14. Nun | Paleo Hebrew Alphabet | The Bronze Serpent, a Revealing Map, Noah Finds Grace, and more
Misconceptions about the letter Nun, the Bronze Serpent in the Old and New Testaments, and North, South, East & West as YHVH sees it.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:57 The Bronze Serpent in the Old Testament
2:42 Letter meanings
2:56 Noah found grace
3:22 YASHUA and the Bronze Serpent
4:34 Trying to describe Father’s throne
5:44 Word picture: River (“nahar”)
6:06 Word picture: Negev
6:43 North, South, East, and West as YHVH sees it
7:42 It’s a snake, not a seed
9:28 Ancient Bronze Age scripts
12:34 Late Bronze Age collapse
14:00 How Nachash probably changed to “Nun”
15:17 The snake in the Garden
16:16 Song: Father of Lights
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Transcript:
Dawson: For the past 3000 years, this letter has been known as nun because that’s what the Phoenicians called it. But to the ancient Hebrews and to the creator of the ancient Hebrew alphabet, this letter was and is nachash, the snake.
Why was the name changed from nachash to nun? Why is there a snake in Father’s alphabet? Why do these people who study ancient Hebrew think that this letter is a picture of a seed and not a serpent?
We will discuss all of that and more in today’s episode. But first, know this. If you’re not a big fan of snakes, that’s OK. You’re in good company. When Father first turned Moses’ staff into a nachash, Moses ran. But… he got used to it.
If there’s one story in the Bible that explains what a snake is doing in Father’s alphabet, it’s the story of the bronze serpent when Father used a snake as a symbol for life. The event takes place during Israel’s wandering in the wilderness and was recorded for us by Moses. We will listen to a few verses, then talk about the meanings of the letter nachash.
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Narrator: “And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to compass the Land of Edom and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way and the people spoke against GOD and against Moses. “Wherefore have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread. Neither is there any water and our soul loatheth this light bread.”
And THE LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned for we have spoken against THE LORD and against thee. Pray unto THE LORD that HE may take away the serpents from us,” and Moses prayed for the people and THE LORD said unto Moses, “Make thee a fiery servant and set it upon a pole and shall come to pass that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.”
Dawson: Just like Father used the nachash in the wilderness to give people a chance to live, the letter nachash is used in Hebrew words to mean life. We see it in words like “nephesh” which means living being or soul and also in the word grace which in Hebrew is “chen”.
In the days of Noah, Father flooded the planet to destroy all life from the face of the earth but Noah it says found chen. He found grace. By the letters, Noah’s life was protected.
Yashua took the meaning of nachash to a whole new level when HE linked the nachash nachoshet to his death on the cross. This is one of those scriptures that most people have heard so many times, they can quote it in their sleep and maybe to a lot of people it has lost meaning.
But let’s look at it in the context that Yashua put it in and throw some paleo in there because HE paints a beautiful picture here. HE’s talking to a teacher of Israel who’s familiar with the story of the bronze serpent and HE says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must THE SON OF MAN be lifted up. That whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life, for GOD so loved the world that HE gave His only begotten son.
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One of the uses of the letter nachash in Hebrew words is to describe things that are bright and reflective like snake skin. Besides the word “bronze,” nachoshet which we saw earlier, there are many words used to describe the brilliance around Father which use the letter nachash.
The prophets Ezekiel and Daniel describe His throne as a burning, fiery flame. The word for fiery in Hebrew is nir. Above his throne are sparkling seraphim angels and the word for sparkling is nitsim and it’s written that those seraphim look like nachoshet, like brilliant copper.
Father Himself is described as having brightness all around Him and the word for brightness in Hebrew is nogah. These descriptions were all written at a time long before light bulbs and all the different types of light that we’re used to today.
Back in those days if you wanted to describe something that was bright, your points of reference were things like the sun and fire and nachash.
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This is the Hebrew word har. It means mountain. When it rains or snows on a har, water flows downhill looking like a nachash and this is how a nahar is created. Nahar means river in Hebrew.
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This is the word negev. It’s the name of the desert in Southern Israel. If you know a little paleo, you might see the letter beyt and the letter nachash and get the sense that this place is home to snakes. The concordance says that the word negev has nothing to do with snakes. It comes from an unused word meaning parched. But look at the paleo and then look at what Father has to say about the negev. (On screen: a Scripture from Isaiah that says “An oracle on the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and anguish from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying fiery serpent…”)
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Some of you may have been taught that this ancient Hebrew letter is a picture of a seed and not a snake. That’s because people try to associate this image with the modern name of the letter, which is nun. But the word nun is not original Hebrew. There’s Joshua’s dad who was named Nun but Joshua’s dad was a man who was born and raised in Egypt where they worshipped a god named Nun.
