The Change We Really Need

"Surely I am more stupid than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man." (Proverbs 30:2) His wife Shirley probably agreed with him. Okay, so I can relate to this passage more than I care to admit. When ever I make a mistake I invoke the word, "Idiot!" Now I really don't think that I'm an idiot, though I'm certainly not a genius--a word I infrequently use for my brilliant moments. One of my teachers used to say, "Mistakes are wonderful." I concluded that I must be a wonderful person then. The point she was making was that we have a wonderful opportunity to learn from our mistakes. Stupidity is making the same mistake over and over again but expecting a different result. I can assure you this plan doesn't work!

In the past I have taken the road of least resistance too often in order to avoid over taxing my brain, and have done it so well that if stupidity was a legitimate career I would be a millionaire. Learning new ideas and concepts isn't the problem; applying them has been a demanding process involving concentration and consistency, two qualities I'm unfamiliar with. I actually had to look them up in the dictionary. Then I had to look them up again two minutes later.

Suffering from ADD all of my life, (Attention Deficit Disorder) has caused me little in the way of "add-ing" much. They should have come up with an acronym for SUBTRACT, like, "Slow Useless Brainless Too Random And Can't Think." I really don't know how I was able to graduate from school without being held back or smothered to death by the Nuns in my Catholic school. The only thing that saved me was my ability to outrun them. I acted out so much I should have received an Oscar for my performances.

Though I believed in God it wasn't until I was twenty-eight years old that I decided to put my trust in God. I began doing things I never thought I could or was capable of doing. I was able to end a fifteen year relationship with cigarettes and drunkeness. I entered Theological College, read more books, and earned a degree. I was still not a genius, nor would I ever become one.

With the Christianity that I came in contact with it seemed to me that their agenda was to form pews of robots, politically bent to the right, willing to die for God and country at the bequest of any republican president, push morals and ethics with a twist of Jesus, and throw anyone out who threatened their vision. This is the reason I ultimately walked away from Christianity. I knew that it was God who gave life meaning and therefore my purpose in life was to serve Him. I learned the hard way the churches that I attended were work-oriented and not Spirit led. The church was organized by puppet masters who manipulated the strings from a basis of fear, guilt and ridicule. There was no room for spiritual growth in that environment.

We are not called to give our life meaning by pursuing life with passion and sincerity, though that may sound noble. We are called to pursue God passionately and sincerely, allowing Him to work in and through us according to His will. We are to emulate His character and not the world whose desire is to hold us captive it their will. That is accomplished by humility and through death of our own interests. This calls for constant change in our life, for this is a growing experience. It means we don't salute the flag and send our children off to fight wars in the name of God. We pledge our allegiance to God only for He is our banner and strength. The Emperor Constantine, and not God, set the course for Christians to fight bloody battles in this physical world. The believers world is fought in the spiritual realm, with spiritual weapons of mass destruction against Satan, for our citizenship is in the heavenly places; whereupon we patiently await for our redemption to materialize. Shalom.

"The Human Jesus" (Part 3)

The extremely dangerous concepts that Unitarians possess are their indifference to Hebraic history and contextual interpretation of Scripture, their refusal to understand the act of creation and redemption, and to accept the power that God possesses in relationship to His creation and the universe as a whole. That the Spirit of God could create the world and man and thus be referred to as Father, but not make concessions for redemption and thus be referred to as Redeemer is entirely lost on the mind of those who refuse to accept spiritual truth and replace it with worthless religion.

To do this, passages of Scripture must be taken out of context, interpretations qualified by men of their own ilk, and presented with an air of intelligence so that all who do not believe their conceptual principles are lazy and uninformed. But in closely listening to their rhetoric, it is easy to see they are more comfortable waxing philosophical then they are in exegesis of Scripture.

