In Revelations 22:12, the speaker says, “I am coming quickly” and in verse 13, He identifies himself as “the Alpha and the Omega.” In Revelation 1:8, we learn that the Alpha and the Omega is “the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” In Revelation 22:20, the apostle John wrote, “Yes, I am coming quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”
A = The Lord God Almighty
B = The Alpha and the Omega
B = The Alpha and the Omega
C = I am coming quickly
C = I am coming quickly
D = The Lord Jesus
Therefore the Lord Jesus is the Lord God Almighty, or you might say He is Jehovah Jesus.
I AM
“The angel of the LORD appeared to him (Moses) in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush” (Exodus 3:2) and said to him, “I am the God (Elohim) of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob” (Exodus 3:6). Moses was uncertain and asked, what is Your name that I may tell the sons of Israel. “God (Elohim) said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM (Ehyeh asher ehyeh)’; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14).
A1 = The Angel of the LORD
A2 = Elohim
A3 = I AM
The Hebrew phrase Ehyeh asher ehyeh can translate as “I am that I am” or “I will be what I will be.” The Hebrew word ehyeh (הׇיׇה) is derived from the verb “to be” and is related to Yahweh (יהוה), the holiest name of God.
Consider the arrest of Jesus. When the crowd came for Jesus, He said, “Whom do you seek?” They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them, “I am He.” … So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.” (John 18:4-6). Those arresting Him drew back and expected lightning to strike Him for speaking blasphemy. The Jews understood He was claiming to be God.
Now consider the section of scripture found in chapter 8 of the gospel of John, particularly verse 58:
52 The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also;
52 and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death’
53 Surely You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets died too; whom do You
53 make Yourself out to be”?
54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you
54 say, ‘He is our God’;
55 and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be
55 a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57 So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”
59 Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.
B1 = I AM
B2 = Jesus
If the New and Old Testaments shared the same language, the problem of going from Hebrew to Greek would not exist. Intuitively you can see the connection, but the conclusive proof is difficult. Therefore A ≈ B.
Together as One
Consider the verse, “Thus says the LORD (Yahweh), the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD (Yahweh) of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God (Elohim) besides Me’” (Isaiah 44:6). Analyzing terms:
A = The LORD
B = The King of Israel
C = The Redeemer
D = The LORD of Hosts
E = The First and the Last
F = No God besides Me
It is apparent that A = B, C = D, and E = F. The conjunction and joins the terms on either side, such that the boolean expression is (A ⋅ B) ⋅ (C⋅ D) = (E ⋅ F). Therefore if the terms A, B, C, and D are all true, the terms E and F are true.
This verse agrees with the Division model, where the phrase – the LORD, the King of Israel – refers to God the Father, and the term – His Redeemer, the LORD of hosts – signifies Jesus. Together they are the all-inclusive God. Notice it does not say there is no God besides us, but they speak as one.
Jesus is the redeemer since “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses” (Ephesians 1:7). God the Father is spirit, so what is His part in our redemption? God the Father “gave His only begotten Son” (John 3:16), and the Son gave “His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). Was God the Father taking a risk in sending His Son into this world?
Symbolic Manipulation
The mathematical equation A = B could be written in symbolic notation as name(a,b), where a = b. Prolog is a programming language that can manipulate these symbolic structures. Consider the following Prolog program:
Many terms applied to Yahweh and Jesus are general. If Yahweh is king and Jesus is king, are they the same king? If Yahweh is the savior and Jesus is the savior, are they the same savior? If Yahweh is the judge and Jesus is the judge, are they the same judge? If you were to consider probability, you might say that the odds of Yahweh as king and Jesus as king being the same king are 50%. With each successive match, the probability increases. With our reasoning, we cannot prove that Jesus is Yahweh, so where logic fails, we must stand on faith.
