Welcome to another message from God's Word. I want to go over something with you just a little bit in the Hebrew language. We're studying the book of Jonah from the Hebrew language. The Hebrew verbs are very violent. A lot of action. And there are seven stems in Hebrew. And we'll go into the book of Jonah. And it's a very beautiful book. It's one of my favorites. Especially teaching it. And one goes through these seven Hebrew stems and what they mean. And of course, you know, you never learn the English language until you learn a foreign language, in all reality. I don't know how many of you out there have studied more than one language, but you really never understand your own language until you study another language, because you have to translate that language into yours and yours into theirs. Well, Hebrew is what we call the The etymology of it, the roots, words of it, there are very few. One word is used for several different things, but the tenses are the real active voice of it. The book of the Old Testament, maybe you think of the book of Bereshith or Genesis. is a violent book. It talks about creation. It talks about destruction. It talks about reconstruction and all of this. And it talks about the violence of revolt and rebellion. And all of these terms are in from the Hebrew verbs. Now the Hebrew verbs are as the col-stem, the nif-ol, p-el, pu-ol, hith-p-el, Hephel and Hophel, stems, that's seven stems in Hebrew. The word Ketal there, we'll look at that word, if one word, and we'll see how it's used in all those seven stems. One of them is he killed, that's just simple active, Kal stem, Kal stem. It used to be K-A-L, but now someone more modern is Q-A-L. Yesenius used K-A-L, and he was one of the, he's probably one of the best grammarians of the Hebrew and the best lexicons there is, period. He said some things that now people accept as fact. One thing that he said is Alma and Bethulah, the two terms for virgin. The word Alma is not a virgin, it means a sexually mature woman that's able to have children. And 714, Isaiah 714, it says that she was a sexually mature woman ready to have children. But that's a Duel prophecy too. One woman was born that had a child then, and then in the future is a Messiah, which was, she was a Bethuel, a real virgin. The word Bethuel means a woman that's guarded in her house. that she is made sure that she is sexually pure when she is married. Alma just means a sexually mature woman that's able to have a child. And he said that. And they had wall-eyed fits about it back then. They wouldn't finish his lexicon or anything. Now he is the standard of all of that because he did more research than anyone else. So let's get back here to the active voice now. That's the Kyle stamp. He killed. Simple as that. And then we have the passive voice. That means action done upon somebody. And that means he was killed. He killed, and then he was killed in the Nif-El stem. And then in the intensive active stem, that's P-L, he brutally killed. And that's how that, in the Old Testament, Cain killed Abel, brutally killed him. violently killed him, slaughtered him. So you can see in the Hebrew language how different it is. He brutally and violently killed him. That's the PL stem. Now, PL stem, intensive passive, he was violently killed. PL, he was violently killed. And then the intensive reflexive, he violently killed himself. And then the causative, he was caused to kill, or he caused to kill. Hithel still. And then the causative passive is hofel, and he was caused to kill. He was caused to kill. The causative active, hithel, he caused to kill. And then causative passive, hofel, he was caused to kill. So now you can see some of these here. as we study the Hebrew language. We're doing that in the book of Exodus, Wiele Shemot, and the book of Jonah, here. And we're going to go into the Amplified Bible now, and we're going to read a few verses here, work that we're studying, in the book of Jonah. Now, Jonah is dead. Jonah is dead. Jonah ran from God. He told him to go to Nineveh and preach because he was going to use Nineveh to chastise Israel. Well, Jonah was a very, what we might call, violently opposed to anybody but a Jew. He was extremely racist. And he did not want to go and to preach to Nineveh at all. So he took off the opposite direction. And we studied about that. He took off. Instead of going to Nineveh, which is northeast, he went completely west from there. And he was going to go to Spain. He was going to go to Spain, or Tarshish, instead of going the other