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Expository Glossary
of Terms Used in
Messianic Teaching (Part 12)
Copyright February 1998
Expository Glossary of Terms used in Messianic Teaching
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Preface
This Expository Glossary of Terms used in Messianic Teaching was
developed for a Messianic study group that has been meeting in the
Helderberg area of South Africa since mid-1995. We plan to publish
three studies on the Messiah, entitled:
King Messiah
The Coming of King Messiah
The Festivals of King Messiah.
The Expository Glossary of Terms used in Messianic Teaching explains
unfamiliar terms that talmidim (students) will encounter in their
studies.
Students are requested to notify us (in writing) of all difficult
terms used in the three monographs listed above, which have been left
out, ore are not adequately explained, in the Glossary.
Key
Entries followed by the symbol [G] are Greek terms.
Entries followed by the symbol [L] are Latin terms.
Entries followed by the symbol [A] are Aramaic terms.
Almost all other foreign-language entries are Hebrew.
(Part 12)
Pirkey Avot
"The Ethics of the Fathers", a tractate in the Mishnah. The Sages'
Guide To Living. Consists of 6 chapters from the Talmud and is loved
by many. The Talmudic sages called it simply Fathers; it is a the
guide to behaviour, attitudes, civility, honour, integrity, faith, and
much more.
Piyyut
Liturgical poem. Many piyyutim were incorporated into the services of
the chaggim and mo'edim.
P'listim
Philistines.
Pneuma
Greek equivalent of Hebrew ruach.
Prodigal son
A midrash on Yirmeyahu 31, the Haftarah reading on Rosh HaShanah.
Yisra'el is seen as a backslidden son who has gone to a far country,
but who will be re-established in the acharit-yamim. In teaching his
talmidim on the Malkut Shamayim, Messiah Yahushua originated many
parables, but also drew on the large pool of existing aggadot used by
other sages of Yisra'el in their instruction to their talmidim.
Proselyte
A person who converted to Judaism, taking the full yoke of the Torah
(i.e. Yisra'el's specific covenantal obligations) upon him or herself.
Prostitute
In Scripture, the image of a prostitute or harlot is used for
unfaithful Israel, Babylon, Ashshur and Tzor (Tyre)-countries that
became so obsessed with economic considerations, wealth, trade, power
and riches, and fell into such idolatry that they became unfaithful to
YHWH.
There is a widespread teaching that Babylon the great Prostitute of
Revelation 17 denotes a false endtime Church. This is wrong-in the
Tanakh, the term is used of nations. Consider, e.g., the close
analogy between the description of the judgement of Assyria and
Babylon:
Nachum 3:1-7
1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never
without victims! 2The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses and jolting chariots! 3Charging cavalry, flashing
swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies
without number, people stumbling over the corpses-
4all because of the wanton lust of a harlot, alluring, the mistress of
sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her
witchcraft.
5"I am against you," declares YHWH Tzva'ot. "I will lift your skirts
over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the
kingdoms your shame.
7All who see you will flee from you and say, 'Nineveh is in ruins-who
will mourn for her?' Where can I find anyone to comfort you?"
Revelation 17:1-6
1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me,
"Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who
sits on many waters. 2With her the kings of the earth committed
adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the
wine of her adulteries."
5This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY. BABYLON THE GREAT.
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones,
the blood of those who bore testimony to Yahushua. When I saw her, I
was greatly astonished.
The article Harlot in Tyndale's Illustrated Bible Dictionary states
that in the ancient Babylonian religion, every woman was obligated to
prostitute herself in the pagan temple at least once in her life, to
earn money for the religious system. Her daughters would have to do
the same. Therefore every Babylonian woman was a "harlot" and a
"mother of harlots"-cf. Revelation 17.
Note that Revelation 17 draws heavily on the imagery of Yesha'yahu 47.
In the next passage, another treacherous dealer-Tzor (Tyre)-is
metaphorically termed a harlot:
Yesha'yahu 23:15-17
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of
seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot.
16Take a harp, go about the city, you harlot that has been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that YHWH
will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit
fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the
earth.
This immoral trading nation will come under judgement at the very
outset of Yom YHWH, and will be devastated by the sea. It will be a
wasteland for 70 years. Then she will be re-inhabited during the
Messianic Kingdom to come. Once more, this will become a nation
obsessed by trade. However, baYom haHu, (in that day), the nation
code-named Tzor will tithe to YHWH.
We conclude that Scripture consistently employs the term "harlot" to
refer to a country that has become rich, powerful and is so obsessed
by power, wealth and trade that it becomes unfaithful to the Almighty.
