8. Chet | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | Judgment on the Lost Tribes of Israel, Sin, Mercy, and more
The scattering of the Lost Tribes of Israel, how the Hebrew letter “chet” helps illustrate the meaning of mercy, and why letters in ancient inscriptions are often sideways.
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Timestamps:
0:00 In the days of Noah
0:31 The letter Chet
0:46 The word “sin”
1:21 Word studies: Refuge, Mercy, Godly
2:39 Mercy for Ephraim, the outcast
4:54 Word study: Seer (“Chozeh”)
6:00 Word pictures: Live, Living
6:54 Why they wrote sideways
10:28 Lost and found paleo rock
12:15 Song: “Push”
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Transcript:
Dawson: In the days of Noah, life as they knew it came to an end. The earth hit a wall. Today’s letter is chet, the wall. The Hebrew letter “chet” is a picture of a wall and a wall can mean obstruction, the end, a stop, or it can be used for your protection.
For anyone who is trying their best to walk on the way, on ha derek, a sin is something which could stop you dead in your tracks and so it’s no surprise that the word “sin” in Hebrew begins with the letter chet, the wall.
The word for sin in Hebrew sounds pretty close to the letter itself. So, the letter for the wall is chet and the word sin is chata.
The letter chet is a wall and this next letter is called “samek” and it’s a picture of a thorn, the type that you would use to create a thornbush as a hedge to protect your animals. Sort of like barbwire in its day. It would be used to turn predators around.
If you take these two letters together, you have a wall of protection and this is the Hebrew root word for refuge. Now if you open a door to a refuge, you have shown mercy and chesed, these three letters together, is the word for mercy. Mercy is one of the foundations of GOD. It is part of who HE is and so anyone who tries to be like Him is called “godly” in English but in Hebrew, they’re called “chasid”. Your Father is merciful, you try your best to be merciful. But that mercy is not to be applied to everything and anything because your Father doesn’t apply it to everything and anything. He is also just and HE makes judgments.
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Dawson: One of the things that lets us know that Father is ALMIGHTY GOD and Creator of time itself is that HE is able to tell us what’s going to happen in the future and HE declares the end from the beginning and the people that HE does that through in some cases are called seers in the Bible. We have a few examples of them, one of them being the prophet Gad, another one being the psalmist Asaph who spoke about the end of days quite a bit.
The word for seer in Hebrew is “chozeh” and it’s a word picture for the end is now revealed. So the end, the letter chet, the wall, is now – zayin – which is a picture of the plough, which makes ready now for planting, and the man hey with his arms up, the revelation symbol.
Carlos: Chet, the wall. Yod, the helping hand. What does this word mean?
Dawson: To live.
Carlos: To live and what’s the other one? Choose living?
Dawson: So if you are living, you add a hey at the end.
Carlos: Chayah. If you are living. We’re going to explain why some letters are written like this for a dalet for example. Some are written like this. That’s because it depends how big your tablet or your skin, your sheepskin to write on is. So, if you’re limited, for example Shamon Sha-mon Shamon.Well, let’s say you got to write Shamon was walking. Shamon lek all in one line. So now it behooves you to put this letter at a slight angle because they know it’s the letter, sha [Phonetic]. Then this really becomes much more angled and this becomes much more angled, more angled than that. Lek, so it will be …
Dawson: To the tree.
Carlos: Lek. Shamon lek. So, it explains squeezing in the letters of some scripts, like why they write it. How come some put an M like this?
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: And some do – some go all out with this. It depends on how much room you got in your script. Let’s say we want to use paleo to write English words with.
Dawson: OK.
Carlos: Like …
Dawson: OK.
Carlos: Poh… with samek, with a tet…
Dawson: Post.
Carlos: Post no… post no… Down here we ran out of room. So we’re going to put down the – they even write in the side. Watch. I kid you not. They will do “post no bills.” They would do that and you have to know that that’s the habit of the writers. They would send notes to each other and they knew each other’s habits. So, this guy does this.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: This guy insists on using too big of a script and puts it on the side.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: So yeah, there are some complaints in it but that’s as good as it gets. Welcome to your future language and alphabet.
Dawson: You spelled lek wrong.
Carlos: Well, ha-ha-ha.
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Dawson: It’s paleo.
Carlos: That looks like it has something on it. Any way we can loosen that rock up?
Dawson: It’s definitely paleo.
Carlos: Definitely paleo. I see. Let’s bring it – what is it saying there?
Dawson: Chet.
Carlos: Chet.
Dawson: Zayin.
Carlos: Zayin.
Dawson: Quf.
Carlos: Quf. Anything else?
Dawson: Chet, nun.
Carlos: No, that’s a …
Dawson: Kaf.
Carlos: Chet, Nun, Kaf.
Dawson: Chazaq, strong.
Carlos: Chanok.
Dawson: Chanok.
Carlos: Enoch, Chanok, our forefather! He is the forefather of Noah, of which we all came from.
Dawson: It’s a heavy rock. Can you get it out?
Carlos: Let’s try it. How did this rock get up here? We’re at 5,000 feet. That means this is from the time when Noah was up above the mountains. It must have fell off his ark as he passed by.
Dawson: So, we decided to leave the rock here for someone to find. Maybe in Millennium. See you guys.
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