Sabbath study, xxv: the mark of the accusative

Since this is the 25th weekly sabbath study of the series, it is perhaps fittingly keen to particularly highlight the vindication of the antitypical and eternal High Priest among the 24 priests. Just as in type, so too in antitype—24 Levitical priesthood divisions are listed in the Book of Chronicles as ministerial roles,1 and likewise 24 elders are listed in Revelation as ministers of the everlasting and ultimate High Priest that is the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.2

In order to fully grasp the revelated words of God—given through His bodily Word—in their full vindication, it is necessary to restore that which has been lost from the vast bulk of human understanding as the result of deliberate satanic “Anbarization” schemes that have long severed God from the human beings created in His image. In a nutshell: the truth is “hidden” in plain sight, just that the vast majority of people don’t bother noticing it because their minds are too thickened by their self-fattening egos to consider and searching to understand.

And it’s really not that exceedingly difficult: the mark of Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ’s authority is always that which is most denigrated and universally squeezed out of acknowledgement despite being patently the most stringently visible and emphasized in conspicuously emphatic terms. The satanic war against the righteousness of God always centrally attacks and seeks to undercut the validity of the seal that vindicates Providence’s universal authority—in the case of the full authority of the biblical texts themselves, it would be the mark of the accusative, which practically (if not literally) every single mainstream translation out there fails to render.

The Semitic Biblical Hebrew word אֵת (’ēṯ: 853), in the grammatical context of functioning as the mark of the accusative, is commonly listed as “untranslatable” and treated as if it’s an atavistically irrelevant artifact which can’t be straightforwardly rendered into modern vernacular. And yet, it appears over 10,000 times in the Old Testament, always as a word that serves an obvious function in the text in pertinent relevance and never as a superficial decoration! Whenever a direct object is introduced, אֵת (’ēṯ) is used right before the subject to signify that the subject/object in question is explicitly marked as one of a definite direct existence. Strong’s Concordance plainly cross-references from H-853 to H-226, the Biblical Hebrew word אוֹת (’ôṯ) that literally means “mark.”

Yes, you read that right: the Semitic-Hebrew word that serves the grammatical function as the mark of the accusative is directly derived from the word that itself literally by definition means “mark,” a.k.a. an ensign, token, omen, et al. Just as Satan and his earthly host attacks the mark of faithful human obedience to Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ—the observance of His sabbaths3—so too they attack the mark of scriptural authority, by erasing and undercutting the mark of the accusative from being faithfully rendered accordingly in the watered-down Bible “translations” propagated to the world.

Apparently, there are only (about) three “remaining” languages known to the modern world that retain the mark of the accusative in its most bluntly manifested form: Ugaritic, Old Aramaic, and Biblical Hebrew. It’s no wonder that the vast majority of languages have scrubbed it out, considering their vernacular watering-down millennia ago as the inevitably corollary of Nimrodic manipulation that severed the offshoot languages—emanating out of the dispersion from the Tower of Babylon—from their covenantal relationship to Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ, hence why only the languages associated with nations and kindreds who continually preserved their worship of Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ—primarily from Shem’s line—would have therefore preserved the mark of the accusative in its most plainly manifested form. To truly worship the God of the universe necessitates a conscious understanding and lived-and-breathed acknowledgement of His eternal and unchanging mark of His authority—in relayed oracles preserved from one human generation to the next, it inextricably entails the preservation of transmitting the fullness of Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ’s wordified messages that contain the mark of the accusative sealing God’s affirmation defining what objects are directly marked by providential authority as covenantally pertinent and existing as acknowledged by the God of the universe in a functionally significant capacity.

Notice what the mark of the accusative in its ancient Semitic Biblical Hebrew existence comprises—it consists of only two letters!

• אֵ: Aleph, the first letter of the Biblical Hebrew alphabet

• ת: Taw, the last letter of the Biblical Hebrew alphabet

Yes, literally Aleph-Taw, a.k.a. by implication, “First and Last,” or “Beginning and End.” Ring a familiar bell to something about a particular someone who declared Himself to his beloved apostle John as the Alpha and Omega?4

This fact alone is as obvious in starkly universal implication as it gets: the mark of the accusative is the literary marker of scriptural authority belonging to none other than Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ, the God of the universe, whose fleshly manifested Word Jesus Christ is the eternal Aleph and Taw from everlasting unto everlasting. So whenever a subject in the Hebrew Bible is preceded by the mark of the accusative, it signifies that the One who ultimately defined it as a direct definite object is none other than Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ, the eternal Self-Existing Creator—Who in tripartite Soul, Word, and Spirit5—has existed from beginning (Aleph) and exists unto end (Taw).

As I pointed out in previous weekly sabbath studies, the mark of the accusative from the Semitic Biblical Hebrew can be translated into English consistently as the word “selfsame.” While obviously not a perfect 1-to-1 match in encapsulating the fullness of the richness of the ancient Semitic covenantal etymological encapsulation, it perhaps suffices for the meanwhile, seeing that the fullness of Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ’s glory is still seen through a glass darkly in a time where—as of typing—the latter rain outpouring has not yet come to exist toward the finishing of the mystery of God to fully ingather the body of Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ’s people unto the unified completed and matured stature of the fullness of Jesus Christ.

According to Wilhelm Gesenius’s Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, the mark of the accusative literally means “self, this same.” Translating it into English therefore as “selfsame” therefore is as straightforward as it gets, in light of what (some of) the best commonly and publicly accessible Hebraist lexical guides can inform the western/Latin-accustomed mind. In fact, “selfsame” as comprising two components—“self” and “same”—is quite a nicely harmonious parallel to the two-letter comprisal of the Hebraic mark of the accusative in implication:

• “self”—corresponds de facto to the first letter of the two-letter Biblical Hebrew word אֵת a.k.a. אֵ (Aleph), which defines Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ as existing from everlasting in beginning as the eternal Self-Existence

• “same”—corresponds de facto to the second letter of the two-letter Biblical Hebrew word אֵת a.k.a. ת (Taw), which conveys that Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ shall be the same in end as in beginning, a.k.a. that the Self was, is, and has always has been the Same

As the prophet Malachi declared of Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ’s wordified oracles:6

‘Indeed I Jᴇʜᴏᴠᴀʜ not changes I, and you—[the] sons [of] Jacob—not are finished you!

The apostle Paul concurred:7

Jesus Christ yesterday and today is the same, and unto the ages!