Understanding Languages 8

John, in the Book of Revelation 21: 12-14 and 21, is shown in vision of the celestial kingdom which is described throughout having the number "12" for foundations, gates and entrances representing all tribes as well as other numerical values of the number "12' throughout; moreover,

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John further describes in vision the woman symbolic of the church of God having twelve stars – the stars are a symbol describing the twelve apostles representing their priesthood power and authority that directs the work and ministry of the gospel of Christ. (Revelations 12:1)

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Such a description of priesthood power and authority is found over and over again describing priesthood power and authority with multiples of the number "12" symbolizing magnitude and celestial grandeur, i.e., the twelve patriarchs from Seth to Noah and another twelve from Shem to Jacob,

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Who in turn, has twelve sons bearing that royal priesthood power and authority, and this multiple of priesthood represents the fullness of the priesthood in all the ages of man or that of making a calling and election sure in all the dispensations of man equaling seven dispensational time periods.

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The Number Thirteen

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In ancient times the number "13" represented: apostasy or evil. It also represents: rebellion, corruption, or revolution.

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For example, Ishmael, the son of Abraham was thirteen years old when he was circumcised by Abraham admitting him into the covenant though he was a stranger and he ended his relationship with his father by rebellion and rejection of godly principles.

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In the Book of Joshua it is written that the children of Israel circled the city of Jericho once a day for six days and then on the seventh day, they circled it seven times making the times they circled Jericho thirteen times. (Joshua 6 and Hebrews 11:30)

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The Number Forty

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The number "40" symbolizes: trial, testing, probation, and mourning.

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The cleansing of the earth in the time of Noah, gave both God and Noah reason to mourn for the total devastating deaths of the people; it rained for forty days and forty nights. (Genesis 7:12, Moses 7:27-38; 8:22-30)

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In this experience, the faith of Noah was tested and he prevailed in the faith of God.

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Furthermore, the house of Israel sojourned in the wilderness for forty years until all those who did evil before God were smitten and died off; this exemplified the Israelites lack of faith and belief in the gospel of Christ until a new generation was raised up to receive the land of promise.

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Moses was on Mount Sinai forty days while the children of Israel were tested by the Lord; the children of Israel failed because they had not the faith requisite in the living God, and instead caused Aaron to build a golden calf that they could worship.

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Because of the failed trial, Moses went into the Mount again for another forty days mourning for the people, and he returned with a lesser set of commandments, the Ten Commandments.

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The commandments were a probationary set of laws with appendage upon appendage of token compliance that could not save, but by obedience to the laws of Moses righteousness would be exacted to them of the laws.

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According to the reckoning of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ was born in the four-thousandth year, or in the fortieth century of the world.

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Wherefore, in the full period of probation of the world under the law, the Lord Jesus Christ was born into the world to usher in the fulness and eternal grace of God to mankind.

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Then in the life of Christ, he fasted for forty days and was openly tested or tempted of the world prior to commencement of his eternal earthly ministry for the which he came into the world. (JST Matthew 4: 1-11)

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After the resurrection of the Savior, he spent forty days teaching and ministering to his apostles, administering the laws of the higher ordinances and laws of the fulness of the gospel.

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For those who understand the gospel and the points of its doctrine, the one mighty and strong was called in his fortieth year of life or forty years from the time of his birth, and he was called out of the world of the living dead.

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The Number One-Thousand

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The number "1,000" symbolizes: power, strength, and magnitude or that the thing being numbered cannot be calculated.

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The number "1,000" has been employed in the scriptures to mean a multitude of an event.

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The 2,000 stripling warriors in the Book of Helaman, who have all witnessed the goodness and righteousness of their mothers, representing the side of God; this was a moment in the magnitude of righteousness when it was all but lacking among the Nephites.

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Thus, the number "10,000" recorded by Mormon of the Nephitic fall at Cumorah illustrates a magnitude of evil of a greater part of the Nephite nation is destroyed from off the face of the earth.

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While in the scriptures it makes mention the number "100,000,000" as ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands that signifies an indefinite number to the mind of the reader of scripture.

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Then, one can understand the number "144,000" as herein before discussed.

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DIRECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AS WORDS

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The use of direction in the lives of Native American culture and groups have oriented them to God in all times for each and every tribe regarding: group and personal lives, the universe as it pertains to deity, and to the understanding of the plan of God rooted in the overall language and culture, and tradition was the form of maintaining such a belief.

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As a result, the Navajos used North, South, West and East with religious meaning and their lives centered on theological thinking.

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Thus, burial of the dead by people who have a belief in the resurrection bury their dead facing the East, understanding that from that direction the Lord Jesus Christ shall come in the last days.

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Some Native culture even bury their animals in similar fashion, while other tribes bury with the one being buried all their animal possession facing the cardinal direction eastward.

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The children of Shem, the Semitic people use the direction "East" or the rising of the sun as a primary point of reference, even facing all their hooghan doors to the East. (Genesis 13:14, 28:14; Deuteronomy 3:27; Isaiah 11:12; Ezekial 37:9; and Luke 13:29)

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This easterly direction was often a determinate direction and described the relationship to the other three directions, starting with the direction of East.

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When a Navajo person looks to the East he orients himself to God, and then when is facing the constellation Orion, he says that he is looking from whence he did come to this earth, or that the earth is likewise oriented in similar fashion; and he says that the earth is his mother.

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Wherefore, it is believed in Navajo theology that a person by the manner that he orients himself to the material things of this world, that is the direction that person choses to face.

