Sacred Namers

Can anyone point me to a single verse anywhere in the Bible in which God tells us how to pronounce the tetragrammaton? Just one. No? Then get over yourselves. If it were that important, He would have given us some hint as to where the vowels and stress are supposed to go.

The ungodly obsession that some people have over getting the pronunciation right is indeed ungodly. It comes from a spirit of pride and gnosticism, a spiritual addiction to false mystery. It's not even really His name! It's just a label designed to teach us things about Him and you do not need to know how to pronounce it correctly to learn the lessons. I don't care if you say Yahuah, Yahweh, Jehovah, Yehovah, Yahwah, or whatever your current favorite is. It's still yod-heh-vav-heh,

When you, who barely knows any Hebrew at all, tell people that you know more than all of the greatest Hebrew scholars of the last 2000 years, when you tell them that the exact pronunciation is more important than whether or not they're feeding the poor or keeping the Sabbath, know that you have strayed way off the path and become nothing but a tool for Satan to divide God's people. You are making God's people weak and ridiculous.

Spheres of the Kingdom

As I read the prophets, I am getting a picture of a Millennial Kingdom in which the world is organized into spheres with Messiah at the center.

Sphere 1: Messiah Yeshua
Sphere 2: Kohanim
Sphere 3: Levites
Sphere 4: Natural Israel
Sphere 5: Naturalized Israel (The Mixed Multitude)
Sphere 6: Believing Nations
Sphere 7: Unbelieving Nations

Remember that Paul's statement about Jew & Gentile, male & female, slave & free, was made only in the context of salvation. It was never meant to be applied more broadly than that.

This scheme of spheres in the Kingdom of God probably is not 100% accurate, especially in Spheres 4-6, but I suspect it's in the neighborhood.

Peace with Islam

There are two ways to live at peace with Islam:

1. Keep it far away and don't mess with it. Like a hornets nest.
2. Turn Muslims into disciples of Yeshua. It's going to happen for many of them someday anyway (Isaiah 60:6-7) and there's no better time than now.

What you can't do is invite them to live among you as Muslims and tell yourself that America (or Germany, etc.) will be different than India, Sudan, Afghanistan, and everywhere else that Islam has colonized. That's not living at peace with your neighbor. It's not "loving". It's just national suicide.

Declare God's Faithfulness

A parallelism in Deuteronomy 26:3-10 instructs us to declare God's faithfulness in fulfilling the promises He made to our fathers.

Deuteronomy 26:3-4	Deuteronomy 26:5-10
Declare to YHWH the priest’s God	Speak before YHWH your God
I have come into the land	Our father went to the land of Egypt
YHWH swore to give to our fathers	YHWH brought us back to this land
Priest shall take the basket	Now I bring the firstfruit of the ground
Set it before the altar of YHWH	Set it down before YHWH

A couple observations...

• The petitioner is to say "A wandering Aramean was my father". (See v5.) This is usually assumed to be Abraham, but that doesn't fit all of the details of that verse. Abraham and Jacob are actually combined into a single character, just as Israel is an amalgamation of the natural children of Jacob and the believers who have been grafted in from among the nations. They became a great nation in Egypt together and they left Egypt together.
• The petitioner isn't to tell the story in chronological order. Instead, he is to begin his offering by declaring that he has taken possession of the land that God promised to the patriarchs, and only then tell of how his ancestors were oppressed in Egypt. Then he is to state again God has brought Israel into the Promised Land. This is a chiasm embedded within the offering.
• I have come into the land
• God swore to give this land to our fathers
• The Firstfruits offering
• Our fathers didn't see the fulfillment of the promise, but went to Egypt instead
• God brought us into the Promised Land

Oppressing the Oppresser

This parallelism in Joel 3:19-21 illustrates the principle at work in Deuteronomy 19:19, which says regarding a false accuser, "You shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst."

Egypt and Edom attacked Judah and Jerusalem without cause, but God turned their violence back on them and multiplied it.

Egypt and Edom	Judah and Jerusalem
V19 – Egypt shall become a desolation	V20 – Judah shall be inhabited forever
…and Edom a desolate wilderness	…and Jerusalem to all generations
…for violence done to Judah	V21 – I will avenge their blood
…because they shed innocent blood	…because YHWH dwells in Zion

Lest Egypt's punishment seem overly harsh, remember who created whom. Who is the potter and who is the clay?

An Index of Biblical Chiasmi and Parallelisms

This list isn't even close to exhaustive. I'll add to it as time goes on. If you want more, there are other lists on the Internet. Just search for "chiasm" or any variation thereof.

If you want to learn how to find and understand Biblical chiasms for yourself, check out The Chiasm Course!

Click here for a brief introduction to chiasms.

