MONOTHEISM IN CHRISTOLOGY
Our Messiah’s Divinity Before, During, After Resurrection
WHO TO SUPREMELY WORSHIP AND PRAY, JESUS OR HIS FATHER?
A SALVATIONAL TRUTH FOR APOSTOLIC AWARENESS TO SUCCESS!
GENERAL OVERVIEW: THE GISTπ
Should a person worship supremely God the Father of Jesus or Jesus? Should someone pray to God the Father of Jesus or Jesus?
WHAT JESUS SAID AND MEANT
First be reminded, βJesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.β Hebrews 13:8.
βBut of that day (of destruction, end of the age, Messiahβs return) and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.β Mark 13:32βJesus Christ.
Jesus declared truthfully here he is not knowing all things or omniscient. Any person or Seminary that teaches Jesus is all knowing contradicts Jesus and implies that Jesus lied, that he did or does know, or has misled us by withholding the truth and misrepresenting it.
β..to sit at my right hand and on my left (in my kingdom) is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by my Father (God in heaven). Matthew 20:23.βJesus.
Jesus declared truthfully here he is not all powerful over all things or autonomously omnipotent (all powerful). Importantly, by this above reply, Jesus answered a question about when he comes into his future kingdom. This is supported by 1 Corinthians 15:28 which teaches in the future after Jesus reappears, in his Kingdom, Jesus himself will be βsubjectβ to the Father, not βequalβ to Him. This supports Philippians 2:5-8 where Jesus βthought it not robbery to be similar to God.β
Click on the word βsimilarβ for deeper word-study that Jesus was not equal to God. And for detailed deeper word-study on the Hebrew name of Jesus from latest archaeology and scholarship, click here on Yahwashag.
Any person or Seminary that teaches Jesus is all autonomously all powerful or omnipotent contradicts Jesus and implies that Jesus lied, that he did or does have all absolute autonomous power, or has misled us by withholding the truth and misrepresenting it.
How then is Jesus eternal? This publication allows Holy Scripture to explain this, as you will see later. For now, and generally, the explanation is as follows.
His soul, like ours, from our eternal Source of being, God, is eternal but it can be emptied and neutralized. Until filled with Godβs life imparting Holy Spirit, it is either dead (neutralized, void of Spirit) and in other cases when deneutralized to alive then initially having an undeveloped infant spirit, often later and further disoriented from other undeveloped unholy spirits. Sin disqualifies us to be united with God in soul and Spirit alive, joyous, and prosperously on earth and heaven.
How is Jesus like God or appear to be God on earth? To Godβs anointed (set apart, made holy) the LORD (YAHWAH) said, people βwill make supplication to you, saying, βSurely God is in you, and there is no other, there is no other God.’β Isaiah 45:14. God operates through Jesus, otherwise Jesus is not God by himself alone apart from God. Jesus depends on God. βOn my own I can do nothingβ¦ββJohn 5:30, Jesus Christ.
Does this mean I am diminishing the knowledge or power of Jesus? No. I am sharing with you what Jesus said, which diminishes the false teaching about Jesus. God the Father of Jesus can empower Jesus to be the most powerful person in the world, some would admit God did this, does this, eternally. God can deprive Jesus of power and glory, causing Jesus to pray for it to be restored. John 17:5. Jesus is unchanging, unchangingly adjustable, but always from God he is His eternal Son from and to His right hand side.
Notice, I did not say what Jesus could do or not do, Jesus himself said it. To teach otherwise, that Jesus is omniscient and omnipotent, is not only contradicting Jesus, wrong, and deceitful, but people around the world have inherent God gifted intuition and knowledge to know it is wrong, affirming Holy Scripture, and are compelled to kill over it for being wrong. This insight can save your life from being unnecessarily attacked by others arising from the false teachings. Iβm posting this to help, not harm.
They intuitively know, as Holy Scripture affirms, there is only one supreme God who is autonomously all knowing and all powerful, that is God the Father of Jesus, not Jesus. Catholic and Protestant Christians should be defining this truth, why are they not? Because they have been deceived. This is not attacking them, it is a revelation about their false teachings to empower you to help them via discussions.
βBefore Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me (equal to Me). I, even I, am the LORD (YAHWAH), and besides Me there is no savior.β Isaiah 43:10-11.
To Godβs anointed (one set apart, made holy), the LORD (YAHWAH) said, people βwill make supplication to you, saying, βSurely God is in you, and there is no other, there is no other God.’β Isaiah 45:14.
This phrase βGod in youβ from God almighty by His Holy Spirit is mentioned throughout Holy Scripture, as a prefigure to the Messiah or Son at Almighty God the Fatherβs right hand, such as Psalm 45:6-7 (β..therefore God your God has anointed youβ¦.), Acts 2:34-35 (ββ¦the LORD said unto my Lordβ¦β), and John 1:1-2 (ββ¦In the beginning was the Word [Holy Spirit from Almighty God], and the Word [Holy Spirit] was with God (Almighty God the Father), and the Word [Holy Spirit] was God [in the past, present, and future Messiah or Son by Holy Spirit]β¦and the Word [Holy Spirit] became flesh [in Jesus Christ at his baptism, or you at your baptism. John 1:32].
βGod in youβ is meaning God is βrelativelyβ in you, especially by message or words [Word], as by degree and yet βfullyβ, especially in authority, to accomplish your mission for Him, but not βabsolutely or unlimitedlyβ as if you could completely contain Almighty God in you with all His powers.
There are prideful men in religion who by title and implication try to deceive people to believe they are infallible and absolutely God on earth, calling themselves in religious context and implications βFatherβ as Jesus forbid. See Matthew 23:9. Those men of βperdition (ruin),β Almighty God for and by their deception He will destroy. 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Revelation 17:11.
So let us not follow them on this point of their error.
WHO TO SUPREMELY PRAYβ TO JESUS OR HIS FATHER?
From the entire message from Jesus in John chapter 16, it opens about prophetic events which have past, and yet to come, saying, βThey (Old Covenant Jews) will put you out of the synagoguesβ¦ And in that day you will ask me nothing. Most assuredly I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name He will give youβ¦.In that day you will ask in my name (Yahwashag, from Hebrew language), and I do not say to you that I shall pray (ask) the Father for you, for the Father Himself loves youβ¦β John 16:2, 23, 26-27.
Notice, two things here: You will ask Jesus nothing and he will not be interceding on your behalf guaranteed because you will have grown to love Jesus and love supremely God the Father to the point the Father loves you back and you no longer need an intercession.
If you have been praying to Jesus, in such times of ignorance God overlooks to some degree (Acts 17:30), but after coming to the knowledge of truth there is now a responsibility to apply it for blessings it will produce in your life not yet experienced.
May God continue to bless you, and may good things come to you soon.:-)
PREFACE
GREATEST MATERIAL AUTHORITY
Who or what is God? Who and what are the greatest authorities for the truth from God? Obviously, God is the greatest authority for Himself, but what among us has He given which bears the evidence of His Authorship in our affairs to know the truth about Him? Among all religions on the earth, how do we know which one is “the right one”, the one from His involvement to effectuate truth about Him and his creative affairs on earth?
Answers to these questions are available but most people have not taken time out of their lives to observe them. A sample of evidence in reply to these questions is prophecy, from our Hoy Scriptures (Holy Bible) which are unique from among all other religions. This is especially true where an event is told previously about the future hundreds or thousands of years away and no previous material source has that information. That kind of prophetic or Divine evidence is found only in the Holy Scriptures called the Holy Bible in Judeo-Christianity (also called Judeo-Messianism from the Hebrew, instead of Greek, to English). No other religion on earth contains as many prophets, prophecies, and archaeological support for them being true over thousands of years since the beginning of mankind. Humans have preserved no other religious book of this quality more strictly and longer than the Holy Bible.
Another sample of evidence comes from the higher quality of life from applying Holy Scripture. Love, peace, joy, integrity, and success from God by Holy Spirit insight and powers are a few examples. Therefore, it is from the Holy Scriptures that our understanding of God is most authoritatively supported for mankind from our Creator.
INTRODUCTION
If you are not a bishop, pastor, or other Bible-knowledgable soul, this introduction serves to provide the historical context or historical field of Christendom. In other words, and for example, this introduction is like teaching you about farming or horticulture before we start talking about any particular fruit or vegetable, so that we can correctly tell the difference between a vegetable that someone calls a fruit or a fruit that someone calls a vegetable. Similarly, what is the difference between theology that teaches to pray to, and church that prays to, Jesus versus one that prays to his Father through him? Is there a difference or are they equal, and does it really matter? There is a difference, they are not equal or the same, and yes, in some circumstances it is a life or death matter, particularly in the future.
As you will see from Holy Scripture in this publication, the earliest Christians or Messianists were monotheist. That means they believed in one supreme God, the Father of Jesus. God the Father of Jesus was and still is understood to be all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere present, unchanging, and the truth. This meant God the Father is God-absolute, meaning God without limitation of knowledge, power, etc. Jesus, on the other hand, was understood to be the supreme physical body or vessel through which God the Father operated by His Hol Spirit, the Holy Spirit power that flowed from the Father’s will. So, when Jesus said no one knows the end, not even the Son (Matthew 24:36), he was not lying; meaning Jesus was not all-knowing, but telling his disciples the truth that he did not know. Jesus therefore was God in the flesh relatively, not absolutely: Christ is God-relative not God absolute.
