GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON | 10 Things You Should Know About Immanuel | Special Episode
YASHUA (JESUS) is YHVH, Israel’s only Savior. In this video, we look at a few Scriptures that show who YASHUA really is, offer a unique take on the concept of the trinity, and study several Hebrew words including the word for Messiah.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Immanuel
1:14 GOD is one
3:15 Why we made this video
4:23 HE is the Shepherd and the Door
7:15 Who we pray to
8:26 YASHUA, the House of GOD
9:54 GOD the Father
12:59 YASHUA’s genealogy: First and Last
14:04 The meaning of the word Messiah
16:54 Who’s coming in the clouds?
19:13 THE NAME OF THE LORD is His Name
21:36 JESUS in the Book of Enoch
24:19 A new look at the trinity analogy
26:13 Song: O Come, O Come Immanuel
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Transcript:
In the words of the Old Testament, the Lord God makes it very clear to us that He is one. Deuteronomy 6:4 says, “Here, O Israel, YHVH, our God, YHVH is one.” And through the prophet Isaiah, He tells us, “I am YHVH, and there is none else. There is no Elohim beside Me. Turn to Me and be saved all the ends of the earth, for I am El, and there is no other. Thus says YHVH, your Redeemer, I am YHVH, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by Myself. I am YHVH, and besides me there is no Savior. Thus says YHVH, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, I am the first and I am the last. Besides Me there is no Elohim. Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.”
From all of those Old Testament verses, we see clearly that YHVH is king, He is redeemer, He is the only Creator, the only Savior, the only El, and the only Elohim. And every knee will bow before Him. And in the New Testament, we read that Yeshua is King. Yeshua is our Redeemer. All things were made by Yeshua, He is our Savior, and every knee will bow to Him. It was prophesied thousands of years ago that a child would be born who would be called Im Anu El, Immanuel, God with us.
When Yeshua came 2,000 years ago, the one and only El was literally among us, here and in the flesh. To some of you listening, to hear that Yeshua is El is nothing new, but there are quite a few people out there who have been taught that while Yeshua is God and the God of the Old Testament is God, Yeshua is not the God of the Old Testament. When I was much younger, about 20 years ago, that teaching that Yeshua is not the God of the Old Testament, it caused me to stumble and it made me stop praying for a little while because I didn’t want my prayers to offend the one and only God of Israel by praying in another name. And I didn’t want to offend Yeshua, my Savior, by not saying His name in my prayers. So, for a few days, I quit praying altogether. And then I asked Father for understanding, and He is gracious and He gave it to me.
So, for anyone who has had the same sort of trouble or who just has questions about God the Father and God the Son, this video is for you. I’m here to tell you what Father has made known to me about who He is since that day.
This is the Hebrew word “dalet”. It means door. The first letter is called dalet, and just like the word dalet means door in Hebrew, in the original Hebrew script, the letter dalet was a picture of a tent door.
“The entrance to the tent is usually shaped in the type of the tent. Then you put a nice flap to close it from the wind and you had to tie it down, dalet, door.”
The second letter is lamed. In Hebrew the word “lamed” means teach and learn and in the Original Hebrew script, lamed was a picture of a shepherd’s staff.
The last letter is called “tav” and tav in Hebrew means sign and mark. So, the Hebrew word for door, dalet, has the mark of a door and of a shepherd. From the Bible, we know that YHVH is the shepherd. Most famously, King David wrote, “The Lord is my shepherd,” in Psalm 23. In Hebrew, the Lord is spelled YHVH. Some people pronounce his name Yahweh and some say Yahuwah, and we call him YHVH. YHVH is our shepherd, and that’s not just in Psalm 23. Ezekiel tells us that YHVH himself will be the shepherd of his sheep, and Isaiah and Jeremiah tell us that the flock of sheep belongs to YHVH.
Now, when Yeshua came, He identified Himself as the shepherd, and He identified the flock of sheep as His very own. Yeshua said, “I am the good shepherd. I know My own and My own know Me.” So, Yeshua is YHVH, the shepherd. Yeshua also said, “I am the door of the sheep.” So, Yeshua is the door.
Being the shepherd is part of being the door. Being the lamed is part of being the dalet. Yeshua also said, “He who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.” If we put all of those scriptures together, here’s what we see. Yeshua is telling us that He is the door through whom YHVH, the shepherd, came and he is also YHVH, the shepherd. Yeshua and YHVH are one.
I mentioned before that not understanding who Father was caused me to stop praying for a little while many years ago. Who we pray to is actually obvious from the Hebrew word for pray. To pray in Hebrew is palal. The first letter is peh, which is a picture of a mouth. And just as you use your mouth to speak, the word peh in Hebrew means speak and the letter peh is used in Hebrew words to mean speak.
The letter lamed is the picture of the shepherd’s staff and it’s used in Hebrew words to mean shepherd and also to mean to. A shepherd’s staff is designed with a hook at the end to bring sheep to the shepherd. So, this word palal, to pray, by the letters means speak to the shepherd. When we pray, we are speaking to our shepherd.
