Kuf: Holiness and Yeshua's Sacrifice

Really quick, in our devotional of the letter Kuf, we will explore the concept of being holy, or in Hebrew, Kadosh. So, Kadosh means holy in Hebrew. The entire concept of the Holy Scriptures is to be holy, for He is holy. Yeshua is our perfect example and witness of holiness, as He came to fulfill the Torah and the prophets and to establish them upon the earth, just as it is in heaven. Kuf symbolizes Yeshua as He went below the line for all of mankind. In other words, He was crucified for our sins and spent three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, or Sheol, until His resurrection, prophesied about Yeshua's crucifixion and resurrection in the book of Psalms. It is written, "For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Without question, Yeshua is the Holy One, the Holy One of Israel. As you can read in John 6:69, Isaiah 45:11-13, the prophet says, "Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, 'Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands. You command me. I have made the earth and created man on it. My hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded. I raised him up in righteousness, and he shall build.'" Obviously, this is a prophecy about Yeshua, the Messiah, that He will raise Him up for righteousness and direct all of His ways, which will be the second coming, the millennial kingdom, and obviously the first coming events as well.

As the last letter that we discussed, the letter Zayin, which is letter number 18, stands for righteousness. Kuf means holiness, and together they signify a holy righteous person, a Tzadik. We just have to add the letter Kuf to Zayin to get Tzadik. So, let me explain that. So, when you look at the last letter that we discussed, letter 18 was Zayin, that stands for righteousness. And now Kuf stands for holiness. Remember, the Holy One of Israel went down below the line for all of us to be holy, to come out to be holy with Him. That's like baptism, right? Same thing. You go down and you come up. That's exactly the letter Kuf and also the Lamed, in a way of you're coming down and up, just like He did when He was in the lowest parts of the earth. So, again, when you look at the Zayin and the Kuf, we just have to add the letter Kuf, this letter to the end of Zayin, and it's called a Tzadik. Because think of the letter K and Q are the same thing. So, if you think about Zayin and you put a Q on the end of it, or a K on the end of it, it's called Tzadik. It's called a righteous person or a holy person. So, as Zayin stands for righteousness, and together, how that K is, see how the K is on the end of Zayin there? That's where you add the in Hebrew, except we're just looking at it in the English. So, Yeshua is the perfect Tzadik. He is the perfect Tzadik who we must follow to obtain what we have set out to achieve on this journey. Be set apart. Be holy. Be righteous, as He is set apart, holy, and righteous as well.

Remember, the Kuf symbolizes a monkey. It transforms us by renewing our mind. So, again, just like a monkey mimics people, you know, they're very famous for mimicking people, then we need to mimic what He did, right? So, again, I was speaking to a friend of mine last night on the phone, and we were talking about just worshiping in spirit and in truth, and how the church has kind of lost its ways, etc. The Jewish people need to come to Yeshua, etc. Again, we've got to mimic Him. And that's something for the Christians to really understand, and the Jewish people as well. But the Christians who believe in Yeshua, you've got to pick up your cross and follow Him and worship like He did, not like Babylon. So, again, we've got to understand that and be like the monkey on this letter. The Kuf is like a monkey mimicking our Savior. And that's amazing because most Christians know what that scripture says: "Pick up your cross and follow Him." And what does that mean? We need to go revisit that. What does that really mean? That means to pick up our cross and follow Him, exactly what He did: morality, the ways to worship, etc., the Torah, to love God and love our neighbor, right? So, Yeshua was the perfect example of that. He expects us to be those examples as well. And unfortunately, we've lost our way in the church, in Christianity. We've lost our way with it. So, again, it's very important to get back to the ancient paths, the true ways of Yahweh that have never been done away with. We've got to get back to those paths because He's going to reestablish those when He returns for His second coming in His millennial kingdom. That's part of Him being the Jewish Messiah; He has to do these things as the Jewish Messiah to fulfill these perfect things.

In doing so, as we follow Him, we will cleanse our morals and ethics as we set apart ourselves, our standards, our values according to the Word of Elohim. What a privilege and honor and a blessing to be able to draw near and imitate Him in His holy and sovereign times, seasons, and ways. Let us set apart ourselves right now, worshiping Him through the singing of psalms, as it is written in Revelation 4 and also in Revelation verse number five: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created." "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing." "Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever. Amen. Amen and amen."

Yeshua is the Holy One of Israel, the Tzadik, who we all have as a perfect example to learn from and live by. He is the Kuf. It is written, "Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Yeshua HaMashiach to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved." Amen and amen.

