Pure language – David S – 2025-06-07

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Short Summary
The discourse explores the biblical concept of a “pure language” mentioned in Zephaniah, emphasizing its symbolic role in uniting humanity under a clear understanding of God’s will after a period of purification. It discusses the idea that the original language spoken by Adam and Eve, termed “Edenic” or Proto-Hebrew, is the root of all modern languages, supported by linguistic evidence and the revival of Hebrew by Eliezer Ben Yehuda as a unifying tongue for the Jewish people. The message concludes with reflections on living a pure, loving, and truthful life within the Christian community as a present application of this pure language.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Discourse on “Pure Language” Based on Zephaniah 3:8–9 and Related Themes

Introduction to “Pure Language” Concept
– The term “pure language” appears in Zephaniah 3:8–9.
– Zephaniah 3:8 describes severe divine judgment symbolized by fire and anger upon the nations.
– However, verse 9 offers hope: after judgment, God will “change unto the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent” (Zephaniah 3:9).
– The discourse interprets the judgment as symbolic rather than literal destruction, preserving humanity to receive the pure language.

Contextualizing the Judgment and Promise
– Some groups, like Seventh-day Adventists, believe the earth will be burned and remain desolate for a thousand years before repopulation.
– The speaker challenges this view, suggesting biblical prophecy indicates restoration and unification through pure language.
– The timing and nature of this transformation involve humbling the earth and then imparting this pure language or method.

Outline of the Study
– Part 1: Understanding the pure language prophecy and its application.
– Part 2: Investigating the original language spoken by Adam and Eve.
– Part 3: Speculating on what language mankind will speak in God’s kingdom.

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### Part 1: Understanding Zephaniah 3:8–9 and Application Today

Brother Russell’s Perspective (Reprint 3684)
– The “fire of God’s jealousy” is symbolic, meant to purify rather than destroy.
– After this purification, God will give humanity a “pure language”—a clear, pure message declaring God’s will and plan of salvation.
– This message will clarify knowledge of Jehovah, Jesus Christ, and the means of release from sin and death.
– The pure language symbolizes a pure method or process for salvation, distinct from the many confused religious “isms” today.

The Pure Method
– Described as the divine plan of the ages.
– It is a method leading to life, joy, and blessing.
– Post-judgment, people will no longer be confused by competing religious doctrines but will serve God unified.

Applying Pure Language to the Church
– Five scriptural principles guide how members of the church can “speak the pure language”:
1. Speak the Truth in Love
– Ephesians 4:15: Speaking truth in love builds up the body and helps believers grow into Christ’s likeness.
2. Do Not Lie to One Another
– Ephesians 4:25: Truthfulness is essential because believers are members of one body.
3. Have a Pure Motive
– 1 Timothy 1:5: Actions should stem from pure love, good conscience, and faith.
4. Live a Pure Life
– 1 John 3:3: Those who hope in Christ purify themselves as He is pure.
5. Be a Source of Refreshment to Brethren
– 1 Peter 1:22: Love fervently from the heart and support one another practically, not just in words.
– Illustration: An elderly sister who refused help painting the basement reminds believers to accept and offer help as expressions of love.

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### Part 2: What Language Did Adam Speak?

Introduction to Edenic Language
– The original language spoken by Adam (and Eve) is referred to as “Edenic” or “Proto-Hebrew.”
– This language was created by God and implanted in Adam’s mind; no learning process was necessary.
– Adam’s vocabulary expanded as he named the animals (Genesis 2:19–20).
– Communication with God and between Adam and Eve was in this original language.

