On the Plurality of YAHAVA

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Last week we uncovered what I feel is the Name of the Living God and supported it through history and more importantly, scripture – His name is on the board YAHAVA.

That is His name. Today is His real make-up and the teaching unearths the biggest pieces of gold I have ever seen.

May God bless the eyes and ears of

Genesis 39 Special II – On the Plurality of YAHAVA
July 16th 2023

The MOST supportive passage in scripture for the make-up of God is ironically also the most spurious.

It says,

1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

The second most supportive passage in scripture for the make up of God is also spurious (because His own apostles never follow these directions of the Lord) and that is what we call, The Great Commission where Yeshua says to His apostles

Mt 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the 1 Father, and of 2 the Son, and of the 3 Holy Ghost.

Because of this passage and the three-name three person model is used by the Catholics, Protestants, Mormons and Orthodoxies world-wide.

THREE IN ONE.
ONE GOD of three persons.

Of all the topics I have worked on eschatology has taken the most labor and time.

But the question that has been with me the longest, and remained most elusive, is relative to the make-up of the ONE God.

It started when I first took to heart the passage in John where Yeshua says in John 17:3,

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

After years I stopped seeing the Trinity the way it has been described but I was hesitant to just adopt any other title because all of them failed.

Most importantly the scripture never opened up to me any new views or realizations. I have prayed and asked God to show me what He is, how Jesus and the Holy Spirit are in the mix, truly sought – I just knew the Trinity – the way man created it was not biblical.

So, I waited.

We have a tendency, a profound tendency I might add, to see and find what we want in life.

In this way we actually received our hearts desires. If we want to see a certain race, gender, age-group as bad or worthless we will, and we will discount the good they do.

If we want to see God as angry, we will, if we want to see hell as needed we will and on and on and on really – until we are willing and ready to change our minds. Until then, our minds determine our beliefs – especially about God.

I have had to learn to refuse to accept anything as true – especially about God – titles, systems, understanding – until the text showed me otherwise.

I have rejected Creedal trinitarianism because in my mind the text did not embrace or fully support it but would not cling to any new title until.

That is hard because we can be influenced by words and prhases that are repeated that lend to our hearing things that support ideas and in the case of the trinity the number THREE and Father Son and Holy Spirit are said at baptisms, prayers, funerals, and all sorts of other places which engender us to think – GOD.

I want to propose another number to you today to consider. It is a number that will ruin all of religious prayers if embraced and so to hear it will dismantle some souls.

Let me make my case and you decide. And we will start with a super simple concept. I have long taught that central to the Christian walk today are two items alone – Faith and Love

I have long described them as two sides of the same coin. That if you have genuine faith, you will choose to love unconditionally. That is the coin of salvation.

I base the totality of these two items of faith and love on John’s words in his first epistle where we read:

1st John 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should 1) believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and 2) love one another, as he gave us commandment.

Do you notice that in this passage that commandment, mentioned twice, is singular, but it consists of two items or decisions people embrace – faith and love?

I call this the Plurality of One.

It’s wild but similar to calling one set of binoculars a pair, or a pair of scissors, or a pants, pair of tweezers or pair of glasses – there are two parts to such things which is why we call them a pair but they are all, in fact, one thing. Period.

One item in the plural.

Now, out of curiosity, I started to tear through the scripture to search for trends where two compose the one.

Again, and typically, in religion today and because of the traditions of Man THREE has a huge emphasis in teachings and descriptions – body, soul, spirit, father son holy ghost, inner court, outer court, holy of holies, three days and nights, etc and I was under the impression that THREE was the dominant number along with seven, twelve and eight.

With two being one I started with a general search and compared the idea of TWO in scripture with the ever popular number THREE.

I discovered that two is mentioned almost twice as many times as three – did you know that. This might mean something – it might not – but it helped me see that I was inclined to notice three far more than two.

So I decided to really look at something present in the very first verse of scripture, at the behest of my buddy Grady and that was this:

I moved on from there and “to get real” – in the words of my brother Grady – and it is something that I have glossed over in the past appealing to other traditional views but what He plainly, kindly, persistently pointed out was that where:

Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God,”
that single term God is plural.

Now there are root words that describe God that are singular – El and Eloah, for example, but without any more excuses and man-made explanations of why the plural for God is used here (and I have given them before) I stand before you now and readily admit that this is

speaking of GOD, that He is ONE GOD, and that He is plural.

It is my job to convince you of this now and the only way I can reasonably do this is through the scripture while explaining HOW IT IS PLURAL.

