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The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.

Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are Wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and I and you are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.

Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.

Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.

We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.

We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as Fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.

Jas 1:5  But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.

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The Eyes of Yehovah

Last week, I spent the whole day working on this article about the eyes in the wheels of the Shekinah, which Ezekiel saw, only to have it all disappear as I went to post it late Thursday night. All of it was gone. I did not have time to redo it, and I then had to get ready to leave for Florida, where we did the video as mentioned in the introduction.  I will now try and retrace my steps and share what I have learned.

Ezk 10:9  And I looked, and behold, the four wheels werebeside the cherubs, one wheel was by one cherub, and another wheel by one cherub; and the wheels looked like the color of a stone of Tarshish.

Ezk 10:10  And their appearance was as one, the four of them, as if the wheel were in the midst of the wheel.

Ezk 10:11  When they went, they went on their four sides. They did not turn as they went, for to the place where the head faces, after it they went. They did not turn as they went.

Ezk 10:12  And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around, even their wheels that the four of them had.

Ezk 10:13  As for the wheels, it was cried to them in my hearing, Whirling wheel!

Ezk 10:14  And four faces were to each one. The first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

I was seeking an answer to the question: what are the eyes or what do they represent? Why was it important for Ezekiel to mention it to us? I had posted to you about the meaning of Golgotha and how the Mountain upon which Yehshua was killed was Golgotha. Golgotha means round as in a wheel, and sure enough, from every direction, north, south, east, and west, Golgotha today has the appearance of a round mountain.

I was working on preparing a video explaining this when the war broke out in Israel with Hamas. Just four days before the war, I rented a taxi to take me to all the places in East Jerusalem showing this mountain, and I video-recorded Golgotha from Abu Dis, Silwan, Abu Tur, and Ras Al Amud. After October 7, all of these places erupted in gun battles with the IDF and my project was shelved and forgotten as I tried to make my way out of there and back home.

Here are some of the initial scriptures I found about the eyes of Yehovah.

Pro 15:3  The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

2 Chron 16:9  For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro in all the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him. You have done foolishly in this; therefore from now on you shall have wars.

Job 34:21  For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps. 22  There is no darkness, nor shadow of death to hide there the workers of iniquity.

Jer 16:17  For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.

Jer 23:24  Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Jehovah. Do I not fill the heavens and earth? says Jehovah.

I also realized that Revelation has another description of four living creatures full of eyes.

Rev 4:6  And a sea of glass was in front of the throne, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind.

Rev 4:7  And the first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.

Rev 4:8  And each one of the four living creatures had six wings about him, and within being full of eyes. And they had no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

When I read Zechariah, he has another version of what the eyes are.

Zec 4:1  And the angel that talked with me came again and awakened me, as a man that is awakened out of his sleep.

Zec 4:2  And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand, all of it gold, and a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps on its top;

Zec 4:3  and two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl, and the other on the left of it.

Zec 4:4  And I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

Zec 4:5  Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, Do you know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

Zec 4:6  Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the Word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Zec 4:7  Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings, Grace! Grace to it!

Zec 4:8  And the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Zec 4:9  The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that Jehovah of Hosts has sent me to you.

Zec 4:10  For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of Jehovah which run to and fro through the whole earth.

The seven lamps of the Menorah ARE the EYEs of Yehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth. This is very similar to 2 Chron 16:9. Understanding what Zechariah is told about the power of His spirit was how things got done. We this same symbolism found when the Lamb is described in Revelation 5 and here it is telling us again the seven eyes are the seven spirits of Yehovah going to and fro in all the earth.

Rev 5:6  And I looked, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, amidst the elders, a Lamb stood, as if it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Looking at the seven lamps we can see the seven spirits spoken of in Isaiah.

Isa 11:1  And a Shoot goes out from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

Isa 11:2  And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest on Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.

