Shalom from Eretz Israel. This is Avi Ben Ben-Mordecai, and this is Torah on Location. Coming up next, we're going to take a look at the concept of Gematria and the Brit Gahadasha and the Tanakh. Gematria is nothing more than taking a look at Hebraic thought through the numbers.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this. On our last program, we were dealing with the principles of Chokmah, Binah, and Da'at. Chokmah, Binah, and Da'at. And these three ideas, as Shalom said, Shaul mentions in Colossians chapter 1 verses 9 and following, these ideas are very, very important to our understanding of how Yehovah transmits his truth to us. He He starts with the masculine characteristic of Chokmah, and he gives it, he bestows wisdom from above, according to Yaakov or James chapter 3. The wisdom is then taken and it is put into a conduit.
It is developed so that it can be piped into a pattern, into a structure. It's built. Wisdom is built.
And we learn about that in Proverbs chapter 9. that building process is called bina bina bait yud nun hey and it's connected to the hebrew word bone or bonah meaning build or a building block and when you take hohma and bina it gives you a result the result is dot or experiential knowledge And experiential knowledge is a very important principle because in Hebraic thought, everything in knowledge is based on experiencing a particular thing. It's not just some intellectual exercise. in walking around trying to impress people that you have knowledge. So what?
Who cares how much knowledge you have? If it hasn't been experienced, it's not knowledge. It's just information. Experience is what counts in Hebraic thought.
And we apply the experiential knowledge into our walk of Torah. Therefore, we say along with all Israel at Mount Sinai, in Exodus chapter 24, verse 7, Na'aseh v'nishma. We will do and we will be obedient. The doing comes first.
The obedience and the hearing and understanding intellectually comes second. Intellectual understanding is always second in line. Okay?
The true understanding, the true wisdom, all of that is developed as we learn to do. And do it first. Now, the Hellenistic teaching about faith... and God, or the faith in Elohim. All this Hellenistic Greek understanding, it's all basing everything on intellect and reason.
And we know, because all you have to do is go back in history over the last couple of thousand years, easily, and go look at all of the philosophical schools that have emerged out of this kind of thing. You have Sackus, you have Plotinus, you have Aristotle. and you have Plato, and you have Socrates, and there's so many different philosophical schools that have come out of... Greek thinking, it's all exercises in intellectual stimulation, okay?
But Greek thought is not Hebrew thought, as you so rightly know. Hebrew thought is going to be based on motion. the prophets, the writings and the teachings Yeshua, Shaul, the disciples that have taught and that have written things down for us from Yeshua's teachings, from the prophets, from Moshe, from Yehovah himself. It's all based on experience and trying to understand reasoning with such and such a commandment.
With trying to first understand reasoning with such and such a commandment, we tend to get into an argument with each other about trying to out-reason one another or outdo one another in our knowledge. And when we get into this trying to out reason one another in our reasoning skills and our understanding and logic and our intellect when we get into that out reasoning one another we get into what is called false knowledge and this tends to puff us up and instead of doing the proper thing and that is allowing it to deflate us because in Proverbs 1.7, it says, the fear of Yehovah is the beginning of knowledge. True experience comes by fear in the awesome name of Yehovah.
And the fear, the true respect and awesome fear of Yehovah does not lead you to puff yourself up, but to deflate yourself and go down. You get on your face and you say, oh God, oh God, who do I think I am? Who do I think I am?
I'm nothing. I'm nothing. Okay?
We're only something. because his word is making us understand things that ordinarily we would not understand. Not at the spiritual level.
So let's go over here to 1 Timothy 6.20. 1 Timothy 6.20. Oh Timothy, guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely...
called da'at, knowledge. By professing, some have strayed concerning the imunah, or the faith. Grace be with you.
Amen. We understand knowledge to truly be that which does not puff up. It is not filled with idle babbling and arguments and trying to out-Jew one another.
out Israel another. We don't want to out Israelite another one. We don't want to out Ephraimite another one.
We don't want to outdo another one, attempting to puff ourselves up with knowledge and say, oh, I know more than you. I'm going to out reason you. No.
Let us live in the fear of Yehovah through our actions. Our actions prove who we are. who we are not our knowledge true knowledge is experiential and by experience we are deflated not inflated with all this being said let us now go into the depths of the torah the prophets and the writings and look at the numbers at the mathematics in the torah to see how they reveal very deep deep connections between the texts as found in the Torah, the Prophets, the writings, and moving into the B'ritha Dasha.
We'll address things so that we can understand the depth of the connections of Hebrew and what they're trying to show us prophetically. Gematria is nothing more than taking a look at Hebraic thought through the numbers. Each Hebrew letter has an assigned value or number to it just like in music everything it seems in music is all by the numbers why because music is sound sound is frequency all frequency has something to do with a number and therefore Communication, voice, talking one to another, is that not also sound, which is frequency, which is numbers?
So we deal with numbers and mathematics and sound. Sound comes out of our lips, and our lips are making sounds from words. Words are connected to Hebrew letters, even normal letters, I guess, the olive bead. But since we're speaking Hebrew...
Each Hebrew letter is going to have a number assigned to it. So when we speak in Hebrew, or speak in the language of the Bible, we're speaking in sounds of Hebrew, therefore sounds and frequencies, therefore numeric valuations, therefore every word in Hebrew, every letter in Hebrew, each of them has a connection to something mathematical. and mathematical equivalence. in Hebrew is an important principle we're going to deal with on our program now let's take a look at this idea of the Mashiach or Mashiach Mashiach or Mashiach is this principle of the salvation of Yehovah the salvation of Yah now salvation is a subject that we can deal with at another time but I wanna Purely take a look at the numbers at the mathematics of the concept of Mashiach Because this is really where things get very interesting as we look at these connections in the numbers In Hebrew, the term Mashiach or Mashiach, in Hebrew, the term Mashiach is spelled Mem, Shiloh, Yud, Chet. Mem, Shiloh, Yud, Chet.
