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Come up here, I want to show you something;

(Revelation 4; 1)

BASIC CONCEPTS PART 1;

DAY AND NIGHT
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INTRODUCTION

This book may challenge your current thinking on many of the topics I have
covered. If you are comfortable with the knowledge that you have, it will not
be the book for you. The call is ‘to come up here’. This is a call to a spiritual
outlook and understanding of things contrary to our Sunday school and
church doctrine teachings thereof, for the people who have an awareness
that there is more to what they have understood in the scriptures and who
are looking for answers. In my experience, as I was reading the bible and
researching the original Hebrew and Greek words that were translated into
English, I saw a picture forming behind the veil of church doctrine and have
decided to put pen to paper with regards to these things.

The more we mature spiritually, the “higher” or better, or more refined our
spiritual vision gets, and with this comes great responsibility. The vision that
we have from a high position on the earth, like a mountain, is the antitype of
the vision we will have if we see things from a spiritual perspective. “Height”
in Hebrew is a word that means elevation, dignity, exalted. You can
understand why it is a more desirous position to be in than being low. But to
get to this state, we have to mature spiritually. A babe in Christ is not able to
deal with what is visible in the heightened spiritual position. Such a person
will interpret things incorrectly and may even become full of pride. God will
not give such a huge responsibility to one who is not able to bear it. Just as a
parent doesn’t give his child a car, until they have first mastered the art of
driving responsibly. When we become mature, we realize that life is not just
about us, and about living our good life now. We spiritually discern God’s will
and purposes and how they impact our lives not for us to live as we please,
but to live in alignment with it, essentially with a ‘Your will not mine’
mentality.

One day I was in a hotel in Cape Town where my balcony looked directly onto
Table Mountain. As I was enjoying the view, the Lord used it to show me why
an elevated position is of such importance for a spiritual understanding of
things. If I were to have been on top of that mountain, I would have been
able to see things from a 360 degree perspective, I would see things
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approaching before they reached me, and I would see things happening
down on the ground with a better perspective. For example; I would see an
accident about to happen before the people driving the cars involved would,
because I would be able to watch the cars traveling towards each other with
an undisturbed view. Things look a lot different on top of a mountain than at
the bottom. At the bottom I can only see things in my immediate vicinity,
things that come my way will only be seen when they have reached me, and
although I can turn around and see things from a 360 degree perspective, it
would only be things that were very close to me. It’s almost as if on the
ground I would have no context of occurrences, but on the mountain, I would
be able to see more and understand better.

We must never forget that there are two realms that God created; the
earthly one and a spiritual one, there are also two kingdoms which correlate
with the two realms; the kingdom of man (earthly) and the Kingdom of God/
Heaven (spiritual). We, in our humanness, walk around and live and move in
the physical realm and kingdom of man, however, we are flesh, soul and
spirit, and the spirit is the connection between God and man as He is Spirit
and only spirit can relate to spirit. The soul and the flesh in contrast, relate to
the earthly kingdom.

As born again believers, we are told that we are IN this world but not OF this
world. That is why we are called to live by faith, and not by sight. We have to
constantly remind ourselves that there are two Kingdoms at play at any time
in our sphere of life. We will only ever be conquerors through every earthly
circumstance, if we can discipline our minds to see in the spirit in the
circumstances.

In Revelation 4; 1, and 21; 10 John is called up higher in order to see the

things in the spirit that God wanted to show him. Jesus called John and Peter
up a mountain where they saw Moses and Elijah speaking to him. Peter was
on a rooftop when he had the vision of the sheet with all the animals on.
Moses had to climb Sinai to talk with God. These things are written in order
for us to understand that there is a need to enter another dimension,
(represented in the Scriptures by height) in order to obtain revelation.
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John says an insightful thing in Revelation 1:10 “I was in the Spirit on the
Lord’s Day….” This is crucial to understand. He was only able to receive this
revelation of things which must shortly manifest (Revelation 1; 1) because he
was ‘in the Spirit’ which means he was operating in the realm of the spiritual,
not the natural.

We naturally think of the heavens as higher in the context of height, but we

need to perceive that the heavens are symbolic of a more excellent realm
that exists as sure as the earth exists, and is only accessed by the spirit.

How then do we understand spiritual things? There is no formula to do so, no

step by step guide that anyone can give us. There is only one way. We need
to have another mind set than our earthly, carnal or natural mindsets
because Scripture tells us that the natural mind doesn’t understand the
things of the spirit. This is why there is a scripture in Colossians 3; 2 where
Paul urges us to think on things that are above and not below in order for us
to understand the deep things of God.

Thinking in an earthly, natural or carnal way, is like looking at our

surroundings from the bottom of the mountain. We will be limited to time,
space, logic and reasoning. We think of time as yesterday, today and
tomorrow. We have a linear perspective of everything which is very limiting
to our understanding of things. There is a more excellent way. (1 Corinthians
12; 31) Spiritual things are not limited to time or space or matter, and have a
different wisdom to them. Spiritual things have their origin in God who is
eternal, and therefore to understand them, we need to know that we can
never do so with our carnal, logical mind, nor with reasoning or human
wisdom. Paul tells us in Romans 8; 7 that the natural or carnal mind is enmity
with God and in 1 Cor 1; 25 that God’s wisdom is not man’s wisdom.