Three hundred years after Jesus ascended to the Father’s right hand, two erroneous teachings developed about Jesus apart from this God-relative opposed to God-absolute understanding. One taught that Jesus was all God and not human: Jesus as God-absolute. The other taught that Jesus was all human and not God. Over 300 years after Christ’s resurrection, a Roman emperor named Constantine sought to unify all these denominations and exalted Jesus equal to God the Father (two separately equal Gods in heaven on a throne, called equapolytheism theology) and developed the false teaching that essentially Jesus is God-absolute, teaching and leading people to not only pray to Jesus but worship the Roman emperor, as later the pope, in whom they claimed falsely existed the God-absolute power of Jesus by the Holy Spirit. This became known as the equapolytheism trinitarian dogma taught by Catholicism. This also was the true beginning of Catholicism. This erroneous Catholic Trinitarian dogma led to many other Catholic teachings which did not agree with the earliest Christian teachings as preserved in the Holy Scriptures for us today. For example, later Catholics would lay claim to prior “church fathers” as their own — such as a Christian teacher named Origin, people that were not Catholic Trinitarians but monotheists.
Catholic Christians began to notice the many errors of Catholicism and started to protest the Catholic authority; they became known as the Protestants and include offshoot denominations such as Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, etc. These denominations attempted to reform or correct many erroneous Catholic teachings to agree more closely to the Holy Bible instead of Catholicism. Unfortunately, they failed to fully correct the false equapolytheist trinity theology and to this day many embrace the erroneous Papal exaltation of Jesus above Christ’s own words, calling it the “Trinity”. It created “mysterious” confusion which is contray to what Holy Scripture says about the “Godhead”, Romans 1:20. The Trinity is too contradictory, decontextualized from Scripture, thereby freely shape-shifting explained by man and self-defeating too much to be holistically and integrally defined and defended by Holy Scripture. Like the Catholic term “Easter” instead of the Bible’s term “Passover”, the Trinitarian theology is thus bamboozlement, a Hellenized counterfeit, aimed to impose on and undermine Holy Scripture’s solid integrity for defining the truth.
The Holy Bible defines the theology for the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem. It is the earliest and most authoritative theology in the entire field of Christendom by virtue of its correctness, not by virtue of erroneous political people with money and military might of the ancient world forcing false teachings on other. No politically correct church defines our theology, only the Bible does. This is what sets us apart from all other historical churches, especially different from equatrinitarian (3 equal Persons, each Gods) churches and theologies that built them. So where, in all Holy Scripture taken together, and not out of context, does it prove and support this monotheist accuracy? Keep reading this to see; it is where you will find Biblical authority.
IDENTIFYING GOD’S NAME FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE
DEFINITIONS
An “appellation” is a word, usually a formal one, to generally identify something in its common category. It is non-specific identification normally referring to a type, group, class, specimen, within those references. Example: homo-sapiens, human, person; God (English), Deus (for God in Latin), Theos (God in Greek), Allah (God in Arabic), Alahym / Elohym (God/or god(s)/magistrates in Hebrew). These terms do not specify which god or God, it only means gods/God in general.
An “epithet” is a word indicating not a general but a particular quality, character, state of being, or condition. Example: Almighty, Most High, Merciful, Eternal One, Savior
A “title” is a word, usually formal, describing an office, feat, function, or other distinguishing occupational trait. Example: King, Judge, President.
A “name” is a word by which one is regularly, often personally, informally, intimately, or sometimes by reputation known. It is intended to be a distinctive, distinguishing, and specific reference to one’s particular identity. Example: Michael, Rashad, Brad.
The Holy Scriptures do not use vocabulary descriptions such as “appellation”, “title”, and “epithet” to make these distinctions. They are made instead by context. This publication uses these synonyms to assist you and to help properly interpret the differences that Holy Scripture makes. While appellations, epithets, and titles for God are used throughout Holy Scriptures by context, each are translated to English as merely a “name”, even epithets for God are called “names”, as found in Exodus 34:14 KJV (“Whose name is Jealous”). From context, clearly that is not God’s sacred name.
God revealed only one personal name for Himself, which is YAH (Psalm 68:4, for example). Also, it is helpful to distinguish Christ’s personal name as well, which is different from his prophetic “names” (i.e. epithets or titles, as) “wonderful Counselor”, (and epithetical titles) “Prince of Peace”, “everlasting Father”, and epithetical appellations, such as “mighty God” (Isaiah 9:6). Failure to observe this distinction between an actual or personal name from epithets, appellations, and/or titles has confused many. As you are about to see, there is a life and death difference between epithets, appellations, or titles and the holy name from God Almighty.
There has been much scholarly debate about properly translating to English the name of God the Father. Look at a few books on the topic over just the past twenty years and you will find attempts at the same sacred name that look like: Jehovah or Yahweh, and of Jesus to be Yeshua or Yahshua.
Jesus directed to baptise in only one name, not names, of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. After reading this article, see if you can tell what that singular personal name is.
What happened—how did there arise such confusion, where is clarity? Here is some answers.
THE EVOLUTION AND MUTATION TRANSLATIONS OF GOD’S SACRED NAME
For English, the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem (https://ccgj-gcc.bitrix24.site/ ) has standardized the index for some popular name variations down to their roots. Below is an example of the standardization, using a King James Bible for example and the Strong’s Concordance [Hebrew [H] and Greek [G] dictionaries]. Below is a general chronology of that evolution and mutation, from accuracy translations to various popular derivatives and erroneous translations, as follows.
SINGULAR EXCLUSIVE APPELATION AND NAME:
“God” Genesis 14:18 [410H] (Hebrew: ΧΧ ) AL/EL/ELi
“LORD” Isaiah 38:11 and “Jah” Psalm 68:4 [3050H] ( ΧΧ ) YAH/JAH
INCLUSIVE APPELATION, DUAL AND PLURALITY (e.g. Alah, for God and a single holy agent, such as a priest, prophet, angel, son, daughter, or eunuch, for example; Alahym for God and a single holy agent or many holy agents, even innumerable holy agents ):
“God” Ezra 5:1 [426H] ( ΧΧΧ ) ALH/Alah/Elah/Allah (Arabic, from Aramaic)
“God” Genesis 1:1 [430H] ( ΧΧΧΧ ) ALHYM/Alahym/Elohym
“God” Psalm 18:31 [433H] ( ΧΧΧΧ ) ALWH/Alwah/Eloahh
INCLUSIVE PROPER/PERSONAL NAME , DUAL AND PLURALITY:
“LORD” Psalm 18:31 [3068H] ( ΧΧΧΧ ) YHWH/Yahwah/Yahweh/Yehovah/Jehovah
“Joshua” and “Jesus” [from same Hebrew to Greek word(s)] Exodus 17:9, Acts 7:45, Hebrews 4:8, Matthew 1:1 [3091H] and [2424G], ( ΧΧΧΧ©ΧΦΌΦΌΧ’ ) YHWSHG/Yahwashag/Yahoshua/Yahusha/Yahshua/Joshua/Yeshua[g] [3432H, Ezra 2:40]/Jeshua/Iesous/Jesus /Isa (Arabic, from Greek New Covenant, to English). Note: the Ayin letter (guttural=”g”) in Hebrew is often passed over silently by Westerners who find it difficult to pronounce, it has a guttural sound as in gargling, sometimes pronounced as a rough breath as the “gh” in the exclamation of shock or frustration “aargh”, so we have represented it by the letter “g”.
Likewise, there is no letter “V” in the Semitic languages of ancient and Biblical Hebrew, it was introduced to English from Germanic dialect (Germans say “Vhilliam” when trying to pronounce William, even today, for example). This occurred during the Catholic-Protestant reformation era [c. 1500s A.D.] and again when the original Hebrew (described by modern scholars as “Samaritan Hebrew” [before 500 B.C.]) and Biblical Hebrew [after 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.] were replaced by European Hebrew popularized (as “revived”) by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda [c. 1900s A.D.] in modern day Israel.
Original Hebrews (a minority population in Israel during early 1900s A.D.) viewed “modern” Hebrew [1500s A.D.—to present, by foreign dialects] to be “mongrel” Hebrew and resisted it. A majority of Hebrew speakers living abroad, internationally, produced mongrel Hebrew, many afterward migrated to Israel in 1900s and grew in population to quickly outnumber original native Hebrews. Through “Western” Greek ideals of “democracy” such “majority rule” secularly “legitimized” mongrel Hebrew by support of then British authority [already accustomed to Germanic and similar Spanish Hebrew scribal “authority”], creating modern spoken-written Hebrew globally: which is incongruent with ancient and Biblical Hebrew.
IN THE HEAVENS: THE FATHER’S NAME, INDIVIDUALITY, AND POWERS
WHO AND WHAT IS GOD?
“God is Spirit, and those who worship must worship Him in spirit and truth.” John 4:24
Jesus Christ was and is the highest human authority about God for being most intimately His Son (and not simply because major religions on earth bear witness about him being from God). He tells us: “God is Spirit, and those who worship must worship Him in spirit and truth.” John 4:24. The ancient manuscripts bearing that statement in the Greek language of the New Covenant tell us that the word for “Spirit”, Pneuma, means Spirit, Soul, or God. Hebrew manuscripts, older than the Greek, define His Spirit, the “Ruwach”, to mean Spirit and Life as the Source, Cause or Origin of vitality, animation, inertia, knowledge, influence, inspiration, intellect, thought, will, life, breath, energies, forces, spiritual being(s), et cetera outside or inside our material world.