And I submit to you today that the very scripture, in its most significant models for human life, repeatedly disclose the very nature of YAVAHA not as just a plural singular, but specifically as “ONE that is TWO and not a ONE that is THREE.

So, let’s work through this together because Jesus Himself said,

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee (1) the only true God, (2) and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent, and (3) the Holy Spirit?

No? Right. He did not say that it is life eternal to know the third person of the Holy Spirit – only Father and Son.

Why? Let’s revisit the first few chapters of Genesis because I need to revisit them and slightly redirect our course.

First, ELOHIYM MADE MAN IS HIS OWN IMAGE.

Now, I have said, in the past that this could be speaking of body, soul, and spirit, it could speak to communicable attributes, it could speak to three in one, and it could be speaking of heavenly angels – but we need to refine these views a bit.
At verse 26 we read:
Genesis 1:26 And ELOHIYM (plural) said, Let us (plural) make man (singular) in our (plural) image, after our (pural) likeness: and let them (plural) have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
We know that ELOHIYM then formed Man out of the dust or clay and made Man in His own image.
Let’s read:
And He (Elohiym) breathed into him (the single body from the clay) “the breath of lives.” (plural).
Did you know that? When God breathed into the body that He formed He breathed into that single body the breath of LIVES?
Check the Hebrew!
What lives are we talking about. Some people think that what God is saying is that in Adam all the breath/spirit/ruach of every human being to ever live is meant here, and this explains why when Adam fell all of us fell even though we were not yet created or born.
Could be something to that, but it is just as reasonable to believe that Adam represented the entire human race and when he fell AS the whole human race falling with him, as he WAS the whole human population at that time.
I suggest that there is a better way to understand this breathing the breath of lives into the one.
First, God (Elohiym plural)
And ELOHIYM said let US make man in our own image. What image is that?
TWO IN THE ONE.
So, the breath of “lives” that is spoken of is the lives of the male and the female or the lives masculine and feminine.
Now, we know the order of the creation of Man – first the male, who was alone, animated by the breath of lives, and then ELOHIYM took the female from him, right?

Let’s read a deeper insight into this by looking to Genesis 5:1 which says

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohiym (plural) created man, in the likeness of Elohiym (plural) made he him (singular)

HOW? BY BREATHING IN THE ONE BODY THE BREATH OF LIVES (plural or what I would say is “two” genders and no more! Why? Next verse)

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their (plural) name Adam (singular), in the day when they (plural) were created.

So, plural Elohiym breathes the breath of plural lives into the single body of the male, making Man in His OWN IMAGE (plural 2 in single 1)
And then what did He do? He saw that it was not good for man to be alone. So
Genesis 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

From the very start of humanity, we see a picture or type of “one of the two” (female) coming out from the One (male) and in this we might even see the incarnation supported, predicted and prophesied of?!
Can you see it?
Then, Elohiym, the plural One, after they separated the male from the female, commands them to be ONE.

And we read Moses insert the following explanation in Genesis 2:24
“Therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
When Yeshua was on the earth, who had come from above and proceeded out from YAHAVA, He plainly said to the Jews around Him
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
I suggest to you now, and stand on this as my present understanding of the make up of YAVAHA that He is One plural (captured in the word, Elohiym), and that this plurality is male and female, which were breathed into the single body of Adam and that when the woman was removed from the Mans side, it is the first type or picture to evidence the very incarnation of His Son to the Jews even thousands of years later.
So – in the single construction of Adam and in the unity of the “breath of lives” breathed into him we have the make-up of Elohiym (plural) presented, whose single name is YAHAVA and who IS MANIFESTLY ONE plural.

I suggest that this was established by YAHAVA as a means to prepare the MINDS of His people to both understand Him – He is One consisting of TWO – male and female, but listen carefully,

NOT two separate persons, and not two genders, but two in wholly interchangeable, interactive, united, indivisible and inseparable spirits.

So, I need to go to the white board to illustrate this.

You might be tempted to see ELOHIYM as two persons, separate and distinct the way we might think of male and female genders, like the Man Adam and the Woman Eve.

That would look like this

GOD MASCULINE GOD FEMININE (PLURAL – Let us make Man in . . .)

MAN in His Image Male / Female

I suggest that this would be a wrong view.

Instead, the way to understand the plurality of Elohiym is that the ONE GOD is two colors representing male and female, and they are inseparably mixed and when God made Man in His image it looks more like this

Elohiym
(male AND female – plural)

Fall

FIRST MAN WOMAN Masculine Feminine
God’s Image (After the Fall)

But when it comes to YAHAVA and the incarnation of Christ, I see this>

YAHAVA YAHAVA MADE FLESH
To bring in all it, ELOHIYM, who is ONE, is Orange. In our material understanding, Orange is the complete singlular mix of red and yellow and the mix is complete.

