| 4-5-09 - DREAM - I was managing a large apartment complex. I
was in bed with someone when I woke up in the morning. I was on the left.
Next to the bed on the floor, on the right side, three men were
gambling - one of which was a handsome blonde man named David.
(means love)
During the day, we had a work crew painting the apartment building
both inside and outside. I was spray painting the outside of the
building white. Everything inside was also being painted white.
I took a break during the day, and inside the apartment was the
blonde David again, talking to two other young men - both black - in a
corner alcove where it was dark.. We briefly joked around about moving a
bookcase that was in the corner of that room if the young black men wanted
to hide their faces behind it.
I went back outside to finish the outside of the building.
When I was done with my work, again I saw the blonde David on the opposite
side of the building, and he said something about his side of the building
was too shiny or something like that.
Just then, a young black woman named Glory came up to me and told me
that she had completed the apartment she was painting.
The blonde David, who was in charge of the painting schedule,
told her to go to the other end of the building and paint apartment 405.
She said "Okay!" and started to leave, but before we all went back to
work, another older black man came out of the elevator, and said that a
young man I had seen with the blonde David earlier (he looked like Antonio
Vega from One Life to Live TV show) was in the elevator and had been
stabbed in the chest. He said the knife was on the floor of the
elevator with the young black man - also named David.
Glory and I both got frightened, and started to go up the nearest
stairway, and I closed the bottom door on the stairway and locked it, so I
was on the stairway with Glory so that the person who had done the
stabbing couldn't get to us..
Somehow, the young man black man David who had gotten stabbed on the
elevator, jumped up, grabbed the knife, ran around the side of the
staircase and stabbed Glory in the back from outside the staircase.
I didn't know that the stairway was open on the side and when the
young black man named David he stabbed the black woman named Glory, my
eyes flew open and I was awake.
I rolled over and looked at the clock to see what time it was -
it was 4:45
TODAY IS PALM SUNDAY
7 A.M. VISION - I saw a game in which, when you move three squares
together that match in color - they cancel each other out and disappear,
allowing the row above to move downward one row. So, in the vision,
I moved one yellow square upward which made a line of 3 horizontal yellow
squares which canceled each other out - and the vision showed that it
equaled 4 4 5
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I've dreamed about HOD before, which I wrote about at great length
here:
http://www.greatdreams.com/Qabalah/hod.htm
Below, I will write just about the pertinent information to this
particular dream. It is important to note that there
is a black and white David, and a black Glory as you will see below
illustrated as to how that works.
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HOD
- GLORY - SPLENDOR
HOD
is the Hebrew word for
glory. It is
through this Sephiroth that God's judgment comes down to the world.
The name of God associated with
HOD is
Elohim Tza'va'ot.
HOD and
Netzah form the beginning of the lower half of the World of Assiyah
(Action), where Adam and Chava were expelled to after receiving their
garments of skin. Rav Sha'ul spoke of the spiritual body received
during the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:39-48
The meaning of the name Chava:
| I Corinthians 15:39-48
Vs. 39 – All flesh
is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men,
another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Vs. 40 – There
are celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of
the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is
another.
Vs. 41 – There
is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another
glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in
glory. In other words, there is a different brightness,
that's what Paul is talking about.
Vs. 42 – So
also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;
it is raised in incorruption.
Vs. 43 – It is
sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness;
it is raised in power.
Vs. 44 – It is
sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And that body
is what you and I will have when Jesus Christ returns. We will
be composed of spirit. We will be composed of spirit! And, it
goes on and says:
Vs. 45
– And so it is written, 'The first man Adam was made a
living soul.' The last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
One who knows no death.
Vs. 46 –
Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which
is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual.
Vs. 47 – The
first man is of the earth, earthy; the second Man is the Lord
from heaven .
Vs. 48 – As is
the earthy, such are also those of the earth... In other
words, we are physical; we have flesh and blood just like Adam.
...and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are
heavenly. In the resurrection and the change, we'll
become...you and I have been created, to be changed, from mortal
to immortal, that is the design for you and for me.
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| COMPARING
NETZAH AND HOD Netzah (victory) on the right
continues the downward flow of giving from Chesed,
but now it is charged with the power of determination.
Netzah is the power to overcome all the obstacles in its
way. This is God as Man of War. The human archetype of
Netzah is Moses, the great leader of Israel who overcame
Pharaoh, took the Jews out of Egypt, and led them through
the desert for 40 years. HOD (glory) is the opposite
of Netzah. It is restraint like Gevurah but
now God is giving boundaries to creation in order to reveal
His Glory within it. In a human being, it is the surrender
to God, standing in awe at His grandeur. The archetype of
HOD is Aharon the High Priest, who presided over the
Temple service. Yesod (foundation) is the third of
the second triad. Like tiferet above it, Yesod
unites the opposites of Netzah and HOD and
channels the energy down into the seventh Sephiroth
Malchut. Yesod is the Sephiroth of procreation
and the archetype is Josef, who was sold into slavery by his
brothers but who rose to become the viceroy of Egypt.
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|
HOD/GLORY and it's relationship
to Chanukah
Hanukkah / Chanukah is observed for eight nights,
starting on the 25th day of
Kislev
according to the
Hebrew calendar, and may occur from late November to late December
on the
Gregorian calendar
The Jews light a total of 15 candles during the
first 5 days of Chanukah (besides the candle that lights the others -
the Shammash), and this number also has something special particularly
with the 5th day of Chanukah. But in addition, the number 15 also is
related to the whole holiday. The Vilna Gaon points out that the
different holidays correspond to the various spiritual emanations
(Sephiroth), which are Kindness, Strength, Splendor, Triumph, Glory,
Foundation, and Kingship. The one for Chanukah is the Sefira of
Glory/HOD. HOD is the Gematria of 15!
HOD also has the meaning of Hodaya/Thanksgiving, and as we say in the
Chanukah prayers of Haneirot Halalu & Al HaNissim - Lehodot U'Lehalel
L'Shimcha HaGadol - "to give thanks and praise for Your Great Name".
Thus, indeed it is the Sefira of HOD that is most related to Chanukah,
the only other eight day holiday besides Sukkot when we say the FULL
Hallel.
In Talmud Berachot 58a, it quotes the verse "To You, Hashem is the
Greatness (meaning Kindness), Strength, Splendor, Triumph, Glory..."
(Chronicles I 29:11). Quoting Rabbi Akiva, Greatness is the splitting
of the Reed Sea, Strength is the death of the firstborn Egyptians,
Splendor is the giving of the Torah, Triumph is Jerusalem, and Glory
is the Beit HaMikdash/Holy Temple. Now, bearing in mind that Glory/HOD
is the Gematria of 15, we see another parallel of this number to the
Beit HaMikdash. On Passover, when we celebrate it with the Seder on
the night of 15 Nissan, and we read the Haggadah which has 15 parts to
it, we sing the famous song of Dayenu. In it, it lists 15 different
favors/gifts that Hashem gave us. The 15th and last one is the Beit
HaMikdash! (In the Hagaddah, it is called the Beit HaBechira - House
of Choice, the name that the Rambam/Maimondies gives for the laws of
the Beit HaMikdash). Now, if you take a look in the above Talmudic
source, you will see that no explanation is given for the last two
Sephiroth which are mentioned in the original source in Chronicles. So
the question can be asked - why does it end with HOD/Glory and not
with Kingship? We'll answer this a little later on.
