One of the most important things we need to understand with the names of God where He reveals Himself to mankind. Understanding His name and the context by which He uses it in scripture conveys the purpose of what He wants to tell us. It is in the name that we know which part of God Nature we need to address. God deals with us in this physical realm on an individual basis and we must address Him on the individual relationship basis as well. We can only understand that by understanding the names of God, what the names of God means, what the scripture is telling us, and coming to understand how God thinks. His thinking is tied to the names used in the scriptures.

The first name we identified was the all-powerful God – the creator – Elohim. In this role God is supreme power and sovereign. There are two names God uses that are core to the relationship God wanted with mankind at creation and formation of man. The first is Adonai and the second is Jehovah.

It is the name of Jehovah that, as mankind, we develop relationships with the Lord God (Jehovah). However, any picture that we come up in our minds or draw will be inconsistent with the reality of God and all the roles He fulfills as God. Exodus 20:4 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” This means that whatever any individual has portrayed as a picture of God they have violated Exodus 20:4 and have sinned against the Lord God. God cannot be represented by picture. It is only through relationships with God that we get to understand who and what He is.

The only way to understand who and what God is we must first get to know Him personally. In order to do that we must accept God as God and accept His Son as our redemption savior for our sins. At that point when we communicate with God, He will reveal Himself to us through His name, scriptures and the environment we live in. One of the best ways to discover God’s names is to need Him and through that need God reveals Himself in meeting that need. God, being a relational God, wants us to experience His name and Him not just to know what His name means.

In Exodus 3:2 “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” Moses saw God in a burning bush that was not consumed by the fire. That is contradictory. Moses upon seeing this turns and begins to respond to the contradiction and when he does God tells Moses in Exodus 3:4-5 “And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” God commands Moses to do a mighty task in going to Pharaoh and telling Pharaoh to let God’s people go. This perplexed Moses. Moses who had been wondering in the wilderness for forty years due to being exiled from Egypt for trying to get the Hebrews freed was being sent back to tell the person who exiled him to let God’s people go! We learn from this part of history that when we have conversations with God that, to us, do not make sense we need to take note. In those times God is about to reveal something about Himself we have not seen before.

Moses enters a dialog with God in Exodus 3:10-15 “10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.”

Moses must have thought God was crazy. What is in the name I AM? However, this phrase was a sacred phrase to the Israelites. I AM was made up in Hebrew language of four (4) consonants that could not be pronounced but when Hebrew added vowels to the consonants it derived the name of Yahweh. It is when Yahweh gets translated into the English language it is translated as Jehovah. So, in translating things backwards to Hebrew we get from the English translation Jehovah to Yahweh to the four Hebrew consonant letters that could not be pronounced without vowels and when you remove the vowels you get the name in Hebrew that God called Himself in Exodus 10:14 to Moses.

The reason the name Jehovah is such a sacred name is because it is the name God gave to Himself when He revealed Himself to Moses. What makes this name God’s favorite name? This name is used close to 7,000 times in the Old Testament to define who God is. One may ask how would we know this name is being used when we us our English translation Bible? You will know when the name of Jehovah is being used when the scripture spells the name LORD (all capital letters). The majority of time when we go back to translate the word in Hebrew, we get Yahweh.

The name I AM or Jehovah is the name of God uses in scripture when He wants to reveal Himself to us. He wants to get closer to a relationship with us when He uses this name. I AM THAT I AM is not something that mankind can call itself because we were created by I AM. I AM THAT I AM brings together five concepts in this phrase as told to us in Hebrew scripture.

1.                Self-sufficiency. I AM it means God does not have to go outside of Himself to exist. He is sufficient because all He needs is within Himself.

2.                Self-existent. I AM means God is because He is. Humanity is not self-existent because we need things in our daily lives to function – air, water, food, sleep, etc. God need nothing to function. Whatever He needs He provides Himself. We, as humans are always trying to be someone or become someone. God does not have to do any of those things. He is.

3.                Eternality. I AM means God is eternal. I AM speaking of God in present tense, not I was or I will be but I AM. God has no past or future. He lives in the present for perpetuity. Humanity has a problem in relating to this because, as humans, we have a past (yesterday), a present (today), and a future (tomorrow). God has none of these things. God only speaks to humanity through scripture in these terms so that He speaks in a manner by which we can understand. God is forever in an eternal state and everything about Him s in the present (now). So when God speaks to us in our language about something that will happen in the future, we must believe it because God, being always in the present, has already been there and come back to our time to tell us about it.

4.                Personal. I AM means God is personal, a God that wants and planned for a relationship with humanity.

5.                Self-defined. I AM mean God defines Himself. No one other than God can define who and what God is. Just like God tells humanity that no one controls humans other than themselves. No person can tell you who or what you are. We through our minds and knowledge of God create the person we wish us to be. This is even more present with God. No one can tell us who or what God is. God is a personal God. He wants to have an individual relationship with every human. Therefore, God will be to individuals what those individual needs at that time. God presents His whole self to us but we grab what we need for that time and period of our need.