Therefore, Elohiym is one plural – just like orange is one plural, just like God breathed the breath of lives into Adam, just like Adam and Eve were to be one instead of separate – together in unity and love they make orange.

Now, to try and bring this all into a biblical perspective, if God made Man in His image and He was three, then we probably would have had three human beings in the Garden from the one not two.

But two being one is central to the biblical models we discover and never three.

Let’s take a short journey through to show you what I mean

1 ELOHIYM (Plural)
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God

We have discussed how He is plural already in my mind but now I want to support WHY I believe that He is TWO not three or more. So what is the first thing ELOHIYM does according to the Genesis account?

He creates the UNIVERSE

2 The UNIVERSE!

The name Universe is ONE but the description of it is composed of TWO parts

And God createds the heaven and the earth.

And He speaks them into existence. Using what?
Words.

Heaven and earth – the divisions of spirit and material, right? Two. Emphasized.

This is ONE universe but the scripture describes Gods creation of it as “Heaven and Earth.”

Then what do we read?

Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.

Did you know that these two lights make up ONE day – the lesser light and the greater light? One day of two components?

One YAHAVA of two components.
One Universes of two components
One Day of two components

In every case, we cannot have the one without the other. There is no universes without heaven AND earth. There is no God without male and female, there is no day without the two great lights.

And yet all are single items – like a pair of scissors, pants, or glasses.

Universe. God. Day.

And then we read

Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and God saw that it was good.

So the earth (singular) illuminated by a lesser light and a greater light creating our days upon it, is also broken up by ELOHIYM into two components – dry land and waters He called seas.

Water and land – that is what the scripture says, makes one earth.

God – male and female
Universe – heaven and earth
Day – night and day
Earth – dry land and sea

Of course, next, which we have already covered, is Elohiym creates man, and the scripture says

In the day that Elohiym (plural) created man (singular), in the likeness of Elohiym (plural) made he him (singular); 2 Male and female (plural) created he them; and blessed them, and called their (plural) name (singular) Adam (singular), in the day when they (plural) were created.

Two consisting as One utterly indistinguishable in Man.

We jump out to the destruction of Man, and read Elohiym say to Noah

Genesis 6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Because YAHAVA is consistent in His types, models and patterns, I believe that He would have had Noah take three animals of each on the ark – like one male and two females – same with the creation of Man in His image.

But we have a consistent flow of models here.

Moving on we read when Rebecca found hereself pregnant with twins, she asks YAHAVA what was going on and He said

Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

I realize that this is the nature of all twins but the idea of two great nations springing forth from one labor speaks to the overall types in the scripture.

And from the scripture we find hman existence itself being broken down as either being life or death, light and dark, like good and evil, like Cain and Abel.

Two is profoundly reflective of all that the ONE God is. And again, I believe it was intentional to illustrate the incarnation of God with us and for them to accept Him as YAHAVA on earth.

Then, let’s look at Moses. Remember when YAHAVA called him and he said,

EXODUS 4:10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

God resists this but Moses persists, so we read

Exodus 4:14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

Then we jump out to chapter seven when Moses and Aaron go to Egypt. Listen to what YAHAVA says to them

Exodus 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a elohiym to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.

Do you note that there is two here only, not three, that Moses is an elohiym to Pharaoh and Aaron would speak His words!

Do we not have them representing Father and incarnate son who speaks here?

Then as we move into the Nation under the Law, we read in Deuteronomy 19:15

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

This was for Man under the law. If you want to say, yeah well he said three witnesses too know that when Yeshua dialogued with the Jews he says in John 8 beginning at verse 16:

John 8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

No mention of three witnesses but only two – He and His Father, the two who make up the ONE.

Of course, scripturally, the entire world population is broken up into two main groups – especially in the Apostolic Record – Jews and Gentiles, right?

Not Jews, Gentiles and KERBLES – two. Just like the two great nations in Rebeccas belly.

And then when a Jewish scribe asks Yeshua, what is the first and greatest commandment (singular) He wisely replies in Mark 12:29-31

29 The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment (singular) greater than these. (plural)

There is ONE. There are TWO. But Yehsua says that there is no greater commandment (SINGLUAR) than these!

We know the very nature of God in this. He is ONE. He is plural. He is not separately red and yellow. He is ORANGE.

