El Shadday

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The God of Breasts is but one possible name for God. But it is an important one to remember when we hear people arguing that God is literally a male. If a patriarchal society employed both masculine and feminine metaphors for God and even used the possibly feminine name El Shaddai, why are we so uncomfortable with non-masculine images for God? If we claim to be biblical, but use only masculine images for God, then we aren’t really being biblical, are we? The Bible, the early church fathers, the mystics, and the so-called “heretics” of today are calling us to expand our language for God. If we limit ourselves to gendered language, we have created a graven image of God.

I agree, why do we limit ourselves to translators and not the Hebrew as the Hebrew reads?

May we let the power of God’s many names and the multiple metaphors for God expand our understanding of God beyond our comfort. Let us challenge ourselves to speak of God in new ways, in non-limiting ways, in ways that include rather than exclude.

May the God of Breasts make fertile your imagination, nurture your understanding, and multiply your metaphors. Amen.

I agree. Many see poetry pictures as fiction. God invented poetry in His torah for a reason.

Notice the word "shad" is masculine and "shadday" is also masculine.
Notice the word "ruwach" is feminine.

Why is this?

A poem God guided me to write when I was 16 or 17 years old will help answer this question:

spiritualsprings.org/ss-1569.htm

"Love is a river, And to this young wife, It flows feverishly through her life. "

"Life is a river, a dam fed you some, clear was it's water traditionally done".

Notice the parallel poetry similes running through this poem.

Did the Author of this poem mean the similes of river, dam and water to be fiction? No how could readers think like this?

So why do we write similes? To compare pictures of one thing to another thing, both concepts are real and true.

Notice where does the life and the love come from? The dam, who controls the release of the flow from the river.

The dam is masculine, her husband. The love and life are controlled by her husband and thus the words shad and shadday are masculine because the dam controls the flow and is indeed the primary source of providing the flow in the first place. The wife is a responder to the flow of life and love, and her loving completes the providing love of the provider.

This is why the breast is masculine, and why under His wings is written in this way. The word help meet is masculine in grammar too.

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Eric also presents some really good comments

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27, KJV)

Notice that in this verse it states that Elohim made humans {in his image}, but then it defines this image as male and female. From this we can conclude that the attributes of God are both masculine and feminine. We can then surmise that he placed his masculine attributes within the man and his feminine attributes within the woman and when a man and woman come together and become one (See Genesis 2:24), they together become the image of Elohim.

I agree, the attributes are the different personalities of love and loving.




So why is the word comforter, breast and Shadday all masculine in grammar for Hebrew words?

Because the responder responds as the provider of love and life provides. Her loving response complements His Providing.

What is sad by many, is the assumption the breast, the comforter and the Shadday as "he" whatever they mean by this idea.

Clearly the words refer to feminine personalities, even though this is not apparent in the translations of grammar with the pronouns used. One has to look deeper into the context to dig out the treasures in the Word.

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Consider an older earlier study of the Shadday: with comments of the scholars of the SDA church regarding these studies, and their findings.

The conclusion is, therefore, self-evident (concerning the Shadday) . The theory is nothing but speculation. It has no biblical foundation whatsoever.

spiritualsprings.org/ss-1407.htm

What are all the Bible texts about the Shadday about ?

Ge 17:1 ¶ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am "Al Shadday" ; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Shadday: Strong's 7706 "The pressed door with active hands" What does this mean in English? Notice here both the YHWH and the Shadday as an "AL" meaning "Strong Authority" come together as one before Abraham unto the earth.

Jesus-YHWH is saying I AM the "pressed door with active hands". Both YHWH and Shadday are masculine grammar case words, so what does all this mean?

In order to understand Hebrew pictures we begin with the least number of pictures in a pictured word: so let's look at a two letter pictured word, This word is "shad".

Shad: Strong's 7700, 7699 "The pressed door" There are two doors in the home of heaven, which is compared as a simile to the nomadic tent on earth, the first door is guarded by the Lord of the Home, and He sits with hospitality on his mind for any visitors that might come. The second door of the home is an inner door, where the gender female have their own room, where the man and his wife would sleep. This door is described with the function of the "pressed door". Jeff Benner in his lexicon writes this might refer to the "two swinging", meaning the two teats of the breast, and while this is a description that might fit, it is not a verb of function, which Hebrew is about.

Let's make a comparison to the temple, which is also a simile of the house in heaven, and comes with two doors also. The outer door is where the Lord of the temple would sit waiting for those seeking salvation. The inner door is where the holy of holies is, the very special place where their sits on a gracious throne, the Father or Son, who makes atonement for your sin-offerings. This place, the very special inner room is entered by a large curtain door, called the "pressed door".

