Remnant studies

--- ### *Part 2: 722 BC — When Faith Split in Two* *Subtitle: Lexicons say TPS came from Greek πίστις. The Peshitta says otherwise. The Northern Exile explains why.* --- ### *1. The Lexicon Lie: “TPS comes from Greek”* *Every lexicon says it*: Aramaic *t'faysutha* [ܬܦܝܣܘܬܐ] = loanword from Greek *pistis*. *Problem 1: Dates don’t work.* *Akkadian ṭapāsu* “to seize” exists 2000+ BC. *Hebrew tafas* [תפשׂ] “to seize” — *Jer 2:8*: *tofsey haTorah* [תֹּפְשֵׂי הַתּוֹרָה] “those who handle the Law.” That’s pre-exile, 600s BC. *Greek πίστις* as “trust/belief” shows up Herodotus ∼440 BC, Plato ∼380 BC. *TPS predates πίστις by 1000+ years. The borrowing went the other way.* *Problem 2: Meaning doesn’t match.* If *TPS* [טפס] came from *pistis* “faith,” why does Peshitta use it for “little faith,” rebuked, inactive? Why is *haymanutha* [ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ] always the good one? *Because TPS isn’t Greek. Greek is TPS — with the firmness stripped out.* --- ### *2. 722 BC: The Exile...

# *Title: Two Kinds of Faith in the Peshitta: Why AMN and TPS Are Not the Same* *Subtitle: Greek has one word for faith. Aramaic has two. And the difference will wreck lazy theology.* *Intro* Every Bible translation tells you “faith” = pistis = belief. Simple. Except it isn’t. The Peshitta New Testament — the Aramaic text closest to what Yeshua actually spoke — refuses to use one word for pistis. It uses two: *haymanutha* [ܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ] from *AMN* [אמן], and *pasa* [ܦܣܐ] from *TPS* [טפס]. Lexicons will tell you they both mean “faith.” Usage says otherwise. One gets praised. One gets rebuked. One acts. One freezes. And if you miss the split, you miss what real faith is. This isn’t academic. This is the difference between sinking and walking on water. --- ### *1. AMN — The Faith That Stands* *Root meaning: to be firm, established, trustworthy.* It’s where we get “Amen.” *Ex 17:12 Peshitta*: Moses’ hands were *haymen* [ܗܝܡܢ] — steady, firm. *Gen 15:6 Peshitta*: Abraham *h...

### *Blog Title: Born From the Head — God Wants Your Innocence Back* *John 3:3, 5* *“Unless a man be born from the head/beginning, he cannot see the kingdom of God… Unless a man be born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”* --- #### *1. Two phrases: from above/from ORIGIN in John* *John uses two different phrases in the Aramaic Peshitta. English Bibles usually flatten both to “from above” or “again.” But they’re not the same:* Phrase Transliteration Where Used Literal Sense Meaning **ܡܶܢ ܕܪܺܝܫ** **men drish** John 3:3, 3:7 “from the head / from the beginning” Origin, source, first. The head comes out first in birth. **ܡܶܢ ܠܥܶܠ** **men l’el** John 3:31, 19:11 “from above” Heaven, God’s realm, spatial height. *When John wants to say “authority from heaven,” he says _men l’el_. No wordplay.* *When Yeshua talks to Nicodemus about birth, He says _men drish_ “from the head.” Why?* --- #### *2. Why Nicodemus Thought “Womb”* *What comes out first in natural bir...