To see the one, is to see the other! No persons. One form made of two contributing factors – male and female, masculine and feminine. Completely unified and indistinguishable.

Do you see? Can you hear?

The scripture goes on with Paul making a huge presentation – especially in Romans – between Spirit and flesh.

Remember he says in Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Recall that Yeshua says about His apostles.

Matthew 26:41 “the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

But just like the delineation between heaven and earth, dry land and sea, Yeshua tells His disciples

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

We also known that Yeshua said to the Samaritan woman at the well

John 4:24 YAHAVA is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit (alone? no) in truth (alone? No!) but “in spirit and truth.”

We know what it looks like when people are all spirit, right? Mystical, magical, emotional insights and interpretations of things unknown.

We’ve seen it in so-called shamans and prophets of the present and past be just that.

But we have also seen people try and worship God in what they might say is truth alone – pure scripture – and avoiding the fruit of the Spirit to aid them in right interpretation.

These become like the scribes and pharisees of old, judging everyone by “the Truth” alone and forgetting the power of the fruit of the Spirit.

To worship YAHAVA in spirit and truth is to know, see and understand the Red and yellow and the orange. To accept Him and His Son and to pursue them in spirit AND truth is life eternal.

This brings us back to Yeshua when He walked the earth and said to His disciples

John 13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Like singular salvation, which is the single coin with two sides (faith and love) Agape LOVE is singular but made of two parts as well.

Will and Action.

If there is no desire or will to love as YAHAVA loves, there will be no action or expression of His Love. And if there is a desire or will but no action, it cannot be considered agape love because love is a verb.

No, like Elohiym Himself, agape love is a singular coin with two sides, expressions or colors that make the One God.

Will and action. Remove either side of that single coin and you remove love.

I suggest that in faith, we develop the desire or will to follow Him and through sacrifice and selflessness, we then act as He prescribes.

We, then, by His power and His might, engage in that TWO-WAY street relationship with Him, called discipleship, called being His followers, called being His children.

And so we come to the two commandments given to us by the apostle John in 1st John 3:23

And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

There are all sorts of other doubles found in scripture that I think reveal Him and His make-up, things like concepts of

Left and right
First and Last
Beginning and End
Alpha and Omega

There is the first material creation of heaven and earth and there is a second creation because of Christ called the New Heaven and Earth

We have an Old Covenant and New Covenant

An old Jerusalem and a New.

A first Adam and Last Adam

A first Birth and Second Birth

A vine and Branches

We have first Advent of Yeshua of Nazareth born in a manger and His promised return to His own in the clouds

We have Lion and Lamb Imagery

Clouds by Day and pillar by Night

Christ and Antichrist

Law and Grace

Where the heavens declare the glory of YAHAVA we have the heavens created at the same time as the earth.

And the earth is made of dry ground and sea.

And we have a lesser light to rule the night and a greater light to rule the day which is one.

And the greater light that rules the day revealing itself in visible rays and invisible rays.

And the lesser light being a reflection of the greater.

And we have males and females.

Man and wife.

God and Son.

Then taking all of these examples and seeing them as a type going all the way back to Elohiym being One plural of Two.

In this we can now see the import of marriage in scripture.

Of the two becoming one.

NOT THREE – TWO in ONE.

Again this is ALL reflected, underscored and amplified throughout the sacred text.

In Elohiym who is One plural.
In Man made in His image One Plural.
In Adam and Eve One Plural
In the Nation of Israel and YAVAHA as Her husband.
In Yeshua and His Bride.

Two as One.

Three is polygamy.
Three is polytheism.
Three went not to Pharaoh.
Three in one is not supported by the text.

So, when we look at the Apostolic Record and recall that Yeshua said,

“I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

We UNDERSTAND but also note that He does not say,

I and my father and the Holy Spirit are one.

We UNDERSTAND when in every single one of Paul’s epistles He take the TIME to THANK

God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ but He never ever thanks the Holy Spirit. Why?

Because three is not YAHAVAH. Like three is not marriage. Like it wasn’t Moses and Aaron and Billybob.

Because God is Spirit the Spirit is the spirit of both Father and the resurrected Son.

The model of two in one meets more contextually reasonable points of scripture than any other description of God that I have ever come across.

Finally, come to the name of God, YAHAVA, we have two H’s – two Ha’s.

As we said last week, that is heard in breathing. Breathing is not just inhaling. Nor is it just exhaling. Breathing is two.
NOT THREE.

YAHAVA is plural.
YAHAVA is Two, not three.
YAHAVA is one.

And we know them in spirit and truth.

Until something changes all of this, Here I Stand.

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