- Genesis 1:5, Chiasm
- Genesis 1:9-10, Chiasm
- Genesis 2:4, Chiasm
- Genesis 2:9, Chiasm
- Genesis 2:15-3:7, Chiasm
- Genesis 6:8-9, Chiasm
- Genesis 6:10-9:19, Chiasm
- Genesis 6-9 & 18-19, Parallelism
- Genesis 6:11-13, Parallelism
- Genesis 6:18-7:24, Parallelism
- Genesis 7:16-8:6, Chiasm
- Genesis 7:20-24, Chiasm
- Genesis 8:22, Chiasm
- Genesis 9:1-9:7, Chiasm
- Genesis 9:6, Chiasm
- Genesis 9:12-17, Both
- Genesis 10:22-11:26, Chiasm
- Genesis 11:8-9, Chiasm
- Genesis 12-14, Parallelism
- Genesis 12:10-11, Chiasm
- Genesis 12:11-17, Parallelism
- Genesis 12:6-13:18, Chiasm
- Genesis 17:1-17, Chiasm
- Genesis 17:10-11, Chiasm
- Genesis 17:12-13, Chiasm
- Genesis 17:22-18:1, Chiasm
- Genesis 21:13-21, Chiasm
- Genesis 22:16-18, Chiasm
- Genesis 27:18-32, Chiasm
- Genesis 28:10-32:2, Chiasm
- Genesis 31:1-2, Parallelism
- Genesis 37-50, Chiasm
- Genesis 42:15-20, Chiasm
- Genesis 44:16, Parallelism
- Genesis 44:18-45:15, Chiasm
- Genesis 45:18-20, Parallelism
- Genesis 47:2-20, Chiasm
- Exodus 1:8-2:15, Chiasm
- Exodus 2:11, Chiasm
- Exodus 2:23-3:9, Chiasm
- Exodus 4:14-31, Chiasm
- Exodus 6:2-8, Chiasm
- Exodus 6:6-8, Chiasm
- Exodus 6:10-30, Chiasm
- Exodus 6:26-27, Chiasm
- Exodus 12:18-22, Chiasm
- Exodus 12:27, Chiasm
- Exodus 13:1-16, Parallelism
- Exodus 13:2-12, Chiasm
- Exodus 13:13-18, Chiasm
- Exodus 15:22-16:4, Parallelism
- Exodus 15:23, Chiasm
- Exodus 15:25-26, Chiasm
- Exodus 18:1-11, Chiasm
- Exodus 18:10, Chiasm
- Exodus 18:11, Chiasm
- Exodus 19:5 - Leviticus 27, Chiasm
- Exodus 19:20, Chiasm
- Exodus 20:8-11, ?
- Exodus 21:12-14, Chiasm
- Exodus 21:12-17, Parallelism
- Exodus 25:1-27:21, Chiasm
- Exodus 25-40, Chiasm
- Exodus 31:12-18, Chiasm
- Exodus 31:16-35:3, Chiasm
- Exodus 33:7, Chiasm
- Exodus 33:8, Chiasm
- Exodus 33:9-11a, Chiasm
- Exodus 33:11b-12a, Chiasm
- Exodus 33:12b-17, Chiasm
- Exodus 33:18-23, Chiasm
- Exodus 39:43, Chiasm
- Leviticus 1-27, Chiasm
- Leviticus 6:12-13, Chiasm
- Leviticus 8:1-5, Chiasm
- Leviticus 15:2-12, Chiasm
- Leviticus 15:2-33, Chiasm
- Leviticus 19:3-30, Chiasm
- Leviticus 19:3-36, Parallelism
- Leviticus 23:9-22, Both
- Leviticus 23:33-43, Chiasm
- Leviticus 24:13-23, Chiasm
- Leviticus 26:1-46, Chiasm
- Leviticus 26:34-35, Parallelism
- Numbers 3:2-3, Chiasm
- Numbers 3:12-41, Chiasm
- Numbers 4:1-49, Parallelism
- Numbers 4:1-7:88, Chiasm
- Numbers 4:49, Chiasm
- Numbers 7:1-88, Parallelism
- Numbers 7:10, Chiasm
- Numbers 9:17-23, Parallelism
- Numbers 22:3, Parallelism
- Numbers 28:1-8, Chiasm
- Numbers 30:1-16, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 4:15-31, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 8:7-9, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 9:3-16, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 9:26-29, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 12, Both
- Deuteronomy 14:29-15:18, Parallelism
- Deuteronomy 16:9-20, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 16:16-17:12, Both
- Deuteronomy 18:1-2, Parallelism
- Deuteronomy 20-21, Parallelism
- Deuteronomy 22:13-29, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 26:1-2, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 26:1-4, Parallelism
- Deuteronomy 26:3-10, Parallelism