Isaac Mozeson’s Linguistic Theory
– Isaac Mozeson, a Jewish linguistics professor (PhD), wrote *The Origin of Speeches*.
– He argues that all world languages derive from the original Edenic language.
– At Babel, God confused languages, creating about 70 languages, all based on Edenic/Proto-Hebrew.
– Hebrew is a consonantal language lacking written vowels; vowel sounds are supplied by context.
– Examples of Hebrew roots and their English cognates:
tzippor (Hebrew for bird) → English “sparrow”
suresh (root or source) → English “source”
regiel (regular) → English “religion”
farak (flower, from fruit + spell) → English words like fertile, apricot, prune, fragrance
sheffield (to be low) → English words slope, slip, spill, slumber, sleep
– Audience participation with Hebrew words and English cognates showed strong linguistic connections.
– Mozeson claims there are about 23,000 such examples linking Hebrew roots to English words.
– The linguistic evidence supports the biblical account of Babel and the origin of languages.

Criticism of Modern Linguistics
– Many linguists reject the Bible’s account, which Mozeson attributes to bias.
– The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, denies a direct link between “Babel” and “babble,” despite clear linguistic connections.
– The word “amen” is correctly traced back to Hebrew, but related words like “amenable” are traced to non-Hebrew origins, showing selective acceptance.

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### Part 3: The Pure Language of the Future

What Language Will Be Spoken in the Kingdom?
– The speaker’s educated guess is Hebrew or Proto-Hebrew.
– Hebrew was the language of Shem and Abraham, preserved through the ages.
– Historically, Jews spoke the language of their countries but used Hebrew for worship and scripture.
– The modern revival of Hebrew as a spoken language was largely due to Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858–1922).
– Orthodox Jew who dedicated his life to reviving Hebrew in Palestine as a unifying language for Jews worldwide.
– Created new Hebrew words for modern inventions and concepts.
– Published the first Hebrew newspaper in Palestine.
– Taught Hebrew to his children as a living language.
– His efforts led to Hebrew becoming the official language of modern Israel.
– The speaker believes God’s providence was evident in Ben Yehuda’s work.
– Hebrew’s revival aligns with the biblical promise of a future pure language for mankind.

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### Concluding Remarks

– The prophecy of a pure language (Zephaniah 3:9) symbolizes God’s future unifying communication with mankind after purification.
– This pure language may well be Hebrew or a divine restoration of Edenic speech.
– The church today is called to embody the principles of pure language by living truthfully, lovingly, and purely.
– The study encourages appreciation of God’s plan, the history of language, and the hopeful future of mankind’s reconciliation with God.

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Key Bible Verses Referenced:

– Zephaniah 3:8–9 (KJV)
*“Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, to assemble the kingdoms… Then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.”*

– Ephesians 4:15
*“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.”*

– Ephesians 4:25
*“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.”*

– 1 Timothy 1:5
*“Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.”*

– 1 John 3:3
*“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”*

– 1 Peter 1:22
*“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.”*

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This comprehensive summary encapsulates the discourse’s biblical foundation, linguistic exploration, practical application, and hopeful vision for the future language of mankind.

Transcript

You probably recognize this term, pure language. It’s found in Zephaniah, chapter three, verses eight and nine. Turn with me there. Zephaniah three, eight and nine.

And we read the prophet’s message there. Therefore wait but for me, saith the Lord, for the day that I rise up from to the prey. For my judgment cometh to gather the nations, for me to assemble the kingdoms, to pour over them my indignation, all the fierceness of my anger, and through the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured. You know, if we stopped at that verse, we’d say, oh, curtains for everybody, isn’t it? That’s a severe judgment.

But we don’t stop there. Verse 9. Yay. Then notice the word. Then after all of these other seemingly terrible things, then will I change unto the people a pure language that they may call on the name of the Lord to serve him with one accord.

Wow. Now that sounds good, doesn’t it? And it also means that what we saw in verse eight, all of those. Those descriptors there that sounded so terrible, so judgmental, so destructive, were in fact symbols, symbols of something else that people aren’t really going to be totally wiped out and destroyed, because then there would be none other that could adopt the pure language. You know, our friends in the Seventh Day Adventists, they believe that the earth will be burned up and be a waste for a thousand years, and then it be we be repopulated.

