THE MYSTERY OF THE HEBREW LETTER TAV

 

Jesus is “The Word” of God. After much struggling, I discovered the word for “The Word” in the beginning just as John wrote (John 1:1-3). However, The Word of God was made manifest to the world as the person, Jesus (John 1:31).

Jesus had no mother, just as He said (Mat 12:47-49). The word “mother” implies not only from whose womb He came but from whose genetics. Jesus may have had the genetics of Mary, but Mary was not a conventional mother; God did not inseminate her egg per se but overshadowed the virgin woman. He put His Divine Spirit in her womb.

That divine Being that cast a shadow was Yahweh who appeared to her as “The Holy Ghost” (Luke 1:35), to wit: “The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called ‘The Son of God.’”

The Power of the Highest is the letter Aleph, also called “El.”

 El is one state of God which is invisible to the eye of common men and women. Somebody saw the Power of God and it was somebody with special vision. Who could that person have been? Luke knew of him as he wrote the following:

 

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. (Luke 2:25)

 

I propose that Simeon saw the Power of God come because he was waiting for the consolation of Israel. “Consolation” in the English is paraklesis in the Greek. The New Testament identifies the “Comforter” as the Parakletos. The Comforter is “the one called alongside to help” (Got Questions).

Both the Holy Ghost and Holy Spirit are pneuma in the Greek; the difference being that the Holy Ghost is the shape of the Holy Spirit in Jesus (Luke 3:22). Simeon would have seen the baptism of Mary by the Holy Ghost as God was engendered within her person. It was not a sexual transaction but divine virtue at work.

That Mary was “overshadowed” has great significance. Adam was created in the “Image” of God (selem in Hebrew). Selem is literally a “shadow.” As such, God overshadowed Mary just as He had overshadowed Adam. The Power of God in the beginning would have been in the shape of Jesus. Indeed, Jesus was the “quickening Spirit” that overshadowed the first Adam (1 Cor 15:45).

“Quickening” is life-giving. In other words, Jesus was the Spirit that overshadowed Mary and he was thrust into her by the Power of God — El Saday… His Almighty Power.

Mary was not the mother of God but the “vessel” that God used for His purposes to manifest Himself. In a sense, Mary was the Ark of God that revealed Jesus.

Since Jesus was there in the beginning as God (John 1:1-14), then His presence at His birth was just a revealing. In other words, the person, Jesus, is the physical State of God — “The Godhead” — that contains all the states of Yahweh: Power, Spirit, Form, and Function. Jesus was functionally God and the one man who had the Power of God.

Jesus changed states. In the Garden He would have been glorious in the manner He was after His death and resurrection (John 1:29). But rather than Mary taking on the countenance of Christ, Jesus took on the flesh of Mary.

Mary was innocent and without sin, so Jesus took on her flesh (genetics) to be tempted. Jesus never sinned, but His crucifixion and death was the assumption of all the sins of mankind onto Himself (John 1:29). He died and to do so, Jesus lost all the Virtue of God in Him. In other words, God undid Himself from the Body of Jesus so that we need not die. He came into the world to reveal Himself as dead. Only the elect would understand that God did not die, die, die but only rested His Body. “Death” is not mortality but the body without a soul imbued with the quickening Spirit of God.

Simeon would have seen the states of God all at the same time: in Power, in Form, and in Person. He knew without a shadow of a doubt that this “man” is who He contended to be.

Hence, the Power of God is just the invisible state of God in the manner that Jesus was the life-giving Spirit in the physical and visible state of God — the Head of “The Godhead.”

El, or aleph, was the first ranking of God. That is the first half of the word, “The Word” (Logos in the Greek).

Jesus is the alpha and omega, or in the Hebrew, the El and the Tav. The letter el, or aleph, is characterized by the pictograph of an ox. There are no animals born oxen; they are born male calves that become oxen. In other words, oxen always existed in potentiality. That is Yahweh who was the Potentiality revealed in Jesus. As such, Jesus is the El in organic form. He is the “Ox” with the Power of God, not the calf that made itself an ox for Aaron (Exod 32:24).

That explains the letter El in the aleph and the tav (Greek alpha and omega).

Where to find both the el and the tav? John said to look for “The Word” in the beginning, so to the beginning I was going. The beginning words of the Bible, and in Genesis 1:1; they are these:

 

 

 

Hebrew reads from right to left. BeResheet is not the beginning of time but the first thing ever before any other thing came from it.

The beginning letter resh in Resheet identifies the Head of the Godhead. The particle, Be is the letter Bet — the House of God. Jesus is “The House of God” as the firm thing with the Power of God within it.

Bara comes next. It is characterized by the letters bet, resh, aleph. Again, Bet is Jesus, as the “House of God,” resh the First Thing, or Head, and aleph the Power of God.

Bara is not creation per se but identifying Jesus as pre-existent. It reveals the vessel in whom was the Spirit of God. Jesus was not created but revealed in Genesis 1:1.

Eloheem is not plural for the letter El but the Dynamic (Virtue) of the Power of God. The object of the Virtue was aleph tav — the alpha and omega of Revelation. That is “The Word,” and The Word was a conjunction.

The Word “Et” appears twice in Genesis 1:1. In the first case it is not even translated. It is left out. The Hebrew word “Et” has no meaning to them, so to leave it out surely made sense. However, they left out the word, and “The Word.” No wonder Jews fail to see Jesus there!

In the second use of The Word, it is preceded by the letter vav. Vav is a connector. It, if anything, should be “and.” However “Et” is there, hidden in the English “and.”

Vav also means “Messiah,” or “Christ.” The vav points to El-Tav which, of you recall, is “The Word.” The Word fits between the heaven and the earth; it conjuncts them. It is not the conjunctive “and” but “The Word” right in the middle of the heaven (HaShamayim) and the earth (‘eres.) The heaven is the lofty things — things at a higher state — and the earth is the lower state of things. Hence, Genesis 1:1 identifies the Godhead quite well, being the three states of the Holy Trinity. (That gives new meaning for The Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden.)

Look at the letter tav closely; Within it is the form of both the dalet and the closed nun. Hence tav indicates a door, or gateway and the letter nun seed. In this case the very Seed of God that would be in future man as the door represents.

The letter tav (the Cross pictograph) suggests that God would come from there to here as a seed. That “Seed” got into Mary and Jesus was made manifest, as the El-Tav — “The Word of God” (aka the “Logos”). And in addition to that, the letter vav points to the El-Tav as the Messianic figure. Hence, Genesis 1:1 is not about the Creation but the First Thing (The Godhead) before the Creation.