direction. He was running from the Lord. So now, see if I can keep my books from falling off here. Now, I've said this before, but I want you to get this. This is very important. Here's a globe. Over here is the Mediterranean Sea, and right here is the land of Israel. And he was up there in Galilee is where he was, and he goes and runs off to the coast here. He's supposed to go up here, up this direction, but he takes off here. And he goes off down here, and here's the Mediterranean Sea now, and he's going along the Mediterranean Sea, he's going to come all the way over here to Tarsus and Spain. Well, some place out here, God sent a tremendous storm. And the ship was wrecking. The crew was violently afraid of God and what was going on around them. And they finally picked him out and lots fell on Jonah that he's the cause of it. Jonah said, I'm the cause of it. Throw me overboard. They threw him overboard. He drowned. He was dead. He drowned. He died. He drowned. And then God prepared a supernatural great Leviathan fish, A god is what it's called. They gone. Gone. Anyway, he prepared this supernatural fish. The fish swallowed him, but he's dead. And now from Sheol he cries out. His body is in the belly of the great fish, but from Sheol he cries out. Now there's no soul sleeping. When he died, he went straight to Sheol, or Hades. He cried out from Sheol. And then God takes this fish as a transport, a supernatural transport. He either flies him up here to Nineveh, or else the fish swims all the way around here, all the way around to the tip of Africa, all the way up through here into the Indian Ocean, into the Arabian Sea, and then goes up and swims up the Persian Gulf there, up to the Tigris River and goes out and spits him out on the shores of Nineveh. That's a long, long trip, people. Here from here to the United States, America. That's closer Then going all the way around from all the way through here and all the way around and then back up there into the Persian Gulf and then through the Indian Ocean into the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. That's quite a trip. I want you to understand this. This is a lot of extremely supernatural things going on here. And God prepares this extremely supernatural fish or whatever he is, a great leviathan or dragon of the deep or whatever. Let's go back here and read this now. Let's read all the way through to the second chapter. Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish. His body was in the stomach of the fish, and his soul was in Hades, or Sheol. I called out my trouble and distress to the LORD, and he answered me out of the belly of Sheol. Sheol, the place of departed spirits. Right down here, Sheol, the place of departed spirits. Down under the earth. There is Hades, or Sheol, and then there's paradise down there. And he was in paradise part of it. He said, I cried out from the belly of Sheol, I cried for help. No soul sleeping here, he is awake, he is alive, he is conscious. His mind, his soul is alive. You heard my voice. You cast me out into the deep, into the deep, the heart of the sea. And the current surrounded me and engulfed me and all your breakers and billowing waves passed over me. When all this is over him now, he's drowning. Then I said, I have been cast out of your sight. Nevertheless, I will look again toward your holy temple. What he says in Hebrew is, I will keep my eyes on your holy temple. I will keep my eyes on your holy temple. So the water surrounded me to the point of death. It was dead. Great deep engulfed me. Seaweed wrapped around me, my head. I descended into the very roots of the mountains. He's down into the deep. Down, down, down. The earth with its bars closed behind me, bolting me in forever. There's no oxygen down there, okay? Yet you have brought up my life from the pit, oh Lord my God. When my soul was fainting with me, I remembered the Lord and my prayer came to you, enter your holy temple. That word temple there means His holy place. He said, I will keep my eyes on heaven. I will keep my eyes on heaven. Now, He wasn't to experience heaven yet. He was to experience paradise because nobody had gone to heaven yet until Jesus died on the cross and took some back with Him. And He took either all or some of them up to heaven with Him and to the third heaven. But ask for me, I will sacrifice to you. With my voice of thanksgiving I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is from the Lord. So the Lord commanded the fish. He's dead. He's dead. His body is in Sheol. Now He's going to