Now, I’m no mentor on Seventh Day Adventist teachings, but that’s what I understand. Well, the scripture certainly challenges that, doesn’t it? In our study of this text today, we’re going to do three different parts, and brethren, I’ll confess, I’m going to have to go a little fast to fit all of this into the 45 minutes I’ve been allotted. In part one, we’re going to look a little bit closer at this text and what it means.

There’s some quotes from Brother Russell that we can take a look at and also look at how it applies to ourself. Part two of our treatment of this subject is going to posit the question, what language did Adam and Eve speak? I’ll leave that hanging for the moment. Part three posits another question.

What will mankind speak in the kingdom? We’re going to make some suggestions along those lines. All right, part one, we want to start out here with just looking at this text, see what we understand about it and how it applies to us. In reprint 3684. Brother Russell wrote this before the blessings come the day of wrath, the fire of God’s jealousy must pass upon the world.

It is not to be a fire merely to destroy, but specially to purify, and it will not be a literal file, but a symbolical fire following which the Lord will turn to the people. A pure language. Now notice this. A pure, pure message.

A clear declaration of the divine will and plan of salvation. I A pure message. You know, when the mediatorial kingdom begins and when mankind begins to come up out of the grave, raised out of the grave to the process of resurrection, they’re going to be needed to be taught many, many, many things. The most important things though have to do with recognizing who Jehovah, the Creator is, who Jesus Christ is, and what Jehovah and Jesus did to effect a release from sin and death for all mankind. Now that’s the basic message there.

It’s a clear declaration of what God really wants, and won’t it be wonderful. We rejoice in knowing what type of God we serve, what how our Father is his character. Wouldn’t it be nice to come to a planet earth where every person on earth knows what we know now? Every person on earth will look up into the sky and say wow.

All the suffering and whatnot during the the permission of evil, and now we understand why. We understand what a loving and kind and just God that we’re serving. What an attractive message that will be all about salvation. Let’s look at another example here.

This is from the question book and Brother Russell uses a different term here to describe this pure language which is interesting. We read, we understand this pure language to mean a pure method. The pure method of God’s plan. The world doesn’t know this method. Now only we know what is that pure method.

It has brought us life and joy and blessing, and the promise is that in due time he will turn into into them all a new method. They will not hear the babble that is now going on. One says, I believe you must get into the water. In other words says it’s free grace, etc.

Etc. The people have no pure method. Each has a different method. After this great time of trouble, when the whole earth will be humbled, he will turn to the people. A pure method.

They will not be serving methodism or some other ism, but will serve the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Now this is interesting to say. A poor language is a method when you think of a mess. What does a method mean? A method is a process or a set of steps, set of rules.

That lead you to an accomplishment of some kind. Well, of course, the divine plan of the ages is a wonderful method, A method that has many parts and many of those parts have been playing out over the last 6,000 plus years. We’re getting close, brethren. Getting close to the end of the preparation time for the real intent of the method to be interposed and brought upon man.

Let’s talk a little bit about how we can apply this scripture to ourself, to the church here and now. Being pure in the body of Christ. How do we do that? We’re going to look at five Scriptures. Number one, speak the truth in love.

And we have here Ephesians 4:15, Paul writes, and speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things into him who is the head, even Christ speaking the truth of love. That means we’re speaking pure truth. There’s a purity to our words. Remember this is to apply to us. We speak to one another within our ecclesia and within our conventions.

We speak words of love and truth and understanding. One of the great privileges that we have is in fact to serve one another, and whenever you serve the needs of another brother or sister, you are serving Jesus. It’s a judgment, isn’t it? How are we doing?

Are we looking at one another? Seeing Jesus in one another and seeing what we can do to help them to walk the narrow way? This is speaking of the truth, and when we do that to one another, it has an effect, a cumulative effect collectively, but also individually, we grow up into Christ. We become more like Jesus every day.

