Judgments
Judgements
The word judgement shows up 125 times in the Biblical text 36 of which are found in the Torah. They are not all translated from the same Hebrew word.
- Exodus 6:6 "Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments[3]:"
- Exodus 7:4 "But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, [and] my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments[3]."
In these two verses we see the word judgment is from the shephet (שֶׁפֶט)[3] meaning judgment, act of judgment from shaphat (שָׁפַט)[4] to judge.
But later in Exodus we see a different word also translated judgement:
In these two verses we see the word judgment is from the mishpat(מִשְׁפָט)[5] meaning judgment, justice" but is translated numerous different way. It can represent a "court" but "a process, procedure, litigation". Basically it is "case"" or a previous " decision (of judgment). But it is also from shaphat (שָׁפַט)[4] to judge.
Moses was setting up a system of people's courts. These are the "judgments" or as we see in the Hebrew text the full word is hammišpāṭîm (הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים) HeyMemShinPeiTetYodMem.
These are not king's courts but cases are decide on the very local level where the people need to decide each case with an examination of the facts of the case and the precepts of the law and how it is applied.
Moses will jump start the court system with 613 judgements and guidelines. Are these judgements a list of codified laws which bind the conscience of the people or are they examples and comments concerning principles and presidents of prior cases?
The people were the fundamental interpreters of the law with a right of appeal to a network of men who did not go up by steps but already served the people through a system of charitable service to the people.
A major change to what had been the earlier Hammurabi codification of law was replacing the human king with Yahweh as lawgiver. But that same lawgiver would need to write upon the heart and mind of people who were not accustomed to living at the expense of their neighbor nor instituting force and violence in covetous practices.
The people's courts were not appointed from the top down like many systems today, nor are they dependent upon a legislature to make law daily nor supreme judges who decide good and evil. The people must attend to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.
The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.
The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.
The modern Christians are in need of repentance.
"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.
- One of the most important things to do is to become involved in a network of Charitable Practices. Everyone should want to join a Living Network of Love and Charity.
- If you think you have a calling to be a Minister of God or you might want to dedicate your life to Christ as an Ordained Minister of His Holy Church, contact us to start the process of discipleship and become the benefactors who exercise only love, NOT authority.[6]
Or there will be no justice or mercy.
- ↑ Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 08201 שֶׁפֶט shephet [sheh’-fet] from 08199; n m; [BDB-1048a] [{See TWOT on 2443 @@ "2443a" }] AV-judgment 16; 16
- 1) judgment, act of judgment
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 08199 ^טפשׁ^ ShemPeiTet shaphat \@shaw-fat’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 2443} AV-judge (v) 119, judge (n) 60, plead 11, avenged 2, condemn 2, execute 2, judgment 2, defend 1, deliver 1, misc 3; 203
- 1) to judge, govern, vindicate, punish
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to act as law-giver or judge or governor (of God, man)
- 1a1a) to rule, govern, judge
- 1a2) to decide controversy (of God, man)
- 1a3) to execute judgment
- 1a3a) discriminating (of man)
- 1a3b) vindicating
- 1a3c) condemning and punishing
- 1a3d) at theophanic advent for final judgment
- 1a1) to act as law-giver or judge or governor (of God, man)
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) to enter into controversy, plead, have controversy together
- 1b2) to be judged
- 1b1) to enter into controversy, plead, have controversy together
- 1c) (Poel) judge, opponent-at-law (participle)
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to judge, govern, vindicate, punish
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 04941 ^טפשׁמ^ MemShinPeiTet mishpat \@mish-pawt’\@ מִשְׁפָּט has 50 different variations and appears some 420 times and is from the three letter Hebrew word 08199 טפשׁ; n m; {See TWOT on 2443 @@ "2443c"} AV-judgment 296, manner 38, right 18, cause 12, ordinance 11, lawful 7, order 5, worthy 3, fashion 3, custom 2, discretion 2, law 2, measure 2, sentence 2, misc 18; 421
- 1) judgment, justice, ordinance
- 1a) judgment
- 1a1) act of deciding a case
- 1a2) place, court, seat of judgment
- 1a3) process, procedure, litigation (before judges)
- 1a4) case, cause (presented for judgment)
- 1a5) sentence, decision (of judgment)
- 1a6) execution (of judgment)
- 1a7) time (of judgment)
- 1b) justice, right, rectitude (attributes of God or man)
- 1c) ordinance
- 1d) decision (in law)
- 1e) right, privilege, due (legal)
- 1f) proper, fitting, measure, fitness, custom, manner, plan
- 1a) judgment
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
- ט Tet Introversion - The Concealed power of good or paradoxically evil [to twist a snake... wheel To surround (gestation)] (Numeric value: 9)
- 1) judgment, justice, ordinance
- ↑ Matthew 20:25-26 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: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mark 10:42-43 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: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Luke 22:25-26 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: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.