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Jehovahnissi

The term "Jehovah-nissi"[1] is found in Exodus 17[2] as a name given to an altar Moses constructed after a battle with Amalek.

As an altar the term may have its origins in these same ancient altars and temples found in many other city-states like that found in Sumer that functioned like the systems of Nimrod through forms of legal charity which can be identified as covetous practices because the members develop an appetite for the dainties and benefits of rulers at the expense of others and therefore those practices can be labeled as idolatry. [3]

The altars of Abraham and Moses were alternative systems of a social safety net or social welfare system which did not unduly mix the "milk and meat" nor exercise authority of one over the other. But unlike other nations all their offerings had to be freewill offerings according to the LORD, Jehovah.

The term "nissi" applied to the name Jehovah is spelled in the Hebrew as נִסִּי‎ NunSamechYod and could reasonably have its origins in the ancient terms like nissi which can identify a place of "sanctuary" or an "exalted place" or the term "Nassi" which identifies a sacred place or temple area. The Assyrian nisi in general means "men" or "people" and Nassi was the Goddess who provided them with justice and welfare.

So the term nissi in the phrase "Jehovah-nissi" can be a related symbol to or the replacement of the Goddess of welfare and justice in the city-states like Sumer which provided a civil system of social welfare through the Goddess Nanshe[4] which was also spelled Nanse, Nassi, Nazi and who was known as the "protector of the disadvantaged"[5] through her many temples.

It is absolutely clear from the record of history that systems of governments from Cain to Nimrod and from Sumer to Egypt that systems of social welfare were established through civil law to provide for the needy and bind the people together by some form of social compact. In fact, the bondage of Egypt, which was a form of corvee, was the direct result of such a contract where a portion of the the citizens labor [6] would belong to the government.

Both Abraham and Moses was setting up an alternative social safety net consisting of altars of clay and stone where the stones were not hewn but living men called out to perform these essential work that created the social bonds of a free society if they were accomplished through fervent charity and the perfect law of liberty.

Jesus would eventually call out His little flock along with appointing His own Sanhedrin and finally appointing a kingdom to them because the priests of Judea were making the word of God to none effect by the institutions they created.

The Called out of Christ would institute the Corban of Christ with these Lively Stones of a Living Altar with a daily ministration of Pure Religion to provide all social welfare for early Christians who would not eat at the tables of the welfare system operated through the temples of Rome because from David to Paul they were warned that those dainties were a snare and a trap. They knew that the free bread of those systems of the word were provided by men who called themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other.[7]

The altar of Jehovahnissi was to be a protector and his priests and ministers were to provide care through a daily ministration of pure Religion funded by the freewill contributions of the people. This social safety net established by Moses provided a daily bread but through charity. While His ministers were also benefactors they did not exercise authority one over the other but love for one another according to the [Divine will] of God from the beginning.

  1. 03071 יְהוָֹה נִסִּי‎ Yëhovah nicciy [yeh-ho-vaw’ nis-see’] from 03068 and 05251 with the pr sf; n pr loc; [BDB-651b] [{See TWOT on 484 @@ "484a" }] AV-Jehovahnissi 1; 1 Jehovah-nissi= "Jehovah is my banner"
    1) the name given by Moses to the altar which he built in commemoration of the discomfiture of the Amalekites
    • The term "Jehovah-nissi" may mean “Jehovah Is My Signal Pole,” if nissiʹ is from nes (signal pole). The Greek Septuagint translators understood nissiʹ to be derived from nus (flee for refuge), giving it the meaning “Jehovah Is My Refuge,” but the Latin Vulgate thought nissiʹ derived from nasasʹ (hoist; lift up), thus giving it the meaning “Jehovah Is My Exaltation.”
    • If the altars of Abraham and Moses were part of a social safety net like so many other nations then the term "nissi" which is spelled in the Hebrew נִסִּי‎ NunSamechYod may have its origins in the ancient term "nassi".
    • The Goddess of welfare in the city-state of Sumer which provided a civil system of social welfare through the Goddess Nanshe which was also spelled Nanse, Nassi, Nazi and who was known as the "protector of the disadvantaged" through her many temples. Syllabic spellings are for example Na-áš, Na-an-še and Na-aš-še. Nanše A. Philological", Heimpel, Wolfgang (1998).
  2. Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
  3. Covetousness is idolatry
    Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
    Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
    1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
  4. "..., according to the Ur III period (c. 2100-2000 B.C.) Sumerian text called “The Nanshe Hymn,” persons who gained their sustenance or other economic benefits from the temple of the goddess Nanshe were responsible for adhering to the cultic and ethical rules of the goddess. (Trans. Wolfgang Heimpel, “To Nanshe,” COS 1.162:526-31.)" The God Who is Affected by Human Problems: Atonement Through Israelite Purification Offerings, Roy E. Gane, Andrews University.
  5. Syllabic spellings are for example Na-áš, Na-an-še and Na-aš-še. Nanše A. Philological", Heimpel, Wolfgang (1998).
  6. Fifth part
    Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
    It should also be noted this was the beginning of the bondage of Egypt but in verse 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands."
  7. Not exercise authority
    Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
    Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
    Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."