As a servant of the Lord, one has not gained all the experiences and thoughts of this Q question, why is this huge curtain door, come with a function of "pressing". One thing I notice you cannot come through this door unless you were pressed deeply, so that the blood flowed, meaning the life given force was required in order to enter. This is an extreme concept of pressing, but was necessary for atonement.  Hmm? thank you Lord, I am beginning to see what the "pressed door" means. It is about the "life force" and this itself is another Q question.

In Hebrew the "strong flow" is a functional description of the "AM" the mother which is a fuzzy meaning, but more importantly the one who responds to the Provider of love.

Let's look at a few Bible verses about the "shad" the "pressed door" for pictures.

Ge 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

Here is the first Bible verse using "shad". I find it strange why the translators do not write "father" as the Father of heaven? Notice the "Strong Authority of thy Provider is a Help-Meet to thee. The Shadday shall bless thee, with blessing of heaven above, and blessings of the deep under, the blessing of the "breast" and "compassion-centre".

What is clear here is the help-meet while a function of the Father as a Provider, actually gives mankind, the Shadday who is functionally similiar as Eve was as a help-meet to Adam (even though the Hebrew word is masculine grammar in case) she was his help-meet.

The word "compassion-centre" also comes with a noun action, meaning "compassion", so this is a functional description of the "womb" which is a fuzzy understanding of this word.

Consider the Ancient Hebrew meaning of "help-meet"

Help-meet: Strong's 5826, 5828 "Looking at the ploughed head" What does this mean?

A plough is used to press deeply into the earth to break apart soil so that water and air might enter, in other words, the ploughing process enhances the life force of the soil. "Looking at the ploughed head" might be Adam considering his better half, who enhances the life force of his own living energy. Let's try some verses:

I see in Jeff Benner's Lexicon, a Ancient Hebrew picture "Looking through the door with active hands, over the nations" might help with the understanding of the "pressed door with active hands". It is only one verse, so discovering things can be predictive....

Strong 5719, 'pleasure'

Isa 47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Hmm? Discovering Ancient Hebrew pictures is not easy. Let's go back to verses about the breast looking for some context to explain its functional meaning , the  "pressed door"

You find the breast is a function of a provider : milk which is a simile of the wisdom from words from the teachings.

Isa 28:9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Hmm so many pictures to learn. It's fun but exhausting looking at all these Ancient Hebrew pictures.

Ge 28:3 And "Al Shadday" bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

The Strong Authority pressed Door with active hands makes us humans blessed.

When you pressed unto the door of a woman, her heart opens, her breasts open with milk, her emotions open and flow with blessings. These are some of the pictures I gleam from studying the verses with this word and related words.  Pressing unto the door, also is something that brings you comfort.

Ge 35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

Ge 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Ge 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

Ge 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

Do we consider Elohiyhm Family power of love as a Generator of love? There is two aspects of the meaning for "family"

1) that a family continues - this is something the Infinity Set does not need to do because it is already everything there is and will ever be. But this is required by earthly material families because we are subject to death, the result of missing God's powers of Infinity.

2) that a family is a generator of love - In this function the Father provides love, the Mother responds to that love, and together flows a single complete flow of love. Until this circuit is complete the love does not flow functionally. The word circuit is a simile of circle, and thus the circle of living is about provider love providing and responder love responding, does this make quantum sense to those minds who consider the Infinity Set ?

Now when cherubims sins, some of God's extended family was missing, so the Family created mankind to replenish or replace the missing angels with another being made a little lower than Elohiym itself.

Ps 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than "elohiym" , and hast crowned him with glory and honour. (Ancient Hebrew)

Why did our translators write "angels" instead? Were they afraid mankind was made higher that cherubims but lower than elohiym ?

In a sense Jesus the Son of the Infinity Set, is now the biological Father of all those adopted into the royal family of Elohiym, through faith that renews our character and our DNA corrupted code back to it's original sacred letter, all trillions of letters even. We were once made by our Maker, now we are remade by our Redeemer all the saved enter into the compassion-centre of the Shadday to experience the second birth process, so at the last trumpet sound we emerge fully developed, for some of us, a very long time in the compassion-centre undergoing redevelopment. This is all made possible because of the Saviour who rescued us. Praise Jesus and the wounds on His hands is an eternal reminder of God's love for mankind. No other dysfunction will remain in the next perfectly functional universe. Jesus our Saviour will stand in glory so brightly, my Lord a tiny child saved by God, growing up in heaven, might ask, where did you get those ugly scars on your hands?