The name of Jehovah is revealed through the intersections of life we experience. In Genesis 2 God (Elohim) combines this power name with LORD (Jehovah). In Genesis 2:4 “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,” Why did God add the two names together to represent Him? God combines the names Yahweh (YHWH) and Elohim because He is telling us that we cannot get Elohim supreme power (SOVERIEGNTY) until we first create and maintain a relationship with God through Jehovah.

God gave dominion to mankind. Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” You cannot give anything unless there is a relationship first. Think about this. Many today wish to go back to individual sovereignty but they have no clue that to even get there requires a relationship with GOD!

Adonai is used over 300 times in the Bible and the meaning of the word Adonai is to own or be the master of. The background of the word is that of a slave master owning slaves. In context of this background the slave master owned the slaves and the slaves were owned by their master. But because the slave master owned them the slave master bore sole responsibility for them. He was to provide for them, protect them, guide them, etc. So what he owned he had to take responsibility for.

When God is referred to as Adonai in the scriptures He is placed in the position of owner over His people. Psalms 97:5 “The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.” The word Lord here in is strictly written form – capital “L” and lower case “ord” in the Hebrew word translated into English is Adonai. So the Psalmist is telling us that Adonai is the Lord of the whole earth. This would mean that Adonai owns the whole earth and all that is within it or lives upon it.

Elohim created the heavens and earth in Genesis 1 but we see that Adonai is Lord over the whole earth. This represents God in His plurality. All power in the creation, Jehovah in His relationship with all of humanity and Adonai as owner of all things earth. All three are one but all are separate in their function as to the Godhead responsibilities. The Bible is clear on the point that God owns the things that walk upon the earth and the earth they walk on – He owns all things.

God in this role is owner of the whole Universe and as such bares sole responsibility for all. This makes for one staggering complications with humans. If God is the owner of all things and responsible for all things then, we, humans are not. We neither own ourselves or anything we claim to own as property or offspring (children). Wow! Do we just now have a revelation!

We find the first use of the word Lord in the story of Abraham in Genesis 15. What we find is Abraham identifies God as Lord (Adonai) and as such God reveals more to him. When we understand the different roles of God and call Him by the right name then we get the right answers. We when we pray to God and not seek the right role of God in our prayers, we fail to gain the blessings or information we seek. It is extremely important in our relationship with God in the plural sense to know who we are talking to.

What we find in today’s world is that we want to provide all things but we fail to make him owner.

In Judges 6 God’s people had begun to worship false Gods. God told them at the time of their deliverance from Egypt not to have any false Gods. Because they did not listen to God, He allowed His people to be conquered by the evil Midianites. When He got their attention, He brought up a man named Gideon to then take back His people from the Midianites. The story in its entirety is below.

Judges 6:1-40 “1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD (Jehovah): and the LORD (Jehovah) delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD (Jehovah). 7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD (Jehovah) because of the Midianites, 8 That the LORD (Jehovah) sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God (Jehovah) of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; 9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land; 10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD (Jehovah) your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. 11 And there came an angel of the LORD (Jehovah), and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD (Jehovah) appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD (Jehovah) is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my LORD (Jehovah), if the LORD (Jehovah) be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD (Jehovah) hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. 14 And the LORD (Jehovah) looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? 15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord (Adonai), wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. 16 And the LORD (Jehovah) said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. 17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me. 18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again. 19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. 20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight. 22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face. 23 And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. 24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the Lord, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26 And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. 28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. 29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing. 30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it. 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. 32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. 34 But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him. 35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. 36 And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, 37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said. 38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. 39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. 40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.”

When we all God to be Adonai then He we revel to us Jehovah.

The problem we have in not looking specifically at the Hebrew language before translation we would not have been able to identify all of God’s Natures. It is in the Hebrew name used in the original scripture that tells us the Nature of God being used at that time in the scripture. By not having the Hebrew text, we would see in our English translation the word God or Lord and we would not know that, in fact, there is a difference in the Nature of God. It is through the names of God we understand exactly what God’s Nature to put into context exactly what God wants us to learn about the role He is being as stated to us by God in scripture.

We can learn a lot about God just in Genesis 1:1. It is this role of God that is the creator. He made nothingness first and then nothingness and made it into something when we do not see it being created. He can take any situation in the background and turn it into exactly what He wants it to become, and we never see it coming. So what does God want us to know about Him in this verse?

God’s statements in Genesis 1:1 tells us the following:

1.      He is Transcendent and Distinct in Time. Transcendent is defined as being distinct from the creation He created. What are the ways is God distinct from His creation – to be lifted above it and from it? In Genesis 1:1 it tells us “In the beginning God created…” This tells us that God created the beginning. This means that God created time. Not the time we now live by but time as it relates to the heavens. 2 Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” So, if God created time, then God must have preceded time. One cannot create time if one was not present before time was created. When we discuss time as we live by it in our physical life, we cannot address the same measurement towards God. God is outside of time because He created it. One more point, the only thing we have outside of time is eternity, which means eternity is not subject to time. Time, then, only becomes our problem, not God’s problem. The Bible only speaks of God in the present tense only. However, the Bible addresses us as an element of time because we have yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Malachi 3:6 “God is always the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He never changes. He is so faithful, so constant, so loving and so true!” God has no yesterday (past) or tomorrow (future), everything that God has or does is current – today.