Though Unitarians refer to God as both Spirit and Father they condemn those who adhere to the pluralistic nature of God as Spirit, Father and Son. They can’t even comprehend their own adherence to the plural nature of God. Their main contention of course is with the man Jesus, who they cannot, will not or do not want to accept as their Redeemer. They are content to believe in the Spirit and Father as one but will not see that the Redeemer, the Holy One, is the Son of God and the third aspect of the Spirit and Father. I must ask this of the Unitarians: How can the Spirit of God be God and not the Son of God? That is of course is their choice to ignore and not accept and it will cost them their spirit and soul. Yeshua not only expressed His deity, but He also never denied it in the face of pharisaical accusations. Jesus said before Abraham was I am. That is He existed before Abraham. Thomas said, when he saw Jesus’ wounds after His resurrection, Adoni V’Eli. (My lord and my God) The Unitarians cry fowl, fowl. Thomas didn’t mean that! Right, of course, he meant something entirely different, because that would interfere with your agenda. Though Moses was called God and Judges were identified as gods, they were never identified as “lord and my God.” This personal address by Thomas designated that Yeshua was both adoni (lord) and Adonai (God).

I do agree with them that the “Church” has caused much in the way of pain, suffering and death for those who disagreed with their theology. Of course, Yeshua never followed this train of thought and it was those who did that eventually put Him to death. This is not the way of the Lord and there are many in Church history I’m sure, having followed this evil course of action that will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Unitarians were not the only ones martyred. Jews, Catholics, Protestants were martyred as well.

In summation I would like to challenge you to read and study Scripture, asking the Holy Spirit for insight, and not follow the vain philosophy of man, be they Unitarian, Jewish, Gentile Church Fathers or even myself. If you intend to watch the video “The Human Jesus” do so with a grain of salt, and do not take everything that is said as truth. It is riddled with lies and deception. Only God’s truth will make us free. May God bless you in your endeavor to find Emet (truth) and Shalom (peace).

Yeshua Ben Yosef HaMashiakh

The Tanakh, specifically the Prophets, inform us that God would reveal Himself on earth as man in the form of "Suffering Messiah" and then would come as "Reigning Messiah." They will look on Him whom they pierced is a prophetic statement from Zechariah of the Lord when He returns to Israel and restores the Kingdom to them. The piercing alludes to death and that can only be accomplished by someone who was once alive and then died. Zechariah continues with they shall mourn for Him as an only son. One doesn't mourn for a living only son, unless of course he is a complete imbecile. Isaiah 53 is not Israel, but refers to a suffering man, and that is plainly seen. Ironically, the first century Sages correlated the pierced one in Zechariah with Isaiah 53.

The exact time of His suffering and death was given to us in the book of Daniel. Thousands of Jews, including the wise men--possibly Jews from Babylon--who came from the East were anticipating the Messiah's arrival around the year 4 B.C. E. (Before Common Era). Only the religious hypocrites (Pharisees and Scribes) had denied and not accepted these prophecies, for they were more interested in the kingdom of earth and maintaining it for their own superficial purposes, as all religious people tend to do.

Daniel 9:24-27 gives us the exact time line for the appearance of the Messiah. The time frame is from the decree to rebuild the walls. This was done around 457 B.C.E. The Temple had all ready been rebuilt.516 B.C. So the clock starts at the decree to rebuild the walls, not at the beginning of the captivity, nor at the rebuilding of the Temple. The time is referred to as 70 weeks, 70 times 7 or 490 years. So in 457 B.C.E. the decree went forth to rebuild the walls in troublesome times. When we add the 49 years to the 434 years we have a sum of 483 years. "After 62 weeks Messiah will be cut off." (Daniel 9:26) This 434 years after the first section of 49 years for a total of 483 years. Cut off is the Hebrew word Karat. It means to die. So at the end of 483 years, from the decree to rebuild the walls, the messiah will die. From 457 B.C.E., 483 years later, we come to a very significant date in history. In this year that the Messiah is cut off. Who is he? Some would contend it was Cyrus. But he was not Jewish and the prophecy of Daniel clearly states it concerns his people (Jews). It cannot be Titus either for the same reason. In the year 31 A.D. a Jewish man named Yeshua (Jesus) ben Yosef is crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem. He is literally killed (Karat). No other person during this time qualifies as Messiah. It is a secular historical fact, as having been attested by the Jew, Josephus, who describes His crucifixion.

