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The Spirit of Leviathan, Audio Companion
Chapter One Review Questions
“Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come upon you for your testing, as if something strange were happening to you. But to the extent that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.”
– I Peter 4:12-13, NAS
1. How can we learn to rejoice during fiery trials?
2. What greater works do suffering and testing reveal in us? Is there a higher calling or assignment connected to these experiences that we cannot see?
In II Kings Chapter 6, Elisha tells his servant that there are more with them than those surrounding them armed with weapons. The servant could not see the spiritual army around him until Elisha prayed for his eyes to be opened.
3. Like Elisha’s servant, do we forget that our Father is with us when we face intense battles? How important is it to reflect on what the Father has done for us in the past when we need Him?
Chapter Two Review Questions
The Messiah tells us that we are to be “fishers of men.” However, beneath the surface of the water, alongside the salmon and mahi-mahi, there are also sharks, eels, box jellyfish, and other creatures that can pull us under and harm us with their teeth and poisonous stings.
1. How is water (mayim in Hebrew) concealing? What safety measures should we take while in the water?
Due to disobedience, the Father appoints a giant fish to swallow His prophet, Jonah. When Jonah boards a ship, a great storm arises, so fierce that the passengers cry out and throw their cargo overboard.
2. Can you recall a person who has come into your life and caused turmoil, perhaps depleting your finances or talents? What did you learn from that experience?
The passengers on the ship repent and make a vow to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. After they throw Jonah overboard, the sea becomes calm.
3. Can you recognize how others around us can create chaos through their disobedience? Can you see how the Holy One used the storm for multiple purposes?
4. Reflect back on someone who came into your life and caused a storm, potentially draining your resources or gifts. What lessons did you take away from that situation?
The passengers on the ship repent and make a vow to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. After tossing Jonah overboard, the sea becomes calm.
5. Can you see how others around us can cause havoc through their disobedience? Can you understand how the Holy One utilized the storm in various ways?
Chapter Three Review Questions
King Saul becomes displeased when he hears the women chanting and singing praises to David more than to him. This leads to Saul’s growing suspicion. In Hebrew thought, the word “suspicion” implies watching someone closely. It suggests an eye that is suspecting and waiting for something wrong. The person who is suspicious has no proof or evidence to act on; instead, their jealousy suddenly flares up.
- How can jealousy influence us?
- What do the following verses imply about jealousy?
“Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood, but who can stand before jealousy?” (Proverbs 27:4, NASB).
“A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones” (Proverbs 14:30, BSB).
3. How does pride creep into our souls?
4. What is the root of pride?
5. What do false humility and low self-worth have to do with ego?
In Chapter 3, we learned that before the Leviathan spirit becomes active, it can manifest through a person who loves us. After the initial loving stage, often referred to as “love bombing,” the individual may start fearing the loss of titles and positions or become actively jealous. For instance, “Saul loved David very much, and David became his armor-bearer” (1 Samuel 16:21, NASB). In just two chapters, Saul loses that affectionate feeling and develops a murderous spirit.
6. Have you ever experienced a type of murderous attack?
7. Can you recall a time in your past when jealousy or imperfect love for someone caused fear to arise?
“There is no fear in love; perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.”
– 1 John 4:18, NASB
8. How does fear involve punishment?
The Leviathan spirit often accuses and blames an innocent person for the very things it itself does, a process known in psychology as “projection.” An example of this can be found in the story of Ahab and Elijah: When Ahab saw Elijah, he said, “Is this you, you troubler of Israel?” Elijah responded, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and followed the Baals” (1 Kings 18:18, NASB).
9. How should we respond to psychological projection in relationships?
10. How can we step back and view the person clearly without judgment?
Chapter Four Review Questions
Jezebel ruthlessly attacks and demonizes her targets. The church in Thyatira mentioned in Revelation tolerated Jezebel’s message.
1. Are we doing the same? If so, how?
2. How does Ahab empower Jezebel? What characteristics do they have that feed off each other?
3. The spirit of Jezebel is not confined to women; the passive-aggressive behavior of Ahab is not gender-specific either. With this knowledge in mind, can you recall a time when, due to someone else’s passive-aggressive behavior, you adopted the spirit of Jezebel?