1) The Spirit of the LORD
2) The Spirit of wisdom
3) The Spirit of understanding
4) The Spirit of counsel
5) The Spirit of power
6) The Spirit of knowledge
7) The Spirit of the fear of the Lord

The “seven spirits of Yehovah” in the book of Revelation are thus a reference to the Holy Spirit in the perfection of His manifold ministry. Knowing that each of the lamps is also the eyes of Yehovah, then we can understand how the Menorah represents His light, His spiritual being. As we explained in our article on the Altar, the fire was never to go out, and it represented Yehovah as a consuming fire. The Menorah also was never to go out as it too represented Yehovah as an eternal light.

Rev 4:4  And around the throne I saw twenty-four thrones. And on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white clothing. And they had crowns of gold on their heads.

Rev 4:5  And out of the throne came lightnings and thunderings and voices. And seven lamps of fire were burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.

Rev 4:6  And a sea of glass was in front of the throne, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind.

Rev 4:7  And the first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.

Rev 4:8  And each one of the four living creatures had six wings about him, and within being full of eyes. And they had no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

You can clearly see in the picture above that the main branch is said to be the Spirit of the Lord or the Spirit of Yehovah. It is the one that carries the other six branches. The Whole Menorah is representative of Yehovah’s being. Again His spirits and His Eyes.

Yehshua said on the 7 day of the Feast of Tabernacles. That Last Great Day, that He was the Light of the World. He is that central Branch of the menorah holding up al the rest.

John 8:12  Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

When we go to Zechariah 3, we learn more about these seven spirits which are the eyes and how they are equated to the seven lamps again.

Zech 3:9 For behold! I will bring forth My Servant the Branch. For behold the stone that I have set before Joshua: On one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave its engraving, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

The stone with all the eyes on it is the same as the lamb with all the eyes on it. It’s the same as the wheel with the eyes on it. Are you seeing the pattern?

Psa 118:22  The Stone which the builders refused has become the Head of the corner.

Isa 8:14  And He shall be a sanctuary for you, but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling to both the houses of Israel, for a trap and for a snare to the people of Jerusalem. 15  And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Mat 21:42  Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures, “The stone which the builders rejected, this One has become the head of the corner; this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?” 43  Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing out its fruits.

Act 4:11  This is the Stone which you builders have counted worthless, and He has become the Head of the Corner.

Rom 9:33  as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a Stumbling-stone and a Rock-of-offense, and everyone believing on Him shall not be put to shame.”

1Pe 2:4  For having been drawn to Him, a living Stone, indeed rejected by men, but elect, precious with God; 5  you also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6  Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture: “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner Stone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him shall never be ashamed.” 7  Therefore to you who believe is the honor. But to those who are disobedient, He is the Stone which the builders rejected; this One came to be the Head of the corner, 8  and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the Word, to which they also were appointed.

From this same scripture in Zechariah 3:9 about the stone, we also have mentioned the Branch.

Zec 6:12  And speak to him, saying, So speaks Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Behold the Man whose name is The BRANCH! And He shall spring up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of Jehovah.

Isa 4:2  In that day shall the Branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth excellent and comely for those who have escaped from Israel.

Isa 11:1  And a Shoot goes out from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

Isa 53:2  For He comes up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; He has no form nor majesty that we should see Him, nor an appearance that we should desire Him.

Jer 23:5  Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and act wisely, and shall do judgment and justice in the earth.

Ezk 17:22  So says the Lord Jehovah: I, even I, will also take of the top of the highest cedar and will set it; I will crop off from the first of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. 23  In a mountain, in a high place of Israel, I will plant it. And it shall bear boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. And under it shall dwell every bird of every wing; in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell. 24  And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I Jehovah have spoken and acted.

Ezk 34:29  And I will raise up for them a noted planting place, and they shall never again be of those gathered by famine in the land, nor shall they bear the shame of the nations any more.

Luk 1:76  And you, child, will be called the prophet of theHighest, for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways, 77  to give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins, 78  through the tender mercy of our God; by which the Dayspring from on high has visited us, 79  to give light to those who sit in darkness and inthe shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

This word Branch is the Hebrew word Tsemach:

H6780   (Ancient Hebrew)
H6780 = AHLB# 2666 (N)
2666) Hmy% (Hmy% TsMHh) ac: Sprout co: Sprout ab: ?: The springing up of a plant or bud.

