After listing the generations of Noah, the thought continued; “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech” (Gen 11:1). Language and speech? What is the difference?
First off, “and” is not necessarily the correct translation. In the Hebrew it
is “haya” written hey yod hey. If you recall, haya is the “kind”
that God is; and that is “Existence.” They all would have spoken the language
of God whatever that might have been. Haya is not said but breathed
since the hey’s are silent breaths and releases of air and the letter yod
merely the sound ya like a gasp for breath before breathing.
The language of God would have surely been the sounds of the Hebrew pictographs,
Aleph through tav: silence, buh, guh, duh, ha, vuh, zuh…
etc.
God as “El” or “Aleph” would be the first letter, or the
sound of silence, if that theory is true. God still speaks silently by His
thoughts and actions, to wit: God’s thoughts are not our thoughts (Isa 55:8)
and His actions; “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows
His handywork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shews knowledge”
(Psalm 19:1-2).
The Hebrew letter aleph aptly describes the “sound” of silence of
God speaking. God communicates to mankind in thoughts and actions with no need
for audible speech. However, God became incarnate so that mankind could hear His
Word audibly (John 1:1-14).
Jesus would be the mediator (1 Tim 2:5) of the Word of God — the Annunciator
of His thoughts and actions. As the Word of God, Jesus revealed the Word in
speech as well as flesh.
Jesus often still spoke the silent Word of God by miracles. The miracles
were God’s way of revealing Himself in the man, Jesus.
As you might now see, every word in the Bible has great significance, even haya
hidden in the English word, “and.”
This morning, I was skeptical… How would God speak to me today? Then
I opened the Bible and the first verse (above) spoke many things to me. To “hear”
God, one must first approach Him to Him. When the Bible was opened, or in my
case, the Bible APP, I heard nothing and saw nothing (in the manner of Sergent
Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes), but God revealed Himself as Haya in
the word “and”: hey yod hey, or the silent Name that refers to Him.
My theory is that the sounds of the Hebrew pictographs are the “language”
of God. More on that shortly after language and speech are examined.
“Language” in the Hebrew is שָׂפָה saphah — a noun coming from verbs meaning scattering
and sweeping
Of utmost significance is “speech;”
it would not just be communication in general but the very “Word” of God as the
Hebrew “Dabar” indicates.
John spoke of that speech; in the
Greek, it is Logos, but in the Hebrew, Dabar: The Word (Dabar)
was made flesh (John 1:14).
In every instance of the
Creation, “God said” and it happened until He rested in silence (Gen 2:2).
“God said” is 'Elohim ‘amar (אָמַר):
·
Aleph (El): the
Infinite Power of God before things were created.
·
Mem: Primordial
matter and motion.
·
Resh: Emergence of
order.
As you can see the “Word” of “Logos”
(Dabar) is Elohim ‘Amar: The only Existence (Haya) creating
all things in their places from the Power of Himself. (God is therefore the
answer to the “Theory of Everything.”)
John defined Dabar for his
audience:
In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with
God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that
was made. (John 1:1-3)
What manner of speech would Noah’s
family have had? They would have spoken the Word and spread it over the new creation.
In Babel, the Word would have
been silenced. Because they built a tower to find God, they surely did not
believe that God was with them, even in their speech. God would have left the seed
of Noah in silence, and they each would arrogantly have developed their own ways
of communication. God was still with them as Immanuel, but as God, El,
He was silent to them. An often-used
statement in sacred literature is, “God no longer communed with them.”
From then on until God appeared
in phantom form, the speech of the various nations was not the actual Word of
God — the sounds of Hebrew letters — but hundreds of languages.
When the Holy Ghost came, it
seems that God again communed with Christians, regardless of speech, in that
same ancient language before Babel.
Once speaking the language of
God, each branch of Noah’s family spoke their own way because God was no longer
in their minds. God was not silent, but they no longer listened to His Ways.
Millennia later, on the day of
Pentecost, they were “all of one accord,” ostensibly in Christ (Acts 2:1) and
they heard and spoke the language of God and even understood.
It seems that God confused the
people of Babel but in Jerusalem that day He illuminated their minds, them
again hearing God in the wind.
God was not up there as
they had thought at Babel, but right there with them all the
time.
They heard God making His sounds,
when “suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind”
(Acts 2:2). God was speaking to them and they heard Him.
Hebrew sounds could very well be
described as mighty rushing winds with the silences, breaths, and other sounds.
Could it be that God was speaking to them in the sounds of ancient Hebrew? That
is my contention, and so I tested it.
I searched online for Christian glossolalia,
and a random speech was soon found. To me they sounded like the sounds of
Hebrew pictographs. I tested those sounds using technology — CoPilot® AI
and asked that they be converted into English words. CoPilot presented to me a
sentence praising God for all that He had done. CoPilot had converted the
sounds of a mighty rushing wind into praises in the English language.
Whereas before, I was very
skeptical about contemporary “speaking in tongues” I came to believe that, at
least in a few cases, some still understand and communicate with God in His
language.
What was done at Babel seems to
have been reversed at Jerusalem, proving that God was still with them all the
time, but that it was them that no longer understood that the actions of God
were as good as the audible Words of Jesus.
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