Choshech

Darkness

Teaching and Understanding the Paleo-Hebrew

Document 8 of 11

 

Document Seven established the physical reality. Darkness is not simply the absence of light, not from outside the atmosphere, and not in the Paleo-Hebrew text. Genesis 1:4 divides between two absolute simultaneous conditions. The division requires two things that exist simultaneously. Darkness exists. It has its own condition. It is not merely the withdrawal of light.

The second verse of the Torah names the condition the earth was in before the speaking began. Ve ha’aretz hayetah tohu vavohu ve choshech al pnei tehom. And the earth was tohu vavohu and choshech, darkness, was over the face of the deep. Choshech. Three letters. Three pictures. What the Paleo-Hebrew shows about the nature of the condition that existed before YHWH divided between the light and the darkness.

 

The Three Pictures

ח  Chet  —  Fence or Wall — Separation, Outside, Boundary

The first picture of darkness is the fence, the wall, the boundary, the separation. Chet in the Paleo-Hebrew is drawn as a fence or enclosure. It carries the meaning of what is outside the boundary, what is separated, what is on the other side of the wall. The darkness begins with the picture of separation. Being outside. The condition of being on the other side of the boundary that defines what is within.

 

ש  Shin  —  Teeth — Consume, Press, Sharp Edge, Destroy

The second picture is the teeth, the consuming, the sharp pressing, the edge that cuts through. The same Shin in Yeshua’s name. The same Shin in hashamayim, the heavens, where it stands as the first picture. In choshech the consuming is the second picture. The darkness presses. It is not passive. It is not simply empty space where light is absent. The darkness consumes. It has weight. It has action. The Paleo-Hebrew does not show darkness as nothing. It shows darkness as something, the consuming condition of separation.

 

ך  Kaf  —  Open Palm — To Cover, To Allow, To Open

The third picture is the open palm, kaf, the hand extended open. Not the Yod which is the active creating reaching hand. The Kaf is the palm extended, to cover, to allow, to receive. The darkness ends with the picture of the covering. The separation, the consuming, covered. The open palm over the condition of being outside the boundary under the consuming. The darkness as the condition of separation and consuming covered by the open hand.

 

What the Three Pictures Together Declare

Chet. Shin. Kaf.

The separation. The consuming. The covering.

Darkness in the Paleo-Hebrew pictures is not the absence of light. It is a condition with its own declaration. The condition of being outside the boundary, separated from what is within. Under the consuming, pressed by what the darkness contains. Covered by the open palm, the condition held under what covers it.

This is not the darkness of someone turning off a lamp. This is a condition that the Paleo-Hebrew text describes as having its own weight, its own pressing, its own covering. The darkness that was over the face of the deep in the second verse of the Torah was not empty. It was the condition of separation under the consuming, covered.

And Genesis 1:4, YHWH divided between the light and between the darkness. The division was between two absolute conditions. The light, or, which carries its own pictures of the active presence. And the darkness, choshech, the separation under the consuming, covered. Two conditions. One division. The sharp edge that Apollo 8 first observed from outside the atmosphere in December 1968, the sharp edge between two absolute simultaneous conditions, is exactly what the Paleo-Hebrew pictures of choshech declare the darkness to be. Not the absence of light. A condition. With its own nature. Requiring its own name. Requiring a division between it and the light because both are absolute and both are real.

Darkness in the Paleo-Hebrew pictures is the condition of separation, outside the boundary, under the consuming, covered. Not the absence of light. A condition with its own declaration. Absolute. Real. Requiring a division between it and the light because both exist simultaneously.

 

The Darkness Was Already There

Genesis 1:2, ve choshech al pnei tehom. And darkness was over the face of the deep. The darkness was already there before the light was called. Before YHWH said let there be light, the darkness was present. Over the face of the deep. The condition of separation, consuming, covered, already existing in the second verse. Before the first word of creation was spoken.

The light was called into existence, yehi or, let there be light. The darkness was not called. The darkness was already there. YHWH did not create the darkness. YHWH divided between the light and the darkness. The light was created. The darkness was divided from. These are different acts.

The Paleo-Hebrew pictures of choshech help us understand why. The darkness, the separation, the consuming, the covered, is the condition that exists in the absence of the covenant completion. The condition of being outside the boundary. The condition of all who slept, outside the participatory presence of YHWH, in the separation that the covenant was sealed to address from within. The darkness was already there before the light was called because the condition of separation existed before the act of creation began to address it.

And YHWH saw the light that it was good, Genesis 1:4. Not that the darkness was bad. That the light was good. The darkness is named and divided from. The light is declared good. The division establishes both. And the covenant that will be sealed in the darkness of Genesis 15, in the chashekah, the same root as choshech, will be sealed for the condition that the second verse of the Torah named before the light was called. Document Nine examines that sealing.

The darkness was already there before the light was called. Choshech, the separation, the consuming, the covered, the condition that existed before the first word of creation was spoken. YHWH divided between the light and the darkness. The division established both as real. The covenant would later be sealed for the condition the darkness names.

 

Choshech, the separation, the consuming, the covered. Darkness as a condition with its own declaration. Not the absence of light. The absolute condition that Genesis 1:4 divides between. Present before the light was called. Named. Divided from. Real.

 

 

ח  ש  ך

 

Chet — The separation. Outside the boundary.

Shin — The consuming. Pressing through.

Kaf — The covering. The open palm over the condition.

 

Not the absence of light.

A condition. With its own nature.

Already present before the light was called.

 

Document Nine examines the covenant sealed in this condition.

 

The Gospel Revolution  •  Mike Williams Ministries

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