Authority of God (YHWH)
by Paul Sides
Mark 12:29 Yahshua proclaimed the most important truth of all, called the Shema!
"The foremost (command of all) is "Hear O Israel! The Lord (YHWH) our God (Elohim) is ONE Lord!"
Not two, not three, but ONE God. It is the central theme of the entire Word of God.
Yahshua was the human Messiah, the Anointed One of God (YHWH). The first born human into the family of YHWH called Elohim. It was upon Yahshua's resurrection that YHWH "beget" Yahshua as the perfect human image of the Living God (YHWH), the first born Son of YHWH in the family of God. Yahshua is by proxy... YHWH. YHWH has given Yahshua the power to represent YHWH.
Acts 13:33
33 God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He (YHWH) has raised up Yahshua. As it is also written in the second Psalm: "You are My Son, Today (day of resurrection) I have begotten You."
Clearly, it was on the day of very human Yahshua's resurrection that YHWH beget Yahshua as the first born (First Fruits) Son of God.
- Romans 1:3-4 NKJV
- 3 concerning His Son Yahshua the Messiah our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh (Yahshua was the HUMAN Messiah),
4 and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. (Begotton into the Family of YHWH as the First Born Son of YHWH upon resurrection)
We too will be begotton as "brothers of Yahshua" and "sons of God" in our own order, Yahshua the First Fruits, and each one of us afterward according to the plan of God.
- Luke 20:36 NASB95
- 36 for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Yahshua now (after the resurrection) sits at the right hand of YHWH as the first born Son of God (many sons to follow as YHWH procreates His family Elohim). Yahshua is our brother, Yahshua is our High Priest to YHWH (God), Yahshua is our Yom Kippur, Yahshua is the Passover Lamb of YHWH, Yahshua has inherited all that God (YHWH) created and Lords over it as King of Kings. Yahshua is ONE with YHWH in mind, will, being united with YHWH through the Spirit or Breath of YHWH... The Holy Spirit. As are we.
We are one with YHWH through covenant with His Messiah Yahshua... Marriage, the two (Yahshua and the rest of the sons of God) shall become ONE. Yahshua the Bridegroom, we the Bride. Together ONE in the family of YHWH.
YHWH has declaed many more than Yahshua as His sons:
- 1 Chronicles 28:6 (KJV)
- 6 And he (God) said unto me (David), Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
Exodus 4:22
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
Luke 3:38
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
The fact is, the term "son of God" is always used
in an anthropomorphic sense to refer to YHWH's representative(s).
Of course, as THE greatest, most obedient, and most exalted
of ALL of YHWH's representatives, Yahshua is, indeed, THE "son of
God". Yahshua is the ultimate tsadik, or
pious and righteous servant and representative of God. YHWH's First
Born Son.
The bottom line:
Ephesians 1:19-23
19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His (YHWH) power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of His (YHWH) might
20 which He (YHWH) worked into Yahshua Messiah, when He (YHWH) raised him (Yahshua) from the dead (Messiah did not raise himself), and (YHWH)made him (Yahshua) to sit at His (YHWH) right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all (Earthly) rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that (Earthly World OR Promised Land) which is to come.
22 He (YHWH) put all things in subjection under his (Yahshua) feet, and (YHWH) gave him (Yahshua) to be head over all things to the assembly (as His YHWH's Proxy),
23 which is His body (YHWH), the fullness of Him (YHWH) who fills all in all.
See, also, 1 Peter 4:11, and Revelation 1:5-6.