There are three Hebrew words spelled nun het mem. There's niḥum meaning comfort, comfortable or repentings. There is nāḥam meaning comfort, repent, comforter or ease. Also nōḥam meaning repentance.
Niḥum, Pronunciation nee-khoom', is a Masculine noun. It was used one time as the English word comforts in Isaiah 57:18.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
It was also used as repentings in Hosea 11:8.
How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? how shall I make you as Admah? how shall I set you as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
Again it was used as comfortable in Zechariah 1:13.
And Yahuah answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
Nāḥam is a verb. It is use 108 times in 100 verses. What is interesting is Genesis 5:29 and 6:6.
And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahuah has cursed. 5:29
And it repented Yahuah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 6:6
Translation of Nāḥam online resulted in the word Consolation and comfort. Consolation however is comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment.
Nōḥam is also a masculine noun. It's pronounced no'-kham. It was used one time in one verse.
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. Translated online, Consolation. Without repentance, there is no change so comfort can enter.
Hosea was speaking about Israel, not Judah. That was made clear in verse 12, the iniquity of Ephraim. Ephraim today is the commonwealth of England and those nations that gained their freedom from that commonwealth. It's interesting that the Virgin Mary's mother was from Brittany France. From Mary came the one who redeemed us from Death. Yahusha Hamashia will be Death's fatal epidemic disease and plague. Yahusha Hamashia will be the Hell's destruction. That's why the world hates Yahusha called Jesus. It's like matter and antimatter. Righteousness is a fatal plague to lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and self pride. Yahuah will not regret destroying Death and Hell who is the fourth rider of Revelation 6. What is interesting is that today the world is profiting from Death and Hell. It's Death and Hell that keeps the population down and taxed. It's Death and Hell that people struggle with and why they buy insurance. People work in trade for protection money so they may live a little longer or better. Those who benefit from Death and Hell will not be confronted. Yahusha Hamashia will destroy Death, destroy the Grave/Hell. Without Death, there is no Hell. Without Hell, there's no darkness. Without darkness there's light. With light comes Truth. With Truth comes Freedom. With Freedom there's no Tyrant to tax the life out of us. But those who are eternally wicked, there's the Lake of Fire where Death is dead.
To study repentance is to study comfort. The meaning of Noah is rest. In other words, refresh oneself and to recover strength. The question is, what comes after repentance by today's understanding? Repentance is expressing regret for past mistakes or intentional wrong doing for self gain. Consoling is to comfort someone at a time of grief or disappointment. Repentance without someone to console them afterwards leads to destruction of the grieving person. Being a victim without expressing regret for what happened stops you from being comforted. Yahusha said in Matthew 5:4, Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Let's go back to Genesis 6:6. But first let's look at 6:5. (מַחְשְׁבֹת לִבּוֹ) The thoughts of his heart.
And Yahuah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented Yahuah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Here we see the thoughts of the heart, not thoughts of the mind. Mankind's heart was continually evil. In Yahuah's heart it was grief at the sight of hybrid sons of fallen angels. But then came changes to mankind and the Earth. Already the serpents was changed from a beautiful creature into a thing that is hated at the sight of it. Now mankind would only live at the most 120 years. With the rule of fallen angels came hybrids, genetically modified humans and animals. Violence filled the Earth. The question is, what is the motive of violence? This question is still valid. Why did Satan introduced violence to the Earth? Satan placed doubts into mankind, programing mankind to ask, if there is a God, why doesn't He do something about the violence? The real question should be, How long, O Yahuah, Holy and True, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Control the questions, control the thought. Control the thought, repentance and comfort can be hidden from those in need of them. Reacting to violence doesn't fix the problem. Hearts filled with violence needs to be terminated. In the Age of Grace you can be born again gaining a new heart.