Your Throne O God
Taking a closer look at the symbolic manipulation found in the Prolog program above, consider the verses found in chapter 1 of Hebrews:
8 But of the Son (Jesus) He says,
8 Your throne, O God (Theos), is forever and ever,
8 And the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
9 Therefore God (Theos), Your God (Theos), has anointed You
9 With the oil of gladness above Thy companions.
This is a direct quotation from chapter 45 of the book of Psalms:
6 Your throne, O God (Elohim), is forever and ever;
6 A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Thy kingdom.
7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
7 Therefore God (Elohim), Your God (Elohim), has anointed You
7 With the oil of joy above Your fellows.
A = the Son
B = Theos
C = Elohim
∴ A = B = C
Therefore the Son is Elohim. Notice that Elohim has anointed Elohim.
In Psalm 110:1, the Lord speaks to Adonai, the Lord of hosts (Isaiah 6:1,5). Consider a verse where the Lord speaks to the Lord, “The LORD (Yahwah) said to Satan, ‘The LORD (Yahwah) rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD (Yahwah) who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you!’” (Zechariah 3:2). In this verse we have the LORD telling the LORD to rebuke Satan. The Sefaria, A Living Library of Jewish Texts, translated this verse, “But the angel of the LORD said to the Accuser, ‘The LORD rebuke you, O Accuser; may the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you!’” These three verses have God interacting with Himself.
The Father
Your heart is part of you. If you feel great love for someone, you say, “I love you.” You would not say, “My heart loves you.” So also, the Father might not acknowledge that it is His heart prompting Him. Similarly, if your heart asks you to do something, you do not say, “My heart wants me to do this.” Your mind determines if it can be done and then says, “I will do this.” Therefore the division between the mind and the heart becomes blurred, as the division between the Father and the Son becomes blurred (John 17:10).
The division between the Father and the Son aids in understanding their relationship, but perhaps there is no actual boundary. The question, “Where does Jesus end and the Father begin?” would be meaningless. Perhaps, an even more meaningless question is, “Where does the Holy Spirit end and the Father begin?”
Jesus was in the bosom of the Father (John 1:18), but when He emptied Himself (Philippians 2:6-7), that part of Himself which He emptied Himself of remained with the Father. To complete His mission, Jesus had to limit Himself. Consider what Solomon said when he dedicated the temple, “Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built” (2 Chronicles 6:18). If the temple could not contain the glory of God, how much less a human body? When Jesus emptied Himself, is there a limit to how much He emptied himself? If there is a limit, it must be the baby born in a stable and placed in a manger – helpless and vulnerable.
Up to this point, the Father seems to take a passive role in the lives of His disciples. Consider what Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (John 6:44). After being revealed to Peter that Jesus was the Christ, Jesus said, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 16:17). It is evident that the Father is actively working from heaven through the Holy Spirit. Therefore the Father is more involved than is apparent since He may wish to reveal things through the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is the way the Father manifests Himself to His creation. Jesus interfaces with angels and men, so to see the Father, you must look through the Son. Therefore the verses found in chapter 14 of John begin to make sense:
08 Philip said to Him, “Lord show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
09 Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip?
09 He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?
The words that I say to you
10 I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.”
The Holy Spirit
Previously the concept of Equality was discussed as shown in this verse, “Although He (Christ Jesus) existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God (the Father) a thing to be grasped” (Philippians 2:6).
A = The Father
B = Christ-Jesus
Therefore at some point, Christ-Jesus and the Father were equal, A = B, but something happened when Christ-Jesus “emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:7).
B1 = Jesus
B2 = Christ
Therefore B1 refers to the bond-servant Jesus, and B2 refers to Christ. The Greek word for Christ is Χριστός, which means anointed. Christ in the New Testament is equivalent to Messiah in the Old Testament (John 1:41). The Hebrew word for Messiah is מׇשׁׅיתַ, which also means anointed. Therefore when Jesus emptied Himself, He set aside his anointing. He did not lose this anointing but voluntarily set it aside.