Usually, when we talk about Sephiroth, it's usually between Passover &
Shavuot when we count the Sefira - the daily count from 1 to 49 days.
Corresponding to these 49 days, you have the above Sephiroth/Spiritual
Emanations that start with Kindness in Kindness, Strength in Kindness,
etc., and then the 2nd week beginning with Kindness in Strength,
Strength in Strength, etc. Well, the fifth week corresponds with the
Sefira of Glory, and starting with Kindness in Glory, it continues
to...Glory in Glory - HOD ShebaHod. Can you figure out what day this
is? This is Lag Ba'Omer - the 33rd day of the Omer, the famous
celebrated day of the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. It's the
5th day of the 5th week, and this day is especially related to the
rabbi who started revealing the Kabala which later became what is
known as the Zohar, which means brightness, related to light, thus
relating to Chanukah, the holiday of lights. In any event, we see an
amazing thing here - we see a correlationship here between the number
5, and the name Shimon. First we see that the leader of the tribe of
Shimon brought his sacrifices on the 5th day from the Mishkan
dedication, and then we see that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (Rashbi for
short) passed away on the 5th day of the 5th week of the Sefira
period. And why did this rabbi achieve such greatness as being the
kabala man, something that no one was known as such in Jewish history
until he came along?
You see, Rishi is another Jewish hero, who followed in the footsteps
of Matisyahu. Matisyahu had no fear killing the Hellenistic Jew who
dared offer a pig on the altar, and Rashbi had no fear speaking his
mind on the Romans. When he was together with a couple of other
rabbis, one of whom spoke in praise of the Romans' accomplishments,
Rashbi spoke his mind saying that whatever they did was only for
themselves. Now mind you, this was at a time that the Romans
controlled the land of Israel following the destruction of the 2nd
Temple which the Romans were responsible for. The next thing you know,
the Romans were hunting for him to have him executed, and Rashbi with
his son Elazar hid in a cave for 13 years. No doubt that it was this
time in his life that he reached unfortold spiritual heights which led
him to reveal the Kabbala.
Another point about Chanukah as especially related to the 5th day when
we read the sacrifices of the leader of the tribe of Shimon, is that
according to a Hassidic book called B'nei Yissachar which has
interesting Torah thoughts, Gematria, etc. about Shabbat, Rosh Chides,
and holidays - the Jewish months corresponds to the Jewish tribes in
the order that the leaders of these tribes brought the sacrifices
following the Mishkan dedication. Thus, the tribe of Shimon
corresponds with the 5th month of Av. It was in the beginning of this
month on Rosh Chodesh that Aaron the first Cohen Gadol/High Priest
passed away, and as the Torah tells us, the entire Jewish nation
mourned him for 30 days for his role in making peace between everyone,
thus for that entire month of Av. Also, the seven special guests of
Sukkot, who are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and
David, correspond to the above seven Sephiroth. Thus, Aaron
corresponds to the Sefira of HOD/Glory, and is the ancestor of the
Chashmonaim family from Matisyahu who brought us the holiday of
Chanukah which corresponds to the Sefira of HOD/Glory! (It's
interesting to note that Rabbi Isaac Luria, the famed Kabbalist
following Rashbi, passed away on the 5th day of the 5th month of Av).
Excepted from:
http://gematriot.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
TREE OF LIFE
“And the LORD God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out
of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to
the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of
the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”
-- Genesis 2:8-9
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| THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE ZOHAR.
http://tzion.org/Tree_Sefiroth.htm#Chart
When you are standing inside the Tree of Life, it is reversed from
looking at it from the outside.
|
| In 1997, I saw the tree of life made of everlasting moving gold
light. It was so beautiful, I cried when I saw it.
We have this image posted on several pages, but this is
the one I got it from:
http://www.greatdreams.com/tarot/28th_path.htm
It is about the 28th path on the Tarot/Tree of Life -
and the Vaults of Heaven.
Here I the song sung live on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7w4B-bTeUQ
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|
Person in the Tree
http://www.crystalinks.com/kabala.html
Sometimes it is confusing trying to figure out the left
and right Pillars of the Tree of Life and the symbol interpretations. In
certain cases they seem reversed. For example, the masculine side of the
Tree is associated with love, forgiveness, compassion, and intuitive
abilities. In our world, many would say these are more feminine than
masculine. Another example is that Venus, sphere 7, is on the right
masculine Pillar, and associated with Jesus, Lucifer, and Quetzalcoatl
(Kulkukan), the Feathered Serpent of Mesoamerica.
I believe the confusion can be resolved because it is said
that when we view the Tree from without, it is like a mirror image. When
we picture ourselves inside the Tree, as illustrated above, the various
symbolic attributes are reversed.
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THE BLACK WHITE ASPECTS OF THE TREE OF LIFE
Integrating The Shadow
The graphic above illustrates the shadow Tree behind the
Tree of Life. It is a symbolic way of showing the idea of The Shadow
side of the self, that needs to be integrated. The following is an
excerpt from Jude on the subject --
The journey of the soular hero
Jude Currivan PhD
http://www.judecurrivan.com/media-articles/articles/the-journey-of-the-soular-hero/
Along the long journey that was
still to unfold, I found myself discovering that to become whole I
needed to recognize and accept all of myself, light and shadow. Only
when we�re ready to take this third step can we integrate – in-to-great
- all aspects of ourselves and begin to heal our dismembered psyche. As
we do so though, something almost miraculous happens.
As though a veil is being lifted, we begin to see
beyond the limitations of the polarities that pervade the manifest world
to the wholeness that lies beyond. We all dissipate our energies to some
degree by dwelling on the past or projecting our hopes or fears into the
future.
Carl Jung was a leading proponent of the idea. Here is an
excerpt --
Jungian Psychology
http://www.systemsthinker.com/interests/mind/jungianpsychology.shtml
The Shadow is Carl Jung's term for
all of the aspects of ourselves that, due to inner conflicts resulting
from our upbringing, socialization, traumas or from other origins, have
been rendered unacceptable to us and that we therefore repress,
suppress, deny or disavow through the use of our defense mechanisms.
The Shadow can consist not only of
parts of us that our culture at large would view as shameful or
destructive, but may also include a 'Golden Shadow' made up of otherwise
constructive talents and strengths that, for one reason or another (i.e.:
they posed a threat to an authority figure's status), were not valued or
were shamed by influential people in our lives. Elements cut off from
consciousness within the Shadow may exert an enormous unseen influence
in our lives and relationships.
As long as we refuse to
acknowledge their existence within ourselves, they threaten to project
themselves onto others, with the potential for either exaggerated
idealization, as may occur in hero worship or romantic attraction, or
intense demonization and scapegoating. Indeed, the very occurrence of
such experiences points to a likely unconscious origin within some
aspects of our own Shadow.
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The Celestial Tree of Life
Around 1998, I received an e-mail from a young man. He
informed me that one of the graphics in may article about the
1999 solar eclipse was
quite like another -- a diagram of the of a three-dimensional version of
the Tree of Life projected into the celestial vault. He directed me to
this web page --
The Unified Field of Gnosis:
The Gnomon, The Labyrinth & The Celestial Tree of Life
Vincent Bridges
http://www.sangraal.com/AMET/research/gnomon.html
The idea is to imagine oneself in the center, with the
Tree projected all around. The upper two graphics below show the
two hemispheres of the projection, Northern on the left and Southern on
the right. The various spheres of the Tree of Life, with the corresponding
numbers, are depicted.
