The Eye as the Body's Lamp and God's Love

In Matthew 6:22-23, this is what Yeshua said: "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness?" This is a great revelation, my friends. And as we all know, we're in the month of sight. This is the month of sight, the month they call Tammuz, the fourth month of the biblical calendar. It's all about eyesight. When you look at the anointings, just like we went through, think about Reuben. His eyesight failed him, and he lay with his stepmother Bilhah. So again, his eyesight failed him. We have the constellation of Cancer, the crab, with eyesight going through murky water. So this is a huge month for eyesight, this fourth month, to get our eyesight corrected. The next month, the fifth month, is about hearing. So eyesight and hearing. We all know what Yeshua said about those two qualities: that we must be circumcised in our eyes and also in our ears so that we have eyes to see and ears to hear. And this is what He was going on about in Matthew 6:22-23.

The 16th letter of Elohim's Aleph-Bet is Ayin, and its numerical value is 70. The number 16 symbolizes a double portion of eight, and it signifies new beginnings or a new creation. Eight is one above seven, the number seven which is spiritual perfection, thus signifying it as a superabundant number.

E.W. Bullinger, who lived back in the 1800s, wrote a book called "Numbers in Scripture." It's a great book to help us identify how God uses numbers in the scriptures. If spiritual perfection is number seven, and you add one to that, that's eight – a superabundant number, new beginnings, new life. Well, this is a double portion of that. Remember, we have two eyes for a reason. So it's a double portion of our eyesight when we look into this beautiful letter.

Additionally, 16 symbolizes spiritual purity, love, and the manifestations of both. After all, love is the greatest gift of all from the Creator, and something that we all have to get back to as mankind. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul writes, "There are 16 characteristics of God's love that we should all try to achieve in our lives." He declares, "Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself. It is not puffed up. Does not behave rudely. Does not seek its own. Is not provoked. Thinks no evil. Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Bears all things. Believes all things. Hopes for all things. Endures all things. And love never fails." Very powerful. We hear that all the time at weddings or things like that, but I think it's something we need to get back to as mankind. When we look around the world, the love of many has grown cold, as Messiah has prophesied, and the Apostle Paul as well said the love of many will grow cold at the end with selfishness and things like that.

So, let's read this again in that context with our heart posture: In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul writes there are 16 characteristics of God's love that we should all try to achieve in our lives. He declares that love suffers long, longsuffering, and is kind. Love is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself around. It is not puffed up. Does not behave rudely. Does not seek its own. Love is not provoked. Love thinks no evil. Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Bears all things. It believes all things. Love hopes all things and endures all things, and love never fails. Amen. Amen. And amen. Without a doubt, we should pursue all of these godly characteristics of love with all of our heart so that we can understand the fullness of God's love. When it is all said and done, it is about love. Nothing but love, my friends. For the love of God is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

One of the great books or great letters to read when it comes to God's love and what God is – love, light, and life – is the book of First John. He does a wonderful job. It's one of the greatest books to read about God's love, His light, and also the commandments that bring that love out amongst all of us. The love of God is ultimately manifested through Yeshua, who is the sacrifice for all of our sins. Assuredly, there is no greater love than for someone to lay down their life for another. Since we are born-again believers and have become a new beginning and a new creation in Yeshua, think about the number 16. We should consistently purify and cleanse ourselves to be as righteous as possible in this life, since we are born of Him. He commands us to abide in Him, and He will abide in us and remain in us (John 15:4). We should love and abide in Him, and also love one another because He abides in us and His love has been perfected in us. In fact, God's two greatest commandments substantiate this: we are to love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and also love our neighbors as ourselves. He even says to all of us to love our enemies as well. That's another important revelation that we need to go back to. He continues to teach us that all of the Torah and the prophets are established on these two things: love God and also loving neighbor, including our enemies.