We refer to God as “He”, “Him”, or as male because of God’s most recognized, historically categorized as, masculine qualities such as “might”, “strength”, “vigor”, and “power”, not because God is wholly contained and confined to only a man or that sex. Spiritually speaking, God is neither male nor female. Paradoxically (to understand by an opposite way that is also true), He is both male and female for being characterized as manifesting qualities of masculine “strengths” as harsh severity and feminine “weakness” as gentle mercy, Ezekiel 7:9; Deuteronomy 7:9-15. God is more broadly and fairly gender described as our neuter and unbiased spiritual Guide, who among other activities presides over reality, as the “Judge of all the earth”, Genesis 18:25; 1:27.
The presence and Spirit of God is everywhere in, throughout, and defining our reality, Psalm 139:7-16; 1Kings 8:27. Our reality is a manifestation of the Spirit and presence of God in creation, thus He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and all therein and thereof, Genesis 1:2-2:1. That does not mean His Holy Spiritual powers are imparted to the fullness everywhere, nor to the least everywhere, so as to eliminate differentiation, degrees, or variations in our reality, 1Corinthians 12:4-18; Roman 12:3-13; Ephesians 3:14-19.
God, from His creative standpoint, has as interest in sustaining the overall purpose and consequence of the earth in his universe, Genesis 1:27-31, 8:20-22, 9:7-17. From His Spirit there is imparted influences, information, inspiration, powers, capabilities, etc., consistent with that overall purpose and consequence for mankind on earth. Those Divine forces and effects, or an one of them individually from God such as holiness, all together are often meant by reference to His “Spirit”, as where man or woman receives It from Him.
Receiving that “Divine Influence”, personified as the Holy Spirit from God, is not easy for all people. Just as the material or physical world is completely different from the ethereal or heavenly world in which each exists, so also the flesh is against the Spirit. “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to one another.” Galatians 5:17; Romans 8:5-10; Genesis 6:3-7.
Further complexity in matters is that humans have been created in an environment for the effect of having a “free will”, even after knowing to choose between “good and evil”, as part of His overall purpose for our creation, Genesis 2;9, 16-17. “But the natural man (as contrast to the spiritual) does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1Corinthians 2:14. Such “foolishness” by carnal man arises in part because receiving the things of the Spirit require depending on an aspect of our reality that is unseen, by faith.
The Holy Spirit and faith is a lot like the air or wind which defies material logic, yet we know that it is real and a force to be recognized by its effects. To overcome this carnal man deficiency, natural man must renounce his undeveloped and uninformed opinion by developing real faith in God. He can then, by the LORD’s Holy Spirit, acquire access and affiliate with the supernatural souls and powers of Almighty, 2Corinthians 12:1-4. This is accomplished by repentance with baptism, for example, to receive the Holy Spirit, Acts 2:38.
God’s Holy Spirit is not therefore delegated to or manifested by only a sole individual and can be manifested, for example, by seven of His Spirits, as in Revelation 1:4. Yet all of them and any others, arise from Him, the only one overall Holy Spirit, Ephesians 4:4. We exist in and ultimately worship, all around and through us, our all-inclusive and exclusively one overall God who is the Holy Spirit of holy spirits in souls, the “Most High God” in His sovereign and unparalleled Individuality, Acts 17:23-331; Isaiah 46:9-10.
Furthermore, God has revealed a dispersion of Himself in the heavens through and surrounding earth, served by an orbicular hierarchy of powers from Him at the center of that spherical unending expanse of all powers. All of which is disseminating throughout our Divine reality, His heavenly and universal order, comprising the least to greatest developments around the planet, Exodus 18:21-27; Acts 1:26, 15:6.
At the top and center, the highest and all-encompassing authority is obviously God the Father of all. His eternal companionship by His familial hierarchy is foremost presided over next by his Spirit empowered offspring, the Son, 2Corinthians 3:17; Genesis 1:26. His Son is described as being in the bosom and right hand of his Father Almighty, the Majesty on High (John 1:18; Hebrews 1:1), together with His Son’s fellow heirs, male, female, and eunuchs who likewise overcome (Romans 8:16-17; 1Corinthians 6:3; Revelation 3:21; Acts 7:49-50). Below such are angels (Exodus 23:20; Jude 9), including those of His disembodied spirits (Job 4:12-17; Psalm 91:1, 9-10, 104:1, 4; Matthew 16:27; 18:10; 22:30; Hebrews 12:22-24). Thereunder and there out is those called gods (Psalm 95:2-3; John 10:34-35; 1Corintians 8:5-6; Galatians 4:8; Genesis 3:5; Exodus 15:11, 23:24), and thereafter natural man (Psalm 8:4-6), animals and plants (Psalm 8:6-9; Genesis 1:27-30).
Praise the LORD by His exclusive name “Yah”, Psalm 68:4. The LORD (from Hebrew: Yahwah) is greater than all gods, Exodus 18:11. “For the LORD (Yahwah) your God (Alahym8. pronounced Alah-heem, later translated from European dialect as Elohym) is God (Alahym) of gods (alahym) and Lord (Adon) of lords (adon), a great God (AL), might (powerful) and terrible (revered and feared).” Deuteronomy 10:17; Joshua 22:22; Psalm 95:3. He is the God (AL) of god (al9), Daniel 11:36.
He says “Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth!…Remember the former things of old, for I am God (AL), and there is no other, I am God (Alahym), and there is none like me.”, Isaiah 45:22, 46:9. Therefore, we can have no other gods before Him (Exodus 20::3; Deuteronomy 5:7), nor follow other gods (Deuteronomy 6:14), nor inquire of them (Deuteronomy 12:30), but they are to worship Him (Psalm 97:7). “And though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many) but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and, one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.” 1Corinthians 8:5-6.
Isaiah 42:8 says, “I am the LORD (Yahwah) that is My name and My glory (i.e. weight, importance) I will not give to another (for none other supreme God exists), neither my praise to carved images.”
The term or appellation “EL” and name “Yah” mean exclusively God alone in His Sovereignty, not to mean or include the Son, angels, or host of heaven; just Almighty alone, the Father of all souls. The appellation “Alahym” and comprehensive name “Yahwah” mean God by way that nothing exists outside of God, everything is within God’s existence, meaning all-inclusiveness. For more on this, see our publication entitled “Father and Son’s Name” or “The Hebrew Name of Jesus”.
MONOTHEISM AND THE NAME OF FATHER GOD
Monotheism therefore is the understanding and teaching that there is only one “most high” God (AL, later translated as EL) existing, which is our Creator. An example for this is found in Genesis 14:18 where Melchizedek is priest of the “Most High God (AL/EL)”, KJV. Jesus Christ also affirms our monotheistic conviction by saying, “…one is your Father, which is in heaven.”, Matthew 23:9, KJV. And Apostle Paul, “…unto us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things and we for Him.”, 1Corinthians 8:6. “The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”, 2Corinthians 11:31; Ephesians 1:2. A lower case “Lord” in English Bibles often refers to “master” as in Genesis 27:29, or human “ruler” as in Psalm 110:1, Genesis 18:1, 42:33; Matthew 22:41-46.
In Matthew 27:46, Jesus on the cross cried out to the Most High God: “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” (Fulfilling Psalm 22). “Eli” is Aramaic from the Hebrew word AL, later “EL”; and means “my God”, “the Almighty”, or “the Most High God” alone. It is a general singular reference to the Father or Creator exclusive and individually, stressing His sovereignty in heaven (as the heavens being His Throne) but not emphasizing His all-inclusiveness, nor is AL/EL His name, Genesis 17:1, 28:3, 46:3; Exodus 6:3.
To say “God”, AL, “El”, or “Eli” is like referring to someone generally as “human”, instead of a personal name, like “Dan” or “Bill”. Eli or God does have a name, revealed by Almighty only in Judeo-Christianity for the world. His name exclusively and individually is Yah, (from Hebrew, ΧΧ, and these Hebrew letters are called HΓͺ [pronounced Hey] and Yowd, reading left to right) as found in Psalm 68:4. Sometimes in English Bibles the word “LORD” means Yah, as in Psalm 94:7, 12, 102:18, 118:5, 14; Isaiah 12:2, 38:11. However, the most commonly used Hebrew word in Holy Scripture translated to English as “God” is Alhym (pronounced Al-heem), later translated as Alahym (Alah-heem) and Elohym (El-oh-heem) and mens God, gods, and/or magistrates. See Strong’s Concordance Hebrew Dictionary #430.
Alahym/Elohym is unlike “El” or “Eli” because it stresses the all-inclusive meaning and quality of God and is a general plural reference to God, as all the gods or angels united for Him, in Him, and from Him on the earth to the heavens, including Him, but it is not His name. It is like saying the taxonomy “family”, which refers to the whole family, or even “church”, but not a name. His name, by reference to His all-inclusiveness or plurality, is Yahwah, from the Hebrew, ΧΧΧΧ, often translated to English as “the LORD”, Psalm 24:10; Joshua 22:5.
Broadly, both Yahwah and Alahym mean the Creator, all His host in the heavens and on the planet, including all adversaries or adversities He allows, Genesis 6:7; Job 1:5-12, 16, 4:9. An example is in Genesis 3:22, which says: “Then the LORD (Yahwah) God (Alahym) said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil.” This language referring to God by name and appellation is like referring to “Bill the human” as different from “Bill the dog.” In that example for Yahwah Alahym, His name is used to modify specifically who is meant when stating “God” or Elohym, lest other people should refer to Elohym or God dissociated and apart from His historical relations to mankind, Israel, Christ, truth, His miracles, et cetera, as recorded in His Holy scriptures.
