THE TRINITY?Why did the Prophets, Christ, and the ApostlesNot teach it?
Rev. Steve Marlowe
The Bible Does not teach the Trinity. Nowhere in God’s word, the Bible, is the Trinity taught to His people, not to the Jews, and certainly not to the Christians, nor was the Trinity taught in the centuries after the ascension of Christ before the 4th century. The doctrine of the Trinity was not formalized until long after the Bible, including the New Testament, was completed and the prophets and apostles were long dead. In many ways, Christianity had lost its way by the 4th century, specifically regarding how to understand the Deity of the Son of God despite Christ being subordinate to God the Father. Indeed, “primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated, developed, and evolved, in the Creeds of the early church” in the 4th century (see “God”, The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Vol. 2, p. 84, 1976). The Trinity is a man-conceived doctrine never taught or revealed by God. The early Hebrews according to their theological and Scriptural perspective were of Monolatry (Deuteronomy 10:17), and only much later changed their theological views. After the Babylonian invasion of the Kingdom of Judah in 597 BCE, the Jews were determined to become strictly Monotheistic as opposed to Monolatric. Christianity, now becoming a major religion, taught from the beginning that Christ was indeed God, the Son. The apostle Thomas acknowledged that the Savior is God (in John 20:28, Thomas said to Christ, “My Lord and my God!”).
The apostles taught that Christ is God, however, they had no concept of the Trinity, nor did they teach the Trinity, nor was God revealed to be Triune according to Christ. In the 4th century CE, the Monotheistic Jews in Alexandria, Egypt, challenged the Christians, who knew that Christ is God, and thereby defended His divinity. Consequently, the Jews boldly began to accuse the Christians of worshiping two Gods, God the Father and God the Son. The Jews rightly pointed out, that the Bible asserts emphatically that there is only one God (Isaiah 44:6-8). Christians, after several failed attempts to defend the deity of Christ to the Jews, turned to the bishop of Alexandria, whose name was Alexander, to solve the problem. He thought to define God the Son and God the Father as being one God in essence. This only caused division in the church, and Emperor Constantine thought to call to council the bishops to collectively define God, which eventually was done through a series of Church Councils. With Emperor Constantine’s realization of the divisions happening within the Church, he decided to call for a Council to iron out the differences. His motive may have been due to the perception that Christians made for model citizens, and he thought to convert the Empire to Christianity, as the cohesive element to solidify the Roman Empire with good citizens.
To deal with the problem, most of the bishops of the churches throughout the Roman Empire were called and met at Nicaea in the year 325 CE, and shockingly the unbaptized Emperor Constantine presided over them. The Council of Nicaea in Byzantium (in modern Turkey) set out to define God in terms of the unity of the Father and the Son, and yet without consideration of the Holy Ghost. The Trinity doctrine only took shape at the Council of Constantinople in the year 381 CE, which determined that the Father was God, the Son was God, and the Holy Ghost was God, and yet not three Gods (Elohim), One God, (EL or Eloah). The Council of Constantinople, the men attending, took it upon their authority, after much bickering and debate, to define God in terms of being a Triune God, thus seemingly solving the problem of worshiping two Gods, and additionally now defining the Holy Ghost as a distinct Person of the Godhead, which according to the Jews is now three Gods. They, the bishops, did this without one, “Thus says the LORD,” in other words, they did this without the revelation of God!
Today, Trinitarians control the Christian Church, and they insist that Christians believe in the Triune God. God never revealed the Trinity doctrine, and it is a lie to say that God revealed Himself as Triune. “Much of the defense of the Trinity as a revealed (?) doctrine, is an evasion of the objections that can be brought against it…” said Cyril Richardson, professor of church history at New York’s Union Theological Seminary, and he further comments, “My conclusion, then, about the doctrine of the Trinity is that it is an artificial construct… It produces confusion rather than clarification; and while the problems with which it deals are real ones, the solutions it offers are not illuminating. It has posed, for many Christians, dark and mysterious statements, which are ultimately meaningless because it does not sufficiently discriminate in its use of terms” (Cyril Richardson, The Doctrine of the Trinity, p.16, pp. 148-149). Need we remind the professor that God is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33)?