And that’s what the judgment is. You know, when we go beyond the veil, our heavenly Father Lord Jesus isn’t going to give us a three part test and say, all right, what do you believe on this? What do you believe on that? No, too late for that. What he is going to judge us on is how much like Jesus are you.

If we don’t reflect in almost perfect regard the image of our Lord Jesus, the character of our Lord Jesus, we will not make our calling election, sure, we will be deficient, and we know that the great company, that’s one of the problems. They’re righteous at heart. They want to do the right thing. They haven’t developed to the point where God can give them the divine nature.

Go on to number two here. Don’t lie to one another. It seems like an obvious thing, but Paul, he used the obvious thing there in Ephesians 4:25. Wherefore putting away falsehood. Speak ye truth.

Each one with his neighbor. For we Are members one of another. Speaking a pure language means that there should be no falsehood, no lies in what we say to one another. We should be transparent, and notice it says, for we are members of one another.

Would my toe lie to me if I stepped on a nail and it didn’t report that I was hurt? It would be lying to me, wouldn’t it? It would never happen. Right. Although I got some neuropathy, so.

But we will go there. Our body doesn’t lie to us. Rather, neither should we lie to one another. Always look for the needs of one another and seek to meet those needs. Number three.

Have a pure motive for all that we do. First Timothy 1:5. But the end of the charge of love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith. Unfeigned love out of a pure heart. We know that our Heavenly Father is described as love.

God is love. It’s a very basic part of his makeup. Brethren, we must strive to be like that. Everything that we do, everything should be motivated out of love and out of faith. I think one of the speakers this morning quoted that scripture in in Romans that says whatever is not of faith is sin.

Remember he said that it’s how important faith is. So our love has to be pure and our faith has to be pure.

Number four. Live a pure life. First John three. Three, and everyone that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Brethren, this flesh that we carry around is not pure. It’s sinful, it’s imperfect. We make mistakes, we talk out of turn. We don’t always think correctly. The new creature is struggling to control this flesh.

The new creature is pure. But that sort of suggests that that’s one of the things that we seek in our lives, in our consecrated lives, to develop that purity, to have that a pure motive in everything that we do. That’s truly speaking the pure language. Now, lastly, be a source of refreshment to our brethren. First Peter 1:22.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren. Love one another from the heart fervently. You know, the love is not simply to be an expression of our mouths or even an intention. When John says here, love one another fervently. What are you doing to show your fervent love for each other?

Now, again, one of the things is keeping an eye on one another. What can we do to help? Yeah, and sometimes the brethren are a little resistant to that. I remember many years ago in our class. We had a sister in our class who was in her early 80s.

And she came into church one morning, came into our meeting one morning, and she’s walking like this. Now, that’s not the way she walks, you know, I would find, and, and we said, what happened? Did you fall?

What happened? And she says, no, no, she says, it’s. It’s nothing. Well, there’s something wrong here. Well, I had to paint the basement floor yesterday.

Now, her husband, one of the elders in our class, he had. He had Parkinson’s. Was it, sweetie? I think something like that. He wasn’t able to do that.

So this sister in her early 80s, she’s out there painting and whatnot, and I said, my, my goodness, why didn’t you call us, you know, Brother Larry or Brother Al. My, we’d be happy to come over. In fact, it would have been a great time. You know, we’d be talking about scripture and painting and whatnot.

She said, oh, I didn’t want to be a bother. Brethren, when you get to the point in your lives where you can’t quite do everything you used to do, don’t reject the charity and love and offerings from the brethren. You know, I know what everybody thinks. You know, I don’t want to be a bother. You know, I can do it myself.

I don’t want to be a bother. But, brethren, I want you to think about that. You may be taking away a great opportunity for brethren to show their love for you and, and to enjoy the work. So think about that.

