The
bride: “His banner over me is love.” (Song of Solomon 2:4b)
The
bridegroom: “You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, as lovely
as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.” (Song of Solomon
6:4).
It
is written about David, who was a king and a prophet and wrote most
of the psalms, that he was dancing
before the Lord with
all his strength
(2. Sam. 6:14b). He wrote:
“He
brought me out into a broad
place
(Psalm 18:19). He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me
to stand on the heights
(Psalm
18:33).”
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| Daleth |
The
name David begins with the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet:
Daleth.
Daleth
means door,
but it can also mean way
or dimensions.
The love
of God
has four
dimensions:
It has a depth, a height, a breadth and a length (Ephesians 3:18).
Likewise, our
love
for God should have four
dimensions:
We should love him with all our heart, with all our soul, with all
our strength and with all our mind (Luke 10:27).
In
the depth
of God’s love, we experience healing, cleansing and restoration.
There we have intimacy with God, and we participate in his treasures,
secrets and wonders. In the depth of God knowledge
will be pleasant to our soul (Proverbs 2:10). In the height
of God’s love wisdom
will come into our heart and we rule together with him in the
spiritual world. In the breadth
of God’s love, we live and practice faith, love and hope. We have
fellowship with each other und experience rest and peace. Discretion
watches over us (Proverbs 2:11). In the length
of God’s love, we experience that his arm is not too short to save and that his love endures forever (Is. 59:1 and Psalm 136). Mission
and evangelization belong to this dimension of length. Understanding
will guard as in this dimension.
Daleth
has the shape of a flag.
Flag in Hebrew is called degel;
the word picture means: The door/the way to lift up authority. Pass
through, pass through the gates!
Prepare the way
for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones.
Raise
a banner for the nations (Is.
62:10).
The
symbols used for praise dance are doors/gates in the spiritual world
and they correspond to letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The flag,
degel corresponds to Daleth (d).
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| Vav |
In
the Song of Solomon it is written: His banner over me is love. The
banner, the flag is a symbol for love. The name David
means beloved.
In Hebrew it is written with three consonants: Daleth-Vav-Daleth. Vav
is the sixth letter and it is a symbol for a joining hook. The Hebrew
Word Picture of the name David means: The dimensions, the doors, the
ways of two persons are hooked/joined together. We are loved when we
join/link our dimensions to the dimensions of another person and when
we answer to the four dimensions of God’s love by loving him with
all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength; these
are namely our four dimensions: The heart our height, the soul our
depth, the strength our breadth and the mind our length. This is the
key
of David:
The dimensions of God and human joined together in love. This is what
the psalms are about.
“These
are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key
of David.
What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I
know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open
door
that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength,
yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name” (Rev. 3:
7-8).
Through
our dancing for Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew) we confess his name and we
move in him and the four dimensions of love (Acts 17:16). We express
with all
our strength
love and surrender/commitment. There is a prophecy about the bride of
the end times written in the Song of Solomon 6:10: “Who
is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright
as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?”
A
special type of flag is the streamer.
Streamers are long and they remind us of the length and endlessness
of God’s love, "the bands of love" (Hosea 11:4). Love is the bond of perfectness (Colossians 3,14). Streamers have the shape
of a
Vav,
the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which is a symbol for a
joining hook. Through praise dance we join our dimensions to the
dimensions of God, we join/link Heaven and Earth together.
Make
his praise glorious!
(Psalm 66:2)
God
has put a new song in my mouth, a praise unto our God, many shall see
it and fear him, and shall trust in the Lord. (Psalm 40:3)
Worship
and praise are not only to be heard, but also to be seen.
Dance
is a way to make praise visible.
Let
them praise his name in the dance … (Psalm 149:3)
By
the use of banners and flags for
praise dance we
can make spiritual truths
visible. Banners and flags proclaim biblical and spiritual facts and
have the character of
a call-up
and a
signal.
Flags are
visible
made
spiritual
verities!
God
himself has set up a banner. Jesus is the banner of God in the
spiritual realm!
The
root of Jesse, which shall stand as an ensign/banner
of the peoples;
unto
him shall the nations
seek, and his resting-place
shall be glorious. (Is. 11:10).
Jesus
as a banner is excellent, he leads us, he shines from afar. Jesus
goes ahead.
We
shall follow him and reflect his message. We
shall be living banners for Jesus.
All
of us reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that
same glory, coming from the Lord who ist the Spirit, transforms uns
into his very likeness, in an ever greater degree of glory. (2.
Corinthians 3:18)
Lift
up a standard/banner
for
the people. (…) Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold your
salvation comes (…). And they shall call them the holy people, the
redeemed of the Lord and Jerusalem shall be called, sought out, a
city not forsaken. (Is. 62:10-12)
There
is the physical and the spiritual Jerusalem. The spiritual Jerusalem
is the
headquarters of God. God
reigns from Jerusalem. Likewise
Babel/Babylon
are not only names for a city. They
are also names for
the headquarters of Satan, the
antichristian world.
Set
up the standard/banner
against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the
watchmen (…) (Jer. 51:12)
Through
our
commitment
to Jesus we set up a
standard/banner
against Babylon. Babylon
will fall as the Lord has planned. By
the use of flags we declare
and proclaim
that Jesus is King and Lord of this church, this town and this
country.
When
we lift up the banner against Babel/Babylon, the headquarters of
Satan, then we are as beautiful as the town “Tirza, lovely as
Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.” (Jer. 51:12 and
Song of Solomon 6:4).
We
will rejoice in your salvation (literally: in your Yeshua) and in the
name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfill all
your petitions. (Psalm 20:6)