The Essenes, who lived in Qumran by the Dead Sea, understood the Messiah to be God made flesh for the purpose of suffering and dying for atonement of sins. Understanding the significance of the sacrifices pertaining to the suffering "Lamb" of God, they refused to participate in the Temple sacrifices because they had been corrupted. The first century sages knew this messiah as Mashiakh Ben Yosef, (Messiah son of Joseph) even though they didn't, as far as we know, accept that Yeshua was this person. Nevertheless, about one million Jews at the turn of the first century had accepted Yeshua as the Messiah. One million Jews who knew their Scriptures, believed and trusted God and who accepted Yeshua Ben Yosef as their Messiah!

God is one! He is not three Gods in one. He is not a person and should not be referred to as such. He is Spirit, who created the universe and redeemed man by His sacrifice. Yeshua is the way, the truth and the life. He is the Word (God) made flesh. He did this so His flesh could tempted and die, for God in Spirit cannot die or be tempted, but in the flesh of man it was possible, for He was made like us, under the law to redeem us from the law. Our salvation is dependent upon this personal admission and commitment to the one God of Israel. Shalom and God bless.

Critique of "The Human Jesus" (Part 2)

This section is a long one so don't hold your breath while you reading you could die before you get to end. The British sounding dude says that the "Word" in the beginning was a "Thought." That God had a thought and then created Jesus. But the Bible says that Yeshua was the only begotten of God. Nowhere does it say that the Son was created. When we think created we think of Adam created from the dust of the earth and Eve from one of his ribs. Since then man is begotten because we come out of Adam and Eve. Yeshua was begotten because He came out of God and was not created from the dust of the earth or the stardust of heaven.

The word "Word" in the Hebrew is Davar. In the Greek it is Logos. In both instances it means speech or an utterance. It is a spoken or a written thought. The Hebrew words for a thought that are not spoken are: Zamam, Chashab and Palal. Though the passage doesn't say, as they point out, "In the beginning was Yeshua," it also doesn't say, "In the beginning was the thought." (Zamam, Chashab or Palal).

Did God have a thought? Of course and thank Him very much. But when He uttered the thought it became Davar, or Logos. When God spoke the world into existence He did so by His Davar or logos, His word and not His thought. God said, "Let there be light." His thought then became His word. So John says that the Word, not thought, was in the beginning. The word was with God, and the word was God. Note that last statement: The word was God. It doesn't say a thought was God. Now in verse fourteen John makes it so abundantly clear that Balaam's Donkey could understand. "And the word (God) became flesh (Yeshua) 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) Yeshua then says this of Himself, "And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was." (John 17:5)

Now we come to Psalm 110:1. They hold claim that David is speaking of Adoni and not Adonai. This is true. David uses the word lord in lower case as apposed to Lord God. Let's here what Yeshua says about this verse. "While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, 'What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?' They said to Him, 'The Son of David." (Matthew 22:41) There were two schools of thought in the days prior to and including Yeshua's day. One school of thought was that the Messiah was a human being only, and the other thought was that He was God in the flesh. The Pharisees adhered to the former, while Yeshua's disciples, the Essenes, and anyone else who followed Yeshua believed that Messiah was God in the flesh. Yeshua is clearing up the problem and He uses this Psalm of David as proof that the Messiah is God in the flesh. He uses Hebraic culture and reasoning for this purpose. "He said to them, 'How then does David in the Spirit call Him 'Lord,' saying: The Lord said to my lord, Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool? If David then calls Him 'lord,' how is He his son?" (Matthew 22:43-45) In Hebraic culture the word lord is used to denote authority or eldership. A father, in the role of both eldership and authority, would never call his son lord. Therefore David would never call a descendant of himself lord. He would call someone who had more authority or was older than himself lord. So the Son of God had to come before David and not after him. Yeshua made his point that the Son of God doesn't come from David but from God. "And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore." (Matthew 22:46) Yeshua, using Psalm 110:1, made it so clear to the Pharisees that the Messiah was the Son of God and indeed God in the flesh that they could not come up with anything more to say about Yeshua's authority. Again this idea is seen when John the Baptist, upon seeing his cousin Yeshua approaching said this of Him. "This is He of whom I said, 'After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.'" (John 1:30) Though John was born six months prior to his cousin, Yehsua, John says that Yeshua was before him. John understood that Yeshua was the Lamb of God, the Son of God, and God the Son. They also claim that nobody has seen God. This isn't entirely true. Nobody has seen God in His pure form. Abraham seen God as an "Angel of the Lord." Genesis 18:1 says that Yaweh talked to Abraham. It is quite clear that the Angel of the Lord was God who was clothing himself in a body so Abraham could see Him without dying. Even Moshe saw the back side of God. Jacob also wrestled with the "Angel of the Lord."