In many instances, His name Yahwah is used alone as inclusive rather than exclusive, as in Genesis 11:7, where “the LORD (Yahwah) said… Come let us go down and there confuses their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”, Genesis 11:6-7. Yet, the reference Elohym or His name Yahwah can be modified or limited to mean further specifics by language context, as when used exclusively to mean the Father singularly and individually, but still carry the universal weight behind the unlimited or inclusive meaning of Him. Deuteronomy 6:5 and Matthew 22:37 provide an example, where Moses and Jesus commanded, “You shall love the LORD (Yahwah) your God (Alahym) with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength”. This means exclusively Yah, AL or EL but carries the universal weight and magnitude for His everywhere, all-inclusive existence.
So, in Holy Scripture the term AL, EL or Eli is general (not a specific name), exclusive and a singular reference to our Creator, the Father Almighty; although, His singular, exclusive, and specific name is Yah. A passage or verse context in the Bible actually helps define and indicate the singular particular or plural general meaning where “God” for Elohym or “LORD” for the name Yahwah are used; both of these are used most often throughout the Holy Bible.
Context informs us if God (Elohym) or LORD (Yahwah) means God the Father only, or together with His Son, or with His Son and the hosts of heavens outside and/or on earth, including physical angels in human form. For example, there are physical and non-physical beings referred to as Elohym (God) or Yahwah (LORD) for being sent by Eli or Yah, and therefore being as if the person or mouth of God himself (see Genesis 32:24-30, 48:15-16) or for being empowered by the Holy Spirit from God (Genesis 41:38; Numbers 24:2; Judges 6:34).
A most important example is where God or Alahym is by context meaning particularly the Father and Son. The Holy Spirit reveals to us through Scripture the unique relationship between Father and Son. In heaven for example, the Son by soul10, as contrast to spirit, emerged from the eternal Father into and during the beginning of such creation, even by being the Father’s revealing Word, which was and is His Son with Him in Spirit, Ecclesiastes12:7; John 16:28; Genesis 2:7; Revelations 3:14; 1John 5:7; John 1:1-14; Genesis 1:26.
The Father and Son, together called God by meaning of Alahym, operate through their Holy Spirit from heaven, where the Son is understood to exist more closely to the Father for being in the bosom (innermost private and dear area, as if being hugged) of his Father, John 1:18, 13:23, 15:26, 17:5; Genesis 1:2; Colossians 1:15-17; Acts 2:32-33. It was “Then God (Alahym) said, “Let us make man in My/Our image, according to My/Our likeness.” Genesis 1:26. B.V.
Also, the Father and Son, or Alahym/Elohym, are sometimes referred to by name, that name is Yahwah. Yahwah, as a distinguishing name, therefore includes a meaning primarily to convey the Creator, Almighty Yah, eternally existent with His Son. “And the LORD (Yahwah) our God (Alhym/Alahym/Elohym) is one (i.e. from Hebrew word meaning: unitedly) LORD (Yahwah).”, Deuteronomy 6:4-5; Mark 12:29.
Other Semitic terms that mean “God”, but not by His name, are ALwah/Elwah, and Elah or translatable Alah (from which “Allah” arose into the later Arabic language). See for example Strong’s Concordance Hebrew Dictionary #140, 426, 433.
Often, where some of the heavens are in part referred to being as God’s throne, the Son sits at the right hand of His Father, Isaiah 66:1; Colossians 3:1. Even later on earth, “Yahwah Alahym” (translated the “LORD God”) conveyed their working together as one, meaning not a single Entity but a united Entity since the beginning of creation. Although men were calling “on the name of the LORD (Yahwah)” in the days of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4:26), “God” (Alahym) spoke to Moses and said unto hm, “I am the LORD (Yahwah). I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty (AL Shadday [shaw-daw-ee]), but by my name Lord (Yahwah), I was not known to them.”, Exodus 6:2-3.
God revealed His name Yahwah in the days of Adam, Eve, and Moses. But how or by whom? Jesus made clear, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”, John 8:58. That is, even before Moses, Jesus affirms the same God, AL/El, is Alahym, who instructed and sent Moses to Israel, this is the same One revealing Himself uniquely as the pre-existing reality behind I AM that I AM to mean Yahwah (in Exodus 3:14). and therefore, this is the same Yahwah Alahym whom Adam and Eve heard, Him manifested in the flesh as the Son, walking in the Garden calling to Adam, Genesis 3:8-10. Moreover, the LORD (Yahwah), the name capable of referring to either Father or Son or both, depending on context, Yahwah spoke to Moses about the instructions to Aron for the priesthood saying, “I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. So, he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God (Alahym, i.e. God from the heavens to earth, as Son of Father Yah Almighty).”, Exodus 4:15-16.
Only sometimes does Alahym or Yahwah mean the Father Yah Almighty singularly, without including or meaning the Son also, as in Deuteronomy 6:5, “You shall love the LORD (Yahwah), your God (Alahym), with all your hear, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”, Matthew 22:37; Genesis 46:3.
God or AL is often referred to in praises by His name Yah, as the expression “Alleluia” (from Hebrew: “Hallelujah”, better HalleluYah) which means praise Yah! Revelation 19:1.
Sometimes man has been named to declare things about God, such as the name “Eliyah” (i.e. Alyah, often misspelled Elijah) which means: “AL/Eli is Yah,” e.g. 1Kings 17:1. another example is Jedidia (i.e. Yedayah), a name which means “Yah has known,” e.g. Nehemiah 7:39, 11:10 (also Nehemiah means the “consolation of Yah”).
THE FATHER’S SOUL AND SPIRIT
AL/Eli or Yah is therefore understood to have His own immeasurable Essence and thus individuality, expressed by human terms as His limitless being a “person” (Hebrews 1:3); however, His “form” has been unseen fully for being so infinite (John 5:37). Although, Father God, having no single distinct physical form or body, He does have a distinctively exclusive (indistinctively inclusive) spiritual omnipresent Soul (El or Yah, His Spiritual “Body”). His Soul is referred to by terms such as the content of His Spirit (e.g. John 4:24) or translated by old English to convey the immaterial nature by “Ghost” (e.g. Acts 13:2; Hebrews 2:4).
The power(s), energies, or forces of His Soul can be emitted or imparted invisibly as breath (John 20:22-23), as wind sprawled out (Acts 2:17-18), and/or reduced to a visible amassed formation as mist and descend upon someone, as in Luke 3:22. A body of fog or mist appearing as a cloudy mass and disappearing or reappearing are natural examples of what spiritual activities can be like. The spirit of God, more than fog, is unlimited by space, time, objects or anything. His Spirit and Presence is everywhere without bodily form and/or with any bodily form (e.g. John 1:1, 14; Philippians 4:5-7; Psalm 139:7-14; Hebrews 4:13; Job 4:12-17). The Holy Spirit is able to descend or rest upon people, so they are filled with Him and guided or led by Him (Matthew 3:16; Numbers 11:25; Exodus35:30-35; Ezekiel 35:27; John 16:13; Romans 8:14).
The Holy Spirit gives utterance and speaks through people (e.g. Acts 2:4; 2Samuel 23:2; John 6:63). It stirs up and inspires people (Haggai 1:14; 2Timothy 3:16), It strives (Genesis 6:3), It vitalizes (John 6:63), It intercedes, searches, and helps our weakness (1Corinthians 2:10; Romans 8:26-27). It sends people (Isaiah 48:16; Matthew 28:19), reveals mysteries (Ephesians 2:5), changes, cleanses, and justifies souls (2Corinthians 3:18; 1Corinthians 6:11). It strengthens, and edifies (Ephesians 2:22), and while bearing witness to the truth from God, it provides access to the Father (Ephesians 2:18; Romans 8:16; 1John 5:6). By our deliberate failures, as rebellion, the Holy Spirit an be grieved (Ephesians 4:30), quenched (extinguished, 1Thessalonians 5:19), or depart from us (1Samuel 16:14).
SON OF THE HIGHEST EMERGED IN HEAVEN
“…He (Jesus) will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest..” –Luke 1:32, the angel Gabriel.
There is reason to believe that once with the Father in heaven, we may have shed our earthly physical shape or form but not our free-will individuality or soul. Jesus Christ, for example, through whom all was created but before priestly man was created, was spoken to separately in heaven, John 17:5, 1:1-3; Genesis 1:26. Even after his resurrection by the Father, (Galatians 1:1-3), Jesus being one with God did not ascend into the Father (thus vanishing from being a separate free-will soul), but ascended to His Father’s right hand where there are pleasures forevermore and he can intercede through Their Holy Spirit, John 17:20-21; Romans 8:34; Acts 2:33-38; Psalm 16:11; Hebrews 1:3, 12:2; Colossians 3:1; 1Peter 3:22; Ephesians 1:20-23.
Lucifer also, the former heavenly angel with other rebellious angels, did not lose free-will identity; nor do all slain souls in Christ. Luke 20:34-38 (“sons…they…angels” – notice the plurality and they have not become non-existant by merging into the exclusive singular El; they are separate souls, see Isaiah 14:12; Revelation 12:3-4, 5:11-14, 6:9-11). If we consider a state of being where one is without individuality by merging into non-existence, by merging into the Father, AL, then it would make meaningless to mention or honor Jesus except where and when he existed on earth only separately from the Father.
