Most people think that the road to Heaven is a straight linear line, but it is not so. Satan has deceived mankind to think so, because linear thoughts are equivalent to evolution – always moving on and progressing. I learned this from Brad Scott.
No, God does not move on and He does not progress. Everything He is doing revolves around what He did in the beginning of all things. Isaiah 46:10 tells us, “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.”
Also we are told in Jeremiah 6:16, “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk therein.”
But wait, I thought there was only one path, and one gate, which is strait and narrow, why are we being told to look for the old paths? Isaiah 58:12 even tells us that the paths would be restored, as it reads, “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.” So what paths are being spoken of?
The Hebrew word for paths in Jeremiah 6:16 and Isaiah 58:12 is nathiyb simply means a trodden pathway? Well, what is significant about a trodden pathway? Let’s examine the third verse of the 23rd Psalm to see this. It states, “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”
The word for paths is different in Psalms 23. It is the Hebrew word ma`gal, and it means a track or an entrenchment, and it comes from the root word `agol, which means round, so we know that the old paths, which we are to ask for, which will be restored and which will we are led in are round or cyclical.
How’s that?
God has designed His world to work in cycles. He gave us the cycle of the sun rising and setting every day. Every month there is a cycle of the new moon, full moon, etc., women have a monthly cycle, the ocean has a cycle (Isaiah 43:16 - Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters), the wind has a path (Ecclesiastes 1:6 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits), and He gave us a path.
He gave us the cyclical path of the Sabbath and the Feasts. Also His Torah creates a path, because when we continuously do the things contained within, they become a habit for us and we just do them normally. God designed things that way, because one learns from repetition. This is why the paths are defined as round and trodden, or as an entrenchment. If one does something so many times, they becomes entrenched in their habits, and their foot cannot slip, nor can it falter outside of the rut, which they have created by following the cycle so many times. This is why Deuteronomy 2:27 says, “Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left,” and Deuteronomy 5 says, “Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,” and even Proverbs 4:27 reiterates it, “Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.”
So we know that God’s path is round, and it is to be done so many times that one is stuck in a rut, from habit, from doing the things, which God has placed around this cyclical path, and since the path is cyclical, and one goes around it many times, that is why the word becomes plural – “Ask for the old paths,” “He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness” etc. It is actually one path, but gone around so many times it becomes plural. All this I learned from the knowledge of Brad Scott, but then I began to wonder why in the Book of Matthew the gate is called strait and narrow, and here is what I found out:
The Greek word for strait is stenos and means strait and narrow, but it comes from the root word histēmi, which means to stand. Actually it means to stand fixed or a steadfast mind. Quwm is the Hebrew equivalent to the Greek word histēmi.
Our journey to Heaven requires that we take a stand and journey or walk with God. We are asked to meet Him at the maqowm. Maqowm is defined as a post, or station. This is the standing place beside Mount Moriah’s upright pole, which is the doorway to Heaven.
The very first place this word is used is in Genesis 1:9, where it says, “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” The very center, where God drew the land together is Israel. Israel is the center of the world, with Jerusalem and Mount Moriah being the very navel of the world. This is the gate or doorway, which we are aiming to reach, the gateway to Heaven beside Mount Moriah. Jacob had a dream in Genesis 28:11, in which he saw a ladder with angels ascending and descending from the ladder, and he called this place the gate to Heaven (Genesis 28:17). This is also the place that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, where God appeared to David and had him build an altar on the threshing floor and where both Temples have stood. This is the place where God’s shekinah glory cloud stood.
But the Hebrew word Quwm means to maintain oneself, to confirm, to persist or to be set or fixed. A prime example of the word’s use, which use is equivalent to the Greek word for strait (or stand steadfast) is Proverbs 19:21, which states, “There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.” God’s counsel or purpose will stand steadfast.
That is how the believer’s walk should be. It should be steadfast and focused; neither looking right nor left, and it should be cyclical as God planned it, one path being trodden many times.
©Kimberly Padilla, A.A. Religion
22 November 2009
the is only one path the man was made in the image of god masculine and feminine he made Adam . there was no eve until the 8th day.
ReplyDeleteAdam and my self have to sides to the brain the left male right female. the left is were words are understood and the right are were the emotions are felt. Jesus said i stand at the right hand of the father . the right hand is controlled by the left brain and he is the word.
a kingdom divided can not stand . their has to be a marriage the groom to the bride . the Gnostic believed you have to make the two into one a marriage . hole or holy not divided . this is the secrit the has been hidden . oneness .