In the days when the Tabernacle or Temple still stood in ancient
Israel, any Hebrew's wife who was guilty of committing adultery, would
be brought to the Kohen (Priest) and would have to drink bitter waters
which would either convict her of her sin or pardon her:
Numbers 5:12-18
12"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'If any man's
wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,13and a man lies
with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and
it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and there was no witness
against her, nor was she caught-14if the spirit of jealousy comes upon
him and he becomes jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if
the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his
wife, although she has not defiled herself-15then the man shall bring
his wife to the Kohen.
16And the Kohen shall bring her near, and set her before YHWH. 17The
Kohen shall take set-apart water in an earthen vessel, and take some
of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the
water.
18Then the Kohen shall stand the woman before YHWH, uncover the
woman's head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which
is the grain offering of jealousy. And the Kohen shall have in his
hand the BITTER WATER THAT BRINGS A CURSE.
After the Kohen puts the dust from the tabernacle floor into the
water, it becomes BITTER WATER. This happens BEFORE the curses are
written down in the book and washed out into the cup:
Numbers 5:19-29
19And the Kohen shall put her under oath, and say to the woman, "If no
man has lain with you, and if you have not gone astray to uncleanness
while under your husband's authority, be free from this bitter water
that brings a curse. 20But if you have gone astray while under your
husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man
other than your husband has lain with you"-21'then the Kohen shall put
the woman under the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the
woman-"YHWH make you a curse and an oath among your people, when YHWH
makes your thigh rot and your belly swell;22and may this water that
causes the curse go into your stomach, and make your belly swell and
your thigh rot." Then the woman shall say, "Amen, so be it."
23Then the Kohen shall WRITE THESE CURSES IN A BOOK, and he shall
scrape them off INTO THE BITTER WATER.
24And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a
curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become
bitter.
25Then the Kohen shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the
woman's hand, shall wave the offering before YHWH, and bring it to the
altar; 26and the Kohen shall take a handful of the offering, as its
memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman
drink the water.
27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has
defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, that the
water that brings a curse will enter her and become bitter, and her
belly will swell, her thigh will rot, and the woman will become a
curse among her people.
28But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she
shall be free and may conceive children.
29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband's
authority, goes astray and defiles herself.
After putting dust from the tabernacle floor into the cup, the Kohen
would write down all the curses on paper. The Kohen would then pour
the bitter water over the paper, washing them down into a jar or cup
that the accused adulteress would drink of. Her sins were now
symbolically contained in the cup. When the woman drank this water,
it was symbolic of her drinking up her sins.
Let us now compare
Revelation 8:10-11
10Then the third messenger sounded: And a great star fell from heaven,
burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the
springs of water.11The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the
waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it
was made BITTER.
in the light of its Hebraic setting. The third shofar plague of
Revelation turns the rivers and fresh springs ofwater to wormwood, or
bitter water. Wormwood is portrayed in the Scripturesas the penalty
for committing idolatry or spiritual adultery. Like theadulterous
woman of Numbers, all who do not worship YHWH,and are therefore guilty
of committing spiritual adultery with the mighty one ofthis world,
will have to drink of the water that brings a curse. Just as in
Numbers,the waters in Revelation are turned bitter and the sins of
thepeople are written in a book in heaven and the bitter water is
poured overthem washing off the sins from the book into the rivers and
streams that thepeople must now drink.
Revelation 16:4-6
4Then the third messenger poured out his bowl on the RIVERS AND
SPRINGS OFWATER, and THEY BECAME BLOOD.
5And I heard the messenger of the waters saying: "You are righteous, O
Master,the One who is and who was and who is to be, because You have
judged thesethings.
6For they have shed the blood of set-apart ones and prophets, and You
have given them blood to drink. For it is their just due."
Now, after the waters are turned bitter, the people must drink of
their sins (which is the water that symbolically contains them), to
atone for their transgression. The water is turned to blood because
this punishment is symbolic of the sins that they have committed,
namely the slaying of YHWH's people. In heaven, Yahushua our Kohen
has written down the sins of the people in a book and will pour out
the bitter water over them, washing the sins into the rivers and
springs of water that the people must now drink.
Once we understand that the punishment that is given to the adulterous
woman of Numbers is symbolic of the punishment of all who commit
fornication with the world, we can come to a deeper and more profound
understanding of the meaning of this temple ritual.
Revelation 17:3-6
3So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a
woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.
4The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full
of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
5And on her forehead a name was written: Mystery, Babylon the Great,
the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth.
6I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones and with
the blood of martyrs of Yahushua.
