103Visit

paqad — Hebrew

To visit, in the legal sense, is to conduct an official inspection — to come and examine, muster, or audit, with consequences following the finding. Paqad means to attend to, to inspect, to reckon — and a divine ‘visitation’ is an official review that results in reward or reckoning. “In the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them” (Exodus 32:34); “Yahuah visited Sarah as he had said” (Genesis 21:1). To be visited is to be inspected and dealt with according to the finding — blessed or charged. It is not a casual call but an audit: the record examined, and the appropriate consequence rendered. Visitation is the court coming to inspect and to act on what it finds.

The Root

paqad (H6485) — to visit, to attend to, to inspect, to muster, to reckon.

The Courtroom Word

An inspection term — an official review, with consequence following the finding.

Its Role in the Court

An audit comes to examine and then to act, and to visit is that audit — the official inspection that results in reward or reckoning. Paqad attends to, inspects, musters. A ‘visitation’ reviews the record and renders the finding: Sarah visited with the promised son, sin visited upon the guilty. To be visited is to be inspected and dealt with accordingly. It is the court coming to examine, and acting on what it finds.

Proof Texts

Exodus 32:34 “In the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.” The inspection that charges.

Genesis 21:1 “Yahuah visited Sarah as he had said.” The visitation that blesses.

Luke 19:44 “Thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.” The official review not recognized.

1 Peter 2:12 “Glorify Elohim in the day of visitation.” The day of inspection and reckoning.

In Plain Terms

To visit, in the legal sense, is to conduct an official inspection — to come, examine, and act on the finding. Paqad means to attend to, inspect, reckon. A ‘visitation’ reviews the record and renders the result: Sarah visited with a son, sin visited on the guilty. To be visited is to be inspected and dealt with accordingly — an audit, not a casual call.

Bring It Home

A ‘visitation’ from Yahuah is an audit — He comes to inspect and to act on what He finds. It cuts both ways: He ‘visited Sarah’ with the promised son, and He would ‘visit their sin upon them.’ To be visited is to be examined and dealt with by the finding — the court arriving to review the record.

Courtroom Roles

Yahuah (the Inspector, the Judge) visits to examine and render the finding.
The visited (the audited) inspected and dealt with according to the record.
The finding (the result) blessing or reckoning, following the inspection.

Where It Sits

IThere Is a Court

IIThe Court Runs on One Code

IIIYou Are Named on the Docket

IVThe Acquittal

VYour Life Is the Testing

VIIt Is All Entered as Evidence

VIIThe Bench Convenes

Movement VI — It Is All Entered as Evidence. Word, deed, and blood — every step of the walk is deposed and filed. Nothing falls off the record.