2.      He is Transcendent in Space. Genesis 1:1 it tells us that ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” If heavens and earth He created He must have lived in space and predated His creation - time, heavens, and earth. All we in this physical life know of is the heavens and the earth. But God sits outside of space.

3.      He is Transcendent of Matter. God had to exist when space did not exist. Therefore, if God created all things, then He also predated matter. Everything in this physical world is tied to elements of matter.

4.      He is Transcendent of Energy. Genesis 1:3 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” God did not create light He is light. Light is the energy of the world, Therefore, God, Himself, is the energy.

5.      He is Transcendent of Motion. Genesis 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.” God’s spirit could not have moved upon the face of the waters if there was no motion. Therefore, God created motion for His spirit to move over the waters.

As we can see from the above God, in fact, created the five basics of physics – time, space, matter, energy and motion. God was before there was a was. God was before there was a beginning. God started the start.

Why is it important to understand the details of this role of Elohim? We need to understand that for God to be transcendent of time, transcendent of space, transcendent of matter, transcendent of energy and transcendent of motion this means that God lives in another dimension. Why is this? Because the world we live in, earth and the heavens, is tethered to time, space, and matter. Given that this dimension is tethered to those, and God is transcendent to them then He is in one dimension, and we are in another. This means that to have Him in one dimension and humanity in anther we have no way to figure Him out other than through the scriptures. We are trying to figure God out through the lenses of our realm (dimension) and must use translated lenses to see Him other than through the scriptures. That is why it is so important to study scriptures in the original text to understand exactly what God is speaking to us about. It is through God’s word that we understand Him. In Deuteronomy 8:3 “And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” Matthew 4:4 “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Luke 6:46 “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

In Jeremiah 23:23-24 “Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.” God is transcendent to time, space, and matter but he fills time, space, and matter with His presence. So God is here, there, and everywhere – meaning Elohim is Omnipresent. This means He is everywhere at the same time. Isaiah 57:15 “For thus says the high and exalted One. Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly. And to revive the heart of the contrite.”

In Genesis 1:3 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” For God to speak it means He is personable. An entity that could be heard. Scripture tells us He feels and has emotions.

 Some of the emotions that God feels include

1.      Love – 1 John 4:8 “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” John 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.” Jeremiah 31:3 “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

2.      Hate – Proverbs 6:16 “These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:” Psalms 5:5 “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.”  Psalms 11:5 “The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.”

3.      Jealousy – Exodus 20:5 “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” Joshua 24:19 “ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.”

4.      Joy – Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.” Isaiah 62:5 “For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.” Jeremiah 32:41 “Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

5.      Grief – Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Psalm 78:40 “How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!”

6.      Laughs – Psalm 2:4 “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.” Psalm 37:13 “The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.” Proverbs 1:26 “I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;”

7.      Compassionate – Psalm 135:14 “For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.” Judges 2:18 “^And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.” Deuteronomy 32:36 “For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.”

This God (Elohim) is not only transcendent but fully engages in the realm of the physical and is immensely personal. Genesis 3:8 “And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.”

The word Elohim is a plural word. Does this mean that Elohim has multiple roles? Yes, we find in Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image…” God said let us make man. This is the plural sense of God. God said in our image, meaning the plural nature of God. Then in verse 27 we are told “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” This tells us that in the plural form of God man was created in His image. These two verses seem to be in contrast of defining Elohim. But what these two verses are showing is the Nature of Elohim (singular role) is one of many (plural) Natures of God. God is a plural being but exists only as one God.

Theologians tell us that the plural God is the Trinity – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. This is not true. We have been taught a lie. The word Trinity is not found anywhere in the scriptures. In fact, this doctrine is called Trinitarianism and its adherents are called trinitarians. This doctrine was created by a theologian that attended the Nicene Council in 325 AD by the name of Arius. Arius is the father of Arianism, a religious sect, that does not worship the One True God but the gods of the demonic.

As a side note: Arius was dyslexic. It was Arius that changed Yeshua’s name to Jeshua which came Jesus. The letter J is not the the Hebrew language. So, in order to fulfill the command of the bible we need to stop using the term Jeshua or Jesus since that is not His Hebrew name. His name is Yeshua Hamashiach.

Wikileaks states that “The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from Latin: trinus 'threefold')[1] defines God as being one god existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons:[2][3] God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons sharing one homoousion (essence).[4] In this context, the three persons define who God is, while the one essence defines what God is.”

The scriptures tell us in Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!”

It is these types of doctrines that cause us issues in not following every word from God. Let’s look at the way we are to be baptized. Currently the pastors state that we are baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. With some pastors dunking the individual being baptized three times – one for each. This is not in accordance with scripture. The scripture tells us in Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” The term Ghost was the replacement word by Constantine and Pope Sylvester at 325 AD Council removing the word Spirit and replacing it with Ghost. Why? Because Ghost is translated from Gheest which means evil spirits. God is neither a ghost nor evil.

If you have been baptized by a pastor who has taken the trinitarian view of scripture then he/she has not followed the actual word of God and therefore, your baptism is outside of the word of God.

In Genesis 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.”

