One to three

We are about to see big stuff. The world is going to go berserk in our future, and people are not going to know how to cope. There are those who ‘think’ the world has already gone berserk, but, in the infamous words of Randy Bachman, ‘You ain’t seen nothin’ yet’.

Yeshua is the Son of God. Yeshua is a man. Yeshua called Himself “The Son of Man”. We could render the last one from Hebrew to English as “The Son of Adam”, which takes on perhaps more meaning, since “adam” in Hebrew is “man”. The point is, Yeshua is eternally flesh and bone.

This was such a critical concept that Yokhanan, “John”, made it the litmus test of true confession:

“The Spirit of God is known by this: every spirit which declares that Yeshua The Messiah is coming in the flesh is from God.  And every spirit which does not declare that Yeshua The Messiah is coming in the flesh is not from God, but it is the spirit of the false Messiah…” 1 John 4:2-3

The apostle was dealing with first century gnosticism, which denied the reality of flesh, and in particular, that of Yeshua’s; John thus wrote his gospel and his letters very late, as a response to that doctrine, as the friend that leaned on the flesh and blood bosom of his dearest friend and Rabbi on the night of Passover; he knew for certain that Yeshua is a resurrected human being, with God’s nature, defined as His Word, inside of Him.

People today think that if we say that “Jesus is not “God””, we are committing the blasphemy of blasphemies, thinking we are thus denying the eternal and divine nature of Yeshua the man. We are not. What we are not doing is denying that Yeshua is yet a man of flesh and bone, which is indeed what some who tout ‘trinity’ as truth are actually doing. It’s just that most ‘lay’ people are not aware of the meaning of the doctrine.

I would think that those who insist that Jesus is God would then count His own words as bedrock truth about His identity:

“I proceeded forth and came out of My Father.” ~ John 8:42

“I came forth out of The Father and I came into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going back to The Father.” ~ John 16:28

And since we all trust that the writer of these words was an eye witness to Yeshua’s words, and qualified to teach about him, we can therefore trust that this same writer was speaking the truth when he said, 

“In the beginning was The Word, and He, The Word, was within the form of God, and God was He, The Word. The same was in the beginning within the form of God.”

And:

“The Word became “a Body”/ “Flesh” and dwelt among us. ~ John 1:1, 14

So, Yeshua is The Word of God. If you study the Hebrew, “The Word”, “HaDavar” is the will of God expressed. “The Word” is God expressing His character and His will in any way that He wishes. That is His Word. That Word is perfectly embodied in the written Torah, and it manifested to the prophets every time “The Word of יהוה “, or “The Word of the LORD” was used in the prophetic scriptures when God spoke to a prophet. 

So, Yeshua is the embodiment of the character of God, one might say His ‘nature’, or ‘the way He is/thinks’, and, He is thus the embodiment of His Will. This means that any time Yeshua enters a room, God is being expressed there, perfectly represented, so in that sense, Yes, Yeshua is the Presence of God. But, He is also a man!  That is the issue we have with ‘trinity’ as expressed in the Catholic church catechism and in the doctrines of protestant ‘covenants’ [or whatever they name their expression of doctrine]. 

The point is, God did not die. Indeed, God cannot die.

God did not leave heaven and become a man, as most people who call themselves pastors, preachers and popes teach today. 

God was on His throne the whole time Yeshua was on earth. There is not one place in scripture where Yeshua dares to call Himself utterly “God.”  He never said “I am God”; He never said “I am יהוה “, He never even said “I am”, as some translations like to render one verse in particular: 

“Before Abraham was, Ani itay”…

where “Ani itay” is “I exist[ed]”….

He did not say “Eyeh”, as God did to Moshe.  And most people translate that wrong anyway: “I will be” is what God said to Moshe:

וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֶל מֹשֶׁה אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה וַיֹּאמֶר כֹּה תֹאמַר לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶהְיֶה שְׁלָחַנִי אֲלֵיכֶם.

