Ephesians Hebraically – Chapter 4 • Part 2

We left of in chapter four with The Five Fold Ministry which put in place to: Ephesians 4:12  to equip the kedoshim for the work of service, for building up the body of Messiah. Ephesians 4:13  This will continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Ben-Elohim—to mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of Messiah’s fullness. Western Individualism is our biggest obstacle to overcome in achieving the ‘raised tabernacle of David – the Kingdom of Elohim! Incompleteness is the reason for peoples stunted growth: incomplete marriages, incomplete families, incomplete healing, health and generational prosperity. The body is a dynamic growing organism; and as such, ministry has to be approached strategically not solely administratively. Ephesians 4:14  As a result, we are no longer to be like children, tossed around by the waves and blown all over by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men with cunning in deceitful scheming. New English Bible translation of v.14: “whirled about by every fresh gust of teaching, dupes of crafty rogues and their deceitful schemes”. Divisions in the assembly come when Spiritual Authority is forestalled and a spirit of individualism takes over. The Colossians were suffering from this same spirit of disunity, philosophical a kind of proto-Gnosticsm – ‘having knowledge’ without discernment. Ephesians 4:15  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all ways into Messiah, who is the Head. Remember from Ch. 5 we discovered Kephale’ in the LXX is translated from the Hebrew ‘rosh’, ‘nephesh’ – and found within source and soul language in the Tanakh. Yahusha is our source, from which we receive salvation (the Living Waters) sourced from the heavenly mountain of Yah; from which life flows: Ephesians 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. strong>Exodus 26. the boards and sockets of the Tabernacle: “Set in order one against each other.” “Mishilabot ishshah el echotah – and equally connected, each one to it’s sister.” ‘Tenon’ – ‘Yated’ = ‘nail’ – a nail will hold the structure of the congregation together making the whole equally connected, each one to it’s sister. Masoretic text ‘Yated’ is spelled ‘Yadot’’ = ‘hand.’ LXX and Masoretic = “nailed hand holds the whole structure together.” Yeshua was more than a carpenter! Greek tektōn – ‘carpenter’. Hebrew – charash – ‘designer’/‘architect’. Exodus 26:30 And you shall raise up/quwm the Tabernacle according to the fashion of it that was shown you on the mount. Shall raise up – Hebrew/‘quwm’ – ‘the Tabernacle’. LXX ‘raise up’ – ‘anasteseis’ – in the Brit = RESURRECTION! Exodus 26:15 Make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up. Make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; They shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: Make bars of shittim wood; Overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount. Silver – the currency of man. Ephesians 4:17  So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Master—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking. Ephesians 4:18  They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of Elohim because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart. Ephesians 4:19  Since they are past feeling, they have turned themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of immorality, with greed for more. One such practice: Jeremiah 10:2: Learn ye not the ways of the heathen, …..For the customs of the heathen are vainity; they cut down a tree out of the forest, the