In John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In John 1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

In Colossians 1:16-17 “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

So from scripture we find that Elohim is a plural God, many personalities and natures, but operating by Himself in Genesis 1:27 in the creation of mankind.

In the last three articles we have provided a great foundation as to the character of God. We are switching from the character of God to the nature of God.

Did you know that God told Moses to carve into the rod He gave Him to go in front of Pharoah the 72 natures of Himself.

The rod used by Moses in performing his miracles was created during the twilight of the eve of the first Sabbath of creation (Avot 5:6) from a branch of the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden (arn, ed. Schechter, 157). On it were engraved the letters of the Ineffable Name (pdrk 19:140a, pdrk 42), the ten plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians, and the patriarchs, matriarchs, and twelve tribes (Targum to Ex. 14:21 in total the 72 natures of God).

The ancient Kabbalist Rav Shimon bar Yochai wrote in the Zohar that it was Moses, not God, who parted the Red Sea, allowing the Israelites to narrowly escape Pharaoh and the Egyptian army. In order to accomplish this miracle, Moses combined the power of certainty with a very powerful spiritual technology. He had possession of a formula that literally gave him access to the subatomic realm of nature.

The formula Moses used to overcome the laws of nature has been hidden in the Zohar for 2000 years.

This formula is called the 72 Names of God. Not names like Betty, Bill and Barbara, but rather 72 sequences composed of Hebrew letters that have the extraordinary power to overcome the laws of nature in all forms, including human nature.

Though this formula is encoded in the literal Biblical story of the parting of the Red Sea, no rabbi, scholar, or priest was aware of the secret. It was known only to a handful of kabbalists - who also knew that when the time was right, the formula would be revealed to the world.

To learn how to wield the power of the 72 Names, together with the purposes of which they can be used, we recommend reading The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul. Even if you don't speak or read Hebrew, you can still begin and experience incredible miracles.

Now, after some 2,000 years of concealment, contemporary seekers can also tap into this power and energy by learning about, and calling upon, the 72 Names of God.

The 72 Names are each 3-letter sequences that act like an index to specific, spiritual frequencies. By simply looking at the letters, as well as closing your eyes and visualizing them, you can connect with these frequencies.

To use a physical metaphor to describe what takes place when using the 72 Names, think of a tuning fork, a tool used to establish a precise pitch. When you bring a vibrating tuning fork close to another tuning fork that is not vibrating, the second fork starts to vibrate by the phenomena called 'sympathetic transference'.

The 72 Names work as tuning forks to repair you on the soul level. It means, practically speaking, that you don't have to go through some of the more physically demanding tests in life; you can tune your body and soul with the spiritual frequencies your eyes do not perceive.

This technology, developed by God, given to Moses is the lock to the frequencies to each cell within our bodies. It is through this technology that Christ used to heal the sick and diseased people when He came in the Sonship of God.

Thick about this. This technology has been hidden fro us by the elite controllers within documents that have not yet been relased to the public. One of those hidden truth’s we will receive.

God tells us in Luke 8:17 “For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.”

2.      God’s word is our study. Please remember that we will be examining the scriptures from the ancient Hebrew text Aramaic dialect. This means we will be studying the scripture as originally written with words right to left and not left to right. We need to also discuss the fact that in Hebrew Aramaic dialect that the words were all together. This means that unlike the English language where we put spaces between words the Hebrew did not. Therefore, as part of the deception in translations by Constantine they created translated words that were not always compatible with the Hebrew Aramaic dialect and the true accents of God.

We will start in the book of Genesis. Genesis translation in Aramaic is “In the Beginning” or the Genetics of God. We look upon this book as the information God is telling us about the beginning of creation. We need to remember that in the spiritual realm there is no element of time. God did not create time. The beginning is just that the beginning. So, in studying Genesis we will look upon what God is telling us from the perspective of the beginning. Because Genesis is used as the Title of the Book “In the Beginning”, we need to look at what the root word of Genesis is and what language was used in the word creation. What we find is the word Genesis is derived from the Greek word “gignesthai” meaning “to be born.” In breaking down the pronunciation of the word we find it has three syllables – gen-e-sis. Taking the Hebrew name of the book with the history of the word and the breakdown of the pronunciation we can then understand what God is going to be telling us.  God is focusing on the birthing of the beginning starting with an understanding of the very particles required for birth – God’s genes! We call this the God particle and was discussed in detail in Book Two God’s Family Affair in the God Is Government Series. Therefore, the book of Genesis provides for us the Gene of God, His DNA and His thinking.

3.      God speaks creation. We are told in Genesis 1 that God spoke, and the creation of the heaven and earth was done. In fact, in Genesis ten times And God said in His creation. We also find that God was pleased by telling us And God saw. In fact, in Genesis 1 seven times And God saw in His creation. When you follow the Hebrew language and how we read it (right to left) we find that what God is telling us is that God said DNA create …… and what was created was pleased by God’s DNA. So what we find is it was God’s DNA that created the heavens and earth.

What we find in Genesis Chapter 1 there are ten (10) “And God Said (Called)” In addition, there are seven (7) “And God saw.” Ten And God Said and seven And God saw is seventeen times God references His DNA. Seventeen in Hebrew gematria means the system of order and truth.