Sphere 1, Kether, is aligned with the North Ecliptic Pole,
and sphere 10, Malkuth, with the South Ecliptic Pole. Sphere 6, Tiphareth,
is on the ecliptic, shown at four points on each diagram. Spheres 4
(Jupiter) and 5 (Mars) are in the North. Spheres 7(Venus) and 8 (Mercury)
are in the South. The spheres are related to various celestial objects.
In terms of the Valentine's Day 2009 alignment, Jupiter and Mars may show
a duality in the Northern vault of the heavens, while Venus and Mercury
show a duality in the South. Sphere 2 (fixed stars) is in the center part
of the North, while sphere 9 (the Moon) is in the center part of the
South.
The lower two diagrams are my creations, based on four
triangular shapes, which correspond to the Barbury Castle pictogram crop
formation of 1991. A number of coincidences happened with the idea. The
lower left diagram fits will with Ezekiel's vision of the Four Living
Creatures. See --
http://www.greatdreams.com/plpath6.htm
The diagrams have a similarity to a baseball field, which
is a major dream symbol these days. See --
http://www.greatdreams.com/baseball.htm
Dee had a dream where she was shown a rectangular shape
with golden balls and threads of light. She noted that it was like the
Tree of Life. See --
http://www.greatdreams.com/create.htm
After Dee told me about her dream, I recalled that I had
seen a similar image on-line, with the 3D Tree spinning --
The ancient Sumerians had their own versions of the Tree
of Life --
A
search of the Internet brings up similar images.
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String Theory as Geometry & Tree of Life
From Joe Mason's page:
http://www.greatdreams.com/joestuff/jude/jude.htm
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What about the numbers in the dream?
|
Prime
Factors of 405=3x3x3x3x5.
405 is a
13-gonal Number.
405 is a
42-gonal Number.
405 is a
136-gonal Number.
405 is a
Pentagonal Pyramidal Number.
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Outline of Biblical Usage
1) pressure, urgency, burden
Authorized Version (KJV) Translation Count — Total: 1
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Fortunately, a scholarly person has done all the work for me (us) and
gives us the answer in great detail:
Bible Chronology
THE '405-YR' TOTAL CHRONOLOGICAL MARGIN
REVEALS DESIGN
THIS DOCUMENT IS INTENDED TO BE READ AS AN
ATTACHMENT TO THE MORE COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENT ON
'CHRONOLOGY.'
This attachment shows the total New Testament variants[1] of 405
yrs to be of divine intention. This is evident by both the patterns it
produces (see
'Chronology'), and (as discussed in this
document), in that the total of '405' is shown to be a significant
number in and of itself; in that it interconnects with itself, both on
a ten-times, or one-tenth (of itself) basis.
120, AND 1,200-YR PATTERN
We start with this one pattern before we show how the total NT
variant of 405 is significant in and of itself.
First we take a look at the 1,200 yrs from the flood to
the exodus and then explain how the '405' relates to it.
{The 'Yeshua' code (ELS) is at 120 letters too. See ' Chronology,'
for the standard and accredited dates that we use. Examples in this
document use the 'minus 2-yrs' at the flood due to Gen. 5:32; 11:10,
as explained in the main chronology document. }
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Flood yr as spr 2646 BC, to spr 2645 BC. 2646,5 BC +
1,200 (400 x 3) = spr 1446,5 BC (exodus / tabernacle.) |
The exact months and days of the flood narrative line up with
those of the exodus especially when using the
half-yr-New-Yr switch.
If we subtract the full 405-yr margin, the product of NT
revelation, then the date of the flood is 2241 or 2243 BC (i.e.,
2646/8 + 405 yrs). Since "400 yrs," (the round number in Gen 15:13,
for their time in Egypt), composes the last 400-yr segment of the
1,200 yrs from the flood unto the exodus, the loss of the NT "405"
helps divide the 1,200 into three equal parts, (as 1,200 or 800 yrs
from the flood). Likewise, scripture divides Moses' life into three
even periods of 40 yrs. Furthermore, the 40-yr loss (of the LXX 1Kg
1:6 variant), can align the 1,200 yrs from the flood as
either unto when Moses was 120 yrs old, or, as
800 yrs unto when he was 80 yrs old. (Note the '120-yr
period unto the flood,' of Gen 6:3, also.)
As for exact periods of 400 yrs, we allow the span to start from
the flood or the death of Lamech (father of Noah) who died 5
yrs earlier. {This 5 yrs is appropriate for several reasons.}[2]
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2651 BC (max-Lamech's death), less the 405 = 2246 BC (min-Lamech's
death) + 800 yrs = 1446 BC (exodus) |
The 5 yr gap occurs frequently in the numbers because on a
ten-time level, it designates half-a-day or yr. The dates of
the creation vividly
illustrate this.[3]
Next, we repeat this again, (of a actual interval connecting
with itself on a times-ten level as did the 120 of Moses and at the
flood, with 1,200), except we use the mirror-exodus
this time rather than the actual exodus. Both of these examples (of
what was just said and will be said), are also in turn connected, but
we will not go into detail now. (Essentially, we have a 120 + 120 +
120 = 360 yrs (as one 'yr'), + 40 = 400-yr-pattern, and repeated on
a times-ten level. But see example using ELS in
'chronology.')
40.5, 405, & 4,050, INTERCONNECT
First, a look at the '405' (of the three NT variants), and
'4,050' (of Bible numbers, which we explain shortly), using the LXX-exodus
of 1406 BC, along with the 'traditional' date of MT-1446 BC.
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2645/6
BC
flood yr, + 4,050 =
AD
1406/5 (mirror of Canaan entry, but exodus w LXX -40). |
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AD
1406 (as exodus) + 405 = birth of Isaac, the son of promise. |
|
Hence, from alternate (min) flood date of less 405 (2241
BC),
+ 4,050 yrs = birth of Isaac. |
Furthermore, the Bible breaks down this same span of 405 yrs,
(from the exodus to Isaac's birth), into the same segments of time as
the three NT variants did, (i.e., 215, 60, 130 yrs, and LXX -40, too),
even though they are not directly related to one another other than by
this pattern.
{We will quote directly from a typical computation of the
chronology of the patriarchs (taken from 'The Expositor's Bible
Commentary') in order to assure the reader that the connecting of the
three NT variants with actual periods of time of the same duration,
(i.e., during the patriarchs), is not contrived but matter-of-factly
taken from the Bible. We use LXX-dates for this pattern though the
commentary is using the MT. This in no way contradicts the quote
itself.}
"The date of Abraham's birth is computed by adding 215
to the 1876-BC date that marked the coming of Jacob and his family
to the land of Goshen. The 215 yrs are computed from the
age of Jacob at the time he moved to Egypt–130 (Gen.
47:9), the age of Isaac when Jacob was born–60 (Gen.
25:20, 26), and the age of Abraham at the time of Isaac's
birth–100 (Gen. 21:5)."
(Gleason Archer, 'T. E. B.
C.' Vol., 1, pg., 365, 6.)
