Subject: Deut 6:8 - A sign upon your hand
Date:    Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:55:24 +0000
To:      "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>

 

From:     Noma Wyllson
To:       heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject:  Deut 6:8

Eddie:

Could you please explain Deuteronomy 6:8 and Deuteronomy 11:18.
please explain "a sign upon thine hand"

Appreciate this very much.
nom and Robert

>From Eddie:
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        In Deut 6:8, it is written:

"And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall 
be as frontlets between your eyes"

        These words are written regarding being obedient to God and 
His commandments. The Orthodox Jew does this literally for the 
purpose of reminding him to be obedient to God and keep His 
commandments. The fulfilling of this commandment (in a literal, 
physical sense) is the wearing of tefillin by Orthodox Jews. 

        The hand represents what we do. The frontlets between our 
eyes (our forehead) represents what we think and believe. 

         If we are going to fulfill the greatest commandment to love 
God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength (Deut 6:4-5, Mark 
12:28-31), we must ALWAYS have our thoughts upon God. If we ALWAYS 
have our thoughts upon God and keeping His commandments, it will 
affect what we DO. 

         In I Thess 5:17, the Apostle Paul (Rav Sha'ul) tells us to 
pray without ceasing. How do we do that? We do that by keeping our 
thoughts upon God and obeying His commandments at all times during 
the day. 

        In Joshua 1:8 it is written:

"This book of the Torah shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou 
shalt meditate therein day and night (pray without ceasing / 
frontlets between your eyes) that thou mayest DO (sign upon your hand)
all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way 
prosperous and then thou shall have good success"

      Psalm 1:1-3 it is written:

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly 
nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the 
scornful. But his delight is in the Torah of the Lord: and in his 
Torah does he meditate day and night (pray without ceasing / 
frontlets between your eyes). And he shall be like a tree planted by 
the rivers of water, that bringeth forth fruit in his season; his leaf also 
shall not wither; and whatsoever he DOES ( sign upon your hands 
- what you DO) shall prosper.

             We either do what God wants us to do or we do what the 
enemy wants us to do (sign upon your hand and frontlets between your 
eyes). BOTH are depicted in the book of Revelation.

             In Revelation 14:1, we see the 144,000 who are on Mount 
Zion who have the name of the Father on their foreheads as it is 
written:

"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him, 
a 144,000, having his Father's name written upon their foreheads"

           In Revelation 14:9-10 it is written:

"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any 
man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in their 
forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the 
wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture: and he shall be 
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels 
and in the presence of the Lamb"

            Many Christians have their minds (what the think and 
believe) and their hands (what they do and how they live) saturated 
with the world and the world's system of lifestyle, conduct and 
values. The Bible calls the world's system --- Babylon.  Babylon is 
the world's financial, religious and political system. That is why 
the cry in God's word is for HIS PEOPLE to come out of Babylon. 

           In Revelation 18:2,4 it is written:

"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the 
great, is fallen, is fallen ... and I heard another vocie from 
heaven, saying, Come out of her, MY PEOPLE, that ye be not partakers 
of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues"

         In Zechariah 2:7, it is written:

"Deliver thyself, O Zion (a term for God's people --- Isaiah 51:16) 
that dwells with the daughter of Babylon"

        This is the purpose of Hebraic Heritage Ministries and this 
newsgroup. The ministry is a shofar call to God's people to 
understand and leave the world's Babylonian financial, religious and 
political system and embrace the Hebraic roots of their faith which 
is found in Deut 6:4-6, 8:

"SHEMA (Hear) O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: and you shall 
love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul and 
with all your might. And these words which I command you this day, 
shall be in thine heart ... and you shall bind them for a sign upon 
thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes"

         Yeshua/Jesus emphasized that this is the greatest 
commandment of God to keep in Matthew 22:36, Mark 12:29-31 as it is 
written:

"Master, which is the greatest commandment in the Torah? And Jesus 
answered him, The first (greatest) of all the commandments is, Hear, 
O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord: and you shall love the Lord 
thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all 
your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first (greatest) 
commandment. And the second is like, namely this, you shall love your 
neighbor as yourself (Lev 19:18). There is none other commandment 
greater than these."

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Eddie Chumney
Hebraic Heritage Ministries Int'l
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