Shalom Friends,
Join us as we continue our series and journey on Elohim's twenty-two letters called the Aleph-Bet. Each letter will provide us with great wisdom and deeper knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, as all of them point to Yeshua Messiah. 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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Shalom, friends. my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you for joining us tonight as we continue our journey through Elohim's Aleph-Bet by discovering the letter Tet. The Tet is the ninth letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet, and it is a very powerful letter from which we can draw great revelation — revelation that ties deeply into the scriptures, into the Hebrew language, into the anointing embedded in the Hebrew of the Bible, and into the biblical narratives themselves.
We hope everyone is having a blessed Holy Week and enjoying this time of intimacy with Yeshua the Messiah. We will be back tomorrow night for the evening before Passover — the night when Yeshua ate the Passover meal and then went to the Garden of Gethsemane. The following morning, at nine o'clock, he was on the cross. We will also be with you on Passover night to celebrate and proclaim the crucifixion and the deliverance that followed from that night forward. We would truly appreciate you joining us for both evenings.
Tonight, however, we continue our journey through the Hebrew letters. To those who have been with us throughout this series, I deeply appreciate your faithfulness, and I hope you have gathered much to pray about and dive into. Looking at the first row of the Aleph-Bet, we are now on its final letter: the Tet. It resembles the shape of a U in appearance. You may hear it pronounced "Tate" or "Tet" depending on who you speak with. We will be exploring both the formation of the character and the revelation contained within it, and we will also work through Psalm 119 to connect the Tet with King David.
As we always do, we will begin with a scripture that ties into this letter, work through the relevant teaching, and then return to the scripture to bring it all together. We will also have a devotional.
Our opening passage is Deuteronomy 30:15–16 and 19–20, in which Moses spoke these words to the children of Israel:
"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live — that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."
This was one of the last things Moses said to the people before the close of the book of Deuteronomy, before he passed to the other side. He was challenging Israel to choose life and not death, good and not evil, so that they could remain in the land. This speaks directly to the Mosaic covenant and the requirements for remaining in the land. Even for those of us not in that land, we can still draw powerful revelation from this passage, because the call remains the same: choose life, not death; choose good, not evil, so that we are blessed wherever we are.
When we understand the letter Tet, we will see clearly how it is woven throughout this passage. Good and evil, life and death — these are the choices set before us, and that is the Tet. It is a paradoxical letter, holding both good and bad within it, just as Deuteronomy 30 presents both as possibilities before us.
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The ninth letter of Elohim's Aleph-Bet carries the numerical value of nine. The number nine denotes the end — the last of the single digits — and thus represents the conclusion of a matter. One through nine covers all single digits, and nine is the final one; with ten you enter double digits. A wonderful resource for understanding biblical numerology is E.W. Bullinger's book *Numbers in Scripture*. It is a powerful tool for understanding how God uses numbers and what they mean throughout the Bible. When Scripture records five sheep, three goats, or two birds, those numbers carry intentional meaning. God used them purposefully — through biblical numerology, not pagan numerology — to communicate truth through the quantities of livestock, people, and events he chose to record in his Word.
A great example is Gideon's three hundred men. God reduced Gideon's army to three hundred because he wanted the glory; he did not want Israel to think they had won by their own strength. The number three hundred corresponds to the numerical value of the letter Shin, the next-to-last letter of the Hebrew Aleph-Bet. The Shin represents flame, and it is depicted in the hand gesture used when pronouncing blessing over someone — placing the name of God upon them. That is a vivid illustration of how God's use of numbers connects to the Hebrew letters and the deeper revelation embedded in Scripture.
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Returning to the number nine: it denotes the end and the conclusion of a matter. It indicates completeness and the summation of all human works. Nine is the number of finality or judgment, yet it is also stamped with grace. Additionally, nine is the square of three, and three is the number of divine perfection as well as the number of the Holy Spirit. Consider the three days and three nights: when Yeshua was crucified on Nissan 14 and remained in the grave three days and three nights, that duration speaks of divine perfection. Once we understand that three means divine perfection, the three days and three nights take on even greater significance.
Similarly, the number seven represents spiritual perfection, which is why Yeshua's number is said to be thirty-seven — three for divine perfection and seven for spiritual perfection. When we understand these nuances of revelation, they illuminate the scriptures and draw us into deeper intimacy with the Lord. We begin to walk hand in hand with him.
Because nine represents the end and the completion of all things, it also symbolizes finality in divine matters. Two wonderful examples of this are the nine traits of the fruit of the Spirit and the nine gifts of the Spirit.
In Galatians 5, Paul records the nine characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, longsuffering, and self-control.
In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul records the nine spiritual gifts: "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills."
These nine gifts, along with the nine fruits of the Spirit and the sevenfold Spirit of God found in Isaiah 11, are all worthy of deep prayer and meditation. I encourage you to pray these over yourself in your prayer closet — the seven spirits of God from Isaiah 11, the ninefold fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5, and the nine spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12. Let them permeate your heart so that they may rest upon you and make you a better believer and a better person before the Most High.
