Time, Times, and a Half of Time

see http://7-thunders.blogspot.ca/2017/02/revelation-12-woman-and-child.html

The 42 months
The 1260 days
The 3 1/2 years

This period is in the 70 weeks at the very end. It is the End of Days.

This is the period of the
Two Witnesses
The hiding of The Woman in the wilderness
The exclusion of the measure of the court of the Gentiles from the measure of the heavenly Temple
The unfettered rule of the beast

It ties all these visions together as one.

It is 1/2 of the final 1 week, which week is the direct reflection of the first 7 weeks.

As such, it is:

...the period of The Revelation that fulfills and represents all 70 weeks. The 62 weeks all express the same judgment in some prophetic form. This is the design.

All this is what the Spirit says to the Seven Gatherings:

To convict of sin, righteousness and judgment

Sin, because they did not believe in Yehoshua. Righteousness, because he is ascended. Judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

All is stated in a final sentence from the Judge upon the nations in the redemption of Israel from the nations in the 42 months.

There is the 70 years,
The 70
Weeks = 490 years
And
The 2,300 day/years — of Daniel 8:14 (to which Rashi adds 574 = 2874).  "Till nightfall, morning 2,300, and the Holy will be rectified."

All of the have the redemption of Israel in view. They are different historical windows prophetically revealing aspects of that redemption. The 2,300 can be read with the 574 backwards to the coming out of Egypt, but then must be read forward as a measure of the ending. Apart from how it is to be unpacked, this number stands for the rereading of the 70 weeks in a new window frame from the destruction of the 2nd Temple to the end. And this is on two levels. One is the cutting off of the Anointed One. The other is the destruction of the Temple and/or Jerusalem. The 70 weeks from the 70 years must finally be understood in the scale of the four beasts. So as the four beasts become the one beast this is all condensed into 1 week and specifically 1/2 week.


I.  Jeremiah - 70 years
    3 scopes
    1. to punish the king of Babylon
    2. to rebuild the Temple
    3. to restore Judah

Note: This cannot be final redemption as it did not include the 10 tribes.

It is therefore regarding prophecy of the Redemption in the aspect of the House of David = Judah's representation of All-Israel. = which is itself chastisement and correction-prophecy for Solomon's imperfectly representing the image of Mashiach.  And Solomon was to be the prophecy correction for David's imperfect representation of the the image of Mashiach.  So it was together that they fell short.  The correction had to be to the House of David as a prophetic entity.

How was all of this so?
1.  How does the original chastisement of the House of David in leaving to Solomon just one tribe say this?
2. How does the Jeremiah 70 years window say it?
3. How are the 3 aspects above of the 70 years included in speaking to this question?

Clearly, the image of Mashiach was to include that quality wherein the king of Babylon would be punished, Jerusalem would be rebuilt with the Temple and Judah fully restored - which on this level means restored through fulfilling its purpose of representing all the tribes until no longer needed, the chastisement being complete.


II. 70 Weeks

    1. This prophecy was an explanation given to Daniel as a correction in answer to his prayer concerning the 18 years which he did not calculate between the subjection of Jerusalem and its destruction, so the 70 started from the destruction.  So the question is opened, Why does an explanation that the 70 must be expanded to 490 correct Daniel concerning the error of the 18 years?

Note: that it is clear that the 490 years are called "70 weeks" so as to make sure that Daniel realizes that Jeremiah's 70 years were to be read on the level of being these 490 years at the same time as being the literal 70.  It should be understood then, it would seem, that the angel is telling Daniel that the 490 cannot be understood or correctly counted if they do not start from the destruction.

Since it becomes apparent that there is a parallel between the 70 and the 490 but not an exact parallel the question arises how are these to be set up side by side?  The angel explains this in terms of 7+62+1.  One reading of this gives the 7 to correspond to the 490 itself on a literal years level, after that it is set up to correspond to the 70. Then the 62, which corresponds to the same period in a different measure, is expanded into the whole period, of whatever measure it turns out to be, and having correspondence to the 2300 of Daniel 8:14, until the End of Days, when the 1 week or 7 year period comes forward.  But if the 62 is comprehensive of a very great measure, and the first 7 weeks can be magnified into a 490 itself, why it the 1 week only a literal 7 years?

