Words in Hebrew are about identifying something by what it does, its action, not by its appearance. In a sense, even nouns in Hebrew are verbs. For example, “the Hebrew word for father is אב (av) and literally means ‘the one who gives strength to the family’ and mother אם (em) means ‘the one that binds the family together’.”7

The nations were to have seen a prospering nation of people (Jews) and been provoked to jealously ask, “What is it that makes life work for you?” and the Jew was to smile and say, “Come and meet my God!” thus, bringing the nations in repentance back to reconciliation in the heart of the Living God.

Holy simply means “set apart for a specific purpose.”

(We don’t care what the garden or man look like because appearance is the Greek way of viewing things.)

We are concerned now with function. If we don’t understand how it works, its function, it is of no benefit to us.

When God is saying that something is good, He means it is functioning within the design for which He made it.

A name has to do with character and destiny. Every time we call someone’s name we are calling out their destiny.

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His grace provides the empowerment to overcome sin4 and sin patterns in our lives forever.