Matthew Blewett – Heaven and Earth – Class 2 – Heaven and Earth

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This is day two of the 2024
Idlewild Bible School.

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Our third period teacher is
Brother Matthew Blewett.

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His general topic is Heaven and
Earth.

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Today’s topic is Patterns of
Purpose.

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Brother Matthew.
December last year, my wife and

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I had the pleasure of
celebrating the wedding of my

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daughter and of course our new
son-in-law, Kayla and Jeremy.

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An absolutely incredible
occasion for those of you who’ve

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had the opportunity and the
blessing of attending a wedding

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of your one of your children.
It’s something that you plan

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hard for and that is a time of
incredible joy and beauty.

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And for me, especially as the
father only have one daughter, I

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knew this was going to be the
opportunity to walk down the

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aisle and hand my daughter over.
The wedding took place in a farm

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near to where we live, which is
in a beautiful mountainous area.

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It was a spectacular day.
You always pray for that kind of

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day.
Blue skies, not too hot little

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gentle breeze and everybody was
looking incredibly beautiful.

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Of course, the most beautiful
besides my wife was my daughter

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Kayla in her beautiful bridal
gown.

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And it was just such an amazing
occasion for me as we walk down

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the aisle surrounded by those
mountains and all of that

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beauty.
And then the next thing that

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comes into visual are all the
people that have been a part of

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your life.
People that are friends, family

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staring at you and you walking
down the aisle holding your your

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daughter’s arm, slowly absorbing
all of this occasion.

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And there at the end is the
bridegroom smiling an incredible

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young man that you are so
blessed to be handing your

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daughter over to.
And going through my mind was of

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course, a million things as I
tried to do everything so

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slowly.
Although Kayla said we’ve got to

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get there before the song ends.
And I normally do everything

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pretty fast as you hear the way
I speak, but I was just trying

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to slow this moment down.
As for me, everything that was

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going on was playing itself out,
not just the love and the beauty

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of the occasion and the family
and the friends and my daughter,

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but all that it represented for
what we were doing.

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The symbol of marriage, the
coming together, ultimately of

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heaven and earth.
In this moment.

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And as I try to put all of it
together, I cannot use words to

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even begin to describe the
feelings that went through me.

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In that moment and through the
rest of that evening, I hope

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you’ll remember that story
because it has some significance

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as we move on in our
considerations in Part 2.

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So part one actually was
patterns of purpose, Jeff.

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And I know it’s confusing
because Part 2 is Heaven and

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Earth and the series is called
Heaven and Earth.

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So just to keep you on your
toes, the second part is

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entitled Heaven and Earth and I
must make a confession here. 2

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confessions.
First of all, I’ve been thinking

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about this topic for a long
time, giving talks here and

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there.
Single talks, two talks that are

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fraternal.
And I can tell you that the

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content just went like this.
And the first time I’ve been

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asked to do it in a series is
actually here.

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So you are the Guinea pigs.
And it’s really difficult to

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then come up with section
titles.

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And I’ve already worked out
because every time I come and do

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the session here, I’ve just had
a practice with the youth.

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So you’re not quite the Guinea
pigs.

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And I’ve already worked out that
this section is now 2A and two

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BI don’t know what we’re going
to do with the last session.

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So we’re going to be having
heaven and earth today and then

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God willing, heaven and earth
tomorrow.

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And and the reason this is
called heaven and earth is

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because this session is where I
really want to try my hardest

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to, to demonstrate to you why I
believe Genesis one verse one is

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describing the purpose of all
creation and the pattern of all

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creation, the structural pattern
of all creation.

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That’s why we spent a lot of
time yesterday.

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For those of you who were
confused or who had your minds

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blown but talking about
patterns, I really wanted you to

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understand a couple of key
things.

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Just to remind you.
First of all, there’s a

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relationship between purpose and
patterns.

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If we have a purpose, we design
A pattern to achieve that

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purpose.
If we see a pattern, we know

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that patterns is pointing
pattern, pattern is pointing

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towards a purpose.
So there’s a relationship that’s

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very important there.
And then secondly, I was trying

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to show you that through
fractals, when we identify a

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pattern, we’re probably going to
see it appearing over and over

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again at different scales all
over the place as we see in

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nature.
So we will see in Scripture.

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And the proposal I want to make
to you this morning is that the

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pattern of heaven and earth is
the fundamental structural

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pattern of all reality, that
once we understand it as best we

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can, we will see it playing out
over and over again, Small, big,

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big, big in the Bible and in all
the world around us.

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So that is what we want to try
and talk a bit about today.

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The pattern is heaven and earth.
So I’m going to emphasize that

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when we read Genesis one verse
one, it’s an interesting

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introduction because it
immediately establishes

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something very important which
runs throughout the rest of the

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Bible, And I’m sure you’ve
noticed this.

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The Bible is really a book about
one and two, one and two.

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Essentially, we start with one.
We are then presented with two

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that must become one again.
So that’s why we read in the

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beginning God Elohim.
We know that what the Old

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Testament is very, very the
emphasis of the message of

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certainly the Torah is to say
that that God is one God here, O

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Israel, the Lord your God is 1
Lord.

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So it all begins with a unity
and that’s why we sure that

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there’s a unity of purpose.
There is God one.

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But then Genesis one verse 1
immediately tells us that

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there’s a duality that we will
experience from this one, a

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reality that has two parts.
You might not have thought of it

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like that.
That’s that’s what should be

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catching our attention.
And those two parts are heaven

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and earth.
I use the word duality.

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My wife says don’t use words you
don’t need to use.

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So why don’t I say opposites?
I could maybe say pears.

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It’s very important because
we’re going to see throughout

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the rest of the Bible and you
know, this is true.

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Many dualities.
If you have a better word,

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please share it with me.
They’re not necessarily two

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concepts that are opposite.
Sometimes they are.

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Mostly they are two concepts
that are complementary.

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They appear to be opposite, but
they are able to be reconciled.

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If you just think about
Scripture right now, you should

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have hundreds of dualities going
through your mind.

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What about mercy and truth as an
example?

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And so we have here in Genesis
one verse one, the first

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duality.
We are told that we are to see

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creation, the reality of our
world, our experience.

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I’m going to use the word
creation and reality

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interchangeably if you will.
We are to see creation as

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consisting of a part called
heaven and a part called earth.

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Now, that in itself is quite a
statement to make because people

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who don’t have this book, the
Bible, and they’re trying to

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make sense of the world, will
typically see the world through

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the lens of what the Bible will
talk about when it talks about

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earth.
They will see the world through

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the lens of atoms and all of the
molecular structure that makes

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up the material world that we
live in.

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Both the things that we can see
in that material world because

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our eyes can’t see all of the
things in the material world,

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and the things that we can’t see
but are still a part of the

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material world.
They won’t necessarily see or

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believe that there’s a whole
nother part or dimension to

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reality which the Bible calls
heaven and Genesis One is

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putting that thought through.
For us as well.