Trinitarians, like professor of Theology James White, speaking about the Trinity doctrine, tell us, “We (Trinitarians) hang a person’s very salvation upon the acceptance of the doctrine… We must know, understand, and love the Trinity to be fully and completely Christian” (James White, The Forgotten Trinity, pp. 14-15). Really? Of course, this statement is not according to the Gospel of our Lord and Savior! It is hard to understand the importance of the doctrine of the Trinity in determining one’s salvation when Christ, nor the apostles, ever taught the necessity of believing in the Trinity to achieve salvation, and no Trinitarian doctrine is to be found in the New Testament. It seems to be the case that if one places a prerequisite not of God upon one’s eligibility for salvation in Christ as was done according to those demanding circumcision in the New Testament in the apostolic period, then surely the prerequisite of belief in the Trinity would fall into that same category as legalism, and therefore, all Trinitarian supporters are legalists. Are Christians to believe that centuries after the resurrection of YAHSHUA the Christ we learn of the supposed necessity of belief in the Trinity so that we can be saved? It now is very clear to all who seek solely the revelation of God that the Trinity is not a prerequisite, or a belief, by which we must be saved, and therefore, a false doctrine. If one were to read the Bible from cover to cover without any preconceived idea of the doctrine of the Trinity, would one arrive at such a concept on their own? They would not!
What the impartial reader of the Bible would perceive is that there is only one God Almighty, the Creator. But who is the creator? In the Book of Hebrews, God the Father speaks about the Son of God, as it is written: “But to the Son, He says: ‘Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”
And: ‘You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands” (Hebrews 1:8-10).
Based on the statements of the Father, what do we know?
The Father calls the Son “God.”
The Son’s throne has no end.
God the Father anointed God the Son above His companions (the sons of God, the elohim, also called “gods”), making the Son, LORD of Lords, King of kings, and God of gods (Deuteronomy 10:17; Psalm 82:6).
The word “God” is a title, and can, according to context, be applied to more than one person or entity (Exodus 7:1, Moses is called “god,” and according to 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, Satan is called the “god” of this age).
The Father called the Son “LORD” (YHWH), which is to say, the Son has the very name of the God of the Bible, and this name was known, according to Moses and the prophets, to the people of Israel as their only God, who is Christ the Lord YAHSHUA! “For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other’” (Isaiah 45:18). This shows the centrality of Christ in all things, as the God and Father of our God the LORD YAH only deals with sinful man through and by our only God YAHSHUA. For until all things are fulfilled and sin and death are no more, then Christ alone is our only God until at such time as He turns everything back over to the Father (1 Corinthians 15:20-28).
“For this reason, we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by 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. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:9-18).
What do we know from these verses?
Desiring that “...you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”
Christ has delivered us from the power of darkness.
The Son is the image of God the Father, in that the Son represents the Father perfectly.
“But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the first fruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. For ‘He has put all things under His feet.’ But when He says ‘all things are put under Him,’ it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:20-28).
What is this telling us?
Christ is risen.
Adam, the father of all mankind, brought sin and death into the world.
Therefore, we all die in Adam, but in Christ, we shall be made alive.
The end of this world comes when Christ puts an end to all rule, power, and authority of Satan’s kingdom.
Since Satan’s rebellion, all things were given to the Son, and He is our supreme God alone, God Almighty, as expressed in the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament).
Christ, the Son of God, who is our God, must reign as Almighty God supreme until all things are subject to Him, and death is no more.
When we are pure and without sin, as we are in Christ, then, at that time, He will turn all things back over to the Father, who then becomes our “all in all God.” The Lord YAH, Who alone is our God, who is our only Redeemer, and Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, until all things are complete Christ is our only God, according to the Scriptures.
“The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand” (John 3:35). Until all things are fulfilled and death is no more, YAHSHUA is our only God, who told us via Moses and the prophets that there is no other God besides Him.
“YAHSHUA said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me’” (John 14:6).
YAHSHUA is LORD, to the glory of His God and Father, and he said, “I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me…” (Isaiah 45:5).
How do we know that all the Bible points to YAHSHUA?
“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides Me there is no God. And who can proclaim as I do? Then let him declare it and set it in order for Me, since I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come, let them show these to them. Do not fear, nor be afraid; have I not told you from that time, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one’” (Isaiah 44:6-8).
The apostle Paul identifies Christ as the Rock: “Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:1-4). This is why God is One in Christ and not three Persons in One God. The One who said, “There is no other God besides Me,” was none other than YAHSHUA, the Son of God, who was given all things from His God and Father. YAHSHUA said, “You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I” (John 14:28). “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (John 1:18).