Ex 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

Nu 24:4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

This verse is very significant. We experience visions with our eyes open, a power granted to us by the Shadday. Notice what Mrs White says about this function:

{Now before I begin, my SDA scholar all say there is not a single Bible text linking the Shadday to the Holy Spirit, nor does Ellen White do this either.  wow Please read the link studies at the topic of this webpage }

O, how much we need genuine missionaries! How much we need men and women who will labor under the supervision of the Almighty, in the power of his Spirit! How much we need those who know that God has called them to his service! It is when the work goes hard, that living missionaries reveal by their courage and fortitude and their trust in God that they are led and taught by the Holy Spirit. {RH, September 27, 1906 par. 24}

We accepted the truth point by point, under the demonstration of the Holy Spirit . I would be taken off in vision, and explanations would be given me. I was given illustrations of heavenly things, and of the sanctuary, so that we were placed where light was shining on us in clear, distinct rays. {GW 302.3}

Sister White is always seen in a vision with her eyes opened looking towards heaven.

This parallels the Bible about those in vision have their eyes opened.

{LS 468.3} "In December, 1844, the Holy Spirit gave her a revelation of the second coming of Christ. In this vision of the future there was given a view of the glorious reward that awaits the redeemed and the terrible fate that will come to all who refuse to serve their Lord and Master

So why doesn't our SDA scholar see this evidence without bias?

Nu 24:16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

Ru 1:20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Why does Naomi talk of the Shadday as given her a bitter experience? Because the Shadday gives blessing of "fruitful breasts and a womb".

How can our SDA scholar claim the word "Shadday" is just another name for YHWH as a whole? Jesus is referenced as the everlasting Father, prove to me that Jesus is another separate member of GOD? If the members of elohiym function as echad, how could we prove the members are separate? What is our SDA scholar proving? That he is biased with Jewish traditions?

The word "AL" proves we have a single member "Strong Authority"

How many Strong Authorities are in the term elohiym?

"el shadday"

"el -oah"

"emanu-el"

Are there any more "el" than these three? So these three "el" are the same as elohiym? Which by the way is also an "el" prefix to the word.

Ru 1:21 I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

Job 5:17 ¶ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Here we see a poetry parallel.

Eloah correcteth

Shadday chasteneth

So is this one thing saying it twice in different ways? Is that how poetry parallels work?

Consider the word "parent" how many members does this word relate to? Only One?

Or does it mean Two? How blind can our ignorance be with bias?

If the Hebrew English translator terms the Father as a heavenly parent? wow

Than the Shadday is just another term for Eloah who is the only heavenly parent there is?

What? Are we so blind with bias? Sure the two parents do the same functions as true parents do, they both discipline. So does this mean they are the same and one only heavenly parent?

The scroll Job is the oldest Hebrew learning we have, written long before people had developed bias. Why is there a general lack of the word elohiym in Job, but much about the terms Eloah and Shadday?

Both of these words in Ancient Hebrew grammar are masculine, assuming this is even true with modern traditions of bias based on Modern Hebrew. If this is true both words are Beings describe them as providers. 

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

This verse is interesting because our Hebrew English translator comments upon the verse. Our SDA scholar says Mrs White never wrote of the Shadday. True, she didn't, but God did. Her messages are those GOD told her to write, so we assume she is a Hebrew English translator...

But the Holy Spirit sent the arguments home to hearts with divine power. The words of the apostles were as sharp arrows of the Almighty, convicting men of their terrible guilt in rejecting and crucifying the Lord of glory. {AA 45.1}

Turning to the priests and elders, Christ fixed upon them His searching glance. The words He spoke they would never forget as long as life should last. They were as the sharp arrows of the Almighty.  {DA 697.1}

When the servants of God are called upon to do the disagreeable duty of correcting the erring, let not those upon whom the Lord has not laid this burden stand between the offender and God. If you cannot see matters in the light in which they have been presented, hold your peace; let the arrows of the Almighty fall just where He has directed they shall fall.... {CTr 125.5}

Notice in fairness to readers, I offer all her messages on this theme. Note all three members of the Godhead are referenced under this Hebrew phrase.

In Job, the phrase was a parallel coming from the heavenly parents

"the arrows of Shadday"

"the terrors of Eloah"

Since this as a reference is more complex because the Divine Family Power flows as "echad" with "oneness" and "compound unity".

