I just want to let you guys know that I do
realize that these videos have been up late.
But I am on vacation,
and I did not leave my hotel room the entire day because I had actually filmed a lot more than I was prepared to edit
on very slow internet.
So I'm just going to let you guys know that I'm actually cutting this video up into a couple parts just because there is so
much information to digest, so let's just jump right in
Hey fam, it's Rachel. Today on Crack Your Bible, we need to talk about the fact that when God is going to give you information,
He's not just going to casually tell it to you one time. Oh I missed it
Can you go back - no?
He's gonna beat you over the head with it over and over and over again so that you are without excuse.
There is a God who's in charge of the entire universe, and He loves you and He wants a relationship with you.
But don't get it twisted
God is a strong powerful God. He's a
destructive God, and you don't want to be on his bad side.
You want him on your team.
And we are going to be talking about that specifically in the context of trying to figure out who is
Melchizedek in Genesis 14. Now before we get started make sure you hit subscribe, with the bell, with the parentheses
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So I am clearly not at home right now. I'm actually in Los Angeles right now and
All of my neighbors here in the hotel want to play how many doors can we shut today? So it's just constant noise
There's street noise. The lighting is terrible. Would you bear with me?
So anyway, we are in Genesis 14 and you know
we've been talking this month about who is Melchizedek because we see that he is mentioned over and over in Scripture
But he only appears one time and that's in Genesis 14 verse 18.
So it's like okay, who is this person? And why is he constantly referenced in Scripture?
If he's just this kind of like minor character who shows up for like a quick second
Like hey, we're gonna have some wine. We're gonna have a little bit of bread and then I'm gonna bounce.
Like, why is he mentioned so much if...
basically two or three verses is all that tells his story?
Well, there's a reason for that and we need to figure out who he is and
over the past month, you know, I did a series with Nathan Hoffman of the channel NathanH83. We did a series
debunking the Jewish idea that
Melchizedek is Shem. We showed from Scripture how that's completely impossible
and if you guys haven't seen that series you guys need to check it out right up here for everybody on desktop and mobile and
of course links are always in the description box down below. Now in my last video, where we were in Genesis 14,
we were talking about the importance of
names and how one of the names of God is
Shaddai. El Shaddai, which means the destroyer. Now
if you haven't seen that video, y'all need to check that one out right up here because I know I'm always gonna get people "No,
El Shaddai means breasted one"
Now, I don't want anybody coming up here trying to be the person from Proverbs 18:13,
"Where anybody who answers a matter before he has heard it,
is foolishness and shame to him," like, you're embarrassing yourself.
Stop going out
trying to tell everybody how it is before you've even heard the argument, before you've even looked at the evidence, because I can guarantee you
like a lot of the things that is presented on this channel, your churches aren't teaching it.
So I want you to go check that out. In the last video that I did on Genesis 14,
we talked about the importance of names, and why God doesn't do anything without having a reason for it.
There's so much symbolism in the Bible.
And if we want to figure out who Melchizedek is we want to figure out some other
contextual clues about what is going on, because God doesn't have a person show up at a specific
place and name that place unless there's a reason for it. So why is it that
Melchizedek, king
of Salem is meeting at this place called the Valley of Shaveh? That is the Valley of the Kings.
So we talked about the significance of the name, Valley of Shaveh,
but we'll also need to talk about the significance of the name Valley of the Kings, because this place has two names and that's important
But when we were talking about Shaveh, we were talking about how we've seen through Genesis 14,
how God is a destroyer God how he's a powerful God how he's a
strong God, and I want to build upon that. I don't want a,
I don't want to continue on without talking about this a little bit more because it's going to give us some contextual clues about
who Melchizedek is when we look at this name Shaddai. Now in
Jewish culture you see the name Shaddai on
everything, if you have somebody that has a mezuzah on their doorpost,
they will have just the Hebrew letter shin on the mezuzah and that stands for the name of God, El Shaddai,
now you might see some people wearing the head Tefilin, who are
Orthodox Jewish people and that will always have the embossed letter shin on it meaning Shaddai, and
even the way they tie stuff up it's literally going to literally spell out the name
Shaddai. Shin, Dalet, Yod.
Shaddai, and
you just see they have Shaddai, Shaddai, Shaddai, Shaddai, all over the place and
we're going to see that also in Genesis 14 with this place called the
Valley of the Kings. The Valley of Shaveh, so I want to get into this because
there's so much symbolism and meaning when we start looking into these letters and these words because remember
God wanted to tell these people over and over and over who he really is.
