Post by Mark on Jun 12, 2008 3:59:17 GMT -8
Keh-dooshah
"We sanctify Your name in this world even as it is sanctified in the heavens above, as it is written by Your prophet; ‘and they call to each other saying,
"Holy, holy holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory."’
Those facing Him say, ‘Blessed’.
‘Blessed is the glory of the Lord from His abiding place.’
From Your heavenly abode You will appear O our King and reign over us for we wait for You. When will You reign in Zion? Soon, even in our days, may You dwell there forever. May Your name be exalted and sanctified within Jerusalem Your city, from generation to generation and for all eternity. May our eyes see Your kingdom, as it is expressed in the songs of Your Might, by the hand of David, Your righteous Annointed: ‘The Lord shall reign forever, Your God O Zion, from generation to generation.’"
In Revelation 6:10-11, the martyred cry to Adonai for vengeance: "How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"
It is a sobering consideration, when we conclude the Amidah, the standing prayer, as those standing upon the earth before the Almighty and immediately glimpse the reality of another perspective. Once we thought we were it. Once the considerations of our human understanding, all of our wisdom and experience, constituted the substance of reality. We have but a fragment of truth, an etch of understanding.
Paul said,
But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
(1 Corinthians 2:9)
So, we wait for Him, knowing precious little about the one whom we anticipate; but this we know: that He is absolutely Holy. The little we have seen has engraved in our hearts more deeply that sense of holiness than anything in this world. The absoluteness of His righteousness is more transfixing than anything than we could ever have imagined, and yet our experiences with Him have been merely a glimpse, a shadow. We wait for Him. We have tasted the smallest element; but by that we know that the greatest is yet to come.
Even so, Melekh Yeshua, come.
"We sanctify Your name in this world even as it is sanctified in the heavens above, as it is written by Your prophet; ‘and they call to each other saying,
"Holy, holy holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory."’
Those facing Him say, ‘Blessed’.
‘Blessed is the glory of the Lord from His abiding place.’
From Your heavenly abode You will appear O our King and reign over us for we wait for You. When will You reign in Zion? Soon, even in our days, may You dwell there forever. May Your name be exalted and sanctified within Jerusalem Your city, from generation to generation and for all eternity. May our eyes see Your kingdom, as it is expressed in the songs of Your Might, by the hand of David, Your righteous Annointed: ‘The Lord shall reign forever, Your God O Zion, from generation to generation.’"
In Revelation 6:10-11, the martyred cry to Adonai for vengeance: "How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"
It is a sobering consideration, when we conclude the Amidah, the standing prayer, as those standing upon the earth before the Almighty and immediately glimpse the reality of another perspective. Once we thought we were it. Once the considerations of our human understanding, all of our wisdom and experience, constituted the substance of reality. We have but a fragment of truth, an etch of understanding.
Paul said,
But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
(1 Corinthians 2:9)
So, we wait for Him, knowing precious little about the one whom we anticipate; but this we know: that He is absolutely Holy. The little we have seen has engraved in our hearts more deeply that sense of holiness than anything in this world. The absoluteness of His righteousness is more transfixing than anything than we could ever have imagined, and yet our experiences with Him have been merely a glimpse, a shadow. We wait for Him. We have tasted the smallest element; but by that we know that the greatest is yet to come.
Even so, Melekh Yeshua, come.