V) Hmy% (Hmy% Ts-MHh) – Sprout: To grow out or spring forth. [freq. 33] (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Piel) |kjv: grow, spring, bring, bud, bear| {H6779}

Nm) Hmy% (Hmy% Ts-MHh) – Sprout: A plant that sprouts out of the ground or a bud that sprouts out of a tree. [freq. 12] |kjv: branch, bud, grew, spring| {H6780}

H6780   (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
צמח

tsemach

BDB Definition:

1) sprout, growth, branch

1a) sprouting, growth, sprout

1b) growth (of process)

1c) sprout, shoot (of Messiah from Davidic tree)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6779

H6780   (KJC)
צמח

tsemach

Total KJV Occurrences: 9

branch, 5

Isa 4:2, Jer 23:5, Jer 33:15, Zec 3:8, Zec 6:12

grew, 2

Gen 19:25, Ezk 17:10

spring, 1

Ezk 17:9

springing, 1

Psa 65:9-10 (2)

H6780   (Strong)
צֶמַח

tsemach

tseh’-makh

From H6779; a sprout (usually concretely), literally or figuratively: – branch, bud, that which (where) grew (upon), spring (-ing).

The Menorah is also a picture of the seven churches.

Rev 1:4  John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming; and from the seven spirits which are before His throne;

Rev 1:5  even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

Rev 1:6  and made us kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Rev 1:7  Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.

Rev 1:8  I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Vision of the Son of Man

Rev 1:9  I, John, who also am your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island that is called Patmos, for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Rev 1:10  I came to be in the Spirit in the Lord’s day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Rev 1:11  saying, I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. Also, What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Rev 1:12  And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me.

Rev 1:13  And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the midst of the seven lampstands I saw One like the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and tied around the breast with a golden band.

Rev 1:14  His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes were like a flame of fire.

Rev 1:15  And His feet were like burnished brass having been fired in a furnace. And His voice was like the sound of many waters.

Rev 1:16  And He had seven stars in His right hand, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword. And His face was like the sun shining in its strength.

Rev 1:17  And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying to me, Do not fear, I am the First and the Last,

Rev 1:18  and the Living One, and I became dead, and behold, I am alive for ever and ever, Amen. And I have the keys of hell and of death.

Rev 1:19  Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be after this,

Rev 1:20  the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

Returning back to Zechariah, we are told about the two olive trees that supply a constant supply of oil to the menorah, keeping the seven lamps lit. Golgotha is where they used to make the Holy Anointing oil for the High Preist. The two olive trees are likened to Yehovah’s two witnesses in the Book of Revelation.

Rev 11:3  And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

Rev 11:4  These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth.

Rev 11:5  And if anyone will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone will hurt them, so it is right for him to be killed.

Rev 11:6  These have authority to shut up the heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

Rev 11:7  And when they complete their testimony, the beast coming up out of the abyss will make war against them and will overcome them and kill them.

Rev 11:8  And their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Rev 11:9  And many of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three days and a half, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be put in tombs.

Rev 11:10  And the ones who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and will make merry, and will send one another gifts, because these two prophets tormented those living on the earth.

Rev 11:11  And after three days and a half, a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. And great fear fell on those seeing them.

Rev 11:12  And they heard a great voice from Heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they went up to Heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.

This picture given here is represented by another picture we have of a similar event.

Luk 9:28  And about eight days after these sayings, He took Peter and John and James and went up into a mountain to pray.

Luk 9:29  And as He prayed, the appearance of His countenance was altered, and His clothing wasdazzling white.

Luk 9:30  And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah,

Luk 9:31  who appeared in glory and spoke of His exodus, which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

Luk 9:32  But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep. But fully awakening, they saw His glory, and the two men who stood with Him.

I have been doing a lot of preaching about the five foolish not knowing or being known by Yehshua.

Matthew 25 and 7 both speak of it.

Mat 25:1  Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Mat 25:2  And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Mat 25:3  The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them.

