WHO IS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE

Rev. Steve Marlowe M.Div. BA

THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME

“For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, That they all may call on the name of the LORD, To serve Him with one accord” (Zephaniah 3:9).

“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).

For, “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13). One of the initial ways to get to know someone is to first ask for their name. There was a young boy, who was only known as James. Even though he was introduced to one as “James,” the man later referred to him as “Jim.” No one knew that he was talking about James because James did not have nick name, so people were confused as to whom he meant. Moses wanted to know the name of God because he thought for sure that the people of Israel would ask him for His name to distinguish the God of Israel by name from the gods of Egypt. “Then Moses said to God, ‘Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?’ And God said to Moses, “HAYAH ASHAR HAYAH” (“I AM WHO I AM”). And He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’ Moreover God said to Moses, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations’” (Exodus 3:13-15). “YAH” is Hebrew for “I AM,” and so, YAH is His essential name to all generations. Many people say, “God has many names, however, God makes a distinction between His personal name and descriptive names. “And God spoke to Moses and said to him: ‘I am the LORD {YAH}. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI, but by My name LORD {YAH} I was not known to them” (Exodus 6:2-3). The importance of YAH must be known, for this name YAH is key to our salvation. The prophet Isaiah testified to this: “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). The true expression of praise is “Halleluyah!” “Praise YAH!” YAH is the only revealed name of salvation for those who have faith in Him. YAH! “The name which is above every name.”

The name Jesus was never revealed from Heaven. In fact, the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. It was the year 1632 that a change occurred, and the supposed name of Christ, “Iesus,” became “JESUS”. In the 1611 English Version of the Bible, the name used is Iesus, which comes from Iesous, which is a transliteration of Yeshua, a common Aramaic name. They, modern Christian leaders, will tell you that these names, Jesus, Iesus, Iesous, and Yeshua, are all the same, which is nonsense! These names are clearly not the same. In the following, the true personal name of salvation will be revealed, and there is a descriptive name as well: “But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.’ So all this was done that it

might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: ‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel,’ which is translated, “God with us” (Matthew 1:20-23). Christ (the Messiah) has a personal name YAHSHUA, which literally means: “I AM salvation,” and a descriptive name Emmanuel, which means: “God with us.” The descriptive name tells us that YAHSHUA is our God. YAH=I AM, and shua= “my help,” as in, “my salvation.” And His name must have the name which is above every name YAH. As the Savior told the people, “YAHSHUA said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM’” (John 8:58). He told them that He is YAH, as in HaYAH, “the I AM,” just as when He appeared to Moses at the burning bush.

The apostle Peter gave this testimony: “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 Messiah must have the name YAH as part of His name because there is no other name given among men by which we must be saved. The Savior’s name was revealed in Hebrew. An angel came to Joseph, saying, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” His name, YAHSHUA, means “I AM Salvation.” “Shua” means, in Hebrew, “my help”, as in “My Salvation.” The apostle Peter clearly stated to the Sanhedrin that His Lord and Savior’s name is “YAHSHUA!” The Jews, ever- since the Babylonian invasion In 587–586 BCE, have sought to hide the name YAH from the Gentiles for fear that they might profane the name. When the apostles clearly testified in the name of YAHSHUA, and upon hearing YAH (HAYAH, the Name), distinctly, as opposed to Yeshua, they took action. This is what happened, “Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in YAHSHUA the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand” (Acts 4:1-4). “But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, saying, ‘What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.’ So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of YAHSHUA. But Peter and John answered and said to them, ‘Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard’” (Acts 4:15-20). The apostles heard the name which is above every name {YAH}, and in the name of the Savior, as He spoke it to them, and they would not deny the name YAHSHUA. Nor would the apostles accept any other name. Certainly, they would not accept the Name transliterated into an entirely different name due to linguistics denying the revelation of God. It is the tradition of men to accept the linguistic transformation of the revealed name of God, however, God does not accept this transformation of the very name revealed into an entirely different name. The apostle Paul knew this so he wrote this about the revealed name, “and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:11). The apostle Paul could not write the name Jesus because he never knew that name. The fact is that men, not God, placed the name “Jesus” in the Bible.

The apostle Paul gave testimony to his conversion and to the name which is above every name, YAH, as the essential part of the Savior’s name. He said to king Agrippa, “Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of YAHSHUA of Nazareth. This I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from

the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them. And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. ‘While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:9-15). The apostle Paul heard the name of our Savior in the Hebrew language, as it was always revealed, therefore, he heard the name which is above every name, YAH! The apostle Paul later writing to the Philippians acknowledging YAH, for he wrote: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name 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 Messiah is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Many would object, and say, “No, it is the name of Jesus in my Bible!” But consider the eminent historian, Bible scholar, Ernest Renan, who acknowledged in his book that the Savior was never in His lifetime known as “Jesus” (The Life of Jesus, p. 90). Also consider that in the 1611 English Version of the Bible, the name was not Jesus (gee-sus), but Iesus (ee-sus), which is a notable change. Iesus comes from the Greek name Iesous (ee-ay-sous). When you have several names, the testimony that there is only one name loses all meaning. Lastly consider that the apostle Paul stated, that every tongue should confess YAHSHUA to the glory of the Father. It is a lie that these names Jesus, Iesus, Iesous and Yeshua are all the same name. They do not look the same; and they do not sound the same, and with the exception of Yeshua, these names have no intrinsic meaning of salvation; and therefore, they are not the same!