And God said unto Moses, “I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE;” and He said, “Thus shall you say unto The Sons of Israel, “I WILL BE has sent me unto you.” [don’t take my word for it; look up the grammar]

“Eyeh here is “I will be” in Hebrew, the future tense first person masculine conjugation of the verb ‘to be’.

What Yeshua actually said in John’s gospel was “Before Abraham was, I was”… 

So, yes, Yeshua does predate Abraham, because He was IN GOD. And when God spoke, The Word of God was manifesting. When Yeshua speaks, God is speaking. When God spoke through a messenger in whom He put His Name יהוה , the Word of God was manifesting, so much so, that in the age of the prophets, it was expressed that way more than 1,000 times:

“The Word of  יהוה came….”

Before the age of the prophets, the “Messenger/Angel” of יהוה appeared to the forefathers of Irsael; and when that Messenger spoke, God spoke… but it was NOT God being physically present on earth.

It was God sending a perfect representation of Himself anthropomorphically, in a being that many times was called a “Man”… 

“A man wrestled with Jacob”, and Jacob said “I have seen the face of God”. [Gen 32]

“A man came to Menoah’s wife” and Menoah and his wife said, “We have seen God and yet lived”. Clearly, God had not left His throne, but had SENT this messenger. [Judges 13]

This messenger is called a ‘theophany’ by Christian theologians, and “Metatron” by Jewish Rabbis. Both doctrinal communities have a similar definition of this entity, knowing that it is a perfect REPRESENTATION of God, and NOT “Very God” Himself. 

God Himself did peel away the space/time continuum one day and show His Throne Room to Israel, however, and they looked up through a blue floor and saw His feet… which must have been huge! 

“Then Moshe went up, and Aharon, Nadav, and Avihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra’el; and they saw the God of Yisra’el; and there was under His feet the like of a paved work of sapphire stone, and the like of the very heaven for clearness. And upon the nobles of B’nei Yisra’el He laid not His hand; and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.” ~ Exodus 24:9-11

They. Saw. God.

And, God showed His WHOLE FORM to Moses, when Moses asked to see ALL of His Glory:

And He said, “You cannot see My face, for a man shall not see Me and live.” And  יהוה  said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand upon the rock. And it shall come to pass, while My Glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand until I have passed by, and I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” ~Exodus 33:20-23

So many people think that God is ‘invisible’; and, apart from what most people think ‘invisible’ may mean in certain translations and contexts, in our minds we would do better to say ‘unviewable’, because we CAN look upon His Face, but if we do, we die… It does not mean He does not have a face! Yet that is what both Rabbis and many trinitarian teachers teach, that God is ethereal, and Christian theologians go further and say that Yeshua is the face of God somehow… NO. God the Creator, The Father, has His own face. At this point with Moses, Yeshua is still inside of the Creator, who physically walked on earth and picked Moses up with His HAND, and Moses looked on His Back to see what part of God’s form he could see without dying!

Any other understanding of that passage is mental gymnastics to force God into a doctrinal jack-in-the-box. 

We were created in the image of God, and in the NATURE/CHARACTER of God. We LOST His character of purity and innocence when Adam sinned. But God did not lose His image after which we were created.

This is what I mean:

And God said, “Let us make man in our image [form/shape], after our likeness [character]; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

Now, first, let me address the plural pronouns in the first sentence above: us/our.  

Yes, God said ‘let us’ make man. Trinitarians like to say this the lynch pin of the threeness of the trinity, when they know Yeshua has not manifested as yet. 

It is not. First of all, if Jesus IS God, why did he have to say, ‘us’? Think.

Further, it was “God” who “said” that. The word ‘said’ in the “God said” is the word “va’yomer”, which means “HE SAID”, not ‘they said’.  It is singular.

And still, in the very next verse after the plural pronouns are used, when folks try to say that it was a triumvirate of gods doing the creating, the Hebrew remains with a singular God doing the creating:

“And God created [וַיִּבְרָא] man in His own image, in the image of God created [בָּרָא] He him; male and female created [בָּרָא] He them.”

In Hebrew, every verb is both numbered and gendered. The plural form of that verb is בָּרְאוּ . Yet, three times we see a singular creator: God.

