This is a lovely depiction of the Messiah Yeshua revealed in the names of men found in the Old Testament (I do not like the OT and NT classifications as the entire book is relevant not secondary). Genesis 1 thru Revelation 22 is the treasure God has given to reveal Himself, how we are to relate to and worship Him, as well as how He commands we relate to others having a servant heart as our Savior and Lord exemplifies.
| ADAM | MAN |
| SETH | APPOINTED |
| ENOSH | MORTAL |
| KENAN | SORROW |
| MAHAHLALEL | THE BLESSED GOD |
| JARED | SHALL COME DOWN |
| ENOCH | TEACHING |
| METHUSELAH | HIS DEATH SHALL BRING |
| LAMECH | THE DESPAIRING |
| NOAH | REST, COMFORT |
The Word of God is living and unique among all other books as we continually obtain deeper knowledge with each read. Blessings flow from knowing YHVH as He is revealed in scripture. This dispels the falsehood that the Bible is difficult to understand, it is not. If redeemed in Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit, He is our teacher and guides us to know the deeper things of God as we read.
I’ve heard some say that prior to becoming a member of the family of God and having a heart transplant that removes our dead heart of stone and giving us one of flesh. Once the rebirth has occurred the living Word of God becomes easily understood making us a workman unashamed rightly dividing the Word of God.
Moreover, there is no reason to go to a lettered man or woman who received a DD degree. The Holy Spirit is our teacher and our heavenly Rabbi Jesus will guide our understanding via the indwelling Holy Spirit. In all four gospels, Yeshua cautioned that we “take heed that no man deceive you” and the only protection against that is to read the bible for oneself. Unfortunately, the visible buildings d.b.a. church have their own bent, if you will, to what is the doctrine of Christ often disputing with others which has resulted in the establishment of 40,000+ sects which was never the intention of our Father.
John 17 is a beautiful prayer Yeshua made to our Father for His disciples – all redeemed and following Christ daily – unity being one in Christ.
These words spake Jesus, and lift up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me: and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
This is true unity. Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, obeying His commandments, learning and following the doctrine of Christ, and refusing seducing spirits and doctrines of devils in the form of “another gospel” which is no gospel at all. In recent decades, the tax exempt buildings have modeled corporate growth of Peter Wagner which, in my view, is a rejection of the eternal truth that Jesus will build His Church. The majority of these organizations are in the great apostasy prophesied by our Lord.
In a pursuit of numbers and relevancy, many a church has become indistinguishable from the world. Pagan helly-days have completely eclipsed the Feasts of the LORD to the point that heads, I reject that such are under-shepherds of Christ, of these organizations have made the same grave error as ancient Hebrews by embracing idolatry, babbling “contemplative” prayers, prayer labyrinths, repetitive music that, essentially, places hearers in a mental state whereby they are ready to receive doctrines contrary to scripture. Many attendees no longer bring a bible to gatherings, and when horrid translations are quoted the hearers can not discern the errant doctrine. Conversely, if a believer has studied the Bible the Holy Spirit will rise up within and discern the error.
Let me encourage you to read the bible for yourself. I promise your love for God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit will grow into a burning passion, and you will be discerning of false doctrines. It is important to discern prevalent deceiving spirits that while they exceed our intelligence before Almighty God they do not stand a chance against we who know our God.