- Deuteronomy 26:14, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 27:1-10, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 28:2-7, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 28:8-11, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 28:20-48, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 29:8-13, Chiasm
- Deuteronomy 31, Chiasm
- Joshua 1:1-11, Chiasm
- Joshua 2:3-7, Chiasm
- Joshua 4:2-4, Chiasm
- Joshua 4:23-24, Chiasm
- Joshua 9:14-18, Chiasm
- Joshua 13:1-14:5, Chiasm
- Joshua 23:1-16, Chiasm
- Judges, Chiasm
- Judges 1:4-7, Parallelism
- Judges 6:1-8:32, Chiasm
- Judges 14:1-15:13 & 21:11-21:25, Chiasm
- 1 Samuel 17:58-18:5, Chiasm
- 2 Samuel 1:19-27, Chiasm
- 2 Samuel 18:33, Chiasm
- 2 Samuel 21-24, Chiasm
- 1 Kings 12:32-33, Chiasm
- 2 Kings 13:14-25, Chiasm
- Psalm 9:16, Parallelism
- Psalm 12:1-8, Chiasm
- Psalm 18:9-12, Parallelism
- Psalm 32, Chiasm
- Psalm 37, Chiasm
- Psalm 66, Chiasm
- Psalm 67, Chiasm
- Psalm 70, Chiasm
- Psalm 81, Chiasm
- Psalm 82, Chiasm
- Psalm 86:1-5, Parallelism
- Psalm 107, Parallelism
- Psalm 142:1, Parallelism
- Psalm 142:2, Chiasm
- Psalm 148, Parallelism
- Proverbs 3:1-12, Chiasm
- Proverbs 3:1-4, Parallelism
- Proverbs 3:5-8, Parallelism
- Proverbs 3:9-12, Parallelism
- Proverbs 4:18-19, Parallelism
- Proverbs 9, Parallelism/Chiasm
- Proverbs 9:7-9, Chiasm
- Proverbs 10:11, Chiasm
- Proverbs 10:16-17, Parallelism
- Proverbs 11:10-11, Parallelism
- Proverbs 12:5-6, Chiasm
- Proverbs 12:20, Chiasm
- Proverbs 15:5, Chiasm
- Proverbs 20:1-2, Parallelism
- Proverbs 29:5-6, Chiasm
- Jeremiah 17:19-21, Chiasm
- Isaiah 44:6-8, Chiasm
- Ezekiel 47:21-23, Parallelism
- Joel 3:9-13, Parallelism
- Joel 3:19-21, Parallelism
- Habakkuk 3:2-9, Chiasm
- Matthew 5, Chiasm
- Matthew 5:2-10, Chiasm
- Matthew 6:6-17, Chiasm
- Matthew 6:24, Chiasm
- Matthew 6:25-31, Chiasm
- Matthew 11:21-24, Parallelism
- Matthew 11:29-30, Chiasm
- Matthew 12:9-14, Chiasm
- Matthew 12:41-42, Parallelism
- Matthew 19:5-6, Chiasm
- Matthew 21:1-27, Parallelism
- Matthew 23:12, Chiasm
- Matthew 26:30-50, Parallelism
- Mark 5:22-42, Chiasm
- Mark 6:5-13, Chiasm
- Mark 11, Chiasm
- Mark 12:9-14, Both
- Mark 12:41-42, Parallelism
- Mark 14:27-46, Chiasm
- Luke 19:1-20:26, Chiasm
- Luke 22:1-7, Chiasm
- Luke 22:31-62, Chiasm
- John 1:1-18, Chiasm
- John 1:10-11, Parallelism
- John 3:31, Chiasm
- John 4?, Parallelism
- John 4:46-54, Chiasm
- John 5:19-30, Chiasm
- John 11:1-7, Chiasm
- Acts 6:1-7, Chiasm
- Acts 9:2-3, Parallelism
- Romans 5:15-16, Parallelism
- Romans 5:17-19, Parallelism
- Romans 7:19-20, Chiasm
- Romans 8:12-17, Chiasm
- Ephesians 1:11-14, Parallelism
- 1 Timothy 6:3-21, Chiasm

All Power Ultimately Belongs to God

A chiasm in Exodus 6:26-27

• V26 - Aaron and Moses
• To whom the LORD said, bring Israel out of Egypt
• By their armies
• V27 - They who told Pharaoh, let Israel leave Egypt
• Moses and Aaron

The intent is underscored by Exodus 7:1: And the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet."

Ultimately, all armies, weapons, and power belong to God, and when it comes to divine injunction, resistance is truly futile. ALL knees will eventually bow from the greatest to the lowest.When God's prophets speak, pay attention.