Wheels within Wheels

Among believers within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, it is generally believed that the writings are historical documents, and that much of what is written has contextual value for those who are learning of God’s ways, but that the narratives that began with Adam and reach their zenith in the words of the prophets; that began with the genealogy of a man from Galilee, whose words are essentially sealed by the writings of his disciples; that the writings of Mohammed speak to the future of the faith but pertain to his time on Earth, and that his assertion that all Muslims are bound to the Hebrew and Greek canons has narrow application.

The book of Revelation is an anomaly of sorts, because it reworks what seems to have passed and leapfrogs into these and imminently approaching times. The scriptures depict wheels within wheels, and if translation is faithful to the Spirit that drove its authors to write, it is not possible to defend what is written in one place without affirming its relevance to what is written in every place. Paul and others hinted at this, when saying such things as the first Adam was a type of the second, and that Eve was a type of the church.

 My view is that every narrative of Tanakh unfolds the Garden narrative within ever-expanding contexts: to the extent that, after the Exodus from Egypt, every move of the camps of Yisroel in the wake of the cloud by day and the fire by night is reiteration of the Adamic cycle: the same story is being told, over and over again, but each revisitation both adds depth to the original and opens doors to its interpretation that are easily overlooked.

It is said that the wise man will say of the scriptures, they are of a book that is sealed. I understand this to mean that the lively oracles of HaShem were sealed when the Separatists and the Soferim took away the key to knowledge under Ezra, when the modern Hebrew script replaced Sinaitic Hebrew. An unintended consequence is that, with the later work of the Masoretes, the world has studied what amounts to a translation into Aramaic.

Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing in the received text that I don’t treasure. Further, without the protective invention of the Ezra script during the Babylonian captivity; without the blueprint of the careful work of the Masoretes in applying the Oral Tradition to what is written, all of us would have been clueless about Torah and the writings it engendered, the Greek scriptures and the Holy Quran included. We would be asea within the lively oracles of God without a rudder.

We find ourselves, in this late day, on the verge of the restoration of all things: a time when seals are to be broken. Many pertain to the end of this age; but of those which point to the future, none is more important than the seal upon the Hebrew scriptures. That seal has been broken: once again, Torah is available as a lively oracle, as first delivered to Yisroel by Moshe from Saini and developed within his tent with the guidance of Yahushua, and the assistance of lowly Hosea, who was renamed Y’shua, for he would lead in the battle of Yircho and set foot beyond Yardan.

Y’shua led a nation state, but he was met by the angel Yahushua, who proclaimed, in answer to the question of whether he was friend or foe, “Nay, but as captain of the Hosts of HaShem have I come.” In this meeting before Yircho is pictured the mystery of Matthew 1:1 and 1:16, except the figure of Hosea is not only renamed, but born again: the first of many brethren.

The lively oracles of HaShem YHWH are being restored in our day. Torah and the Hebrew canon are again available in Sinaitic Hebrew, a language of pictographic emblems that answer to the question in the mind of the reader, but only by the Holy Spirit. The intellect can make dry runs at working out what is written, and that is quite useful so long as the reader is clinging to the received text and its translations into the languages of the world; for the oracles support what is received. However, the original emblems break the seal, in preparation for the words, “I will magnify Torah and make it glorious.” Torah is not one story. It is story upon story upon story, all turning around the same hub, the same cornerstone, the Word of HaShem; and eternity will fill with its ramifications.