All right? This is the end of part one. Talked about what it meant, the prophecy here, the pure language, how to apply it. Now we’re going to go to part two and start to consider the question, what language did Adam speak? And I’m going to suggest the answer to that is a word you may or may not have seen.

Edenic. Now, somebody would say, oh, Brother David, you’re kidding, right? Of course. They’re in Eden, so they must be Kadenic, right? It seems to fit.

Well, it’s not my word. It is a word that was chosen by another individual. You’ll see him for a moment. But let’s think about the language that Adam spoke. This edentic, that we’re identic, that we’re talking about.

What can we say about the identic language? Well, first of all, it was a language created by God, isn’t it? When Adam opened his eyes, he did not have to get a book of grammar and learn whatever language it was there. It was implanted. Jehovah God made him, created him with the ability to communicate verbally.

Jehovah, God himself. Brains. Adam’s brain, as we said, was pre wired and he didn’t have to learn it. All right, so now you’ve got a language, but now you need a vocabulary. Now a certain basic vocabulary was certainly part of what he was created with, but that vocabulary had to grow.

How did it grow? Anybody remember what Adam did? Yell it out, name the animals. Yeah, we’re going to see some examples of animals that he named, which you’ll find very interesting. So the vocabulary is growing.

He began to name the animals.

See, I got to go in the right direction here, okay? But even more importantly, for reasons of, of him growing, he had to be able to speak to communicate with God. He had conversations with God, and that’s one reason why the Heavenly Father made him that, and of course, later on, when he was created, guess what? She was created with the same knowledge, the same language, and he was able to create, to converse with her.

This individual’s name is Isaac mosen. He’s a PhD. He’s a, he’s a Jewish linguistics professor. He wrote a book entitled whimsically, the Origin of the Speeches. Now some of you may say sounds like Origin of the Species.

Well, it’s supposed to have that little connection there. Origin of the Species is about evolution. Right? But Origin of the speeches is about where, where words came from, where language came from. You know, in this day and age.

How many languages are, are in the Earth today? Two or three hundred. Right. Different languages. I mean, our brethren from India, you know, there’s a lot of different dialects there in India, so there’s a lot of, like, where did they all come from?

Well, the fundamental idea of Edenic is that it was the original language of Eden and that when all of the languages were scattered at Babel, the 70 resulting languages, 70 at that time, were all based upon the original Edenic. Now think about this for a moment. They’re building this Tower of Babel and God says, you know, we gotta, we gotta stop this. So we’re going to confuse the languages, all of the languages that he made, and he suggests there are 70.

I don’t have time to go into where he got that number from. But every one of those languages was created by Jehovah too, wasn’t it? So they were all languages. What language would he create? Well, the suggestion is, is that he took that original Edenic.

And by the way, another word for this language is Proto Hebrew. Proto meaning first it was an early version of Hebrew. He took that Hebrew language and in the minds of, of those that he scattered the languages, he just made some changes based upon that original Hebrew, and so even though they spoke a different language, there is this reflection of that original. Now that’s the assertion, assertion that Isaac Moses and makes.

What’s the evidence for that? Let me give a couple notes about Hebrew first of all, and you know this, but we just want to review. Is a language without vowels a little hard for us to understand, you know, because we have vowels in our language. But like my name, David, right? D, A, V, I, D in Hebrew it’s D, V, D.

There’s no A. In fact, there’s no letter in Hebrew for A. There’s no I. No letter in Hebrew for I. So dvd.

Now you might say, well, how do the Jews speak Hebrew? Where do they get the vowel sounds from? Well, they’re understood, you see, and as I understand it, the way that that modern Hebrew is laid out, they have what they call, and I know Jim Parkinson’s on the line, he’d be able to explain this a whole lot better.

But they have vowel points on it to give you a guide on how something should be pronounced. But Hebrew itself has no such, no such vowels. As we say here. All the words consist of consonants, vowels supplied as, as my experience. So now let’s take a look at some Hebrew words and you’re going to get a little lesson in Hebrew today.

