Daily Tidbits 2/18 – Love & the 4th Dimension

All things are a shadow pointing back to Messiah (Hebrews 8:5; 9:24; 10:1; Colossians 2:16-17) who is the Image of God(Hebrews 1:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:15-16).  In our 3 dimensional world we are familiar with 2 dimensional shadows that are cast by 3 dimensional objects.  Scripture, and even science speaks of a 4th dimensional spirit realm.  A 4th dimensional object will cast a 3 dimensional shadow.  The Almighty, who dwells in this 4th dimension casts a 3 dimensional shadow which is seen in all His handiwork of this creation.

In the beginning, the Spirit hovered over the waters (Genesis 1:2). The word for hover here רחף ‘rachaph’ links to a bird overshadowing her nest. The Almighty then said let there be light which cast a shadow over the entire universe. Hence, all of His creation is a shadow pointing back to Him.

4th Dimension

1) breadth
2) length
3) depth
4) height

Scripture links heaven or the ‘4th dimension’ to ‘height.’  The word for height in Greek is ὑψος ‘hupsos’ :

G5311
ὕψος
hupsos
Thayer Definition:
1) height
1a) of measurement
1b) of place, heaven
1c) metaphorically rank, high station
Part of Speech: noun neuter
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a derivative of G5228

Job 22:12  Is not God high (KJV ‘height’) in Heaven? Also behold the leading stars, for they are high.

The word translated as ‘high/height’ comes from the Hebrew word גובה ‘gobah’ which means something lifted up from the root גב which has the literal meaning of the back, as a back arched or lifted up when digging.

This is interesting as it was the ‘back’ of YHWH that was shown to Moses when he saw His Glory.

The human backbone consists of 26 bones which corresponds to the numerical value of יהוה ‘YHWH.’  The Hebrew word for backbone עצה ‘etzah’ comes from the Hebrew word for tree עצ ‘etz.’  This is interesting as the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden of Eden is a shadow picture of YHWH.  Not surprisingly, the word for shadow in Hebrew צל ‘tsel’ refers to the shadow cast by the branches of a tree…under the shadow of His Wings.

The other word in Hebrew translated as ‘height’ and referring to the 4th dimension is רם ‘rum’ seen in the following verses

Pro 25:3  The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, but the heart of kings is unsearchable.

The word רם ‘rum’ pictographically displays the ר ‘resh’ which means the head and מ ‘mem’ which means waters…The 4th dimension/heaven is described in the Scriptures as the ‘waters.’

The Waters above the Firmament

Waters above the heavens…the waters below the firmament were called seas, but the waters above the firmament were not named.  Waters = the unknown.

The waters above the firmament/heavens is where YHWH dwells.
Psa 148:4  Praise Him, O heavens of heavens; and O waters that are above the heavens.

Keil & Delitzsch commentary
The Scriptures, from the first page to the last, acknowledge the existence of celestial waters, to which the rain-waters stand in the relation as it were of a finger-post pointing upwards (see Gen_1:7). All these beings belonging to the superterrestrial world are to praise the Name of Jahve, for He, the God of Israel, it is by whose fiat (צִוָּה, like אָמַר in Psa_33:9)

Notice that Keil & Delitszch connect these waters to צבה ‘tsevah’ which means to command.  This links back to Colossian 1:17, where all things subsist (צבה ‘tsevah’) in Messiah.

Psa 33:6  Through the Word of YHWH the heavens were made; and all their host were made by the breath of His mouth.
Psa 33:7  The waters of the sea were gathered like a heap, setting the depths in storehouses.
Psa 33:8  Let all the earth fear YHWH; let all those living in the world stand in awe of Him.
Psa 33:9  For He spoke, and it came into being; He commanded, and it stood fast.
Psa 104:3  who lays beams in the waters of His upper rooms; setting thick clouds as His chariots; walking on the wings of the wind.

Albert Barnes commentary
Psa 104:3
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters – The word here rendered “layeth” – from קרה  qârâh – means properly to meet; then, in Hiphil, to cause to meet, or to fit into each other, as beams or joists do in a dwelling. It is a word which would be properly applied to the construction of a house, and to the right adjustment of the different materials employed in building it. The word rendered “beams” – עליה  ‛ălı̂yâh – means “an upper chamber, a loft,” such as rises, in Oriental houses, above the flat roof; in the New Testament, the ὑπερῷον  huperōon, rendered “upper room,” Act_1:13; Act_9:37, Act_9:39; Act_20:8. It refers here to the chamber – the exalted abode of God – as if raised above all other edifices, or above the world. The word “waters” here refers to the description of the creation in Gen_1:6-7 – the waters “above the firmament,” and the waters “below the firmament.” The allusion here is to the waters above the firmament; and the meaning is, that God had constructed the place of his own abode – the room where he dwelt – in those waters; that is, in the most exalted place in the universe. It does not mean that he made it of the waters, but that his home – his dwelling-place – was in or above those waters, as if he had built his dwelling not on solid earth or rock, but in the waters, giving stability to that which seems to have no stability, and making the very waters a foundation for the structure of his abode.