God uses numbers to represent many things within scripture. First, we have to say that this number is usually used as a symbol of victory, and it means that God managed to overcome his enemies. It is known that God was able to overcome the sins of humans when he decided to destroy the earth by flooding it. It was known as the Great Flood that started on the 17th of the 2nd month in the Hebrew calendar that was used in that time. It is also known that the ark of Noah and 8 passengers who were with him made a rest on the Ararat mountains exactly on the 17th of the 7th month.

1.      God is Infinite, Self-Existing and Without Origin. Colossians 1:17 “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Psalm 147:5 “Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.” Genesis 28:16 “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” We find more in the Psalm 139:8 “If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.”

In understanding this entity one must get out of the confined knowledge base. The fact that God must be self-existent means God always existed forever is not only mind blowing but perhaps one of the hardest attributes of God for anyone to understand, especially the believer who has accepted the redemption through Christ, to understand. In our limitedness, the ability of our grasping the nature of our limit-less God is like trying to hold water as it rages down a river.

Tozer writes this about the confusing, head-spinning attribute of God’s infinity: “To admit that there is One who lies beyond us, who exists outside of all our categories, who will not be dismissed with a name, who will not appear before the bar of our reason, nor submit to our curious inquiries: this requires a great deal of humility, more than most of us possess, so we save face by thinking God down to our level, or at least down to where we can manage Him.”

In his article on Christianity.com, Dr. Adrian Rogers writes about the self-existence of God: “The name Jehovah is used some 6,800 times in the Bible. It is the personal covenant name of Israel's God. In the King James Version of the Bible, it's translated Lord God. Not only does it speak of God's strength, but also it speaks of the sovereignty of God and the goodness of God. The root of this name means "self-existing," one who never came into being, and one who always will be. When Moses asked God, "Who shall I tell Pharaoh has sent me?" God said, "I AM THAT I AM." Jehovah or Yahweh is the most intensely sacred name to Jewish scribes and many will not even pronounce the name. When possible, they use another name.”

2.      God is Immutable (Never Changes). Malachi 3:6 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.” Hebrews 13:8 “YAHUWAH our Beloved King is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is constant eternal love. He never changes!”

The entity must possess an attribute of never changing, meaning He is the same from before the beginning of time throughout eternity. This entity never gets better or worse, His plans never change, nor does His promises.

Sam Storms writes this about the good news of God’s unchanging nature: “What all this means, very simply, is that God is dependable! Our trust in him is therefore a confident trust, for we know that he will not, indeed cannot, change. His purposes are unfailing, his promises unassailable. It is because the God who promised us eternal life is immutable that we may rest assured that nothing, not trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword shall separate us from the love of Christ. It is because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever that neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, not even powers, height, depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8:35-39)!”

3.      God is Self-Sufficient having No Needs. John 5:26 “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.”

This maybe hard for us to understand. As limited humans, we are an incredible needing group of people. When we remain unfilled it results in death. If we do not nourish our bodies we die from starvation, we need to feed the physical cells. If we do not accept redemption through Christ, we die a horrible death. Tim Temple writes, “God is perfectly complete within his own being.”

In a blog post on Reformation21.org, Scott Swain writes that the self-sufficiency of God means he “possesses infinite riches of being, wisdom, goodness, and power in and of himself (Gen 17:1; John 5:26; Eph 3:16). Because he possesses these unfathomable riches in the perfect knowledge and love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt 11.25-27; John 17:24-26), God is the "blessed" or "happy" God (1 Tim 1.11; 6:15).” 

God must be self-sufficient; we can go to him to satisfy all our needs. We must feel and understand that we never have to worry about “drying up” His never-ending well of goodness, peace, mercy, and grace. Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, “

4.      God is All Powerful – Omnipotent. Psalm 33:6 “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.”

We are amazed of the mysteries of God we have learned in preparing all the books in this series. Can you even fathom the entire mysteries of God? What about the limits of God? They are vast and expand the entire Universe so how do we access? The measure is deeper than the depths of the Universe and longer than what we can even image. Think about this. If God were to put you in jail and hold a trial who could oppose Him? What do you think happened to lucifer? Job 11:7-11 “Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.  If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?”

Hebrews 6:18 “That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:” God can do anything He wills. However, God cannot do anything that is contradictory or contrary to His nature.

In his devotional Forward, Ron Moore puts it like this: “God's attribute of omnipotence means that God is able to do all that He desires to do. When He plans something, it will come to be. If He purposes something, it will happen. Nothing can prevent His plan. When His hand is stretched out to do something, no one can turn it back. Omnipotence comes from two Latin words. Omni means "all," and potens means "powerful." God's decisions are always in line with His character, and He has all the power to do whatever He decides to do.”

“Scripture is clear that God is strong and mighty (Psalm 24:8). Nothing is too hard for Him to accomplish (Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:17, 27; Luke 1:37). Often God is called "Almighty," describing Him as the One who possesses all power and authority (2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 1:8). In fact, Paul says that God is "able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine" (Ephesians 3:20).”

