There is an old Italian proverb, “When God shuts a door, He opens a window.” Many of God’s saints have come to barriers in life which have eventually meant new and broader fields of service. If we are identified with Christ, distressing circumstances will bring us into new discoveries of the riches of His grace and the treasures of His boundless and eternal love. ¹ Windows is the subject as we open the fifth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet and try to understand it’s power.

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HE: The Fifth Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet

• It is equivalent to ‘h’ in the English alphabet.
• Definition: the window

‘HE’ as a Window or Lattice

• The fifth Hebrew letter ‘HE’ represents a window or a lattice.
• The word English word ‘window’ is derived from a word meaning ‘eye of the wind’ ²
• Windows have several functions.
  • First, they let light and air in.
  • Second, they provide a view of what’s outside.
  • Third, they protect us from the elements like cold, wind, and rain.

Windows in the Bible

• The first window mentioned in the Bible was the one the Lord instructed Noah to build for the ark.

Genesis 6:16 (KJV)
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

• In 1 Samuel 19:12, David’s wife Michal helps David escape Saul through a window.

1 Samuel 19:12 (KJV)
12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

• In the Book of Daniel, Daniel prays in plain sight in front of an open window despite the king’s decree.

Daniel 6:10 (KJV)
10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime

The Windows of Heaven

• According to the Bible, there are windows in heaven.

John 14:2 (KJV)
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

• Do you think your mansions in heaven have windows?
• Think of it. All of the goodness, all of the spectacular colors and brilliant sights of heaven will course through the very windows of your mansion.
• But there are more windows than the ones in your mansion in heaven.
• Good things come from out of God’s house via these windows.
• According to Malachi 3:10, God’s windows are open to tithers.

Malachi 3:10 (KJV)
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be meat in mine house, And prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, If I will not open you the windows of heaven, And pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

• Notice the Lord said word ‘pour.’ He did not say sprinkle.
• ‘Pour’ in the Hebrew means to empty out.

Genesis 7:11 (KJV)
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

• This verse in Genesis states there are great fountains which came through these windows.
• Of course in context, this was physical water.
• But water is also used in scripture as a type of the Spirit or the anointing.
• Water moving or being poured out is a picture of the Spirit moving.

John 7:38 (KJV)
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

• We love when the Spirit moves and brings blessings.
• But water also has another side.
• Water has a destructive element also.
• The anointing can be destructive when flowing out to the ungodly.

Isaiah 24:18 (KJV)
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: For the windows from on high are open, And the foundations of the earth do shake.

• Again note the words, ‘windows from on high’.

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Jesus and the Fifth Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet – ‘HE’

• The Song of Solomon is an allegory depicting the love between the Lord and His people.

Song of Songs 1:12-17
12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. 13 A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. 14 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. 15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes. 16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. 17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

• Song of Solomon is a love song between two lovers.
• The Lord is known as ‘the beloved’ in this Song.
• The ‘bride’ represents God’s people.
• Notice the actions of the ‘beloved’.

Song of Solomon 2:9 (KJV)
9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.

• The Lord stands behind a wall and reveals Himself to the Bride via a window.
• This speaks of Jesus as the Revelator.
• Jesus is the revealer of the good things of God. He stands behind the wall waiting to show himself to His bride, the church. He does it all through the agency of the Spirit of God.
• Revelation is an uncovering. In other words, what once was covered over is now seen in the light of day.
• And what was one of the things windows provide? Light.

2 Corinthians 4:6 (KJV)
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ

• In the word ‘He’, we have a picture of the revelation nature of Jesus.

Psalms 119: 33-40 and ‘HE’

33 TEACH me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away mine eyes from behlding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

• The letter ‘HE’ is in the word ‘TEACH’ in vs. 33.
• In order to be understand and profit from what is taught, you have to have a window of light open to you.
• The light of God has to shine on your spirit.
• There is no true learning without God’s revelation.
• There is no true understanding unless the Holy Spirit opens to you the light of God’s Word.
• Light and development comes through windows.
• You need the light of God’s Word’s coming through His windows in order to develop in God.
• Revelation of God’s Word is available to you.
• Paul prayed about this very thing for the Ephesian church.

Ephesians 1:17 (KJV)
17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

• As we know from John 16:23, all prayer is to the Father in Jesus Name.
• So, Paul is addressing the Father in the Name of the Living Word so the Ephesian church might know the written Word’ Jesus.

Why Does the Word of God Have to be Revealed?

• Why can’t we just read the Bible and then just go with what we understood through our reading?

2 Timothy 3:16 (KJV)
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

• Scripture is God ideas wrapped up in human words.
• It’s the wisdom of God injected into the human vehicle of words.
• Because the Word is divine, you need divine input in order to understand it.
• You need light which comes through the windows of heaven.
• ‘Inspiration’ means ‘God-breathed, God injected or God infused.’

