WEBVTT 1 00:00:19.278 --> 00:00:26.760 Good morning, it's good to see you all here, a little earlier than usual. 2 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:36.810 So, since we're recording this earlier, you have to be more awake. 3 00:00:39.380 --> 00:00:46.470 I remember when I was teaching, it was always the eight o'clock or the nine o'clock classes, 4 00:00:46.470 --> 00:00:52.130 those were the hard ones because everybody's really tired and sleepy. 5 00:00:53.220 --> 00:01:01.700 But today, we have what I think is a very interesting lesson, 6 00:01:03.110 --> 00:01:07.270 and I hope you will find it interesting as well. 7 00:01:07.900 --> 00:01:13.280 We often talk about God's name, right? 8 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:21.420 Where do we see God's name? Alpha and omega in 9 00:01:21.930 --> 00:01:25.910 the heavens, right? Now, the name of God, 10 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:36.940 we often correlate with alpha and omega, and where does that come from? 11 00:01:38.910 --> 00:01:45.550 Exactly, Revelation 1. Yes, very good. 12 00:01:46.090 --> 00:01:53.840 So, here in Revelation 1, we, let me just bring that up here. 13 00:01:57.930 --> 00:02:02.800 All right, it's not Revelation 1, but we can get there. 14 00:02:03.410 --> 00:02:07.730 Okay, in verse 8, who is speaking? 15 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:16.930 Jesus is speaking, and He says, I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, 16 00:02:17.470 --> 00:02:22.570 saith the Lord, which is and which was and which is to come, 17 00:02:23.710 --> 00:02:30.650 the Almighty. Now, is that His only name? 18 00:02:32.530 --> 00:02:36.490 No. What's another name that He has? 19 00:02:39.170 --> 00:02:46.060 Okay, Elohim, Yehovah, Jesus. Yeah, what 20 00:02:47.420 --> 00:02:54.050 was it? Emmanuel, yes. And, of course, there are some descriptive, 21 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:02.090 the Lamb, Comforter, you know, various things, and Jesus said, 22 00:03:02.090 --> 00:03:09.340 sometimes it can be a little bit confusing, actually, because who are we referring to? 23 00:03:10.790 --> 00:03:17.100 Are we referring to the Father, Jesus, the Son, or the Holy Spirit? 24 00:03:17.710 --> 00:03:25.380 Sometimes the names are used interchangeably, and 25 00:03:26.090 --> 00:03:32.500 Jesus himself, he said, I and my Father are one, right? 26 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:40.310 Another verse that we have looked at comes from the book of Numbers, 27 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:47.800 and let me bring that up. 28 00:03:50.170 --> 00:03:57.900 That's Numbers chapter 6. All right, and 29 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:05.790 God says in verse 23, Numbers chapter 6, verse 23, God said, 30 00:04:05.790 --> 00:04:11.820 Speak unto Aaron and unto his son, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, 31 00:04:12.590 --> 00:04:20.250 saying unto them, and then here's the blessing, The Lord bless 32 00:04:20.310 --> 00:04:27.580 thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. 33 00:04:28.630 --> 00:04:33.440 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace. 34 00:04:35.460 --> 00:04:43.390 So, and then he finishes, and he says, and they shall put my name upon the children 35 00:04:43.390 --> 00:04:46.300 of Israel, and I will bless them. 36 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:55.350 So, what is His name? Okay, in this 37 00:04:55.350 --> 00:05:03.230 case, you notice, at least in the English translation, most 38 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:11.240 English translations, they replace the name of the Lord with the words The 39 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:18.850 Lord, and they signify that with these capital letters, and you'll notice every time it says, 40 00:05:18.970 --> 00:05:23.190 The Lord bless thee and keep thee, The Lord make his face shine upon thee, 41 00:05:23.590 --> 00:05:30.310 The Lord, it's actually his name, and 42 00:05:31.530 --> 00:05:39.220 it's not clear exactly how that name is to be pronounced, whether it's Yahweh 43 00:05:39.500 --> 00:05:46.760 or Jehovah or other variants, but what we do know 44 00:05:48.960 --> 00:05:54.520 is that this is what it looks like in Hebrew, right? 45 00:05:55.160 --> 00:06:02.220 Now, in Hebrew, this is four letters, and in Hebrew, they read in the opposite direction, 46 00:06:02.660 --> 00:06:05.100 so they read from the right to the left. 47 00:06:07.420 --> 00:06:14.890 This is the first letter, this mark is the Yod, and then Hey, 48 00:06:15.620 --> 00:06:22.100 and the Vav or Waw, and another Hey, four letters. 49 00:06:25.390 --> 00:06:31.100 A little bit of Hebrew today, but what I want to do is 50 00:06:35.700 --> 00:06:42.630 understand how this name, because he says, they shall put my name, 51 00:06:43.250 --> 00:06:46.460 and He just said his name three times, right? 