anastasia him. He's going to resurrect him. And He's going to vomit him, Jonah, up on dry land. Up on dry land. Wee-ahn-ee, Ah-mar-tee, Rah-shee-tee, Nick, Meh-neh-ged, Meh-nee-kah, Ahk, Ah-wah-seth, Lee-hah-beet, El, Hee-kahl, Gah-dee-shee-kah. And I, first of all, Wee-ahn-ee, Wee is a conjunction, and, page 253, and Ahn-ee is 59 in Ground Driver Briggs. And I, I have said. That's perfect tense. First person construct singular. Cal perfect. It's perfect tense. It's done. He said I have said. I have been driven. First person construct singular. Niffel perfect. See that? I have been driven. See the passive. I have been driven from Menaged. From Menaged. in front of your face, literally is what it says, from, man, there, page 577, 580, and then from before, your face, from in front of you, inika, from in front of your eyes, only, now we have a little adverb here, only, ak, only, I will keep on First Person Construct Senior Hithel Imperfect, I will keep on, keep on looking with great honor and regard. Hithel Infinitive Construct, I will keep on looking again with great regard and with great honor and reverence unto, preposition page 39, unto the Hekel, The temple, your holy temple, Kadeshika. Kadesh is in there, Kadeshika. That means God is so pure that no one can really approach Him without grace. God is so pure, He's so separate, He's so different from everything else. that nothing, he's what you might call God's holiness is his apartness. Then let's look at verse number six now. afa fini mayim ad nefish tohon yeso b'ni suf shabush l'roshi They have encompassed me, third person construct POCAL perfect. They have encompassed me, and it's a suffix first person construct singular, that's me, down there. They have encompassed me and they keep on surrounding me. They keep on surrounding me, or they keep on surrounding me, that is the ocean, that's third person singular POCAL imperfect. And then me again is first person construct singular. And then the reeds. The seaweed. Seaweed. The seaweed. He's wrapped up with sea reeds around his neck and everything. He's down in the depths of the ocean. He's wrapped up. And they keep on being surrounded. There's no oxygen down there. He's dead. Okay? He's dead. I know a lot of people say that Jonah wasn't dead and he lived in the belly's well for three days. Hogwash! Jesus said in the New Testament that I won't give you, and when He talked about the Pharisees and the scribes, He said, I won't give you one sign. The Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth or dead, dead, dead for three days. And He shall rise again. Now if he wasn't dead, how could he rise again? Jonah rose again, he was dead. I've heard so many people in the past say, well see, a man could live in a well, people have lived in a well, and then whales spit them out. We're not talking about a live person, we're talking about dead Jonah. Not live Jonah, dead Jonah. God raised him from the dead. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit raised Jeezy from the dead. He raised Jesus from the dead, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. And then it said, having been bound, the seaweeds were bound to my head. Massachusetts Indian or Cal participle, perfect. Having been bound to my head. The Rosha. That comes from Rosha, page 912. To my head. A little preposition. Then we come up to number seven now. Let's look at that. Lek Kitz Vih Harim Yahar Deh Teh Ha'aretz Barahihad Ba'adi Le'olam Watal Mish Shah Chah Chah Yei Hadabar Eloheh To the extremity, look at this word here, lekeshvi, to the extremity, to the foot, little preposition in front of that, lemet there, to the foot, the mountains. Now as you look down in the sea, I want you to understand, I have to erase some of this I've been out in the ocean since, I guess, 1970s. Out there, I went out 25 miles with a little 14-foot boat out of Avala, or Port St. Louis, out in the Pacific Ocean. And when you're out in the ocean, you go out there, and underneath the ocean are mountains just like they're above the ocean. The top of a mountain is an island, basically. Now here's the water level like this. And sometimes there's a mountain sticking up there, and that's a little island. And down here is a big mountain. And down here is another one, that's another mountain, like that. Now Jonah said that he was at the foot of these mountains on the water. He's down here. He's not alive. You go down there that deep and you are crushed by pressure in the water. Crushed. That's not only water, it's salt water. Salt water's heavy. I