ONE YAH- THREE THEORIES

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Today we are walking in: One Yah- Three Theories
















Exodus 3:18




And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three H7969 days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.












THREE







Today we look to the word-THREE H7969 shalowsh--three, triad, third











The Torah testifies...............








Exodus 10:22




And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three H7969 days:




Exodus 15:22




So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three H7969 days in the wilderness, and found no water.




Numbers 10:33




And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three H7969 days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.










The prophets proclaim..................



Isaiah 20:3




And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three H7969 years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;




Jonah 1:17




Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three H7969 days and three H7969 nights




Daniel 3:24




Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three H7969 men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.









The writings bear witness...........................






Esther 4:16




Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three H7969 days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.




1 Chronicles 21:12




Either three H7969 years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three H7969 days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.




2 Chronicles 4:4




It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three H7969 looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.


















One Yah - Three Theories




Trinitarianism




Modalism




Monotheism




1. Trinitarianism




Trinitarianism, or the concept of the Trinity, is a Christian doctrine that attempts to explain the multi-faceted nature of Yah. The doctrine asserts the following:




• There is one and only one Yah.




• Yah eternally exists in three distinct per-sons.




• The Father is Yah, the Son is Yah, and the Holy Spirit is Yah




• The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Father, the Father is not the Spirit, etc. 6




The term "Trinity" does not appear in the Bible. Theophilus of Antioch (c. 180 A.D.) first used the Greek term trias (a set of three) in reference to Yah, His Word, and His Wisdom. Tertullian, an early Church father (c. 215 A.D.), was the first one to state this doctrine using the Latin term, Trinitas (Trinity), referring to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity evolved in the early Church in reaction to the heretical teachings of Arianism regarding Yahusha. Arianism attempted to reconcile the belief in one Yah by denying the full Divinity of Yahusha. Arianism taught that Yahusha was divine, but that He was a lesser deity, created by the Father.




2. Modalism




Modalism is the belief that Yah is one Person who has revealed Himself in three forms or modes. According to Modalism, Yahusha is Yah acting in one mode or role, and the Holy Spirit is Yah acting in a different mode. While Trinitar-ianism teaches that Yah exists as three Persons:

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Modalism teaches that Yah is one Person who has manifested Himself in three mutually exclusive modes at various times. For example, when Yah appeared in the "mode" of Yahusha, the "mode" of Yah the Father no longer existed. Modalism denies the basic distinctiveness and coexistence of the Trinity-Yah in three eternal, coexistent Per-sons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.




3. Monotheism




Monotheism, or the belief in One Yah, affirms the Biblical truth of Yah's One-ness. Unlike Trinitarianism, Modalism, and Arianism, Monotheism upholds the Scriptural tenet without attempting to explain Yah in His numerous manifestations. Monotheism is the foundation through which the finite human mind can even begin to grasp and understand our infinite Yah. Monotheism does not separate Yah the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit into eternally separate and distinct Persons, Modes, or Manifestations. Monotheism expresses the fundamental Scriptural truth that Yah is One, and this One and only Yah is:




• Omnipresent: Existing everywhere at all times. Yah has no spacial boundaries.




He fills the universe and beyond ... and He is always near.




• Omniscient: Knowing all things. Yah knows all our thoughts and deeds, in the past, present, and future.




• Omnipotent: Yah is all-powerful.




• Eternal: Without beginning and without end. Yah transcends time.




Trinitarianism and Modalism are clearly western or Greek in thought and orientation.

The concepts related to both of these theories are decidedly linear. When attempting to explain the infinite Yah using western terms such as Trinity or even "Modes" of Yah, this Greek thought results in a linear timeline of Yah's revelation and manifestation. By contrast, eastern or Hebrew thought is consistently circular and eternal. From the Hebrew perspective Yah transcends time and space. Yah exists everywhere and at all times. The numerous manifestations of Yah throughout the Bible are simply progressive revelations of the same One Yah.




Hear O Israel! The Most High our Yah the Most High is One."?

