TYMK - Alphabet cheats
- Mt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
If you wish to solve the riddle of the alphabet, you may approach it from two sides: from the strokes, or from the words.
From the strokes
The metaphoric meaning of a letter... wait! wait! Letters don't have meaning!
Now you are starting to understand. Hebrew is the only known language that behaves this way. The letters have meaning. But because Hebrew was a dead language for so long, only to be revived when the Jewish people started gathering in the first half of the nineteenth century [1], the meaning of the letters was lost. Only a memory that they had a meaning remained.
During the same time, the preserved sacred text (square letters) was transformed from sacred usage to common. Educational programs were started to teach the Jewish people their own language.
This is important because there is no authority for the meaning of the sacred alphabet letters. There is only a memory that they have meaning. The authority for the meaning will come from observations within scripture itself.
The letters derive their meaning from the strokes of the letters. There are two primary strokes which form all the other letters, and the second one is formed from the first. Every letter is formed by first drawing a yod. Every letter has a yod in it.
These are the yod י and the vav ו.
אבגדהןזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשתךםןףץ
The yod is conceptually an infinitesimally small dot. That is difficult to draw and even harder to see, so the yod is used to represent it. To the Greeks it is the iota. In English we call it a jot. Jesus said that the tiniest part of the law would not disappear before it was all fulfilled.[2]
Rethink that saying. "Not the tiniest part of the law..." We think in terms of the requirements of the law. We think he said that not one of the smallest requirements would disappear. But he did not say that. He said that not one yod, from any letter of any word of any sentence in the law would disappear.
There are four things to observe from this:
- 1. His word will be miraculously preserved
- 2. Every yod must have meaning, why else would they need preserved?
- 3. All things proceed from the mind of God.
- 4. Each letter must have meaning if the yod starts by giving it meaning.
The vav is referred to as the tittle in Greek. It means horn, and in Hebrew is qeren קרן . Reading by the letters [3] it means 'redemption revealed through the death of the son of man'. This is the horn.
When Jesus said that not one tittle (horn) would pass away there are these observations:
- 1. His word will be miraculously preserved.
- 2. Every vav must have meaning, why else would they be preserved?
- 3. All things are upheld the Word of God. [4]
- 4. All things concerning redemption are revealed in the death of Christ. [5]
- 5. The proclamation of redemption through the cross will not be impeded. [6]
You may start with the strokes and try to make the metaphor of the letters from them, such that the meaning of the letters combine to form words. This is the hard way, though it is useful for validating the meaning when they are discovered other ways.
Next: TMYK - Yod
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language
- ↑ Mt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
- ↑ We will see how to do this later.
- ↑ Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- ↑ The pictures of the cross in the OT are the 'keys to the kingdom'.
- ↑ Mt 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