In this video, the Unitarians make claim that the Spirit and the Father are God, for they say the Father created the son. This is amazing! How can they then claim to be strictly Unitarian, having said that the Spirit and the Father are God? Yet they criticize Christians and those who adhere to the triune nature of God as pantheist. Are they not "Dualist?" We too believe that the Spirit is God, and the Father is God, but we also claim that Yeshua is God as well. We don't believe God is three Gods, and neither do Unitarians believe that God is two Gods, yet their rhetoric would lean to that belief in establishing the Spirit and the Father as God. Yet they do not see the irony in this! How they cannot see that God can be three and yet not be three Gods is amazing. Do they not posses the ability to see more of one. Rabbinical Jews can see seventy interpretations from one verse but cannot fathom three aspects of God.

They claim that there is no Scriptural evidence supporting the necessity for sacrifice to take away sins and therefore bring salvation. Again, they show their ignorance of Hebraic culture and the Bible. "For when we were still without strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:6-8) "And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission." (Hebrews 9:22) "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins." (Hebrews 10:4) "By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." (Hebrews 10:10) "But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified." (Hebrews 10:12-14)

Again, while condemning Christianity for taking things out of context, they seem to have no problem doing so themselves. They claim that the sole purpose of Jesus' life was to be a model for humanity. Where does it say that in the Bible? Nowhere of course. Though Yeshua was a model of how we should live, the Bible doesn't say that was His sole purpose. They say that Jesus is not God because God cannot be tempted. The man Yeshua was tempted as we are tempted, yet the Bible says, He was without sin. The deity side of Yeshua could not sin because He was God. The Bible says that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. If Yeshua was just a man and not God He then could and would sin. He couldn't sin because he was the glory of God on earth in the flesh as man. I will conclude my three parts next week. Shalom.

One God (Part 3)

If we deny the triune nature of God we then deny creation and redemption. Because God chose to create the world and redeem man it doesn't mean there are three Gods in one. But because these are important aspects of creation, God wants and commands us to refer to Him in these three aspects of Himself. The first three words in the Hebrew Bible of Genesis states, "Bereshit bara Elohim." Please note that God uses "three" words denoting creation and the third word describes God in a plural nature. Get it? Three! Bereshit (In the beginning) bara (created) Elohim (God). "In the beginning God created." Three words, three aspects of God, and Elo-heem, the name of God in plural form. We understand God as Spirit. We even understand God as Father. Yet mankind seems to be very ignorant of God as Redeemer. If God is Spirit, and Father, does that make Him two Gods? If we understand God as Redeemer as well does that make Him three Gods? No! Try and understand God as one Spirit, who is Father to His creation and Redeemer to those who will trust in Him.

The following is a quote from the Zohar, which is a rabbinical writing of the first century, and acknowledged by modern rabbinical Judaism as authentic. "The Ancient Holy One is revealed (found) with three Heads, which are united in One, and that Head is threefold exalted. The Ancient Holy One is described as being Three; it is because the other Lights (i.e., two Lights) emanating from Him are included in the Three. Yet the Ancient one is described as being two (Daniel 7:13). The Ancient One includes these two (i.e. the two are found in Him). He is the Crown of all that is exalted; the Chief of the chief, so exalted, that He cannot be known to perfection. Thus the other Lights (Shining Ones) are two complete ones yet is the Ancient Holy One described and complete as One, and He is One, positively One; thus are the other Lights united and glorified in One; because they are One."

Is Yeshua the Redeemer? Is He the Son of God and God the Son? What does God say? Note God is speaking in this passage. It refers to the time when He returns to set up His Kingdom, and He forgives Israel their sins forever like He promised He would. "And I (note personal pronoun) will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they (Israel) will look on Me (note personal pronoun) whom they (Israel) pierced (Killed on the cross) Yes, they will mourn for Him (referring to Yeshua or Son of God) as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn." (Zechariah 12:10) So God says that one day all of Israel will look on Himself as the one who was pierced. God is identifying this person who was pierced as Himself. Please note again: "They will look on Me." This was spoken of by a prophet who lived more than 400 years before Yeshua was pierced.