The Bible teaches that there is only one God, and in that sense, it teaches monotheism, however, the Bible acknowledges the existence of other gods, which makes it monolatry. Confused? don’t be. Nothing is confusing about this, in that: Christ was given all things, and we say, “To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and Power, both now and forever. Amen” (Jude 25).
Christ, our God, and Savior revealed Himself to Moses as the “I AM,” as this means “YAH,” as in “Halleluyah,” and so “Praise YAH!” Our God and Savior revealed to the people that He is YAH, “the I AM (HaYAH). “YAHSHUA said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). He told them that He was their God, as He told Moses that He is YAH, as in “YAHAWAH,” which mean: “I AM Ever-present.” And the angel revealed the Savior’s name as YAHSHUA, “I AM Salvation.” The essence of His name is YAH. YAH is the name of Salvation. “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV). Therefore, the Shema of Israel is only about Christ {The Messiah}, behold, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord YAH our God, the Lord YAH is one!” (Deuteronomy 6:4). Now when all things are made subject to YAHSHUA, and sin and death are no more, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him, His God and Father, who put all things under Him, that His God and Father may be the all in all GOD! The Bible makes it clear that God is one Person, the LORD YAHSHUA, or as He was also known in the Hebrew Scriptures (OT), and “That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord YAH, Are the Most High over all the earth” (Psalm 83:18). Our Lord and Savior YAHSHUA is the Most High over all the earth! YAHSHUA, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
The rebellion of Lucifer in Heaven caused disarray among the angelic hosts, which, at least, are the Elohim, the sons of God; the Cherubim, guardians, messengers, and musicians; the Seraphim, who serve in the Heavenly courts of God.
The LORD YAH, our Messiah and Savior, is our only God, and He as “God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods (elohim). How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah! Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked. They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable. I said, ‘You are gods (elohim), And all of you are sons of the Most High. But you shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.’ Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inherit all nations” (Psalm 82).
The LORD YAH, Who is our Savior, “For the Lord {YAH} your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome…“ (Deuteronomy 10:17). “Now I know that the Lord {YAH} is greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them” (Exodus 18:11). “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord YAHSHUA the Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live. However, there is not in everyone that knowledge…” (1 Corinthians 8:5-7a). God the Father is the all in all God, but until all things are fulfilled and sin and death are no more, our Lord and Savior YAHSHUA is our only God, however, the Day is coming when all things will be made new, and our only God will turn all things back over to His God and Father, but alas death is still here.
“The fanciful idea that the concept of [elohim] referred to the Trinity of Persons in the Godhead hardly finds now a supporter among scholars. It is either what grammarians call ‘the plural of majesty, or… the sum of the power displayed by God” (A Dictionary of the Bible). Elohim does not mean the Persons of the Trinity, but “gods,” as in the sons of God. The Trinitarian formula forbids the term elohim to be part of the equation, for it is Three Persons equals one God (EL or Eloah, not Elohim). There are gods (the Elohim) established by God, who have power and dominion over something. And there are false gods made by the imagination of man. The Bible speaks of both. Humans cannot be gods, as in sons of God, due to the fall of Adam. In this present age, no humans have been called by the collective title gods,” as in, “elohim,” due to sin. Psalm 82 is not about human judges on the earth, but about the sons of God (elohim) in Heaven, as God declared them to be “gods,” the heavenly judges (Psalm 82:6).
YAHSHUA, our God, as He has all power, and all dominion, and all glory, and all majesty over us, is our God, who descended from Heaven (John 3:13), and our God, who we know, for we do not know the Father except through and by the Son (John 1:18). YAHSHUA asks, “What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?” (John 6:62). YAHSHUA is the creator of the heavens and the earth, and, He is the God of gods, and He is at their head, and this is collectively known as the Elohim, the gods. Therefore it was the Lord YAH who spoke among the elohim, and said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:26-28). YAHSHUA and His companions, the sons of God (Hebrews 1:9) made man in the image of a son of God, as he, Adam, was given power and dominion over the earth and all living things, therefore, Adam, son of God (Luke 3:38). Adam, at the point of sin, lost sonship with God, and by inheritance so did the sons of Adam. Only in YAHSHUA are we restored to sonship with the Father and God of our God, the Lord YAHSHUA.
