"Yahuah, hear my voice: let your ears be (Haya: become, became or let there be) attentive to the voice of my supplications (the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly.) If You, Yahuah, should mark iniquities, O Yahuah, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared." (Psalm 130:2-4)
I Googled translated verse 4 from the Hebrew and the Greek Septuagint into English. Here is the results.
Greek: "because with you is the joy"
Hebrew: "For with you is forgiveness"
I also translated each Hebrew word individually.
Hebrew: Because forgiveness with you address fear.
Continually Yahuah Elohiym is saying, fear not when we approach Him. I believe, because of Yahuah Elohiym's forgiveness, we need to address our fears. Fear is something Adam and Eve had in the Garden of Eden. Fear does not fix the problem, it delays forgiveness, sometimes until Death's door. In the verse, David asked Yahuah Elohiym to become watchful, as if hadn't been. The question is, is it Yahuah Elohiym's choice or is it that we hide behind our problems?
In the KJV, this is the first time the word forgiveness was used. However this is the word sliha in Hebrew. It was used two other times, once in Nehemiah and the other Daniel.
Neh 9:17 - And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that You did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but You are an Elohiym, ready to pardon, H5547 gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not.
Dan 9:9 - To Yahuah our Elohiym belong mercies and forgivenesses, H5547 though we have rebelled against him;
Our prayers should be something like this; Our Heavenly Father, hear my prayer, I ask that you give your attention to my humble begging for forgiveness. May I find joy in your forgiveness. Wash me of my sins.
Forgiveness is when our Heavenly Father hears our humble cry, for a pardon only He can give. We need release from something that is to great of a burden for us to handle. Our nature is to fear Yahuah Elohiym because of His Righteousness and our wickedness. His forgiveness comes when we truly repent. Repenting is not a one time thing with a license to keep being wicked. Repenting is like a daily spiritual cleansing because we live in a wicked environment. By not returning to remain in Yahuah's care is not a relationship. Then the question becomes, does He really know you?
If someone does something horribly wrong to you and they don't humbly ask for forgiveness, their own pride keeps them from returning into a relationship with you that brings peace. We need to let them humbly ask for forgiveness. If they asked for forgiveness once pridefully and then expect you to give them a free pass for them to continue on doing what is wicked without repentance, it's not true repentance. Yahuah Elohiym will not hear lies, why should we? To forgive before seeing repentance, the wicked behavior was never addressed. The restating if the sin is not necessary but stating the repentance is necessary.
Prideful people that want to save face are mentioned by Yahusha Hamashia in the Gospel. "Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." Matthew 23:28.
"Whoever claims to love Elohiym yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love Elohiym, whom they have not seen." 1 John 4:20
It's interesting that if someone really loves you, that they would not treat you with contempt. But yet people do so, also members of the church will look upon you with contempt. Yahusha Hamashia says something about this as well.
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven." Matthew 6:1
This is when Yahusha Hamashia showed people how to pray. "Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. (Hallowed is to be set a part, to be Holy. Sanctification comes through His Holiness.) Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (Yahusha Hamashia's Kingdom is not of this world. He said, "if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." This prayer is asking for His Kingdom to be in Earth. In earth is not necessarily of this world.) Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. (We must understand that Yahuah provides our nourishment if this earth and spiritual. We are limited by the environments. Today the environments are manipulated for the purpose of war. Debts and debtors have no forgiveness today. We can only do it on a small scale such as friends, family and neighbors.) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Your's is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." (Temptation could be the beginning of Evil. It's a crossroads when the trial could become wickedness. Or it could be when the trial becomes victory in a spiritual battle. Victory is delivering us from evil.)
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Yahuah Elohiym of Hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Amos 5:15
Being Gracious is intervention on our behalf. Forgiveness is Yahuah Elohiym paying the price of sin with the death of the Word made Flesh. The Lamb of Yahuah Elohiym is Yahusha Hamashia who is Yahuah's Word made flesh. The Word made flesh overcame the Spirit of Death in the Underworld of Hell.
Psychologists has defined forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of the fact that they do not deserve your forgiveness.
Personally I think the conscious act of letting go of vengeance to the wind sucks without repentance. If I forgive someone who has not repented, I hand my vengeance to Yahuah Elohiym. Let Him judge the person or group that is wicked. The person who makes a conscious act of taking a cart and slamming it into the neighbor's car, I hand it off to Yahuah Elohiym with my opinion, may it be delt back to them 10 fold. Yes I identify with the Sons' of Thunder. This way anger that was caused by Satan who deliberately pushed my buttons doesn't build up into actions that he may have managed to place a rudder on. Yahusha Hamashia is my guide.
To have functional forgiveness, you must have judgement as a part of the community. In this way the people who willfully destroy property will need to pay the penalty for their actions. Once they learn to be respectful, then they can be introduced to forgiveness. People who would let willful lawbreakers back into the community, unrepentant of past crimes, is also a criminal. But yet half the people are deceived into following them.
Joseph in the verse above is the eldest son of Jacob by Rachel. Remnant is also seen as the descendants of Joseph. These are not Jews, they are Northern Israelites. It's by our own voting that we choose between good or evil.
Antichrist is Lawlessness. "And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom Yahuah will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming." 2 Thessalonians 2:8
The breath of His mouth is the Holy Spirit. Breath in words is Yahusha Hamashia. Here is to Greek translations translated online. Names are changed back to the Hebrew.
And then the lawless one will be revealed whom Yahuah will consume with the Spirit of His mouth and destroy from the surface of His presence.
And then the lawless one will be revealed whom Yahuah Yahusha will raise up with the Spirit of His mouth and will destroy on the surface of His presence.
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin (someone who wondered away from Yahuah) is revealed, the son of perdition, (son of Apōleia. Apōleia is the feminine noun of destroyer or destruction. Apollyon is the masculine noun of destroyer or destruction. Is it the Bride of Apollyon? A male spiritual leader of a world religion?) who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
In Revelation 6, the fifth seal, we see that those killed for their beliefs in Yahusha Hamashia who cry out for Yahusha's revenge for their deaths. These Saints remembered who and why they were killed after their deaths happened. White robes will be given to them. Today someone's death is retold if it is a mystery or tragic as entertainment. The question is, are these believers' deaths entertainment for the world?
Scaling this all back on a personal level, narcissists manipulate the social environment. We are locked into paying a heavy unjust price to just live. But maintaining peace within our hearts is necessary to be free from Satan. This brings about the statement, "no good deed goes unpunished." But it's the little thoughtful things that make life worth living. Being thoughtful is like sand in skin cream for the wicked. Look at the thoughts and words of the Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites had for Yahusha Hamashia.
