Category: Shavuot

BOAS EN RUT

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Die boek Rut het net vier hoofstukke, maar dit is skatryk aan betekenis.  Mens dink aan die boek as ‘n liefdesverhaal, maar dit handel oor meer as net die liefde tussen twee mense.  Dit is ‘n simboliese uitdrukking van JaHUaH se bonatuurlike liefde vir die mens. 

Boas en Rut is histories en simbolies belangrike persone in JaHUaH se ontvouende plan van verlossing.  Hulle verhaal is eenvoudig.  Dit speel af in ‘n vredevolle tyd van die rigters, hoewel daar hongersnood was wat verby was teen die tyd dat Naomi teruggekeer het na Betlehem.  Die sentrale tema is diè van ‘n weerlose weduwee sonder toekoms vir wie JaHUaH deur die skynbaar toevallige gebeure van elke dag tegemoet gekom het en ‘n rooskleurige toekoms geskep het.   Opgesom is die verhaal as volg …

Naomi en Elimeleg en hulle twee seuns het tydelik na Moab verhuis as gevolg van ‘n vernietigende droogte in Betlehem.  Nadat Naomi se man en beide haar seuns, Maglon en Giljon, daar in Moab afgesterf het, het Naomi as die enigste oorlewende uit haar gesin, besluit om terug te gaan na Betlehem.  Haar een skoondogter, Rut, het gekies om saam met Naomi te gaan.  Naomi het bitter en gestroop teruggekeer.  Rut het ook alles wat sy geken het agtergelaat, veral die god van Moab en haar lot verder vol vertroue oorgelaat aan Naomi se Elohiem, sonder dat sy kon geweet het hoe dinge vir haar sou uitwerk.  Vir haar was daar geen omdraai nie en dis toe daar in Betlehem waar Rut vir Boas ontmoet het wie met haar getrou het.  Die boek eindig met ‘n weergawe van Rut en Boas se kinders, kleinkinders en agterkleinkinders as bloedlyn vir die koningshuis van Israel wat met Dawid begin het.  JaHUsha, ons Losser,  is uit daardie geslagslyn gebore as die “Seun van Dawid”.

Die name in die boek van Rut is veelseggend.

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BOAZ AND RUTH

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The book of Ruth has only four chapters, but it is rich in meaning.  One thinks of the book as a love story, but it is about more than just the love between two people.  It is a symbolic expression of YaHUaH’s supernatural love for man.

Boaz and Ruth are historically and symbolically two important people in YaHUaH’s unfolding plan of salvation.  Their story is simple.  It takes place in a peaceful time of the judges, although there was a famine that was over by the time Naomi returned to Bethlehem.  The central theme is that of a defenseless widow with no future whom YaHUaH saved through seemingly random events of every day and created a rosy future for her.  Summarized the story is as follows…

Naomi and Elimelech and their two sons temporarily moved to Moab because of a devastating drought in Bethlehem.  After Naomi’s husband and both her sons, Mahlon and Kilion, died there in Moab Naomi, as the only survivor from her family, decided to go back to Bethlehem.  Her one daughter-in-law, Ruth, chose to go with Naomi.  Naomi returned bitter and stripped. Ruth also left everything she knew behind, especially the god of Moab.  She totally left her fate in the hands of Naomi’s Elohim, without her knowing how things would work out for her.  There was no turning back for her and it was there in Bethlehem where Ruth met Boaz who married her.  The book ends with an account of Ruth and Boaz’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren as the bloodline of the royal house of Israel that began with David.  YaHUsha, our Redeemer, was born from that lineage as the “Son of David”.

The names in the book of Ruth are meaningful.
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SHAVUOT, DIE VERLOWINGSVERBOND

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Shávuot is die laaste fees van die lentefeeste.  Die feeste van Israel is die bloudruk vir die vervulling van profesie. Net soos wat die volk Israel dit aanvanklik fisies beleef het en later jaarliks moes gedenk het, is die eerste helfte van die feeste volkome deur JaHUsha vervul.  Die ander helfte, die herfsfeeste, sal grootliks vervul word wanneer Hy weer kom vir Sy Bruid.

Die Israel van Elohiem (Gal. 6:16) het ontstaan as ‘n Koninklike Priesterdom (1 Pet. 2:9, vgl. Ex. 19:6).  Dit is net moontlik as Israel op een of ander wyse aan die Koning, JaHUsha, verbind kan word.  Diè verbintenis is ‘n liefdesverhouding.