His throne
Rev 4:2  And at once I became in spirit. And, behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and One sitting on the throne.
Rev 4:3  And the One sitting was in appearance like a jasper stone, and a sardius; and a rainbow was around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.

His Glory and the Rainbow
Beginning with water, resonating the right sound will produce all the colors of the light spectrum.

The Glory of YHWH is connected w/ music

Luk 2:32  a Light for revelation to the nations, and the Glory (δόξα ‘doxa’ =Praise) of Your people Israel.

Messiah is His Glory…His Light

Mat 5:34  But I say to you, Do not swear at all, neither by Heaven, because it is God’s throne; Isa. 66:1
Mat 5:35  nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of His feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. Isa. 66:1; Psa. 48:2

The Waters or the realm of the unknown is above or beyond the firmament.  The firmament in Hebrew is from the word רקיע ‘raqiyah’ which has the meaning of a metal hammered out into a flat piece. The Scriptures liken this to a mirror/looking glass (Job 37:18).

The Hebrew word for expanse/firmament is:

Another interesting connection to the waters above is seen in Genesis 1:6 and the word for divide.

Gen 1:6  And God said, Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be dividing between the waters and the waters.

The word here for dividing is:

This comes from the root:

Here it is seen that the dividing/separating of the waters shows that there is a separation from those who can enter to the tent and those who can’t.  Entrance into YHWH’s tent is only through the door (John 14:6).  Messiah is that door (John 10:7).  In Matthew 7:21-27, Messiah connects this concept of the door to the kingdom to the flood in Noah’s day, further connecting the dividing of the waters to the Tabernacle in Heaven.

Keil & Delitszch commentary
Gen 1:6-8
The Second Day. – When the light had been separated from the darkness, and day and night had been created, there followed upon a second fiat of the Creator, the division of the chaotic mass of waters through the formation of the firmament, which was placed as a wall of separation (מַבְדִּיל) in the midst of the waters, and divided them into upper and lower waters. רָקִיעַ .s, from רָקַע to stretch, spread out, then beat or tread out, means expansum, the spreading out of the air, which surrounds the earth as an atmosphere. According to optical appearance, it is described as a carpet spread out above the earth (Psa_54:2), a curtain (Isa_40:22), a transparent work of sapphire (Exo_24:10), or a molten looking-glass (Job_37:18);

Notice that the firmament is likened to a curtain/veil.  This imagery is seen at the doors of the Tabernacle/Temple.  The firmament is also likened to a mirror.  This is what the brazen lavers that stood outside of the Tabernacle were made of (Exodus 38:8).

Job 37:18  Can you beat out (רקע ‘raqa’) the expanse (שחק ‘shachaq’ – sky/clouds) with Him, hard like a cast mirror?

The Hebrew word for mirror/looking glass is ראי ‘reiy’ which comes from the root רא ‘ra’ which means to see.  This is the same word for vision and appearance in Hebrew when YHWH appears to mankind.

1Co 13:12  For now we see through a mirror in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will fully know even as I also was fully known.

1 Corinthians 13 is the ‘Love Chapter.’  It is amazing that the Love of God is associated with the 4th Dimension…

John 3:16 makes clear that the love of Messiah is made manifest on the cross.

1Jn 3:16  Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Joh 15:13  Greater love than this has no one, that anyone should lay down his soul for his friends.

Joh 10:15  Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

Messiah lays down His life for His sheep.  In this portion of Scripture, Messiah likens Himself to the ‘door’.  Through His sacrifice, Messiah has opened up the door to eternity.  He has pierced the veil that delivers us from death and allows us to enter in the Kingdom of Light.  He has ‘pierced the fabric’ of time-space…

What is the Hebrew word for Love?

From the root:

The Pictograph meaning of Love

The first and last letters spell out the word for Father אב ‘av’ and the middle letter ה ‘heh’ is a picture of a man with outstretched arms.  The Love of the Father is revealed through the Messiah on the tree, gathering all mankind back to their Creator.

Tesseract – 4 dimensional hypercube

Artists and writers have used the geometry of the tesseract to produce surrealistic effects, for instance in Salvador Dalí’s Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)

Interestingly, Dali also linked Messiah to the dodecahedron.  In Salvador Dalí’s painting The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955), the room is a hollow dodecahedron.

Scientists have proclaimed that the shape of the universe is a dodecahedron.

http://www.dodecahedron.us/Dodecahedron.html
“And as each group of 2-dimensional circles yields 2-dimensional polygons which in turn yield 3-dimensional polyhedra, so each group of 3-dimensional spheres yields 4-dimensional polyhedra, also known as Polytopes. The Fourth dimension is an angle perpendicular to the other three, X, Y, and Z. Often Time is considered to be this angle. Another possible interpretation is a spatial one, representable in terms of Scale. 4-dimensional polyhedra can be rather complex when realized in 3-dimensional space due to the perceptual constraints of our 3d world. The famous example is the Hypercube, which might be rendered as a smaller cube within a larger, or a cube projecting cubes out of each of its faces, and two out of the bottom, like a Cross.”

