The main problem with the Tower was that the people used bricks and mortar—man-made materials, instead of more durable God-made materials. They built a monument to themselves, calling attention to their own abilities and achievements, rather than giving glory to God. Go out in your yard and build a brick wall with mortar. It will crack and fail due to the elements and ground water. Build a wall out of tar, sand and stone. It will survive the ages.
Discovery by the Wezit Research Group focuses upon the theory that words of Scripture can be found in sight and sound. Perhaps we should all learn Hebrew.
Wezit points out that “Hebrew vowels are special designations under letters. The designations above letters are the Ta’amim. The Ta’amim are responsible partially for the intonation and the right pronunciation. The role of the Ta’amim is to help one to pronounce the words of the Holy Scriptures correctly. The Ta’amim allow, by their musicality, for the texts of the Holy Scriptures to be sung. Nekudot (designations under letters) are responsible for coloring Hebrew words. In Hebrew and Aramaic, Nekudot have the colors of the rainbow.”
It is therefore no wonder that so many of us find the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” a beautiful hymn. The song was a compilation of the 1939 efforts of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. If your memory of the song is stuck in the voice of Judy Garland’s rendition, I invite you to sample an unlikely amalgamation of sight and sound in a YouTube film of the late Hawaiian, Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoole, (1959-1997), www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I).
God can do that: speak to us through superfluous content.
Consider that there are “hidden secrets of the Bible directly connected with the Holy tongue: a spiritual language, based on mysteries of our world. Holy Scriptures, consisting of the Bible, the Prophets and Hagiographa, are coded by Ta’amin, Nekudot, Tagim and letters.
The Hebrew Bible is coded by letters and a special designation of the Holy Hebrew (Ta’amin and Nekudot). Recently, research on the color palette of the Ta’amim of the Hebrew has discovered the visual phenomena of rotation and motion illusions. Through the Nekudot and Ta’amim, one can obtain a visual code of the Holy Scriptures as optical illusion images.”
God has promised that He will reveal by faith and inspiration, that we will all understand the richness of His Word one day, some day. “For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.” (Luke 8:17, see also Proverbs 26:26, Matthew 10:26, & Mark 4:22)
Again, I come to you with my hope that we can all reap God’s great reward of Heaven by reading of Him and ourselves in Holy text. I continue to maintain that when we sing words of Scripture, we are inviting God to renew us and reawaken us to the vast richness of truth.
In the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Jewish temples throughout the world, worship flows musically forth. Protestants and Evangelicals might take heed.
Also, ponder this: we are to get the Word out in every way in which we can.
Irvingtonian want-to-be Julien G. Patterson (Omniplex World Services) publishes through his international company’s annual calendar pages great moral, ethical and Scriptural messages.
In the early 1980s, I pastored a young Bostonian scientist from M.I.T. who regularly traveled to the Communist bloc to lecture. He took along miniature hidden coded Bibles, which he shared. He trusted God to let the people find the texts, and thus having been revealed to them, would bless the readers.
ABC News reported in January 2010, that one of the major suppliers of weapons encodes references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ on high-powered rifle sights provided to the U.S. military. Michigan weapons manufacturer Trijicon has a “$660 million multi-year contract” to provide sights.The company’s vision, described on its web site: “Guided by our values, we endeavor to have our products used wherever precision aiming solutions are required to protect individual freedom.”
Trijicon continues to offer: “We believe that America is great when its people are good; this goodness has been based on Biblical standards throughout our history, and we will strive to follow those morals.”
Might we all stand and sing the glories of God in our house of worship this week? It allows God to infect us with a desire to know more of Him. Christians do not have the luxury of being silent. Get God’s word out in order that He can reveal all mysteries to all persons, in His time.
