The Feast Of Sukkot - Day 4

Sukkot - The Feast of Booths

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Water, water, water. Water everywhere. Moses’ life is saturated with water. His name has water in it (mem)

, he was drawn out of the

water and that is what his name actually means. He lead the Israelites through the water (Red Sea), they were cleansed with water for three days before they received the Ten Commandments. Moses hit the rock it gave water to the people in the wilderness. I think water is very important here.

His Name “Mem” = Water

Moses = Drawn from the water

Drawn from the water

Crossed through the water

Cleansing with water

Rock giving water

Moses’ name “moshe” or Moses’ name, has the meaning “drawing out of water”. If you turn his name around,

, it is “HaShem” the Name of YHVH, associated with the two

judgements of YHVH.

Restoration of the Spiritual Soul – Nashamah & Nephesh The letter “Hey”

represents “light” and is also the sound of a breath. YHVH gave man his

first breath by breathing into man (Gen 1). Breath is the word “nashamah” meaning “spiritual soul”. After YHVH breathed (nashamah) into man, he became a living soul (nephesh). In other words; man has two souls; a spiritual soul “nashamah“ and a fleshly soul “nephesh“. Nephesh is the same word used to describe living animals. Animals in Genesis are called living creatures (nephesh). When man sinned, he felled from “glory” of Elohim and lost his “nashamah” or “connection to YHVH”, and this left man only with his nephesh or fleshly soul. The nashamah of man was his ability to “connect” to YHVH and to interact and have a relationship with Him. The nephesh is man’s desires and personality that makes you unique among others. Since we lost the nashamah, we no longer have the desire for spiritual things or for YHVH. To be “born again” is to receive the Spirit of YHVH or the “Breath (Ruach) of Life that is your nashamah that will make you conscious and alive to YHVH and His ways. Abram’s and Sara’s names were changed to Abraham and Sarah by adding a “Hey” to their names and this is quite significant to describe them receiving YHVH’s Spirit or “Breath”. Abram changed to Abraham -

Sara changed to Sarah

This is why animal blood could atone for man’s sin in his fallen state because man fell to the same soulish level as animals. YHVH’s Plan is to restore man’s “nashamah” so that he can be lifted up to a “spiritual” state where he can commune with Him again. This spiritual restoration work was done through Y’shua first coming by pouring out His “Spirit” onto man. For man to receive the Spirit (nashamah), he needs to repent and accept Y’shua. The word for repent is “hatishuvah” word “tishuvah” “Hey”, or “return to the nashamah”.

and can be split in two by separating the “Hey”, the meaning “return to the” - “Hey” ,

Rebirth In Moses’ name, read from the left to right it means, “Hey - Shem”, or “Restoration of spiritual breath (Hey) in His Name (Shem)”. To do this you have to “come out from the water” or (moshe). To come out of the water is a symbol of being born or to be “born again”. This goes hand in hand with the symbolic meaning of baptism and the receiving of the Spirit. In the beginning YHVH’s Spirit hovered over the water, YHVH let the land came out of the water to be the basis and foundation for all life He created. In the same way Moses came out of the water to become the basis and foundation of all spiritual life YHVH created. YHVH gave the foundation for spiritual life through His servant Moses in the form of the Ten Commandments and the Torah. Moses was known to be the greatest profit among all the prophets and is a picture of Y’shua. First He created all physical life and through Moses, He created (restore) spiritual life.

Moses is synonym to the Ten Commandments and the Torah because YHVH gave it to man through him and the Brit Chadasha (NT) refers to the Torah as the Law of Moses. This new spiritual life is based upon the foundation that YHVH laid through His humble servant Moses. How could the Torah be annulled if it is the basis of this new life? Coming out of the water resembles the birth process of a baby born into this world and accepting the foundation of YHVH’s word (Torah) is the “food” and nutrition a newborn of YHVH needs to grow up into spiritual maturity.