Mat 25:4  But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Mat 25:5  While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

Mat 25:6  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet him.

Mat 25:7  Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

Mat 25:8  And the foolish said to the wise, Give us someof your oil, for our lamps have gone out.

Mat 25:9  But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there be not enough for us and you. But rather go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.

Mat 25:10  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And they who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

Mat 25:11  Afterwards the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

Mat 25:12  But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I do not know you.

Mat 25:13  Therefore watch, for you do not know either the day or the hour in which the Son of Man comes.

In the example above all ten virgins expect to be going to the wedding. So this is talking about those who believe. If you want to call them all the Church, then I am good with that if it helps you understand. But five of them had no clue they did not have enough oil. Yehshua gives them a very stern rebuke. He said I do not know you.

To drive the point home even more, we look at Matthew 7 where He says again I never knew you but then goes on to call them workers of lawlessness. Verse 22 tells you they are doing works as though they were some sort of church group.

Mat 7:21  Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

Mat 7:22  Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works?

Mat 7:23  And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness!

In Matthew 25 we see them going out on the Feast of Trumpets to buy the oil. We know it is the Feast of Trumpets because that is the day and hour no one knows and it is the Feast when He comes to get His bride. Only those who keep His feasts would know this. Because these five do not keep these feasts, they did not know it was a sin to buy oil on the Holy Days. They were lawless. This now brings me to the other meaning of the Menorah. The Menorah with all the eyes on it. The Menorah with the seven spirits and the seven churches represented by each Branch.

A very special thanks to Johanan Maerschalck for drawing this for us the correct way with each of the proper Holy Days for each branch of the menorah. Most people leave off the 8th Day Feast and pencil in Passover as the first feast.

How do you get to know Yehovah? How do you know Him so you will not hear those words I never knew you?

1Jn 2:3  And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.

1Jn 2:4  He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1Jn 2:5  But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

1Jn 2:6  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.

1 Jn 3:22  And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

1 Jn 3:23  And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

1 John 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.

Notice now in Psalms how it mentiosn shame or being naked. As we have said you will be found asleep and have to run home naked.

Psalms 119:6  Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have respect to all Your Commandments

Many people today say Lord Lord and will not keep the commandments.

Luke 6:46  And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

John 14:15  If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 14:21  He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.

22  Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?

23  Jesus answered and said to him, If a man loves Me, he will keep My Word. And My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.

24  He who does not love Me does not keep My Words, and the Word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

John 15:10  If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

14  You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

Read carefully the next verse. Those who OBEYED Him. They kept the commandments.

Hebrews 5:9  And being perfected, He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him,

The Commandments are not nailed to the cross as many teach. They are not done away as others teach. They are in effect and we must keep them even as we are told at the very last chapter in the Book of Revelation. We must keep them if we want to be a part of the Tree of Life.

Revelation 22:14  Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city.

It is the 4th commandment that most people will not keep. It this commandment which begins in Lev 23 by saying:

Lev 23:1  And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 23:2  Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The feasts of Jehovah, which you shall proclaim, holy convocations, even these are My appointed feasts.

These seven Feasts are Yehovahs. They are not the Jewish Feasts although the Jews are the only ones to have kept through out the past three thousand years. They are Yehovahs Moedim, His appointments when He wants to meet with you, each Sabbath from Sunset Friday to Sunset Saturday. Each of the seven Holy Days spoken of in Lev 23 tell you when He will meet with you. The Creator of the entire universe wants to meet with you on these days. MAny people will not be late for teh airplane or the Doctor but for Yehovah they blow him off all the time.

If you want to get to know Yehovah and to be known by Him, then you need to know the Holy Days and keep them. The Holy days line up with the seven spirits and the seven Sabbatical Cycles in a Jubilee Cycle.  Each of the Holy Days reveals an aspect of Yehovah like the seven spirits do. It is the only way to KNOW HIM so you wont be told I never knew you.

I began this study seeking to understand the meaning of the eyes in the wheels and the eyes of the Menorah. I have one more thing to share with you about the eyes. We find this Hebrewism in Matthew 6, but let me also share Luke.