This is Mashiach. Now, Mashiach has this concept of great salvation, the hand or the arm of Jehovah carrying out the functions. of saving his people and there's a lot more going on we're not even addressing on this program the term Mashiach Mem Sheen you'd hat has a numeric evaluation of numeric number of 358 this is going to be a number that's going to play into our understanding of Hebrew over and over and over again the numeric valuation of the term Mashiach is 358 and when we are walking in 358 We are walking in the light. Let us look at John, Yohanan, chapter 8, verse 12. Yeshua spoke again to them and said, I am the light of the world.
He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. He who walks in me shall be walking in light and not darkness. in darkness now it's interesting to note that in 2nd Corinthians 11 13 to 15 Shaul addresses this very principle starting for the context of verse 12 but what I do I will continue to do that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.
Verse 13. For such, referring to the people he is referring to in the previous paragraphs that he's talking about, for such people are false sent ones, false prophets, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into sent ones of God. Mashiach sent ones of Mashiach and no wonder for Satan in Hebrew the term is the serpent or the nachash nachash okay the serpent himself transforms himself into a malach or a mess messenger, an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his servants or ministers also transform themselves into ministers or servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Did you get that? Wow! Wow!
There are people out there in our midst, in our communities, in our congregations, in our synagogues out in the world. They have a tendency to Act like the Nachash, that is, transforming themselves into servants of righteousness, when in fact they are not servants of righteousness, they are servants of darkness. and they are walking as though they are walking in the light but in fact they're walking in darkness and they're acting out a part that confuses us and we don't understand what is it about that person's actions actions that's making us feel uncomfortable it's not their belief system it's their actions but their actions of course reveal their belief system but wait a minute let's go over here to deuteronomy the tovorain Chapter 6, verses 24 through 25. Yehovah commanded us to observe or do all of these statutes to fear Yehovah. Yehovah our Elohim, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive as it is this very day.
Then it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe or do all of these commandments before Yehovah our Elohim as He has commanded us. Now this is a very interesting statement. Because if we will observe all of these statutes to fear Yehovah, then it will be righteousness for us.
do or observe these commandments and these statutes, this is called the fear of Yehovah. Just as Proverbs chapter 1 verse 7 says, the fear of Yehovah, that is the keeping of the commandments of yoh-ho-vah the keeping of the observing of the commandments the keeping and the guarding and the doing of the commandments these are truly the beginning of knowledge and so by the keeping of these commandments these statutes these judgments the things mentioned in deuteronomy chapter 6 these very things determine whether we really have a fear an awesome fear and respect of Yahuwah because then that proves we have the beginning of Da'at or knowledge. So let's now compare this please to 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 14. And no wonder for Nachash, that is the Satan himself transforms himself into a malach of light.
And what is light? Go look at Psalm 119, verse 105. And go look at Proverbs 6, 23. Two places of many that talk about what light is. Therefore, it is no great thing if his servants or ministers also transform themselves into ministers or servants of righteousness.
Whose end will be according to their works, their actions. Isn't this an interesting concept? That there are people who appear to be walking in the light of three... 358 of Mashiach.
But in fact, are not walking in the 358 of Mashiach, but they're walking in the 358 of Nachash. How did I arrive at that? Well, take a look at the Hebrew word for Nachash.
The Hebrew word Nachash. This is Nun. Now...
And so, the Nachash also has a numeric valuation of 358. So here we have Mashiach, which is 358. That's the light. And we have the Nachash, which is the serpent, which also has a numeric valuation of 358. valuation in Hebrew of 358 so therefore it's up to us we can walk in a light the 358 of Mashiach or we can walk in the darkness which is the negative 358 of the serpent and there are people in our world people in our synagogues and our congregations in our community in our lives who appear very, very sincerely, very, very genuinely to be appearing to walk in Mashiach in 358. But they're walking in the negative of that 358. They're walking in darkness like the Nachash, transforming themselves into servants of light, pretending. that's an important word pretending to keep the commandments of Yehovah pretending to act as though they love the commandments pretending everything and Yehovah makes a very clear statement concerning many of these kinds of people all to Tanakh these are the pretenders the great pretenders and we need discernment and we check we understand discernment and we We pray for discernment so that we can judge based on the actions of what people are doing.
And that will prove what they are actually thinking in their minds. But don't do the thinking process first, trying to judge by what they believe, and then look at the actions, because it's the actions that are going to prove what they believe. Okay, so this is that idea.
Now, when we come back on our next program, we're going to take a look at Shiloh. This is an interesting idea. Oh, this is very, very interesting. deep. We'll look at Shiloh as mentioned in Jeremiah chapter 7. Because Jeremiah chapter 7 identifies the concept of why Shiloh, where the tabernacle stood for three years, 369 years.
We're going to learn why that was destroyed. Yeshua talked about it. And it's mentioned by the book of Jeremiah, by the prophet Yermio. And we're going to tie that in with Genesis 49.10.
And we're going to tie that in with Moshe and so many other things. All of this is coming up on our next program for Torah on Location. Well, thanks for joining us.
us on today's edition of Torah on Location. I'm Avi Ben-Mordecai from Eretz Israel. Thank you for joining us on our study today.
It's all in the numbers. And we'll have a deeper look into this concept of Mashiach and carry it through to some other ideas in future programs. Thanks for joining us and I wish you and all of yours Shalom. I'm not sure if I should have done that.