"For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given..." His name is Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6) Please note that the Son who comes to us in the form of a Child has five significant titles, and among the five names two identify the Son as Everlasting Father and Mighty God. So God is declaring that the Son is God.

"Kiss the Son, lest He be angry...Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him." (Psalm 2:12) To put our trust in anyone other than God is idolatry. Therefore the Son is God.

"Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me. Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go." (YeshaYahu) Isaiah 48:16,17 This is God speaking to His people in the nature of Redeemer who is in agreement with the other two natures of Himself: Lord God and Spirit.
Now how is this possible? Can God have three aspects of Himself and remain one? Of course. I can be three, and I am. I am not three persons, separate from each other however. I do possess the ability to be a son, a parent and a husband. So how can we say that God cannot be three? If you refuse to believe in the triune nature of God then you refuse to accept creation, which is an obvious fact, and redemption of mankind. Without those two aspects of God then we just have the Holy Spirit hovering above the waters. It is what the Holy Spirit did afterwards that makes up the triune nature of God. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. This means if you deny and refuse to accept the work of the Holy Spirit in creation and redemption you will have no salvation. I strongly urge you to look into Scripture and let God speak to you on this very important matter. Shalom.

"A Critique of the video, "the Human Jesus."

In keeping with my theme of the triune nature of God, I will critique the "Human Jesus" in three parts. In the first 4 parts of the 12 part series on you tube called "The human Jesus" the British speaking dude called Scripture as "suspect" when dealing with the deity of Yeshua in the Gospel of John. It was quite obvious that what made it suspect to him was that it interfered with his Unitarian philosophy. When religious people don't like what they read in the Bible they just take it out of context or take it out completely.

There was the young guy in a library, trying to at least look intelligent, attempting to infer that Yeshua never referred to Himself as God. Yeshua would like to answer that accusation. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one." (John 10:27-30) "Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You, Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as we are." (John 17:11) Thank you Yeshua for clearing that up.

Then there was the rabbi who was intent on destroying the Hebrew language at the expense of maintaining that God is Yachid (singular one) and not Echad (compound one). The word Echad is used to denote plurality, but Yachid is always used to denote only one. Example: God used one (Echad) of Adam's ribs it denoted that Adam had more than one rib. If Adam only had one rib then God would have used the word Yachid. But when God told Abraham to take his only (yachid) son, Isaac, it denoted he had only one son by Sarah. Echad is used many times in the Bible that is involving more than one, but when dealing with only (Yachid) one then God is very specific. In English we say one egg or one dozen. In Hebrew the distinction is used with Yachid (only one) or Echad (compound one). Rabbinical Jews are quite aware of the implication of the word Echad having a pluralisitic nature. So to resolve the dilemma they simply change the word Echad in the Shema to Yachid.

The librarian looking youth didn't seem quite convinced himself when he attempted to explain the plural word usage for God in Genesis--Eloheem. Something about new and news and news sounding better than saying new. So I guess God thought Eloheem sounded better than Elo. Doesn't news imply more than one story? By the way, when the Hebrew letter "mem" is put on the end of the word it denotes plurality! Those are Hebraic grammatical rules. When rabbinical Jews write about the oneness of God, they simply replace Echad with Yachid. They wouldn't do that if they didn't understand the plural connotations attached to the word Echad. Fortunately, God does refer to Himself using self descriptive words like, "Us" and "Our." Again, Rabbinical Jews and the human Jesus crowd attempt to discredit God by saying these words refer to His Majesty, like when the British Crown uses Us and Our. I didn't know the British Crown was in existence at the creation of the world. I sure wouldn't want to be in their sandals on the day of judgment. I can hear them now. "But God, that is not what You meant!"

The only thing they had right was the damage that the Church Fathers did to Judaism by inferring all of their pagan doctrines and separating from the Jewishness of the faith. Everything they said about them was spot on. The Church Fathers had one bad doctrine after another and it has wrongly influenced Christianity ever since. The fact that Christians adhere to Church Fathers doctrine more than the Bible is a crying shame. The trinity is just a bad doctrine. It is paganism at its finest hour. They took monotheism and turned it into pantheism and labeled it monotheism. Nice trick but it just doesn't fly.

