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Great and Awesome Doors/Terrible Songs
Greetings all - In many ways, this is the most significant word I have ever sent out. But, still, I see through a glass darkly. Great and Awesome Doors are Moving in the Heavens This is a rare moment. We are experiencing a cosmic convergence. Massive doors in the heavenlies are moving. One great door is closing and another great door is opening. There is a wailing in the spirit of those who want the closing door to stay open. There is an awesome holy hush of those who await the opening door. This is an overlaying convergence. The end of the age of the Feast of Pentecost and the beginning of the age of the Feast of Tabernacles; the end of the Church Age and the beginning of the Kingdom Age; the end of the Gamma Age and the beginning of Delta (dalet, see below); the end of the Paul age and the beginning of John (Peter ended 1500 years ago); the end of the Prosperity Season and the Beginning of the Poor in Spirit; the end of Finding Self and the beginning of Losing Self; the end of Reason Producing Doubt to the dawn of Belief Producing Reasons. Borderlands are Seldom Distinctive at First Some of you will be tempted to say, "What are the signs of this?" That's a reasonable question, but remember, borderlands are usually similar at the border itself, but the farther you go in either direction you see vast differences. For example, the geography between Nevada and California is much the same, but travel west from Las Vegas or Reno and the landscape changes dramatically. It is easy to be unsettled, even anxious during a transition but only if you are more concerned about holding on than going forth. Trust the open door. This morning I was up early and again in the Word for a considerable time. Finally I had to force myself to go outside and do the ranch chores. I purposed not to listen to the radio, whether it was a secular station or a Christian station. I got the cattle fed, came in, removed the winter clothing and came downstairs to answer emails. No more did I sit down when the phone rang. It was our local law enforcement dispatch. They told me I had cattle on the highway at Mile Marker Seven. Because that mile marker is near a hill having cattle on the highway there is very dangerous. I hurriedly put on boots and coat, rushed to the truck, and sped up the highway. The radio was on to our Christian station and Haddon Robinson and his roundtable group were discussing something. I heard the woman in the group say: "Poorly swinging doors do not come from the shop of the Carpenter." The phrase jumped out at me because, among other things, I have been studying the words "delta" and "doors." When I got to Mile Marker Seven there was one red heifer (a symbol of sacrifice) standing by the side of the road. All the other cattle were in the pasture eating the hay I had rolled out just minutes before. My dog, Casey, put the heifer back in and I came home. After I'd come in the house and was explaining to Deb what had happened I suddenly realized I had never turned that radio on. The radio was off while I was feeding, yet the Lord arranged it so I would be in the truck with the radio on at precisely the time to hear: "Poorly swinging doors do not come from the shop of the Carpenter." Terrible Songs and the Songs of the Terrible Ones There are those in the Body right now who are falling from grace. Many of them are talented young people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. They drank the new wine that is found in the cluster and said that it was good for there was a blessing in it, then they prepared a table for Gad (fortune) and furnished a drink offering for Meni (destiny). They proclaimed "I Have A Destiny" and sang praises to who they were in Christ, but neglected who Christ was in them. After lunch today I stretched out in a recliner and read the Word until I fell asleep. I woke up an hour later with a funny song in my head: "I have a lunch bucket, but that doesn't make me one." The melody was the same as the song "I Have a Destiny." I came upstairs and told Deb. After a good laugh, she said: "That reminds me of the lunch buckets with the superhero action figures on them." And that was it. Those who have slurped from the wells of Meni (destiny) believe they are heroes. Superheroes. Sadly, many are now empowered by the "heroes of old, the men of renown." The Terrible Ones of Isaiah's Apocalypse (Is. 24:1-27:13) They have joined in the Song of the Terrible Ones but there will be an army ("Arise and sing, you who dwell in dust...") who will displace the Terrible Ones and their Song of Self and establish the High Places with the Highest Praises. Issachar and Zebulun are on the rise. Issachar has an understanding of the times not because he has heard simple and shallow words but because he has studied the Word and knows the Living Word. Zebulun is "stout-hearted" not because of bravado but because his heart and