The Balm of Gilead

do you know someone who needs a healing the Bible offers something called the balm of Gilead that sounds amazing but what does it promise to do and how does it work it's time to find out accompany me as we heed the words of the Prophet Jeremiah and the Apostle John join me as we investigate the sacred pages of the ancient prophetic text we call the Old Testament in search of Messiah when someone is sick or needs healing your perhaps heard the phrase the balm of Gilead used what is the balm of Gilead and what does it do what makes it significant can ancient Hebrew pictographs provide any clues giving us more meaning does anything in this expression point us to Messiah let's investigate the Prophet Jeremiah paints a very grim picture of the State of Israel as idolatry among God's people had led to an impending judgment his chapter 8 of the Book of Jeremiah begins the nation of Babylon is about to desecrate the graves of the kings of Israel looking for plunder but in verse 3 Jeremiah declares that as bad as this seems things will be worse for those who remain alive and death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family which remain in all the places whether I have driven them saith the Lord of hosts Jeremiah further explained his sorrow in verse 19 behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country is not the Lord in Sion is not her king in her why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with strange vanities finally in verse 22 he explained their need for healing is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered the word balm is the Hebrew word sorry in conventional Hebrew it means a salve and it comes from a root word meaning to crack by pressure and to leak and describes the process of slicing bark from a balsam tree and collecting the leaking resin Jeremiah is describing something with which they were familiar that was used for healing it's something that should be available to them but why isn't it and why aren't they being healed what clues can we discover in the ancient Hebrew pictographs that might reveal this mystery for us sorry is spelled Saudi rash you´d Saudi is the picture of the fishhook and means to catch to harvest or to have a strong desire resh is the picture of the head and means the master or the prince yodh is the picture of the hand and refers to a mighty deed what message is awaiting us in these three letters in sorry we see that a prince will perform a mighty work to catch or to harvest what does this mean the balm of Gilead was used as an all-purpose cure for physical ailments but it's been figuratively used here by Jeremiah to indicate the need for spiritual healing there is a cure for an idolatrous spirit to make better sense of this we need to evaluate the meaning of the numbers that each of these letters represent the meanings of these numbers are determined from how they are used throughout the Scriptures Saudi is the number ninety and the meaning comes from a combination of nine times ten which results in ordinal perfection and judgment at the conclusion of a series raysh is the number 200 and refers to the balance between the insufficiency of man and the sufficiency of God Yoda is the number 10 and stands for something ordained by God in heaven or ordinal perfection this begins to explain something profound about our spiritual condition Jeremiah pointed out the people were sick in spirit and in the number 200 we see that man is insufficient to remedy his condition the bad news in the number 90 is that there is a judgment coming that has been ordained by the good news in the number-10 is that God has always had a plan that will provide for the healing of his people the number 200 tells us that he is all-sufficient but what is this plan how can we recognize it and benefit from it there is one more number to consider these three numbers in the word bomb or sorry taken together are the number 300 what is important about this number this is the number of the letter Sheen which is the one letter God uses to identify himself the numbers tell us the spiritual healing found in the balm of Gilead comes from God himself but how is this accomplished the meaning of the number 300 is our final clue the number 300 signifies the blood sacrifice made by the perfect Lamb of God who was Jesus Christ now we can understand the pictographs which told us that a prince would perform a mighty work to catch her to harvest who was the Prince he was Messiah what was the mighty work of the Prince his death on the cross was the pathway to life for those needing spiritual healing God's plan all along was to gather a great harvest through the mighty work of his son the rabbi Paul described his force in his letter to the Romans in chapter 5 verses 8 and 9 but God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us much more than being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him thank you for taking the time to listen to this Hebrew word study it is our prayer that you will draw closer to your as you consider the divine revelation of Messiah Yeshua HaMashiach the Son of God until next time Shalom we hope this study was a blessing to you and encouraged you in your faith for more Hebrew words study videos you can visit our site at the Living Word in 3d dot-com and if you'd like to investigate this further you can get the book from our online bookstore at Rock Island Books calm you

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Length: 7min 40sec (460 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 17 2018