Shalom ladies and gentlemen this is avi Benoit hi and you are tuned into Torah on location on our episode of Torah on location from Eretz Israel we are going to be studying the concept of scriptures one to four ratio it's coming up next into understanding the nuances of the Hebrew text and what it's trying to convey to us in the Genesis creation story as well as all through the Tanakh on a one to four ratio join us next Portola on location [Music] you [Music] [Music] we're going to take a look at the language of numbers and continue our study as we delve into an idea called the one to four ratio scripture contains a number of these anomalies a1 to a4 ratio and I want to show these things to you because whether you are a mathematician maybe you're into physics and science or maybe you just love to study the Bible and you don't have any particular discipline in any of the higher forms of academics it doesn't matter you're going to find that the all eternal one of heaven and earth is a mathematician he is the great mathematician and math seems to be his favorite subject so we're going to take a look at that today I would like you to turn now to Genesis chapter 2 and verses 8 through 9 if you would please the Hova elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed and out of the ground Yahweh Elohim made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food The Tree of Life was also in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil here you have two trees and here you have a man now those of us that have studied the Bible for any length of time we find a very interesting scenario developing as we look through the creation story of the book of Genesis here in Genesis 2 8 as we stated to you just a moment ago it says yahuwah elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed now the Hebrew word that is showing up here in this text is you saw yet saw that is you'd Saudi or a you'd Saudi right yet sigh but this is different this creation in Genesis 2:8 seems to be very different from the one that we're normally used to looking at in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 let's take a look at that one together Genesis 1:26 then Elohim said let us make man in our image according to our likeness let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the ground verse 27 so Elohim created man in his own image in the image of Elohim he created him male and female he created them now do you notice something interesting here this creation story in Genesis 1 verse 26 and into 27 appears to be a little bit different than Genesis chapter 2 verse 8 Genesis 2 verse 8 talks about a man that he places in the garden a man that he forms yet saw whereas in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 this man is created that is bara Beit Oratia Aleph bara but not only that but this man in Genesis 1:26 is the sixth day or as the man in Genesis to 8 is the third day now you may look at that and say come on I'll be how can you possibly say that's the third day look carefully at the text you will notice there's an anomaly going on here because of all of the descriptions of this creation story it does not appear to be the sixth day at all because in this particular story we have a creation of herbs and greens and trees and those things were all brought out on the third day not the sixth day and you look at that and say hmmm never notice that before do notice it take a careful and close look examination into it because this on the third day is going to explain so much of the gospel narratives and Yeshua's work his teaching is ministry and what the kingdom of heaven is all about and why you schewe has to die and resurrect on the third day oh there is so much that we can learn from Genesis chapter 2 and also Genesis chapter 1 so get ready for some interesting understanding into these these words this narrative and dare I say put your seatbelt on we're in for an interesting ride turn if you will please now to Genesis chapter 2 verse 9 as we are looking at the center of the Garden of Eden that is the center it is called in Hebrew but talk a gun but toka gun literally in the midst or in the middle of the garden the middle is the thing as a place that you always want to understand it in light of the Torah for example take a look at a Torah scroll here's one on your screen where do you see the word manifested do you see it on the left no do you see it on the right no where do you see it but talk a Torah in the middle of the Torah right here the middle this is but talk and the same thing appears in the garden of Aden okay you have the midst of the garden there is the Tree of Life in the same way that the words of this holy writ of Scripture is in the middle between these two trees right in the middle let's turn now to Genesis chapter 2 verse 9 here for a little more context out of the ground jehovah elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food the first tree that is mentioned is called let's ha ha Meem that's ha ha Meem that is the Tree of Life now this is very interesting when it comes to its numeric valuation pets Hawaii has a numeric value of 233 why is that important I'll tell you why The Tree of Life has this idea of being the perfect picture of life for our soul 233 add 2 plus 3 plus 3 what do you get 2 plus 3 is 5 plus 3 is 8 the word in Hebrew for life is what claim Heim hyeme is life so is it any surprise to any of us that we have in the center of the Garden of Eden the Tree of Life the at's ha came with a numeric value of 233 when when you break out the 233 and add a 2 plus 3 plus 3 it equals 8 which is 8 of the perfection