Love covers all wrong

 

Love Covers All Wrongs

 

Today we will learn about love in the Bible and that there are many kinds of love. We will look at the Hebrew words for love and see that love is not only the marriage kind of love.

 

First, we are going to learn about the Hebrew word for love. Now, there are many meanings for love, and we [people who speak English] only have one word for all of them, and that is Love! But in Hebrew, there are multiple words for love, like the love a man has for a woman, the love a woman has for a man, the love a man has for another man, and the love God has for us; we will be looking into all of those things.

 

In Hebrew, every letter has a meaning. Now, the first letter in the Hebrew word for love that a man has for a woman is Vav, which means hook, like when we say “they got hooked together, I mean in marriage,” but in all of these letters, two of them are the most important. They are Tav and Beth.

 

Tav means seal, completion, mark, omen, or the purpose of one's life, like when you marry you are sealed with that person like Tav means seal. They are hard to break. If you divorce, which is bad; that's not possible because you are still married to her and it’s tough to break a seal. When you divorce, it’s like you are cutting your own body because you become one with the person you marry, and Paul mentioned that in his writings.

 

1 Corinthians 6:16-18a

Know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication.

 

 

The next most important letter is Beth. Now Beth means house. The third word in the Bible is the word “Beginning.” The letter Beth is found in that word. When the letters in the word beginning are re-permutated, we get the word Rosh Beth meaning God is the head of the house, or you can say family. The husband should obey God, and the wife should obey God first and the husband second, but she should obey her husband because he obeys God.

 

But how can God come to us if he can’t be with sin? He came as a man, but he was God—Jesus; when the guards came looking for Jesus and asked where is Jesus of Nazareth? Jesus said, "I am he”. In Hebrew "I am” is a name for God! And when Jesus was crucified on top of the cross, the Romans wrote that Jesus was the king of the Jews sarcastically in a mocking way. But if you take that and translate it into Hebrew, then take all the first letters of that translated sentence, you get “Yahweh”, the personal name of God! So, what the Romans meant as a joke was showing who Jesus really is! So, God came to us! God loved us so much that he came as a human and died on the cross for our sins and rose again on the third day, and we are God’s bride.

 

John 3:16-17 NIV [New International Version]

 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

 

Now we are going to learn the Hebrew letters in the word for the love that a woman has for a man, and the first letter of that word is Hei. Now Hei means a lot of things. It can mean hidden like the Aramaic word for Esther is Hester, and Hester means hidden, just like in the book of Esther God is hidden. You need to find God by the way God works through people like Esther and others like Mordecai and even Haman!

 

Just like in the Song of Solomon at one point the woman wasn’t able to find the man, and Hei is all over the word for love there, just like the woman is searching for the man.

 

Now Hei can also mean light. In Genesis chapter one, it mentions light five times, and Hei is the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, just like it says in the Bible when Jesus says, "Give me your burdens and I will give you rest,” we get bombarded with light every day and we don’t feel like we are getting hit with light so when you're with God you will feel like that, and if you don’t read the Bible, then your work might seem like climbing a mountain, but when you read the Bible, then it might seem very easy.

 

Psalm 55:22

 

Cast your cares on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

 

The rest of the letters talk about marrying like the husband should be the head of the house, the husband should obey God, and you should be true to the one you love.

 

When I say a man's love for another man, I don’t mean gay because gay is wrong. What I mean is a friendship like David and Jonathan’s. Friendship, a covenant friendship, they sealed their friendship with an oath.

 

1 Samuel 18:1

And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

 

And God has love for us. In the Hebrew letters for the love God has for us, they are all things about God! Like Aleph, it means number 1, and Beth is in the third word of the Bible, beginning, and if you re-permutate beginning you get Rosh Beth, which means the head of the house, and God is the head of our house.

Fun fact time!

 

Did you know that every Hebrew letter also has a number? For example, Aleph's number is one, just like God should be number one in our life.

 

Summary time

 

Now we have learned that all the letters in Hebrew for love have meanings. For instance, Tav means "hook," like when you say "and they hooked up in a true marriage kind of way."

 

In Hebrew, there are different words for different kinds of love. For the love a man has for a woman, the first letter in that word is vav, which means "sealed" or "mark of completion." If you divorce, which is bad, it's not possible because it's hard to break a seal, and it's like cutting your own body because you are one with the person you marry.

 

We have also learned that Beth means "house," but God can't come to us because we have sinned. However, God so loved the world that he came to die on the cross for our sins. Additionally, the letter Hei is all over the Hebrew word for the love a woman has for a man. Hei can mean a lot of things, like "light" or "hidden." For example, in Aramaic, Esther is Hester and it means "hidden," just like in the book of Esther where God is hidden. So, you have to find how God works through people, and God also works through many more people in the Bible.

 

 In the Song of Solomon, the woman won't be able to find the man at one point, and the word for love there will have the letter Hei all over it. It is also used when a woman loves a man. Hei means "light" because in Genesis chapter one, "light" is mentioned five times, and Hei is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. "Light" touches us every day, and we feel nothing just like how God said that he would take our burdens, and we will have rest if we come to Him. We have learned that the love a man has for a man in the Bible means "friendship," not "gay" because being gay is wrong. It is a friendship like the friendship David had for Jonathan, a covenant friendship.

 

We have learned that the Hebrew word for the love God has for us contains letters that are all about the name of God. For example, Aleph means "number one," just like God was the first thing. God said, "I am the alpha and the omega," and that God should be the first in your life because God gave us all free will. God is not forcing us to do anything.

 

Beth is in the third word of the Bible, "beginning." If you re-permutate the Hebrew word for "beginning," you get Rosh Beth, which means "head of the house." This means that God should be the head of your house or your family, so you should obey God.

 

Now we have learned that God loved us so much that he died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead on the third day. God loves us so much that we should love God and others. We should show the kindness God showed us to others, and we should spread the good news to all corners of the world, just like Jesus told us to do.

 

Bye, see you soon.

THE END.