The essence of the gospel encapsulated is identified with John 3:16-18, but here is a warning about the name, “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.’” If one rejects, or even calls the One Name given under heaven “Nonsense,” that one stands condemned for rejecting the name of salvation, which has “the name which is above every name!” Therefore, whoever believes “in His Name” has life, and these are the children of God (John 1:12). And these things are written that you may believe that YAHSHUA is the Christ, the Son of God! “And truly YAHSHUA did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; and that believing you may have life in His name” (John 20:30-31). “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God” (1 John 5:13). God never gave authority to the tongue of man to change the very revealed name of the Savior. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA!

Today, the Bible is our only true source of knowledge of God, aside from direct revelation from God. God reveals Himself through His Word. This is what we have recorded, that, “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). In the Gospel According to John 5:33-47 (NKJV), YAHSHUA, the Son of God, the only Savior of the world, stated: “You have sent to John (the Baptist), and he has borne witness to the truth. Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you

may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. But I have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. ‘I do not receive honor from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. I have come in My Father’s name (YAH), and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name (Jesus), him you will receive. How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?’”

Moses never saw His form or heard the voice of the Father, however, Moses saw the form and heard the voice of the Son, who alone declares to us the Father (John 1:18). Moses did not see the form of the Father, but he beheld the form of the Son, the Lord YAH! And it is written: “So the LORD {YAH} said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.” And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.” Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD {YAH} before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And the LORD {YAH} said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock,andwillcoveryouwithMyhandwhileIpassby. ThenIwilltakeawayMyhand,andyou shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen” (Exodus 33:17-23). When God, the Son of God the only intermediary between God, the Father, and mankind, is in His full glory, no human can see His face, however, when not in His full glory, the Lord YAH and Moses could speak face to face, “So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend (Exodus 33:11).

The Son of God, who is our God, and indeed the only God of Israel, and therefore, “God cannot be called with any name established by human being. No one can give a name to the ineffable God. There exists no name established by human beings which is suited to the ingenerate Father of all beings; if one were to call him by any name, in fact, it means that one would have been before Him who would have given Him a name... He is called Christ since He receives the anointing...in the same way also ‘God’ is a common (descriptive name), appellation, not a proper name” (“Name,” Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity, InterVarsity Press, 2014, p. 865). Even the Lord YAH makes this distinction between descriptive names and His Personal Name. “And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as El Shaddai, but by My name LORD {YAH} I was not known to them” (Exodus 6:2-3). YAHSHUA’s name is revealed by the Father, and all these other names: Jesus, Iesus, Iesous, and Yeshua came after! Christ’s Personal name is YAHSHUA, but He has many descriptive names, for examples “El Shaddai” and “Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”

Men look to other men to know God, however, YAHSHUA said, “Yet, I do not received testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved.” There is no true testimony according to man, but when there is true testimony by a man, it is he who testifies about the Savior according to the word of God only, in that his testimony is true. Skeptics challenge, where is Christ in history? Where is the evidence of His existence? Where is the evidence of His true revealed name? The answer can only be that we must look to the Bible and not to mankind, not to

to world, for man speaks the spiritual language of Babel, as one says, “He is Triune,” and another says, “God is One,” and another says this that at different times: He has been the Father, and then the Son, and now the Holy Ghost, which is identified as “Modalism.” The depictions of God’s nature, to name the major ones, are Trinitarianism, Modalism, Unitarianism, and Monolatrism, which explains “the God of gods” in the context of Monotheism (Deuteronomy 10:17). Despite YAHSHUA telling us that He has existed before His earthly incarnation, as He stated, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). Christ acknowledged to the Jews, that He had a preexistence and that He is YAH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as those in His inner circle, the disciples, knew Him to be their “Lord and God” (John 20:28), and the disciples knew Him by the name YAHSHUA, which means “I AM Salvation.” Those outside of His inner circle would likely called Him Yeshua, which being as common a name in Jerusalem, in the province of Judea, as similarly the name James is today. The most educated in Christianity can be far from truly knowing Christ, but their paychecks are fat, and their homes are big, etc.

