Update!

Christian greetings everyone! I miss you all. Please accept my apology for not giving you an update lately. I've been busy working on my new site and also helping our community foundation. If you want to know more about it please visit http://ardyology.ibaan.net. Thanks and God bless you all!

Love,

Ardy

Site Maintenance

Shalom everyone!

I just noticed recently that my blog's background music is not working properly so I checked on it and found out that the server host for my mp3 is currently down. So I guess I have to look for a new one. Also I'm trying to update things here since I've been out for a couple of months and I'll try to catch on those things you've posted that I missed so I'll be updated. I'll keep you posted once I'm done with this.

Thanks and God bless you all.

Ardy

Hebrew Thinking...

Shalom Achem!

I just finished listening to my Biblical Hebrew fundamentals and again I praise God for the knowledge to understand how beautiful things are if only we know how to decipher things in such a way He pictured them for us right from the very beginning. In my lesson I realized that truly this world is going far away from what God has ruled to us back from the days of Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah etc. From the way we perceive things to the way we interpret and deliver them is really different from what they are supposed to be. Today, I have dealt with Greek thought versus Hebrew thought in which our present time is under the first one. I have discovered the differences between those two languages that set the way to what this world is dealing right now. Allow me friends to sum up what I’ve learned today but let me just remind you that I might fail to give some illustrations but you can send me your comments so we can clarify whatever bothers you about what you are about to read now.

In Greek thought it is classified as abstract thinking such as love, peace, happiness etc. Also on this kind of thinking, it has no substance or evidence. We are currently on this kind of thinking which lead us to be linear in terms of time which means that there’s no place for restoration and just focusing on moving forward. It’s close to clinging on evolutionary concepts which obviously the reason behind abrupt innovation of technology resulting to inductive or deductive reasoning or the so called “either-or thinking”. Also, it is a one-sided thinking like what this generation was taught. For example, when you are debating with someone, all you just wanted is to prove that that person’s stand is wrong and by proving that person wrong you justify your stand as the right one when in fact you didn’t even qualify your point and you just nullify the other’s point.We were taught to think that way that most of the time we hardly find out what our bible is saying to us. We always tend to think out of the box when in fact we just need to look back to what God had pictured things for us.

While in Hebrew thought it is more on a concrete thinking. Everything corresponds to something that we can just see right before our very eyes for God made things in the way that we can relate to them. Also, this thinking is cyclical that it does not evolve but just giving presumptions to what had taken effect from the past, there’s nothing new but just true. And what’s interesting about this thinking is that it is an action-oriented thinking which means people don’t emphasize on the form but rather on the function. That’s the reason why in this language verb comes first before the noun. Here in Hebrew thinking it’s taking both sides and it is even capable of teaching more than one thing in just a verse.

See the difference now? Isn’t that great if we will all learn how to have the mind of the Messiah? a thinking that reacts to everybody in a concrete manner? We are living in a fast phase generation where everything is easily forgotten and eventually replaced. However, the One who created us is still the One who will judge us in the end even if He revealed already the end to us right out from the very beginning. He is still the same and will always be the same God mentioned in the bible. The more we think of our future the far we’re making a distance from Him. Brethren, I hope we will find ourselves one day not thinking out of the box but rather engaged ourselves to Hebrew thinking which is far more biblical.

Shalom Aleichem!

Biblical Hebrew Fundamentals

Shalom everyone!

I've been trying to review my first few sessions in learning the Biblical Hebrew and I stumbled upon my notes and noticed once again the enlightenment of this language that keeps me going. So I would like to share my notes to you brethren, just bear with the way I presented it. Hope you will be blessed!

Biblical Hebrew Fundamentals

Agra-Bio Linguistics -words in the Bible are revealed in agriculture and biology, God's signature on His creation. Since we can't see the unseen, God revealed them through words.

There's nothing new in the New Testament it's just true.

Deut 12:32

Isaiah 46:10 God declares the end right out of the beginning

Most believers nowadays claim that:

The beginning was irrelevant, we don't need those things anymore, we are children of the New Testament, we don't need those Old Testament Jewish Torah stuff.

However:

Everything is in the very beginning. The enemies' desire is to keep man from the beginning because God already laid their end right from the very beginning to which they now try to corrupt and pervert.

Psalm Chapter 19

Every word in the bible starting from Genesis to Revelation is found in its meaning embedded in agriculture and biology because God knew from the very beginning that man can relate to those things. His love manifests in putting things that we naturally see all the time so we would have no excuse. God put the meaning in our bodies because He created us and He knew that most everybody in the planet has a body. How smart God is!