One of the conventions that I will use when I put up a Hebrew word, I’m going to anglicize it. We’re going to use English letters. I’m going to put in all caps the consonants which would correspond to the consonants in Hebrew and in small letters, the vowels which are not there. Let’s take one example here. The Hebrew word for birds is tzippor.

Zippor. It’s a generic term for birds.

Zippor, Zippor.

You hear the, the word possibly sparrow in it support. Now you see it’s got a tspr and we have SPR in sparrow. Another example, and we’re going to build on this here. The Hebrew word for root or source is suresh.

Sort of sounds like source, doesn’t it? Suresh, source. Pretty close, isn’t it? Now I think you see where we’re going. Isaac Moses premise is that all of the languages of the world had their basis in Hebrew.

And so when we start to look at these similarities, we can trace that ancestry, we can trace that inheritance.

Regiel is the Hebrew word for regular. It almost sounds like regular doesn’t it, Regiel? You see the same consonants. There are G. L.

Now, in linguistics, they talk about how words evolve over time, and sometimes words change by changing the. The sequence of letters. By the way, there’s a technical term for this metathesis where letters can change a little bit, but they carry the same meaning.

Religion. Now, notice in regal you have the sequence RGL in religion you have RLG but religion comes out of Regiel. It’s regular worship. That’s what we’re. That’s what religion is.

Now, some words are. Are made out of multiple words. For example, farak means flower, and by the way, don’t hold me to the pronunciations of these Hebrew words. Yeah, I.

I disclaim responsibility. Give it my best shot, and this is made up of. It’s a. It’s a word that comes together from two different words.

Pre, which means fruit, and riyak, which means spell. Now, let’s look at each of these other roots here. Prehear. It means fruit. Now, look at how many English words have part or all of these letters here.

Fertile, Fr. As opposed to pr. Berry, apricot, pr. Pear, plum, prune, April, where all these fruits begin to develop as blossoms. Apple.

You see the. The commonality here, and riach means smell. How about some words that sound like riyak? Reek, Rank, Rancid, Rancor.

Fragrant fragrance is carried in the wind. By the way, in our studies of the Holy Spirit, you all know ruach means spirit. You see the connection here? There’s another one. Sheffield.

To be low. You think of any English words that have this idea of low based upon this? S, H, P, H, O. How about slope, Slip, spill, Slum, Slumber, Sleep, asleep, fall, fail. All these have the idea of rendering law.

All right, now some audience participation. In the left hand column, we have a Hebrew word. In the middle column, we have what that word means. I’m going to ask you to tell me what English word we should put here. So.

So the first is atique. It means ancient. Give me an English word. Antique. By the way, notice I put out here, add a little nasalization.

You see that? N. Antique. How about abouf? Piper tube?

This might be a little harder. Bamboo dots means to leap or rejoice, Dance.

Haka, to anticipate.

How about hanker?

No. Fet. Adulterous.

Nymph or nymphet? Rahats to wash, rinse, shuff. To rubber, polish.

How about shampoo?

Shoak means leg, shank. Very good. Suak means to bend down.

How about sink? By the Way. There’s. This is the one answer that I have. It’s not one answer.

Because there are other words, English words that are close to this, that mean this. Safak, to clap or strike. Bank the last one. Ra. Rag.

Evil. Wrong, and, you know, I was thinking maybe rage would. Would enter into that as well. By the way, all of these.

These examples, I’m going to give you some references here a little bit. This is just a small part, as you’ll see in a couple slides down. There are 23,000 examples of this in English. Coincidence. Not with 23,000.

All right, let’s go a little bit further. We’re going to do something a little bit different here. On the left is the English word, and on the right is the Hebrew word and what it means. So you have to match what’s on the left with what’s on the right. So beseech which one to request.

Dark. Which one?

Kedar. By the way, this is an example of metathesis is here in. You see that the. The letters were displaced a little bit. D.