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Now, the other interesting thing
is that the pattern that we are

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emphasizing is heaven and earth.
And when we deep dive, because

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we haven’t started that Genesis
one verse one in a few moments,

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we’re going to be really
interested in all three of those

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words.
You see, The thing is this.

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In Genesis one verse one, we
have the idea that heaven and

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earth are created at the same
time together for each other, at

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the same time together for each
other.

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Something went off the I
noticed.

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They come back.
I came back.

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Wow.
OK, so they are together at the

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same time for each other.
And so we have this idea that

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there is a pattern that is
intended in creation, that

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heaven should be joined with
earth, heaven and earth.

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So let’s think about it from a
purpose point of view.

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If this is the pattern of
reality, obviously it is

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pointing towards the purpose of
all creation.

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And so I’m going to put it to
you that as I said, every one of

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these talks is simple and
complicated, like fractals.

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So here’s the simple part.
If you ever want to ask or

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anybody ever asks you what is
the purpose of reality, why I’m

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not here?
What is the purpose of all

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creation?
You can say to them, for heaven

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to be joined with earth.
There it is.

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It’s a very, very simple answer.
And we would expect, would we

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not?
That if God was going to nail

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down his purpose, he would nail
it down in the first sentence of

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the book that he had written for
us.

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And I believe it’s there.
In fact, not only has he nailed

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the purpose down, he’s nailed
the whole gospel message down.

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And we will see that reveal
itself hopefully shortly.

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So it’s something for us to
think about certainly as a

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community, because as a
community, quite rightly, if I

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had to ask most of you what is
the purpose of creation or what

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is the purpose of reality, we
would definitely say something

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like this, that the earth should
be filled with the glory of the

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Lord as the waters cover the
sea.

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I was taught that Numbers 1421,
Habakkuk 2, verse 14.

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Good passage.
Right on, Sir.

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We would also say something like
Daniel two, that the Kingdom of

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God would be established on
earth and full the whole earth.

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That’s the purpose of creation,
right?

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Absolutely, but not necessarily
the macrocosm pattern of it all.

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Because here we have the highest
macrocosm that in fact it is the

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joining of heaven and earth that
is the purpose of creation.

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And, you know, I guess the
emphasis as we as a community

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have made is quite correct
because we find mainstream

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Christianity saying, well,
actually, there’s no purpose

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with the earth.
It’s all going to be about

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heaven.
And we’re all going to go off in

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an abstract, ethereal way and be
in heaven wherever that may be.

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And that is where all of the
purpose of creation and reality

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is.
And so in a sense, our emphasis

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on the earth is, is a reaction,
I guess to say, well, that’s

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clearly not right.
But I think in some ways getting

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just the balance right by
saying, yes, Isaiah 45, God did

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not create the earth in vain.
There will be a Kingdom

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established in Israel.
The promises will be fulfilled

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out of Jerusalem.
But what’s going to happen here

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is that heaven is going to be
joined with earth.

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And of course, when we break out
of linear thinking and we start

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having connected thinking,
pattern based, fractal based

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thinking, now it starts to make
sense.

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And now we know why the primary
words that go with Kingdom are

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Kingdom of God mentioned 70
times, Kingdom of heaven

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mentioned 32 times.
And in fact, Kingdom associated

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with earth is only mentioned 8
times right now.

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We don’t need to grapple over
that once we get our overall

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understanding correct.
And this is the ultimate

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purpose, the joining of heaven
and earth and Genesis one verse

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one is saying when you
understand fully what heaven and

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earth is like, this is the.
Reality of everything that God

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has planned, that all dualities,
all pairs, all.

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Opposites, when they are
opposites, are going to be

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reconciled into one and just
that expression of the pattern

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when you’re doing your Bible
readings, you will see this idea

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coming up over and over again.
So if what I’m saying doesn’t

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sort of resonate.
With you, which is good because

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that mean means we can sort of
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Let me show you what I call the
threefold chord.

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As the writer to the
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chord is not easily broken.
So here are three passages that

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I think really hold together
this as the purpose of creation.

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Genesis, one verse, one first
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Here it is the beginning, the
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We’ve we’ve spoken about that.
We go all the way then to the

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end of the book and we say what
happens at the end of the book?

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This is the macrocosm of
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This is the pattern at the
highest zoom level you can

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imagine.
Revelation 21 Now I saw a new

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heaven and a new earth.
He’s just lifting that purpose

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out of Genesis One.
It is a new heaven and a new

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earth for the 1st heaven and the
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Also, there was no more sea then
I, John saw the holy city, New

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Jerusalem, coming down of heaven
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adorned for her husband.
Oh wow, now we sing Genesis 1

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fulfilled in a macrocosm, the
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earth, and it’s a marriage.
It’s it’s, it’s God walking down

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with his bride, the new
Jerusalem down the aisle with

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the bridegroom at the end and
heaven and earth are touching

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each other.
They are being met and unified

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together.
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third passage that, and there
are many others like this, when

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you open your eyes to them is
just so beautiful and pulling

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this idea of the purpose of all.
Creation together Ephesians 110

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by the way, it’s very easy to
remember Genesis 21 one

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Revelation 21 one Ephesians 10/1
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So here it is, Ephesians one
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First of all, having made known
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Will I just love passages like
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I always say to the young
people, you know when God says

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for as truly as I live, when you
hear God start start a verse

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like that, you’ve got to sit up
what you’re about to say.

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This is another one of those.
Having made known to us the

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mystery of His will, so now
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the mystery of God’s will
according to His good pleasure

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which He purposed in himself.
We’re going to understand what

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His purpose is that in the
dispensation of the fullness of

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the times in pattern, fractal
technology or terminology, the

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big scale version of the
pattern, He might gather

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together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven

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and which are on earth in him.
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And what Ephesians one verse 10
is telling us is that beautiful

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piece of information that the
duality is ultimately reconciled

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by the joining that God provides
called Jesus Christ, the gospel

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in Genesis one verse one.
Now I keep telling you that this

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is a pretty.
Important verse with a pretty

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important pattern.
Let me give you some facts,

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maybe to try and further
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The words heaven and earth
appear together in the same

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verse over 400 times in the
Bible.

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I certainly didn’t know that a
few years ago.

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That is the third highest pair
of content words together in

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verses in the Bible.
So if you’re sitting there,

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what’s the first, Matt?
The 1st is Lord and God

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appearing together.
The 2nd is God and Israel

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appearing together.
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So here we have two words that
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throughout the Scripture.
That in itself should, should

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get our attention.
They are the 2nd and 3rd nouns

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of the Bible.
Heaven, earth, God is the first

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noun of the Bible.
Heaven is the second, Earth is

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the third.
The order is really interesting.