YAHSHUA came to restore what was lost. For it is by His righteousness that we are restored to sonship. “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13). Scripture is clear, we must know the revealed name of Christ to be saved. But those who do not think the name YAHSHUA is not important and that a counterfeit name, or names (Jesus, Iesus, or Iesous), is just as good, think again. The essence of the Gospel is this: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ‘He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God’” (John 3:16-18). To those who have been told of the true name of salvation, that is the revealed name YAHSHUA, and then to not believe in the name YAHSHUA are to be “condemned already.” Because YAHSHUA is the preeminent Son of God, who came to give a ransom, the necessary price, being that the wages of sin is death, YAHSHUA paid that price for all who believe in His name (YAHSHUA and there is no other name, Acts 4:12). If YAHSHUA, however, were the Father, the “all in all GOD,” the ransom price would have been infinitely higher than what God’s law required (Leviticus 24:19-21). But like the sons of Adam who are in the image of the elohim, the sons of God, He, YAHSHUA the preeminent Son of God gave His life for many. “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by 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. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross” (Colossians 1:15-20).
How is YAHSHUA the “Only-Begotten Son of God?
The Bible calls YAHSHUA, the Christ, the “Only-begotten Son of God” (John 1:14; John 3:16). Trinitarians grappled with the concept, and wondered, knowing that since God is eternal, how can a person be a son and at the same time be as old as his father? Due to the Trinitarian influence, many Bible translators have changed “Only-begotten,” as found in the New King James Version [NKJV], to “One and only Son,” as found in the New International Version [NIV]. So the Trinitarians made up a new concept claiming that in the case of Christ, “Only-begotten” did not have the same meaning as the dictionary definition of “begetting,” which is what a father does, he begats a child, while the mother gives birth to a child (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary). They, the Trinitarians, say that so far as Christ is concerned, it meant in the sense of an “unoriginated relationship,” that is an “Only Son,” (Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words). This defies the true meaning of a father begetting a son, and overall biblical usage, as found in Hebrews 11:17, which demonstrates Isaac as Abraham’s “only begotten son.” The basic Greek word for “only-begotten son,” is “monogenes”, from “mo’nos,” meaning “only,” and “ginomai,” a root word meaning “to generate,’ to become (see Strong’s, Greek Dictionary of the New Testament #3439). Therefore, “monogenes” is correctly translated “Only-begotten” of the Father. It’s this last phrase "only begotten," used in the KJV, NASB, and the NKJV, that causes problems for Trinitarians. Trinitarians prefer “One and Only Son.” This phrase is used to try to explain the exclusivity of the Son, as the only Son, and this, despite numerous references to the sons of God, and that Adam was once a “son of God” (Luke 3:38). Despite “One and Only Son” being out of Scriptural context, Trinitarians are more comfortable with this exclusive phrase affording equality. In essence, Christ is seen in exclusivity as the Son with the Father within the relationship of Persons in the Trinity.
Trinitarians see the word "begotten" and think that this alludes to the Son of God being a created being because only someone who had a beginning in time can be "begotten." What this idea fails to understand is that "begotten," an English translation of the Greek word “monogenes,” can be understood as Adam “son of God,” who is created, and Christ, “Son of God”, who is born Son of God, and among the sons of God, He, Christ, is the preeminent Son of God, which also maintains the unique aspect of monogenes, in that Christ is the only Son on the planet born the Son of God. As such, when we look at the original meaning of the Greek word “monogenes,” it is not to transfer an entirely different meaning, or phrase, onto the text. Monogenes is "about being the only one of its kind within a specific relationship," which applies to the contrast of one son of God, Adam, a son via the dust of the earth, and another Son of God, YAHSHUA, from the womb, and both have life from their Heavenly Father. The apostle John was primarily concerned with demonstrating that YAHSHUA is the Son of God (John 20:31), and the Greek word “monogenes” is used to highlight Him as uniquely God’s Son, who is the only one born a son on this planet, as opposed to Adam, who was created to be a son, and the many believers who are God’s sons by adoption (Ephesians 1:5). Again, YAHSHUA is God’s “Only-begotten Son” because unlike Adam, son of God, who was created from the dust of the earth, YAHSHUA is the only One born a Son of God on planet earth. The Bible lists two sons of God, the one is Adam, and the second Adam is Christ (1 Corinthians 15:45-58). One Son was created from the dust of the earth, and the other was the Son born of a woman on earth, and therefore, the Only-begotten Son of God. This is not to say that Christ’s Heavenly existence with the Father had a beginning, and although we cannot rule it out, we do not know how eternity works outside of our terrestrial reality.