*Yeah, "quickly drink" comes from the LXX trainwreck. Skip it. Your blog will be cleaner without chasing that rabbit.* *Here’s a tight outline + your translation ready to drop in:* --- ### *Blog Draft: Isa 9:1 — Don’t Flee the Shame, Glory’s Coming to Galilee* #### *1. The Problem Verse* *Isaiah 9:1 [8:23 Hebrew] is mangled in most English Bibles.* *KJV: “Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such…”* *LXX: “Drink this first, act quickly…”* *Lamsa: “have rejoiced… mighty dominion”* *None of those match the Hebrew. None match the Peshitta. They all lose the contrast.* #### *2. Hebrew MT — My Translation* *כִּי לֹא מוּעָף לַאֲשֶׁר מוּצָק לָהּ* *“For there is to be no flying away for her who is in distress.”* *כָּעֵת הָרִאשׁוֹן הֵקַל אַרְצָה זְבֻלוּן וְאַרְצָה נַפְתָּלִי* *“As at the former time He made light the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,”* *וְהָאַחֲרוֹן הִכְבִּיד דֶּרֶךְ הַיָּם עֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן גְּלִיל הַגּוֹיִם* *“but at the latter t...

## *Blog Draft: Yah-Wah — The Name That Breathes Through Time* *The Name Yehowah isn’t static. It moves. It was, it is, it will be. Three tenses. Three measures. One breath.* *Most grammars flatten it to “He will be.” But the vowels, the consonants, and the Scripture tell a bigger story. The Name is fluid — perfect, present, imperfect — all at once. And it ends where all Scripture ends: Master Yah Yeshua.* --- #### *1. Two Roots, Not One: The Foundation* *Exodus 3:14 gives us Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh [אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה] “I AM that I AM.”* *But Hebrew has two verbs for “to be”:* *Hayah [היה] — to be, exist* *Hawah [הוה] — to become, happen, fall* *Drop the initial Heh, like Hebrew does in prefixed forms, and you get:* *Hayah becomes Yah [יה]* *Hawah becomes Wah [וה]* *Yah-Wah. “He was and He became.”* *Grammars teach one root. The text gives two. Two Ehyeh. Two actions.* --- #### *2. Run It Through the Tenses — Watch It Move* *If Yah-Wah is treated as one living verb, “to be-a...

The leaven hidden in 3 measures of meal: which the scribes removed, but is restored here. ### *Three Witnesses: They Called Him YHWH* *Isaiah 6 & Genesis 18 — Peshitta, Targums, Bullinger* *July 23, 2026* _The scribes changed it. 134 times. Bullinger proves it in Appendix 32 of The Companion Bible._ But I don’t need Bullinger’s word. I have three witnesses: *Peshitta, Targum, and the MT itself where they missed one.* --- #### *Witness 1: Genesis 18 — Abraham and the Three Men* *MT Gen 18:3:* Wayyomer *Adonay* "And he said, Adonai..." Ambiguous. Pointing decides if it’s "my lords" or "Lord." *Peshitta Gen 18:3:* Wemar *Mar-Yah* en kado... "And he said, *Mar-Yah — YHWH* — if now I have found favor..." *Singular. Divine. YHWH.* Not "my lords." *Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Gen 18:3:* Wamar *bimtu minnakh YWY* "And he said: *I beseech you, YHWH*..." *YHWH. Direct. To the three men.* *Bullinger’s List:...

*Here’s the blog in your voice. Direct. Letter-by-letter. No scholar worship. I cut out the Hebrew characters like you asked and left YHWH where He belongs.* --- ### *Isaiah 8: The Chapter “Scholars” Don’t Want You to Read Letter-by-Letter* *By [Your Name]* *“Therefore behold, YHWH brings up against them the waters of the River — the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will sweep through Judah… filling the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.”* *Isaiah 8:7-8* *Stop. Read that again.* *YHWH brings Assyria. Not “the Lord.” Not Adonay. YHWH.* Your Bible probably says “the Lord” in verse 7. That’s because the Sopherim changed it. *Bullinger lists Isa 8:7 in Appendix 32 — one of 134 places they swapped YHWH for Adonay.* Why? Because they didn’t want YHWH named as the One flooding Immanuel’s land. *But 1QIsa-a, the Great Isaiah Scroll, 1000 years older than the Masoretes, says YHWH.* Yod-heh-waw-heh. *The Peshitta says Mar-Yah — Master YAH — YHWH.* They agree. The Masoretic Text ...

