THE HEBREW LANGUAGE

I have been thinking a little on the Chinese and Hebrew Language...how wonderful that God has created these languages with Biblical meanings in their characters (Chinese) and alphabets (Hebrew). My knowledge of Chinese, I am ashamed to say, is very minimal. When sharing the gospel with Chinese non-believers, I normally share from Genesis...how sin came about and man's need for God's forgiveness, will mention a few Chinese words which has Biblical meanings, give them a DVD WHO ARE THE CHINESE? and maybe the book GOD'S PROMISE TO THE CHINESE and another local book THE CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-TAOIST MEDIUM. The first 2 are available from Canaanland.
I am proud to be a Chinese and am part of this rich Biblical heritage!

I recently started an online 9 month Biblical Hebrew course in December 2013....and I am way, way behind!.... and will be missing 2 lessons during my trip to Israel. There are lots of lessons on YouTube if anyone is interested, but it really takes lots of discipline! 
(In the midst of writing....I can hear sounds of bombs....this is quite normal to hear in the quiet morning...it is 5am now)
As to Hebrew....here is a fun video on all the alphabets of the Hebrew language :

There are a couple of interesting facts we learnt from the CONVERSATIONAL HEBREW workshop yesterday. Our teacher was Neta Wineapple :
1. EVERY HEBREW LETTER MEANS SOMETHING
Here are a few :

For example, Ayin actually means 'eye' as in your eye that you use to see. We were told by our teacher Neta Applewine, that the word Yeshua is written

Hebrew is read from the right to the left....so the last letter in the word YESHUA is AYIN which carries the meaning 'EYE'. We were told that the Rabbis took the AYIN out of YESHUA, making it YESU. Yesu is a curse name which means MAY HIS NAME AND MEMORY BE ERASED,  and Neta said from young they were taught that Yeshua is Yesu, without AYIN, 'eye'. If you say Yeshua, they would not know who you are talking about. Only when the 'EYE' is put back into Yesu, will the people see the LIGHT, and SEE who YESHUA is! Only when the Lord opens their eyes, they can see Yeshua.....isn't that amazing?!

2. EVERY WORD HAS A ROOT
Remember about the olive tree and about roots? (Romans 11:17,18). Words with the same root are somehow connected to each other.

For example, the word for PEACE, Shalom. The root alphabets are (again from right to left) shin, lamed, mem. Remember that Hebrew was written without any spacing between words, so they have alphabets that have REGULAR (beginning and in the middle) and FINAL (at the end of a word). Therefore, here, we can only have PERFECT PEACE, because Jesus paid for our sins, and be complete in Him!

'Jerusalem' in Hebrew is pronounced Y'ru-shah-lah-yim. It means THE CITY OF PEACE. Notice, that it has the same root....reading from right....yod, resh, vav, shin, lamed, yod, mem. It has the root of the word PEACE. 




Another word is AMEN, which means in Hebrew 'so be it'. It has the same root as TRUTH and FAITH. Wow!

I don't really know whether we will all be speaking Hebrew in heaven, but I think it is a great language, just like Chinese....that we should learn. : )

SHABBAT SHALOM!!


For those who are interested in the the Hebrew alphabets. Don't know how to put this standing....maybe someone can help.....