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The smoking furnace and a burning lamp

In translation of Genesis 15:17 Abraham speaks of a vision of a Smoking furnace and a burning lamp.

The term vision is seen in the scripture as bammaḥăzeh בַּֽמַּחֲזֶ֖ה or BeitMemChetZayinHey which only appears in this verse. The root word being translated vision also is MemChetZayinHey[1] and is from ChetZayinHey[2] which has been translated see, behold, and even prophesy.

  • ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
  • זָ ז Zayin The "Crowned" head. Seen with the contradictory meaning of "Service with Valor", but also "Sustenance with Nourishment". Associated with "cut bread" and also "war and provision", meaning literally "sword or weapon" and "crown or ornament". [To Cut or cut off, manacle] (value 7)
  • ה Hey Expression, Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)

This vision is a personal message to Abraham for telling the purpose and practices of the way of God. It speaks of a division a difference in what the world often does and what God desires and is part of a cause and effect built into creation. One type of sacrifice will bring a burning lamp by which men may see the truth and the other brings darkness. There will be "the heavenly city on a hill"[3] that is not like the cities of Babylon and Sumer because of the nature of its sacrifice. One is idolatry because it is a social welfare provided by the sacrifice of fools through covetous practices while the other is rooted in the righteousness of God because it has no leaven but is the result of faith, hope, and charity.

The latter gives a rebirth of the mind and soul of man because he loves the light and the former blinds men because they prefer the darkness.

Abraham will dwell in Gerar and not go in bondage to the idolatry of his father Terah and the bondage to the Nimrods and Abimelechs of the world men make for themselves.

Fear of freedom

This vision of Abram is associated with wisdom and includes the instruction to Fear not.

What is that fear and what produces or encourages it?

Lot was afraid to live outside the protection of the city-state as many people at that time were also afraid. This vision and life's struggles will show Abraham the way of righteousness as opposed to the way of the wicked.[4]

By verse 17 we see the words "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces" of the sacrifice.

What does the symbolism of a smokingעָשָׁן֙ ashan smoking[5] furnace ( תַּנּוּר‎ tannuwr[6] tell us within the meaning of the vision?

Departing from the cities

This is a vision of Abram after departing from the city states of Haran and Ur with many[7] souls[8] and there is a great quandary as to its meaning.

It has to do with the sacrifices people may make and dividing them or judging them as a good thing or not. There was smoke that came from the sacrifices of Cain and Able. Some will tell you that the stories are literal and they may be but they also may be allegories.

One sacrifice produced smoke that went up and the other did not. Both were allowed but produced different outcomes.

When Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed there was also smoke of a furnace.[9] That smoke[10] was from a different Hebrew word and so to was the term for furnace[11] different.

Smoke of Ashan

The smoking (עָשָׁן֙ ashan)[5] furnace (תַנּ֤וּר)[6] or anan tannur may be a “portable oven or a firepot".

The word smoking appears in the text as the Hebrew letters עָשָׁן֙ or AyinShinNun or ashan'[12]. The term ashan is both a noun and as a verb which can also mean both "smoking" and "smoke", but can also "literally or figuratively" mean "vapor, dust, anger"[13] or as a verb be angry.[5]

What was going on in the cities that might make God angry?

We know God hates the deeds of the Nicolaitan and those deeds are equated with the error of Balaam.

There was sacrifice in Egypt that was compelled by the government which was part of the agreement made with the people and the Pharaoh. In turn the Pharoah provided a form of social welfare and protection for the people in hard times

There is a related word ashaq (AynShinKuf עָשַׁק‎)[14] which can mean to oppress or an oppressor related to defraud and deceitfully gotten.

The dainties of rulers was called deceitful meats in Proverbs. We were told that their tables[15] of welfare were a snare and a trap[16] not only in Proverbs but in David's Psalms and by Paul who quoted him.

We should also know that the Leaven of Herod and the Pharisees also had to do with oppression. Together they set up a system of Corban that "made the word of God to none effect". And Corban is the Hebrew word for sacrifice.

Jesus was about sacrifice and professed charity was a good thing, at least in the form of charity. So can we see that the Corban of the Pharisees was distinctively different than the Corban of Christ?

Furnace of tannuwr

The word translated furnace is תַּנּוּר‎ tannuwr TavNunVavReish.

  • ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
  • נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
  • ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
  • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200).

Another word is TavNunChetVavMemHey המוחנת tanchuwmah which is said to means comforter or consolation.

So if המוחנת tanchuwmah means comforter or consolation what does that have to do with the comforter Jesus promised to send to those who followed The Way?

Is it a smoking furnace or an angry furnace? Or is it a furnace at all?

Does the furnace bring the consequences of following the ways found in the City states rather than the way of the altars of Abraham?