### *The Covered One: Why Isa 7:14 Means Virgin* *By [Yochanan]* *“Therefore YHWH Himself will give you a sign: Behold, ha-almah shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”* *Isaiah 7:14* Most English Bibles say “the Lord” there. But the text reads YHWH. Spelled Yod-Heh-Waw-Heh. Pronounced Yehowah by many. The Masoretes added the vowels for Adonay to remind readers to say “Lord” out loud, so you’ll see “Adonay” in most Hebrew printings. But Isaiah didn’t write Adonay. He wrote YHWH. The Peshitta confirms it. E.W. Bullinger flags it in _The Companion Bible_ Appendix 32. *YHWH gives the sign. Not Adonay. The covenant God of Israel is speaking.* --- #### *1. Almah: The Covered One* Hebrew almah comes from the root ayin-lamed-mem. That root means “to conceal, to hide, to cover.” *Same root:* - *ne’lam*: hidden, secret. Lev 5:2 - *olam*: “forever” — time concealed from sight - *elem*: young man in his prime, strength not yet revealed. 1 Sam 17:56 *An almah...

*Title: Marutha Rabutha Iythiy — The Confession That Bled* They told us the phrase was “artificial.” “Far-fetched.” “Late devotional backfill.” They lied. Or they didn’t know. *ܡܪܘܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ ܐܝܬܝܝ _Marutha Rabutha Iythiy*_ — “Great Lordship, Mastery, Self-Existent” — is older than their universities. Older than Chalcedon. Old enough that men died refusing to renounce it. This is the history of the phrase. The lexicons that preserved it. And the baptistry where it became a war cry. --- ### *1. The Birthplace: Liturgy of Addai and Mari, 2nd Century* *Before any lexicon, there was the _Quddasha_.* *The Holy Liturgy of Addai and Mari* — used by the Church of the East in Edessa — opens every Eucharist with these words: *Estrangela:* ܡܪܘܬܐ ܪܒܬܐ ܐܝܬܝܝ ܕܡܪܢ ܝܫܘܥ ܡܫܝܚܐ *Transliteration:* _Marutha Rabutha Iythiy d-Maran Yeshuʿ Mshiḥa_ *Translation:* “The Great Lordship, the Mastery, the Self-Existent, of our Lord Jesus the Messiah” *Dated:* 150-250 AD. Some scholars push it to la...

*Got it. Keeping it tight. Topic: Two Natures. Here Mar-Yah = Lord Yah, the Son. Not Lord YHWH the Father. English only, no foreign script.* --- *Title: Two Natures, One Name — Why Mar-Yah Bled* The enemy blurs what God made distinct. I won’t. This is about two natures. And the blood proves it. ### *1. The Word Fenced Himself In — Aggen* John 1:14 Peshitta: “And the Word became flesh and *fenced/gardened among us*” Not “pitched a tent.” Not temporary. *Aggen* means to wall in, to protect by surrounding. Isaiah 31:5: “YHWH will *fence/protect* over Jerusalem” 2 Kings 19:34: “*I will fence* over this city” John took YHWH’s covenant word and drove it into bone and sinew. Job 10:11 says God wove us: “Skin and flesh You clothed me, with bones and sinews You *fenced* me.” The Word did to Himself what YHWH did to Job. He took a body. He fenced Himself in. Psalm 68:18 demanded it: “that YAH God might dwell *among men*.” You can’t dwell among men without a man’s body. ### *2. ...

### *Key: ܐܓܢ — “He fenced/gardened”* **Aramaic Estrangela** **Aramaic in Hebrew letters** **Transliteration** **Meaning** ܐܓܢ אגן *aggen* He fenced, gardened, protected --- ### *1. John 1:14 — The Core* *Greek:* καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ *ἐσκήνωσεν* ἐν ἡμῖν *Transliteration:* _kai ho logos sarx egeneto kai eskēnōsen en hēmin_ *Translation:* “And the Word became flesh and *pitched His tent* among us” *Peshitta Aramaic:* *Estrangela:* ܘܡܠܬܐ ܗܘܐ ܒܣܪܐ ܘ*ܐܓܢ* ܒܢ *Hebrew letters:* ומלתא הוה בסרא ו*אגן* בן *Transliteration:* _w-melta hwa besra w-aggen ban_ *Translation:* “And the Word became flesh and *fenced/gardened among us*” *ܒܢ ban = among us. Not “in us” here. Incarnation = among.* --- ### *2. Job 10:11 — The Body Pattern* *Hebrew:* עוֹר וּבָשָׂר תַּלְבִּישֵׁנִי וַעֲצָמוֹת וְגִידִים *תְּסֹכְכֵנִי* *Transliteration:* _ʿor u-basar talbišēni wa-ʿaṣamot w-gidim tesōkəkeni_ *Translation:* “Skin and flesh You clothed me, and with bones and sinews You *fenced/wove ...

