Pastor Stephanie
ISH - It can mean "man" or "husband".
Jehovah means "He is our husband" or "He is our man".
HOSEA 2:16 KJV
And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt CALL ME ISHI; and shalt call me no more Baali.
H376 Ishi
Original: אישׁ
Transliteration: 'ı̂ysh
Phonetic: eesh
man
husband
champion
H1180 Baali
Original: בּעלי
Transliteration: ba‛ălı̂y
Phonetic: bah-al-ee'
BDB Definition: Baali = "my lord"
a deity in the northern kingdom, variation of the name 'Baal'
H1167 Baal
Original: בּעל
Transliteration: ba‛al
Phonetic: bah'-al
owner, husband, lord
rulers, lords
lord (used of foreign God's)
HOSEA 2:16-17 NLT
When that day comes,” says the Lord, “you will call me ‘my husband’ instead of ‘my master.’ O Israel, I will wipe the many names of Baal from your lips, and you will never mention them again.
HOSEA 2:19-20 NKJV
“I will BETROTH you to Me FOREVER; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the Lord.
HOSEA 2:19 NLT
I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.
H781 betroth
Original: ארשׂ
Transliteration: 'ÂRAŚ
Phonetic: aw-ras',
to betroth, engage
to betroth (man or woman)
to engage for matrimony:- betroth, espouse.
Man/husband - Ish - איש
Woman/wife - Ishah -אִשָׁה
Fifteen always represents the elevation from physical to spiritual.
Represents the bond between man and wife.
Also means Rest.
The physical world was created in six days and a spiritual dimension was added to it, the seventh day.
The number eight begins the spiritual realm beyond this world.
When we connect the physical and spiritual realms, this is symbolized by the number 15 [7+8=15]
Thus, the number 15 represents a synthesis of heaven and earth.
Fifteen represents the Gematria for the word Hod meaning glory, splendor, majesty, beauty, grandeur, magnificence and majestic splendor.
When we put God inside us, we acknowledged Him as God.
Without God's glory and fire in man and woman.
Remove God from a marriage (i.e., symbolized by fifteen, the yod-hey), and you are left with “fire” (aleph-shin), unholy passion and a flame that consumes the marriage.
God is inside us but the Lordship of Jesus is the same way when we acknowledge Him.
BETROTH - âraś - ארשׂ
We see our betrothal to God in Hosea and the Book of the Song of Solomon.
The only time it references being married to God is when Jesus comes to take us to heaven.
JOHN 14:1-4 MSG
“Don’t let this rattle you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. If that weren’t so, would I have told you that I’m on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I’M ON MY WAY to get your room ready, I’ll come back and get you so you can live where I live. And you already know the road I’m taking.”
The picture or image that Scripture gives us is that while on earth we are merely in a betrothal period.
During the betrothal period a bridegroom while spend that time building a new room or addition to his father’s house where he would one day move in with his bride.
Here Jesus is giving us a beautiful Semitic picture of being betrothed to us by saying He is building a room onto His father’s house and when it is finished he will come and take us, His bride, away from our present world to live in His world.
This is the same picture of a bridegroom who will come to take his bride from the world of her family to live in the world of his family.
When we received the Lord, we are legally married to Jesus.
On this earth, we are in this betrothal state.
So what is a betrothal?
The word in Hebrew is ‘aras.
If you look it up in your lexicon it will simply say it means to betroth.
We need to really look into Jewish literature and the Talmud to understand what a betrothal is if we are to make the proper comparison to our relationship with God.
The word ‘ARAS ארשׂ comes from a Semitic root found in the Sumerian language which means TO DESIRE.
Hence the whole idea behind a betrothal is to BUILD a DESIRE (Passion) BETWEEN a MAN and WOMAN.
There was the ancient teaching that when a male child is born his soul was split in two and the other half of his soul would be placed by God into a female child who would one day be born.
God would anoint a shidduch or matchmaker who would have a prophetic gift to determine the young woman who had the other half of the soul of a male.
Hence the term soul mates.
Often this determination was made between two individuals who had never met each other.
It was understood that there must be a period of time for these two to learn to love each other before the marriage was consummated.
Thus, we have the time of a betrothal.
This is where the idea of an engagement originated.
This whole idea of an engagement and engagement ring has its roots in Judaism.
This is a Jewish concept as God is giving us a picture of our relationship to Him.
When a young couple are betrothed, traditionaly the parents were to support the young man so he would not have to work during this period.
The time period of betrothal would vary, generally it was one year, but it could be more or even less.
Sometimes it could be one day, sometimes a number of years, although the family would quickly tire of having to support a young man for more than a year.
The idea was that this time would be spent where the couple would begin to learn about each other, understand each other and learn to love each other, that is fall in love such that their DESIRE and PASSION for each other would build to the point that the man would one day come to snatch his bride away and become intimate with her and make her his wife.
Although Eastern Oriental culture had great taboos on a man touching or looking at a woman, when a man was betrothed, much liberty was granted for him to touch his betrothed.
They would be allowed to go off into the wilderness and share their intimate thoughts and dreams and they could hold hands and exchange a kiss or two, but they could go no further.
