In the Bible, Hebrew names have
meanings and sometimes they’re like sentences. In the genealogy of the Lord
Jesus Christ starting in Luke 3, the names go from Adam to Mary. In Matthew,
the names start with Abraham and go all the way through to Joseph.
“One of the most fascinating things
to me is the name Mary is the Greek
form of the Hebrew name Miriam (Moses’ sister),” says Jordan. “Anybody know
what Miriam means? It means ‘the
rebellious one.’ You remember the rebellion of Miriam in Numbers 12? Her name
represents all of us.
“You know what God did? He took that
divine seed and placed it into ‘the rebellious one’ and it produced life. I
read that and I see this (passage) and I just say, ‘What a magnificent God we
serve. What a staggeringly awesome Book we read.’
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Found on the internet is a written
passage of what’s revealed when you put together the definitions of Bible names
in order:
“The last Adam, standing
redemptively in the place of another (Seth), the people of this earth (Enos)
are His possession (Canaan), and for the praise of God He shall come down to
make a way.
“When He dies there will be an
outpouring. He is brought low that He may prove powerful. He would bring rest
and will be a resting place. His name will be famous among those who have been
cut off from the beast and bound in the enemy stronghold, for He calls them His
possession.
“He will enter this earth as a
tender shoot; as one from the heavenly region. He will divide even the closest
friends. He will be a branch burning with resolve when He takes up residence
here. He will be the Father of multitudes, the chief of a mighty host.
“He laughs at the deceiver and
supplanter and overcomes. He shall be praised. The breach He will fortify and
close and wall in. He is exalted, the royal seed who will crush the head of the
hissing enchanter.”
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Matthew, the royal lineage, reads:
“He will be a covering, a garment,
and in Him is strength. He will come serving to make wealthy His beloved and
bring peace and enlarge for Himself a people. He will say, ‘Jehovah is my
Father.’ He will be harmed but then healed; hurt but then made whole.
“It will be said that He, God, has
judged and He, God, is exalted. He will prove the strength of God and the
perfection of God. He will possess in His hand the power of God, and though He
be forgotten of His people, He will prove the master builder and divinely
heal them and He, God, will set and make strong.
“Those who ask God, those born in
captivity, He will say, ‘My Father is majesty.’ He will be raised up by God to
be a helper, to be the righteous one. God will raise Him up for God’s
praise, majesty and splendor. He will be the help of God; a gift. And to Jacob
He will, Joseph, and prove Jesus.”
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“In other words, to the heel grabber
and supplanter, Jacob, He will exchange out of life for death Joseph and bring
God's salvation,” explains Jordan.
“If you go through Luke, instead of
Matthew, you go back to David and come through Nathan." The passage reads:
“He will be a covering, a garment.
In Him is strength. He will come serving to make wealthy His beloved and give
the gift of God. He declares to those under the enchantment that they are His
dearest object of care and that He will raise them up.
“He will be the giver of grace; life
in exchange for death. They will praise God who hearken unto Him and join to
Him a covenant. Those who receive the gift of God, the one whom God hath
exalted, will find the help and salvation of God. They will be sustained by
God; be quickened, made alive, made awake.
“He will be measured according to
the king’s divine oracle. He will be adored as king. He will be a heavenly
light unto all who ask of God. And those born in captivity will He heal and
give grace. He shall be praised for He gives life in exchange for death. To
those who hearken the good tidings, He gives the gift of God unto the small.
“He is a bright light unto those
whose eyes are fixed on God, and He is a consolation and comfort unto the
burdened. The gift of God is life in exchange for death. It’s the violent
action of the king in order to join in covenant. The gift of God raised up to
heavenly heights, and gives life and liberty in exchange for death and rebellion,
and brings us God’s salvation.”
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Jordan summarizes, “When I see this
kind of a thing, it makes it ever so easy for me to trust Him, to trust His
Word and to do it with a delight, not a drudgery, knowing that every page I
turn and study, there are hidden treasures laid out there. Not hidden like, ‘I
don’t want you to find them,’ but like Proverbs says, they’re treasures and
people who search for them discover them.
“By the way, you can do this same
thing in a number of places in Scripture. My point to you is simply, it just
blows me away. I can’t say it any other way. It blows me away with
excitement.
“I’m going to tell you that when I
get to heaven, I’m not going to think it’s over. I think I’m going to spend all
of eternity uncovering more things like this in God Himself and in His Word.
It’s just too big for you and me, but I’m glad we can get what we can now.”
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