The Divine Law of Adjectives

In English and many other languages, the adjective comes first then the noun, such as ‘white flower’. But in other languages it would be described as a ‘flower, white’.  The noun comes first then the adjective.  In Hebrew, the language used for most Scripture, and in the tongue of the Messiah, it’s not ‘white flower, but ‘flower, white’.

In the sacred tongue there’s no such thing as an evil man…only a ‘man, evil’.  Rather there exists a man.  The man is a creation of God.  Evil is the state he’s in.  Messiah spoke in this way and knew God’s Word this way.  He saw men, in Hebrew, in the image of God, and who were now in a fallen state.  He saw the adulterous woman not as an adulterous woman but as a woman caught in the state of adultery.  And thus she could be saved out of it.  He saw through the evil, through imperfection, and through the fall, to the perfect that God created and to the perfect to be redeemed.  He died to separate adjectives from nouns, people from their evil, their sinfulness, and their fallenness.

He wants to join His own adjective, His holiness, to us.  Learn the secret of the sacred tongue.  When you see the sinful, the fallen, the broken, the hateful, don’t see first the adjective.  See first the noun, the one whom God made in His image, the one God made them to be, and the one God redeemed them to become.  And that includes you.  When you look at yourself, your sinfulness, your fallenness, don’t see the adjective first, but the noun.  Bring the adjectives to the cross.  And see yourself as the one God made you to be and live your life as the person He redeemed you to become.

-taken from The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn

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