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The order of the pattern is
almost always heaven and earth

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in the almost 400 times that
they appear together in the same

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verse.
About 95% of the times heaven

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appears before earth.
Of course, it’s a pattern.

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There’s some on the edge that
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I’ll leave you if you’re
interested to see what exciting

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surprises lie because of that.
But the pattern is clear.

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It starts from heaven and it
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The Third Point we’ve already
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words, heaven and earth.
So what we’re now going to do,

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finish the simple part.
If that wasn’t simple, sorry,

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we’re now going to go and do a
little bit more complexity.

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But what I want to try and do is
to really open up your mind now

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to what might, what might the
word of God be trying to get us

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to think about when we think
about heaven?

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When we think about Earth and
when we think about the and and

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so we’re going to do a little
bit more like deep dive stuff.

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Now I’m by no means a Hebrew
scholar, so I’m going to say

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straight away every time I
pronounce a Hebrew word it is

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using the Hebraic South African
pronunciation dialect.

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I’ve approved, it’s an approved
dialect.

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So if you’ve studied Hebrew,
ancient Hebrew, and you intend

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to come to me afterwards to
correct me, you must check with

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my dialect first.
I do the same when I’m in France

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because every time I try and
pronounce French words like

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French people, they always
correct me.

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So I just go back to the
straight, the way it looks,

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which upsets them.
So when we look at this phrase

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heavens and earth in the Hebrew.
We’re going to try and unpack it

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a bit.
We’re going to do a bit of a

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deep dive here.
You know, it’s, it’s quite

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interesting because Hebrew and
we kind of, I don’t know if we

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got on to this, but but Hebrew
itself is just such a beautiful

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language.
When you think about multiple

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fulfillment of patterns, it’s
because the language itself is a

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very poetic and symbolic
language.

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And you know, often when you
might hear a speaker or

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presenter and he and he and he
finds a Hebrew word and he says,

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oh, well, that word, it means
that and that and that.

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And sometimes we think, oh,
they’re stretching in a mid, but

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we need to understand that, that
Hebrew is actually quite an

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abstract language.
The words are dense.

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And So what that means is they
can have lots of meanings

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depending on the context.
It’s the idea that they can.

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The word itself can actually
have a number of meanings

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depending on context, and they
all get joined together in one

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overall meaning.
English is a much more precise

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language and as English has
become more involved with the

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scientific sphere, every time we
we, we need to express ourselves

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more, more sort of precisely, we
invent a new word just to be a

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little bit more accurate.
Hebrew doesn’t work like that.

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So it’s quite important when you
look at Hebrew to try and keep

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that kind of holistic, abstract
view so that you can be looking

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out for the concept.
The other thing is, and I was

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trying to emphasise this to the
young people the other day.

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I mean, words are really
important, but it’s what words

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convey that we’re really
interested in.

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We’re interested in the concept,
we’re interested in the idea.

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The word is the symbol that’s
capturing the idea or the

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concept.
So we want to try and

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understand.
What?

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Is the the concept and the idea
of heaven?

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What is the concept and the idea
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And in order to do that, there’s
at least 4 mechanisms that I

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think are valid to do that.
There may be others and I’d love

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to hear from you, but four that
I think are really useful, and

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I’m sure you’re very familiar
with some.

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So the first is yes, it’s very
useful to go and have a look

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because we don’t speak Hebrew.
When we we’ve got an English

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word, we go look at the original
word.

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Very useful to go and say, well,
you know, what does that word

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mean?
As I’ve said, what other

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meanings might it have?
How might those other meanings

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help me to have a fuller
understanding of that word over

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and above what the English might
portray to me?

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In addition, because we’re
trying to understand the concept

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better, it’s often very useful
to to look at the etymology of a

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word.
Again, this I might get sort of

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feedback from my wife.
Why are you using the word

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etymology?
But you guys are all clever.

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Anybody not know what etymology
is, raise your hand.

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You see, nobody.
Oh, there’s always.

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One in the audience.
Of course.

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You all know that etymology is
looking at the origin of words,

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how the word came to be, because
when we look at the origin of a

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word, we can understand it sort
of a bit more.

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The idea behind the word.
There’s some beautiful examples

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of that in English.
So for example, the word

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sympathy, we use that word often
when somebody has a tragedy, we

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send them a sympathy card,
right?

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And that word, the origin of
that word, when you go back and

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look at the old English words,
22 English words, the one word

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meaning sym, sym, from where we
get like words like symbiotic,

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to, to, to, to, to, to, to be
with, Symphony, to be with.

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And then the second part, PATHY.
Pathy, which actually comes from

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the original English word
passion, from where we get the

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passion of Christ, from where we
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So now we know that the English
word has to do with the idea of

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being with somebody in their
suffering.

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So we send them a sympathy card
to say that we are with you in

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your suffering.
That’s where the word compassion

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comes from.
And that’s originally why people

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said that person is pathetic.
You see how we destroy our

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words?
We say someone’s pathetic today.

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That’s not a very nice thing.
But normally it would mean that

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that person’s going through some
suffering.

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There’s an etymology lesson.
So when we look at Hebrew words,

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it’s really helpful to look at
the etymology to understand

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where the concept better.
So that’s a second or a part of

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the first tool.
And then of course, something we

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we know that we all do, we look
to see how that word is used in

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the Bible.
Look at the cross references.

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Let’s have a look to see what.
What ideas we get from that

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concept as it’s used throughout
the word of God, which is a

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very, very powerful tool and
very important.

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The third tool is something that
that’s an extension of the

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second tool.
But it’s harder for us to do

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this because in reality, the way
language works is that words are

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actually, they don’t stand
alone.

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They’re like like planetary
systems.

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And they have word associations
with the words that are very,

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very closely connected to them.
And to understand a concept as

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broadly as you, as you as you
could possibly, it’s important

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to understand all the words, if
you can, that are associated

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with that word or that concept.
We call that word associations.

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You know, there’s good news now.
I mean, many of you have used

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that tool.
You may not know that you’ve

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done it in the Boss, but there’s
really good tools available for

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those who enjoy studying the
Bible to to actually fast track.

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Looking at concepts in the Bible
through word association and we

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can talk more about that maybe
if I remember a bit later on.

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And then I also believe
something that we often miss

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doing is that if we’re trying to
understand a concept that we’ve

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found in the Word of God, we
also do well to actually just

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think about that concept on
earth in terms of.

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What we see, especially if it’s
a concept that is like a table

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or some object that we can
actually physically interact

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with and see that we can learn
about that idea from natural

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observation.
So there we have it, four ways

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to understand a concept more
broadly.

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So let’s take that and let’s put
it into practice.

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The heavens and the earth.
So here it is.