God sovereignly chooses all the words and revelations to begin with the letter Bet, the very first letter of the scripture (taken from Bereshit meaning "in the beginning") because Hebrew letter Bet represents the house. God begins with a house because He knows everybody can relate to a house.

Most of our culture is so far-removed from the simple natural creation that meant everything from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah and so forth. We are living in a systematic theology that we think so abstract that we almost failed to see the concrete meaning of such a word which was embedded from the very beginning of creation.

God is going to restore all these simple things in the latter days. When you understand just the basic fundamentals of this beautiful language, then you’re going to see beautiful treasures in the text like you have never seen before. You’re going to see stuffs that come out from the ground that you would never see in Greek or English or even Aramaic.

Hebrews 11:1

Learning Hebrew will dramatically change the way you see the scripture.

“Cling to your roots that your days maybe long and they will prosper in everything you set your hand to do.”

Romans 1:20 Man is without excuse for God revealed things from the very beginning.

The most imperative title of God is really not God, or Yahweh or Jehovah and so forth...it's Papa, it's Abba, it's Father. Why? Because that's the one that everybody on this planet can relate to. It is very important that fathers will be Godly righteous men and fathers because to the most children that's the image that they see of that Father for that Father is unseen.

Common examples of Hebrew:

1. Apostle- to send out. Greek word "apostolos", Hebrew word "shalach" meaning "shoots of a plant".

Significance of apostle to shoots of a plant:

Because according to the laws of like time, if there is only one good seed from the beginning (Gal 3:16), we are Abraham's seed not seeds of many, but one seed and that is the Messiah. There are two seeds in the beginning, the seed of a woman and the seed of the serpent but there's only one good seed in the beginning and that seed always multiply after like time. Remember the first commandment given to man, animals and plants which is "Go, ye forth and multiply".

Then if it’s true that there is only one good seed from the beginning, then we produce same fruit in the end. In other words, the fruit of the message of the apostle (shoots of a plant) will be the same message as seed. The seed is the word of God (Luke 8:11).

2. Grace- Greek word "charis", Hebrew word "chanah" which means "pitch a tent with".

Another thing that is so familiar to the Hebrews. In Hebrew thinking, when you pitch with someone's tent then your lives become their lives, your things become their things, there's one head with one tent and everybody is under the same headship.

3. Faith- Greek word "pistis", Hebrew word "aman" which means drive a stake to support a tent" also Hebrew word for "nursing".

Again this has to do with building tent directly related to the concept of pitching a tent. So when Paul said "For by grace ye are saved through faith.(Eph 2:8)", he is drawing us a wonderful picture, a very familiar picture to the Hebrew people of what grace and faith are in which they are driving that stake or nail to the ground to support the tent.

4. Law- Greek word "nomos", closest Hebrew word "Torah", root word "yarah" which means "cast forth fruit/rain".

In our culture this is an ugly word and a very negative term. The concept of the law is chasing you whenever you fail to follow rules, simply like the law is coming after you so you are afraid of this law. But in the scripture it's a very beautiful word.

So when you say the rain comes forth from the clouds and flows to the ground watering all the plants, then the rain coming out from the clouds is to bless us. See the torah in the scripture blesses you when you obey it and curses you when you do not. It's never been design to save you from the very beginning. Torah is not design to save you. The blood of the Lamb saves you. From day one it's always been the blood of the Lamb or the blood of the sacrifice that delivers man. So when you use torah to something that it’s not design to do then you are cursed. That's why Paul called it "the curse of the law", curse of the law is trying to use the law to save you, lo! The law blesses you when you keep it and curses you when you don't. It's only the blood of the Lamb that can save you.

Now that's the difference of the creation from us. The creation receives it naturally. It's only people like us, human beings that when God reveals His precious torah to us we can choose to say "NO! I don't want it." That's the major difference between a man and a daffodil. Daffodils worship God instinctively and they worship Him and produce daffodils because by nature they are daffodils. That's why they produce the flower and the fruit of the daffodil like the orange tree that bears the fruit of an orange because it is an orange. Simply they don't have a choice. But you and I are given choice, so if we were new creation in the Messiah then we ought to be producing the fruit of God because before we were new creation we were producing our own fruit, or the fruit of our religion or the fruit our organization or the fruit of our own belief or whatever that may be. Once again the most important principle in the scripture is the principle of the seed.