If the man and woman did engage in sex then they were officially married.
In fact the betrothal begins with a wedding ceremony where they are legally married but do not live together or engage in marital sex.
The betrothal period can be a very romantic time, a time of two lovers dreaming together, experiencing the joy of learning to commit to each other and experiencing the thrill of the touch and the nearness of one to whom they would one day become intimate in the deepest way.
Usually after a year of this the bridegroom becomes so ‘aras (desire, betrothal) so desirous of being intimate with this woman he has shared his heart with that he will one night sneak out of his house and snatch his bride away from her father’s house and take her to his father’s house where he will consummate their relationship in the room he built onto his father’s house.
At that time they will be married.
No one, not even the bride knew when the bridegroom would reach this point of such desire that he would snatch his bride away.
Everyone would anxiously await that day, watch for the signs that the bridegroom was getting ready, watch him breaking out in a cold sweat and word would get out, “its tonight.”
Then everyone would light a lamp and follow the groom as he went to his bride’s house.
Not even the bride knew the time but she knew the seasons and she had a good idea such that she would be dressed and ready when the secret was out and the bridegroom comes knocking at her door.
Is that not a picture of our lives here on earth?
We accept Jesus as our Savior and we are then betrothed to Him.
We live our remaining days in a betrothal with Jesus, learning to love Him, spending time alone with Him, letting Him hold our hand, loving stroke our cheeks and allowing him to gently kiss us while all the time our DESIRE for Him grows deeper and deeper until one day He can stand it no longer,
He can no longer stand to be separated from us such that one night He will come to snatch us away and to take us to live in His father’s house in heaven forever.
MATTHEW 25:1-5 MSG
“God’s kingdom is like ten young virgins who took oil lamps and went out to greet the bridegroom. Five were silly and five were smart. The silly virgins took lamps, but no extra oil. The smart virgins took jars of oil to feed their lamps. The bridegroom didn’t show up when they expected him, and they all fell asleep.
MATTHEW 25:6-8 MSG
“In the middle of the night someone yelled out, ‘He’s here! The bridegroom’s here! Go out and greet him!’ “The ten virgins got up and got their lamps ready. The silly virgins said to the smart ones, ‘Our lamps are going out; lend us some of your oil.’
MATTHEW 25:9-10 MSG
“They answered, ‘There might not be enough to go around; go buy your own.’ “They did, but while they were out buying oil, the bridegroom arrived. When everyone who was there to greet him had gone into the wedding feast, the door was locked.
MATTHEW 25:11-13 MSG
“Much later, the other virgins, the silly ones, showed up and knocked on the door, saying, ‘Master, we’re here. Let us in.’ “He answered, ‘Do I know you? I don’t think I know you.’ “So stay alert. You have no idea when he might arrive.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:1-2 TPT
We are convinced that even if these bodies we live in are folded up at death like tents, we will still have a God-built home that no human hands have built, which will last FOREVER in the HEAVENLY REALM. We inwardly sigh as we live in these physical “tents,” longing to put on a NEW BODY for our LIFE in HEAVEN,
When Jesus comes, we will have new physical bodies that can stand the immense glory of God.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:3-4 TPT
in the belief that once we put on our new “clothing” we won’t find ourselves “naked.” So, while living in this “tent,” we groan under its burden, not because we want to die but because we want these new bodies. We crave for all that is mortal to be swallowed up by ETERNAL LIFE.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:5 TPT
And this is no empty hope, for God himself is the one who has prepared us for this WONDERFUL DESTINY. And to confirm this promise, he has given us the HOLY SPIRIT, like an ENGAGEMENT RING, as a GUARANTEE.
EPHESIANS 5:27 AMP
so that [in turn] He might present THE CHURCH to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that SHE would be holy [set apart for God] and blameless.
ISAIAH 54:5 CEB
The ONE MARRYING YOU is the ONE WHO made you— the LORD of heavenly forces is his name. The one redeeming you is the holy one of Israel, the one called the GOD of ALL the earth.
ISAIAH 54:5 NKJV
For your MAKER is your HUSBAND/LORD/MASTER, The LORD of HOSTS is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.
When we serve the Lord, it is full of fire and passion.
We were all man and woman made with fire.
God is a consuming fire.
REVELATION 19:6-8 MSG
Then I heard the sound of massed choirs, the sound of mighty rapids, the sound of strong thunder: Hallelujah! The Master reigns, our God, the Sovereign-Strong! Let us celebrate, let us rejoice, let us give him the glory! The Marriage of the Lamb has come; his Wife has made herself ready. She was given a bridal gown of bright and shining linen. The linen is the righteousness of the saints.
REVELATION 19:9 MSG
The Angel said to me, “Write this: ‘Blessed are those invited to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.’” He added, “These are the true words of God!”
REVELATION 22:20 CEB
The one who bears witness to these things says,
“Yes, I’m coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
REVELATION 22:20 MSG
He who testifies to all these things says it again: “I’m on my way! I’ll be there soon!” Yes! Come, Master Jesus!
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