending on context. It is even translated as “desire” in Job 34:36 KJV. Other versions translate the word as “would that.” One interlinear translates the singular counterpart of Abthi·km as, “will of me.” The plural Abthi·km includes the entire nation of Israel, and the context of Joel 1:2 demands the word be translated as ancestor, and not as father, in this verse, YHWH is speaking, here, to all the inhabitants of the Promised Land, at least one half of which were women. And these women were also progenitors, which is one of the biblical applications of the word āḇ, and accurately translated as “ancestors” in Joel 1:2.29: Rejoice not thou whole Palestina because the rod of him that smote thee is broken for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent
Comments: Isaiah 14:29-32 The first people to ever be called Palestinians were Jews, and it was YHWH Elohim who first called them that.
30: And the firstborn of the poor shall feed and theneedy shall lie down in safety and I will kill thy root with famine and he shall slay thy remnant
Comments: Isaiah 14:29-32 Only physical Israel, Jacob, is ever called the “remnant.” There is no such thing as a “remnant” of the Body of Christ. The Boby of Christ is ONE as Jesus and the Father are ONE. Unlike the nation of Israel—Jacob, the Body of Christ can never be fractured.
31: Howl O gate cry O city Thou whole Palestina art dissolved For there shall come from the north a smoke and none shall be alone in his appointed times 32: What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That YHWH hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall trust in it
Comments: 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 In this verse, the word sleep
means to die. The bodies of Believers only sleep in death until the
resurrection—their souls do not sleep 2 Corinthians 5:6-8. It
is written that it is appointed to mortals once to die, and after that,
the judgement Hebrew 9:27. There will be no extra chances via
reincarnation. But wait, Paul wrote that we would not all die. This
appears to be a brand-new revelation, something that had never been written
before. Yet the preacher in Ecclesiastes wrote that there was nothing new under
sun, and Isaiah wrote that there would be no new light Isaiah
8:19-20, that unless something had already been written, the
writer of any so-called, new light had no light in them. Yet Peter
compared Paul’s letters to scriptures 2 Peter 3:16, and Paul wrote
in them, what appears to be new light. Paul was not given new light in
the sense of things brand new that had never been written in the Law and
the Prophets, which Jesus appealed to when he was tempted by Satan Matthew
4:4-10. Paul was given an abundance of revelation 2
Corinthians 12:7 into that which had already been written. The
rapture? Enoch was not found. His mortality was changed to immortality.
Enoch was caught up. Regarding the Body of Christ, Paul was given revelation into
Enoch’s blessing, that his experience of not dying, that Enoch's experience of being caught up 1
Thessalonians 4:16-18 would be ours as well.
1: And it came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons judges over Israel
Comments: 1 Samuel 8:1 Now
why did Samuel make his corrupt sons [1 Samuel 8:3] judges of Israel
when he knew their lack of character? Turns out that Samuel was the same kind
of father as Eli. Samuel was good man, but he followed Eli’s poor example of parental permissiveness.
2: Now the name of his firstborn was Joel and the name
of his second Abiah They were judges in Beer-sheba 3: And his sons walked not in his ways, but
turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. 4: [cause and effect] Then all
the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Ramah
5: And said unto him
Behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways now make us a king
to judge us like all the nations
Comments: 1 Samuel 8:5 The elders were worldly and faithless.
They were a free people under the theocracy of the GOOD Lord. The lords/gods of
the nations surrounding them were not good. They required human sacrifice. YHWH
Elohim did not. HE was the creator of their nation Isaiah 43:1
and their king, but though they were promised great blessings, they wanted none
of it. They wanted to be like all the other people of their world and serve an
autocrat. Why didn’t they simply demand that Samuel depose his corrupt sons? …or
perhaps they had and Samuel had refused. Either way, it was a bad situation,
and the elders of Israel certainly had a better choice than to demand such a radical
change of government.