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The first verse of the Bible
goes Bereshit Bara Elohim ET

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Hamashaim Shah mayim vayat ha
arets.

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That’s the South African Hebrew
dialect.

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If you want to learn one verse
in Hebrew, which is always

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impressive to at least know one
verse in Hebrew, easiest verse

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to learn could be easier ones
that are shorter, but that’s 7

435
00:25:36,720 –> 00:25:39,920
words in Hebrew.
So we’re going to concentrate on

436
00:25:39,920 –> 00:25:42,160
the three words that I’ve got up
here.

437
00:25:42,360 –> 00:25:45,600
I’ve got more than three, but
don’t worry about the ET ha Shah

438
00:25:45,600 –> 00:25:50,360
mayim vayat ha arets, which is
translated in our English

439
00:25:50,360 –> 00:25:52,480
Bibles.
The heavens and the earth.

440
00:25:52,840 –> 00:25:57,000
So let’s start with heaven, and
there we have the word ha.

441
00:25:57,200 –> 00:26:03,200
Shamayim, which appears 420
times in the Old Testament.

442
00:26:03,480 –> 00:26:07,960
So it is a word that appears
many times in the Old Testament.

443
00:26:08,960 –> 00:26:11,720
The ha.
For those of you who, who, who,

444
00:26:11,760 –> 00:26:15,800
who are aware of Hebrew, the ha
is essentially in Hebrew the the

445
00:26:15,800 –> 00:26:18,000
equivalent of the definite
article in English.

446
00:26:18,040 –> 00:26:22,160
The So actually the word for
heaven is shamayim.

447
00:26:22,400 –> 00:26:26,240
And the word for earth is arets,
because the heart is just a

448
00:26:26,240 –> 00:26:28,080
definite article.
So those are the two words we’re

449
00:26:28,080 –> 00:26:32,280
focusing on now.
It’s pretty obvious, but you may

450
00:26:32,280 –> 00:26:34,680
not have thought it’s obvious
there because these are like the

451
00:26:34,680 –> 00:26:36,680
second and third noun in the
Bible.

452
00:26:36,840 –> 00:26:40,560
They are both root words, so we
like dealing with root words.

453
00:26:40,560 –> 00:26:43,200
We don’t have other Hebrew words
that they’ve come out of.

454
00:26:43,360 –> 00:26:45,920
They are root.
Words and as a result, actually

455
00:26:46,080 –> 00:26:49,240
when you go to Strong’s
Concordance and Thaeus Lexicon

456
00:26:49,240 –> 00:26:53,240
and other places, you’re going
to find that the, the definition

457
00:26:53,240 –> 00:26:55,720
of the words are quite broadly
spoken.

458
00:26:55,720 –> 00:26:59,440
And, and it’s quite difficult to
sort of get, especially when it

459
00:26:59,440 –> 00:27:03,080
comes to the word shamayim.
But generally speaking, the

460
00:27:03,080 –> 00:27:07,360
Hebrew scholars will tell you
that the word shamayim means

461
00:27:07,360 –> 00:27:13,400
lofty, high or over there.
That’s an interesting starting

462
00:27:13,400 –> 00:27:15,360
point.
So we’ve got this first part of

463
00:27:15,360 –> 00:27:20,600
the duality that is described as
something that’s lofty and

464
00:27:20,600 –> 00:27:25,160
something that’s over there,
like not here, but over there.

465
00:27:26,000 –> 00:27:29,160
So that’s a, a starting point
from which we can build out this

466
00:27:29,360 –> 00:27:32,200
concept.
Interestingly, you may, if

467
00:27:32,200 –> 00:27:36,400
you’re really astute, you may
remember that at the end of

468
00:27:36,400 –> 00:27:40,840
Ezekiel, like when you have the
vision of Revelation 21, and of

469
00:27:40,840 –> 00:27:46,280
course it is Revelation 21 and
22 is Ezekiel 464748 like the

470
00:27:46,440 –> 00:27:50,320
the final coming together, the
marriage supper of the Lamb, all

471
00:27:50,320 –> 00:27:54,080
of it’s happening and you get to
the last verse of Ezekiel and

472
00:27:54,080 –> 00:27:57,520
he’s showing you the whole land
that’s been filled with heaven,

473
00:27:57,680 –> 00:28:00,640
been filled with God.
You eventually come to the city

474
00:28:01,200 –> 00:28:04,200
and it says this is Yahweh
Shama.

475
00:28:05,520 –> 00:28:07,600
The Lord is.
There.

476
00:28:08,760 –> 00:28:12,000
Yeah, right here in the middle
of it all.

477
00:28:12,400 –> 00:28:17,880
So there is the idea of where
the word shamayim comes from.

478
00:28:18,560 –> 00:28:20,600
So from an etymology point of
view, it’s quite interesting.

479
00:28:20,760 –> 00:28:23,240
There’s a bit of debate here
because as I say, it is a root

480
00:28:23,240 –> 00:28:25,440
word on its own.
So it’s really people saying,

481
00:28:25,440 –> 00:28:29,160
well, sounds like could be.
And there’s really two sort of,

482
00:28:29,440 –> 00:28:32,120
I think, complimentary answers
that come from the Hebrew

483
00:28:32,120 –> 00:28:34,080
scholars, and they’re both quite
interesting to think about.

484
00:28:34,320 –> 00:28:38,000
The 1st is that the essence of
the word originates from the

485
00:28:38,000 –> 00:28:40,520
idea of water.
A bit later on in Genesis, we’re

486
00:28:40,520 –> 00:28:43,320
going to read about the water,
and the word for water is mayim.

487
00:28:43,680 –> 00:28:48,600
So some Hebrew scholars say Shah
mayim is really referring to

488
00:28:48,600 –> 00:28:52,200
like a plural of water, and
that’s why in fact, it’s

489
00:28:52,200 –> 00:28:56,600
translated to heavens.
And so there’s this idea that

490
00:28:56,840 –> 00:29:01,400
heaven is in a sense like
understood as the waters.

491
00:29:01,840 –> 00:29:03,560
Now you might say, well, how
does that work with this

492
00:29:03,560 –> 00:29:04,040
concept?
Well.

493
00:29:04,360 –> 00:29:07,160
Let me work it through with you.
So it’s this idea that heaven is

494
00:29:07,160 –> 00:29:09,800
not, not the place that we are
comfortable.

495
00:29:10,360 –> 00:29:12,680
It’s it’s not the place that we
understand.

496
00:29:13,120 –> 00:29:15,160
It’s, it’s, it’s a place over
there.

497
00:29:15,800 –> 00:29:20,040
It’s lofty and it’s not our
place as such.

498
00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:22,640
All right.
And we know that because we

499
00:29:22,640 –> 00:29:26,040
prefer like Terra Firma, all
right, Some of us can go and

500
00:29:26,040 –> 00:29:28,120
swim for a while, but we need to
get out after a while because

501
00:29:28,120 –> 00:29:30,160
it’s not the place we can
breathe and survive it.