English readers do not ‘see’ the verbs in their Hebrew singular, masculine, past tense conjugations: One God, one worker of the work being done.

But, more importantly, the ‘us’ is not God alone, but all the Angels who beheld the GLORY of God doing the creating of our Universe.

There was a battle in the heavens, BEFORE God uttered The Word of Creation. God then spoke and created the vast realm we call a ‘universe’, and the ‘Messengers/Angels’ beheld the awe of it. 

אוֹ מִי יָרָה אֶבֶן פִּנָּתָהּ

בְּרָן יַחַד כּוֹכְבֵי בֹקֶר; וַיָּרִיעוּ כָּל בְּנֵי אֱלֹהִים

“Or who laid the cornerstone thereof,  When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?:” ~ Job 38:7

The above is God Himself speaking to Job about the Creation, and God tells us that the Angels, “morning stars”/sons of God”, shouted for joy at the foundation of the Earth. God was showing off in front of His previously created beings, “Messengers”, ministering spirit bodies, “Angels”. That is to whom He spoke.

Does this mean Yeshua was not there at the creation? No! Of course not. When God ‘said’ anything, He spoke His will, His ‘mind’, and His Word came forth from within Him, carried by His Breath [Ru’akh, what most people call ‘Spirit’] and The Word, did the work!  Just like our breath carries our words, God’s ‘Ru’akh’ carried His Word. And later, His Word became Yeshua. This is what is meant in Colossians 1:15-16:

“He [Yeshua, the Beloved Son] is the image of the unseeable God, and the first-born of every creature: and through Him were created all things that are in heaven and on earth.” ~Col 1:15

And the book of Hebrews may clarify it all best:

“From of old God spoke to our fathers by the Prophets in many forms and in many ways; and in these Last Days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed as heir of all things, and by whom also He [God] made the worlds; for He [Yeshua] is the brightness of His Glory, and the express [manifested] image of His Nature, upholding all things by the power of His Word; and when He [Yeshua] had Himself cleansed our sins, then He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

And He is altogether greater than the Messengers, just as the Name He has inherited is a more excellent Name than theirs.  For to which of the Messengers has God at any time said, “You are my Son, this day have I fathered you?” And again, “I will be as a Father to him, and He shall be to me as a Son?” ” ~ Heb 1:1-5

Yeshua thus was indeed ACTIVE and PRESENT in the Creation, inside of and coming out of His Father, manifesting each time God spoke and/or breathed.

And after that He began to be sent into the world at times, as “The” Messenger of God:

“Behold, I send My Messenger before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Take heed of Him, and hearken unto His voice; be not rebellious against Him; for He will not pardon your transgression; for My Name is in Him.” ~Exodus 23:20-21

If you’re not aware, “shem” in Hebrew is ‘name’, but it is more properly ‘reputation’. We used to have the same connotation of ‘word’ and ‘name’ in our culture. “Don’t ruin my ‘good name'”; “I give you my word”. And it used to mean something.  For God, it is His very nature and character: His Will. 

Yeshua is the ‘bringing forth’, the ‘begetting’ of the will of God. “I fathered you”. He is the progeny of God. 

This is why Yokhanan/John used these words to specify who Yeshua is:

“But those who received Him [Yeshua], to them He gave authority to become sons of God, to those who firmly trusted in His Name, those who are not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but born of [the will of] God.” John 1:13

Yeshua understood and taught this; and though He was the perfect representation of His Father in a Human body, He never once called Himself “God”, saying “I am God”. 

Not. One. Time.

He did, however, say “I and my Father are “one””. 

In the Aramaic/Hebrew texts, the word for ‘one’ there is “ekhad”. It is not the ‘numeral’ ‘one’ like we have in English, one word that means several different things.

The Hebrew word for “1” in counting is “akhat”. The Hebrew word here is “ekhad”, which means one, in the sense also of ‘unified.’