Job 6:14 ¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. {is afflicted: Heb. melteth}

Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Job 8:5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

Job 11:7 ¶ Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

Notice reference to Heavenly Parents, Eloah and Shadday.

Our SDA colleagues do not know who the old name for the Father is. Not a single Bible verse reflects SDA studies under the Fundamental Creed regarding the Father.

He (Jesus) taught man to address the Supreme Ruler of the universe by the new name—“Our Father.” This name signifies His true relation to us, and when spoken in sincerity by human lips, it is music in the ears of God. Christ leads us to the throne of God by a new and living way, to present Him to us in His paternal love.—The Review and Herald, September 11, 1894. {FE 309.1}

OK, so what is the Old name for our Most High? The SDA as far as I know would not know because they do not consider the Hebrew behind the English translations. No wonder we live and read our Bibles in ignorance and bias, with fuzzy ideas.

Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Job 22:17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? {for: or, to}

Job 22:23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Job 22:25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

Job 22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Job 23:16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Job 24:1 ¶ Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; {vexed...: Heb. made my soul bitter}

Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Job 27:11 ¶ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. {by...: or, being in the hand, etc}

Job 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Job 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

Job 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

Job 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}

Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Consider this about the function if the "Pressed door with active hands"

First consider the fuzzy translation requires more Ancient Hebrew

Job 32:8 But there is a medium in man: and the breathing of the Almighty giveth them understanding. (Ancient Hebrew)

Notice the word medium is the "Holy Spirit" in fuzzy translations, and this is a parallel to the breathing of the Shadday, but this breathing gives understanding. During the breath of the life granted to man, there were two Hebrew words in the breath, not one as assumed.

Ge 2:7 ....the breath of life; Here it is nashamah chay

and

Ge 7:22 ...he breath of life,  Here it is nashamah ruwach chay

So the word medium can mean in our Bibles three specific things.

The word means broadly "medium" which is defined as a 'thing' that 'carries' 'things'.

First the medium can refer to the medium of the Holy Spirit administrated by the eternal being called the Shadday who allows the Father's force for living to flow into higher forms of creatures who become living energy. So the medium carries Divine Power.

Second  the medium can refer to the action of breathing air, which is a simile of breathing your character before God, also a medium property appropriated to you by God as a gift via faith, whether you do this willingly or not. So the medium carries your character.

Third the medium can refer to the carrying of motion in an air media, termed ordinary wind.

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Here is a poetry parallel

Ruwach from one Strong Authority made me.

Nashamah from the Shadday gives me "ongoing living"

So this means as one SDA pastor preached the ruwach is just breathing. Yes that is correct if you view the medium as ordinary wind, and the humans wind in and out as the breathing function is about. But as I corrected the Pastor who failed to mention the Holy Spirit who is also another simile of the Medium, The medium not only carries ordinary breathing, but also "heavenly breathing" the Hebrew word "chayah" refers to "ongoing living" not just living for an appointed time, but for all eternity.

Where does this ongoing living come from? The Shadday ? No because the Shadday functions as a Medium, and carries the life force of living - comes from the Father Provider.

I question how this can be a poetry parallel at all, what has "made" got to do with "ongoing living" ? Sometimes we live in our traditions and precepts of men all the time, they mock us with their confusion.

Job 34:10 ¶ Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. {men...: Heb. men of heart}

Job 34:12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

Job 35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Job 37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Job 40:2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

Ps 68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon. {in it...: or, for her, she}

Ps 91:1 ¶ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. {abide: Heb. lodge}

This verse is interesting. The Most High is the Father Provider. The Shadday causes the shadow of the Most High to be made. Therefore the terms Most High and Shadday cannot be a reference to GOD as a whole. Why? because you cannot make a shadow from One Being functioning as a light source. You require another Being separate to the first being by space and shape, in order to filter or partially block the light source, making a shadow.

But this is a poetry parallel.

Dwelling in a secret place, is a simile of dwelling under His shadow.

Notice the verse

Ps 91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings...

Does the Most High have wings? Not that I know of?

But the Shadday does.

Isa 13:6 ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

It is interesting that destruction comes from the Shadday. An interesting study is who or what is the destroyer?

Eze 1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

Notice as we approach the throne of Elohiym, we are first met by the Shadday. Why?

Eze 1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

If the Shadday is just a part of YHWH as SDA claim, why a second voice heard above the firmament? This voice is the YHWH.

Eze 10:5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

Joe 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

The destruction of the Almighty Hmm?