52 00:06:47.890 --> 00:06:54.660 Three times, yeah. Perhaps we could connect that with the three persons of the Godhead, 53 00:06:56.810 --> 00:07:01.300 but I think it's pretty clear that He's talking about, when He says my name, 54 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:11.270 what He just mentioned. Now, surely it fits also, as we have connected 55 00:07:11.270 --> 00:07:17.510 it with His new name, which we see in the sign of the Son of Man, 56 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:25.330 but what about his old name? This is His old name from the very beginning of the Bible, 57 00:07:27.670 --> 00:07:35.640 Yahweh. Is that also something we might see in the sign of the 58 00:07:35.640 --> 00:07:43.080 Son of Man? That's what we're going to explore today, if we can see His old name 59 00:07:44.060 --> 00:07:51.700 also, because it would seem to suggest, from this passage, that we should be able to see 60 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:58.210 His older name as well as His new name with the alpha and the omega. 61 00:07:59.900 --> 00:08:07.720 Now, this is modern Hebrew, okay? 62 00:08:10.150 --> 00:08:18.000 But if we look at the time when Moses was alive, Hebrew looked very, 63 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.700 very different. It was actually, they were little pictures. 64 00:08:22.790 --> 00:08:30.740 Every letter was a little picture, and God's name looks 65 00:08:31.100 --> 00:08:37.480 more like this in the ancient cryptograph form. 66 00:08:38.590 --> 00:08:46.360 Still the same four letters, the Yad, the Hey, the Waw, 67 00:08:47.020 --> 00:08:54.720 and another Hey. Okay, but now you see there's a little bit more meaning there, 68 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:01.730 because rather than just a mark, it is a picture, and a picture is worth a thousand words, 69 00:09:01.730 --> 00:09:08.270 right? What is the Yad a picture of? 70 00:09:09.170 --> 00:09:13.940 Who can tell me? Well, they're simplistic pictures. 71 00:09:15.340 --> 00:09:19.390 It's a picture of a hand, an arm. 72 00:09:21.310 --> 00:09:23.750 That's what the Yad represents. 73 00:09:23.750 --> 00:09:29.770 You can imagine it's got somebody's arm there, in a simplistic form. 74 00:09:30.270 --> 00:09:33.820 You can think of, like, grabbing something, whatever. It's, 75 00:09:34.300 --> 00:09:38.500 in simple terms, we would say a hand, right? 76 00:09:39.380 --> 00:09:40.940 Let's just look at all of them first. 77 00:09:41.810 --> 00:09:49.010 Then we have the Hey. Now, that's a pretty clear picture, I think. 78 00:09:50.970 --> 00:09:53.310 A person, yeah? And what is this person doing? 79 00:09:55.010 --> 00:10:02.850 He's raising his hand, right? Yes, okay, 80 00:10:03.050 --> 00:10:09.430 so that's enough for now. And then the Waw 81 00:10:10.820 --> 00:10:17.260 is, some of the letters have changed in their pronunciation also. 82 00:10:17.690 --> 00:10:24.080 For example, in the ancient time, it was a called a Yad, whereas now it's more of a Yod. 83 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:26.670 So, little differences like that. 84 00:10:26.930 --> 00:10:33.380 Waw in the ancient Hebrew versus more of a Vav in the modern Hebrew, 85 00:10:33.910 --> 00:10:41.220 but that's not our point. But this letter, what does it look like? 86 00:10:41.900 --> 00:10:49.290 Any guesses? A y. And where might you find a Y? 87 00:10:49.350 --> 00:10:51.900 Where might a Hebrew person find a Y? 88 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:57.880 Perhaps a fork in the road or a tree branch, yeah? 89 00:11:00.220 --> 00:11:05.060 This represents, like, a tent peg. 90 00:11:05.550 --> 00:11:13.240 They would anchor their tent down with a stick or a nail, something along those lines. 91 00:11:15.420 --> 00:11:22.700 And they would use, like, a Y so that they could wrap the rope around the tent peg 92 00:11:24.020 --> 00:11:31.910 in that way. Okay, so those are the pictures behind the four letters. 93 00:11:35.690 --> 00:11:42.530 But now, that's not quite enough to associate that 94 00:11:43.570 --> 00:11:46.240 with the sign of the Son of Man. 95 00:11:48.730 --> 00:11:56.670 One thing I want to say up front, what we don't want to do is try to look at the 96 00:11:56.800 --> 00:12:01.970 star patterns to find the shapes of the letters, because, well, 97 00:12:01.970 --> 00:12:04.940 there are a lot of stars, and you can find anything somewhere. 98 00:12:05.880 --> 00:12:13.300 That's probably not going to be the way to find the significance and the true meaning of 99 00:12:14.410 --> 00:12:16.550 where God's name could be found. 