Living Letters Hey

The Finding Emet radio program is focused on understanding and living the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The program features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rendleman of Emet Ministries. They explore the Hebrew alphabet and its significance, emphasizing the importance of the Hebrew language in understanding God's message. The program also offers resources on their website, including audio lessons, teaching articles, a free online Bible search program, and the option to submit prayer requests. In this particular episode, they discuss the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, "hey," and its connection to the idea of beholding and admiring. They use examples of a special dog and a meaningful picture to illustrate the concept. Hello, and welcome to the Finding Emet radio program. Emet is the Hebrew word for truth. This program will help you understand and live the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. The Finding Emet radio program features the teaching ministry of Brother Daniel Rendleman of Emet Ministries. Prepare your heart to receive the Emet, the truth of the scriptures. More audio lessons and teaching articles are available at the www.emetministries.com website. Please visit our site to find all things spiritual, including a free online Bible search program, or submit your prayer request. That's www.emetministries.com, or www.findemet.com. CD copies of this teaching are available for free by submitting a request at the website. Let's welcome our teacher, Daniel Rendleman, as he helps us find the Emet. So today we're going to be continuing our series on the Hebrew alphabet called the Living Letters. Everybody say that. Living Letters. And looking at Yahweh's Hebrew letters in the alphabet, not the alphabet, but the alphabet, and seeing a message from beyond. You've heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This is Close Encounters of the Yahweh Kind, because he teaches us through his word. He says, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth, and his word is written in what language? English? Spanish? Mexican? Is Mexican a language, by the way? Anyway, it's written in Hebrew. That's right. It's written in Hebrew. Evrit is actually the way to say it. It is written in Hebrew, and so as we look at the letters, and we look at the language, we're not just learning how to speak Hebrew. We're not just learning how to say, Ma Shalom Chah, which by the way, Ma Shalom Chah means how are you doing? Ma Shalom Chah, how are you doing, or how are you, in all actuality, it means how is your peace? How is your wholeness? Ma, how or what is, Shalom Chah, you hear the word Shalom there, don't you? Ma Shalom Chah. And you would tell me, you could say, Beseder, if everything's okay. You could say, great. You could say, Asi, Asi, which is Spanish for so, so. You could say whatever, but Ma Shalom Chah, so as we learn, we're not just learning how to speak certain words, but we're learning a message that God was giving us through His letters, and a lot of this is found in Tehillim, Psalm 119, as we've been going through this series. And this entire series is available, of course, at the www.emetministries.com website. Today we're going to continue this. We're going to look at the fifth letter. We talked about the aleph, the bet, the gimel, the dalet, and today comes the what? Say it again, louder. Hey. Hey, that's right. Hey, how are you doing? We're going to talk about the hey, H-E-I, I've seen it, or H-E-Y, I've seen it. I guess it could also be H-A-Y, but that would be a different kind of hey. So we're going to talk about the hey today, and to begin, I want to tell you the story, a true story about a very special time in my family. I was just a little yad, a little boy, and not much, you know, going on at the family. I had a little dog, and, you know, things were good, but then we found out they were selling these special pick-a-poo dogs, which is the cross between a Pekingese and a poodle. A little small dog, looks like an Ewok, looks like an Ewok, literally, and with real big bulging eyes, and we were told don't drop it on its head, its eyeballs will pop out. Now, I don't know if that's really true, but it worked, because we never dropped the dog on its head. That was like it had a soft spot. You know how the babies have soft spots. So we bought this Ewok dog, a totally black pick-a-poo, beautiful little mutt, you could say, and we brought it home, and my father, who didn't have much to do about dogs or so, looked at that dog, and the dog looked at my father, and all of a sudden you heard the music playing in the background, the clouds parted in the sky, the ray of sunshine came through the window, and it was like an amazing time. Love at first sight. If you didn't believe in it, you should have been here. Rewind my life and be there, as this dog looked at my father, my father looked at this dog and it ran to him. It was odd, you could say, especially the orchestra, the guys in the tuxes. That was really strange, but it was really odd. So there, we're at the house, and this happens, and then we said, well, what are we going to name it? What do we name this pitch black dog? There's not even a white hair on the dog anywhere. Totally dog. And of course, my father says, we have to name it Sparkle. Sparkle. Now that makes perfect sense. You've got a jet black dog. But to my father, this wasn't just a dog, was it? This was love at first sight, man's best friend. By the way, a dog in Hebrew is what? Caliph. Caliph is the Hebrew word for dog. Caliph is a compound word. You've heard the word lev before? Lev is heart. Caliph literally means close to the heart. With the heart. What do we say about men? Or about dogs and men? Man's best friend. So Sparkle was my dad's best friend. No longer was my mother important, because now there was Caliph. There was the dog. There was Sparkle. You think I'm joking. I'm not kidding. He would chew up his food and then spit it out and put it in her plate. Steak. This dog ate better than I did. I got the scraps. The dog got the good stuff, okay? But this wasn't just a dog. This was Sparkle, and Sparkle was special, and Sparkle was great. You know, just really good. Speaking of dogs, can I tell you a joke? Oy vey. This old lady's walking down the beach one day. She's done it for 50 years. She's old. She's like 55. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. She's old. She's in her 90s, and she's walking down the beach one day, and she always takes her dog, which, by the way, was a peek-a-boo. And they're walking down the beach and just having a good time, and she sees a shell just laying there, a huge conch shell. She's like, wow, this is great. I don't have one that size. She picks it up, and all of a sudden, guess what pops out but a genie, a genie out of the shell. She's like, wow, this is great. So the genie pops out and says, man, today's your lucky day. You get three wishes, and I'm going to grant anything you want three wishes. She says, oh, this is so good. She says, first of all, I want my house to become a mansion. My little house on the beach, my little hut on the beach, make it a mansion. So poof, the house becomes a mansion. Then she says, oh, this is so good. She said, I want to be a young lady. I want to have nice skin, and I want to be like I'm 20 again. So poof, she goes to being drop dead gorgeous. Then the genie says, you've got one more wish. Make it good. She looks down at her peek-a-boo dog. She looks at that genie. She says, I want my dog that's been with me all these years to be a handsome man that's going to love me and take care of me for all of my life. So guess what? Poof, the dog was like fabulous. The dog was like, I don't know, one of the Jonas Brothers. The dog was a great-looking young guy, had muscles, and it's just, oh. So they go back to her new mansion, and they're getting in, and she's just loving life. She's just walking in. She's so excited that the dog and her are talking. I guess it's the dog boy now or whatever. She's walking the dog man, and he's a regular guy. They're just sharing all this and all that. She said, oh, this is so great. I have you to love and take care of me all of my life. He looks at her and says, yeah, too bad you got me neutered. Uh-oh, sorry. I just had to go there. Come on now. So it wasn't just a dog to her, was it? This was a special dog boy, and for my father, this wasn't just a dog. Sparkle was something else. Sparkle was something else. You hear me? I'm not kidding you. And this meant a lot to my father. This is an actual picture here, or almost. Almost an actual picture of Sparkle the dog. The glimmer in his eyes because, you know what? The dog didn't sparkle, but when he saw the dog, he sparkled. His eyes sparkled. That's why he wanted to name it Sparkle. The name meant something to him. Now, how many have heard this phrase before? A picture is worth a thousand words. You've got one picture that's worth a thousand words. It could be all about this, and you could say this, you could say that, because it's deeper. You can remember a story when you see a picture. To this day, you go to my father's office, and there is a framed professional photography of his dog Sparkle. Rest her soul. May she rest in peace. Buried in the backyard. He'll be buried right beside her, I'm sure. Okay? But there's a picture of my mother, and there's a picture of a dog right beside her. More than meets the eye, this picture is worth a thousand words. Now, from a picture, you can gain all types of things. You get a glimpse and a glimmer. You can get something. Now, what does this have to do with our next letter, the hey? It's the idea, it's this concept of beholding. Of beholding. But there's a Hebrew word called henei. Everybody say henei. Henei, which is hey, noon, hey. And henei means to behold, to look, to see, to admire. You know, if you're reading in King James, or you're praying in King James, I don't know, don't you love these people that pray in King James? You know, they just talk normal, everything's fine. Would you please say the blessing? Oh, thou art goodest. Thou givest us this foodest to consumest. Thank you for this microwavest popcornest. We give you thanksest. You know what I'm saying? Thou art the good one, right? Come on now, don't you love that? Henei gives us an idea of that great Hebrew concept, or that good King James word, to behold. Lo, behold, hark. It means to look, it means to admire. Much like you would that special dog, or special wife, or special picture that you have. When people in the army go overseas, they take a picture of their children with them. They look at that when things get hard. Now, but this concept of henei, or to behold, this concept of henei, or to behold, is something very powerful. This concept of henei, or to behold, is something that we kind of lost as modern people. You know, we've seen it all, done it all, with the internet, with world travel. Nothing really stops us anymore. We say, wow, it's beautiful. It's beautiful, wow, that's great. But we can see that this letter is used throughout Psalm 119, and in a few verses that we're going to look at when it means to behold. So let's turn to Tehillim 119, and begin with verse 33 through 40. Now, if you have a King James version, it's going to tell you what letters are there. It's going to say it's the Aleph, the Beth, the Gemel, the Dalet. But turn with me to Psalm 119, 33 through 40. Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your commandments, and I will keep them until the end. Give me understanding, and I will keep thy Torah. Yes, I will be guard over it with my whole heart. Kol Nev. Make me to go in the path of the commandments, the mitzvot, for here do I delight. Incline my heart to your ways, and not to selfish gain. Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and receive me in your way. Establish my word unto your servant, which is for the fear of Yahweh. Turn away my reproach, which I fear, for your commandments are good. Behold, hinneh, I have longed after your precepts. Revive me in your righteousness. He says, teach me your ways. Give me understanding. Make me go in the path. Incline my heart. Turn away my eyes. Establish your word. Turn away reproach. Do all these things, and then, behold, I have longed for your precepts. Each of these verses in the Hebrew begin with the letter, hey. Again, Psalm 119 is one of the poems that David wrote, and each of the verses begin with a different letter of the Hebrew alephbet. In Hebrew. We're going to read it in Hebrew. Horeyni Yahweh derek. Kukeka v'ets reina ekev. Havinei ni v'etsra toratakha v'eshme reina v'kolev. Hadrika ni vintiv mitvoteka ki vocha vatsiv. Hat lebi'i eled voteka v'al elbasata. Ha'ayer inei mirotshav binracha kaneini. Hakim liavdekha imratekha asher leiri atekha. Ha'aver kertpati asher ya gorti ki mishpatekha tovim. Hinei ta'avti v'ifku dekha v'itsedakha kaneini. That's the Hebrew of Psalm 119, verses 33 through 40. And you heard Horeyni, Havinei, Hadrika, Hatlebi, Hakim, Ha'aver, Hinei. You heard all these words that begin with a ha sound. Or a he sound. The fifth letter of the alephet is the he which has the h sound. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Or he, or ha. It is this word. And in Paleo-Hebrew, the he was written like a man with his arms, holding his arms up over his shoulder. Like when someone says, stick them up. And you stick your hands up. You're like, wow, oh my goodness. Stick them up. That is what the picture of the he was like in the ancient Paleo-Hebrew. The word and the concept is used with beholding, standing back, pausing, to look. The letters change from this man being held up to what we have today of one of the letters in Yahweh's name, of course. The he, which looks like a dalet with a dash on the side. And some he words include hamantashen. Anyone here ever had hamantashen? They are so good. Hamantashen, it sounds German, doesn't it? It's Hebrew and it means Haman's hats. It's a cookie made at Purim in the shape of a triangle. You know, my hat has three corners, three corners have my hat. Haman evidently was a pirate and had a three-cornered hat. And at Purim, you make these and eat them. Very good. Good Hebrew word, he. Another Hebrew word, haftora. Haftora, halakha, which means the way to walk. Halel, which means praise. Now get this. Halel means praise. But hil-el, hil-el is the Hebrew word for the adversary or enemy, hasatan. Notice how close halel and praise and hil-el is? Isn't that interesting? Havdalah means separation. The havdalah service is a service at the end of Shabbat in the beginning of Yom Rishon or Sunday. Har, anybody knows what har means? Mountain. Very good. Hekel. Hekel. In the temple, you have the hekel. It's a place outside of the holy place, the hekel. Higayon is Hebrew for meditate or to think about. Hinei ani. Now the word ani means eye. That's the word for eye. Ani is eye. So hinei ani, if hinei means to behold or to look or to see, hinei ani means I see, I behold, I am. I'm here. Hodu? Hodu? Hodu le'awekito. What's hodu stand for? Thank you, give thanks. Hoshiana. We always thought they were waving those palm branches and said, Hosanna, Hosanna. No. They didn't speak English. They were saying Hoshiana. Hoshiana. Hanavi. We're going to learn that the he in the word ha is a prefix that means the or the. Hanavi means the prophet. Hamoshiach means the anointed one, the Messiah. Horeem. Horeem. Anybody knows what Horeem is? Parents. Your parents. Horeem is Hebrew for parents. And finally, Hadassah. Hadassah. We know her as Queen Esther. By the way, the word Hadassah is a type of plant, type of tree, a special tree we use. Hadassah is the myrtle tree. The myrtle tree. How about that? So the he is used throughout the scriptures. It's an important letter. But it's important because it teaches us so many things or so many lessons that we can learn from the he. Of course, this is one of the letters that is in Yahweh's name. And it's also one of the letters that's on the dreidel. You know, it's the spinning top game, the Jewish gambling game for Hanukkah. Where you get to spin the dreidel and get to land on he. And if you land on he, that's a good thing. Because you get half of the pot. He stands for half. And in Hebrew, again, the letter is used as an article, which means the. Like you have Hashem, which means ha, the, shem. Shem is Hebrew for name. Hashem means the name. Halev means the lev, the heart. Hakelev would be the dog. Or in southern, the dog. Tell that dog to be quiet. Right? D-A-W-G is how we spell dog in South Carolina. So you have Hashem, the name. And you have the hay, the hay on a dreidel. That is giving you half of the pot. This letter is interesting because it's also actually found three times in the scriptures all by itself as a word. It's found three times by itself as a word. And it's there to convey a very special message. So if you were reading in the Hebrew. And you were reading Genesis 47, 23. Turn with me there please to Beersheet. The book of Genesis. The book of beginnings. 47, chapter 47, verse 23. And you were reading this in the Hebrew. You would not see the word here for behold. You would actually see just the letter hay. In Genesis 47, verse 23. Dealing with Pharaoh. Dealing with Joseph. Dealing with the famine. In 47, 23 it says. Then Joseph said to the people. See, I have brought you this day your land for Pharaoh. Look, here is seed for you. You shall sow the land. Now that's English. But in the Hebrew where it says here is seed for you. It actually says. Hay. Zerah. It's the letter hay. As symbolic for behold. Or see. Or here is seed for you. The letter is just by itself. Now did that translator just make a mistake. And not finish the word out. No. There are some mistakes in Yahweh's word. The word is there by itself for a reason. The letter is there by itself alone for a reason. In Genesis 47, verse 23. It's also in Ezekiel. So turn with me to the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 43. True story. When I was in the Baptist church. We had a prayer meeting. The elders were there. And the preacher was there. The preacher said I want to share with you guys something from Ezekiel. He said turn to Ezekiel. One of the elders turned over to me and said. Is that in the New Testament? My wife was there. She is a second witness. So try to find Ezekiel. But I will tell you it's not in the New Testament. And look at Ezekiel. Chapter 16, verse 43. So the first time the hay is found by itself. It means here is seed. Behold look see I have some seed for you. The second time is in. Ezekiel 16, verse 43. And it says. Because you have not remembered the days of your youth. But it troubled me in all these things. See. Therefore I will repay your way upon the head. Says the master Yahweh. Because of your abominations. And fornications. Verse 43. Because you have not remembered the days of your youth. But it troubled me in all these things. See therefore I will repay you. The word for see guess what. Is the letter hay. Is exactly the letter hay. There is no word for see. There is no two or three letters. It is one letter. And we miss it. Yahweh is telling us a special message here. It says see. Behold. Hinei. Hay. I will repay your ways. Why? Because you did not remember your youth. So now turn with me to the book of Daniel. Daniel. The book of Daniel. Donnie L. Which means L is my Don. L is my judge. The book of Daniel chapter 3. We see the third time. When the hay is all by itself. And it may be wondering. Why am I here by myself? We know why. Because we can see Yahweh's Torah. We can see his word. Daniel 3. Bill of Nebuchadnezzar and Shadrach Meshach. And a billy goat. And in Daniel 3 verses 23 through 25. This is good. Daniel 3. 23. 25. These three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego fell down, bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace. They were thrown in. You see. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego rose up in haste and spoke to his counselors. Wait a minute. Did we not cast three men bound in the middle of the fire? They answered and said to the king. Oh true. Oh yes king. Verse 25. He answered and said look. Look. Hey. I see four men loose walking in the middle of the fire. They are not hurt. And the form of the fourth man is like the bar Elohim. The son of Elohim. Here. When he says oh my goodness. When he says look. When he says oh. Guess what? It's the hey. The word here for look or see. He says look. I see four men loose walking in the middle of the fire. Is actually the letter by itself. Floating all around the hey. There is a message Yahweh wants us to receive and understand from the hey. And if we go back. To these three verses. And then we put them together. We are going to get one of the many messages Yahweh has for us. Through the hey. The first place. The hey was by itself. It said behold here is seed for you. Here is an opportunity for you. Here is a beginning for you. Here is seed. Here is life. The next it says. Behold hey. I will recompense your ways. I will disturb you. I will repay you. I will confuse you. And then finally it says behold. This is our Elohim. Hey wait a minute. I see a fourth man walking in the fire. You see when we are born into this world. We are given the seed of life. Amen. We come into this world. We are confused. We are arrogant. Because we do not remember. Yahweh created us. But then eventually we do something called. Teshuva. And then we return. To the hey. We return to Yahweh. And we can see Yeshua walking in the midst of our fiery furnace. In the midst of our pain. In the midst of our problems. He is like that fourth man. He is with us. And when we see him. Guess what we should do. We should be there. But what did Nebuchadnezzar do when he saw Yahweh? He said hey. Wait a minute. He just shouted out that Hebrew word. That Hebrew letter. He said hey. Because why? Because the letter stands for behold. To see. Remember it was the man held up. He was looking. Sadly we have become so comfortable with Yahweh. Many people have forgotten how to behold. We have forgotten how to worship sometimes. Remember that. She is smiling. We were in church one day. And the preacher said that very word. Three people got up and left. How dare he call us not on the log. They picked up their logs. And they left the Baptist church. You remember. It caused so many problems. Because the preacher said you are like not on the log. When it comes to worshiping Yahweh. And if the Baptist can do it. And if the Baptist can do it. Why can't we? We have got to see him. We have got to behold him. We have got to be like Nebuchadnezzar and say hey. This is Yahweh. But what happens? You have the seed. You remember Yahweh has made you. Fearfully and wonderfully made. Yes you are going to go your own ways. But through Teshuvah you can behold Yahweh. You can say hey this is Yahweh. Well guess what? This is the letter of Teshuvah. Now what is Teshuvah? Teshuvah means to turn. It means to return. It means to come back to Yahweh. Amen. Or in King James it means to repent. To repent. However. Repentance is pretty easy for us. We just say I am sorry. Or we get like William Jefferson Clinton and say what is is. Did I really do something wrong? Teshuvah literally means to turn from your sin and to return to Yahweh because he made you. He created you. He knows you best. Too many people go down the aisle get thrown in the floor and get back up the same way they went down. Too many people go down the aisle and get back up and go back the way they went down. Too many people go down in the water and come back up the same way they were. Because they never repent. They never do Teshuvah. They never have a change of live. A change of heart. As we prepare for the holy days as the days are approaching we need to be doing Teshuvah. We need to be seeking our heart and saying Yahweh search me Yahweh. Cleanse me. See if there be any wicked way. Cast me not away from your presence. Remove not your ruach from us. But restore unto us the joy of your salvation and create in me a clean heart. The hey is the letter of Teshuvah and let's go ahead and make it clear what Teshuvah is. Teshuvah is not saying you're sorry and then going back and doing it again. That's not Teshuvah. I can tell my wife dear I'm sorry that I ran over your child. I'm sorry. I didn't do that but I can just say baby I'm sorry I ran over your child. And then guess what? The next time one's in my target I'm going for it again right? That's not Teshuvah. Bad example. But that's not Teshuvah is it? If I keep doing the same thing over but you know what? That's how stupid sin is. We keep doing the same thing over and over but we go to Yahweh I'm sorry. I'm going to stop doing that tomorrow. I'm going to stop procrastinating that sin tomorrow. I'm going to stop that sin tomorrow. Oh Yahweh I'm really sorry. And then the next thing we get the chance, we get the opportunity we do it again. That's not Teshuvah. That's cheap greasy grace. We think we can just slide on into heaven. Teshuvah means you stop. You say dear I'm sorry I ran over your 4 year old. I will never do it again. I will look behind me when I pull out. I didn't run over the 4 year old but I'm just saying I would never do that again. Maybe it's going to you and say you know what? I'm never going to drive again. I'm never going to go near a car again. I'm never going to back out of a car again. I don't want to do that again so bad I'm going to make some boundaries. I'm going to change my life. That's what Teshuvah is. That's what Teshuvah is. Teshuvah is symbolized to us through the hay. Let's talk about a few verses dealing with Teshuvah. In Mark chapter 1 verse 15 it says the time has come. The kingdom of Yahweh is near. Teshuvah and believe the good news. Believe the best I wrote. When we see the hay we should repent. We should think of Yahweh and we should do repentance. It means to behold. Mark 6 12 says they went out and preached that people should repent. How many churches, how many messianic ministries preach that? And the silence is deafening. Who preaches repent anymore? Now that doesn't mean we got to grow a big long white beard and get a play card sign and stand out at the side of a road and say repent the end is near. But maybe that's better than nothing. Point people towards the truth. Towards repentance. Towards repentance. Repent. Do Teshuvah. Psalm 34 18. We forget this, but we need to hear it. Yahweh is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Yahweh is close. The book of Job. Eov in Hebrew. Verses 11-14 says if you put away the sin that is in your hand and do not allow evil in your tent, then you will lift up your face without shame and you will stand without fear. That's powerful. Write that one down. The book of Job. The book of Eov. The book of Job. Chapter 11 Chapter 11 verse 14 and 15. If you put out the sin, if you kick out the sin that is in your yad, that is in your hand, and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then you will lift up your face without shame and you will stand firm without fear. If we look the sin in the eye and say no more am I going to allow this. I'm going to do Teshuvah. That's what Teshuvah is. It's putting that sin down that's in our hand and then lifting up our face without shame. Did you know that if you've gone to Yahweh and true Teshuvah and you've asked forgiveness and you've turned from that sin and you've turned to Yahweh that he has totally forgotten it. He doesn't even remember it. And when you go to him again and say Yahweh I'm so sorry I did this. He looks at you and says what are you talking about? I don't remember this. What sin are you talking about? You've done Teshuvah. You've asked forgiveness. You've turned from that. He says what sin? And yet we got it in our mind oh I'm so sorry. I was a bad person. I did these horrible things when I was younger. I did these horrible things a few minutes ago. Whatever it happens to be. And when we turn and when we return to Yahweh he says what sin? Matthew 9.13 says go and learn what this means. Go and learn what this means. I desire mercy not sacrifice. I have come to call the sinners not the righteous. Mercy. He desires to give us mercy as we sacrifice to him. Ezekiel 18. Ezekiel 18. 21 and 22. Shows us. Shows us true Teshuvah. But if a wicked man does Teshuvah and turns away from all the sins he has committed and keeps my decrees and keeps my Torah and does what is right he will live. He will not die. Verse 22. None of the offenses he has committed will be remembered against him because of the righteous things he has done. He will live. Whatever is in your mind. Whatever that secret sin is. Whatever that happens to be. Whatever has plagued you and had all these thoughts. How can I live with myself? I've done this. Yahweh says you will live. You will be fruitful. You will multiply. And I will not remember. The hey is to grab our attention and say hey behold what manner of love is this. Let me read this again. Get this in your Ruach. Get this in your spirit. That's a big word. If a wicked man turns away from his sins that he has committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is right he will live and not die. None of the offenses none of the offenses none of the offenses he has committed will be remembered again because of the righteous things he has done. He will live. Yahweh's promise for us. Yahweh wants us to be restored. To come back in love to Him. When we look at the hey we can see that this is the letter of Teshuvah. How is the hey the letter of Teshuvah? If we look at the hey it's written with other letters. Every Hebrew letter is made up of other Hebrew letters. The hey is made up of the dalet. Now what did we say the dalet was a picture of? A door. A door. So the hey is made up of the dalet and a yod. A yod is like a comma. Just a small mark. And if we look at the hey it's made up of the dalet and the yod. Now the dalet is a picture of the door. The yod is the only letter that is suspended in the heavens that does not touch the line. It is Yahweh's letter. How do you spell Yahweh's name? It begins with a yod. Israel begins with a yod. Yeshua begins with a yod. And then we have the dalet. So we see how Teshuvah is in the hey. The hey is spelled dalet yod. You put a dalet and a yod together and you get the hey. What does it show us? The hey is the door to Yahweh. The hey is the door to Yahweh. What is the hey symbolic of? Teshuvah. Teshuvah is the door to Yahweh. Teshuvah. If you repent of your sins, if you believe that Yahweh raised Yeshua from the dead and you repent of your sins that you can be forgiven and receive eternal hayim. Guess what else? The hey is an abbreviated form of Yahweh's name. Half of Yahweh's name is the hey, is it not? Yod, hey, vav, hey. Half of Yahweh's name is the hey. Half of his name is the hey. How many hey's are in Yahweh's name? Two. That means we should behold Him more than anything. So what's taking your time? What do you spend your time with? What do you spend your time on? Do you read more books about Torah than you read the Torah? Do you watch more TV programs than you're in the Scriptures? Think about it. We should be beholding Him more than anything. The hey allows us to behold Him. So, this is really good. There are two hey's in Yahweh's name. We are to behold Yahweh, is that right? Now, let me show you something. The hey is also in John 3, 16. John 3, 16. Which says, For Yahweh so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life. For Yahweh, we see that's one hey of Yahweh's name. So loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son. That's another hey out of Yahweh's name. But whoever would believe in Him, whoever would trust in Him, whoever would behold Him would not perish, but have everlasting life. Teshuvah is a Hebrew word for repentance. It means to turn from your sin and return to Yahweh. Watch this. In Hebrew, it's Tav, Sheen, Vav, Veth, Hey. That's how you spell Teshuvah. Tav, Sheen, Vav, Veth, Hey. Teshuvah. What does Teshuvah mean? It literally means to Teshuv, to the Hey. The word Teshuv, Tav, Sheen, Vav, Veth, means to turn. Means to turn or to return. If you're singing or dancing and somebody says Shuv, it means to turn. Teshuv means to return. Return or turn to the Hey. Tav, Sheen, Vav, Veth, Hey. Teshuvah. Teshuv, to the Hey. That's what Teshuvah says. Return to Yahweh. Turn to Yahweh. Do you get it? Now, the number five is important for us. The Hey is the fifth letter. And we know that this number is the number of Chesed or Chayn or Grace. This is the number of Chayn or Chesed or Grace. There are five books in the Torah. How does Yahweh show us His grace? Through Torah. Grace did not start on the cross. Grace began in the Garden of Eden. And it's explained to us in the five books of Torah. How many stones did David take with him to beat up Goliath? Five smooth stones showing us we take the five books of Torah and we can defeat any big old giant, any mean old meanie, any boogeyman that comes after us, any problem we have. The solution is in the Torah. There were five parts to the holy anointing incense, the incense that was burned in the Mishkan, in the temple. There were five parts. There were five parts to the anointing oil. Five parts. What does that show us? If we want the anointing, what do we need? The five parts of the Torah. If we want the incense, if we want the praise, we've got to behold Yahweh through His Torah. Five sacrifices offered by Abraham. Remember when Yahweh walked through the parts? Five sacrifices. Israel left Egypt in ranks of five and Yeshua took five loaves and He fed 5,000. It's a number of grace over and over and over again. For Yahweh, the hay, so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever hays or trusts or beholds in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. It's the number of chesed. It's the number of grace. The fifth book of the Bible is what? We have Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. In Hebrew, Devarim. And it's amazing that each letter is symbolized in the 22 books of Gil Yonah in Revelation. Each one of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet is symbolic of the books, the chapters in the book of Revelation. The aleph can be found in Revelation 1, the bet in Revelation 2, the gimel in Revelation 3. Well, guess what we find in Revelation chapter 5? We find the hay. And what is it so special? Where is this hay in Revelation chapter 5? But it begins in verse 9. And they sang a new song, a renewed song, saying, You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain. You have redeemed us, Yahweh, out of Your blood, out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. Verse 10. And then He made us to be kings and priests to our Elohim. We shall reign in the world. Verse 11. I looked and heard a voice of many heavenly messengers around the throne, the kisei, and the beasts, and the leaders, and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousands and thousands of thousands. Verse 22. What are they singing? What are they saying? But behold, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. And every creature that is within the heavens and on the earth and under the earth and such that are in the sea and such that are of those, I heard them saying, Blessing and honor, glory and power be to Him that sits upon the throne and to the Lamb forever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him that lives forever. They were worshiping in Revelation 5. They were worshiping. They were beholding Yahweh. They were seeing Him like they had not seen Him before. And of course, it's amazing that in Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Scriptures, and in chapter 32, we see the song of Moses. The song of Moshe. Deuteronomy 32, verse 43. Rejoice, O heavens, when all the heavenly angels worship Him. Rejoice, you nations and His people. The sons of Elohim strengthen them in Him, for He will avenge the blood of His sons. He will render judgment on His adversaries. He will reward those that hate Him, and Yahweh will make an atonement for the land and for His people. Does that not sound like what we just read in Revelation chapter 5? The song of Moses. Deuteronomy 32. He says in verse 3, Because I will publish the name of Yahweh, I will ascribe greatness to our Elohim. One lesson we can learn from the hey is worship. One way to behold Him is through songs. Amen? Through singing. Through looking to Him and saying, Hinei, hey, noon, hey. Yahweh is so good. Do you know why? Because when we sing, it gets our mind off of other stuff. Isn't that right? You know, it's easy when you're reading to be reading, you know, pick up the Bible, from there they move to the other side of Arnon and in the wilderness comes out of the coast of Amorites and Armand is in the border of Moab, between the Moab and the Amorites, and there's a scroll of the words of Yahweh in the Sea of Reeds and the books of Arnon and the stream of the brooks and goes down to the dwelling of Ab. You just pick up the Bible and read. It's like, you know, it's easy to get, let your mind wonder when you're reading. But when you're listening to the Word, when you're listening to it being taught, or when you're listening to it being sung, or when you're singing along, you're involving yourself. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of Yahweh. So what do we spend our time hearing? If it's not the Word of Yahweh, if it's not music that uplifts you, if it's not praise, if it's not something that's going to make you a better person, then cut it off. Don't fill yourself with that. Garbage in, garbage out. Amen? And when you're worshiping Yahweh, what happens? You can get your mind off that other stuff. Yahweh, you're so good. That hay. Oh, do lay away ketoth. Key lay olam kastoth. Oh, do lay away ketoth. Key lay olam kastoth. Sing it. Oh, do. Oh, do. Oh, do. Oh, do lay away ketoth. Oh, do. Oh, do. Oh, do. Oh, do lay away ketoth. Give thanks to Yahweh. Oh, do lay away ketoth. For He is good. His mercy endures forever. That's what worship's all about. Amen? And when we worship, guess what Yahweh does? He changes us. Doesn't He? He helps refresh us. He helps renew us. That's the power of the hay. That's the power. And these songs that we just looked at in Devarim 32 and in Revelation chapter 5, that's our song. Yahweh reigns. And to Him be glory and wisdom and power and honor and might. We know as we read through the scriptures that Abraham was tested 10 times. How many times? He went through 10 various and 10 different tests. Now it's amazing that it was on his 5th test. Which one? The 5th one, number 5, that something happened. Avram's name was changed. Before, remember, it was Abraham. Then he became Abraham. In Hebrew, it was Avram. Then he became Avraham. It was during this 5th test. If we read in Genesis chapter 17 that his name was changed. Bear sheet. Genesis chapter 17 verses 1 through 7. When Avram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him and said, Abraham El Shaddai, the Almighty, have your way, halacha, before me. Another hay word. And be perfect. And I will make my covenant between you and me and will multiply you exceedingly. And Avram fell on his face and talked with Yahweh and said, Oh, as for me, Yahweh said, my covenant is with you and you shall be the father of many nations. Neither shall your name anymore be Avram, but you shall be Avraham for the father of many nations will come from you. That's what Avraham means, the father of many. And I will make you exceedingly fruitful. I will make nations from you and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant, my word with you and your seed after me and your generations as an everlasting breath, as an everlasting covenant. Ten. He's establishing this breath. He's establishing this covenant. He says this shall be a sign between me and you. Every male child among you shall enter Brit Mala circumcision. Verse 12 and he that is eight days old shall become Brit Mala shall be circumcised. Every male child in your generations. So here he says, I'm taking you Avram with a dead womb, an old man and I'm going to make you many nations and I'm going to bless you and I'm going to give you a child and your name no longer shall be Avram, but your name shall be Avra Ham. He changed his name on the fifth test. Why is that important? Because in Avram, his name was spelled Aleph Vet Resh Mem. That's how you spell Avram. But during the fifth trial, Yahweh changed his name and he added one letter to his name. Any guess what that was? The Hay. He went in and said no longer are you Aleph Vet Resh Mem. No longer are you just Avram. But you are now Aleph Vet Resh Hay Mem. You are now Avra Ham. You are now the father of many nations. And he was also called a friend of Yahweh. Yahweh made his covenant with him. And he said you shall go through circumcision on the eighth day. We'll come back to that later. But he changed him. And he changed his name. During these tests, Avra Ham changed. He went through many changes. He learned. He did Yeshuva. He came to Yahweh. But do you know what else is powerful? Yahweh didn't add that Hay to the end of his name, did he? He wasn't finished with him. He put it in the middle. He said you're just in the middle of your journey. Avra Ham. Because the Hay is symbolic of Yahweh's name. It's like Yahweh took Avra Ham and added a little bit of himself to him. He said now you're going to be like me. You're going to be fruitful. You're going to multiply. And your seed will come upon my name. And your seed will keep my Torah. And your seed will follow me. Hay. The Hay was added. And it wasn't just added to his name. Whose else was it added to? Who else had their name changed when this took place? Let's look at Genesis 17 verses 15 through 16. And Elohim said to him, As for Sarai, your wife, you shall not call her Sarai any more. But Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her and give you a son by her. And I will bless her and she shall be the mother of many nations. Priests and kings shall come from her. The fifth test of Avraham led to the fifth letter being added to his name and to Sarah's name. Yahweh changed them both. Now, the fifth letter of the was added and now it was mother and father. And you know what else? He took her name, which was Sheen Reish Yod. Sarai and replaced that Yod with a Hay. Because the Hay is symbolic of Yahweh's name. Sarai became Sarah. And her dead womb became alive when the Hay, when grace touched her life. Isn't that what happens to us? We're dead in our sins. We're like a 99 year old man. We're like an old lady. We can't have any children. We can't do anything. And Yahweh touches us through his Chesed, through his Hay, through his Torah. And then what happens? We become alive again. Did you ever feel like you were dead just going to church? Oh, I don't want to go. I don't want to go. I'm sick of it. I'd rather just stay home. I'd rather watch Jimmy Swagger. I don't want to go. You know it's bad when you'd rather watch Jimmy Swagger. I just don't want to go. Dead. And Yahweh shows us the Hay. Yahweh shows us the Torah. And guess what? We're alive. We're impregnated with his power. And we have that fire within us. That's what Yahweh does. Yahweh changed her name. Guess what else he did? He changed her life. Yahweh changed his name. Guess what else he did? He changed his life. Even today that if you add a Hay to the end of a noun that Hay becomes feminine. It allows it to be fruitful and multiply. Isn't that right? You have Gelid which is Hebrew for boy. Yalda is girl. Many times putting a Hay at the end of a word makes it a feminine word. It gives it power to reproduce. This