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I heard the Lord
saying,
"To Awaken, to Warn and to Prepare all who will hear
to bless the Church and to comfort Israel."
August 2006
Jeremiah 1:11
Why the Name?
To
"Awaken"
those from their slumber, to warn all who will listen and to prepare
ourselves for what
is coming and it will come in a very short time.
"Our lives are about to be
radically changed; everything is about to be shaken!”
The time is urgent, awake your house, warn your neighbors,
“It is time to fill your
lamps with oil!”
Moreover the word of the
Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah, what do you see?
And I said, I see a branch
/ Rod of a almond tree.” Jeremiah 1:11
Rod denotes Authority
Almond, Heb shaqed, “the Awakening one”
The Hebrew name of the
almond is the “waker”.
Its flowers appear at the
end of January or beginning of February and
the almond tree is the first of the
fruit trees to awake from the winter sleep.
Moreover,
the Almond tree comes as a HOPE,
a promise that Spring is quickly
approaching, a Hope for the future.
There is another meaning of the Heb. root, which is to hasten.
In these two
verses V11, the almond tree is mentioned by its name Shaqed,
and in the second V12, the Lord says you have seen well,
“for I am watching My Word to perform it"
“watching being from the same root as almond."
Ironically, here we have 1:11,
Jeremiah is asked what he "sees"
However when we arrive in the New Testament, this 111 is used again,
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen
Hebrews 11:1
So
instead of 1:11 what do you see
We have graduated to
11:1 we walk by faith, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen!
The numbers 111 and the Almond tree were chosen by God to symbolize
two inter-connected concepts.
The first,
When we see the numbers 111, we now understand,
we are not walking by what is seen but by Faith
and
"The Lord is watching over His Word to fulfill His
promises!"