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Why Learn Hebrew
Doesn’t God understand English?
I don’t consider myself a Bible scholar.
Preachers and seminary students make Hebrew sound so exclusive to only the “most intellectual.”
I don’t consider myself a linguist.
I am too old to learn a foreign language.
I don’t have the time or money to devote to such an endeavor.
Reasons to Learn Hebrew:
God used a “Holy Language” to speak the world into existence. Could it have been Hebrew?
Before the Tower of Babel, everyone spoke and understood one single language. Could it have been Hebrew?
God wrote in the “Ten Commandments” in stone on Mt. Sinai in a language that Moses and the Israelites understood. Could it have been “Paleo Hebrew”?
God wrote with his finger on the palace wall in Babylonian, a message to King Nebuchadnezzar. However, since the king could not read it, he called Daniel, now an elderly man, to read God’s message. Could it have been that even though the rabbis had invented a newer Hebrew script, God’s message was written in the ancient “Paleo Hebrew” that Daniel still remembered?
Both our Old and New Testaments were originally written (mostly by Jews) in Hebrew. . .not Greek!
Hebraic thinking is cyclical in nature, in contrast with the linear thinking of our Western culture. To really understand the Bible, we need to put in back into the context of the time, culture and the people of Israel.
Idioms from one language do not translate literally into another language. God “took on the skin” of a Jewish Rabbi as He came specifically for the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel,” then still in exile.
For nearly 2730 years, WE have been disconnected from the God of Israel, the Land of Israel, the People of Israel and the Language of Israel. When people move from any foreign country, the native people are always very impressed to see new arrivals who diligently learn the language of their new home.
Today, in many of the “settlements” on the mountains of Northern Israel, most of the people speak only Hebrew. But they’re beginning to understand that Judah and Levi (the Jews) still have “10 Other Brothers!” We can begin to worship together with Ancient Hebrew Psalms preserved in our Bibles!
In the “Messianic Age”, the two sticks of Judah (the Jews) and Joseph (Ephraim, the Prodigal Son) will be re-united back into “One Kingdom” under the reign, from Jerusalem, of Yeshua (Jesus), The Messiah, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Hebrew, no doubt, will still be the national language!
This is our time of preparation as we rehearse for the soon coming “Kingdom Age”!