This has opened the door for the "Human Jesus" crowd. They, along with rabbinical Judaism, take the doctrine of the trinity and rip it apart. But in doing so, they also dismantle the Word of God and disrespect Him the process. Until Christians redefine the "Trinity" into proper contextual truth, this attack against the triune nature of the one God is going to continue.

The "Human Jesus" is just a sad attempt at religious people with personal agendas. That is, they use the Bible to promote themselves and not God, kind of like a tick uses a body to suck the blood for nourishment. They are like clouds without any rain, quite full of themselves, very wise, but only in their own eyes. Personal agendas blind people's eyes to the truth. Until next time, Shalom.

One God (part 2)

God, (The Word) according to John became flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:14) He became son of man when He humbled Himself and was born of a virgin. "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: (ot) Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.(God with us). (Isaiah 7:14) This passage pertains to a time period when both Israel and Judah wouldn't have kings ruling over them.

Yeshua said that If you see the Son, you have seen the Father. To have an intimate relationship the Father you must go through the Son. This doesn't, as some believe, mean that Yeshua is standing in front of the Father checking passports. The Father and Son are the same. The Son of God wasn't created or born, He is the only begotten. Yeshua was born the Son of man, as Son of God in the flesh. Son of God signifies His authority in heaven and Son of Man signifies His physical presence on earth. Yeshua said, "Before Abraham was I am." He said the same thing to them that He had said to Moses from the burning bush. "I am who I am." Before He spoke those words to Moses, He conversed with Abraham. And before that He created the world through His voice. John established in his gospel that nothing was made without the word, that the word was God, and the word was with God and the word became Yeshua.

Tertullian, a "Church Father" brought into the body of believers a heretical doctrine based on paganism and pantheism. (That God is more than one) The Bible doesn't teach us that there are three Gods. Hear O Israel, the Lord, the Lord your God, He is One.

The 1st century sages understood this pluralistic nature of God in the Shema. "Hear, O, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!" (Deuteronomy 6:4) The triune nature of God is seen with, Lord (Adonai) Our God (Eloheynu) and Lord (Adonai). We also see a triune nature of man seen in the followup passage. "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength." (Deuteronomy 6:5) "Let US create man in OUR image."

When we pray to God the Father we are addressing one God in the nature of creator. When we pray to Yeshua (Jesus) we are addressing God as the Redeemer. We are not praying to separate Gods. They (the three natures of God) are one, never separating from themselves from one another. That is why Yeshua could say that the Son of God was in heaven and on earth at the same time. (John 3:13) Even the Zohar, (kabbalah) states that there is a triune nature of God, but doesn't say that there are three Gods agreeing with each other.

What did Stephen mean when he said he saw Yeshua sitting down at the right hand of the Father? Did Stephen say he saw two Gods, one an old, bearded man and a young Son sitting next to Him? Absolutely not! God's right arm signifies His power and position. He brought the Israelites out of Egypt by a strong hand. What Stephen saw that day was Yeshua sitting on the throne in power and glory. This is how God is ruling from heaven and one day on earth. He has given all authority to the nature of His Son. That is, He has chosen to rule in the nature of Yeshua our Redeemer. God has done this because the plan of redemption two thousand years ago was, and is, the most significant act God has ever devised and implemented. God (One) has chosen for mankind to see Himself one day and it will be in the form of Yeshua, the name above all other names, because of His redemptive plan, something that no person or religion could ever accomplish.

For those who have put their trust in a messiah that they claim is only a man and not God, though it be Jesus, or a future messiah, I must conclude you certainly don't ascribe to monotheism. There is only one God, who is our Creator and Redeemer, and who we must only worship. Messiah is our Redeemer, who brought His Temple (body) to earth. This is why it was so important for God to have had a Temple (House) built for Him to dwell, though He stated that there was no building that could contain Him. It was to show mankind His intention of coming to earth in a fleshly Temple for the purpose of sacrificing it for the redemption of mankind. That is why every furnishing in the Temple symbolizes God and His purpose to perfection. The House of God was a constant reminder of God's plan to dwell with Israel in the flesh. Until next week, Shalom.