Confirming the Covenant
with Many for Seven Years
Page 2
The word translated messiah in Daniel 9:24-27 comes from Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary entry mashiyach [H4899], which according to James Strong means “anointed; a consecrated person (as a king, priest, or saint); specifically the Messiah,” and which comes from the primary Hebrew root word mashach [H4886], simply meaning “to rub with oil, to anoint; to consecrate.” The passage states that after the spring of 2005 Yehuveh’s anointed spokesmen, His anointed “kings and priests” whom He is raising up to lead and instruct His people, are “cut off” and “cut out” from the rest of humanity and prepared [anointed] for their specific work.
Isaiah speaks of individuals anointed by Yehuveh to accomplish a specific seven-part work in these latter days: “The Spirit of Yehuveh Elohim is upon me; because Yehuveh hath anointed me (1) to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me (2) to bind up the brokenhearted, (3) to proclaim liberty to the captives, and (4) the opening of the prison to them that are bound; (5) to proclaim the acceptable year of Yehuveh, and (6) the day of vengeance of our Elohim; (7) to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yehuveh, that He might be glorified.” Following the end of the (seventh plus sixty-second) Sabbatical year, that year which spanned 22 March 2004 through 9 April 2005, as Yehuveh begins to “confirm the covenant with many for one week,” He raises up anointed spokesmen to teach His instructions to all who will hear, and to proclaim His warnings to the world. Isaiah 61:1-3.
As happens far too often when we lightly read the translated Scriptures, we build a great deal of belief upon vapor. The words “cut off” are from the Hebrew a root word karath [H3772] meaning “to cut (off, down or asunder); to destroy or consume; to make a covenant, an alliance or a bargain.” It also means to bring to ultimate or full completion. Every spokesman who has been anointed to a specific work after the spring of 2005 has been “cut out or set apart” and again “covenanted” with Yehuveh for their appointed work. Indeed, they must be completely “cut out” of this world before they will be able to fulfill Yehuveh’s anointed work in this special final seven years.
Note that the words, “but not for Himself,” from the phrase “shall . . . be cut off, but not for Himself,” are added or supplied by the translators; they were not in the Hebrew text! How misleading! While Yehuveh’s anointed ones are indeed “cut out” to bless others rather than for their own gain, nonetheless this supplied idea is adding to the words of Yehuveh, which He clearly forbids us to do. Study all of the following counsels and cautions He had given regarding this presumptuous error: “Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”: Proverbs 30:6 [also Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32; Joshua 1:7; Ecclesiastes 12:13; Revelation 22:18, 19]
Furthermore, the first word of the next phrase, “and the people,” in Hebrew reads “from the people” and should be included with this line, stating that Yehuveh’s anointed spokesmen are “to be cut out from the people.” As Yehuveh raises up leaders and teachers for His people they must necessarily take their positions distinct from the masses whom they are to lead and instruct before they can receive all the blessings He intends to restore to them. “Blessed of Yehuveh be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, and for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come . . . upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.” Once these instructors have been rightly trained in Yehuveh’s ways, they are permitted to again go among the people, but their very training makes them forever thereafter distinct from or “set apart” from the people. Being offered Yehuveh’s anointing is no small matter. Those who decline the sacrifices can never receive the fantastic and unparalleled blessings. Deuteronomy 33:13-16.
Gael Bataman
Originally Written: 5 November 2005
Latest Update: 14 February 2010
Return to Zadok Home Continue . . . Return One Page Go to Section 6: Prophecy
Go to Historical Calendar Go to Daniel 11-12 Go to Revelation Go to Years of Returning (Darius)