Yahuah first sent a flood to slow down the Satanic attack upon the Earth. It's up to mankind to choose between a violent fallen Cherub and Yahuah Elohiym who will show mercy if you find His Grace. This is where repentance comes in. Grief in your heart is a good thing if it leads to terminating the violence of the heart, making room for comfort. Repentance is useless if it ends with continual grief. Ture repentance is grief, change, comfort.
John the Baptist Matthew 3:1-6
1-2 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
I believe that the word repent is the Hebrew word nāḥam. It is used twice starting Isaiah 40:1. Nāḥam nāḥam ʿam 'āmar 'ĕlōhîm.
1. Bing from the Hebrew: Consolation, comfort my people, may God say.
2. Google from the Hebrew: Take comfort, take comfort, my people, says your God.
3 KJV Isaiah 40:1: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Remember nāḥam was something Yahuah felt. Grief and comfort is two different things but yet one word. Repentance is Grief, change and then comfort. Messing around with the DNA brought unwelcomed outcomes in the Days of Noah for the righteous.
And it repented Yahuah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Genesis 6:6
John the Baptist was saying Yahuah was grieved by what He saw. The outcome was 14 April – 8 September 70 CE. Only if Judea repented. Yahusha also prophesied this twice. Once when He wept and again telling the Disciples not one stone would remain on top of another.
3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of Yahuah, make his paths straight.
John the Baptist was the fulfillment of Isaiah 40:3. "The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of Yahuah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
4-6 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
John the Baptist baptized Yahusha Hamashia called Jesus Christ. John spiritually was High Priest, not Joseph ben Caiaphas.
What is interesting is that Yahusha was anointed three times. First by a sinful woman. Then by Mary, the sister of Lazarus. The last time by an unnamed woman before His crucifixion. I believe all three was Mary Magdalene. Mary Magdalene was the first one to witness the resurrection of Yahusha Hamashia. The life of Mary Magdalene is an example of repentance.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Matthew 27:24-25
Verse 25 is why 14 April – 8 September 70 CE. happened. It is why Judea still faces the aggression from her neighbors. It's not that they love Yahusha Hamashia, the nature of the situation was rewritten because the lack of repentance. The thought of the Messiah being crucified pushed Judas Iscariot to kill himself. It grieved Peter greatly, but Peter's grief changed him while Judas' grief brought no change. No change, no comfort. Judas died in grief, missing out on comfort that brings peace beyond understanding. All the Apostles but John was killed by a world that hated honest relationships that exposed evil. John died while serving life imprisonment and torment. World peace will not happen until the Prince of Peace returns.
Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
That's the background to repentance. But how does repentance fit in with the people of today? Repent is not in today's vocabulary. The definition of tyrant is today's standards. Being cruel and oppressive is how people so called get ahead. You cannot know repentance and also be the tyrant. People think of themselves as good, having departmentalized their behavior. They false flag their social behavior as if it's not their own wickedness.
So called Christians sometimes choose to be tyrants. When a child realizes they made mistakes and wants to be comforted, they are really choosing repentance. Telling the child to deal with it, that's really saying to live in grief and you cannot repent. Then they continue to live making mistakes and become callous to grief.
When we do choose to comfort someone we must be wise and not make things worse like giving comfort and skipping the steps of repentance. Blessings for the wicked makes you guilty of that sin also.
If they were a victim, we hear what happened then move on to comforting them quickly. Don't dwell on the dirty details on how someone got off by being the tyrant. If you dwell on it, you to are guilty of getting off on the acts of a tyrant.
As one repenting, recognize the sin. Recognize the damage it has done to you and others. This social damage is like ripples in a pond. Everything is effected like a spiders web. For the unsaved, become born again. For the saved, repent. Recognize grief, change as the Holy Spirit directed you to. Know the peace repentance brings. Without truly knowing this peace, you will get comfortable with sin. Forgetting the peace righteousness brings, you will sin again and again.
Giving council to those who grieve their sins, help them to understand repentance. Help them to overcome the mind control of wickedness.