This does not mean the Son’s soul, or ours, by God is unable to give up one’s free-will individuality or identity, involuntarily, and vanish through absorbing into the Father from whom ultimately Christ/we first emerged, Ecclesiastes 12:7; Genesis 1:26; Hebrews 5:5. Yet, what God can do, or we can do, and what He or we actually do has been and can be two different consequences.
In reference to the Son, after emergence from His Father (Soul) into mini soul, then a birth from his soul’s mini embryo spirit into Holy Spirit, Holy Scripture reveals, “He is the image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation. For by (means of) him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things and in him all things consist ( are composed, formed, characterized, and held together by Christ from the Father, thus are consistent with the Father’s will by means of the Holy Spirit; therefore, in Christ all things exist in harmony, paradoxically and complementary). And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn of the dead, that in all things he may have preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him (Christ) to reconcile all things to Himself (Father), by him (Christ), whether things on earth or things in heaven.”, Colossians 1:15-20; Hebrews 1-2; 2Corinthians 3:17-18. “Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD (Yahwah) your God (Alahym), also the earth with all that is in it.”, Deuteronomy 10:14.
However, presently and in the future, the separate free-will identity or individuality of the Son, and all other souls, does not vanish as would occur if wholly absorbed into the Father (Soul) eliminating distinction(s of spiritual souls), Revelation 4:24, 8:9-11; 1Peter 4:5-6; Hebrews 11:13-16. The Spirit is one, even though there are many diverse manifestations, 1Corinthians 12:5-7. An example would be the variety of unseen gasses throughout the universe, each unique, yet all together emanating in and compromised by reality.
Holy Scripture records King David speaking prophetically about his Lord the Messiah as separately, although unitedly, with the Father in heaven: “The LORD (Yahwah) said unto my Lord (Adony, Christ), “Sit at My right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”, Acts 2:34-35. Hundreds of years later, the Father “raised the Son from the dead and seated Him at His right in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He (Father) put all things under his (Son’s) feet, and gave him (Son) to be head over all things to the church, who is his (Son’s) body, the fullness of Him (via Holy Spirit) who fills all in all.”, Ephesians 1:20-23. As the Holy Spirit also says in Christ: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”, Hebrew 5:6. “Therefore, He (Christ) is able to save forever those whom come to God (the Father) through Him (Christ), since He always lives to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25. He (Christ) “has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.”, Hebrews 8:6. “For there is one God (the Father) and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus…”, 1Timothy 2:5.
Jesus Christ prophesied: “When the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. And you will also bear witness because you have been with Me from the beginning.” John 15:26-27; Acts 2:32-33.
“Then comes the end, when he (Christ, passively, through Christ via Holy Spirit) delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He (Father) puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For he (Christ) must reign till He (Father) has put all enemies under his (Son’s) feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. For He (Father) has put all tings under his (Christ’s) feet. But when He says, ‘all things are put under him (Christ)’ it is evident that He (Father) who put all tings under him (Christ) is exempted. Now when all things are made subject to him (Christ), then the Son himself will also be subject to Him (Father) who put all tings under Him (Son), that God (through His supreme Holy Spirit) may be all in all (according to the truth)”, 1Corinthians 15:24-28; Hebrews 2:5-13.
His Holy Spirit is distinguished from the limited spirit, ruwach (from Hebrew meaning: life/soul) or neshamah (inspiration and intellect), in natural man. Such differences include, but are not limited to, natural man’s contingency of life, duration, character, quality, deviations, value, power, et cetera.
We have seen in part and will further see that in the heavens there is AL/Eli, the Father Almighty, from Whom emerged His Eternal Son. The eternal “spiritual body”, which is the form or shell features (of the soul), and the essence or content (which is spirit) of the Son, originally existed in and arose from the Supreme Spirit Whom is our Father, the Creator, by His Holy Spirit. See 1Thessalonians 5:23 (“…your spirit, soul, and body”).
In Holy Scripture, the Father and Son are identified and understood in the heavens to be separate and differently capable free-will Beings or Souls; the Father being supreme and sovereign, while the subservient and inferior Son, and supreme Father, are separately united by agreement of will as one Entity by the Holy Spirit. Before the Son by soul and spirit came on earth and received at baptism the greater Holy Spirit for salvation by Yahwah Alahym through the cross, there was given to earth prefigures and prophecies about Eli’s coming offspring or Son as the Father’s Messiah (or Christ, meaning the Father’s anointed One), hundreds and thousands of years beforehand. Let us look to that now briefly.
PREFIGURE AND PROPHECY OF THE GODHEAD
“Since the creation of the world, the invisible attributes of God (Alahym, the Father) are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made manifest from Him, even His eternal power and ‘Godhead’ (from a Greek word meaning Divinity).” Romans 1:20.
A prefigure is like an example if something original and authentic but before it is later really manifested, revealed, or understood. For example, a father or mother may prefigure some attributes of their unborn future child, a blueprint or foundation may prefigure a future building, and a Constitutional document may prefigure a future government.
There are prefigures of the relationship of God the Father with the Son from heaven to earth throughout Holy Scripture. An example is where the Pharaoh makes Joseph ruler over all of the land of Egypt, a prefigure of the Father making Christ ruler over all His people and the earth. The Pharaoh said to Joseph, “You shall be over my house and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in the throne will I be greater than you…And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”, Genesis 41:40-44; see also Matthew 28:18; Luke 12:40-44.
It is understandable why, after his resurrection, Jesus has no authority in his future Kingdom to give the left and right hand of his throne to anyone. Such sovereign power among the Throne resides only in the Father, as the Father prescribed. Matthew 20:20-23 (…is not mine to give, but whom it is prepared by my Father).
That is the case even though, after His resurrection, Jesus said, “All authority (not all power, unlimited sovereignty, etc.).has been given to me.”, Matthew 28:18. For this authority is especially, he meant, to reign as judge: “For the Father judges no one (although He could, and will be the ultimate Judge), but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor then son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.”, John 5:22-23; Revelation 20:12; John 3:16; Psalm 97:5-6. “And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is (he Christ) who was ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead.”, Acts 10:42. “Truly these times of ignorance God has overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising him from the dead.”, Acts 17:30-31. The ultimate Judge is the Father who raised the Son, and heirs like him, in His likeness to execute judgment. “Do you not know that the saints (sacred ones) will judge the world? …Do you not know that we shall judge angels?”, 1Corintians 6:2-3.
After Joseph, though hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus, the supreme Spirit prophesied through Nathan about Christ to King David saying: “When your days are fulfilled, and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” 2Samuel 7:12-13.
The sovereign throne of David on earth, like the relationship of authority between Joseph and the Pharaoh (e.g. also, Abram and Melchizedek, Son of Man and Ancient of days, etc.), is also a prefigure for the throne of Jesus with his Father, and David’s throne has been made eternal by God for His Son to reign thereafter and thereon. This hierarchical council Throne contains thrones, it is thrones within the Throne, Revelation 3:21-22.
Eli, that is God the Father, through man by His Holy Spirit prophesied about both Jesus and throne according to his Divine will, saying: “He shall cry to me, ‘You are Father, my God (AL), and the rock of my salvation’. Also, I will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth…His seed also I will make forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.”, Psalm 86:26-29.
Moreover, the psalmist by Eli’s revelation does declare: “Your throne O God (Alahym, the Christ as Son) is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your Kingdom. You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God (Alahym, the Christ as Son, having emerged from and empowered as God relatively, not absolutely), your God (Alahym, the Father, God absolutely, through a priest) has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions.” Psalm 45:6-7; Hebrews 1:8-9.
Hundreds of years later, doubting Thomas obtains his revelation of Christ (after His resurrection) to be his “Lord” (from the Greek word Kurios, earthly “ruler” descending from David), and God (Theos, from the Greek language, meaning God relatively, as Alahym, the heavenly Son from the Father); see also James 1:27 (…”God [Christ] and the Father” [in this verse “God” is from ‘Theos’ from Hebrew ‘Alahym’; and the word “Father” is from Greek from Hebrew for ‘Father’ although meaning Yah, and by appellation El(i), therefore Father God absolute]). Thus, he understood: “In the beginning was the Word (in Spirit), and the Word (Spirit) was with God (the Father of the Spirit), and the Word (Spirit) was God (the Son Spirit). He (Spirit Son) was in the beginning with God (the Father) and the Word (Holy Spirit of the Son from the Father) became flesh (entirely at Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist) and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory as solely begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”, John 1:1-2, 14.
FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH: THE SON IMMANUEL
Ancient prophecy declared from God: “Yet out of you (Bethlehem Ephrata of Judah) shall come forth to me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from old, from everlasting.”, Micah 5:2. “Therefore the Lord (Adoni) Himself will give you a sign: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (which means: AL/ El is by His Holy Spirit with us).”, Isaiah 7:14. Moreover, Almighty said, “I will be his Father, and he shall be My Son.”, 2 Samuel 7:14. These foretelling indicators were over 700 years before they came to pass in Bethlehem where Jesus Christ, that is, Yahwashag Immanu-AL by Hebrew language, was born, Matthew 2:1-2.