100 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:27.280 But we have these pictures, and in heaven we also have pictures, 101 00:12:28.290 --> 00:12:35.630 and some of those we can, when we understand 102 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:43.960 how the ancient people understood these things, then it becomes 103 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:50.390 clearer, you will see, where they are represented in the sign. 104 00:12:51.610 --> 00:12:59.540 So, a hand. What does a hand or an arm, what 105 00:12:59.540 --> 00:13:03.840 would it represent for an ancient Hebrew person? 106 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:14.130 Strength? Deliverance? An oath, perhaps, in certain 107 00:13:14.130 --> 00:13:18.660 circumstances? Good. Any, 108 00:13:25.810 --> 00:13:31.510 yes, the right hand referring to his strength and things that, 109 00:13:31.980 --> 00:13:38.450 what is your hand for? Creating, for example, you do things with your hand. 110 00:13:38.450 --> 00:13:42.730 Work, it represents all of those things together. 111 00:13:43.590 --> 00:13:48.840 That's, in one letter, that's all encompassed there. 112 00:13:48.920 --> 00:13:54.620 It's the hand, the strength, doing something, and, of course, 113 00:13:54.620 --> 00:14:00.080 this is about the Lord. This is His name, so it's about what He does. 114 00:14:00.640 --> 00:14:08.510 And what is the Lord's work? Well, let's go to 115 00:14:08.990 --> 00:14:15.260 Deuteronomy, chapter 5, and verse 15. 116 00:14:16.910 --> 00:14:19.140 Deuteronomy, chapter 5, verse 15. 117 00:14:19.830 --> 00:14:27.590 And remember that thou was a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord 118 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:34.210 thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand, 119 00:14:35.940 --> 00:14:43.870 and by a stretched-out arm. So, that's the symbolism of the yod or 120 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:51.730 the yad. Therefore, the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. 121 00:14:52.020 --> 00:14:59.750 We'll come back to that. So, God associates His strength, His 122 00:14:59.800 --> 00:15:06.630 right hand, or His mighty hand and His stretched-out arm with what? 123 00:15:08.050 --> 00:15:15.230 With deliverance. Okay? Where would you connect that with in the sign? 124 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:26.290 Exactly. We've seen already, we had a whole series where we saw the deliverance of Israel traced 125 00:15:26.290 --> 00:15:33.770 out on the path of the comet K2, marked in blue. 126 00:15:37.290 --> 00:15:44.940 And you notice it said, He said, therefore, the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the 127 00:15:45.430 --> 00:15:53.420 Sabbath day. And we have seen the commandments in the sign, and where 128 00:15:53.420 --> 00:15:56.420 is the Sabbath? At the Horologium. 129 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:06.020 So, our attention is over here for the hand, because that's where the 130 00:16:06.020 --> 00:16:15.260 Sabbath commandment is, and that's where the deliverance begins. 131 00:16:15.710 --> 00:16:17.440 But the deliverance is a process, right? 132 00:16:19.060 --> 00:16:25.630 Work is a process. So, the Sabbath is the memorial 133 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:33.400 of what? Okay, of creation and what else? 134 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.770 And redemption, that work, that process of deliverance. 135 00:16:38.450 --> 00:16:42.560 The Sabbath is the memorial for that deliverance. 136 00:16:43.160 --> 00:16:47.040 But the deliverance itself is a process. 137 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:58.940 Sure, six days of the process, and then one day to remember, 138 00:16:59.430 --> 00:17:07.090 something like that. Okay. But what I want to emphasize is that the stationary part is the memorial. 139 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.730 The Horologium is the memorial. 140 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.290 It points to the Sabbath, whereas the process is what? 141 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:21.900 The path of the comet. That's the part that's moving, right? 142 00:17:25.290 --> 00:17:32.590 Okay, you might imagine it like a hand, but we have connected this comet K2 with 143 00:17:33.290 --> 00:17:36.300 which of the two witnesses? Horologium or Orion? 144 00:17:37.900 --> 00:17:42.960 With Orion. Why? Because that's where it ends. 145 00:17:43.330 --> 00:17:49.570 It starts over here, and then it comes, and it ends with Orion. 146 00:17:50.410 --> 00:17:56.890 Not far. If we continue that out, we would find it crosses very near his hand. 147 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:07.930 So, that's the first letter right there in this 148 00:18:08.870 --> 00:18:11.590 comet, okay? 149 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:25.350 Yes, exactly. We could even look at 150 00:18:26.230 --> 00:18:33.170 this in our Bible reading. We open to Isaiah 151 00:18:34.090 --> 00:18:41.170 chapter 62, and verse 3 stood out to me, 152 00:18:41.860 --> 00:18:46.850 because he says, Thou shalt also be a crown of glory. 