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These are my notes from a conversation with a insightful
Christian friend who reminds me that we lose some aspects of the cleverness
of the Bible when passages are translated out of the original language. This is
one such passage. Thank you, Buster!
Ezekial 9:1-4
Then he cried in my ears
with a loud voice, saying, "Bring near the executioners of the city, each
with his destroying weapon in his hand." And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which
faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them
was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. And they went
in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Now the glory of the God of
Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of
the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing
case at his waist. And the LORD
said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and
put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that
are committed in it."
Mark on the Forehead or “taw”
Ezekial 9:4 -- in the original language
"put a mark" on read as
“taw a taw” or “mark a mark” X a X
Ezekiel 9:4
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and said to him, "Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and
put a mark on
the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the
detestable things that are done in it."
Phoenician script
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Taw is square
script from Phoenician script (Babylonian captivity)
See
www.hebrew4christians.com
Grammar/ Unit 1/A brief History
(scroll down to Phoenician script box)
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First century
Christians became aware the “taw” written in Ezekial looks like the first
letter
in “Christ” or “Christian” in Greek.
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In Greek, the word
“mark” is (charagma or
charagma); the name “Christ”
is (christ
or Christos).
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Strong’s dictionary defines the meaning of charagma
as “a scratch or etching, i.e.
stamp
(as a badge of servitude), or a sculptured figure (statue) graven,
mark.
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Summary: Man kills
man, but we do not fear. God marks his people in some fashion, to us
unseen;
but God’s watchmen of the city know and understand.
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Revelation 7:3, "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."
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Revelation 14:1, [ The Lamb and the 144,000 ] Then I looked, and there before me was
the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name
and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
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