Few there be that find or know the name of God and the nature of God: “Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:14). So many think they know Him, however, they will be surprised to find that they do not know Him, and worse, He will not recognize them, who follow the traditions of men. He answered and said to them, ‘Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men...and many other such things you do.’ He said to them, ‘All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition’” (Mark 7:6-9). The Father through the angel Gabriel gave the commandment, “You shall call His name YAHSHUA!” However, man has succeeded in replacing the very revealed name of our Savior with names that come from us, not solely by the revelation of God, but by the linguistics of men, as it can be shown by the many names that went through a linguistic evolution all around the world. It was unauthorized to change the revealed name of Christ, our God, and it is symptomatic of one’s lawlessness to accept these different names not from God. To you who seek to establish the name of Christ, not according to the revelation of God, but by the linguistics of mankind, take heed... “And now, O priests (pastors, rabbis, teachers and leaders), this commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name,” Says the LORD of hosts, “I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart (Malachi 2:2). If they continue to promote the name of salvation as coming from the linguistics of men instead of the revelation of God, they will be judged as workers of lawlessness: As found in Matthew 7:21-23, YAHSHUA warned, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Notice how they say, “...in Your name...” But what name did they do all these things? How many would cry “in the name of Jesus”? And, yes, God is merciful to all humanity, and miracles happen no matter if you know Him or not, however, if you do these things, and yet not according to the will of the Father, you are being workers of lawlessness.

Most major religions with founders like Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, all with leaders whose names have not been changed through the linguistics, languages, of mankind, however, despite been given the one name by which we must be saved, we have a host of names for Christ. We, Christians, have changed the one name revealed from God. This is a mistake!

THE NAME JEHOVAH

The name Jehovah (or Yehovah) was never revealed by God to His people. This name came into existence through the ignorance of Medieval Christian scholars, who did not know or understand the Jewish practice of adding Hebrew vowel points to the four Hebrew consonants of God’s actual name Yod-Hey-Waw-Hey (YHWH) from other Hebrew words, such as Adonai, Eloah, and Elohim. The vowel points were placed onto the Tetragrammaton (the four consonants [YHWH] of God’s actual name) as a reminder to the readers in the synagogue not to say the name of God, but to say, “Adonai” instead. Yehovah is an invention of Medieval times. And those who hold to this erroneous name base its legitimacy solely from the 12th century sources, or from the period of the Dark ages, medieval times. The problem is that the Jews have been on going with adding Hebrew vowels onto the Tetragrammaton as early as the 1100s, if not before. There is the difficulty in that the Hebrew Scriptures, the words have no vowels, and the reader went along reading Hebrew word after word and he would invariable come to the name of God, and without realizing it, would inadvertently attempt to pronounce the name. Thus began the practice of adding vowel points to the name, only as a reminder not to pronounce the Sacred Name. The Jews developed a vowel point system for the Hebrew language, however, the Hebrew Scriptures being ancient did not incorporate the Masoretes vowel point system. Masoretes were Jewish scholars who worked from around the end of the 5th through 10th centuries CE, based primarily in the cities of Tiberius and Jerusalem, as well as in what is today modern Iraq. The Masoretes compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides on the external form of the biblical text in an attempt to standardize the pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) for the worldwide Jewish community.

To give further significance to the unalterable and revealed name of God comes the Commandment in Exodus 20:7, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” That is to say, having no meaning or likelihood of fulfillment. For example, taking a vow in the Lord’s name, and not fulfilling it. Changing God’s revealed name, which would change the meaning of His name, and thus only achieve to make His name meaningless. For example, the revealed name YAHAWAH means, I AM ever-present, however, the changed name Jehovah has the meaning of Je of ruin, mischief and calamity (see “hovah” Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words # 1943). How many changes to God’s revealed name can we find in the erroneous name Jehovah? The letter ‘J’ has only existed as a letter in the English alphabet since the 17th century, which allowed for this change Iehovah to Jehovah. The Hebrew letter of Yod transliterates nicely with the English letter ‘Y.’ Therefore, the letter ‘J’ does not belong in the expression of praise, however, the ‘Y’, rightfully does belong: “Halleluyah,” and the Medieval church used “Alleluia,” which removes the object of praise YAH. Because the Jews added vowel points from the Hebrew word “eloah,” which means “god,” singular, the vowel, (Qamets, as in yacht), represented in YAH is changed to Yeh. Yeh is changed due to the first vowel from eloah being added to Yod-Hey, YH. This causes YH to have the vowel ‘e’, called sheva, replacing the correct vowel ‘a’ (Qamets) causing the erroneous name Yeh, and with the later addition of ‘J’, in fact a recent addition introduced in the 17th century, we have the first part of Jehovah (Jeh), and the last part of Hallelujah. Again, this is the correct expression of praise to YAH, Halleluyah. These changes were caused solely by man, and changing the meaning of YAH (I AM) to the meaningless Yeh, which caused the Jah also replacing YAH, as we find in Hallelujah. This change from the rightful YAH to the erroneous Yeh caused the words of God to Moses to change from HAYAH ASHAR HAYAH to the fallacious Ehyeh Ashar Ehyeh. True followers of Christ hold to “Halleluyah!” Any Encyclopedia will explain these changes, for example, “The form of J was unknown in any alphabet until the

14th century. Either symbol (J, I) used initially generally had the consonantal sound of the Y as in year. Gradually, the two symbols (J,I) were differentiated, the J usually acquiring consonantal force and thus becoming regarded as a consonant, and the I becoming a vowel. It was not until 1630 that the differentiation became general in England” (the letter J, The Encyclopedia Americana). The English speaking prior to 1630, called the Savior Iesus, which afterward was changed to Jesus, and Iehovah was change to Jehovah.