5. Inherit/heir- Greek word "keronomos", Greek word "nachal" which means river, stream.

In Hebrew the idea of inheritance is the river or stream. If you don't know what that means, I suggest you go out and find a river and drink downstream from a herd of cows and you'll get a real graphic picture of what it means to inherit.

Back to Archaic Hebrew Era

Shalom!

I know you miss hearing updates from me, well, by the grace of God I'm still doing good. I like to spend my time working on my desire to learn the Biblical Hebrew. Yes, you read it right! I am currently studying Biblical Hebrew and it's all free of charge (thanks to www.allthingshebrew.com and Mr. Francois to guide me through this)! Praise God! I am actually thinking what made me decide to learn such a thing when in fact that language is a bit obsolete nowadays (not to mention, none of my family, relatives, friends or even brethren knows Hebrew). However, it's the curiosity that drags me deeper to fall in love with this beautiful language plus the fact that it is the oldest language and the language to where the Bible was originally written. How cool is that to read the words to which God exactly uttered during the Old Testament?

But of course, let me set things straight first. I am a King James Authorized version 1611 lover! I don't care if many theologians or bible scholars are battling over the authenticity of the holy book, whether it is a version or a translation, I still say "pure God's word preserved in KJV1611 Bible". I know most of you might think that nothing compares to the original, which is actually the standard of the world(eventhough nobody has the original bible). However, God's standard is way higher than us, He is so wise that we cannot comprehend His ways and His thoughts. Just keep things simple and let the Holy Spirit lead you as you read your Bible. I would like to share this link if you still have some questions about why we should stick to the KJV1611, http://www.av1611.org/kjv/fight.html.

As I was saying, knowing that I already have KJV Bible in me, you might be then asking why do I still need to learn Biblical Hebrew? Yes, I'm not a Jew and I no longer live during the Old Testament, I am currently in the age of grace and it might be a waste of time to some of you knowing these facts. However, I have this stubborn trait in me that I don't really rely on facts which are mostly based on science(counterpart of faith). I simply live with the possibilities(things that are hope for which is of faith). I know that KJV Bible is the only Bible authorized by God, though I find it archaic and hard to understand, I still believe that it carries the purest word of God preserved for our present time. No argument about it.

However, wouldn't it be coherent to know the story from the very beginning right from it's exact word origin? I guess I'm not taking risk against my stand for KJV if it is for the sake of getting deeper to what every word in the Bible is saying and for me to realize even more on how my Bible should affect my life and how should it take more part on my faith. Learning Biblical Hebrew is something that will show me how those words were used during those times, what those words signify, and how God related those words to every of His creature. I know this will not get any interest from you unless you experience for yourself the beauty of this language.

Allow me to share some links that may help you understand why I'm so into Biblical Hebrew. Again I'm not encouraging you to learn it. Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMxEya9MGCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOwvkNXTkVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyh1gZ1d9dE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrTWaB3tlk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJUQR4hZvkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7I00DKOiNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvTwlhoTd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfJv9pN5D0

I hope that lightens you up brethren about how Biblical Hebrew may improve your perspective about what KJV Bible is all about.

God bless you all!

November Confessions...

Shalom everyone!

It's been a while since I made my last post here. I know you want to read something from me for the past months unfortunately I failed due to a personal struggle. I've been battling with the influences this world is bringing on me and day by day I find it becoming stronger. I've been trying to seek God's help however I already compromises some of His words and now I am reckon to face the consequences. It's a shame on my end that with all the available resources I have to work out on my faith just seemed so useless when in fact it is me who lacks the will to pay for the price. I am asking for your prayer to help me out on this spiritual battle for I am weak to withstand the coming temptations. I feel so empty on those days that I didn't even visit my own blog for I am afraid to read about the reality that I had testified before. I just praise and thank the Lord that no matter how I fall countlessly and come short of the will to live for His glory, He never fails to remind me that He is around and will always be there to watch me.

I truly deserved to be in Hell but thank God that Jesus laid the only salvation which is complete, perfect and sufficient!

By the way I miss you all, I miss reading your comments, I miss reading how God touches your life everyday, I know I miss a lot. Hope you are all doing good. God bless you brethren!

Present Famine...

Amos Chapter 8 tells us that in the latter days, there will be famine(referring to the word of God) which all of a sudden about 2 years ago bees are missing everywhere on the planet.It started in the US, then Europe and some of the bee farmers had lost 90% of their hives. All of a sudden in the latter days bees are missing which happens to be the same word for "word" in Hebrew which is "dabar" that means "order back to source(food)". Coincidence? Lo, I believe Christians should do something to prevent this famine.

My prayer for a Godly wife...