have a... To the extremity, to the foot of the mountains, Ha-Ha-Hareem. Har is a mountain there, Har. And then Im on the mountains, there are many mountain bottoms in the ocean. Down in there like that. The mountains are the bottom of the ocean, and I have come down. First person consciousness, sitting there, cow, perfect. Ya-ra-da-ti. Ya-ra-ti. And then of the earth, Ha-aritz. We have water, and we have wetland, and we have dryland up here. And he said, down to the bottom of the earth, down to the bottom of the mountains in the earth. And then Berashira, with her bars, her bars, in unto me to forever. Jonah should have never come up out of that water. He should have been fish food down there, and basically he was fish food. He should have been fish food down there forever. His body was committed unto the deep by those people in the boat that he had hired to take him to Tarsiers. Forever. Lee Olam. Olam is a long time. The root of that word goes back to 762 and Ground Driver and Briggs. It has a little preposition in front of it, li'olam. Now, olam, the word aiona in Greek, aionion, aionion, it means for ages upon ages upon ages. In Hebrew it is olam, which means you can look at something as far as you can look back or forward, and when you get there to where you can't see anymore, that's where olam begins. It's a long way. I was committed to the deep forever. Forever, low alum. And then, wa ta'al, and you brought me up. Second person, master and senior, hip, foul, wild, consecutive, imperfect. You kept on bringing me up from Sheol. Jonah was in Sheol. Sheol is also down under the earth. down under the earth. Sheol. Sheol means the place asked about it. In the Greek language, it's Hades. Hades. Hades means the place not seen. Now, I am sure that the raising of Lazarus, Lazarus did not so sleep. The witch of Endor, when Saul called up the prophet of God, Samuel, Samuel then said, why did you disturb me from my resting place, from my glorious place, from Hades? from Shi'ul, the place of departed spirits. There's a paradise side and a place of torment in that place. He said, why did you disturb me from there? Now he said, you kept on lifting me up from Shi'ul. And that is my life, my spirit, my hayah. It is a chayah here, my chayah, my life. The word life, the word Eve, Adam named his wife Eve after they had sinned. Now she was supposed to be the mother of all living, but she became the mother of all dying, but he still called her the mother of all living because of Genesis 3.15, because God said to the woman he would bring forth a Messiah that would overcome Satan and all the evil in the world. You kept on lifting up my life from Sheol, O Jehovah Hathabar. Now we don't know how to say the name Jehovah even though King James gave us that name. We've kind of maybe somewhat done violence to it because of that. because nobody knows how to say the name of God. Nor Israel, when they come to the name of Jehovah here in the Old Testament, they would say ha-the-var, the word. Sometimes they would say ha-shem, the name, but they never spoke it, they never pronounced the name of Jehovah. Now, in John 1 and 1, John was a Hebrew. And so in John 1 and 1, it says, The word word is used there several times. And every time the word word is used in John's writing, it means Jehovah. The Hathabar, the Jehovah, the one who shall become. In beginning, N-R-K-N-H-O-L-O-G-O-S, in beginning kept on being the word, or the Jehovah, and the Jehovah kept on being an inseparable part of the Godhead, because Jehovah kept on being God. And then John 1-14 says, K-H-O-L-O-G-O-S-O-X-A-G-N-O-T-O, and the word, the Jehovah, flesh he became and dwelt among us. God, flesh he became. Jehovah, flesh he became. Jehovah means the one who shall become. flesh became and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." And then in John 1, 18, it says, no one has seen God at any time, but the only begotten God, the one being in the bosom of the Father, that one has led Himself out. Middle voice. It's Aris 10, 2nd Aris, middle voice. God led Himself out in the person of Jesus Christ. that term Jehovah is used Jehovah God Jehovah my God Elohim Eloheh Jehovah my God and then we have number eight here Be-Ha-Ta-Teth Aleh Nefesh-Teth Hadabar Zachari-Teh Quah-Tah-Bal ila-ka te-fi-la-ti el-ha-ko gad-shika gad-shika It says here, to faint upon my soul. Him to faint upon my soul. In other words, my soul died or my life died. upon my soul at, sign and direct object, and then Jehovah, I had remembered. Jehovah I had remembered. First