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GOD HIMSELF SPEAKS IN A LANGUAGE
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit spoke to each other in a specific language at each point of creation:
THE PURE AND RESTORED LANGUAGE
“For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.” (Zephaniah 3:9 NKJV)
THIS “PURE LANGUAGE” IS HEBREW
The restoration of this pure language will be a sign and a wonder. Hebrew is also a sign and wonder:
HEBREW IS THE ETERNAL LANGUAGE
Hebrew appears to be the language spoken between God the Father and God the Son.
THE LANGUAGE CHOSEN BY GOD
God said He “will restore to the peoples a pure language.” (Zephaniah 3:9 NKJV)
PURE - for it proceeds from God who is pure
TRANSMITTED - by God Himself to men
PERSEVERES – for it is spoken by some even today
RESTORED – for it will be spoken by all
“I know that whatever God does
It shall be forever
Nothing can be added to it
And nothing taken from it
God does it that men should fear before Him
That which is has already been
And what is to be has already been”
(Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 NKJV)
[1] “Fleeing Europe, Jews Found Haven in America”, by Oscar Reiss, accessed 7/26/2015 at Article Details
[2] Cassandra Chenhalls
[3] Genesis 2:18–25 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Ariel’s Bible Commentary: The Book of Genesis, 1st ed. (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2008), 84.
[4] Genesis 3:20–24 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Ariel’s Bible Commentary: The Book of Genesis, 1st ed. (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2008), 110.
[5] “Governor William Bradford, and His Son, Major William Bradford, by James Bradford; accessed 12/13/2015 at Governor William Bradford – Books on Google Play
[6] “Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel Points and Accents” by John Gill, pp. 19-20, accessed 7/25/2015 at http://faithsaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AntiquityoftheHebrewLanguageLettersV.pdf
[7] “Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel Points and Accents” by John Gill, p. 35, accessed 7/25/2015 at http://faithsaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AntiquityoftheHebrewLanguageLettersV.pdf
[8] “A Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel Points and Accents” By John Gill, D.D., p. 24, accessed 7/25/2015 at http://faithsaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AntiquityoftheHebrewLanguageLettersV.pdf
[9] Genesis 11:1–4 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Ariel’s Bible Commentary: The Book of Genesis, 1st ed. (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2008), 221.
[10] H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., Genesis, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 163, Genesis 11:1, accessed 8/3/2015 at http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tpc/view.cgi?bk=0&ch=11
[11] Genesis 10:24–25 John Bunyan, An Exposition of the First Ten Chapters of Genesis, vol. 2 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2006), 500, accessed 8/1/2015 at Acacia John Bunyan - Online Library - Sermons & Allegories - An Exposition on the First Ten Chapters of Genesis: X
[12] Genesis 11:5–9 Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994), 33, [author’s emphasis] accessed 7/26/2015 at http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mhm/view.cgi?bk=0&ch=11
[13] Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, Vol. 2: Lectures on Genesis: Chapters 6-14, ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, and Helmut T. Lehmann, vol. 2 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999), 215, Genesis 10:32
[14] Genesis 10:21 John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, vol. 1 (Bristol: William Pine, 1765), 46, accessed 8/1/2015 at Genesis 10 Commentary - Wesley's Explanatory Notes
[15] See article “Hebrew Term Origin” at Hebrew Term Origin | 3amthoughts.com
[16] barar OT:1305 James Strong, Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon (Woodside Bible Fellowship, 1995), accessed 7/26/2015 at http://www.studylight.org/lexicons/hebrew/hwview.cgi?n=1305)
[17] “A Brief History of the Hebrew Language”, accessed 7/26/2015 at A Brief History of the Hebrew Language
[18] See article “Eden and Jerusalem Traditions” at Eden and Jerusalem Traditions | 3amthoughts.com
Hebrew - Language of Heaven | 3amthoughts.com
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit spoke to each other in a specific language at each point of creation:
- “Then God said, ‘Let there be light.’” (Genesis 1:3 NKJV)
- “Then God said, ‘Let there be a firmament.’” (Genesis 1:6 NKJV)
- “Then God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together.’” (Genesis 1:9 NKJV)
- “Then God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens.’” (Genesis 1:14 NKJV)
- “Then God said, ‘Let the waters abound … and let birds fly.’” (Genesis 1:20 NKJV)
- “Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth the living creature.’” (Genesis 1:24 NKJV)
- “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in our image.’” (Genesis 1:26 NKJV)
- This same language was used at the creation of Eve: “And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone.’” (Genesis 2:18 NKJV)
- This same language was used by God when discussing the sin of Adam: “Then the Lord God said, ‘Behold, the man has become like one of Us.’” (Genesis 3:22 NKJV)
- This same language was used by God when discussing the rebellion at Babel: “And the Lord said … ‘let us confuse their language.’” (Genesis 11:6-7 NKJV)
- Language is so closely identified with God that the Son of God is called the Word: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1 NKJV)
- The very title used of God when He walked in the Garden is the title “the voice of God”: “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden.” (Genesis 3:8 KJV)
- God identified Himself to man by four HEBREW letters: “Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’” (Exodus 3:15 NKJV)
- Oscar Reiss states, “Puritans saw Hebrew as the holy language in which God’s law was written and in which God and the angels communicated.”