502
00:29:30,440 –> 00:29:36,680
So there’s one idea, the the
rabbinical sort of tradition is

503
00:29:36,680 –> 00:29:41,120
in fact that shamayim comes from
2 words, mayim and ETS.

504
00:29:41,400 –> 00:29:43,280
Mayim is the word for water, as
I’ve just said.

505
00:29:43,520 –> 00:29:47,440
And ETS is the word for fire.
And so they have this lovely

506
00:29:47,440 –> 00:29:52,720
idea that that heaven, heaven
has this, this, this is named

507
00:29:52,720 –> 00:29:56,280
after the fact that that heaven
is the place from which the

508
00:29:56,280 –> 00:30:00,080
water comes and from which the
fire comes.

509
00:30:00,560 –> 00:30:04,040
So of course that’s true.
That’s where the rain comes and

510
00:30:04,160 –> 00:30:07,480
that’s where the sun comes and
the lightning comes from.

511
00:30:07,800 –> 00:30:11,400
And the rabbinical tradition
says this is teaching, and this

512
00:30:11,400 –> 00:30:15,400
is a very important underlying
concept, that heaven is both a

513
00:30:15,520 –> 00:30:20,200
provider and a refiner.
Because the thing that water and

514
00:30:20,200 –> 00:30:24,560
fire both have in common is we
need them to provide for us so

515
00:30:24,560 –> 00:30:27,960
that we can live without water.
As we’re learning very quickly

516
00:30:27,960 –> 00:30:30,440
here at Outer World, we’re just
going to crawl up in a heap and

517
00:30:30,440 –> 00:30:33,960
die.
And without fire we can’t warm

518
00:30:33,960 –> 00:30:36,920
ourselves in the winter and we
can’t cook any food, etcetera,

519
00:30:36,920 –> 00:30:40,560
etcetera.
But at the same time, water can

520
00:30:40,560 –> 00:30:45,600
come as a flood and completely
flush us and clean us and refine

521
00:30:45,600 –> 00:30:48,120
us and we use it to wash
ourselves and to clean

522
00:30:48,120 –> 00:30:51,960
ourselves.
And fire is also used to destroy

523
00:30:51,960 –> 00:30:54,520
and to refine.
So really interesting idea

524
00:30:54,520 –> 00:30:57,240
there.
This is the place that both

525
00:30:57,280 –> 00:31:03,040
provides and refines.
What is the direct usage?

526
00:31:03,280 –> 00:31:06,560
How is heaven used in direct
usage throughout the Bible?

527
00:31:06,560 –> 00:31:10,000
Well, again, because of time,
I’m going to ask you just to, to

528
00:31:11,120 –> 00:31:13,200
stick with me and, and, and, and
believe in me.

529
00:31:13,200 –> 00:31:15,240
But there’s a whole bunch of
information I can share with

530
00:31:15,240 –> 00:31:17,880
those who are interested.
Perhaps the one verse that we

531
00:31:17,880 –> 00:31:21,600
could turn up is, if you’ve got
your Bibles open, Psalm 115,

532
00:31:21,920 –> 00:31:25,160
because this is a verse that
just establishes something I

533
00:31:25,160 –> 00:31:27,240
think you know.
But let’s go and see it in the

534
00:31:27,240 –> 00:31:30,240
Bible.
A very, very clear distinction

535
00:31:30,520 –> 00:31:32,800
in terms of Bible usage between
heaven and earth.

536
00:31:33,000 –> 00:31:35,280
And we cover both here.
So we get 2 for the price of 1.

537
00:31:35,680 –> 00:31:51,080
Psalm 115 and verse 16.
So it says the highest heavens

538
00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:56,120
belong to the Lord, but the
earth he has given to mankind.

539
00:31:56,840 –> 00:32:01,320
So there is probably the
simplest example in terms of

540
00:32:01,320 –> 00:32:07,280
Bible usage of heaven being the
realm or the place which belongs

541
00:32:07,280 –> 00:32:11,600
to God, and earth being the
realm or the place which belongs

542
00:32:11,600 –> 00:32:13,760
to man.
All right, so there we have it.

543
00:32:14,280 –> 00:32:18,360
In, in, in Psalm 115, there are
many, many other passages that

544
00:32:18,360 –> 00:32:23,720
support that Psalm two, he who
sits in the heavens shall laugh.

545
00:32:23,880 –> 00:32:29,400
Genesis 28, the letter that goes
up to God at the gate of heaven,

546
00:32:29,600 –> 00:32:31,280
which is then called God’s
house.

547
00:32:31,400 –> 00:32:38,560
So plenty of examples showing
that word associations.

548
00:32:39,440 –> 00:32:42,240
Well, this is where it gets
really interesting if we take

549
00:32:42,240 –> 00:32:45,280
the word heaven.
What are always the associated

550
00:32:45,280 –> 00:32:49,400
concepts that that are linked to
the concept of heaven?

551
00:32:49,600 –> 00:32:51,680
Well, we already established the
one very clearly from direct

552
00:32:51,680 –> 00:32:54,000
Bible usage.
And some of these we can also

553
00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:57,800
show you in direct Bible verses.
But for now, I’ll just ask you

554
00:32:57,800 –> 00:33:01,400
to just think about all of these
as being concepts that are

555
00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:04,080
directly associated with heaven.
So when you think about heaven

556
00:33:04,360 –> 00:33:08,040
as abstractly as you can, you
could see it in represented in

557
00:33:08,040 –> 00:33:11,240
each of these individual
concepts or ideas.

558
00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:21,200
God, spirit, lot, word, purpose,
meaning, seed, authority,

559
00:33:21,560 –> 00:33:24,200
identity, name, and we could go
on.

560
00:33:24,200 –> 00:33:26,920
And once you get the hang of it,
you’ll probably be able to add

561
00:33:26,920 –> 00:33:30,480
other words, but those are some
of the words that appear.

562
00:33:30,560 –> 00:33:33,080
When we do word association, so
you might ask what do I mean by

563
00:33:33,080 –> 00:33:35,080
word association?
Well, one of the tools that we

564
00:33:35,080 –> 00:33:37,480
have today, which is really
amazing is large language

565
00:33:37,480 –> 00:33:40,040
models.
And what we can do is we can say

566
00:33:40,560 –> 00:33:43,600
I want to know.
In the Bible, I want to know for

567
00:33:43,600 –> 00:33:48,520
this word what other keywords
appear with an X number.

568
00:33:48,520 –> 00:33:51,920
Of words of that word.
All right, And we can build word

569
00:33:51,920 –> 00:33:53,360
clouds.
I’m sure you’ve all come across

570
00:33:53,360 –> 00:33:56,920
word clouds and we can begin to
identify words that are

571
00:33:56,920 –> 00:33:59,040
associated with the word that we
interested in.

