Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve’et ha’arets — In the beginning God created heaven and earth .13 In the middle of the phrase (the word et ) are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the alef and tav (pronounced et ). This nontranslatable word is used in Hebrew grammar to mark a point, identifying the word that follows it as being the direct definite object.14 Some have suggested (while some

rabbis would disagree) that God was saying that in the beginning He created the Alef-Tav , or the Messiah. Since Christ was the source of man’s redemption, “from the foundation of the world,” and called Himself the “Alpha and Omega” (Rev. 13:8; 1:8), it is suggested this verse cryptically reveals that the Messiah preexisted with God at the time of Creation. By Hebraic interpretation, this is not the meaning of this passage. However, Christ said, “Before Abraham was I am,” alluding to His preexistence (John 8:58). In Hebrew, the word for truth is emet .15 When spelling truth in Hebrew, the first letter is alef , and the last letter is tav . Christ said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Thus, He is the beginning and the end of all truth! Another uniqueness of the Hebrew alphabet is that all twenty-two letters also have a numerical value. This concept,