Torah means “instruction” and “flowing like water”. This links up with Moses’ name associated with life giving water. Y’shua said on the last day of Sukkot that He is the living water of Whom Moses was a foreshadow. Water is the word “ma-yim”,

, “mem-yod-mem”. The letter “mem” symbolises water and the “yod” symbolises the Spirit. If we look at the word in Hebrew letters, we see the “life” or “Sprit” is coming out from the centre, right between the two “mems”. The Spirit of YHVH is the Life that is the centre and core of YHVH’s Living Water or Word.If we look further we see a “closed mem” and an “open mem” , The “closed mem” represents the mysteries of YHVH and His greatness that is still to be revealed. The “open mem” represents the revelation that we have received through revelation of His Spirit.

Moses’ life is a perfect picture of the Messiah Who was to come from his birth, where all the babies under the age of two were killed, right to where He was the saviour of the nation out of bondage (Egypt). He came down two times from the mountain where YHVH was and brought two sets of instructions. In Moses’ name is the “water” and “fire” symbols that confirms the two judgements on the earth (second is still to come). The Messiah came down from YHVH to bring the first set of instructions, restoring the broken relationship between YHVH and man. He will come a second time from YHVH, with the plan of the tabernacle, the same as Moses, to bring us the second set of instructions. In the second set is the instruction of how to live in YHVH’s ways and to be like Him. If you do not conform to His ways, it is impossible to live with Him. We call His ways the Hebrew culture; this is where all things will be restored to how it was before sin entered the Garden of Eden. The one language will be restored and spoken by all people, everybody will live in peace together and YHVH Himself will live in the New Jerusalem and will rule and reign from the City. Read Zec 14.

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YHVH started with Abraham and then used Moses to start the process of establishing His culture on the earth.

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In John we see the water and the spirit symbols again. If you haven’t received the water or the Spirit, you cannot enter the Kingdom of YHVH. The water connects to Moses and the first instructions given; the Ten Commandments, cleansing water, and then the Sprit (revealing the Torah), equipping the people to be able to live like YHVH and to become His set apart people, establishing His Culture (way of Life). Without the cleansing water (Ten Commandments), you are unclean and not set-apart and so unable to come in His presence, and without the equipping power of the Spirit (Torah), you are unskilled to live like Him and become like Him and does not know Him. You don’t need the Spirit to interoperate the Ten Commandments, it is straight forward, but you need the Spirit to give you the strength to walk in His Ways and to guide you and help you to understand the depth of the Torah. Without the Spirit, the Torah is dead letters, and you will not understand how to implement all that is written therein. Searching the Torah with the Spirit, you will find YHVH and the revelation of Him. These are like the two trees in the Garden, the tree of good and evil and the tree of Life. The Ten Commandments and the Torah shows us good and evil but the Spirit reveals true Life to us, and the revealing Power is the Spirit. *(

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Paul understood the Torah, and based upon the Torah’s foundation, he wrote Ephesians. The Spirit reveals the Messiah in the Torah, through having your eyes being enlightened. There are no “new” revelations, but only the mysteries of what has already been written are revealed through the Spirit. In these mysteries, you will find the Messiah, His plan for you and His plan for the world.

Moses was a humble man, if not the most humble man that ever lived. He is also the man that saw YHVH face to face. And in this is the key if you want to see YHVH face to face; you have to humble yourself. Humble is the word “anah” and it means - looking down; to depress literally or figuratively, abase self, afflict (-ion, self), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, weaken. Torah

is a feminine word (ending on a “hey” and thus a response from the Bride.