The time of Noah prefigures the present age. { Notice a parallel } Christ tells us that as it was in the time of Noah, so shall it be in the days that immediately precede his appearing in the clouds of heaven. Human nature in our day, uninfluenced by the Spirit of God, is the same as in the age of Noah. And Satan is not asleep; he is as active and vigilant now as he was then. While the voice of God is making itself heard through his servants in warning and entreaties, he is mustering his forces. He engages his host with gigantic energies to make, through his sophistry, cruelties, and oppression, the words of warning of none effect. The people are tested, and the great mass will be found on the side of the great deceiver, and will be overwhelmed in swift and irretrievable destruction. But those that heed the warnings of God, and in their lives bring forth fruits meet for repentance, shall “dwell in the secret place of the Most High;” they “shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” For them is the promise: “With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.” {ST April 1, 1886, par. 11}

Our SDA scholar is correct that dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, is a simile function as dwelling under the shadow of the Shadday, a thing made by the Shadday partially blocking the direct Most High rays so we fallen natures can endure the powers, hence a shadow is lesser light as a function. But notice this is paralleled to another function and word, "The Spirit of Elohiym". This is also collectively referring to GOD as a whole, but this word also have the "medium" or "Holy Spirit".

(KJV)

2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

How can the Most High be a Provider Father and treat us as sons and daughters, unless their is an eternal member of the Infinity Set also functioning with Responding Love?

If the Father is a Heavenly Parent, as our Hebrew English translator proclaims, who is the other heavenly parent? It says so plainly here, the Shadday is.

Re 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Re 4:8 ¶ And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. {rest...: Gr. have no rest}

Why is holy holy holy mentioned three times and why is there three Names mentioned here?

YHWH        yashah the Son

Eloah-iym   The Strong Authority, a Divine Being who flows - the Provider Father

Shadday    The Responding Mother administrating the Holy Spirit Medium

Re 11:17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

Re 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. {saints: or, nations, or, ages}

Re 16:7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

Notice three members, YHWH Eloah-iym and Shadday

Re 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

Why the great day of Elohiym Shadday? Study who or what is the destroyer.

Re 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

Re 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Re 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

Notice the last reference to three named members of the Divine Family Power.

Father-YHWH Elohiym Shadday and the Lamb called Jesus-YHWH.

No mention of the medium, for such a function was created for a reason, is no longer required in the perfect universe without dysfunction.

(KJV)

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Ps 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment:

God is clothed in solid coloured light that changes as the emotions change.

Adam and Eve were also clothed in this dazzling light as a garment, so while the word "naked" is true in a technical sense, they were covered in light as a garment by the Holy Spirit.

Ps 104:3 ... who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

The medium is a function with wings, and Elohiym uses this function. The medium is a function called the Holy Spirit.

Ps 104:4 Who maketh his angels "malak" "messengers" spirits "ruwach" "mediums" ; his ministers a flaming fire:


Heavenly messengers are mediums, they carry the messages from Elohiym to humans as ministers of flaming fire, a simile for love.

Ps 104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit "ruwach" "medium", they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Notice the medium is a created function, also termed the function of the Holy Spirit.

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Church Investigation of the Author's submission to the Church "It has been suggested that the name or designation for God "Shadday" is a reference to the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead. In order to investigate and assess such a theory, the following questions are raised:

1. Does any of the actual occurrences of the term in the Old Testament explicitly point to or mention the Holy Spirit?

To substantiate the claim it would be expected that the link is very clear in a fair number of the texts."

One has to feel sorry for those of us who do read our Bibles in translation, hence we read the words with stammering lips, as the Bible predicts for those who read their Bibles in English. The Hebrew words is a Bible prophecy that the words went out in another tongue.

Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips

Paul uses this prophecy in the New Testament, for both the spoken words in another language as well as the written words in another language.

Isa 28:11 .... and another tongue

So our Church Investigations says "{there is a} very clear in a fair number of the texts."

OK, where are the clear and numerous texts on the grandest subject of them all ? What is faith?

Only one verse in the OT alludes to this grand theme:

Hab 2:4 ... the just shall live by his faith.

Paul uses this verse a lot in the NT, but in the OT such a theme is almost totally hidden?

How many churches of the world understand what faith really is ? None that the Author reviews.
All seem to think faith is some sort of "mental assent" that one needs to "believe" and thus we are saved by this "believing" whatever that word means?

