Sunday, July 25, 2010

Why the Missing Vav in Generations?



The Vav, Messiah, and New Creation
When God first created the “generations” of the heavens and the earth, the word toldot (תולדות) is used (Gen. 2:4). This refers to created order before the sin and fall of Adam and Eve. After the fall of Adam, however, the word is spelled differently in the Hebrew text, with a missing letter Vav (i.e., as תלדות). Thereafter, each time the phrase, “these are the generations of” occurs in the Scriptures (a formulaic way of enumerating the generations of the heads of families), the word is spelled “defectively,” with the missing Vav (ו). The Vav was “lost.” However, when we come to Ruth 4:18 the phrase: 'These are the generations of Perez' is spelled with the missing Vav restored (i.e., as תולדות). In all of Scripture, the only two places where we see the restored spelling is in Genesis 2:4 and Ruth 4:18, which leads to the question as to what connection there might be between the creation of the heavens and the earth, the fall of mankind, and the creation of the family line of Perez?




The name “Perez” (פרץ) means “breach” (from paratz, meaning “to break through”). God was going to “break through” the families of mankind in order to restore creation back to its original intent. The letter Vav represents man, and the very first Vav in the Torah is associated with the “first and last man” as seen in Genesis 1:1:



The Restored Vav is a picture of the Mashiach who would would descend from the “generations” of the line of Perez. The genealogy of the descendants of Perez indicated that the promised abolition of death through the work of his descendant the Messiah was drawing near. Just as the original Vav was lost through the first Adam and his sin, so the Vav is restored the obedience of the “Second Adam,” the Mashiach Yeshua.

1 Corinthians 14:5 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Aleph-Bet/Vav/vav.html
 
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