572
00:33:59,640 –> 00:34:02,120
Now, as I said, you’ve been
doing it before, but it’s pretty

573
00:34:02,120 –> 00:34:04,000
much the hard way because what
happens, we’re doing our reading

574
00:34:04,000 –> 00:34:05,360
and we keep seeing.
Hey, I keep.

575
00:34:05,360 –> 00:34:07,120
Seeing the word light linked to
the word heaven.

576
00:34:07,360 –> 00:34:09,679
And then we do a concordance
search and we find all the times

577
00:34:09,679 –> 00:34:12,520
that light appears with heaven.
Well this is a shortcut to find

578
00:34:12,520 –> 00:34:13,880
the other ones you didn’t
notice.

579
00:34:14,480 –> 00:34:17,400
So there we have a whole list of
word associations with heaven.

580
00:34:17,679 –> 00:34:19,560
And then of course, if we’re
looking to understand heaven

581
00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:21,679
from a natural point of view,
what are the things that we

582
00:34:21,679 –> 00:34:23,639
might think of?
We might go outside, we look up,

583
00:34:23,639 –> 00:34:25,800
that’s where we think.
That’s where we perceive heaven

584
00:34:25,800 –> 00:34:30,320
to be in the natural context.
It’s above, it’s infinite, it

585
00:34:30,320 –> 00:34:32,400
speaks of Infinity because we
just look.

586
00:34:32,560 –> 00:34:35,040
When you look out at the stars
at night, you just feel this,

587
00:34:35,239 –> 00:34:38,320
this timelessness, this idea of
time.

588
00:34:38,560 –> 00:34:40,760
And of course, we often
associate the colour blue.

589
00:34:40,960 –> 00:34:46,360
So that, I hope, has broadened
out your perspective of heaven.

590
00:34:47,280 –> 00:34:50,800
Now let’s move over to Earth.
You’ll be happy to know a lot

591
00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:54,000
quicker because we can establish
these concepts pretty quickly.

592
00:34:54,320 –> 00:34:57,560
The Earth, the word arets or
arets.

593
00:34:57,560 –> 00:35:01,160
Appears 2500 times in the Old
Testament, so lots of references

594
00:35:01,400 –> 00:35:04,920
and essentially it means like
what you think it means.

595
00:35:04,920 –> 00:35:08,800
But I want to emphasise more
that when you think about it.

596
00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:14,600
So of course it means earth and
it means land and it means soil.

597
00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:17,640
And when we get to the etymology
of the word, until we try and

598
00:35:17,640 –> 00:35:20,920
understand what’s lying behind
the word, we start to see

599
00:35:20,920 –> 00:35:26,440
concepts like concrete,
material, substantial.

600
00:35:27,280 –> 00:35:29,160
All right.
So now we’re beginning to see

601
00:35:29,400 –> 00:35:33,360
that this is the term that is
used to describe the material

602
00:35:33,360 –> 00:35:36,560
world, the world of the atoms
and the molecules.

603
00:35:37,000 –> 00:35:40,760
And heaven is over there.
It’s not a part.

604
00:35:40,760 –> 00:35:43,760
Of that world.
We we often get confused because

605
00:35:43,920 –> 00:35:47,800
in some sense we think that
heaven is just some other part

606
00:35:47,800 –> 00:35:49,960
of the material realm that we
haven’t yet got to.

607
00:35:50,400 –> 00:35:53,000
But if we get an Elon Musk
spaceship to fly fast enough,

608
00:35:53,160 –> 00:35:53,960
we’ll get.
There.

609
00:35:54,480 –> 00:35:57,760
That’s an incorrect view from
the biblical understanding.

610
00:35:58,880 –> 00:36:01,720
How is it used in direct usage?
Well, we’ve already seen it’s

611
00:36:01,720 –> 00:36:03,880
man’s dwelling.
It’s often used to refer

612
00:36:03,880 –> 00:36:08,080
specifically to dry land as
opposed to the sea dry land.

613
00:36:08,320 –> 00:36:12,640
And often it’s used to refer to
Israel, to the promised land

614
00:36:12,840 –> 00:36:15,480
Arets.
In fact, a number of the Jewish

615
00:36:15,680 –> 00:36:18,280
sort of traditional songs, if
you know your Jewish songs,

616
00:36:18,280 –> 00:36:21,240
actually use the word arets or
however they would pronounce it

617
00:36:21,240 –> 00:36:25,200
in their dialect in in their
songs.

618
00:36:25,840 –> 00:36:29,600
What are the word associations?
What do we then link to the idea

619
00:36:29,600 –> 00:36:29,960
of?
Earth.

620
00:36:30,040 –> 00:36:36,360
Well, man, of course.
Flesh, dark fruit, body,

621
00:36:37,040 –> 00:36:42,320
expression, family.
So we’re starting to see that

622
00:36:42,480 –> 00:36:45,520
it’s not quite as simple as
saying the one is good and the

623
00:36:45,520 –> 00:36:48,640
other is evil.
No, no, no, no, it’s not quite

624
00:36:48,760 –> 00:36:51,240
that the one is the opposite of
the other.

625
00:36:51,560 –> 00:36:54,640
We can see that in some respects
the associations are opposite,

626
00:36:54,800 –> 00:36:57,480
but in some we can immediately
see there’s something else going

627
00:36:57,480 –> 00:36:59,240
on here.
And we have this idea that we’re

628
00:36:59,240 –> 00:37:02,320
going to be emphasizing over and
over again of this vitally

629
00:37:02,320 –> 00:37:07,320
important relationship between
heaven and earth, where heaven

630
00:37:07,840 –> 00:37:12,680
is providing purpose and
meaning, an identity to the

631
00:37:12,680 –> 00:37:16,120
potential of earth.
Think of it from the creation

632
00:37:16,120 –> 00:37:18,480
record.
You’ve got an earth that’s dark

633
00:37:18,720 –> 00:37:22,680
and covered in water.
It’s chaotic, there’s no order,

634
00:37:23,040 –> 00:37:28,040
it looks like it’s useless.
And then there is the word from

635
00:37:28,040 –> 00:37:30,720
heaven.
There is the idea, there is the

636
00:37:30,720 –> 00:37:33,360
meaning, and it is first
expressed and let there be

637
00:37:33,360 –> 00:37:35,520
light.
And then it’s expressed and let

638
00:37:35,520 –> 00:37:40,640
the waters be divided and the
earth comes out and now it has

639
00:37:40,640 –> 00:37:43,240
potential.
And now we can, we can

640
00:37:43,240 –> 00:37:47,040
understand because the earth is
now moving towards purpose.