The above concept is very interesting to consider.  The cross linking heaven and earth, past and present…Revelation 5 may be alluding to this.

Rev 5:3  And no one in Heaven was able to open the scroll nor to see it, neither on the earth, nor underneath the earth.
Rev 5:4  And I wept much, because no one worthy was found to open and to read the scroll, nor to see it.
Rev 5:5  And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion being of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, overcame so as to open the scroll, and to loose its seven seals.
Rev 5:6  And I saw, and behold, in the midst of the throne, and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, was a Lamb standing, as having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, having been sent out into all the earth.
Rev 5:7  And He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him sitting on the throne.
Rev 5:8  And when He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having harps, and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the saints.
Rev 5:9  And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy are You to receive the scroll, and to open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood purchased us to God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
Rev 5:10  and made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign over the earth.

Notice that verse 3 says no one in heaven, on earth, or below earth could open the scroll…could it be that at that point Messiah was between heaven and earth on the cross?  Revelation 13:8 says that Messiah was slain before the foundation of the world, ie from eternity.

Rev 13:8  And all those dwelling in the earth will worship it, those of whom the names had not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb having been slain from the foundation of the world.

The Veil and His Flesh

The context of this portion of Scripture is about the New Covenant cut at Calvary.

Heb 10:17  also He adds, “I will not at all still remember their sins” and their lawlessnesses. MT-Jer. 31:33, 34

The veil that hung in the Tabernacle displays this very concept:

Amazingly, the crucifixion is linked to a veil as well.

The word מספחה ‘mispacha’ which means a veil in Hebrew, comes from the root ספח ‘saphach’ which is the origin of the word ‘crucifixion.  Further linking this all together is the connection between love, the shadow of His wings/apple of His Eye and Heaven.

The Bosom, the Family and Gathering at the Cross

Just as the word father in Hebrew is associated with love, so too is the word mother.  אם ’em’ (mother) is the source of the Latin ‘amare,’ the French ‘amitie’ and the English ‘amity’ which mean love.  One of the Hebrew words for love is דד ‘dud/dad’ which means both love and breasts/bosom.  Interestingly, the English word ‘baby’ comes from the Hebrew בבה ‘baba’ which is related to the word אבוב ‘aboob’ the root of which is אב ‘av’ which means father but also means a pipe, as in the breast of the mother whose milk flows to give sustenance to the baby.  בבה ‘baba’ in Hebrew means the pupil, the apple of one’s eyes.  As any parent has held their baby in their arms against their bosom they recognize this is the epitome of love and intimate relationship (apple of the eye/little guy in the eye).

As mentioned above, family comes from משפחה ‘mispocha’ the same root as שפח ‘shapach’.  שפח ‘shaphach’ is the root of the word crucifixion which gathers all the family of the earth.  The bosom, which represents the love of the family also links to the cross.

Messiah came from the bosom of the Father.
Joh 1:18  No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, that One declares Him.

He gathers and then carries in His bosom His people, linking to the crucifixion.  It is through the work of Messiah on the cross that mankind is brought into His family.

Isa 40:10  Behold, the Lord YHWH will come with strength, and His arm rules for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His wage before Him.
Isa 40:11  He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather lambs with His arm; and carry them in His bosom; those with young He will lead;
Psa 89:50  Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, my bearing in my bosom the insults of the many peoples
Psa 89:51  with which Your enemies have cursed, O YHWH; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed.
Eph 2:8  For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift (gift = love = bosom) of God;
Eph 2:9  not of works, that not anyone should boast;
Eph 2:10  for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before prepared that we should walk in them.
Eph 2:11  Because of this, remember that you, the nations, were then in the flesh (those having been called Uncircumcision by those having been called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands)
Eph 2:12  that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Eph 2:13  But now, in Christ Jesus you who then were afar off, came to be near by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14  For He is our peace, He making us both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition,
Eph 2:15  in His flesh causing to cease the enmity, the Law of the commandments in decrees, that He might in Himself create the two into one new man, making peace,
Eph 2:16  and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, slaying the enmity in Himself.
Eph 2:17  And coming, He proclaimed “peace to you, the ones afar off, and to the ones near.” Isa. 57:19
Eph 2:18  For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Eph 2:19  So, then, you are no longer strangers and tenants, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and of the family of God,

There are multiple words in Hebrew for love, all linking back to the bosom.  The most common is אהב ‘ahav’ which has the meaning of a gift and the expressions and actions of one towards the family.  As mentioned above, the pictograph meaning displays the gift of the Father to mankind of His only begotten Son.  Again linking the bosom, the family and the crucifixion.

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