The Midrash[17] has Abraham thrown into the fiery furnace of Nimrod over a dispute about what and how to worship. Abraham survived the furnace but his brother was next and he was consumed. Or possibly his lieutenant Yoktan did the deed.[18]

The smoking furnace can be interpreted as a visual representation of the coming affliction and judgment upon Abraham's descendants in Egypt. It is said to symbolize the tribulation they would endure.

תַנּ֤וּר עָשָׁן֙ āšān ṯannūr

The lamp

And a burning lamp may be a source of light. A lamp is often called a neer.[19]

Jesus was a light unto the world and he revealed the way of righteousness that seem to come into conflict with the civil law causing persecution.

Will be able to see what Abraham eventually begin to see as he travelled "between Kadesh[20] and Shur[21], and sojourned in Gerar."

What will Abraham learn?

And are those who claim him as their prophet able to see by the light of his vision what is the way of righteousness and what is the way of unrighteousness?

Jesus talks about the mammon of unrighteousness and the rewards of unrighteousness. Are those wages of unrighteousness the dainties of rulers which like the Corban of Herod's tables make the word of God to none effect?[22]

  1. ↑ 04236 מַחֲזֶה‎ machazeh makh-az-eh’ MemChetZayinHey from 02372 chazah ChetZayinHey see; n m; [BDB-303b] {See TWOT on 633 @@ "633f" } AV-vision 4; 4
    1) vision (in the ecstatic state)
  2. ↑ 02372 חָזָה‎ chazah [khaw-zaw’] ChetZayinHey a primitive root; v; [BDB-302a] [{See TWOT on 633 }] AV-see 38, behold 7, look 3, prophesy 2, provide 1; 51
    1) to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to see, behold
    1a2) to see as a seer in the ecstatic state
    1a3) to see, perceive
    1a3a) with the intelligence
    1a3b) to see (by experience)
    1a3c) to provide
    • See 02372 (חֹזֶה)‎ chazah, to see and provide with intelligence; 02373 (חֹזֶה)‎ chazeh, breast; 02374 (חֹזֶה)‎ chozeh seer, see, agreement.
  3. ↑ Zion, City of light
    • Isaiah 62:1 "For Zion s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp [that] burneth."
    • Matthew 5:14 "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."
    • Proverbs 4:18 "But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
    • John 5:35 "He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light."
    • John 12:36 "While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them." Luke 16:8
    • Romans 2:19 "And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law."
    • 2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?"
    • Ephesians 5:8 "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"
    • 1 Thessalonians 5:5 "Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness."
    • John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." See Born again."
    • 1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."
  4. ↑ Broad is the way
    Matthew 7:13 "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:"
    Matthew 3:2 "And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
    Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
    Matthew 18:2 "And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."
    Matthew 23:13 "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in."
    Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
    Isaiah 1:9 "Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah."
    Isaiah 55:7 "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
    Isaiah 62:1 "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation(וִישׁוּעָתָ֖הּ) thereof as a lamp that burneth...10 Go through(עִבְרוּ֙), go through(עִבְר֤וּ) the gates(בַּשְּׁעָרִ֔ים); prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones(מֵאֶ֔בֶן mêeḇen); lift up(הָרִ֥ימוּ hārîmū) a standard for the people." See Genesis 28 the ladder.
    Ezekiel 18:27 "Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye."
    Jeremiah 5:1 "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be [any] that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. 3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds."
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 06227 ashan [aw-shawn ] from 06225 awshan to smoke or be angry; n m; [BDB-798b] [{See TWOT on 1712 @@ "1712a" }] AV-smoke 24, smoking 1; 25
    1) smoke
    1a) smoke
    1b) in metaphor, simile
    1c) smoke (fig.)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 08574 תַּנּוּר‎ tannuwr tan-noor’ this is TavNunVavReish is from 05216 נִיר‎ niyr a lamp or light which is NunYodReish other words like 05215 niyr נִיר meaning plowing, tillage and 05214 nir נִיר "through the idea of the gleam of a fresh furrow"; n m; [BDB-1072a] {See TWOT on 2526 } AV-oven 11, furnace 4; 15
    1) furnace, oven, fire-pot, (portable) stove
    1a) for cooking
    1b) of God’s wrath, His furnace (fig)
    1c) of hunger, desire for evil
    1d) fire-pot
  7. ↑ "And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came." Genesis 12:5
  8. ↑ 05315 ^שׁפנ^ nephesh NunPeiShin \@neh’- fesh\@ from 05314; n f; AV-soul 475, life 117, person 29, mind 15, heart 15, creature 9, body 8, himself 8, yourselves 6, dead 5, will 4, desire 4, man 3, themselves 3, any 3, appetite 2, misc 47; 753
    1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
    1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
    1b) living being
    1c) living being (with life in the blood)