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AD 1406 (LXX mirror-exodus) + 215 =
1621 (LXX mirror-entry to Egypt) + 130 yrs = AD 1751 (LXX
mirror-birth of Jacob) + 60 yrs = AD 1811 (LXX mirror-birth of
Isaac). |
Ponder closely:
Thus, the 405 less at the flood (= 2241 BC), with its three-part
breakdown, is likewise 4,050 yrs to each of the dates in the above
chart. Furthermore, 4,050, plus 405 = 4,455, (i.e., as from the max
flood to Isaac's mirrored birth, LXX), even so, 405 (of the three
major variants), plus the minor variant of -40 of 1Kg 6:1, equals 445,
(or, one-tenth of the previous total). Add to this the extra
half-yr-New-Yr switch possible for when Isaac entered Egypt (as being
130.5 yrs old), and we have a total of 445.5 yrs, (or exactly
one-tenth of above total variants). Therefore, the total yrs from the
max flood to Isaac's birth (MT & LXX) of 4,050, with its additional
405 (as above), agrees with the total variants in use to create this
effect in the first place (i.e., 405, with LXX -40). This, along with
the fact that each individual part (i.e., 215, 130, 60, 40), are also
being advanced to significant events in the mirror of the lives of the
patriarchs, is strong evidence that it was designed this way.
Furthermore, 1Kg 1:6 (of our LXX -40), states that the temple
was built either 3½ or 4 yrs after king David's 40.5-yr reign (2Sam
5:5). Hence, we have both one-tenth and one-hundredth of
4,050 and 4,455 yrs as well.[4]
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Solomon's temple
begins in 966 BC, spring, – 480 yrs to exodus (MT), or, – 440
yrs (LXX). |
|
spr 966 BC, – 3½ yrs = aut 970
BC, – 40½ yrs of David's reign. = spr 1010 BC, {See endnote [5]
for why David's reign
thematically connects with Solomon's temple.} |
|
3.5 + 40.5 = 44 (one tenth of the
LXX reading of '440'). |
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Or, spr 966 – 4 yrs = spr 970 BC,
less 40½ = aut 1011 BC, |
|
4
+ 40.5
= 44.5
(one-tenth of total variant reading.
I.e., 40
+ 405
= 445) |
The '4,' is one-tenth of the LXX -40 variant, here at 1Kg. The
40.5 (of David's reign) is one-tenth of total NT variants (of 405),
and 40.5 is also one-hundredth of Daniel's three numbers of 4,050,
and, or, + 30, etc., see next chart). The '480 days'
that David spent in a foreign land immediately prior to his 40½-yr
reign (1Sam 27:7) yield other patterns too (that we cannot describe at
this time), and correspond to the 440 and 480 yrs of 1Kg 1:6.
The 405(0) pattern is still more intricate; Ezekiel's '430'
combines with 2300, 490, 1260 of Daniel (the total of 4,050), as well.
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(Flood) 2645 BC + 4,050 (2300
+ 490 + 1260) = AD 1406 (LXX-exodus) + 430
of Ezekiel and of the period in Egypt. |
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Or, similarly, 2645 BC + 4,080 (2300 + 490 +
1290) + the 400 yrs in Egypt (Gen 15:13). |
It is possible to use the '1290', rather than its shadow '1260',
(1290 has
intercalary month),
for a total of 4,080 yrs (i.e., 2300 + 490 +1290). The '4,080' would
then be 10-times the total variant gap of '408'. A '408-yr' gap is the
extreme fringe of possibility when using MT in combination w NT. The
missing 3 yrs are calculated as follows: The difference of the "2 yrs"
from Gen 11:10; Gen 5:32. Next, subtract (as Jewish tradition does,
see endnote '3' of 'Chronology'), rather than add the
½-yr-New-Yr-switch, ---a full one-yr difference, (215 + 60 +
130 + 2 + ½ + ½ = 408.) For example, Lamech's death (max-2653 BC) +
408 yrs = Lamech's death (min-2245 BC), + 4,080 =
AD 1836 (LXX-entry into Egypt), etc.
ENDNOTES
1.) The above variants are
related to the four numbers of Ezk 4:4-9. For example, the '130' is
one-third of 390 (MT, Ezk 4). The '130' + '60' = 190 (of LXX, Ezk 4),
and the 215 is half 430 (MT, Ezk 4). Their total of '405,' is approx.
the round "400 yrs in Egypt," of Gen 15:13. (The "400 yrs," here, is
the root of the 430, 390, and 40 of Ezk 4.) Furthermore, the total of
'405,' is times-10 the '40' of Ezk 4.
2.) As we said in part 'A' of
Chronology, the standard Hebrew genealogies put the creation at 4304
BC, spring. This is an exact 4,300 yrs to the death of king Herod, and
when Christ and His parents left Egypt. The time in Egypt up until
when the Passover Lamb was slain (and Pharaoh died in the Red Sea), is
also an exact 430 yrs (Ex. 12:41).
Ezekiel (4:5-6) is told to lay on his side 390 days for Israel
and another 40 for Judah, for a total of 430 days that symbolized yrs
(i.e., the same length of time spent in Egypt). In like manner, after
390 yrs in Egypt, Moses tried unsuccessfully to rescue his brethren
from Pharaoh but had to flee and wait another 40 yrs. Consider the
symmetry of the following:
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Spr, 4304 BC (creation of Adam),
less the additional half-yr = aut, 4305 BC ( = 4,300 yrs to
birth of Christ, "the last Adam," 1Cor 15:45.) |
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4305 BC + 405 (the effect of NT
variants) = aut, 3900 BC, (3,900 yrs to traditional
conception of Christ in the mirror in March 25th,
1 BC). |
The above chart shows that the approximate 5-yr gap between the
traditional and actual birth of Christ symbolize a mere half-yr when
viewed on a times-10 level. This agrees with the half-yr gap between
Christ and his forerunner, John the Baptist (or, certainly unto the 'magnificat',
Luke 1:26,37,56). This half-yr combines with the 2 or 3 yrs
that Herod inquired of the Magi concerning when the Christ was born,
to create the "time, times, and half a time," in reverse order, (see
Rev. 12 in comparison with Matthew's birth narrative, and with Dan
9-12). "Two yrs old and under," Matt 2:16, in the original Greek may
read as 3 yrs old less a day, or as 2 full yrs. The ambiguity of the
text is purposeful because it is the inspired Word of God.
When this 5-yr gap is reduced by a tenth, the approximate 35-yr
life of Christ itself (including conception, etc.), becomes as
3½ yrs. This first 5 yrs, then, represent the "half-time" of the
prophet Daniel. Therefore, Christ's 30th yr, (when he began his 3½-yr
ministry), also symbolizes three yrs. {Likewise, note the effect of
the 5/6 BC census / birth in its AD mirror. The second census ( AD
6) in the Bible, is the mirror of the first, Acts 5:37; Luke 2:2}.
Therefore, the "time, times, and half-time" (3½ yrs), concur not
only with the first (i.e., at the general time of His birth), and
last 3½ yrs of His life, but also with the whole of His life but on
this times-10 level. The effect of this 5-yr gap just explained, when
viewed in connection with the (NT) 405-yr chronological gap,
underscores the purpose and design of the 405 gap, ---it gives a
floating variance of '40,' except on a times ten level, as does the
1Kg 1:6 LXX-variant of a literal 40 yrs.
3.) Noah's birth unto the flood
is 600 yrs. This plus the 1,200 to the birth of the nation of Israel
out of Egypt, are 1,800 yrs, (1,800 ÷ 360 = 5 yrs.) This 5 yrs
corresponds to Lamech's 5 yrs when a day is converted into a yr.