The Oxford Dictionary defines passive-aggressive behavior as “a type of behavior or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct confrontation, often through procrastination, pouting, or misplacing important materials.”
Oxford also defines co-dependency as “a condition where a person has an excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, often one who requires support due to an illness or addiction. Co-dependents confuse sacrifice with loyalty and love.”
4. Would you consider Ahab to be co-dependent or passive-aggressive?
5. Can you identify both traits in Ahab and Jezebel?
Chapter Five Review Questions
1. Have your fiery trials and vicious attacks drawn you closer to the Father? If so, in what ways?
2. Fighting against a person influenced by a negative spirit is like poking a bear. With this in mind, how should we manage our defensiveness and reactions? The Father challenges Job for trying to provoke the serpent, as seen in:
“Will he (Leviathan) make a covenant with you? No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him.”
– Job 40:4, 10, NASB
3. How can we discern when it is appropriate to remain silent compared to Isaiah’s words of rebuking judgment?
“No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
– Isaiah 54:17, NASB
4. In Chapter Five, I shared a story about my husband and me fasting to stop the Leviathan spirit that was attacking us. During our fast, my husband had dreams of drowning snakes in the water. Can you identify Leviathan in this dream?
5. Have you ever fasted during significant spiritual battles and experienced breakthrough?
Chapter Six Review Questions
“Six things Adonai hates, yes, seven are abominations to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet that run to evil, a false witness who spouts lies, and one who stirs up strife among brothers.”
– Proverbs 6:16-19, TLV
1. Can you identify the characteristics mentioned in Proverbs 6 as they appear in King Saul? Please provide examples.
2. In Numbers 12, Miriam and Aaron speak against their brother Moses, and the Holy One hears them. In what subtle ways do we deceive ourselves and justify our negative speech about others?
3. Reflecting on King Saul and his anointing, it becomes apparent that Saul eventually could no longer hear the Father’s voice. He received no warnings from the prophets, dreams, or visions, yet David refused to harm Saul due to his anointing. What lessons can we learn from this situation?
Chapter Seven Review Questions
1. Have you ever had a persistent enemy? If so, how have you dealt with that situation?
2. After reading this chapter, do you see that “Leviathan” is more about enduring suffering to become valuable, like gold, and less about our adversaries?
3. In John 12:24, Yeshua speaks about dying to ourselves: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (NASB). Can you identify areas in your life that still need to be surrendered to the Holy One?
Chapter Eight Review Questions
1. David is on a journey to receive the crown. He has already been anointed, but his training began while he was tending sheep. Can you think of other Biblical characters whose training also started with tending sheep?
2. David fears touching Saul because he knows the Father has anointed Saul as king. When we see leaders acting like Saul, do we hesitate to challenge them? How can we discern whether such individuals are truly anointed by the Father or self-appointed?
3. In 1 Samuel 26, David expresses his intention to wait for the Father to handle his enemy. Will we adopt a similar approach during our own trials?
4. David states, “As Adonai lives, either Adonai will strike him down, or his day will come to die, or he will go down to battle and be swept away. Adonai forbid that I should lay my hand on Adonai’s anointed!” — 1 Samuel 26:10-11 (TLV)
Chapter Nine Review Questions
1. Reflect on a time when your words caused harm to others. How did you resolve that situation?
2. In 1 Samuel 23, Saul believes that God is still with him, remaining oblivious to his true condition. How often do we fail to see our own shortcomings?
“When it was reported to Saul that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, ‘God has delivered him into my hand, for he shut himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars’” (1 Samuel 23:7, NASB).
The Yaaros Devash explains, based on a Midrash, that when God created the tongue, He recognized its potential to cause harm. Therefore, He concealed it inside the mouth and secured it with a double lock—the teeth and the lips. These serve to guard the tongue against speaking evil (Rabbi Eybeschutz).
3. Saul perceives David as an enemy of God because he views him that way. Can you recall someone you initially misjudged? In hindsight, could your opinion have been influenced by insecurities or jealousy?
“When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, ‘Is this your voice, my son David?‘ Then Saul lifted up his voice and wept. He said to David, ‘You are more righteous than I; for you have dealt well with me, while I have dealt wickedly with you’” (1 Samuel 24:16-17, NASB).