This cup that Babylon the Great was holding was the cup full of the
sins that she was guilty of committing. Just as when the adulterous
woman in Israel would have to drink of the filthiness of her
fornication, symbolised by the curses being washed from the paper into
the cup, so too will Babylon the Great have to drink up her sins of
spiritual adultery. The cup that she is holding in the above verse
has already had the sins washed into it. As her punishment, Babylon
the Great will have to symbolically drink the blood of the set-apart
ones, since this is her crime against YHWH. This is why the rivers
and fountains of water are turned to blood as demonstrated by
Revelation 16:4-6.
Revelation 14:9-10
9Then a third messenger followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If
anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his
forehead or on his hand, 10he himself shall also DRINK THE WINE OF THE
WRATH OF Elohim, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His
indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
presence of the set-apart messengers and in the presence of the Lamb.
As we know from the Gospels, wine is symbolic of blood. Therefore,
drinking the WINE of the wrath of Elohim is the symbolic punishment of
all those who are guilty of shedding the BLOOD of the set-apart ones.
Not only are these people guilty of killing the set-apart ones, but
they have also committed spiritual adultery with the mighty one of
this world, Satan. Therefore, as prescribed by the Torah, these
people must drink of the bitter waters that bring a curse. This cup
that is full of the "wine of the wrath of Elohim" is analogous to the
cup that the adulterous woman had to drink of in Numbers. Below are
some examples in the Scriptures where this "water that brings a curse"
can be found.
Hoshea 5:10
The princes of Yahudah are like those who remove a landmark; I will
POUR OUT my wrath on them like [bitter] WATER.
Yirmeyahu 25:15-17
15For thus says YHWH Elohim of Israel to me: "Take this WINE CUP OF
FURY from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to
drink it. 16And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the
sword that I will send among them."
17Then I took the CUP from YHWH's hand, and made all the nations
drink, to whom YHWH had sent me.
Iyov 21:20
Let his eyes see his destruction, and let him DRINK of the wrath of
the Almighty.
Tehillim 75:8
For in the hand of YHWH there is a CUP, and the WINE is red; it is
fully mixed, and He pours it out; surely its dregs shall all the
wicked of the earth Drain and drink down.
Yesha'yahu 51:17
Awake, awake! Stand up, O Yerushalayim, you who have drunk at the hand
of YHWH the CUP of His fury; you have drunk the dregs of the cup of
trembling, and drained it out.
Yesha'yahu 51:22
Thus says your Master, YHWH and your Elohim, who pleads the cause of
His people: "See, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling,
the dregs of the cup of My fury; you shall no longer drink it.
Every one of us has a choice, we can either drink of the cup of
Elohim's wrath, or we can drink of the cup of Elohim's covenant. The
cup of YHWH's covenant can be referred to as the "water of life," as
opposed to the "bitter water," or the "water that causes a curse" that
Satan offers. We must drink one cup or the other.
As we all know, when Yahushua was hanging from His execution stake
(tree) He asked for something to drink and they gave Him vinegar.
Although we may have never realised it, there is profound significance
in the fact that Yahushua's last act was drinking vinegar before
yielding up His Spirit on the tree. Vinegar can be described as sour
wine. A synonym for sour is bitter, therefore vinegar could be called
BITTER WINE. This vinegar that Yahushua drank of was both symbolic of
the BITTER waters that the adulteress would have to drink of at the
temple, and the WINE of the fury of Elohim against sin.
Yochanan 19:29-30
29Now a vessel full of SOUR WINE was sitting there; and they filled a
sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.
30So when Yahushua had received the SOUR WINE, He said, "It is
finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Mattatiyahu 27:45-50
45Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over
all the land.
46And about the ninth hour Yahushua cried out with a loud voice,
saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My Elohim, My Elohim,
why have You forsaken Me?"
47Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said, "This Man
is calling for Elijah!"
48Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with SOUR
WINE and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink.
49The rest said, "Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to
save Him."
50And Yahushua cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His
spirit.
Mark 15:36
Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of SOUR WINE, put it on a
reed, and offered it to Him to drink, saying, "Let Him alone; let us
see if Elijah will come to take Him down."
What was the significance for Yahushua drinking the water that brings
a curse? According to the Torah, any wife that has committed adultery
had to drink of the bitter water. We are the BRIDE of Yahushua. Being
imperfect humans, we commit sin, which is in reality spiritual
adultery, all of the time. So we, being the bride of Messiah, are
guilty of committing spiritual adultery. If we were to obey the Torah
to the letter, we would all have to drink of the waters that bring a
curse (BITTER water) since we have committed spiritual fornication.
