The Relationship Between Yahweh, Yashua, And The Holy Spirit

2001.03.1.03 The Relationship Between Yahweh, Yashua, And The Holy Spirit

SUMMARY

While most accept the existence of God the Father [Yahweh], God the Son [Yashua] and God The Holy Spirit, many have great difficulty in grasping what this means, particularly since some passages of scripture appear to contradict other passages in understand exactly who the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are.

This is made more challenging when faced with Jews or Moslems who are particularly offended at a widely held view on their part that Christians actually serve THREE GOD'S. When confronted with this belief, I have personally found it difficult to explain what I believe and why I believe it and at the same time to do this in a fashion which builds a bridge across which Jews and Moslems can be brought to a saving knowledge of The Lord Jesus Christ [Yashua Messiah] as discussed in previous mailings.

In praying into this subject in recent months, various passages of scripture have progressively painted a complex mosaic which has brought me to a point where the picture now seems clearer than it has before.

This document sets out in some detail the understanding that has been gained over recent days and which finally has taken on a form which it seems to me is of sufficient substance that those who lack clarity on this issue can gain clarity. This is certainly my prayer.

In essence, the first conclusion was that scripture shows us that Christ = Christos = Mashiyach = Messiah = Anointing = Holy Spirit as set out in the message "The Spirit is Moving on the Earth - How do we understand scriptures referring to "Christ"?", [reference #2001/03/02, issued on 05 March 2001].

Moving on from this, in 1 Corinthians 15:45 we read that Yashua "became a life-giving spirit" and in 1 John 2:22 we read that it is a lie to deny that Yashua is the Messiah (Christ). We further find in Revelation 5:6 that the Lamb, who is surely Yashua, has the seven Spirits of Yahweh sent out into all the earth.

We then find in 1 Corinthians 12:3 that no one can say that Yashua is Lord except by The Holy Spirit BUT we find in Acts 19:2 that there is a distinction between saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ [Yashua Messiah] and the Baptism of The Holy Spirit. We read further in Matthew 3:11 that Yashua will baptise with The Holy Spirit. Yet we read in Matthew 1:20 that Yashua was conceived OF The Holy Spirit!

So we see that in a mystical fashion Yahweh (the Father), Yashua (the Son - Jesus), Messiah (the anointing - Christ, The Holy Spirit) AND the Seven Spirits of God ARE ALL ONE and that The Holy Spirit is ALSO the Spirit of Yahweh!

But, Acts 17:28 teaches us that in Yahweh we live and move and have our being and that therefore Yahweh permeates the entire Universe, every living thing and every inanimate thing, from the deepest vacuum to the densest black hole in space!

We must conclude that Yahweh, Yashua and The Holy Spirit (Messiah) are three distinct manifest presences of Yahweh BUT they are ALL Yahweh.

THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY BUT IT IS REALITY!

The article goes on to further explore the scriptures surrounding this subject and to seek clarity on the reality that it is Yahweh, through Yashua and thus through The Holy Spirit who comes to dwell in us in order that IF we choose by FAITH to be crucified with Christ and to let Him live through us, we may overcome to the end and thus become true sons of God!

It is further outlined that the various forms of relationships, father - son, husband - wife, mother - children, etc that we have been given in the natural world are ALL given that, through what is good in those relationships, we may come to better understand the infinite greatness and wisdom of God [Yahweh] in order that we may, BY FAITH, come to be transformed into the image of His dear Son!.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN Yahweh, Yashua, AND The Holy Spirit

Some months ago, as I was recording the series of teaching tapes on "God's Plan for Healing Marriage in the Seventh Millennium" and specifically as I was recording the messages on "Headship" in marriage, I became intensely aware that there were very distinct offices of Yahweh (The Lord - the Father), Yashua (Jesus - the Son) and The Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 11:3 states "But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God." (NKJ)

I therefore started to pray for revelation into exactly what these offices were AND into the relationship between the three manifestations of Yahweh presented in Scripture.