Therefore, besides the 120-yr warning unto the flood, the 5 yrs from
Lamech's death unto the flood was a warning too. For there are 1,200
yrs to the exodus (a type of flood), and 5 yrs of yrs (1,800) from
Noah to the exodus. The '1,200' corresponds with the 120-yr warning,
and the '1800' to the 5-yr warning from Lamech.
Lamech's father lived the longest of any man in the world. He
died in the same yr of the flood. Perhaps he died in the flood, but
more likely, the month before it. (Or, a ½-yrs before it?) If he died
before it, which is most likely since he is of the godly seed, then
his death was a portent of catastrophe just as Lamech's was. This
would then agree with Isaiah the prophet and Jesus the Messiah:
"Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day,
and much more abundant. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth
it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering
that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." (Isa.
56:12 - 57:1)
"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till
all these things be fulfilled… For as in the days that were before
the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew
not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be." (Mt. 24:37, 38, 39)
4.) 1Chon 29:27 has 40 yrs
instead of the exact 40.5 of 2Sam 5:5, to create
one-thousandth
of 4,050 and of 4,455 yrs too. I.e., the ½-yr gap of the 40 (or 40.5)
yrs of David's reign, plus the "4th yr" of Solomon (1Kg 1:6), can
create a 4 or 4.5-yr gap. Note the probable ½-yr co-reign of Solomon
and David as well, (1Kg 1:30,35,48; 2:12).
Click here for further information and patterns along this line of
things, and of David's reign.
5.) There is an exact '40.5'
yrs from Moses' attempted deliverance of Israel until the actual, and
from the death of Christ unto the prophesied destruction of Jerusalem
in AD 70.
Back to the chronology of the flood to Abraham.
Next, to the chronology of the creation to the flood
FROM:
http://www.netrover.com/~numbers/biblical-chronolgy-1g.html
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WHAT ABOUT NUMBER 445?
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Outline of Biblical Usage
Elhanan = "God has been gracious"
1) Jair's son who fought the Gittites
2) Dodo's son who was a chief of David
Authorized Version (KJV) Translation Count — Total: 4
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444 - God’s Cycle For Change
by Tom Donnan
John 10:10 the thief comes only to steal and
kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to
the full.
Have you been seeing this number? Or have you
been walking in the change God brings to His people in 444 day cycles;
ending a season in your life. On the 445
day, Jesus begins a new season in your life with Him and the Holy Spirit
now in the mix. He uses this cycle to rebuild a portion of your life.
Using an Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon, I looked
up the number 444 and its translation in the NAS. Is: Become Corrupt.
That’s what happens! Sin enters a family bloodline and corrupts God’s
Blessings and stops them from flowing. Again I entered the number 445
and got: God has been gracious. Restoring God’s Blessings to His
Children, He uses a 444 day cycle, of ending sins corruption reversing
the curses in our lives to Blessings.
Did you have a visitation from the Holy Spirit
on 1-20-08?
A new cycle just started on January 20th,
2008. If you start counting on Jan 21st, count 444 days, it
will bring you too, April 8th, 2009. That day, Passover
begins at Sundown. In this cycle, the Lord Decree’s a door to open in
your life. For the next 444 days, Jesus will introduce provisions for
ending a season of your life with a rebuilt season designed by Him, on
the 445 day. God has begun each one of these cycle with a manifestation
of His Holy Spirit, during the nighttime marking the beginning.
Here’s how it works: Gentile issues
I have now walked through four of these cycles.
Two of those cycles, God opened a door to end the effects of the sins of
the fathers upon my life. Others before me had opened spiritual doors
through sin and as the Scriptures say, the consequences flowed down to
the third and fourth generation. I had no knowledge of these things or
about my father’s family for that matter, they didn’t talk much. But God
had a plan.
I was given a gift of a knowledge download. I
became hungry to know more and after work, weekends, I was in the
library looking stuff up. Irish mythology, family name, genealogy book
by the score, any thing that might have family info in it, I looked
into. Once, a librarian was leading down an aisle locating a book I
wanted to see. As I followed her, halfway down the aisle, on the left, a
book stood out past the rest by one inch. The Holy Spirit said grab it,
so as I followed the librarian, I plucked it from the shelf and it was
the: “Celtic Year Book”. Inside was St. Donnan and on April 17th
they celebrate His Martyrdom for dying for Christ in 618 A.D. I had
never heard of Him before and was stunned. And so it went! I would walk
through Borders Book store, or any other bookstore, and stopped, bend
down to a book and inside would be more family information. I finished
this cycle with a binder three inches thick filled with new family
knowledge. God wanted me to know! Another Donnan I came to know, Jon,
had been doing research for ten years had didn’t even come close to
finding what God had led me too.
The point: Lev 26:40 If they shall confess their
iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which
they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto
me;
45 But I will for their sakes remember the
covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the
LORD.
Deut 28, Blessings and curses Chapter, God
showed me what we could have in the Lord and what we didn’t have for
breaking God’s laws and decree’s .
Towards the end of this 444 day cycle, I got
together with several of my family members who are born again and walk
in their faith, we prayed to confess our sins and those of our
forefathers. We prayed for the breaking of generational cycles. God
honored our prayers and change came. With this cycle, Passover came
delivering me from the past.
When we sin, we give satan legal grounds to come
into our life with consequences and pain. What Jesus was doing was
exposing those grounds to us, revealing the truth in Scriptures, within
the Bible, to nullify those grounds and set us free from the bondage we
existed in. That is why He chose Passover as an ending date, how awesome
is that.
Jewish Roots Issue’s
I believe that Jewish people are very
spiritually sensitive. If they are not practicing their faith, they are
practicing some other type of spiritually. However, God is very clear in
Deut 28:20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in
everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to
sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.
Being God’s chosen race, when Jew’s leave their
faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they bring curses upon
themselves and their children. My mothers grandfather, on her mothers
side, I am 95% sure, was Jewish. In the Chicago Stockyards, he was a
wagon driver. Having come from Germany, where Jews were not treated
well, he left his faith forsaking his God. It was in this 444 days
cycle, the Lord showed me this and other actions they had taken which
opened doors to evil they hadn’t expected.
Armed with this new information, I met with
family and again we prayed for God to forgive our forefathers for
forsaking Him and abandoning Him. We also asked for forgiveness of the
other things God had shown us along the way.
Current Cycle Revival
It is just beginning, and already it is shaping
up to looks like the dynamics of Revival! On January 20th,
after the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, I had a Vision. It was so
sweet and parts so tender, I keep those private, the message became
clear, an inheritance to the church of new believers is coming, Revival.
Asking the Lord for more help to grab onto
information, in a dream, I was shown a town that was being cleansed.
Giant soap suds were floating down like a snow storm. In the gentle
breeze, it covered everything. In 2 chronicles 7:13 "When I shut up
the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the
land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called
by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn
from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive
their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my
ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen
and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My
eyes and my heart will always be there.
When we humble ourselves before God, turn from
all false god’s and repent, Revival begins. We need to pray for the
cleansing of our towns, to pray for our lives to be cleansed before God.
We need to pursue Him with all our hearts and all of our minds and with
all of our souls. To love God with all our hearts, the Scriptures says
He will hear us and respond.