There's no question that Elohim earnestly desires His people to be set apart from the world. We find this concept in the book of Exodus. After the sovereign and divine event and the miraculous Red Sea crossing, Elohim petitioned them, the Jewish people at Mount Sinai, to follow His commandments and be a holy nation. It is written, "And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called him to him from the mountain, saying, 'Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, for I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all the peoples; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.'" These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.

So again, my friends, we talk about this on the New Moon videos all the time. Very important to understand Exodus 19. And look at what He says here. He told them, and this is another point to make, is He is the eagle. In the Bible. Please understand that a lot of people put America there, which is wrong. That's idolatry in a way. So, we've got to understand He is the eagle who brought them out on eagle's wings. You're reading it for yourself. So, not another nation or foreign nation is an eagle to Israel other than Yahweh Himself. Exodus 19 will prove that. So, again, He brought them out on eagle's wings, and then He said, "If you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me what? A kingdom of priests and a holy nation." That is what He is wanting the believing Jews and the believing Gentiles to be. These are children of Israel. And Paul would tell you and me and all of the gentile believers in Yeshua that if you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham, and you are heir according to the promise. That's in Galatians. So, again, Galatians 3:26-29 says, "If we are all seeds of Christ, then we are all seeds of Abraham." And what does that mean? We're seeds of Abraham. We're seeds of Isaac. We're seeds of Jacob. We're seeds of David. We're just like they are. The Jewish people, because we've been grafted into these things. This is super important to understand if one doesn't understand it. Even today, we still have people in replacement theology, unbelievably. You look at especially with what's going down in the Middle East over the last couple of years, you can definitely see the replacement theology going on with the church has replaced Israel, all these things, which is totally erroneous. And also with the feast days and the covenants and all of these beautiful things, they're trying to replace everything that God has instituted to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which again, we all are if you are a believer in Jesus. So, we've got to take the Apostle Paul the way that he said as a Messianic Rabbi who's trying to give education to not only the Jewish people but also for the Gentiles as well. He wants all of us to be together. Exodus 19 is a perfect example of that. You know, when we read throughout the scripture of Exodus 19, it says He's going to make the people believe Moses forever, everybody. So, again, the commandments of God. Yeshua said to keep His Father's commandments. He said that you were going to believe Moses forever. Not till the first coming, not till the second coming, forever. It's in Exodus 19, verse 9, I believe.

Just as He wanted that generation to be a holy nation and a kingdom of priests, the Apostle Peter echoes the same message. It is written, "But you are a chosen generation, a holy priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy." Elohim has always desired a kingdom of priests and a holy nation to dwell with. And in Messiah's millennial kingdom, He will inherit the blessings of a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. We'll all be a part of that. We'll all be a part of that set new man, as He does it as well. Amen. And amen and amen. Revelation 5-6: "To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever. Amen." Ephesians 1:4: "Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy before Him in love." Revelation 4:11: "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created."

One important note right here, Ephesians 1:4, look at what it says. It says, "Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world." That's pretty amazing. Revelation 5 says, "He was slain before the foundation of the world." It's amazing to think about, my friends. He has chosen you before the foundation of the world. Not called. He chose you. Huge difference. Chose you to do our part in His kingdom. So, this is pretty amazing to get our minds wrapped around. "In the beginning was the Word. Yeshua." "In the beginning, He was with God, and He is God." That's what John 1 would say. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So, we've got to really understand that from an understanding that He was in the beginning. And if we can understand that as Christian believers and understand what He came to do as the fulfillment of the Torah, the prophets, and the Psalms, and He's going to fulfill it, then we have to put Him in the beginning, on forward, to the book of Revelation. We've got to put Him at Mount Sinai. We've got to put Him at all of these circumstances before Joshua, as the Commander of the Lord's armies. So, we have to put Him in all of these circumstances to let everybody know that He was in the beginning with Yahweh. And whenever there was a divine appointment on this earth, whether it was before Joshua to conquer the promised land, Abraham, Moses at Mount Sinai, first coming events, second coming events, it was only the Kuf Yeshua that was going to do that. Only the Lamed Yeshua that was going to do that. That was going to go below the line, the Kuf, and be resurrected above the line, the Lamed. So, that's the value and the amazing things about the Hebrew alphabet is if we understand a basic understanding of the Aleph-Bet, the character, the formation of the character, the letter, etc., then we're going to get some of these inspirational things, some of these deeper layers that you can't get unless we do understand this. So, if we don't understand these things, we won't be able to put it together through a Hebrew lens, formation, character, or whatever that may be, numerical value, whatever.