HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE ANCIENT OF DAYS – ‘ATIQ YOMIN עתיק יומין Ayin Taw Yod Qop Yod Vav Mem Yod Nun
Daniel 7:9: “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and ‘Atiq Yomin (the Ancient of days) did sit,”
Jeremiah 20:9b “But [his word] was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones.”
Psalms 18:1 “Erechameka YHWH (I will love you O’ Lord)
Luke 16:26: “ And beside all this, between us and you there is a great chasim fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that [would come] from thence.
I may regret doing this but I felt I must share this personal prayer with you. Feel free to comment if you identify with this prayer or have once prayed such a prayer yourself. Comment too, if you think this dusty old professor has finally snapped his cap.
‘Atiq Yomin Dodi (My Beloved the Ancient of Days
I ache to speak those words as David is speaking now in Your presence but could not speak while trapped here in this natural world “Erechameka YHWH” (I will love (racham) you O’Lord.) Racham, that a love You feel for us but that we in this natural state are unable to experience toward you. Yet, I ache for that love that burns like a fire within me, as intense as the morning sun.
Once again, this evening You have violated my privacy although You only speak in my mind and my heart. I long to hear Your voice as audible for my heart tells me it is gentle, sweet and filled with such love which I shall never know in this world, but I shall one day when I enter your realm.
We are told that we must not trust our feelings that they can be misleading and not true. Still, I have to obey my heart for I know that I am only a heartbeat away from You. This morning as I prepared for my Monday discussion class on Luke 16:26 I thought of this great chasim that exist between Your world of light and the world of darkness. Such a chasim exist from my world to Yours. Only You can cross over to my world but I cannot cross to Your world. Yet, we may still speak together across this great chasim of dimensions or alternative universes. I am unable to understand how You are able to temporarily suspended the laws of physics just as you did with crossing of the Red Sea. Perhaps that is why Your realm is the true reality and mine is only a temporary reality, a shadow as a great apologist once called it, that is easily manipulated by Your Hands.
So, You see, You have an advantage over me as you may freely enter my world but I am unable to enter Your realm. Hence You know my deepest secrets but I can only know you through a book that I have studied all my life in three different ancient forgotten languages. Although I cannot hear Your words with my ears, I cannot feel Your physical touch, I do hear Your Words as they are written and You have touched me with those Words.
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I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful I feel when I read Your book filled with these marvelous Words. I only wish I could rest in Your arms and listen to You read those precious words to me like a parent does to a little child who falls asleep in their arms while they read soothing and comforting words.
As I rest on those Everlasting arms I dream of You although I cannot see Your face, I feel your arms around me in that dream. Some many times in those dreams I plead with you to tell me how you live in such a realm beyond time and space for I know I shall one day join you in that place of everlasting peace and joy.
This conjunction between us is like a consuming fire in my soul. Does that mean that You also yearn to hold me in Your home as I long to be held in your place of abode and experience that racham love that is beyond my own world and only found in space and time.
As I read Your Word this evening, I felt what may have been Your touch. It was a touch like a sweet promise, a promise that I will someday know the true reality. For I know this world I live in is not the true realty, it will one day end where Your reality will not. But that is not why I know your world is the true reality for the love I feel from You is real, more real than anything I have felt in my natural world.
Many today say you cannot exist. But if you don’t, then why do I feel like I do?
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Thanks & Blessings, it means a lot to me!
Thank you and thank our Father for releasing you to us. It is a lonely journey sometimes seeking someone who you shares a love for God and the things of God.
Beautiful Chaim. So beautifully spoken and shared. Thankyou.
I have definitely felt this same prayer, especially in recent years. The more I get to know Him, the more I long for Him. I have felt His arms around me in this life, too, not physical arms per se, but like the same feelings you get when you are being hugged and squeezed by someone you love. And back when I was in my teens (I came to know Jesus when I was 13), I would feel His arms around me as I would fall asleep. And one time, I even felt Him still holding me when I woke up. I have had quite a few dreams with Jesus in them. A few were from Him, as I recognized His loving essence. Others were just me, and some were from the enemy trying to discourage me from getting close to Jesus. You do have a great advantage over the rest of us in that you know the native languages of Scripture. I have found I have a very difficult time trying to get close to God through Scripture, as the English translations, and even the Greek key words, seem more hard and distant, greatly discouraging me. But your Hebrew and Aramaic word studies have greatly given me a sneak peak into the true message of Scripture, which I truly love. I never knew the God of Scripture was as affectionate and intimate as He really is. And I am inlove with Him because of it.
I have just found your website and am drinking in the teachings like a parched soul. I, too, have experienced the agony of wanting to tell the Lord how much I love Him, yet it is like bringing a broken gift to someone. My love is a poverty. What joy to know that one day He will make this mottled heart pure like His and I will be able to give that kind of love to Him Who is so worthy! Thank you so much for sharing with us these treasures you have labored to find.