The Father through the Holy Spirit overshadowed the virgin Mary, caused the soul of Christ to be conceived (from Greek word: “captured” and not filled with the Holy Spirit but by the Father’s Spiritual energy “regenerated”) in the womb of Mary, and therein Eli ‘created’ the physical infant body for Jesus (Isaiah 43:7; [i.e. from Greek, AL “procreated” him. – Matthew 1:20]) by which Jesus became flesh (Isaiah 7:14-16; Luke 1:26-35; Acts 13:33).
Later, the testimony of John records: that ‘Word’, “became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory (distinction) as the only (singlely) begotten (born) of the Father, full of grace and truth.”, John 1:14.
This physical birth was prefigured long before it occurred. The emerging of the Son from the Father in heaven existed long before creating men, Genesis 1:26. Jesus has since been the firstborn: of Mary (Matthew 1:25), among many brethren (Roman 8:29), of the ‘assembly’ (from Greek language: massive meeting and universal companionship) and church (Greek: the congregation of those called) of God (Hebrews 12:22-23), and of the dead (Colossians 1:18).
The seeming contradiction which remains true even as a contradiction, called a ‘paradox’, of Jesus having a beginning or emergence and yet also eternal from his eternal Father by first his soul before spirit, becomes clearer from all of Holy Scripture. Jesus therefore by soul does not really having a “beginning” when and since from Eternity. This is because his soul is really an extension from Eternity by form only, as a bubble or drop from water and not full of Spirit from the Father’s substance (Holy Spirit). That subform or soul which has no beginning or end inherently as a mere shell from the eternal Spirit-filled-Soul of the Father, is only an external novelty by emergence as separately from the Source as subsource, thereby a “beginning.” That subform or soul which has no beginning or end inherently as a mere shell from the eternal Soul of the Father, is not necessarily initially an internal full-of-spirit eternal one (soul), this applies to us as well.
Although a soul exists eternally, the Spirit within, such as the Holy Spirit, makes the soul alive or otherwise can leave it eternally neutralized, meaning virtually dead, as empty. The beginning or end of a spirit, outside or inside physical form, such spirit(s) is subject to temporal beginnings and ends, except the Holy Spirit of God, which is imparted from the eternal Father. And if accepted and received by the soul in full, that Holy Spirit adds eternal content to the eternal soul. As the Son, it becomes not only an eternal soul, but with the eternal Holy Spirit it becomes an eternal LIVING Being, and LIVING by whatever measure or degree imparted. This is unless of course, the Holy Father withdraws His Holy Spirit from the soul or the soul drives out His Holy Spirit by free-will decisions and thereby extinguishes the Holy Spirit by failure to love God with all its eternal LIVING Being for eternal indwelling union.
A passage in Holy Scripture tells us about the transition of Jesus from heaven to earth. Philippians 2:5-9, in a word-for-word translation from Greek, says: “Let this mind (i.e. lowliness of mind) be in you which was in Christ Jesus, who ‘being in’ (that is, from the Greek word, meaning: “beginning under”) the form of God, thought it not robbery to be similar to God (the Greek here does not mean and should not be translated as “equal” to God), but emptied Himself, so to abase Himself, taking the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in the condition as a man, he humbled (i.e. literally from Greek: “humiliated”) himself and became submissive to death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God has also highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name.
For more on is humiliation, how Jesus “who knew no sin became sin”, and why Jesus on the cross uttered “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” See our publication entitled: The Divine Dilemma.
By ‘beginning under’ the ‘form’ (Gk. Form and nature) of God, Jesus began or emerged, was, and is existing subordinate to his Father in nature, in Holy Spirit, and in form or soul. And being like God already having previously emerged from God’s Spiritual Body or Soul, having previously been filled by and with God’s Holy Spirit, the Son emptied Himself — emptied His Soul of His Father’s Holy Spirit — of much Divine similarity, to take on the similarity of man, not because He thought it robbery or wrong to have been similar to God who is his Source of Eternal Being, and from Whom He (Christ) emerged, but thought it truth for manifesting the Father’s will and glory on earth.
Jesus emptied Himself of His Father’s Holy Spirit powers, the Son’s glorious pre-earth Spiritual condition, even His knowledge, wisdom and counsel, see e.g. John 17:5; Isaiah 7:14-16, 11:1-2. This would be to deliver and raise, by transformation, as former criminals, who believe, to virtuous kings by the King of kings Himself, as if going from king to prisoner servant to do so.
The Son’s earthly infancy was prefigured in this way: “Curds and honey he shall eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.”, Isaiah 7:15-16.
Jesus made a little lower then the angels (Hebrews 2:9), but by Father Yah’s mere grace Christ later, when a child, grew in spiritual strength and increased in wisdom and spiritual stature, Luke 2:40, 52. The Spirit revealed over 650 years beforehand the insight of the Son: “the Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in due season to him who is weary. He awakes Me in the morning; He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God has opened my ear and, I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.” Isaiah 50:4-5.
Jesus was baptized and thereby received the fullness (direction, purpose, and power) of the Holy Spirit without measure of authority to fulfill the Father’s mission (Matthew 3:13-17; John 3:34), the Holy Spirit which ultimately came (and comes) from the Father, John 14:16-17, 26, 15:26; Acts 2:38. Afterward, Jesus received all full power prophesied of the Holy Spirit, including wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and fear of the LORD (Yahwah), Isaiah 11:1-2. All by which He would preach good tidings to the poor, heal the broken hearted, proclaim liberty to the captives and the acceptable year of the LORD, as well as the day of vengeance of our God. Moreover, He would comfort all that mourn, bring fort justice to the Gentiles, justice for truth, and many other changes until He established justice in earth, all that His Father may be glorified. See Isaiah 42:1-7, 50:4-6, 61:1-3; Hebrews 1:8-9; Matthew 28:18, 16:27; 1Corinthians 2:10-13.
Thereafter came to pass the prophecy in Isaiah 9:6, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government (of His kingdom of heaven and earth) shall be on his shoulders and his name (from Hebrew: character and nickname) shall be called wonderful Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” For such reason, Jesus as a baby was named Immanuel (for after his Holy Spirit baptism, which means AL/El [Almighty] is by Holy Spirit with us), Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23.
After receiving the fullness of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was then the express image of God the Father’s person on earth (Hebrews 1:3; John 14:10; Colossians 1:15; 2 Corinthians 4:4), in whom dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead (Alahym Divinity, the Spiritual Son in His Father’s image and likeness, at Father’s right hand, like Joseph to Pharaoh, Abram to Melchizedek, etc.) bodily for that purpose, Colossians 2:9; Ephesians 3:19; John 10:30, 14:10.
Although the Son is empowered this way, the Son is always subject to relative limitations that the Father is never limited by or subject entirely. In the days of Christ, five attributes taken together were understood belonging only to Almighty God in the unlimited sense. Almighty God was and is : 1. All-knowing, 2. All-powerful, 3. Everywhere present, 4. Unchanging, and 5. The truth. Having one or two of these qualities such as truth and consistency did not qualify one to be Almighty, our unlimited God, God-absolute, or God Almighty.
Jesus himself admitted truthfully, he was not equal to his Father by unlimited knowledge (omniscience) and future unlimited power (omnipotence). See Mark 13:32; Matthew 20:23.
However, Jesus is honored equally as the Father our of respect for the Father’s will, the Father’s presence by His Holy Spirit in Christ, and for Christ proceeding from the Father into the flesh as God on earth, the Judge of all the earth, John 5:22-23.
The Son for this reason has been ‘worshiped’ (i.e. honored, as by prostration) in general, (Matthew 2:2, 8, 8:2, 9:18; Mark 15:19; Luke 24:52). Such worship manifesting great respect directed toward the Son of God is like Ornan bowing to King David (1Chronicles 21:21) or when King Nebuchadnezzar prostrated before Daniel (Daniel 2:46-47); for both David and Daniel were also God’s anointed by the Holy Spirit (1Samuel 6:13; Daniel 4:8-9). Yet, such worship (honor by prostration or bowing) is never intended for worshiping (loving) the Son as equally sovereign to nor superior to his Father. See Matthew 20:23; John 14:28.
The Son is immortal from the eternal Father, he has been granted the ultimate authority from the Father as His Son, even as Prince of Peace and Judge of all the earth, and is therefore honored equally as the everlasting Father, our Mighty God; however, the Son is only as powerful as the Father imparts or allows. The Son is not as great as, or greater than the Father. Jesus taught: The Father is “greater than I”, John 14:28. Let us consider this a little further for proper orientation, perspective, and worship (honor and Whom to love supremely).
FATHER AND SON GLORIES TO EARTH
It is understood that outside the earth in the heavens there is Scriptural evidence for the existence of God the Father from Whom emerged His Son, as a prototype, Spiritually through Whom all other creation came into being. The Son in Spirit is in the bosom or right hand of the Father and both are separate Entities or Beings, yet They are harmonizing together and through the subsidiary Son They are considered One by unity and coordination of the Father’s Holy Spirit (and together Their Holy Spirit), purpose, objectives, et cetera. This same distinction or glory of both separately — the Father supreme then the subordinate Son — and together united though the Holy Spirit (a degree from whom is the eternal essence of all Holy Spirits; Revelation 1:8) as One is also apparent on earth. It is well known that on earth Jesus also had capabilities from God the Father Yah (Psalms 68:4), although those capabilities were subordinate and limited according to the Father’s discretion or will. What follows are examples.
