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The Book of Psalms

Psalm 119

Psalm 119[a]

ב Beth

9 How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
    By living according to your word.

10 I seek you with all my heart;
    do not let me stray from your commands.

11 I have hidden your word in my heart
    that I might not sin against you.

12 Praise be to you, Lord;
    teach me your decrees.

13 With my lips I recount
    all the laws that come from your mouth.

14 I rejoice in following your statutes
    as one rejoices in great riches.

15 I meditate on your precepts
    and consider your ways.

16 I delight in your decrees;
    I will not neglect your word..

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9. How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
10. With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11. Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.
12. Blessed are You, O LORD!
Teach me Your statutes.
13. With my lips I have declared
All the judgments of Your mouth.
14. I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches.
15. I will meditate on Your precepts,
And contemplate Your ways.
16. I will delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.

Blessed Are You, Oh LORD Our God!
Beginning and End of All Things,
Beloved Father, You have given us Your Perfect Way,
Before Our Eyes, Your Word Opens,
Behold, Your Precepts, Your Law, Your Statutes, Your Holy WORD!
Bread of Life, Every Day, Like Manna From Heaven,
Bringing Forth Your Fruit in Our Lives Day by Day,
By Hiding Your Word Deep Within Our Hearts,
Becoming More and More in Your Image,
By Praying For Your Holy City Jerusalem,
By Looking Earnestly For Messiah, and
Blessing Your People Israel, According To Your WORD and Promise.

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

[etabeta]

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Every line in this Stanza begins with the Hebrew letter "Beth" which sounds like the English Letter "B". This stanza reflects upon LOVE for God and His Holy Word, and contains the very famous line:"Thy Word I have hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee".

This means much more than just MEMORIZING Scripture, although committing the Word to memory is a good thing, especially in places where the Bible is illegal.

In the Synagogue, the heavy Torah Scrolls are carried around, and people reverently touch it with the tip of their shawl, after having kissed the fringes of it. In some Christian Liturgies, the reader kisses the Book after having read the day's Gospel Portion. That is good too, but this Psalm means even more than that. The heart was thought of as the seat of the emotions, and symbolizes our inner life. To love the Lord with one's WHOLE Heart is to WANT to serve Him, to rejoice in obeying His Commandments, and to long for His Presence. This is the Theme of this entire Psalm, but "Beth" gives us a graphic poetic, and lovely metaphor of hiding God's Word into the very CORE of our being.

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[trisham]

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[NEWwoman]

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I have hidden your word in my heart
    that I might not sin against you.
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Joining in prayer for Israel, our beloved America, and all God’s people.

[Ezekiel]

The heart was thought of as the seat of the emotions, and symbolizes our inner life. To love the Lord with one's WHOLE Heart is to WANT to serve Him, to rejoice in obeying His Commandments, and to long for His Presence.

9. How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word:
10. With my whole heart I have sought you; O do not let wander from your commandments:
11. I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you

"By guarding" is lishmor (לשמר), to guard, keep, watch, observe, protect, preserve

Same numeric value as gate (שער) - 570

The full spelling of the letters of lishmor = 1024, which is 32 x 32. Heart (לב) x heart

"When you square a number, it reaches its ultimate expression. It is the thing times itself; Nothing can be a greater revelation of essence than that."

http://www.betemunah.org/seven.html

A whole heart, therefore, is represented by its square. To keep, observe, guard, in full (unlike Saul's definition of "all" in 1 Sam 15)...

Ps 118

19. Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord:
20. This is the gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter:

The Golden ("50th") gate is the double-arched gate that is also known as the Gate of Mercy (and possibly is the Beautiful gate in Acts 3, at the ninth hour).

According to Jewish tradition, the Shekhinah (שכינה) (Divine Presence) used to appear through the eastern Gate, and will appear again when the Anointed One (Messiah) comes (Ezekiel 44:1–3) and a new gate replaces the present one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_(Jerusalem))

A new gate = shaar chadash (שער חדש) = 882 = 441 x 2. Truth, emet (אמת), doubled. It is the gematria of the three words in the center of Genesis 1:1.

אלהים את השמים

Elohim + alef-tav + the heavens

Also seen as 88 and 2, like Psalm 119 with 176 verses, 22 x 8 or 88 x 2, where the center point of the verses (last letter of verse 88 and the first letter of 89) spells kol (כל), all, which = 50. The center of the alef-beit *is* the letters kaf and lamed (the 11th and 12th letters respectively).

The return of the Shekhinah from exile, is when the new gate (heart) replaces the old one:

Eze 36

26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put inside you; and I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh:
27. And I will put my spirit inside you, and cause you to follow my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them:

The gate of 50 (kol, all) is the 50th gate of understanding, because it is the gate of mercy, which is the "golden" gate, which is the Golden Rule [that the builders refused].

It's a beautiful gate. 50 in one letter is the letter nun, which is spelled נון nun-vav-nun, 50 "and" 50, 106, which is 53 x 2. There are the two cornerstones, the first and also the last, because 53 = stone (אבן).

I could go on...

[BlueDragon]

Interesting. Encouraging too.

Appears to me not as the phony kind of numerology that puts things in-between the lines that are not there, by which I mean what you've shared comports well with the over-arching, ongoing thread of message provided to man, from the heavens (God) in the scriptures.

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Thank You, NEWwoman, For Your Prayers For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

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Thank You, Ezekiel, For Your Prayers and Interesting Commentary For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.