“Although such power might seem frightful, remember that God is good. He can do anything according to His infinite ability but will do only those things that are consistent with Himself. That’s why He can’t lie, tolerate sin, or save impenitent sinners.” – John MacArthur

5.      God is All-Knowing – Omniscient. Isaiah 46:9-10 “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:”

Debbie McDaniel writes this about the omniscience of God, “He can be everywhere, at the same time. And He never sleeps or slumbers, He's aware every moment of every day, exactly what we're up against. He knows our way and is with us always. There's no place on this earth we can go that He doesn't see and know of.”

Tozer writes this about God’s omniscience: “God perfectly knows Himself and, being the source and author of all things, it follows that He knows all that can be known. And this He knows instantly and with a fullness of perfection that includes every possible item of knowledge concerning everything that exists or could have existed anywhere in the universe at any time in the past or that may exist in the centuries or ages yet unborn.”

Because God must be All-Knowing, we can trust the fact that He knows everything we are going through today, have gone through in yesterdays, and will go through in the tomorrows. When we think on this truth, especially when we consider the other attributes of His goodness and love, it makes it easier to understand the truth we place in this cast member.

6.      God is Always Everywhere – Omnipresent. Psalm 139:7-10 “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.” Jeremiah 23:23-24 “Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.”

This attribute may be hard to understand when we are looking at God. Omnipresent means to be at all places at the same time. We may ask how can that be? We must understand that for God to be in a place is not the same for us as humans. “God’s being is altogether different from physical matter,” the website Ligonier.org explains. “He exists on a plane wholly distinguishable from the one readily available to the five senses.”

The psalmist in Psalm 137 explains it this way. “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.”

God must be always near us. Tozer writes, “closer than our thoughts. The knowledge that we are never alone calms the troubled sea of our lives and speaks peace to our soul.”

7.      God is Full of Perfect, Unchanging Wisdom. Romans 11:33 “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!”

Wisdom is what God wrote into our heart-brain for us to come to the knowledge of through the training of our mind-brain. This means Wisdom is the truth of God and more than the mind-brain knowledge and intelligence we humans’ process. It is only a true wise person that understands all facts and makes the best decisions about all of humanity. So, in understanding God we must use the heart-brain in suppling us with the thoughts of God.

Tozer writes, “Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. It sees the end from the beginning, so there can be no need to guess or conjecture. Wisdom sees everything in focus, each in proper relation to all, and is thus able to work toward predestined goals with flawless precision.”

When we seek God’s guidance, we must seek the Wisdom like this attribute describes. This may be difficult because in our studying God’s word or even talking to Him we must move past our limited wisdom and seek out the limitless of what God’s Wisdom truly is. The reason this may be difficult is we have to understand that God can never be wiser than He already is. However, in knowing this we need to have comfort that God does all things through the wisest thoughts for our lives. There is nothing we as humans could plan better for our lives than allowing the wisest to head the ship in all planning efforts.

8.      God is Faithful – Infinitely, Unchangingly Truth. Deuteronomy 7:9 “Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;” 2 Timothy 2:13 “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

We need to understand that all of God’s attributes we have described are not independent of each other, they are not separate attributes. They are not isolated but interconnected pieces of His perfect whole being. When we read scripture God remains faithful, for he cannot deny Himself, we must understand that it is all His attributes working together, meaning that God can never not be faithful. Wow!

A. W. Pink writes this about God’s faithfulness: “God is true. His Word of Promise is sure. In all His relations with His people God is faithful. He may be safely relied upon. No one ever yet really trusted Him in vain. We find this precious truth expressed almost everywhere in the Scriptures, for His people need to know that faithfulness is an essential part of the Divine character. This is the basis of our confidence in Him.

The fact that God is infinitely, unchangingly faithful means that he never forgets anything, never fails to do anything he has set out to do, never changes his mind or takes back a promise. And his faithfulness pours out from his love, so we can trust Paul’s word that “in all things God works for the good of those who love him.”

When we study God’s word or talk to Him, we need to understand that this may be difficult for us to understand that it is His plan we are seeking – faithfulness. In some cases, because we seek not of Him but of ourselves, we look upon this faithfulness as abandonment. We look to our current state of societal affairs and question how a God could allow His children to suffer, to hurt, or even die. But what we need to understand God’s Wisdom in all things. We need to comfort ourselves with the fact that God is never-the-less unchangingly faithful, good, and always with us. 1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

9.      God is Good – Infinitely, Unchangingly Kind and Full of Good Will. Psalm 34:8 “O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”

According to Tozer, the goodness of God “disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men. He is tenderhearted and of quick sympathy, and His unfailing attitude toward all moral beings is open, frank, and friendly. By His nature He is inclined to bestow blessedness and He takes holy pleasure in the happiness of His people.”

When the Psalmist writes “O, taste and see that the Lord is good,” (Psalm 34) he is inviting us not just to believe that God is good but to experience God’s goodness. And, interestingly, as Desiring God writer Andrew Wilson notes in his article about God’s goodness, “the psalmist affirms his experience of God’s goodness from a place of suffering. In verse 19, he makes the remarkable announcement, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous.” Even with a good God, who is sovereign over everything and has the power to do whatever he likes, good people still suffer. His punchline, though, comes in the next phrase: “but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.” Evil happens, but “none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned” (34:22).