6: But the thing displeased Samuel when they
said Give us a king to judge us And Samuel prayed unto the LORD 7: And the LORD said unto Samuel Hearken unto
the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee for they have
not rejected thee but they have rejected ME that I should not reign
over them 8: According to
all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of
Egypt even unto this day wherewith they have forsaken me and served other gods
so do they also unto thee 9: Now therefore hearken unto their voice
howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them and shew them the manner
of the king that shall reign over them
·
10: And Samuel told
all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king 11: And he said This will be the manner of
the king that shall reign over you
·
He
will take your sons and appoint them for himself for his chariots and to be his
horsemen and some shall run before his chariots 12: And he will appoint him captains over
thousands and captains over fifties and will set them to ear his ground and to
reap his harvest and to make his instruments of war and instruments of his
chariots
·
13: And he will take
your daughters to be confectionaries and to be cooks and to be bakers
·
14: And he will take
your fields and your vineyards and your olive yards even the best of them and
give them to his servants
·
15: And he will take
the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to
his servants
·
16: And he will take
your menservants and your maidservants and your goodliest young men and your
asses and put them to his work
·
17: He will take the
tenth of your sheep and ye shall be his servants
Jesus is YHWH ELOHIM: Isaiah 43:10-11
Jesus is the Almighty: John 1:1. John 8:24
Jesus God of the Burning Bush: Eternal Father & Beloved Son (lulu.com) 
Comments: Hosea 12:12
Jesus also served for a wife. He left his glory in Heaven, where he was known as
THE WORD John 1:1, and, becoming the SON Psalm 2:6, Hebrews 1:5,
took on inferior human flesh. He became clay Genesis 2:7, so that he
could submit to a horrific death in order to ransom all humanity John 3:16,
and, in doing, betrothed himself to a Bride Revelation 19:7.
For God so LOVED the word he gave his only BEGOTTEN son that WHOSEVER believes on Him SHOULD NOT PERISH but have Everlasting LIFE
The Ones Being Trusted, the Holy Ones in verse 12, could possibly be a reference to God’s faithful people but not likely. Judgement comes upon God’s people for wandering away from and against HIM. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. When things reach the tipping point, the faithful suffer from the consequences of the unfaithful (re: Daniel).
The Ones Being Trusted :12 (YHWH Elohim [both plural designations]) are both Qdush singular Holy One and Qdushim plural Holy Ones. See Jocelyn Andersen: The Six Purposes of Daniel's 70 Weeks: Purpose 6 for a study of the Holy of Holies, which is literally the Holy Place of the Holy Ones.
Hosea Chapter 11
1: When Israel
was a child then I loved him and called MY son out of Egypt [ a parenthetical (-) duality, referencing
Jacob and Jesus] 2: As they
called them so they went from them They sacrificed unto Baalim and burned
incense to graven images 3: I taught
Ephraim also to go taking them by their arms But they knew not that I
healed them 4: I drew them
with cords of a mortal with bands of love and I was to them as they
that take off the yoke on their jaws and I fed them 5: He shall not
return into the land of Egypt but the Assyrian shall be his king because
they refused to return 6: And the sword
shall abide on his cities and shall consume his branches and devour them
because of their own counsels Proverbs 14:12 7: And My people are determined to turn from me
Even though they call me God Most High I will by no means exalt
them (:7) NIV 8: How shall I
give thee up Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee Israel? how shall I
make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim? Mine heart is
turned within me my repentings are kindled together 9: I will not
execute the fierceness of mine anger I will not return to ruin
Ephraim For I [am] God EL and not mortal
[I am] the Holy One
Qdush in the midst of thee And I will not enter into
the city 10: After YHWH
they shall go He shall roar like a lion When he shall roar then
the children shall tremble from the west 11: They shall
tremble as a bird out of Egypt and as a dove out of the land of Assyria And I
will place them in their houses declares YHWH 12: Ephraim surrounds
me about with lies and the house of Israel with deceit But Judah yet wanders
from EL and against the Ones Being Trusted [the] Qdushim
Holy Ones
Comments: Hosea 11 The Godhead is present and speaks throughout this entire chapter, referenced in both singular and plural, first person and third: I, me, my, he, qdush :9 Holy One and qdushim :12 Holy Ones. The Ones Being Trusted, the Holy Ones in verse 12, could possibly be a reference to God’s faithful people but not likely. Judgement comes upon God’s people for wandering away from and against HIM. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. When things reach the tipping point, the faithful suffer from the consequences of the unfaithful (re: Daniel).
The Ones Being Trusted :12 (YHWH
Elohim [both plural designations]) are both Qdush singular
Holy One and Qdushim plural Holy Ones.
See Jocelyn
Andersen: The Six Purposes of Daniel's 70 Weeks: Purpose 6 for a study of the
Holy of Holies, which is literally the Holy Place of the Holy Ones.
Watch the entire study series on YouTube: The
Six Purposes of Daniel's 70 Weeks - YouTube
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Comments: The Hebrew letters ALEPH and TAV are present in the Hebrew text of Hosea 10:3. In this verse the first and last letters of the Hebrew alephbet follow the plural name for the Almighty, YHWH.
Although translators don’t really know what the two letters together mean, they frequently translate ALEPH TAV as “the” or simply omit the letters altogether without even a footnote to tip readers off that they have fundamentally changed a verse because of the omission.
The ALEPH TAV is referred to as an “untranslatable
symbol.” And it’s not just a case of leaving the letters untranslated, scholars
omit them altogether when they can’t make sense of a sentence just because
the ALEPH TAV doesn’t make sense as a “the,” which they admit they don’t
really know it means that anyhow.
