Jeff A Benner's Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible in intellectual content; Although quite different in scale and purpose to Hans Weir's Arabic Dictionary; Never the less is an essential volume for anyone seeking to understand languages from that Middle region of our world.
And while I have only had the privilidge now of using Benner's Hebrew Lexicon for about 10 days of Bible Translation discovering it surpassing and pushing aside the previous must have volume (BDB- Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew English Lexicon) compared to the at least 18 months I spent working through every entry in the Han's Weir work... I am already seeing things which having serious impact on the Christian Church I must now speak of.
(In this post which after a time- because it is not Bible Translation will be deleted-Ed)
In the same time period when I have been going from my very first Hebrew word looked up in Lexicons, to my very first Psalm attempted to be translated and so on, the leader of the Christian Heritage Political Party has been released from prison on parole.
So why would New Zealand internationally known for it's Human Rights record of not normally (Yes your local Mangere MP is still in prison-Ed) having political prisoners.. Well Why?
Is this Persecution of the New Zealand Church for her foremost political party ?
La! No! Not at all. Rather a work mate of mine from Sealords Fish Factory 1982 now a leading clergy man in New Zealand's quake damaged Christchurch upon discovering that the political leader was having sexual relations with family memebers turned that man over to justice.
And now- God willing- repented of what he has done we can reunite with our political leader in Christian fellowship as a brother- that is if he has genuinely repented.... (Matthew 18)
So what has this got to do with Arabic or Hebrew ?- Lots!
Intutively not looking for it- after a year or so of reading Hans Weir's Arabic Dictionary I began to see a pattern in the way that these Middle Eastern close cousin and at times identical languages, build up the illogic of their root words which flow to a family of word meaning.
And that the naturalist approach invariably meant that at times sex was the driving force behind the group of meanings. So in the forepage of the Hans Weir dictionary (that I gave to a local sending people to the middle east missionary organisation) there are 23 different roots which all relate to sex/covenant in terms of how Arab men think.
A visual example of a sexy covenant object attractive to the Arabic thinker is the actual Seven Pillars rock formation in Arab from which we get the Seven Pillars of Wisdom book.
Looking at that natural thing- you can see it has lots of cracks, and speaking in a very crude way now women have cracks which men find attractive and thus covenant is established.
Anyway I have only been using Benner's now foremost must have Hebrew Lexicon
for a few days but again without looking for them and I won't bother telling you precisely which roots I have identified... sex/covenant has become a theme which naturally emerges out of the Hebrew root system. Words like Tent Pole. And there in lies a vast difference I am seeing between...and I must emphasise I have not been looking for this, it is only an intuitive insight and my conclusions very tentative-early days in a brand new language... What occurs to me is that I did not see men's sex objects in Arabic, and likewise I have not seen yet a single Hebrew root yet which appears to be built upon women's sex objects... which proves nothing!
Right that preparation done I want to preach a sermon to the Church.
Let us pray- Lord God speak now to both our hearts and minds as we consider your word.
Right! Leviticus 18 (also found in a few verses in the Quran-Ed) is currently neglected in Biblical preaching, perhaps because Christians insist on saying we are not under the Law!
My testimony is that pondering why in Dec 1862 my ancestor jumped ship in the Otago habour coming ashore to produce a family that now has seven generations, why he was running away from our home isle in Scotland where the rest of his family lived and still lives ?
And more interestingly what kind of a curse is coming down through the family so that the first generation produces 2 boys, the next 3 boys, the next again only 3 boys, the following one 3 boys and the current one has 1 boy to carry the ancestors name and reputation...when other pioneer families after seven generations have literally hundreds of girls and boys by now....
Are the words of Leviticus 18 relevant to our thoughts and the afore mentioned Christian leader who went to jail a sign for the entire New Zealand Church about the same topic ?
Let us pray again- Lord God speak specifically now to our hearts Amen.
The difference just after ten days in Hebrew I am seeing between that and Arabic is that Arabic language appears from my seriously not academic and very unscientific intutive insight...(In other words he could be quite wrong-Ed) Is that Arab men are looking at women and that is reflected in those 23 potentially eternal covenant root word families of meaning while Hebrew reflects a concern of men to control their own sex thing and to responsibly build up the family.
A family that Benner roots emerging from his Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible, which God sees as being our reason for living and as men our chief Godly responsibility.
Pray with me now here- Lord God we confess whatsoever we need to at this point in time.
My cursed ancestor who now after 150 years only has one descendant to carry his name, shows all the signs that the curses in Leviticus 18 despite him embracing in South Canterbury the Salvation Army revival gospel, and we now every generation of his family following him in that, despite our seriously good knowledge of the Bible we still are as a family struggling with curses.
