What is the counterfeit? Zionism The other root spoken of in Scripture is the root of the serpent Isa 14:29 Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, for the rod of your striking is broken, because a viper comes forth from the root of a snake, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. Notice that from the root of a snake comes for the fruit of a serpent. Above, from the root of Jesse comes forth the fruit of the Spirit. This is the true meaning of race. The seed of the woman or the seed of the serpent. Ye shall know them by their fruits. The second part of the word ‘chromosome’ comes from the Greek word soma, σῶμα, which means body and is used in various applications (body of man, animals, planets, society, church, etc.). This traces back to multiple Hebrew words which are significant to the current study. In Exodus 24:10 the word body is translated from the Hebrew word ‘etsem’ which is the word for bone coming from the root ‘etz’ meaning a tree. The connection to the Tree of Life is obvious. In Judges 8:30 the Hebrew word ‘yarekh’ is translated as body. Yarekh has the meaning of a shaft as seen in the main trunk of the Menorah in the Temple. This is yet another picture of the Tree of Life and the Messiah. Here then we see the picture of the chromosome being a gathering of people to form a body. The chromosome is the ‘body’ which holds the DNA which consists of the individual parts which make up the whole. The body of Messiah works the same way. Each individual has a particular purpose to fulfill the whole. This is pictured in the Tabernacle whose individual parts combined to make ONE building (Exodus 36:13). This is seen in the Word which contains many different letters and words to make ONE message. The Cross The chromosome is seen in the image of the cross. The cross symbol is a mark of the beast, yet the mark that YAHUVEH places on His faithful believers is in the same shape (Ezekiel 9:4). Herein lies the summation of this entire study. We can be a part of the body of Messiah, who is the Word or we can choose to be a part of the counterfeit body of the beast who is lawlessness. The Tree of Life or the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Cell The DNA molecule resides in the nucleus of our cells. Each cells in our bodies is a picture of the Tabernacle/Temple of YHWH with the nucleus representing the Holy Place. The DNA in the nucleus of the cell is pictured by the Torah in/beside the ark of the covenant. The English word ‘cell’ traces back to the Hebrew word כל ‘kal’ which means to complete. This is also the root of the word ‘kalah’ which means a bride. The cell is a picture of the Tabernacle/Body of Messiah/bride. The Hebrew word for cell is תא ‘ta’ (Eze 40:7 chamber) תא Tav aleph is related to the word tav תו (tav=cross…chromosome) and aleph tav את and means a mark/boundary. תא tav aleph relates to the word tar תר which means the ‘mark of man’ or the border/outline. From this root we get ta’ar and to’ar. These words mean form, outline or border. This is an important connection to see in that the mark of the beast versus the mark of YHWH ultimately reflects whose image/form you are in. This connection between the mark and the image/form/outline/shadow picture of YHWH Yahshua versus the antichrist is further seen in that the word Torah comes from this same root. We can have the mark of YHWH and be in His image by walking in His Torah and letting Messiah live through us (Galatians 2:20), or we can have the mark of the beast and be in the image of satan by walking in his torah which is lawlessness (Ephesians 2:2-3Isaiah 30:8-11; 1 Peter 2:8). We can choose the tree of life or the tree of knowledge. The Light of the Word or the false light which is in reality darkness (Matthew 6:23). Cells, bride & bread… As seen in ‘Shadows of Messiah – Alphabet’click here the Hebrew Aleph Bet is likened unto manna/bread. Bread is linked to the mark as seen in part 1click here (Exodus 13:9; 1 Corinthians 5:7-Exodus 12:13) and will be discussed in more detail below in the section on gold. א-ת = Completion Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet pg 34 “Comprising the first and last letter of the Aleph Beis, את alludes to completion and perfection. Thus the Torah uses the emphatic article in describing the beginning of Creation: This usage alludes to the fact that the universe was created in complete perfection, ‘from aleph to tav.’ “ Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet pg 35 Manna = Aleph Tav? Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet pg 37 Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet pg 37 Who is the manna? Joh 6:30 Then they said to Him, Then what miraculous sign do You do that we may see and may believe You? What do You work? Joh 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written “He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat.” LXX-Psa. 77:24; MT-Psa. 78:24 Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread out of Heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of Heaven. Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is He coming down out of Heaven and giving life to the world. Joh 6:34 Then they said to Him, Lord, always give us this bread. Joh 6:35 Jesus said to them, I am the Bread of life; the one coming to Me will not at all hunger, and the one believing into Me will not thirst, never! Joh 6:36 But I said to you that you also have seen Me and did not believe. Joh 6:37 All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me, and the one coming to Me I will in no way cast out. Joh 6:38 For I have come down out of Heaven, not that I should do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me. Joh 6:39 And this is the will of the Father sending Me, that of all that He has given Me, I shall not lose any of it, but shall raise it up in the last day. Joh 6:40 And this is the will of the One sending Me, that everyone seeing the Son and believing into Him should