R.K, and here we have K.D.R. again, that’s that metathesis we were talking about. Degree, Darag. Step or grade?

Halt.

Yell it out. Go ahead. Hadal. Yes. Oh, sounds like halt.

Right. If. If you were in Jerusalem, somebody said hadal. Well, you probably get the idea. Grid.

Gidar. Yeah, Market. This one’s almost easier. Right. The only two left, Mokar.

And last of all, tinker. Tikkun. Right. We gave a lesson some years ago entitled tikkun olam. It means to fix the world.

So it’s a wonderful philosophy that many Jews have. Anyway, you can see the. These. Let’s look at a couple more examples here. How much time do I got?

Not much time. What is that? Buzzard. Yeah. Gee, what a surprise that the Hebrew word is buzz.

And you can see that there’s several varieties of buzz here. Buzz can be hawk or loot or booty, buzier, falconer, biz, bays, sikwander, waste, buzz, buzz, spoiler, plant. All has this idea of picking something that’s left. You know, the. The carry on type of idea.

All right, here’s the next one. This is a giraffe. The Hebrew word for neck is corref. Means neck. I think this is where Adam got the idea from.

Right. What do I call this animal? Something that has to do with neck. Right. Do you hear giraffe in it?

Giraffe core. Okay, we go further here.

Cravat. This is a cravat. Where does a cravat go? Around the neck, Scruff of the neck. Scarf around the neck.

You can see these same consonants showing over and over again. Now, linguists in the world do not accept the Bible account of the Tower of Babel. They reject that when they reject everything in the Bible. So this idea that Isaac Mosesson has, and by the way, just as an aside, he’s got individuals that speak other languages from all over the world doing the same thing and finding the same thing. You can go to Japanese, you can go to Chinese, you can go to Norwegian and find these similar things.

Again, all of this suggests that the account of the Babel is true. Well, we know it’s true, but now we have linguistic evidence for it.

Modern linguists who do not believe the Bible’s account of origin of language deny the theory of modern languages coming from Hebrew, in spite of. I mentioned this before, 23,000 examples. Here’s, here’s what Isaac Mosesson wrote. The Oxford English Dictionary is so troubled by a biblical source from Babel, Babel, that it warns its readers that no direct connection with Babel can be traced and declares the term to be of unknown origin.

Imagine that Babel just muttering words doesn’t have anything to do with that. With Babel. Right, Babel. Well, you can see it’s ridiculous. Here’s another example of just how ridiculous linguistic can be.

Let’s take the word amen. They got it right here. Amen uttered at the end of a prayer hymn, meaning so be it. When you go down to origin. Old English from ecclesiastical Latin, from the Greek aman, and from the Hebrew aman, Truth, certainty.

All right, so they got this right. The very next word in the dictionary is amenable. Now, you know what amenable means? It means, well, he’s agreeable, right? But here’s what the dictionary says.

Amenable. Let’s just pick down to the origin. Late 19th century, in the sense of liable to a law tribunal. An aglo, Norman, French, legal term from old French, amenir, prig, ii, et cetera, et cetera. No mention of Hebrew because it doesn’t fit their belief system.

Part three, the pure language of the future. What language will mankind speak in the kingdom? Want to take a guess? Hebrew. It’s my guess.

But let’s talk about this a little bit. Hebrew or proto Hebrew, we believe was the original language in Eden, and remember, before the flood, people lived for hundreds of years, so there would be no change in that language, and even when we go after the flood, Shem was alive at the time. Abraham was.

Abraham was a Hebrew. What did you speak? He spoke Hebrew. He spoke the same thing that his great, great, great great great grandfather Shem spoke and all the way back to the Garden of Eden. So that was God’s original intention.

Where is Hebr Israel? Right. Among the Jews. Do you know that that wasn’t for, I don’t know, maybe from the time of Jesus, the main language that Jews spoke. A German Jew would speak German.

