I have been a student of koine Greek for several years. I have been a student of the Greek Words for “death.” Yet, I must admit that I have very little understanding of Hebrew. Some of the questions that I have been thinking about is; “Is God Violent? Does God demand death?” I was taught that God demanded a death to make payments to Him? This perceived Idea of “Wrath” was a central part of my upbringing. Recently I was reading the books of Joseph Prince. His book “Destined to Win” has three powerful chapters. Joseph Prince has Ground breaking research on God’s Grace. The three chapters are “Evil Conspiracy, Is God Judging America? And the Ministry of Death. These chapters present masterfully the idea of “foreordained” in scripture.

When I begin to think of these terms as we approach Death in the Scriptures. I begin to find concepts in Hebrew by Joseph Good. I started find Hebrew words that wasn’t in the Strong’s Concordance. I began to hear Perry Stone Jr use the same Hebrew terms. I went down to my local Library and read Jewish books on Death. I must state this up front: The Hebraic idea of Death is different than the Greek idea or Christian idea When I begin to see this, I think “What about the Origin of Death?” Genesis 3 speak of “Enmity” between the woman and satan. The word “enmity” in Hebrew is translated as “set a feud” by James Moffatt. When Ephesians speaks of “enmity”, it speaks of “setting a feud.” Look at what Joseph Good declares: “In Hebrew, three different terms are used for the dead and living tzaddikim in this resurrection and catching away. First is the word asaph, which means “to gather.”’ When the Shofar sounds, ….A derivative of asaph is the word ne’esaph , a word was used when a righteous men died and was gathered to his fathers. A note from the Gesenius Hebrew lexicon on the word ne’esaph is interesting.” “NE’ESAPH –to be gathered to one’s people, to one’s father; used of entering into Hades, Where the Hebrews regarded their ancestors as being gathered together. This gathering to one’s fathers, or one’s people, is distinguished both from death and burial..”(Genesis 25:8;II Kings 22:30. By combining I Thessalonians 4:14 with Zephaniah 2:1-3 we see a connection. Along with the ne’asaph, or the gathering of the righteous living. The Hebrew word for gathering that is used in the above passage is Kashash- a synonym for the word asaph, which denotes a collection. II Thessalonians 2:1-3 Brings this out. Kenneth S, Wuest, a brilliant Greek scholar brings out some insights into this passage.” What we see here is the Hebraic idea of Death. Is there a revelation we missed? By combining I Thessalonians 4:14 with Zephaniah 2:1-3 we see a connection. This reveals that this ne’esaph, or gathering of the dead tzaddikim, will be the gathering of the righteous living. The Hebrew word for gathering that is used in the above passage is Kashash- a synonym for the word asaph, which denotes a collection. II Thessalonians 2:1-3 brings this out. Kenneth S, Wuest, a brilliant Greek scholar brings out some insights into this passage.” What we see here is the Hebraic idea of Death. Is there a revelation we missed?

When we see the Hebrew word asaph, we must find the Hebrew Code. A is the Hebrew letter is Aleph. It represents a “Sacrificial Animal.”(Dick Mills). It represents “Oneness, Source, the beginning”(Lynn Hayes). It is the picture of a Ox which denotes strength. “It denotes the strength of Gathering into the Oneness, the first, the source, the strength.” When we begin to attempt the define the Evil One. One of the most interesting things is the Hebrew word for satan. It means “a plot, a plotter.” It is the plot in your self-empowered Drama. The word “enemy” is much stronger in Hebrew than in Koine Greek. One of the Hebrew words translated “Enemy” Issachar. It means “to bind, to roll up in a bundle, to press upon, to be in distress. It is used of a stone in its semantic range.”

The Koine Greek idea of “enemy” is “hostile one.” We cannot build a adequate picture of the devil in the New Testament before we see the foundation of the devil and death in the Old Testament. Remember one of the Hebrew words for “Salvation” is “Spaciousness” (Interpreter’s Bible Dictionary). As opposed to being compressed and then oppressed. The idea of an enemy is based on Hebraic studies.

Jacob Israel just wrote a powerful essay on the devil. He defined the “devil” as “the life you lived.” I like that! I deals with what the idea that “The lie never existed, only the Truth.” The life you lived as the lie. The Diabollos the continual throwing of a rock to remove you from the Truth , from the present moment. The Greek word diabollos means “in between.” We see this picture of the devil in the Hebrew word Azazel, which is used in Leviticus 16. There is a huge connection between the Hebrew Azazel and the New Testament idea of forgiveness. Or as the Etymology suggest – Forward Giving-ness. One of the Hebrew words for “fear” is terror. When we present God as Terror, we empower the perceived absence as Rejection.

The Bible contains mature images of God rather than the less mature images of God in the Bible.

In Hebrew thought, a Kalph is both the container of the hand and the measuring stick that you measure out. Some have translated the word as “wing.” A lie is not the absence of Truth. The Presence of Truth is always present, in the now. One of the most powerful things about the Hebrew alphabet. The alphabet word Teth which is means “serpent.” It is translated by scholars as “subtitle energy.” Oddly ,Jewish writers see this word to mean

“The Midrash alludes to the Hebrew word teth to go back to the Hebrew word for Mud (tiyt). It is the Hebrew word for “matter.” - Messiah and His Hebrew Alphabet – Dick Mills Eugene Peterson, in his book “Tell the Slant”, the evidence of Evil is found in its function between “Adam and Eve was naked and not ashamed” and “there eyes where opened, and they where ashamed.” This is the function of Evil.