2 Peter 1:21 (KJV)
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

• The Bible was received by inspiration of God. Holy men spoke and what they spoke was recorded under the influence and direction of God.
• That’s what the Bible is, a collection of God-breathed information.
• Revelation is the reverse process of inspiration.
• Inspiration is putting the divine into a human vehicle.
• Revelation is the process of extracting the divine from that same human vehicle.

Basic Thoughts on ‘Revelations from God’

• Staying balanced is a big thing in this area of revelations from God.
• You would be amazed at how people go off into the ditch when it comes to seeing, what they think is, something ‘new’ in the Bible.
• Revelation truths are not brand new, never been heard before truths.
• There’s no such thing as new truths.
• This is important to grasp because some group or some individual is always rising up and saying God gave them information which is so new, its not even in the Bible.
• Whole religions have to come into being because of people swallowed this lie.
• Revelations from the Living Word Jesus are in line with the written Word which is spirit and life.
• In this area of the written Word of God, remember this thought.

If it’s new it’s not true, and if it’s true, it’s not new.

• There is such a thing as freshly discovered truth, or freshly applied truth, or freshly revealed truth, but there is no such thing as brand new, never been heard before by anyone, truth.

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Ecclesiastes 1:9 (ESV)
9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

• This is why we receive truth by revelation.
• Revelation implies by its very definition, to uncover, which means seeing something that is already there.
• Inspiration is how we, as a human race, received the Word at the hands of 40 different authors.
• Revelation is you how you as an individual, receive the Word when light comes.

Thoughts on Experiencing the Fifth Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet

The Bible is God Speaking to Me.

• Until you believe that the God that sits in heaven had a book written that you and I could find our way to heaven and also help us as we were having to live life on this earth, until you actually believe that you will never do very much with this book.
• Unless you really realize the Bible is more important than what TV talk shows teaches, more potent than anything that Harvard has to say or any other major university, more current than CBS, ABC, and NBC, and has more wisdom than all the libraries of the world put together, until you realize that this is the most important book on this planet, you’ll never get much out of it.

The Bible is a Book of Covenants.

• Particularly two covenants.
• The words, ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Testament gives the clue.
• A covenant or testament is a contract or an agreement between two parties.
  • A mortgage is a contract or covenant as is a marriage.

Study the New Testament First.

• If there is a new and the new replaces the old, then it is obvious which part you should study first.
• Do not major on the old, major on the new.
• If you learn in life to major on the majors and minor on the minors you will avoid many pitfalls.

Become a New Testament Maven

• When people think of the new Testament they mostly think of the four gospels.
• But you absolutely must read the rest of the New Testament in order to even understand the gospels.
• You can’t understand the gospels without the rest of the New Testament.
• If all you had was the gospels to go by, you would never be able to come to Jesus.
• You would not even know why Jesus died.
• The gospel records the death and resurrection of Jesus but not the why of it.
• You would not know the ‘why’  of the new birth if wasn’t for the epistles.
• Now, you think that you would because you’ve read or heard the rest of the New Testament taught or expounded.
• The Twenty-One Letters or Epistles, Romans Through Jude, were letters were written to born again groups of people called churches, or to individual born again people like Timothy, Titus, Philemon.
• In these epistles or letters, the born again, experience, the born again lifestyle, is discussed at great length.
• If you want to learn about your covenant with God, you are not going to learn about it in the Old Testament, or the gospels, or even Acts, you are going to learn about the born again life in the letters written to born again people.
• If you want to find out what happened to you the day you were born again, read the epistles.

The Bible is not an Intellectual Book.

• You don’t understand the Bible like you do the multiplication table.
• If it was, the higher your intellect, the better you would be able to understand it.
• There are many highly educated people who have no clue what the Bible is saying.
• It’s why you need Jesus the Revelator.

The Bible is not an Amulet, Charm, or Fetish

• God does not work by magic. He is not magic wand God.
• If God was a magic wand God, then all He should have done was wave it and have His people not endure Egyptian bondage for 400 years.
• If God was a magic wand God, Paul would not have experienced prison nor would you personally go through any trial that you have faced. Just wave the wand and puff, all your problems disappear.
• Successful spiritual life on planet earth is connecting to Jesus, knowing His Word, following His Spirit, and then walking it all out.

The Bible is also not…

• Not a Book that will work wonders by itself.
  • It takes faith and cooperation with the Spirit to work wonders.
• Not a book of chronological events.
  • The Bible was given piecemeal over 1800 years and yet has perfect unity.
• Not a book which says one thing and yet means another.
  • God says what He means and means what He says. Our problem is lining up our thinking to think like He thinks.

Call to Action:

It’s important to have full Bible intelligence. That’s what the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet clues us into. God’s light, God’s revelation and blessing come though God’s windows. Windows which are wide open to you if you only know it.

Episode Resources

You can find more information on The Hidden Power of the Hebrew Alphabet by visiting the following posts:

1. The Hidden Power of the Hebrew Alphabet [Podcast]
2. More The Hidden Power of the Hebrew Alphabet [Podcast]
3. Jesus Is the Open Door [Video]
4. Even More of the Hidden Power of the Hebrew Alphabet [Podcast]

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