and the new life that has been given to us by Yehovah for man in the garden but there's more to this story than meets the eye because also in the Garden of Eden there is yet another tree that we're told about here it says the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that is the X dot Tove vara ats dot tol barad the tree of the knowledge of good and evil I'm not going to be addressing the theological implications of this tree on this study we will do that in a future program what I'm trying to draw your attention to here is the numeric valuation of the term that's dot toe vara that is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil now I went through the Hebrew and I added it up all the letters that make up this phrase the tree of the knowledge of good and evil do you know what the numeric value is you're saying oh dude no please do tell us it's 932 932 what does this tell us that when you multiply the Tree of Life in four different directions you arrive at that's dot told Laura the value of it anyway which is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil well there's a lesson here we can derive from this and if we turn to Deuteronomy chapter 30 verses 19 to 20 it might give us a little bit of a clue let's go there now please I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both you and your sea or descendants may live that you may love Jehovah your Elohim that you may obey his voice and that you may cling to him the Hebrew word debauch that you may glue yourself to him for he is your life and your length of days and that you may dwell in the land which Jehovah swore to your father's to Abraham Itzhak and Yaakov to give them so we have a command to choose 233 which is the idea of the tree of life choose life choose the Torah the Torah is our life and the tree of life is in fact the development and the manifestation of the fruit of the Torah the fruit of the Spirit 233 we are to choose life what I want to do here now is take us to matthew mattiyahu chapter 7 verses 13 through 14 let's go there together please enter by the narrow gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life and there are few who find it we have here the narrow gate and the broad gate the narrow road and the broad road which road will you travel we see a rather interesting story that Yeshua teaches here regarding entering into the Kingdom of Heaven and he says to us here that there are going to be many people who will to him and say master master did we not do this in your name did we not do that in your name did we not do great and marvelous wonderful things in your name and we went in made converts all over the world and we got big missionary programs going and we had wonderful music and we had great instruction we had large Sunday schools and we had this and this and this and this and this and the list goes on and on and what is he going to say to all of these people who have boasted of these great programs Jews Christians Messianics I don't care what is he gonna say to all these people that have boasted all these great programs all through the centuries and the millennia he will say to them I do not know you I don't know where you're from verse 27 depart from me all you workers of iniquity and what is iniquity we know what it is it's not obeying and listening to the Torah exactly what proverbs chapter 28 verse 9 says that even if we do not obey and listen to the Torah even our prayer is an abomination oh yeah yeah so we need to get our act together folks and pay attention and find out what the heart of the father really is looking for in our lives now let's continue on verse 28 there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Avraham and Itzhak and Yakov and all the prophets in the kingdom of Elohim and yourselves thrust out verse 29 they will come from the east and the west from the north and the south there are your four directions in the kingdom the four directions they will come from the east and the from the north and the south and sit down in the kingdom of Elohim this is exactly what Yeshua was identifying when he was bringing us back to the Garden of Eden in Genesis chapter 2 verses 8 through 9 and the fact that the atsuhime the Tree of Life 233 in its gamma tria times four equals nine thirty-two and 932 is the numeric evaluation the numeric number for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thus Yeshua is saying if you want to enter into life you have to choose life [Music] [Applause] [Music] but if you don't choose life and you try to come in to the four corners into like some other way some other direction you want to climb over a hill climb over a fence climb over a mountain you want to come in some other door you want to make up your own rules according to Matthew 7 and Luke 12 if you want to make up your own rules you're choosing the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and he says choose life in Deuteronomy chapter 30 choose life all this being said let us now return back to the Genesis creation story at verse 4 and let's go over here to verse 6 please this is the history or the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that yellow by Elohim made the earth and the heavens now notice verse 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth or the land and before any herb of the field had grown that's a fascinating word the word before is teram in Hebrew teram Tello is a word in Hebrew that refers to time in other words a before B you have B but before you buf to have a or if you want to put it in Hebrew you have the table you have the olive the olive and the table but before