This is the Hebrew letter beyt. In Hebrew a beyt is a house and in the Original Hebrew script, the letter beyt was a picture of Father’s house. When you read the word temple in the Old Testament, the word temple is actually house in Hebrew. God is spirit and no house can possibly contain Him, but for Israel’s sake He made it so that His presence dwelt among them in a specific place. First, He dwelt with them in a tabernacle that was built by Moses in the wilderness, and later He dwelt with Israel in the temple that was built by Solomon. Yeshua is the true beyt, the true house of God. He is the form that God dwells in for our sakes, so that our Father can dwell among us and so that we can be in His presence. God is spirit and no man can behold Him as He truly is. Yeshua is the face of Father that we can see. One of the apostles once asked Him, “Lord, show us the Father.” Yeshua replied, “Have I been with you so long and you still do not know Me? Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?”
In the days of Jeremiah, YHVH was considering how the people of Israel had fallen away from Him, but how He still wanted to make a way to give them an inheritance. “How shall I put thee among the children and give thee a pleasant land?” He says. Among the children in Hebrew is b’banim.
The Hebrew word “ben” means son. If you add “im” to the end of ben, it becomes banim, which is the Hebrew word for children. The letter beyt is a picture of a house and it’s used in Hebrew to mean in and with.
If you adopt someone, you put them b’banim in with the children. So, in the days of Jeremiah, Father was asking himself, “How shall I put thee b’banim and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?”
And I said, “My father, you shall call me.” What Jeremiah wrote down in that verse is YHVH stating His plan to adopt an entire generation of children who would call him Father. YHVH the shepherd came through Yeshua the door, to put us b’banim, in with the children. He taught us how to pray to our Father, and He showed us how we should treat our fellow brothers and sisters. Yeshua said, “For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.”
And in the New Testament we read, “Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow in His steps.” And it also says, “Whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which He walked.”
Yeshua lived his life as an example to us. And when it was time for Him to die so that His soul could make an offering for guilt as it was prophesied in Isaiah 53, it was then that Yeshua saw His offspring, because it was then that the generation of our Father’s children was born. The one and only God of the Old Testament who said, “My Father you shall call me,” came to us as a son as Isaiah prophesied. Isaiah told us long ago, “For to us a child is born. To us, a son is given.” And in the same prophecy, Isaiah tells us that the name of that Son shall be called Everlasting Father, because Yeshua and the Father are one.
In the book of Isaiah, YHVH tells us that He is the first and the last. And in Revelation, Yeshua tells us that He is the first and the last. He also says He is the beginning and the end and the root and the offspring of David. If you look at Yeshua’s genealogy, it looks like this. First is God, and then Adam, and then son after son after son until you get to King David, and then more sons and more sons, and finally Yeshua. God, as you can see, is the first and the last. He is the beginning and the end. He is the root and the offspring of David. This is why Yeshua calls God His Father and why Yeshua is called the Son of God.
Colossians tells us that in Christ, all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form. The word “Christ” is a Greek word which means “anointed one”. In Hebrew, anointed one is Mashiach. It comes from the root word “mashach,” which means to anoint. Mashach is spelled mem, shin, chet. The letter mem is a picture of waters, and as waves of waters lift up ships, the letter mem is used in Hebrew words to mean lift up. Shin is a picture of teeth, and teeth are used in the Bible to mean power. When you read that Father breaks the teeth of His enemies, it means that He has rendered them powerless. Chet is a picture of a wall.
So, this word to anoint in Hebrew, mashach, speaks of something that has been lifted up and empowered and set apart for a purpose. Before heaven and earth were created, our shepherd determined that he would come and visit his sheep and that He would come to us as a sheep, and that He would be slaughtered like a lamb for our sakes. It was for this purpose that Yeshua Ha Mashiach, Yeshua the anointed one, came from heaven to earth 2,000 years ago as a son of man. And before He came here, He showed His prophets that He would have the likeness of a son of man. He would be human like us. Daniel saw Him this way and Ezekiel saw Him this way. Those prophets were allowed to see the parable that God had established from the beginning.
It was God’s intention that the prophets write down and testify to us that all judgment and power and authority would one day be given to someone who looked human like us, who would be seated on the throne of God. Yeshua the Son of Man is not the only living parable in heaven that Father has shown to His servants. The Apostle John saw him in heaven literally as a lamb who had been slain.
One way we know that Yeshua and YHVH are one is there is only one throne of God. Revelation 22:3 says, “The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.” That is a single throne and a single Him.
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🎵 THE LORD is King
HE will rule and reign forever
THE LORD is King
HE will rule and reign in Zion 🎵
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“Lazarus, come forth!”
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For those who don’t have a full understanding of who Yeshua is, but you love Him anyway and you listen to Him, we think that’s good enough. When He returns, we will understand everything that He wants us to know about Him.
1st John 3:2 says that when He appears, we shall see Him as He is. So, we can expect more revelation on that day. Right now, Israel and much of the world sees YHVH as one person and Yeshua as another person.