The closest word to nun in the scriptures is niyn and it means offspring. So, some people take this letter to be a seed which is a type of offspring. There are a few problems with this. The word seed is used all throughout the scriptures and it’s always written as zera, not nun. It’s also pretty common knowledge that despite this letter being called nun for the past 3000 years, the original picture was a nachash, the snake. And most importantly, the words speak for themselves.
Take the word snake bite for example. It starts with the letter nachash and the letter shin. Shin means teeth in Hebrew. So what’s involved in a snake bite? Is it snake teeth or seed teeth? You be the judge.
All of this confusion started with the Phoenicians when they chose to change the name of the letter from nachash to nun. For 3000 years or so, no one has really seemed to mind but over here in Original Hebrew, we mind.
The Phoenicians are the same people who for most of modern history have been given credit for creating Father’s alphabet and they’re not around to set the record straight. So, we will give it a try here today.
Carlos: OK, everybody. So we tried to bring some new developments or some new information because this is Original Hebrew, which takes original Hebrew script because that’s the way creator, otherwise Father, wanted it to be.
Now they always are telling us that the Hebrew alphabet came from Phoenicia and the Phoenicians. That’s what it’s credited to. So, let’s take a look.
Here are all the people. They got together and used the Phoenician alphabet. Notice here is the Minoan script from the 1550 to 1050. Notice they got their own script. Here is an example of the Mari. Notice in 1800, they have their own script.
Here is the Luwians. These people live right at the southeast corner of Anatolia, otherwise as Turkey, coastal people. They have their own script, 10th century. Here we got Linear B tablets from Pylos, one of the islands in the Greek set of islands. We call it the Peloponnesians and here’s their script, 13th century. 1375, Linear B and here we got a fragment of Linear A from 1800 to 1450. Here is 1600 to 1450, Linear A, and notice this one. They say it’s Phoenician writing, right?
Dawson: Right.
Carlos: Now here’s the king of Phoenicia. Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia. Now here’s the king of Phoenicia in his own script, writing to Pharaoh of Egypt in their own script. Now when they got their own script, how did they go all of a sudden original Hebrew Paleo writing?
Dawson: Right. It’s clearly a different script. Clearly cuneiform.
Carlos: Clearly. In every case, they all have the linear A, the linear B. They have their Luwian type writing. I mean they have their own writing in Mari and all of a sudden after 900 BC, they’re all writing in Hebrew and they call it Phoenician.
Dawson: Right.
Carlos: Well, I smell a rat. OK? And these are the people that turned the letter nachash into nun.
And we already know that the Israelites were getting the habits of their neighbors, that if you don’t keep your own ways, you’re going to get their habits and guess what. They took nachash and they let it turn into a nun.
It has always been snake to Israel.
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: It has always been snake to the Israelites but when you’re using it for a merchant navy and to sell brands, look at it. You go out. What brand is it? Well, this is nachash brand. What does that mean? Snake brand. Oh, no, no.
Dawson: No, thanks.
Carlos: No, thanks. There’s a really ugly crab that nobody wanted to eat. It was called spider crab. It was all over the ocean and no one wanted to touch it because it’s a spider crab. Some guy from Japan went and renamed it king crab and now everybody eats it. So, you don’t sell nachash brand. You sell nun …
Dawson: Nun brand.
Carlos: Nun brand. Now what does nun mean?
Dawson: They say it means fish in Phoenician.
Carlos: Really?
Dawson: Yeah.
Carlos: Well, fish brand instead of snake brand sells better when you’re a merchant.
Dawson: So, it’s a business decision.
Carlos: It’s a business decision because it has always been nachash. The letter nun was originally nachash.
Dawson: We’re still going to call it nun.
Carlos: We will call it nun but for original paleo, nachash.
In the garden, there was every kind of animal but the one he said to watch out for the most is nachash, the snake. Well, this snake walked, talked, did everything, right? Nachash, then he got punished and he has to be on the ground. However, that snake in the middle of the Garden of Eden is sanctioned by Father to be there and you’re supposed to listen to Father and not go to the middle of the garden and have dinner with nachash.
Dawson: Right.
Carlos: OK? So they did and they had a problem with nachash.
Dawson: And there you have it. Don’t have dinner with nachash and you won’t have a problem with nachash. Next time around we will talk about the fallout from that famous dinner and we will also discuss the days to come when the curse is lifted. See you guys.
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