How the Paleo-Hebrew Structure Was Covered by Abstraction, and Why Numbers Cannot Do What Pictures Do

Note: This document examines the departure from Paleo-Hebrew pictographic structure to the numerical abstraction of gematria and Kabbalah. A companion document examines the same departure in theoretical physics, from data-anchored mathematics to numbers derived from numbers derived from numbers. The mechanism is identical in both cases.

Yeshua (Jesus) declared himself the Aleph and the Tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, in Revelation 1:8 and 22:13. In the Greek of the New Testament he used the equivalent declaration, I am the Alpha and the Omega. He did not say I am the number one and the number without end. He said I am the first letter and the last letter. The beginning and the end of the structural alphabet...    see more >>

The Samaritans. The rejected stone. The lions. The well. The I am. And why the pictures were always for us, not for him.

The covenant text is full of rejections that produce something more than what the rejecting party was trying to build without the rejected element. The stone the builders rejected became the rosh pinnah, the head cornerstone, the foundation stone, the one the entire building rests on. Psalm 118:22. Yeshua quoted it and applied it to himself in Matthew 21:42. The rejected stone. The cornerstone....    see more >>

What Moshe Actually Wrote

Part 1 of 3

Before we can understand why something was covered we need to understand what was covered. And what was covered is more direct and more obvious than anything that replaced it. This document examines what Moshe (Moses) actually wrote when he wrote the Torah, and what two specific portions of that text have always been saying to anyone who could see them.

The short answer is this. What Moshe wrote...    see more >>