Acharith (a lesson in being far sighted)
This is a Hebrew word that comes from a root meaning back, or hind part. As a word Acharith can mean behind, latter end, end, or reward. It can also refer to time in respects to the latter part or the future (end). The word heavily plays on its root meaning of back. For instance we don’t say “at the back of time for dinner” but rather at the “end of dinner” of time. This word also plays on the future that cannot be seen, hence “the back” or “back end”. This word can teach us a lot about things in the "long run".
An example of it uses:
Genesis 49:1
“And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.”
Job 8:7
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Get the idea?
This word is very powerful and gives us a very important lesson in the wisdom of God and the devices of the devil. All one need do is to go back to the beginning in the garden to see how this works. It was while talking to Eve that the devil was able to hide the Acharith of her actions from her. Once he assessed her faulty understanding of God’s command, he told her that “you will not surely die!” using that as his foundation to build on he continued …
Genesis 3:
“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Now stop here for a moment. Here are what my mama calls the “wolf tickets”. Eve just like her husband Adam was made in the image and likeness of God (genesis 2:26). But the devil is essentially telling her “He’s holding out on you!!!” or put another way, “God knows that if you eat that fruit you will be on His level and He won’t have that.”
You know the rest, Eve was deceived literally and was led away from the truth taking the offer. It’s funny every false idea that offers men something for nothing in order to realize some kind of godhood originates here.
But my point in mentioning this is to show you how the devil likes to hide the Acharith from you while he is selling you the option. Here is another one for you. David and Bathsheba. When David did his thing, got her pregnant and then murdered his friend/her husband, he likely supposed that God was not looking. Later after repenting before God to the Prophet he writes Psalm 51. In there he writes what he learned from this grievous error that he committed.
Psalm 51:4
“and done this evil in Your sight…”
Psalm 51:9
“Hide Your face from all of my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.”
David learned painfully that God sees everything, and knows everything that we do. But when he looked out and gazed at a naked Bathsheeba he did not look at the Acharith of his actions. One from a male point of few can quickly surmise the realm of his justifications at that moment. It would be his son Solomon that summed it best when he said, “there is a way that seems right to a man but its Acharith is the way of death.”
Paul builds on this issue in Romans when talking about sin he says that, “the wages of sin is death.” Every time there is a Acharith to the things that we do. In these times of the believer we are reminded that it is death. Sin cannot but bring death. It has no other digit to equal out its in its equation.
God shows us in His word from Genesis to Revelation the Acharith of our actions, the devil blinds us from that. In the book of Proverbs God tells us why He is giving us the word of caution.
Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.
Hebrews 12:14
“pursue peace with all people, and holiness without which no one will see The Lord.”
On a personal note, I many times in my life did not look at the Acharith and suffered for it. This is something that no one is safe on, we all need to look ahead of our actions.
Let us remember that there is a consequence for our actions and though there may not SEEM to be a negative consequence for our actions, in the eternal scheme of things there is. May The Holy Spirit show us our Acharith in scripture if we endure to the end.
I would like to thank Dr. Michael Brown for exposing me to this teaching.
An example of it uses:
Genesis 49:1
“And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.”
Job 8:7
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.
Job 42:12
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Get the idea?
This word is very powerful and gives us a very important lesson in the wisdom of God and the devices of the devil. All one need do is to go back to the beginning in the garden to see how this works. It was while talking to Eve that the devil was able to hide the Acharith of her actions from her. Once he assessed her faulty understanding of God’s command, he told her that “you will not surely die!” using that as his foundation to build on he continued …
Genesis 3:
“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Now stop here for a moment. Here are what my mama calls the “wolf tickets”. Eve just like her husband Adam was made in the image and likeness of God (genesis 2:26). But the devil is essentially telling her “He’s holding out on you!!!” or put another way, “God knows that if you eat that fruit you will be on His level and He won’t have that.”
You know the rest, Eve was deceived literally and was led away from the truth taking the offer. It’s funny every false idea that offers men something for nothing in order to realize some kind of godhood originates here.
But my point in mentioning this is to show you how the devil likes to hide the Acharith from you while he is selling you the option. Here is another one for you. David and Bathsheba. When David did his thing, got her pregnant and then murdered his friend/her husband, he likely supposed that God was not looking. Later after repenting before God to the Prophet he writes Psalm 51. In there he writes what he learned from this grievous error that he committed.
Psalm 51:4
“and done this evil in Your sight…”
Psalm 51:9
“Hide Your face from all of my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.”
David learned painfully that God sees everything, and knows everything that we do. But when he looked out and gazed at a naked Bathsheeba he did not look at the Acharith of his actions. One from a male point of few can quickly surmise the realm of his justifications at that moment. It would be his son Solomon that summed it best when he said, “there is a way that seems right to a man but its Acharith is the way of death.”
Paul builds on this issue in Romans when talking about sin he says that, “the wages of sin is death.” Every time there is a Acharith to the things that we do. In these times of the believer we are reminded that it is death. Sin cannot but bring death. It has no other digit to equal out its in its equation.
God shows us in His word from Genesis to Revelation the Acharith of our actions, the devil blinds us from that. In the book of Proverbs God tells us why He is giving us the word of caution.
Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.
Hebrews 12:14
“pursue peace with all people, and holiness without which no one will see The Lord.”
On a personal note, I many times in my life did not look at the Acharith and suffered for it. This is something that no one is safe on, we all need to look ahead of our actions.
Let us remember that there is a consequence for our actions and though there may not SEEM to be a negative consequence for our actions, in the eternal scheme of things there is. May The Holy Spirit show us our Acharith in scripture if we endure to the end.
I would like to thank Dr. Michael Brown for exposing me to this teaching.
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