153 00:18:46.930 --> 00:18:53.490 He's speaking to His people. Israel shall be a crown of glory 154 00:18:55.210 --> 00:19:02.700 in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand 155 00:19:03.790 --> 00:19:08.210 of thy God. So, we're talking about the hand and the crown. 156 00:19:08.210 --> 00:19:12.930 Where do you put a crown? On the head, right? 157 00:19:13.230 --> 00:19:21.080 So, yeah, exactly, but it even 158 00:19:21.310 --> 00:19:27.620 points to where the crown would go, and points to it with 159 00:19:29.220 --> 00:19:36.420 the hand, the Yod, right? So, K2, 160 00:19:37.300 --> 00:19:41.730 that comet, corresponds to the Yod. 161 00:19:42.690 --> 00:19:50.160 Okay, now let's look at, 162 00:19:51.380 --> 00:19:56.770 if I can get to the right screen here, there we go. 163 00:19:57.610 --> 00:20:05.410 Okay, let me skip over the hey first, 164 00:20:06.300 --> 00:20:13.810 and look at the tent peg. Now, this is 165 00:20:14.330 --> 00:20:21.960 perhaps a little bit strange. What does a tent peg have to do 166 00:20:22.020 --> 00:20:26.270 with anything we might see in the sign of the Son of Man? 167 00:20:27.420 --> 00:20:32.810 The tent peg was used to anchor the tent, right? 168 00:20:33.730 --> 00:20:40.630 And it's also used as a nail. It's the 169 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:48.810 same symbolism. And, for example, there is a 170 00:20:51.090 --> 00:20:57.010 verse, a story in the Bible. You remember Cicera? 171 00:20:58.290 --> 00:21:06.200 Judges chapter 4 tells the story of Cicera and all that, 172 00:21:07.790 --> 00:21:10.780 he was the king against Israel. 173 00:21:11.120 --> 00:21:16.890 He went out, Balak went out to fight, and he wanted to take the prophetess, 174 00:21:17.730 --> 00:21:24.960 and anyway, I just wanted to point out, he went into the tent 175 00:21:25.620 --> 00:21:32.690 of who he thought, one who he thought was a friend, and she let him rest, 176 00:21:32.970 --> 00:21:40.810 and what did she do? In verse 21, then Jael, Heber's 177 00:21:40.810 --> 00:21:48.800 wife, took a nail of the tent, it's that same symbolism, and took a 178 00:21:48.840 --> 00:21:55.390 hammer in her hand, it's kind of gory, but went softly to him and smote the nail into his temples, 179 00:21:55.780 --> 00:21:57.690 fastened it into the ground, all right? 180 00:21:57.690 --> 00:22:05.430 So, this was probably an iron nail, and I just want to 181 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:15.100 use that to bring to mind other uses for 182 00:22:16.030 --> 00:22:19.130 this same tent peg nail thing. 183 00:22:19.130 --> 00:22:25.710 Yeah, okay. What else were nails used for? 184 00:22:26.930 --> 00:22:34.890 Jesus, of course. We know Jesus had nails in His hands and in His 185 00:22:34.890 --> 00:22:38.970 feet, right? Where do we see that? 186 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:48.610 In Orion? Orion is, this is a little bit tricky also, a little 187 00:22:48.610 --> 00:22:52.500 bit, but we just have to keep it straight in our mind, and then it's clear. 188 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:56.180 How was Jesus crucified? Let me ask that first. 189 00:22:56.620 --> 00:23:03.770 How was Jesus crucified? He had his arms stretched out, and feet on top of each other, 190 00:23:03.950 --> 00:23:05.940 right? Is that what we see in Orion? 191 00:23:07.090 --> 00:23:14.320 No. It always puzzled me for a while in the beginning when we were studying Orion, 192 00:23:14.620 --> 00:23:21.660 because it's not a cross. In Orion, His feet are apart. 193 00:23:22.220 --> 00:23:28.610 So, what's that? Okay, 194 00:23:30.180 --> 00:23:33.710 this, Orion represents Jesus in His priestly role. 195 00:23:33.710 --> 00:23:36.010 He's ministering, and what does he do? 196 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:40.640 He points, if you will, to His hands. 197 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:47.270 He says, My blood, My blood. He pleads His blood on behalf of sinners. 198 00:23:47.930 --> 00:23:55.740 So, the stars of Orion, they don't represent Jesus, Jesus on the cross. 199 00:23:56.560 --> 00:24:01.310 They represent what? His wounds. 200 00:24:02.030 --> 00:24:07.210 These are the scars, the wounds in His hands and in His feet. 201 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:13.480 So, He's not on the cross. This is after the cross, 202 00:24:16.800 --> 00:24:20.940 but what were those wounds made from? They were made from the nails, 203 00:24:21.270 --> 00:24:24.550 right? Where do we see the cross? 204 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:31.230 In the Horologium, and I can show you that in a different picture. 205 00:24:33.660 --> 00:24:41.320 Here, I've put a cross on top of it to show, because we 206 00:24:42.800 --> 00:24:48.060 can see that because of the time, it points to Jesus' crucifixion. 