The light of the body is the eye. The light of the Menorah was covered with eyes. The Cherubim were covered with eyes. The wheels of Ezekiel Shekinah were covered with eyes.

Luk 11:33  No one, when he has lighted a lamp, puts it in a secret place, or under a grain-measure, but on a lampstand, so that they who come in may see the light.

Luk 11:34  The light of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is sound, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

Luk 11:35  Therefore take heed that the light in you is not darkness.

Luk 11:36  Therefore if your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the shining of a lamp enlightens you.

Here it is in Matthew.

Mat 6:22  The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light.

Mat 6:23  But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

This is a Hebrewism, and it’s used even until today.

This is a Franz Delitzsch Edition. Delitzsch is this wonderful Hebrew scholar in the 19th century. He translated the New Testament from Greek into a “Mishneic” biblical style of Hebrew. This is probably very close to what it would’ve sounded like.

“Hu ha’ayin, ve’im eincha hi tmima  o tova kol gufcha yeor, ve’im eincha ra’ah az kol gufcha yichshach. vehi’ne im yischach haor asher bekirbecha ma rah hachoshech.”

If you’ve got a good eye, your whole body is filled with light. And good eye has nothing to do with vision. But if you’ve got an evil eye your whole body is filled with choshech, darkness, and how great is that darkness.

What’s an evil eye?

An Evil eye means miserly or stingy, and a good eye means generous.

“I don’t want to give that.” And you’re looking at it like you’re not happy about giving it. That’s the bad eye.

And the good eye is like, “Here, I’m generously giving.” It’s used many, many times in the Mishnah. So you can’t really understand that phrase without understanding the Jewish context and the Hebrew context of that expression.

The eyes on the wheels and the eyes on the Menorah, the Good eye spoken of above are all found right there in Exodus as part of the commandments.

Exo 20:4  You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Exo 20:5  You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,

Exo 20:6  and showing mercy to thousands of those that love Me and keep My commandments.

When you look up the word mercy, with which Yehovah is going to show mercy to thousands who love Him and KEEP His COMMANDMENTS. The word Mercy is:

H2617   (Ancient Hebrew)

H2617 = AHLB# 2181 (N)

2181) Dxh% (Dxh% HhSD) ac: Bow co: ? ab: Kindness: The bowing of the neck as a sign of respect and kindness to an equal. [from: xh]

V) Dxh% (Dxh% Hh-SD) – Bow: To bow the head at the neck. [freq. 3] (vf: Hitpael, Piel) |kjv: mercy, shame| {H2616}

N^m) Dxh% (Dxh% Hh-SD) – Kindness: In the sense of bowing the neck to another as a sign of kindness. [freq. 248] |kjv: mercy, kindness, lovingkindness, goodness, kindly, merciful, favour, good, goodliness, pity, reproach, wicked| {H2617}

b^m) Dixh% (Dixh% Hh-SYD) – Kind: A kind action, also one who is kind. [freq. 32] |kjv: saint, holy, merciful, godly, good| {H2623}

b^f1) Edixh% (Edixh% Hh-SY-DH) – I. Stork: From its long and bowed neck. II. Plumage: The soft feathers of the storks neck. [freq. 6] |kjv: stork, feathers| {H2624}

H2617   (Strong)

חֵסֵד

chêsêd

kheh’-sed

From H2616; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opprobrium) reproof, or (subjectively) beauty: – favour, good deed (-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

Yehovah’s eyes towards us is mercy, kindness, generosity and loving. The light of Yehovah is through His eyes, His spirit. We are to be like Yehovah.

Mat 5:13  You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its savor, with what shall it be salted? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and to be trodden underfoot by men.

 

Mat 5:14  You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

 

Mat 5:15  Nor do men light a lamp and put it under the grain-measure, but on a lampstand. And it gives light to all who are in the house.

 

Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.

Let your generosity shine through especially now in these dark days as the Day of Lord draws nigh. It can only shine when you are obeying Him, loving Him by obeying HIs commandments. This is how you get to know Yehovah and you will never hear those words, I never knew you.