Jesus, as God (Alahym, the Son), could perform miracles as he was granted by his prayer and/or received power, as to raise the dead from the Father’s Holy Spirit. Jesus was granted knowledge superior to the average person (e.g. John 6:64, 2:25, 21:17), even as if present in more than one place at times, John 1:50. However, because Jesus was begotten and consisted of a physical body created by God to be man, Jesus was also a “creature” or “man” from God our Father, Genesis 1:1, 27; Psalm 104:30. In reference to Jesus as a “man”, John said, “After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.” John 1:30. A little further John also taught from the Holy Spirit, “A man can receive nothing except it be given from heaven.” John 3:27. Jesus saying also, “I can of myself do nothing” (John 5:30), and again, “I do nothing of myself, but as the Father has taught me, I speak these things.” John 8:28.
Jesus taught that he did not know all things, especially not given to him by the Father. Speaking of the end of the age, Jesus reveals, “that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32; Matthew 24:36. Any theology and Christology, as from Catholicism or Protestantism, that teaches Jesus told the truth and he is self-omniscient (all-knowing) and self-omnipotent (all-powerful) is not Biblically correct. The Christ is unlike the “son of perdition, the man of sin, the lawless one who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God (Alahym, the Son) or that is worshiped (honored or loved), so that he sits as God (AL or YAH) in the temple (or church) of God showing himself that he is God (El or Yah, absolutely)”, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. “For false Christ’s and false prophets will arise [during the last days] and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.” Matthew 24:24.
Notice the exalted similarities between the son of perdition (or anti-Christ as Lucifer) and Jesus. If both are exalted, in the temple or church, one by God the Father Yah to Sonship and the other in the temple or church through false teaching of Christ, as by false trinity dogma, unto self-exaltation, how do the elite tell the difference?
First, Jesus will not be trinitarian to allow himself to be exalted above his own words to be equal to God the Father, nor omniscient, omnipotent, or a everywhere present rival in any “equal” or “superior” to our Biblical God form of theology, but he will be monotheist, and subservient eternally. Even after the resurrection, his disciples inquired whether at the time he would restore a kingdom to Israel. Jesus answered: “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.” Acts 1:6-7. Only the Father is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent; thus, any of these types of qualities, in any degree, Jesus and we must receive and therefore we are not the Source when such similarity is imparted to us. For reasons such as these, we are not to change “the glory (distinction) of the incorruptible God (Eli or Yah) into an image made like to corruptible man” nor be as those who have “worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator.” Romans 1:23-25. Therefore, it is understandable that one could be forgiven for blasphemy against the Son, but not the Holy Spirit in Him, for the superior Holy Spirit in Him is and proceeds from the Holy Father, Matthew 12:31; John 4:24, 15:26.
Second, after Jesus transforms His flock into a mighty battle horse, by His disciples which unite with Him for an Army (Zechariah 10:3; Revelation 19:11-16, 7:8, 21:7), the whole Assembly will be a collective Body of Christ, Him with His cloud of witnesses (e.g. Hebrews 12:1; Isaiah 19:1; Jeremiah 4:13; Daniel 7:13; Nahum 1:3). The body of Christ will not be merely a “sole” person as before, but a collective Person, Alahym/Elohym, whose Father’s name is Yahwah. See Luke 17:22-25; Daniel 17:13-14, 21-22; Revelation 1:6, 2:26-29, 22:16, 3:21-22, 5:10, 6:15-17, 11:5, 14:1, 4, 16:13-15, 17:12-14, 18:4, 19:19, 21:22-23. Jesus prepared His disciples for such upcoming monumental battles by prefigures, as when he was about to depart physically and individually, he instructed them to buy weapons for a future defense, but not to prevent his then prophesied and now historical crucifixion, Luke 22:35-38.
We see then the limitations of the Son in the heavens where He emerged in soul form and existed subordinate to the Father in nature, form, bosom, or at the right hand if God. We see the Son, His Soul, is able to empty or become void of knowledge, wisdom, power, glory, et cetera, to take on flesh and have restored to Him from the Father much power by Holy Spirit. We see subordination and limitation of the Son in heaven and on earth as recipient rather than the ultimate Source, where from the Father he is given bodily form, the Holy Spirit, knowledge, authority, judgment, glory, et cetera, and in his future kingdom He is given whom will sit at his left and right hand at the Father’s given time. Moreover, in the end Jesus is to be Himself subject to the Father. As “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8.
TO WHOM SUPREME WORSHIP IS DUE
Jesus tolerated people worshiping (honoring) Him as they would King David, the prophet Daniel, or as God (His Holy Spirit) in the flesh. He did so particularly because they honored the presence, person, power, or essence of the Father in Him by the Holy Spirit. However, whom to supremely worship (i.e. love), that must not be taken out of the whole context and example given to us by Holy Scriptures provided by the Holy Spirit and the central meaning of Christ’s purpose, prophecy, and teaching.
A purpose for the honor and glory of Jesus to be the utmost physical and spiritual authority next to Father was to glorify the Father all the more. That is, to make the Father, the Son’s Creator, all the more distinguished, noticed, honored and loved for being the greatest Most High God. Among the first things Jesus prays to His Father before crucifixion and resurrection was, “Father the hour is come: glorify (distinguish) Your Son.”, John 17:1; Isaiah 43:7. Why would Jesus want to pray for such glory or distinction? Was it for himself in vanity? Jesus reveal why in his prayer: so “that Your Son my glorify You.” John 7:18; 17:1. This is a primary reason for the Father making Jesus so great. The more glorified the Father is the more beneficial for humanity, not deception or vanity as would be for the creature alone to be glorified. The Father has allowed greater glory to Himself through His Son for the sake and benefit of others, not for sake of vain pride, especially for helping everyone on earth.
A primary reason and purpose to glorify the Father over all creation — even greater — was done through Jesus. Christ truthfully testified: The Father is “greater than I.” John 14:28. Our Creator and ultimate Deliverer is the only Entity who is by Divine virtue of exclusive sovereignty, permitting His glorification. It is motivated not by himself alone, but by His free-will Son, His Son’s prayer, and yet the Father allows it for others, so it is not in vain, superficial, or untrue; because, only the Father is the Source of greatness without fault being for everything, Mark 10:17-18. Notice the example Jesus gave us on prayer, he never prayed to himself, to Melchizedek, a saint, or others and likewise we pray to the Father as he did.
Holy Scripture reveals Jesus to sit at the right hand of God, as it is written: “Sit at My right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.”, Psalm 140:1; Hebrews 10:12-13. We have understood Jesus is given His kingdom by God the Father with all things therein as and after Christ returns and defeats kings physically (Revelation 19:19, just as Abram did before the bread and wine with Melchizedek); but, by prophecy, afterward comes “the end (through battle for His Father to be worshiped and reign Supreme), when He (Christ) shall have delivered up the kingdom to God the Father…then shall the Son also himself be subject to Him (the Father) that put all things under him (in case there was any doubt), that God (His Holy Spirit) may be all in all.”, 1Corinthians 15:24, 28; Revelation 22:7-13.
The teachings of Jesus on who to worship will then be as they have been because Jesus never taught to worship (love ultimately, exclusively, inclusively and/or supremely) himself, for he has been and shall also in the future be subject (not equal) to the Father. As Jesus taught, so he in the future will teach, “True worshipers shall worship (love ultimately, exclusively, inclusively, and supremely) the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God (the Father) is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:23-24. Conclusively, He said, “One is your Father, Who is in heaven.”, Matthew 23:9.
SUMMARY
To what extent and how the Father, His relative Presence or Soul, His Holy Spirit, Energy, or anything thereof permeates reality so that nothing is exempt from Him, not even “hell”, is not detailed by Holy Scripture thoroughly; but, it is affirmed (e.g. Psalm 139:8).
Theologically, nothing is exempt from God’s Presence, Knowledge, Power, et cetera, and in the fullness of times by His Holy Spirit, the Father will be sanctified more fully “in all.” Ephesians 1:7-8, 10, 2:21-22; 1Corinthians 15:28. Like an earth full of cell phones, only those who receive the Gift by the calling, which is Holy Spirit (and all informative energy thereof) from their power Source, from the eternal Father-of-all, will in the last day remain activated. However, the general operative energy or “life” in the remaining divine network of all others ultimately rejecting Him will cease. See Matthew 24:37-42.
THEOLOGICAL AND CHRISTOLOGICAL CONCLUSION
The paradox about how Jesus Christ is both eternal, yet has a beginning unlike God the Father, has baffled theologians and scholars since the early first centuries after Christ’s ascension.
Holy Scripture is clear there exist and we have a “spiritual body” or soul, 1 Corinthians 15:44. It can be “filled with the Holy Spirit.” Luke 1:15. In the case of Jesus, it can also be “emptied” for abasement according to Philippians 2:5-9. The phrase from King James Bibles “made himself (Jesus) of no reputation” comes from the Greek word kenoo and means literally he abased himself from the sense of “neutralized”, and elsewhere better translated as “made void” (Romans 4:14; 1Corinthians 9:15). Later, Jesus received and was filled with the Holy Spirit at His baptism, regaining thereby the rise of his previous glory he had with his Father. By this Holy Spirit our spiritual body or soul has within it a spirit that is “renewed”, “rebuilt”, and again “made new” from the Hebrew word “chadash” (Psalm 51:10). It is “renovated” (Romans 12:2), by “regeneration” [i.e. rebirth] and renewing of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:15), “renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16), and “reformed” (Ephesians 4:23). This renewal does suggest a previous depreciated or downgraded state.