207 00:24:48.290 --> 00:24:55.330 Three o'clock, that's the ninth hour when He was crucified. 208 00:24:56.600 --> 00:25:04.570 So, it points to the time, points to Jesus' crucifixion, and so we see in its form 209 00:25:04.890 --> 00:25:10.770 a cross, also pointing to the hours of the day that were relevant, 210 00:25:10.770 --> 00:25:15.040 that are mentioned in the Bible in connection with His crucifixion. 211 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:24.650 Nine o'clock, midday, noon, three o'clock in His death, and in the 212 00:25:24.740 --> 00:25:27.770 evening, six o'clock, His burial. 213 00:25:29.010 --> 00:25:36.270 So, where are the nails? All right, we saw that 214 00:25:36.700 --> 00:25:43.170 K2 represented 215 00:25:44.600 --> 00:25:50.450 the action or the act of the Lord, His act of deliverance, right? 216 00:25:52.390 --> 00:25:59.930 E3, the other comet, it's associated with which witness? 217 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:08.210 To the Horologium. K2 comes to Orion, E3 goes to the Horologium, 218 00:26:10.770 --> 00:26:15.710 and that's where we see the cross. 219 00:26:16.150 --> 00:26:23.460 So, we have, just like in the Horologium, we saw that the Sabbath, 220 00:26:23.460 --> 00:26:29.620 or the Horologium, is a memorial for the deliverance. 221 00:26:32.500 --> 00:26:36.650 In Orion, we have a memorial for what? 222 00:26:41.560 --> 00:26:48.350 It represents His work as High Priest, but it's a memorial of His sacrifice, 223 00:26:48.990 --> 00:26:54.230 and we said the stars point to His wounds. 224 00:26:55.170 --> 00:26:59.570 They're a memorial, the stars themselves are memorials of His wounds. 225 00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:08.180 Exactly, there's also the blood represented there, you could look at the other, 226 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:14.560 the minor star for the wound in His head, wound in His side, 227 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:22.270 the spear wound, but the four outer stars represent the wounds from what? 228 00:27:23.530 --> 00:27:26.050 From the nails, and where did the nails go? 229 00:27:28.580 --> 00:27:36.170 Into the cross. The nail is the comet E3, and it 230 00:27:36.170 --> 00:27:43.830 goes to the cross, all right? It even comes here, right, 231 00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:50.240 more or less at the hand. So, you see how it works? 232 00:27:50.890 --> 00:27:56.900 We have the process of deliverance, the act of God, His hand, 233 00:27:57.760 --> 00:28:05.600 He brought the people out with a mighty hand, and the Horologium is the memorial 234 00:28:05.690 --> 00:28:12.390 of that action. The other comet shows His 235 00:28:13.050 --> 00:28:20.610 crucifixion, the nail being put into the cross, and 236 00:28:21.120 --> 00:28:28.820 Orion is the memorial of that, of those wounds that Jesus took for us. 237 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:37.330 So far, so good? Amen. So, back to the Hebrew 238 00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:44.960 name of God, we've looked now at the hand and the nail. 239 00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:54.520 What about the person? What does that represent? 240 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:03.850 Witnesses, we've got two of them, that's good, I'm sorry? 241 00:29:05.150 --> 00:29:13.110 The man in the river, here in the sign, let me get this one, 242 00:29:14.890 --> 00:29:22.700 the man in the river, yeah? Okay, he 243 00:29:22.970 --> 00:29:25.970 doesn't have raised hands, but what does it represent? 244 00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:35.600 It's the oath of Daniel 12, also, the man over the river, but it represents a 245 00:29:35.600 --> 00:29:42.890 baptism, burial, in symbolic terms at least, it points to 246 00:29:42.890 --> 00:29:45.650 Jesus' crucifixion, his death. 247 00:29:46.790 --> 00:29:51.530 Right? But it's more directly connected with His burial. 248 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:58.590 That was His baptism. His baptism was a baptism into 249 00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:09.340 the sacrifice of the cross. So, here, now, we see in the 250 00:30:11.180 --> 00:30:17.390 sign the crucifixion, His death, 251 00:30:19.490 --> 00:30:22.420 His burial, and what do we have here? 252 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:25.800 His resurrection, now He's alive. 253 00:30:28.060 --> 00:30:35.950 Sure, but it points very much to the three days, His 254 00:30:35.950 --> 00:30:39.610 death, burial, and resurrection. 255 00:30:41.380 --> 00:30:47.260 So, what about the man, in the name? 256 00:30:49.650 --> 00:30:55.860 Well, the picture 257 00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:04.210 represents a man, yes, but it's one who is 258 00:31:05.550 --> 00:31:12.720 saying, look, behold, it's about revealing something. 