So we need to look at the the name El Shaddai, but we're gonna break it down even further.
Let's just look at the letter shin because shin is the way that God represents his name.
What's really special about the letter shin is that it is the twenty first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
So 21 is divisible by 7 and 3, and we know 7 is God's number of completeness
and three is the number of God so you have completeness completeness completeness.
It's just that like extra little like push showing like this is God's name, it represents God's name
you see the three sevens, just like we have a triune God who is complete. So I thought that was really interesting
so for those of you who haven't seen my Passover series, you might not be familiar with some of my
breakdowns of the Hebrew letter. So I'll just give kind of a little bit of a refresher for you guys.
Every Hebrew letter isn't just simply a letter,
but it's also a pictograph, and it also
represents a numeral. So a number. So instead of writing a number they will literally write a letter and that represents a
number. So that's something that you have to remember now when
Moses was writing in Hebrew
they had like proto Hebrew, paleo Hebrew, and the pictographs were much more obvious, kind of like in
hieroglyphs. Very obvious what these pictures were, but today because languages change and fonts change some of the
pictographs today in modern Hebrew are not so apparent. They still have that meaning they still have that representation
But in modern Hebrew, it's not so easy to see these pictures.
So I've included the little chart that shows all the different
variations that each letter has gone through from
Paleo-hebrew all the way down into kinda like ancient Hebrew and then into modern Hebrew in Hebrew
it doesn't matter if you read the entire book, the whole chapter, the whole verse, the word, the letter
down to the very last tittle, which Jesus says "he will not do away with," there is meaning, there's
symbolism and it all points to God.
So when he uses his name, Shaddai,
many times he just uses it as the letter Shin.
Now when you have a priestly blessing, you'll have the Kohanim go up, and they'll do this symbol,
so you've seen it in Star Trek, it's like this this is,
they were Jewish.
This is one hand and the second and they put them up like this
because it forms the letter Shin in Hebrew the name of God as they say their priestly
blessing over people. So you're you're doing this in God's name. You're showing God's name as you proclaim the
blessing over his people.
This is what the Kohanim, the people of the tribe of Levi do in their meetings, even to this day.
They have their prayer shawls over them, they put up the letter shin representing Shaddai, as they say their prayer.
Why are they using this letter shin? Well, shin has so much meaning to it
and God did not choose this letter for no reason shin represents the sound 'sh-ince'.
But it also represents the number
300, now the pictograph of shin is two front teeth and
this might seem very weird,
like, what do two front teeth have anything to do with God, well in ancient Israel and in Hebrew culture
which is what the Bible was
written in, this is the culture that they were writing, in these were the culture that people were reading this in
teeth were a picture of pressing in, of sharpness. This is something that is scary.
This is something that is powerful, that's strong. See it's kind of like an enemy pressing in or a warrior
pressing in on his adversary, and your biting them,
like, a lion in Isaiah 41:14 -15. It says "'Fear not, you worm Jacob. You men of Israel.
I am the one who helps you,' declares Lord,
Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, 'Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,
new sharp, and having teeth.
You shall thresh the mountains, and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff.
You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them, and
you shall rejoice in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel. You shall glory.'"
So, this is a picture of destruction of power. This is going to war, you're the teeth that is going to go in and destroy
these enemies. That's what this picture of teeth is, and who's the one that does that for us? It's God.
We can't destroy our enemies it's God that goes before us, so that is what is
the picture of the letter shin, now, there's something else that I want to share with you because
according to Jewish scribes, Jewish sages, Jewish rabbis, we're talking about man-made tradition here. We're not talking about
Scripture we're talking about the traditions of men.
We can use their own traditions to show them how God will even speak through them using their own man-made traditions,
so that they are without excuse. To show to show them who he really is.
So one of the things that
Jewish sages, or rabbis say, is that every Hebrew letter because there are different sorts of
strokes that they're all made up of other letters on top of each other. They're all layered,
so if you layer different letters on top of each other it makes up a new letter.
Now there's two different
schools of thought when it comes to the letter shin and I want to present both to you because both of those have meaning so
let's break this down. So the first school of thought is that the letter shin,
representing the name Shaddai, which is the representation of God as the destroyer,
this letter is made up of four letter Yuds and
three letter Vavs
now it says like the little flag II things are the Yuds, and then the base is also a Yud. And then each arm is
three separate Vavs,
now Vav in,
hebrew, makes the 'wah' or the 'oo' sound, and its value is 6. Now in Hebrew 6 is the number of a man, so like,
666, and then it's pictograph is of a nail or a peg.
