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Exploring the Hebrew Meaning of Servant

Oct 13, 2024

Lecture Notes: CJ Lovick on the Book of Job and the Hebrew Word 'Servant'

Introduction

  • CJ Lovick discusses the mystery hidden in the Hebrew word for 'servant' as found in the Book of Job.
  • Focus on Job 1:8, where God refers to Job as 'my servant.'

Hebrew Word for 'Servant'

  • Hebrew letters: Ayan, Bet, Dalet.
  • Ayan: Pictured as an eye, meaning to know, to see, and to experience.
  • Bet: Pictured as a tent or a house.
  • Dalet: Pictured as a door or a pathway.

Analysis

  • Traditional definition of 'servant': A person employed by another to perform duties, usually domestic.
  • Hebrew pictographic interpretation:
    • Ayan suggests knowing and experiencing.
    • Bet symbolizes the hospitality of a household.
    • Dalet represents a door or pathway.

Job's Understanding and Hope

  • Job 19:25-27: Job expresses belief in seeing God with his own eyes despite death.
  • Interpretation that those who serve God on earth will experience heaven as sons, not servants.

The Pictographic Messianic Translation

  • Ayan: We know and experience.
  • Bet: The hospitality of heaven.
  • Dalet: The path to eternal life.
  • Implication: God's servants on earth will be adopted as sons in heaven, akin to opening a door to eternal life.

God's Plan for Servants on Earth

  • Reference to John 10:9a: Jesus as the door to salvation.
  • Servants on earth will be adopted into God's household, similar to Job's fate.
  • Transition from servants to adopted children of God.

Conclusion

  • Encouragement to explore further mysteries in Hebrew with "The Living Word in 3D."
  • Promotion of resources: The book available at rockislandbooks.com and subscription to weekly updates from LivingWordIn3D.com.