As time passed, the point regarding Christ = Christos = Mashiyach = Messiah = Anointing = Holy Spirit became increasingly clear. This was set out in the message "The Spirit is Moving on the Earth - How do we understand scriptures referring to "Christ"?", [reference #2001/03/02, issued on 05 March 2001].

Earlier this week I was struck by 1 Corinthians 15:45 "And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit."

In context 1 Corinthians 15:45-47 states:

45  And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46  However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.

47  The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. (NKJ)

Here we see Yashua as a Spirit.

This morning I was struck by 1 John 2:22 "Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son." (NKJ)

Here we see Yashua as Messiah which, as we saw a few days ago can also be interpreted as referring to the Holy Spirit so here we see Yashua as the anointing (Christos = Messiah) = the Holy Spirit.

Furthermore, Revelation 5:6 states "And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth." (NKJ)

The "Lamb" is SURELY Yashua and here we are told that Yashua has the SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD!

Somehow, when we confess Yashua as Lord, His Spirit which is, in a sense, ALSO the Holy Spirit, comes to dwell in us (remember 1 Corinthians 12:3 states "Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit." (NKJ)).

BUT, there is ALSO a SEPARATE baptism of the Holy Spirit, Acts 19:2 states "he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" So they said to him, "We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit."" (NKJ)

John the Baptist tells us in Matthew 3:11 concerning Yashua ""I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire." (NKJ)

Yet we also know that Yashua was conceived of Mary BY the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:20 "But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." (NKJ))

SO, in a mystical fashion, there is:

Yahweh - the Father (The Lord)

Yashua - the Son (Jesus), the Man, who is also the Angel (Messenger) of Yahweh in Genesis 16 and many other passages of Scripture.

Messiah - the anointing, the Christ, the Holy Spirit, the excellent thing (the Prince) in Daniel 9.

The Seven Spirits of Yahweh which Yashua has.

BUT THEY ARE ALL ONE!

AND The Holy Spirit is ALSO the Spirit of Yahweh

BUT in Yahweh we "live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28) and Yahweh "permeates" the ENTIRE Universe. Yahweh is IN every planet and every sun and the deepest void (vacuum) and the densest black hole in the Universe AND Yahweh is ALSO in the ink in the pen with which I wrote these notes and the paper on which they were written, Yahweh is in me and He is in every component of the computer on which these notes are being typed, he is in every component and material through which this message will be transmitted to people on the list around the world!

SO - Yahweh, Yashua and Messiah (The Holy Spirit) are three distinct manifest presences of Yahweh BUT they are ALL Yahweh!

THUS we see that Yashua is the presence of Yahweh manifest as a man whom we can relate to and who was tempted in every way as we are (Hebrews 4:15 "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." (NKJ))

This MAN we can talk to and can ASPIRE to emulate -- in fact we are COMMANDED to seek to emulate -- and who lived as we do but without sin and who was crucified to take our sins and was resurrected and sits at the "Right Hand of the Father" (Hebrews 10:12 "But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God," (NKJ) - NOTE: "right hand" is not a physical hand, it is the place of authority)

This MAN is our Advocate and our High Priest.

BUT HE IS Yahweh - it is an act of Grace on the part of Yahweh that He has chosen to manifest Himself as the Man Yashua in order to assist us to relate to Him and understand Him!

Yashua is NOT LITERALLY a SON, but He IS the MANIFEST PRESENCE OF Yahweh as a man resulting from the outpouring of the Spirit of Yahweh into a virgin YET Yashua existed FROM THE BEGINNING and Adam was created in the likeness and image of Yashua (Genesis 1:26-27).

THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY BUT IT IS REALITY!

NOTE: the word of which "son" is the translation carries a connotation of kinship, not just direct physical, procreative, descent as we understand the English word "son" today.

