Surprising Dimensions of God: YHWH is Jesus, and Jehovah, the Sent One, has a Father
All through the Tanach, the Old Testament of the Bible, YHWH (Jehovah, the LORD, Yahweh, Hashem) is presented as God in covenant relationship with man. This is the Father who provides our salvation.
In the New Testament is the idea that God the Father has a son, Jesus Christ (Yah Shua, Eashoa, etc.). But this is not the case at all. The "Son" presented in the New Testament is YHWH!
One of three surprising things in this article is that the Jesus Christ in the New Testament is the YHWH of the Old Testament. Same aspect of God. He is called Jehovah in the Old Testament, Jesus in the New.
The second surprise is that just as Jesus Christ is the Sent One in the New Testament, YHWH is the Sent One in the Old Testament. We don't think of God in the Old Testament as the Sent one, but that truth leads us to the third surprise:
YHWH, Jehovah God, has a Father who sent Him. It is this same YHWH who speaks to us in the New Testament as Jesus Christ.
It may help to know that the name 'Jesus' is a compound word made up of Yah, God, and a verb, Shua, salvation, and that in such compound names it is God who is the DOER of the verb part. Jesus does NOT mean "God's Salvation"; it means "God Saving." Present progressive tense. (Ref. Ethelbert Bullinger, The Companion Bible, Genesis 32: 28, margin note: 'Israel'). In Aramaic it is Eashoa, "the Life-giving, Living Branch," which is what Jehovah is.
Hence, YHWH is God -- the Sent one saving us: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever."
I suppose that most Christians believe that Jesus Christ is Jehovah in the sense of "I and my Father are one." That is, that Jesus is the human son of Jehovah the Father, the Great I AM -- having Jehovah's nature in him. Actually, it is Jehovah who in the New Testament says, "I and my Father are one." Which leads to the question, "Who is the Father of Jehovah?" Jehovah of the Old Testament and the New Testament is the Sent one. Who is he sent from?
The fact that YHWH, Jehovah, has a Father who sent him explains the mystical Jewish way of reading Genesis 1: 1: "As that before the Beginning, (the Ineffable) created God, the Heavens and the Earth." To create, to the Ineffable, means to IMAGINE. That is all he can do -- and all he needs to do -- to bring into existence. He is his imagination, and vice-versa, and we are that.
I am not a Mormon. I don't like the Mormons. I think they have a comic book religion made up by a crook. I think "Moroni" is as tongue-in-cheek as tongue-in-cheek gets -- but I have to admit that the URL below leads to one of the best articles I have read about Jesus being Jehovah and his -- Jesus/Jehovah's -- having a Father. That Father would be the Ineffable Most High, and YHWH/Jesus would be Its Manifestation (the Man we are becoming).
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/jesus-christ-son-god-savior/6-jesus-jehovah-yhwh-study-gospels
In the New Testament is the idea that God the Father has a son, Jesus Christ (Yah Shua, Eashoa, etc.). But this is not the case at all. The "Son" presented in the New Testament is YHWH!
One of three surprising things in this article is that the Jesus Christ in the New Testament is the YHWH of the Old Testament. Same aspect of God. He is called Jehovah in the Old Testament, Jesus in the New.
The second surprise is that just as Jesus Christ is the Sent One in the New Testament, YHWH is the Sent One in the Old Testament. We don't think of God in the Old Testament as the Sent one, but that truth leads us to the third surprise:
YHWH, Jehovah God, has a Father who sent Him. It is this same YHWH who speaks to us in the New Testament as Jesus Christ.
It may help to know that the name 'Jesus' is a compound word made up of Yah, God, and a verb, Shua, salvation, and that in such compound names it is God who is the DOER of the verb part. Jesus does NOT mean "God's Salvation"; it means "God Saving." Present progressive tense. (Ref. Ethelbert Bullinger, The Companion Bible, Genesis 32: 28, margin note: 'Israel'). In Aramaic it is Eashoa, "the Life-giving, Living Branch," which is what Jehovah is.
Hence, YHWH is God -- the Sent one saving us: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever."
I suppose that most Christians believe that Jesus Christ is Jehovah in the sense of "I and my Father are one." That is, that Jesus is the human son of Jehovah the Father, the Great I AM -- having Jehovah's nature in him. Actually, it is Jehovah who in the New Testament says, "I and my Father are one." Which leads to the question, "Who is the Father of Jehovah?" Jehovah of the Old Testament and the New Testament is the Sent one. Who is he sent from?
The fact that YHWH, Jehovah, has a Father who sent him explains the mystical Jewish way of reading Genesis 1: 1: "As that before the Beginning, (the Ineffable) created God, the Heavens and the Earth." To create, to the Ineffable, means to IMAGINE. That is all he can do -- and all he needs to do -- to bring into existence. He is his imagination, and vice-versa, and we are that.
I am not a Mormon. I don't like the Mormons. I think they have a comic book religion made up by a crook. I think "Moroni" is as tongue-in-cheek as tongue-in-cheek gets -- but I have to admit that the URL below leads to one of the best articles I have read about Jesus being Jehovah and his -- Jesus/Jehovah's -- having a Father. That Father would be the Ineffable Most High, and YHWH/Jesus would be Its Manifestation (the Man we are becoming).
https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/jesus-christ-son-god-savior/6-jesus-jehovah-yhwh-study-gospels
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