4. What caused Saul to initially repent, only to later harden his heart and seek to destroy David, his son-in-law? His behavior resembles that of a narcissist, much like Pharaoh.
5. Can you identify other Biblical characters who displayed narcissistic traits? Where there is no true repentance, reconciliation cannot occur.
Chapter Ten Review Questions
The Vidui is a prayer of repentance and confession for the Jewish people on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement). Below is the beginning portion of this prayer. While reading, let us meditate on the situations that clearly illustrate King Saul’s sins against David:
Our God and God of our fathers, let our prayer come before You, and do not ignore our supplication. For we are not brazen-faced and stiff-necked enough to say to You, Adonai, our God, and God of our fathers, “We are righteous and have not sinned.” But, indeed, we and our fathers have sinned. We have trespassed against God and man, and we are devastated by our guilt. We have betrayed God and man; we have been ungrateful for the good done to us. We have stolen. We have slandered. We have caused others to sin and commit sins for which they are called רְשָׁעִים (wicked). We have sinned with malicious intent. We have forcibly taken others’ possessions, even when we paid for them. We have added falsehood upon falsehood. We have joined with evil individuals or groups. We have given harmful advice. We have deceived, mocked, and rebelled against God and His Torah. We have caused God to be angry with us and turned away from His Torah. We have sinned deliberately. We have been negligent in our performance of the commandments. We have caused our friends grief. We have been stiff-necked, refusing to admit that our suffering is caused by our own sins. We have committed sins for which we are called רָשָׁע (raising a hand to hit someone). We have committed sins stemming from moral corruption, and we have committed sins that the Torah refers to as abominations. We have gone astray. We have led others astray.
(English text taken from The Metsudah Machzor, via Sefaria)
1. Do we consider how our sins have consequences that affect not just us, but also those around us?
2. Giving harmful advice is a serious charge. Most people, when asked for counsel, intend to help the person asking. How often do we reflect on the words we speak that may cause harm in situations like this?
Chapter Eleven Review Questions
1.Strong’s Hebrew: 4170 — moqesh: a bait or lure; a snare. Seeing that one meaning for the word “snare” in Hebrew is to be baited, how does fear lay bait to trap us?
“The fear of man brings a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD will be exalted.” – Proverbs 29:25, NASB
“Then Saul disguised himself by putting on other clothes” (I Samuel 28:8, NASB). We can act like chameleons around certain people, camouflaging our identities. Many times, we are unaware of this. In Shakespeare’s words, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.”
Even David, at one point in the story, acted like a madman who had lost his mind to escape from Saul’s clutches.
2. Are there people around whom you act differently? If so, why?
Chapter Twelve Review Questions
1.Our ego, referred to in Hebrew as Yetzer Hara, longs for self-gratification. Athaliah wanted to be in power and was willing to murder her family members to achieve it. In what ways can we spiritually “murder” others to gain our achievements?
2. Have you ever been chastised by someone who mistook your zeal or faith for pride?
In 1 Samuel 17, David’s brother rebukes him, saying, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.” (I Sam. 17:28, NASB).
3. Define humility and affliction by conducting a word search in Hebrew.
Chapter Thirteen Review Questions
1.Can you look back on a time in your life when you were busy erecting monuments? What were they?
Samuel told Saul, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel?” (I Sam. 15:17). Having too much pride is never good, but having too little pride can make us doormats for others to wipe their feet on.
2. How can we maintain balance in this area?
Chapter Fourteen Review Questions
“And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light. But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone. About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal, and he died” (I Samuel 25:36-38, NASB).
Nabal, the fool, is drunk on the wine of the harlot. His heart becomes stone, and he dies. His bride, whose name means “Father of Exultation,” will now become David’s bride. This serves as a prophetic picture of a future event: Beloved David and His joyful Bride—ten days later, they become one.
1. When envisioning the Wedding Banquet with the Messiah and the wise and foolish virgins, list the characteristics of both.
The parable of the Ten Virgins mentioned in Matthew 25:1-9 describes five foolish virgins and five wise ones.
2.Why did the foolish think the wise could give them oil? All became drowsy… I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.” (I Sam. 17:28, NASB).