1 Corinthians 3; 1, 2 “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to

spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and
not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even
now you are still not able; for you are still carnal.”
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The scriptures are therefore very clear on the subject; we need to mature.
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God.
For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because
they are spiritually discerned.”1 Corinthians 2; 14

In order to mature spiritually so that we can spiritually discern and

understand the things of God, we need to renew our minds with God’s word
and truth. We need to repent. Now this is an interesting word in the Greek.
We have been taught that repent means to ask for forgiveness of our sins. A
confession of what we have done wrong. But the word in Greek is
‘metanoeó’ which means to change one's mind or purpose. Helps Word
Studies defines it like this; “metanoéō (from metá, meaning changed
after being with and noiéō, which means to think) – properly; to think
differently after, or after a change of mind; to repent (literally to
think differently afterwards)”. In Hebrew the word is ‘shub’ and means to
turn back, in other words, to change direction.

This means spiritual maturity is a process. Just like the natural process of a
child’s mind growing up in maturity as he or she grows up physically, so we
after we have been born again, become babes in Christ and need to move on
to become a mature person in Christ. I will write a booklet on the different
phases of maturity as explained in scripture in order to bring clarity on this
concept.

Ephesians 3;11-15 “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the
evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service,
so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith
and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the
whole measure of the fullness of Christ Then we will no longer be infants,
tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind
of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful
scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in
every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.”

To become mature does however demand a decision from you.

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The decision to be made is to the question; are you satisfied with what you
already know? Or are you willing to delve deeper into the things of God? Do
you want to remain where you are in the realm of the familiar and
comfortable? Or are you prepared to go up higher and ‘see’ and understand
the mysteries of God?

Going up higher is risky. Not everyone is willing to take that risk. I said
‘willing’, I did not use the word ‘able’ because all are able, but not all are
willing. Why? Because it’s going to challenge what you know and understand.
These things are not necessarily what you have been taught by your Pastors
or spiritual leaders, these things are not compatible with church tradition.
Your comfort zone will be shaken because what you will see, are things that
are not of the Kingdom of man and from the understanding of man, but are
of the Kingdom of God and these things cannot be understood by the natural
mind.

God’s wisdom is foolishness to man. And man has a habit of creating a

doctrine or a church tradition which conflicts with the word of God. Jesus
made a very important statement in Mark 7; 7 + 13 “And in vain they worship
Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men,” and in verse 13
“… Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you
have handed down.”

This is understanding scripture at a different level. People around you won’t

understand what you are seeing, and you will face opposition. The ordinary
man struggles with this. Even in Jesus time, the people who followed him
everywhere didn’t understand what he was saying. Jesus spoke in parables
and they took everything he said literally. Even his own disciples struggled.
But, he did say to his disciples in Matthew 13; 11 that to them it was granted
to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. To you too as his disciple.

The only question is; do you want to?

We are told that we have the mind of Christ, in other words, we already
possess it. (1 Corinthians 2; 16) It was the mind of Christ that revealed to
John the happenings of the end of the age in the book of Revelation.
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If we don’t operate in this mindset, we will not understand spiritual wisdom.

We will look for a dragon emerging from the sea, and another beast building
a statue as an image for us to bow down and worship, we will expect to see
strange beings with 4 heads and many wings that move around the earth,
(Ezekiel 1) monsters arising out of the sea and earth (Revelation 13),
horsemen riding through the earth carrying swords, bows and scales
(Revelation 6) and a dragon patrolling the earth, (Revelation 12) and all these
don’t make sense to us in our modern age. But if you have the mind of the
spirit, then you will understand what these things represent and you will
recognize them when they manifest in the natural.

The reason why God uses symbolisms and metaphors is because His truth is
so deep only these tools help to communicate its depth. God said in Proverbs
25; 2 “it is the glory of God to conceal a matter but the honor of kings to
search them out.” This means that there is a glory attached to mystery, and
an honor attached to searching the mysteries out.

It is necessary therefore for us then, if we want to understand God’s truth

properly, to leave behind the elementary understanding that we have of
many biblical concepts and to start to progress to maturity. We have for too
long stayed on the milk of scripture, the Sunday school teachings and
doctrines that we have been taught. It’s become time to progress to meat, in
other words, to maturity.

Hebrews 5; 12-14 “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you
need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God;
and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who
partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a
babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who
by reason of use have their senses/ perceptions exercised to discern both
good and evil.”
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Let me give you an example of spiritual discernment found in the scriptures.

At the time of Jesus birth, only 3 people recognised that a King had been born
on the earth that would have great spiritual implications. They were not even
Jewish. They were the 3 wise men who, when seeing the star called the
Desire of the Ages, understood what it meant. None of the Jewish sages, nor
the High Priest of the time had that spiritual insight. Even though they
studied the scriptures and knew the prophecies.

Let me give you another example. In Malachi 4; 5, 6 God said that before the
day of the Lord, Elijah will come. Now the Jews are expecting the physical
Elijah to return to the earth. At Passover, even today, they set a seat at their
table for him. Yet Elijah has come already. Jesus said so. In Matthew 11; 13,
14 Jesus explained to his disciples that John the Baptist was that Elijah. The
Jews had missed this fulfilment of prophecy because they read the scriptures
literally, and had no spiritual discernment.