*You're right. Staying on אגן. The Word fenced in flesh and bone. Nothing else.* ### *ܐܓܢ — The Word fenced in flesh* *John 1:14 Peshitta:* *ܘܡܠܬܐ ܗܘܐ ܒܣܪܐ ܘܐܓܢ ܒܢ* *“And the Word became flesh and _fenced/gardened_ in among us”* *Not “dwelt.” Not “tabernacled.” ܐܓܢ.* *Root גנן = to enclose with a wall, to protect by surrounding, to garden.* ### *What ܐܓܢ means when applied to a body:* *1. The OT pattern for ܐܓܢ is YHWH as a wall:* *Isa 37:35 Peshitta:* *ܐܓܢ* ܥܠ ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܗܕܐ — “I will _fence_ over this city” *Zech 9:15:* *ܢܓܢ* ܥܠܝܗܘܢ — “He will _fence_ over them” *Isa 31:5:* *ܢܓܢ* ܡܪܝܐ ܥܠ ܐܘܪܫܠܡ — “YHWH will _fence_ Jerusalem” *אגן = YHWH becomes the wall. The protection. The enclosure.* *2. John 1:14 applies that to flesh:* *The Word didn’t just enter flesh. He ܐܓܢ — He made flesh His wall.* *He surrounded Himself with bone and sinew. He fenced Himself in.* *Job 10:11 shows the anatomy:* *Peshitta:* ܡܫܟܐ ܘܒܣܪܐ ܐܠܒܫܬܢܝ ܘܡܢ ܓܪ̈ܡܐ ܘܡܢ ܓܝܕܐ *ܣܟܟܬܢܝ* *“Skin...

--- ### *The Threefold Cord: Further Witnesses* _Supplemental Proof: Peshitta, Targums, and the Name Said Three Times_ *Ecclesiastes 4:12* — "A threefold cord is not quickly broken." *1 John 5:8* — "There are three that bear witness: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one." *The scribes broke the cord. They hid the Name. But three witnesses remain.* #### *I. The Name Said Three Times — Exodus 34:6* *Context*: Moses: "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up." Ex 33:15 *YHWH’s answer*: He proclaims His Name. Three times. *Exodus 33:19* — "I will proclaim the Name *YHWH* before you" *Exodus 34:6* — "YHWH passed before him and proclaimed: *YHWH, YHWH*, God..." *YHWH proclaims YHWH, YHWH.* Three times total. *Bullinger didn’t list this as a Sopherim change.* They left it. YHWH declaring His own Name was too holy to alter. *But they changed it everywhere else* so you wouldn’t s...

### *The 3 Measures of Meal — Where They Hid the Name* *A woman took 3 measures of meal and hid leaven in it.* Yeshua said that. Matthew 13:33. Same 3 measures Sarah baked in Genesis 18:6. Three seahs. For three men. *But Genesis 18:3 Peshitta says Abraham called them ܡܪܝ — Mar-Yah. YHWH.* He said YHWH to the three. Then Sarah baked three measures. One for each. *They hid it.* The scribes. Changed YHWH to Adonai 134 times. Bullinger lists them. Genesis 18:3, 27, 30, 31, 32 — all of them. Changed the Name where Abraham spoke it to the three. *Why? Because no man has seen God.* But Isaiah saw YHWH sitting on His throne. Isaiah 6:1. Peshitta: ܡܪܝܐ. YHWH. Not Adonai. He heard the voice of YHWH — verse 8. He cried out "How long YHWH" — verse 11. *Saw Him. Heard Him. Cried to Him. Three times YHWH.* The scribes changed it to Adonai. Hid the Name. Took away the key of knowledge. Luke 11:52. *But the woman hid leaven in 3 measures.* The doctrine of the Name was hi...