person, construct, singer, cow, perfect. Jehovah I had remembered. And then it said, and she came to you, my prayer. Jehovah was praying to God out of she-old. Jonah was praying to God out of she-old. And she came, now she came here, that's the prayer. The prayer is feminine, third person feminine singular, cowl walk, consecutive, imperfect. She kept on coming to you, my prayer, te-fa-la-ti. That prayer there is page 813 in the lexicon. And then unto, now he's in Sheol. He's down in the place of the departed spirits. And then his prayer is ascending up to the third heaven, to Jehovah in the third heaven. And the third heaven is a Kadesh HaKadashim, Kadesh HaKadashim of God, the Holy of Holies. And my prayer unto the temple that he call the dwelling place of your holy holiness. Turn to verse 9 now. Mi-sha-marim ha-vileh. HaShadam Ya'azuvu. Now, now we are talking about, let's go back here and look at this in the Amplified Bible too, also in verse number 9. But as for me, I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving, I shall pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is from the Lord. But as for me, oh wait a minute now. We have to realize that the verses are not the same in English as they are in Hebrew. Verse number eight, number nine is verse number eight in the English Bible. Those who regard and follow worthless idols, turn away from their living source of mercy and loving kindness. Now this is a, this is quite a verse right here, you can preach your sermon on this one. Shadow gods, shadow gods, shadow gods. Jonah said, mi shamarim, and ones honoring or paying heed to, probably that shadow emptiness, shadow emptiness. They're worshipping shadow gods, they're worshipping gods of vapour. Different people in the world, when you go down and you see people going into Buddhist temples and all different kinds of religious displays, You see them going into these Buddhist temples, you see them worshipping the dead, worshipping their ancestors and everything. They're worshipping a vapor. They're worshipping something that is nothing. They're honoring, masculine, plural, first person, PL, they're violently honoring, keep on honoring, vapor, vanity. You know, Solomon said, vanity, vanity, vanity, vanity. Ones honoring, paying heed to, ferociously and violently, vapor gods, emptiness, idolatry, shah, idolatry, fearing God that isn't a god, and goodness, their own covenant, their own loyalty, In all loyalty they keep on leaving loose and forsaking. Ya-Ah-Su-Hu. Third person masculine plural count and perfect. That comes from Ah-Seb. Ya-Ah-Su-Hu. They keep on worshipping vanity. Vanity, vanity. In the Old Testament it says that God disdained and hated those that worshiped gods made of their own hands. And that's what it's talking about. It's talking about invented gods. Zeus, Hercules, all of these were gods of invention. Even though they may be very powerful looking in their so-called, look at all the gods of Egypt, look at all the gods that they worshiped, the fly god, the toads, all of these different ones, the Nile River, they were worshiping in and out of an object. And it says here, Jonah says here, people worship vapor gods, shadow gods. Let's worship the true God of heaven, the one that created the heavens and the earth. When Jonah was asked about who he served and who he was, he said, I served the Creator God. They had been serving vapor gods. They had been buried, or shadow gods. May we worship the real God of heaven, because that's the only one that's ever going to get you to heaven. Jonah said, I went down to Sheol, and I was supposed to stay there forever. I was gone, I was dead. I was going to stay in the bottom of that ocean, my body, until it was vaporized and amalgamated into everything else. Fish food. You know, we die and they put our bodies sometimes in ashes. They burn our bodies up, put them in ashes and urns and everything. They may embalm our bodies and put them in a coffin really nice and everything, but that's only a A coffin is only a hope chest because we're going to rise from the dead one of these days. Our spirits and our souls did not die. They went either to Hades or to heaven, one or the other. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory. Please use it wherever it goes. Please forgive me where I failed you. I pray for all my students out there. wherever they are in Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Wales, New Zealand, Australia, China, India, wherever they are, I pray for them that your words will build them up in Jesus' name.