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Shabbat
Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Today, we sadly use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from
the 1500’s.
Today’s date is March 4, 2023
March -- Mars' month
Middle English
March(e)
Anglo-French March(e)
Old English Martius
Latin Martius "of
Mars"
Latin Marti(s) "Mars" + -us (adj. suffix)
Latin Martius mensis
"month of Mars"
Martius has
always had 31 days.
March was the original
beginning of the year, and the time for the resumption of war
Mars is the Roman god of war. He is identified with the Greek god
Ares.
The God of Israel has His own Calendar: we are now in
the 12th month
of God, Day 11, called Adar אַדָּר
Esth.3 [7] …the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar
Soon Purim
Adar 14th and 15th is Purim – we will read the book of Esther,
James 4 [15] If Yehovah
will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
פּוּר Puwr {poor} also )pl.פּוּרִים ( {poo-reem'} or פֻּרִים poo-reem'}
Usage: AV - Purim 5, Pur 3; 8
times
Today’s
Topic
Images are everywhere
Gen.1 [26] And God said, Let
us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
[27] So God created
man in his own image, in
the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen.5 [3] And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a
son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Gen.9 [6] whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be
shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Some words for the word images:
עָצָב `atsab {aw-tsawb'}
Meaning: 1) idol, image
Usage: AV - idol 16, image
1; 17 times
חַמָּן chamman
Meaning: 1) incense altar, sun-pillar, idol, image 1a) used in idolatrous worship
Usage: AV - image
7, idol 1; 8 times
מַצֵּבָה matstsebah {mats-tsay-baw'}
Meaning: 1) pillar, mastaba, stump
1a) pillar 1a1) as monument, personal memorial 1a2) with an altar 1b) (Hoph) stock, stump (of tree)
Usage: AV - image
19, pillar 12, garrisons 1; 32 times
מַסֵּכָה maccekah
Meaning: 1) a pouring, libation, molten metal, cast image, drink offering 1a) libation
(with covenant sacrifice) 1b) molten metal, molten image, molten gods 2) web, covering, veil, woven stuff
Usage: AV - image
18, molten 7, covering 2, vail 1; 28 times
פָּסִיל peciyl
Usage: AV - graven images 18, carved images 3, quarries 2;
23 times
פֶּסֶל pecel {peh'-sel}
Meaning: 1) idol, image
Usage: AV - graven image
28, carved image 2, graven 1; 31
times
תְּרָפִים teraphiym {ter-aw-feme'}
Meaning: 1) idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol 1a) a
kind of idol used in household shrine or worship
Usage: AV - image
7, teraphim 6, idol 1, idolatry 1; 15 times
Evil images
Gen.31 [19] And Laban went to shear his
sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
[34] Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them
in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban
searched all the tent, but found them not. [35]
And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up
before you; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not
the images.
Commandment
Exod.20 [4] You shall not make unto you any graven image,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: [5] You shall not bow
down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I Yehovah
your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
[6] And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
Exod.23 [24] You shall not bow down to
their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly
overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
[25] And you shall serve Yehovah
your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take
sickness away from the midst of you.
[26] There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in your land:
the number of your days I will fulfill.
[27] I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to
whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs unto you.
Exod.34 [12] Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with
the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst
of you:
[13]…
you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down
their groves:
[14] For you shall worship no other god: for Yehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
[15] Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they
go a whoring after their gods , and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call
you, and you eat of his sacrifice;
[16] And you take of their daughters unto your sons, and their daughters
go a whoring after their gods, and make your sons go a whoring after their
gods.
[17] You shall make you no molten gods.
Lev.26 [1] You shall make you no idols nor graven image,
neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall you set up any image of
stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Yehovah
your God.
[30] And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images,
and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall
abhor you.
Num.33 [52] Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the
land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their
molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: [53]
And you shall
dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given
you the land to possess it.