Daniel is not given instruction on this level, anymore than he is told what the 2300 means. He is only shown that the 70 years of Jeremiah had multiply layers of prophetic content, and that the count had to therefore start from the destruction.  The 18 years are actually seen to have great significance because of this.  For they represent the concealment of the prophecy.  And it is in these 18 years that the redemption by Mordachai and Esther comes.


III. 3 1/2 [as "time, times, and a half time"]
    1. Daniel 12:7
    2. is related to the 1,290 days and the 1,335 days

to be continued

You Shall Know That I Am The Lord Your God

Then You Will Know

In the first commandment Israel is commanded to have faith through the words: "I am the Lord your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery."  At the same time, close to 100 times it is said in the Scriptures that first Israel then Egypt and the nations "will know that I am the LORD."

The foundation of the revelation in the world, first in Israel, then in the nations, that God is Hashem, the LORD, and that this is the meaning of his revealing himself as the God of Israel, is found in the usage of this statement in the Book of Exodus, as I have highlighted here:

Exodus 6:7 

I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 7:5 

The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”

Exodus 7:17 

Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.

Exodus 8:22 

But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 10:2 

…and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.”

Exodus 14:4 

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

Exodus 14:18 

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

Exodus 16:12 

“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”

Exodus 29:46 

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

Deuteronomy 29:6 

You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.

1 Kings 20:13 

[ Ahab Defeats Ben-hadad ] And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says the Lord, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

1 Kings 20:28 

And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The Lord is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’”

Isaiah 49:23 

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”

Isaiah 49:26 

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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Jeremiah 24:7 

I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

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Ezekiel 5:13 

“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the Lord—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them.

Ezekiel 6:7 

And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:10 

And they shall know that I am the Lord. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”

Ezekiel 6:13 

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idol

Ezekiel 6:14 

And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 7:4 

And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:9 

And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

Ezekiel 7:27 

The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.”

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Ezekiel 11:10 

You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 11:12 

and you shall know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you.”

Ezekiel 12:15 

And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

Ezekiel 12:16 

But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 12:20 

And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 13:9 

My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Ezekiel 13:14 

And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 13:21 

Your veils also I will tear off and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:23 

therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”

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Ezekiel 14:8 

And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 15:7 

And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.

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Ezekiel 16:62 

I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,

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Ezekiel 17:21 And all the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken.”

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Ezekiel 17:24 

And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

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Ezekiel 20:12 

Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20:20 

and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

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Ezekiel 20:26 

and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 20:38 

I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 20:42 

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.

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Ezekiel 20:44 

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

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Ezekiel 21:5 

And all flesh shall know that I am the Lord. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.

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Ezekiel 22:16 

And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 22:22 

As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”

Ezekiel 23:49 

And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.”       ******************************

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Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord God.’

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Ezekiel 24:27 

On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 25:5 

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:7 

therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:11 

and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:17 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”

Ezekiel 26:6 

and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:22 

and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her;

Ezekiel 28:23 

for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 28:24 

“And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

Ezekiel 28:26 

And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”                     ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙

Ezekiel 29:6 

Then all the inhabitants of EGYPT shall know that I am the Lord. “Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel,

Ezekiel 29:9 and the land of EGYPT shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord. “Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’

Ezekiel 29:16 And IT shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”

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Ezekiel 29:21 *********A HORN *********

“On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.” 

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Ezekiel 30:8 

Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have set fire to EGYPT, and all her helpers are broken.

Ezekiel 30:19 

Thus I will execute judgments on EGYPT. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 30:25 

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of EGYPT.

Ezekiel 30:26 

And I will scatter the EGYPTians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 32:15 

When I make the land of EGYPT desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:29 

Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.

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Ezekiel 34:27 

And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Ezekiel 34:30 

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord God.

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Ezekiel 35:4 

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:9 

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 35:12 And you shall know that I am the Lord. “I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.’

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Ezekiel 35:15 

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 36:11 And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 36:23

"I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD," declares the Lord GOD, "when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight.

Ezekiel 36:24

"For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.

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[[But also:

Ezekiel 6:9

"Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

Ezekiel 6:11

"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, "Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague!

Ezekiel 12:25

"For I the LORD will speak, and whatever word I speak will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it," declares the Lord GOD.'"

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Ezekiel 36:36 

Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.