God Bless America!

Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.



This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.

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[Ezekiel]

(There is a punch line at the end.) :)

Thank you. The fake interpretations make meanings out of numbers themselves, when the numbers are actually the mathematical foundations of the plain text (simple meanings). They are what they are. If A = B, then A = B.

The mathematical relationships also serve as mnemonics for the texts, because they are compact representations of the narratives, allegories, parables, et al.

Same as an icon on a phone or computer is an instruction that has been reduced down to one simple pictogram. Or like text messaging, where the language itself is shrunk down to acronyms and word plays to distill the essence of the message. C = see, 4 = for, U = "you", on and on.

The Law reduces down to the Golden Rule. Follow that one diligently and the rest are adhered to by default, because then everyone is paying attention to his speech and actions, how they affect others.

The simple meaning of all the details in the Bible (e.g. names, numbers, weights, measurements) is that God is really into details, and all these details have purpose. It shows that He is full of love, paying great attention to everything and everyone, all the time, because *everything* in the universe has to line up and balance. That's just how He rolls.

People in love want to know everything about each other, naturally. They'll share more and more, if the other is interested in knowing, verses people just trying to be polite to each other or that they are serving themselves through what is called "networking". Big difference.

Want to know more about the other person? In a truly loving relationship, the lines of communication are open. One wouldn't seek the opinions of uninvolved strangers whose advice is all over the map because they don't know that person, maybe just what they read on Facebook or overhear in the office lounge. But they'll have an opinion anyway, despite not caring about balance and personal interaction.

What experts may think is a misspelling in the Torah could be that a phrase needs to add up to "x". People can check it out more closely, trusting that God meant to do that (after all, He's the same guy who documents the weights of cups and saucers and compliles exact numbers of families and tribes), or they can get all excited about a "mistake".

God pays attention to that also - who is eager to ensnare Him in His own words, like an MSM reporter, and who desires to look closely at His words and understand His ways. Or, who is out for his own personal agenda, and who loves Him.

The grand irony (God is funny) is that the Golden Rule doesn't require knowledge of the text or math at all. It's a matter of caring about others, knowing how we ourselves want to be treated - with mercy, kindness, and respect. That doesn't mean we should accept being victimized by politicians and other thugs and control freaks, but there is nonetheless a "golden" way to deal with those people. See President Trump, heh.

All this "book smart" stuff, of which there is no end, and yet it boils down to what Bill and Ted said: "Be excellent to each other".

Gotta laugh. After all, in *Isaac* shall Abraham's seed be called. To love and be loved: God started a nation to call His own based upon an absurdity - an elderly couple "too old" for that sort of thing. Sarah aged 90, laughing. ;)

[Hiskid]

Amen.

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[Jeanbl]

Blessings forward.

[Maudeen]

Agreeing in prayer.

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God Bless America!

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[BlueDragon]

Thanks again, and my apology for not getting back to you sooner...

I think I see what you were saying about how the numbers can serve to confirm and to enhance the textual meanings.

What you said about the Golden Rule, and had put in bold I do much agree with -- at least conceptually, consistent application on my own part often being a challenge for me, specially when I'm being personally, and in more general, broadly sweeping senses; accused-judged-damned all in a handful of sentences crafted by "religious" persons. I do often fire right back at 'em and their misbegotten arguments (adding in a few swift kicks aimed at their own personal posteriors for good measure).

I otherwise do much prefer (and desire) in my own understandings --simplicity.

All this "book smart" stuff, of which there is no end, and yet it boils down to what Bill and Ted said: "Be excellent to each other".

A few months ago I was speaking with a young man, a non-religious nominally "Muslim" son of immigrants. The conversation turned to inclusion of religious topic aspects in our present times, as those were playing out amongst peoples and nations in many & various ways.

I may have touched upon the Golden Rule, though if memory serves, was consciously trying to avoid using "religious" sounding terminology when doing so, speaking towards what positive commonalities can be recognized among many different religions, but most primarily among the Abrahamic religions.

I offered in observation; mixture of positive and negative note for Muslims (the people themselves, not so much 'positive note' towards the fuller letter of the law of that religion -- to which he agreed) while providing also degree of recognition of there being some amount of positive (good) along with the very not good, offering at the same time acknowledgement towards there being also both "good" AND misapplication/missing the point among Christians historically, including also in this present time if religious precepts (of doing unto others as one would have done unto themselves) were not consistently put into effective practice amid militancy in clinging to other dogma.

As it turned out the young man said that to himself, it boiled down to;

Don't be -- -- and here I'll need substitute his precise wording -- -- a [richard cranium].

Perhaps there is hope for that young, for the most part, non-religious 'Muslim'?

[Ezekiel]

The simple meaning is drummed in throughout the text, but it will burn people up. Nothing wrong with knowledge, the more the merrier, but at the point Scripture is weaponized... somebody missed the forest for the trees.

Battle of the verses, battle of the doctrines. Golden Rule stomped and trampled. Truth is to be honored, but there is no truth in making God’s words into chains. This too, is a theme in the Gospels.

If one raised Muslim is willing to put that away ideology in favor of loving people with a whole and sincere heart, then he is ahead of all the slickster experts with their “statements of faith”.

Watch how the President is criticized for hanging with that Paula White sinner/heretic. Well maybe she was brought to him? And maybe only so the “defenders of the faith” can find fault with the man.

It’s a familiar pattern.