These erroneous names, Jehovah and Jesus, have in common the late comer letter J. “In its English form, ‘Jesus’ goes back to “Latin church” as Iesus, which is a form of the Greek Iesous, and Iesous is a transliteration of Yeshua. But the name of the Son of God in its original Hebrew form it was YAHOSHUA (YAH Saves)... (Strange Facts About the Bible, p. 81). Where is the justification for changing the Savior’s name? Even in Greek there is no J sound found in the koine dialect. The prefix YAH as found in the expression Halleluyah and in many biblical names as a suffix like Yeshayah-u (Isaiah), Yirmeyah-u (Jeramiah), and Nechemyah (Nehemiah); and Eliyah (Elijah) however, YAHSHUA starts with the prefix YAH. The name YAH is in our Bible, so why do we have Jeh, or Yeh, or Ieh? “Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Extol Him who rides on the clouds, By His name YAH, And rejoice before Him” (Psalm 68:4 NKJV). In the Hebrew Scriptures, also, is the name YAH.

God’s name, “The word has generally been understood to be a derivative of the verb hawah to be, to exist...” (Oxford English Dictionary). The true name of God given to Moses is YAHAWAH, which means: “YAH-ever-present.” “Judging from the Greek transcriptions of the sacred name, YHWH ought to be pronounced YAHWEH. The pronunciation Jehovah was unknown in ancient Jewish circles, and is based upon a later misunderstanding of the scribal practice of using the vowels of the word Adonai with the consonant of YHWH” (New Catholic Encyclopedia, p. 1065, 1967). In the Preface of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, it reads, “The form Jehovah (Yehovah) is of late medieval origin; it is a combination of the consonants of the Divine Name and the vowels attached to it by the Masoretes but belonging to an entirely different word. The sound of Y is represented by J and the sound of W by V, as in Latin. The word ‘Jehovah’ does not accurately represent any form of the Name ever used in Hebrew” (pp. 6-7). In the introduction to The Emphasized Bible, “The pronunciation Jehovah was unknown until 1520, when it was introduced by Galatinus; but was contested...as against grammatical and historical propriety... Erroneously written and pronounced Jehovah, which is merely a combination of the sacred Tetragrammaton and the vowels in the Hebrew word for Lord, substituted by Jews for YHWH, because they shrank from pronouncing the Name... to give the name YHWH the vowels for the word Lord (Heb. Adonai, eloah, or elohim), and pronounce it Jehovah, is about as hybrid a combination as it would be to spell the name Germany with the vowels in the name Portugal – viz., Gormuna” (pp. 24-25). “This name is commonly represented in modern translations by the form ‘Jehovah,’ which, however, is a philological impossibility... The form has arisen through attempting to pronounce the consonants of the name with the vowels of Adonai...Eloah, Elohim” (The Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 160).

In the Hebraic culture biblical names reveal who the person is. In our culture of today, names are simply labels, and yet it is deemed important to have a good name that instills a good reputation. Biblical names all have meaning in Hebrew. For example, Abram means “exalted father,” and later his name was changed by God to Abraham, which means, “father of multitude.” Isaac means “laughter,” and Jacob means “heel-grabber,” or “supplanter.” His name was later changed by God to Israel, which means “Perseveres with God.” “{YAHAWAH’S} name reveals his character and in which people may take refuge, therefore, to treat God’s name as empty, or devoid of meaning is to despise His Person, or to change the meaning of God’s name is vanity, and “You

shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain” (Exodus 20:7), or one will find himself in opposition to Him (Erdmans Bible Dictionary, p. 747).

1) Jehovah is the result of the vowels added from the Hebrew word, Eloah, [e-o-a], namely: YeHoWaH, see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words # 3068.

2) Jehovih is the result of the vowels added from the Hebrew word, Elohim [e-o-i], namely: YeHoWiH, see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words # 3069.

3) Je-hovah, means “ruin, calamity, and mischief” in Hebrew, see Strong’s Dictionary of Bible Words, # 1942.