Ezekiel 36:38 

Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 37:6 

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 37:13 

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.

Ezekiel 37:14 And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”

Ezekiel 37:28 

Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

Ezekiel 38:23 

So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:7 

“And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 39:22 

The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.

Ezekiel 39:28 

Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.

Joel 3:14-17 

14 Multitudes, multitudes,

    in the valley of decision!

For the day of the Lord is near

    in the valley of decision.

15 The sun and the moon are darkened,

    and the stars withdraw their shining.

16 The Lord roars from Zion,

    and utters his voice from Jerusalem,

    and the heavens and the earth quake.

But the Lord is a refuge to his people,

    a stronghold to the people of Israel.

17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

To see an application of this study in my commentary notes on The Book of The Revelation of Yehoshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ) go to this link.

Notes on The Angel of The Lord

The Angel of The Lord is literally from the Hebrew The Messenger of Hashem - Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh.  This angel is only given assignments that have to do with the revelation of the Name of the One whose Name is spelt with the letters, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, which will not be openly pronounced until it  is openly revealed in all the world.

The following are the places in the Tanach where the Angel of Hashem appears.

The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your offspring that they cannot be counted for multitude" (Genesis 16:10).

She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me" (Genesis 16:13).

The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day (Genesis 18:1).

The angel of the LORD stopped Abraham saying: 

He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me" (Genesis 22:12).

The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven (Genesis 22:15).

Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am' (Genesis 31:11).

the Angel who has delivered me from all harm - may He bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly upon the earth (Genesis 48:16).

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up (Exodus 3: 2).

I am going to send an angel in front of you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him. But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. When my angel goes in front of you, and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I blot them out (Exodus 23:20-23).

when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?" And he said, "No, rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, "What has my lord to say to his servant?" And the captain of the LORD's host said to Joshua, "Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so (Joshua 5:13-15).

Then Gideon perceived that it was the angel of the LORD; and Gideon said, "Help me, Lord GOD! For I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face." But the LORD said to him, "Peace be to you; do not fear, you shall not die" (Judges 6:22).

When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24:16).

Then they spoke to the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, "We have patrolled the earth, and lo, the whole earth remains at peace." Then the angel of the LORD said, "O LORD of hosts, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry these seventy years?" Then the LORD replied with gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with Me (Zechariah 1:11-13).

Notes:
It is sometimes thought that The Angel of The Lord is a manifestation of the Lord Himself.  However, a messenger of someone, in this case The Lord, is by definition not that person.  Since in seeing The Angel of The Lord people would sometimes not see that angel but The Lord Himself, we are left to understand that this angel was created to be able to manifest an appearance of The Personal Presence of The Lord.  This is the case In Revelation chapter one, where this angel manifests the Personal Presence of the Glorified Mashiach.  Just as it was Hashem who was the person present and speaking in a number of occasions in Israel's past, on those occasions when He desired to be present through the limiting vessel of the angel, so it was Mashiach who was present and speaking through the vessel of the angel to Yochanan.

The Baptism To Come

Isaiah 11:15-16

טו  וְהֶחֱרִים יְהוָה, אֵת לְשׁוֹן יָם-מִצְרַיִם, וְהֵנִיף יָדוֹ עַל-הַנָּהָר, בַּעְיָם רוּחוֹ; וְהִכָּהוּ לְשִׁבְעָה נְחָלִים, וְהִדְרִיךְ בַּנְּעָלִים.

15 And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with His scorching wind will He shake His hand over the [Euphrates] River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause people to march over on dry ground.

And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel on the day they went up from the land of Egypt.    

    טז. וְהָיְתָה מְסִלָּה לִשְׁאָר עַמּוֹ אֲשֶׁר יִשָּׁאֵר מֵאַשּׁוּר כַּאֲשֶׁר הָיְתָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל בְּיוֹם עֲלֹתוֹ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם:

Rashi:

And there shall be a highway: in the midst of the water for the remnant of His people.

MCK NOTE:

This is the event toward which all baptism from the time of Yochanan the Immerser points.

All of Isaiah 11 is to be revealed in light of this event. This is the baptism of all Israel in the death and resurrection of entering into the cloud, the garment of Mashiach, the fire of his new creation, wherein dwells Torah righteousness. 

