Random thoughts

This will be a fun article because I could not find a subject so here are some random facts

Hebrew calendar which is a lunar calendar with occasional leap months

The first number is the Religious order and the second number is the civil number

7-1 Tishrei תשרי

8-2 Marcheshvan מרחשון

9-3 Kisleiv כסלו

10-4 Teiveit טבת

11-5 Shvat שבט

12-6 Adar אדר also Adar 2 in leap years only

1-7 Nisan ניסן

2-8 Iyar איר

3-9 Sivan סיון

4-10 Tamuz תמוז

5-11 Av אב

6-12 Elul אלול

For reference Nisan falls in early spring on the Gregorian calendar and Tishrei the begining of the official Jewish New Year starts anywhere from mid september to mid october.

Next is periods on the Hebrew language

Pre Biblical Hebrew ,This era is not fully known and may go all the way back to Avraham but in general Pre Biblical Hebrew is the Moses and Joshua era and is about 1500 or 1600 BCE to a bit before 1000 BCE and uses Proto Sinaitic script or Canaanite script.

Biblical Hebrew לשון המקרא or lashon hamikra and this was written with the Phoenician Alpha Bet and is also know as paleo Hebrew

Early period 1000-530 BCE king David and Solomon era 1

Late period or post Babylonian exile 530-200 BCE

Mishnaic Hebrew 200 BCE to 400 CE the language of the Mishnah and this is where modern Hebrew script came from as the Jews varied Aramaic square script a bit .Unlike Biblical or paleo Hebrew this script is the same as in modern Tanakh’s and Torah’s .This was the transition from the ancient to the medieval style that came later.

Rabbinical Hebrew also Medieval Hebrew 400 CE to 1947 and this is where the vowels or nikud appear in the text.

Modern Hebrew 1948 to present עברית חדשה

Random scripture on being chosen

2 Timothy 2.11-13

¹¹ Here is a trustworthy saying:

If we died with him,
    we will also live with him;
¹² if we endure,
    we will also reign with him.
If we disown him,
    he will also disown us;
¹³ if we are faithless,
    he remains faithful,
    for he cannot disown himself.

Galatians 2.15-17

¹⁵ “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles ¹⁶ know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

¹⁷ “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!

Romans 4.13

¹³ It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

John 6.43-44

⁴³ “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day

Psalm 143.2

Do not bring your servant into judgment,
    for no one living is righteous before you.

Its gets more random but hey,random is fun 2 Timothy 4.8

faith. ⁸ Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

A final thought in dealing with the issue of the rapture here is Jeremiah 31.6

There will be a day when watchmen cry out
    on the hills of Ephraim,
‘Come, let us go up to Zion,
    to the Lord our God.’”

Is this a secret or “sod” reference to the rapture watchmen of today ,its gets more interesting ,and BTW it is Jeremiah 31.5 in the Hebrew text

הכִּ֣י יֶשׁ־י֔וֹם קָֽרְא֥וּ נֹֽצְרִ֖ים בְּהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם קוּמוּ וְנַֽעֲלֶ֣ה צִיּ֔וֹן אֶל־יְהֹוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ

The word used for watchmen נֹֽצְרִ֖ים notzrim is actually the modern Hebrew word for Christians ,very cool eh!

Thank you all and God Bless