3. Define humility and affliction by doing a word search in Hebrew.
Chapter Fifteen Review Questions
1. Have you ever had to recall a testimony to encourage yourself? How did it feel to revisit the goodness of God?
2. What significance does the sword of Goliath have? What spiritual meaning did you derive from the fact that the giant’s sword was wrapped in an ephod (a priestly garment)?
3. If your greatest enemy were to die today, could you find the words to articulate the many good things they had done?
Unveiling the Messiah in the Spring Feasts, Audio Book accompaniment
Part I
Lynn Marie Brunk has finished recording Unveiling the Messiah in the Spring Feasts and Fall Feasts. These audio books should be available in early March. This blog is a chapter accompaniment with graphs that was not recorded on the Spring Feasts.
The 24 Elders
Multiple books and teachings have been written about the 24 elders mentioned in Revelation 4. We are told in verse 4 that these 24 elders have crowns upon their heads: “Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads” (Revelation 4:4, BSB). Some believe these are angels, but angels do not wear crowns, and we are told the 24 elders will lay their crowns at His feet. I believe these could represent the righteous ones starting with the priestly order, Noah being the 8th proceeding to Melchizedek, and continuing to the Messiah, see (Hebrews 7:11, BSB). Well-known scholars such as Chuck Missler and Micheal Rood equate these 24 elders to the dead who were resurrected during the death of our Messiah. Their proof text comes from Matthew 27:
When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit. At that moment, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split. The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. After Jesus’ resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people.
—Matthew 27:50-53, BSB
We read nothing more concerning these saints. Curiously, Watchmen were divided into 24 orders to guard the holy mount, and David in the Book of I Chronicles, along with Zadok and Ahimelech, divided the priestly elders into their offices according to their service and they numbered 24. There were 12 tribes of Israel and 12 apostles.
Zadok was elevated to the position of High Priest after David became the king. King David instructed Zadok, along with Abiathar and the Levites, to move the Ark of the Covenant from the house of Obed-Edom to a tent set up for it on Mt. Zion. Following this, Zadok was assigned to officiate at Gibeon, while Abiathar, the other high priest, ministered in Jerusalem.
Upon deeper study, I had an epiphany that the priestly names in I Chronicles might hold great prophetic insight. While researching, I received confirmation behind each name of the 24 Elders and the hidden meaning of each name in order of service. Throughout the Bible, people’s names meant something, and they were more tangible than some of the more straightforward names we give our children today. A name back then was not just a title, but the name defined the person. It highlights the character, integrity, and future of a person. Jacob’s name was changed from “supplanter” (trickster) to “Israel,” which means “Triumphant with Yahweh” or “He retains God.” Jacob started out deceiving and stealing his brother Esau’s birthright, but after wrestling with an angel all night, he received a new name that fit his new character.
After pondering these twenty-four men and their names, I set out to tediously look up each Priestly name and its Hebrew meaning in the chronological order given from the Word of God. What I found was astounding:
Now, the divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these: the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests. David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their offices for their ministry. Since more chief men were found from the descendants of Eleazar than the descendants of Ithamar, they divided them thus: there were sixteen heads of fathers’ households of the descendants of Eleazar and eight of the descendants of Ithamar, according to their fathers’ households.