So either something that you put through an object
to secure it, or you hang something on it like a peg to secure it and it means to add or secure.
So,
this Vav, there's three Vavs, and
four letter Yuds, so just keep in mind that Vav means nail.
Now, with the four-letter Yuds,
there's something interesting about
Yud. Yud is the smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and
when Jesus says "not even a tittle would be done away with," he's talking about the letter Yud. It's the smallest little mark of
scripture because every
every single mark in
the Bible, in scripture, has meaning God showing himself to you through every stroke of the pen.
So with Yud, now, there's 4 Yuds,
Yud has the the sound of the 'yea' or the 'eh' sound in Hebrew.
There is no letter J, But whenever you're translating something from a different language that starts with a J
You're going to use a Yud.
Now, Yud has the value of 10 and 10 is a special number because to do
anything in Hebrew, you have to have a minion, which is 10.
Minion is also the same as like quorum in English.
So to do any sort of business, or to do any sort of prayer, you have to have
ten Jewish men present.
So this is why when God tells Abraham, you know, you have to have ten righteous people
before he will not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, there's a reason because there had to have been a minion of men who were present
Abraham couldn't find that minion. So anyway, now the pictograph of the Yud used to be, like, a right arm and a hand.
But today, in modern Hebrew, it just strips the arm, and it's now just the hand, like the palm.
So the meaning is, this little palm, or the hand, and
when we put that together that is quite interesting because I want you to remember how many Vavs did we have?
We had three Vavs and
four Yuds
What?
Where would you see a picture similar to this? Now, Remember this is man's own tradition
can we see where God is using this to show himself to
the Jewish scribes and rabbis who,
who studied these teachings we have three Vavs,
also known as nails,
We have four Yuds, so arms so like these little appendages,
Jesus was nailed through with a Vav,
into his hands and his feet, and the Romans would overlap your feet and drive the nail through both feet.
So you need three nails, and it would go into both your two hands and your two feet.
So that is what we see when we see the letter shin
We see those three nails in the four hands or the hands and feet.
So we see that is a picture of Jesus whenever we see the letter Shin
Jewish scribes will say that there are additional meanings to each
Hebrew letter, and they just have like layer upon layer of layer of meaning and even using their own
Man-made tradition even using things like their own Kabbalah, which is not scriptural.
Using their own man-made tradition, you cannot get away from the fact that God is in
everything for example, the letter Vav, of Hebrew sages will say that it is a picture
additionally, of not only the nail, but it is showing the connection between heaven and earth. It's connecting heaven and earth
What is 1 Timothy 2:5 tell us, "for there is one God and there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ
Jesus."
That is our connecting peace between heaven and earth.
You're only going through Jesus. I already did a video on it. You can check that out right up here.
That is our only connection to heaven, is through Jesus Christ, now in Hebrew
whenever you see the letter Yud by itself, especially like in a scientific context. It's going to be representing the element iodine,
now iodine is something that cleanses, and you can't even get away from the symbolism of Jesus when you're looking at the periodic table because
In 1 John 1:7 it says 'but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all sin.'
So we see the person the man, Jesus Christ, being the connector between heaven and earth.
We also see him as the one who cleanses us of all sin, that iodine,
he's cleansing, in the Vav, the three nails, and the four Yuds.
The hands that make up the letter shin, which is the name of God,
Shaddai, the destroyer.
This sums up the first school of thought about which Jewish letters, when you combine them make up the Hebrew letter shin and this is
cool
because no matter which school of thought that we are going to look at we are going to look at the second school of thought
In our next video no matter which one you take. You're still going to see the same thing over and over and over again
you're going to see
everything that points to Jesus in the Hebrew letter Shin, and this is really important when we're talking about who is
Melchizedek because we already heard you know, it's not Shem.
But we really need to look at the evidence to see like okay, is this an angel?
Is this a mythical being? Who is this?
So make sure you stay tuned for the very next video in our Genesis 14 series where we are going to be looking at the
second school of thought about which Hebrew letters make up the letter shin, or the name of God.
So, I hope you guys will like subscribe and share and I will talk to you guys later. Bye.