40 years later
graven image
צֶלֶם
tselem {tseh'-lem}
Meaning: 1) image,
images (of tumors, mice, heathen gods), image,
likeness (of resemblance) mere, empty, image,
semblance
Usage: AV - image
16, vain show 1; 17 times
Deut.4 [15] Take you therefore good heed unto yourselves; for you saw
no manner of similitude on the day that Yehovah spoke
unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
[16] Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure,
the likeness of male or female,
[17] The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any
winged fowl that flies in the air,
[18] The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of
any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
[19] And lest you lift up your eyes unto heaven, and when you see the
sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven
to worship them, and serve them, which Yehovah your
God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
[23] Take heed unto
yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yehovah
your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or
the likeness of anything, which Yehovah your God hath
forbidden you.
[25] When you shall beget children, and children's
children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt
yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything,
and shall do evil in the sight of Yehovah your God,
to provoke him to anger:
[26] I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land
whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days
upon it, but shall utterly be destroy.
Deut.5 [8] You shall not make you any
graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
[9] You shall not bow down yourself unto them, nor serve
them: for I Yehovah your God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me,
[10] And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments.
Deut.7 [1] When Yehovah your God shall
bring you into the land whither you go to possess it, and hath cast out many
nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites,
and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than you;
[2] And when Yehovah your God shall deliver
them before you; you shall smite them,
and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
[3]
Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not
give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son.
[4] For they will turn away your son from following me that they may
serve other gods: so will the anger of Yehovah be
kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.
[5] But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy
their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their
groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
[6] For you are a holy people unto Yehovah your God: Yehovah your
God hath chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
are upon the face of the earth.
[25] The graven images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not desire the
silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto you, lest you be snared
therein: for it is an abomination to Yehovah your God.
[26] Neither shall you bring an
abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it: but you shall
utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deut.9 [12] And Yehovah said unto me,
Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people which you hast brought
forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out
of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Deut.12 [1] These are the statutes and judgments,
which you shall observe to do in the land, which Yehovah
God of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon
the earth.
[2] You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which
you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the
hills, and under every green tree: [3] And you shall overthrow their
altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall
hew down the graven images
of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deut.16 [21] You shall not plant you a grove of any trees near
unto the altar of Yehovah your God, which you shall
make you.[22] Neither shall you set you up any image;
which Yehovah your God hates.
Deut.27 [15] Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image,
an abomination unto Yehovah, the work of the hands of
the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer
and say, Amen.
All through the Scriptures
2 Kgs.17 [41] So these nations feared Yehovah, and served their graven images, both their children, and
their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
צְלֵם noun common masculine singular absolute
צְלֵם: לֶצֶם
צֶלֶם as artificial differentiation, det. צַלְמָא: image: statue
צֶלֶם tselem )Aramaic( {tseh'-lem} or צְלֵם tselem (Aramaic) {tsel-em'}
Meaning: 1) image,
idol
Usage: AV - image
16, form 1; 17 times
Just like the end of
time:
All through Daniel
1: [6] Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: [7] Unto
whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of
Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of
Meshach; and to Azariah,
of Abednego.
חֲנַנְיָה Chananyah {khan-an-yaw'} or חֲנַנְיָהוּ
Chananyahuw {khan-an-yaw'-hoo}
Meaning: Hananiah = "God has favoured"
מִישָׁאֵל Miysha'el {mee-shaw-ale'}
Meaning: Mishael = "who is what God
is"
עֲזַרְיָה `Azaryah {az-ar-yaw'} or עֲזַרְיָהוּ
` Azaryahuw {az-ar-yaw'-hoo}
Meaning: Azariah = "Yehovah has helped"
Dan.3
[1] Nebuchadnezzar
the king made an image of gold, whose
height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up
in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
[2] Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes,
the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors,
the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of
the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
[3] Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the
treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces,
were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
[4] Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people,
nations, and languages,
[5] That at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship
the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
[6] And whoso falls not down and worships shall
the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
[7] Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people,
the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
[8] Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the
Jews.