Is the anointing which Jesus set aside, which He emptied Himself of, the Holy Spirit? The evidence will support this conclusion that the anointing Jesus set aside is the Holy Spirit.
In the New Testament, the term Holy Spirit comes from the Greek words πνεῦμα and ἅγιον, where the neuter noun πνεῦμα translates wind or spirit, and the adjective ἅγιος (m.), ἅγια (f.), ἅγιον (n.) translates as holy, hallowed, or consecrated. Although this is a neuter phrase, He is not an inanimate object.
The heart of God is in submission to the Father, so the Spirit that Jesus set aside is also subject to the Father. Therefore just as the Father sent Jesus (John 12:49), the Father also sends the Holy Spirit (John 14:26, 15:26). Consider the verses in chapter 4 of Galatians:
4 But when the fullness of the time came, God (the Father) sent forth His Son,
4 born of a woman, born under the Law,
5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might
5 receive the adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God (the Father) has sent forth the Spirit of His Son
6 into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Therefore in verse 6, the Father sends the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of His Son.
The prophets in the Old Testament prophesied concerning Christ as described in First Peter chapter 1:
10 As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful
10 searches and inquiries,
11 seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted
11 the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
Consider the following verses in chapter 31 of Jeremiah, which the author of Hebrews said the Holy Spirit bore witness to (Hebrews 10:15-17; Jeremiah 31:33-34):
33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the
33 LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God,
33 and they shall be My people.
34 And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the
34 LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD,
34 “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
In the above verses, the Spirit of Christ bears witness to the glories following.
SC = the Spirit of Christ
SH = the Holy Spirit
∴ SC ≅ SH
Consider the Spirit that dwells in the born-again believer. “However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells (οἰκεῖ)Verb: οἰκέω - to inhabit, to dwell •
Active Voice • Indicative Mood •
Present Tense • 3rd Person Singular in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him” (Romans 8:9). And a second verse, Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells (οἰκεῖ)Verb: οἰκέω - to inhabit, dwell •
Active Voice • Indicative Mood •
Present Tense • 3rd Person Singular in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). This third verse has a slightly different verb meaning to dwell in, “Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in (ἐνοικοῠντος)Verb: ἐνοικέω - to dwell in •
Active Voice • Participle •
Present Tense • Neut. Gen. Sing. us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you” (2 Timothy 1:14).
SG = the Spirit of God
∴ SG = SC = SH
The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of truth (John 14:16-17,26; 15:26). How can the Spirit aligned with the heart of God be called the Spirit of truth unless He searches the mind of God to find the truth? Consider the scripture found in chapter 2 of First Corinthians:
10 The Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
11 For who among men knows theThe Greek word τὰ means the things. thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?
11 Even so theThe Greek word τὰ means the things. thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
Would the Father, as the mind of God, need to do a deep search of Himself to find the truth?
The Holy Spirit manifests Himself as He wishes. The one and same Spirit empowers all of the spiritual gifts listed in first Corinthians chapter 12:
04 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
07 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
08 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge
09 according to the same Spirit;
09 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing
10 of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
Since the one and same Spirit empowers all these gift, perhaps He should be called the stem cell of the spiritual.
If the Father gives each of His children a measure of the Spirit of Christ, perhaps this is why Paul said, “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). If all the believers throughout the ages are each given a measure of the Holy Spirit, does this not speak of the glory and greatness of Christ?
Conclusion
The Godhead is the Father and Christ Jesus, being one person. The Father is the mind of God and Christ Jesus is the heart of God. Christ Jesus is the bond-servant Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It was necessary to take God apart in order to put Him back together again.
This study does not add much to the understanding of the average Christian.. There is no great revelation her. The doctrine of the Trinity is sufficient in its attempt to understand the Godhead. The “cults” are having trouble understanding the relationship between the Father and the Son, so hopefully, this will help them. This discussion may also help a Jewish person to recognize his Messiah.
Is Jesus Good?
To say that Jesus is good is to acknowledge that He is God.