Pietro Colonna Galatino (1460 – 1540), also known as Petrus Galatinus wrote his chief work De Arcanis Catholicae Veritatis, in 1516, focusing on the famous controversy on the authority of the Jewish writings, which at the time was assuming a very high-profile. He resolved to combat the Jews on their own ground, he turned the Kabbalah as a weapon against them, and sought to convince them that their own books yielded proof of the truth of the Christian religion, hence their opposition to it should be branded as obstinacy. Galatinus is sometimes referred to as the "inventor" of the name Jehovah, however, he was unaware of the Jewish practice of blending the Tetragrammaton "YHWH" with the vowels from “Eloah.” He had borrowed largely from the Pugio Fidei written by the Dominican Raymond Martini, who first used the name, Iehova in his book. Galatinus modified the name to Iehovah, as the true name of God. Raymond Martini, was a 13th- century Dominican friar and theologian. He is remembered for his polemic work Pugio Fidei (c. 1270). The name Jehovah is a concoction, a euphonious name, a false name, that must be discarded for the simple reason, it was never revealed by God, not to mention its true sinister meaning. God’s name YHWH appears 6,823 times in the Hebrew Scriptures. Based on the source and history of this name, Jehovah, the conclusion can only be that this name was never revealed by God, and it is a false name and must be discarded. It is a philological impossibility. It is not a Hebrew name by which God indeed revealed it.

Halleluyah or Hallelujah

In Hebrew this version hallelujah is actually a two-word phrase, hal(e)lu-Yah, and not one word, and as can be seen there is no Jah in the actual Hebrew meaning of “Praise YAH.” The first part, hallu, is the masculine plural form of the Hebrew verb hillel. The phrase "Halleluyah" translates to "Praise Yah", though it carries a deeper meaning as the word halel in Hebrew means a joyous praise in song to YAH, the I AM (Exodus 3:14). The letter J is not the transliteration of the Hebrew letter Yod, and should be the equivalent English letter Y. The proper understanding is that this is “Praise to YAH.” The second part, YAH, is a shortened form of YHWH and these letters are consonants representing four letters in God’s revealed name. There is confusion as to the correct pronunciation of God’s name. it is sometimes rendered in non-Jewish sources as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah,” which signifies confusion. The Septuagint translates YAH as Kyrios (the LORD), because of the Jewish custom of replacing the sacred name with "Adonai", meaning "my Lord". The Septuagint is the Greek text of the Old Testament and was completed by 132 BCE. In Psalm 150:6 the Hebrew reads the first "hallel" and "yah" in this verse are two separate words, and the word "yah" is translated as "the LORD", or "YHWH". In Psalm 148:1 the Hebrew says hallu Yah, YHWH, notably including both the shortened Yah and the full name of YAHAWAH, YHWH. Most well-known English versions of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, incorporate the letter J giving the erroneous translation "Hallelujah" though "LORD" is instead translated as "Yah" in the Lexham English Bible, however, Young's Literal Translation uses "Jah," also in the New World Translation, "Jehovah," in rendering the term as "Hallelujah", with the spelling

"Halleluyah" appearing in the Complete Jewish Bible. The Greek-influenced form "Alleluia" appears in Wycliffe's Bible, the Knox Version and the New Jerusalem Bible. God revealed His name as YAH, the I AM. The true name is YAH, not Jah, Jeh, or ia, or Yeh.

The Nature of God

The nature of God as believed in most Christian churches defines as one God existing in three co-equal, co-eternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion), and yet One God. As the Fourth Lateran Council declared, it is the Father who begets, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Ghost who proceeds. In this context, one essence/nature defines what God is, while the three persons define who God is. This expresses at once their distinction and their indissoluble unity. Thus, the entire process of creation and grace is viewed as a single shared action of the three divine persons, in which each person manifests the attributes unique to them in the Trinity, thereby proving that everything comes "from the Father," "through the Son," and sustained by and "in the Holy Ghost." This doctrine is called Trinitarianism and its adherents are called Trinitarians, while its opponents are called Unitarianians, Binitarianians and Onetarians (Oneness Theology), or Modalists, and there is the Monolatrians (Monolatry), who believe in the God of gods (Deuteronomy 10:17).