    1d) the man himself, self, person or individual
    1e) seat of the appetites
    1f) seat of emotions and passions
    1g) activity of mind
    1g1) dubious
    1h) activity of the will
    1h1) dubious
    1i) activity of the character
    1i1) dubious
    • נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
    • פ ף Pei Communication; follows Ayin to suggest that seeing and understanding must preceed: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
  9. ↑ "And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace."  Genesis 19:28
  10. ↑ 07008 קִיטוֹר‎ qiytowr kee-tore’ KufYodTetVavReish or קיטר‎ qiytor kee-tore’ from 06999 רטק qatar incense and 07000 רטַקָ KufTetReish qatar joined; n m; [BDB-882b] {See TWOT on 2011 @@ "2011b" } AV-smoke 3, vapour 1; 4
    1) thick smoke, smoke
    • 06998 קָטַף‎ qataph KufTetPei pluck off;
      07000 קָטַר‎ qatar KufTetReish joined, to shut in;
      07001 קְטַר‎ qëtar (Aramaic) knot, joint;
      07002 קִטֵּר‎ qitter incense 1;
      07004 קְטֹרֶת‎ qëtoreth KufTetReishTav incense, smoke, odour; See sweet savour
  11. ↑ 03536 כִּבְשָׁן‎ kibshan kib-shawn’ from 03533 שׁבַכָּ kabash subdue or bring into bondage ; n m; [BDB-461b] {See TWOT on 952 } AV-furnace 4; 4
    1) kiln (pottery or lime), smelting forge, furnace
  12. ↑ 06225 ashan [aw-shan ] a primitive root; v; [BDB-798b] [{See TWOT on 1712 }] AV-smoke 5, angry 1; 6
    1) to smoke, be angry, be wroth
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to smoke
    1a2) to fume, be wroth, be furious
  13. ↑ "O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?"  [[Psalms 80]:4
  14. ↑ 06231 ^קשׁע^ ‘ashaq AyinShinKuf \@aw-shak’\@ a primitive root (comp. 06229); v; {See TWOT on 1713} AV-oppress 23, oppressor 4, defraud 3, wrong 2, deceived 1, deceitfully gotten 1, oppression 1, drink up 1, violence 1; 37
    1) to press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to oppress, wrong, extort
    1a2) to oppress
    1b) (Pual) to be exploited, be crushed
    • ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
  15. ↑ Two tables
    Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents."
    Romans 11:8 "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."
    1 Corinthians 10:20 "But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils." (See the sacrifice of fools in Ecclesiastes 5:1)
    Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (see "portion to seven" Ecclesiastes 11:2 and Acts 6.)
    Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
    Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
    Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.
    Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.
    Malachi 2:2 "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings<01293>: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart." See wages of unrighteousness and snare.
    Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
    1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" (see merchandise)
  16. ↑ Table as a snare
    23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.”
    • Romans 11:8 "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
    9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
    10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.”
  17. ↑ Midrashis an ancient commentary on Hebrew scriptures. The earliest Midrashim come from the 2nd century AD, although much of their content is assumed to be older.
  18. ↑ Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo 6:16-17, first or second century CE. The story is actually an early legend found in commentaries on Genesis by Rabbah.
  19. ↑ 05216 נִיר‎ niyr neer or נר‎ nir neer also ניר‎ neyr nare or נר‎ ner nare or (fem.) נרה‎ nerah nay-raw’ from a primitive root [see 05214, 05135] properly, meaning to glisten; n m; [BDB-632b, BDB-633a] {See TWOT on 1333 @@ "1333b" } AV-lamp 35, candle 9, light 4; 48
    1) lamp
  20. ↑ 06946 קָדֵשׁ KufDaletShin (Qadesh) -- "sacred," set apart or "holy"; a place in the desert.
    "For Kadesh see Genesis 14:7. Bered is absolutely unknown." Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers.
  21. ↑ Shur: Derived from the Hebrew root שׁוּר ShinVavReish(shur) which is said to mean "to travel" or "to journey" has many other meanings.
    Meanings included:
    • excite or be raised.
    • a wall or fortification,
    • protective barrier,
    • the idea of strength and progress,
    • (metaphysical) develop spiritual awakening
    Meaning of letters:
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200).
      ----
      The related concept of a "wilderness" or a "desert" and might be found under Greek terms like:
      ἔρημος (erēmos - 2048), meaning "desert" or "wilderness" suggests a measure of isolating, fasting, and yearning. Genesis 16, Genesis 20.
      The Greek Eremos corresponding to Shur(שׂוּר‎ ):
      * ερημια eremia 2047 wilderness;
      * ερημος eremos 2048 solitude;
      * ερημοω eremoo 2049 despoliation;
      * ερημωσις eremosis 2050  desolation.
      "The voice of one crying in the (ἔρημος) wilderness" emeros has a metaphorical meaning a state of being which comes with an isolation from unrighteousness.
  22. ↑ Not exercise authority
    Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
    Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
    Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
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