Now because this current cycle has just started
and it is not totally clear, it may be about personal Revival many of us
need. In any case, God has begun a new work in me/us this January 20th
and I am looking forward to the new blessings it brings and the new
adventure it will be…. I am not sure who has joined me in this new
cycle, maybe you will let me know?
Searching the Bible for references of 444-445
cycles, I found the return to Jerusalem by Nehemiah. King Artaxerxes
issued a Decree and gave Nehemiah all the provisions he would need to
rebuild the city. 444 years later, the Old Testament had ended and the
New Testament began. Here you find the same theme, closing out the old
and bringing in the new, but now with Jesus in the mix. That is how God
does it in our lives, He opens up a spiritual door in our lives by His
Decree, enters provisions to end that spiritual lineage, closes the door
on His special day, for us to walk in His life for us, in the Full. A
major difference is now satan is out of the picture and we bask under
the shadow of God’s wing for generations to come walking in a new
spiritual dynamic as never before.
God uses numbers in many ways and there are
multitudes of people being quickened by the Holy Spirit to notice them.
I say: “Dig deeper” to find out more information, it brings a deeper
knowledge of God’s message to us. Also, it brings confirmation beyond a
shadow of doubt to our spirits.
On this Journey of Restoration, The Lord has
brought me to pray with many people for separation of the sins of the
Fathers, and Blessings and Favor. If you would like prayer, click on
this link:
http://www.tomdonnan.com/TomD10.html
Tom Donnan
www.tomdonnan.com
experiential1@yahoo.com
Notes: In searching for info, I did contact
several people.
Dean Cooper came up with an interest point; in the seven year
season, I had four 444 cycles, Dean added them up to tally 1776. That is
the year of the United States Independence from Great Britain.
MORE AT:
http://www.etpv.org/2008/444gcy.html
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PALM SUNDAY
Palm Sunday is a
Christian
moveable feast which always falls on the Sunday before
Easter Sunday. The feast commemorates an event mentioned by
all four
Canonical Gospels
Mark 11:1-11,
Matthew 21:1-11,
Luke 19:28-44, and
John 12:12-19: the triumphant entry of
Jesus
into
Jerusalem in the days before his
Passion.In many Christian churches, Palm Sunday is
marked by the distribution of palm leaves (often tied into
crosses) to the assembled worshipers. The difficulty of procuring
palms for that day's ceremonies in unfavorable climates for
palms led to the substitution of boughs of
box,
yew,
willow or other native trees. The Sunday was often designated
by the names of these trees, as Yew Sunday or by the general term
Branch Sunday.
According to the Gospels, before entering Jerusalem, Jesus
was staying at
Bethany and
Bethphage, and the Gospel of John adds that he had dinner with
Lazarus, and his sisters Mary and Martha. While there, Jesus
is described by the
Synoptic Gospels as sending two unnamed disciples to the
village over against them, in order to retrieve a donkey that
had been tied up but never been ridden, and to say, if questioned,
that the donkey was needed by the Lord but would be returned in a
short period of time. Jesus then rode the donkey into Jerusalem,
with the Synoptics adding that the disciples had first put their
cloaks
on it, so as to make it more comfortable. The Gospels go on to
describe how Jesus rode into Jerusalem, and how the people there
lay down their cloaks in front of him, and also lay down small
branches of trees. The people are also described as singing part
of
Psalm 118 - ...Blessed is He who comes in the name of the
Lord. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father,
David.
... (Psalms
118:25-26). Where this entry is supposed to have taken place
is unspecified; some scholars argue that
the Golden Gate is the likely location, since that was where
it was believed the
Jewish messiah would enter Jerusalem; other scholars think
that an entrance to the south, which had stairs leading directly
to the Temple, would be more likely (Kilgallen 210). According to
Jewish tradition the one who is able to bridle and ride a colt (or
donkey) has a status of Messiah.
Symbolism
It is a common custom in many lands in the ancient
Near East to cover, in some way, the path of someone thought
worthy of the highest honour. The
Hebrew Bible (2Kings 9:13) reports that Jehu, son of
Jehoshaphat, was treated this way. Both the
Synoptic Gospels and the
Gospel of John report that people gave Jesus this form of
honour. However, in the synoptics they are only reported as laying
their garments and cut
rushes on the street, whereas John more specifically mentions
palm
fronds.
The palm branch was a symbol of triumph and of victory, in Jewish
tradition, and is treated in other parts of the Bible as such
(e.g.
Leviticus 23:40 and
Revelation 7:9). Because of this, the scene of the crowd
greeting Jesus by waving palms and carpeting his path with them
has given the Christian festival its name. It also shows the
freedom wanted by the Jews, and their desperation to have
political freedom. Some argued at this point that most Jews do not
recognize Jesus as a messiah, as the song that the people are
described as singing,
Psalm 118, happens to be the benediction song for the
Feast of Tabernacles. They even came as far as saying that the
Triumphal Entry must have happened in autumn, during the Sukkot
feast (Sukkot
is the Feast of Tabernacles). So, we have to state that the sacred
scenario of the Triumphal Entry, including chants from Psalm 118
and palm branches, is, in fact, a huge Messianic development. It
is true that Psalm 118 and palm branches are used during the
Sukkot ritual, but the Sukkot itself has Messianic meanings. These
meanings become clear during the 7th day of the feast,
called Hoshanah Rabbah (The Great Prayer). So, it is due to
such Messianic meanings that Jewish crowds met
Jesus
chanting the praises of
Messiah by verses from Psalm 118: baruk haba’ b’shem Yehwah
(Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD; verse 26) and
’anna’ Yehwah, hoshiiah na’ (Save now, I beseech
thee, O LORD; verse 25). It is well-known that the Hebrew
hoshiiah na’ (I beseech you, save now) was changed in Greek to
hosanna, which became a famous Christian term.
But we must add that verses from Psalm 118 were not the only
words reported by the Evangels. We can find, by example, in
Matthew 21:9 the syntagma hosanna en tois hypsistois
(Hosanna in the highest), which combines the hoshiiah na’
of Psalm 118 with the en tois hypsistois of Psalm 148:1
from the Septuagint. We can find references to the Son of David.
Everything was used to emphasize the Messianic marks of the day
and the strong appeal for the intervention of God.
The next Section, Prophetic Interpretations, will give more
details about the Messianic symbolism of this event. But we must
bear in mind that
Jesus
has premeditated every step of the Messianic scenario involved
here. This is why He resurrects Lazarus in the view of crowds,
this is why He enters Jerusalem coming from the Mount of Olives.
Prophetic Interpretations
Christians often interpret a passage from the
Zechariah as a prophecy which was fulfilled by the Triumphal
Entry:
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion!
Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you,
righteous and having salvation,
gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a
donkey.
I will take away the chariots from Ephraim
and the war-horses from Jerusalem,
and the battle bow will be broken.
He will proclaim peace to the nations.