Was YAHSHUA thought to be God? YAHSHUA, the Son of God, was given all things, and because of this, YAHSHUA had the right to claim “all things,” because when given all power, all dominion, all glory, and majesty by His Father and God, He, YAHSHUA, is the sole God of that dominion. YAHSHUA always acknowledged His God and Father as greater than He, and He said, “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.” Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. YAHSHUA answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.” YAHSHUA answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? If He called them gods [elohim], to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand” (John 10:29-39). When YAHSHUA told the people, that He is YAH, which is to say their very God, they also sought to stone Him (John 8:58).
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
YAHSHUA answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing His work. Believe Me, when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. Verily I tell you the truth, whoever believes in Me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. “If you love me, keep my commands” (John 14:8-15). This exchange between YAHSHUA and Philip shows YAHSHUA’S seeming astonishment towards Philip for not recognizing that throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, it was He, the Son of God, who was indeed their God, and that the Father is working through Him, the Son of God. YAHSHUA, the preeminent Son of God, indeed all sons of God, act in the perfect will of the Father, as anything else would be less than perfect, and disqualify one as the Son of God (John 6:38).
The Father is above all, and yet the Hebrew Scriptures point to the Son of God, as their only God, as all things were given to Him, and until all things are fulfilled, He, YAHSHUA reigns supreme. YAHSHUA said, “‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed…” (Luke 4:18). Anointing is the giving of authority and the designation of one’s station, such as Messiah, King, or Prophet. YAHSHUA the Christ was given all authority, even the authority of the Father. This did not negate the will of the Son, as seen in the Garden of Gethsemane, when He said, “Not My will, but Your will be done” (Luke 22:42).
In Matthew 27:46, while on the Cross, “And about the ninth hour YAHSHUA cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” This shows, what we should have known from the beginning, that the Father will not associate with sin, in other words, “the all in all God” will not allow sin in His presence. When the Son of God, our God, received all our sins upon Himself, the Father withdrew completely. The Son of God never experienced God’s Holy Spirit withdraw from Him, and even though He knew it was going to happen, the experience was greater than He could bear, and just as the anguish of God’s Holy Spirit that leaves one is expressed in Psalm 22:1, with the cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” so is the cry of the Son of God.
In YAHSHUA’S prehuman existence, and also as the incarnate Son of God, who is our only God so long as sin and death exist, YAHSHUA is subordinate to His God and Father. Upon His ascension into Heaven, He appeared in the presence of the Father on our behalf (Hebrews 9:24). “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name {YAH} which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Lest we forget, the name “Jesus” has only existed since the 17th century, and Bible translators took it upon themselves to change the name of Christ from Iesus to Jesus, and before that change, there was another change from Iesous to Iesus, which has yet another change as a transliteration from Yeshua to Iesous. These names, Jesus, Iesus, and Iesous, are counterfeits because the angel never revealed those names (Matthew 1:21), however, the revealed name of Christ is YAHSHUA, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Every language, that is every tongue, is to know this one revealed name given under heaven by which we must be saved, “YAHSHUA,” the revealed name of the Savior!
When YAHSHUA announced that before Abraham was, “I AM”, which means “YAH” (John 8:58), He told the people that He is their God, the very God who appeared and spoke to Moses face to face (Exodus 33:11). We know it was the Son of God, our God, who spoke to Moses, because, “No one has seen God {meaning the Father} at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (John 1:18), therefore, it had to be the Son of God, our very own YAHSHUA.
“For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. For ‘He has put all things under His feet.’ But when He says ‘all things are put under Him,’ it is evident that He [the Father] who put all things under Him [the Son] is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him [the Son], then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him [the Father] who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all” (1 Corinthians 15:25-28). And so it is, YAH is salvation for all those who believe in His name. YAHSHUA means, “I AM Salvation.”
“Behold, God is my salvation,
I will trust and not be afraid;
‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song;
He also has become my salvation” (Isaiah 12:2).
Shalom, in the name of YAHSHUA!
