Basis for our Studies this Year:
The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.
The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!
The Foods Yahweh has Given Mankind to Eat (in Torah) all Reveal Powerful Spiritual Truths...
The second diet was “the plants of the field” – after the Fall
Spiritual Meaning in the Recipe for the Sanctuary Bread
· We are represented as the dough (1 Corinthians 5:6-8)
o Leaven is an agent that is powerful (a small amount transforms the dough) – there is sinful leaven “hypocrisy” and “wickedness”. There is also righteous leaven, called the “leaven of the Kingdom”.
· John 6:51 - Yahshua is the Living Bread from Heaven, which is symbolized by the manna… Manna like the fruit in the first diet is provided from Heaven.
In the Sanctuary (Wilderness Tabernacle) 12 loaves of the Bread of Presence were placed – which were baked and eaten on the Sabbath.
· Matthew 12:5 - “Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?”
Shewbread is His Face shining upon – His Presence in the Bread
· The shewbread is an acceptable sacrifice “made by fire”, which means it is accepted (because it is eaten, not burned)… But sheen is the letter of the acceptable Sacrifice, which is both fire and teeth in meaning.
Israel are the loaves of bread – in the Sanctuary – which are the acceptable offering.
· Romans 12:1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Yahweh, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
Ingredients
in the Bread of Presence:
Meaning
in the wheat:
o
Sifting
is like beating out chaff, letting the wind blow out that which isn’t good
o
Ten
is the yod, which signifies the “Works of Yahweh” and His “Ten
Commandments”
o
The
wheat is accepted through the “Works of Yahweh” and through obedience to His
Torah (Abel’s obedient offering was accepted, while Cain’s
“I’ll-worship-You-as-I-please-offering” was not accepted).
o
In
the parable of the wheat and tares we see two kinds of people, two sides: wheat
(saved) and tares (lost)… every person is on one side or the other… These sides are emblemized in the two Trees
from Eden.
o
Wheat
is connected, in Hebrew, with the Tree of Life. It also represents the Word of
Yahweh… At Creation, Yah spoke the world
into existence… The basic units of
speech are the proto-Canaanite letters – There are 22 letters… The Hebrew word for wheat has the numeric
value of 22 (חטה = 22)…
This spiritually indicates that all Truth in the letters is present in wheat.
§ So, in Hebrew thought, these
twenty-two letters (and meanings) are the building blocks of reality – like the
periodic table of spiritual elements…
§ Notably also, because wheat is a
symbol of eternal life, carrying within the word the secret of Creation by the
Word (value of 22), Hebrew connects wheat with the Tree of Life from the Garden
of Eden
§ Conversely, tares are associated with
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
o
12
is the number of the Kingdom of Yahweh – 12 loaves for 12 tribes… 12 star families conveying the Plan of
Redemption (in symbolic representation of the tribes – Genesis 49)… There are 12 loaves of wheat bread –
representing the people who are partakers of Life (through Salvation, they have
access to the Tree of Life).
· Meaning in the measurement of the wheat: 2/10 of an ephah
o 2 = bet = House
of Yahweh / Temple / Sheepfold / the number of Yahshua, Who was the
Living Temple… The bread by having the 2 (out of 10 parts) is Israel…
o 10 = yod = Works
of Yahweh, His Law (10 Commandments)…
o The proportions of the wheat – which
indicates the Saved – underscore the meaning and identity of who is Saved, in
other words, they identify Israel, as follows:
§ 2 – Israel are those who are part of
the Body (Temple) of Christ – He is their Messiah
§ 10 – Israel are those who do the
works of Yahweh – obedience to keep the Commandments
§
Revelation 12:17
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant
of her seed, which keep the Commandments of God, and have the testimony of Yahshua
Christ (they have the testimony that Yahshua IS Messiah).”
§ Revelation
14:12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here are
they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Yahshua.”
Ingredients
in the Bread of Presence: #2 – salt – Leviticus 2:13
· Matthew
5:13 “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for
nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
o
Yahweh’s people (Israel,
represented in the wheat bread) are called “the salt of the earth”.
o
Salt is preservative – meat that
cured with salt does not spoil.
o
Yahweh’s people are to a holy
influence, signified by the salt. And when the salt is present, there is hope
for those who are steeped in wickedness and deception to be brought to
righteousness –
§ This
is demonstrated in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah
§ If
10 righteous had been in those wicked cities, that would been enough salt to
save the cities – literally – preservative
§ Salt
represents the godly witness and influence of the righteous life… The influence is represented in the “taste”
called the “savor”… “Taste and see that
Yahweh is good…”
Ingredients
in the Bread of Presence: #3 – 1/3 of an hin of olive oil – Numbers 15:6
· Numbers
15:6 “Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two
tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of
oil.”
· Olive
oil represents the quiet and transforming Presence of the Spirit… Israel is likened to an olive tree.
· Israel
are those who are indwelt by the Spirit of Yahweh.