In the same way, the Messiah, The Holy Spirit, is a minute portion of the Spirit of Yahweh apportioned to every believer according to that believers faith and the extent to which that believer seeks to be filled with The Holy Spirit and to know Yahweh and Yashua (who are the same but not the same) and seeks to be cleansed with the Blood of the Lamb by confessing their sins, thereby becoming progressively more sanctified and Holy (set apart) to the service of Yahweh (and therefore Yashua).

The Holy Spirit is likewise given as an ACT OF GREAT GRACE by Yahweh, since, as He is UNCOMPROMISINGLY RIGHTEOUS, if He were to pour out His Spirit on us in FULL measure instantly our degenerate, sinful bodies and souls would be utterly consumed in the same way that the altar of Baal was consumed on Mount Carmel in 1 Kings 18:38 "Then the fire of Yahweh (The Lord) fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench." (NKJ)

Thus, Yahweh as our LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER, has chosen to apportion Himself in the person of The Holy Spirit to all who will call on the name of Yashua and ask for the Baptism of The Holy Spirit!

In so doing, Yahweh makes it possible for us to become TRUE Son's of Yahweh (Romans 8:14-16), to be crucified with Messiah -- The Holy Spirit -- (Galatians 2:20) that He, Yahweh, through the minute impartation of His Holy Spirit into each one of us, may LIVE IN US and enable us to attain the exalted status of OVERCOMER, IF WE CHOOSE!

Romans 8:14-16

14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

15  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

16  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, (NKJ)

Galatians 2:20

20  "I have been crucified with Christ [Messiah / The Holy Spirit]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ [Messiah / The Holy Spirit] lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (NKJ)

Revelation 21:7 ""He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son." (NKJ)

Thus, an OVERCOMER is nothing more than one who has chosen to LET GO TOTALLY AND GIVE THEMSELVES ENTIRELY TO Yahweh for, if they are truly Crucified with Christ (= Messiah = The Holy Spirit = Yashua = Yahweh) and it is no longer they that live but Christ (= Messiah = The Holy Spirit = Yashua = Yahweh) that lives in them, then they have nothing to do EXCEPT submit and get out of the way so that He can live their lives through them and for them!!

It is SOOOOO.... EASY, yet it SEEMS so difficult because our own strength so desperately thinks it knows better than Yahweh!

Thus, when we speak to The Holy Spirit we speak ALSO to the Father and the Son.

BUT, to help our LIMITED INTELLECT to grasp Him and relate to Him, He has given Himself to us in the distinct personalities and roles of Father, Son and Holy Spirit in order that we should better understand how to speak to Him and relate to Him.

AND, He has given us in creation, human fathers and sons in order that we can better understand how to relate to Him as a Father, a Judge, a King and a Lord.

AND, He has given us husbands and wives that we can better understand how to relate to him as our Beloved, our Lover, our Protector and Lord.

AND, He has given us mothers and children that we can better understand how to relate to Him as Comforter and Counsellor.

AND, He has given us friends that we can better understand how to relate to him as our Friend!

All that we have that is good in human relationships is given that we might learn to know our God!

Once we accept BY FAITH that He truly is ALL these things AND MUCH MORE -- for He speaks of SEVEN Spirits and seven is the number of perfection and completeness and we see that He also speaks of the Spirit of Wisdom (Exodus 28:3, Deuteronomy 34:9, Isaiah 11:2 and Ephesians 1:17) as well as of the Spirit of Burning and Judgment (Isaiah 4:3) and other Spirits of Yahweh and this is confirmed by Joyner in the visions reported in "The Final Quest" -- thus we learn that He is beyond our ability to comprehend and accordingly it is NOT FOR US to seek to comprehend, ONLY to SEEK HIM by FAITH, trusting that He will REVEAL Himself to us as we are able to receive that revelation, FOR WE ARE CALLED to be TRANSFORMED into the image of His dear Son, Yashua!! (2 Corinthians 3:18 "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." (NKJ))

In closing, I pray "¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ [Yashua Messiah], the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power ²⁰ which He worked in Christ [Yashua Messiah] when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places," (NKJ Ephesians 1:17-20)

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