259 00:31:13.310 --> 00:31:20.880 This is what the people who study this say, that that 260 00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:28.200 letter represents those things, beholding, revealing, and it's 261 00:31:30.820 --> 00:31:38.790 kind of funny because to connect that with the picture, they say it's like you're looking at something 262 00:31:39.330 --> 00:31:45.180 and, you know, behold, but I have to 263 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:53.870 question that because normally, if you look at something, how do you identify it? 264 00:31:55.870 --> 00:31:59.770 Like, if you say, oh, look, what do you do? 265 00:31:59.890 --> 00:32:04.720 What hand motion do you do? Look, right? 266 00:32:05.580 --> 00:32:08.910 You don't say, oh, look, or, oh, look. 267 00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:15.430 When would you look at something with both hands? 268 00:32:17.730 --> 00:32:23.800 Exactly, it's look up, that's what it's really saying, look up, 269 00:32:24.910 --> 00:32:32.710 and another aspect in it is it's 270 00:32:32.710 --> 00:32:36.790 about breath because 271 00:32:39.970 --> 00:32:47.860 it's an expression and it includes breath and it's the precursor 272 00:32:47.860 --> 00:32:55.020 to our letter H, which is the ha, the breath sound, 273 00:32:57.130 --> 00:32:58.980 and where in the sign do we see that? 274 00:33:00.990 --> 00:33:08.960 In Columba, that's the Spirit, breath, and so we see 275 00:33:09.100 --> 00:33:15.580 that same relationship because that's connected with the man in the river 276 00:33:17.120 --> 00:33:22.580 through the baptism of Jesus, and where is the dove looking? 277 00:33:26.110 --> 00:33:33.660 Looking at Jesus, looking at His 278 00:33:34.180 --> 00:33:41.600 death, His burial, if you will, the result of 279 00:33:44.410 --> 00:33:52.020 the nail, the process of His deliverance, the act of His deliverance was at the 280 00:33:52.020 --> 00:33:59.360 cross, and that is where the looking is directed to. 281 00:34:02.730 --> 00:34:08.620 Yes, it's the central part. Now, why in the name are there two of them? 282 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:16.350 In the sign, there's only one, but in the name, there are two. 283 00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:23.270 Sure, that's true. I hadn't thought about that. 284 00:34:23.630 --> 00:34:30.810 That's nice. Both the Spirit came down like a dove and the Father spoke 285 00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:39.410 also and even said, I need 286 00:34:39.410 --> 00:34:45.060 to see the words on that. Did He say behold or, because I think He may have. 287 00:34:46.970 --> 00:34:54.710 What verse? Matthew 3:17. And lo, a voice from heaven 288 00:34:54.710 --> 00:35:00.980 saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 289 00:35:03.260 --> 00:35:10.280 I thought there was one that, yeah, the transfiguration. 290 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:12.310 Yeah, I know that one. All right. 291 00:35:12.310 --> 00:35:19.710 In Matthew chapter 17, while He had spake, behold, that's Jesus speaking, 292 00:35:20.070 --> 00:35:26.290 a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud which said, 293 00:35:27.070 --> 00:35:31.530 this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 294 00:35:32.020 --> 00:35:36.560 Hear ye him. Okay. So, 295 00:35:39.970 --> 00:35:48.650 yes. In the sign, of course, we have seen the hearing aspect like 296 00:35:49.560 --> 00:35:56.810 we have here. Hear what the spirit says to the churches, for example. 297 00:35:57.190 --> 00:36:00.250 Hear him, the Son, My beloved Son. 298 00:36:02.120 --> 00:36:08.740 And in this case, we have behold. 299 00:36:08.740 --> 00:36:16.630 He says this. You can see Him pointing, if you will, to His 300 00:36:16.630 --> 00:36:21.160 Son and the work that He's doing. 301 00:36:21.870 --> 00:36:29.500 Hear Him. Look at Him. But I think there's 302 00:36:29.670 --> 00:36:37.560 another reason why there are two times the 303 00:36:37.560 --> 00:36:40.070 symbol for the Spirit in His name. 304 00:36:41.050 --> 00:36:48.940 How does this sign form? They're from 305 00:36:48.940 --> 00:36:54.720 two comets that one comes and then the other one? 306 00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:02.020 At the same time. So, we have the two comets are coming together, 307 00:37:03.160 --> 00:37:09.080 and then they meet here more or less at the same time within a short time frame. 308 00:37:09.870 --> 00:37:13.350 This one makes this path while this one is a little bit slower, 309 00:37:13.950 --> 00:37:16.280 and they meet there at the same time. 310 00:37:16.750 --> 00:37:23.530 So, if we follow the path of beginning with the 311 00:37:24.740 --> 00:37:28.360 hand, the first letter, that would be K2. 