10.   God is a Just God – Infinitely, Unchangeably Right and Perfect in All He Does. Deuteronomy 32:4 “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”

Looking for this attribute in God we find that He is “Just”. So what is “Just”? Does it mean more than just being fair? Why would God being a Just God justify the unjust or even allow hurt, pain and suffering to come to those who have accepted Christ as their redemption savior?

Webster defines just as based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair. But we should look at scripture to define just. Because it is that definition of “Just” we need to seek out in this cast member.

Tozer answers this by reminding us that we find the answer through the Christian doctrine of justification and redemption. “Through the work of Christ in atonement, justice is not violated but satisfied when God spares a sinner.” His mercy does not forbid him to exercise his justice, nor does his justice forbid him to exercise his mercy. He is both fully merciful and fully just.  

Considering God’s other attributes of goodness, mercy, love and grace, there are some who might, in error, say that God is too kind to punish the ungodly. But to believe this means we dull the reality of his infinite, unchanging justice. God will have justice for sin, either from Christ’s atoning death or, for those who will not accept it, eternal wrath in hell.

“Let’s assume that all men are guilty of sin in the sight of God. From the mass of humanity, God sovereignly decides to give mercy to some of them. What do the rest get? They get justice. The saved get mercy and the unsaved get justice. Nobody gets injustice” - R. C. Sproul

11.   God is Merciful – Infinitely, Unchangeably Compassionate and Kind. Romans 9:15-16 “For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”

God’s mercy is not inseparable from His justness. He must be infinitely, unchangeably, unfailingly merciful while be at the same time forgiving, lovingly kind toward all of humanity. He must be inexhaustibly, actively compassionate. He must provide all of this unselfishly to an underserved world.

Spurgeon writes that, “It is undeserved mercy, as indeed all true mercy must be, for deserved mercy is only a misnomer for justice. There was no right on the sinner's part, to the saving mercy of the Most High God. Had the rebel been doomed at once to eternal fire — he would have justly merited the doom; and if delivered from wrath, sovereign love alone has found a cause, for there was none in the sinner himself.

Without the mercy of God, we would have no hope of heaven. Because of our disobedient hearts, we deserve death. “For all have sinned and fall short glory of God,” and, “the wages of sin is death.” But because of mercy, we don’t get what we deserve. Instead, because of the mercy of God, we get life through faith in Christ.”

Tozer writes this about the mercy of God. “As judgment is God’s justice confronting moral inequity, so mercy is the goodness of God confronting human suffering and guilt. Were there no guilt in the world, no pain and no tears, God would yet be infinitely merciful; but His mercy might well remain hidden in His heart, unknown to the created universe. No voice would be raised to celebrate the mercy of which none felt the need. It is human misery and sin that call forth the divine mercy.”

12.   God is Gracious in All He Does – Infinitely Inclined to Spare the Guilty. Psalm 145:8 “The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.”

Comprehending God means we need to access His ability to provide mercy in not allowing what we deserve (damnation) and grace in not allowing what we deserve (eternal life).

Tozer writes, “As mercy is God’s goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is His goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. It is by his grace that God imputes merit where none previously existed and declares no debt to be where one had been before.”

His grace must be eternal, unearned, and not lost. Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” Exodus 33:19 “And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.”

Christianity Today writer Patrick Mabilog writes this about the difference of what theologians often differentiate between God’s common grave and His saving grace. “His common grace is a gift to all of mankind. It is the reason that everyone – Christian or non-Christian - enjoys the blessings of life, provision and abundance. Matthew 5:45 tells us, ‘For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.’”

God provides humanity all the benefits of common grace while at the same time those who accept Christ as their redemption savior providing them saving grace. This results in humanity sanctification and glorification of God, giving us the mind-set to live for Him and enjoy Him for all eternity.

13.   God is All Loving – Infinitely, Unchangingly Love All of Humanity. 1 John 4:7-8 “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”

R.C. Sproul in his book, God’s Love writes, “Love. The word staggers before its task of even describing the reality.”

We must look for love to exuberate through all of God’s attributes. This is the only way it can be seen. This love you are looking for must be eternal, sovereign, unchanging, and infinite.

Tozer writes, “It is a strange and beautiful eccentricity of the free God, that He has allowed His heart to be emotionally identified with men. Self-sufficient as He is, He wants our love and will not be satisfied till He gets it. Free as He is, He has let His heart be bound to us forever. God’s love is active, drawing us to himself. His love is personal. He doesn’t love humanity in some vague sense, he loves humans. He loves you and me. And his love for us knows no beginning and no end.”

14.   God is Holy – Infinitely, Unchangingly Perfect. Revelations 4:8 “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”

John MacArthur writes this about God’s holiness: “Of all the attributes of God, holiness is the one that most uniquely describes Him and in reality, is a summation of all His other attributes. The word holiness refers to His separateness, His otherness, the fact that He is unlike any other being. It indicates His complete and infinite perfection. Holiness is the attribute of God that binds all the others together.”