[9] They spoke and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
[10] You, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all
kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
[11] And whoso falls not down and worships, that he should be cast into
the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
[12] There are certain Jews
whom you hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not
regarded you: they serve not your gods, nor worship the golden image which you hast set up.
[13] Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought
these men before the king.
[14] Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not you serve my gods, nor
worship the golden image which
I have set up?
[15] Now if you be ready that at what time you hear the sound of the
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music,
you fall down and worship the image which
I have made; well: but if you worship not, you shall be cast the same hour into
the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver
you out of my hands?
[16] Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego,
answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer
you in this matter.
[17] If it be so,
our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and
he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
[18] But if not, be it known unto you, O king, that we will not serve your gods,
nor worship the golden image which you hast set up.
[19] Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of
his visage was changed against Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spoke, and
commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was was to be heated.
[20] And he commanded the most mighty men that
were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego,
and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
[21] Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their
hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the
midst of the burning fiery furnace.
[22] Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the
furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
[23] And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery
furnace.
[24] Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste,
and spoke, and said unto his counselors, Did not we
cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto
the king, True, O king.
[25] He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the
midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
לְבַר־אֱלָהִין
Meaning: 1) son
Usage: AV – son, 7
times
Aramaic Lexicon
אֱלָהּ 'elahh )Aramaic(
{el-aw'}
Meaning: 1) god, God 1a) god, heathen deity 1b) God (of
Israel)
Usage: AV - God 79, god 16; 95 times
Plural אֱלָהִין
[26] Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the
burning fiery furnace, and spoke, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the most high
God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
[27] And the princes, governors, and captains, and the
king's counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies
the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head
singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on
them.
[28] Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, Blessed be the God
Aramaic Lexicon
בְּרִיךְ
אֱלָהֲהוֹן
[29] Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation,
and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their
houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver
after this sort.
[30] Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.
εἰκών eikon {i-kone'} Meaning:
1) an image, figure,
likeness 1a) an image of the things
(the heavenly things) 1a1) used of the moral likeness of renewed men to God
1a2) the image of the Son of God,
into which true Christians are transformed, is likeness not only to the
heavenly body, but also to the most holy and blessed state of mind, which
Messiah possesses 1b) the image of
one 1b1) one in whom the likeness of any one is seen 1b2) applied to man on
account of his power of command 1b3) to Messiah on account of his divine nature
and absolute moral excellence
Usage: AV - image 23; 23
Near the end of time:
צֶלֶם
[1] And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast
rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns
ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were
as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon
gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
[3] And I saw one of his heads as
it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world
wondered after the beast.
[4] And they worshipped the
dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is
able to make war with him?
[5] And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great
things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two
months.
[6] And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his
name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
[7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds,
and tongues, and nations.
[8] And all that dwell upon the earth shall
worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world.
[9] If any man has an ear, let him hear.
[10] He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills
with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the
faith of the saints.
[11] And I beheld another beast
coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a
dragon.
[12] And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and
causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
[13] And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from
heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
[14] And deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those
miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them
that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the
beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
[15] And he had power to give life
unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both
speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast
should be killed.
[16] And he causes all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right
hand, or in their foreheads:
[17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
צַלְמָהּ
[9] … the third angel followed them, saying with a loud
voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and
receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
[10] The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is
poured out wiyout mixture into the cup of his
indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
[11] And the smoke of their torment
ascends up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship
the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.
[12] Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that
keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Yeshua.
Rev.15
[1] And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven
angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
[2] And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire:
and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over
his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand
on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
[3] And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and
the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are
your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.
[4] Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify your name? for you only art holy: for all nations shall come and
worship before thee; for your judgments are made manifest.
Rev.16
[1] And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to
the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon
the earth.
[2] And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of
the beast and upon them which worshipped his image.
Rev.19 [20] And the beast was taken, and
with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he
deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Rev.20 [4] And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment
was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Yeshua, and for the word of God, and which
had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands…
In
closing for today,
Images are everywhere, be watchful
May God
bless you
Shabbat
Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם