Biblical Life is far more than physical existence — it is the very essence of God Himself. This study reveals how Scripture defines true life as connection to God through His Word, His Torah, and His Messiah. Jesus is the Bread of Life, the Living Word, and the Resurrection and the Life. To walk in obedience to His commandments is to choose life, while separation from Him is spiritual death.
Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Through looking at the Biblical definition of Life, again we see that Yahweh=Jesus=the Word=The Torah=the Holy Spirit.
THE LORD IS OUR LIFE
Deu 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
THE WORD/TORAH OF LIFE
1Jn 1:1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we beheld, and what our hands touched, as regards the Word of Life.
1Jn 1:2 And the Life was revealed, and we have seen, and we bear witness, and we announce to you the everlasting Life which was with the Father, and was revealed to us.
Joh 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Deu 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deu 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deu 32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
Deu 32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deu 32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Sir 17:11 Beside this he gave them knowledge, and the law of life for an heritage.
Sir 19:19 The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive the fruit of the tree of immortality.
Sir 45:5 He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his judgments.
Bar 3:9 Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
Joh 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
Phi 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Joh 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Etheridge Joh 12:50 And I know that his commandments are life everlasting: these therefore which I speak, as said to me my Father, so I speak.
WISDOM
Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Pro 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
JESUS IS THE LIFE
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
1Jo 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1Jo 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
life is in messiah
SPIRIT
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Ancient Hebrew definition
Man does not live by bread (lechem-food, sustenance) but by every WORD that proceeds from the mouth of God.
The Scriptures liken the Word to bread/food. When our bellies are full of the Word/Jesus we have life. When our bellies are empty of the Word/Messiah we are dead, we are walking in darkness.
Psa 102:4 My heart is stricken and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
TARGUM
5. My heart is smitten like grass and will dry up; for I have forgotten the Torah of my instruction.
Manna
Psa 78:23 And He commanded the fine clouds above; and He opened the doors of the heavens;
Psa 78:24 and He rained on them manna to eat; yea, He gave the grain (dagan) of the heavens to them.
Psa 78:25 Man ate the bread of the mighty (abiyr); He sent them food (KJV meat tsedah=provision) to the full.
Angels food=Manna=Torah=Jesus
Deu 8:2 And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God has caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, to try you, to know that which is in your heart, whether you will keep His commandments or not.
Deu 8:3 And He has humbled you, and caused you to hunger, and caused you to eat the manna, which you had not known, and your fathers had not known, in order to cause you to know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man shall live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah.
Deu 8:4 Your clothing did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.
Deu 8:5 And you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, Jehovah your God disciplines you.
Deu 8:6 And you shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.
Being brought into the promised land is always connected with food (having a full belly -chay- life)
Deu 8:7 For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,
Deu 8:8 a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,
Deu 8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without want; you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron; and you shall dig copper out of its mountains.
Deu 8:10 And you shall eat and be satisfied; and you shall bless Jehovah your God in the good land which He has given you.
Messiah is the bread from Heaven that gives Life
Joh 6:30 Then they said to Him, Then what miraculous sign do You do that we may see and may believe You? What do You work?
Joh 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written “He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat.” LXX-Psa. 77:24; MT-Psa. 78:24
Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread out of Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of Heaven.
Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is He coming down out of Heaven and giving life to the world.
Joh 6:34 Then they said to Him, Lord, always give us this bread.
Joh 6:35 Jesus said to them, I am the Bread of life; the one coming to Me will not at all hunger, and the one believing into Me will not thirst, never!
Joh 6:36 But I said to you that you also have seen Me and did not believe.
Joh 6:37 All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me, and the one coming to Me I will in no way cast out.
Joh 6:38 For I have come down out of Heaven, not that I should do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Joh 6:39 And this is the will of the Father sending Me, that of all that He has given Me, I shall not lose any of it, but shall raise it up in the last day.
Joh 6:40 And this is the will of the One sending Me, that everyone seeing the Son and believing into Him should have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:41 Then the Jews murmured about Him, because He said, I am the Bread coming down out of Heaven.
Joh 6:42 And they said, Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph, of whom we know the father and the mother? How does this One now say, I have come down out of Heaven?
Joh 6:43 Then Jesus answered and said to them, Do not murmur with one another.