Matthew 5:48 “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

Tozer says this about what God’s holiness demands: “Since God’s first concern for His universe is its moral health, that is, its holiness, whatever is contrary to this is necessarily under His eternal displeasure. To preserve His creation God must destroy whatever would destroy it. When He arises to put down iniquity and save the world from irreparable moral collapse, He is said to be angry. Every wrathful judgment in the history of the world has been a holy act of preservation. The holiness of God, the wrath of God, and the health of the creation are inseparably united. God’s wrath is His utter intolerance of whatever degrades and destroys.”

15.   God is Glorious – Infinitely Beautiful and Great. Habakkuk 3:4 “And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.”

John Piper defines God’s glory like this: “The glory of God is the infinite beauty and greatness of God’s manifold perfections. The infinite beauty—and I am focusing on the manifestation of his character and his worth and his attributes — all of his perfections and greatness are beautiful as they are seen, and there are many of them. That is why I use the word manifold.”

Ligonier.org writes this about the glory of God: “When we think of the glory of the Lord, the image of brilliant light often comes to our minds. That is certainly appropriate, as Scripture often describes the glory of God in terms of a light that shines brighter than anything that we experience on earth.”

God must be radiant and emanate beauty from all that He is and all that He does. Isaiah 43:7 “Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.”

When you absolutely take the time and quietly review your thoughts about God what do you identify Him as? If we look at God from only the perspective as we were taught, we never realize that God, being a spiritual being, is nothing more than thought. In understanding the truth within the scriptures, we must get into the mind of God and understand how He thinks. This means that we must study the scripture one word at a time and put it into the right historical word and then read it as it was intended without any basis on the part of translation or personal basis on your part. In other words, the words of God are absolute. They are not for interpretation but for understanding.

We find this told to us throughout scriptures.

Matthew 4:4 Christ tell Satan that, “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

2 Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Mark 13:31 “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.”

Psalm 119:11 “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

Proverbs 30:5 “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.”

John 8:31 “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;”

John 20:31 “But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”

So, throughout scripture we are told to follow every word of God. So the condition of understanding and following every word of God is one of surrender and allowing. God said to the house of Israel in Jeremiah 31:33 “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Matthew 22:37 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”

2 Corinthians 9:7 “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”

Philippians 4:7 “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

Romans 1:28 “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”

So, let us take a step back and contemplative what we were taught about God. One could start with how we were told to identify ourselves to Him. The pulpit told us that we are made in the image of God. Therefore, what you look like in this physical body experience looks like God. That is a complete lie!

The question we need to ask ourselves is why the pulpit would lie to us about such a foundational matter, a conditioning of the mind, to relate ourselves to God. Well, many of you will not like the answer to this question. Why? Because many of you will not accept that the truth is not what you are told. The truth is what you must study.

Therefore, if you look at how the church has migrated through history it has come from a positioning of truth as the Apostles taught to a position of narrative control by those who want to control you. This was a subtle takeover but none-the-less a takeover of how and what you think. We will get more in depth with this learning and in greater detail in a lot of future articles. But for now, the preachers which your church has hired (God never hired anyone to teach His gospel or doctrine - many are called but few are chosen) has been hired from an educational system whose very name of that system is from lucifer.

The term seminary comes from the root word semen and semen comes from the root word of Semiramis. Who was Semiramis? She was the mother of Nimrod who then married him to have a son called Tammuz who Constitine at the Nicene Council required the Acts 2 church to worship as the Christ child on December 25. Christ was never born on December 25. Christ was born during the time of harvest - September to November. So, the whole seminary system is built on lucifer principles and lies.

Test me out on this. Don’t take my word for anything. God says in scripture in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” So, you are not to take anything told to you, even in the pulpit, as truth without you first testing it. I should ask how many of you are following this command from the scripture.

The etymology of good is an Old English gōd (with a long "o") "excellent, fine; valuable; desirable, favorable, beneficial; full, entire, complete;" of abstractions, actions, etc., "beneficial, effective; righteous, pious;" of persons or souls, "righteous, pious, virtuous;" probably originally "having the right or desirable quality," from Proto-Germanic *gōda- "fitting, suitable" (source also of Old Frisian god, Old Saxon gōd, Old Norse goðr, Middle Dutch goed, Dutch goed, Old High German guot, German gut, Gothic goþs). A word of uncertain etymology, perhaps originally "fit, adequate, belonging together," from PIE root *ghedh- "to unite, be associated, suitable" (source also of Sanskrit gadh- "seize (booty)," Old Church Slavonic godu "favorable time," Russian godnyi "fit, suitable," Lithuanian goda "honor," Old English gædrian "to gather, to take up together").

In the Hebrew Lexicon we get another picture of the meaning of good. One should look at good as a picture of a basket used to contain or surround something. Much like a tent or a house. When we combine these we surround the house. The house is surrounded by grace, beauty, love, health, and prosperity. This goodness

provides us with a sense of being functional. Wow! What have we just painted a picture of? The nature of Christ surrounding our house (our physical body) in making it functional until Him.

When we focus (thinking) about good we need to shift our thinking towards Christ provisioning us through His Holy Spirit that incapsulate our soul taking charge of our everyday thoughts to live in-spirit 100% of each day.

Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:31 “I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”