Since people are sometimes confused as to what exactly we believe in regard to whether Yahshua is also Yahweh or Elohim the Father, I have found it necessary to write the following article, so that we may all speak the same language according to the same Spirit.
When I was led to put my pen on paper to share with Yahshua’s People, worldwide,
the mystery of the later-days’ restoration of the Original Doctrine According to Yahshua, I was inspired to write the following argument in refutation of Jehovah Witnesses’ error. Please read it ,calmly, as it lays the foundation for what I am going to say. I’ll be as concise and brief as possible for a good reason. Further details are in the hands of the brethren. However, I will caution everyone to tread, carefully, for as I rightly said in my quote from our Restoration Book, “There is indeed a great mystery, here, almost totally inaccessible to human understanding.” It is my attitude not to venture, needlessly, into “divinely” restrictive areas not yet revealed to mankind, for it does no good to dangerously speculate on things that Yahweh clearly demonstrates are reserved for a different age, when we become At-One-With-Elohim. My conclusion is that nobody, on earth, has the intellectual acuity and wit to fully comprehend the profundity of the infinitely unsearchable depth of the mystery of the co-existence of the Father and the Son. Here we go. I am going to share with you, exactly, what I teach in the Temple.
{[Jehovah Witnesses stumble on Col.1:15 which says, “He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation.” They conclude that He was created, and that He is the Archangel Michael. They say that it is by adoption Yahshua receives sonship. They are thus saying that He is not like the Father in all things. Such teaching is totally anti-Messiah. If Yahshua was an angel (Michael) adopted by Elohim the Father, therefore there was, when He was not. Apostle John, in this case, speaking under the inspiration of the Spirit, would therefore be lying when he says that the Word was with the Father at and in the beginning. That beginning is before creation of the angels. It is a profanity to say that Yahshua is “a work”. Yahshua says that He is in the Father and the Father is in Him. He has always been with the Father. Yahshua emanates from the Father. The Bible says that Yahshua is “the brightness of His glory”(Heb.1: 3). He is the light that shines and goes forth from the Father. The Father is the source of that light which Yahshua is. Just like the sun shines and sends forth its light, so is Yahshua from the Father. Yahshua is the brightness of the Father just like the light of the sun is the brightness of the sun. The Son is not cut off from the Father, even though we see them separately, just like the light of the sun is continuous and is not and cannot be cut off nor be separated from the source of the light, the sun. Yahshua is the mirror image of the Father.
[He is “the express image of His person”; that is, the pure expression of His (the Father) personality. And what is this personality?] [YHWH Elohim is love. And Yahshua is an expression of it. This is why He agreed from the beginning to give His life for our salvation. Yahshua is called Wonderful, Wisdom, Mighty Elohim, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. All these are the Father’s qualities. The Son is called “Everlasting Father”, a testimony of the Spirit by the mouth of a prophet. The Son says, “I am the Beginning and the End, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty (El Shaddai)” (Rev.1:8) In the mouth of two witnesses the truth is established.] [There is indeed a great mystery, here, almost totally inaccessible to human understa
those that have itching minds try to come up with all sorts of philosophical
reasoning that lead to profanity, because they have not received the Spirit of Wisdom. They probably never read Hebrew 1:5, for it is written, “to which of the angels did He [the Father] ever say: ‘You are My son, today I have begotten you?’, and again: ‘I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to Me a son?’ But when He again brings the First-born into the world, He says: ‘Let the angels of Elohim worship Him [the Son]. And of the angel He says: ‘Who makes his angels spirits and His ministers flame of fire.’ But of the Son He says, ‘Your throne, O Elohim [Messiah] is forever; a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness [obedience to My law] and hated lawlessness. Therefore Elohim [Messiah], Your Elohim [the Father] has anointed You…” For those who can think logically, the Bible plainly says, here, that Elohim never, at any time, says to ANY ANGEL that he is ADOPTED and now has become a son.]