Joh 6:44 No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
Joh 6:45 It has been written in the Prophets, They “shall” all “be taught of God.” So then everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me; Isa. 54:13
Joh 6:46 not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One being from God, He has seen the Father.
Joh 6:47 Truly, truly, I say to you, The one believing into Me has everlasting life.
Joh 6:48 I am the Bread of life.
Joh 6:49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
Joh 6:50 This is the Bread coming down out of Heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
Joh 6:51 I am the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever. And indeed the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Joh 6:52 Then the Jews argued with one another, saying, How can this One give us his flesh to eat?
Joh 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.
Joh 6:54 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood has everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55 For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink.
Joh 6:56 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57 Even as the living Father sent Me, and I live through the Father; also the one partaking Me, even that one will live through Me.
Joh 6:58 This is the Bread which came down out of Heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died; the one partaking of this Bread will live forever.
Joh 6:59 He said these things teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.
Joh 6:60 Then many of His disciples having heard, they said, This Word is hard; who is able to hear it?
Joh 6:61 But knowing in Himself that His disciples were murmuring about this, Jesus said to them, Does this offend you?
Joh 6:62 Then what if you see the Son of Man going up where He was at first?
Joh 6:63 It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh does not profit, nothing! The Words which I speak to you are spirit and are life.
Psa 34:8 Taste and see that Jehovah is good; blessed is the man seeking refuge in Him.
Peter applies this verse in Psalms speaking of Jehovah to the Word.
1Pe 2:2 as newborn babes desire the pure soul-nourishing milk, that you may grow by it;
1Pe 2:3 if indeed you “tasted” “that the Lord is good;”
Aramaic
1Pe 2:2 And become like newborn babes, and long for the word, as for pure and spiritual milk, that you may grow to salvation by it:
1Pe 2:3 If so be you have tasted and found out that the LORD is good.
That which angels seek
1Pe 1:10 About which salvation the prophets sought out and searched out, prophesying concerning the grace for you,
1Pe 1:11 searching for what, or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ made clear within them; testifying beforehand of the sufferings belonging to Christ, and the glories after these.
1Pe 1:12 To whom it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they ministered the same things, which now were announced to you by those having preached the gospel to you in the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; into which things angels long* to look into
*G1937
ἐπιθυμέω
epithumeō
Thayer Definition:
1) to turn upon a thing
2) to have a desire for, long for, to desire
3) to lust after, covet
3a) of those who seek things forbidden (hidden)
What is the Hebrew word for hidden?
The word matza (unleavened bread) comes from the root word matza meaning something hidden or squeezed. Salvation (yeshua) is connected to matza (unleavened bread). Yah willing, this will be discussed in more detail in a future study on Passover.
Table of Showbread (Lechem Paniym)
Jesus is His paniym (presence, face)
Psa 42:5 O my soul, why are you cast down and moan within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet thank Him for the salvation of His presence.
Psa 44:3 For they did not inherit the land with their own sword; yea, their own arm did not save them. But it was Your right hand (Messiah Exo 15) and Your arm (Messiah Isa 53) and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
Heb 1:3 who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, having made purification of our sins through Himself, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high, Psa. 110:1
The bread of the Presence sat upon a table. The Hebrew word for table is Shulchan. Coming from the root shalach meaning to send out. It is the word that is translated as Apostle.
Apostles take for the Bread of Life to the world
Isa 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him proclaiming good news, making peace heard, bearing tidings of good, making heard salvation (Heb. yeshua), saying to Zion, Your God reigns.
Joh 4:32 But He said to them, I have food to eat which you do not know.
Joh 4:33 Then the disciples said to one another, No one brought Him food to eat?
Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, My food is that I should do the will of Him who sent Me, and that I may finish His work.
Joh 6:51 I am the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever. And indeed the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Bread=His flesh=Basar=gospel
Joh 20:30 Then truly Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.
Joh 20:31 But these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
Etymology:
The English word life comes from the Hebrew word ‘chalav’ which means ‘fat, choicest part, milk.’ Interestingly, the word protein traces back to this same Hebrew word. Life comes forth from the proteins produced by the DNA molecule in the cell of living organisms…DNA is a physical picture of the Word, who is Messiah. When He says He is the way the truth and the LIFE, this is pictured in our very bodies!
Creation:
Shadows of Messiah – Biology
Related Studies:
Messiah in the Torah – Genesis 1:20-23 ‘Day 5′ “Living creatures, birds & fish”
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