Nobody would agree with the Author the first simplest word for faith is "manna"? in Hebrew this Greek word is "man" and in Ancient Hebrew has two pictured letters "Flow" and "nations". So in Hebrew the word for faith means the "flow over the nations", and the Israel people termed this "manna" as "what is it? they did not know nor understand. So faith is a heavenly food we simply do not know.

And like any biological food , we have to eat it, to experience the powerful flow of Jesus in us.
Just believing in the food is not enough. Looking at the food is not enough. We have to go and gather up the food and eat it, cook it and relish in it's support for our living.

How many of us understand faith is primarily a food from heaven?

Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Affirming-faith , Affirming-faith , I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that "has faith" in me shall never thirst.

How do we get this bread of heaven? How do we eat Jesus ?

Joh 6:41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

So the Jews rejected the bread of heaven before them.

Joh 6:48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

So manna is a simile of faith, the true faith in Jesus, the bread of heaven, never dies.

Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

So the Jewish response to this bread of heaven?

Joh 6:60 ¶ Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Jesus says faith is a different process than just eating biological food, You have to eat Jesus using the Holy Spirit? So how does this happen?

Joh 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Sadly many Jews left Jesus because they did not understand.

Joh 6:69 And we "have faith" and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

The disciples that did not leave Jesus had faith in this flow they did not understand. Question: do you have to understand what faith is in order to use faith? No do don't have to understand it properly, you just eat Jesus and learn what the Holy Spirit does when you eat Jesus? How is this done as a process?

Notice John 6 never explains the process.

So back to my friend, the Investigation of our submission to the Church? Where is the clear and numerous texts about the process of faith, eating the Lord Jesus?

Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Here is another time and place of Jesus speaking:

Joh 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

Nicodemus did not have faith, so he asked, how can a man be born a second time?

Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, Affirming-faith Affirming-faith, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

So in order to eat Jesus by faith, we have to be born again and this involves the Holy Spirit?

Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Notice Jesus says you do have to be born again. This implies the Holy Spirit does have a compassion-center which fuzzy translations term "womb".

Joh 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

So this second birth is as literal as the first birth, for the Holy Spirit was involved in the first birth of Adam, inside the compassion-center of the Holy Spirit, receiving the "breath of life" from the Father and the development from the Mother.

Notice Nicodemus reply

Joh 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Joh 3:11 Affirming-faith Affirming-faith, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Notice Jesus offers a clue to this process:

Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the "saraph" in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

Question: Is saraph, a description as in Greek thinking, or a process of action as in Hebrew thinking? The burning one is burning because of the love, so the one on the pole is a simile of the burning love , points to two beings, one whose burning went out and was replaced with the outgrowth of his mouth, fangs of burning. And the other is a burning of love and the outgrowth of His mouth are burnings of love that come to you via faith in His process of support.

And

Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever "has faith" in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Notice Jesus does not explain the Holy Spirit function of the second birth and the process of faith, when we eat Jesus?


So our Church Investigations says "{there is a} very clear in a fair number of the texts."

So no where does the New testament explain the process of the second birth and the faith process of eating Jesus? Why not ? Because it is explained once in the Old Testament, so needs no further explaining by Jesus in His New Testament.

So this process of the second birth is only explained ONCE in the OT by a prayer of David:-

Ps 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom

This word "truth" Strong's 571 has the letters in Ancient Hebrew as pictures of "Strong Flow over the Nations towards an important mark" and thus is a "faith word".

Ps 51:6 Behold, thou desirest "faith affirming truth" in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom

Now notice has this prayer follows:

Ps 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

The second birth like the first birth of Adam is a creative process inside the compassion-center of the Holy Spirit.

And where is the faith process explained in Scripture? Are there clear and numerous texts? No, the process is explained in a whole scroll of Jesus, hidden away by fuzzy spelling of His name.

In the end of the process of faith is written these simple words

Ho 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. (KJV)

Or expounded using Ancient Hebrew

Yashah 14:2 Take takings with you as words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we will break open our "mouth-head" of our lips. (Ancient Hebrew)

Paul explains this process in detailed words:

Heb 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Hence the same idea.

We can be thankful for our Hebrew English translator helping us make sense of faith as a process and the genuine understanding of this process. However like Scripture her messages are parables and hide the truth too, for we have to dig out the treasures of truth, they are not clear and numerous as some would like. They are more like pearls and gold, rare and difficult to find. And to our mockers, there is always room to doubt and mock. And remain in the darkness of the Scriptures, unless you pray for the light of the Grand Tutor, you will discover only words there, and not the precious promises of faith in the power of Jesus, our Saviour of divine words. Shalom