All Messianic baptism through the ages shall be translated and reclaimed to bear witness to this holy immersion of the twelve tribes of Israel to come, the true source of all regeneration. And this is the great, complete immersion of Israel in the cloud of fire of the Holy Shechinah, the Holy Spirit.   

It is unto this that Yochanan the Immerser testified concerning Yehoshua, speaking to all Israel saying, "I immerse you in water for repentance.  But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry.  He will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and [Shechinah] fire." 

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Concealment and Revelation

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The Concealment and Revelation of Mashiach and The Good News

After that Yehoshua made atonement for his own people Israel who did not receive him, he was taken up into heaven and concealed there from the world.  This concealment is the aspect of grace which is created in his offering for Israel and continues on.  Read more...

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The Body

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2011

The word of G-d became flesh - the word of G-d spoken by Moshe became flesh.  The word of promise to the fathers became flesh. The word of G-d's curse against the serpent in the garden became flesh and dwelt among us. The word of G-d's commandment and warning to Adam became flesh. The word of G-d spoken by all the prophets became flesh. 

As the Word of G-d became flesh and dwelt among us, the body cannot be understood as a mere garment fo the soul or spirit in a dualistic sense.  If it is to be understood as a garment or a house for the soul, then the sense in which it is to be understood must be in a non-dualistic sense, where the house or garment is itself an essential aspect of the person.  

This will be seen clearly in the resurrection of the dead, where the body will be eternally perfect while the soul is still learning and growing in ever higher levels of perfection.  The present situation, where the soul is struggling to elevate the flesh into spirituality, will then, in the resurrection, be reversed and the soul will be learning from the body.  

Without making reference to Yehoshua, as I have done here, Rebbe Schneerson of the cHaBaD Hassidim has taught this principle based on the text in Isaiah 1:27.

SEE my studies on this in my Evernote files here:

ציון במשפט תפדה ושבי׳ בצדקה 

"Zion shall be redeemed through justice and her captives through tzedakah."

SEE ALSO:  Anticipating the Redemption  by Menachem Mendel Schneerson  

or

http://sichosinenglish.org/books/anticipating-redemption-1/02.htm 

He is the Day

The redeemer of Israel will not rest in his land until he has established eye to eye justice in all the earth.

He will dwell in his land for a day of rectification. Then all the earth will obey the Torah that goes forth from Zion, and as a reward the old heaven and the old earth will be destroyed and transfigured into a new heaven and a new earth wherein righteousness dwells, and in that Shabbat the redeemer of Israel will rest.  For he is that day. 

He shall appear from heaven to do the work of the day and shall transform the day of work into the day of rest, for he shall finish the work upon the earth. Therefore at the end of the day the enemy shall come out against Jerusalem and Gog and Magog with him. 

For those who love this world are of this world of death. They will fight against the King who is the living word of G-d, whose tongue will destroy this heaven and this earth as a reward for obedience to those who obey the commanent of G-d. And truth shall return to Adam in that day. 

Notes on Acts 15

See other versions of this on 7 Laws and 7 Thunders, Study on the Great Assignment, etc.

http://7with7.blogspot.ca/?m=1

on Acts 15:1
Certain people came down from Judea…  This even ought not to be understood retroactively from the point of view of Christian theology 1500 to 2000 years later.  What it meant for gentiles to be saved to Jews who believed in Moses and Mashiach must be understood in distinction from its meaning during centuries of the development of christian theology.  The most important aspect of this issue is that salvation first and foremost to the Jewish people has always meant salvation of the nation, of all Israel, not primarily salvation of the individual.  Therefore, for a gentile to be saved they had to be grafted into the nation of Israel and included in the salvation of the nation.  It seemed completely clear from Moses that this meant that gentile men would have to be circumcised.  Had something changed?  Paul and Barnabas were insisting that something had changed, not in the fact that individual gentiles had to be included in the salvation of Israel in order to be saved, but in how this was now accomplished.  If the reader sees these certain people who came down from Judea as being evil decievers (reading the text with the eyes of later gentile christian theology), the whole story of what was taking place here will be confusing and hardly credible.  In fact, the Jerusalem council took both sides of this question very seriously and did not resolve the issue easily or superficially.  In truth, the profound nature of the resolution that the council came to will go unappreciated by all those who choose to simply think of Paul's side as the good christian side and the side of those who came down from Judea as the bad Judaizing side.  Only when it is fully understood how both sides represented distinct understandings and visions of Judaism will it be possible for the reader to clearly see the pivotal story for all ages taking place here in Acts 15.