His rule will extend from sea to sea
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Matthew quotes this passage from Zechariah when narrating the
story of
Jesus'
entry to
Jerusalem. His interpreting of the repetition in the Hebrew
poetry as describing two different donkeys: gentle and riding
on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey, is
offered by some Biblical scholars as a reason for Matthew's unique
description of Jesus riding both a donkey and its foal. However,
there is an alternate explanation. The full text in Matthew
regarding this issue is as follows:
"And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to
Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two
disciples, 2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over
against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a
colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if
any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of
them; and straightway he will send them. 4 All this was done,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
saying, 5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King
cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the
foal of an ass. 6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus
commanded them, 7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put
on them their clothes, and they set him thereon." (Matthew
21:1-7 KJV)
The Septuagint, in Zechariah9:9 says: "Rejoice greatly, O
daughter of Sion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem;
behold, the King is coming to thee, just, and a Saviour; he is
meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal." (Brenton) The
wording is slightly different from the Hebrew text but one can
reasonably interpret from the text that the Messiah, Jesus, will
be riding on one of the animals, presumably the ass, or donkey,
and that its colt, or foal, will be following behind its mother.
To imagine that Jesus would be riding on both simultaneously would
indeed present a strange image to mind. Hilary of Poitiers, in one
of his sermons on this chapter of Matthew, is of the view that two
animals, the ass and its colt, were brought to Jesus and,
presumably, those animals were not separated when he rode into
Jerusalem: "Two disciples are sent to the village to loosen the
ass tied up with its colt and to bring them to him. And should
someone ask them why they are doing that, they are to respond that
the Lord needs the animals, which must be released to him without
delay. From the previous sermons we remember that the two sons
of Zebedee symbolize the double vocation of Israel. Therefore, now
it is fitting to interpret the two disciples sent to release the
ass and the colt as the subsequent double vocation of the
Gentiles. It applies first of all to the Samaritans, who abandoned
the law after their dissent and lived in a state of dependence and
servitude. Yet it also applies to the rebellious and ferocious
Gentiles. Therefore the two disciples are sent to loosen those who
were bound and arrested by the bonds of error and ignorance."
A widespread Jewish belief states that the Mount of Olives would
see the coming of the
Messiah (see
Josephus, Flavius, Bellum Judaicum, 11,13,5 and
Antiquitates Judaicae, XX,8,6). This belief is based upon
Zechariah 14:3-4:
Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those
nations, as when he fought in the day of battle./ And his feet
shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east [...]
The triumphal entry and the palm branches, recall the
celebration of Jewish liberation in 1 Maccabees 13:51:
On the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one
hundred and seventy-first year, the Jews [led by Simon
Maccabeus] entered it [the fortress of Jerusalem] with praise
and palm branches and with harps and cymbals and stringed
instruments and with hymns and songs, because a great enemy had
been crushed and removed from Israel.
The great enemy in
Jesus
days on earth was the Roman army; and one can imagine that many
Jews saw the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem as the advent of a
revengeful Messiah who will wipe out the Romans from Holy Land.
But, then, there is the problem of the donkey. The
Babylonian Talmud preserves a question asked by the Persian
king Shevor: Why doesn't your Messiah come riding on a horse?
If he lacks one, I'll be glad to provide him with one of my best!
(Sanhedrin 98a). Indeed, why should the Messiah come on a donkey?
The answer stays in the symbolism of the donkey, which in some
Eastern traditions seems to be seen as an animal of peace, versus
the horse, which is the animal of war. Therefore, it was said that
a king came riding upon a horse when he was bent on war and rode
upon a donkey when he wanted to point out that he was coming in
peace. Thus, the king riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey
complies with the epithet gentle or lowly (Hebrew
anî - poor, afflicted) and strongly implies the message of peace.
This message of peace was always fundamental with
Jesus,
but it is not clear how well understood was it in those days. In
fact,
John declares: These things understood not His disciples at
the first (12:16). It is highly probable that the public
enthusiasm of the day saw the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem more
like a declaration of war against
Israel's enemies than a message of peace.
In the book Sanhedrin from the Babylonian Gemara it is
written that the Messiah will appear as a poor man on a donkey
only if the Jews are not found deserving of the salvation.
Otherwise, the Messiah will ride on a horse. Since all humans are
sinners, including Jews, it is obvious that the Messiah will
always ride on a donkey. However, this is a Christian belief and
not supported in Judaism (Jews, for example, do not believe in
original sin).
Day of week
Dates for Palm Sunday, 2009-2020
| Year |
Western |
Eastern |
| 2009 |
April 5 |
April 12 |
| 2010 |
March 28 |
| 2011 |
April 17 |
| 2012 |
April 1 |
April 8 |
| 2013 |
March 24 |
April 28 |
| 2014 |
April 13 |
| 2015 |
March 29 |
April 5 |
| 2016 |
March 20 |
April 24 |
| 2017 |
April 9 |
| 2018 |
March 25 |
April 1 |
| 2019 |
April 14 |
April 21 |
| 2020 |
April 5 |
April 12 |
On the tenth of
Nisan,
according to the
Mosaic Law, the lambs to be slaughtered at
Passover were chosen. Because of the link of this to the
Triumphal Entry, some new interpretations report that the event
was not even on Sunday, because Nisan 10 would not be a Sunday if
the
Crucifixion occurred on Friday the fourteenth. This day in the
year of the Passion saw
Messiah presented as the sacrificial Lamb. It heralded his
impending role as the Suffering Servant of
Israel (Isaiah 53, Zechariah 12:10).
The first day of any Old Testament feast was always
considered a Sabbath regardless of what day it fell on. The Feast
of Unleavened Bread always begins on Nisan the 15th. Passover was
celebrated the Evening before. If Nisan the 15th was a Saturday,
then Preparation Day (Matthew 27:62) was Friday the 14th, or Good
Friday. In any event, that would mean that the events of Palm
Sunday actually occurred on Monday, being five days before (John
12:1-12).
If Nisan the 15th was a Friday, however, then Jesus was
actually crucified on Thursday, Preparation Day, with Friday being
a special Sabbath, a high holy day (John 19:31), and the events of
Palm Sunday would be Nisan the 10th, late in the day, (Mark
11:11). Thus the days later that week would be Thursday,
Preparation Day, Friday a special Sabbath followed by Saturday a
regular Sabbath.
So if there is a relationship between the triumphal entry
and the selection of the Pascal lamb on the tenth either Jesus was
crucified on Thursday or the events of Palm Sunday happened on
Monday. One final option is that Jesus was crucified on Friday the
15th of Nisan. See the article on the
Chronology of Jesus for more details.
Observance in the liturgy
The congregation in an
Oriental Orthodox church in India collects palm fronds
for the Palm Sunday
procession (the men of the congregation on the left of
the sanctuary in the photo; the women of the congregation
are collecting their fronds on the right of the sanctuary,
outside the photo.
Western Christianity
On Palm Sunday, in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as
many Anglican churches, palm fronds (or in colder climates some
kind of substitutes) are
blessed
with an
aspergilium outside the church building (or in cold climates
in the narthex when Easter falls early in the year) and a
procession enters, singing, re-enacting the entry into
Jerusalem. In most Lutheran churches and in many other Protestant
churches, a similar practice is followed without the aspergilium.
The procession may include the normal liturgical procession
of clergy and acolytes, the parish choir, the children of the
parish or indeed the entire congregation as in the churches of the
East. In
Oriental Orthodox churches palm fronds are distributed at the
front of the church at the sanctuary steps, in India the sanctuary
itself having been strewn with marigolds, and the congregation
processes through and outside the church. In some Lutheran
churches, children are given palms, and then walk in procession
around the inside of the church while the adults remain seated.
