This week we’ll continue our review of chapter 8 in Isaiah Decoded – The God of Israel, King of Zion. In this week’s review, we’ll begin looking at the second stage of the Son becoming like His Father, the Most High God. That second stage is administering the Father’s plan to exalt humanity. The first aspect of administering the Father’s plan is that the Son physically creates heaven, earth, and mankind. Review We have established the process of transformation wherein the Son becomes like His father to include three primary stages – the Son becomes God, Administers the Father’s Plan to Exalt Humanity, and the Son becomes an Eternal Father.
The Son Administers the Father’s Plan When we look at the Father’s plan to exalt humanity, three primary aspects immerge – the Son is the Physical Creator of Heaven and Earth, He is the Davidic King over All of Humanity, and He is the High Priest over All of Humanity.
The Son Physically Creates Heaven and Earth The first aspect of the Son administering the Father’s plan to exalt humanity is that the Son physically creates heaven and earth - not that the Son creates the heavenly eternal realms, but the physical universe. An important concept to understand when assessing the creation story that we see in Genesis is identifying the characters – the first of which is the godhead. Godhead Identified We see in the scriptures that some have identified the godhead to include the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit/Ghost. Religionists have attempted to equate these three in ways not set out in the Bible thereby obscuring their roles and identity. Of these, the Holy Spirit/Ghost is the most problematic. The Bible never indicates at any time a human form of the Holy Spirit. Second, the use of the word “holy” is usually understood in association with the Father. And thirdly, the Holy Spirit has also been referred to as a power that is associated with the Father, which we see with the conception of Yeshua/Jesus. Finally, we see that there is also a power that comes from the Light or Spirit of Messiah at John 1. These clues all lead us to the concept that the Holy Spirit is the power or influence the flows from the presence of the Father just as the Light or Spirit of Messiah, the Son, is the power or influence that flows from the presence of the Son.
The Hebrew Bible The second tool that we should apply to the creation story is the Hebrew language. We lose important concepts when Hebrew is translated into other languages. One of the most important differences is that verbs in Hebrew have gender and number. So when we see the verb “bara” for created at Gen. 1:1 in Hebrew this is the third masculine singular form or “he”, which is then followed by Elohim, the masculine/common plural noun for god. Another important difference that we see in the Hebrew Bible is that the Son’s name – Yehovah(Yahweh), a proper noun – is specifically used at 2:4 but then gets translated as Lord. Moreover, why wasn’t the Son’s name – Yehovah - used at 1:1?! Godhead and Creation When we apply these concepts of the Godhead to the creation story we see at 1:1 that literally it would be translated as “the god of gods created” or the head god or the most high god or the Father and that He created heaven and the earth. Then we see at 2:4 “Yehovah of [the] gods made” the heavens and the earth. These two differences can be correlated to John 1:1,2 and to Hebrews 12:6 to establish a spirit and physical creation executed by two different identities. “In the beginning was the Word [the Son], and the Word was with God [the Father], and the Word was God. The same [the Son] was in the beginning with God [the Father]. All things [physical] were made by him [the Son]; and without him [the Son] was not any thing [physical] made that was made." - John 1:1-3 “Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?” – Hebrews 12:9 Another clue in Genesis chapter one that identifies the Father is the reference to the Holy Spirit at 1:2 “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” – Genesis 1:2 We can summarizes these concepts in the following table.
The Son Physically Makes Adam and Eve Moreover, how does the Bible describe the creation of Adam in Eve in chapters one and two. In chapter 1, we see that male and female were created in the image and likeness of the Father. So, the Father must include a female consort. Then, in chapter 2, Yehovah makes and forms Adam into flesh and bone from physical elements, which to me sounds like the gestational process of a physical person.
By reverse deconstruction, we can see that Eve was made of the same materials and in the same way that Adam was made.
Moreover, when Adam declares that Woman is taken out of Man, we see two important concepts. First, the Hebrew word for Woman is Eeshah, which is an expanded form of the Hebrew word for Man, Eesh. This addition of the Hebrew letter “Hey” - ה - can connote the ability to reproduce – make and form life. The second concept we can see here is that when Woman is taken out of Man, this can indicate that Woman can reproduce the same kind of being as the Man. Together, then, they have the ability to replicate physical offspring like themselves. Yehovah - Adam and Eve’s Physical Father Our final concept that we can see in Genesis 2 is that it was Yehovah that made and formed Adam and Eve. This direct connection to their physical creation with Yehovah establishes the concept that Yehovah is their physical father. Moreover, some biblical scholars have associated Asherah as Yehovah’s female consort. This is how the Apostle Luke states the concepts that we see here - "Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God [Yehovah]." - Luke 3:38 Dr Gileadi – “If man’s creation in the “image and likeness” of God is “male and female,” as the Book of Genesis asserts, then we need to consider whether God is male and female. Without resorting to simplification and sanitization, let us face squarely what Moses, Isaiah, and others who have seen God say on this subject.” – P. 274 “In fact, Isaiah’s mini-structure depicts God as male and female (see Figure 115): “[a] Woe to those in conflict with their Maker, mere shards of earthenware pottery! As though the clay were to say to him who molds it, ‘What are you doing? Your hands have no skill for the work.’ [b] Woe to those who say to the Father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to the Woman [or, Wife], ‘What have you borne?’ [a] Thus says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, their Maker: ‘Will you ask me for signs concerning my sons, or dictate to me about the deeds of my hands? It is I who made the earth and created man upon it; I with my hand suspended the heavens, appointing all their host.” (Isaiah 45:9–12; emphasis added.) Figure 115 Mini-Structure Defining God as Male and Female a—God as “Maker,” even of those who rebel, who question his work. b—God as “Father” and “Woman/Wife,” who “beget” and “give birth.” a—God as “Maker” of his “sons/children,” whom he “creates/appoints.” This parallel structure teaches that people’s Maker is the same God who gave them birth, who consists of Father and Mother. That is not to say that God is like us, but rather that we are like God, or can become so as we adopt his/their divine attributes.” – P. 275 “Isaiah agrees with the Genesis account, which describes Seth the son of Adam in the same terms as Adam the son of God, as previously mentioned. God “begets” his children as does man, whom the Psalmist depicts as “a little less than God/the Gods.” (Psalm 8:5; me’at me’elohîm.) Isaiah’s seven-part structure shows that the pattern of relationships between levels on the ladder is the same up or down. By including God in that pattern—as in proxy salvation, descent before ascent, and a father–son hierarchy—Isaiah lets us know implicitly that God’s “begetting” of children is similar to ours. To grasp that point, it helps to replace our Greek notion of a nebulous, amorphous God with a Hebrew one. If man’s creation in the “image and likeness” of God is “male and female,” as the Book of Genesis asserts, then we need to consider whether God is male and female. Without resorting to simplification and sanitization, let us face squarely what Moses, Isaiah, and others who have seen God say on this subject.” – P. 274 New Adams and Eves??
Dr. Gileadi makes the case that those who ascend as couples in the Millennium - a paradise - become new Adams and Eves - another level of ascension. He does this by making paradise mutually exclusive with the existence of Adam and Eve even though Isaiah never once mentions Adam or Eve. Nor does Isaiah mention Adam or Eve at Isaiah 51:3 when he compares Millennial conditions with the Garden of Eden. It is our position here that our focus is always on the Son - Yehovah-Yeshua - and that Adam and Eve are pass through characters passing on the abilities and attributes of the Son to Adam and Eve's posterity, which include receiving a physical body and the ability to procreate between a man and a woman.
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