In verse 5 we are being told that representatives in Jerusalem itself of the same party, (though they were different people), as were referred to in verse 1began to engage in the debate with Paul and Barnabas about how gentiles who had come to faith in Yehoshua as the Messiah of Israel were to be included within the nation of Israel and the salvation of Israel.  When these Yehoshua-believing Pharisees stated that the gentiles who believed and were being converted needed to be circumcised and to begin to keep the whole Torah, they understood this to be because they were being saved through their faith in the Messiah Yehoshua.  This was so because they believed the nation of Israel was saved and being saved through the Messiah Yehoshua.  Only when this is clear will Peter's answer to them, culminating here in verse11, be clear.

Peter is speaking directly to these Yehoshua-believing Pharisees, and to everyone else only indirectly, (verse 7).  His argument is that Israel, itself, is being saved and has been given the Spirit of Mashiach only through the unmerited grace of Adonu Yehoshua.  This point is the premise of Peter's argument and it is essential to understand clearly what this means in order to be able to understand clearly the conclusion of the argument he makes about the salvation of the gentiles based on this premise.  Salvation in this narrative of Acts 15 is represented by the gift and Presence of the Holy Ruach, the Holy Spirit as conveyed to Israel through the promise of Mashiach.  Peter is saying that this Holy Presence is come to Israel through G-d's grace and not through Israel's success in perfectly observing the Torah.  In no way does Peter diminish the importance of observance of the Torah in Israel.  His argument is that since the Holy Presence is come to Israel through the promise of Mashiach through unmerited grace and not through success in perfect observance of the Torah, this same salvation of the gift of the Holy Presence is come to those gentiles seeking and believing in the salvation of Israel through the same grace.  It cannot be put upon the gentiles that they should seek to attain what is already given to Israel and to them by the mercy of grace through seeking to become perfect in Torah observance.  Peter is implying that there is a great mystery here and that there is a great revelation to be understood through this mystery.  He is not demonizing one side or the other in this controversy.  For it is the argument on one side and on the other that creates the articulation of this wonderful mystery.  In the following verses the council of the Emissaries of Yehoshua the Mashiach will point the way toward the full revelation of this mystery of G-d's grace toward all the nations in the salvation of Israel.

It is essential to understand that James/Yaacov and all of those whom he spoke to were in agreement about the meaning of this prophecy from Amos — that it referred to the salvation of Israel that they were witnessing in their day, which would develop more and more, until All Israel was saved.  The vision of this salvation which was given to them has been somewhat concealed to us through history, but this concealment is also an aspect of the Divine Promise of Israel's redemption.  This concealment of the orignial vision of the salvation of Israel given to the Emissaries of Mashiach was and is one of the keys of the Malchut/Kingdom which was given to Kefa/Peter and to the twelve talmudim/diciples of Yehoshua.  This key, this concealment of the "Apostolic" vision of Israel's salvation, is one of the keys to the fulfillment of the later part of this very prophecy of Amos: "that the rest of humankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name…"  Understand:  "the rest of humankind," that is, after and through the rebuilding of the fallen succah/tabernacle/tent of David, the kingdom of David, through the promised Son of David, the Mashiach, over the House of Judah and the House of Israel, then "the rest of humankind," the Gentiles who bear my name, who are converted to faith in his name, may, as a result of hearing of this Good News of Israel and her Messiah, turn to seek the Lord.  Therefore, since the first measure of this salvation of Israel, the gift of the Holy Ruach/Spirit was come through grace, the first measure of the blessing of all the families of the earth must also be understood to be already come through grace.  On the basis of this understanding, James/Yaacov will go on to give the full decision as to how to go forward toward the full revelation of the redemption of Israel and the salvation of all the world.