The palms are saved in many churches to be burned the
following year as the source of ashes used in
Ash Wednesday services. The Roman Catholic Church considers
the palms to be
sacramentals. The vestments for the day are deep scarlet red,
the color of blood, indicating the supreme redemptive sacrifice
Christ was entering the city who welcomed him to fulfill- his
Passion and Resurrection in Jerusalem.
An Oriental Orthodox congregation in India processes
outside its church with palm fronds on Palm Sunday in
ancient Levantine Christian rites later continued in
attenuated form in Eastern Orthodox, Western Catholic and
Protestant rites.
In the
Episcopal and many other Anglican churches, the day is
nowadays officially called The Sunday of the Passion: Palm
Sunday; however, in practice it is usually termed "Palm
Sunday" as in the historic
Book of Common Prayer, by way of avoiding undue confusing with
the penultimate Sunday of Lent in the traditional calendar, which
was "Passion Sunday."
In the
Church of Pakistan (a member of the
Anglican Communion), on Palm Sunday the faithful carry palm
branches into the church, as they sing Psalm 24.
Eastern and Oriental
Christianity
In the
Eastern Orthodox Church Palm Sunday is often called the Entry
of the Lord into Jerusalem, it is one of the
Twelve Great Feasts of the
liturgical year, and is the beginning of
Holy Week. The day before is known as
Lazarus Saturday, and commemorates the resurrection of
Lazarus from the dead. Unlike the West, Palm Sunday is not
considered to be a part of
Lent,
the Eastern Orthodox
Great Fast ends on the Friday before. Lazarus Saturday, Palm
Sunday and Holy Week are considered to be a separate fasting
period. On Lazarus Saturday believers often prepare palm fronds by
knotting them into crosses in preparation for the procession on
Sunday. The
hangings and
vestments in the church are changed to a festive color—in the
Slavic tradition this is often green.
The
Troparion of the Feast indicates that the resurrection of
Lazarus is a prefiguration of Jesus' own Resurrection:
- O Christ our God
- When Thou didst raise Lazarus from the dead before Thy
Passion,
- Thou didst confirm the resurrection of the universe.
- Wherefore, we like children,
- carry the banner of triumph and victory,
- and we cry to Thee, O Conqueror of Death,
- Hosanna in the highest!
- Blessed is He that cometh
- in the Name of the Lord.
In the
Russian Orthodox Church,
Ukrainian Orthodox Church,
Ukrainian Catholic Church, and
Ruthenian Catholic Church, the custom developed of using
pussy willow instead of palm fronds because the latter are not
readily available that far north. There is no canonical
requirement as to what kind of branches must be used, so some
Orthodox believers use
olive
branches. Whatever the kind, these branches are
blessed and distributed together with candles either during
the
All-Night Vigil on the Eve of the Feast (Saturday night), or
before the
Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning. The
Great Entrance of the Divine Liturgy commemorates the "Entry
of the Lord into Jerusalem", and so the meaningfulness of this
moment is punctuated on Palm Sunday as everyone stands holding
their branches and lit candles. The faithful take these branches
and candles home with them after the service, and keep them in
their
icon corner as an evloghia (blesing).
In
Tsarist Russia, there was a formal procession into
Moscow on Palm Sunday. The
Tsar,
himself on foot to show humility, would lead the
Patriarch of Moscow, who was seated on a donkey, into the
city. The procession would end at the
Lobnoe Miesto, a circular stone platform on the east side
of
Red Square used for public proclamations and executions, upon
which a
Calvary had been erected. This annual procession continued
until 1694, when it was discontinued by
Peter I, as a part of his
suppression of the church. There is a famous painting of this
procession by Vyacheslav Shvarts (1868), which can be seen
here, and a drawing in the Mayerberg Album (1661) can
be seen
here. An
embroidery which may depict the scene from 1498, together with
a description of its political importance, can be found
here.
Traditions
Palm Sunday in Lipnica Murowana in
Poland
It is customary in many churches for the worshippers to
receive fresh palm leaves on Palm Sunday. In parts of the world
where this has historically been impractical substitute traditions
have arisen.
Latvia
In Latvia, Palm Sunday is called "Pussy Willow Sunday," and
pussy willows - symbolizing new life - and blessed and distributed
to the faithful
[1]. Children are often woken that morning with ritualistic
swats of a willow branch. People also catch each other and spank
each other with the branches
[2].
India
In the
South Indian state of
Kerala, (and in
Indian Orthodox congregations elsewhere in
India
and throughout the West) flowers are strewn about into the
sanctuary on Palm Sunday during the reading of the Gospel at the
words uttered by the crowd welcoming Jesus, "Hosanna! Blessed is
he who is come and is to come in the name of the Lord God." These
words are read to the congregation thrice. The congregation then
repeats, "Hosanna!" and theflowers are scattered. This echoes
pre-Christian
Hindu celebrations in which flowers are strewn on festive
occasions; however this also echoes the honour shown to Jesus upon
his entry into Jerusalem. Indian Orthodoxy traces its roots to the
arrival in India of St.
Thomas the Apostle in AD 54 (according to tradition) and his
evangelism among both the Brahmans of the Malabar Coast and the
ancient Jewish community there. Its rites and ceremonies are both
Hindu and Jewish as well as Levantine Christian in origin.
Spain
In
Elx, Spain, the location of
the biggest palm grove in Europe, there is a tradition of
tying and covering palm leaves to whiten them away from sunlight
and then drying and braiding them in elaborate shapes.
A
Spanish rhyming proverb states: Domingo de Ramos, quien no
estrena algo, se le caen las manos ("On Palm Sunday, the hands
drop off of those who fail to wear something new").
Malta
All the parishes of
Malta
and Gozo
on Palm Sunday (in
Maltese Ħadd il-Palm) bless the palm leaves and the
olive leaves. Those parishes that have the statues of
Good Friday bless the olive tree that they put on the statues
of Jesus prays in the Olive Garden (Ġesù fl-Ort) and the
Betrayal of Judas (il-Bewsa ta' Ġuda). Also many people take a
small branch of olive to their home because say that the blessed
olive branch keeps away disease and the evil eye (l-għajn ħażina
or is-seħta).
Netherlands
In the
Saxon regions of the Netherlands, crosses are decorated with
candy and bread, made in the form of a rooster. In the
diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden a great
procession with oil lamps is held the night before Palm Sunday
in honour of the
Sorrowful Mother of Warfhuizen.
Poland
Many
Polish towns and villages (the best known are
Lipnica Murowana in
Małopolska and Łyse in
Podlasie) organize artificial palm competitions. The biggest
of those reach above 30 meters in length; for example, the highest
palm in 2008 had 33.39 meters.
Bulgaria
In
Bulgaria Palm Sunday is known as Tsvetnitsa. People with
flower-related names, (for example Tzviatko, Margarita, Lilia,
Violeta, Yavor, Zdravko, Zjumbjul, Nevena, Temenuzhka, etc.)
celebrate this day as their
name day.
The Philippines
In the
Philippines, there are some places where a re-enactment of
Jesus' triumphal entry occurs. The priest rides a horse and is
surrounded by the congregation, bearing palms. Sometimes women
spread large cloths or aprons along the procession route. Palm
branches, called palaspas, are taken home after the
Mass
and are hung beside, on or above doorways and windows.
See also
External links
GETHSAME -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY4cbHYU6mM&feature=related By
Michael Ball on stage.
LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING - sung by Michael Ball on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onv5jMuXb3w&NR=1
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