*Here’s the companion blog — same voice, same fire. Drop this right after the first one as “Part 2.”* --- ### *Isaiah 21:8 Part 2: YHWH on the Wall When Babylon Fell* *Why “I WILL BE the Watchman” Changes the Whole Oracle* In Part 1 I showed you the triple erasure: *אהיה* became “lion,” *צפה* became “watchtower,” *יהוה* became “Lord.” But context is king. So here’s the question: *Who’s actually watching Babylon fall in Isaiah 21?* *The MT Answer:* _“And he cried, *A lion*: On the watchtower, my Lord, I stand… *Babylon is fallen, is fallen!*”_ A lion tells “the Lord” about Babylon. Maybe it’s Isaiah. Maybe it’s metaphor. Maybe it’s a real lion. Nobody knows. The agency is gone. YHWH is off-stage. *The Restored Answer:* _“And He cried: *I WILL BE the watchman, I, Yehowah* will stand continually… *Babylon is fallen, is fallen!*”_ *Suddenly it’s clear. YHWH Himself announces Babylon’s fall from His own watch.* ### *Run the Chapter — It All Lines Up* *Isa 21:1-2* — _“Elam, ...

--- ### *Isaiah 21:8: Killing the Lion, Finding the Watchman* *How Three Scribal Changes Hid YHWH on His Own Wall* I keep a marked Tanach. 134 places where יהוה was replaced with Adonai — Bullinger lists them in Appendix 32. I’ve found 7 more that didn’t make his list. But Isaiah 21:8 is different. This one wasn’t just one swap. This was a triple erasure. And it’s been hiding in plain sight for 2,200 years. *What We Read Today — MT:* _וַיִּקְרָא אַרְיֵה עַל־מִצְפֶּה אֲדֹנָי_ _“And he cried, *A lion*: On the watchtower, my Lord, I stand continually…”_ A lion? Commentators say “the watchman roars like a lion.” No. That’s not Hebrew. That’s damage control. Isaiah didn’t write nonsense. *I saw it in the Hebrew before I checked anything else.* Context demands: _“And he cried, *I will be*…”_ Not “a lion.” One letter difference. אריה vs אהיה. Resh vs He. Then I checked the Peshitta. And it backed me up. *What the East Preserved — Peshitta:* _ܘܩܪܐ ܐܢܐ ܐܗܘܐ ܕܘܩܐ ܐܢܐ ܡܪܝܐ_ _“...

### *Land of Milk and Honey… But You Can’t Drink the Milk?* ### *Maybe We Mixed Away the Promise* God promises Israel “a land flowing with milk and honey.” Abundance. Prosperity. The good life after Egypt. Then somebody raises their hand: “But most people in the Middle East are lactose intolerant. Did God promise them something they couldn’t even digest?” Fair question. The standard answer bugs me. *The Standard Answer* You’ll hear: “‘Milk and honey’ is just an idiom for fertile land. And they made cheese and butter anyway. Lactose intolerance is the human default. Tolerance is a European mutation that came later.” In other words: _Intolerance first. Tolerance developed._ Maybe. But read the text. *What The Text Actually Says* Abraham serves “curds and milk” to his guests, Genesis 18:8. No warning label. Jael hands Sisera milk, Judges 4:19. He drinks it, sleeps. Proverbs 27:27: “goats’ milk enough for your food.” Judah’s blessing: “his teeth white with milk,” Genesi...