I don’t know about you, but I desire the spiritual discernment to see and
understand the things that God is doing and bringing to the earth. I don’t
want to be part of the generations that have missed it.

This book is written for those who have seen that there is more, and who
desire it enough to search for it. When Elizabeth greeted Mary, John the
Baptist who was in the womb, jumped for joy. Even as a foetus, John the
Baptist had this spiritual insight to recognise the foetus in Mary’s womb as
his saviour. This book is for those who feel the jumping in their spiritual
womb when they read the things that I have written.

Matthew 13;45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking

beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and
sold all that he had and bought it.” The Greek word used for ‘seeking’ is a
word that means to search for in order to find. It’s a diligent and thorough
search by a determined person. This booklet is for these people.

Let us start at the beginning.

Genesis 1; 1 “In the beginning God/ Elohim created the heavens and the
earth.”
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WHO?

Who was God when He did this? The Hebrew word used for ‘God’ in this
verse is Elohim. It is in plural form.

We see that Genesis 1; 2 tells us that darkness was over the Deep and the
spirit was over the face of the waters. So before we have heaven and earth
we have the Deep, we have the Spirit and we have the waters.

John 1; 1 tells us that “in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with
God and the Word was God”. By starting his book with these words, John
who was Jewish, was taking the reader back to Genesis 1:1.

In verse 14 John goes further and says “And the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth.” From this we understand that Christ is the
Word of God. So Christ was in the beginning with God, and Christ was God.

We also know that waters are a reference to the word and therefore, Christ.
Ephesians 5; 26 “…..the washing of water by the word”

So Word = water = Christ.

Colossians 1; 16 tells us “For by Him (the Son) all things were created that are
in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or
dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him
and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist”

Proverbs 8; 22-31 “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before
His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the
beginning, before there was ever an earth. When there were no depths I was
brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before’
the mountains were settled, before’ the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet
He had not made the earth or the fields, or the primal dust of the world.

When He prepared the heavens, I was there, when He drew a circle on the
face of the deep, When He established the clouds above, when He
strengthened the fountains of the deep, When He assigned to the sea its limit,
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So that the waters would not transgress His command, When He marked out
the foundations of the earth, Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman;
And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him, Rejoicing in His
inhabited world, And my delight was with the sons of men”. This is wisdom
speaking – but we know that all the treasures of wisdom are found in Christ
so we can conclude that Christ is speaking here. (Colossians 2; 3).

Christ is also Father. The Messianic prophecy tells us this. Isaiah 9: 6 “….And
His name will be called wonderful, counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.” 2 Corinthians 5: 18 “Now all things are of God, who
has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the
ministry of reconciliation.” Christ is also Yahweh. Isaiah 41: 4 “Who has
performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? I, the
LORD (Yahweh), am the first; and with the last I am He.” Isaiah 44: 5 “Thus
says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: “I am
the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.”

Didn’t Christ in Revelation 22: 13 say the same thing? “I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Isn’t this deep and unfathomable? We have traditionally separated the two:
Father and Son, yet they are ONE.

The Deep was God. The Hebrew word for the ‘Deep’ is a word that means
great depths and implies something that is unfathomable, too big to see or
understand. Darkness was on the face of the Deep, and as I discuss darkness
in the pages to come, you will better understand why I can say that the Deep
was God.

We know therefore that God in all three of His manifestations was present in
the beginning as the Deep; the Father, the Son and the Spirit and that the
plural word Elohim encapsulates these 3. Perhaps we can understand this 3
in 1 person better if I give you a practical example. Mary who is married to
John, has three children and is a teacher by occupation. Mary is a wife to
John, a mother to her children and a teacher to her students. All three
persons, all three roles are contained in one person: Mary
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When we then read Genesis 1, we must have this understanding of who God
is.

WHERE?

So, now that we understand who God is in Genesis 1; where was God when
He created the heavens and the earth?

Have we always thought he was in heaven? 1 Kings 8; 27 “But will God indeed
dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot
contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!”

God cannot be contained by the heavens. In fact, before He created anything,

there was only God. This means that everything that He created, was created
in Him. Or did we expect Him to have made Himself smaller in the space that
He inhabited so that He could fit in the heavens and the earth?

This is why Colossians 1; 16, 17 says “For in him (the Son) all things were
created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones
or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him
and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

We must therefore conclude that both heaven and earth are IN God. This is
why Paul could say in Acts 17; 26-28 “From one man he made all the nations,
that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed
times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they
would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not
far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being.”
Paul is speaking to unbelievers in Athens! Yet he is saying that WE live and
move and have our being IN HIM and that He is not far from any of US. The
fish in the ocean is a picture of this. We are the fish and ocean is God.

There is no other conclusion that we can make from all this, other than the
fact that everything that God has created, exists IN Him, and He holds it all
together by His power.
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But Genesis 1 tells us so much more than just that when it says God created
two realms; heavens and earth. Heavens to contain spiritual things and earth
to contain physical things.