312 00:37:29.700 --> 00:37:37.270 It starts here, the yod, and then it comes to the center part where there's the 313 00:37:37.270 --> 00:37:43.750 Spirit, the Spirit looking at Jesus' 314 00:37:44.350 --> 00:37:52.190 sacrifice. And then it meets with the other comet, the comet representing the 315 00:37:52.250 --> 00:37:59.820 nail, and then the nail comes and passes by 316 00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:02.850 that same area with the Spirit. 317 00:38:03.930 --> 00:38:11.850 You follow? And that's exactly the sequence of the letters. 318 00:38:14.090 --> 00:38:22.040 First, K2, the hand comes to the Spirit, passes through that area, 319 00:38:22.570 --> 00:38:30.570 then the nail comet goes and passes through that area. 320 00:38:33.090 --> 00:38:40.860 Yod, if I were to do it that way, yod passes through the 321 00:38:41.270 --> 00:38:49.260 Hey area, and then the K2 passes through there. 322 00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:55.500 So, yod, hey, vav, hey. There in the sign of the Son of Man, 323 00:38:56.010 --> 00:39:03.790 we have also the original name for the Lord. 324 00:39:07.730 --> 00:39:15.590 Why? The beginning and the end, 325 00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:19.450 the old and the new, if you will. 326 00:39:20.110 --> 00:39:26.540 Not just His new name is there, but also His old name. 327 00:39:30.700 --> 00:39:37.860 Amen. So, when we see the sign, 328 00:39:38.950 --> 00:39:47.040 we can recognize that it's pointing in every way to the crucifixion 329 00:39:47.450 --> 00:39:54.920 of Jesus. It's showing, remember, in the Hebrew mind, the name was not just a label. 330 00:39:55.720 --> 00:39:59.340 The name had meaning. The name represented the character. 331 00:40:00.190 --> 00:40:06.690 And so, when we see the name of the Father in the sign of the Son of Man, 332 00:40:07.450 --> 00:40:09.360 it's pointing to His character. 333 00:40:10.010 --> 00:40:16.530 His character is about the hand and the nail 334 00:40:18.550 --> 00:40:26.300 in the hand. That's what we see, the hand and the nail, the 335 00:40:26.300 --> 00:40:34.220 memorial of His act and the memorial of 336 00:40:35.060 --> 00:40:40.750 the nail scars. And then the looking 337 00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:51.320 is at His burial. And what was special about His 338 00:40:52.450 --> 00:40:58.670 burial? It was on the Sabbath. 339 00:41:00.630 --> 00:41:04.680 Was it just any Sabbath? It was a High Sabbath. 340 00:41:04.680 --> 00:41:12.640 John 19:31 talks about, it mentions, and this was a high Sabbath 341 00:41:13.090 --> 00:41:19.750 day. It says that Sabbath was a high day, meaning it was a weekly Sabbath 342 00:41:20.980 --> 00:41:28.120 and a ceremonial Sabbath. And what comes, 343 00:41:30.710 --> 00:41:37.160 what study comes from that understanding of the high Sabbath? 344 00:41:39.350 --> 00:41:46.640 It's the study of the gene of life, Christ's spiritual DNA, 345 00:41:46.640 --> 00:41:52.370 if you will. And that's what we see also represented in the river. 346 00:41:52.760 --> 00:42:00.390 It's the river of His blood from the wounds in His side, the 347 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:06.220 water and the blood. And in the blood is His DNA. 348 00:42:07.680 --> 00:42:14.620 So, that's what we see in the high Sabbath, His DNA, 349 00:42:15.700 --> 00:42:24.020 His blood. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and 350 00:42:24.020 --> 00:42:32.000 the word of their testimony. By the way, this is the word 351 00:42:33.030 --> 00:42:39.590 of Christ's testimony, right? That's His sacrifice. 352 00:42:39.910 --> 00:42:47.040 And this is what we see there is His testimony. 353 00:42:47.040 --> 00:42:53.510 That's the word, the name of His testimony. 354 00:43:01.080 --> 00:43:07.760 Amen. The sign of the Son of Man, because He came to the earth, 355 00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:16.170 He gave His life on the cross, He gave His blood. 356 00:43:18.860 --> 00:43:26.950 And then now where the comet is pointing to is in Orion where 357 00:43:27.410 --> 00:43:35.280 we see His resurrection. That's the resurrection that is memorialized in 358 00:43:35.510 --> 00:43:43.410 Orion, and that's why that's the end of the sign, 359 00:43:43.410 --> 00:43:50.730 the end of the deliverance aspect of the sign, because that's the resurrection, 360 00:43:51.130 --> 00:43:58.820 the life that He gave for us in this process of 361 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:03.800 deliverance. Amen. 362 00:44:21.660 --> 00:44:29.020 Amen. I, if I be lifted up on the cross, I will draw 363 00:44:29.470 --> 00:44:36.940 all men to myself. We see that directly in the sign, being lifted up on the 364 00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:44.090 cross, drawing all men through that process of deliverance to 365 00:44:44.610 --> 00:44:47.290 Himself, represented in Orion. 