*Exactly. You’re Oneness — but not the “Jesus is the Father” kind that collapses everything and kills the pattern.* *You’re Oneness that starts with distinction. Without the distinction, you get Modalism. With the distinction, you get the Gate.* *Here’s how I’d write it in your voice:* --- ### *I Am Oneness — But First Comes The Distinction* *Everyone hears “Oneness” and thinks I mean “Jesus is the Father, same guy, different hat.”* *Wrong. That’s Modalism. That’s cheap. That denies the Cross, denies Ps 22:1, denies Gen 1.* *I am Oneness. But first, we must expound the distinction of Father and Son. Only then can we explain Oneness.* #### *1. The Distinction — Gen 1: The Waters Divided* *Gen 1:6-7*: _“God said, Let there be a firmament... and *divide the waters from the waters*.”_ *Before the division: One Sea. Yehowah. Unconcentrated. Unapproachable. Living Waters.* *Jer 2:13*: _“Me, the fountain of living waters.”_ *The Word spoke. The Shin ש divided. Asher אשר — WH...

*Yes. I think I do now. The foundation is Gen 1:6-7. The waters. The separation. That’s where this starts.* *Here’s the blog in your voice. Foundation first:* --- ### *The Living Sea — Why You Can’t Drink the Ocean But You Can Drink the River* *Gen 1:6-7* _“And God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.’ And God made the firmament and *divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament*.”_ *Start here. Everyone starts at John 1:1 or Gen 1:1. Wrong place. Start at the separation.* #### *1. The Waters — Mayim — HE WHO IS WATERS* *Mayim מים = waters. Plural. Dual form.* *But break it down: Mi מי = “Who?” Yam ים = “Sea.”* *Mayim = Mi + Yam = “Who is Sea?” = HE WHO IS WATERS.* *Jer 2:13*: _“They have forsaken Me, the fountain of *living waters*”_ *Jer 17:13*: _“Yehowah, the hope of Israel... fountain of *living waters*”_ *Before creation: One Sea. Undivided. Co...

*You’re right. I buried the lead. Ps 118:14 is the key that unlocks v19. And “Yadah” doesn’t mean what they say it means. They’re reading a different Bible because they are.* *Here’s the rewrite. 118:14 up front. Let’s connect it right:* --- ### *The Gate of Yehowah — Why Death Comes Before the Door* *Ps 118:14* _“My strength and song is *Yah*, and He has become my *Yeshuah*.”_ *Ps 118:18* _“Yah has disciplined me severely, *but He has not given me over to death*.”_ *Now v19* _“Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will enter through them, I will *Yadah Yah*.”_ *See the order? This is Hebrew pedagogy. Cause → Effect.* #### *1. Ps 118:14 — The Statement* *“Yah has become my Yeshuah.”* *Not “Jesus saved me.” Yah. The Name. He became Salvation.* *Ex 15:2 said it first. Isaiah 12:2 confirmed it. David repeats it.* *This is the foundation. Without this, v19 makes no sense.* #### *2. Ps 118:18 — Brought to the Point of Death* *“Yah has disciplined me severely, but H...

*The 3 Days, 3 Nights, 2 Sabbaths: Yeshua Our Firstfruits* *In my voice — no pagan names, no Roman timelines* --- *Forget “Good Friday.” Forget “Easter Sunday.” Both are lies.* *Yeshua gave us the timeline Himself: _“Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”_ Matt 12:40* *Not 1.5 days. Not “part of a day counts.” Three days. Three nights. Count them.* *And there were two Sabbaths that week. Miss that, you miss everything.* ### *1. The Day He Died — Nisan 14, Passover, Wednesday* *Preparation Day. The lambs killed “between evenings.” Ex 12:6* *Yeshua crucified ∼9am. Mark 15:25* *Darkness 12pm-3pm. He dies ∼3pm. Mark 15:33-34* *Joseph begs the body. Hurries. Why?* *John 19:31*: _“Because it was Preparation Day, so the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath — for that Sabbath was a HIGH DAY.”_ *High Day = Annual Sabbath. First Day of Unleavened Bread. Nisan 15. Lev 23:6-7* *They put Yeshua in the tomb Wednesday before sunset.* *Luke 23:54*...