But Zechariah makes it clear that the one who is coming in the clouds at the end of days is YHVH. Father says, “They will look on me who they have pierced and they shall mourn for Him.” That’s very interesting wording if you think about it. They will look on Me and mourn for Him.
The people at the end of days are going to look upon YHVH coming in the clouds and they will mourn for Yeshua because they didn’t realize that it has been Him all along. YHVH is a jealous God who told us in advance that He is the only Savior. His own arm worked salvation for Him as it is written. The word salvation in Hebrew is Yeshua. When He appears, Zechariah also says, “His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives, and YHVH will be king over all the earth. On that day, YHVH will be one and His name one.”
In Hebrew, your name represents your life and your very existence, and it also speaks to your location. The word for name in Hebrew is “shem,” spelled shin-mem. Shin is a picture of teeth, and one meaning that this letter has in Hebrew words is to eat. Mem is a picture of waters and one meaning that it has in Hebrew words is to drink. So, by the letters, the word “shem” is to eat and to drink. If you eat and drink, you are among the living. You have a name, a shem, on this earth. And wherever it is that you eat and drink, you are there.
The Hebrew word for there is derived from the word shem. You eat and drink, therefore you are alive and you have a name, and wherever you eat and drink, that is where you are. Isaiah identifies Yeshua for us as the name of the Lord, the shem of the Lord. He speaks about the day of the Lord that is coming and he says, “Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar.”
As we read earlier, in Yeshua, the fullness of God dwells, so it makes sense that Father’s shem is Yeshua. God lives in Yeshua, and Yeshua is Father’s house, His location. If you’re looking for God, look for Yeshua, because God is there. Yeshua is his name. The prophet Micah tells us, “We will walk in the name of the Lord our God.” The children of God Walk in the way, and Yeshua says, “I am the way.” So, we will walk in Yeshua. YHVH told us through Isaiah that, “Those who believe will be hated and cast out for my namesake.” And sure enough, the disciples of Christ were cast out of their synagogues because of Yeshua, because Yeshua is the name of the Lord.
The apostles had the benefit of one more book for their scriptures, which makes it even clearer that Yeshua is the name of the Lord. And that is the book called 1 Enoch, which was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Enoch was written long before Yeshua’s birth, and if you have questions on the Book of Enoch, we have a video about it that you can watch. But as it relates to this topic, Enoch talks a lot about Mashiach, and one of Mashiach’s names in the Book of Enoch is the Name of the Lord of Spirits. Enoch describes the sinners as those who deny the Name of the Lord of Spirits. That is, the sinners are the ones who deny Yeshua. He describes the righteous as those who believe in the Name of the Lord of Spirits.
That is, those who God declares to be righteous are those who believe in Yeshua. And Enoch also says that in the Name of the Lord of Spirits, we are saved. Because in Yeshua, we are saved.
In the Old Testament and in Enoch, we see all of these prophecies about the name of the Lord. And in the New Testament, the name of the Lord had been revealed. So, the phrase that you will see over and over again in the New Testament is the more full phrase, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the days of Abraham, God revealed Himself as El Shaddai, and to Israel in the wilderness He gave His name, YHVH. And later, God gave us His name, Yeshua, and it’s the name Yeshua that we pray in as a sign to our Creator that we believe in Him and in what He came and did for us.
On the night that He was to be arrested, Yeshua told His disciples, “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.” And He also said, “Whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He will give it to you.” “Ask me, I will do it. Ask my father, He will do it.” He’s showing you there that He and the Father are one. The concept of God the Father and the Son of God being the one and only God is a little bit hard to grasp, even for the disciples who walked with Him.
And so, on that same night of his arrest, Yeshua told them that He’d been speaking to them in figures of speech, but that the hour was coming when He would no longer speak in figures of speech, but He would tell us plainly about the Father.
When I was a teenager, someone tried to explain to me how God was three persons in one, and they used the analogy of an egg. An egg is one thing, they said, but it has three parts. It’s a well-meaning analogy, but it’s not the best. With an egg, you can break the shell and discard it and you can separate the egg white from the egg yolk and that single egg will never be one again. No analogy is going to be perfect because our Creator is too great for us to fully understand Him. But here’s something that came to my mind on the day that I began seeking Him on this issue many years ago.
This is the number 7. It’s a number that you can write down and see. It’s the written 7. Seven is also a number that you can speak, so there is a spoken 7. The written 7 and the spoken 7 both represent the number 7, which, like all numbers, is an invisible number that exists all throughout creation. We’ll call this 7 the mathematical 7. Whether you see it or not, it exists, and the evidence of its existence is everywhere. So, there is the 7 that you can see, the 7 that you can hear, and the 7 that just is. Seven equals seven equals seven. God equals God equals God. YHVH equals YHVH equals YHVH. Hear, O Israel, our God is one.
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🎵 O come, o come Thou LORD OF MIGHT
Who to Thy tribes on Sinai’s height
In ancient times did give the law
In cloud and majesty and awe
Rejoice, rejoice
Rejoice, rejoice
Rejoice, rejoice
IMMANUEL shall come to thee O Israel 🎵
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