Why have we given scholars the authority to delete
words from our sacred writings just because they don’t know what the words mean?
Why have we given scholars a pass for failing to include words in a translation
just because they are clueless as to the meanings? The only honest way to
handle such instances would be to include the words or letters untranslated,
and then add a footnote.
We see an omitted ALEPH TAV in Genesis 1:1. Most Believers have never heard that the two letters are there. Some believe (including this writer) the letters reveal Jesus [before he became the Son at his birth as a human] as being involved in the Creation. The literal reading in Genesis 1:1 is, “In the beginning Elohim ALEPH TAV (Elohim First Last) created the heavens and the earth.”
Translating the ALEPH TAV in Genesis 1:1 reveals Jesus as THE WORD and as being the First and the Last, the Almighty Revelation 1:8, John 1:1, Colossians 1:16-17. Jesus is the Creator. Jesusis God. In the beginning Elohim ALEPH TAV created the heavens and the earth.
The ALEPH TAV in Genesis 1:1 is stupendous and should never have been left out.
Comments: The Godhead is seen in Ecclesiastes 12:1. This verse literally reads: “Remember now the Ones creating of you.” The Hebrew word used for Creator in Ecclesiastes 12:1, is בּ רְ אֶ י (burai)—a plural noun—and not בָּ רָ א (bara Genesis 1:1), which is a verb.
The Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (both hard-copy and online versions), which
is the most frequently used go-to resource for lay-people, gives these two
words the same number designation and definition, so the distinction between
the two is hidden. However, it is easily seen in Hebrew English interlinears,
where literal translation is used Online
Hebrew Interlinear Bible (scripture4all.org)
8: The watching
of Ephraim was [away] from MY
ELOHIM [The] prophet [is] a snare of a trapper
in all his ways and hatred in the house of his ELOHIM 9: They have
deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah because of this HE
will remember their depravity HE will visit their sins 10: I found Israel
like grapes in the wilderness I saw your fathers as the firstfruits in
the fig tree at her first time But they went to Baal-peor and separated
themselves unto that shame And their abominations were according as they loved
Comments: Hosea 9:8-10 We see the Godhead in this passage. Since every member of the Godhead is YHWH ELOHIM & ADONAI (all plural designations), we cannot know which one is speaking in verse eight. What we can know is that when one speaks, all speak John 10:31,1 John 5:7-8.
Since every member of the Godhead is YHWH
ELOHIM & ADONAI (all plural designations), we cannot know which
one is speaking in verse eight. What we can know is that when one speaks, all
speak John 10:31,1 John 5:7-8.
An additional point of interest is that the speaker in verse :8 (this is not Hosea speaking. It is YHWH speaking.) refers to ELOHIM as “MY” ELOHIM. The members of the Godhead refer to the Godhead as their God.
1: Set the trumpet to thy mouth [The enemy :3 shall come] as a vulture against The House of YHWH Jacob because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law 2: Israel shall cry unto me My Elohim we know you! Matthew 7:22 3: Israel has cast off the thing that is good The enemy shall pursue him 4: They have set up kings but not by me They have made princes and I knew it not Matthew 24:36
Comments: Hosea
8:4 YHWH ELOHIM said that Israel appointed princes and HE did
not know it. Do we really believe The Almighty didn’t know what Israel was
up to? No. HE knew it but was saying he was neither consulted in the choices
nor did he give consent.
Of their silver and their gold have they made
them idols that they may be cut off.
5: Thy calf O Samaria has cast thee off Hosea 5:9 Mine anger
is kindled against them How long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6: For from Israel was it also the workman made it Because of this it
is not God but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces 7: For they have
sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind It has no stalk The bud shall
yield no meal If so be it yield the strangers shall swallow it up 8: Israel is
swallowed up Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no
pleasure
Comments: Hosea 8:8 Israel being among the Gentiles
as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure, means the Gentiles won’t like or
appreciate them. Where they will not be outright persecuted, they will be
barely tolerated and even resented for the benefits they bring.
9: For they are
gone up to Assyria a wild ass alone by himself Ephraim has hired lovers 10: Yea though
they have hired among the nations now will I gather them and they shall sorrow
a little for the burden of the king of princes 11: Because Ephraim has
made many altars to sin altars shall be unto him to sin 12: I have
written to him the great things of my law But they were counted as a strange
thing 13: They
sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings and eat it But YHWH
accepts them not Now will he remember their iniquity and visit their sins They
shall return to Egypt 14: For Israel hath forgotten his Maker
Isaiah
43:1 and builds
temples and Judah has multiplied fenced cities But I will send a fire
upon his cities and it shall devour the palaces thereof