[What they don’t understand is that Yahshua became the First-born over the creation by His death and resurrection. He is the First Fruit of the first fruits [the 144,000 kings and priests], the First-born of the first-borns (the angels are not included). Messiah, in a symbolical way, has become a new creature of the creatures of Elohim, from becoming the first Adam in the flesh, the Spiritual Word once incarnated. He had become, for a purpose, what the old creation is still to this day, in a state of sin, enduring suffering. He was raised with a spiritual, glorious body; the entire creation will also be renewed gloriously according to the image of Messiah (1 John 3:2; Roman 8:18-23).]
[Messiah was not created, but became a creature, in a symbolical way, to save men [the creatures] and creation now in the bondage of sin. “Messiah the First Fruit, afterward those who belong to Him at His coming (1 Cor.15: 23) }]
Of the several things said in the above quote, please allow me to underline two, only:
First, Yahshua is not a creature. Secondly, the Tanakh clearly calls Yahshua “Everlasting Father”. The last book of the Messianic B’ritChadashah records Yahshua referring to Himself as the Aleph and the Taw, Rev. 22. So, are Yahshua and the Father two separate persons, or are they one and the same?
The right thing to do, here, is to allow the Bible to speak and interpret itself, then putting scriptures upon scriptures we shall make annotations as we go along, then draw a synthesis. And this will be our Doctrinal Position.
“If you have known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him. Philip said to Him, ‘Master show us the father, and it is sufficient for us.’Yahshua said to him, ‘Have I been with you for so long, and yet you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say show me the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak of my own authority, but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me…”, John 14: 7 – 11.
According to the above, ‘I in the father and the Father in Me’, they are perfectly united, having intrinsically the same “nature” (if I can use this word). Now, does the Father live in us? How can He live in us? By what scheme or spiritual principal?
Apostle Yohanan says, “No one has seen Elohim at any time. If we love one another, Elohim abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.” 1 Yohanan 4: 12.
Elohim is Love. When His love is perfectly practiced in us, He abides in us. On the other hand, when the devil lives or is in somebody, how does he act?
Did Yahshua and is Yahshua, and has Yahshua always been in perfect love with the Father? Has the Son and the Father always co-existentially live in perfect love, being intrinsically of the same substance? Proverbs 8: 22.
“By this we know that we abide in Him, and he in us, because He has given us His Spirit. And we have seen and testified that the father sent the Son as savior of the World.” 1 Yohana
“Whosoever confess that Yahshua is the Son of Elohim, Elohim abides in Him, and he in Elohim.” 1 Yohanan 4: 15.
Heavenly Father, I confess that Yahshua is your Son!!!
According to the above reading, again, Yahshua does not say He is the Father and the Father is Him. He says, I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Therefore, if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father. I can see no problem with that, for Yahshua is the very image, dot for dot, the very express image of the Father’s person. He is a reflection, a mirror-image of the Father, Hebrews 1: 3. That He is not the Very Heavenly Father is obvious within the same context, for He goes on to say, “The Works that I do, I do on the authority given to Me by my Father…,V.10; I go to my Father…, V.12; I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper…, V.16.” Yahshua is definitely referring to somebody other than Himself, here. John recorded Him saying, “I am the Son of Elohim”, John 10: 36.
That Yahshua answers to somebody else’s authority is made evident in Yahshua saying several times, “Of my own I can speak or do nothing, but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” He clearly acknowledges the higher-ranking of the Father, “…My Father is greater than I, V.28; …I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser, John 15: 1; I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love, 15: 10. My Father taught Me, I speak these things, John 8: 28.
“I [the Son, the subordinate] have glorified You [the Supreme Master] on earth. I have finished the work which You have given to Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me [the Son] together with yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” John 17: 4- 5 You may want to read the whole chapter.