- Filling the earth: “God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.’” (Genesis 1:28 NKJV)
- Eating of specific foods: “And God said, ‘See, I have given you every herb that yields seed.’” (Genesis 1:29-30 NKJV)
- Which fruit was not to be eaten: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17 NKJV)
- Adam understood the language used by God when God called to him among the trees of the Garden of Eden: “Then the LORD God called to Adam.” (Genesis 3:9 NKJV)
- Eve understood the language used by God when he cursed the serpent: “So the Lord God said to the serpent ... ‘I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” (Genesis 3:15-16 NKJV)” Eve demonstrated that she understood what God said to the serpent by the name she gave to her firstborn son Cain, which appears to indicate that she thought Cain was the fulfillment of the promise given to the serpent regarding “the seed of the woman”: “Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the Lord.’” (Genesis 4:1 NKJV)
- William Bradford wrote, “Though I am growne aged, yet I have a longing desire to see, with my owne eyes, something of that most ancient language, and holy tongue, in which the law and Oracles of God were written; and in which God and angels spoke to the Holy Patriarcks of old time; and what names were given to things at the Creation.”[5]
- John Gill wrote, “Schultens himself asserts that by the primeval language, which was from the beginning of the world spoken by our first parents, and the antediluvian patriarchs, and after the flood to the dispersion, is the same which was afterwards called Hebrew, from Heber; from whom it passed through Peleg and Abraham to the nation of the Hebrews, and so the mother-language … it is the opinion of the Persian priests or Magi, that the time will come when the earth will be of one language again; and if so, it is probable it will be the primitive one, but what that was, is the thing to be inquired into. The Targums of Jonathan and Onkelos on the place, add, by way of explanation, ‘and they spoke in the holy tongue, in which the world was created at the beginning,’ meaning the Hebrew language, usually called the holy tongue; and this is the sense of Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and the Jewish writers in general, and of many Christians.”[6]
- John Gill stated, “As has been shown, the Hebrew language was the first and primitive language, and was spoken by Adam. It is probable the letters were first invented by him, as some have thought; since as man is not only a speaking, but a social animal, it can hardly be imagined that Adam should live so many years, and not consider the advantage of letters to his posterity, and attempt to form such for their use. As arts and sciences were no doubt found out in Adam’s time, they could not be well cultivated without the use of letters.”[7]
- It appears that Noah used these very same names when he brought the animals into the ark: “Two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.” (Genesis 6:19-20 NKJV) “So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.” (Genesis 7:16 NKJV)
- This common language continued past the time of the Flood until at least the time of the Tower of Babel: “Now the whole earth had ONE LANGUAGE and ONE SPEECH.” (Genesis 11:1 NKJV)
- John Gill has stated, “The names of persons and places before the confusion at Babel, are in the Hebrew language, and are plainly derived from words in it; as Adam from Adamah, earth, out of which he was formed, as is generally thought. Eve, from Chayah, to live, because the mother of all living; Cain from hnq get, obtain, possess, being gotten from the Lord; Abel, from Hebel, vanity, as his life was; and Seth, from Sheth, put, appointed, because put, set, or appointed another feed in the room of Abel: and so all the names of the Antediluvian patriarchs down to Noah and his sons, and their names also, with all those before the confusion and dispersion at Babel; and likewise the names of places, as of the garden of Eden, from delight, pleasure, it being a very pleasant place; and the land of Nod from to wander about; Cain being an exile and wanderer in it: now these being the names of persons and places before the confusion of tongues, clearly show what language was spoken before that time, namely the Hebrew, which therefore seems to be the primitive one.”[8]
- Ariel’s Bible Commentary states, “[Genesis 11] Verse 1 begins by describing what the original state was: the whole earth was of two things. First, there was one language. The Hebrew word literally reads “of one lip.” As already noted, that language was Hebrew, since all names are Hebrew names prior to this chapter and all the word plays only make sense in Hebrew. Second, the whole earth was of one speech. The Hebrew term means “words”; all people had one vocabulary.”[9]
- The Pulpit Commentary states, “The primitive language was believed by the Rabbins, the Fathers, and the older theologians to be Hebrew”[10]
- This common language continued past the time of the Flood until at least the time of the Tower of Babel: “Now the whole earth had ONE LANGUAGE and ONE SPEECH.” (Genesis 11:1 NKJV)
- Many think that the original language completely disappeared after the confusion of tongues. Yet Scripture only states that ALL peoples no longer speak this common language, in order to produce the desired effect of disrupting the building of the city and the Tower of Babel.