Didn’t Jesus pray; ‘on earth as it is in heaven”? The things God has deposited
into the heavens need to migrate onto the earth. We see this from the story
of the tabernacle. The earthly one was built according to the pattern of the
spiritual one. The earthly one was then destroyed so that the fullness of the
spiritual one can manifest onto the earth: the tabernacle of men. Aren’t we
now the temple of God? Isn’t this what scripture says? At the end of the age,
there will no longer be a temple – Revelation 21: 22 “But I saw no temple in
it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple,”

The first act of creation was to divide between the light and the darkness.
The word in Hebrew divide means to distinguish, to separate, to make a
distinction. This light was not the sun. The sun was only created on day 4. So
what was this light?

Perhaps we should first ask then; what was the darkness?

DARKNESS

Have we always understood that the darkness in Genesis 1; 2 was

representing evil? That was what I was taught and always believed until I
studied and researched the word used for darkness in Genesis 1 in Hebrew.
The verse says “darkness was over the face of the deep” – How would it even
make sense that the darkness represented evil?

The Hebrew word used for ‘darkness’ in Genesis is ‘chosek’. Remember to

read from right to left.

‫חשך‬
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It means darkness, as in the growing dark, or obscurity. Obscurity means

unknown, mysterious, a state of being unknown, the quality of being difficult
to understand, just like the Deep being unfathomable.

The Hebrew letters used to spell ‘chosek’ are:

Chet

‫ח‬
The ancient picture for chet is of a fence

It represented a secret place, something fenced off or protected.

The second letter is a shin. We dealt with a shin in Bereshit. Remember it’s
picture was of two teeth and represented the action of consume, press
down, or change. Because it is the first letter of the name of God ‘Shaddai’, it
also represents God.

The last letter is a kaf in its final form, i.e. this means when the letter is used
as the last letter of a word.

‫ך‬
When Kaf is used within a word it looks like this
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Kaf’s picture is of a palm of a hand and it represented the act to cover, to

open, to lift or press down.

The picture created by the letters of the word ‘chosek’ is not of an evil place.
Rather the picture created is of a separated place, where God is and where
you are either changed or consumed.

With God there is always this duality. This secret, separated place where His
presence is, can either be a protected place where His presence changes and
transforms you, or it can be a place of separation where His presence
destroys and consumes you.

The dual aspect of ‘chosek’ is illustrated so well in Exodus 14; 20 “And it (the
pillar of cloud) came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of
Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness/chosek to the Egyptians, but it gave
light by night to the Israelites: so that the one came not near the other all the
night”.

The same pillar of cloud was to the Israelites light but to the Egyptians
darkness (‘chosek’). This verse creates the picture that the cloud separated
the Israelites from the Egyptians so that the Egyptians, who didn’t believe in
God couldn’t see the Israelites because they were hidden in God. To those
who were trusting in God as their salvation, this ‘chosek’/darkness was
protection, covering, as well as illumination. To those who were against God
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and His will and Purposes, this ‘chosek’ was cutting them off, separating
them and keeping them in darkness.

I want to remind you of another scripture which perhaps will have more
perspective now too. In Romans 1 Paul speaks of those who “suppress the
truth in unrighteousness”, “who exchanged the truth of God for the lie” and
who “did not like to retain God in their knowledge”. He says their hearts were
darkened. Now compare them to the Egyptians who were given 10 plagues to
live through to demonstrate to them who God was, and who still decided to
reject the knowledge of Him. Now you can understand why the ‘chosek’ was
to them darkness. 2 Corinthians 4; 4 also has this to say; “The god of this age
has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the
Gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

Let’s look at what the word of God says in relation to ‘chosek’ / darkness;

1. Psalm 18; 11; “He made darkness (‘chosek’) His secret place, His
canopy around Him was dark (‘chosek’) waters.” The same picture is painted
by the Psalmist as in Genesis; that of God in the secret separated place
(darkness) face to face with waters.

2. When God descended on Sinai, Moses describes it as fire, darkness

(‘chosek’), cloud and thick darkness (Isaiah 60). All these are where God
dwells, where HIS presence is found. 2 Samuel 22; 10, 1 Kings 8; 12 and Psalm
18; 9-11.

None of the references to this ‘chosek’ are things to be feared or viewed

negatively by those who love God. Isaiah 45; 1-3 contains a powerful
statement and truth often overlooked about this place called darkness
/’chosek’. Verse 3; “I will give you the treasures of darkness/ ‘chosek’ and
hidden riches of secret places”. God says that in ‘chosek’, in the secret place,
there are treasures, hidden riches. Obviously the treasures are not money
and riches, they are spiritual things of eternal value because the purpose of
these treasures are as the verse continues to say; “that you may know that I
the Lord, who call you by your name, I Am the GOD OF ISRAEL”. The treasures
reveal more of God to man, and they are found in the darkness ‘chosek’.
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Now that we understand that the darkness in Genesis 1; 2 refers to mystery

and to where God is found, we will better understand the light that God
separated from this state.

LIGHT

The light that God called out of the darkness in Genesis 1; 3 is not light as we
understand light, just as darkness is not what we have understood darkness
to be. When we think of light, we think of the light of the sun or a lamp.

Paul speaks of this light of Genesis 1; 3 in 2 Corinthians 4;6 when he says; ‘For
God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made His light shine in our
hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the
face of Christ.’ This light is therefore the light of the knowledge of God.