Jesus gave a parable of the spiritual body or soul when and where it is like “empty [house], swept, and put in order” which the restless unclean spirit returns with seven others more wickedly to enter, dwell, and the last state of the man is worse than the first void condition, Matthew 12:43-45.
These verses teach our spiritual body is the type that can exist independent and vividly different from the spirit(s) that enter, dwell, or animate it toward conditions that are either: heavenly profitable or “unprofitable” (Romans 3:12; Matthew 25:30). In this case, there is Holy Scripture telling us the spiritual body or soul emerges from the eternal Father — the soul eternal thereby yet without the Holy Spirit content, this neutralized, void, empty, and hence an abased bodily shell —for earthly physical embryo manifestation, an embodiment, which later can receive various fallen worldly spirits that maintain its depreciation and inhibit a further positive eternally lively and joyous outcome.
That abased empty spiritual body can receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit and thereby a renewed spiritual body (soul and spirit) to previous eternal status, content, and expectation. This occurs by the Holy Spirit imparting additional internal heavenly holy spiritual value. The internal nature of our spiritual body or soul, from its eternal Source, is therefore: matrixable, impressionable, transfigurable, transformable, importable, exportable, adaptable, metamorphable, and transmutable — like before, during, and after a stem cell.
The soul’s internal secular spirit(s) imported quality or qualities, [those we acquire by liking agreement, animated vices], or its Holy Spirit imparted quality, can range from variously low to high degrees of heavenly value.
The beginning of Christ’s spiritual body or soul from God as a separate entity would be the beginning of a separate void abased or emptied soul that is an eternal being from the eternal Father’s Soul. The beginning of any imparting (of the Father’s) Holy Spirit at baptism to increased glory from the Father also represents that original Source from which the Son arose and arises from the abased condition. It should be noted that this void or neutralized state is expressed in modern science of physics as the stasis condition of neutralized atoms, as if dead awaiting to be revitalized to life.
Apostle Paul by his letters to the Greek and Asian polytheist and idolatrous worlds often emphasized Jesus as the man-God (eclipsing the Father) by epistles or letters. This method of Jesus-emphasis, to superstitious people raised to idolize and worship men as gods was offered to make Christ a supreme alternative, a superior or supreme god, idol or God. When the Greeks or Asians would accept Jesus, and get close to him, they realize he teaches, “My Father is greater than I”…so “true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.”, John 14:28, 4:23. Jesus is thereby a means to deliver men from idolatry and man-worship, even deliver those from themselves who think themselves a god or the God absolutely, Romans 1:25.
Is there two or three Gods? There is only one Most High God (AL), the Father Yah. The sole Father has made Jesus as Himself, “God (Alahym)” relatively, not absolutely. Therefore, being empowered (limitedly) to similarity is not the same as being absolutely and unlimitedly the sovereign Father and Source of Life.
The Father is God (AL or YAH) while Christ is honored as such by being called God (Alahym, Yahwah, or Yahwashag). Without the Father, the Son is nothing and without power, as the Son stated, “I can of myself do nothing.”, John 5:30. Without the Son, the Father is still everything and full of all power. However, without the Son, the Father has not been more understood, appreciated, glorified, magnified, and worshiped on earth, for example.
Additional glory to God came with salvation by His imparted Word made flesh providing the Truth about Himself by His Holy Spirit. The glory which Christ prayed for, that He had in the beginning, that is the Son-at-right-hand of and for the Father heritage. This was with subsisting intimacy, not an equally competitive or superior sovereignty, nor ascending to rival God as Lucifer, nor for usurping the omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent Father, John 17:5; Genesis 1:23.
Without the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the soul of Christ is no more powerful than the Father imparts. The power never exceeds Sonship in heaven. When Christ from a distance is on earth viewed as God by His Figure, it is up close and intimate Christ our Messiah informs us the Father is greater, John 14:28.
As Judeo-Christians, Messianists, or sons/daughters/eunuchs (i.e. children) of God, we too must be mindful of not only the unity of the Father and Son but also the distinctions between them, so we too give honor to which it’s due, and not neglect one honor for the other.
“A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am the Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my reverence?” Malachi 1:6. This is in part why Jesus on earth said call no man of religion one’s father or master, “for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”, Matthews 23:9. Jesus sanctified the title “Father” in religion to exclusively our ultimate Father of fathers.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father (Yah) and the Lord Jesus Christ (from Hebrew: supreme Yahwashag Mashyach [pronounced, Yah-wash-ah Mawsh-ee-awk]) , 1Corinthians 1:3; Galatians 1:1-3; Ephesians 1:2-3, 6:23.
SOME HISTORICAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: Do you deny the Divinity of Christ as ascribed to Arianism?
A: No. Christ is not just human nor just Divine in absolute terms or without limitation terms. Christ himself claimed His Father is greater. Historically, however, monotheists were accused of teachings, such as Arianism or denying the Divinity of Christ, which they did not teach. This was done so Trinitarian imperial Catholics would appear justified by killing true Christians who refused to worship the emperor/pope as God absolute by him claiming Christ in him or a pope. Theology or teachings which deceptively exalt Christ above His own words to God-absolute, make Jesus appear to be lying in those instances he tells the truth.
The son of perdition, also called the abomination of desolation, will hold that kind of Trinitarian theology which exalts “Christ in him” to absolute equal footing to God the Father, as Lucifer. That tradition(al-theology) has the effect of making the Word of God of no effect, as Christ condemned Jews for doing, and which fits into the Catholic church’s teaching agenda to supplant Holy Scripture authority by the church (pope).
Catholic doctrine makes the Catholic Church (leader) above Holy Scripture correction — above God’s correction by His Word — since it is the Catholic church which claim it is greater authority than Scripture when the two conflict according to Catholicism. You see it already by them calling themselves “father” or “pope” against Christ’s teachings. It sets the foundation perfectly for the prophetic coming abomination of desolation. It becomes clear how even Christ’s elects are nearly deceived, just as He taught thousands of years ago. It’s quite astonishing.
On the other hand, a “Pope” could make sweeping reforms to more align to Biblical monotheism, clergy titles, and organizational structure and functions, which would make a new heaven and new earth and clear them from the Holy Scriptural condemnation and correction against their consequential Luciferism teaching model.
Even radical Muslims would not have the false trinity teachings as foundation in their Quran to attack Catholics and Catholic-Protestants. The truth would deliver them from rest by those consequences.
The Quran says, “There will for the wrongdoers be no one to help. They do blasphemy who say God is one of three (equal and separate Persons or Gods) in a trinity because there is no god except one God. If they do not desist from their word (trinity), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.” 5:72-73. This monotheism position existed in the Bible before Quran, the Quran simply re-states Biblical monotheism to address Catholic deviance. We do not advocate that the Quran is all correct, but as other monotheist religions who copied the Bible model, it is Biblically correct about there existing only one supreme God.
And, “If only the People of the Book (Jews, Christians) had believed and been righteous, we should indeed have blotted out their iniquities and admitted them to the Gardens of Bliss. If only they had stood fast by the Torah, the Gospel, and all the revelation that was sent to them from their Lord, they would have enjoyed happiness from every side. There is from among them a party (us Messianists) on the right course but many of them (Catholics) follow a course that is evil…Say: “O People of the Book! You have no ground to stand upon unless you stand fast by the Torah, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord…Those who believe, those who follow the Jewish Sabians and Jewish Christians–any who believe in God and the Last Day, and work righteousness-on them shall be no fear, nor shall, they grieve.” 5:65-69.
The Jewish Christians are us, the Messianist, in the Christian Church of God from Jerusalem in which is our Global Council from Christ.
END NOTES
8 Elohym- These Hebrew words can be verified by using a Strong’s Concordance. A note of caution is advised that the Strong’s Concordance is a product of European Hebrew to English translation at infancy. This means the Hebrew letters and meaning of words provided in it should not change, but what has, will, and does change is the English phonic, the pronunciation and written as pronounced in English represented by letters. For example, a Hebrew word can be translated roughly or at first to a new language inprecise, such as Eloheem (spelled how it sounds by the double “ee”) and later translated more precisely as Elohym (the “y” comes from the actual Hebrew letter for y, and requires afterward direction how English should sound it out as “ee” sometimes, as in “el-o-heem”. We use more precise translations and provide pronunciation directions for accuracy to the eye and ear, not just one or the other. For example, Alahym pronounced AL-ah-heem.
9 This is accurately translated “the God of god”, meaning “the god” is “God of god.” The Hebrew appellation “AL” “EL, or “el” is never plural. Likewise, Alahym of alahym / Elohym of elohym could be translated “God of gods” or “God over gods”, and can mean god(s) raised by AL, EL, or YAH, being superior to other things as wooden idols called gods or elohym.
The appellation “God” has sometimes been used exclusive and inclusive, and context determines which is most appropriate. The appellation “God” is from the German term “gott”, originally used for German “calling out” or “invoking” pagan deities before converted and invested with new Judeo-Christian meaning. Similar to transforming one’s old carnal man into a new spiritual man, the old meaning becomes obsolete, used less, or disappears by the new more widespread meaning.
10 The difference between the soul as a spiritual body capable of being emptied or filled with a spirit or spirits will be addressed later by Holy Scripture.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD FROM JERUSALEM, GLOBAL COUNCIL FROM CHRIST 