DEVARIM

Words [of Moses]

4 Hear [Shema], O Israel [Yisroel]: Yahweh our Elohim is one [Echad] Yahweh:

What does Moses teach in this formula?

Answer: That there was a

"future in the history of the Hebrew nation when it should be ruled by a "king and princes," or Elohim, who should all be the eternal Spirit, self-styled Yahweh, multitudinously manifested in glorified humanity."

What does the Mosaic symbol, "Yahweh Elohim" set forth?

Answer: "Deity manifested in flesh."—(1 Tim. 3:16.)

How was the memorial name "I will be Elohim," to be fulfilled?

Answer: According to the covenant of the hidden period (improperly rendered "an everlasting covenant," in 2 Sam. 2:3, 5) made of God with David concerning His son Jesus, saying

"I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a Son."—(2 Sam. 7:11–16.)

What is the doctrinal import of "Yahweh Elohim" as initiated in Jesus?

Answer: salvation. The name Jesus, in the Hebrew language, is Yah-shua, signifying

"I will be the Saviour."

The Christadelphian, Jan 1872

'Hear, (Sh'ma) O Israel: Yahweh our Elohim is the one (ekhad) Yahweh'

"Hear, O Israel! He who shall be our MIGHTIES is the One he who shall be! [Eureka]

...Now for this result to be manifested, one of three things was necessary; either that "Ail," the Eternal Spirit Himself, should descend from unapproachable light, and plant Himself in the midst of the Hebrew nation unveiled; or, that a portion of free spirit, emanating from His substance, should be embodied, constituting "Holy Spirit Nature," or God veiled; or, that the Eternal Spirit should create a body from the material race of Adam, and fill it with His own power and wisdom without measure.

(This is the true doctrine of Deity Manifestation - a sin defiled nature filled with grace and wisdom).

In either of these events, it would have been God with Israel, dwelling in the midst of them. But the first alternative was impossible: for God unveiled in any nation would be its destruction, for Moses testified that Yahweh declared to him:

"There shall no man see Me, and live";

and Paul, who taught the same doctrine as Moses, says:

"No man hath seen, or can see Him";

and Jesus also bears the same witness, that

"No one hath seen the Father, except he who is from Theos (Divine Power): the same hath seen the Father."

...Such is the hidden mystery of the Sh'ma Yisraail, revealed in the Nazarene proclamation of the Moses-like prophet and his apostolic associates. Hear, O Israel, the Eternal Spirit, who has surnamed himself 'Ehyeh,' or Yahweh, because He will be for a Starry-Multitude of Sons of Power for Abraham, is nevertheless, but One Eternal Father, and they in Him are One!

"To us," then, "there is but one POWER, 'the Father,' out of whom are all, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Anointed, on account of whom are all, and we through him."

All this development: of an earthborn family of Sons of God, who shall take their stand in the universe as Seraphim and Cherubim of Glory, is through and on account of Jesus Christ. He is the foundation, the chief and precious corner stone of this new manifestation of the Father-Spirit.

...We have seen that Moses did not teach three persons, three essences, or three anythings in One Godhead. By Godhead is meant the source, spring, or fountain of Deity -- the Divine Nature in its original pre-existence before every created thing. He teaches that this Godhead was a Unit --a Homogeneous Unit, undivided into thirds, or fractions.

Phanerosis - Elohim Developed From The Seed of Abraham

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Jesus was as emphatic and precise in his teaching concerning God as Moses: and that those who heard him teach understood him in the Mosaic sense; for a Scribe (and all the Scribes were students of the law, and zealous for their interpretation of Moses) said to him:

"Well, teacher, thou hast said the truth : for there is one God; and there is none other but He": upon which Jesus remarked: "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God."

But here the agreement ceases at the threshold; for not content with one Eternal Spirit named Yahweh, the rejector of Jesus contends for only one eloahh. But Moses nowhere teaches that there is but one Eloahh; nor does he use the phrase One Elohim -- a singular numeral with a plural noun. On the contrary, he teaches the existence of a plurality of Elohim.

The Sh'ma does not say "Yahweh our Eloahh is one Yahweh, or one Eloahh"; but "Yahweh our Elohim is one Yahweh." Moses and Jesus are agreed in this also; for if either of them had taught that there was but one eloahh, they would have been in opposition, or of both of them had so taught, they would have left no room for a Messiah who should be called Yahweh-Tsidkainu, as in Jer. 23:6; 33:16, He shall be our righteousness; and Elohai kol-haretz, "Elohim (plural) of the whole earth," as in Isaiah 54:5.

To have taught the doctrine of only one Eloahh, as well as only one Yahweh, would have been to set aside the doctrine of a Messiah altogether, so that there would be neither a personal Christ, nor a multitudinous Christ, the latter being constituted of all in him, the personal.

Well, then, Moses and Jesus both taught a plurality of Eloahhs. Jesus said: I am Eloahh, and my Father is Eloahh, and the children of God by resurrection, each one is Eloahh; and all together we are thy Elohim, O Israel, and yet but one Yahweh. But the Jews repudiate such a God-Name as this. It is incomprehensible to them; and in their opinion, nothing short of blasphemy. It was so repugnant to their notions of things that when Jesus taught it "they took up stones to stone him"; and declared that they did so because that he, being a man, made himself Eloahh in saying: I am the Son of Ail (John 10:33-36).

Phanerosis - Yahweh Manifested in a Son

What are we to make of the Spirit's individuality?

Why, just what the Bible makes of it. It is as inseparable from God himself as his wisdom, knowledge, life, and power. It is the medium of connection between Him and all his works; so that by it he is everywhere present, though corporeally a million of years removed from some parts of his universe.

By it He is cognizant of the fall of a sparrow upon earth, and at the same instant, of events in the stars billions of leagues remote. 'There is nothing hid from him.' No man hath seen God at any time; but by his spirit he makes himself known, as to his 'holy men' of ancient time.

Elohainoo in the sentence, Shema yisrahail Yahweh elohainoo Yahweh echahd, 'Hear, O Israel, Yahweh our God is one Being,' is neither dual nor plural.—Elohah is singular with the plural pronoun ainoo, our affixed—'our God,' not our gods, two or more. The plural would have a Yod between ai and noo. Yehowah ail elohim, Yahweh, God of gods, is the God of Israel; not God of idols, but of angels, the provisional superintendents of human affairs.

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, Dec 1852

8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

Frontlets between thine eyes

A beautiful and interesting unity of spirit is presented in the idea that all the brethren and sisters throughout the world are joined together in one mind to keep each other company day by day in reading the same portion of the Word of truth and meditating together upon the same inspired realities of the past and the future. May the Lord find us all so doing.

Bro F. R. Shuttleworth.

The Christadelphian, Nov 1874