In Hebrew the word for light used in Genesis 1; 3 is ‘ore’ and means
illumination, in other words; something that stimulates sight and visibility. So
the light in Genesis 1; 3 was something that stimulated the sight and visibility
of God.

‘Ore’ in Hebrew is spelt with the letters Aleph, Vav and Resh.

‫אור‬
Remember we dealt with aleph in Bereshit. The letter Aleph was a picture of
an ox and symbolised amongst other things a sacrifice or an obedient
servant. It represents Jesus as the obedient servant being the sacrifice.

The next letter in this word is the letter vav.

‫ו‬
The letter Vav was a picture of a nail
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It represents the function of joining things or connection. It is used in Hebrew

for the word ‘and’, connecting two ideas or words or sentences.

We also dealt with the letter Resh in Bereshit. It was a picture of a man’s
head and it represented the head, or leader, or the first.

The word picture that is painted by the Hebrew letters in this word ‘ore’ is
the sacrifice (Jesus), joined to the Head, GOD.

The light is therefore Jesus Christ, as the sacrifice of the world, proceeding
from or connected to the Father, and who shows us who God is. Exactly as
Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4; 6 “…… light of the knowledge of God's glory
displayed in the face of Christ.”

Didn’t Jesus say in John 14, 9, 10 “Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so
long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen
the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that
I am in the Father, and the Father in me?” This is also another example of the
spiritual understanding that I spoke about in the introduction. Paul had this
spiritual understanding when he wrote this verse quoted above in 2
Corinthians 4.

This light manifested on day one. The number one in Hebrew represents
oneness just as Jesus explained to Phillip that he and the Father are one.
Oneness is not agreement but rather doing the same thing at the same time.
Jesus said that he only did what he saw the Father doing. He was one with
the Father.

The ancient mystic rabbi’s said that the Hebrew letter Aleph brings into form
that which is formless, it makes solid that which cannot be grasped.
(Chaimbentorah)
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Look at John 1; 3 “all things were made through HIM (Jesus who is
represented by the Aleph) and without HIM nothing was made that was
made”.

The Greek word used for ‘made’ is ginomai. It’s a verb meaning to emerge,
transition from one point or realm to another, a change in condition or state,
to manifest, to come into being. So what John was actually saying in this
scripture is that all things manifested through Jesus, or emerged from one
realm to another through Jesus (who is the Aleph). Doesn’t this sound like
what the ancient rabbi’s said was the function of the Hebrew letter aleph?

Light was also not created in Genesis 1; 2, it was called forth, in other words,
it was already there, almost like behind a curtain, and was called to come out
and reveal itself. This interpretation of light is reflected in the description of
the ancient mystic rabbi’s of the letter aleph in Hebrew (bringing into form
that which is formless) and by the meaning of the Greek word ‘ginomai’ (to
manifest from one realm to another).

Jeff Benner in his Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible explains that the root
of the Hebrew word ‘ore’ is the action of order. This makes perfect sense
because in light there is order, in darkness or mystery or ignorance there is
confusion.

Therefore when God said in Genesis 1; 3 “Let light be” what He was saying in
all its layers of meaning is that the illumination of the knowledge of God must
be called out of the mystery/ darkness and bring order. The knowledge of
God brings order into our lives, it ‘turns the light’ on for us.

Solomon tells us how we get knowledge; Proverbs 2; 1-12” when we treasure

God’s commands within us, we incline our ear to wisdom, apply our hearts to
understanding, cry out for discernment, lift up our voice for understanding,
seek it search it; then we will find knowledge.”

Knowledge of God does not come to the cleverest, knowledge is given to the
one whose heart seeks it. This is very interesting once you understand how it
connects to the meaning of the word ‘morning’.
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DAY AND NIGHT

Now.

What did God then pronounce as evening and morning, day and night if
darkness was not the absence of light and light was not a physical light? In
fact we have to now revise what we have always understood as day and
night, and evening and morning too.

The sun and moon which govern daylight and night time hours by which we
identify what day and night is, was only created on day 4. This means that
because God already named something day and night before the sun and
moon were there, a day to God is not a day as we understand a day to be.

Genesis 1; 5 says; “God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.
So the evening and the morning were the first day.”

God called or named the light – the illumination – the knowledge of God -
day and He called the darkness – the secret, hidden place – the mystery -
night. The naming of things in the Hebrew mind-set means to give them
form. Nothing is just named something and the name is meaningless. In fact
the Hebrew word for ‘name’ means more than just a person’s name. The
name of something in Hebrew thought reflects its character and its essence.

So, God identified the two “things” by their characteristics.

The light/ knowledge = day, which is ‘yom’ in Hebrew and the darkness/
‘chosek’ = night which is ‘layil’ in Hebrew. To simplify it; knowledge of God is
day and mystery or ignorance is night.

The Hebrew word ‘yom’ is translated as a day but it does not specifically refer
to a twenty-four hour period, but instead more like a time in which
something occurs, an epoch of time in which something is fulfilled.

You can never look again in the same way as you used to, at these two words
in the Bible now. In fact now you should understand why Jesus would refer to
the hour, or to children of the day versus children of the night, etc.
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• 1 Thessalonians 5; 4, 5 “But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so

that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons
of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.”

