His word doesn't return void - ש
When God says something he will accomplish it. [1] The word of God IS the person of God. [2] The Word which created (bara ברא ) is the Son bar בר who spoke and created the heavens and the earth א.
When we say that the word of God doesn't return void [3], it has multiple meanings:
1. God's spoken word has creative powers; he spoke and the universe appeared from nothing. [4]
2. The Son is the Word and he accomplished his purpose. This idea is contained in the letter samekh ס and the final mem ם. [5] [6]
3. The word of God had power within itself to accomplish its purpose in the lives of men. [7]
In the shin ש there is a descending vav ן on the right which is God speaking into the void. On the left there is are two zayins ז returning. They represent the Son of Man and his bride.
The purpose of the Word of God; the Son of God, is to bring back a bride.
The metaphor of the shin can be expresses as the one who gives life to the bride, or the Spirit. Gen 1 uses the shin as the Spirit in the word heavens shamayim שמים where the Spirit ש hovers over the face of the waters mayin מים. John uses it in this fashion as well. [8]
Fire is a symbol of the Spirit and so the shin is sometimes referred to as fire in Jewish writings.
If focus is placed upon the two zayins ז, it can represent a marriage. Matthew uses it in this way referring to Yeshua fulfilling the prophecy of Emmanual. Yeshua is Yahweh with a shin ש or marriage in this heart; meaning 'God with us'.
God knows his purposes. When he says he will do it, he does it. We recognize that God has placed a caveat on this:
- Jer 26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Isn't this what God has said to each of us? We have already been condemned. [9] But he says now, "Choose you this day, whom you will serve.". [10]
References
- ↑ Nu 23:19 God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- ↑ Joh 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- ↑ Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.
- ↑ Genesis 1 has the phrase God spoke ten times, and each time, something was created by the power of his word.
- ↑ Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- ↑ Joh 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
- ↑ Mr 9:38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
- ↑ Jos 24:15 ¶ And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