is Yahweh's nature, is it not? Yahweh created us in the image. In the image of Yahweh, he created them both. Isn't that what it says? Gotta go there. He says in the image of Yahweh, he created them both. Genesis 127. Now what's Yahweh? Yahweh is the Hay because the study of the Hebrew letters is a study of Yahweh. We can see him. Amen? So if he created us in the Hay, and the Hay is symbolic of grace, guess what? We were recreated to show us grace. Colossians 2 verse 8 says, As you have received Yeshua HaMashiach, so also walk after him. If we receive Yeshua by grace through faith, how are we supposed to walk? By grace through faith. Which means loving others, forgiving others. Seventy times seven. That's what grace is. It's giving someone the benefit of the doubt. As you have received Yeshua, so also walk after him. That's the purpose of the Hay. Is to teshuv, to behave. To turn to Yahweh. To bring man to repentance and then change man's name. Now we started this teaching talking about a special dog named Sparkle. Named not because she sparkled with a beautiful coat and sheen, but because the dog brought a sparkle to my father's eyes. The family pet became dad's dog. And literally was treated with more attention than newborn babies coming in the house. Queen Sparkle reigned at 1515 Caldwell Street. Sparkle made dad sparkle. Names are important. Amen. And if Yahweh has changed you, then perhaps you should decide or you should consider taking a Hebrew name. We read in the scriptures many times their names were changed, don't we? We read about a naming ceremony. In Zephaniah 3.9 it says, I will return to the people a pure language that they may call upon the name of Yahweh to serve him with one consent. And for centuries, converts to Judaism have taken a Hebrew name. Maybe their name was Bob. And when they converted to Judaism they said, call me Shlomo. Call me Yitzhak. Call me anything but Bob anymore. Yeshua was officially given his name on the eighth day. Yes, the angels said you shall call him Yeshua. Amen. He said you shall call him Yeshua. The angels said that. But if you read in Luke 2.21 that they brought him to the temple for his the circumcision and what happened? They officially gave him the name Yeshua. What did we say happened on the fifth test with Avraham when Avram was changed from Avram to Avraham? Brit Malah on the eighth day. Circumcision. Do you see the connection here? Of a name and the covenant of circumcision. Circumcision is symbolic of our covenant with Yahweh. People ask me all the time on the internet is circumcision for today? Is circumcision for everyone? And I say no. You don't circumcise ladies. Alright. But do you see the connection here between the eighth day the circumcision, the covenant of Yahweh changing his name and then here in Luke 2.21 Yeshua's name is given on the eighth day. He was officially given his name. Yeshua. Many times there are naming celebrations on the eighth day or sometime after that in Jewish communities where it's announced in public this person is now Ben Avraham Avenu which means the child of our father Avraham or if you were being named Nancy you're Nancy, you take a Hebrew name let's say you take Miriam to be your Hebrew name, we would say this is Miriam Bat Serai Amenu which means Miriam the daughter of our mother Sera A name is very important In our Gentile culture, what culture? People give you a name because oh it's popular. What's the most popular names of the year? We'll name you that. Isabella is one of the most popular names right now. Everybody's out there naming their child Isabella. Guess what Isabella means in Hebrew. Yeah. Jezebel. That's why we didn't name our daughter Isabella. She was named Isabella for one day then we changed her name on the second day to Rivka Rebecca. While people name their children after a parent or a popular name the scriptural reasons to name a child or to name yourself is its meaning As returning Ephraimites it's not a bad idea to adopt and use a Hebrew name. Not just be named after your family. Yochanan the Immerser was not named after John, was he? John his daddy? No. What was his daddy's name? Zachariah. Zachariah. He went against the flow of his culture because he had a special calling to be named something different. A Hebrew name is reflective upon Hebrew characteristics and lifestyle. You meet somebody their last name is Goldstein you probably think they're a Jew, right? You meet somebody with the last name of Patel you know where they're from, right? Hussein we know where they're from. What about if you meet somebody and say, hi, I'm Karen. Where is Karen from? I don't know. Udenzi. I don't know. Venus. Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Hi, I'm Yochanan. I'm Donnie L. Moshe. Yehuda. Yehoshua. What if you were to take a Hebrew name and not only use it during worship, but use it during your day? It would be another sign, another witness. But at least to be used while we come to worship. There's nothing wrong with that. Because we're not the same people we used to be, are we? We made Teshuva, didn't we? Didn't we turn from our sin? Didn't we return from Yahweh? Didn't we go back to Yahweh? Didn't we take the covenant with Yahweh? Well, guess what? Yahweh's changed us. So perhaps we should change our name. Names have meaning. They're of great importance. A name change may be the next step of intimacy for you. But your encounter with the Emet, the truth of your Israelite identity, may mean you want to go by a different name. There's nothing wrong with that. Because just as Sparkle was named after dad, maybe we could be named after our dad, Abiyahweh. And our dad, not Avram, but who? Avinu Avraham, who had his name changed. There's so much that we can learn from the Hay. The Hay has great meaning for us. It tells us a message of Teshuva to Yahweh. It teaches us about how to behold him. But the Hay comes off of the pages. Comes out of the scroll and meets us face to face. It's the number of grace. It's the number of Yahweh's power. We can behold it. And may we constantly behold. What Yahweh's done in us. The fifth letter. Of course, in one of the most popular verses in the Scripture, Psalm 133.1 Behold! See! Look! Behold! 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