• John 7;30 “At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on
him, because his hour had not yet come.”

• John 9; 4 “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man can work.”

Paul explains in Romans 1 how our minds can become darkened when we do
not recognise God who is visible and understood through creation. Paul was
Jewish, his writings proceeded therefore out of his Hebraic perspective. He
lists the things that people do when they operate in this darkened mind; all
things that represent disorder because they do not have the order/light of
God in their understanding. In Ephesians 4; 17, 18 Paul says “This I say
therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other
Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having their understanding
darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is
in them, because of the blindness of their heart” That is why Paul prays in
Ephesians 1; 18 that “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened”.

It is quite obvious then that light is something much more than just the light
from the sun or a lamp, and that understanding the agency that carries this
light is not just limited to the physical sun and the moon.

In Genesis 1; 14 “Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and
seasons, and for days and years”

The Hebrew word used for ‘lights’ in this verse means a luminary, a luminous
body.

To take this verse apart in the Hebrew with the understanding that I have
already given you in the previous pages, is to discover something amazing. I
will rephrase the verse with the Hebraic meaning of the English words used in
our Bibles. “Then God said; Let there be light bearers in the spiritual realm, to
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separate between times of knowledge of Myself from times of ignorance and

mystery, let these light bearers be for signs, for appointed meeting times, and
for change.” Who or what then are light bearers?

This should make you think of verses like;

Matthew 5; 31 -35 “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. There is
another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He
witnesses of Me is true. You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to
the truth. Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that
you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were
willing for a time to rejoice in his light.”

Matthew 5; 14 “You are the light of the world.”

Ephesians 5; 8 “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the
Lord: walk as children of light”

When we as the church, as the body of Christ, carry this light of

understanding and knowledge of God into our environments, we literally
switch the light on in the darkness of the minds of the people around us, it
becomes day for them.

2 Corinthians 4; 3- 6 “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In
whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them…… For God, who commanded the light to shine out of
darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of
God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.”

Who is Christ? You are – You are in Him and He is in you, as the church, you
are His body. Ephesians 1; 22, 23. You therefore are the light bearers, to be
for signs, for appointed times and to bring change.

The Hebrew word ‘yom’ (day) comes from a root meaning to be hot, it is
represented by the day hours, when the sun shines and heats up the earth.
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In summary then, day / ‘yom’ is a period when the light/knowledge of God is

visible, or tangible represented by the heat we feel during the day.

Night/ ‘layil’ in Hebrew means at its base level, twist away. As it is contrasted
to day, it means a twisting away from the light. When something is turned
away from light it would cause obscurity / darkness and cold. So night in
essence would mean the decision to reject the knowledge of God / light, the
turning away from it.

Another scripture should come to mind when you hear the words hot and
cold.

Revelation 3; 15, 16 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I
could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, will I vomit you out of My mouth.”

One can now understand why God says this. If the people were cold, it meant
that they had decided to reject the light (knowledge of God), if they were
hot, they were operating in the light (knowledge of God). But lukewarm
meant that they were neither here nor there, unwilling to take a stand.
Remember what God said to Israel; Deuteronomy 30; 19 “I call heaven and
earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and
death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your
descendants may live.” Just as Adam and Eve were put before a choice to eat
from the tree or not, so are we called to choose; will we be children of the
day or children of the night?

To sum up; ‘day’ is a period in which what was not known about God comes
out of the mystery (dark/ night) and is visible. Carry this understanding into
the rest of Genesis 1 and you will understand that in each ‘day’ God brought
something into being, out of that which was without form and purpose (“and
the earth was without form and void”) that would exhibit Him and His order,
and which would bring the knowledge of the glory of God out of the mystery/
dark. This is exactly why Paul could say in Romans that the knowledge of God
is visible in the creation. Therefore a day is not a measure of human time, it is
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instead the moment a thing that was in God, and that would show God, has
become manifested.

EVENING AND MORNING

God’s days in Genesis start with evening before the morning and not morning
and then evening. Of course this is so, as Genesis 1 started with darkness.
What is evening and morning then?

The evening in Hebrew is the word ‘oreb’, which means a growing dark, dusk,
a growing obscure, a covering (as with a veil). And morning in Hebrew is a
word that is derived from a root meaning to split, penetrate, as the sun’s rays
penetrate the darkness at the break of day, to break forth, to search or seek
out. The definition includes the words ‘to search and seek out’ which is
profound as it demonstrates exactly what I have just said about light and
darkness. When you search or seek out something, your understanding starts
to have light break through into the darkness of ignorance. And so creation
actually tells us that man starts with obscurity, darkness in his mind regarding
God, and with a diligent search, the morning breaks, day breaks and
light/knowledge of God enters and brings order. Exactly what Paul says in
Romans 1; 19, 20 “…. because what may be known of God is manifest in
them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His
invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse”

We can conclude then, that because day and night, evening and morning
have to do with displaying the knowledge of God and either the seeking for it
or the turning away from it, they can be understood as periods where the
knowledge of God is visible and the dawning of day comes versus periods
where it is secret or veiled and it is night.