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An example of this is told in the Book of Genesis of Abraham and Lot coming together to determine who should take the mountain country and who should dwell in the valley, because the place was too small for the two of them; and Lot chose the valley for the ease thereof.

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It is written in the scripture that Lot at night time, he sees the lights of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and walks a north direction from out of his east door to see the lights, and soon, he pitches his tent toward the lights of Sodom and Gomorrah, to the north, that he can lay in bed and that he can see the lights of the city without effort.

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Lot lost his orientation to God and it is written, that soon, he was in the city.

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There are many examples in the scriptures conveying what is written therein before, therefore, learn to understand what is written in holy writ that you might fully comprehend the knowledge therein given of God to you-ward in these times.

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The East Direction

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East is a symbol representing: God, or sent of God, or godly in attribute.

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Thus, the scriptures are exemplified in that it tells of blessings and punishment (judgments) coming from the "East" direction.

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The word "orient" is a derivative word of "orientation" and from the extended version of the word "Orion" wherein two of the brightest stars are seen in the heavens.

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The rising of the sun is a symbol for the second advent of Christ coming from the "East".

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The West Direction

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West is the symbol representing: something to be discarded, something lacking in priorities, something irrelevant, the cessation of activity among the children of men, things that are foreign to God's truth therefore undesirable, chaos, sorrow, darkness, the kingdom of Satan, Babylon, spiritual death, physical death, and the death of the sun.

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I will shed some additional light for your understanding that the gentile church upon the death of Joseph Smith moved in a westerly direction, i.e., chaos, darkness, spiritual Babylon, and apostasy as written in the scriptures in the Old and New Testament as well as the Book of Mormon.

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The North Direction

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In Hebrew two words are used more often than not, the words: "tsawfone" meaning "North" carrying the connotation or symbols: dark, hidden, gloomy, and "semole" meaning "left hand" "or meaning non-covenant".

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Additional words that is used to imply "scatterer" is the word "mezawreh".

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Then it is simple to understand the writings in Isaiah of the gentile or the scatter of Israel to come out of the "North", and the gentile is a non-covenant person.

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Thus, the "North" was symbol of: darkness, coldness, obscurity, the land of the dead, night, powers of evil, the devil and his angels, apostasy, and the judgment of God.

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The Navajo believes that all evil comes from the "North" that includes secret combinations and secrets to destroy mankind and which evils are the powers of the devil.

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In Navajo ceremonies, certain prayers and readings made, are in the "North part of the ceremonial house, this implies the prayers are to recover the fallen one that have been entices by the devil to return to the holy ones.

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Wherefore, the morning prayers, when a person faces the "East", the "left hand" (representing non-covenant) would be on the "North" and "South" at the right hand (representing covenant).

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In the scripture, reference is made in many of the writings that the lost ten tribes will return from the "North" symbolizing that they will come out of darkness and apostasy.

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The direction "North" is scripturally applied to the gentiles.

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Isaiah the prophet mentions that by reference Satan will exalt himself saying: "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

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How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

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For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit in the mount of the congregations; on the farthest sides of the north".

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This is referenced to the gentile apostasy as it pertains to 1 Nephi and 2 Nephi as well as Zechariah 5.

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The South Direction

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In the Hebrew language, the word for "South" literally means "the right hand or right".

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Furthermore, another word in Hebrew means to literally "face the east or to face God".

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Thus, in facing the "East" or God, the right hand is literally on the "South" that reminds a man in prayer or in worship of God of the covenants that the has made; and to many Navajos it is implied that the sun travels from "East" to "West" in a "South" direction meaning that the full day is to God.

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Wherefore, the direction of "South" should invoke the symbolism: renewal, covenant, righteous choice, and an out pouring of blessings.

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Moses said returning to the children of Israel from Mount Sinai:

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"The Lord came from Sinai…from his right hand went fiery law [for the children of Israel]. (Deuteronomy 33:2)

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Wherefore, in Hebrew, the word "yawmeen" means "right" but it can also mean "South".

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When Lehi dies, Nephi is commanded by God to travel "South" denoting that God was going to enter into a covenant with him or that he would renew a covenant made to his father(s); as well as Abraham traveling "South" from Haran that God might enter into a covenant with him. (1 Nephi 16:13, Genesis 13:3, and Genesis 12:1-9)

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Both prophets were to receive an outpouring of revelations, God's spirit, come to a knowledge of God's full gospel, and based on obedience, a renewal of covenant made to the father(s).

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NAMES AS SYMBOLS IN LANGUAGE

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In most cultures with a theological center of existence, names were equivalent to blessings and certain rights given to that individual to remind them of their purpose to family, the people, and the purpose may be at large, on humanity.

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Therefore, names were highly symbolic and names were very significant in meaning in pursuit of perfection in their relationship to God.

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I shall endeavor to define a few names, but not all names in the scripture.

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Moreover, as you come to understand the meaning of these names, the understanding should provide you a glimpse of names having such significances that translation from their original text or writing, they lose meaning, i.e., Aramaic to Greek, German, and then English.

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Equivalents do not provide the meaning requisite, then writings are lost in part or in its entirety to a reader of scripture.

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The theophoric names are those that begin or end in "El or Yah" in Hebrew.

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These letters are compounded by other parts of speech to give them full meaning:

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Ya'aash in Navajo means: God, Lord, or Christ, wherein he resides or in an English translation that loses its direct meaning is heaven ( Y= God, a = a personage, aas = place of residence or where three or more move in motion, and the h = a completeness or fulness-eternal). In Hebrew the most common name for Lord/God is YHWH.