This is the same word used in Genesis when God created “Khava”, a woman brought forth from man:

“And  יהוה  God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which  יהוה  God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. And the man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “Isha”, because she was taken out of “Ish”.” Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.” ~Genesis 2:21-24 

“Basar ‘ekhad'”/ one flesh: This is clearly not a numeric ‘one’, because Adam and Eve remained two separate people: this is two beings, one of whom came from the other, going forth with the same purpose.

Unified in ‘will,’ ‘thought’, ‘action’.  That is what “ekhad” is. NOT a numeric ‘one’. 

God Himself, though called “Elohim”, and diverse in magnitude, expressing Himself to us now in His Son, by His Ru’akh. He is ONE being. And Yeshua testified that understanding this was the most important command in all of Scripture:

“And one of the Scribes came near and heard them debating, and he saw that He gave them a good answer. So he asked Him [Yeshua], “Which is the first mitzvah [commandment] of all?”  Yeshua said to him, “The first of all the mitzvot [commandments] is,

‘Shema, Yisra’el,  יהוה  Eloheinu,  יהוה  Ekhad! [Hear O Yisra’el,  יהוה  is our God,  יהוה  is One].  And you must love  יהוה  your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your might;’ this is the first mitzvah.  And the second is like unto it, ‘You must love your neighbor as your own nefesh [soul].’  There is no other mitzvah greater than these two.” ” ~ Mark 12:28-31

Yeshua was being a very good Jew here, as all Jews who know anything of the faith know that the Shema, Deuteronomy 6:4-9, is the greatest command, that there is ONE God. And this is one practical reason, other than the fact that God has partly blinded the Jewish people, that Jews do not come to Yeshua very easily, because too many people teach that Jesus is ‘very God’, or “God Himself”, and that there are three ‘people’  in one body that must be worshipped. That is nowhere expressed in the original languages. What is expressed, is that God is ONE, and His Word, the expression of His Nature and Will, became a human being, who later sent the Ru’akh to His followers. One God, manifesting, in unity. 

Some people think that Yeshua claimed to be very God today because of new translations of the scripture in John 10:32-38:

Yeshua said to them, “I have shown you many good works from My Father; for which one of them do you stone me?”  The Y’hudim [religious Jews] said to Him, “It is not because of the good works that we stone you, but because you blaspheme; for while you are only a man, you make yourself God.”  Yeshua said to them, “Is it not so written in your Torah, “I said, you are gods?”  If he called them [Israel] gods because the The Word of God was with them, and the scripture cannot be broken,  why to the one whom The Father consecrated and sent to the world, do you say, ‘You blaspheme,’ just because I said to you, ‘I am The Son of God.’  If I am not doing the works of My Father, do not believe me.  But if I am doing them, even though you do not trust in me, trust in the works, so that you may know and believe that My Father is in me, and I am in My Father.”

Yeshua was in no way claiming “I am God”, and that God had left heaven’s throne vacant, and became an infant, and that the Creator of the Universe died very soon after. Yet that is what the official trinity doctrine teaches. Yeshua had just said, “I am the SON of God“, His progeny, someone He sent, and because God is one, the Jews took it to mean He claimed to be equal with God. And He is! But, that in no way meant that God had left heaven! His Presence, the image after which we were created, was still on the throne. Otherwise, Yeshua’s many accounts of praying to His Father is insanity, or disingenuous at best.

The official, Nicene trinity that was created in 325 claimed that God and Jesus were homoousion: “of the same substance“, meaning Jesus was  no longer FLESH AND BONE, or God was now also flesh and bone. Homoousion means they ‘inhabit the same body.’ Having had these discussions with advanced Catholic priests/theologians, that is what the trinity actually is.

Trinity was a pagan idea Constantine brought into the first counsel he convened, from which he excluded all Jewish bishops [about 250 of 3,000 bishops], who never would have agreed to his new doctrine.  So, many of the good gentile bishops also did not attend. His ‘yes-men’ thus created a new definition of god, saying three people are one stubstance, where ‘three’ is the most important word, and not ‘one’. Trinity means “3”. Three [3] Things in one substance: this does one of two things: it discards the physical flesh and bone body of Yeshua, or it discards the Image of God after which everyone was created, emptying Heaven of The Father, and the perfect representation of God that Yeshua became as a man, next to whom He now stands.  This same word [homoousion] was later applied also to the Holy Spirit, to elevate the spirit up to another person of the same substance /matter as the father and the son. This is not a Bible idea. It is a pagan idea. The Spirit is not a separate person.