Wanneer ‘n paartjie besluit om verloof raak, word hulle ook aan mekaar verbind.  ‘n Verlowing is ‘n verbond.

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THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SECOND ABOVE THE FIRST

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Most of us would agree that there are two births for man, namely a physical birth and a spiritual birth.

Why couldn’t we just have been born spiritually together with our physical birth? If there had not been a Fall, it would have been like this.  With the Fall, the spiritual died, therefore the spiritual in a person must be born again.  That’s an important fact.  

The whole issue of rebirth is the exercise of this spiritual law, namely that the physical is temporary and perishes, while the spiritual is eternal.  The big problem is that the physical comes first, just as a baby must first be born physically before it can be born spiritually.

Natural resources cannot fulfill spiritual needs.  What is of the first Adam is not of much help if we want to live the life of the last Adam.

Now the question is:  do you have the second, or do you only have the first?  Do you live from the physical or do you live from the spiritual?  Are you really born again and did you experience after that the baptising of infilling of the Spirit?  We call it Spiritual fulfillment.  One can also have had it and lost it again.

To be reborn and saved is to be “washed clean”.  Then, after that, we are ”to be clothed” with the Spirit of YaHUsha.

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GAAN AF NA DIE POTTEBAKKER SE HUIS

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In die Woord word die mens as ‘n aardse kruik uitgebeeld.  Adam is gemaak uit die stof van die aarde (Gen. 2:7). 

Die woord vir ‘n houer van klei (kleipot) is Strong’s H3627 wat kom vanaf die wortelwoord H3615 “kalah”, wat beteken “om te end”. 

Dit is soos om iets af te rond totdat dit reg is, soos wat ‘n houer voltooid en reg moet wees vir die inhoud wat dit gaan vul, gereed om gebruik te kan word.

Die Hebreeuse woord vir “bruid”, nl. “kallah” (H3618), is afgelei vanaf dieselfde wortelwoord.  Die bruid vul haar man aan en maak hom “kompleet”, volgens die betekenis van die wortelwoord.  In die begin is die vrou uit die man geneem  (Gen. 2:18, 21 – 24).

Paulus het die verloste mens beskryf as ‘n erdekruik, maar met JaHUsha se Gees van verligting as ‘n ”skat” daar binne-in (2 Kor. 4:5 – 7).

5 Want ons verkondig nie onsself nie, maar Messias JaHUsha as Meester, en onsself as julle diensknegte om JaHUsha se ontwil.

6 Want Elohiem wat gesê het dat daar uit duisternis lig moet skyn — dit is Hy wat in ons harte geskyn het om ons te verlig met die kennis van die heerlikheid van Elohiem in die aangesig van JaHUsha Messias.

7 Maar ons het hierdie skat in erdekruike, sodat die voortreflikheid van die krag van Elohiem mag wees en nie uit ons nie.

Die 6 klipkanne by die Bruilof te Kana is verteenwoordigend van die mens (die getal 6 is simbolies van die mens) wat as die Bruid van JaHUsha met Sy Gees vervul moet wees en dit word gesimboliseer  deurdat die water in die waterkanne in wyn verander het.

As deel van die Bruid van die Bruidegom, word gelowiges simbolies as verskillende kruike uitgebeeld in die Woord.  Ons is soos “klei in die hande van die Pottebakker”.

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GO DOWN TO THE POTTER’S HOUSE

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In Scripture, man is depicted as an earthen vessel.  Adam was made from the dust of the earth (Gen. 2:7).

The word for a vessel of clay is Strong’s H3627 which comes from the root word H3615 “kalah”, which means “to end”.

It is to finish something off until it is ready, like a container must be completely finished and ready for the contents that it will hold, ready to be used.

The Hebrew word for “bride”, namely “kallah” (H3618), is derived from the same root. The bride complements the man as she makes him “complete”, according to the meaning of the prime root.

Paul described the redeemed person as an earthly vessel, with YaHUsha’s Spirit of enlightenment as a “treasure” inside (2 Cor. 4:5 – 7).

“For we preach not ourselves, but Messiah YaHUsha the Master;  and ourselves your servants for YaHUsha’s sake. For Elohim, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of Elohim in the face of YaHUsha Messiah. But we have THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS, that the excellency of the power may be of Elohim, and not of us.”

The 6 water pots of stone at the Wedding at Cana are representative of man (the number 6 is symbolic of man), as the Bride of YaHUsha who must be filled with His Spirit and this is symbolised by the water which was in the pots that was turned into wine.

As part of the Bride of the Bridegroom, believers in Messiah YaHUsha are symbolised as different vessels in Scripture.  We are “like clay in the hands of the Potter”.

