The Mystery of Iniquity:

 A Legacy of Lucifer

Is Iniquity Sin?

What is iniquity nwwo? Is it a synonym for “sin, “ in the darker sense of that word’s Hebrew connotations? Or if the meaning is not so radical as “intentional disobedience, is iniquity the less guilt-ridden understanding of sin as “error, transgression?” It’s a question of no small importance, because the soul that sins shall die.

As a generalization, the connotations of sin cover a broad range of errors, from simple mistakes to instances of gross malfeasance. The Hebrew word afj has greater clarity in common usage than does the Hebrew word for “iniquity, “ which invokes similar anxiety to “sin,“ because it seems to touch upon the mystery of Lucifer. Most will admit to the negative ambience of “iniquity nwo,“ but few have clear concepts about what the term actually means; and even though “iniquity“ can run chills along spines when it’s raised in conversation, not many bother to educate themselves about its implications.

The opening illustration presents the Hebrew word for sin as it appears in Torah’s original language. The meme is suggestive of the rich subtexts that open when a student of Torah, without denying a word’s etymological definitions, explores a text as it’s written in Sinaitic Hebrew, the Phoenician alphabet known as the “Moses Script.” The emblems, which are precursors to all Western alphabets, served as the common language of Egypt at the time of the Exodus, and they were the language of Y’sharAL through the reign of King David and beyond. They are still used in the twenty-first century in remote villages of tribal Yemen.

King David was gathered to his fathers long ago, but his kingdom awaits a time of restoration; for HaShem is calling on a new generation to rebuild David’s Tabernacle: not his buildings, but the ambience of his world view. Whether or not we are to share in that work, we ought to take an interest in how David saw the world and, also, in how he approached the scriptures upon which his world was founded. He read the Lively Oracles of HaShem in the pattern required of Moshe on Sinai, and its subtleties shaped his understanding of the spirit that prepared a seat for him in the room of King Saul.

Humanity struggles against bondage, which is a reward of sin; and the precursor to sin is iniquity, whose inroads are subtle, patient, ubiquitous, persistent. The miasma of iniquity imposes itself upon productive sequences of spiritual thought, but the mind centered in HaMashiyach is able to countermand its pitfalls and bring the spiritual eye to bear on issues that underlie circumstance. The ditches opened by iniquity are traps dug by the personal bias of those concerned, primarily, about spiritual election and piety. Debate in the ditch is driven by zeal, which the blind mistake for the holy spirit.

Today’s bloodthirsty Goliaths will raise dust clouds within our thoughts which will disperse when the lies that ensnare our souls are exposed; but we can no longer invest our hopes in such men. King Shaul killed his thousands and found no peace, even in his own house. To progress, we must raise, for our consideration, the profound dust clouds of Ophir rpo: thoughts o that will summons p HaMashiyach, the King r, by stirring up o debate p about those things we think we know r.

Goliath has threatened our lives for millenniums, savaging both scholars and simple men of faith. Cowed by the intensity of his singular focus, the world has suffered under doctrines of cruel bigotry; and spiritual men have been seduced into warring on the wrong battlefields in a world that, presently, stands on the brink of planet-killing destruction. Secular Goliaths store up power by laying claim to the lifeblood of so many: our captors are deadly pests who jet about like hornets, satisfying the demands of their bloated hives in their very private ditches, but they will be toppled by the spiritual warfare of King David, whose rhapsodies will confound the armies they are gathering for the great battle; for David teaches us to war with songs of wonder, converting many to the wider understandings of spirit, as hearts answer to hearts.