What most people do not realize is that this idea was Egyptian, because Constantine, the founder of the Catholic church, was a Greek pagan who loved Egyptian mythology. His mother was a Greek named Helen, and his father from the Balkan region, but he took his family to Egypt as a Roman Soldier, where they learned their paganism as well. Constantine blended the two mythologies, and then forced them on the world to unify his empire, by force.

“In the theological language of Egyptian paganism the word homoousios meant that the Nous-Father and the Logos-Son, who are two distinct beings, share the same perfection…” Look up the Egyptian trinity of Mithraism, or the Iranian one, or the Canaanite one, or any of the other many ideas of trinity that originated with Semiramis and Nimrod at Babel, when God scattered and confused people for wanting to BE god.

The root of homoousion is ousia, but the greek versions of Scriptures refer to the ousia [substance/being] of God, and never say that the Son is homoousios with the Father.

God cannot die. God IS life. Yeshua’s body died. God His Father raised Him from the dead. Yeshua’s nature, his ‘soul’, went into She’ol [Acts 2:27], while His body laid in a grave. Yes, He did say that He had the power to take up His life again, but, right before He said that, He said that God GAVE Him that authority: 

 “This is why My Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.  No man takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own will. Therefore I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.” ~John 10:17-18

What command? to go to the grave and RISE FROM THE DEAD.

What are we supposed to be preaching about Yeshua? Wouldn’t it be a good model to do as did the ones Yeshua trained Himself to be preachers? Never once did they say “Jesus is God.”

NOT. ONE. TIME.

Over and over, however, they did say that he was a Man sent from God, and the Son of God.

Someone might say, “yeah, but in him all the fulness of the godhead dwells”. [Col 1:19, 2:9]

It does not say that, even in the greek! The word ‘godhead’ was a trinitarian invention in English. The greek word there simply means ‘the divine’. It is simply the fulness of God dwelling in Yeshua, just like Yeshua prayed that we ourselves would also have the fulness of God dwelling in us! [John 1:16, Eph 1:23, 3:19]

Look in Acts chapter 2, 3, 4, 9-11, 13-14, and later chapters in the book of Acts. Not one time does anyone call Yeshua “God”. If it were so very important that we identify our Savior as God Himself, a gas that vacated heaven and became a man temporarily [which is what many theologians effectively teach and believe, in their lofty language], then Peter, James, John, Paul, and all the others who declared Him to the world would have said so very clearly. But the Catholic church teaches us that the popes are special, and have gotten ‘progressive revelation’ and have authority to violate the “old testament” because they are now ‘god on earth’, and the whole protestant world is afraid to defy the papacy. 

There is a reason. They used a devilish spirit of murder to enforce the doctrine and stamp out opposition. It’s hard to find on the internet, because they scrub the sources. Go check out a book, and see that forbidding believers to worship on the Sabbath was the first papal edict of death for defying the popes; and the second? trinity. 

Fear of having others think one is ‘anethema’, or ‘cursed and going to hell’, is what makes people, even real believers, cling to the idea of three gods in one body, ‘trinity’, and to the idea of “The Lord’s Day”. Both of these are changes from the spirit of the false Messiah, who denies that Yeshua IS COMING in a body of FLESH. 

Yeshua rose from the dead, and showed Himself to His Talmidim [Torah students/disciples] for 33 days, eating with them, touching them, breathing on them. He stands at the right hand of God Most High. This is clearly depicted in the book of Revelation, in chapter 4 and 5. Stephen saw it in Acts chapter 7. But, most importantly, Yeshua said it:

“Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I; feel me and understand; for a spirit has no flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

God is SPIRIT. And those who worship Him must do so in Spirit and Truth. Understanding that Yeshua is the SON of God, a human who is still flesh and bone, is the doorway of TRUTH.