{"id":23602,"date":"2022-09-29T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T22:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-exile-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T20:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T03:56:59","slug":"2022-pakad","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-pakad\/","title":{"rendered":"Between God and earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Israel Institute of BS<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest questions facing religious people in every age is the relationship between heaven and earth. How exactly does a spiritual God come into contact with physical beings? What does it mean for the pure and incorporeal to encounter the impure and corporeal? The Hebrew Bible has a very distinctive word for God\u2019s coming into the world. But you can only appreciate it, when you read it in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23604 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-1-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s relationship with man<\/p>\n<p>How can a single word change a verse?<\/p>\n<p><strong>One word sums it all up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The original language of the Bible, Hebrew, is a very succinct language.\u00a0<strong>Sometimes one Hebrew word can have a dozen different meanings in translation<\/strong>. One of the richest words in the Hebrew language is the word\u00a0<strong><em>pakad\u00a0<\/em>\u05e4\u05e7\u05d3<\/strong>. In its most basic sense, this means \u201cto\u00a0<strong>appoint<\/strong>\u201d. For example, King Cyrus declares \u201cthe Lord, the God of heaven\u2026has\u00a0<strong>charged (<em>pakad<\/em>)<\/strong>\u00a0me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah\u201d (Ezra 1:2).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23605 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Divine Visitation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But\u00a0<em>Pakad\u00a0<\/em>has deeper divine meanings<\/strong>. For example, prior to the Isaac\u2019s birth, \u201cthe Lord\u00a0<strong>visited\u00a0<\/strong>Sarah as He had said\u201d (Gen. 21:1). This is not a physical visit, but rather God keeping his promise to Sarah. Conversely, when God punishes evildoers, the same word is used, \u201cthe Lord will\u00a0<strong>punish\u00a0<\/strong>the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria\u201d (Isa. 10:12). Here the Hebrew word\u00a0<em>pakad<\/em>, is used for \u201cpunish\u201d because the Lord will cause his wrath to be visited upon the Assyrians.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pakad-3-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hebrew: Learn to read between the lines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These three verses illustrate three different\u00a0<strong>ways in which the God of Israel has a relationship with human beings: appointing, visiting and punishing<\/strong>. Only when read in the original Hebrew can you see that these are all one word \u2013\u00a0<em>pakad\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 which is the essence of God\u2019s identity in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23607 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pakad_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pakad_4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pakad_4-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pakad_4-705x511.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":23604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-23602","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/23602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/23602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23608,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/23602\/revisions\/23608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23602"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=23602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}