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Shemot 2013

Shemot/”Names”, covering Exodus 1:1-6:1, begins our journey into the next book of Torah, the book of Exodus!  The story of the Exodus is one most are familiar with, but the passages become much more than just history because the same events that take place here are prophesied to happen again at the end of days, and it is the story of the Exodus that becomes the blueprint for you and I to follow! Ezekiel 20:34-35 – “And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.” 

But before we get to the “big events” of the judgments and the miraculous signs, it seems that this book starts off on the quiet side, with a listing of names, the shemot.  It’s the still small voice of Yahweh that can be heard in these quiet details that open up the book of Shemot!  If we’ll pay attention to this voice, then we won’t have to fear the coming plagues and judgments.

Exodus 1:1-8

*There are 11 words in the Hebrew in vs. 1 and 11 son listed as coming with Jacob – 11 is the number that’s connected with chaos, disorder, imperfection, and disintegration (the condition of the house here in Egypt).

Names:  Strong’s #8034 shem שֵׁם name; 1st reference of the term shemot שמות is Genesis 2:20 – “And Adam gave names/shemot to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.” – Could it be that there’s a connection here, that as the shemot are being listed, the Adam (Messiah) is actually searching for a helpmate/Bride, and there’s not one found?

From the root #7760 suwm שׂוּם to put, place, set, appoint, make, to set or make for a sign, to set in array (inferring a certain order/arrangement); shem is cognate of #8033 sham שָׁם there or in that direction, from that/in that, it can express the source or origin of something

*These names/shemot have been placed as a sign and arrayed and arranged in a certain order to give direction!

Did you notice the order of the names?  They are not listed in their birth order!  Instead the sons are listed according to their mothers!  Leah’s children are listed first, then Rachel’s (minus Joseph), then Rachel’s handmaid Bilhah, and finally Leah’s handmaid Zilpah.  Let’s take a closer look!

o    Reuben – 1st son of Jacob/birth order = א

o    Simeon – 2nd son of Jacob/birth order = ב

o    Levi – 3rd son of Jacob/birth order = ג

o    Judah – 4th son of Jacob/birth order = ד

o    Issachar – 9th son of Jacob/birth order = ט

o    Zebulun – 10th son of Jacob/birth order = י

o    Benjamin – 12th son of Jacob/birth order = ל

o    Dan – 5th son of Jacob/birth order = ה

o    Naphtali – 6th son of Jacob/birth order = ו

o    Gad – 7th son of Jacob/birth order = ז

o    Asher – 8th son of Jacob/birth order = ח

אבגדטילהוזח – אב = Father; גד = to cut off (circumcise); טיל = to walk, to go on a trip/journey; טילה = lamb (טלה of Yah (י;); ו = and; & זח = vexed, annoyed (from the root זחח meaning to remove, displace).

*These names actually send the message that the Father had promised to cut off/circumcise the lamb of Yahweh – there would be a redeemer for the house that was marked by disorder and imperfection (just as Adam was put to sleep/died in order to have a help mate, so would Yahshua)! When this happened and the taleh became the redeemer (kept the Passover and been redeemed by the blood of the lamb) then they would be sent on a journey and become removed/displaced from the vexer/Egypt!

*This pattern is seen again in Revelation 5 and 6, the start of the judgments occur when the lamb/taleh takes the scroll to open the seals; the phrase “to open the book” (5:5) in Greek has a numerical value of 746, the same value as shemot/names! 

This scroll has 7 seals – it literally is representing a ketubah/wedding contract (torah scroll), which would have 7 signatures/seals.  At the wedding, only the Bridegroom could open the ketubah/scroll with the 7 seals/signatures and read from it.  He was then to state whether or not his bride had lived up to the requirements stated in the scroll, if she had not the options were: 1) for her to pay the price (death) 2) a writ of divorce 3) the bridegroom could choose to be her goel/redeemer

Once again the Adam/Messiah is searching for His helpmate among a house marked by disorder and in bondage – and He has the choice to declare her as worthy or as one who has failed the requirements!

Let’s look a little further, what kind of disorder/bondage is Israel involved in? 

Exodus 1:14

Morter:  Strong’s #2563 chomer חֹמֶר cement, mortar, clay, or to heap up; from #2560 chamar חָמַר to boil, foam, ferment, the foaming or raging of waters; the same letters form #7358 rechem רֶחֶם womb; could this be inferring that the waters of the womb were beginning to be heaped up and rage and foam?  In other words, more than just working to build for Egypt but, they were becoming impregnated by the spiritual seed of Egypt! 

*2 letter root forms #2525 חָם hot, warm, the idea that’s carried is one that’s consumed/inflamed by their own desires, this is connected to the ר = the head, what comes first or takes precedent; Israel in their bondage began to allow their own fleshly desires to take precedent and come first, much like the house today!

Brick: Strong’s #3843 lebenah לְבֵנָה tile, brick; the same letters form #3842 lebanah לְבָנָה full moon; the moon in the Scriptures is symbolic of the Bride (just like the sun represents the Bridegroom), the moon also plays a part in the menstrual cycle of the woman, when the moon is full its connected with the timeframe when the woman is most fertile, best time for conception during her monthly cycle!