Ok again lets pray! Right now in the name of Yeshua we cut off these curses God save us!
So to conclude. Early days in my interaction with a brand new Hebrew langauge. But my advice to Church is this- Forget chasing demons- Rather concentrate on leaders and men having responsible sex lives, so that the door to curses, the tent door is firmly closed. Amen
Go to Watching Paint Dry- an earlier post; for more comments relevant to this discussion-Ed
ReplyDeleteEphraim- what is going on? Let me tell you!
ReplyDeleteRichest woman in the world currently is a Black Woman Oprah Winfrey- who has got to be that becasue of a history changing cross over which invovles her deliberately grabbing blessing from Jews- who have that to give her.
So be definition a True Jew despite their exclusive approach to life- Holieness defined (See Discoveringhitler blog) is one who loves and blesses Black and yes the USA Black Revival began with Mo Ashe out of New York years back.
So a true son of Ephraim will have and love Black /Africans especially as alone among all of Israel's tribes Joseph married one who was from the most talented religious family who is the mother of Ephraim teacning him Egyptian Witchcraft.
If you wondered why i am not longer allowed into Chrsitian churches- well the last statement tells you why!
If you consider yourself elite in God's ultimate plan test that in what is your heart attitude to coloured and black people who want to get things off you? Do you respectfully share what god has given you with them? Yes-Ephraim!
Discoveringhitler blog- the great contest of the past century and the emerging different contest of this new 'end of days' since 2006 period (the last chaoters of daniel-Ed) is who rules Israel. Ephraim with all the head-brains- strategy- or Judah/Jews with the tradition language book and praise of God? Both!!!!
Now this is a comment tacked onto the end of Incest- our problem- your problem?
Incest is saying I love my fabulous sielf so I worship my mother have sex with my dad or he lusts after me... an inward looking view of just waht a wonderful elite people we are- ephraim problem sort of thing!
Pray with me- Lord there is just so much in this comment; Let the things that are important to me right now attach themselves to my life and please by your spirit make me your holy servant Amen.
SCLC- Southern Christian Leadership Conference; My elder Muri Thompson (who rates alongside Mal Tari, Duncan Campbell) was for me a puzzel. Where did he get his annointing from and what was the nature of the burden he carried ? So letting him ramble, he once told me of going to USA on a US State Dept visit and going to the SCLC someone coming along and picking him up and carrying him.
ReplyDeleteThus what I watched in 71-73 was him get the New Zealand Christians into the streets to march Martin Luther King style in what in my small white rasicist town Ended(1843) our heritage of Arrogant Christian racism.
New Zealand Israel and Norway- about the same size in population- all blest beyond other nations- these three will in End of Days- (2006...until the end;) buck the North South split running South through Egypt and circiling the globe in a wandering line (Cutting China/Yangze in Half again)as the last chapters of the book of Daniel are outworked in human history. These nations are Both North/South- by Covenant. And white as white Norwegian/Scot a New Zealander (my skin color is actually red)get to be alongside Israel because of our heritage as Ephraim (the Deut 33 blessing of the uttermost parts) being as strategically important as Israel in terms of religion and trade etc. (Manukau Habour once the bar is swept clear by a tidal wave becomes the most important port in the sailing ship route Southern Ocean going up to China etc and then back to Europe.)
Judah and Ephraim both together joined with that covenant then as in our Waitangi Treaty sharing with our southern Black brothers....
How far should we take my anti white racist rave here?
Well in the whole world the riches woman is a Black girl molested as a child and having a baby at 14 living in Chicago's South Side gettho wrong side of the town Nashville- Ophrah. Her fried is Michelle whose husband the son of a Black as you can get African man is President of USA with an East African Islamic name known in Hebrew.
The US economy is about to go into freefall economic decline- and after China and Russia come into the assist in the cleanup after and through the terrible natural disasters etc- well yes Free Free Indeed... USA will always be South Ruled by Black men.
Pray with me here as I close out this blog as 2012 takes hold of history. Lord if I reading this I am a true son of Ephraim And you want me now to clear my head and start thinking and acting like our ancestor Joseph Prime Minister of Egypt then give me/us a deep love and respect for the woman given to Joseph as his wife who was most likely coal black in color skilled in witchcraft and ancient religions and not to be messed with. Lord if Joseph had a wife like that and she is our Ephraim mother then confirm that to us in the next few days in some way and help us to instill that love and respect for her into our family so that our grandchildren will be fluently North/South in heritage Amen.