2 Samuel
22:2-3:
"He
said: Yahweh is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Rescuer. God, my Rock in Whom
I take shelter, my Shield, and the Horn of my Salvation, my Stronghold and
my Refuge. My Savior, You save me from violence."
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rwc
tsuwr {tsoor} or
rcu tsur
{tsoor}
1) rock, cliff 1a) rocky wall, cliff
1b) rock (with flat surface) 1c) block
of stone, boulder 1d) rock (specific)
1e) rock (of God) 1f) rock (of
heathen gods) Rock
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!gm
magen
{maw-gane'} also (in pl.)
fem.
hNgIm. m@ginnah
{meg-in-naw'}
1) shield, buckler
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swnm
manowc
{maw-noce'}
1) flight, refuge, place of escape
1a) flight 1b) refuge, place of escape
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yasha`
{yaw-shah'}
1) to save, be saved, be delivered
1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be liberated, be saved, be delivered 1a2) to
be saved (in battle), be
victorious 1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to save, deliver 1b2) to save
from moral troubles 1b3) to give victory to
This passage just about sums up
just who God is.
After reading this passage one
could only come to the conclusion that Yahweh and Yeshua are the same or
at the very least, share the same attributes.
The Scriptures are very clear
about the Nature of God. Yahweh has declared for Himself, His own
nature. It is men today who have a different picture from that of
scripture.
1
Chronicles 16:23:
"Sing to Yahweh,
everyone on earth, announce His salvation daily."
Salvation in this
passage is in the Hebrew Yeshuato
which is translated as "His salvation."
His is capitalized once
more to indicate that this is referring to God. Once again the scriptures
to which I am referring are Old Testament or "First Testament Scriptures"
They are from an Orthodox Jewish translation from published by Artscroll.
Clearly in this passage
we can see the Name of Yeshua being used here. If we are instructed to
sing to Yahweh and to announce His salvation daily what are we being
instructed to do here? Are we being told to announce the salvation of
Yahweh in terms that this salvation is something separate from Yahweh and
He is just the Source of it or are we being instructed that the salvation
is Yahweh and we are to praise Him every day for it?
Whether or not you
believe it is Yahweh or Yahweh’s salvation it still comes from Him and its
Source is contained in Him. Yeshua is the salvation of Yahweh and
is in fact, Yahweh.
Yahweh is one and that Yeshua
comes from Yahweh. If you accept that Yeshua is separate from Yahweh then
we are invoking the belief in a triune God or the trinity of three
separate Gods.
Luke 1:69:
"By
raising up for us a mighty Deliverer who is a descendant of
His servant David."
Acts
4:11-12:
“This Yeshua is the
stone rejected by you builders
which has become the cornerstone
[Psalm 118:22]. There is salvation in no
one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom
we must be saved!”
Now reading this, and using the
earlier scriputures, who I ask is the Redeemer? Who is the Savior?
If you believe the Torah only, the Redeemer is Yahweh alone. If you
accept the teachings of Jesus, you see that Jesus (Yeshua) is the one who
saves, redeems, forgives, and it is in HIS name that we are saved.
Which way is it now? Is it Yahweh or is it Yeshua?
No Other Name!
"...For there
is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!”
(Acts 4:12)
How can it be any more clear
than this?
There is salvation in no one
else! If
there is no salvation in anybody except Yeshua then is this not a
statement that Yeshua is God?
Think about it. If Yeshua
is not God then He would be blaspheming and breaking His own commandments,
His own Torah, by making this claim?
Yeshua Himself when He went to
the synagogue in His home town, read from Isaiah and then made the
statement that He was the fulfillment of that prophetic passage.
Could a man have said that? Would not have a man or a false Messiah
been proven wrong in that? Have not false Messiahs risen up
throughout the millenia and been proven false time and time again simply
because they COULD NOT fulfill scriputre?
Many say that the death and
resurrection of Yeshua was a plot by His talmidim (students or disciples)
to affirm His statements about Himself and their intent to confirm Him as
Messiah. Some say that he did not really die on the tree that He just
passed out and that His followers took Him away and He lived His life in
seclusion. Many People believe this!
How amazing is the delusion that
Satan can place upon us. The history of the Jewish people alone record the
atrocities of the Romans and never was it recorded that one simply "passed
out" on the cross, nor was it ever recorded that one was buried with being
confirmed fully dead. The only one that can benefit from this lie
straight from the pit of hell is Satan!