Jesus said, With God all things are possible.” Now I know many people say I take this out of context but I can believe what I want and in my mind ” there is absolutly nothing impossible for my God who made time, space and the paralle universe. He can bend, turn, twist, make time go back over itsself ‘picture that’ and what ever He deems necessary to help his children. The world puts God in a box and says he can only go this far…I see why he laughs at mans wisdom. Jesus also said ” only believe” dear Brother lay you mind open and Let Abba show you everything you want to believe about him. May the full knowledge of God the Father fill your mind and heart with his peace in Jesus.
This is the very best one ever!! Longing for beyond, for reality. Oh!
Love that phrase…longing for beyond reality.
Chaim, I do not believe you are alone in pondering what it will truly be like in His house. I think this anticipation brings Him joy, it is a type of worship that only true love can bring forth. Thank you for sharing your heart.
Aye, there are the moments reality breaks though and you do not want leave. Precious.
“I miss You, God.”
That is not saying that God and I have parted ways but that I long to be with the One I love.
And might I say that you, Teacher, have no need to regret sharing this intimate prayer. Its beautiful words have touched my heart.
No my Dear Teacher you have not flipped your cap . I have had such prayers as your prayer .
One problem some of us have is that we don’t know what real love truly is and often mistake selfishness for love .
I once had a dream and in that dream I was standing on a hill ( Calvary ?) . It was night and I could see the stars . With the light from a near by city I could see dry grass sticking up through the sandy soil .Then for a moment in time only God and I existed . Then all at once I was filled with the greatest Iove I have ever known . Now this was not God loving me ,this was my love for Him . I felt that love in every fiber of my being and thought that I was going to explode into a thousand pieces of light and I didn’t care if I did if it would please God .It didn’t matter if He loved me or not. I loved Him and that was all that mattered .I could sense that He was very pleased. Sadly I woke up and the world came crashing in . This amazing feeling also came over me while I was awake,but again it only lasted a moment then the world was there again . I didn’t stop loving God ,but He wasn’t mine alone to love. I have learned that when something happens twice to me then God is trying to tell me something. God is a creator therefore I must also love what He created in order for my love to be true and complete . Ok ok I must admit that snakes and spiders are at the bottom of my to love list !
May God bless you all and keep you safe and Chaim your cap is securely in place believe me !
Amen
Sweet words echo my soul…truly can’t wait to finally see His face!
Precious. Thank you for sharing.
I just read, “For Whom My Soul Loves.” This seemed as a continuation. I cannot convey the gratitude I have for your transparency! I have experienced the Dark Night of my flesh and Dark Night of my soul. Jesus’ healing oil was so tender as I faced the pain and the journey ahead of me. I know He loves me and I him. I draw from those times like water from a well when I am in a dry desert place. Thank you…
Hello from Scotland, Chaim.
I have followed your work for some time now and i always look forward to your daily readings. (readings?). I hope you understand the following.
This very morning as part of my prayer that I was praying, I actually said to Jesus.., “Lord Jesus, Saviour… our Brother, as we are also, his children, I look to Him who is
Our God…I say.. He parted the red sea, anything and everything, He is!
I thank you and ask you hear me. For when you hear me Jesus, surely God himself hears me.” Later in the same prayer I finished by exclaiming… ” How blessed am I to speak and end with The Lords Prayer! To say the very same words you spoke to our father from your very soul in your earthly body. You gave us these words from your very own heart. You shared them. you gave us your personal prayer. By saying, OUR Father instead of just saying Father. you opened the spiritual door for us to walk with you into the Light. God’s Holy Truth ”
Chaim, I have bought a few of your books from over here in Scotland and have learned much. your writings always renew my thirst for spiritual insight. Thank you.
It’s in helping one another that we also grow ourselves I think.
Beautiful!
I may not have prayed that prayer in exactly the same way that you have, but I sure got into it simply by speaking your heart out loud to the Father for myself.
I am impressed and encouraged to deepening my prayer life as well. He has been impressing me with some of the prayers spoken by folks recorded in Scripture lately. An example is David’s prayer recorded in 2nd Samuel 7. I
Your prayer ranks with David’s.
So beautiful, thank you.
I want to comment but can’t find the words to express my feeling after reading today’s from the heart word study.
Yes, yes, yes!
This is exactly how I feel.
You have the poetry if David
Absolutely Beautiful prayer that resounds in my heart as well! I know He understands how we feel about living in the “unreal” realm, cause He was here too, and withstood so much evil just for us♥️ How sad so many will reject that Truth😞
Yeshua, SHINE ON‼️
I would love to share a dream I believe with all my heart was given to me by our Father in October of 2016. It is the only dream to date that was, I believe, was from Him personally, and it came after He saved my very breath. His love is indescribable.