641
00:37:47,760 –> 00:37:53,440
But at the same time, what is
happening is that the earth is

642
00:37:53,440 –> 00:37:57,720
expressing the idea of the
heaven.

643
00:37:58,600 –> 00:38:02,080
And this is a really important
concept because many spiritual

644
00:38:02,080 –> 00:38:06,640
ideas are incredibly dense.
They, they are, are, are are

645
00:38:06,720 –> 00:38:12,680
compact ideas that we can only
truly understand or even more

646
00:38:12,680 –> 00:38:17,160
importantly, experience.
When they are materialised, when

647
00:38:17,280 –> 00:38:20,760
to use our community’s language,
they are manifested.

648
00:38:21,520 –> 00:38:25,920
That’s when we begin to truly
experience heaven.

649
00:38:26,760 –> 00:38:29,880
And maybe an easy way of me
explaining this is think of a

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seed and a tree or a flower or a
plant.

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00:38:34,240 –> 00:38:37,760
Think of the seed as
representing the potential, the

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00:38:37,760 –> 00:38:40,720
word, the idea.
And you can look at a seed and

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00:38:40,720 –> 00:38:44,560
as much as you stare at that
seed, inside it is this compact

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00:38:44,560 –> 00:38:47,160
information.
The scientists have now told us

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00:38:47,480 –> 00:38:50,000
there’s Adna programme inside
that.

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00:38:50,000 –> 00:38:54,240
Seed there’s there’s a.
Programme of words and that’s

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00:38:54,240 –> 00:38:57,720
inside that seed and as much as
we know all of that’s there, we

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00:38:57,720 –> 00:39:01,160
can’t truly appreciate it until,
as Jesus said, we planted into

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the ground, into the potential
of the.

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Earth.
And it becomes a mustard tree,

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00:39:06,880 –> 00:39:10,920
and we see the mustard tree and
suddenly we gain an

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00:39:10,920 –> 00:39:14,080
understanding and an experience
of that.

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00:39:14,080 –> 00:39:17,080
Seed.
God is love.

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One of the greatest spiritual
principles and heavenly ideas.

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00:39:22,760 –> 00:39:27,480
And when love is experienced
between each other in, in in a

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00:39:27,480 –> 00:39:30,320
husband and wife relationship,
in a brother and sister

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00:39:30,320 –> 00:39:36,200
relationship, then we can truly
begin to understand what and

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00:39:36,200 –> 00:39:39,760
experience what love is.
So that’s really this important

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00:39:39,760 –> 00:39:43,360
association between heaven and
earth that is being taught for

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00:39:43,360 –> 00:39:47,280
us right in the beginning.
We have one word.

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00:39:47,280 –> 00:39:50,360
Well, let me just show you now
this is really important because

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we’re going to draw on this in
in 2B.

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We can see here how now these
associations, we’ve really now

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00:39:57,360 –> 00:39:59,320
expanded our understanding of
heaven, earth.

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00:39:59,800 –> 00:40:04,280
So we’ve got.
God and man above, below, light,

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dark, word, body, spiritual,
natural, inform, express,

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00:40:11,400 –> 00:40:19,120
meaning, matter, seed, fruit,
authority, power, name, family

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00:40:19,400 –> 00:40:23,640
and I could go on and it takes a
while, but I’d ask you to come

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00:40:23,640 –> 00:40:25,520
on the journey.
Keep keep practicing it and you

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00:40:25,520 –> 00:40:28,520
will start seeing the
amplification of the pattern of

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00:40:28,520 –> 00:40:31,840
heaven and earth playing out
over and over again.

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00:40:32,040 –> 00:40:35,560
It’s it’s it’s.
Describing every duality, every

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00:40:35,560 –> 00:40:38,960
single duality that you’re going
to encounter both in the Word of

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00:40:38,960 –> 00:40:44,360
God and in your life.
And the pattern is this, when

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00:40:44,360 –> 00:40:49,960
they are joined correctly, when
heaven is joined with earth by

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00:40:49,960 –> 00:40:55,080
Heaven’s provision, there is
fruitfulness, there is blessing,

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00:40:55,400 –> 00:40:59,560
and there is abundance.
And when they are disconnected,

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00:41:00,360 –> 00:41:05,360
when they are attempted to be
joined by man’s provision, there

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00:41:05,360 –> 00:41:09,160
is destruction, there is
cursing, there is sin.

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00:41:09,800 –> 00:41:11,320
That is the message of the
Bible.

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00:41:11,760 –> 00:41:16,520
So it’s very important that we
finish with one last word.

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00:41:17,280 –> 00:41:22,760
The word in our English Bible is
the word, and in the Hebrew you

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00:41:22,760 –> 00:41:25,520
would have noticed.
I don’t think my pointer works

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00:41:25,560 –> 00:41:26,400
out.
Maybe it does.

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00:41:26,600 –> 00:41:35,400
It is there via ET VA ET.
The word and throughout the

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00:41:35,400 –> 00:41:39,480
Hebrew Bible is actually a
letter, kind of like we have a

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00:41:39,480 –> 00:41:41,400
word that’s a letter, like the
word I.

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00:41:41,680 –> 00:41:44,560
It’s both a letter in the
English alphabet, but it’s also

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00:41:44,560 –> 00:41:46,720
a word.
The same is true in the Hebrew.

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00:41:47,040 –> 00:41:51,080
It is the letter vav, which by
the way, is the 6th letter of

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00:41:51,080 –> 00:41:53,520
the Hebrew alphabet.
That’s one worth chewing on for

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00:41:53,520 –> 00:41:56,120
a long time.
You could go down a couple of

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00:41:56,120 –> 00:41:57,960
rabbit holes with that one.
It’s a 6th.

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00:41:57,960 –> 00:42:01,480
Letter of the Hebrew alphabet,
and typically in Hebrew.

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00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:08,000
Almost always, not always, it
appears attached to a word that

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00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:10,840
it is using, that it is intended
to join to another word.

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00:42:11,160 –> 00:42:16,000
So it, it doesn’t often appear
on its own all right, but it is

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00:42:16,080 –> 00:42:19,560
the joining word of the Hebrew
Bible, Vav.

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00:42:19,720 –> 00:42:22,280
So if anybody had to say to you,
what is the joining word of the

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00:42:22,280 –> 00:42:24,680
Hebrew Bible, it is the letter
vav.

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00:42:24,960 –> 00:42:29,960
And here’s the thing, it appears
over 50,000 times.