Oh, I guess there’s Yiddish there, right? A French Jew would speak French, Norwegian, Norwegian, etc. Etc. Did they use Hebrew? Yes, of course they did.

All of their Torah and their law was all written in Hebrew. But Hebrew had become a language only used in their worship of God in the synagogues. Now they at home and elsewhere, they would speak the language that where they were in, and so as we got to the time when the return of favor to. Of God’s favor to the fleshly seeds of the Jews, we’re presented with a problem because the German Jews could come to Israel, the French Jews could come to Israel, etc.

Etc. Did they intermix and whatnot? No, they had their own enclaves. You know, I think here in Vancouver we, we have, we have a Chinese portion and an Indian portion and whatnot, and, and.

And they tend to stay in those neighborhoods. Well, there was an individual who lived roughly at the time of Brother Russell that recognized this problem. This is him. You know who it is. His name is Eleazar Ben Yehuda.

He lived from 1859 to 1922. So he roughly paralleled the life of Brother Russell. Born a little bit later and died a little bit later. Eliezer Ben Yehuda was a name that he chose because of its Hebrew origins. He was born Eliezer Yitzchak Perlman in Lithuania in 1858.

He was an Orthodox Jew. He learned Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, reading in the Hebrew language newspaper Hashahar, which incidentally means the dawn, thought that was interesting. He became acquainted with Zionism and concluded that the revival of the Hebrew language in the land of Israel could unite all Jews worldwide, and then in one biography we read, he would consecrate. That’s the word they used.

I like that. Consecrate his life to the liberation of his people and to the establishment of the Jews of his forefathers. By the way, this book here, Tongue of the prophets by Robert St. John, this is the copy that I have. It has several different editions.

I’m already out of time here, so I won’t be able to tell you some stories about it. But I want to tell you that Eliezer Ben Yehuda was a consecrated individual. Not consecrated in the sense that we use it, but consecrated in the generic term that he had one focus in his life, one purpose in his life, and he pursued it relentlessly, energetically, to the end of his life.

And he had another experience or experiences common to consecrations as well. His life was hard.

He got tuberculosis very early in his life, had it for the rest of his life, should have died of tuberculosis much younger than he was, and he didn’t. Unfortunately, he gave the tuberculosis to his wife who did die.

Brethren, I recommend this book.

Since I’m out of time, just let me say just a few things about it.

We believe in the restitution of all things. In order for the Jews to remain a united common people, they needed a common language. Eliezer Ben Yehuda began publishing the first newspaper in Palestine in Hebrew. When his children are born, he taught them Hebrew. Now he had to make up a lot of words because Hebrew didn’t have a lot of words.

There was no Hebrew word for telephone or in these days, rocket or computer. But what he would do is he would research in the back to find out Hebrew concepts that were sort of phone like or rocket like or computer like, and he started putting in together a dictionary. That process continued after his death. But he was the most influential individual in the history of modern Israel to bring Hebrew back to life from a dead language.

God blessed him. God overruled it. You know, we have our, our testimony meetings and sometimes brethren give just phenomenal experiences. Things happen that are so improbable, we shake our head, we say, wow, isn’t God powerful? You’ see the same thing in the life of Eliezer Ben Yehuda.

Again, it’s a different experience because he’s being prepared for something else different than us. But his consecration was just as deep, just as thorough. I believe the hand of God was on his life and on his work, and what we have today is the modern state of Israel where Hebrew is spoken. Will that be the language of the kingdom?

I suspect yes, but we don’t know if that was the pure language that God created Adam and Eve with. I kind of feel that that’s probably what all mankind eventually will come to as well.

Brethren, thank you for your attention. I didn’t see anybody sleeping. I appreciate that very much. I hope that this stimulates you. By the way, I do have a PDF copy of this book if someone would like to read it.

I do recommend it. Just write to me and I will send you the PDF. May the Lord bless this to you.

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