There is a majority consensus, that it is the Person of the Heavenly Father who is the creator and the active agent, as God, in the Old Testament. This is a false notion that contradicts the Bible. The Bible is telling us that it is the Son of God who is the creator, and the one who appeared to His people. He is the active agent. Theologians, scholars, know that the Bible does not teach the Trinity, so they couch it this way: “While the developed doctrine of the Trinity is not explicit in the books that constitute the New Testament, it is implied.” The doctrine of the Trinity was first formulated among certain Christians of the Alexandrian Church in Egypt as they attempted to defend against the Jewish accusation of Christians worshiping two Gods, and therefore, certain Christians took it upon themselves to define the relationship of “God the Son” and “God the Father.” The title God is used as a generic term signifying all power and dominion over something, which makes one god (Exodus 7:1). The Trinitarians claim, accordingly, that the New Testament contains a number of Trinitarian formulas, including Matthew 28:19, which is a contested interpolation, for one reason the apostles never baptized in “the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost” according to the Book of Acts, they baptized in the name of YAHSHUA only. In 2 Corinthians 13:14, all Christians believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and yet would not agree that this proves the Trinitarian formula. 1 Corinthians 12:4– 5, again, no substantiation of the Triune God. None of the following proves the Trinity, Ephesians 4:4–6, 1 Peter 1:2, and Revelation 1:4–6. Reflection by early Christians on passages such as the Great Commission: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" and Paul the Apostle's blessing: "The grace of the Lord Y’shua the Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all", leading theologians across history in attempting to articulate the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have succeeded theologically being lost in paradoxes that no one can understand. The doctrine of the Trinity was used to oppose alternative views of how the three are related and to defend the church against charges of worshiping two or three Gods. Biblical scholarship largely agrees that 1 John 5:7 seen in Latin and Greek texts after the 4th century and found in later translations such as the King James Translation, cannot be found in the oldest Greek and Latin texts. Verse 7 is known as the Johannine Comma, which most scholars agree to be a later addition by a later copyist or what is termed a textual gloss and not part of the original text. This verse is an absolute interpolation, that reads: “Because there

are three in Heaven that testify – the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit – and these three are one.” This verse is absent from the Ethiopic, Aramaic, Syriac, Slavic, Armenian, Georgian, and Arabic translations of the Greek New Testament.

Why must Christians believe in a doctrine that was never revealed by God, and is mysterious in nature, unfathomable, and never revealed by God? Only then to be told by a theologian: “We hang a person’s very salvation upon the acceptance of the doctrine... No one dares question the Trinity for fear of being branded a ‘heretic’... We must know, understand, and love the Trinity to be fully and completely Christian... The doctrine is misunderstood as well as ignored. It is so misunderstood that a majority of Christians, when asked, give incorrect and at times downright heretical definitions of the Trinity” (The Forgotten Trinity, pp. 14-16 1998). And yet we are also told, “The mind of man cannot fully understand the mystery of the Trinity. He who has tried to understand the mystery fully will lose his mind; but he who would deny the Trinity will lose his soul” (A Handbook of Christian Truth, H. Lindsell and C. Woodbridge, pp. 51-52, 1953). This is unreasonable. How do we reconcile that we understand the Trinity when many theologians admit it is “beyond the grasp of human reason”? (“The Trinity,” The Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 27). “The doctrine of the Triune God is mysterious in its origin and its content... Today it is being challenged by many as unintelligible and irrelevant...” (E. Fortman, The Triune God: A Historical Study of the Doctrine of the Trinity, p. xxv-xxvi, 1972).

We know from the Bible that God did not reveal the Trinity, so where did it come from? The Trinity is confusing, which does not sound like the God we worship in Spirit and Truth, and does not square with what we know of the New Testament, where we are told, “God is not the author of Confusion” (1 Corinthians 14:33). “The term ‘Trinity’ is not found in the Bible. It was first used by Tertullian at the close of the 2nd century, but received wide currency...only in the 4th and 5th centuries” (‘Trinity,’ New Bible Dictionary, 1996). If one must believe and understand the Trinity, then what about the Christians in the 1st and 2nd and 3rd centuries? The Trinity was only really formulated in the 5th century. This is where it stands, “Precisely what that doctrine is, or rather precisely how it is to be explained, Trinitarians are not agreed among themselves” (A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge, 1885). “Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament... the doctrine developed gradually over several centuries... It was not until the 4th Century that the distinctness of the three and their unity were brought together in a single orthodox doctrine of one essence and three persons” (The New Encyclopedia Britannica, “God,” pp. 564-565).

Historian H.G. Wells, wrote, “There is no evidence that the apostles of Jesus ever heard of the trinity—at any rate from Him” (The Outline of History, Vol. 2, p. 499). Martin Luther, who initiated the Protestant Reformation, confessed, “It is indeed true that the name ‘Trinity’ is nowhere to be found in the Holy Scriptures, but has been conceived and invented by man” (The Sermons of Martin Luther, John Lenker, editor, Vol. 3, p. 406). “We name the last generation of the first century, from 68 to 100 A.D., ‘The Age of Shadows,’ partly because the gloom of persecution was over the church, but more especially because of all the periods in the [Church’s] history, it is the one about which we know the least. We have no longer the clear light of the Book of Acts to guide us; and no author of that age has filled the blank in the history... for fifty years after St. Paul’s life a curtain hangs over the church, through which we strive vainly to look; and when at last it raised, about 120 A.D. with the writings of the earliest church fathers, we find a church in many respects very different from that in the days of St. Peter and St. Paul” (The Story of the Christian Church, p. 33).