mind are single. He is stable and trustworthy. Of Zebulun it is said: "Zebulun is a people who jeopardized their lives to the point of death" (Judges 5:18) and "from Zebulun, those who bear the recruiters staff." (Judges 5:18) Issachar studies. Zebulun recruits those who would be "volunteers in the days of His power." We are in the day of assembling the Remnant. The lame is the remnant, the lame take the prey, and the prey of great plunder is divided. We have no destiny to cherish and pursue, we have a Cross to bear and honor. __________________________________ I have released a couple words lately that I asked not be forwarded. But, you may judiciously forward this one. In fact, please do. Reporting from the back side of Pluto, this is your humble correspondent, john See the information below on "dalet," the fourth letter in the Hebrew Alphabet from which we get the Greek letter "Delta." Reference: www.hebrew4christians.com The fourth letter in the Hebrew alphabet is dalet (or daleth). There is some disagreement over the original meaning and shape of the letter. As we can see from here, the shape either represented a door or a fish. The connection to door seems clear - the Hebrew word for door is דלת - delet. But to some the original shape did not seem door-like, and looked more like a fish. Therefore some claim that the original name of the letter was dag דג (or digg in Phoenician) - meaning "fish".Why did the letter change its name? David Sacks writes in Letter Perfect that this was possibly part of the switching of a number of letter names. He claims that around 1600 BCE, the letter became dalet when the "N" letter switched from nahash (snake) to nun (fish). This was to avoid the confusion of having two letters both with "fish" names. (The "N" letter became "nun", according to Sacks, to bring it in line with the letter mem, meaning water. This would be easier for children learning the alphabet - "water" followed by "fish." Philologos discusses this issue further here, and has another column here where he explains why the letter was pronounced dalet or daled in Ashkenazic Hebrew/Yiddish, and not "dales" (more on that also here.)What of the origin of the word delet? Kutscher writes that delet is one of the few words in Hebrew with a two consonant root - the tav is not radical (שורשי in Hebrew, derived from the Latin word radix, which means "root"). His proof of this is the the word for doors in Akkadian is dalati - and ati is a suffix for plurals. We also see in Hebrew that dal דל can mean door - עַל-דַּל שְׂפָתָי (Tehillim 141:3). Klein, Stahl and Steinberg all connect delet to דל, and particularly to the two verbal roots: דלה and דלל. How are they all related? At first דלה and דלל would seem to be opposites. The root דלל means "to be low" and also means "to become poor (דל), to decrease, to dwindle, to dilute ( unrelated etymology), to thin out".On the other hand דלה means "to raise up" - as in אֲרוֹמִמְךָ השם, כִּי דִלִּיתָנִי - "I extol (lit. lift up) you, O God, for you have raised me up" (Tehillim 30:2). The seeming contradiction can be resolved by looking at the original context of the imagery. The verb דלה originally meant to draw up water from a well - the Hebrew word for bucket is dli דלי. In other words - what goes down must come up (or as I once heard someone say: "I'm afraid of low heights, not high heights. If I ever fall off something high, as I approach the bottom, I'll wish I was back up high again." On this basis, both Steinberg and Jastrow say that the meaning of דל is "to be suspended, swing". This is its meaning in Aramaic: בגדך מדלי - "do you depend (suspend yourself) on good luck?" (Yerushalmi Shabbat 15d). Stahl says that דלה is related to תלה - also meaning "to hang, to suspend." This is the connection to delet meaning "door". As Jeff A. Benner writes here:The basic meaning of the letter is "door" but has several other meanings associated with it. It can mean "a back and forth movement" as one goes back and forth through the tent through the door. It can mean "dangle" as the tent door dangled down from a roof pole of the tent. It can also mean weak or poor as one who dangles the head down. This can help us understand another meaning of the root. According to Klein, dala דלה - can mean " thrum" - warp threads hanging in the loom (See Yeshaya 38:12).Kutscher writes that delet can also mean a page, as in Yirmiyahu 36:23. According to a theory here, delet originally meant a "doorboard" and then developed the meanings of a "board, plaque, plate, or tablet." This sense of the word entered into Greek as deltos, and is still preserved in the word deltiology - the study of postcards, where deltos means "writing tablet, letter." (The word delta, coming from Greek and meaning "a triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river" doesn't derive from a Semitic meaning of the word, but from the triangular shape of the letter.)The letter dalet alternates with zayin - (נדר and |
