TMYK - Three in heaven - The Father and Son
- 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.
The word 'heaven' is shamayim שמים. The three consonants ש-מ-ם each represent one of the testimonies in heaven; the Spirit (Holy Ghost), the Father, and the Word (Son).
The word for waters (dual form, two waters) is 'mayim' מים. And the word for heaven is 'waters with the Spirit on the face' 'shamayim' שמים
The reason for going into the details of the Hebrew language is to demonstrate that the New Testament authors were not inventing new doctrine when they spoke of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. They were interpreting the hidden layer [1] of scripture which was revealed by Jesus.
The Father and Son
The waters above מי represent the plan or covenant of the Father, and the waters below ים represent the covenant being fulfilled by the Son on earth. [2]
Though the two mems מ and ם have different forms, they have the same sound. They are one letter, just as the Father and Son are one. [3] The thing that separates the mems is a yod, representing creation. The creation is what came between the Father and the Son. The Son died for it. [4]
Both forms of the mem; מ and ם, are drawn by combining the kaf כ , representing the Son of God, and the zayin ז, representing the bride. In the normal form מ they are touching at the top to symbolize the covenant or promise of the Father. [5]
By the filling of the Spirit, men are made to be the bride and one flesh with the Son of God. They were chosen by the Father, in the way that Abraham, as the Father, chose a bride for Isaac. This doctrine is also taught by the first word of Genesis 1:1 bereshit בראשית.
The word means 'in the beginning'. However, it is also a riddle in word play: bᵉriyth ברית means 'covenant' and in the beginning (in bereshit) is a covenant bᵉriyth with man 'esh' אש in the center. [6]
The Word
The Son of God is also the Word of God. In the beginning, בראשית the son 'bar' בר spoke and created the heavens and the earth א. The word for created is 'bara' ברא. As a metaphor it can speak of the act of creation, the object of creation, or the one creating. Since God 'spoke' to create, it can be said that bara is also the Word which created.
When John read bereshit, he deduced that in the beginning, in bereshit בראשית , was the Word; the bara ברא. Hebrew is written right to left. See that the three letters in bara, are the same three letters that start bereshit.
The Father declared his purpose, the Son spoke it into existence and was more than the speaker, but the effective Word of God. The Spirit fluttered over the face of the Father and Son, like their shared breath. All three are self existent in Gen 1.
Next: TYMK - The testimony of the Father
References
- ↑ The hidden layer will become important when we speak of knowing God, the Bible and his will.
- ↑ Ge 1:6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Ge 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.
- ↑ Joh 10:30 I and [my] Father are one.
- ↑ Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- ↑ Lu 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
- ↑ The seminaries will tell you that איש is man. It is the word for man derived from the 'gate' or 2-letter sub-root אש meaning 'separated to be the increase' and is expressed by the fire of the Holy Ghost which purifies, and also by 'man' who is the bride. Bereshit could also be stated "in the beginning there was a covenant with fire (purification) in the heart.