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DIE PROFETIESE BETEKENIS VAN DIE BRUILOF IN KANA

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Tydens die bruilofsfees by Kana het JaHUsha sy eerste wonderwerk gedoen deur die water in wyn te verander.  Die nuwe wyn is in kontras met die water van die ou (Levitiese) gebruike.  JaHUsha het later voortgegaan om die hernude Pasga-simboliek van die brood en wyn aan hulle bekend te stel.

Wat in hierdie komende dokument beskryf word as “die Kerk”, is die Nuwe Skepsel in Messias JaHUsha as die “Israel van Elohiem” (Gal. 6:15 – 16).

Dit is dus nie bloot die fisiese Israel van die Ou Testamentiese bedeling nie (hoewel hulle ‘n voorbeeld en tipe was, 1 Kor. 10:1 – 11), want nie almal is ”Israel” wat uit fisiese Israel is nie (Rom. 9:6 – 8).

Die Israel van Elohiem in Gal. 6:15 – 16 is “in” JaHUsha wat die Hoof is, met die Gelowiges in Hom as Sy Liggaam.  Hy is as “Seun” uit Egipte geroep (Matt. 2:15) net soos wat dit met fisiese Israel as die  “seun”van JaHUaH gebeur het met die uittog uit Egipte (Hos. 11:1, Hos. 12:14, Ex. 4:22 – 23).   JaHUsha was ook in die woestyn soos wat fisiese Israel was (Matt. 4:1 -11).

Met die gebeure by die Bruilof in Kana word die verheerlikte “My Verbond” van die Melgisedekorde-priesterskap as die “beste wyn” gesimboliseer en profeties geïmplimenteer, want ‘n huweliksluiting is ‘n verbond tussen twee partye. 

Die Melgisedekorde wat deur Eersgeborenes geopereer het was onderbreek toe die Levitiese priesterorde ingestel was as gevolg van die aanbidding van die Goue Kalf terwyl Moses op die berg was. Eersgeborenes is toe losgekoop en uitgeruil met Leviete (Num. 3), maar dit sou net duur totdat JaHUsha ‘n finale regstelling en ‘n transformasie van die priesterskap as Sy “dienaars” sou kom maak het, soos wat dit hier inderdaad simbolies gebeur deur middel van die Bruilof in Kana se “dienaars”. 

Die water hier by Kana simboliseer die fisiese Levitiese bedeling en die verandering na wyn verteenwoordig die transformasie na die geestelike as die “beter wyn”.  Dit is inderdaad die “Beste Wyn” wat tot laaste gelos is.

‘n Bruilof gaan oor ‘n verbondsluiting.  Die Bruilof in Kana sinspeel op die “My-Verbond” tussen Elohiem en Sy getransformeerde Israel (Gal. 6:15 – 16) en op die Bruilof van die Lam (vergelyk Ex. 19:1 – 25) wat ‘n koninkryk VAN priesters behels, nie ‘n koninkryk MET Levitiese priesters nie (vergelyk Ex. 19:5 –  6 met 1 Pet. 2:9).  Die Melgisedekorde (beste wyn) gaan gepaard met die “My-Verbond” as die Ewige Verbond en dit staan teenoor die “‘n-Verbond” wat die fisiese en uitgediende Levitiese sisteem is (water).   Daar was van die begin af ‘n onderskeid tussen die twee verbonde.  (Sien:  VERBONDE, VERSKILLEND OF DIESELFDE)

Lees nou:  DIE PROFETIESE BETEKENIS VAN DIE BRUILOF IN KANA

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UNDERSTANDING PENTECOST AND THE FEAST OF WEEKS

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Fifty days after the Savior had been resurrected, the disciples gathered in Jerusalem for the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot.

This important feast commemorated when Moses received the Law on Mount Sinai.

As the disciples celebrated with tens of thousands of other Jews from around the world, the Holy Spirit came down upon the disciples as flames of fire.

Today this is known as the day of Pentecost. As we better understand the historical background of the feasts, we can gain greater insight into the importance of Pentecost and our own worship of the Lord.

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UNDERSTANDING PENTECOST AND THE FEAST OF WEEKS

PENTECOST

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Pentecost is about the wheat harvest and is also called Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) because it is calculated by counting off 50 days after the 1st Sabbath after Passover.

The good seed of wheat represents believers/children of the Kingdom of Heaven.  John the Baptist prophesies that the Messiah will baptise the “wheat” with the Set Apart Spirit.

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