Do you know that there will come a time when there will no longer be any
night? Revelation 21: 22 – 25 “But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of
the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its
light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the
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kings of the earth bring their glory and honour into it. Its gates shall not be
shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).”

The church has interpreted this verse in Revelation 21 to mean that we will
never have to sleep again. How ridiculously short sighted. When the ‘new
heavens and the new earth’ come into being, and God is dwelling in it, then
there will no longer be any ignorance and mystery regarding Him. That is why
there will no longer be any night.

ONE DAY

Now God said in Genesis 1; 5 “So the evening and the morning were the first
day.”

The Hebrew word used for the translated word ‘first’ is the word ‘echad’. This
word means one, not first. The Hebrew word for first, is ‘rishon’. If God was
intending to indicate that the day He called light out was the first day in a
sequence, He would have used the word ‘rishon’.

You will see that some English translations of this verse do in fact say “And
there was evening and there was morning, one day.” This is actually the
correct translation. God was not saying that this day was first, He was
referring to this day, which we now know is a moment when knowledge of
God arises out of mystery, as ONE day. God is referring to a specific moment.

2 Peter 1; 16 -19 “For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we
made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were
eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honour and
glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” And we heard this voice which
came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. And so we
have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed, as a light that
shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in
your hearts”

Hebrews 4; 3- 11 “for we do enter into the rest — we who did believe, as He

said, ‘So I swore in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest —;’ and yet the
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works were done from the foundation of the world, for He spoke in a certain
place concerning the seventh [day] thus: ‘And God did rest in the seventh day
from all His works;’ and again, ‘If they shall enter into My rest — ;’ since then,
it remain for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news
entered not in because of unbelief —again He doth limit a certain day, ‘To-
day,’ (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, ‘To-day, if
His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,’ for if Joshua had given
them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these
things; there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, for he
who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His
own.”

Did you notice that the first reference to ‘day’ in the above was in brackets,
in your bible it will be in italics. This is because the writer of Hebrews did not
use the word day there. The bible translators inserted it. It certainly changes
the meaning if you read the scripture without the word ‘day’.

CHALLENGE

Can we really speak of a 7 day creation account if the elements used to

determine 24 hour periods of ‘day’ were only created on day 4?

Can we then really speak of a 7th day Sabbath rest if the sequential day on
which God rested, (if we speak of 24 hour periods as days governed by the
rising and setting sun), would then have actually been day 4. (On day 4 the
sun and moon are created and a 24 hour day is introduced on the earth – so
this is in essence day 1, day 5 the fish are created – this is the second day, day
6 man and beast are created so this is day three and day 7 God rested so this
is day 4 – in a 24 hour understanding of the word ‘day’).

With our new understanding of what a day is to God, we must also perceive
that the 7th day rest that we speak of as being Sunday or Saturday, must be
reconsidered. The question then arises; is it really about a day of rest?

Or

Is it rather about a principle of God?

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Hebrews 3; 7 and Hebrews 4; 11 speaks of entering into the rest of God. Just
reading it, you should see that this is not a reference to the 7th day rest day
of Saturday or Sunday.

In Heb 4; 7 Paul says, that God has designated a certain day called ‘today’. If
you hear HIS voice ‘today’, enter into His rest. Obviously this is not referring
to a specific day in the week, it’s also not referring to a 24 hour day. Your
‘today’ and my ‘today’ is not necessarily the same day. It has to do with the
‘moment’ that you hear His voice AND enter into His rest.

God’s rest is therefore not referring to a Saturday or Sunday, going to church

and not doing any work, day. This is a man-made doctrine, based on the
Sabbath rest of the Jews. We must never forget that Israel and its way of life
and its laws were meant to be a physical representation of a spiritual reality.
They were the type and shadow of a greater truth – a higher way, a more
excellent way.

Hebrews 10; 1 tells us very clearly that the law was a shadow and not the
very image. Why are we then following the shadow and not investing in the
image that caused the shadow? Why are we taking the principles of the
Levitical priesthood and applying it to our church rituals, when we should
remember that we are under the Melchizedek order because Jesus Christ has
received the priesthood of Melchizedek and we are in Christ and He is in us?

I believe it is time for the church of God, the body of Christ, to awaken from
their slumber and to start to see with spiritual maturity so that they can
begin to understand better the truths of God.

TIME

Time for the Hebrew mind-set is very different to our Western mind-set. In
the Old Testament we see that time was used to refer to events. For
example, time was measured with regard to agricultural occurrences. Ruth
and Naomi arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest (Ruth
1:22). In understanding this, we can see that time was therefore not
chronological but circular as the season for sowing and harvest time repeated
themselves yearly over and over again. That is why the word for ‘year’ in
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Hebrew is a word that means revolution of time, and it comes from the root
word meaning to repeat, or do again. Now what Solomon says in Ecclesiastes
3; 15 “That which is has already been, And what is to be, has already been”
makes sense.

Time in the Old Testament was also referenced to the divine events of God's
interaction in Israel's history. In this manner, time was related to an event
that took place and how that event was related to something else that had
occurred.