From 68 to 120 C.E, little is known of this period of church history. The church was transformed into an entirely different entity by 120 C.E.. How much was lost, and if Christ

returned would He accept the changes, would He accept the Paganized Christianity we have today? Great Controversies challenged the Christian Church, and Constantine the Great, who valued the Christian ethic for model citizens, and for political reasons—for unity in the empire, and upon discovering that Christianity was becoming fractured, he convened the Council of Nicaea in the year 325 A.D.. The primary issue being the Arians, who did not accept the bishop’s, (that is the bishop Alexander of Alexandria, Egypt), position on the crisis, as the bishop sought to make the Father and the Son of one substance, and thus making them both one God. On the other hand, Constantine saw the controversy upsetting his designs for a more unified empire. He sought to unit the church. “Constantine himself of course neither knew nor cared anything about the dispute but he was eager to bring the controversy to a close, and Hosius’ advice appealed to him as sound” (A. C. McGiffer, A History of Christian Thought, Vol. 1, p. 258). Those that support bishop Alexander were led by Athanasius, who began a campaign of character assassination against Arius, who led the opposition to “the Father and the Son being one in essence, or substance, and thus making them one God.” Most of the bishops of the west, including Rome, sided with the bishop of Alexandria, but many bishops of the east did not. “When the bishops gathered at Nicaea on May 20, 325, to resolve the crisis, very few would have shared Athanasius’ view of Christ. Most held a position midway between Athanasius and Arius” (Karen Armstrong, A History of God, p. 110). Hosius was instrumental in causing Constantine, who led armies and commanded men, and therefore, Hosius appealed to Constantine’s sense of leadership and his abhorrence of insubordination. The idea that a bishop being challenged by a lowly presbyter caused unfair bias against Arius on the part of Constantine’s predisposition against insubordination, and this despite Arius’ attempt to hold to a more biblically based doctrine regarding the Godhead. The bishop of Alexandria was more illogically abstract in answering the Jews’ accusation of Christians worshiping two Gods, a solution which Arius saw as dangerous. Athanasius, became bishop Alexander’s representative at the council, and his ambition for power caused him to challenge Arius by any means possible.

The influence of Constantine upon the council of Nicaea should not be underestimated. “Constantine himself presided, actively, guiding the discussions, and personally proposed... the crucial formula expressing the relation of Christ to God in the creed issued by the council...who were: Overawed by the emperor, the bishops, with two exceptions only, signed the creed, many of them much against their inclination” (“Constantine,” The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1971 ed., Vol. 6, p. 386). Athanasius, also with minority view, and with the help of Hosius, who had the ear of the emperor, was triumphant. “Athanasius managed to impose his theology on the delegates... with the emperor breathing down their necks...the show of agreement pleased Constantine, who had no understanding of the theological issues, but in fact there was no unanimity at Nicaea. After the council, the bishops went on teaching as they had before, and the Arian crisis continued for another sixty years. Arius and his followers fought back and managed to regain imperial favor. Athanasius was exiled no fewer than five times. It was very difficult to make his creed stick” (Karen Armstrong, A History of God, pp. 110-111). By the initial acceptance of Athanasius’ abstract concept of the Godhead, “Probably more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in these two years (342-343 A.D.) than by all the persecutions of Christians by pagans in the history of Rome” (The Story of Civilization, Vol. 4: The Age of Faith, p. 8). Constantine realized his mistake and sided with the Arians, followers of Arius. Upon his death bed, he would be baptized by an Arian priest. His son Constantius, as emperor, promoted Arian theology, banned pagan sacrifices, and issued laws against Jews. Throughout most of the reign of Constantius, the Roman Empire was Arian. Like his father, upon his death bed Constantius was baptized by an Arian priest.

The doctrine of the Trinity was a process of trial and error, but not one thus says the Lord God, “I am Triune,” and these man-made attempts to define God, and “This failure of Christian theology...to produce a logical justification of the cardinal points in it Trinitarian doctrine is of the greatest possible significance. We are forced, even before turning to the question of the vindication of the doctrine by experience, to ask ourselves whether theology or philosophy has ever produced any reasons why its belief should be Trinitarian” (The Evolution of the Doctrine of the Trinity, A.E.J. Rawlinson, pp. 221-222). If Christians knew the history of how this doctrine of the Trinity came about, and that God never revealed himself as Triune, they might reconsider.

God is love. Do you think you know God? “But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1 John 4:16). We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. Only the Lord God can reveal Himself and His name, and the more we find out about God, the more we know about ourselves. The Bible, inspired by God Himself, gives the master key to knowing Him, as well as finding and knowing His name, the Lord YAH, who has “the name which is above every name.” Is God one Person, or two Persons or three. The creator wants His people to know Him, and understand Him, just as He reveals Himself through His word according to the Bible. In the beginning, the God of gods (Deuteronomy 10:17) spoke to and declared to the heavenly sons of God (Psalm 82:6), and said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). The Preeminent Son of God told the sons of God that the human man will be in their image, and so it was, mankind in the image of sons of God, the Elohim. God created the man, who was called Adam, son of God (Luke 3:38). In Job 38:4-7, And the Lord YAH said to Job, “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? For it was Then that the Lord YAH said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion...over all the earth...” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him...” (Genesis 1:26-27). For a man indeed...since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man (1 Corinthians 11:7). And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. For Adam was formed first, then Eve (1 Timothy 2:12-13). “For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man... Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord. For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God (1 Corinthians 11:8-12). Man is in the image of God because man, as is God, is the source of all human life, as woman originally came from man. God made man in His image because like God man is the source of human life.