- One group could continue to speak the original language even AFTER the wholesale confusion of languages. The continuation of the original language did not eliminate the confusion of languages as all other groups spoke different languages.
- The group that continued to speak this original language received a great privilege from God, whose favor would be demonstrated in many ways. The one group upon which God demonstrated great favor after the scattering of the nations was the family of Abram, who then brought this language from Ur to Canaan: “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan … Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.” (Genesis 11:31-12:5 NKJV)
- John Bunyan wrote, “This Eber was a very godly man, the next after Shem that vigorously stood up to maintain religion …This was the man that kept that language with which Adam was created, and that in which God spake to the fathers of old, from being corrupted and confounded by the confusion of Babel; and therefore it is for ever called his, the Hebrew tongue (John 5:2; 19:13, 20), the tongue in which Christ spake from heaven to and by Saul (Acts 21:40; 22:2; 26:14). This man therefore, was a stiff opposer of Nimrod; neither had he a hand in the building of Babel; for all that had, had their language confounded by that strange judgment of God.”[11]
- Matthew Henry stated regarding Babel, “We may here lament the loss of the universal use of the Hebrew tongue, which from this time was the vulgar language of the Hebrews only, and CONTINUED so till the captivity in Babylon”[12]
- Martin Luther wrote, “Eber, who undoubtedly retained the first and true language, was unable thereafter to instruct others whose language he did not know and who could not understand him.”[13]
- John Wesley wrote, “Eber himself, we may suppose, was a man eminent for religion in a time of general apostasy; and the holy tongue being commonly called from him the Hebrew, it is probable he retained it in his family in the confusion of Babel, as a special token of God’s favour to him.”[14]
- The article “Hebrew Term Origin”[15] indicates that one of the reasons that Abraham was called “Abram the Hebrew” was because he was one of those who STILL SPOKE Hebrew after the confusion of tongues.
THE PURE AND RESTORED LANGUAGE
“For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the LORD, to serve Him with one accord.” (Zephaniah 3:9 NKJV)
- The word translated as “pure” means “to select, to polish, to choose, purged, purge out, purify, a purified lip.” [16] This implies that any impurities in the language would be purified. It does not mean that all languages have no trace of the pure language; the use of the term “purged” implies that there are traces of this pure language in other languages.
- The article “A Brief History of the Hebrew Language” states, “A Midrash on the Migdal Bavel (Tower of Babel) teaches that at the end of time all people will once again speak one language, and that will be a purified form of the Hebrew tongue.”[17]
THIS “PURE LANGUAGE” IS HEBREW
The restoration of this pure language will be a sign and a wonder. Hebrew is also a sign and wonder:
- Hebrew is the only language that has been restored after thousands of years after not being commonly used.
- Hebrew is the only language that has been restored in the Land that also was restored to a people after thousands of years of exile.
- Hebrew is the only language where this restoration is seen by the entire world as a fulfillment of a miracle from God.
- Hebrew is the only language where men can use the unique Hebrew term of calling upon the name of the Lord.
HEBREW IS THE ETERNAL LANGUAGE
Hebrew appears to be the language spoken between God the Father and God the Son.
- God identified Himself from the very beginning by a unique combination of four HEBREW letters.
