Biblefresh Insights: Discovering God's Writing through Isaiah 53 and the Ten Words

1. www.cicconline.org Share any insights on Isaiah 53 ‘homework’ Cut up blocks of text of the Decalogue (the Ten Words)

2. CICC Cafe: Biblefresh InsightsThe Aims • To discover the way God writes – the biblical (Hebrew) worldview, culture, literature • To develop skills in enjoying and meditating on the inspired text of scripture • To appreciate the benefits that come from studying Torah in fellowship with others

3. CICC Cafe: Biblefresh InsightsThe Sessions • Glory to God – Speaking with tongues of angels! (Luke 2.14) • The Lord is my Shepherd – Poetic analysis of Psalm 23 • Behold my Servant – Poetic analysis of Isaiah 53 • How does God write? – The Concept of Woven Text • In the Beginning – An example of woven text • Our Father in heaven – Woven text in the New Testament

4. CICC Cafe: Biblefresh InsightsFocusingHow does God write? • Lots of ways to study the Bible • This series is about Biblefresh Insights • The usual way we see the text – as prose (Item 2) • Need to study the text as given • Translations versus the literal translation • Need to study the text in Parallel

5. One Verse! Glory in the highest to God, & Peace on earth among people of favour

6. Psalm 23 1aYahweh (is) my shepherd 1b I will not be in need (or ‘be missing’ ie. from the flock) 2a In pastures of fresh grass he causes me to lie down 2b Beside waters of rest / tranquil waters He leads me 3a My soul he restores 3b He leads me in paths of righteousness 3c (All) for the sake of his name 4aEven though I may walk through death-shadow ravine 4bI will not fear evil 5a Because you are with me 5b Your rod and staff they comfort me / give me reassurance 6a You set in order in front of me a table as my enemies look on 6b You anoint with oil my head 6c My cup is saturated / well-filled (with blessings) 7aSurely, goodness and love shall pursue me all the days of my life 7bAnd I will dwell in the house of Yahweh, for length of days  A. Proclaiming Trust B. Proof Horizontal – ‘He’ C. Primary Reason A. Proclaiming Trust B. Proof Vertical – ‘You’ C. Final Result A. Proclaiming Trust

7. The Servant Song A The Enigma (52.13-15) B The Revelation – Early Life (1-3) C The Substitution (4-6) B’ The Revelation – Later Life (7-9) A’ The Solution (53.10-12)

8. How does God write? • On Tables! • Put the 10 Words in order • How would they be laid out on the two tables?

9. The Ten Words (Decalogue)On one Tablet, then the Other Moses turned and went down the mountain, with the two tablets in his hand tablets of testimony written across on both surfaces across on this & across on this they written &the tablets work of God they &the writing writing of God it engraved on the tablets. Exodus 32.15-16 “(the writing was) written across both sides; (alternately), on one and (then) the other, were they written.”

10. Over on one and then the other לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת־שֵׁם־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא כִּי לֹא יְנַקֶּה יְהוָה אֵת אֲשֶׁר־יִשָּׂא אֶת־שְׁמוֹ לֹא יִהְיֶה־לְךָ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים עַל־פָּנָיַ זָכוֹר אֶת־יוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ כַּבֵּד אֶת־אָבִיךָ וְאֶת־אִמֶּךָ לְמַעַן יַאֲרִכוּן יָמֶיךָ עַל הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ

11. On one Tablet, then the Other You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear (Deu 27:8 NET) Put the Ten Words into 5 pairs Meditate on them and highlight connections

12. The Five Pairs

13. How does God write? • On Tables! • In Parallel (5 pairs) • In Stereo!

14. Two Speakings The LORD said to Moses, say to the sons of Israel... • Moses the Prophet (esoteric) • Moses the Teacher (exoteric)

15. Ancient WritingMuch of it is in ‘Mirror Images’ or in Tables

16. The Merneptah Stele c.1200BCE

17. Stone at Migdal 50-100CE

18. Assyrian Bank of Tigris 3000 yrs old 144 women Agricultural workers

19. Code of Hammurabi Babylonian c.1700 BCE Akkadian Cuneiform script 282 laws sandwiched between two poems

20. Papyrus of Ani 1250BCE

21. Weaving Ancient Technology

22. Belshazzar – Writing on the Wall Rembrandt's depiction of the biblical account of Belshazzar seeing "the writing on the wall". Note the text is vertical rather than horizontal

23. God writing with the finger מְנֵ֥א מְנֵ֖א תְּקֵ֥ל וּפַרְסִֽי מְנֵ֥אמְנֵ֥אMENE MENE תְּקֵ֥לוּפַרְסִֽין TEKEL UPHARSIN Numbered Numbered Weighed Divided

24. And the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. (Isaiah 28:13 ESV)

25. Jesus & the Woman caught in Adultery

26. The Five Pairs

27. The Law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ became. John 1.17 (The) Law through Moses was given, (the) grace & (the) truth through Jesus Christ became

28. Tablets of Flesh – Hearts! You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh – hearts. (2 Corinthians 3:2-3)

29. The Heart – a 2 x 2 Table! A A V V

30. Human Beings – in Image of God! Woven together in my mother’s womb! Ps 139. 15

33. The DNA Double Helix

34. Two Revelations, Two BooksCreation and God’s Word Read Psalm 19 Also: Rom 1.19-20 – God visible in Creation Rom 2.13-15 – Law written on our hearts

35. CICC Coming Up • Homework! • Meditate some more on the Decalogue! • Moshe Kline – Decalogue www.chaver.com • Explore: http://interlinearbible.org/ • Resources • The Five Books of Moses (Fox, Alter) • Jewish Study Bible • Bibleworks

36. CICC Coming Up • Events such as this, around Wales • Story Wars with Gerard Kelly, 24th March, Glenwood; 25th Breakfast • Can I believe the Bible? Tyndale House, 6/7 May, Highfields • CICC Cafes • Biblefresh Insights • Relating Faith • Culture – do your own! • Website • Courses • Leadership Academy