In the Hebrew, the word used for God is Elohim, and so it is written: “In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Is God (Elohim) a Trinity? The literal Hebrew meaning of Elohim is “gods.” The Trinity, as defined by men, is, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, and yet not three Gods (Elohim), One God (EL or Eloah). Therefore the plurality of Elohim cannot prove the Trinity. The best description of the Elohim is found in Deuteronomy 10:17, “The God of gods.” The Preeminent Son of God (Colossians 1:9-18), and the sons of God, and also man, have creative propensity given to them by the Father, the all in all God. The Elohim move and create as One. The Son of God and His companions created the heavens and the earth. The Son of God, YAHSHUA, is the creator. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made

that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:1-4). If you are with someone, then you are distinct from that other one. The Greek is telling us that the One called the Word was with the GOD, while the Word is also God. It does not say that the Word was “the God,” and this is so because we all agree that GOD the Father, and God the Son, are distinct from each other, for they are not the same entity. “John’s distinctive contribution is to show that before the creation the Word existed” (The New Bible Commentary: Revised, p. 930, 1970). “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). This verse tells us that the Word is the Son of God, and His name is YAHSHUA, as revealed in the Holy Bible, and not by man, nor by the history of man. “And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 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 1:16- 18). No one knows GOD the Father, no one has seen GOD the Father, and no one has access to God the Father, except through and by the Son of God, YAHSHUA. YAHSHUA, the Son of God, He declares Him to us.

YAHSHUA the Messiah is the Creator!

It is only according to the Bible, and by the actual witnesses of our Lord YAH contained therein, that we can truly know Him and His name. As the apostles would agree: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son YAHSHUA the Messiah. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full” (1 John 1:1- 4). To us, who are less than the least of all the apostles, this grace was given, that we should preach among the unrepentant the unsearchable riches of YAHSHUA, “...and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through YAHSHUA the Messiah; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in the Messiah YAHSHUA our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him” (Ephesians 3:9-12). This is the Nazarean Credo: “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 long-suffering 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).

“Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. But I

have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form. But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:34- 40).

This is the Shema of Israel, as it is written in Deuteronomy 6:4, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!” This tells us that there is only one God, who is in charge. The apostle Paul affirms that the God of Israel, the active God in the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament) is the One identified in the Hebrew Scriptures as the Rock. “He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He” (Deuteronomy 32:4). The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold (Psalm 18:2). There Is No Other God: “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 Trinitarian should ask, which Person of the Trinity does this apply? To which you might say all three Persons of the Trinity are God, and therefore, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are all the Rock, however, the Bible does not say in any context that the Father is the Rock, however, it does identify Christ as the only Rock, and the only God of Israel. “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).

Christ is the only Rock, and therefore, the Father is not the Rock. Because our only Savior told us, “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him” (Matthew 11:27). What part of all things given to the Son do we not understand? Christ, the Son of God, has all things, and He alone, until all things are complete and death is no more, is the sole God of Israel, as Jude recognized Christ as our God and Savior when he gave this benediction: “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen” (Jude 24-25). Throughout the Scriptures, there is only One Person, who claims to be the sole God of Israel, the sole Person of our salvation to eternal life. The only way to the Father, and the only One who reveals the Father to us. Until all things are complete, the Father has nothing to do with us except through by and YAHSHUA the Messiah. Unless one is in Christ, he is not recognized. The whole world is no longer recognized. The apostle Paul bears witness to this. “But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits 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).

Christ is doing the will of the Father in all things, and He is obedient to the Father, but He is not equal to the Father, except in the things God gave to Him in that He, the Son, has power and dominion over it or, in our case, them. Christ has taken possession of all things to restore all things to the Father. And this because the Father has nothing to do with sin, He gave all things to the Son. When death is no more, destroyed as the last enemy, then the Son will give all things to the Father, who will be the all and all God, and the Son will be subjected to the Father. The Savior said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him” (John 13:16). Christ acknowledged that He was sent, and despite Augustine’s attempt to rationalize this and maintain the doctrine of the Trinity, Christ refutes Augustine... “but He said to them, ‘I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent’” (Luke 4:43). Christ never claims equality with the Father, for He 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). Because our God, YAHSHUA, was given all things by His God and Father, He is the God of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, it is all about Him!

“Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day That I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I’” (Isaiah 52:6 NKJV).

Presented by The Nazarean Ministry of YAHSHUA

Evangelists Steve Marlowe & Noah Castaneda