The term brick is from #3835 laban לָבַן to be white, to make bricks; it’s the root of the name Laban (Leah & Rachel’s father)!  Just as Jacob’s wives served in the house of Laban, so now do the children of Israel serve Laban – the bricks!

Laban לָבַן – ל prefix = to, for, the direction or goal of an action & בן = son; from the root banah בָּנָה to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue

*The Bride/the מ would be directed towards/goaded to build the house, to birth the son/ben because the enemy understood when it was the most opportune time, when she was most likely to conceive his seed!

The children of Israel should be working to build the house of their husband, by receiving His Seed/His Word and yet we find that they’re being goaded to receive another seed/build another house/birth another line! 

Rigour:  Strong’s #6531 perek פֶּרֶךְ harshness, cruelty, severity; ך suffix = your & פר = fruit (fruit of the lips) or bull

*The fruit we produce will expose us as one building the house of the bull (Pharaoh) or the house of Yahweh!  Hence the reason the names are here as a sign, reminding the house today that there will be separation made between the vexer/harlot and the house of Israel/those who stand upright!

Exodus 1:11 – “Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.”

Pithom:  Strong’s #6619 Pithom פִּתֹם the city of justice; 2 letter root forms #6596 poth פֹּת secret parts, used in Isaiah 3:17 describing how Yahweh would uncover the secret parts of the daughters of Zion in judgment for their harlotry

Raamses:  Strong’s #7486 Ra’mecec רַעְמְסֵס child of the sun; has the root of #4549 macac מָסַס to melt, dissolve, waste away, to be worthless; its first used in Exodus 16:21, describing what would happen to the manna in the sun – “And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted/macac.”

*Isn’t it interesting that the very cities the children of Israel helped to build proclaimed their own judgment?  That as long as they produced the fruit of Egypt, they were being placed in the category of the harlot and would be exposed in judgment, and whatever bit of Torah/manna (seed of Yahweh) they did have would be melted or become worthless, be dissolved as long as they produced the fruit of Egypt/Pharaoh!  In other words, they weren’t able to ride the fence, with a foot in both camps.

Now let’s take a look at the mothers of the children of Israel, because they’re the hidden clue here!

Leah:  Strong’s #3812 Le’ah לֵאָה weary; from #3811 la’ah לָאָה to exhaust, be weary, be impatient, be grieved, or offended

Gematria = 36, same as ‘ahal (the singular of ‘ahaliym אֲהָלִים aloes, the aloe tree, they were used in the mikveh; its also a play on words in the Hebrew with the word for tent, specifically the wedding chamber

Rachel:  Strong’s #7354 Rachel רָחֵל ewe; from an unused root meaning to journey

            Gematria = 238

Bilhah:  Strong’s #1090 Bilhah בִּלְהָה troubled; from #926 balah בָּהַל to disturb, alarm, to hurried or hastened; cognate of #1086 and #1087 balah בלה waste away, wear out, grow old, or be exhausted – describes the corrupt and lewd character of someone worn out by acts of harlotry

*Also describes Sarah’s inability to conceive having “waxed old” (Genesis 18:12), in other words, the birthing/bringing forth of good fruit that was promised to the house is unable to come to fruition and it is because the house has played the harlot!

Gematria = 42, there are 42 stops on the Exodus journey and there are 42 months during the “great tribulation”

Zilpah:  Strong’s #2135 Zilpah זִלְפָּה a trickling; from an unused root meaning to trickle as myrrh; Songs 5:5 – “I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.”

 זל= to despise or to neglect (Klein’s Etymological Dictionary) & פה = Mouth, speech, language

            Gematria = 122

*The purpose of the journey (Rachel) was to take the bride who was weary, impatient, easily offended and grieved (one defined and consumed by her flesh) and cause her to be immersed in the mikveh and cleansed by the aloes (the mikveh is symbolic of dying to your flesh, once you go under the water its as if you have died and when you immerge you’re reborn, a new creature!) (Leah), no longer seen as the one who had played the harlot and was an unfit vessel to house His seed and therefore was barren (Bilhah)! Just as the journey took 42 stops for this cleansing to be complete, so the bride at the end of days would require a 42 month span to make herself ready!  It was only this journey that would cause her to be ready to enter into the bridal chamber – the place of intimacy where she would fulfill her role of building the house, having been transformed from one who had despised the Speech of her Husband (the Torah) to one whose fingers would drip with myrrh as she opened the door to her Beloved!

36 (Leah) + 238 (Rachel) + 42 (Bilhah) + 122 (Zilpah) = 438, 438th verse in the Torah is Genesis 18:13 – “And Yahweh said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?”

*This same question will once again be asked, can this Bride, the one that’s been unfruitful, barren, worn out from her harlotry, can she bear a child, can she build the house?

The answer is given in Revelation 5:5 – “And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.”