Acts 15:13
The conclusion that James/Yaacov comes to must be studied with great care.  What was the understanding among those present about what the teachers of the Torah call the Noahide, or universal commandments?  This statement by James/Yaacov is undisputedly a reference to these Torah requirements, as understood by the Torah teachers, for righteous gentiles.  Gentiles who were thieves, murders, sexually immoral, propagators of idolatry, etc. were not sanctioned by the Torah as being welcome strangers and pilgrims in the Holy Land of Israel.  For such iniquity G-d had removed the Canaanites from His Holy Land.  For gentiles who were dwelling in the Land who committed such crimes there also had to be some legal rulings for justice which was distinct from those by which the Torah ruled over the lives of the Jews.  The same applied to those gentiles who desired to live among the Jews in their communities in exile.  It is not about judging an individual's standing before G-d.  It is about the testimony of the word of G-d in Israel to the truth of the One true G-d, for the purpose of the salvation of the world.  This in itself is very significant, as it is the basis upon which Paul built his mission to the nations.  However, the way in which James/Yaakov chose to refer t the commandments required of the righteous gentiles was equally, if not even more significant.

The commandment not to commit blaspheme against the Name of the Creator of heaven and earth, the G-d of Israel, usually heads, and is always included, in any list of the Noahide laws.  James/Yaakov, however, does not mention this commandment.  It cannot be that the Apostles/Emissaries of Yehoshua did not consider it to be essential.  Paul, in fact, requires obedience to this commandment explicitly in the congregations among the nations that he establishes, even turning certain individuals over to the satan in order that they might learn not to blaspheme.  The Revelation entrusted to Yochanan/John also explicitly mentions blaspheme as one of the sins that G-d requires the gentiles to repent of.  That James/Yaacov does not mention the prohibition of blasphemy here in the context of the question of circumcision and conversion of the gentiles could be understood as being because he intended to say that there was no need to require the gentiles coming to faith in the Messiah of Israel and his salvation of Israel to abstain from blasphemy, as these were people who, individually and together, all called upon the name of the Lord.  In the same way, they would not be suspected at all of being thieves and robbers, nor of being rapists and murderers.  Even though this is so, because of his choice of words and the context within the Oral Torah, James'/Yaakov's reference to abstaining from "blood" can be seen as a possible allusion to abstaining from murder, or revenge killings, etc., even if it should be read more literally as a dietary rule and in association with the prohibition of eating things strangled.  This overlap between prohibition agains violence and eating blood can already be seen at the source prohibition or commandment that James/Yaakov is pointing to.  This source commandment is the Noahide commandment not to eat a living limb torn from an animal.  Understood as a commandment against cruelty it is also a commandment against predatory violence.  In Torah mitzvot/commandments for Israel, the commandments regarding kosher slaughter go deeper and broader in speaking to this same concern.  The language that James/Yaakov chooses to use in framing the prohibitions he states suggests that he is concerned with there being a bridge and a dialogue between the Noahide expression of the commandments about regard for the soul being in the blood and the Torah commandments about this.  The Noahide commandment to establish courts of law is also not mentioned by James/Yaakov, as this commandment is being transposed into the Messianic community by this very council in Jerusalem at which he is giving the final word on these issues.

The Way of Love Is Prepared

God designed you to think together with Him in love.  Why would you desire to think any other way?  God designed you to walk together with Him in love.  Why would you desire to walk any other way?  God did not design you to be alone.  He made all people everywhere to be of one blood.  The soul of life which God created is in the blood.  All people were made to be together, together with God, to think with God, to walk with God, to be born, to live, to practice love with one another with God and not to die.  Why would we desire to go it alone without God, so that when we fail and fall not be able to rise up again?  Why would we desire to only trust ourselves, our own eyes, our own sense of touch and testing, our own consciousness, and others only so long as they continue to prove themselves to us?  Why would we desire to become lost to God, so that we cannot even always know for sure if there is a God who loves us?  If we now live in a world full of accidents, where an accident could happen at any time that has the potential even to destroy our homes and our lives, is this because the greatest power in the universe is the power of cold and heartless chance, or is it because we have chosen not to think with or walk with or know the God of love? Love will not force you to love but if you choose another way to think than love, another way to live than love, love will remain love and will suffer a long time waiting for you to return, enduring all things necessary in order to open all possible ways for you to return.  God did not design you to die but to learn life with Him in love.  For this reason God called Abraham out from among all people and promised him and his offspring blessing and life in the midst a world breaking apart through accidents and death.  God gave His word to Abraham.  The promise of redemption and recovery, the promise of the blessing of the God of love will be kept for all Humantiy.  The way is prepared.  The way of the God of love is in the world.  You can find it.

