The Salt Covenant

Covenant of Salt is found in 3 places in Scriptures

In regards to the Offerings of the Children of Israel:Leviticus 2:13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt;

neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

In regards to the Levi’s and Son’s of Aaron:Numbers 18:19 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of

Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.

In regards to the Davidic Kingdom

2 Chronicles 13:4 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the

hill country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

Salt Contains all of the 84 elements found in your body, the benefits of natural Himalayan Crystal Salt include:

Some of the Health Benefits of Salt

Regulating the water content throughout your body.

Promoting a healthy pH balance in your cells, particularly your brain cells.

Promoting blood sugar health and helping to reduce the signs of aging.

Assisting in the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in your body.

Absorption of food particles through your intestinal tract. Supporting respiratory health.

Promoting sinus health.Prevention of muscle cramps. Promoting bone strength. Regulating your sleep -- it naturally promotes

sleep. Supporting your libido. Promoting vascular health.In conjunction with water it is actually essential

for the regulation of your blood pressure.

What remains after typical salt is "chemically cleaned" is sodium chloride -- an

unnatural chemical form of salt that your body recognizes as something completely foreign. This form of salt is in almost every preserved product that you eat. Therefore, when you add more salt to your already salted food, your body receives more salt than it can dispose of.

This is important as over 90% of the money that people spend on food is for processed food.

Typical table salt crystals are totally isolated from each other. In order for your body to try to metabolize table salt crystals, it must sacrifice tremendous amounts of energy.

Inorganic sodium chloride can keep you from an ideal fluid balance and can overburden your elimination systems.

When your body tries to isolate the excess salt you typically expose it to, water molecules must surround the sodium chloride to break them up into sodium and chloride ions in order to help your body neutralize them. To accomplish this, water is taken from your cells in order to neutralize the unnatural sodium chloride.

This results in a less-than-ideal fluid balance in the cells.

The Typical Table And Cooking Salt In Your Grocery Store Has Been "Chemically Cleaned"

This results in a less-than-ideal fluid balance in the cells.You Are Losing Precious Intracellular Water When You Eat Normal Table Salt

1. For every gram of sodium chloride that your body cannot get rid of, your body uses 23 times the amount of cell water to neutralize the salt. Eating common table salt causes excess fluid in your body tissue, which can contribute to:

2. Unsightly cellulite 3. Rheumatism, arthritis and gout 4. Kidney and gall bladder stones 5. When you consider that the average person consumes

4,000 to 6,000 mg of sodium chloride each day, and heavy users can ingest as much as 10,000 mg in a day, it is clear that this is a serious and pervasive issue.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SALT

1. The Bible mentions salt more than 30 times. Salt has a religious significance and symbol of purity. 2. Salt is essential to health. Body cells must have salt in order to live and work. Blood, sweat and tears are salty.3. Salt is an antiseptic (germ killing) property that make it useful for bathing of infections including being used as a mouth wash. It is also used for cleaning teeth.4. It is estimated that salt has 14,000 uses.5. Among people today salt is still used as a sign of honour, friendship and hospitality. A saying is "there is salt between us" meaning "we have eaten together, we are bonded friends".5. Salt was once so scarce and precious that it was used as money. Caesar's soldiers received part of their pay in common salt. This was known as salarium from which the word salary comes. 6. Dating back to the days when workers were paid their wages in salt is the modern expression "not worth his salt", and it literally means not working good enough to earn his wage.7. Salt was a chief economic product of the ancient world. It was important in the development of the earliest highways of trade. 8. Roman soldiers built one of the great military roads in History, the Via Salaria (Salt Road), from the salt works at Ostia to Rome.

(Mike Verdiccio, The Covenant of Salt)

• "The covenant of salt symbolizes loyalty, honesty, and it represents that which is a lasting or preserved covenant. Some of the Eastern people still use the phrase: “There is salt between us.” In Bible times, they understood that the covenant of salt meant that they would keep their word at all costs"

• It is important that we are aware of these things as we immerse our self into the world of Yahweh's people and their spiritual life. And as we shall see in a moment, there are spiritual legalities to be considered too. Occultists are aware of these legalities and use them to ensnare believers.

• "The custom of pledging friendship or confirming an agreement or covenant by eating food containing salt is still retained today among some Middle Easterners. The Arabic word for salt and for, an agreement or treaty, is the same word. And so, the most common way of entering into a salt covenant was done by eating food containing salt.