have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day. Joh 6:41 Then the Jews murmured about Him, because He said, I am the Bread coming down out of Heaven. Joh 6:42 And they said, Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph, of whom we know the father and the mother? How does this One now say, I have come down out of Heaven? Joh 6:43 Then Jesus answered and said to them, Do not murmur with one another. Joh 6:44 No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. Joh 6:45 It has been written in the Prophets, They “shall” all “be taught of God.” So then everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to Me; Isa. 54:13 Joh 6:46 not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One being from God, He has seen the Father. Joh 6:47 Truly, truly, I say to you, The one believing into Me has everlasting life. Joh 6:48 I am the Bread of life. Joh 6:49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died. Joh 6:50 This is the Bread coming down out of Heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. Joh 6:51 I am the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever. And indeed the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Joh 6:52 Then the Jews argued with one another, saying, How can this One give us his flesh to eat? Joh 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves. Joh 6:54 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood has everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Joh 6:55 For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink. Joh 6:56 The one partaking of My flesh and drinking of My blood abides in Me, and I in him. Joh 6:57 Even as the living Father sent Me, and I live through the Father; also the one partaking Me, even that one will live through Me. Joh 6:58 This is the Bread which came down out of Heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died; the one partaking of this Bread will live forever. Joh 6:59 He said these things teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum. Joh 6:60 Then many of His disciples having heard, they said, This Word is hard; who is able to hear it? Joh 6:61 But knowing in Himself that His disciples were murmuring about this, Jesus said to them, Does this offend you? Joh 6:62 Then what if you see the Son of Man going up where He was at first? Joh 6:63 It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh does not profit, nothing! The Words which I speak to you are spirit and are life. Exo 16:4 And YHWH said to Moses, Behold, I AM! Bread will rain from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather the matter of a day in its day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in My Law or not. The matter of a day in its day ‘davar-yom b’yom’ Exo 16:4 ויאמר יהוה אל־משׁה הנני ממטיר לכם לחם מן־השׁמים ויצא העם ולקטו דבר־יום ביומו למען אנסנו הילך בתורתי אם־לא׃ Bread=Torah/Word Psa 102:4 My heart is stricken and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. TARGUM 5. My heart is smitten like grass and will dry up; for I have forgotten the Torah of my instruction. Deu 8:3 And He has humbled you, and caused you to hunger, and caused you to eat the manna, which you had not known, and your fathers had not known, in order to cause you to know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man shall live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of YHWH. Mat 4:2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He hungered. Mat 4:3 And coming near to Him, the Tempter said, If You are the Son of God, speak that these stones may become loaves. Mat 4:4 But answering, He said, It has been written: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every Word going out of the mouth of God.” Table of Shewbread Exo 25:30 Shew-bread – לחם פנים lechem panim literally, bread of faces His Face (paniym) = Yahshua Psa 42:5 O my soul, why are you cast down and moan within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet thank Him for the salvation (yeshuah) of His presence (paniym). His Face = His Image Heb 1:3 who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, having made purification of our sins through Himself, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high, Psa. 110:1 Psa 17:15 As for me, in righteousness I will look upon Your face; when I awaken, I shall be satisfied by Your image. The Table Apostle=shalach from the same root as Table Apostles take for the Bread of Life to the world Isa 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him proclaiming good news, making peace heard, bearing tidings of good, making heard salvation, saying to Zion, Your God reigns. Joh 4:32 But He said to them, I have food to eat which you do not know. Joh 4:33 Then the disciples said to one another, No one brought Him food to eat? Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, My food is that I should do the will of Him who sent Me, and that I may finish His work. Joh 6:51 I am the Living Bread that came down from Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever. And indeed the bread which I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Bread=His flesh=Basar Mat 4:4 But answering, He said, It has been written: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every Word going out of the mouth of God.” Deut. 8:3 Mat 6:11 Give us today our daily bread, Deu 8:3 And He has humbled you, and caused you to hunger, and caused you to eat the manna, which you had not known, and your fathers had not known, in order to cause you to know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man shall live by every Word that proceeds* from the mouth of YHWH. H4161* môtsâ’ מצא / מוצא This is related to the Hebrew word for unleavened bread H4682 matstsâh BDB Definition: 1) unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven. מצּה Unleavened Bread is a picture of Messiah. Matsa is pierced, bruised and striped which points back to Isaiah 53, where the Right Arm of YAHUVEH is revealed. The Right Arm of YHWH = the Light of His Face (lechem paniym)