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Organic Learning

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HOW WE THINK OF SPACE

from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/spooky-action-distance.html

"If there is space between two objects—if there are two birds in the sky and one is way off to your right and the other is way off to your left—we can and do consider the two objects to be independent. We regard them as separate and distinct entities. Space, whatever it is fundamentally, provides the medium that separates and distinguishes one object from another. That is what space does. Things occupying different locations in space are different things."

"But a class of experiments performed during the last couple of decades has shown that something we do over here (such as measuring certain properties of a particle) can be subtly entwined with something that happens over there (such as the outcome of measuring certain properties of another distant particle), without anything being sent from here to there."

Physics would describe reality as being the physical universe without God.  Instead of God being before and beyond 'Einstein's' space-time universe, the science of physics imagines a big bang from extremely dense order to a universe of ever less order.  These ideas influence our understanding of the way our minds work in perceiving reality.  They influence our ability to think about the ways we learn.  They influence us to imagine reality in reductionist terms, and if to frame our thought in terms of the big picture to do so analytically in frames of discrete lines and points.  Even Quantum Physics, as discussed in the paragraph above, frames its observations beginning from reductionistic assumptions.  There are theistic models of Creation, and even some non-theistic models of the universe, which try to cultivate more holistic or even organic ideas of how we may be conscious and how we might be able to learn without only being sequential and linear.  However, these models are all very hard to make work for one reason.  God cannot be made into a theoretical item.  Thought must come from God and not just be thought about God, much less merely thought about the idea of God.  However, even though organic models of Creation or of a non-theistic notion of the universe, do not work well because of this, they can work well enough to show that reductionist models of thought, reality and learning, do not represent the only possibility.

In an organic model of reality one would not speak of a seemingly mysterious connection between two apparently independent objects at a distance.  One would expect there to be a relationship between all aspects of the world organically and it would be the sinews that connected one nexus of functional design elements with another which would be the focus of attention and learning, not those 'points' or 'lines of force' as independent objects in themselves.

The Corporate Body

The individual body is not the essential definition of the body according to the Book dictated by the Creator, the G-d of Israel.  The Bible's definition of the body includes the individual body but is more essentially the corporate body.  When it was stated by the Creator that it was not good for Adam to be alone it was not just due to psychological reasons.  Adam was not finished.  The essential commandment of goodness, for Adam to be fruitful and multiply, was not possible for Adam alone.  An amoeba that is alone can multiply.  Adam cannot.  The Creator designed the body of Adam to be a corporate body.

When the Bible speaks of the body of the Messiah as being the bride of the Messiah it is not just using metaphorical language.  the body of the Messiah is the most literal body of all bodies.  Every other body is to some degree a metaphor in relation to that body.  Even the corporate body of the first Adam is less literal than the eternal body of the Messiah.

The Objective

The objective is to be selfless, but if you are selfless and you are alone you are no more than death and the actions that you perform can be no greater than the actions of the angel of death.  Thus, the objective is not to be selfless and alone but to be selfless and be with God and have God supply your identity to you as his gift to you. Then your actions can be actions of pure giving.  This is the objective.

The Body

As the Word of G-d became flesh and dwelt among us, the body cannot be understood as a mere garment fo the soul or spirit in a dualistic sense.  If it is to be understood as a garment or a house for the soul, then the sense in which it is to be understood must be in a non-dualistic sense, where the house or garment is itself an essential aspect of the person.  This will be seen clearly in the resurrection of the dead, where the body will be eternally perfect while the soul is still learning and growing in ever higher levels of perfection.  The present situation, where the soul is struggling to elevate the flesh into spirituality, will then, in the resurrection, be reversed and the soul will be learning from the body.  Without making reference to Yehoshua, as I have done here, Rebbe Schneerson of the cHaBaD Hassidim has taught this principle based on the text in Isaiah 1:27.

SEE my studies on this in my Evernote files here:

ציון במשפט תפדה ושבי׳ בצדקה 

"Zion shall be redeemed through justice and her captives through tzedakah."

SEE ALSO:  Anticipating the Redemption  by Menachem Mendel Schneerson  

or

http://sichosinenglish.org/books/anticipating-redemption-1/02.htm