- Adam called his wife the HEBREW name of “Eve”: “And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.” (Genesis 3:20 NKJV) The name given by Adam is stated by Scripture to be authoritative: “Whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.” (Genesis 2:19 NKJV)
- Eve gave her firstborn son the HEBREW name of “Cain”, which means “acquired”, because she “acquired a man from the Lord.” (Genesis 4:1-2) Eve gave her third son the HEBREW name of “Seth”, which means, “substituted”, because she knew that “the Lord substituted a son in place of Abel.” (Genesis 4:25)
- The specific name of the Lord (YHVH) is a Hebrew name. This specific name was first used by Eve when describing the birth of her first son Cain: “Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the LORD.’” (Genesis 4:1 NKJV) The entire world at the time of Seth spoke Hebrew, for men used the HEBREW name of God: “Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.” (Genesis 4:26 NKJV)
- Jesus spoke in the HEBREW language to Saul of Tarsus: While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus … I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’”' (Acts 26:12-14 NKJV)
- The 144,000 from every tribe of Israel will speak in Hebrew: “And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed” (Revelation 7:4 NKJV)
- The saints in heaven will sing the song of Moses, which is a HEBREW song: “They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God.” (Revelation 15:3 NKJV)
THE LANGUAGE CHOSEN BY GOD
God said He “will restore to the peoples a pure language.” (Zephaniah 3:9 NKJV)
- God chose the land – Scripture is clear that the land given to the Hebrews was the Chosen Land. God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees to the land of Canaan. The article “Eden and Jerusalem Traditions”[18] lists many reasons why Eden and Jerusalem may be the same place. It is clear that the New Jerusalem will also be in the same place. Just as God chose to walk in the Garden in a certain place, God also chose to send His Son to suffer and reign in this same place.
- God chose the people – Scripture is clear that the Hebrews were the chosen people.
- God chose the language – “God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31 NKJV) One the things that He had made was LANGUAGE. The preceding lists the many evidences indicating that the Hebrews alone continue to speak the pure language given to all mankind.
PURE - for it proceeds from God who is pure
TRANSMITTED - by God Himself to men
PERSEVERES – for it is spoken by some even today
RESTORED – for it will be spoken by all
“I know that whatever God does
It shall be forever
Nothing can be added to it
And nothing taken from it
God does it that men should fear before Him
That which is has already been
And what is to be has already been”
(Ecclesiastes 3:14-15 NKJV)
[1] “Fleeing Europe, Jews Found Haven in America”, by Oscar Reiss, accessed 7/26/2015 at Article Details
[2] Cassandra Chenhalls
[3] Genesis 2:18–25 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Ariel’s Bible Commentary: The Book of Genesis, 1st ed. (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2008), 84.
[4] Genesis 3:20–24 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Ariel’s Bible Commentary: The Book of Genesis, 1st ed. (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2008), 110.
[5] “Governor William Bradford, and His Son, Major William Bradford, by James Bradford; accessed 12/13/2015 at Governor William Bradford – Books on Google Play
[6] “Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel Points and Accents” by John Gill, pp. 19-20, accessed 7/25/2015 at http://faithsaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AntiquityoftheHebrewLanguageLettersV.pdf
[7] “Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel Points and Accents” by John Gill, p. 35, accessed 7/25/2015 at http://faithsaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AntiquityoftheHebrewLanguageLettersV.pdf
[8] “A Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowel Points and Accents” By John Gill, D.D., p. 24, accessed 7/25/2015 at http://faithsaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AntiquityoftheHebrewLanguageLettersV.pdf
[9] Genesis 11:1–4 Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Ariel’s Bible Commentary: The Book of Genesis, 1st ed. (San Antonio, TX: Ariel Ministries, 2008), 221.
[10] H. D. M. Spence-Jones, ed., Genesis, The Pulpit Commentary (London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909), 163, Genesis 11:1, accessed 8/3/2015 at http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tpc/view.cgi?bk=0&ch=11
[11] Genesis 10:24–25 John Bunyan, An Exposition of the First Ten Chapters of Genesis, vol. 2 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2006), 500, accessed 8/1/2015 at Acacia John Bunyan - Online Library - Sermons & Allegories - An Exposition on the First Ten Chapters of Genesis: X
[12] Genesis 11:5–9 Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994), 33, [author’s emphasis] accessed 7/26/2015 at http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mhm/view.cgi?bk=0&ch=11
[13] Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, Vol. 2: Lectures on Genesis: Chapters 6-14, ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Hilton C. Oswald, and Helmut T. Lehmann, vol. 2 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999), 215, Genesis 10:32
[14] Genesis 10:21 John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, vol. 1 (Bristol: William Pine, 1765), 46, accessed 8/1/2015 at Genesis 10 Commentary - Wesley's Explanatory Notes
[15] See article “Hebrew Term Origin” at Hebrew Term Origin | 3amthoughts.com
[16] barar OT:1305 James Strong, Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon (Woodside Bible Fellowship, 1995), accessed 7/26/2015 at http://www.studylight.org/lexicons/hebrew/hwview.cgi?n=1305)
[17] “A Brief History of the Hebrew Language”, accessed 7/26/2015 at A Brief History of the Hebrew Language
[18] See article “Eden and Jerusalem Traditions” at Eden and Jerusalem Traditions | 3amthoughts.com
Hebrew - Language of Heaven | 3amthoughts.com