It comes from the verbal root “yarah” that means, “to flow as water” or “to rain”. It also means “to throw”, “shoot an arrow”, “cast”, “pour”, “to point out”, “to direct” and “to teach”. Sin means “to miss the mark”, and this shows us that we need the Torah to help us to aim properly and hit target every time. The Torah being water flowing down and rain falling down, is a symbol of humility and you will only receive this “Living Water” if you humble your self and submit under the One Who is the Source of it. This harmonizes with the “water” aspects found in Moses’ name and Moses’ character. One who receives the Torah will be able to give the Torah and will have a fountain of living water flow from their inside for all to drink from. , 2&3 & 7 9 :!"'! " 4 .! ' ! #! ) $

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His water is His Word, The Torah, and it is His Spirit, Who will teach you all things and will help you to be set apart and grow up into maturity so that you will be able to disciple others. This is one of the main reasons of Y’shua’s First Coming – so that we can receive His Spirit and be equipped to walk in His Way’s and continue His work. How does YHVH make us humble? First of all, arrogance is if you refuse to submit under His authority. He humbles those by leading them through the wilderness, through trials and tribulations, so that He might see what is in their hearts. He also does it with the humble if you read the book of Job. 5 #3 1 $ + ""

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If you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice, but if you squeeze a believer, Satan comes out. Your true character will manifest when you are out of your comfort zone and when you are desperate. What do you do when you are under pressure, do you break the Torah to make something else happen? We are all actors who can act holy and make as if we are following Y’shua perfectly. Nobody should see what you are really thinking or what is going on in your inside, so you hide it behinds a “mask of pretend”. When you are in a corner and when the pressure is on you will find out what is really in your heart. Sometimes you get an outburst and you see what to lay before YHVH so that He can deal with it. The problem is not having the outburst; the problem is not repenting and not trying to change for the better. To change is an effort and nobody likes it, but if you choose to change before the pressure is on, it is easier to deal with situations and to change for the better. All you need to do is to make a choice and to ask YHVH o help you to reach that goal you set for yourself. By doing this you work as a team together and you will have greater success.

Involve YHVH in your life, especially with your flaws and mistakes and fleshly issues, He will help you to get rid of it so that you will become more like Him. Paul said the Torah is a mirror and if we look in the mirror, we see the Messiah and we also see what we need to become like. We need to pick up the mirror of YHVH and look what His Son looks like so that we can ask Him to help us to become like Him. 7 # 7

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If you choose not to be humble you will be grouped with the proud. Pride is what caused Lucifer to be cast down from heaven. What does the Word say about the proud and what will happen to them? 9 ! 13 &1 + " " ( + " $* ! * ! ! " ! # . # # " " !( ( " + :$ " !# $ :" ( $* ! ;9<=5 >< )0*9) $ ( " # ! + # #$ # < " # + " # $* ! " ( # 5*)*9 *5* 0 ! # ?)< ;;9< * $ " ( ! 8 &8

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Note that the people who do unrighteous acts are those who are grouped with the proud and it is because of their pride that they refuse to submit under YHVH’s ruling and His Instructions and they follow their “nepheshly” animal instincts. You can stand on the sideline and say: “but I cannot judge anybody, what they do is right for them…” This attitude will land you a front seat on the way to destruction and that is why we need to discipline our children, because of this fact. If you turn a blind eye and do not react, you make yourself guilty of the sin you are ignoring and “approving” for the sake of peace and the relationship with that person or your child. Repent and react!! Use the Word and let the Word judge them, do not use your own wisdom. By doing this you will help them to know the Truth and walk in it. Your children are your responsibility. 5 #'2 ( + $ "

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You will be humbled, either by choice and free will or by circumstances and pressure form YHVH’s wroth. The choice is yours. ; (1 8

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These two are interconnected and you cannot see YHVH if you do not humble yourself. To humble yourself can be seen as worship, as well as an attitude. In the Hebrew culture work is seen worship and you should worship continually by everything you do. Having this attitude every day, working and worshipping YHVH, is the way to stay humble. By doing this, you will not only “see” YHVH inside of you, but others will see Him in your life. YHVH is expressed through your “changed character” and “changed culture” of set-apartness.

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