But YHWH in His infinite mercy has given His only begotten Son to take
the punishment for His bride in our stead. He drank the BITTER wine
so that we don't have to. Every one of us is guilty of killing
Yahushua since we have all sinned. Therefore, by rights, our sin is
not only spiritual adultery, but we have also shed the blood of the
Son of Elohim. But as stated above, Yahushua has drank of this
punishment symbolically portrayed as bitter WINE. This cup of the
wrath of the Father against sin, that He drank when laying down His
life for us, is the very cup that He spoke of throughout His 3½ year
ministry.
Mattatiyahu 20:22
But Yahushua answered and said, "You do not know what you ask. Are you
able to drink the CUP that I am about to drink, and be baptised with
the baptism that I am baptised with?" They said to Him, "We are able."
Mattatiyahu 26:42
Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O My Father,
if this CUP cannot pass away from Me unless I DRINK it, Your will be
done."
Mark 14:36
And He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this
CUP away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will."
Yochanan 18:11
Then Yahushua said to Peter, "Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I
not DRINK the CUP which My Father has given Me."
The cup of the adulterous woman spoken of in the book of Numbers has
proven to be a key to great insight. This same cup is the one spoken
of in Revelation that Babylon the Great has been given to drink from.
Yahushua Himself drank of this cup so that we, His Kehilat, can be
found righteous, and are as a result, capable of standing in the day
of His return.
Proselyte
A convert to Judaism.
Proto-rabbi
Formal ordination of rabbis was only instituted after 70 YM. Before
this period, many prophetic teachers were given the title rabbi.
Yeshua was an itinerant, aggadic proto-rabbi. Itineranttravelled from
place to place. Aggadicteach by parables. Proto-rabbiA rabbi
(prophetic teacher) who lived before the time when rabbis were
formally ordained.
Proto-rabbinic Judaism
Judaism before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD.
P'rushim
Pharisees, i.e. the upholders of the Oral Torah at the time of the
Second Temple. The Pharisees were the teachers of the common people.
In the 1st century, many were itinerant, i.e. they travelled from
place to place. They instructed by means of aggadot (parables).
Yahushua was like a Pharisee in the sense that He was an itinerant
Aggadic Rabbi.
The Sadducees comprised mostly of the Temple religious establishment.
They were the primary sect that ran the order of business in the
Temple. The Sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection of the dead,
didn't believe in angels or the Ruach HaKodesh. (That is why they were
sad, you see.) In contrast to the Sadducees, the Pharisees did
believe in the resurrection of the dead, believed in angels and in the
Ruach HaKodesh.
Of all the sects of Judaism in the 1st century, it was only the
Pharisees who remained as a distinguishable sect of Judaism. It was
the Pharisees who wrote the Talmud (Oral law of Judaism consisting of
the Mishnah and Gemara). The Pharisees often criticised the Sadducees
in the Talmud for their hypocrisy. When the Pharisees wanted to tell
somebody how not to be religious, they did so by condemning the
Sadducees and saying, "Don't be like the Sadducees who do such and
such."
The were two main groups among the Pharisees. One group followed the
Rabbi Hillel the Great and the other followed Rabbi Shammai. One
group was known as the House of Hillel and the other group was known
as the House of Shammai. Beit Shammai was more strict regarding the
Torah and followed more closely the letter of the Torah than Beit
Hillel. In some issues in the Gospels, Yahushua ruled with the House
of Shammai and in other places He ruled with the house of Hillel.
Overall, Yahushua most often agreed with the position of the House of
Hillel; in Mattatiyahu 23, he apparently clashes head-on with
Beit-Shammai. The House of Shammai disappeared over time. All who
remained in their distinguishable form were the Pharisees of the House
of Hillel. The Pharisees of the House of Hillel wrote the Talmud. The
Talmud is the Oral Teachings of Judaism that were written down to
preserve the Oral Teachings after the Temple was destroyed in 70 YM as
the Jews were eventually taken captive by the Romans and dispersed
into the nations of the world. The Talmud began to be written about
200 YM There is a Yerushalayim Talmud and a Babylonian Talmud. The
Babylonian Talmud is the most extensive, authoritative, and is the
most studied within Orthodox Judaism today.
Following the destruction of the Temple in 70 YM, in order to preserve
Judaism, Judaism was restructured at Yavneh in the land of Israel by a
group of Rabbis. Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai emerged as their leader.
When this was done, Judaism changed from being primarily Aggadic to
being primarily Halakhic. Thus, Rabbinic Judaism was established.