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00:42:29,960 –> 00:42:32,760
You know, I was reading some
rabbinical writings and they

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00:42:32,760 –> 00:42:36,280
said, you know, this is the most
mysterious letter and word of

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00:42:36,280 –> 00:42:40,080
the Bible because it is
everywhere, this tiny little

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00:42:40,080 –> 00:42:43,200
letter.
And, you know, almost every

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00:42:43,200 –> 00:42:46,240
version, in fact, every English
version of the Bible, the the

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00:42:46,240 –> 00:42:51,000
translators actually cannot
begin to translate every

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00:42:51,000 –> 00:42:54,840
occurrence that they see of the
vav as a conjunction because

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00:42:54,840 –> 00:42:58,240
English just doesn’t work with
that many conjunctions.

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00:42:58,760 –> 00:43:01,760
English actually is a language
that likes to use pretty concise

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00:43:01,760 –> 00:43:03,960
sentences.
One thought, one thought, one

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00:43:03,960 –> 00:43:05,480
thought.
And you know, if you talk to

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00:43:05,480 –> 00:43:08,440
write academic articles, stop
using the ands.

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00:43:08,960 –> 00:43:10,400
Any of you heard that?
Or if you’re writing a history

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00:43:10,400 –> 00:43:14,640
essay, Hebrew doesn’t work like
that in the base of the Hebrew

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00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:18,480
language is these conjunctions.
It’s like it’s like God’s built

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00:43:18,480 –> 00:43:22,280
into his book.
The and the join, the join the

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00:43:22,280 –> 00:43:24,560
join and we don’t even know how
to begin to translate it.

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00:43:24,560 –> 00:43:27,160
So there it is.
It’s in this little letter

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00:43:27,400 –> 00:43:30,920
valve, the 6th Hebrew letter.
The meaning of the of the letter

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00:43:30,920 –> 00:43:33,000
or the word it does appear as a
word we’ll talk about in a

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00:43:33,000 –> 00:43:40,280
moment is and join then.
Etymology, Well, it’s one

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00:43:40,280 –> 00:43:42,560
letter.
We really can’t go any further

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00:43:42,560 –> 00:43:45,440
back in terms of that letter.
But what we can do, because when

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00:43:45,440 –> 00:43:47,960
you eventually get to Hebrew
letters, all you’ve got left, if

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00:43:47,960 –> 00:43:50,400
you want to try and understand a
bit about the letter is to look

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00:43:50,400 –> 00:43:53,080
at how the letter eventually got
in terms of its shape.

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00:43:53,080 –> 00:43:55,560
All right, the shapes, I’m sure
some of you have looked at that.

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00:43:55,840 –> 00:44:00,080
So when we look at the shape of
the letter vav and we look at

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00:44:00,080 –> 00:44:06,120
that and of course you can all
see we see a nail, we see a

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00:44:06,400 –> 00:44:10,520
hook, we see something that is
used for joining.

742
00:44:10,920 –> 00:44:15,360
And so that is why it became the
word in Hebrew for and the word

743
00:44:15,360 –> 00:44:19,120
for joining, the word for
bringing things together.

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00:44:19,960 –> 00:44:25,320
And interestingly enough, it
appears three or four times as a

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00:44:25,440 –> 00:44:28,920
word on its own, not attached to
another like we have over here

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00:44:28,920 –> 00:44:32,280
where it’s attached to the word
ET in the in Genesis one, verse

747
00:44:32,280 –> 00:44:36,600
one and in that occasion.
I’ve got the reference for those

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00:44:36,600 –> 00:44:43,040
who are interested.
It’s in Exodus 26 and it is the

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00:44:43,040 –> 00:44:47,840
record of the Tabernacle for the
joining of the curtains.

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00:44:48,120 –> 00:44:52,920
And the curtains are all joined
with clasps and they’re all

751
00:44:52,920 –> 00:44:56,360
joined with these hooks.
And that is the, the one time

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00:44:56,520 –> 00:45:00,120
that the word vav just stands on
its own as a word.

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00:45:00,360 –> 00:45:03,400
And it’s pretty interesting
because when the, the Hebrew

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00:45:03,760 –> 00:45:07,840
scholars used to write out the,
the, the Torah, the Old

755
00:45:07,840 –> 00:45:10,360
Testament, first five books of
the Old Testament, the Torah,

756
00:45:10,640 –> 00:45:12,920
and they would be right and they
get to the end of every line.

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00:45:13,280 –> 00:45:17,720
They would put a vav at the end
of the line to say this line is

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00:45:17,720 –> 00:45:22,000
joining with this line.
And the, the tradition was that

759
00:45:22,040 –> 00:45:25,960
all of the lines are the
curtains of the word of God that

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00:45:25,960 –> 00:45:27,960
are joined together with the
vow.

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00:45:28,760 –> 00:45:30,680
Very interesting idea.
Another little interesting thing

762
00:45:30,680 –> 00:45:34,120
about vow before we bring it to
conclusion is of course it has

763
00:45:34,120 –> 00:45:34,680
this.
Well, not.

764
00:45:34,680 –> 00:45:36,600
Of course.
It has this very interesting

765
00:45:36,600 –> 00:45:41,680
ability, when used again as a
prefix to other words to a verb,

766
00:45:41,880 –> 00:45:46,400
to change the verb from the past
tense to the future, or from the

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00:45:46,400 –> 00:45:52,720
future to the past.
Word associations.

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00:45:52,760 –> 00:45:55,600
Well, one of the words that
jumps out at us when we look at

769
00:45:55,600 –> 00:45:58,800
the word or the letter vav is in
fact the name of God.

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00:45:59,200 –> 00:46:02,840
It’s often referred to as the
joining letter in the name of

771
00:46:02,840 –> 00:46:10,120
God, Yahweh yud hai vav hai.
We talk about the two hais in

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00:46:10,120 –> 00:46:14,080
the name of God, the two breaths
in the name of God, the breathe

773
00:46:14,080 –> 00:46:20,800
in and the breathe out Hai Vav.
Hey, well, you don’t need me to

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00:46:20,800 –> 00:46:24,400
bring this home for you, because
I’m sure you can see that he who

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00:46:24,400 –> 00:46:30,080
is the nail, he who is the one
who joins all things is indeed

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00:46:30,080 –> 00:46:34,400
our Lord Jesus Christ.
In Colossians it says for in

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00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:38,240
him, in Jesus, all things were
created.

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00:46:38,560 –> 00:46:44,640
Genesis one verse one things in
heaven and on earth, visible and

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00:46:44,640 –> 00:46:48,200
invisible, whether Thrones or
powers or rulers or authorities,

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00:46:48,320 –> 00:46:51,320
All things have been created
through Him and for Him.

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00:46:51,520 –> 00:46:54,560
He is before all things, and in
Him.

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00:46:54,920 –> 00:47:03,040
All things hold together, the
great joining word of all, the

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00:47:03,040 –> 00:47:08,480
Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I submit to you that Genesis

784
00:47:08,480 –> 00:47:11,760
chapter one verse one is the
purpose of all creation.

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00:47:12,200 –> 00:47:15,800
It is the pattern of all
creation, and it is the Gospel.