(Deuteronomy 6:4)




The Jews profess and believe in One Yah.

This Biblical cornerstone of the Hebrew faith is called the Shema. As far as the Jews are con-cerned, the Yah of the Old Testament could not be a different Yah in the time of the New Tes-tament. When the Hebrew people see the typical Church portrayal of Yahusha, they wonder if Christians believe that Yahusha is somehow a different Yah than the Yah of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? This causes more than a little confusion as to the validity of Christianity and those who are followers of Yahusha as the Messiah. It's confusing, because if you believe in the Scriptural tenet of One Yah, then you must also believe that Yahusha is Yah. Logically then, if you believe that Yahusha is the Yah of the Old Testament, then you believe in the Ten Commandments. After all, where do the Ten Commandments come from? They come from Yah! And as recorded in the Torah, the Ten Commandments state:




"You shall have no other Yahs before Me."

(Exodus 20:3, emphasis added)




Therefore, if the Yah of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the Yah of the Tanakh (Old Testament), and Yah is One (Shema), then the Yah of the New Testament must be this same Yah. So then, why does Christianity appear to be introducing a new Yahusha, with new commands, and a new covenant, distinctly inconsistent and even contrary to earlier Biblical Principles? The truth is, He's not a new Yahusha, He is the Word of Yah Who appeared to Abraham (Genesis 15). He is Elohim our Creator and He is Adonai our Most High. He is the salvation of the Living Yah (Isaiah 12), and He is the visible manifestation of the invisible Yah (Colossians 1:15).




Do you believe that Yahusha created the universe or do you believe that Yahusha is a separate Yah from the One Who created it? Do you believe that the Yah of the Old Testament is different than Yahusha, or are Yah the Father and Yahusha One and the same? Is Yah the Father a different Yah than Yahusha the Son? Is the Holy Spirit a different Yah than Yah the Father? How can we believe in three separate and distinct Persons within the "Yah-head" and still assert that "Yah is One!?"




Whatever natural explanations or illustrations people use to describe the multiple manifestations of Yah, including His Incarnation as Yahusha (Yahusha), you cannot nullify the foundational truth that Yah is One and there is no other! The clear message of the Gospel-the "Good News"—is that Yahusha is Yah, and Yah desires to dwell within His people.




• Yahusha in His Divinity is Yah... and in His humanity is Man.




• Yahusha in His Divinity is the Father ... and in His humanity is the Son.




• Yahusha in His Divinity is Spirit …. and in His humanity is Flesh.




• Yahusha in His Divinity came to save us ... and in His humanity He died to redeem us.




The following Scriptures are grouped to help clarify, Biblically, the "One-ness" of Yah and the Divinity of Yahusha.




"Hear, O Israel: The Most High our Yah, the Most High is one!" (Deuteronomy 6:4)




"I and My Father are one."(John 10:30)




"And Yah said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM.' And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you." (Exodus 3:14)




"Yahusha said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."' (John 8:58)




"Now see that I, even I, am He, and there is no Yah besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal." (Deuteronomy 32:39)




"Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins." (John 8:24)




"The Most High Himself is Yah in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other." (Deuteronomy 4:39)




"No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven." (John 3:13)




"a just Yah and a Savior; there is none besides Me. "Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am Yah, and there is no other." (Isaiah 45:21-22)




“... looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great Yah and Savior Yahusha Christ" (Titus 2:13)




"Thus says the Most High, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Most High of hosts: 'I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no Yah." (Isaiah 44:6)




"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Most High, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." (Revelation 1:8)




"For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. and His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty Yah, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)




"He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father?' Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?" (John 14:9-10)




"The Most High is my shepherd;" (Psalms 23:1)




"I am the good shepherd." (John 10:13)




"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our Yah stands forever." (Isaiah 40:8)




"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away."? (Matthew 24:35)




"The Most High came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints; from His right hand came a fiery law for them." (Deuteronomy 33:2)




"Behold, the Most High comes with ten thousands of His saints," (Jude 1:14)