Revelation
7:10:
and they shouted,
“Victory to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
Now, of course, you
can make the claim that in this passage it is referring to God,
Yahweh, sitting on His throne and to Yeshua, the Lamb, standing at His
right side (or hand) and if so then Yeshua could not be Yahweh because He
is separate from Yahweh.
Psalm
110:1:
Regarding David,
"The word of Yahweh to my master, “Wait at My
right, until I make your enemies a stool for your feet.”
In other translations it is
commonly rendered as
The
affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: 'Sit at My right
hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'
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Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
Jehovah = "the existing One" 1)
the proper name of the one true God
1a) unpronounced except with the
vowel pointings of 0136
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!wda
'adown
{aw-done'} or (shortened)
!doa' 'adon {aw-done'}
1) firm, strong, lord, master 1a) lord, master 1a1) reference to men
1a1a) superintendent of household,of affairs 1a1b) master 1a1c)
king 1a2) reference to God
1a2a) the Lord God 1a2b) Lord of the whole earth 1b) lords, kings 1b1)
reference to men 1b1a) proprietor of
hill of Samaria 1b1b) master 1b1c) husband 1b1d) prophet 1b1e)
governor 1b1f) prince 1b1g) king
1b2) reference to God 1b2a) Lord of lords (probably = "thy
husband, Yahweh") 1c) my lord, my master
1c1) reference to men 1c1a) master 1c1b) husband 1c1c) prophet
1c1d) prince 1c1e) king 1c1f) father 1c1g)
Moses 1c1h) priest 1c1i) theophanic
angel 1c1j) captain 1c1k) general
recognition of superiority 1c2)
reference to God 1c2a) my Lord, my Lord and my God 1c2b) Adonai
(parallel with Yahweh)
The Jewish interpretation here
is that the second reference to Lord is to mean not Lord as in Sovereign
Lord, but master, as in a "lord of a house". All the Christian
scriptures agree with this concept.
2 Samuel
22:32:
"For
who is God besides Yahweh, and who is a Rock besides our God?"
Yahweh is God and the Rock is
God. This is significant since we have similar statements in
Matthew.
Matthew-Mattityahu 16:18:
"I also tell you this: you are Kefa” [which means
‘Rock’], and on this rock I will build my Community, and the gates of
Sh’ol will not overcome it."
Is this second rock Peter? Not
in the context of 2 Samuel 22:32. The Rock is Yahweh and therefore Yeshua
and Yeshua is making a statement about Himself to Peter.
In this passage from Matthew
based on this passage from 2 Samuel and many other passages in the Tanach
that speak about the Messiah being a Rock and that Rock being God it is
said upon this ROCK, (myself and who I am) I will build my church.
It says this in
Colossians 1:14-17:
"It
is through His Son that we have redemption—that is, our sins have been
forgiven. He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is
supreme over all creation, because in connection with Him were created all
things—in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones,
lordships, rulers or authorities—they have all been created through Him
and for Him. He existed before all things, and He holds everything
together."
If this is not a description of
Yahweh then you tell me what it is. Of course, once again, if you want to
disregard this passage, because it was written by Rav Shaul (Paul) then by
all means YOU disregard it, but don't discount it as scripture.
He does not need any help from
us to describe just He is and how He chooses to show Himself.
He does not need someone else to explain His nature when He has clearly
shown it to us in the passages of the scriptures. I
f this passage of Scripture has
one thing in common with the Tanach (Hebrew Scriptures) it is that
Orthodoxy acknowledges and accepts that God is the Source for all things
in creation.
This passage is saying that
Yeshua is that manifestation of Yahweh who existed in the beginning as
God, who created all things because He is God, and that we have
redemption, forgiveness for our sins because He is God.
If Yeshua were not Yahweh how
could He offer Himself as the sacrifice that takes away the sin of
the world when only Yahweh can do that.
If He were only a man, His
sacrifice would have been meaningless no matter how perfect He was.
If the blood of innocent animals could not remove sin how could the blood
of a guilty man do so?
Only a Holy sacrifice could
remove sin once and for all. Only a perfect sacrifice could remove sin once
and for all.
Only the shed blood of God could
remove sin once and for all!