the table comes the olive therefore that is called teram olive comes before table in time therefore that's the Hebrew word Terra and we're not gonna get bogged down in this right at this moment this concept of teram but we will be coming back to this in a future study Oh trust me we will but let's move on and deal with what is happening here in Genesis 2 verse 6 it says in verse 5 that yahuwah elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth and there was no man to till the ground there was no Adam to cultivate the Adama of the ground and so verse 6 says a mist went up from the land and watered the whole face of the Adama now what in the world is this mist that we're dealing with here this is part of that one to four ratio where you have one and you have four a one to four take a look at the word for mist in Hebrew or the vapor that appears here in the text and you will see it is the word odd olive dull 't olive dull 't and here in the text it tells us the odd that is a mist went up from the land and it watered the whole face of the edema we learned from scripture that man is but a vapor the research that I have studied has shown me that man is essentially made up of about 50 to 65% water we are a water-based organic creature 50 to 65 percent of us we have water this water vapor that we see coming off of us you can especially see it in action when you're breathing out on a cold day and those of you that live in cold climates when your breeze getting out you see the water vapor coming out of our breath that is the breath contains spirit its breathing we have a breathing apparatus via the lungs and this breathing apparatus is constantly taking in moisture and it's pushing out moisture because it is in genesis chapter 2 verse 7 that Yehovah elohim formed man of the dust of the Adama and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being a living soul man is inhaling and man is exhaling water not the water that we understand necessarily but it's a spiritual water it's breath it is a water vapor a mist it is odd and it comes up from the Adama Adam was formed from the dust of the earth of the Adama and we had the breath of life from the mist that was in the Adama and it came into us from the earth so we have a mist we have a vapor inside of us that is being inhaled and exhaled and this mist has a one to four ratio the olive is one the dal 'it is four we're going from one to four and inside of the one is the Allah that is the Yehovah that is your Havas image in us and the four is the door that's the doll --it we go through the door of life to arrive at the olive go through the water or the mist the breath of the room ha kodesh that is the breath of life that's the animation force of our life that is the spirit that's the water of the word and we go through the door the doll --it in the word odd and through the door it takes us to the olive that is the beginning of all creation where all things are given to us through the olive so we have olive dotted and that performs the role of bringing us the breath or the mist in our breathing apparatus spiritually also of course physically but spiritually is the key here however we're not done here now take a left and dotted that is the beginning and the door and add a final mem that is the Hebrew letter mem add it to the word and what do you get you get the word a dum Adamas man that is a dom becomes the manifestation of the olive through the door that is the door to the Tree of Life we become the manifestation we're a dumb and that doll it is the key that opens up the door to the mem and what is the mem represent even in paleo-hebrew mem always represents water that's the pictograph for it in ancient hebrew water mem is coming from the waters above the waters above the waters below the water is above and the waters below that's in the creation story of the book of Genesis and what are the waters above those are the spiritual waters of the word and the waters below those are additional waters that coming through the mist in the text of Genesis chapter 2 verse 10 it says a river singular one one one river went out of Eden to water the garden and from there it parted and became four river heads there is your one to four ratio again one river into four rivers and the four rivers are the Peace shown the gijón the Hideko and the afraid ease and there's plenty of theological discussion that we can drum up on those four rivers alone but we're gonna have to save that for another time and place for our study this is just the beginning of understanding this one to four ratio as found in Hebrew Scripture and we're going to come back and continue our lesson on the next episode and talk further about these ideas of one to four and show you how they manifest themselves through all of Hebrew Scripture all in regards to the formation of man or a done in the meantime I want to thank you for joining us on today's episode of Torah on location I'm avi been mortifying and we will continue you're willing to look at our study of the language of numbers and on the next episode we're going to talk about the four elements of creation we're going to talk about the four states of matter the four seasons the four directions the four principles of the material world you're gonna see this one to four ratio showing up everywhere in Hebrew Scripture there's something absolutely unbelievably fascinating with all of this that we're looking at come along on our journey from Eretz Israel as we look at the language of numbers I'm avi ben mortify Shalom from Torah on location in Eretz Israel [Music] oh yeah why you [Music] [Music] [Music] you