• Entering into a covenant of salt was never done lightly or haphazardly. In Bible times, guests would eat their meal while their host stood. If the host ate with his guests, then they would have entered into a salt covenant because the food contained salt" (Ibid).

Sitting with a guest and partaking of a meal containing salt results in a salt covenant. Understanding what that agreement consists of is therefore very important because both the

host and guest are binding themselves to a contract.

• "In the late 1970’s when Prime Minister Begin of Israel met with President Sadat of Egypt, Begin was greeted as he set foot on Egyptian soil. It was reported that the two men stopped to take bread and salt together.

• "To the Western mind, this may seem like an old fashioned custom, and one might think that it was a nice gesture, but it was much more than just a gesture. In their Eastern minds, they entered into a salt covenant. Sadat was communicating through his action that Begin would be safe while visiting Egypt and that he was willing to guarantee that safety with his own life.

• "Since ancient times in the Middle East, if you were traveling and needed shelter for the night, you could ask one of the Bedouin for his protection and help by asking if you could partake of salt together. He would ask for all your money and valuables and put them in his pockets. Next, he would feed you and give you a place to sleep. Finally, he would stand guard all night to make sure that no harm came your way.

• "In the morning, he would feed you once again, give your valuables back to you, and make sure you were safely on your way. He would never even consider taking any payment for his hospitality, because in the East, it is looked upon as an act of service to God" (Ibid).

Salt in Water Produces Fire

Mark 9:49-50 "For everyone will be

seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another"

How Did One Enter Into A Salt Covenant?

• The custom of pledging friendship or confirming an agreement or covenant by eating food containing salt is still retained today among some Middle Easterners. The Arabic word for salt and for, an agreement or treaty, is the same word. And so, the most common way of entering into a salt covenant was done by eating food containing salt.

• Entering into a covenant of salt was never done lightly or haphazardly. In Bible times, guests would eat their meal while their host stood. If the host ate with his guests, then they would have entered into a salt covenant because the food contained salt.

Covenant

In the ancient Middle East and Biblical world, a "covenant" was a solemn, blood-sealed agreement between parties that both establishes and regulates a relationship between them and is made binding by an oath. The standard Hebrew term, Berith, is translated by the New American Standard Bible in the following ways: "covenant" (275 times), league (2), treaty (4), allied/s (2).

The equally common New Testament term, diatheke, is the Greek term for "last will and testament" (Hebrews 9:16; Galatians 3:15) which was used in the Septuagint to translate berith. It was used in the LXX because it carries the essential idea of declaring one person's will (God's), rather than a negotiated agreement (suntheke).[2]

Treaty Document

This is a written, fixed, and preserved copy of covenant legislation. The details of any important covenant were recorded, because "covenants" in the ancient world were not mystical, secret things without a tangible form.

The record was preserved on durable material

Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made

an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

kept in a safe place

Exodus 25:16 You shall put the

testimony which I shall give you into the ark.

proclaimed regularly

Deuteronomy 31:9 Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the

priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.

10 Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,

11 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

Modern archaeologists have found the ancient Hittite treaty to be fairly characteristic of ancient treaties (Biblical parallels are in parenthesis).

First came the Preamble, which gave the name and titles of the great king who offered the treaty.

Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God

Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.

Exodus 3:13 Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your

fathers has sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I tell them?" 14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: 'I AM

has sent me to you.'" 15 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your

fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;

Second, there was often a Historical Prologue listing the past benefits conferred by the sovereign upon the vassal

Exodus 19:4 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.

Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you

may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

4 Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

Third There were Stipulations or "terms" which were the obligations or duties required of the vassal in return for the

sovereign's continued blessings

Mosaic Covenant terms are summarized in the 10 Commandments, and expanded throughout Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy - 613 total

Fourth, there were Provisions for the preservation and public proclamation of the covenant document - usually in some

valuable/durable substance like metal, clay, or stone

Written on Stone 10 Sayings kept inside the Ark of the Covenant

Fifth, there was usually a listing of the Witnesses to the covenant ancient treaties often called gods and natural features

(mountains, rivers, springs, seas, winds, clouds, and heaven and earth) as witnesses to a covenant.

Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon

utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set

before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;

Deuteronomy 30:19; 31: 19,28) -

Sixth, there were Blessings/Curses tied to the vassal's fulfilling or violation/ abandonment of the covenant (11:26-28; 28; 29:15-20).

Deuteronomy 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a

curse:27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments

of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the

commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

Deuteronomy 28; 29:15-20

Last, there was the Covenant Oath, which was the act of acceptance by which parties contacted “covenant blood” and then the agreement was binding on both

parties

Genesis 15:8-18Exodus 24:3-8

Two Types of Systems of Beliefs

Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Salt Represents:1. Covenant2. Fidelity3. Agreement4. Honesty5. Permanence6. Loyalty7. Durability 8. Usefulness9. Value10. Purification11. Eternal12. Perpetuity 13. Incorruption

Salt is Covenant and is EternalBeliever with the Salt of Covenant of

Torah

• Keeps Torah• Keeps Moedim (Feast)• Keeps Shabbat• Keeps Kosher (biblical)• Live as a Hebrew

Unsalted System of Belief • Keeps Easter (fertility goddess)• Christmas (honors sungod)• Sunday (sun-day)• Sunrise service (mithras)• Eats Unclean foods• Does not want the Torah

Covenant demands obedience to that Oath

Who are you? Are you Salted by

YHVH’s Covenant or not.

Romans 10:9 that if you will confess

with your mouth that Yeshua is master, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you

will be saved.

CONFESS

3670. Homologeo, hom-ol-og-eh'-o from a compound of the base of 3674

and 3056; to assent, i.e. covenant, acknowledge:--con- (pro-)fess, confession is made, give thanks, promise.

The Church System says the Torah is not for us

nowUsing Ancient Rituals of Covenant

making. We will discover the truth of the Character of our Creator

What Is Replacement Theology?

Replacement Theology was introduced to the Church shortly after Gentile leadership took over from Jewish leadership. What are its premises?

Israel (the Jewish people and the land) has been replaced by the Christian Church in the purposes of God, or, more precisely, the Church is the historic continuation of Israel to the exclusion of the former.

The Jewish people are now no longer a "chosen people." In fact, they are no different from any other group, such as the English, Spanish, or Africans.

Apart from repentance, the new birth, and incorporation into the Church, the Jewish people have no future, no hope, and no calling in the plan of God. The same is true for every other nation and group.

Since Pentecost of Acts 2, the term "Israel," as found in the Bible, now refers to the Church.

The promises, covenants and blessings ascribed to Israel in the Bible have been taken away from the Jews and given to the Church, which has superseded them. However, the Jews are subject to the curses found in the Bible, as a result of their rejection of Christ.

ENYONE WHO BELIEVES THAT YHVH HAS DONE AWAY WITH ISRAEL IS

CALLING THE CREATOR A LIER.

Now that we have studied the concepts of Eternal Covenant via the Ancient Ritual of the middle east, let’s see what YHVH says

about his Eternal covenant people

What does Yeshua say about the Validity of the Torah

Matthew 5:17 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I

didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not

even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least

commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

This is one of the reasons why adultery carried the death sentence in the Torah and why the Passover is so sacred and why breaking the covenant of the Passover is a death wish:

1 Cor. 11:27-32 "Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the

Master in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Master's body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep (die). For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Master, that we may not be condemned with the world".

Col.4:6 "Let your speech always

be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one".

John 15:13 "Greater love has no one

than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends".

Custom of Salt bath for Newborn babies

Newborn babies were rubbed with salt symbolizing that they would grow up and say what they mean, and mean what they say.

Ezequiel 16:1 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your

birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

Healing of the Water with Salt

2 Kings 2:20 He said, Bring me a new jar, and put salt therein.

They brought it to him.21 He went forth to the spring of the waters, and

cast salt therein, and said, Thus says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.

22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

Science shows that Salt will Alkaline the water

Incense in the Temple

Exodus 30:34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet

spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;

35 and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

Covenant of Salt is found in 3 places in Scriptures

In regards to the Offerings of the Children of Israel:Leviticus 2:13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt;

neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

In regards to the Levi’s and Son’s of Aaron:Numbers 18:19 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of

Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever: it is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.

In regards to the Davidic Kingdom

2 Chronicles 13:4 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the

hill country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

Ezequiel 34:

23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Ezequiel 44:

15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

Zechariah 14:

17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his

saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.