The Hebrew word for ‘time’ is the word ‘eth’ and means in effect; now,
when, after, occasion, season. Therefore when we speak of time, our
Western mind-set thinks of time as hours, minutes and seconds, days,
months or years, but this is not what it means to God. The word ‘eth’ being
the most common word for ‘time’ means the moment or point at which
something happened, or will happen, for example, Ex. 9:18 "Behold, about
this time (eth) tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail". The word for
‘tomorrow’ is a Hebrew word meaning something deferred, so it means later,
time to come. This means that this verse just quoted should read like this in
English; ‘behold, about the season to come, I will send a very heavy hail.’

It’s interesting to note that the Hebrew letters that spell ‘eth’ are ayin and
tav. (In the first edition of this booklet, this letter was mistakenly referred to
as dalet)

‫עת‬
The Ayin is a picture of an eye, and it represents sight, appearance,
experience.

‫ע‬
The tav we discussed in Bereshit. It is a picture of two sticks and represents a
mark or sign.
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Together they represent the concepts of see, the mark or sign.

In our Western world, we view time from the perspective of passing through
it with the future in front and the past behind. But in Biblical Hebrew, the
word for ‘yesterday’ (the past) comes from the root meaning ‘in front’ and
the Biblical Hebrew word for tomorrow’ (the future) is a word which comes
from the root meaning ‘in back’. Therefore, from a Biblical Hebraic
perspective, the past is in front and the future is behind the observer because
the past is known but the future is not.

The Hebrews saw time therefore from the perspective of observance.

Remember the letter ayin in the word for time? The past is known and
therefore can be seen (in front of the observer), but the future is not known
and therefore cannot be seen (behind the observer).

This website says it well; “One could characterize the difference between
how the Hebrews understood time and how we do by saying that time for us
is ‘chronological’ and time for them was ‘qualitative’. In the Old Testament,
events and persons were differentiated and arranged, not by their position in
chronological sequence to each other, but according to the impact of their
occurrence….. Time for the Hebrews was about effort and achievement.
People did things. They wrote, played, travelled, slept, dreamed, performed
ceremonies, went to war, and prayed. God did things too. Time consisted of
the story of these events, and it had no existence beyond these.” The Hebrew
Concept of Time (The Hebrew Concept of Time (ovrlnd.com)

We can therefore see that to God, time is not linked to years, days hours or
minutes. To God, time is linked to purpose and the fulfilment of purpose and
this cannot be fixed to a date on a calendar and a specific time on a watch.
That is why the scriptures speak of ‘in the fullness of time’. “But when the
fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman,
made under the law” (Gal. 4:4)

The phrase, ‘the fullness of the time’ refers to something that is complete and
fully developed, like an apple that has budded, grown, and ripened until it is
ready to be picked. A specific number of days, months or hours cannot be
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fixed to the ripening of a fruit. In the same way, we cannot say that a specific
number of days, months, hours or years, are fixed to an event or purpose
that God has determined.

“And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will
set up thy Seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will
establish His kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will stablish
the throne of His kingdom forever” (2 Sam. 7:12-13). We know that this
promise on one level refers to David’s son Solomon. But to God who sees the
end from the beginning, and who starts all things in seed form, this refers to
the Christ and God’s kingdom.

Acts 17; 26 “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell
on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times
and the boundaries of their dwellings”

Ephesians 1; 9 “having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to

His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of
the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ.”

God didn’t set dates, He spoke of time as being fulfilled. This is because to
God, time is a moment with a purpose. When that moment has come and the
purpose has come into completeness, the mark has been reached, then the
time has been fulfilled for something to happen.

Ecclesiastes 3; 1 “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose

under heaven.” The Hebrew word used for ‘season’ in this verse is a word
meaning an appointed time. This verse read directly from the Hebrew into
English would therefore read as follows; “to everything there is an appointed
season, and an occasion for every purpose under heaven.”

“Time” or rather moments and purpose are intricately interwoven with each
other. If we want to operate in the renewed mind of the spirit, we cannot
measure time by the clock or the calendar, we should rather be looking at
seasons and purposes of God.
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Here we are, setting dates to things we believe God is going to do. By doing
this we are operating in the darkness of an unenlightened mind. We should
rather discern the times as the sons of Issachar did.

1 Chronicles 12; 22 “of the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the
times, to know what Israel ought to do”. These sons of Issachar for instance
supported Deborah as leader of the people in a time when it was very
unusual for a woman to be in a position of authority. They supported David
as king even whilst Saul was still reigning because they understood that the
time had come for a new ruler.

In concluding then, we need to have an understanding that supersedes our

natural one with regard to God’s time, day and night, evening and morning,
so that we can operate in accordance with His purposes even if the world is
going in the opposite direction and saying something differently.

I believe the concepts discussed in this booklet are one of the fundamental
principles of God that need to be revisited because we have misunderstood
them for too long now. Paul speaks of this. Hebrews 5:11, 12 “….. you need
someone to re-teach you the basic principles of God’s word”. Perhaps that is
the purpose of this booklet.

May you be as the Bereans described in Acts 17; 11 “they received the
message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if
what Paul said was true.”

In closing, I want to quote what Skip Moen said;

“The key for me is dialogue, not doctrine. I have only one purpose – to find
out what the text says….. So I search anywhere and everywhere that the
text takes me. That’s all. That’s enough. I barely have time for even this.”

Lisa Cremer