—I Chronicles 24:1-4, NASB
I Chronicles explains that David and Zadok divided the priest by lots, and the first lot came to be for Jehoiarib. To simplify this teaching, I have made a graph below that shows the names of the priestly order in English and Hebrew, and, lastly, the meaning of their names. Each definition comes from Abarim Publications or Strongs Concordance:
English Name Hebrew Name Meaning
| 1. Jehoiarib | Y’hoyariv | “Yahweh pleads” or “YHWH replaces” |
| 2. Jedaiah | Y’da‘yah | “Yah knows” or Known of the Lord |
| 3. Harim | Harim | Destroyed — consecrated to Yah |
| 4. Seorim | S‘orim | Gates, tempest, hairy, horror, to whirl away. |
| 5. Malchijah | Malkiyah | My King Is Yahweh. |
| 6. Mijamin | Miyamin | From the right side |
| 7. Hakkoz | Hakotz | A thorn, an end |
| 8. Abijah | Aviyah | Yah is my Father |
| 9. Jeshua | Yeshua | Yah Is Salvation |
| 10. Shecaniah | Sh’khanyahu | Yahweh Has Heard |
| 11. Eliashib | Elyashiv | To turn back-to restore |
| 12. Jakim | Yakim | He (God) Raises Up |
| 13. Huppah | Hupah | A covering |
| 14. Jeshebeab | Yeshev’av | Seat of his father |
| 15. Bilgah | Bilgah | Brightness |
| 16. Immer | Immer | Speaking or Lamb |
| 17. Hezir | Hezir | Swine or protected |
| 18. Happizzez | HaPitzetz | Scattered ones |
| 19. Pethahiah | P’tachyah | Yah opens |
| 20. Jehezkel | Yechezk’el | Strengthened By God |
| 21. Jachin | Yakhin | He Will Establish |
| 22. Gamul | Gamul | Weaned |
| 23. Delaiah | D’layahu | Drawn Up of The Lord |
| 24. Maaziah | Ma‘azyahu | The Lord shelters |
In the graph above, Yeshua is number nine. His very Name means salvation. When we back up to number eight, we find none other than the order of Abijah. John the Baptist’ father was in that division:
In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
—Luke 1:5, NASB
Yeshua would be baptized by John in the Jordan and His Father’s Voice announced that this was His Son and He was well pleased. Yeshua is our salvation, and that required a beating that was so severe his organs were exposed, and he was unrecognizable according to the words of the prophet Isaiah. “So His appearance was marred more than any man” (Isaiah 52:14, NASB). He was on the cross, and at one point, Yeshua begins to cry out to His Father:
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
—Matthew 27:45-46, BSB
Hebrew teacher, author, and scholar, Dr. Skip Moen explains that Yeshua uttered “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me,” at his death because his audience would have known exactly what passage he was uttering. In Yeshua’s time, the Psalms were not numbered as they are today. They were titled by the first line. Therefore, announcing “My God, My God” was like saying, “All of you remember the words of Psalm 22:
If Jesus wants the men at the foot of the cross to recall Psalm 22, what else is there to know? When we look deeply at Psalm 22, we find that hazav (forsaken) is not the major theme. Psalm 22 is about deliverance (v. 8), sovereignty (v. 9), rescue (v. 11), comfort (v. 19), salvation (v. 21), praise (v. 23), satisfaction (v. 26), prosperity (v. 29) and finally righteousness (v. 31). It starts with the lament of the afflicted and abandoned, but it ends with a pantheon of victorious praise. What begins with a cry of destitution ends in confident assurance that the God of the righteous prevails. [1
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Continuing in I Chronicles 24, the next priestly office is Sh’khanyahu and means “Yahweh has heard.” While Yeshua was on the cross, we learn Yeshua cried out in agony, but as we continue reading Psalms 22, we find the answer later in the passage:
A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me; They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.” Once we get to verse twenty-four, we see that His Father did indeed hear Him. “Nor has He hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.
—Psalm 22:24, NASB
He heard! Sh’khanyahu means “Yahweh has heard.”
The eleventh lot fell upon Elyashiv. His name means “To turn back and to restore.” The Father was sending His Son to restore the covenant that His bride had broken. The Holy One had written His people a certificate of divorce and sent them away, but now they could return. “I noted that when backsliding Israel committed adultery I sent her away and gave her a certificate of divorce” (Jeremiah 3:8, TLV). This is why Yeshua said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24, NASB). He speaks more about this in other passages:
So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?
—Acts 1:6, NASB
Continuing in I Chronicles 24, the twelfth (12) Elder, Jakim, should cause us to shout with joy upon hearing the meaning of his name—Yah (God) is raising up! And our Father did by raising His Son, Yeshua on the third day. Yes, our mighty Savior, Yeshua Messiah, was like Jonah in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights, but the Bible tells us that he arose from the dead:
this Yeshua, given over by God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge, nailed to the cross by the hand of lawless men, you killed.But God raised Him up, releasing Him from the pains of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held by it.
—Acts 2:23-24, TLV
The 13th priestly lot fell on Huppah, also called chuppah and means “A covering.” The huppah is mentioned in the Bible in association with marriage:
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out of his room And the bride out of her bridal chamber.
—Joel 2:16, AB
The huppah symbolizes the new home to which the bridegroom will take his bride. It is a public declaration that they are man and wife. What a beautiful picture of Yeshua and His Bride, the Church/ assembly of called out Believers.