366 00:44:47.660 --> 00:44:54.220 And we're raised in the newness of His life because of His resurrection. 367 00:44:55.320 --> 00:45:03.260 Amen. That's His name, and that's how we put His name, even 368 00:45:03.990 --> 00:45:11.260 Yahweh, on the children of Israel, as it says in 369 00:45:12.170 --> 00:45:20.130 Numbers. Amen. Just as 370 00:45:20.160 --> 00:45:26.850 we saw before, that deliverance from Egypt is 371 00:45:29.060 --> 00:45:35.760 a process, but it's all illustrated in His death, burial, and resurrection. 372 00:45:36.270 --> 00:45:40.520 It's all a process of sacrifice. 373 00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:48.590 We also reflect that same process, yes, take up your cross 374 00:45:49.090 --> 00:45:57.030 and follow me, then you will be raised in the newness 375 00:45:57.030 --> 00:46:04.350 of life, passing through the burial, the resurrection, receiving the blood of Christ. 376 00:46:04.620 --> 00:46:06.600 It's all there. It's all in the sign. 377 00:46:13.860 --> 00:46:19.280 Yes, exactly. Exactly. It's very visual. 378 00:46:21.550 --> 00:46:25.540 Put My name on the children of Israel. 379 00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:28.190 There it is, the children of Israel. 380 00:46:28.990 --> 00:46:36.040 We have the two comets representing His name as they pass through. 381 00:46:36.980 --> 00:46:41.150 You know, the Spirit is everywhere. 382 00:46:42.190 --> 00:46:48.300 The nail and the work of God on the earth, those 383 00:46:49.950 --> 00:46:57.920 are limited to the paths of the comets, but the Spirit is the 384 00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:01.520 whole body, is in the people. The Spirit is in the people. 385 00:47:02.590 --> 00:47:08.180 There's a lot that we can learn from that. 386 00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:18.230 Yes. For me, that's the 387 00:47:18.370 --> 00:47:26.330 best part, is look, look up, because you would only say look with two hands 388 00:47:26.460 --> 00:47:29.270 if you're looking up. You never say, oh, look. 389 00:47:32.040 --> 00:47:38.630 Anything earthly, you look with one hand, but when you're looking up, 390 00:47:38.980 --> 00:47:43.870 it's so much greater, so much bigger, you have to spread your hands, 391 00:47:44.230 --> 00:47:50.090 and that's the picture that is shown, and God wants us to look up to see His name, 392 00:47:50.520 --> 00:47:56.840 to put His name on the children of Israel, which is we also. 393 00:47:57.470 --> 00:48:00.800 We are grafted into that tree. 394 00:48:03.630 --> 00:48:06.520 So, amen. Let's close with the word of prayer. 395 00:48:07.750 --> 00:48:14.570 Dear Heavenly Father, once again, we thank you for your word, 396 00:48:16.240 --> 00:48:23.310 the word of life, and you know, Jesus said that his words are 397 00:48:23.940 --> 00:48:31.900 Spirit, they are life, and we see how true that is, that even 398 00:48:34.890 --> 00:48:41.070 in the word, in your name, we see so much meaning and depth, 399 00:48:43.100 --> 00:48:49.520 especially when we heed the counsel of that name, to look 400 00:48:51.520 --> 00:48:58.240 at the nail, to look at your work 401 00:48:59.720 --> 00:49:07.210 and what you have done, the hand and the nail, to behold those in the heavens. 402 00:49:07.980 --> 00:49:15.290 That's what we see here in the sign of the Son of Man, and we just praise you for your work. 403 00:49:16.700 --> 00:49:23.290 It's so much more than just an ordinary act 404 00:49:25.170 --> 00:49:31.200 or even just an ordinary sacrifice, but you gave your Son 405 00:49:34.550 --> 00:49:40.940 to die for us, that we might live 406 00:49:43.090 --> 00:49:51.040 and receive life from you as we look to the Savior lifted up in the 407 00:49:51.040 --> 00:49:58.680 heavens. So, we thank you for this revelation, for the understanding that you impart in the 408 00:49:58.680 --> 00:50:04.090 heavens through your word. We praise you, and we thank you, 409 00:50:04.990 --> 00:50:12.910 we love you, and we ask that you will be with us always until we see you and you take us in your hands 410 00:50:14.910 --> 00:50:17.630 as a crown and a diadem of glory. 411 00:50:19.680 --> 00:50:27.280 We are unworthy for such an honor, but you've never needed us to be 412 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:35.070 worthy. You always acted on your own, and it's just a 413 00:50:35.070 --> 00:50:42.150 response of love that we return to you, and we praise you for all of your 414 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:50.050 mighty acts in every way, and we ask your blessing 415 00:50:51.380 --> 00:50:58.260 that many may receive the gift from heaven that you have given in your Son 416 00:51:00.330 --> 00:51:10.531 and in your creation. We pray these things in the name of our Lord that we see in the heavens. Amen. 417 00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:15.310 All right, we'll see you next week.