Modern day Orthodox Jews trace their roots to the Pharisees of the
House of Hillel. In the last 150 years, those Jews who have broken
away from the Orthodox Judaism have formed two other main sects of
Judaism-Conservative and Reform. Both of the these sects are more
liberal than Rabbinical Orthodox Judaism and have steered away from
the Oral teachings of Rabbinical Orthodox Judaism while trying to
maintain their Jewish religious heritage and balance this with the
realities of the modern world. Reform Judaism is at the opposite
extreme of Rabbinical Orthodox Judaism and is very liberal.
Conservative Judaism is a balance between Rabbinical Orthodox Judaism
and the very liberal Reform Judaism. There are even various sects
within Orthodox Judaism itself. Some Orthodox Jews try to remain
Orthodox and try to balance this with the realities of the modern
world. These are known as "Modern Orthodox." Then, there are the
Ultra-Orthodox Chassidic Jews. There are even various sects among the
Chassidics. Many of the Ultra-Orthodox Jews do not even acknowledge
Conservative or Reform Jews as representing Torah Judaism.
Pseudepigraphic
Written under another name.
P'shat
The literal meaning or plain sense of a passage of Scripture.
Purim
Literally: lots; festival that celebrates the survival of the Jewish
people in the time when Haman the Agagite attempted to have them all
killed.
Puritans
Founding immigrants to USA who seeked purity of faith. Some of the
early Christian settlers who came to the USA from Europe to seek
religious freedom in the founding days of the USA were strongly
opposed to the celebration of pagan festivals such as Christmas. The
Puritans embraced their Hebraic Heritage. Very few people realise
that the US congress voted on Hebrew being the official language of
the USA. This proposal was defeated by only one vote in the early
days of the republic. This is how much influence our Hebraic Heritage
and the embracing of it had in the early days of the USA and how close
the USA came to speaking Hebrew today!
Qahal
Assembly, congregation. See Kahal.
Rabbi Yahudah haNasi
A famous rabbi, credited with compiling the traditional oral teachings
of Judaism into the Mishnah, circa 200 CE. In the Talmud, he is
simply referred to as "the Rabbi."
Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai
This pharisee and sage survived the First Jewish Revolt against Rome
by being carried out of the besieged city of Yerushalayim in a coffin.
In Yavne, he guided his followers in establishing a Judaism that
could exist meaningfully without a temple. For this reason, he is
often called the father of rabbinic Judaism. Like Sha'ul, he also
studied under the highly respected Rabban Gamli'el.
Rachav
Rahab.
Proud, harlot, broad wall. A term for Egypt, and also for the kingdom
of the Antichrist, which is foreshadowed by ancient Egypt-see Iyov
9:13 & 26:12; Tehillim 87:4; Yesha'yahu 30:7 & 51:9.
Rachatzah
Washing Ur'chatz-celebrant washes, one of the fifteen phases of the
Seder ceremony Rochtzah-the phase of the Seder ceremony in which hands
are washed for the meal.
Ramah
Seat of idolatry in ancient Egypt.
Rashi
Rabbi Solomon ben Yitzchak. A famous rabbinic commentator who lived
in France around the years 1040-1105. He penned a very famous and
valuable Torah commentary.
Rasha
Plural: Rashim.
The wholly wicked, the iniquitous, the perversely wrong. Vessels fit
for destruction.
Rav
A Sage of the Talmudic era. He lived in Babylonia, and composed
today's form of the Aleinu prayer.
Rav Sha'ul
A Hebraic way of referring to Sha'ul the Apostle as a teacher.
Refa'enu
"Heal us.", one of the eighteen benedictions of the Amidah prayer.
Refa'im
Giants.
Relational
Scripture portrays beings relationally and not in absolute categories.
People, e.g., are called tzadekim (righteous ones), kadoshim
(set-apart ones), sinners (ones who miss the mark) and rashim
(perversely wrong ones). All these terms express relational states
and contain ethical value-judgements.
The name and titles of YHWH also have a strong relational content-His
personal Name, YHWH, speaks of escalating manifest being; His title
Elohim signifies a relation of creative and judgemental might that
induces awe and reverence; Adonai denotes a relation of sovereign,
royal power. In contrast, our Greco-Roman heritage often teaches us
wrong, non-relational concepts.
YHWH is our Elohim-He is mighty and we stand in awe of Him.
Relationally to me, the Messiah is Adoni v'Eli-my sovereign master
(Psalm 110:1) and my mighty one (El; Elohim) before whom I tremble in
reverential awe (Psalm 45:7); the fulness of YHWH is manifest bodily
in Him (Yochanan 20:28). Relationally to the Father, the Father is
the Elohim of Yahushua the Messiah-cf. Yochanan 17:3 and Revelation
3:2,12.
Remez
Alluding or hinting to.
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