Three Words/Concepts to Fix Your Theology

I have struggled for many years to understand what it is that is going on. In 1975, Jesus SPOKE to me directly into my brain. I determined to find out what else he has spoken to other men. I was sure that if he has spoken to other men as he had spoken to me, that they would certainly have published what he said. Well, they have, but institutionalized theology has changed some of the words and ideas God has spoken unto men. Contemplating what actually is being said through hundreds of sermons and hundreds of hours in seminary classes have given me a pretty good idea of what Christian theology is. In all my study, I have found three words in particular which seem not to be what they should. From these everything else appears to be screwed up. We want to learn what the words originally meant to the people who spoke them.

The first is the word 'gospel'. You know "Gospel" as the message about man's salvation by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. The Gospel is glad tidings, indeed. But the Greek word euaggelion, in the days when Jesus started his ministry, meant the REWARD that was given to those who brought the glad tidings. We are told in the Gospels that the Kingdom of God is at hand, and to believe in the REWARD. What reward? you ask. Look, for example, at Daniel 9:24. "Seventy seventies shall rest upon your nation and upon the town you revere, so as the obligations may be concluded, and the sins may be curtailed, so that the abominations shall be abandoned, and that they may usher in the eternal righteousness, such as the vision and the Prophets may be fulfilled, and to the Anointed One we may commit our blessings" (Alexander, footnotes incorporated). This says that by the end of 490 years in the town of Jerusalem, the obligations for sin shall be concluded, and that the promises of God for the salvation of man--guiltless approach to Him in eternal righteousness--shall be given TO THE MESSIAH (v. 25). Jesus came saying, "It's here! The time is just about fulfilled, believe in the REWARD--YOU(!)--I am about to receive through my death." THE JEWS WERE NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REPORT OF THE MESSIAH'S LIFE, BUT TO THE MESSIAH'S REWARD OF THEIR SALVATION. BELIEVE IN THE REWARD!!

The second word is Word; i.e., that Jesus is the Logos--Word--of God. What's a logos? God's expression? His illustration? His explanation? His mind or meaning? From Alexander's footnote on John 1:1, I learned that the original word was Milta (Miltha): in the beginning, as the Beginning, was the Milta, the Manifestation of the essential connotation of the Divine Being Itself. IT'S THE BIG GUY . . . IN THE FLESH, the Manifestation of the WHOLE. Not a story about God, but the real deal OF God from beginning to the end of the act.

The third word is Allaha, Aramaic for "God." The word "God," again, is wholly inadequate. The Aramaic Allaha implies the Allahoota, the WHOLE of the Godhead. Its components of the Divine Being, Its Manifestation, and their Spirit are distinct but not divided.

There are other words "off," as they say. E.g, Bullinger's margin note on Genesis 32:28 informs that in compound names with El or Jah, God, er, ALLAHA IS ALWAYS THE DOER OF THE VERB PORTION OF THE NAME. It was not man prevailing in contention with God, but God prevailing in contention with man THROUGH Jacob. (It was Esau who was changed through Jacob learning his lesson.) So Daniel would be "Allaha Judging," and etc. Oh, and the Hebrew word hayah, Strong's 1961, "is, am, are, were," etc. indicates TRANSITION, being in one state having BECOME SO FROM ANOTHER. See Bullinger's note on Genesis 1:2's "was."