Shalom Friends,
Join us as we continue our series and journey of Elohim's twenty-two letters called the Aleph-Bet. Just as we discovered the first letter Aleph, which represents the Father, and the second letter that symbolizes the Son, this week we will explore Elohim's third letter, the Gimmel, as it will provide us with deeper knowledge and understanding of the Ruach Hakodesh, the Holy Spirit.
In Psalm 33:6, it is written, "By the Word of Yah, the heavens and earth were created." In other words, "Yah breathed the universe out of His mouth." Since that is the unequivocal case, then the words from our Creator's mouth were created by His holy and divine letters, which makes the impact of learning them that more intimate with Him. It is pretty amazing to think about and thus the reason we are discovering them in this series. We hope to see you on the journey!
Many Blessings,
Chadwick
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my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you for joining us tonight as we explore the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet: the Gimmel, which represents the Holy Spirit. It is a powerful letter, and we are going to tie in many beautiful scriptures — especially John 14 in the New Testament, where Yeshua speaks about the Spirit of Truth. We will connect those scriptures with the pictograph and meaning of this letter, and close with a devotional.
We hope everyone has enjoyed a beautiful Shabbat wherever you may be. I always say the end of Shabbat is the worst time of the week, because now it is simply the common days until next Friday. We truly appreciate everyone being with us tonight.
A couple of announcements before we begin. If you would like to join us for a Shabbat fellowship, we meet every Friday night from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time — sometimes longer. We have worship, blessings, bread and wine, prayer, and then open fellowship for a couple of hours, as we experienced last night with a very engaging conversation. It is a live Zoom — not on the Faithful Performance channel. If you are interested and do not have a place to fellowship, please send me an email and I will send you the link. One link covers every session.
Also, for those not yet familiar, we are going to Israel from May 5th through the 15th — an eleven-day trip. It is a full itinerary covering all the major historical sites, but with a prophetic lens as well. We will see how those historical sites speak to end-of-age prophecy, which we discuss often here. This trip falls during the Counting of the Omer, a very significant fifty-day divine season. If you are interested in joining us in the Promised Land, please send me an email and I will connect you with Tava Journeys and Emanuel Tours, who put this together and did an excellent job.
Thank you again for joining us on this journey through the Hebrew letters. Understanding the Hebrew alphabet is not required, but it opens up far deeper meaning in the New Testament writings, the Torah, and the Prophets. God spoke these letters out of his mouth in creation — they are holy, divine, and sovereign. They are the letters from which the Hebrew and Aramaic language was formed for the Jewish people. This is the pure language, the holy language. The words of Scripture are built from these letters, and that is why we study them: not only for the Hebraic understanding, but to tie in the scriptures, the formation of each letter, its pictograph, and its position in the alphabet. All of that leads to deeper and more intimate knowledge of Yah. These are his letters, and this is where we get our very word "alphabet" from.
As we go through these teachings, we want to move out of the Greco-Roman or Western mindset and into God's mindset — the Hebrew mindset, the Jewish mindset. That is the context in which the holy scriptures were written: that culture, that society, according to Torah. Understanding that framework gives us the full meaning of what we see in the gospel accounts.
As we have noted in previous sessions, the first three letters of the Hebrew alphabet tell a story. The first letter, the Aleph, represents the Father. The second letter, the Bet, represents Yeshua the Messiah, the Son. And the third letter, the Gimmel, represents the Holy Spirit. Right from the very beginning of the alphabet, we have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Next week we will move into the Dalet, which carries its own heavy anointing and connects directly to where the Gimmel leads — and we will touch on that connection at the close of tonight's teaching. We should complete our journey through the Hebrew letters right around the time of the Israel trip, keeping our current pace.
Let us now look at our anchor scripture. We will return to this passage several times tonight because it is deeply connected to the Gimmel. The letter is most commonly pronounced "gimmel," though some say "gimel" — both are heard, but "gimmel" is the more common pronunciation. This is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and it points directly to the Holy Spirit.
In John 14:15–18 and 25–26, our Master says:
*"If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Helper, that he may abide with you forever — the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit — the Gimmel — whom the Father will send in Yeshua's name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to you."*
John 14 is one of the most powerful chapters in the Holy Bible, for both the Jew and the Gentile. Yeshua's message is clear: if we love him, we keep his commandments — and then look at what follows. He goes to the Father and intercedes, and the Father sends the blessed Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, to teach us all things. There is an order of events here. People sometimes wonder why their prayers go unanswered, and the answer begins here: do you keep the commandments? John 14 lays it out plainly. Keep the commandments, and he will pray to the Father, who will give the Helper — the Holy Spirit — to abide with you forever.
The world cannot receive him because it neither sees him nor knows him. But those who follow Yeshua know him, because he dwells with them and is also in them. He will not leave us as orphans. The Father sends him in Yeshua's name, and he teaches all things and brings to remembrance everything Yeshua has said. This is what the Gimmel points to. This is the character of the third letter.
The third letter of Elohim's Aleph-Bet is the Gimmel, which represents the Ruach HaKodesh — the Holy Spirit — who is the Healer, the Comforter, and the Spirit of Truth. The number three symbolizes divine perfection of order, which alludes to the totality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All numbers in the Bible carry significant meaning — one, three, seven, nine, ten, twelve — each holds a wealth of revelation. The number three specifically speaks of the perfection of divine order, and it is remarkable to see that the Holy Spirit, the one who brings divine order, is represented by the third letter.
In 1 John 5:7 it says: *"For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit. And these three are one."* They are echad — unified as one — just as the Shema in Deuteronomy 6 declares, and just as Yeshua affirms in John 14.
