The Hebrew Letter Tet: Completion and Choice

So, we'll first go through the letter Tet. It is, if you've been with us on the Hebrew lessons, you know this letter. It's the ninth letter of Elohim's alphabet. And its numerical value is nine as well. The number nine represents completion or the finality of a matter. It is the last single digit before you get to the double digits, emphasizing its importance. Yeshua died on the ninth hour to make a way for us to have eternal life. This example symbolizes it is time to advance and enter the next season of life. Nine also corresponds to the nine traits and characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, faithfulness, gentleness, kindness, goodness, longsuffering, and self-control. Also, every letter, as we all know, has a pictograph. That's the way that Moses would have written it was the pictograph. And the way that we write it today is there. So, that's the modern-day form. And then Moses would have written it like this. The pictograph. The pictograph of Tet illustrates a snake coiled up inside of a basket, symbolizing a warning to remain in close intimacy with Elohim and not let the snake or our evil inclinations out of the basket. A prime example of this is the serpent that was situated on Moses' staff during the desert years from Egypt. Israel rebelled against Elohim and Moses by complaining about the conditions of no food and no water. Subsequently, Elohim sent fiery serpents among the people. Once the people came to Moses and repented to him, he took away the serpents, but they had to look at the serpent on Moses' staff instead. Kind of like Yeshua on the cross as well. Tet also represents a picture of a womb where new things are birthed, just like the beauty of a newborn baby. When a precious baby arrives in this world, it's a time of new beginnings, a new and fresh life with endless possibilities in every area. During the month of Av, let us transform our mind through the blessed Holy Spirit and receive new opportunities, new life with a fresh wineskin as we continue on our spiritual purification journey. Since Tet has two completely different symbolic meanings, it should be noted that it is a paradoxical letter. That this means it reveals both good and evil. The form of the letter is inverted, suggesting hidden goodness, like a woman pregnant with a child. However, sometimes the potential goodness is perverted and impurity or filth results, thus emphasizing the coiled snake in the basket. We find the letter Tet in a strategic location in the Holy Scriptures in Genesis 1:4: "And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness." Isaiah 45:7: "I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things." So, Tet can picture either a person that is in rebellion before the Lord or someone that has surrendered to Him. The rebellious and then the surrender. Think about the Moses' staff. It is written, "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, my friends, choose life."