I am in awe of all the prophetic gold hidden in these names, and I pray you are too. Moving along, we learn the next priestly lot fell upon Jeshebeab, the 14th lot, which means “Seat of His Father.” We know from scripture that after Yeshua died and arose, He ascended into the glory clouds, and He is indeed sitting at the Right Hand of His Father:
So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
—Mark 1:19, NASB
Can you see the beauty of our Father’s hidden mysteries? Each name will not be expounded on in this body of work, but I will enlighten you that the whole story from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Revelations is hidden in each name of the 24 Elders.
Moving down on our graph to the seventeenth division (17) is Hezir meaning “swine or protected.” This priestly name has to do with those who are sealed. Those who have the Holy One’s Name sealed on their foreheads will be protected, but the swine, the lost, will not be protected. How interesting that the unclean animal, the pigsty where the prodigal son found himself was a place of unprotection. Remember the legion of demons that Yeshua cast out in the Book of Mark? The unclean spirits went into the swine. Hezir’s name is used to describe the swine or those protected as the righteous are marked/sealed:
The LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst.
—Ezekiel 9:4, NASB
The 144 thousand are sealed:
And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.
—Revelations 7:1-3, NASB
They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
—Revelations 9:4, NASB
The scattered tribes are spoken of next. The 18th Elder, Happizzez, which means “scatter or scattering.” Praise the Holy One, Yeshua is the door to the sheep. “Yahweh opens,” is the hidden meaning behind Pethahiah the 19th Elder:
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
—John 10:9-11, TLV
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
—Revelation 3:20, NASB
Meditating on this priestly order in a timeline frame, the following passages cannot be overlooked:
Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit. Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.
—Luke 12:35-36, NASB
To the angel of Messiah’s community in Philadelphia write: I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
—Revelation 3:8, NASB
But what about the ones He does not open the door for? These will be filled with the greatest sorrow any man has ever felt. Nothing will compare to the grief felt when it’s time for Yeshua to open the door, and a person is met with the following response from the Messiah:
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’ then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’ There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”
—Luke 13:24-30, TLV
Those who were given such dire words told the Messiah that they taught others, did street ministry, and ate and drank in His presence. What a fearful word. They did not even realize that He did not know them intimately. Another verse from Revelations gives instructions for entering the gate, such as washing our spiritual garments, but hints to this season of when the door is shut and who is left outside: “But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie” (Revelation 22:14-15 NKJV). However, remember, we learned in chapter two of this book that the Father offers a second Passover (salvation) because He is a merciful Father, not wanting any to perish. In Matthew 13, concerning the wheat and tares, we learn that the tares will be thrown into the fire. Fire always purifies and removes all the impurities. The Messiah came to give life.
The 22nd priest’s name means “weaned.” Oh, what a glorious day when we are weaned off milk and baby bottles, and we all know the truth, and it is established on the mountains of the Lord Adonai:
They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.
—Jeremiah 31:34, NASB
And no more will they teach, each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Adonai,’ because all will know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
—Hebrews 8:11, TLV
In that day, we will be weaned and taught by the High Priest, our Messiah, the Anointed One.
The last two priestly names and their meanings are, “Drawn up of the Lord Adonai” and “Sheltered.” Hallelujah! We, His Bride, will be drawn up to the glory clouds with Him and sheltered from the storms in the huppah:
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
—I Thessalonians 4:17, NASB
“Look, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him, even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of Him. Yes, amen!” “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says Adonai Elohim, “Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty!”
—Revelation 1:7-8, TLV
These hidden mysteries can be found throughout our Bible. We just need to dig in and search. “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out” (Proverbs 25:2, BSB):
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.
—Revelation 21:1-4, NASB
When we read the last two chapters of Revelations, we see how sheltered His people will be, for they will not even need the sun or the moon, for they will all know His calendar in the heavens:
And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. In the daytime (for there will be no night there), its gates will never be closed; and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it, and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
—Revelations 21:23-27, NASB
No swine will enter this kingdom, only those who are sealed. Are you sealed? I pray today that if you do not know Him who sits on the throne, you will pour your heart out and ask Yeshua (Salvation) to write your name in The Book of Life. I pray you will begin to follow Him and His commandments because He loves you and has a plan for your life.
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