Based on these scriptures Yahshua is the Son. He is not the Father. We need to go through Him to get to the Father, John 14: 6. On the stake He called to Elohei and asked why has thou forsaken Me. He proceeded forth and came from the Father, John 8: 42.
But, in Yahshua dwells the Fullness of the Father, Col. 2: 9. As such He is
representatively or manifestly the Father.
Will the Father dwell in us one day? The answer is yes. And when that day arrives “…you will know that I am in the Father, and you in Me, and I in you, John 14: 19. I pray Father “that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us…, Joh
Yahshua dwelling in me, though, does not make me Yahshua.
Let us remember, brethren, the many different translations out there. Some people imagine that for knowing a few things or being fluent in Hebrew or Greek, they know the truth, too. Well I am fluent in several languages, myself; even when I would be a literary scholar in every one of them, I would still fall short of understanding the Bible, should the Bible have been written in any one of them, without my having been called by Elohim for the purpose of receiving and imparting understanding of His Word to His people.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was in Elohim…And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us; and we beheld His glory…, John 1: 1,
I know, some translators say “…the word was Elohim”. Surely, the Word is Elohim. And Elohim said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…, Gen.1: 26″ This is not said of the angels. These beings seem to come in all “forms” and “shapes”, Ezekiel 10. Etc. I am a man, and my son is a man; but I am what I am: I am I, my son is what he is. Yet, we are both man or human. The Pharisees and Sadducees and the Sanhedrin recognizes that Yahshua claimed to be Elohim for saying “I and My Father are one. Remember what I said before: they are of the same substance and nature.
I can, therefore, understand the absoluteness of “Before Abraham was I AM, John 8
Of course, He Is and Was. “Yahweh said to my Elohim, ‘Sit at My right hand, till I make your enemies Your footstool.” Psalms 110: 1. Wo, wo, wo! What should I make up of this?
“Sit at my right hand!?” What is He doing there? Talking to His other split persnality? No. We have an advocate with the Father, Yahshua the righteous, 1 John 2: 1.
The Diocetists thought that His being a Son was only a fake. No real Son, no real human body, it was all a fake!!! As far as they were concerned he was the Super Father faking to be the Son. Oh. Mine, mine, mine!!! Can you imagine. I can’t. I absolutely can’t? I shall not be guilty of 1 John 4.
It is written, “Yahweh set me up (qanah) at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the very beginning, before there was ever an earth… [the Word was with Elohim]… I was beside Him [Yahweh], as a Master craftsman… [All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made], and I was daily His delight…, Prov. 8: 22.”
Now, is Elohim divided because there is a Father and there is a Son? Does the Scripture ever refers to Yahshua as Everlasting Father? It sure does in Is. 9: 6. But when, at what point in the unfolding of the Divine Mystery, and how? And know that just because a group of words are bunched, together, this does not mean their oracles materialized within the same laps of time.
Then the sign of the Son of Man [Yahshua] will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man [Yahshua] coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, Mat. 24: 30. This same Son of Man says, “I am the Aleph and the Taw, the Beginning and the End, says Yahweh who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty …write what you see, write in a scroll… Rev.1: 8, 11.”
Yohanan turned to see who was talking to him. He saw One like the Son of Man
[Yahshua]. …The Aleph-and-the-Taw says to Yohanan, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He [Yahshua] who lives and was dead… V. 17 – 18.”
In Rev. 22:12 – 13, “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according to his work. I am the Aleph and the Taw, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
Like it or not, They are there being equated. Nobody understands the deep intricacy of this revelation. And this is where I am cautioning talmidim to be careful. Throughout the Book of Revelation we find two supreme beings, yet one Supreme Master. The book opens up with the Word who acknowledges the Father as the giver of His revelation, V. 1. There is an affirmation of the Echad in the first chapter. And the apocalyptic oracles climax into the Pre-existing Unity of the beginning.
Abraham knew that and he addressed Him properly. “And Yahweh said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?… Indeed now, I who am but dust… have taken upon myself to speak to Yahweh, Gen.18: 17 – 33.” The sublimity of this oneness is barricaded in the Shema: “Shema Y
Yahweh Eloheinu, Yahweh Echad, Deut.6: 6.” Yahshua is called King of Kings, Master of Masters, Rev. 19: 16. In Isaiah 44: 6, the prophet wrote, “Thus says Yahweh, the King of Yisrael… the Elohim of hosts: I am the Aleph and the Taw. Besides me there is no Elohim.” In Isaiah 45: 5 and 46: 9 “I am Yahweh, and there is no other; there is no Elohim besides Me… I am Elohim, there is none like Me.”
Yahshua is called the Word of Elohim. Yahweh Elohim created everything by His Word [Yahshua], Gen. 1, Prov. 8, John 1. The working of the Word is the power of Yahweh, the RuachHaQodesh, Psalms 104: 30. If one can imagine Yahweh moving, filling anywhere, everywhere, by shear will, without ever living/displacing Himself from whatever point He started, truly without a starting point, like a circle, with no beginning nor end. He is that which is moving, the Ruach, the Set-Apart Spirit, John 4: 24, manifesting His presence, capable of filling a space, yet wholly retaining His wholesomeness outside the space, while wholly present in that space.
I do not know how else to put it.
In the end of this ‘Divine Drama’, the Lamb, who sits on the throne with Yahweh El Shaddai, having reigned until all enemies have been put under His feet, and having destroyed Death, the Son Himself is made subject to Him who put all things under Him, that Elohim may be all in all, 1 Cor, 15: 20 – 28. Until then the Son remains, manifestly, the fullness of the Father’s power and glory.
Thus we conclude the RuachHaQodesh is a manifestation of the Father; the Son is a Manifestation of the Father. Yahweh El Shaddai is a Spirit. A Spirit does not have a Spirit. The will of the Spirit is what is made manifest for us humans to experience. Though the air stands still the wind is always present. The air is still-wind. You may
feel it when you start moving fast.
Contrary to what some people are saying what borderlines the Christian Trinitarian Doctrine is not the belief that Yahweh literally dyed for us in and through the Son, or Him living in us as and by what we know as the Ruach, but the idea of Body, Soul, and Spirit; for the Word clearly says man is a “living nephesh [soul]”, while he is alive, or he is a “dead nephesh [soul]. The spirit [blown into him by Elohim] and the image after which he was created made him different from the nephesh of a donkey, which by the way could talk and reason if that was part of the of its existence, “The ass said unto Bal’aam, am I not thine ass…, Num. 22:30.”
Brethren, “…now we are children of Elohim, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when he is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is, 1 John 3: 2.”
Blessed are those who do not keep browsing the Interenet, picking one thing here and another thing there, to create a package of confusion, which is what I see happening to many people, who become unable to make up their minds as to which teacher they should listen to, and therefore remain lost in tunnels of theological escapades, forever. I will venture to say that which anybody else before me has said:
A lot of people are jumping in with their own interpretations of Debarim (Deuteronomy) 6: 4. They forgot the context of the “Shema”, though. To a Gentile the sky was a god, the sun was a god, the wind, the sea, the mountains, the moon, and every planet, etc. The one Goyim would adore more than one god. He believed that Amon Rah was as good as Molleck, Ba’al, Zeus, Apollo, Jupiter, Nimrod, Ishtar, Cybele, Diane, Tammuz, etc. He would have altars for several gods, as they still do in India and in other Asian countries, or closer, here, in Santeria, and in Voodoo. But, we, the Hebrews, believe and cry to Israel and the whole world:
“Shema, Yisrael, Yahweh Elohaynu, Yahweh Echad.”
There are deeper things I feel about this subject that I’d rather not express, for they are inexpressible in that I, a human, do not have the intelligence to do so. I prefer to wai
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