Goatherd Guide to the Bible

Early childhood education experts say that a language is not well-understood until you can laugh at puns and riddles (word play). This level of understanding recognizes that word can have different meanings and that words which sound similar may be played with in order to engage a higher level of thinking, than simple language.

I have spent the last 20 years inductively studying Hebrew in the Bible from scratch. One of the rabbis I studied with once told me that Hebrew was unlike any other language. He said that if you did not know the meaning of a Hebrew word, you could figure it out from the combination of the metaphors of the letters within. The meaning of words were derived from the combined meaning of letters, which obtained their meaning from the strokes within. He could not tell me how to do it. So I took 8000 Hebrew words and reverse engineered them into 2-letter 'gates', and then single letter metaphor. This just means I did a lot of work.

Now I am rebuilding the Hebrew dictionary to show that it works. And in the process of reading the Bible, it appears that there is a second layer of meaning hidden within the historical-literal text. This second meaning isn't mysterious foreign teachings, but appears to be prophecies of Christ and the cross, hidden in prophetic riddle. They are revealed when knowledge of the New Testament is applied to the solving of the Old Testament riddles.

I apologize in advance. It will be easy for my Jewish friends to take offense if they choose; I understand many don't wish to speak of Christ and the reference to the Old Testament is offensive to some. But it it the common reference for those who will be more likely to read these articles.

I am writing here in order to learn how to communicate what I have learned better. I will try to write to an audience which has little knowledge of the Bible, and probably what they do know is from what someone told them. This will force me to explain things well. Others are certainly welcome to interact as well.

I will not be teaching what to believe. I will be sharing my observations. I usually will not go into great detail as to how riddles were solved, but will share the results. Because of this, the results will look like free-for-all allegory. They are not. There are some simple rules which prevent that:

First: A metaphor is solved when it is the same everywhere it exists. For instance, some people say that leaven represents sin, so unleavened bread is sinless bread. I know that sounds like nonsense if you are not familiar with the teaching in the Bible. But hang in there. You don't have to know that yet to understand the principle. The Bible also says that the kingdom of heaven is like leaven. Now the person who says it represents sin is practicing free-for-all allegory, because it has to mean something else in the second statement, or he has to explain in what way the kingdom of heaven is like sin.

But if leaven represents 'teaching', the the unleavened bread represents the untaught Christ (Jesus said the bread represented his body). People marveled where he got his teaching since he had not been taught. And the kingdom of heaven is teaching which starts off small and spreads. As we observe that it is the same thing (teaching) everywhere that leaven is mentioned, then we have an observation that could not possibly have been invented by men.

Second: Outside sources are not used to solve riddles. If a historian or a philosopher or theologian has to give us more information to solve a riddle, then we make him equal to a Bible author.

Next I will post on some observations that appear to validate our assumptions about the alphabet and formation of words.